mindfulness

 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...

 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 C...

  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.  

 Semi-final in world cup in soccer tonight. France versus Morocco. The Le-Pen family mean that you cannot have double nationalities.  But a lot of people with Moroccan ancestors celebrated in France after the quarter-final. I guess many of them have double identities; a bit French and maybe at bigger bit Moroccan (maybe some sees themselves a international citizens too),  I think you can can have many identities, Zygmunt Bauman used the word fluid instead of postmodernism to categorize out times.  We live in fluid times. If there's a war in Ukraine, it influence the whole world.  Th queer movement is in the loop now. I think Bauman is looking for something steady, too much information nowadays, too much changing in job market. You have to be flexible, too flexible like plankton, moves around by waves and winds. (If you read about Bauman's life you will see that he seems to have been moved around quite much too). Bauman is mostly kno...

 What is that?  It can mean many things dependent on the discourse.  But here is the definition from Oxford research encyclopedias:  Posthumanism is a philosophical perspective of how change is enacted in the world. As a conceptualization and historicization of both agency and the “human,” it is different from those conceived through humanism. Whereas a humanist perspective frequently assumes the human is autonomous, conscious, intentional, and exceptional in acts of change, a posthumanist perspective assumes agency is distributed through dynamic forces of which the human participates but does not completely intend or control. Posthumanist philosophy constitutes the human as: (a) physically, chemically, and biologically enmeshed and dependent on the environment; (b) moved to action through interactions that generate affects, habits, and reason; and (c) possessing no attribute that is uniquely human but is instead made up of a larger evolving ecosystem. There is littl...

 In a comment to one of Anna Thorvaldsdottir´s compositions a listener makes the remark in the headline above.  Maybe it is so. Depends of what we mean with the word "nature".  I guess the writer means that nature is one thing and human another.  But if we say that all is nature, nature is if course not indifferent.  Unfortunately mankind sometimes acts like the most evil creature on Earth;  Uses and exploits the rest of nature but are not indifferent to it.  Other animals does not exploit us, and we are for sure not neutral to our pets.  Often we  also look at wild animals with wonder.  We can interact with them too: I meet two deer in a nearby forest yesterday.  I spoke to them in a friendly voice, as pet owners speaks to their dogs. And the deer stayed just some meters from me and the biggest one started to lick the other in the face. Showing some kind of goodness. Maybe I influenced them a bit - they are quite used to meet peopl...

 A mix of different personalities on the scene.  Zisek, as usual, a bit controversial. Harari, as usual, very mindful - meditates more than an hour every morning and goes on long retreats.  Please, make a comment if something bothers or upsets you..  Mother nature is a bitch says Zizek and means all the suffering on Earth because  of droughts, floods, climate change and so on.  Well, maybe the Earth can be nasty, but of course also beautiful.  I guess Zizek wants to start a debate. Even so when he condemns Buddhism, or the extreme parts of it.