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[scot47]

While you dream about creating human happiness in your utopian community, the rest of us have to get on with feeding the children and making sure there is enough money to pay the bill for utilities.

[polihymnia]

...and it can't hurt you. I have a day job that doesn't fit my values, yet I dream of obtaining work that does fit my values and manage to squeeze in time to research ways other people have already achieved that end.

Every important revolution involved struggle as its impetus, which leads to the dream, or vision, of how life would be if the necessary changes were already in place. Think of the major strikes around the turn of the 20th c. that resulted in better working conditions and reasonable-length work days for the worker. It is too bad now that many people sell out their rights by signing contracts as "exempt" employees, where they do not get paid for overtime and are expected to work 65 hours a week. Kind of equivilant to the attitude of, "Well, they treat me nicely here on the plantation, so I guess I'll stay." Rather than taking the courageous leap into the unknown. That's how it is in the U.S. People are entranced by what's on the tube tonight, a different kind of dreaming than the dream that precedes taking the path toward positive change.

As I mentioned, the complete change from the rule of big-corporate capitalism will not likely happen in our lifetime. We have many people to thank for the priviledges and freedom that we enjoy, people who worked diligently toward change but didn't live long enough to enjoy the positive results of their activism.

[andrew murphy]

I was under the impression that most Maltese are trilingual, speaking Maltese, Italian and English. Would be interested to know the language (and EFL) situation in Malta myself.

[lajzar]

[rogan]

polihymnia

You're from S.F., right ?

Guess that explains it then.

The rest of us live in various parts of the real world.

[polihymnia]

Well, I should've expected that little regional jab, Rogan. Interesting that you say that, considering you are in Europe, which, despite its smaller land mass, has far more permaculture and eco-villages, and people working toward "real-world" change than the U.S. has. Or is Europe not part of the "real" world?

I don't want to drag out the permaculture discussion here on the Malta board; I was merely attempting to offer a seed of information about alternatives to capitalism since Signe brought up disgruntlement with the system.

Signe, my fellow San Franciscan , you may also be interested to know that it would be cheaper for you to get your certification at a school abroad than at the incredibly expensive St. Giles. Check it out with your online currency converter. I am considering getting the CELTA TEFL also, and I have compared the fees of several different schools across Europe against St. Giles. St. Giles is twice as expensive as a lot of them.

[scot47]

Malta ? No .
And before you ask there are no jobs to be had in The Big Rock Candy Mountain either.