tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post6511666360530375405..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Easter Island IIWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-5732099790930739522013-02-19T12:02:32.053-08:002013-02-19T12:02:32.053-08:00Riversong, OK I'll go with the mythos. It sou...Riversong, OK I'll go with the mythos. It sounds more sane.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-19031072022055739422013-02-19T12:01:03.987-08:002013-02-19T12:01:03.987-08:00Ivy Mike, I once spent a year near San Francisco w...Ivy Mike, I once spent a year near San Francisco where it was suicidal to walk or bike. Nothing but blind curves, with few sidewalks.<br /><br />In terms of guns, Google "Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre." Some think that the second amendment was demanded by Huguenots, who had been slaughtered in great numbers by fundamentalist Catholic terrorists. Never again!What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-58644959703871411112013-02-19T11:55:54.477-08:002013-02-19T11:55:54.477-08:00Gary, yeah the notion of slow collapse is losing a...Gary, yeah the notion of slow collapse is losing a lot of its shine. It's hard to see that we'd do anything useful with the extra time. But I'm not in charge. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-79795460617579743562013-02-18T10:13:54.975-08:002013-02-18T10:13:54.975-08:00As Spencer Wells points out, in the last several h...As Spencer Wells points out, in the last several hundred years we have made a major shift from mythos to logos.<br /><br />Logos tells us that trees are a resource to be exploited for our purposes (at best to be "managed" responsibly).<br /><br />Mythos informs us that trees are our closest cousins in the Web of Life. Like us, they stand vertically, with roots deeply embedded in the earth (our past) and with limbs reaching up to the sky and out to the horizon (our future) - providing a vital link between heaven and earth and maintaining balance and harmony.Riversonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05413657075902226702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-91449483597468295702013-02-18T04:12:49.715-08:002013-02-18T04:12:49.715-08:00I would ride a bike everywhere, except I don't...I would ride a bike everywhere, except I don't want to die getting hit by a car on the road (originally paved for bicycles, mind you!) so I have a damned smokin', chokin' automobile. At least it's old, no insurance (except for liability,) and costs little except gas.<br /><br />Regarding "sacred guns:" What is "sacred" about the Second Amendment is <b>Egalitarian Power-Sharing</b>. Such an egalitarian political arrangement stems much from the colonists admiring the non-hierarchical power sharing in the Egalitarian Non-State eastern woodlands Indian tribes, as James Axtell documents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-89195492296060892472013-02-18T04:04:28.024-08:002013-02-18T04:04:28.024-08:00Your writing is always a pleasure to read.Your writing is always a pleasure to read.Social media are anti-socialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219005681615188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-47556759669090035612013-02-17T18:41:58.549-08:002013-02-17T18:41:58.549-08:00 Instead of Easter Island II, I’m liking econom... Instead of Easter Island II, I’m liking economic collapse coupled with a few good drought years and a super-bug that has evolved beyond all antibiotics. Fast and relatively painless would be best, but reasonably thorough would also be good. We’re going down, anyway, so why not leave a little life support for the rest of the Community of Life on our way out? I don’t mean that we could prevent the domino effect once it kicks in, anyway, but why not embrace and welcome it as the best thing to happen in a long time for All Our Relations? Maybe next time around the Life Force won’t be so inclined to experiment with opposable thumbs, culture, and an oversized brain. Looked at from a distance, the human era will have been just another minor setback in the Project of Life. A few million years from now, the Earth will again be a garden planet rich in abundance and biodiversity—and that is what it’s always been all about!Gary Grippnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-9972365695007640742013-02-17T17:34:07.705-08:002013-02-17T17:34:07.705-08:00Vern, this is what I've been writing about for...Vern, this is what I've been writing about for the last two months or so. Dilworth called it the Vicious Cycle Princple. Wells, Ehrlich, and Wright see it as a runaway train of cultural evolution that's been gathering steam for 50,000 to 70,000 years. We're smart enough to override the trend. I'm not sure we will. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-31073506611599899832013-02-17T17:00:50.705-08:002013-02-17T17:00:50.705-08:00In a "macro-anthropological" sense, is t...In a "macro-anthropological" sense, is there perhapsnnot some element of "inevitability," of "predeterminism," that the not-so-long arc of human evolvement was "destined" to bring us to this fatalistic, societally suicidal predicament? Something inherent in the motivations that drive or shape human behavior? Hmmmmm.Vernnoreply@blogger.com