Failing at Reality
What is there to say about the insufficiency of “thoughts and prayers” against the mental madness that insists wearing a mask is a burden, while telling our children to wear…
Tag: evolution
Happy Cinco de Mayo
Assuming, of course, that you are not French. In truth, resisting assault by empire builders is pretty cool, and also very dangerous. Also true is that in many places today…
Nowhere to Lie; Nowhere to Hide
“Be impeccable with your word”… Contemporary politics is a shatterhouse of messaging. Politicians spew nonsense, mostly to raise money to stay in office “to work for the people”, i.e., the…
Routine Varigrade PTSD and Community Resilience
I realized yesterday while driving back from Quincy that everyone around here has PTSD to some degree or other. Frequent round trips through a watershed and forest distorted by the…
We Are Not Paying Attention
The marketing drive for ever increasing “convenience” and overriding concern for the next quarter’s numbers have us failing to track our major, lethal stalker. Platitudes flop about like flounder dying…
Back to Basics ~ What Is Important
This is working out nicely. Facebook attempted to force me to hand over more information, because after thirteen years of posting and nearly five thousand “friends” there, Meta decided my…
From Hidden Persuaders to “Influencers”
The pressure is on… on our minds, actually, and pushed at us via almost every available mass media information provider. We are served the horrors of war next to something…
The Pathetic Whining of Whitely Entitled Males
I don’t think Tucker’s Testicle Tanning Tactics are going to make the point he is trying to raise. No flag pole, no flag. Nobody with sense is going to salute.…
Big Question; Small Answer
Not much, eh? Been quite a day. Wild winds in the forest. Progress on a water system. McCollum for music. Magic for medicine. We know answers to so many questions,…
Natural Intelligence
Our self-assessment of human intelligence leaves us too dumb to seriously appreciate the depth of experience in nature. We underestimate the intelligence of natural processes and entities. Plant life appears…