mindfulness

  Let the soil pay its simple part.  We have for thousands of years worshipped the shepherds, The priests, the farmer, the cowboys, not the least in the pastorals, from the antic Greeks until today.  Well they didn't know in past times, but we do know; the farming of cows, sheep, deer and so on need a huge area of land where there could have been grasslands or forests (to take up the carbon acid. The cows shit and burp methane  that makes the climate effect even stronger. If we stopped eating meet, we would have a lot more time so respond to the climate effect and wildlife would flourish in the new areas So what would we eat instead. George Monbiot has an answer; 

 Some things you shouldn´t know to early in your life. But if your curious. like me, you might end here, and that's all right. Is the free will problem solved? Robert Sapolsky says yes.  He is an   "American  neuroendocrinology  researcher and author. He is a professor of  biology ,  neurology , neurological sciences, and  neurosurgery  at  Stanford University . In addition, he is a research associate at the  National Museums of Kenya . " (Wikipedia) The knowledge might cool you down, and say to your children, like Neil de Grasse Tyson´s father said when people had shouted the n-word to him: Stay cool, the don´t understand, they are raised like that. He could have concluded; that's what dopamine do to us - and that are where the chemistry of the brain come in. Dopamine makes us friendly to our friends and family but hostile to strangers.  Of course culture interact in the situation too, and that was what de Grasse Tyson´s father had understood. And of course  things l

 Yes, she is pissed of  and really straightforward in this video: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/09/follow-science-nonsense-i-say.html She want climate-change deniers to be straightforward too. that means, don't hide the egoism behind the talk.  But its the governments who should react to what science says and put higher taxes on Carbine-oxid polluters.  Why cant she hide her temperament i this video? In other videos she can.  I think she is right in most of her talks, and she´s very intelligent and can easily summarize others texts. But her expression in her face doesn't change much in her talks.  Yes, many people ask her if she has autism because of her behaviour, for example the angriness in the first video.  Here she takes up the topic and in the and give an ambiguous answer to the question: If people with autism wants to meditate (as Sabine suggests) one most for certain remove all religious and mythological stuff from it, and why not...

 Brian Greene, the well known physicist and mathematician, points out the here and now as the most precious moments.  We are made of stardust and in som ways the  macroworld emerges from microworld. Even consciousness  does - but we don't know how. Its clear that we share this gift with animal, insects ans maybe plants and trees too. But we are the only specie that are intelligent and self-aware. we can make stories and art. Greene is aware that the stories are man made, but if they work and make you mentally good, why not keep them. he admits that his work, for instance about string-theory are a kind of stories too. (string- theory is not validated and is not so popular these days).  The books we write, and for sure the tings we write in the internet will be forgotten.  So maybe the attention we give to our family, neighbours, friends, beggars and a deer near your backyard may be the most precious moments in your life.  Listen to the vegan Greene in a very lively discussion here: 

 The site to represent the site is already selected.... Here in Scandinavia its warm but not hot. Very dry in some places. Not so many swallows after the most dry weeks. But on a nearby field I use to laydown and admire their flying skills. I have planted flowers for the bees. Hope its not too late.  Passed a more than thousand years old runestone made by the Vikings. Is says its for the father of Udd who made a road in the area. Nowadays there ought to be runestones raised for the people caring for the insects and birds.  The climate change has started and its time to choose how to handle it. Its said that some Indians cooperated with the intruders in the US. As they didn't fight the white people they were treated better later on. The chief of one tribe were he had seen the white men coming and what happened later.  So the tribe was adapting to that scenery.  Its time for us to adapt too. The representant for the declaring of Anthropocene (August -24) will be Crawford lake in Cana

  Elon Musk wants to send people to Mars and  even start a colony there, He has also launched a satellite; Starlink I call this super capitalism that may be capitalism on its peak.  Zizek, the philosopher seems to mean this in this Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KiOj6gjbs&t=215s But what will come after that phase? well, the late capitalism may also be a peak for a masculine phase.  In that so it may be slow decline. Anyway more and more women creates great jazz-albums nowadays : Here´s a good example - many listeners have noticed the space in the tunes Jasmine Myra composes.