This page is indexed at notes.xls and knowledge.base.xls
File: saa.txt
A. tbf ...
1.
B. ---
C. related:
D. sub-projects, tasks list ...
1. mission statement
2. project management
3. public relations, marketing
4. fundraising, grant writing \\fund raising
...
a) IMPORTANT note when describing
Plan S & Fund Raising ...
1) identify
great funding sources, like Osteen, Templeton,
Skoll, Omidyar, Paul Allen, Shakira, etc @ mill.pco and
start the "mastermind draft trim tab" list!
2) This
group is the trim tab for planetary management. Then
show them the list.
3) Remember:
only 7 layers between us and anyone on this list.
b) get something basic on
the web and hit mill.pco & :paradigm
shifters
for help
c) Kadija?
d) Jeff working on various
versions of funding proposals.
e) Jeff: 501(c)3
5. fundraising, grassroots ...
a) email, call, sac: networks
to communicate Plan S with, list
6. presentations: live seminars, online, phone
bridges ...
a) Powerpoint, Jeff working
on
b) .htm presentation, like
dnaftb.org, add mp3 audio narration
c) google: microsoft live
meeting ...
1) better
than, or replacement for, "netmeeting"
d) video conferencing
e) travelling, conducting
3 to 7 day seminars, worldwide
7. online presence & database ...
a) list of software options:
b) standard website
c) wiki website for group
participation ...
1) 2 rainbow
wiki bookmarks @bm.xls
2) dematerialism.wikispaces.com
d) infoselect
e) google docs
f) google apps, $50/yr
g) google groups ...
1) use google
groups Plan S to archive all my stuff!, but it
will lack organizational structure that way.
h) blog, vlog, blip.tv, wordpress.com
i) social networking sites,
myspace, facebook, etc.
8. media development ...
a) graphics, audio, video
b) for web, book, DVD, YouTube,
Google Video, Myspace, etc.
9. research/database loading (archiving) ...
a) see list with this same
heading below @ "staffing, needs"
b) put notes down there (not
here!)
10. study list, re-education list ...
a) This is an immediate, highly
abbreviated, subset of the
research/database
(here), that can be used by individuals
to learn
quickly about the many aspects of Plan S.
b) It will go online ASAP,
showing quick sources like
websites,
YouTube, DVD, books, etc. that can be used for
self study.
11. curriculum development ...
a) This is for a more in depth,
college level intensive study
program,
intended for people who want to master the Plan S
database.
12. network with other individuals & organizations
...
a) and work with them
b) @bm.xls: :Paradigm Shift,
Generalists I Am Aware Of
c) mill.pco
d) participate in online forum
discussions, etc.
e) participate w/ similar
organizations
13. PDIA: Personal Development Industry Association
...
a) revamp the message for
the new energy era
b) rewrite the "PD bibles"
c) see Personal Development
Industry, PDI, lists, here
14. PIC: Penturbia Information Center ...
a) See if Jack Lessinger will
cooperate in getting this going.
It could
be operated in tandem with coaching.
15. personal and family coaching ...
a) to assist people in making
their own action plans and
deployment
of all assets in the context of Plan S: family,
physical,
emotional, spiritual, skills, job, financial,
real estate,
investments, 10 sided structures
b) This can be done locally,
over the phone, over the
Internet,
via seminars, etc.
16. rewrite project: dieoff.org, latoc.net ...
a) These sites need to be
consolidated, merged and
re-presented
from the Plan S perspective. Just like the
PDI, the
bibles need to be updated and rewritten.
17. multi-generational materials ...
a) ref Powerdown p 160 that
mentions preservationist vs
survivalist,
ie. be a "preservationist lighthouse" during
the dark
age
b) how many times have we
wished that some past civ. left us
better records
of their knowledge? pyramids, rosetta
stone, quipa,
mayan hieroglyphs, ancient astronomy, ancient
surgery
c) "getting it 100% right"
like the Wright Brothers. There is
nothing
that guarantees we will do this in our lifetimes.
But what
about future generations? They will want to keep
trying,
and will need to learn from our failures and
knowledge
base. We must pass our information and plans on.
We have
no way of knowing at what point in our species'
development,
we might "learn to fly" like the Wright
Brothers
did.
d) There is nothing that guarantees
electricity will be
present
for the entire duration of our species span. And
without
it, there will be no Internet or way to pass
information
on electronically. We need to pass on our
knowledge,
expecially this brain-mind information which is
so new and
not yet integrated. Future generations deserve
this bounty,
so they can act on it if they so choose.
e) It is essential to spread
knowledge far and wide, since our
normal,
natural, genetic tendency is to forget what we have
learned
about not overshooting our resource base, and fall
back into
enacting our "more gene" pattern once again.
Waking up
to and discovering this information will have to
be done
by every generation to come. This is a tall order.
We must
leave a wide trail to be successful over our entire
species
span.
f) Seige of Leningrad, Nikolai
Vavilov, saving seeds, genetic
diversity
(Gore, pg 281-2), save info/vital
plans/connecting
the dots, how much info has been lost or
intentionally
destroyed, that we can never recover now,
because
it was not carefully saved for future generations?
Look at
Egypt, the Mayans, the Inca. There is so much we
will never
know.
g) Their knowledge was either
...
1) not saved
2) saved,
but not preserved
3) saved,
but intentionally destroyed by conquistadors
h) planning for a multi-generational
project
i) getting acid free documents
to the corners of the Earth,
especially
to cultures outside WC3
j) promote the vision to "
k) communicate with the meek
in the dependence pyramid
l) paper trail: win win! phase1
is important! We win either way! ...
1) By leaving
a record on acid-free paper and getting it into
peoples minds and libraries all over the earth, we move
into our success.
2) Build
a sustainable/stable civilization, transforming
directly from our failed WC3.
3) If we
fail at the above, at least leave a record of what we
learned for future generations and civilizations as our
species matures.
4) Remember,
we are still in diapers now. Just because we
fail today, doesn't mean we will fail forever. Just as
success as individuals is based on never quitting, success
as a species is also based on never quitting!
5) Consider
that S-Day may be more likely to be adopted by
future generations, since they will have the advantage of
looking at failed WC3 from a distance. They may be more
likely to adopt an S-Day type scenario. But without this
body of information, that plan will be unavailable to them.
So we need to leave the paper trail.
m) ref Ran Prieur: "9. Save
human knowledge" !!!
n) translation into other
languages
o) research and consider engraving
to other media (than acid
free paper)
that might last longer, perhaps for thousands
or even
millions of years?
18. online community, Plan S Google Group, blog, etc.
...
a) get us all connected worldwide
b) "Plan S Virtual Community"
for 10 million yr view generalists
c) a virtual policy institute
(think tank)
d) lingo in ps_launch01.doc:
"Virtual Plan S Incubator"
19. land based communities, network of ...
a) based on different models
for different folks. Invite
existing
communities (ic.org) to affiliate.
b) city model, based on retrofitting
cities for permaculture
and recycling
WC3 infrastructure
c) rural/Penturbia model
d) wilderness survival model
20. mass media programming reform project ...
a) Working with psychologists,
public relations, marketing,
etc. to
get all the negative reporting out of the minds of
the masses.
Ref chapters on this in cs96.
21. planetary management communication project ...
a) see planetary management
communication list (saj)
22. plan a sustainable civilization for the long term
(10 MY) ...
a) i.e., post transition:
Sustainable Living for the Long Term
23. plan for S-Day & the transition period ...
a) to get from WC3 to the
10 MY sustainable civilization
E. staffing, needs, list ...
1. project management, @bm.xls
2. public relations, marketing
3. office management, general office skills
4. fundraising, sponsors
5. research/database loading (archiving) ...
a) This is where my decades
of research gets properly
organized,
digitized and loaded, with the intent of
eventually
printing it on acid free paper, and/or other
durable
media for distribution to world libraries.
b) This database can also
be used by Plan S's opponents and
skeptics.
i.e., ask "What's your plan?" Here is a
generalist's
database. Connect the dots in a different way
that makes
sense to you!
c) ---
d) Linux
e) information person
f) researcher, research assistant
g) cataloging/indexing/classification
h) infoselect (or similar
under Linux) person w/ lib skills
i) emporia, boulder, denver
u, class or summer project ...
1) or search
lib schools nationwide for a fit
2) Angel
@ Yale + her girlfriend, take to lib school and
president, check their site for lib sch?
6. course curriculum designer
7. public speaking, presentation skills
8. ghost writer
9. graphic artist, presentation graphics
10. web design
11. media/film/video
F. ---
G. Plan S Main: information structure here ...
1. This was the original basis for ps.doc, which
is the
outline structure in Word.
The idea was to consolidate
many writings and start a
Plan S textual database. This
list and ps.doc are still
very similar, and this can be
deleted once I make sure everything
here is @ ps.doc.
2. ---
3. notes: information categories, these are
pointers only!
4. preferred structure ....
a) (no ... I think I have
this backwards. likely needs to be
in logical
order with external pointers. or maybe make it
sortable
with colons in between?)
b) filename ...
1) info
item
2) info
item
c) filename ...
1) info
item
2) info
item
5. lists, fairly static, for reference
6. major sub-projects, tasks list
7. big goals: immediate, intermediate, long
term
8. mission
9. what is Plan S? ...
a) caveats ...
1) 10 sided
emotional structure
2) puzzle
slide
3) genetic
bias
b) basis ...
1) miller
2) page193
3) latoc
c) sp-gen grid ...
1) info
item
2) info
item
d) s-day, paradigm shift ...
1) info
item
2) info
item
e) transition, WC3 > 10 MY
sustainable complex civilization
1) info
item
2) info
item
f) you don't like it?
what's your plan, based on which
specialties?
10. RFP1: people we know
11. RFP2: to the multitudes
12. fundraising
13. think tank approaches
14. earlier writings to go thru ...
a) moved list below to my
past writings
H. resource list (notes, locations, for archiving) ...
1. \\stuff list < a former name of this list
2. important web resources ...
a) How to Want What You Have,
Chapter 3, Human Nature, by Dr Timothy
Miller.
This book is readily available from the library or
Amazon.com.
The Chap. 3 audio book excerpt is currently on my
server,
48 minute mp3:
http://www.htfiddler.net/tsb/Ch3_Human_Nature.mp3
b) Jay Hanson's dieoff.org,
his Maximum Power page:
http://www.dieoff.org/page193.htm
c) Matt Savinar's Peak Oil
site:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
d) My July, 2003 Solution
Box page:
http://www.htfiddler.net/tsb/tsb.htm
e) Von Mises' Human Action,
online:
http://www.mises.org/humanaction.asp
3. my past writings ...
a) 1979, HSIP
b) 1982, REN
c) 1996, CS96
d) 2003, The Solution Box
(now @ htfiddler.net)
e) 2005, Jeff/Dave
f) 2006, Brian Basor/William
Kotke
g) 2006, Simmons, \ps\simmons.pco
h) 2007, ps_launch01, Rusty,
Mark
i) 2007, ps_phase1*, Mark,
Jeff, Alex
j) 2007, Rusty, meetings,
recordings
k) 2008, Kimberly Hanley
l) 2008, Heartland, meeting
4. paper notes I have written over the years
...
a) 3x5, in office box
b) 3x5, in van
c) Pn's (spiral notebooks),
office, van, etc.
d) folders, manila, tan vat,
S-DAY, CSEN, book notes
e) paper piles, office, CB,
storage
5. commercially produced materials, misc (my
possession) ...
a) books, shelves, boxes,
van
b) peak oil poster, in tube
c) National Geographic
d) Time Magazine, shelves,
van
e) cassette programs, some
already to mp3 (see below) ...
1) Earl
Nightingale, several
2) Zig Ziglar
3) TAGR
4) Unlimited
Power, Robbins (lost)
6. video ...
a) DVD's, End of Suburbia,
WAWTG, Endurance, Cuba, 11th Hour
b) VHS, in CB, van ??? (Ancient
Prophesies, etc)
7. computer files, general ...
a) \r\or\s??.pco
b) \r\ps
c) \r\or\mill.pco (renamed
to san.pco)
d) \r\cp\csen\*
e) \r\or\lib* (lib.pco isn't
very useful though)
f) \r\or\bm* (pull personal
stuff)
g) \r\cp\quotes*.pco
h) \mnby: Miller1 & 2,
Petrocollapse, Strangest_Secret, TAGR
i) \mnbrip: ZigZiglarGoals
j) \pmail\mail\*.pmm (access
via Pegasus Mail)
k) \mnbps\*
8. computer files, Plan S, indexed here ...
a) unless otherwise indicated,
these are all in folder: \r\ps
b) There are many other files
in this folder, however they are
not indexed
here. This is because they are referenced from
other files,
most likely @bm.xls.
c) ---
d) \r\or\s??.pco
e) index.xls, index to s??.pco
f) time08.xls, time sheet
g) ps.doc, Plan S Main (Word97
outline)
h) \r\cg\outline.doc <
Word97 outlining notes here
i) simmons.pco, prep for Feb,
2006, non-event in Houston
j) rusty.pco, Rusty notes
k) ps_kotke.doc, William Kotke
emails consolidated ...
1) Contains
a 13 point summary of Plan S. ^s:
"Plan S is a generalist's plan"
l) ps_launch*.doc, project
launch documents
1) Contains
a 15 bullet point summary of Plan S. ^s:
"main points of Plan S"
2) This
is a huge project launch document that ended up going
to both Mark Hanson and Rusty Huber. It is partly based on
the 1 page handwritten notes I made on Blacks Beach in La
Jolla, CA in Feb, 2007.
3) ps_l01.pco,
working outline for ps_launch01*.doc
4) ps_l02.pco,
another "
5) ps_launch01b.doc,
w/ 11 images, coff 04/12/07
6) ps_launch01.doc,
no images (small), current, make changes here
m) PS_LIMG1, folder w/ images
of paper files to archive
n) phase 1 concept paper,
for Alex Diaz ...
1) This
paper contains an excellent brief overview of Plan S.
2) ps_ph1a.pco,
initial working outline
3) ps_phase1a.jpg,
graphic
4) ps_phase1f.doc,
05/18/07, finished
5) ps_phase1f.xls,
" , budget worksheet
o) lapham.doc ...
1) annotating
the Common Sense 1996 article with "[xxxx]"
definitions, etc.
p) SDay1PgBlacksBeach.jpg,
02/19/07, 8.5x11 scribblings ...
1) These
were already transcribed to ps_launch*.doc. Saved
for future reference. The original sheet with additional
crossoffs is in "S-Day" folder.
q) timeline.xls, compares
13.7 BY to 10 yrs, etc. \\stats.xls
r) flyer01.doc, 01/12/08,
made for Jim Bell party
s) ca.map.* < southern
cal. traveling salesman zones maps
t) contacts.xls + con??.pco
< contacts database
u) 080131.Heartland.Notes.doc,
Balboa presentation, colored
v) ManBehindCurtain.jpg <
image from YouTube clip
w) PowerpointPlay.ppt, experimenting
here
x) Puzzle Slide in Powerpoint:
see ^^ PowerpointPlay.ppt
y) JoblessMen.jpg < billboard
from Woody Guthrie YouTube
z) SelfishGeneReview.doc <
great review from Amazon
aa) pskb.xls, Plan S Knowledge Base
w/ Hyperlinks
ab) VoluntaryHumanExtinction.jpg
< from vhemt.org
ac) \mnbps\* ...
1) mp3 ...
a> DaveWann, Dave Wann & Jeff Graef, 09/05/05 presentation
b> Heartland, 01/31/08 presentation
c> JeffGraef, starting 08/26/05
d> KimberlyHanley, meeting 01/17/08
e> RustyHuber, starting 02/23/07, early ones include Amy
9. computer files, Plan S, emails of note ...
a) all emails to: @sus.pml,
@sus?.pml, starting 4 Oct 07 ...
1) if in
Gmail, ^s sustainable list
b) emails to/fr William Kotke,
12/09-25/06 \\kottke
1) originals
are @ \pmail\mail in z 2006 Copies & Received
2) These
are copied and consolidated into a single Word97
document: ps_kotke.doc
3) includes
Brian Basor email of 12/06/06
c) Steve Clark, 20 March 07,
Reflections on Meeting
d) Steve Clark, 22 March 07,
Re: Peak oil (+Afterthoughts)
e) Rusty Huber, 1 May 07,
Survival of the Fittest
f) Phil Ingraham, 23 Dec 07,
Re: Saving the World
g) Stacy Webster, 4 Jan 08,
Saving the World
h) Peter Russell, 30 Jan 08,
Re: Robert Wright, EP
i) Ran Prieur, 21 Mar 08,
Re: I think buying gold
j) Steve Clark, 27 Mar 08,
Re: Shai Agassi, Project Better Place
k) Bodrah from/to re Energy
Scams ...
1) copies:
2 Apr 08, Energy Scams
2) recv:
2 Apr 08, more henry bs
3) copies:
4 Apr 08, C'mon Brother!
4) recv:
6 Apr 08, "
5) copies:
6 Apr 08, "
l) CC, 11 Apr 08, 1:22, Subj:
Expelled
A. ;specialist <> generalist list
1. useful introductory quote to sab:
"People do not go to hell after
death. The designers and
builders of hell are human
beings. The designs and
buildings are almost completed.
