I'm going to have to get beyond groups ...

This Krishnamurti quote was posted by Taran Rampersad on his Digital Divide weblog more than a year ago and it remains apropos today ...

When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is trying to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

— J. Krishnamurti

We talk a great deal today about the web, and about it's ability to support community, communication, collaboration, and perhaps a different social future. The potential is real. But technology by itself isn't going to make any change in how we view ourselves and each other. The change is going to happen for me when I'm able and willing to understand that I am really in a human web, and that it's going to take work on my part to actually act out of that understanding. I'm not going to move beyond violence without revisiting my ideas of my self and of others. I need to understand that all systems are embedded systems, even my human systems of family, friends, etc.

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