We are told by the new priests to put our faith not in a bearded sky god (sooo 1st and 2nd millennium!) but rather in .... technology. Social problems with Bad Behaviour by the lower orders? Solution: More surveillance (and graded punishments and rewards) - problem solved! Economic problems with low productivity? Solution: More Growth,... Continue Reading →
We are murder apes. Sorry, planet-trashing murder apes is what "we" are (1). How frightfully embarrassing. And yet, you also have to have (2) some sort of compassion for us, so bewildered and capable of lying to ourselves on so many levels. This should not be a surprise, since we are born into lies, we... Continue Reading →
I am speaking of the social "sciences" stuff here. People captured and captivated by the hopium on display, and unwilling (or incapable) of thinking where it might all go. Because to point to the obvious likely dangers ahead would be - I don't know, "normative"? Or would harsh everyone's mellow or something. Or is just... Continue Reading →
Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts. Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage - excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_jufwQBSM The... Continue Reading →
When we try to educate ourselves about The World, we can easily be misled by popular accounts, either because the author is trying to pull a fast one, or just because well things get 'forgotten. I don't know what the solution is, besides reading loads and remembering most of it? And who has the time?... Continue Reading →
We need a new TLA (Three Letter Acronym) to describe mush and gibberish that sounds profound (at least to the speaker) but is either circular or banal or both. I propose... UHB. It doesn't seem to be "taken" (see here), and the one that does is undersea and hyperbaric medicine, so I could probably play... Continue Reading →
I may be late to the party, but this: I have become used to google searches generating an AI summary from stuff that it has scraped. I even got used to it generating summaries (passably accurate in most cases) of stuff that I myself have written (various neologisms like the smugosphere, and emotacycle). It was... Continue Reading →
Yesterday I put up a post on Blue Sky that was a quote (generated by Google Translate and then tidied) from a recent article, in German, about why the "climate movement" is on its arse. The quote did "well". It's this "I am convinced that the decline and numerical implosion of the climate movement is... Continue Reading →
Doctor Who, the looooong-running TV show I used to be obsessed with, was ecologically-minded from the start. In the second story [broadcast from December 21, 1963] the Doctor (a Time Lord, from the planet Gallifrey, though we didn't know that at the time) and his companions land on a planet that has had a nuclear... Continue Reading →
Short post - supposed to be decluttering my pigsty of a study [Take This(1) Seriously, dammit, Marc]. Yesterday some "elders" put out a letter about how the COP process was no longer (sic) fit for purpose and had lost its way blah blah blah. Shoot me now. I had a reaction that I suspect is... Continue Reading →
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