It is becoming difficult to
add more hell." --Tamo-san
2. Simmons: HUMANITY'S TOP TEN PROBLEMS FOR THE
NEXT 50 YEARS: ...
a) found in both "Rough Ride
Ahead" & "We are in a deep hole"
b) 1. Energy
2. Water
3. Food
4. Environment
5. Poverty
6. Terrorism
and War
7. Disease
8. Education
9. Democracy
10. Population
3. Green to Gold, Dan Esty: top ten ...
a) 01 Climate Change
02 Energy
03 Water
04 Biodiversity
and Land Use
05 Chemicals,
Toxics, and Heavy Metals
06 Air Pollution
07 Waste
Management
08 Ozone
Layer Depletion
09 Oceans
and Fisheries
10 Deforestation
4. Jared Diamond, Collapse: top twelve ...
a) most serious environmental
problems:
b) 01 Natural Habitat Loss
02 Wild
Food Source Loss (Overfishing)
03 Biological
Diversity Loss
04 Soil
Damage
05 Energy
Depletion
06 Freshwater
Depletion (Aquifer Depletion)
07 Photosynthetic
Depletion
08 Toxic
Chemicals
09 Alien
Species (Invasive Species)
10 Atmospheric
Gasses (Global Warming)
11 Population
12 Standards
of Living (Environmental Impact)
5. What A Way To Go: top four ...
a) four pivotal and daunting
challenges that humans must
address
and resolve if any species are to remain on planet
earth:
b) Peak Oil
c) Climate Change
d) Mass Extinction
e) Population Overshoot
6. Paul Chefurka, chefurka.ca: top nine ...
a) Climate Change
Peak Oil
and Natural Gas Depletion
Species
Extinction and Biodiversity Loss
Deforestation
and Desertification
Depletion
of Ocean Fish Stocks
Depletion
of Soil Fertility and Fresh Water
Decline
of the Global Grain Supply
Air, Water
and Soil Pollution
Social,
Economic and Geopolitical Instability
7. ---
8. money, debt & credit expansions of all
kinds ...
a) fossil fuel based currencies,
worldwide
b) worthless money ...
1) fiat
currencies worldwide
2) silver
certificate > federal reserve note transition
3) coinage
no longer contains any precious metals
c) money as debt (Google Video,
moneyasdebt.net)
d) banking industry, credit
card pushing
e) extremely high interest
rates on credit card debt \\usury
f) individual credit card
debt
g) bankruptcy filings, in
USA, 2 million per year
h) bank failures
i) floating currency exchange
rates
j) collapse of U.S. Dollar,
world's reserve currency
k) USA, national debt
l) manipulation of money supply
by federal reserve
m) Bretton Woods
n) pension fund deficits
9. fractional reserve banking, deposit creation
multiplier
10. gambling, speculation, legalized in many forms
...
a) casinos
b) lotteries
c) options & derivatives
d) derivatives, as financial
WMD's ...
1) financial
weapons of mass destruction (per Warren Buffett)
e) etc.
11. negative net savings rate (U.S., per Mike Ruppert)
...
a) may also be affecting Japan
and other western societies now
12. derivatives, WMD per Warren Buffett
13. housing bubble, collapse/crash of
14. foreign ownership of U.S. assets, sale of USA
to foreigners
15. foreign exchange (ForEx)
16. monoline insurance meltdown (google it, related
to muni bonds)
17. slavery, indentured servitude, past, present,
future
18. economic gaps and divergences ...
a) The gap between the richest
and poorest people has become
grotesquely
vast.
b) self-enriching corporate
and political elites
c) working poor, USA, worldwide
d) economic exploitation
e) wage slavery
f) export of manufacturing
jobs to Asia, Mexico
g) some people working long
hours, overtime, 2 and 3 jobs to
make ends
meet
h) outsourcing of service
economy to India, Philippines
i) What does the USA produce
anymore? Not much. We
are net
mega-consumers, of which we produce very
little.
j) unemployment, high rates
of unemployment in many countries
k) "net job loss in goods
producing activities", ref bm.xls,
Paul Craig
Roberts,
recv:14
Feb 06:Subject: The New Permanently Unemployed Class
l) boom and bust, feast and
famine, depression, recession,
wide swings
in economic cycles
19. cannibalism, past, present, future
20. starvation
21. refugees, both outside and inside USA, past, present,
future ...
a) Internally Displaced Persons
(IDP)
b) Invisible Children, Uganda
c) Katrina evacuees, USA
22. violence, violent crime, violent society
23. organized crime
24. gangs
25. guns, gun control
26. Lovins: oilendgame.org < for the short term
anyway!
27. Machiavelli
28. microbes (ie., microrganisms, bacteria, viruses)
...
a) killing potentially helpful
microbes (disinfectants)
b) drug resistant/immune microbes
evolving
c) antibiotics, antibiotic
resistance, dangerous bacteria
29. mass media
30. global warming ...
a) CO2 rising \\carbon dioxide
b) greenhouse gases
c) storms increasing, hurricanes,
etc.
d) impact on agriculture
e) glaciers and polar ice
caps melting ...
1) rising
sea levels, innundation of coastal areas
2) reduction
of fresh water rivers and streams
f) GGWS: The Great Global
Warming Swindle (google videos)
31. global dimming, ref wiki
32. ozone hole
33. smog
34. rainforests, destruction of \\rain forests, slash
and burn
35. clear cutting forests \\clearcutting
36. topsoil erosion, compaction, depletion, contamination
...
a) loss of farmland
b) lack of crop rotation
c) cropland losses
d) use of petro chemicals
petro fertilizer
e) salinization
f) stream sedimentation
37. drought, desertification, dustbowl conditions
\\dust bowl ...
a) 1930's, midwest USA
b) now, China
38. grassland degradation (China)
39. coral reefs
40. fertilizer runoff, dead zones in oceans
41. ocean acidification, acidity, threatens plankton
(CO2 related)
42. overfishing, collapsed fisheries ...
a) tuna at risk of collapse
43. overhunting, poaching, trophy taking
44. wildlife harvest/slaughter for bushmeat
45. endangered species, exotic species ...
a) illegal capture/trapping
for animal trade on black markets
46. animal mistreatment and slavery ...
a) pet industry
b) zoos and zoo trade
c) wildlife and marine theme
parks (Seaworld)
d) massive & inhumane
overcrowding on feed lots, chicken houses
e) factory farming
f) slaughterhouse industry
g) meatrix.com
h) animal experimentation
i) blood sports: bullfighting,
cockfighting, dogfighting, etc.
j) rodeos
47. vanishing wetlands, especially protective wetlands
48. water shortages ...
a) fresh water and aquifer
depletion
b) glacier melt, fresh water
crisis in Himalaya region
c) river flow cessation
d) 20% of available drinking
water flushed down urinals &
toilets,
with even more likely polluted in other ways
e) ground water salinization
49. sanitation & sewage problems, especially outside
first world ...
a) "pooping in the drinking
water"
b) Even in the developed world
we use enormous amounts of
energy with
our flush toilets, municipal water systems,
septic tanks.
c) Alamosa, Colorado, salmonella
in muni water system, March, 2008
50. over irrigation \\wiki overirrigation
51. resource depletion, peak everything ...
a) @bm.xls, Earth's natural
wealth
b) minerals depletion ...
1) On Borrowed
Time?, John Tilton, Golden: School of Mines
2) Kotke,
Chap 8
c) metals depletion ...
1) World
Metal Demand, John Tilton, Golden: School of Mines
52. grain depletion \\grain stocks depleting
53. moral collapse/bankruptcy (day america told the
truth)
54. loss of diversity, of ...
a) Quinn: species
b) Barker: ideas
c) Kotke: dietary food
plants (5000 v 10, Chap 5)
d) Gore:
"
55. doom and gloom, pos/neg, different time frames
56. demise of: localized economies & currencies
...
a) wal-mart (walmart) &
box stores demolish mom and pop stores
and local
supply lines \\mom & pop
57. homogenization of cultures ...
a) loss of indigenous cultures,
languages, worldwide
58. religious/political situation: the grand chessboard
...
a) religious-biblical-israeli-arab-middle
east-oil relationship
b) islamic jihad
c) islam vs christian, ref
West's Last Chance, Blankley
d) CNN: God's Warriors, Christiane
Amanpour, 08/21-23/07, 6 hr doc.
e) terrorism, via WMD's (nuclear/chemical/biological,
etc.)
59. political oppression
60. election fraud, stealing elections, USA, 2000,
2004
61. coup d'etas, worldwide
62. paper deterioration, acid paper, non-acidic paper
63. garrett hardin, tragedy of the commons, etc.
64. neocons: Leo Strauss
65. fascists, fascism, totalitarianism, dictatorships
...
a) secrecy and lying in government,
encroachments on freedoms
b) government rule by decree
66. theocrats: Sam Brownback, The Family \\theocracy
67. energy accounting concepts ...
a) EROEI (energy returned
on energy invested)
b) embodied energy
c) eMergy (Howard T Odum)
68. unscalability of renewable energy, alternative
energies
69. safety concerns with compressed gasses: LNG, hydrogen
70. substance abuse, addiction, incarceration, enslavement
...
a) legal and illegal foods,
alcohol, drugs, substances,
causing
addiction, chronic illness, degenerative diseases,
death, imprisonment,
drunk driving
b) related to drug money laundering
c) crime and corruption, local,
national & international levels
d) drug pushing, both illegal
and legal by pharmaceuticals
e) abuse of prescription pain
killers, like Vicodin
71. steroid use by athletes, USA
72. industrial poisons, toxins (Kotke, Chap 8)
73. Treaty of Westphalia
74. epistemology, basis of knowledge ...
a) science
b) religion
c) what else?
d) also: Evolutionary Epistemology,
bm.xls
75. dead cities, look gray from space, reflecting
concrete ...
a) Cities (as currently designed)
are not designed for life
and living
things. They are designed for automobiles.
People are
crammed into small spaces, and stacked on top of
each other.
b) paved over planet, pavement
everywhere, parking lots
76. pollution ...
a) extensive list: wiki\Pollution
b) noise
c) ocean (Kotke, Chap 6)
d) lakes & streams
e) atmosphere, general
f) atmosphere, soot from cooking
fires
77. litter, trash, garbage dumps, accumulation ...
a) blowing and floating all
over the planet
b) littering forests, mountains,
remote beaches on uninhabited
islands,
Mt Everest, etc.
c) marine debris, plastic
in the oceans. @bm.xls
d) culture of waste, throw
away society, planned obsolescense.
@bm.xls
e) corporatization of garbage
(i.e. Waste Management)
f) The plastic bag problem
is so bad that some cities,
countries
and corporations are actually banning them!
g) Naples, Italy, "suffocating
in its own excrement", @bm.xls
h) two million plastic bottles,
used in US every five minutes
i) 106,000 aluminum cans,
used in the US every thirty seconds
78. graffiti
79. radioactivity, radioactive waste (Kotke, Chap
8)
80. oil spills
81. landfills, waste stream, lack of recycling of
materials
82. depression, despair, anxiety, mental illness,
use of ssri's ...
a) psychiatric "solutions"
for a mentally ill species, as in
Orwell's
1984 and Huxley's Brave New World:
b) prozac, zoloft, serzone
c) children being drugged
for ADD, ADHD: ritalin
83. school shootings (high school and college)
84. killer insects (bees, etc.?)
85. bee dieoff, silent spring
86. AIDS epidemic
87. species span of various species ...
a) large mammals, average
1 to 4 million years
b) horseshoe crab, 400 million
years
c) cockroach, 350 million
years
d) dinosaurs, 165 million
years
88. genocide, ethnic cleansing, past, present, future
...
a) past: The Holocaust, Native
Americans, Australian
Aborigines,
Gypsies, Bosnia, etc.
b) present: Rwanda, Burundi
89. Africa in meltdown, Zimbabwe, etc. \\africa melting
down ...
a) civil unrest, chaos and
disorder in several locations
90. school test scores down: "The dumbing of America"
...
a) including falling test
scores (SAT, etc.) & achievement in
math &
science, especially in the USA. Falling behind
Europe,
Japan, India, etc.
91. illiteracy: low reading abilities
92. Land of Desire, Edward L Bernays, Century of the
Self
93. frog, slow boil v. fast boil
94. Toynbee on collapse, acute challenge: response
95. world government, ref quotes.pco ^s (same)
96. real estate crash ...
a) bubble bursting
b) foreclosures at record
levels
97. disintegration of family, neighbornoods, community
...
a) social structure and fabric
98. social isolationism, "email world" ...
a) Greatly reduced social
contact and interaction in first
world, wealthy
economies. Even talking on the phone has
been greatly
reduced, in favor of email quips consisting of
a few sentences
or even just a few words.
99. homelessness
:0. more materialism, less spirituality, secular society
:1. atrocities of the modern era ...
a) "organ harvesting in China"
(wiki & google)
b) genital mutilation, Africa,
wiki: "female genital cutting"
c) breast ironing, Cameroon,
wiki: "breast ironing"
d) wife burnings, Indian subcontinent,
wiki: "bride burning"
e) sexual slavery, worldwide
f) nuclear and chemical weaponry
g) torture
h) electric chair
:2. atrocities of past eras ...
a) foot binding
b) burning at the stake
c) blood sports (gladiators,
etc.)
d) blood letting, human sacrifices
to the Gods
e) cannibalism
f) the stocks
g) the rack
:3. walls, past, present, future ...
a) Berlin, Germany
b) Great Wall of China
c) Israel
d) Belfast, Northern Ireland
"peace lines"
:4. modern warfare ...
a) war is getting deadlier,
costlier, and more energy
wasteful,
than at any time in history
b) civil war
c) guerrilla war
d) resource war
e) religious wars & crusades
f) germ factories
g) biological weapons
h) pre-emptive strike policies
:5. posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
:6. Jevons paradox
:7. occam's razor \\ockham's razor
:8. prisons ...
a) overcrowded
b) USA, highest inmate population
in the world, ~2.5 million
c) USA,
" on a percentage basis, 756/100,000 (1 in 132)
:9. nature deficit disorder ...
a) Last Child in the Woods:
Saving Our Children from
Nature-Deficit
Disorder
b) a:Louv, Richard
;0. utility lines & poles, unesthetic & unsightly
...
a) \\electric lines power
lines utility poles
;1. deaths from medical mistakes
;2. genetic engineering, gene splicing, gene therapy
;3. game theory, per Rusty
;4. general systems theory, see wiki article "systems
theory"
;5. oil & gas drilling in Rocky Mountain West
...
a) www.alandoutoftime.com
;6. nuclear energy, as a possible transition mechanism
;7. survival of the fittest (ref Rusty email, copies,
05/01/07)
;8. obesity, fat, overweight people, especially in
first world
;9. food & nutrition, out of balance ...
a) deficiencies, toxicities,
pesticides, herbicides, refined
foods, resulting
in chronic illness, degenerative diseases,
death
b) Udo, p 319: Nutrient Enrichment:
"Since most of our foods
are not
garden-fresh, sun-ripened, organic, in season, and
locally
grown, and since we live in an environment polluted
with lead,
cadmium, smoke, carbon monoxide, plastics,
pesticides,
and other toxins (and if we smoke, drink
alcohol,
and use toxic recreational or pharmaceutical
drugs) ..."
c) fast food, junk food
d) genetically modified foods,
genetic engineering
e) biotechnology, GMO's (Monsanto's
Roundup Ready seeds)
f) food poisoning, foodborne
illness, outbreaks ...
1) spinach,
carrot juice, tomatoes
2) E coli,
salmonella, etc.
g) mercury poisoning, especially
among Inuit
h) trans fats, hydrogenated
oils, causing heart attacks
<0. family farms, small farms ...
a) loss of to corporate agribusiness
b) farmers committing suicide,
India, etc.
<1. hybrid vs. non-hybrid seed supply \\sterile
seeds ...
a) museletter #110: hybrid
seeds, etc.
b) google: norway doomsday
vault (seed bank)
<2. hunger, starvation, food stockpiles dwindling
...
a) rice yields plunging due
to global warming
<3. food versus fuel concerns ...
a) ethanol demand raising
price of corn in USA
<4. health decline, poor health, chronic illnesses
...
a) due to poor diet, unhealthy
environment, lack of exercise,
etc.
<5. disease, increasing rates of ...
a) heart attack
b) stroke
c) cancer
d) diabetes
e) asthma
f) obesity
<6. carcinogens increasing in atmosphere, causing
cancer
<7. toxic substances in cosmetics
<8. divorce rates high in USA, no-fault divorce
<9. energy density
=0. energy waste, inefficient energy use, SUV's, Hummers
=1. acid rain
=2. wildfires, human caused fires ...
a) including "controlled burns"
that run amok, e.g. Cedar
Fire, CA,
Los Alamos, NM, 2007 southern Cal. fires.
b) coal seam fires (mine fires),
many human caused
c) peat fires, many human
caused
d) contributing to increased
carbon and CO2 levels
=3. pest species, damage from introduction of insects,
pests
=4. overgrazing \\over grazing
=5. automobile congestion, traffic jams, gidlock,
car culture ...
a) spending hours commuting
daily
b) Bangkok, people living
in their cars
=6. light pollution, over illumination
=7. excessive marketing, advertising ...
a) artificial creation of
wants, far beyond actual needs
b) marketing targeted at children
c) telemarketing
d) junk mail
e) spam
=8. identity theft, online phishing
=9. suicide, high rates of, especially among ...
a) teens, active and former
military, Japanese
>0. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ANWR
>1. feed lots, stinky fumes, bad odors
>2. unsightly, ugly ...
a) strip mines, mountaintop
removal, junkyards, refineries,
industrial
activities
>3. natural disasters, increased scale & frequency
of human caused
>4. invasive species \\weed species weedy species
>5. methane emissions from cattle/animals
>6. long lines, telephone hold times, wait times ...
a) in USA, former Soviet Union,
etc.
b) post offices, DMV
c) technical support, customer
service
>7. poor and non-existant service and support ...
a) technical support, customer
service
b) untrained personnel
c) cannot understand " due
to accents and language barriers
d) long hold times
e) dropped calls, then no
callbacks
f) no support at all, call
or email, no callback, no reply
g) nobody home, companies
& a planet on autopilot \\auto pilot
>8. quality of manufactured goods going down ...
a) Lots of junk on the market,
often doesn't even make it thru
the manufacturer's
warranty period!
b) planned obsolescense
c) things don't work, products
are poorly engineered & tested
d) quality control is worse
or non-existant
>9. multitasking, operating 24/7, three shifts, lack
of focus ...
a) lack of sleep, global economy
demands, instant messaging,
all resulting
in low quality and frazzled human beings
?0. police brutality, police state/authoritarian regimes
...
a) to varying extents in many
countries
?1. crumbling infrastructure in USA ...
a) Hurricane Katrina
b) Manhattan steam pipes explode,
2007
c) Minneapolis I-35W bridge
collapse
d) Alamosa, Colorado water
system, 2008 salmonella outbreak ...
