| | | Why's mission is to create A Better World for the poor. All our other Dreams For The Future come second to that.
To get the balance right, in words and deeds, is what we call Poetic Justice. We aim to make a Deep Impact.
Specifics
- Becoming experts in the thinking and praxis of Hernando de Soto. How can we help? What are the problems and obstacles? What are the limits of applicability? What are the links with the microcredit revolution, as both Leigh Caldwell and Keith Braithwaite have asked? What should the implications be for the Make Poverty History crowd? Can Peter Swords use his leverage on Bono in Finnegans?
- Praying For Iraq. It isn't the only needy country in the world, far from it. But we have history with Iraq. It seems right in so many ways that we join with the Iraqi people and, somehow, come to a place where their good takes precedence over any of our presuppositions and prejudices.
- Help With Depression And Suicide. This may bring us closer to home. It could also properly broaden and deepen what we think of as the "poor".
- Being open to any theory which may help with any of the above, whether Prayer As True Thought, hoping History Makes A Comeback, calling on a god of the poor for help or demonstrating Why Laughter is so key.
It's that way around, the practice and the theory, the Action Men And Ideas Men. There are no barriers or subject-limits. It's just that we want the context for even the most abstract discussion to be clear. It may take a while.
- Repairing The Holocaust is the key addition this weekend. But that's really only an acknowledgment of something present almost from the start. Except that only today have I had the boldness to call it that.
Bottom line
We are unashamed of our Bias To The Poor. Whatever it takes.
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