Step 1 to a community home

There is yet cooperative housings, it is a great concept to share resources and save money. The community home I propose will look up to another goal.
In this building, resources are managed like values. If the 7 families living there need 2 cars, 3 refrigerators and 3 complete kitchen sets to share, it is much enough for comfort. Instead of buying a machine the cheapest as possible, the community will need quality. And naturally, there is money saved at the end. But nobody has to suffer, trying to save a few of dollars, because they oriented community choices on value.
Imagine the community buys these articles:

• A little truck
• A nice car
• 3  deluxe kitchen sets
• 1 deluxe clothes washer and dryer
• 1 deluxe BBQ
• etc. other utility machines depending on common needs,

Then there are decisions to take, there is plans to write. A schedule is set up to manage when I can use the washing machine. There will be some frustrations, but it will early be calmed.
I will explain later how to manage for food, this part is the most valuable to me...

Steps to make it a better place to live

How will we make it? By beginning somewhere.
We can do of our homes a place where resources are shared properly.
I cook two cakes every month. So I can share a mixer with a community!
Me and my friends watch the LNH final; then we need only one TV.
I need rice, but me and my friends could save buying the 25lb bag and find a common room to store it.

And this is only the begining.

This future is a commun building for 7 households (or 5 or 9...). There is one common appartment, it is mostly reserved for kitchen and appliances. There is many more details to explain the common area of the building, and opinions are appreciated.
Then I am fed, and fed of the community for today and I want to my private space. I open the door to a place with two bedrooms, one room for my kid (the one I actually dream of), a living room and a dining room. There is some storage space, but only a few because this place is designed to be as comfortable as an hotel room.
The matter is not only for saving money, but does it naturally, but it does save resources and make everybody more comfortable.
I will explain more details of how I figure this commun building; and you can communicate with me if you like the concept for your own.

La femme a emprunté la route de la liberté!

J'ai simplement vu une affiche en ville: “Let's help single mothers”. Nous vivons définitivement une ère merveilleuse mes amis.

Tous les romans et les publications relatant l'histoire que je lis redisent la même chose, les femmes qui ont découvert l'amour instantané, ou l'amour mécanique, ont longtemps été considérées comme ayant des pratiques socio-affectives malsaines, ou même comme des sorcières. J'imagine simplement une femme célibataire, qui se promène tout bonnement et qui drague un homme séduisant. Ces deux personnes apprendront à se connaître très profondément et découvriront une attirance remplie de sensualité. Ce phénomène est pur, et les émotions en découlant sont véritables.

Lors de cette expression, lors de cet épisode d'humanité, il n'y a pas de place pour d'autres considérations; le mariage et l'hypothèque n'ont rien à voir avec cette rencontre entre deux personnes. On peut même qualifier de pathétique les sujets autres que l'amour et la drague lorsqu'une telle communication; un échange total et réel naît entre deux personnes. Les sentiments y sont vrais et complets et ça se passe sur-le-champ.

Il y a beaucoup de mauvaises rumeurs à propos de ces relations; les pires rumeurs s'échangent dans les conversations de tous les jours. Les gens rient en bavardant à propos de l'amour mécanique. On dirait que tout le monde est fier des ses mauvaises habitudes; ceci est un autre débat, mais je tenais à souligner le phénomène.

Aujourd'hui, notre société a décidé qu'une mère monoparentale est une personne qu'il faut protéger. C'est une bien bonne nouvelle, et ce pour toutes les raisons que j'ai mentionnées plus haut. Une mère célibataire donnera sa vie pour son enfant. Elle lèguera ce nouvel être à la société, tout en espérant que cet enfant partagera ses valeurs et ses plus belles qualités. La femme qui décide de « garder l'enfant » s'abandonne pour aider un enfant à grandir. Ce nouvel être deviendra un homme, ou une femme; elle ou il fera parti de notre société avec tout ce que cela représente, en besoins et en ressources.

Tout ceci arrivera à un nouvel être à cause qu'un jour une femme, peut-être suite à une surprise a décidé de mettre un enfant au monde, un enfant issu d'une passion instantanée.

The road of women!

I only saw this poster downtown: “Let's help single mothers”. We definitively live in a beautiful era my friends.