1) "Of 50
miles of pipeline, 30 are cast iron and much of it
has been in place since the Great Depression."
?2. jails overcrowded \\jail overcrowding
?3. federal budget deficit, counted in trillions of
dollars (USA)
?4. mountain pine beetle infestation, Colorado, USA
...
a) may be climate related,
may be present elsewhere
?5. entertainment industry provides addictive escape/distraction
...
a) from the pain of our dysfunctional
civilization. We are
addicted
to being entertained by an endless barrage, all as
an escape.
b) war and diaster as "entertainment"
on mass media ...
1) CNN:
"This week at war"
c) doom and gloom as "entertainment"
on mass media ...
1) CNN:
"Planet in Peril"
2) massive
coverage of 9-11, Katrina, San Diego wildfires
d) the courtroom as "entertainment"
on mass media ...
1) Judge
Judy, etc.
2) O.J.
Simpson, Michael Jackson, trials
e) megachurches & tv ministries
become entertainment venues
?6. loss of solitude, quiet places
?7. loss of wilderness
?8. depleted uranium
?9. social security system bankrupt, USA
@0. high taxes
@1. again baby boomers, strain on system
@2. coal fired power plants increasing, especially
in China
@3. red tides, algae blooms
@4. Pre-emptive strikes policies, USA, others?
@5. whistleblower intimidation
@6. carbon sequestration
@7. Heavy metal contamination
@8. PCB contamination (Polychlorinated biphenyl),
banned in 1970's
@9. dangerous chemicals concentrating in humans ...
a) and other species
A0. Methane hydrate mining
A1. birth defects
A2. globalization, corporate rule, WTO
A3. corporate conscience, ethics, behaviors, lack
of (The Corporation)
A4. lobbying, cronyism, between governments and corporations
A5. pornography, aberrant sexual behaviors and morals
...
a) loose sexual morality
b) resulting practice of legal
and illegal abortion
A6. rape
A7. television commercial breaks running longer and
longer ...
a) as revenue drops to the
Internet, iPods and other forms of
entertainment.
A8. television violence \\violence on tv
A9. innundation of low lying islands and coastal areas
...
a) forcing relocation of populations
B0. hate, hatred, hate crimes: ethnic, racial, religious,
nationalistic
B1. apartheid policies
B2. boredom, lonliness
B3. lies, lying, manipulation, personal exploitation
B4. child abuse and neglect ...
a) in the home, in the church,
around schools
b) sexual predators on the
Internet
B5. automatic waste of water and electricity on the
rise ...
a) automatic doors
b) automatic flush toilets
and urinals
c) automatic water faucets
d) automatic feed paper towels
B6. GNP (US Gross National Product) provides poor
accounting of real ...
a) economic and environmental
planetary health
B7. artificial everything: lighting, materials, intelligence,
food, etc.
B8. The Myths of Biofuels (@bm.xls), hydrogen economy
B9. illegal immigration, illegal aliens, border fence
in USA
C0. tasers, new non-lethal weapons technology
C1. patenting of organisms
C2. illegal mining and lumbering
C3. illegal dams
C4. insurance losses rising
C5. superweeds
C6. radon gas poisoning
C7. toxic buildings
C8. toxic toys, especially from China
C9. litigious society in the extreme, lawsuits, litigation,
sue-happy
D0. city sprawl, habitat loss forcing animals into
cities ...
a) tigers, monkeys, elephants,
etc.
b) 20k monkeys in Delhi, India,
big problem
D1. inner city decay, slums
D2. many laws & tax codes encourage consumption
and waste
D3. human rights violations worldwide
D4. security firewalls everywhere ...
a) locks
b) coded entry
c) swipe entry
d) badges and ID systems
e) hidden cameras, Brave New
World, "Big Brother is Watching You"
D5. buildings must be protected by firearms, cages,
etc. ...
a) banks, shops, airports,
post offices, court houses
b) bullet proof glass and
plastic
c) metal detectors
d) wanding
e) x-ray systems
f) shoe removal
g) wrought iron window and
door grills
D6. nuclear accidents, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island
D7. toxic waste & spill accidents ...
a) Love Canal
b) Superfund
D8. electronic waste recycling ...
a) planned obsolescense
b) toxic, carcinogens
c) causing environmental and
health problems
D9. ship breaking ...
a) toxic, asbestos, PCB's
b) causing environmental and
health problems
E0. cell phone radio waves causing cancer, etc. ...
a) @bm.xls: U.S. doctor links
radio waves
E1. indigenous lands, targeted for resources ...
a) "The Paradigm Wars: Indigenous
Peoples' Resistance to
Globalization"
(2007), Jerry Mander
b) With many of the planet's
remaining natural resources on
indigenous
lands, traditional indigenous practices of
biodiversity
preservation have, ironically, made these
lands targets
for global corporations seeking the last
forests,
genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals.
E2. tobacco, cigarettes, smoking, issues ...
a) health: cancer, emphysema,
etc.
b) land use to grow tobacco
versus food
c) second hand smoke
E3. concentration camps, visible & invisible,
past, present, future
E4. ignorance and stupidity rampant and becoming vogue
and fashionable
E5. human lifespan increasing due to modern medical
miracles ...
a) without corresponding increase
in life satisfaction.
Result:
pandemic of depression
b) increasing burden to developed
countries from unproductive
people being
kept alive by modern medicine
c) moral and religious conflicts
over death with dignity.
people are
being kept alive as comatose vegetables at great
expense.
E6. health insurance, in USA, 47 million live without
\\uninsured
E7. huge dams, for ex. Three Gorges Dam in China ...
a) forced relocation of over
1 million people in 13 cities
b) flooding of fertile farmland
c) altered ecosystems &
landscape
File: sac.txt
A. staffers, people, list ...
1. staffing, policy ...
a) Core staffers that will
be writing and setting policy, must
be willing
to become generalists, by becoming familiar with
the Specialist-Generalist
Database. Otherwise, Plan S
becomes
a platform for and endless array of special
interest
pushers.
2. [I deleted this list to avoid disclosing personal information.]
B. networks to communicate Plan S with, list ...
1. These are called "Type" and/or "Ref" in \ps\Contacts.xls.
2. Consider merging this list w/ saj.pco ...
a) sustainability, change
the world, sub-groups (+notably absent), list
3. ---
4. calif, 2007/8: sd.pco
5. sai.pco
6. neighborhood canvassing, local businesses
near presentations ...
a) Can be used for small one
time contributions and even
ongoing
support. Solicit both cash and in-kind donations
and offer
mention @ plan-s.org + mention @ presentations
happening
nearby.
7. www.wiserearth.org
8. media: local newspaper, radio, etc. ...
a) like TAGR: I will ... @
... on ...
b) like getting instruments
in NJ: contact me @ ... or via ...
c) if you would like to screen
... or have me talk about ...
9. public relations firms, locate volunteer
via New Thought, Unity ...
a) Find a conscious firm that
wants to use their skills to
change the
world. Ask for pro bono, to eventually work
into a paid
and prestigious position.
10. promote via ...
a) google: guerilla p.r. (+wired)
b) talk radio
c) radio PSA's
d) christian radio
e) new age radio, new thought
radio
f) seminar book (start promotion
list)
g) postering
h) health food stores
i) libraries
j) what's happening pages
in newspapers
k) newspaper articles
11. ASK FOR GET SOMEONE WITH PR BACKGROUND TO VOLUNTEER!
12. does school, church, corp, gov, organization,
already have ...
a) an environment, energy,
sustainability, SIG, class,
program,
etc?. This is also a good place to draw
volunteers,
staffers from.
13. does church have youth program, senior program,
other SIG?
14. my personal network via email, hna, etc.
15. sus?.pml
16. :paradigm shift, @bm.xls
17. mill.pco (san)
18. rbow?.pml, AGR
19. universities, colleges, high schools, areas around
\\university
20. PIRG's (CALPIRG)
21. intentional communities, co-housing \\cohousing
22. free communities, Christiania, Matavenero, Slab
City
23. Yahoo, Google, usenet groups, like The_Dieoff,
Energy Resources
24. church groups & networks, mainstream, ecumenical
council
25. spiritual groups & networks
26. New Thought churches, ^s @bm.xls
27. Unitarian churches
28. Bahai churches
29. Ishmael groups
30. Synagogues
31. Corporations, Corporate, Companies ...
a) make presentations
b) request in-kind donations,
gas, food, cell, (everything I use) ...
1) list
@ saa
c) sponsorship, financial
support
d) grants
32. environmental groups
33. futurist group chapters
34. new age networks ...
a) find via health food stores,
print directories, online search
35. think tanks, policy institutes
36. city, county, state governments
37. sustainability conferences, fairs, conventions
...
a) like E=MC2, Renaissance
of Local
38. relocalization networks
39. humanist networks ...
a) See [x] from Melton in
sub-folder "religion & genes"
40. libertarian networks
41. craigslist, Community ...
a) activities, general, groups,
events, volunteers
42. wiki: List_of_social_networking_websites ...
a) facebook, facebook marketplace
b) myspace
43. grantwriters grant writers
44. service clubs? Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Rotary, etc.
...
a) Research them. See
if any have a mission oriented toward
sustainability,
social change, etc.
C. other lists, etc., not on the staffers or networks lists
...
1. library schools
2. library association: SLA
3. AIIP
4. hna.*
D. D words, meanings, list ...
1. doom and gloom
2. depression, depressed, depressing
3. despair, despairing
4. desperate, desperation
5. disillusion, disillusioned, disillusionment
6. denial
7. despondent
8. dark
9. delusion, delusional, deluded
10. deceive, deceived, deceiving, deception, deceptive
E. Plan S, S-Day, meanings, list ...
1. sustainability, sustainable
2. stability, stable
3. success
4. survival
5. species
6. save the world
7. solar
8. solution box
9. --
10. or, copy/paste from here:
11. sustainability, sustainable, stability, stable,
success,
survival, species, save the
world, solar, solution box
F. Plan S, S-Day, basis and benefits, list ...
1. [Now that pskb.xls exists, see if there are
any other major
items to be added to this
list.]
2. By taking the largest view (ie. scope, frame)
possible, our
current problems get reduced
in relative size to almost
nothing. The result
is refocusing: away from all the
negative, doom & gloom,
collapse, bad news, etc., TO:
building a brand new civilization,
excitment for our
sustainable future together,
joy, happiness.
3. Happiness, contentment, fulfillment, moves
predominantly
from the material plane to
the spiritual plane.
4. Occam's Razor: As with Copernicus' heliocentric
view (pub.
1543), the gene centric view
is applied, and suddenly
simplicity becomes the order
of the day. Even Ptolemy
(83-161 AD) stated that the
simplest model should be used!
5. circa 1648, 30 and 80 year wars, catholics
v protestants,
like Christianity v Islam
(westphalia @bm.xls)
6. Collapse finally spreads to planetary management
and their
scientific advisors.
Widespread worldwide consensus among
scientists, who advise planetary
management.
7. Continuing to take little or no action will
likely force
the "fast boiled frog" scenario,
which will spur a
concerted response at the
planetary management level. This
is better than the "slow boiled
frog" scenario, which will
not spur such a response.
8. us-them thinking is defeated, as we come
to understand our
commonly inherited genetic
programming and human nature.
9. planetary management (TWO), is no longer
seen as "them", or
"evil". the result is
cooperation with this very powerful
group of people, resulting
in benefit to everyone.
10. while we can't evolve new genes, we can evolve
new memes,
to create the needed paradigm
shift. [Nice tagline: "We
can't change our genes, but
we can change our memes!"]
11. "telling the truth" by politicians, which has
been
tantamount to "political suicide",
finally becomes possible
and realistic.
12. worldwide edict from planetary management, delivered
via
existing world (puppet) political,
scientific and religious
leaders.
13. re-education for humanity, allowing paradigm shift.
everyone gets a crash course
in what they didn't know they
didn't know.
14. legal basis from planetary management, including
planetary
constitution, laws, law enforcement,
tax structures,
resource based currency and
economy
15. S-Day: installs resource based economy and accompanying
memes (new stories to enact)
that encourage long term
sustainability, based on realistic
prices of material goods
and services (preserving rather
than destroying Earth's
remaining, surviving resource
base)
16. individuals unwilling to change after re-education
& S-Day
(despite benefits of doing
so), will face law enforcement.
there will likely be some
disruption, however it will die
out eventually as older folks
die and are replaced by
younger ones who grow up in
the new paradigm.
17. Everyone gets to keep doing whatever they're doing
in the
present, and is even encouraged
to do so! Waste-ers
continue to waste. People
keep jobs. Activists, NIH
types, conservationists, continue
on their course. This
helps move us to the day of
reckoning faster, moves
planetary managers and their
scientific advisors along, and
avoids a "grand age of depression".
If we choose, we can
walk away from everything
we learn here, and pretend we
never heard it. We can
then continue to waste on the local
level until S-Day arrives,
without feeling any guilt.
18. Because S-Day and the transition period create
a safety net
and softer landing, it is
now possible to go into the
largest population centers
on earth, and start talking
honestly to everyone, especially
the under 40 youth. These
have been considered the areas
most vulnerable to collapse,
and have therefore been avoided
more than more rural areas.
19. defeats "grand age of depression" (Lessinger/Fiddler)
due
to re-education, legal basis,
and resulting high degree of
cooperation. The planetary
infrastructure changes in lock
step, avoiding the grand tug
of war.
20. defeats destructive languaging and beliefs re.
our species'
"stupidity, ignorance and
greedy natures" & "delusional
thinking", which then become
self fulfilling prophesies
that keep us stuck in destructive
patterns (of stupid,
ignorant, greedy, delusional
behaviors), and creates "human
species low self esteem".
Creates high self esteem.
21. defeats doom & gloom thinking and attitudes,
that likewise
contribute to viscious circle,
self fulfilling behaviors.
We all understand there is
a plan and a time soon, when
things will turn around planet
wide, species wide. Escape
from captivity: establishes
a place to escape to. We are
all gasping for air.
Finally fresh air to breathe.
22. defeats Jevons Paradox, due to near 100% conservation
after S-Day
23. religion and science enter a new era of mutual
understanding and cooperation.
scientists now understand
why religion and spirituality
evolved, and are vital to
human survival, and embrace
it. likewise, religious
leaders learn the scientific
basis for religion, and come
to understand that a natural
law basis is essential to come
to worldwide approaches to
planetary management, across
religious & cultural boundaries.
everyone gets to keep
their existing religion, however
most aspects become
understood as allegorical,
when viewed from the planetary
management point of view.
24. enter transition period (softer landing) to
sustainability/stable civ.
for the long term.
25. allows face saving (i.e. coming out, unmasking)
for all
individuals, since everyone
changes together, overnight.
Everyone gets to come out
of hiding ... out from behind
their many layers of masks.
Friends, relatives, neighbors,
employers, co-workers, religious
leaders, scientists,
educators, politicians, etc.
get to come out without fear
of retribution or loss.
We all get to "stop wondering what
so-and-so really thinks",
since the millennial layers of
being so completely uniformed
(grand ignorance, delusions,
lies, lack of information,
internal mental tug of wars)
finally comes to an end.
26. possibility of preserving some remaining fossil
fuels for
future critical uses, instead
of the present course:
blowing them in resource wars
and endless attempts to keep
the party going just a little
bit longer (or "at least
until after I die").
27. softer landing, avoiding dieoff: when massive
bankruptcies
and job losses do occur (as
they must and will), due to
massive restructuring, a safety
net is installed, avoiding
freezing, starving.
Individuals will have a net under them
while they find their place
& calling in the new
sustainable/stable civilization,
or simply ride out the
storm.
28. war and most conflict at all levels of society
becomes
mostly obsolete, as most conflict
is understood as
religious/ideological and
resource based, due to the "more
gene" (based on our new gene-centric
paradigm shift). we
move rapidly to states of
understanding and cooperation.
some conflict will likely
remain, but at greatly reduced
levels.
29. related to war and conflict: "finger pointing",
"it's so
and so's fault", "so and so
is to blame" type thinking and
attitudes fall apart as we
all come to new understandings
in the new "gene-centric"
paradigm shift. we all come to
understand that no one is
to blame ... that we have all
been enacting our genetic
patterns.
30. Re. "need to know, want to know" basis for spreading
in
depth knowledge of genetics,
DNA, and the scientific,
reductionist, mechanical nature
of universal laws. Not
everyone will know everything,
just as it is today. There
is too much information in
the universe. As in the
present, people who ask questions
and search for
information will find it,
however most people accept
whatever is fed them by the
memes of the prevailing
culture/paradigm/civilization.
Since the scientific,
reductionist, mechanical view
can be depressing, it will
not be offered in family,
school, church. Rather, it will
be taught on a need to know
basis, and will be available to
those who want to know, i.e.
seek it out.
