“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.” Donella H. Meadows 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 quotes as needed. Read more…
“One of the ways that humanity is controlled and contained is by manipulating us to live vicariously through the ‘cool,’ the rich, the famous. This is fundamental to predatory marketing constructs. The more identified we are with someone else’s (allegedly) amazing life, the more disidentified we are with our own. Read more…
I was asked to expand on the idea of chaos that I brought up in the last post. A universal principle is that de-construction occurs before re-construction. Whether it be a supernova or collapse and rebuilding of a ‘civilization, the old always de-constructs before the new re-constructs. It doesn’t have Read more…
Fear was the midwife at the conceptual birth of separation. The attendants were desire, greed, suffering, and anger. Michael Roads Imagine being much more free than you are now. Once you decide to express yourself as you truly would like to be then you no longer need the system that Read more…
In basic communication theory, thoughts in your head have to be converted into words. As the sender, these words are specifically encoded by how your brain thinks about the world. The words are transmitted in some manner and are received by another, who then decode the words based on how Read more…
I was reading an overview of a U.S. governmental financial report the other day and it quite categorically said that the country’s economy is doing well! I almost fell off my chair in aghast disbelief of what I was reading! So, I pondered what the report was saying and probed Read more…
In my last post I stated that nearly everyone connects to the natural world on a fundamental level. The term Biophilia was first coined by Erich Fromm in his book The Heart of Man: It’s genius for Good and Evil (1964), but was popularized by E.O. Wilson in 1984 with Read more…
I was clearing out boxes of books I had brought back home from my academic office after I retired and came across ‘The Mis-measure of Man’ by Stephen Jay Gould. In this book Gould lays out the rationale and justification for how scientists used ‘good’ science to ‘prove’ that intellect Read more…
“Change never comes from the powerful and proud [the hierarchy] – they have too much to lose and too little to gain. Change always comes from the common and humble – we have little to lose and much to gain. John Ikerd” If we are to transform the way we live, Read more…
What makes the Leaver worldview unique is that it is completely community oriented. Our current westernized culture thrives on competition, individualism, and reliance on authority to solve problems. I need to be careful here – I am NOT condoning some Ayn Rand way of looking at the world, that is Read more…
During the colonialization periods since Columbus, missionaries came across indigenous peoples and automatically labelled them savage pagans simply because they were not European Christians. Not much has changed. This really is a great indictment on how effective the Eurocentric Judeo-Christian worldview has dominated for several hundred years. It is only Read more…
It is estimated that 90% of people intensely dislike the working week, which is a product of efficiency for the industrial revolution and machine system of living. So, 10% of people have a living that is ideal for them. They could work 15 hours a day and still love what Read more…
As I have been trying to emphasize, healthy food makes healthy humans. Michael Pollan says that when you walk into a modern store, you should avoid the center isles that carry all the processed and dangerous crap (I use that C-word purposefully) and head to the fringes of the store Read more…
Obviously before modern medicine, people were still dying in droves of relatively minor things like infections and undefined ailments. The point I am making is that medicine and pharmaceutics insist that there is only ONE WAY to treat medical problems. While on the edges of the field many highly qualified Read more…
I wasn’t able to deal with healthcare as much in my SL text, so now seems a good time. We ALL want to be healthy, and with our modern medicine you would think that we should have no health issues of consequence, especially when compared to previous times in human Read more…
Let’s begin today’s blog with some definitions to make a long, complicated story simple. WEALTH – a large amount of something good Cambridge Dictionary ‘Wealth’ comes from the old English ‘weal’, which means ‘wealth, welfare, and wellbeing’. Weal is in turn related from common word roots to the older word Read more…