Dr. Deepak Chopra, President of the Alliance For a New Humanity, says that we've seen the death of an old order but not yet the birth of a new one. Chopra wrote a letter to Barack Obama advocating the creation of a peace based economy, a reduction in defense spending, and the dismantling of the military industrial complex. The money could be used to build housing for the poor, to fund research in conflict resolution, and developing wisdom based economies that help to restore the environment. The days of addressing our complex problems in a simple linear way are over, Chopra says. GRITtv spoke to Chopra at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC.
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No doubt chopra’s organization would stand to gain from the proposals he has made to President Obama. Why did he not voice his concerns during the Bush Regime regarding the u.s. military industry, the use of waterboarding (torture), illegal renditions, the treatment of prisons at gitmo, the lack of public aid in the aftermath of katrina or, the lack of public aid in the housing crisis. Why lobby now?
By bluzmstr2 on January 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Gaaah, please no. The last thing the rational progressive netroots needs is to be associated with anti-science and pseudoscience like the woo peddled by Deepak Chopra, Sylvia Browne, and other assorted astrologers and kooks.
President Obama has rightly embraced a newly science-friendly outlook on the world. Let’s not undermine those efforts by giving a megaphone to irrationality under the guise of our big tent.
By melior on January 27th, 2009 at 2:43 am
At least Chopra is not as kooky as some of the other PBS “guru” types who have used the public media to enrich themselves at public expense. “Dr.” Wayne Dyer, another of them, thinks he’s the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi, “or someone really close to him” in his own words.
Chopra has some good ideas, and maybe he is late to the cause of progressive politics, but so am I, it takes some of us longer to grow up and see the reality of the world.
Walt in West Virginia, USA OH, recently viewded bumper strip:
TROOPS HOME
BUSH PRISON
By WVWalt on May 11th, 2009 at 11:22 am