Changing the world means owning the world.
Most humans want to change the world.
Only few humans want to protect the world.It is wrong to change the world to the extent as it is done currently. It is logically false, it is ethically false, it is aestetically false. So it is philosophical false.
Humans are part of the world, so if you want to protect the world you have to change the humans. It’s that simple.
yeah it’s all going down the shitter.
Arminius:Most humans want to change the world.
Only few humans want to protect the world.It is wrong to change the world to the extent as it is done currently. It is logically false, it is ethically false, it is aesthetically false. So it is philosophical false.
Humans are part of the world, so if you want to protect the world you have to change the humans. It’s that simple.
Unfortunately, it is not that simple, just because humans are part of the world, and it is false to change the world.
More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft.
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is a name for the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (since around 10,000 BCE) mainly due to human activity. The large number of extinctions span numerous families of plants and animals including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and arthropods. Although 875 extinctions occurring between 1500 and 2009 have been documented by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,[1] with widespread degradation of highly biodiverse habitats such as coral reefs and rainforest, as well as other areas, the vast majority are thought to be undocumented. According to the species-area theory and based on upper-bound estimating, the present rate of extinction may be up to 140,000 species per year,[2] making it the greatest loss of biodiversity since the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large land animals known as megafauna, starting between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age. Megafauna outside of the African continent, that did not evolve alongside humans, proved highly sensitive to the introduction of new predation, and many died out shortly after early humans began spreading and hunting across the Earth (additionally, many African species have also gone extinct in the Holocene). The extinction of the mammoths, whose habits had maintained grasslands became birch forests without them.[3] The new forest and the resulting forest fires may have induced climate change.[3] Such disappearances might be the result of the proliferation of modern humans. These extinctions, occurring near the Pleistocene–Holocene boundary, are sometimes referred to as the Quaternary extinction event.
There is no general agreement on where the Holocene, or anthropogenic, extinction begins, and the Quaternary extinction event which includes climate change resulting in the end of the last ice age ends, or if they should be considered separate events at all.[3][4] Some have suggested that anthropogenic extinctions may have begun as early as when the first modern humans spread out of Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago, which is supported by rapid megafaunal extinction following recent human colonisation in Australia, New Zealand and Madagascar,[5] in a similar way that any large, adaptable predator moving into a new ecosystem would. In many cases, it is suggested even minimal hunting pressure was enough to wipe out large fauna, particularly on geographically isolated islands.[6][7] Only during the most recent parts of the extinction have plants also suffered large losses.[8]
The ecology of Homo sapiens has been noted as being that of an unprecedented ‘global superpredator’ that regularly preys on the adults of other apex predators and has worldwide effects on food webs.[9] Extinctions of species have occurred on every land mass and ocean, with many famous examples within Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, North and South America, and on smaller islands. Overall, the Holocene extinction can be characterized by the human impact on the environment. The Holocene extinction continues into the 21st century, with overfishing, ocean acidification and the amphibian crisis being a few broader examples of an almost universal, cosmopolitan decline of biodiversity.
It has been suggested human activity has made the period following the mid-20th century different enough from the Holocene to consider it a new geological epoch, known as the Anthropocene,[10] which will be considered for implementation into the timeline of Earth’s history by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in 2016.[11]
The Anthropocene is a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems.[1][2][3] Neither the International Commission on Stratigraphy nor the International Union of Geological Sciences has yet officially approved the term as a recognized subdivision of geological time.[3][4][5]
The term “Anthropocene”—which appears to have been used by Soviet scientists as early as the 1960s[6] to refer to the Quaternary, the most recent geological period—was used with a different sense in the 1980s[7] by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and has been widely popularized by atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behavior on Earth’s atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch for its lithosphere. A January 2016 paper in Science investigating climatic, biological, and geochemical signatures of human activity in sediments and ice cores suggested the era since the mid-20th century should be recognised as a distinct geological epoch from the Holocene.[8]
In 2008 a proposal was presented to the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London to make the Anthropocene a formal unit of geological epoch divisions.[3][9] A large majority of that Stratigraphy Commission decided the proposal had merit and should be examined further. Steps are being taken by independent working groups of scientists from various geological societies to determine whether the Anthropocene will be formally accepted into the Geological Time Scale.[10]
Nevertheless, many scientists are now using the term “anthropocene”,[11] and the Geological Society of America entitled its 2011 annual meeting: Archean to Anthropocene: The past is the key to the future.[12] The Anthropocene has no agreed start date, but some scientists propose that, based on atmospheric evidence, it may be considered to start with the Industrial Revolution (late eighteenth century).[9][13] Other scientists link the new term to earlier events, such as the rise of agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution (around 12,000 years BP). Evidence of relative human impact such as the growing human influence on land use, ecosystems, biodiversity, and species extinction is controversial; some scientists think the human impact has significantly changed (or halted) the growth of biodiversity.[14] Those arguing for earlier dates posit that the proposed Anthropocene may have begun as early as 14,000 to 15,000 years before present, based on lithospheric evidence; this has led other scientists to suggest that “the onset of the Anthropocene should be extended back many thousand years”;[15]:1 this would be closely synchronous with the current term, Holocene.
