2005-05-11 - 5:28 p.m.
dreams
what are your dreams? what's the difference between goals and dreams? calvin points out 1) dreams are things you want and believe in very strongly and motivate you more than goals. 2) dreams implies thing being different from how they are.
aesthestics
inherent beauty? packaging? the packaging hints at inherent beauty?
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in buffalo, i had one on one interview/tests to get into calasanctious and another school (city honors?)
i also did a test with a huge group of other middle school students while at city honors to get into a special math program at SUNY Buffalo- then we moved to chico
my parents had to search these things out. they also did a lot of educational preparation for
me, making me do math exercises of different kinds. the calasanctious interview included questions
about how i spent my days during the summer. i spent each day doing a set of math problems and reading a short book then writing a little book report about it (in addition to playing pick-up games of baseball and football almost every day- and secretly watching tv and playing original nintendo)
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theory in levels of abstraction
people want love and meaning, human connections, and other attendant wants and needs:
basics such as food, clothes, shelter, desires such as sex, popularity, beauty, self-esteem
people want material goods, stable jobs, pursuit of their interests, not having to work,
not having to worry, families, friends; they want their desires and needs to be fulfilled
we need a society that allows this to happen; we need people to want this for other people,
to care about other people
this society is the dream: the personal transformation we promote is believing in this dream
praxis
to get there, we invoke one's moral imperative, one's capacity to believe in the dream,
and to some degree, self-interest
we need to make the dream concrete, to make that dream seem possible, to show how it would work
practice
build relationships with people
help people build relationships with each other
develop people the belief in themselves, the responsibility and maturity to lead
monitor dynamics, participation
plan actions, meetings, social gatherings, fun events, events that allow for expression and reaffirmation of
our dreams and take into account the aforementioned principles
Also: dynamics of movements and constituencies and the historical trajectory
