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Evt. en måde at holde møde på. "Rarely is walking considered as a distinct mode of acting, knowing, and making. As its necessity diminishes and its applications rarefy, the potential of walking as critical, creative, and subversive tool appears only to grow. Conceived of as a conversation between the body and the world, walking becomes a reciprocal and simultaneous act of both interpretation and manipulation; an embodied and active way of shaping and being shaped that operates on a scale and at a pace embedded in something seemingly more authentic and real."

Artiklen, der linkes til, er tredie side i en længere udredning om, hvilken lære vi kan drage af de udfordringer russerne stod i efter Sovietunionens sammenbrud med deraf følgende sammenbrud i alle aspekter af systemet, hvilket medførte ophør af institutionel ansvars varetagelse på stort set alle områder; økonomi, energiforsyning, fødevareforsyning, sikkerhed etc. Man kommer til at tænke over, hvilke livsfornødenheder man selv ville kunne tage ansvar for at varetage, såfremt en disintegration, af det system man selv indgår i, skulle indtræde.

"In the U.S., there is an industry of political commentators and pundits which is devoted to inflaming political passions as much as possible, especially before elections. This is similar to what sports writers and commentators do to draw attention to their game. It seems that the main force behind political discourse in the U.S. is boredom: one can chat about the weather, one's job, one's mortgage and how it relates to current and projected property values, cars and the traffic situation, sports, and, far behind sports, politics. In an effort to make people pay attention, most of the issues trotted out before the electorate pertain to reproduction: abortion, birth control, stem cell research, and similar small bits of social policy are bandied about rather than settled, simply because they get good ratings. "Boring" but vitally important strategic issues such as sustainable development, environmental protection, and energy policy are studiously avoided. Although people often bemoan political apathy as if it were a grave social ill, it seems to me that this is just as it should be. Why should essentially powerless people want to engage in a humiliating farce designed to demonstrate the legitimacy of those who wield the power? In Soviet-era Russia, intelligent people did their best to ignore the Communists: paying attention to them, whether through criticism or praise, would only serve to give them comfort and encouragement, making them feel as if they mattered. Why should Americans want to act any differently with regard to the Republicans and the Democrats? For love of donkeys and elephants?"

Utroligt inspirerende, tankevækkende og for mig helt ukendt filosofi om relationens/netværkets filosofi.

"Neo-humanism is a new form or expanded concept of humanism. It is composed of several key concepts which make it unique. In neo-humanism, all living beings are viewed as manifestations of one integral whole. They are seen as aspects of one magnificent expression of Consciousness, interlinked and interconnected. None are unimportant or insignificant in this tapestry of life."

Interessant forsøg på at samtænke humanisme og spiritualitet.

Lidt mere fra samme snak.

En temmelig pessimistisk og tankevækkende artikel om distraktion, informationssyge og kulturkannibalisme - om forureningen af sindet og tabet af viden og evnen til fordybelse. 

Jeg synes bestemt godt om nogen af citaterne måske især den om medierne som forurenende fabrikker. Dog synes jeg også, at den er meget negativ, og derfor lider af mangel på konstruktivitet. Det er meget nemt at være negativ, og man kommer også meget nemt til at overdrive. Igen er spørgsmål om en artikel som ovenstående kan hjælpe os med at handle positivt, eller om den bare får os til at hensynke i mere apati. Jeg synes, at den måske kan give en noget eftertænksomhed og få én til at stoppe op, men handlingsændrende er det nok ikke.

"The objective of World-Infostructure's knowledge base is to bring focus to the human dimension of information and communication technologies in a dynamic world of vested interests. It is designed to provide an overview of the status quo, the development and the history of the Infosphere as well as to enhance the visibility of issues of public interest that arise in connection with the emergence of digital media and computer networks. "

Kritik af kritikken. Det bliver rimelig hard core økonomi-snak, som jeg ikke forstår alt af.

"If you relentlessly squeeze workers and suppliers, if you undermine every community's local businesses, if you capture all of this surplus under the guise of efficiency and channel those gains to a small number of people, you end up with a system that is very vulnerable," said Ms. Mitchell, an antitrust reformer and monopoly critic. "That is what we've been doing, systematically and as a matter of public policy."

"Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole."

Han har sgu skrevet nogle interessant ting. Spørgsmålet er, hvad man kan bruge det i konstruktivt sammenhæng?

Bog om nul-vækst og en radikal forandring af Vestens økonomiske struktur af en redaktør på Adbusters. 

Paul Krugman oprindelig i Politiken. Jeg bed mærke i det, fordi han nævnte guldstandarden og den østrigske skole.

"When you ask Kingsnorth about Dark Mountain, he speaks of mourning, grief and despair. We are living, he says, through the "age of ecocide," and like a long-dazed widower, we are finally becoming sensible to the magnitude of our loss, which it is our duty to face."

En miljøaktivist, der har "givet op", og forsøger at komme over ens med, hvad han oplever som de nye realiteter.

"Transition Towns (also known as Transition network or Transition Movement) is a movement that was created by Louise Rooney[1] and popularized by Rob Hopkins. It was founded in Kinsale, Ireland and was then spread to Totnes, England by environmentalist Rob Hopkins during 2005 and 2006[2]. The aim of the project is to equip communities for the dual challenges of climate change and peak oil. The movement currently has member communities in a number of countries worldwide."

Selve teksten (på engelsk) fra Hessel, først udkommet i okt. 2010.

Eksempel på metaforbrug i politik. I dette tilfælde anvendes den metafor, som Lakoff kalder "Nation as a person", dvs. man lader som om, at Danmark er en person, og afleder dermed, at nationen bør aggere ud fra samme principper som en person. Dette er dog ikke nødvendigvis tilfældet (læs kenyansk økonomisk politik). Løkke er dog moderat på den måde, at han accepterer en hvis form for låntagning, men mener det skal stoppe på et tidspunkt pga. snusfornuft. Dette ville være korrekt i en privatøkonomi, hvor man ikke har mulighed for dramatisk at øge sin indtjening på et senere tidspunkt, men det kan man (formentlig) godt gøre som stat.

Citat om kriterier for videnskabelig metode. (H.G.Wells, 1920).

"The DoE predicts that the decline of identified sources of supply will be steady and sharp : - 2 percent a year, from 87 million barrels per day (Mbpd) in 2011 to just 80 Mbpd in 2015. At that time, the world demand for oil and other liquid fuels should have climbed up to 90 Mbpd, according to the presentation document. "Unidentified" additional liquid fuels projects would therefore have to fill in a 10 Mbpd gap between supplies and demand within less than 5 years. 10 Mbpd is almost the equivalent of the oil production of Saudi Arabia, world top producer with 10.8 Mbpd."

"It's the third trajectory, the "450 Scenario," that should raise eyebrows. It assumes that momentum develops for a global drive to keep greenhouse gas emissions below 450 parts per million -- the maximum level at which it might be possible to prevent global average temperatures from rising above 2 degrees Celsius (and so cause catastrophic climate effects). As a result, it foresees a peak in global oil output occurring around 2020 at about 91 million barrels per day, with a decline to 78 million barrels by 2035."

En update på peak oil i lyset af den stigende udnyttelse af ukonventionelle energikilder. Særlig interessant, at IEA nu opererer med et scenarie, hvor man antager, at verdens regeringer faktisk begynder at handle i forhold til at begrænse udledningen af drivhusgasser.