In January 2015, 26 of the 38 members of the International Anthropocene Working Group published a paper suggesting that the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, was the starting point of the proposed new epoch.[16] However a significant minority supports one of several alternative dates.[16] In March 2015, a paper published in Nature suggested either 1610 or 1964 could be the beginning of Anthropocene.[17] Other scholars point to the diachronous character of the physical strata of the Anthropocene, arguing that onset and impact are spread out over time, not reducible to a single instant or date of start.[18]
The Anthropocene Working Group plans to meet in mid-2016 to submit evidence and decide whether the Anthropocene is a true geologic epoch.[19] The proposal is set to be reviewed by the International Commission on Stratigraphy later in 2016. Should it be approved there, the proposal to adopt the term will have to be ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences before its formal adoption as part of the geologic time scale.[5]
People who lack the necessary blood memory to understand that civilization is the pinnacle of human development, and that what we have today is no civilization at all, but pseudo-civilization that hides the underlying reality of barbarism, cannot understand that the mistake responsible for the modern problem is not that of desire to change Nature – which is fundamentally a noble pursuit – but that of the manner in which people are trying to change Nature.
People who lack the necessary blood memory – that of Neolithic era – can sense that there is something wrong with the modern way of living, but they cannot devise the appropriate solution to the problem. All they can do is oppose the status quo with whatever is opposite to it. In the absence of blood memory necessary to guide their imagination in the right direction, they have no choice but to rely on basic oppositional heuristic.
There are people who are interested in understanding the root cause of the problem, and then there are people who are merely interested in making the pain go away as quickly as possible. The anti-civilization attitude belongs to the latter variety.
The #1 problem in the world is that people interepret problems subjectively and not objectively. They interpret them in terms of suffering, which is a matter of perception, rather than in terms of violence, which is a matter of reality.
Humans are part of the world, so if you want to protect the world you have to change the humans. It’s that simple.
You don’t want to change them, you want to eliminate them. By changing them – by making them better – you are rewarding them for their bad behavior. You are effectively telling them “it’s okay to be bad because sooner or later someone will pop up and turn you into a better person”. What this betrays is a lack of sense of justice.
It is liberals and communists who want to change people in order to make them better. They rely on education and gulags, you on the other hand, you rely on genetic engineering. Fundamentally, there is no difference. Again, what this betrays is a preoccupation with pleasure and preservation.
Natural selection favors barbarism. Unless you are into barbarism, it makes very little sense to leave everything up to it.
Hence, we are in need of artificial selection, which is a form of “owining the world”, world here understood in terms of perceptual horizon, not in literal terms, as everything. Let’s say that our present day perceptual horizon covers our planet Earth and no more than that. Owning the world would means owning planet Earth, and no more than that.
Civilization is an attempt to bypass natural selection with artificial selection in order to select for nobility rather than for ignobility (which is what Nature favors.)
This has to be carried out properly lest the civilization deteriorate into a form of pseudo-civilization and a mode of artifical selection that does not favor nobility but its polar opposite, ignobility – that would be our modern so-called “civilization”.
