Adapting to the sixth extinction

Humans are adapting to living in the midst of the sixth extinction by adapting our relationship to time. We have widened the geographic expansion lens to include building islands in the ocean and inhabiting space while we shorten the time focus. Not only has the value of seven generations back and forward slipped away, all other consequences are seen via short term. 10 years is the longest government plans for. Fast to market with a good-enough product, goods cheaper to replace than repair, … I'm sure you can add lots more examples. Please add them in the comments.

Choosing to die by not drinking or eating

In old age the upper beak of an eagle grows gradually longer and more crooked, such that the bird slowly dies of starvation.

Belonging

The wars on drugs, gangs, terrorism are wars on race, class and poverty.  The more rules, the more rules beg to be challenged.  As we restrain both crime and caring, so will we limit our connectedness.  The challenge for too many is how to attach to a society that discriminates, how those on the edges can secure their own place.

Memory metaphors

As the mind slows … retrieval at the speed of an 8080 hard drive, first meta tag associations, later, often much later, full content.

I've transferred that information from my mind's short/term memory to my computer. I'll try to retrieve it later or I'll being it next time.

An explanation of survival and success?

Everyone is required to read the sacred texts. Everyone. The language is based on a three (or two) consonant root system. And the texts are written in a script that only uses consonants. 

Discussion of meanings is encouraged and the discussions too are recorded and scholars read those too. So an embedded way of thinking and perceiving for everyone is general literacy and analysis of possibly encoded meaning – does PC mean PeaCe or Politically Correct or aPaCe or … might WLL mean WeLL or WiLL or WaLL or … 

What is the text saying about how to act towards each other today, here.

And is a mind/brain trained in an oral culture, adept in remembering, does that mind differ from a mind/brain trained to read, to believe the written text?  What kind of values and skills develop?

Keeping the sabbath

Well kept, shabbat is an instance of what a tikkun'd world would be.

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Social and political participation is horizontal and brief - +1, thumb up, sign a petition, text $10 … - are today's ways of helping rise all boats. Counting how many likes, how much money donated, … depersonalizes, turns participation into a counting contest … The interface between caring and doing is not who, but how much.