31. brings focus, vision and efficiency to the present
confusion, cacaphony, unfocused
and tremendously wasteful
squandering of energies, as
so many people spin their
wheels persuing ineffective
"remedies" to all aspects of
collapse, mostly due to lack
of information (i.e. the
"green movement", being uninformed,
Jevons Paradox
unaware). Great example:
Carolyn Baker writes
(CarolynBakerSwitchFlipped.htm):
"I cannot help but note that
as the Titanic was sinking it
would have made no difference
if hundreds of its passengers
had collected endless buckets
of water the ship had taken
on and emptied it back into
the sea, but it may have
provided them with a momentary
sense of participating in a
'solution.'"
32. paradigm shift, planned, rapid, controlled (with
softer
landing transition) ... versus
... unplanned, slow, messy
and excrutiatingly painful
(collapse, dieoff & eventual new
civilization arising from
the ashes).
33. Plan S will have great appeal to many individuals
in the
"planetary management cadre",
who have been positively
affected by TAGR, Psycho-Cybernetics,
and lead spiritual
lives. Skim the hundreds
of Amazon.com reviews for several
these books (several editions),
to realize this is true.
These people will be favorable
to a plan that utilizes the
same principles that Hill
& Maltz write about, but for
spiritual success, rather
than material success. The PDIA
rewrites these books &
other major "PD bibles", for our
return to a dispersed energy
era. It is important to
understand that they (planetary
management) want MORE of
whatever is currently in vogue,
based on the memes of the
day. They want to win
at the current game, whatever it is.
They want success in wealth,
status and love. In our case,
wealth is redefined in spiritual
terms.
34. Even if S-Day doesn't occur in our lifetimes,
Plan S leaves
a rich information base (database),
which can be used by
future generations to enact
S-Day or some other version of
paradigm shift, when our species
is finally ready someday
to continue its cultural evolution
(i.e. growing up).
35. ---
36. plus, maybe add something about myself ...
a) national fiddle champ,
you get champion material
b) no college degree, free
to think outside the box
c) had massive time to study
due to v.s. lifestyle and world travel
d) generalist thinking
e) focus on hope, attitude
changing
f) personal development angle
G. Religion, lists ...
1. Plan S definition of religion ...
a) See science def. below.
Religion is all knowledge that
isn't scientific
per Plan S def.
2. importance of, positive aspects ...
a) genetic adaptation, great
survival advantage
b) persistence against tribal
enemies during battle
c) persistence against forces
of nature
d) common belief system, tribal
social cohesion
e) low energy, spiritual path
to happiness, contentment, fulfillment
3. problems with, negative aspects ...
a) inflexibility of thought
b) stuck in a paradigm
c) religious wars
d) us-them thinking
e) a means of control, often
abused
H. Science, lists ...
1. lots of duplication here:
2. re science, religion, and the need for agreement
...
a) We need a means of reaching
agreement on a wide variety of
subjects,
prior to coming up with a way to live sustainably
under planetary
management.
b) The modern scientific method
is the only known method ever
devised
by humans for reaching a high degree of agreement
on any subject,
across geographical, political, religious
and cultural
boundaries.
c) While the scientific method
is not perfect and doesn't
always result
in 100% agreement, after sufficient time for
testing
and assimilation, it often reaches 99%+ agreement.
The very
best religion can claim is shown in the
adherents.org
pie. But this is a best case, since there is
so much
infighting within religions.
3. Plan S definition of science ...
a) A method of arriving at
knowledge that produces massive
agreement
among scientists across:
b) cultural, religious, geographical
and political (boundaries)
c) that can be used as a basis
for common agreement, as we
build a
sustainable civilization for the long term.
4. Plan S reason for this definition ...
a) To establish a basis of
agreement among planetary
management's
scientific advisors on the coming post S-Day
planetary
constitution.
5. importance of, positive aspects ...
a) only known basis for agreement
across all scopes
6. problems with, negative aspects ...
a) Scientists often act like
their religion counterparts.
They covet
their own theories, and reject other's theories.
I.e. they
enact their genetic programs.
b) Scientists often find,
say, and write, what they are paid
to find,
say, and write.
I. science explains religion, list ...
1. A reductionist view of religion, spirituality
and the
metaphysical world, from a
scientific and evolutionary
point of view.
2. list from smallest entity to largest entity:
3. particle, electron/proton/neutron, atom,
molecule,
macromolecule, DNA, base pair,
genetic code (codon), amino
acid, protein, brain, amygdala,
limbic system, emotions,
spirituality, religion
File: sad.txt
A. journal, running notes ...
1. when presenting, for each slide or concept
...
a) Was this new info?
b) Yes: rate -5 -1 0 +1 +5
...
1) -5 strong
neg prominence, leave it out (or strong disagreement)
2) -1 low
neg bearing
3)
0 no bearing
4) +1 low
pos bearing
5) +5 strong
pos bearing, high prominence in future presentations
2. don't give in to move left or use buffered
language ...
a) Instead, list the caveats,
and point out that action
probably
won't come until the pain is so great that a
critical
mass of the wealthiest realize that a dramatic
change must
take place. They will need a plan.
b) ref news article on addiction,
and how they really need to
be in the
gutter to act!
c) In regards to S3, If I
compromised, it would be easier to
just advertise
dieoff.org, since Jay already has the bases
covered.
The only big issues Jay misses are PDI and
spiritual
plane.
d) This is why S3A and S3B
are necessary. Most people will
reject S3B
since they are unable to handle one or more of
the caveats.
In this case, they have S3A to turn to, to
build their
own plan. However, I know of no way to create
a sustainable
planetary society except for S3B, and I
prefer to
shoot for the stars. It will be possible to do
better than
we did in Epochs 1 & 2 by applying building
blocks from
S3A in localized sustainable societies, and
this will
be beneficial.
3. admitting we (USA) were wrong? ...
a) We have already done so
with the Native Americans, African
Americans,
interred Japanese, Darwin, so what would
preclude
us from doing the same with evolution? So maybe
evolutionary
psychology does have a chance.
4. lay foundation, for others to build on in
future ...
a) like the Wright Brothers
& Roger Bannister did
b) I can only provide the
beginning. It is up to others to
elaborate.
Since we are all unique, have unique situations
and are
re-localizing economies, there will be a
kalidoscope
of new ways of living emerging.
c) I provide information,
points of view, tools.
5. On the need to acknowledge evolutionary psychology
...
a) before we can apply our
free will over the long haul.
b) Without a deep awareness
of our true natures (and what has
formed same),
we will be no different than the dieters,
quit smokers,
quit drinkers. We are addicts, and must quit
as a species.
The odds are stacked firmly against us. It
is hard
enough to break addictive behaviors as individuals,
let alone
as a species. Continuing along in ignorance and
denial,
what are our chances of applying our will power, on
an ongoing
basis? Next to none.
6. seminar pricing policy ...
a) online - phone bridge -
in person, etc.
b) contrary to fix price it
due to the quicksand and
collapsing
dollar, yet there are expenses in the present
c) 40 yrs of research and
billions of work to be done to
effect paradigm
shift
d) collect their email addresses,
do it for free, send them an
email and
request their written feedback and free will
offering
7. copyright notices copy right notices ...
a) mention that if anyone
wants items removed, to let us know
and we will
do so
b) energybulletin.net:
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d) others to look at ...
1) www.mindfully.org/Fair-Use-Notice.htm
2) lpgsolar.com
8. on species extinction, etc. ...
a) re-read Sixth Extinction,
see book notes
b) Pimm (p7) says there are
10 million "animals and plants",
background
rate is 10/yr. In recorded history we've been
liquidating
100x background. We are now accelerating to
between
1000 and 10000x. 1/3d could be on a path to
extinction
by mid-century.
9. ref "Resumes, 4x" re my background ...
a) lots of handwritten pages
on my save the world, world
transformation
experiences
10. understanding and living with collapse ..
a) leave a record for future
"challenge > response" ...
1) and the
building of a sustainable civilization
b) however, this will require
a significant portion of TWO to
"take the
long view" [< old note ... so what about
trim tab?].
Perhaps as our species grows up, this will
occur.
A big question however is just how a species does
"grow up".
Is the only way a species can learn, by
adapting
to a new environment? If so, we appear to be
doomed to
repeat the never ending collapse cycle.
c) In the present, the order
of the day is relocalization.
d) Is there a book/website
on the details of relocalization?
Expand what
they have started at postcarbon.org.
11. new info to add re change of "super religions"
...
a) See article in wiki on
Peace of Westphalia. Significance:
b) vv Note that this text
was captured in 2005 or so and the
article
has changed since then.
c) It is often said that the
Peace of Westphalia initiated
modern diplomacy,
as it marked the beginning of the modern
system of
nation-states (or "Westphalian states"). This was
caused by
the first time mutual acknowledgement of each
country's
sovereignty. Subsequent European wars were not
about issues
of religion, but rather revolved around issues
of state.
This allowed Catholic and Protestant Powers to
ally, leading
to a number of major realignments. It also
cemented
Germany's internal divisions, keeping it from
uniting
into one nation-state. It is the Peace of
Westphalia
that is most often pointed to as the foundation
for studying
international relations.
12. 04/23/06, "humanity's greatest opportunity" ...
a) driving from 24 hr fitness
to MileHi Church
b) Lately have been thinking
about the flip side of
doom/gloom,
by looking at what's next. Thinking of "door
closes"
another "opens" quote. What's next?
c) oil/metals currency vs
dollar
d) postcarbon relocalization
e) s-day
f) These are things humanity
can get excited about and stop
wallowing
in the gloom of losing the exciting but doomed
and filthy
fossil fueled industrial era.
g) Driving ... visualizing
the Tenochtitlan image. Thinking
about all
the incredible knowledge amassed on wonderful
ways to
live, in low energy fashion, prior to the modern
age.
But also about their slave classes and the many ways
they ignorantly
squandered energy in wars and uninformed
strange
religious rituals and practices.
h) Now, with our brand new
attitudes, we can see all the
factors
coming together to create a new wonderful era for
humanity:
1) We found
the fossil fuels and finally learned the basic
natural laws that govern our universe. We don't have to
focus on our ignorant use of these resources, anymore than
we have to focus on other ignorant behaviors from other
eras. Focus on the positive aspect of all the knowledge we
gained.
2) We can
now go back thru the past 40,000 years of our
species experience, and pick the best stuff.
Hunter-gatherer, Sumer, Egypt, Greece-Rome, Aztec, Inca,
Maya, Western Civ. There are hundreds if not thousands of
cultures that can be studied worldwide and thru the ages,
each with valuable wisdom about how to live joyous, happy,
fulfilling, content lives, without squandering tons of
energy.
3) We are
finally aware of our genetic makeup, and can take
purposeful action based on same, to extend our
species-span.
4) We can
eliminate most reasons for war, which has been
primarily fought over religious differences and resources.
This confers great energy savings.
5) We can
finally get efficient in our energy use.
6) We can
minimize the pain of paradigm shift, by all shifting
together (S-Day), rather than the haphazard meandering
muddling processes of the past.
i) So many will think, "That's
IMPOSSIBLE ... 6.5 billion
change all
at once!" But now it's time to apply PDI. If
we think
impossible, of course it will be.
j) We think possible and ask
how? The universe will answer
us.
There is no known natural law that prevents 6 to 10
billion
individuals from creating a paradigm shift all
together.
k) So stop focusing on all
the doom/gloom, peak oil, war,
collapse,
etc. That focus just perpetuates, and creates
self fulfilling
prophesy. Stop focusing on the pain of the
loss, collapse,
losing our "American way of life". Leave
the old
paradigm behind, and focus instead on creating a
new wonderful
way of living, never done before, and how
exciting
it will be to make the shift all together at the
same moment.
We get to step into the future together!
13. microcosm of western civ: smartest guys in the
room
14. on discovering "who we are" and "being ourselves"
...
a) Individually, we find we
are happiest, after a long process
of discovering
"who we are", and then "being ourselves".
This is
the process of personal growth. When we try to
live life
in violation of our internal code, we are very
unhappy
indeed.
b) Humanity evolved in a hunter-gatherer
tribal dispersed
energy environment.
This code is written in our genes. We
are just
discovering this, and this information is not
accepted
by a good half of us. Until the 1800's we didn't
even know
what a gene was or how it operated. None the
less, our
species will likely be happiest learning who we
are, and
living in accordance with our code.
c) The prevailing culture
on Earth today is Western Civ. It
arose in
Western Europe, notably out of England (Newton)
and Italy
(Florence/Galileo), both solid bastions of
Christianity.
While Western Civ. has gone worldwide and
has infiltrated
most major religions, it remains a
Christian
based phenomenon. Since Christianity adheres to
the creation
story, it is at direct odds with the evolution
story, and
therefore doesn't accept the gene theory of who
we are.
And this creates great tension and unhappiness and
conflict
for people who yearn to learn who they are and how
they should
live.
d) Continuing to attempt to
carry on in a high energy way of
life, means
continuing to not acknowledge our genetic
program,
and continuing to live in conflict with it, and
therefore
continuing to be very unhappy. And yet, the cat
is out of
the bag, and especially many young people will
want to
live in the fast lane. Perhaps Joseph George
Caldwell
at the Foundation Website has a good idea. Split
into 2 small
societies, one hunter-gatherer and one
industry
based. This way people can learn about our
genetic
program, and make their own choice. They can even
go back
and forth at different times of their lives.
15. Genetically, we evolved to be politicians and
religious ...
a) adherents, not scientists
and mathematicians. So we are
not predisposed
to think about the metrics of our energy
use.
Most of us are innumerate, especially with numbers
and statistics
many orders of magnitude away from our daily
experience.
Thus we deceive ourselves into thinking
renewable
energy will save the day.
16. Note similarities between Skilling/Lay at Enron
...
a) and others who rose to
great heights only to fall to low
depths.
Napoleon, Hitler, Santa Anna, etc.
b) This is the result of genetic
programming.
17. possible writer, Bethany McLean ...
a) parallel fraud and collapse
of Western Civ. with Enron
b) human nature, selfish gene,
young, exc writer, attracts
filmmakers,
people story, investigator, likes to understand
how things
really work, doesn't appear to have a political
agenda,
understands self delusion
18. Stanley Milgram, early 60's ...
a) Milgram experiment
b) characteristics of evil
people
c) "50% of subjects were willing
to shock to the death so long
as the commands
came from a seemingly legitimate source"
19. Yeast dieoff curve, saw in Heinberg's video ...
a) at BVR public meeting 05/15/06,
Boulder.
20. 06/02/06, new way of thinking (einstein, fuller)
...
a) air clean, sex dirty (sex:
fun on low energy)
b) solar car races, across
Australia, USA ...
1) having
fun on low energy budget
c) up phase of fossil fuel
era ...
1) FUN:
most happiness by wasting as much energy as possible!
d) down phase of fossil fuel
era ...
1) FUN:
most happiness by conserving as much energy as
possible!
2) Question:
How can we have the most units of fun per unit of
energy expended? SEX!
e) new way of thinking: checkout
parties
f) Everything that was verboten
and blasphemous now comes up
for consideration
and use, as we move to a whole new way of
thinking!
21. singularities ...
a) fossil fuel/hydrocarbon
era
b) conquistador's gold export
era
c) etc.
d) one-time events during
human development never to be
repeated
... what are others?
22. all change at once, overnight paradigm shift ...
a) Likely I already have a
slide on this.
b) cruise ship: day > eve
c) winter > summer
d) culture to culture changes
in attire
e) How weird to cross dress!
Likewise, how weird and
inappropriate
to try and put a tenet or facet of one
paradigm
into another paradigm.
f) Imagery: Inappropriately
cross dressed people.
23. re: uninformed ...
a) from generalized uninformed
(glw1)
b) to specialized uninformed
(glw2)
c) future: to generalized
informed (glw3)
d) ? DOES THIS MEAN that I
have a new entry in the glw1-3 slide?
24. Thomas Kuhn, Paradigm Shifts
25. wiki: Scientific Method
26. where ff=fossil fuels/hydrocarbons ...
a) ff were put there for a
reason: we get informed! Should we
go back
to our uninformed ways, or move forward into an
informed
future? Why were these ff put here anyway?
Perhaps
so we could become informed and live the rest of
our species
span in an informed state.
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey, inspiration ...
a) is a mini version of GLW1-3.
Dawn of Man is 1, space
travel is
2, newborn child at end is 3.
b) Re my "spaceman" orientation,
this is a spiritual journey
... taking
humanity into the next realm.
28. JUST START TEACHING WHAT I KNOW AND PUT THE CAN
OUT ...
a) have "overview/beginner
sessions"
b) then a rotating specialist
session with details that folks
can pop
in on anywhere in the middle, as long as they have
the overview/introductory
session behind them
29. re "this is impossible" "this guy is crazy" ...
a) I understand this mantra.
Been there, done that. But it
is the mantra
itself that stands between possibility and
impossibility.
Change it to: "this is difficult but
possible".
The mind starts asking for answers, plans,
ways.
With the former mantra, there is no looking.
Instead
we take actions to insure further impossibility.
Humans are
reknowned for doing impossibly difficult things.
b) Saving the world is all
mental ... it's how we use our
brains.
30. attitude, doom and gloom v greatest opportunity
ever ...
a) glass half empty or full?
b) I present info on specialties.
c) Reader installs attitude.
They will see what their
attitude
allows them to see.
d) Go to the ink blots analogy
from Miller, How to Want.
e) If having trouble, review
"the mind" from 3 point triangle:
ev psych,
neuroscience, PDI.
f) Everything we create as
a species is the result of our
collective
mind and its attitude. Start with yours!
g) From PD to SD: pers dev
> species dev!
31. species modeling, per Tony Robbins ...
a) If individuals can model,
why can't species? Have we ever
done something
like S-Day in the past? Yes. Big list at:
saj: overnight
changes, rapid, violent, list
b) We can also model past
successful civilizations. Look at
what kind
of policies produced longevity and success in
civilizations,
and model that. Miller talks about this to
some extent.