Our modern day “civilization” is extremely natural. That people are artificial – which is to say pretentious, acting out of their character, and in general, narcissistic – is no argument against it since Nature actually favors this sort of artificiality. There is little in this world that is more natural than slavishness.
Nature is such that it forces people – and it does so constantly – to abandon their true selves and become something else, all with the aim to make them survive a little longer.
Outside of the context of civilization, everyone is forced – they have no choice but – to betray their past selves.
They may feel pleasure, they may have a sense of well-being, but that has absolutely nothing to do with whether they are true to their past selves or not. It is only memory – memory of our past selves – that can tell us whether we are true to ourselves or not. If we simply conveniently forget our memory of the past, in the process making sure we suffer no repression, since repression is, believe it or not, a sign that a memory has not been properly forgotten, but has been merely pushed out of the immediate consciousness of thought into the background consciousness of feeling, if we simply make sure we do not fall into the trap of repression which will force us to either suffer or face our memory of the past, we can live our lives perfectly well even though we are not true to ourselves.
Without a shelter that civilization provides us, we can never be true to ourselves and at the same time alive for any significant period of time.
All of this is, of course, only of importance to noble people, to people who want to remain true to their childhood. The author of this topic, on the other hand, has no interest in such a thing, I am well aware of that, and is merely interested in pleasure. He’s just a person who suffers under the modern pseudo-civilized circumstances, and who hopes, either correctly or incorrectly, I won’t be the judge here, for I cannot be the judge here, who hopes that a return to a more natural way of life will bring him pleasure.
I am saying all of this in order to clarify the fundamental differences between my type, that of Neolithic farmers, the Aryans, and his type, that of Paleolithic hunters, the Giants (or as they are also known, Cro-Magnons.)
Make your choice. Whose side are you on?
People who lack the necessary blood memory to understand that civilization is the pinnacle of human development, and that what we have today is no civilization at all, but pseudo-civilization that hides the underlying reality of barbarism, cannot understand that the mistake responsible for the modern problem is not that of desire to change Nature – which is fundamentally a noble pursuit – but that of the manner in which people are trying to change Nature.
People who lack the necessary blood memory – that of Neolithic era – can sense that there is something wrong with the modern way of living, but they cannot devise the appropriate solution to the problem. All they can do is oppose the status quo with whatever is opposite to it. In the absence of blood memory necessary to guide their imagination in the right direction, they have no choice but to rely on basic oppositional heuristic.
There are people who are interested in understanding the root cause of the problem, and then there are people who are merely interested in making the pain go away as quickly as possible. The anti-civilization attitude belongs to the latter variety.
The #1 problem in the world is that people interepret problems subjectively and not objectively. They interpret them in terms of suffering, which is a matter of perception, rather than in terms of violence, which is a matter of reality.
Ah, there’s that KT bravado within Magnus here. He’s here to tell us of that splendid golden age of what civilization use to be and how we can recover it through civility or order. How very thoughtful, moving, and touching by him. Please note inherent sarcasm of previous sentence here.
Of course I am not very impressed whatsoever. Hey, at least I’m honest.
Please continue, tell us all about the human fall from grace concerning original civility Magnus.
I can’t wait for you to explain all about it to us.
Ultimate Philosophy 1001:Humans are part of the world, so if you want to protect the world you have to change the humans. It’s that simple.
You don’t want to change them, you want to eliminate them. By changing them – by making them better – you are rewarding them for their bad behavior. You are effectively telling them “it’s okay to be bad because sooner or later someone will pop up and turn you into a better person”. What this betrays is a lack of sense of justice.
It is liberals and communists who want to change people in order to make them better. They rely on education and gulags, you on the other hand, you rely on genetic engineering. Fundamentally, there is no difference. Again, what this betrays is a preoccupation with pleasure and preservation.
Wait, what about the fall of civil grace Magnus?
How on earth do you hope to recover it within people?
Must we wait for the holy annointed one?
Natural selection favors barbarism. Unless you are into barbarism, it makes very little sense to leave everything up to it.
Hence, we are in need of artificial selection, which is a form of “owining the world”, world here understood in terms of perceptual horizon, not in literal terms, as everything. Let’s say that our present day perceptual horizon covers our planet Earth and no more than that. Owning the world would means owning planet Earth, and no more than that.
