Sunday, 24 July 2022

Marine cranes “Gulliver” and “Rambiz” in Bridgwater Bay.

Marine cranes “Gulliver” and “Rambiz” in Bridgwater Bay to lower the intake heads for the new nuclear power station Hinckley C. Gorse, Heather, Horse fly bites, and self-pruning of leaves by trees in localized drought conditions.


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Tuesday, 12 July 2022

John Vervaeke, Ep. 7 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle's World View and Erich Fromm

Having mode and Being mode, existential confusion, via Aristotle and others. This episode moves us towards mindfulness and how "Having mode and Being mode" have in some ways been weaponised (I don't think that's too strong a metaphor) to make us seek meaning in things. This episode is getting into the granularity of "us" and how we have lost sight of how great thinkers and philosophers in bygone times laid the foundations for the process of civilising ourselves and looking beyond brute survival to satisfy our Having Needs and our Being Needs without out confusing the two (see line one above).



 

Saturday, 9 July 2022

John Vervaeke, Ep. 6 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution

OK, this one is technical. Self-actualisation and living up to your potential, via virtual engines, enabling and limiting conditions, progressive cause and effect, feedback looks, character and how you can actively develop it ... or not. This is one of those episodes, that is a bit a like a telling-off from someone wise and clever. However, and this is the interesting bit, there isn't an actual telling off, you just realise that you aren't living up to your potential and you know exactly why, and it is an uncomfortable moment. 


Thursday, 7 July 2022

John Vervaeke Ep. 5 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Plato and the Cave

 Part five.

This episode is an eye-opener. Salience is discussed in detail, and we find that Plato worked out something psychophysiological about humans two and half thousand years ago, that is explained in scientific detail by Ian McGilchrist in the episode of Jordan Petersons podcast lower down the page.


If you are anxious and a worrier, the episode above may be very useful in understanding the condition of anxiety. If you then watch the Ian McGilchrist interview with Jordan Peterson you can understand the psychophysiological machinery first conceptualized abstractly by Plato. 



Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Fuel ... the fossil variety.

It does make you wonder how something so abundant in America is so expensive? It can't be the availability of the commodity, therefore there must be an agenda. 

The hilarious thing is that it's the very companies the greens want out of business that are getting richer by the second and by big margins. 

So, perhaps that's the point by some nefarious means ... give the fossil fuel producers a giant golden swansong as they become yesterday's men ... however, that suggests that there is rational thought and a long-term plan, and that doesn't sound like government thinking or strategy. So, alternatively, I'm going to suggest it's a bit of cunfest and the governments have fucked up (I applied Occams Razor).

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Joe Rogan, Siddharth Kara: Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.

Ok, so this isn’t my usual fare (and hello … I have been absent, it happens, I’m a very busy man all of a sudden). Below is an economist Edi...