I just finished watching a DVD called "The End of Suburbia". It is a film about how the human race is in a downward spiral. It concerns our current way of life and how we can't sustain for much longer. Everything from oil, energy, consumption, attitudes, architecture, and psychology are discussed. It really got me thinking about my habits and how I can do my part.
The way we think about our lives, and how we interact with our environments MUST change. And soon. It really bothers me that there are people dying in Iraq and across the world right now because a greedy, stubborn U.S. administration has decided to secure the last remaining known oil reserves. There needs to be discussion, education and action towards building a better future lifestyle more in harmony with the reality we are going to face in the next few years. In other words, we all need to be more concious of our everyday decisions and actions.
At the current pace and demand for petroleum products, we cannot sustain our lives this way for very much longer. Prices are going to continue to climb, so be ready...
Take a minute and check out the site. Do your homework and you can be prepared for what is to come. Don't buy that new SUV and seriously consider where you want to live, work and play.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Every moment is an opportunity to make things better. Our minds are complex biological machines that must be exercised to perform accurately and efficiently. Creativity and imagination are the essence of life on earth, and are at stake in each individual human being.
We are unique. We think about and concentrate on random thoughts, and can often be overcome by emotion. Emotion is responsible for so much pleasure, and yet is capable of so much grief. If ever we are to feel harmony and balance in its true form, we must begin to understand the subtleties of our complex emotions.
It is one thing to say that you are happy watching the sun set down over the horizon, but saying and meaning are two very different things altogether. In order for us to truly mean what we say, we have to believe it; we can not find happiness in second guessing ourselves in each fleeting moment. To accomplish this, decisions must be made in the absence of bias. It is silly to dwell on the past, since it is possible that unhappy experiences could ruin present and future joy.
The reality of life presents us with only one option: The present. The past has come and gone and the future is yet to be experienced. Ultimately, how sure are we that anything actually occurred the way we personally experienced it, when the very nature of experience is subjective and most certainly skewed in bias? What actually happens is never a fact since the actual truth in the action or occurrence is subject to sensory perception, and thus is susceptible to error. Nothing is as it seems. The only truth is that nothing is actually real; it is merely a distillation of individual and collective sensory perceptions taken from a multitude of stimuli, which are filtered through the most mysterious of all godly creations: Consciousness.
www.postcarbon.org
We are unique. We think about and concentrate on random thoughts, and can often be overcome by emotion. Emotion is responsible for so much pleasure, and yet is capable of so much grief. If ever we are to feel harmony and balance in its true form, we must begin to understand the subtleties of our complex emotions.
It is one thing to say that you are happy watching the sun set down over the horizon, but saying and meaning are two very different things altogether. In order for us to truly mean what we say, we have to believe it; we can not find happiness in second guessing ourselves in each fleeting moment. To accomplish this, decisions must be made in the absence of bias. It is silly to dwell on the past, since it is possible that unhappy experiences could ruin present and future joy.
The reality of life presents us with only one option: The present. The past has come and gone and the future is yet to be experienced. Ultimately, how sure are we that anything actually occurred the way we personally experienced it, when the very nature of experience is subjective and most certainly skewed in bias? What actually happens is never a fact since the actual truth in the action or occurrence is subject to sensory perception, and thus is susceptible to error. Nothing is as it seems. The only truth is that nothing is actually real; it is merely a distillation of individual and collective sensory perceptions taken from a multitude of stimuli, which are filtered through the most mysterious of all godly creations: Consciousness.
www.postcarbon.org
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