Look how China did it for thousands of years.
c) Move from impossibility
to possibility!
32. video/workbook production ...
a) Goldhil Educational, standarddeviants.com,
Camarillo, CA
b) looks like they bought
Cerebellum, Falls Church, VA
c) fun, graphics, animation,
course curriculum development
33. re ace in the hole: PDI ...
a) re: a "reformed and enhanced
personal development industry"
b) reformed, meaning overcoming
the limiting concepts of the
past 100
yrs
c) enhanced meaning incorporating
latest info from e.p. &
neuroscience
d) ref to this industry as
the only ace in the hole we have
against
the dire conclusions drawn from the work or Savinar
and Hansen
34. attitude v problem (doom/gloom) & solution
approaches ...
a) Do not dwell on either
the problem or solution. Instead,
focus on
attitude adjustments. Whenever the info becomes
overwhelming,
too much to handle, depressing, focus on
attitute,
a PDI operative/attribute! Always recall:
b) our problems were created
by our minds
c) our problems dwell in and
fester in our minds
d) since our problems were
created by our minds, they can
equally
be solved by our minds
35. classification of information in this treatise
...
a) Due to generalist nature,
how is info classified, both
regarding
problem & solution? Use dewey decimal, since it
is widely
known and used in wiki.
36. WHERE AM I AT RIGHT NOW? How to present ...
a) scan & photograph what
I got currently in folders, 3x5,
mp3, computer
files, etc. and present this to helpers
37. re lack of users manuals ...
a) We evolved in low-energy,
uninformed, environment & didn't
need users
manuals to live! Do trees, flowers, lions,
tigers,
bears, spiders, racoons, squirrels, ants, need
users manuals?
b) But now that we have the
beginnings of users manuals,
should we
throw them away, and go back to living as we
evolved
to live? A complex question.
38. "Think in different patterns" ...
a) Found in Miller, Chap 4.
Echoes of Einstein, Fuller,
thinking
"outside the box".
39. March of the Penguins, exc reference for "gene's
world" ...
a) view. Here is a species
run entirely on instinct that has
learned
to carry on in a sustainable manner, in an
environment
that we would never dream of trying to survive
in.
b) Their entire lives are
spent eating, surviving, and
reproducing
(preserving their gene pool).
40. reductionism, part equals the whole ...
a) Dr Weil, Eating Well for
Optimum Health, hardback, c/2000,
p 139, para
2:
b) ... "To recommend the use
of one, isolated element of a
complex
family of protective compounds in plants is to fall
under the
spell of reductionism, the belief that the part
equals the
whole. Unfortunately, that way of thinking now
dominates
Western medicine and science."
c) exc on specialization v
generalization/systems thinking
41. specialists feel uncomfortable moving away from
their specialty ...
a) since it is what is familiar.
It's like visiting a foreign
country
with a different language, foods, religion,
customs.
We now have to learn all kinds of new things,
which takes
effort. Older adults do not learn as easily as
young children,
who pick up new information effortlessly,
like sponges.
b) However we must move into
this uncomfortable zone in order
to build
plans that are general and system-wide. If we do
not, our
lack of comfort will be far greater, as vast
numbers
of
humans freeze and starve to death.
42. Robert Newman site: No Planet B (history backwards)
43. re biofuels, solar energy, alternative energy
& pyramids ...
a) Pyramid schemes sometimes
pay off handsomely for the
founders
and first ones to "get in". However the ones
later in
the pipeline and toward the end (when all the
fools are
rushing in), lose big time as they pay off the
founders
and first-ins.
b) This will be the net effect
of the rush to "sustainable
fuels" and
the continuation of the big party.
44. re pyramid schemes and con-artists ...
a) western civ: the greatest
scam/scheme of all time!, yet the
scammers
don't know they're scamming. Confirmation that we
are hard
wired for delusion and deception.
45. beginning > middle > end ...
a) To get everyone acclimated
to the scope/frames concept,
define B
M E for:
b) timeline.xls
46. ref cs96 & media: problem statements with
no solutions ...
a) promote the doom &
gloom mentality. So dieoff and LATOC
both commit
this sin, but are unaware of it.
47. quotes from Udo ...
a) p 316 ...
1) We are
arrogant to think that we can just replace the
requirements for our own health, ... convenience of a long
shelf-life.
b) p 350 ...
1) To enjoy
the gift of life, we must live in line with our
genetically and biologically determined nature.
48. chimp v human dna, 96 to 99% similar ...
a) Miller says we are closer
than zebras are to horses.
b) Time, 10/09/06, cover:
How We Became Human, p46, top left:
c) "a human is closer to a
chimp than a mouse is to a rat"
49. meaningful specifics vs. wandering generalities
...
a) Whenever possible and time
permitting, I will be as
specific
as possible. However in many cases generalities
will have
to do. I must leave to others and time to fill
in all the
specifics. You can help by filling in
specifics,
and by understanding that in our highly complex
universe
and civilization, that no one individual may be
privy in
a single short lifetime of all specific details.
File: sae.txt
A. journal, running notes ...
1. God parodies, etc. ...
a) One of Us, Joan Osborne
(au:Eric Bazilian)
b) What If God Smoked Cannabis,
Bob Rivers
2. Century of the Self ...
a) See if an online transcription
is available.
b) Edward L Bernays mentioned
on 19 pages in Land of Desire.
c) Part 3 (deleted) ...
1) self
directed individuals, focus groups, inner self, Werner
on becoming "nothing", human potential movement,
psychology, capitalism successfully catering to the
individual
2) The idea
that becoming "nothing" is nothing new at all.
But that the old idea of "nothing" is not based on the
gene/evolutionary view. Also on Miller asserting that
whatever your idea or process, it will get co-opted by the
innate genetic desire for more. And so the human potential
movement becomes subsumed by personal development industry,
which creates endless material goods and services for sale.
d) Part 4 (more transcription
needed) ...
1)
42:57, Narrator: "It was the effective end of the
guaranteed welfare system, created by President Roosevelt
sixty years before. For many in Clinton's cabinet, it was
also the end of the progressive political ideal that
Roosevelt had represented ... the belief that one used a
position of leadership, to persuade the voters to think and
behave as social beings, not as self interested
individuals."
Robert Reich: "Dick Morris and the pollsters had won. And
by that I mean, that the people who ultimately got to the
President, shaped the President's mind, were those who
viewed the voters as just a collection of individual
desires, that had to be catered to and pandered to. It
suggests that democracy is nothing more, and should be
nothing more, than pandering to these unthought about very
primitive desires ... primitive in the sense that they are
not even necessarily conscious ... just what people want in
terms of satisfying themselves."
2) 50:00,
on Bernays, propaganda, giant corporations,
business, true democracy couldn't work, Freud's theories,
irrational primitive unconscious thoughts and beliefs, no
control over own lives, consumerism, responsible elite
manage society, people's desires in charge, democracy as
passive consumers, doggie treats.
3) 56:00,
Freud, selfish, ideal consumers, we like
politicians, slaves of own desires, other sides of human
nature, people irrational - Freud, businesses very good at
appealing to these unconscious feelings, politics engage
people with respect, people's abilities to debate what is
best. If Freudian, why not let business do it. They do it
better than pols.
4) about
politics becoming fully subsumed under the endless
desire for more, defined by our genes and evolution.
5) The same
happened with Boris Yeltsin in Russia during late
90's. Dick Morris types commandered his election, created
TV spots, and Yeltsin was re-elected.
3. ^^ re Ed Bernays, if he could invent and use
PR ...
a) to change the minds of
millions into the Land of Desire,
the very
same technologies can be used to change them once
again!
4. Moira Timms reconnect, peg:recv:21 Nov 06
5. von mises on religion & war
6. re life-span & species-span \\lifespan
...
a) we use our individual brains
to prolong our life-span
b) so we can use our collective
brains to prolong our
species-span
c) but not forever!
All species go extinct just as all
individuals
dies. But we can work hard at prolonging.
7. s-day comparison to handball court ...
a) Can't tell which way the
ball is going! Looks identical if
shutter
speed is fast enough. The point is that things
will look
the same, but the direction will be reversed.
8. short term, middle term, long term ...
a) We already do this as individuals.
We think about what has
to be done
this day and week, this year and also for the
long term
... say the next 5 to 10 years. We also do it at
the group
level (families to nations).
b) We can and must also do
this kind of thinking and planning
as a species.
It is necessary to pay attention to all 3
time frames.
Short term = 1 generation, 20 yrs, medium
term = 5
to 10 generations, 100 to 200 yrs, long term =
species-span,
10 million years
c) Start with largest and
narrow. Shorter terms should be in
alignment
with longer terms.
d) Individuals may use species
goals & policies in personal
planning
for their 3 terms. Each individual will have
different
circumstances, so will have different choices.
Being informed
of what is happening on the species level
will help
individuals to make informed choices.
e) ---
f) YOU decide how to arrange
your time and resources among the
3 time frames.
YOU decide what your time frames are (don't
use mine
... use yours). Everyone's situation is
different.
Then, act.
g) Start with LT. Then
bring MT into alignment with LT. Then
bring ST
into alignment with MT.
h) Give a few examples.
Solicit examples from readers.
i) Right now, we do none of
this. We simply work on ST,
without
any focus on MT or LT, so most all work of
"activists"
will end up wasted in the LT.
j) We focus on next 90 days
to 4 yrs out. While we give lip
service
to 50 and 100 yrs, we really don't have any
underlying
guidelines on how to plan for that, let alone
the 10 million
yr view!
9. karma does not excuse errors resulting from
lack of information! ...
a) Errors made with the best
of intentions out of ignorance,
get no credits
in our karmic bank account either as
individuals
or as a species.
10. find Einstein baby picture ...
a) We need to watch carefully
what we put in our brains, just
as we watch
the quality of air we breathe and food we eat.
Look at
all the literature that tells us how stupid we are
as a species!
We are an infantile species. Do we look at
our infants
and call them stupid? Look at the baby
Einstein,
or any baby for that matter. Do we call them
stupid?
We need to change what we put into our minds
first.
Then we might start to see a change in what comes
out of them.
11. good to start off with, Allan Hirsch's village
of 100 ...
a) @ recv:5 Mar 01, subj:National
Friendship Week. Likely out
of date.
Update it.
b) Good for getting a handle
on scope.
c) Likewise, compare 100 year
human with 10 million year
species.
If we're 50k yrs into the trip, that would make
us 6 months
old. Or, on a 1 million year scale, we would
be 5 yrs
old.
12. on PR, public relations, "make it fun Henry" ...
a) PR, marketing, advertising
b) selling with "sizzle"
c) reframing
d) GIGO = garbage in, garbage
out
e) return to "forward gear"
from "reverse gear" of last 350 yrs
f) Richard Brenne, Boulder
g) Look at the "bill of goods"
we sold ourselves! We have
reprogrammed
our minds for an economy of consumption and
waste and
we have used these tools to make it fun
destroying
our nonrenewable resources. Why not reverse the
process?
Switch to reverse gear. Use all the same
psychological
tools of PR & marketing to invent ways to
make it
fun to conserve our resources and find happiness,
contentment
and fulfillment via the emotional/spiritual
plane, as
we were doing prior to this insane abberation.
Reprogram
our minds using the exact same technology!
h) ref treaty of westphalia
and Dick Cheney: "The war that
will not
end in our lifetimes." (as a ref. to 30 and 80 yr
wars).
Time for another paradigm shift!
i) Tony Robbins: modeling
13. on "make it fun Henry" ...
a) Quinn uses a talking Gorilla
b) Jeff suggests using a cigar
smoking Dinosaur
c) how about the space ship
parable? equate 13.7 billion yrs
with 100
yrs? timeline.xls
14. doing what is most important, efficient use of
limited resources ...
a) So much of the sustainable
living movement is misallocating
and wasting
precious resources, out of lack of information.
We all have
to look at our available resources, lack of
time, and
pressing need to get plans on the table and
implement
them.
b) Look at human hours invested
in the nebulous "peace on
earth",
energy efficiency, global warming, etc. All of the
csen "fix-it"
bunch, TSB "Group A" bunch. Millions and
billions
of human hours are going into ineffectual and
exacerbating
activities. We are spinning our wheels due to
lack of
information, lack of user's manuals.
c) So much lack of awareness
and understanding of Jevons
Paradox.
d) need to develop efficient
plan, focus energies, allocate to
the 3 terms
(S,M,L) at the individual, group and species
levels.
Then we might actually achieve "relative peace on
earth",
stop global warming, heal all the doom and gloom
stuff (sab),
and get on with growing up as a species and
living as
we were designed to live on this beautiful garden
of a planet
for the next 10 to 100 million years!
15. on efficiency, about "spinning our wheels" ...
a) spinning and going nowhere,
as in Alice ...
1) "it takes
all the running you can do, to keep in the
same place"
b) spinning and creeping forward
extremely slowly (as in ice
and snow
on Kipling in Wheat Ridge
c) spinning and falling backwards
(as on Big Bear Sand Dunes)
d) receiving $100, getting
a bill for $99
e) receiving $100, getting
a bill for $150
f) This is what "the movement",
"activists", sustainable
living,
alternative energy, etc. are up against.
16. Terrence McKenna, per Rusty/Amy ...
a) google videos
b) amazon.com
c) Time Wave Zero
17. re presentation order \\order of presentation
...
a) and re need to withhold
judgement until all puzzle pieces
are presented:
b) because all pieces of new
paradigm are dependent on all
others,
it is impossible to discern a perfect presentation
order.
This is easy to see from the puzzle slide, since
all pieces
fit nicely with one another but each is
dependent
on its relationship with several other puzzle
pieces.
18. re Joni Mitchell's lyric, "We are stardust ..."
...
a) ref liblist3.pco, "Cambridge
Encyclopedia ..." quote from
this book,
confirming the Joni Mitchell lyric: "We are true
children
of the stars ...".
19. ---
20. related:
21. re "your plan will fail" ...
a) So because Gene Krantz's
possibility of bringing Apollo 13
home alive
was way under 1%, because Ernest Shackleton's
possibility
of saving all 28 was way under 1%, did these
men give
up and sit around and do nothing?
b) Plan S may also be way
under 1%, but I am not going to sit
around and
do nothing!
c) plus, Plan S is a winner
regardless of whether S-Day occurs
in our lifetimes
or not. We still leave humanity a great
information
resource that can be used towards
sustainability
over the remainder of our species span.
d) Joanna Macy quote, @bm.xls
...
1) "Our
ancestors back then, bless them, they had no way of
knowing if the Great Turning could succeed. No way of
telling if a life-sustaining culture could emerge from the
death throes of the industrial growth society. It probably
looked hopeless at times. Their efforts must have often
seemed isolated, paltry, and darkened by confusion. Yet
they went ahead, they kept on doing what they could--and,
because they persisted, the Great Turning happened."
22. re doom & gloom v good cheer, attitude adjustment
...
a) I thought of this in reference
to Jay Hanson's attitude and
framing,
"dieoff.org". If nothing else, he calls those of
us w/ PMA
to act.
b) ref Miller, the story about
the man on the vine with rats
above and
lions below, who plucked a strawberry (p 159)
c) ref Shackleton who faced
horrible odds, but acted anyway
d) etc.
23. re Faith: Trust in Allah ...
a) Faith in Action < act!
b) Informed Faith < become
informed!
c) "God helps those who help
themselves." --unk
d) "Trust in Allah but tie
your camel." --unk
e) If Providence was with
Sir Ernest Shackleton at all those
crucial
moments when they were on the brink of total
disaster,
why? Perhaps because they made themselves worthy
by their
action.
f) Will we get the divine
help we need by sitting around
bemoaning
our problems? We need to plan and act.
24. ---
25. Sustainable Development & Deep Ecology, @bm.xls
26. apply personal development principles to species
sustainability ...
a) minds programmed for failure,
doom, gloom:
b) languaging like: dieoff,
tragedy of commons
c) savinar: present info w/
no solution
27. attitude ...
a) quote from Nightingale
cassette
b) show "setting sail", James
Caird image
c) show Kranz, "failure is
not an option"
d) we need to set our sail,
set our attitude
28. >> 2 typical responses are denial and doom &
gloom. The antidote ...
a) is stepping back for the
generalists, long range point of
view, afforded
by maximum frames/scopes. We move from
denial and/or
doom/gloom to a closer approximation of
reality.
From this vantage point, we can remove ourselves
from denial
and/or doom/gloom, and begin to see realistic
rational
and reasonable plans to move to solution &
sustainable
living.
b) From this starting point,
we can then move to exploring:
c) frame/scope
d) puzzle slide
e) specialist/generalist grid
29. Plan S is not about the immediate, local, short
term situation ...
a) however it does address
and consider it, but in the context
of the long
term, global situation.
b) Short term problems considered
out of context of long term
scope/frame,
is a recipe for more problems, since there is
no vision
of what the long term outcome might be.
c) The transition period to
Plan S sustainability, is the
immediate,
local, short term action. It is completely
within the
context of the long term plan.
30. re Lance & Donna, Czech Rainbow, 1995, use
of cc ...
a) antidote to culture of
waste in one time frame, is culture
of sustainability
in another. Also, similar reaction by
a.d. wife
in RGV, mid '90's.
b) We are all busy wasting
in the short term. We do it
unconciously,
unaware, ignorant we do it.
c) Consider the need to waste
even more in order to come
together
and design a sustainable society.
31. Dickens: best of times, worst of times (quotes.pco)
...
a) we are living simultaneously
in:
b) an information dark age
c) an age of doom & gloom
(sab)
d) and
e) an age of enlightenment
f) We know so much, yet we
know so little.
g) We live in a grand paradox.
