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I am signalling these places so that we may find further flexibility and freedom within the web we are weaving.
"Communication" has been idealized as an ephemeral, non-physical behavior, at best, between and among communicating beings. "Communication", like "energy", is pitted against matter and beings as some additional fundamental aspect of the universe. And yet, the current revolution of molecular biology shows us that in fact, communication IS physical, directs the physical, inspires, creates, destroys, and constitutes the physical.
So what? So, we must embrace communication as a supreme carrying-out of existence.
We may begin with communicating about several locations. One such microcosm goes by the name The Center for Sustainability, and represents our human impact on our world in a manageable way. This lets us learn how to manage the rest of our world, as we remember that we do not already manage it.
February 17th, 2006
I've just read Lovelock's recent diatribe that reads like a warning label on the package of a product: Gaia (TM), New! from Solar Systems (TM). Warning: Contents may vary. Do not overheat. Careless handling will result in massive loss of life!. Better than a computer-screen error message, Lovelock grounds our sense of corporeality in this very world, and reminds us that every body lives within the surface of another.
From some prespectives, we can expedite the process of understanding how humans failed to keep the Earth in Mind. For example, the short term memory capacity of most people - 5 to 7 items - is a psychological fact. Stalin also revealed the path to destruction when he (or whoever Platonically quoted him) "One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic". Nevertheless, some individuals seem to have emerged from the Sleep of Embedded Unawareness, colliding Question with Anti-Question (Anti-Answer with Answer): what does it take to initiate the deep appreciation for our world that leads us to consider it as a whole, as alive, as powerful and yet fragile?
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