This past Sunday, Equinox Weekend. The ice finally stopped melting over the Arctic Ocean. In 2007, there was an extreme ice melt, surpassing old records by 22%! This past summer has produced an additional 5% less ice cover in the arctic than we have ever recorded. (2007 was 29% coverage, we have 24% today.) Perhaps more frightening is that the depth, which is much more difficult to calculate, the thinning of the ice cover makes it evermore susceptible to melting as well. Like the fractile geometry that many are becoming aware of, there is a strange exponential force in nature that is pervasive and unavoidable. Whatever scale we choose to look at, our entire civilization is being either buoyed or sucked in to an exponentially constrictive or expansive vortex. If you have not viewed fractiles, look into this! My understanding of this mind bending reality is that just as many people are committed to crashing, full force, into the end of oil, what might be the ultimate restriction of choices, when the time comes as are going to the fifty mile per gallon plus fuel economy which will lead to an extension of the age of oil, open a bit of a window of opportunity and expand the possibilities for adaptation.
When I learned about cybernetics, it was just enough to know to make me dangerous. Communications between the moment to moment becomes irrelevant as we arc toward singularity. We are one is developing a new and infinitely more stark as we perceive a different truth about who we are and our place within the incomprehensible crescendo of data that we are able to stream worldwide in less than the blink of an eye. It is inevitable that our entire society will have to stagger punch drunk into a very different reality in two or ten years and what we have done in the interim may stretch it out to double, but surely if you are under fifty, you are the end of an age. The oil habit will be cured when we live in neotribal units that function as self supporting communities. Oddly, with the advent of uber communication technology, we will be able to "organize" into units that surpass realms of space time. The elders used to communicate around a fire and technology allows us to do so at a few keystrokes, any time, any place and forever. How we organize, again from the cybernetic dictionary, ontogeny repeats phylogeny. In layman, the development of the organism recreates the development of the species. This is another aspect of fractility, the true landscape of organization that we are one with. Native people around the planet acknowledge that the spirits of the land are alive, as alive as we are. Anyone who has been aware of it in forests can feel and hear the whole forest breathe. Being in a forest during a single sigh of that great BE-ing has rejuvenating power, for what our organism needs is there in abundance. learning to dance in this abundance can be a challenge for city rats, but making ones way through a relationship with Mother Earth is up to each of us. We must also teach the children, we are one, not only with one another, but with Earth itself.
One of the greatest truths that science will always miss, because there is no measure to calibrate it, is the oneness of BE-ing in relationship to all else as it is to us. When we find a path to live in symbiosis, generating as little harm and as much fulfillment of true need, only then can we mimic the unfolding of whatever creative force we may recognize. I could produce twenty names and even the ONE who shall not be named, but whatever flavor of ritual you want to follow, the truth remains. Just as we need the beacon of Sun, (son) so too the feminine, the fertile seed that sprouts from darkness. under the New Moon we delve into that dark cauldron of creation and reaffirm in ourselves courage to confront that dark night. This is decidedly harder under the illumination of city lights. Our hearth may yet become the terminal, or LED screen but the efficiency has exponentially leaped forward from having to burn logs. Do not misunderstand, I am a major proponent of sitting around the fire, just ask my friends, but instead of story telling to ten friends, with available technology I can communicate across the planet and throughout time like never before. We are experiencing record minimums right alongside record maximums. never have so many had such a stark reality check and never before have we been able to tell one another about it. Our feelings, not only of mistrust of those guiding our energy and weapons policies. (author spits, his mouth filled with saliva suddenly.) Even dignifying that rhetoric by having to spell out the words makes me sick. The wrong end of every single weapon ever produced has been the intention to wreak havoc, inhumanity and brutality to evermore people at evermore scales of mayhem. This stance has never been morally defensible. This, I believe, flows from a sense of duality, always living in opposition to facts.
Mark Twain said,"Faith, is believing in something you know to be untrue." Some people furtively utter the ideas within their own heads that, "We will find a way to maintain our standards of living without sacrifice." They are finding more oil all the time. Think of a pot full of oil and how it spreads out what heat it has and retains it nearly forever...Now, multiply that effect by hundreds of billions of barrels, multiply that through the past fifty years and realize that we have burned off over half that "reserve" of energy, formerly buried and integrated into the crust of the Earth. What if Mamma was putting by solar excess to get enough of a balance to make our entire existence tenable on our Spaceship Earth. I rue the day that science recognizes that the cost of spending that reserve so quickly will mean desert expansion on a scale we have not yet imagined, untold billions of destruction from evermore violent storms, and dislocation and feedback loop upon feedback loop hyper interact and create the next natural crescendo. I know that crisis management has become the rule, socially, politically and economically in our culture. the lies that the lies were based upon came more from a desire to defend our egos by saying the world was "dog eat dog" or that "boys will be boys". even survival of the fittest is beginning to morph into survival of the luckiest. By now, I hope, the population of the entire world is aware that we are one, equals and crew of Starship Earth. The decisions that we make, upon this rock, in our remote part of the universe have the power to outlive seven generations. It is time to tell our leaders to begin to act like it!
