I always wondered what would happen if all of us simply stopped paying off the big banks — credit cards, rents, mortgages — just stopped. Made a collective agreement, that on a certain day we would disconnect from the global financial system in that way. We’d need to trust each other enough to sense that […]
Read MoreIf you are an animal lover, you need not read this to know, in your bones, that we are all connected and conscious, yes. But of course, what some realize instinctively, others have to “prove.” Thanks to americankabuki for the pointer to the video, and to node801 for the declaration. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsViKFU63i4&feature=player_embedded] Scientists are discovering that […]
Read MoreJoel Salatin: We Are the Solution, as Well as the Problem A call for “ecological participation” July 29, 2012 by Adam Taggart Sunday, July 29, 2012, 2:01 PM There is nothing inherently environmentally damaging about human participation. Yes, I admit it and repent in sackcloth and ashes for all of the human devastation that has […]
Read MoreSo do doctors get bonuses for every poisonous chemotherapy treatment they prescribe that drives the body into biological despair? Every debilitating radiation treatment that might show up later, for example, as an entire arm and hand dead from nerve damage? I imagine Eli Lilly is not the only bigpharma that makes routine payments to doctors […]
Read MoreThe author draws upon ancient and modern history to make his point, and it’s a very interesting one. In David v. Goliath contests, who wins? Answer: it depends on the context. And, no amount of technological might can assure that the context will not gradually, or suddenly, shift. “I propose . . . that one […]
Read MoreIf we see the human condition as an evolutionary outgrowth of three qualities, then natural selection within a group favoured one of these qualities: selfish individualism. “But natural selection between groups favoured two empathic traits — cooperation and altruism — that serve the ‘human spirit’ and our remarkable social cohesion.” Climate, Evolution & the Human […]
Read MoreAs if beings and crafts from other worlds or dimensions are a matter of course! I’m amazed at the low velocity tone of this seemingly ho-hum piece. Maybe they think that they can announce intra- or extraterrestrial beings as if they’re so boring and routine that we won’t think to ask the obvious questions: where […]
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