"Who says we can't perform surgery on the sicknesses of ancestral habits?"
--ProfessorAdventure--

Lots of people, that's who.  Status Quoooooooo.  But i agree, we really ought to.  It's impossible, now, to understand anything human without a basic understanding of our evolutionary backround.  (ie, i know about marsupials, that's why we have a little suplerflous muscle on our uterus; i know about upright/fourlegged stance, that's why our backs hurt all the time).  Our past is ourselves.

The other day my dear friend Bryan, who desires to take over the world starting with Canadian miliary power and acronyms, was going on in his goofy German/Eddie Izzard accent about world governments and the group decision was reached that democracy is the most sustainable form of government ever.  Though it's bad, it's better than all the worst. rest.

What about tribalism?

I'm going to write a book entitled From Christian to Animist in 3 Easy Steps!  It'll be a best seller, and even more important that E.O. Wilson's Consilience, the Bible and Marston Bates' The Forest and the Sea combined.  It's all very simple, really.

1. Forget that you have 'sinned.' There is no such thing, and you are not broken as your Christian upbringing has led you to believe.
2. Take a walk or two, bring your dogs and preferable go barefoot.  Carefully consider your surroundings, whatever they may be, and acknowledge their source in relation to you.
3. Talk with your friends.

Now, the rest of book is extrapolation on these points, and tells you to consider during your walks the historical and cultural roots of 'sin,' and christiandoms' investment in it.  It also goes over such basic points as monotheism versus polytheism versus humanism versus capitalism, historical and technological roots of power.  It will discuss the power and durability of the Jews (their words), the power and durability of the Greeks' ideologies (ditto),  and the power and multilaterialism of the current world state (WTO).  Then it discusses the importance of environmental sustainability in relation to oil prices, and exactly why the upcoming election and our Victory in Iraq is one of the last fights *hiccough* of a selfaware dying world order.

My dad was talking the other day upon this point, that Terrorism abroad is directly related to energy concerns/negligence at home, and it all came together.  I love when confusing ideas come together in a united whole--damn, i sound like a hippie--but it's true.  Our dependence upon their oil & natural gas is our refusal to live *united with nature.*   In the most literal short-circuit sense.  Now, i know i've typed this all to you before, but i never truly got it.

Another example of discursive points coming together is that of the drug war.  I don't do drugs mostly because i don't want to mess with my brain and its chemicals, but also becasue i don't want to be a market for drugs or the drug war.  I detest the drug war more than drugs, but they support each other symbiotically closer than a dead log and ugly yellowish lichens.  Historically, the drug war started when alchohol became legal again in the U.S. and the beaurcrats didn't have anything better to do and still wanted funding.  It got its real kick after the Vietnam vets all came home addicted to opium, but opium being scarce in North America, they found Marijauna and Marijauna found better growing grounds in Columbia.  Columbia, historically, has no association with use of marijauna, but it does lie in a very prime trading location and is inhabited by poor, repressed, and competant indiginous farmers.  So today the US DEETs the headwaters of the Amazon in the interest of protecting adolescents.  Silly? yessireebob, but it's another closed circuit of perfect sense if you're really greedy and want to give good speeches to your electorate. 

Maybe i'll have many pretty pictures drawn by my more talented friends.  Ouuuh, it should have pop-ups too for the kids.  I love popup books, i made one once but no one else in OM thought it was as funny as i.

the barefoot bit makes me sound like a hippie. just don't walk through black tar, you might get stuck and your golden retriever won't care much.

Logistically, there's no way home to tribal groups of 12-34.  7 billion humans can't all be hunter-gatherers, and i like my books, domestic cat, omlette commercials and scissors too much to really desire such things.  Humans, if not collectively all that bright, are ever resourceful and should find a betta way. 

That's our choice.  To paraphrase Daniel Quinn, we'll find a way to fix it or the system will fix it for us.

crash and burn or get a parachute. 

i know how to sew light fabrics.

did you ever hear the one about the island with 24 deer?
biology, dear folks, for once has all the answers.  well, if you know some trig too.

I'm sick of wasting time too.  But i know it's not a sin if i myself am having fun; but often i can barely live with the guilt of exploitation. 

Maybe there's another true definiton of sin.






  ¶ 17:01