Fuse … your posts are getting more and more interesting … exciting.
I’ll try to describe my reactions to your last post as they unfolded.
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After reading your post I went out to help my wife take care of her chickens, ducks and geese … 14 in total.
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While helping my wife my mind focused on your words … “emerging systems” and “speculate”
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I tend to ‘see’ self evident direction … versus speculation … and ‘emerging systems’ are simply a continuation of the battle … man versus nature … since time immemorial.
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Nature will obviously triumph … though I’m not clear yet what the triumph will look like.
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Back home … listened to a bit of Terrence McKenna … he hit a nerve … brought back a memory … reworked the thoughts I mentioned above.
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You likely know I’ve spent most of the past 11+ years in China. Language has not hindered my contemplation … experience … of human life. I don’t understand a word of Chinese … there is no local English speaking community … and for some reason I’ve refused to use a telephone for almost 11 years. The exception being a couple of years teaching conversational English to a handful of Chinese people … some of whom were very interesting and helpful.
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I only know … recognize … two or three Chinese characters … 人 person and … 囚 jail. You will note the character for ‘jail’ is a person inside a box.
When chatting with Chinese people … at the schools where I taught conversational English … I would often write the Chinese character for jail on the white board and translate it as “culture” … ergo: I ‘see’ culture as a jail.
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McKenna mentioned the same thought … he suggests habit … culture … is a retardant to ‘novelty’.
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I ‘see’ habit a bit differently … for me ‘habit’ … retardation imposed by culture … is a necessary stage to prepare a critical mass of people for the next phase of ‘novelty’ … without ‘habit’ to stall … slow down … the process … humanity would go crazy in no time.
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Today is one of those days where I acknowledge my almost 25 year odyssey with God (Nature) … as both an interesting and exciting adventure.