Materialism is a dominant paradigm.Yet, today's tables rarely have drawers.
A Materialistic Monetary System requires competition.
"Look at all my stuff!"
Wouldn't it be nice if all our table had drawers?
October 28, 2008
Today's tables rarely have drawers
Materialism is a dominant paradigm.Yet, today's tables rarely have drawers.
A Materialistic Monetary System requires competition.
"Look at all my stuff!"
Wouldn't it be nice if all our table had drawers?
October 22, 2008
Discovering Cars, Ships and Rough Times.
Notice any of this lately?
Majority of the time a Television Channel plays a show dealing with cars, from Top Gear to a Discovery Channel late night special called Ultimate Cars, the commercials have a higher rate of economic middle class geared advertisements on… well obviously, Cars.
Advertising. Bullshit Merchants everywhere, thank you for spur of an idea.
Soft Targets – follow a routine day to day and are unaware of their surroundings.
No longer a soft target, aiming to be a hard target. This is a new achievable goal since the no car is needed.
Yet the fact is that Canada needs cars, its how we get around this vast and various landscape. There is such a variety of choices when buying a car, from brand spanking new swank vehicles from the dealer to old POS ones off of craigslist. The fact that it seems to be respectable to slowly introduce model after model of a more efficient car that reduces the transportation carbon imprint.
Alas, there is little coverage of the fact that ocean cruise ships consume 37.4 or 57.5 MPG on average and admittedly I’ll just have to assume that there are some that consume less and are more efficient, but there is no common forced information available. And with more and more MegaShips coming along. Ports being expand, more trucks and cranes needed, how are these being advanced? I'm unsure if they even come out with new models every 3 quarters or what.
The probability that we even come close to changing these things soon is low. Unless of coarse that shift in events finally comes to pass where the history books will tell of catastrophe times and hardships that spark that new path where the young and vital will take their abilities and work as individuals within their immediate social environments to better the whole by individual contributions that emerge as a new era.
The Venus Project needs a push that may not be all that positive.
Majority of the time a Television Channel plays a show dealing with cars, from Top Gear to a Discovery Channel late night special called Ultimate Cars, the commercials have a higher rate of economic middle class geared advertisements on… well obviously, Cars.
Advertising. Bullshit Merchants everywhere, thank you for spur of an idea.
Soft Targets – follow a routine day to day and are unaware of their surroundings.No longer a soft target, aiming to be a hard target. This is a new achievable goal since the no car is needed.
Yet the fact is that Canada needs cars, its how we get around this vast and various landscape. There is such a variety of choices when buying a car, from brand spanking new swank vehicles from the dealer to old POS ones off of craigslist. The fact that it seems to be respectable to slowly introduce model after model of a more efficient car that reduces the transportation carbon imprint.
Alas, there is little coverage of the fact that ocean cruise ships consume 37.4 or 57.5 MPG on average and admittedly I’ll just have to assume that there are some that consume less and are more efficient, but there is no common forced information available. And with more and more MegaShips coming along. Ports being expand, more trucks and cranes needed, how are these being advanced? I'm unsure if they even come out with new models every 3 quarters or what.
The probability that we even come close to changing these things soon is low. Unless of coarse that shift in events finally comes to pass where the history books will tell of catastrophe times and hardships that spark that new path where the young and vital will take their abilities and work as individuals within their immediate social environments to better the whole by individual contributions that emerge as a new era.
The Venus Project needs a push that may not be all that positive.
October 19, 2008
The Naked Sun is Always Brighter in Space
Just finished reading The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov . Amazed and delighted again by the story that was revealed. The truth behind many of the ideas were well thought out and influential into many other emergent thoughts that have been implemented in my mind over the last few years.
There was a speech at the end of the novel that seemed to enforce so many things about human behavior that is cumulating recently. It was stated thusly.
“We are better suited than they [the Spacers] for exploration and colonization. We have population pressures [and environmental resource pressures] to push us and a sapid turnover of generation to keep us supplied with the young and reckless.”
This seems to be a point that is missed in the current ideas of space exploration. It shall take generations and small steps for it to occur. There is a BBC Horizon Documentary called Moon For Sale which hints at the goals of some countries exploration and exploitation of the closet space rock we can get to. There is the potential that Helium 3 can provided an abundant source of energy through nuclear fusion for earth and future space endeavors.
This may all seem to be a sci-fi fans wish come true. And it is. Aren’t most scientists as children enthralled by some sort of science fiction, be it Star Trek, Asimov, or some other form. They take this childish dreams and fantasies and while there are formally specialized to their field and careers by contemporary education systems they can combine their factually knowledge with their inspirations and dreams.
The Venus Project which I’ve been looking into lately also seems to be a collection of many innovative theorists ideas molded together to forge a new society where labor, money, and suffering can be eliminated for the benefit of humankind.
I’ve heard that we shouldn’t be worrying about space until we can handle our own affairs here on earth. This seems to be a little ignorant of the fact that we as individuals are becoming more accustomed to multi-tasking. Our societies, establishments, and governments have been multi-tasking for decades now. From the Kublai Kahn admitting his faults in knowledge and asking professional consultants for advise on how to mange the whole of Asia during his reign to NASA manning mission to the moon while world politics still continued on with the economy, social ramifications, industry becoming more productive while cutting out the human factor of labor.
If we can combine both a perspective that unites the scientific and technological advances that will come from human ingenuity in dealing with arising problems in space, these in turn may be applied to situations on earth. The wind always ends up blowing both ways.
There was a speech at the end of the novel that seemed to enforce so many things about human behavior that is cumulating recently. It was stated thusly.“We are better suited than they [the Spacers] for exploration and colonization. We have population pressures [and environmental resource pressures] to push us and a sapid turnover of generation to keep us supplied with the young and reckless.”
This seems to be a point that is missed in the current ideas of space exploration. It shall take generations and small steps for it to occur. There is a BBC Horizon Documentary called Moon For Sale which hints at the goals of some countries exploration and exploitation of the closet space rock we can get to. There is the potential that Helium 3 can provided an abundant source of energy through nuclear fusion for earth and future space endeavors.
This may all seem to be a sci-fi fans wish come true. And it is. Aren’t most scientists as children enthralled by some sort of science fiction, be it Star Trek, Asimov, or some other form. They take this childish dreams and fantasies and while there are formally specialized to their field and careers by contemporary education systems they can combine their factually knowledge with their inspirations and dreams.
The Venus Project which I’ve been looking into lately also seems to be a collection of many innovative theorists ideas molded together to forge a new society where labor, money, and suffering can be eliminated for the benefit of humankind.
I’ve heard that we shouldn’t be worrying about space until we can handle our own affairs here on earth. This seems to be a little ignorant of the fact that we as individuals are becoming more accustomed to multi-tasking. Our societies, establishments, and governments have been multi-tasking for decades now. From the Kublai Kahn admitting his faults in knowledge and asking professional consultants for advise on how to mange the whole of Asia during his reign to NASA manning mission to the moon while world politics still continued on with the economy, social ramifications, industry becoming more productive while cutting out the human factor of labor.
If we can combine both a perspective that unites the scientific and technological advances that will come from human ingenuity in dealing with arising problems in space, these in turn may be applied to situations on earth. The wind always ends up blowing both ways.
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