There are days when I am amazed that the cars go down the freeway, and there is not mass chaos, that we can walk down a sidewalk, in relative safety, and we can hold multitudes of attitudes regarding multitudes of issues, and still draw a relaxed breath. I do not think that we have to take a...
TS Eliot said
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation...
The night before shock and awe, I looked at satellite overviews of
Bagdad, and I was appalled that for any reason, my nation was threatening to bomb the hell out of that place. As it turned out, there was no good reason to do so, and the high civilian casualty counts attest to the poor...
I think that this is deliberate pre-mining seeding of bacterial cysts. The cysts won't function until exposed to mining wastes, and then they will thrive, methylating mercury, and chemically altering other wastes, so that they will enter the food chain, possibly disguising the origins of the...
War is an unfortunate throwback to our feral past, or shall we say our feral nature in regards to acts of aggressive greed, will hopefully evolve out of us.
When viewing past conflicts, say the Japanese in WW2, one cannot use a western moral compass to discuss the Japanese coming to terms...
In Salt Lake City high school health ed, the teacher discussed methods of birth control, then advocated abstention from sex, until marriage. Students have to have a parental permission slip to receive sex or reproductive education in Utah.
According to one young woman that attended College...
Isn't laziness more of a value judgement, than a personal trait? A person is not inclined to exert energy in the way that another person wishes, and therefore they are lazy.
Okay it is all documented, but what if it also has to do with that "mirroring function" that has recently been described? This is the case where primate researchers with a chimp wired up, notice that the chimp, watching another chimp eat a banana, experiences it by a mirroring funtion that seems...
Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the press
We have three small news magazines that are published in Salt Lake City, maybe more but for now three will do. If they publish cartoons of George Bush, as a sock monkey, those cartoons are not the opinion of the US Government, the people of the US...
CEOs are the new monarchs. Private security firms are the new royal armies. Corporate benefit slaves are the new indentured servants. Immigrants are the new slaves. Energy is the new religion, offering life, death, warmth, coolness, transport to the heavenly realms, of the profit.
Humans have developed many complicated processes in the process of accumulating the necessary energy, so that our collective fire (our species) does not go out. I think of us as ambulatory chemical fires that have to be fueled in order to exist.
We learned a lot of techniques for survival...
I was willing to turn on the Super Bowl to see Mick strut. It was good stuff, there are a lot of us in this generation, we aren't dead yet. Mick keeps us in mind of that.
Encouraging an individual to go out, is disequally weighted. If energy of encouragement must be exerted, then the other person either has time constraints, doubts, aversion, xenophobia, or some other x factor. In the realm of human dynamics, intention can be an ill fitting garment that covers a...
Capitalism has nearly become a creed or religion in this nation. Capitalism is too narrow in its focus, too linear, to be the only operating mode for our planet or our species. The idea that the world is better because it has more leftovers from capitalist waste, is handy, but not factual...