Praxis and Now

In a remarkable recent thread of email discussion, hosted by Lenore Ealy, a number of brilliant and passionate folk have been working the landscape of progressive, green, fundamentalist, liberal, conservative, feudal, enlightenment and other bits of polarity, mostly acknowledging the awful muddiness these terms have become.

In the midst of this, two one-liners popped out:

Chris Corrigan asked (if) how all the naming, mapping and remapping can lead to a “Praxis of Care.” What a fine phrase this is. Passion bounded by responsibility, run through the poetry mill.

To which David Brin eventually offered, “The real axis is between past and future.” The only polarity that matters; it certainly cuts through the mud on the map.

If the past is gone and the future ain’t quite here, then the healing (wholing) practice must be Now?

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