32. American throwaways, 07/08/07 ...
a) @bm.xls, saved locally
too ^s american throwaways
b) "100 million trees' worth
of bulk mail arrives in U.S.
mailboxes
each year"
c) etc.
d) This is just American waste,
not world waste!
33. myopic ...
a) ie. nearsighted: unable
to see distant objects clearly
short: lacking
foresight or scope; "a short view of the
problem";
"shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics
derided
the plan"; "myopic thinking"
b) the current 90 day to 4
year window of business and
politics
prevails
34. jeff suggests adding to "What is Plan S", problem
overview ...
a) population
global warming
water shortage
b) My objection is that these
are all effects of E.P. and Peak
Oil.
Plan S is about treating causes, not effects. Also,
I want Plan
S to be unique. There are already plenty of
people talking
about and endless array of effects. By
focusing
on effects, we start looking like everyone else,
and in the
process, lose our USP (unique selling
proposition).
c) Jay Hanson, farewell.txt,
confirms the need to focus on EP
and Peak
Oil:
"I can simplify
over ten years' work down to two sets of
physical
"laws". These laws place harsh limits on what is
possible
for us: #1 ENERGY LAWS, and #2 BIOLOGICAL
EVOLUTION
LAWS. For purposes of sustainability, nothing
else matters."
35. Flatland, Abbott, see book and DVD, great for
paradigm shifting
36. Flatland: what I call specialty or discipline,
he calls dimension
37. TAGR: \dr\tagr\Chapter3.htm, on crime, just substitute
"waste" ...
a) "When men first come into
contact with crime, they abhor
it. If they
remain in contact with crime for a time, they
become accustomed
to it, and endure it. If they remain in
contact
with it long enough, they finally embrace it, and
become influenced
by it."
38. benefits of getting this info perspective from
a hobbyist, ...
a) outside of the college,
university, think tank, policy
institute,
government, political, religious spectrum, not
funded by
any foundation or philanthropic source:
b) The only biases here are
my own personal ones. Anytime
info comes
from a professional, funded source, there are
strong biases
coming from that source. Funded sources
research,
conclude and write, what they are paid to
research,
conclude and write.
c) Also, my 50/50 left/right
brain (math/computer, creative
artist).
d) History is written by the
victor.
e) Research reports are written
by the funded.
f) Related: See the 2 articles
@bm.xls ^s "hard-wired". Note
slight differences
in lingo, whether coming from the
Christian
publication!
39. Al-Jazari, inventor ...
a) mechanical engineer, camshaft,
reciprocating engine
b) @bm.xls ^s Al-Jazari
40. Mises and Malthus @ www.mises.org, @bm.xls ...
a) article re Mises on carrying
capacity
41. scope: presentation angle ...
a) long term view, species
span, 1 to 100 million years
b) titanic
c) flatland
d) plenty of others working
on short and medium term views
e) offramp to short and medium
term views
f) looking for others interested
in l.t. view
42. Pope to youth: Save planet 'before it is too late',
@bm.xls
43. How do you fix something that's broken, if you
don't know ...
a) how it works, or what makes
it tick? You can't, which is
why nothing
we have tried has worked. With E.P., and
putting
genes and DNA at the center of things, we finally
get to understand
how life works, and how our brains work.
Now, we
can build plans that might actually work!
44. Janaia, 09/30/07, re airplane off course 99% of
the journey ...
a) This is likely another
fabrication of the PDI like the Yale
story.
Were the airline pilots ever consulted?
b) The actual # is totally
dependent on where the threshold of
"off course"
is set. Or, at what threshold corrections are
made.
c) Would a pilot climb into
a cockpit and takeoff without
understanding
how the thing worked? We are only learning
how our
brains work at this time.
d) There is no common vision
of where we are going, so how can
we plot
and steer a course toward a vision (goal) we do not
have?
45. re "more gene", and evolution in dispersed energy
environment ...
a) Since we (and all species
of life) evolved over billions of
years in
a dispersed low energy environment, we naturally
developed
a "more gene" rather than a "less gene". Had it
been the
other way around, I think we would have either
developed
a "less gene" or life never would have taken off.
b) Since we operate largely
off of our genetic instinct, and
we haven't
had users manuals, we are not adapted to
operating
in this high energy fossil fueled environment, so
we are destroying
it. Our only hope is to use our brains
to understand
this situation and intentionally act in
contravention
of our innate genetic programming.
46. languaging and imaging: "us" as a meme, instead
of "us-them" ...
a) Dali Lama in recent Oct,
2007 visit to Bloomington, IN:
b) In his sometimes broken
English, the Dalai Lama questioned
the role
of violence in society: "When you look from space
at this
small planet, there is hardly a justification to
fight."
Economic
problems, environmental issues and overpopulation
may plague
the world, but they can be overcome, he said,
when people
think of the "whole group" as one entity.
"In that
new reality, the concept of 'we' or 'they' is no
longer there."
47. child psychology, child psychologists ...
a) know how to treat children.
Do they tell us to tell kids
they're
stupid? No. We treat our childlike species in all
the ways
we are taught NOT to do by our child
psychologists.
Perhaps we should consult with them and
apply their
teachings to our species!
48. Re: S-Day, nothing changes but direction, from
quotes.pco ...
a) "The great thing in this
world is not so much where we are, ...
1) but in
what direction we are moving."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
49. prepare for best or worst case scenario? ...
a) Ran Prieur wrote in email
of 7 Oct 07 ...
1) i also
think the crash and the dieoff have been overrated.
the more i study it, the more i think we're going to get an
economic crash, and a slow decline in population and energy
use. there will be local catastrophes, but no global ones
other than a painful adjustment when economic growth is no
longer possible.
b) So what do we plan for?
Best or worst? And how do we
evaluate
which scenario is best or worst anyway? One view
is that
"what is worst for WC3" is actually best for
humanity
in the long run. So far, we have been stretching
the party
out, and it has been devastating.
c) My thought is to prepare
for the worst crash, short of
nuclear,
asteroid, etc. If we have overprepared, it can
never hurt
us ... rather it will be helpful.
50. scales, scaling, options for representing numbers
on huge scales ...
a) arithmetic (to show impossibility
of using arithmetic)
b) e.o. wilson method in The
Sixth Extinction
c) logarithmic, as in \ps\Earth's_natural_wealth_img2.jpg
51. Mother Teresa: "This is the poorest place ...",
quotes.pco
52. importance of getting vital info onto acid-free
paper, ...
a) into libraries, and especially
in or near the remote areas
most likely
to survive the deepest crash.
b) If we keep putting information
onto hard drives all over
the planet,
and we lose the grid and/or the global currency
system,
then all this writing, blogging, etc. will be
looked back
upon as a massive exercise in word masturbation
at the end
of the party.
53. resignation: What a Way to Go ...
a) travel blog: We spoke of
many things in Vancouver, of hopes
and plans
and dreams, of hopelessness and planlessness and
dreamlessness.
b) from the drydipstick.com
review: "face that death with
honor, knowing
that we have tried everything we could to
right the
wrongs that we ourselves have created. If we
lose, let
that loss be noble"
c) It's like we're programming
our brains for defeat.
Stinkin'
thinkin'.
54. scientific proof, "never been proven scientifically"
...
a) as an excuse for not taking
action.
b) This represents a lack
of understanding of what science is,
how it works
and its purpose in the world.
c) Theories are just that,
theories, however they garner
support
and agreement from the scientific community over
time.
Since we have no God given users manuals that
explain
the natural laws of the universe, our scientific
theories
are the best we can do.
d) Ref: \cp\quotes.pco, Einstein
on "workings of a watch" &
"on science"
e) Science provides a basis
for wide agreement over thousands
of religious,
spiritual, cultural, political and
geographical
boundaries.
f) We have big problems.
While us "lay public" argue about
whether
global warming or evolution are real or provable,
our planet's
scientists are in broad agreement on these
things.
If we don't take action, we watch collapse
continue
and seal our doom.
g) ref @bm.xls, Most Terrifying
Video You'll Ever See
55. wilderness survival, Tom Brown Jr, @bm.xls, etc.
56. sustainability, stable, static, definitions, discussion
...
a) Ran Prieur does excellent
job @ his saveciv.htm, saved
locally.
^s stable
57. ---
58. several on how societies change, civilizations
change:
59. re changes in morality that will drive paradigm
shift ...
a) ref quotes2.pco & @bm.xls:
b) "Even the alarmingly large
crowd of people who would rather
show off
than conserve will change their habits when energy
consumption
becomes an instant indicator of stupidity and
social indifference."
--Scott Burns, Dallas Morning News
original
article @bm.xls
c) but then point out Jevons
Paradox re conservation, but
we're all
muddling along. Part of the process.
60. use of religion & peer pressure to modify
behavior ...
a) Collapse, Jared Diamond:
b) p 293, last para: "social
tradition, same values, kinship,
ritual,
morality reinforced by legend & mythology"
c) p 299, 60%: "led from the
top by successive shoguns, who
invoked
Confucian principles to promulgate and official
ideology
that encouraged limiting consumption and
accumulating
reserve supplies in order to protect the
country
from disaster."
61. Most individuals don't change. They die
and are replaced ...
a) by individuals of younger
generations who create, embrace
and promote
new policies and paradigms.
b) There are always a limited
few who are willing to question
their own
attitudes and beliefs and to change them.
However
most will go to their deaths in denial, pointing
their fingers
at others, as they are breathing their last
breaths.
Some will simply commit suicide, rather than
admit they
were wrong and change. Or, they will be too old
and set
in their ways to consider relearning a completely
new way
to live.
c) The youngers will be much
more likely to embrace change,
even willingly
and enthusiastically.
d) Jared talks about societies
where the leadership had the
courage
to drop old values and beliefs that were destroying
them.
62. So where do we focus our limited time and energies?
...
a) On people and policies
that are old, ineffective,
destructive
and dying? Or on people and policies that are
new, uplifting
and in harmony with creating sustainable,
stable civilization?
There are plenty doing the former,
and almost
none doing the latter. This is a choice we all
need to
make. Why do what is already being done? Why not
put energy
in places where it is lacking.
b) Move away from finger pointing
us-them attitudes. Move
towards
inclusive us attitudes.
63. re focus and doom-gloom ...
a) When we put our focus on
the collapse of a civilization, we
end up in
doom-gloom.
b) When we change our focus
to the building of a new
sustainable/stable
civilization, we get energy and it
becomes
fun. We get happy, content and even exhilarated.
c) What percentage of our
lives are we focusing on collapse
versus building
something new? It's no wonder when the
subject
of collapse comes up, the room fills with
doom-gloom.
64. ---
65. Rusty, Steve, Nick, Asuryah, different philosophies
...
a) different frames
b) differences in languaging
(i.e., myth v religion)
c) science <> religion
conundrum, genetic bias
d) worker <> management;
chief <> indian conundrum, genetic bias
File: saf.txt
A. pre, caveats, address these issues (from jeff/dave era)
...
1.
RECORD EVERYTHING !!!
SEE BOM @ sah (jeff graef)
2. have them bring pen, paper, laptop, aircard
3. re pain and pleasure, start with pleasure
...
a) Talk about benefits of
Plan S, S-Day.
b) Then remind that when going
to the doctor, we hope for more
pleasure
(benefit) than pain (cost). But, we do expect to
have to
pay a price in both pain and often time and money.
TANSTAAFL!
c) Ditto with species.
We are a sick species. Plan S
includes
a cost/benefit component, as does any remedy for
an illness.
Defer the pain discussion until later however.
4. I do not like our situation and you will
not ...
a) either. Then explain
Shackleton, and what he did. Making
lemons into
lemonade.
b) "going to doctor" analogy
...
1) Most
of us with a life threatening disease, instinctively
get to work researching (on the Internet nowadays) and
talking to doctors, hoping there is a cure, regardless of
how painful it might be. This is exactly what I have done,
and Plan S is the plan.
c) a few best positive quotes
to set the mood ...
1) like
one door closes, another one opens
2) attitude:
For hope we look forward to the door opening and
the exciting task of building something new and
sustainable. Not looking backward at what is collapsing!
5. more on "the doctor" (dog story) ...
a) Memories of taking a dog
(Tofu) to the vet in Wichita, KS.
He headed
for the back seat!
6. depression concerns ...
a) reductionism/mechanistic
view: going to the extremes ...
1) micro:
gene/neuron/atom level
2) macro:
big 13.7 billion year picture
b) sociobiology: result might
be hard to accept
c) sociobiology & jay
hanson: catch 22: page193: It is a
difficult
subject to learn because we are genetically
biased against
knowing our true natures.
d) heinberg, Powerdown: p
141: cultureless wraiths
7. keyword: attitude ...
a) making lemonade out of
our lemons
b) quotes: wavy, burwell,
etc.
c) crisis: danger & opportunity
d) create aff/vis to use in
addition to above quotes
8. I will be wrong. Doubt me & do
your own research! ...
a) 40 yrs of research and
I never stop learning. I always
look back
at what I knew in the past and find that I was
wrong.
So I know I am wrong again today. All you can do
is take
my info, check it out, add it to what you already
know, and
then make your own way.
b) We all have our own individual
path to travel down.
9. I could also be right but on a different
time frame ...
a) Because I look at the big
picture, I can see collapse, but
people with
a short time frame may not feel collapse at
all.
They are like slowly boiled frogs and feel nothing.
So understanding
perspectives and time frames is important.
10. re collapse, depth of collapse, and the frog boiling
...
a) Collapse always occurs
either slow or fast. It's all a
matter of
perception. And it is perceived as such
differently
by different individuals in different frames (6
frames).
Many collapses are not perceived as such by
individuals
inside and outside the collapsing structures,
because
they (the collapses) are happening so slowly in
relation
to them (the individuals).
b) In order for S-Day to be
enacted, it will need to be
perceived
as a "fast collapse" by a critical mass of
planetary
managers. This could be between 1% and 90% of
them.
c) It is important therefore
to archive information and plan
over a multi-generational
timeframe, so its all available
when needed
someday in the future, perhaps beyond our
lifetimes.
11. knowledge/information vacuum ...
a) no time to read
b) gap is filled by a corporate/government
controlled mass
media, so
the voting masses are uninformed about everything
in terms
of natural laws, how the world works, and the root
causes of
our problems
12. generalist frame on 6 continuums
13. specialist <> generalist grid \\generalist
database
14. 10 sided emotional structure, locked in ...
a) Take a "fearless moral
inventory". ref 12 step
b) Each individual to look
at where they are at in the 10
sided structure,
the 5 continuums, the specialist <>
generalist
grid.
15. I have taken the time to read and become a generalist
...
a) over the past 40 years.
b) hundreds of books, periodicals,
websites, movies, videos,
conversations
c) I love solving problems
and the "process of problem
solving".
16. no pain, no gain: get ready for a flood on information
...
a) that will be new and painful.
17. TWO (3x), greedy conspiracy war mongerers
18. "the left vs the right", thinking
19. "we can't get there from here", thinking ...
a) We must think about our
ultimate destination, not how we
will get
there. The how we will get there comes later. We
finally
have the opportunity to decide in an informed way,
how we will
live on this planet.
b) brainstorming: extreme
outside the box thinking where we
think about
what a sustainable civ. might look like without
consideration
for:
c) if ever tried before
d) how we will get there from
here
e) if it might or might not
work
f) --
g) brainstorming: thinking
of ridiculous, impossible thoughts
without
reservation
h) cut all restrictions and
ties to how we lived in the past
or are living
in the present
i) ask what kind of civilization
we might design, having
access to
users manuals for our minds, genes, bodies and
external
natural world ... and without being tied in any
way to our
past uninformed behaviors
j) --
k) After designing what we
want, it will be natural to hear
that little
voice that says, "but we can't get there from
here".
Of course we can and must get there from here, so
we reverse
our thinking to the affirmative, "we can get
there from
here and we must", and start asking questions of
the universe,
such as, "How can we get there from here?"!
Then and
only then will the universe provide the required
information
and path to proceed.
l) --
m) Once we decide what we
want, we look at where we're at in
the present,
and design a transition phase. The paradigm
shift occurs
in our minds and attitudes on S-Day. Then
comes the
Naisbitt term: "age of parenthesis" or transition
period.
But we all get together and change our direction
together.
20. PDI/PDIA ...
a) huckster/con view
b) changes over the past 100
years
c) no PDIA, yet bibles need
rewriting
21. libertarianism, small government
22. taxation, subsidies, regulation
23. "high morality" <> "government, law, enforcement"
24. higher power, god(s), existence
25. evolution, evolutionary psychology
26. spiritual plane <> material plane
27. science <> religion
28. individuals: morality, right/wrong, total confusion
29. leadership: traditional v. contemporary ...
a) trad: "political/religious"
<> contemp: "entertainment industry"
30. leaving shoes (brain) at the door, start with
clean slate ...
a) just for this course, this
day, this seminar, this book,
this website,
this DVD, etc.
31. a space tourist, analogy ...
a) paying for a trip to the
space station or the moon, go thru
astronaut
training
b) Prepare for years to enter
a completely different reality
than what
you are used to, in which virtually everything
must be
relearned (like eating and wiping your ass). But
everything
will fit together quite nicely as in the puzzle
slide.
c) We're already twice removed
from hunter-gatherer genetic
program
(ag, indus). Now we get to do it again, but this
time we
will have the opportunity to go into retrograde and
return to
our roots.
32. a good opener ...
a) so many different diets,
ways to eat, medical regimes,
religions,
etc
b) now, yet another way to
"save the world", "paradigm shift
to sustainable"
c) Why is mine necessary?
There is no other like it. ...
1) It takes
the long view, looks at the big picture.
2) NapHill
on rising above obstructions as in an airplane
[\dr\tagr\chapter11.htm ^s airplane].