RECORD MAXIMUM PUBLIC PRESSURE NOW! THE TIME HAS COME TO EVOLVE!
When I learned about cybernetics, it was just enough to know to make me dangerous. Communications between the moment to moment becomes irrelevant as we arc toward singularity. We are one is developing a new and infinitely more stark as we perceive a different truth about who we are and our place within the incomprehensible crescendo of data that we are able to stream worldwide in less than the blink of an eye. It is inevitable that our entire society will have to stagger punch drunk into a very different reality in two or ten years and what we have done in the interim may stretch it out to double, but surely if you are under fifty, you are the end of an age. The oil habit will be cured when we live in neotribal units that function as self supporting communities. Oddly, with the advent of uber communication technology, we will be able to "organize" into units that surpass realms of space time. The elders used to communicate around a fire and technology allows us to do so at a few keystrokes, any time, any place and forever. How we organize, again from the cybernetic dictionary, ontogeny repeats phylogeny. In layman, the development of the organism recreates the development of the species. This is another aspect of fractility, the true landscape of organization that we are one with. Native people around the planet acknowledge that the spirits of the land are alive, as alive as we are. Anyone who has been aware of it in forests can feel and hear the whole forest breathe. Being in a forest during a single sigh of that great BE-ing has rejuvenating power, for what our organism needs is there in abundance. learning to dance in this abundance can be a challenge for city rats, but making ones way through a relationship with Mother Earth is up to each of us. We must also teach the children, we are one, not only with one another, but with Earth itself.
One of the greatest truths that science will always miss, because there is no measure to calibrate it, is the oneness of BE-ing in relationship to all else as it is to us. When we find a path to live in symbiosis, generating as little harm and as much fulfillment of true need, only then can we mimic the unfolding of whatever creative force we may recognize. I could produce twenty names and even the ONE who shall not be named, but whatever flavor of ritual you want to follow, the truth remains. Just as we need the beacon of Sun, (son) so too the feminine, the fertile seed that sprouts from darkness. under the New Moon we delve into that dark cauldron of creation and reaffirm in ourselves courage to confront that dark night. This is decidedly harder under the illumination of city lights. Our hearth may yet become the terminal, or LED screen but the efficiency has exponentially leaped forward from having to burn logs. Do not misunderstand, I am a major proponent of sitting around the fire, just ask my friends, but instead of story telling to ten friends, with available technology I can communicate across the planet and throughout time like never before. We are experiencing record minimums right alongside record maximums. never have so many had such a stark reality check and never before have we been able to tell one another about it. Our feelings, not only of mistrust of those guiding our energy and weapons policies. (author spits, his mouth filled with saliva suddenly.) Even dignifying that rhetoric by having to spell out the words makes me sick. The wrong end of every single weapon ever produced has been the intention to wreak havoc, inhumanity and brutality to evermore people at evermore scales of mayhem. This stance has never been morally defensible. This, I believe, flows from a sense of duality, always living in opposition to facts.
Mark Twain said,"Faith, is believing in something you know to be untrue." Some people furtively utter the ideas within their own heads that, "We will find a way to maintain our standards of living without sacrifice." They are finding more oil all the time. Think of a pot full of oil and how it spreads out what heat it has and retains it nearly forever...Now, multiply that effect by hundreds of billions of barrels, multiply that through the past fifty years and realize that we have burned off over half that "reserve" of energy, formerly buried and integrated into the crust of the Earth. What if Mamma was putting by solar excess to get enough of a balance to make our entire existence tenable on our Spaceship Earth. I rue the day that science recognizes that the cost of spending that reserve so quickly will mean desert expansion on a scale we have not yet imagined, untold billions of destruction from evermore violent storms, and dislocation and feedback loop upon feedback loop hyper interact and create the next natural crescendo. I know that crisis management has become the rule, socially, politically and economically in our culture. the lies that the lies were based upon came more from a desire to defend our egos by saying the world was "dog eat dog" or that "boys will be boys". even survival of the fittest is beginning to morph into survival of the luckiest. By now, I hope, the population of the entire world is aware that we are one, equals and crew of Starship Earth. The decisions that we make, upon this rock, in our remote part of the universe have the power to outlive seven generations. It is time to tell our leaders to begin to act like it!
RECORD MAXIMUM PUBLIC PRESSURE NOW! THE TIME HAS COME TO EVOLVE!
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