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Envision a new premise

There are some foundational, yet quite simple and elegant, ideas that inform my consciousness.  I have already touched on a few but let me be more specific. "There is no one right way to live"  Daniel Quinn in Ishmael . I have greatly enjoyed Quinn's books for they forced me out of the ineffective spiral that is issue based politics into a more holistic approach to what has been going on here.  The idea above is so simple yet if you lived by it, so meaningful.  What does "there is no one right way to live" imply? If there is no one right way then most of the folly of the world is put into a different focus - as attempts to make people live what one group deemed the "one right way".  Timely is the disintegration of the Iraqi "state".  Josh Marshall nailed it when he said the long term causes lie at the feet of the map drawers in 1917 in Paris and London, but nonetheless, the basic premise of the Iraq war was the Unites States trying to m