al gore - Photos - Fearlessness Movement2024-03-29T11:34:16Zhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/feed/tag/al+goreCharles Eisenstein on Eco-Fearhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/eisenstein-on-fear2019-10-06T02:17:16.000Z2019-10-06T02:17:16.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3647661517?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=257"></div><div><p>There are more or less mature consciousness levels of fear management education (FME)--and, the teaching in this quote by Charles Eisenstein shows he is at least not on the earliest level of FME--thank goodness, because the world crises today require so much more complication and maturity.</p>
<p>I have long been a critic of the "save the world" (activist) discourses (and the people who promote it), and today organizations like Extinction Rebellion have culturally commodified, like many movements before them (e.g., Al Gore's "Global Warming" mission in 2004)-- a "solution" which is foundationally a reproduction of the very same motivational pattern ("mind-set") that created the problems they are trying to solve-- to 'save the world'-- an entirely new fearological criticism is available if these groups want to access it to improve their work... </p>
<p>For a good short video on the eco-fear ("eco-anxiety") label and problem growing rapidly around the world, especially with youth, go to:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2SGAcO0FY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2SGAcO0FY</a></p>
<p>Now, "good" is not absolute either... the above film, trying to be helpful, is seemingly caught in the same problem of which Eisenstein (and myself) are pointing to here... what critiques do you have of this film?</p>
<p>And, another short clip on children/youth especially re: eco-anxiety (in Canada)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cAm-asuzM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8cAm-asuzM</a></p>
<p>And, another worth looking at and critiquing:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJUm37_G_Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJUm37_G_Y</a></p>
<p>ALSO:</p>
<p>Re: Eisenstein's own problematizing of whether he (or anyone) is caught on the rigid binary of being a "climate alarmist" or "climate denier"... see his short video<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaudW2a33ns">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaudW2a33ns</a></p></div>Clinton & Gore on Fear & Reasonhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/hillary-copy2017-05-27T13:05:28.000Z2017-05-27T13:05:28.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816700?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>If it is not Love vs. Fear, the discourse in politics is Reason vs. Fear...</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton's quote is from her Commencement Address at Wellesley College 2017</p>
<p>Al Gore's quote is from his book <em>The Assault on Reason</em> 2007</p>
<p>10 years between these claims by Democrats, and it seems the fear-patterning continues to grow...</p>
</div>Directing a Movie (?)https://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/photos/p1040090-copy2015-12-27T15:47:57.000Z2015-12-27T15:47:57.000ZR.Michael Fisherhttps://FearlessnessMovement.ning.com/members/RMichaelFisher<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7816220?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Yes, I have made the final decision to pursue a dream of directing a documentary movie; and, at the same time producing a top quality slide presentation on my favorite topic: the Fear Problem. All this was spurred and inspired by watching Al Gore's presentation and the documentary done on his life and work re: Global Warming. </p>
<p>Here I am working in Barbara's art studio on SIU campus during the Xmas holidays. I invite others to join in this project. I'll share more on it later but also don't hesitate to ask me about it. Oh, yeah, if Al Gore can call his project <em>An Inconvenient Truth</em> [no. 1], I think I may call my project on fear <em>An Inconvenient Truth </em>[no. 2]. </p>
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