p3 much of what we take for knowledge is actually a projection of the world in our head. It is our psychological compositions that create our reality, scientific inquiry not exempt.
5 the other side of the fence mentality; create an ignorance by avoiding the underlying aspects of a situation; this contradicts the internal hopes for a better future. For as long as we continue to see the other as an alien, a foreigner, an enemy, harmony cannot exist. Is this ironic? I think not. A species that uses competition and violence as their primary mode of relating, dominated by technology that destroys relationships is doomed at that point.
When we ask ourselves, what is the situation: from all sides; then we begin to open our hearts to the visibility of subjectivity. While also growing our listening and acknowledgment as modes of relating. These are very different.
Ed Ayres God's Last Offer: an analysis on global plight. Offers statistical support and rational argument for sounding the alarm. Enormous biological (ecological) and abiotic alterations (Ayres claims is hard to accept and comprehend for most people). This is changing. Picks apart the mechanisms of dissimulation and deception
population growth
consumption of resources
mass extinction of species, systems and interspecies relationships
carbon emission
Are you the driver who pounds on his gas accelerator when your car is running out of gas?
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