tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post8153084145803960904..comments2024-02-20T20:50:18.981+01:00Comments on sunburst, musings on the go: does cancerous growth equal an act of conspiracy?Zeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02046472160770720576noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-13287650433555566162008-02-19T17:56:00.000+01:002008-02-19T17:56:00.000+01:00and all of a sudden.. War of the WorldsIndependenc...and all of a sudden.. <BR/><BR/>War of the Worlds<BR/>Independence Day<BR/>Mars Attacks<BR/>I Am Legend<BR/>28 Days/Weeks Later<BR/>..<BR/>..<BR/><BR/>are making more sense....what say..?Nirmalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05171051975532597044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-4656088634822345132008-01-31T20:32:00.000+01:002008-01-31T20:32:00.000+01:00Well, actually, corporate growth is organic. Compa...Well, actually, corporate growth is organic. Companies grow, and along the way they spin off smaller companies. If they get too big to grow successfully, they fail or break into smaller pieces. Or they get purchased by an even bigger company. It's like a forest, to use your analogy, that renews itself constantly.<BR/><BR/>To change a forest, the eco-system has to change. In other words, there has to be a political or social will to effect change. Sudden changes are almost impossible to make.<BR/><BR/>But we *can* influence change towards a more people- and earth-friendly society. It's a journey begun with small, steady steps.Seraphinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06527934346602655741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-21633950123323146842008-01-31T19:30:00.000+01:002008-01-31T19:30:00.000+01:00We fell into a trap with the advent of agriculture...We fell into a trap with the advent of agriculture, a technology which allowed us to greatly expand our numbers, and which led to privatization of land & the exploitation of humans for labor.<BR/><BR/>Then the Age Of Oil came along and allowed us to exponentially increase our numbers six-fold in two-hundred years.<BR/><BR/>We became addicted to all this convenience, comfort, and wealth and addicts always conspire to feed their addictions.<BR/><BR/>We are a civilization blinded by our own cleverness. Made needy by our obsessive self-absorption with the elitist notion of divine intervention and immortality which we believe separates our narcissistic species from the rest of nature.<BR/><BR/>And yes, we have become like a cancerous tumor infecting the earth.<BR/><BR/>Can we change?<BR/><BR/>Who knows?<BR/><BR/>We'll have to leave that question for any descendents who might survive the inevitable CRASH this absurdly overpopulated and ridiculously unsustainable civilization faces.<BR/><BR/>If we can't learn to live within the laws of nature; to keep our population in check; to stop appropriating the habitat of every other species we share the planet with; then we will simply become one of the shortest lived species in the history of the evolution of life on earth.<BR/><BR/>No biggy, 99.9% of all species which ever existed here have already preceded us into extinction.<BR/><BR/>I think it's our fear of death that makes us so insecure as to want to be the rulers of the world, the Masters Of The Universe.<BR/><BR/>But it seems to me that we already have everlasting life, as part of the evolutionary process that will continue to sustain life on earth, and throughout the cosmos as well.<BR/><BR/>When our bodies have decomposed we are not gone. Our molecules and atoms live on into the future as living parts of something so big we will never understand it all.<BR/><BR/>We are but specks in the cosmos on an eternal journey, a mystery forever unfolding.<BR/><BR/>Whatever foolishness we conspire towards is only temporary.<BR/><BR/>Still, the grotesquely conspicuous arrogance and stupidity of our current predicament is pitiful indeed.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01306857757487429447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-62686458747632899192008-01-30T06:46:00.000+01:002008-01-30T06:46:00.000+01:00because humans keep on raising the limits and the ...because humans keep on raising the limits and the standards according to their greed, under the cloak of inflation... nature knows better._z.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12663824234492923213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-82799293613774628932008-01-30T06:22:00.000+01:002008-01-30T06:22:00.000+01:00You're right. Resources are limited and must be ma...You're right. Resources are limited and must be managed wisely but we are creatures who emerged from the savannahs with voracious appetites. Our ancestors were hunted by predators, became better killers and turned on each other. It's only gotten worse.<BR/>I'm feeling a bit hopeless this evening. There are indeed a lot of wonderful, caring people in the world but they don't often get to run the corporations and governments.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-12130873651199094892008-01-30T00:26:00.000+01:002008-01-30T00:26:00.000+01:00Hey, you're an aethetic pragmatist! I like that.Ca...Hey, you're an aethetic pragmatist! I like that.<BR/><BR/>Cancer cells are cells that have forgotten their genetic code and go wild, multiplying until they destroy the very organism that allows them to survive - they die too. Sound familiar? One theory is that if we could only remember our genetic code (we are part of the universe and all life is connected) we might have a chance to stop being the cancer that destroys itself.Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15148485566444804108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-10826420851585701612008-01-29T20:48:00.000+01:002008-01-29T20:48:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Esoteric Noteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07015356250762615470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-52940983984553003142008-01-29T04:38:00.000+01:002008-01-29T04:38:00.000+01:00CYMYour contribution inspired me to change the the...<B>CYM</B><BR/>Your contribution inspired me to change the the wordings of the title of this post!Zeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02046472160770720576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14226983.post-7439790121277958742008-01-29T02:33:00.000+01:002008-01-29T02:33:00.000+01:00"Why is it then, that both politicians and economi..."Why is it then, that both politicians and economists alike expect the growth of global and national economies to grow forever?"<BR/><BR/>Why?<BR/><BR/>Two words: <B>psychopathic insanity.</B> <BR/><BR/>The concept of unlimited growth is a fiction, an illusion, a symptom of delusional thinking. Anyone who expects growth to occur forever unabated, is certainly not playing with a full deck of cards. [Insert the politician, economist, or businessman's name of your choice here.] The only entity found in nature that I know of that functions according to the principle of unlimited growth and consumption, is a disease pathogen, like a Cancer, or a parasite; but what happens to the parasite when there is nothing left to consume? The parasite consumes its host and ultimately it consumes itself. <BR/><BR/>In any case, the outcome of unlimited growth is death, destruction, and system collapse.Esoteric Noteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07015356250762615470noreply@blogger.com