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Ariel Ky

Ariel Ky
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Oceanside, California, U.S.
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October 11
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English Teacher
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I consider myself a generalist, a dreamer, a visionary, an idealist. I walk both worlds, the inner world of spirit and this outer world we all share in. I have real power, the power of a strong connection to the earth and the power of truth and resilience. I am committed to being effective in bringing about the changes that must take place in the minds and hearts of people so that we can live in peace and harmony with each other and all life on this planet. I grew up in the fifties in Lansing, Michigan. My father was a bricklayer, my mother a teacher. I have a strong identification with the working class and ordinary people, and was always quick to defend the underdog and play the devil's advocate. My strengths are being able to see the big picture and getting to the heart of the matter. I consider that I am a fairly good writer, having worked at this craft my entire life, but I once had a professor who said my true genius was in speaking. Along with most of the people on this planet, I am seriously concerned with the present state of affairs and lack of balance in the U.S. military dominance. I am presently teaching English in China. My profession is an ESL teacher, which I have been doing off and on for over 20 years. I have a Master's degree in TESOL from Michigan State University, a Journalism degree from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Public Relations, and a Library Media Assistant AA degree from Pasadena City College. Research is my passion and main past time, even before the advent of the Internet. I worked in the library at Michigan State University before my son was born in 1986, where I pursued research topics that I was interested in. When I was in my early twenties, I worked on a book on women's health care as part of a book team at the Feminist Women's Health Center in Los Angeles, doing research at UCLA's medical library that led to a new view of a woman's clitoris. The book is still available in print, "A New View of a Woman's Body." I am working again with a team of writers on another book with the working title of "Opening Our Hearts and Sharing Our Dreams of What May Be" to share our visions and action plans for the young people coming of age (between the ages of 16-21) and support them in carrying out what needs to be done to manifest the world that they want to have for themselves.

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Salon.com
MAY 25, 2011 6:32PM

Divide and Rule

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As an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher in China, I was using proverbs the other day in a lesson with students.  One of the proverbs was divide and rule.   I'd always known this proverb as divide and conquer.   So I've been contemplating about what the difference is between divide and rule, and divide and conquer.

In my simple mind, the difference seems to be that divide and conquer is what empire does, such as the U.S. empire today, when they want to go into another country and take over.  Examples that spring to mind are what's happening in Yemen and Lebanon today with CIA clandestine operations to train and add locals to the payroll who will cause civil unrest by acts of violence.  A less subtle way to divide and conquer is to give generous amounts of military aid to repressive governments so that you have a privileged management class in a country that oppresses their fellows.

Now divide and rule is more local, in the way I look at things.  And this is how this ruling elite continues to hold onto power in the U.S.  Keep people divided so that different factions don't even talk to each other.  Then you can easily rule the people, which is what is happening in the U.S. today.  The differences and divisions between people have been fanned and magnified into near conflagrations, and that keeps the people from uniting and demanding accountability from leaders.

Well, this seems to be a fruitful endeavor.  That's actually why we have proverbs.  They are capsulized bits of wisdom that get passed on, like little stories that people can understand.  So I thought I might do a search on proverbs and change.

 Here's a Chinese proverb that's appropriate:  "If we don't change our direction, we're likely to get where we're headed."  Wow, the U.S. definitely needs to change direction, as we are headed for global war.   Here's another one, "All things change, and we change with them."  And isn't that the truth?

One I particularly like is the one about the Goddess, "Everything she touches, she changes.  She changes everything she touches."  I tend to think that the Goddess is changing my body as I age to be more like Her.  It gives me a positive take on aging, I must say.

Ariel Ky in Quan Cheng Gong Yuan in Jinan 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here's a quote you may find useful: "Americanism means finding fault with other countries for not solving their problems, while we wait without hope for the Government to solve ours." - source unknown.
Margaret Feike
May 26, 2011 12:01 AM
Here's a quote you may find useful: "Americanism means finding fault with other countries for not solving their problems, while we wait without hope for the Government to solve ours." - source unknown.
Margaret Feike
May 26, 2011 12:01 AM
yes, America does need to change directions where her foreign policy is concerned :) like your honesty and style.

nice to know you. rated.
Rolling
May 26, 2011 04:35 AM
To characterize the problems of a totally messed up country like the USA with one sentence is somehow reminiscent of that basic Murphy's law: When you have a nail everything looks like a hammer.
Jan Sand
May 26, 2011 07:48 AM