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 understan...

  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 Anth...

 Well, we don't know why we are here, Maybe there is no "why"  it may just be random. But we don't know either.  We are the only animals here to wonder about those things. So why not give it a try....  In quantum physics there is room for randomness, so everything is not determined (as Einstein thought).  In our days it seems that we human can decide a lot of what is going on at the Earth,  For good and for worse we are living in Anthropocene, the era of humans.  We have change the surface of the Earth so much so its not wrong to call it a new geological era.  But its also the era of Internet.  In Taiwan Audrey Tang works for the government as digital minister and as a programmer to make the the democracy work.  I think its adequate to see her (she is a transgender) as an example for a new and positive thing for our age; A way to manage in a non competitive way. And a way to make democracy stronger by letting many stories flourish. ...

  Now is the time for artists like Arlo parks. It's just a question of time, as art is in progress, maybe like all things.  Phenomena like Donald Trump is in decay.  That's a way of life we cannot afford us to ask for anymore.  We just to keep our eyes open for the new things and they will open up like flowers in front of us.  What it means? Maybe listen to the young girls and what they have to say, what they have to give to the world.  There may be no agenda, no revolution, just the decay of the old.  And what is the old - maybe the white man as conquer of the world.  Maybe another to look at Mother Nature, maybe another to look at love and gender, maybe a more mindful way to live.  But you better ask people like Arlo Parks.  Here - live at KEXP at Home;  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHmIt9OVGU An here in another video

  Heidegger emphasizes  the knowledge of death  of the individual.   That awareness can give meaning to our life - it leads us to do thing that are meaningful for us - not following the crowd.  Not only death but also being is something we have in common with every living being.  And that means being in a specific place - Dasein.  As in Buddhist philosophy Heidegger mean that we interact with the surroundings.  Being comes before thinking, but Heidegger is not into meditation.  He is not either into scientific progress.  It seems that he wants to fins ground for being - maybe that's why he was into Nazis, - at least for a while (not so much antisemitic as thoughts about "blut und boten" - blood and soil ) As David Deutsch means philosophy may not aim to find a common ground, or common truth, but more of criticizing old philosophy and therefore move forward in an never ending progress.  Im sure Heidegger was interested in Buddhi...

 If there is a subject, must therefore be an object?  Well if you study grammar it seems to be so.  I give you a banana, I'm  the doer, the subject. But lets say that we are interrelated.  Lets, for instance say that we are  nature.  Is that a good way to protect nature?  Maybe, but we now live in Anthropocene.  We have influenced the the whole surface of the earth.  We are the strong part now, but that may make us sad too. We cannot longer count on nature as something immense  that will always be there for us to use. We have to care for nature as an old mother. We have been her naughty child and now she is in danger.  Without her we will be lost too.  So maybe each one of us can be a guardian for birds, insects and fish. But some insects shall have a value even if they not are good for us.  We have  knowledges that a tree or a bird have not.  We are in a way superior - anyway if we really starts to behave s...

 Optimism is the name of a chapter in  David Deutsch latest book, The Beginning of Infinity. Can we be optimistic in this dark age?  Why not. As long as creativity rules.  As long as democracy more or less works in many countries.  The film The White Tiger (Netflix) shows a very corrupt India.  But the author of the book that the film is based on, Aravinda Adiga, has said that he wanted the book to be an eye opener about what is going on in his home country. He beliefs that it could work better in the future, so he can be seen as an optimist.  Deutsch thinks that technological solutions can help to solve the climate crises. We also be more optimistic as the US now is on the Paris train again.  If we can slow the heating down we have more time to find solutions.  We are made by nature to see the problems, that has made us survive.   In mindfulness we can label worrying  just as "worries" and let them pass,  After meditation...