Will triumphes over lazy, but lazy is a sly and devious foe.
A fresh new sparkling idea makes your day, week or month better.
Awareness unstimulated by concepts and thoughts outside your core area means awareness becomes dulled.
Recognize your own elation point and make plans to revisit it. With some frequency.
Human nature is naturally selfish enough that we don't ever need to supplement it with more.
Trying for the best outcome in whatever you do is rarely incorrect.
By default, understand there are things you don't understand.
Any stake in the ground, any manifesto, only reflects what you've learned so far.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Change from Red v Blue
There's a change afoot in US politics...red v blue is starting to give way to a new division. Rich v not. The 1% vs the 99%. This is quite something, nudging aside old biases in favour of new ones.
People vote with their wallets, and it's hard to listent to the old ways, when the 'Establishments' - red, bue or purple, are all wealthy 1% types.
Watch as the defense of wealth becomes a bi-partisan cause.
People vote with their wallets, and it's hard to listent to the old ways, when the 'Establishments' - red, bue or purple, are all wealthy 1% types.
Watch as the defense of wealth becomes a bi-partisan cause.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
When does our Calendar end ?
I was thinking about the Mayans the other day.
2012 is supposed to be a big year for them, depending I imagine on how you elect to interpret their calendar. It either signifies the end of the world, or the calendar simply stops. A fairly important distinction one might imagine.
One the basis that I don't know if any Mayans are around any longer - I have certainly not met any, though have been to the land presently identified as Mayan a few times. Their recorded history seemed to hit a wall with the arrival and subsequent colonization by the Spanish a few hundred years ago, though like any ancient civilizations some small remnants remain, celebrating the dress, dance, culture and trying to keep their language alive. I think it's probably fair to conclude that their civilization as such is but a memory - not unlike Rome, Egypt or Mesopotamia. In all these ancient locations people still thrive and may identify their roots with the once-great powers that lived there - but these communities are not what they once were in any case.
Which brings me back to the Mayans and their calendar. If I take a view that the calendar simply runs out in (our) 2012, did they know they wouldn't be around, and hence not need it any longer..? Were they prescient after a 3000 year run, or did it hit a logical "revisit-it" time that they'd deal with when it arose. If I look at our own culture, we've just changed from 2011 to 2012. It's not impossible to imagine a date 100, or even 1000 years in the future for us thanks to futurists and science fiction, but can we really consider the year 9912 - a time 7900 years ahead. The corollary is 5888 BC, a time before we had records at all. Then, the wheel had just been invented and animal husbandry was just beginning. The current state of our species would not seem remotely familiar, and hence they couldn't and wouldn't have planned for us.
To assume that our straightforward calendar addition will cater for our own far future seems a little simplistic now doesn't it, and so I'd like to suggest we also make a review date in the future. Let's call it 3012 and start to celebrate a count-down. Not to the end of the world, but to a time when we will formally re-evaluate how we view time, and take into consideration another thousand years of humanity's inventiveness.
Happy -1000 everyone.
2012 is supposed to be a big year for them, depending I imagine on how you elect to interpret their calendar. It either signifies the end of the world, or the calendar simply stops. A fairly important distinction one might imagine.
One the basis that I don't know if any Mayans are around any longer - I have certainly not met any, though have been to the land presently identified as Mayan a few times. Their recorded history seemed to hit a wall with the arrival and subsequent colonization by the Spanish a few hundred years ago, though like any ancient civilizations some small remnants remain, celebrating the dress, dance, culture and trying to keep their language alive. I think it's probably fair to conclude that their civilization as such is but a memory - not unlike Rome, Egypt or Mesopotamia. In all these ancient locations people still thrive and may identify their roots with the once-great powers that lived there - but these communities are not what they once were in any case.
Which brings me back to the Mayans and their calendar. If I take a view that the calendar simply runs out in (our) 2012, did they know they wouldn't be around, and hence not need it any longer..? Were they prescient after a 3000 year run, or did it hit a logical "revisit-it" time that they'd deal with when it arose. If I look at our own culture, we've just changed from 2011 to 2012. It's not impossible to imagine a date 100, or even 1000 years in the future for us thanks to futurists and science fiction, but can we really consider the year 9912 - a time 7900 years ahead. The corollary is 5888 BC, a time before we had records at all. Then, the wheel had just been invented and animal husbandry was just beginning. The current state of our species would not seem remotely familiar, and hence they couldn't and wouldn't have planned for us.
To assume that our straightforward calendar addition will cater for our own far future seems a little simplistic now doesn't it, and so I'd like to suggest we also make a review date in the future. Let's call it 3012 and start to celebrate a count-down. Not to the end of the world, but to a time when we will formally re-evaluate how we view time, and take into consideration another thousand years of humanity's inventiveness.
Happy -1000 everyone.
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