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greetings from ghana. the last three months have been a rollercoaster going through peace corps training etc. but now that i'm at site at my school i've had a chance to begin to catch up on the various postings here. let me say: the previous poster is correct that any move toward greater freedom is necessarily a world-wide effort. but this does not imply that the concept of globalization is innocent. it has been seen as a tool to further follow the path of control by those who desire to go that direction. personally i don't fault them; their divide-and-conquer approaches are falling apart so they're seizing the only real opportunities they have left. kudos to them for their efforts. but be careful. shine your light and love, and accept their differences, but don't allow yourself to fall into the traps of separation. they are other-selves just as you are to them; the distinction on the path of love is that we would wish to feel a unity as opposed to a separation -- we are willing to love the other self where they would choose to control it. let's not fall "victim" to the us-and-them philosophy of their path to control.

that said, i'll hold the fort out here :d