Foreign Affairs is always good, but I especially appreciated this March/April 2019 Issue. Below are a few tidbits. From “This Is Your Brain on Nationalism. The Biology of Us and Them” by Robert Sapolsky (You have to read his Behave. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/09/behave-by-robert-sapolsky-review ): “Sometimes the very foundation of affection and cooperation are also at the root […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
From: “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” by Sogyal Rinpoche
Written piece seen in Adbusters, Vol. 27, No. 2. https://www.adbusters.org/ : “If we look into our lives, we will see clearly how many unimportant tasks, so-called responsibilities accumulate to fill them up. … We tell ourselves we want to spend time on the important things of life, but there never is any time. Even […]
The Trump Show
I do recognize that the U.S.A. has a history of original and on-going sins of: genocide of indigenous peoples, slavery, manifest destiny / expansionism / neo-liberal capitalism / related War, and rampant ecological destruction of native ecosystems involving southern longleaf pines, plains grasslands, coastal estuaries, various wetlands, karst springs, kelp forests, etc.. Moreover, I also […]
Personal Remarks for Introducing Susan Kucera & Jeff Bridges’ “Living in the Future’s Past” (a Reflection on Our Ecological Challenges) [ 7Ss / VV -> ^^ ] pbm
Introduction to “Living in the Future’s Past” Earth Day 2019, Public Library, Seguin, Texas No voté por esta biblioteca. Queria dos … menores. But I do appreciate it In numerous ways. … Books, the cellulosic (or—now–electronic) elixir of life. Informative presentations. Its beauty. Its wonderful people. Challenging educational activities … For the novices, For the […]
Low Energy Input-/Throughput-Travel & Learning About Sustainability (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”)1
The tribes, bubbles, and cliques in which we live and the walls of isolation we work hard to construct and maintain (oftentimes unknowingly) prevent communication and hinder development of empathy, respect, and solidarity.1 It is comfortable to hob-nob in the familiarity of: English (as a language, culture, tribe, or nation), shooting trophy bucks or catching […]
My “Lowdown” on “Hightower”
https://hightowerlowdown.org/ In hopes of securing my former boss and a colleague from Jim Hightower’s Texas Department of Agriculture for a panel discussion of local water quality issues, regulation, and enforcement here in the Guadalupe County area, in Mass one recent Sunday I began to think about how I first knew about Jim Hightower, and what […]
Normativity (and Humankind & Solidarity??)
I don’t adhere to norms, i.e., I’m not normal, … but that does not equal being bad or wrong: • I strongly believe in living in solidarity through low-input lifestyles because there are natural resource- and free available energy-limits … and that the whole is the sum of its parts; therefore, dynamic homeostatic symbioses is […]