3) puzzle
slide: laser pointer pinpoints of light, dark room
4) systems
theory, how it all fits together
5) quotes,
Tom Robertson's review of A Prosperous Way Down ...
a> Odum brings things together, where others are
content to be expert with parts
b> There is no Nobel prize for looking at the whole
of our world. Those fabulous awards go to those
who are very good at knowing parts [specialists],
with very little idea of how the parts come
together [generalists].
d) Discuss scope, frame of
reference, and how limited 99+%
are.
e) Bear in mind that puzzle
pieces from one paradigm won't fit
into another
paradigm. Need to flip in an instant and get
all the
pieces fitting at once.
33. we prefer our ignorance and blame others out of
it ...
a) Understanding what is going
on is not really that complex,
however
since we are genetically biased against knowing our
true natures,
most individuals will avoid learning the
truth, and
if they hear it, will deny it. They will not
know what
hit them, and will blame everyone/everything else
out of their
ignorance.
B. new caveats, intros, starters that can be used (2007 era)
...
1. RECORD everything to help get presentation
order refined
2. REQUEST QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS ...
a) Tell them they are guinea
pigs and I need help with the
presentation
order. Get help trying to figure out the
order of
presentation.
b) How would you explain life
on earth to an intergalactic
visitor?
Where would you start?
c) However, for some questions,
I may ask them to wait until
all the
puzzle pieces are revealed, as their questions may
already
be answered at that point.
3. re difficult questions and challenges ...
a) invite them
b) use the "Where is this
coming from?, list" (sak)
4. invite personal challenges also ...
a) as I need to always be
on guard personally and be making
improvements
b) use "Where is this coming
from?" (sak)
5. when doing live workshops/seminars, crowd
control ...
a) ask for personal anecdotes,
so its not always my examples
being given.
Like if a point is made and someone thinks of
an example
from their own life experience, have them
volunteer
to relate that.
b) Do this also to save my
voice.
6. goals, mission statement
7. psychic checklist, signed release forms ...
a) for weekend (or longer)
events
b) People really need to make
a CONSCIOUS DECISION to be here,
and to expose
their minds to what is being presented. Once
it gets
in, it will be very hard to get out or ignore!
c) for minors, get parental
approval
d) for WAWTG viewing
e) try and avoid the paper,
which is purpose of doing the
"psychic
checklist", but have a few paper copies on hand
for those
who feel they need it
f) Our purpose here is to
come together to create a detailed
and specific
plan for a sustainable, stable future. Our
focus is
on the future, not the past.
g) I understand we are looking
at our past, not to focus our
attention
on it, but rather to understand where we are
coming from.
h) I understand that when
one door closes, another door opens.
i) I am of sound mind and
body. I am fully capable of
directing
my mind and focusing on the task at hand.
8. titanic, violinist ...
a) Wallace Hartley, Titanic
violinist, @bm.xls
b) Titanic: no plan, unsinkable!
This is a classic example of
why a plan
is needed, even if it will not be used. It is
just like
buying insurance. With insurance, you invest in
something
you hope will not be needed. In the case of the
Titanic,
this was not even done and there were nowhere near
enough lifeboats.
c) We're like 5 min after
Thomas Andrews informed Captain
Smith.
Kids are still playing with snowballs from iceberg
shavings
on deck. People are "going out to see the berg".
No one has
any idea there's any danger. Ship is afterall,
unsinkable!
d) Musicians didn't have a
clue what could be done, so playing
was the
best they could do. But if they did know, would
they have
continued to play?
e) Become the messenger (with
a message I don't like myself)
running
up and down the hallways of slumbering passengers,
knocking
on their stateroom doors, informing, "we've hit a
berg, wake
up, put on your warmest clothes and life
jackets,
then head for the lifeboats"
f) But do more than just inform
of the disaster. Consider the
depression
brought on by desperate situations ... no job,
no money,
uncurable illness. People sometimes become
suicidal
and even end their lives. So it's important to
bring hope
thru proposed action plans, to avert that
feeling
of depression, desperation, resignation. So I come
not only
as a messenger with a message even I don't like,
but also
with plans for solution ... i.e. a transition to
sustainable/stable
civ.
g) I'm looking for an article
about a modern cruise ship that
foundered
somewhere off African coast. The musicians on
board had
to save people.
h) Point out our situation
is not as grave as the Titanic, IF
WE ACT QUICKLY
to implement the transition. We still have
a trillion
barrels of expensive petroleum, plus lots of
coal and
tar sands, but even so, the transition looks like
an austere,
dirty mess, but we can avoid the freezing,
starving
scenario. But we must ACT this time. This time,
it's for
real. The collapse is underway.
i) ---
j) idea for quick Titanic
opener:
k) Play fiddle, a couple of
styles. Maybe show Weiser award
and mention
8 foreign countries.
l) Who's heard of Wallace
Harley? Titanic violinist & band
leader,
went down with the ship. He was honored for his
bravery
after death.
m) Been feeling a lot like
Wallace lately (or even like Nero
who fiddled
while Rome burned). But unlike Wallace, I've
been studying
and planning on the side for sustainability.
n) Wallace really had no choice
in the matter. If he had
known a
way to save more people, would he have chosen to
keep playing,
or put his violin down to make an even
greater
contribution? Now, I have such a choice and have
chosen the
latter.
o) So the metaphor is: I am
presently running up and down the
hallways
of our sinking ship, knocking on stateroom doors,
delivering
two messages. First, our ship is sinking, put
on life
jackets. Then join in to build a new sustainable
ship and
help get people into lifeboats for safe transit to
the new
ship.
9. What a Way to Go
10. Flatland
11. \ps\SoylentGreen.mp3, 1973, foreshadowing
12. HumanNature.mp3, Miller 48 min
13. Shackleton
14. bradshawfoundation, Mitochondrial DNA flash map
15. Ron Rossway .pps, uplifting slide shows, they
run a couple minutes
16. impossible list: Shackleton, Apollo 13, etc (saj.pco)
17. PMA list, depression is natural, how to respond
...
a) We apprently evolved a
"depression gene". What is its
purpose
however? Now that we understand it, we need to
take steps
to keep it in check.
18. 10 sided emotional structures, personal paradigms
...
a) re religion & science,
discuss the catch 22
b) sociobiology & jay
hanson: catch 22: page193: It is a
difficult
subject to learn because we are genetically
biased against
knowing our true natures.
c) Both are essential however
we have to put science on top in
order to
solve our problems. Otherwise we continue in
endless
religious wars (as we are seeing today) and
collapse.
19. anatomy of a Paradigm (shift) ...
a) 10 sided emotional structure
b) puzzle slide
c) puzzle slide remarks ...
1) many
things discussed will be 180 degree opposites of
traditional concepts, and will even appear blasphemous.
However when S-Day happens, since everything is flipping in
an instant, they will fit together just fine.
2) See various
puzzle diagrams. Ref sak:
puzzle slide variations list
d) re: shocking, horrific,
apocalyptic (uncovering, literally
the lifting
of the veil), outrageous, blasphemous,
despicable,
unbelieveable
e) examples: tenochtitlan,
toto in the wizard of oz (save youtube)
f) consider how to deal with
all these feelings ...
1) leave
and escape
2) stay
and feel them
3) leave
and return when ready for more
4) attack
the message
5) attack
the messenger
6) consider
what you didn't know you didn't know
g) experiment with this.
see what works best
20. self fulfilling prophesies, doom/gloom perpetuated
...
a) endless problem statements,
few solution statements
b) acceptance of our situation,
moving past denial
c) looking for the advantage
in the situation, making lemonade
out of lemons,
building something great out of the ashes of
our collapsing
civilization
21. NIH problem, how do we overcome it? [saj] ...
a) lack of vision, lack of
focus, no common goal
22. collective consciousness, group mind, master mind
...
a) link in Ran Prieur @bm.xls,
Come Together
23. re group participation, if they want to "sit out"
or audit ...
a) allow that, but have them
sit separately.
24. give a general overview, so they can decide, then
break ...
a) so they can split if they
want to. then, during session,
fine to
take off also, but please try not to interrupt the
rest of
us.
25. overnight changes, human planned: Sweden, Westphalia
26. until puzzle is all painted (all presented) ...
a) hold questions and comments
by jotting them down. They
will likely
be answered as new puzzle pieces are explained.
b) Do ask questions for clarification,
however.
27. skepticism: don't take my word, check Google,
Wikipedia! ...
a) check out the skeptics
list!
28. ---
29. combine:
30. each person must decide if they want to be here
...
a) and what their attitude
is going to be.
b) ref sak: depression list,
PMA list
c) This information can be
very depressing if you allow it to
be.
We do have potent tools for combating our depression.
We need
to understand our genetic adaptation for depression
and how
to overcome it, especially since Plan S offers a
detailed
plan for solution.
d) The great thing about Plan
S is it allows us to ignore or
forget everything
we learn here, and go on living our lives
as usual
until S-Day arrives. Plan S provides hope for
those willing
to move to action.
31. Re: Mary Clark & Carolyn Baker's students
comments ...
a) ref sak: depression list,
PMA list
b) first decide if you want
to be exposed to this info
c) if for any reason you are
not, leave now (take a 10 minute
break),
as I cannot be responsible for putting this info
before people
who do not consciously choose to hear it and
take it
in.
d) if you do:
e) signed or psychic release
form
f) take it all in, but be
very skeptical, incase I am wrong
(and I have
often been wrong before). check out references
and Google,
Wiki, YouTube. read the 1 star reviews at
Amazon.com.
check out "the competition", the Julian Simon
view.
g) Then, if you agree with
this info, after playing the
skeptic,
become committed to PMA, commitment to the
paradigm
shift, since any other attitude will mean hanging
onto a sinking
ship, a collapsing civilization.
32. ---
33. re references to books, web pages, etc ...
a) use numbered links like
1001-9999 at links page online
b) use "bakery number" system
to assign new links on the fly
in response
to questions. I can do it with laptop or
clipboard,
or farm it out to a volunteer in the group,
especially
if someone has a laptop ... have them email me
the links.
c) for book & DVD references,
give both amazon and worldcat
links
34. stacking, another volunteer job ...
a) when I go off on a tangent,
it is important to come back to
where I
was
b) so explain the concept
of stacking, and ask them all to
help me
notice when I go off on tangents
c) then either I can stack
what I was talking about, or get a
volunteer
to do the stacking, and help pull me back after
going off
on a tangent.
35. re certain quiz questions, like the Rockefeller
quote ...
a) put the quote up and ask,
"Who said these words?". If they
strike out,
be prepared with a Google link, that provides
the answer.
Do the same for any questionable information.
Give the
link a number and stick it on the links page.
b) This way, they get an immediate
bonk on the head, showing
that the
information is real and all over the place ...
they just
didn't know they didn't know.
36. re meetings, small group q&a's, one on one
...
a) Block out available time
and have them submit their needs.
Then setup
meetings in homes, libraries, school classrooms,
etc.
37. find out where folks heard about it, which is
most effective?
38. action list, sak, go thru @ end and briefly @
beginning
39. re "What can I do to help?" and fundraising, moved
to action list
40. re disorganized, not ready with professional show
...
a) \\not prepared unprepared
b) expect it to be out of
order, skipping around, scattered,
disorganized,
confused
c) I am an entertainer, computer
geek, researcher, planner,
problem
solver, and am comfortable wearing those hats. I
am not a
public speaker, and have no toastmasters
experience.
There are times when we must venture outside
our comfort
zones. This is one such time for me. I feel
awkward.
To make matters worse, I am presenting
controversial
material, and realize I may lose friends.
Please support
me in this difficult moment.
d) It's huge, way too much
info for me to figure out by
myself.
This thing is like the 3 blind men describing an
elephant!
I don't know where to start, but will do my
best.
Ask questions. Help keep me on track. Help me fill
in the blanks.
e) I'm just as confused as
you may be!
f) info arrives 10x faster
than I can handle it. typical
pattern:
creative flash. my normal "work" is derailed and
I'm off
writing, researching, brainstorming, etc.
g) need to simultaneously:
make a living, pay bills, take care
of my health
h) doing other things: work
in computers, entertainment
i) had to cut it off and hit
the road or risk doing nothing
and losing
it all
j) no time left to "get it
all together and perfect". We need
to act now,
and do the best we can with what we've got.
k) I need help! I can't
do it all by myself. Need help with
research,
writing, admin, fundraising, web, etc.
l) If you see something missing
here, it's probably YOU!
41. re boring, not entertaining ...
a) I've spent my life on stage,
and know how to entertain.
b) There is no time to spend
writing and perfecting an
entertaining
script. After the Titantic hit a berg, people
were not
concerned with the messenger. They wanted the
message.
c) Pay attention to the message,
not the messenger.
42. re languaging, mention importance, PDI, Jay Hanson's
retort ...
a) that "things are what they
are ... it doesn't matter what
we call
them".
b) We all have to watch each
others language and correct each
other.
No matter how hard we try, we have decades of
habits behind
us. I will slip up. Correct me!
43. san.pco & "mastermind draft trim tab" presented
...
a) pick the most important
examples
44. Do what I do best, and ask for help with the rest.
...
a) Explain my gifts and get
help needed to put Plan S out to
the world.
45. re getting the info all at once (one giant shock)
vs slowly ...
a) (many little shocks)
b) That is how I did it ...
many little shocks. I have only
jumped into
ice water once in my life, and I did survive,
but don't
look forward to doing it again. Sometimes
however,
there is no choice, as happened on the Titanic.
c) Most of us have had the
experience of wading into cold
water very
slowly vs. just diving in. Or pulling a bandaid
off slowly
vs. quickly. It's a similar kind of choice.
d) There is both bad news
and good news. Since Plan S is
realistic
(not pessimistic or optimistic, ref sam.pco), you
must be
willing to hear the bad along with the good.
e) Everyone needs to make
a conscious DECISION to be here, and
to understand
their level of tolerance. If you don't think
you can
handle it, go away. I don't want to push anyone to
suicide
... REALLY! This is intense stuff.
46. introductions, getting to know each other and
what we know ...
a) depending on size of group,
have them do a quick into, and
get a sense
as to what kind of folks are present
b) throw out 10 to 20 major
topics and see where they're all
at (1-2-3)
in the know <> don't know spectrum
47. sao: assets & liabilities, list
48. Plan S, not optimistic or pessimistic >> rather,
realistic ...
a) ref "getting better, getting
worse, list" (sam)
49. brainstorm, inspired by 01/31/08 flop @ Heartland
...
a) This can be used for a
presentation, web, book, etc.
b) pre: give me 10 min!:
c) We're here to talk about
sustainability and paradigm shift,
which has
also been referred to in popular culture as
"saving
the world" or "going green".
d) I'll be focusing on both
problems and solutions.
e) I've been a futurist for
over 40 years and have a plan,
which I
call Plan S. Plan S is extensive, detailed and
multi-faceted.
There won't be time to explain Plan S in
detail.
This will be an overview.
f) You are all individuals
and at different levels here.
g) Some are toddlers, just
waking up to our problems.
h) Others have been into this
stuff for many years and are
already
quite knowledgeable.
i) Some are really busy and
want it all in a 30 second
elevator
speech. They ask, "So what's your plan?", and
seem to
expect an answer in a couple of sentences.
j) Some want a quick fix or
a magic pill. Like "just screw in
these compact
flourescent light bulbs or we're all going to
run our
cars on biodiesel or hydrogen."
k) Some don't want to hear
any "bad news" or feel any pain.
l) Some want to feel entertained,
and not bored. They want to
hear jokes
and want a polished TV show-like powerpoint
presentation.
m) Others want to be spoon
fed in little bite sized segments.
They feel
they can't handle too much new information at
once.
n) Well, as you can see, it's
quite impossible even given
unlimited
time and money, to prepare a message that would
fit all
these requirements, so my task is quite daunting.
I often
feel like giving up, since the situation seems so
hopeless.
But I keep coming back, since there's an old
saying,
"a quitter never wins, and a winner never quits."
So here
I am! I've been forced to find a way to be of
value to
as many of you as possible here.
o) In addition, our situation
is already critical. W. Civ. is
already
like a train that has slammed into a mountain at 90
mph, and
is in the early stages of collapse. It is no
longer the
11th hr or 11:59. It's more like 1 or 2 PAST
midnight.
p) There simply isn't time
left to develop 10 different
speeches
for select target audiences, or to go to breakout
sessions
at this point.
q) So, with that said, here's
the format for todays
presentation.
r) I'll give a quick overview
of the most important points of
Plan S,
so you can get a sense of both the enormity and
multi-faceted
structure of it, and then we'll go right into
Q&A.
s) If you're absolutely bored
to tears, or otherwise can't
stay put,
or need to talk to your neighbor, its fine to
leave the
room. It's also fine to come back, but please no
questions
or interruptions.
t) The exceptions would be
to ask me to repeat something you
didn't hear.
It's also fine to ask me to define a word or
phrase you
didn't understand.
u) If you need clarification,
please make a mental note, or
jot down
questions, and we'll get to them later during the
Q&A.
v) Most of our brains can't
handle large quantities of new
information
all at once. So please don't try to understand
everything
here. Instead, just relax and try and get a
sense of
the scope of Plan S, since it really is rather
vast and
enormous. I've intentionally avoided getting into
lots of
details, so we can get thru this.
w) ---
x) pull from everywhere
y) scroll it all by real quick
z) what plan s is
aa) what plan s is not
50. sorry ... I can't customize for every individual
...
a) as much as I would like
to. Every reader will therefore be
mismatched.
You will already know some stuff, and not
understand
other stuff. Skip or skim what you know and ask
about what
you don't know. If you are asking, please
support
to the best of your ability.
