“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” Issac Asimov. Last May, I attended my grandson’s college graduation where he got a degree in Sustainability. What I found interesting was the graduates obtaining degrees in Complex Adaptive Systems Science (CASS). This Read more…
“We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody” Buckminster Fuller. Ultimate power used to reside with the monarchies and emperors in Read more…
“Caring for the Earth isn’t some ‘weird hippie’ thing. It’s more of a badass survival thing. If we don’t have a healthy planet, there won’t be a healthy anything” Give a shift about Nature. I advocate that the only way to heal ourselves, and thereby save the planet from our Read more…
“Ecology and Spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately is spiritual awareness” Fritjov Capra. Look at the list of words following describing negative emotions: Sadness; Disappointment; Despair; Hopelessness; Depression; Discomfort; Guilt; Shame, Anxiety; Anger; Fury; Hate; Wrath; Resentment; Rancor; Contempt; Animosity; Outrage; Malice; Revenge; etc. If you feel Read more…
You act the way you think. Therefore, to act sustainably you need to act sustainably. Pretty simple idea when you think about it. Many facts we see as absolute are only so if we accept the premises without question. Consider for instance that the world spins in a counter-clockwise direction. Read more…
Did an oops last week and jumped ahead in my numbering of posts. This week’s is part 18. Saw a wonderful cartoon last week of a chessboard where the black and white king and queen were dining on a table to the side of the board while all the rest Read more…
“The most powerful person is someone who decides their self-worth is not a group decision” Case Kenny. We all have myriad beliefs and unconsciously seek anything that confirms such beliefs – belief confirmation is what makes us such good targets for those seeking to control us. Until we consciously look Read more…
As I start to write my blog for the next week, it is November 11 today. Known as Veterans Day in the US, and Remembrance Day in the UK, it got me to thinking of the many men I have met or have been told about who fought (and died) Read more…
The USA saw an interesting election this past Tuesday. I’m not going to discuss the outcome with any dichotomous judgment – it is what it is. I have friends on both sides of this political isle and they are decent people. Of course there is a lot of name calling Read more…
In the last post I talked about how ‘giving a f*ck’ about things that really matter is crucial to our well-being as we move forward in these chaotic times. It’s not only political and economic but as the recent hurricanes demonstrate, even mother nature is seemingly sending us a message. Read more…
Bertolt Brecht’s quote “Grub first, then morals” (Grub – slang for food) suggests that people should prioritize their basic demands before they can concentrate on even more abstract principles, like morals. It is a suggestion that individuals must not neglect their standard needs in order to concentrate on greater ideals. Read more…
If there is one thing that I think has kept people tethered and trapped by conditioning, I would say it is the need to conform to social norms that while on the surface sound reasonable, really serve to keep us in a state of constriction and compliance. Most people dream Read more…
“Authenticity is acting in accordance with one’s true self, and being authentic means behaving in congruence with one’s values, beliefs, motives, and personality dispositions” Theo Tsaousides. I have been informed that my link to the Berkley Well-Being site didn’t work, so here it is again (link). To again reinforce my Read more…
“You are but a drop in the ocean… but what is an ocean but a multitude of drops” Cloud Atlas. As of writing this post to my blog the human population of Earth was approaching 8.2 billion people. That means 8.2 billion unique and beautiful sovereign individuals ready to express Read more…
As I watch the comical (if it were not so deadly serious) political scene unfolding here in the USA, and then various elections being held across the planet, I am always struck, not by the lies that nearly all political candidates say in order to garner support (and hence votes Read more…
In this modern world of social media, everyone is bombarded with memes, the most powerful of which (both good and bad) quickly go viral because of the triggering narrative that sparks the mind (see earlier posts 1 & 2 for more explanation). Memes are important aspects of how we communicate. Read more…
“The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you are even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the Read more…
Today’s post is from a set of ideas and musings I have stored up. Still pertinent to the Espe stories I have been posting this last six months. A couple of friends who read my blog comment that I don’t say enough about the sustainable technologies. Yes, there are a Read more…
“If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines. It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient and otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness and reason. Let’s build that and ride it to the stars” David Read more…
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become” Goethe. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and Read more…
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with Read more…
If anything, 2020, as bad as it was with the lockdowns and disease fear mongering by gullible true believers and public health authorities, was a great year because it began the awakening of so many people to the harsh system that has been controlling us for millennia. And why might Read more…
Economists do not like anything that cannot be put into some form of equation, which is strange if you think about it because economics is a social science (based on human psychological reactions). The goal back in the 1800s was to find a way to measure well-being derived from economic Read more…
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber. I saw a cartoon this morning that showed lemmings as a flowing crowd leaping off a cliff. One was trying to push back against the flow Read more…
“Most people do not have the willingness to break bad habits. They have lots of excuses and they talk like victims” Carlos Santana. We have this story that is shared by all our modern cultures, but not the indigenous ones, which we just ignore because we can call then primitive Read more…
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, that you can walk with Love and Reverence” Henry David Thoreau. Sovereignty is about having the right to choose what you do, and I might add, the willingness to do so. You may not like the choices but when you are sovereign being Read more…
“The Problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you’re given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind” Bill Hicks: The Mind Unleashed. I was reading one of the many Read more…
Your beliefs are just thoughts that you keep thinking. Yet, they are so entrenched in most of our psyches, that we take them to be literal descriptors of who we come to think we are. This is how we are conditioned to be the people we think we are. Wherever Read more…
“It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship Read more…
I have talked how our reality is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves. This is also about how we use specific words to describe our reality. “The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; Read more…