Reading Wise

I met someone recently who is teaching people in INdia how to read and write. I am only mentioning this story because he went there first ot help people with imporving basic hygiene and help build fresh water and draining system (I think). SO he went there with the leaflets... that made me think about the concept of making intelligent decisions - you need to read, know where to find correct factual information and then make up your mind.

It aslo made me think about us - the 1st world countries - we can read, we have access to the internet to an enormous quantity and quality of information - and we still make what decisions - educated, doubt it, intelligent, sometimes, do we actually decide? For anything?

Direct action for the environment is something I find as decisive and as effective as someone could voice their opinion, based on factual information and foloowed by a decision making and action planning process.

For the educated loud voicing action committed dread-locked human beings! Salute!

And for the ill-witted, cynical (may be), bad-moody, shadow of a journalist - yes you Mr Hugo Rifkind - get some anger management or better REB Therapy!