Everything I read about history and novels is telling the same, women who discovered instant love, or mechanical love, were considered accursed, or witch. I only imagine a single woman, going out for a ride and flirting with a beautiful man. They get to know each other very well and they develop sensual attraction. This is pure, and real.

There is no place in this human expression for outer matter, like marriage or house mortgage. These considerations are totally pathetical when a real and total communication is happening between two persons. The feelings are real and it is happening now.

There are bad things said about these relations; the worst are in every day's conversations. People are laughing about mechanical sexuality. People are also proud of their rotten habits. This is another discussion but I preferred to underline that sub-subject.

Today, our society decided that a single mother is a person to protect and help. This is a very beautiful thing for all the reasons I have mentioned earlier. A single mother spends her life for her baby. She is giving this new person to the society, hoping the child will share her values and good temperament. A woman who “keeps the baby” abandon's herself to help a child grow. This new person will be a man, or a woman; she or he will be a part of the society with all it means in the need for giving and taking.

This is all going to happened to anew person because of a woman, maybe by surprise will have decided to give birth to a baby made in an instant of passion.

Leave to others a heavy responsibility

Where should I begin? My readers must know about my works and philosophy on environment research. A friend of mine had got a solution when I talked to him about environment actions. First he said that this is my personal combat, and that he had his. I think this is a sad conclusion, too easy point of view, but let's continue. He also formulated this brilliant concept and I want to share it with you my readers. In November 2014, we must to begin awarenes-raising on children! Oh this is making me have a tear. If we can wake-up children, the planet will be cleaned of pollution, etc. Yummy.

To resume, this is my concern not his, to help on environmental matter, and it is our children we must ask to take care of the planet. In the mean time, adults are aloud to be devoted to real life, business as usual with none of these concerns. Things are beautiful, yeah. Because nobody likes to keep a waste paper when there is no recycling facility around, anyway our children will fix it all later. Because you need a personal car and it is not you who caused all global warming. And the adults of tomorrow are going to make it right on greenhouse gas.

The adults of tomorrow will not have problems finding the solutions on environmental matter because it is not today. Today it would be complicated to try to find solutions, of course, anyways you don't have time.

Well devoted readers, you may admit that this situation is completely unacceptable. By leaving to someone else the responsibility to fix human's enviro-trace, we figure that it is right to have the same life habits even if they are insane. And over it, the sad work of cleaning the miss we do would be given to our own children! Leaving a dirty job to our next generation is unfair. Reporting later the problems that we all know is unfair.

Giving to someone a responsibility of cleaning our mess is also assuming the adults of tomorrow will be motivated to the task. I ask you today, what is going wrong with your head, thinking that your children will have the real fire for a job of turning the mess you did to into a nice and gentle place to live?

I have always imagined that our civilization is like a big party. By 1 AM, a the house is very dirty but it is still a possible place to have fun and dance. At that moment of the night, let's imagine that the children figure it is time to clean the house. Then the people who are having their party feel they are disturbed. It is also bizarre to see an active dance floor and a janitor moping it. Then at 1AM the party people are disturbed and will ask to the children to come back later, or better tomorrow for this duty. The children insist they have to clean now, and maybe fix something in the house because the party players were so excited that they broke the house a way that the ceiling is about to collapse.

This story is a perfect representation of what I feel as a worker of environment. Our community had figured it is time to make a change in our habits that create pollution, and when we try some action, we are told that we are not realistic, that they may affect the economy, bla bla.

Maybe is it more realistic to act tomorrow, when we can really feel the effects of pollution. Meanwhile the community of environment professional did proof the population that if we wait too much for environnemental actions, the economic and social cost of polluting environment will be dramatic.

All I am writing now does not exist; the reply of earth to our mess is too enormous to be seen by human eyes, so it never will happen... If our society is still blind like that, there will be a problem.

I suggest to begin now. That is why I am planning actions on the next blogs you can read.

Workers and their woe

How would I begin? Progressively doing my experience on work market, there is no doubt that the end of the week is the happiest of all moments in work schedule. All the employees are happy to get off the factory, or any facility they are serving.

Sociology science did understand that the place of work has changed in people's life. Long time ago, people worked to accomplish themselves; the fruit of work was a life matter. Since the Industrial Revolution, people go to the factory « every day » because they have to.

