I'm joined today by Judith read he is a seasoned media and political journalist
he's also the award-winning author UHV
the Don up global sense awakening to the rising global consciousness now changing
our lives global sense dot com is the website
I'm very interested in this topic because
the so much now in popular culture anytime you hear
any discussion above a global sensibility
global world or borderless considerations and explorations
very quickly there's a contingent of american political observers that jump
to conspiracy theories about one world governments and kinda broader plots to
control everybody with one government thats that that couldn't be further from
what you're talking about when you talk about this global sense could
I think we are not yet mature enough to be able to even attempt
try and do a form a global democracy that perverting it into a global turney
I would love to see us get to that level in light meant we could actually
cooperate have a
never recover moccasins but at this point I don't think we can do it
I'd love the CS instead try what I call a direct
Republic in which show the citizens get the final vote and serve some
working her dictator or president having the final say
yes so that's something that I've talked about quite a bit which is we have a
system which on paper
in the US anyway this political system where you have individuals who were
allowed to go and they they vote
and presumably their representatives are representing their
actual views when they make their votes in Congress are in the Senate where ever
the case may be
but this system has really been perverted I think in great part because
the influence of money within politics
but is there something systemic that goes above and beyond
the money issue that makes it simply not an effective system
I think the difficulty is representing democracy and Ben Frank themself observe
this is that prone to corruption
arm as soon as you separate the electors from
the decision-making I you tend to have private interest form which then
can produce results that are not really with the citizens
themselves really wanted the the key i think is to move us closer to direct
democracy as we can get
I'm hands-on practical where the that's why I think the idea ever direct
Republic
could open the door because for small
if the citizens themselves have the opportunity to approve
what the legislators do then
a lot of the crazy laws we get with no longer get into effect the
the the corruption that now happens the voters a say hey that's a corrupt law
I'm not gonna vote for
and walk-in your march for disappear the the
arm you know the crazy black box projects will disappear
although the problem with that you could make the case that
for all the things you mention that would be positive affective such a
system
we talk a lot about the idea that we don't want to put basic civil rights to
a vote and this has come up a lot when
in the context of marriage equality and their our parts
love this country where if you break it down by state or even by region
where if it were put to a vote what now appears to be the obvious
and correct path that will eventually win which is that a full marriage
equality
it would be voted that down so is there any way to have the positive acts but
aspect you mention
without letting people vote down basic rights now I wonder if that's really
statistically true that would be voted down I think I would happen in
California with proposition 8 right and now we had with multiple court battles
an appeals
the tide seems to be changing in California but even still the
it literally happened in California well have in Colorado to
the the road with back some years ago there is a
proposition to for example the the truth is I suppose that if you have a
constitution
that really honestly guarantee is those rights
then you know I think you can have a crap legislature with misguided thinking
building stuff through in a corrupt governor or president voter you know
signing stuff does is that you can have misguided
citizens I don't really think that's a protection I think was really
protections people getting globally enlightened that is
thing that we are interconnected that what you do to me
I you doing to yourself what I do you I'm doing to myself that everything we
think
feel say and do has an impact because if we know that we are powerful
interconnected
then I think that's going to provide the self restraint we need to really make
more responsible decisions
as long as we are rooted in the sauna close but perception
or even worse what I call authority addiction that says other we need
strongman rule us arm and that the
you know the real think they were separated in isolated
then those kinds valve a ratio is gonna happen
that's good you feel that that's actually good place to kinda jump off
and refocus because
when we talk about this kind of global sensibility and the realization that as
much as we would like to imagine that these imagine these lines that are
imaginary that we've drawn between countries
really separate the the effects and consequences the decisions that are made
we're finding out increasingly that when it comes to the effective
industrialization
and the use of carbon in fossil fuels and really in even when it comes to
foreign policy and other decisions
those lines are really not stopping anything in other words the lines are in
our minds are they not
I think so and a lot of the mind map we care and is inaccurate
it's it's there's a certain level of insanity that goes on I for example we
think
there we can after that consequences we think that we can
clue destroy the planet without being consequences we think
that the I hear inquire I live right now we've got a a big fight going on
well with the other genetically modified seed companies that are basically
testing
pesticides on the excuse for crime cells farmers
and they're doing is open air spray and a lot of you are getting second as
tremendous anecdotal evidence so that and so
right now there's move here to get a bill passed to the County Council
that would require disclosure and at one point is the represented the Gamo
companies that in the county council chamber
and where the sponsor bills that's in direct questions about what
their spring and they sat there silently for the most part
and asserts that I won't disclose when they gonna volunteer opportunity there
for
were asking for legal right to force them to disclose so that we know
what we're being exposed to but there's a certain thing and i were quite
does one person's right to make a profit followed with another person's the love
life
will this really brings up my questions I love the
the kind of standard political labels that you've written about
in terms of libertarianism in its concern with liberty and freedom for
example and we could talk about
labels like a liberal or conservative for the sake of discussing
libertarianism and liberty
if you consider Liberty in the global sense
it's different then if you simply considerate in terms of
the United States is it not because we have to consider the Liberty
love those beyond just our borders and I think that that's a concept that for a
lot of people is very difficult that sometimes because I've quote
patriotism or patriot type believes but sometimes because it's just simply
overwhelming to think of the world community
for your beautiful question and got multiple layers to it
are you know there's that old saw that by failing to swing by hand
and that your nose a month missed his right
that's that the hard way to look at that I think a lot of the things that I think
are libertarians
they are perversion I love original libertarian ideas going to comply Karl
Hess
um and I think it's one thing to be able to say
that they ought to be very little little government and that there ought to be
arm
maximum liberty for the individual um what's happened as libertarian movement
has been coopted by objective as movement event run
mmm which was really taking selfish narcissism in extolling it as a virtue
well and I think yeah there's a big difference between
the self reliance libertarians which I would calm myself among those
on verses well I call the libertine libertarians I just want freedom without
responsibility or accountability
and that i think is attractive that's the kind of thinking that kinda
libertarian activist thinking
is what produced I love the financial meltdown in 2008
on because those passes work I did that monetary policy of this country
and produced worldwide economic collapse and its not the same policy is really
not be reversed herself facing a summer throughout
so I would like to see general libertarian values come into play
arm or even progressive libertarian values if you will
but again these labels aren't really the point the point is that we have to
realize that we're all interconnected
and there were nationally gonna see know what is the sensible thing to do what
choice makes global sense and what choices that make global sense
saws icons categorical imperative if everybody does it doesn't make sense
we've been speaking with Judith read the book which I recommend is called the Don
a global sense
awakening to the rising global consciousness now changing our lives
I wish we had more time it's really a pleasure to speak with you today from
Hawaii which is very cool
I'm really grateful and a today's by the way the debut the book and so people at
go to global sense that time you get links to
to be able to do it by the book if someone is so interested arm
my hope is that all go viral and help change the way we're thinking and
behaving in the world
is what we need really need to wake up as fundamentally