Letters to My Friends

This is a collection of ten open letters expressing Silo's sociopolitical philosophy in a form that is both critique and proposal for change — and has provoked a wide spectrum of sometimes conflicting opinions.

First Letter to My Friends

• The Present Situation
• The Alternative of a Better World
• Social Evolution
• Future Experiments
• Change and Relationships Among People
• A Tale for Aspiring Executives
• Human Change

Second Letter to My Friends

• Some Positions Regarding the Present Process of Change
• Individualism, Social Fragmentation and the Concentration of Power in a Few
• Characteristics of the Crisis
• Positive Factors of Change

Third Letter to My Friends

• Change and Crisis
• Disorientation
• Crisis in the Life of Each Person
• The Need to Give Direction to One's Life
• Direction in Life and Changing One's Situation
• Coherent Behavior
• The Two Proposals: Coherence and Solidarity
• Reaching all of Society Starting with One's Immediate Environment
• The Social Environment in Which One Lives
• Coherence as a Direction in Life
• Proportion in One's Actions as a Step Toward Coherence
• Well-Timed Actions as a Step Toward Coherence
• Growing Adaptation as an Advance Toward Coherence

Fourth Letter to My Friends

• The Starting Point of Our Ideas
• The Human Being: Nature, Intention and Opening
• The Human Being: Social and Historical Opening
• The Transforming Action of the Human Being
• Overcoming Pain and Suffering as Basic Vital Projects
• Image, Belief, Look and Landscape
• The Generations and Historical Moments
• Violence, the State and the Concentration of Power
• The Human Process

Fifth Letter to My Friends

• The Most Important Issue: To Know If One Wants to Live, and In What Conditions
• Human Liberty: Source of All Meaning
• Intention: Orientor of Action
• What Should We Do with Our Lives?
• Moral Consciousness and Short-Term Interests
• Sacrificing One's Objectives for Circumstantial Success: Some Habitual Errors
• The Kingdom of the Secondary

Sixth Letter to My Friends

• Statement of the Humanist Movement
• Global Capital
• Real Democracy Versus Formal Democracy
• The Humanist Position
• From Naive Humanism to Conscious Humanism
• The Anyi-Humanist Camp
• Humanist Action Fronts

Seventh Letter to My Friends

• Destructive Chaos or Revolution
• Of What Revolution Are We Speaking?
• Action Fronts in the Revolutionary Process
• Revolutionary Process and Revolutionary Direction

Eight Letter to My Friends

• The Need to Redefine the Role of the Armed Forces
• Continuing Factors of Agression in This Period of Reduced Tensions
• Internal Security and Military Restructuring
• A Review of the Concepts of Sovereignty and Security
• The Legality and Limits of Established Power
• Military Responsibility to Political Power
• Military Restructuring
• The Military's Position in the Revolutionary Process
• Considerations on the Military and Revolution

Ninth Letter to My Friends

• Violations of Human Rights
• Human Rights, Peace and Humanitarianism as Pretexts for Intervention
• The Other Human Rights
• The Universality of Human Rights and the Cultural Thesis

Tenth Letter to My Friends

• Destructuring and Its Limits
• Some Important Areas of the Phenomenon of Destructuring
• Targeted Action

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HUMANIST MOVEMENT

The new Manual of Personal Development for members of of the Humanist Movement issued from the Center of Studies at Punta de Vacas on March, 2009 is now available.

THE MESSAGE

The new Exercises and Themes of Study for Messengers issued from the Center of Studies at Punta de Vacas on March, 2009 is now available.

COMMENTARIES

Read the new writing by Silo, Commentaries on "Silo's Message," updated March 2009, available in the Silo's Message section.

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