Category: anthropology

  • Repost and comment on Climate-above-all plea by US fails to stir China

    x Politicians posing as climate managers is a bad joke, and ‘tackling climate change’ is an empty slogan. BBC summary: Envoy John Kerry’s ‘it’s more … Climate-above-all plea by US fails to stir China — I don’t know about all the political things, all the inns and outs. However, I do feel that there is…

  • A Theory of (counseling) Truth

    Philosophically speaking, there is a line of sense which understands that there is no common arena to which a philosophy is entirely addressable. Following along this line, we can begin to understand that philosophy itself, as a name of some thing that arises in the world to knowledge, it’s not always what it proposes itself…

  • Reposting King Arthur’s Fantastic Hunt

    A terrifying cacophony of noise crashes across the night sky; demonic howls hang on the wind and blast through the dark forest; thunder rumbles … King Arthur’s Fantastic Hunt

  • What Happens When People Die with Debt: Who Pays?

    Millions of Americans are getting buried in debt, literally. A shocking number are dying with unpaid mortgages, car loans, student loans and credit cards. — Read on www.debt.org/family/people-are-dying-in-debt/ — I just found this on a random search about what happens to dad when you die. I was thinking about this because I have no one…

  • Reposting “Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way”*…

    Some scientists, when looking at the ladder of nature, find no clear line between mind and no-mind… Last year, the cover of New Scientist ran the … “Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way”*… — This reminds me of Haroways announcement: Science is culture.

  • The True Purpose of Hospitals.

    As anyone who has even worked in a hospital knows, hospitals are actually waste generation facilities that help people as a nice by-product. Medicine for profit amounts to waste. The money that is made from illness is not made from the caring for or healing of the sick; on the contrary, the money is made…

  • The Taliban and Gangs

    Like many of us, I’ve been thinking about the situation in Afghanistan. I’m trying to think of a solution. Rather, I think about what a screwed up situation that is. I try to wrap my head around people who are part of the Taliban. And I try to wrap my head around people that can’t…

  • Everybody stay put!!

    It appears that our government can’t understand that human beings move around. Everyone is supposed to stay in their country. No one is supposed to want to move anywhere. We need to come up with a policy about how to manage migration.

  • Transhuman

    apple.news/Az9JBXqKUSbSDSV-yA43FQg  I can’t wait to get my bionic arm, legs and my bionic eye ! It is interesting in this post of this breakthrough that the statements, at least from this article, the communication that they get from the person is just about as rudimentary as the beginning of writing itself, it seems. They…

  • Trauma Informed Care

    For those who may not know, trauma informed approach to mental issues understands that such issues are the individual’s natural response to traumatic events in the person’s life. Whether it be a single traumatic event, like an act of violence or natural disaster, a series of events, such as abuse, or “a thousand bee stings”…