Civilization is an attempt to bypass natural selection with artificial selection in order to select for nobility rather than for ignobility (which is what Nature favors.)
This has to be carried out properly lest the civilization deteriorate into a form of pseudo-civilization and a mode of artifical selection that does not favor nobility but its polar opposite, ignobility – that would be our modern so-called “civilization”.
Our modern day “civilization” is extremely natural. That people are artificial – which is to say pretentious, acting out of their character, and in general, narcissistic – is no argument against it since Nature actually favors this sort of artificiality. There is little in this world that is more natural than slavishness.
Nature is such that it forces people – and it does so constantly – to abandon their true selves and become something else, all with the aim to make them survive a little longer.
Outside of the context of civilization, everyone is forced – they have no choice but – to betray their past selves.
They may feel pleasure, they may have a sense of well-being, but that has absolutely nothing to do with whether they are true to their past selves or not. It is only memory – memory of our past selves – that can tell us whether we are true to ourselves or not. If we simply conveniently forget our memory of the past, in the process making sure we suffer no repression, since repression is, believe it or not, a sign that a memory has not been properly forgotten, but has been merely pushed out of the immediate consciousness of thought into the background consciousness of feeling, if we simply make sure we do not fall into the trap of repression which will force us to either suffer or face our memory of the past, we can live our lives perfectly well even though we are not true to ourselves.
Without a shelter that civilization provides us, we can never be true to ourselves and at the same time alive for any significant period of time.
All of this is, of course, only of importance to noble people, to people who want to remain true to their childhood. The author of this topic, on the other hand, has no interest in such a thing, I am well aware of that, and is merely interested in pleasure. He’s just a person who suffers under the modern pseudo-civilized circumstances, and who hopes, either correctly or incorrectly, I won’t be the judge here, for I cannot be the judge here, who hopes that a return to a more natural way of life will bring him pleasure.
I am saying all of this in order to clarify the fundamental differences between my type, that of Neolithic farmers, the Aryans, and his type, that of Paleolithic hunters, the Giants (or as they are also known, Cro-Magnons.)
Make your choice. Whose side are you on?
Now we’re getting somewhere Magnus. Very good. I didn’t think you had it in you.
Now, how will this noble or civil artificial selection arise and be created?
How will humanity’s fall from civil grace be mended in reviving the past golden era? Make me want to believe.
This Is Catastrophic" - Thousands Of Gallons Of Radioactive Waste Leak At Nuclear Site
The ongoing radioactive leak problems at the Hanford Site, a nuclear storage tank in Washington State, are nothing new.
We first wrote about the ongoing radioative leakage at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, created as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, in 2013.
As a reminder, during the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Alas, the site has been leaking ever since, as many of the early safety procedures and waste disposal practices were inadequate and Hanford’s operations released significant amounts of radioactive materials into the air and the neighboring Columbia River.
Hanford’s weapons production reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, but the decades of manufacturing left behind 53 million US gallons of high-level radioactive waste, an additional 25 million cubic feet of solid radioactive waste, 200 square miles of contaminated groundwater beneath the site and occasional discoveries of undocumented contaminations.
The Hanford site represents two-thirds of the nation’s high-level radioactive waste by volume. Today, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and is the focus of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup. The government spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup — one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. The cleanup is expected to last decades.However, as Krugman would say, the government was not spending nearly enough, and after a major documented leak in 2013, over the weekend, thousands of gallons of radioactive waste are estimated to have leaked from the Site once again, triggering an alarm and causing one former worker to label it as “catastrophic.”
As AP reported, the expanded leak was first detected after an alarm went off at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on Sunday, and on Monday workers were preparing to pump the waste out of the troubled area. They were also trying to determine why the leak became worse.
It’s unclear exactly how much waste spilled out, but estimates place the amount at somewhere between 3,000 and 3,500 gallons, according to the Tri-City Herald.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this sound pronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko?) was an energy accident at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, initiated primarily by the tsunami that was triggered by the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.[6] The damage caused by the tsunami produced equipment failures, and without this equipment a loss-of-coolant accident followed, resulting in three nuclear meltdowns and the release of radioactive material beginning on 12 March.[7] It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the second disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.[8]