mindfulness

 The era of mankind.  Clive Hamilton writes about it in his book Defiant Earth. The Fate of Humans in Anthropocene. Hamilton is a professor of public Ethics in Canberra.  He means that  humans have modified the processes on Earth so radically that it has changed the nature forces that regulates the Earth development and forced it to an new geological epoch.  We have to think of what to do to slow down the changes, as climate change. But we have to adapt to what is already there and will affect the Earth in many thousands of years. Can we repair what we have done?  In the end of the book he concludes that only politics can do something about the threats that Anthropocene puts in front of us. We cannot do it individually. Maybe the struggle that will come is the only way to learn how to live in solidarity with the Earth. He means that it is really important that mankind will survive. We are the only creature on the planet that is intelligent and can understand something of the universe. 

  Some music comes as a surprise.  As the time for ready for it, even if we didn't know it. In my search for positive things for the future this album is for sure in that  category.  It combines three music styles and makes it to one and to something new.  So it may be music for the future.  Someone has said that the music in the far future will be landscapes of sound.  (if you listen to then Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir you may understand what he meant.) But here I speak mainly about the Album "Promises" by Floating points, Pharaoh Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra. Its a mix of electronic music, jazz and classical music and it works. The title of the album also looks at the future with light eyes.  It may not be so dark as it sometimes seems.  We have some time to stop climate change. And if we can avoid a nuclear war and trouble with AI, we can can look forward to some progress on the Earth. As we live in Anthropocene we have to be the gardeners of the E