The same sociology thinkers say that the social class of workers are living to make it to the holidays. Since this part of history, off days activities are the new reasons to make life interesting. So I suppose life is interesting two days a week?

It is well documented that by the time of most people were living in farms, life was difficult because no Wallmart was providing cheap goods. Today, this shopping monster is providing ready to break supply that consumers are so happy to buy at low price, thanks Uncle market (that is the name I will give to the market economy).

Well we are asked every day, would we prefer going back to old times life, starving and getting bored in farms with a caring family, or is not it better to go to work every day, produce what is asked for and spend the pay check every two weeks until the couple breaks, tired of all this?

I am answering no to Uncle market. The « F » word I ear every day at job from tired companions is making me sure « everybody hates his job » (ref. movie « Office space »).

It is not normal that every workers have a sad time going to work. Time oppresses people. Days are long and each year goes so fast doing what? Loosing our time for someone else's profit. This not only about money; profit is a matter of money but the value of work is mostly calculated in productivity and in time spent in the work place.

Employees are suffering at work, and the boss knows it when he makes a visit in the production area with a big smile. He is happy of his situation and wants to force a smiley time to the ensemble of employees in front of him. The boss knows his employees are feeling sad all week long, but he also calculates that they have not enough money to have fun outside home on holidays, so they are bored on week-ends. The difference between being sad on working hours and bored on week-ends is making your boss proud of at least providing you revenue to survive. Not being sick, not freezing and starving is maybe enough to have a life plenty of fun.

Please react, this is a work in progress

Se servir de sa tête: écouter la question et y répondre

Ce sujet ressemblera à de la tautologie intellectuelle, mais je crois que je peux commencer avec cet aspect de la pensée humaine. Concentrons la réflexion sur ce qui entoure l'écoute, car on pourrait facilement s'égarer de la cible. Voici une petite introduction théâtrale :

« ...Oh c'est bien, et de quel quartier de Sherbrooke venez-vous?

-Je suis arrivé par le car et le voyage était exténuant mais j'ai...

« Mais je veux dire à Sherbrooke, étais-ce dans le centre, près de l'ancien chemin de fer ou alors?

…

-Non, non, je suis Canadien, j'ai mon passeport et ai reçu la citoyenneté en ...

« Vous êtes parti de quel endroit, à Sherbrooke? Je connais un peu car j'y suis déjà allé parce que je faisais du ski au mont Orford.

…

-Non, non! Mais c'est que le voyage a duré plus d'une journée entière, en plus il n'y avait pas le WIFI! Écoutes, je te répète que j'habite à Sherbrooke, dans les Cantons de l'est!

Notre voyageur est sans doute fatigué et a envie de terminer cette discussion pour se reposer l'esprit. Par contre, il en a beaucoup en tête et vit une expérience de voyage forte en sensations diverses. Il n'a jamais écouté la question, aussi simple soit elle!

Pour espérer faire un progrès social, entre humains, il faudrait se donner la chance d'un sain échange de pensées, via la conversation. Les raisons peuvent être plurielles, soit on veut être bref, soit on veut aller plus dans les détails et ainsi en apprendre plus sur la personne, sur l'endroit d'où elle vient.

Plusieurs bonnes gens croient en un phénomène que nous appellerons la « diplomatie sociale ». Selon cette pratique, l'information véhiculée lors d'une discussion n'a pas autant d'intérêt que l'établissement d'une relation de respect entre les interlocuteurs.

Cette "sociologie de la conversation" nécessite une concentration considérable, une perte d'énergie et de focus malsain. Ce phénomène est même arriéré et mérite un jetage à la poubelle. Quand on pose une question, la formulation est simple et la réponse, claire et nette. L'interlocuteur doit éviter toute référence externe au sujet de l'interrogation, laisser de côté son statut social et simplement répondre de la façon la plus précise possible.

L'interlocuteur peut décider de ne pas dévoiler certains détails concernant le sujet de la question, alors qu'il se la ferme. Les pertes de temps ne sont bonnes pour personne. Écrivez des poèmes si vous le voulez, mais laissez les idées simples se véhiculer d'elles mêmes, vous en serez certes récompensés. Vous allez peut-être même apprendre des choses que vous souhaitiez, étant donné que la conversation est simple et que les idées progressent allègrement.