Forum Post: We are reinventing ourselves October 15 living statement
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 5:11 a.m. EST by youmeiyou
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An all inclusive possible preface to the platform of this movement could target the need for a global discussion and necessary revision, by consensus, of the over 200 year-old definition of the "rights of man(kind)". Following is a possible template for such a discussion.
We are amending the hitherto antiquated "rights of man(kind)" with the infallible truth that the sustenance of life is now and forever a commercial free-zone. Currency, commerce and markets, which by definition are intangible matters of opinion (individual and/or collective) and therefore only a product of imagination, are reserved solely for those who perceive "value" in the exchange of non-essential goods and services as long as said transactions do not impede upon any non-participating life-form. Those (human and non-) that do not share a similar imaginative perception of value should not and will not have their fundamental right to life and to the optimum access of that which sustains life usurped. We are life. We are liberty. We are the 99%.
Great idea. But how do we enforce this? Ideas are like seeds and plant themselves where ever they fall. Would marketing be allowed? This could be perceived as infringing on another life form's perception of shared value. Or would we limit speech because it might infringe on another person's perceived sense of value? I am down with OWS, but I don't see how this would work in a practical sense.
Enforcing, I feel, would not be a relevant issue. A concept is either conceived by one's own volition or not. As far as anything allowed or not allowed would be an issue that would have to be arrived at by consensus. A revisited evaluation of the "rights of man{kind}" should not limit or infringe upon one's sense of value unless one feels that they can assess value upon another life. Thanks for the comment.