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material, intellectual and social goods for all. Transparence and the spaces of discussion to find the good principles
Pierre CARO
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 6:23 PM
ºººAbstract: The abundance of material goods is not bad in itself, what it is
awful is how it is ignored the misery that is developed besides. World
Parliament must serve to cover the materials and intellectuals essential needs
of everybody. For doing so, transparence of interests remains a primordial
element, World Parliament should clarify its principles and values. Also, other
proposals should be considered: for example, open universities where everybody
can debate for a best world; or to use the experience and potentialities of the
elders, instead of marginalize them.ººº,
Second intervention 6 11 2002
I believe I had well understood what was necessary to advance in the agenda.
Thank you.
Richness can be a stimulating element….
Following the readings of participants
What values: Concerning M F d’Aboville comment about not necessary to bind
happiness to the possession of material goods, I want to ask her to come to
spend one night with me and excluded people that I use to met, for which the
possession of a single cover recuperated one night is often a very precious
good, more that a banknote of fifty euros. More than this, at that time we are
ruling ourselves, we don't owe anything to anyone for this property. I
understand what she means about, and I agree with her, but the value assigned
to things is really a personal matter.
To delegate the management capability, yes - tough I’ve always defended that
the Communist régime was the least bad, only if addressed to intelligent,
sociable, responsible, voluntary, jointly shared people, respectful of the
others…, being all this, let's do confess it, too many for a man or a woman -
otherwise, do the engagement of each one would be equal to those of others? One
of my experiences: the use of the enterprise vehicles. Often I noted that
personal vehicles were more used that those available from the enterprise
which, the people to whom I delegated considered a propriety of the boss, that,
in addition, was a mistake.
I believe that we must pass over all particular case - we will always find
some - except that it is necessary to have them in memory to advance. I believe
that the value of which we could debate, is that which is done to the use of
the surpluses, to the superabundance of goods. I am happy to see the cars, the
sailboats, the houses of the very rich people, all this makes me dream, in some
circumstances all this can motivate, to stimulate.
I find pleasure to be invited to the big world, as my Mom used to say.
What I regret, and makes me to be in despair, is that men and women are dying
of hunger at their door, so looking at this, I don't wish to belong to these
rich people.
…though everybody should accede to essential goods: food, refuge, knowledge,
respect, liberty,
Rich and poor people will always exist, as owners and resourceless (is there
not an opposite to owner?) and these values of differences will always exist.
World Parliament should work, in my opinion, on the elimination of the
intellectual and material poverty, while giving the decent essential to all:
food, shelter, reading, writing, counting, protection of health, respect,
dignity, freedom of speech,.
As it is known - UNDP source - that the tenth of the world advertising expenses
could cover these necessities for all, we can understand the value of feeling
good in mind and body.
Certainly, the value of a world Parliament will be not placed in the will that
men and women composing it, will have to act not by decreasing properties of
some, but for to make that all men and women possess their liberty, their
dignity, their welfare.
Is the peace possible when I am an excluded person? When I am valorized for
having a grade, a medal if I’ve fight against the bad people? Is democracy the
best of the government régimes, when most numerous want to maintain personal
privileges?
Agoras open to all for changing the world, and to count on the experience and
the potentialities of the elders
On the other hand the transparence it is good, it cannot be only a little, and
that could be a good starting point of action for the World Parliament: to
clarify the ideas, to clarify the values, to clarify the principles.
The fear of the possible influence of the elder reformers, their knowledge or
interests, is important and real. That is why, I believe, we must develop open
universities, agoras to all and for all, where everybody of us, we would be
able together, to exchange reciprocally in order to build a more responsible
and more united world.
On the other hand, I repeat myself, the elders, pensioners specially, if they
add to their personal experiences the indispensable knowledge to learn all
along their life, to understand and to feel their environment, to undertake to
be and to live as world parliamentarians, they would be good and useful people
on which it is necessary to count. They are going to be more numerous than the
young of less than fifteen years old in Europe. The World Parliament must get
ready to not to produce sickly people.
Thank you for your attention
Pierre, in Nantes
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
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