51. just 5 years ago, just five years ago, in early
2003 ...
a) my own bubbles started
bursting:
b) hydrogen economy
c) green RV
d) EP
e) Peak Oil
f) energy laws, eMergy
g) pre 2003, I WAS DELUSIONAL!
52. ---
53. three most important graphics to start with:
54. Three View Ranges: Narrow, Medium, Long Range
55. "Know", "Know I Don't Know", "Don't Know I Don't
Know" (sam)
56. Puzzle Slide (showing S-Day & Transition)
57. 8.5x11 rough draft in "Slides, Misc" subfolder
58. ---
File: sag.txt
A. journal, running notes ...
1. nature vs nurture debate ...
a) Many have already considered
this question & I haven't
researched
it well. However it appears they both are
important
and even affect each other. To what extent they
both play
a part in human action, likely varies across the
board.
And it is entirely possible that the amount to
which nurture
plays a part, is itself under genetic
(nature's)
control.
b) Has anyone researched this?
2. Ron Rossway .pps, re high energy, tech, fossil
fuels ...
a) People during the Renaissance
had extremely high culture
without
any fossil fuels! They were busy just like us, but
they kept
busy doing different things. Levels of life
satisfaction
were likely higher than today. The same can
be said
of earlier civilizations in Asia, Africa, and the
Americas.
3. Heredity: Structures and Functions of Genomes,
slide #9 ...
a) @bm.xls ^s ^^^
b) "Humans are more than 99%
identical to each other at the
DNA level.
Only identical twins possess identical genomic
DNA. It
is the <1% variability in our DNA that makes each
of us unique.
In recent years, the variability in human DNA
has been
used as a fossil record to study human history and
trace the
migration of humans out of Africa as we spread
across and
populated the Earth. What we have learned from
our DNA
is clear: every human on the planet today is
related
to every other human. We all are descended from the
same trunk
of the human family tree: brothers and sisters
separated
only by time and geography."
4. book: How to Win With Information or Lose
Without It ...
a) good title to reference
when talking about being uninformed
as a species,
and also as individuals.
5. ego centric (self centered) > gene ...
a) see this as part of the
saj.pco "centric list"
b) During our ego centric
phase (WC2/WC3), we came to believe
there are
no limits to how far, how fast we could go, what
we could
do, or how much energy we could use. Tony Robbins
wrote the
book, "Unlimited Power" based on this belief. In
other words,
we came to believe we were not subject to the
laws of
nature and could violate them as we pleased. These
were our
actions and we now face the consequences.
c) In the gene centered view,
we put natural laws back at the
center of
our worldview/paradigm, and understand we are
subject
to them. We understand that all living things are
vehicles
for our gene's sustainability. We must understand
our genes
and how they work, in order to understand
ourselves
and what we must do as a species to create a
sustainable/stable
civilization.
6. Soylent Green, images of possible future
if we don't act ...
a) listen to Richard Fleischer's
commentary at the end
(1973/2003,
34 yrs ago) 27 1:29:55 <> 28 1:32:56
b) I think these are chapter
and timings from the DVD. I made
an mp3 and
this is likely it: \ps\SoylentGreen.mp3.
7. re "planetary management" vs "WTO" (GATT,
NAFTA), "globalization" ...
a) contrast the Einstein,
Nehru, Tinbergen, Caldwell versions
with WTO,
TWO versions. Tinbergen @ quotes.pco.
b) i.e. look at the vast difference
between the holistic view
of planetary
management versus the fear based,
conspiratorial
view of globalization
8. why have strange rare bits of information
been revealed to me? ...
a) likely because I was open,
I asked continually, because I
searched
relentlessly, because I refused to even consider
the concept
of impossible. My asking may be equated to a
form of
religious prayer.
b) i.e. evolutionary psychology,
neuroscience, the success
magazine
stuff, lessinger, grand lessinger waves, S-Day
c) These things just came
to me seemingly without effort. I
don't understand
how this works. It is the result of
forces I
do not understand. Naphill writes about this
extensively
in Think and Grow Rich (chapter14.htm: The
Sixth Sense).
This power is not a secret, but
unfortunately
it is little known.
d) We can all tap into this
power, this force.
9. ask audience for examples of times "they
changed overnight" ...
a) plus times when a "group
changed overnight"
b) saj: "overnight changes"
list
c) So when we hear thoughts
of impossible, we can replace them
with possible,
and start asking the universe for the plans.
Then, the
sixth sense is able to kick in, but not before.
d) We CAN change overnight
if we choose to ... if we decide
to.
10. ---
11. related:
12. Tony Robbins: humans will avoid pain before seeking
pleasure ...
a) Is there any science to
back this up?
13. "wolf at the door" vs "wolf at the throat" ...
a) The wolf is at the door,
and it looks like we're going to
wait till
the wolf is at our throat, before we take action!
b) Cuba, waited until wolf
was at their throat, but they did
take action,
when the pain was severe enough. The same
will likely
happen with the current cadre of planetary
management.
The same happened in 1648 with the Treaty of
Westphalia.
c) We prefer pleasure to pain,
but when the pain becomes
greater
than our pleasure, we are spurred to action.
14. ---
15. balloons, bring a bag of big balloons ...
a) take bets on when it will
break
16. tour by draft animal drawn carriage horse &
buggy ...
a) between major university
library towns, using train or
truck for
the long hauls while fossil fuel available
17. On website and/or seminars, display full lists
of ...
a) lib*, books, videos, etc.
for last 40 yrs.
18. re greed, more gene, taking "more than needed"
...
a) Almost all of our genes
and "human nature" instincts were
formed over
millions of years in a low energy, dispersed
sunlight,
photosynthesis environment. We are perfectly
adapted
to our hunter gatherer stone age era (as is all
life), and
our brains (genome) have not evolved one iota in
the last
2,000 generations (40,000 yrs). This short time
period is
evolutionarily insignificant. So we
instinctively
know how to operate in such an environment
(low dispersed
energy).
b) The key instinct is the
"more gene". It served us well
individually,
but also caused collapse of civilizations,
and is also
involved in the relentless extinction of
species.
These are normal instinctual behaviors. If we
are going
to be different, we have to LEARN to be
different,
by becoming informed.
c) Since we have these "stone
age brains", we have no
instinctual
mechanisms to help us cope with the compressed
high energy
contained in fossil fuels. We simply continue
to operate
via our "more genes" (i.e. greed), and in the
process
destroy everything around us. Had we evolved in a
high energy
environment, we might have evolved a "less
gene".
d) So greed and more are not
bad or evil, but part of normal
human behavior.
We all have these instincts, and they
manifest
in subtle ways. We just don't realize them
because
they are so ingrained in us, they have become like
the air
around us.
e) Discuss more spiritual
experience, more freedom, more
sustainability,
as memes that can help us transition from
our present
more stuff and more energy.
19. re losing electric grid and world's financial
system ...
a) ref LATOC p1, "Is the modern
banking system entirely
dependent
on ever-increasing amounts of cheap oil?"
b) ref @bm.xls ^s Money, Gold,
Precious Metals, Dollar Collapse
c) Chalmers Johnson vid.
d) They are interdependent
and one will bring the other down.
Without
electricity, no money. Without money, no
electricity.
e) Newton's third law: equal,
opposite, reaction. Show
diagram
showing a reverse downward bubble/spike.
f) see sak: myth of relocalization
list ...
1) collapse
may be so severe due to destruction of former
infrastructure, there may be a dieoff, in which case all
current money/wealth will be destroyed. Areas collapsed
will be reinhabited by people from the 3d world, who never
moved past their localized barter style or hunter gatherer
economies. i.e. "meek shall inherit".
g) Bill Gates, 60B, Oprah
1.5B, Shakira 400M ... if electric
and financial
go, the playing field is leveled.
h) Once planetary management
starts understanding all this,
there should
be great incentive to put their "current
existant
wealth" into transition, paradigm shift,
sustainable,
similar to what they did in 1648, Treaty of
Westphalia.
This will greatly fuel Plan S, so we need to
communicate
with these people.
20. re emotional, feeling, depression layers ...
a) we depress thoughts and
feelings, receiving this unwelcome
emotional
gray goo we call "depression"
b) society/family demands
conformity depressing thoughts and
feelings,
not feeling them, throwing them away, not paying
attention
c) thoughts and feelings in
response to externals
d) external circumstances
(trashing environment, peak everything)
e) brains, limbic systems,
wired for emotions and feelings
f) genes/DNA
21. ;wawtg ...
a) DVD notes ...
1) Otis
Graham, prof of history, emeritus, ucsb
b) Peak Moment 27 min interview
notes ...
1) 3:50-3:57:
Sally: It was time to start the conversation in
a deep and profound way.
2) 4:50-5:45:
Tim: lot of reading, huge stack of books, see
what happened if you look at everything at once, people
were focusing on 1 or 2 issues at a time, question: How did
we get here?, deeply into cultural forces that got us here
and were keeping us here.
3) 5:45-7:20:
Sally: symptom of culture that has gone
bankrupt, acquiring stuff, lack of relationship, based on
natural world, creating a culture that could last for
hundreds and thousands of generations, we've lost what it
means to be human [at least she went beyond grandchildren,
but fell short of millions of generations]
4) 8:40:
trailer: Sally: We're in a culture of 2 yr olds,
won't look at the limits
5) 10:45:
Sally: process of addiction is continually seeking
MORE of what we don't want.
6) 18:10:
Tim: no happy chapter, I've been reading books for
decades that end by saying there's plenty of good things
going on, plenty to be hopeful. Reaction was "others are
on it, I can go back to what I'm doing". Clear I couldn't
do the same thing at the end of this film. Humans live a
tiny cramped story. What was a big story that we could
begin to live into? Mentions Joanna Macy's big story that
we could step into.
7) 21:10:
Sally: ref Derrick Jensen, putting our picket pins
in, tell our truth, and invite deep dialog. Hoping it will
start a deep dialog nationally and internationally, so
others can speak what their truth is and start to show up.
We're open to where that path is going to lead us. I think
we've all got it. It's genetically encoded. Slow down and
reconnect with those deep parts of ourselves.
8) concerns
...
a> Derrick Jensen: the rich are the problem
Tim: angry and cynical, doom, nothing pos., no solution,
how is this programming the minds of viewers? what is it
attracting?
22. Miller: solve with our wills or we don't solve
them at all!
23. neuroscience: ;Rhawn Joseph ...
a) (old notes) rhawn joseph
consulting ...
1) ref our
earlier communication, 5 May 05
2) music
connection
3) ref TSB
4) ref lifeaftertheoilcrash.net
5) ref jay
hanson on EP, farewell, page 193, msg3942
a> my disagreement based on past civ.
b> his total lack of attention to spirit, languaging, PDI
6) cmt:
how he researches, classification of info
7) cmt:
relation between PDI, EP, Neuroscience, any others?
8) cmt:
what the bleep, neuropeptides
9) interest
in working on paradigm shift, newciv. if yes, on
what basis? building mastermind. would love his help.
10) ILLUSTRATION/ARTIST
WORK? PRESENTATION GRAPHICS?
b) \mnb\google videos\Brain
Mind Lecture*
c) #1 ...
1) 34:36-34:55,
Fill the Gaps, making up explanations ...
a> filling gaps with really big nonsense
b> Is this where he talks about "confabulation"?
d) #5 ...
1) second
half, around 30:00, halucinations
2) 35:54,
dreaming
3) 38:21,
deja vu
4) 40:34,
lucid dreaming
5) 41:02,
time, dreams, dreaming backward
e) #6 ...
1) 00:00,
limbic system: amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamus
24. Osteen, Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church ...
a) @bm.xls
b) 11/18/07, Pepsi Center,
Don and Debbie Jackson, security
c) osteen.???.mp3
25. re suicide, Bucky, Og, Lewis, per wiki bios ...
a) Bucky: drink and suicide.
At the last moment he decided
instead
to embark on "an experiment, to find what a single
individual
can contribute to changing the world and
benefiting
all humanity." some bios say he thought of
himself
as a guinea pig.
b) Og: Mandino became an alcoholic
... Mandino almost tried to
commit suicide.
He found W. Clement Stone's classic,
Success
Through a Positive Mental Attitude, a book that
changed
Mandino for the better.
c) Meriwether Lewis: suicide
at 35
26. re titanic, lights going out ...
a) Lights were somehow kept
on until very close to the end,
but when
they flickered off, that was the end.
b) Likewise, when the electricity
goes out and/or the economic
system collapses,
WC3 collapse will be near complete. At
that point
there will be no chance for S-Day, but at least
if we get
the info into libraries, future generations in
future civilizations
may be able to use it to wake up and
grow.
27. Earth Constitution ...
a) natural law based
b) existing political and
religious organization continues,
but each
must adjust their constitutions, doctrines and
legal systems
to the Earth Constitution.
c) Transition period after
S-Day to the new constitution.
28. re fear of collapse, pain, the unknown, discomfort
...
a) etc .............
b) review the scope and save
the world lists
c) Think about how people
in different scopes and frames
identify
their opponents. What about the categories:
school,
company, club, organizational?
d) This fear thing is all
in our minds. It is a genetic
response,
that keeps us from being objective and solving
our problems
in an organized and methodical manner. We
need to
rise above it and we can.
e) We repeatedly rise to fight
for and defend, at all levels
of our human
experience, from ourself and family, to our
country.
We join the military and become soldiers and go
off to war.
Certainly soldiers experience fear, and worry
about pain.
But they rise above that fear by focusing on
their mission.
We must do the same as soldiers for
humanity,
life and planet earth.
f) Our enemies on lower levels
(scopes) become our allies on
higher levels
(scopes). We need to move to the higher
levels.
g) On the scope and save the
world lists, our highest levels
are our
species, our planet and life. We can join together
on these
levels, and become soldiers in the army combating
everything
that is trying to destroy these things we love.
h) By adjusting our scope,
focus and attitude, we can overcome
our fears
and stop worrying. We can move to planning and
action.
i) Here is a quote taken from
Gore's book. Did this man live
in fear?
No, he was a "soldier, fighting for humanity":
"When all
the world is in the flames of war, we will keep
this collection
for the future of all people." --Dr Dmytry
S Ivanov,
Vavilov Institute's rice specialist, shortly
before his
death during the Siege of Leningrad, 1942
29. paradigms and paradigm shifts can be compared
to cults ...
a) and deprogramming.
The cult literature talks about
"snapping",
in fact there is a 1978 book with that title
(wiki article,
au:Flo Conway). There is both "snapping in"
and "snapping
out". These people also speak of
"brainwashing"
and "mind control". Similar techniques to
brainwashing
and deprogramming are used in POW camps and
torture
situations.
b) WC3 in many ways resembles
a giant cult or religion,
however
we are born into it. There is no need to snap in,
since we
are already in at birth. But we can snap out, and
that is
what is happening to many people today. Chellis
Glendinning
wrote a book about this: My Name is Chellis and
I'm in Recovery
from Western Civilization. And there are
people who
call themselves "Recovering Catholics" who have
snapped
out of this mainstream religion.
30. paradigm shift compared with a marching band by
Jackie Hanson
31. music and art as cultural, religious, political
bridges ...
a) universal languages ...
there are many of these, that allow
us to get
connected with diverse peoples. It helps to
bring down
the us-them walls, and see others as relatives,
rather than
"them".
b) So this has been part of
my learning as a musician who has
travelled
the world.
32. Do you believe in God? What is God?
My spiritual awakening ...
a) atheist, Gaskin's Farm,
Rainbow Gatherings, Coconut Grove,
Florida,
spiritual awakening, Sarah, my "cosmic logs",
feeling
an unseen hand, Rick Hassan, a 20 yr mind blowing
journey.
Ref: Psychical Experiences of a Musician.
b) E.P., Miller, Hanson; Rhawn
Joseph, Neuroscience, limbic
system,
science, reductionism, Dawkins, humanists,
atheists,
agnostics. My worldview shaken.
c) Planet, bodies, brains,
etc. came without users manuals.
Thinking
about the ancients: lightning, eclipses,
earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions, planetary movements, etc.
Confabulation,
dreams, visions. Explanations from the
supernatural
were fitted to explain observed phenomena.
Why not
just say, "I don't know."? Afterall, most of these
phenomena
were eventually explained by science, now, to
include
religion itself!
d) We look in the rear view
mirror and think they were stupid.
Yet we look
out the front windshield, and continue to
confabulate,
just as they did!
e) So there really is no God
"out there" running the show.
It's all
made up in our minds (confabulation). "The
kingdom
of God is within you." But what about all these
current
scientifically unexplainable phenomena, including
my "cosmic
logs". We are in the very same place the
ancients
were in.
f) I am not going to go where
the ancients went, for obvious
reason.
Therefore, my current definition of God: "A
reference
to all the unexplainable phenomena in the
universe,
that seem supernatural or magic, that might
someday
be explained by science." or "Those forces and
phenomena
that humanity does not understand at this time,
via scientific
inquiry."
g) It seems probable that
science will continue to explain
phenomena
for time immemorial. It also seems extremely
probable
that homo sapiens will go extinct, prior to
science
explaining all phenomena in the universe.
h) See also E.O. Wilson's
wiki article: "In his book The
Creation,
Wilson makes a case for putting aside
epistemological
differences between religion and science
and concentrating
on what they have in common; namely,
living nature."
i) See also TAGR, naphill,
chapter14.htm: author is not a
believer
in, nor an advocate of "miracles," ... Some of her
laws are
so incomprehensible that they produce what appear
to be "miracles."
33. ref Odum/Properous Way Down, p 81, bottom ...
a) "Energy from large areas
is converged for sharp pulsing use
by armies,
meteorological storms, and public opinion
preparing
for political change. They deliver energy of
high quality
(high transformity)."
b) This may have implications
for Plan S and the big paradigm
shift.
Parallels between Treaty of Westphalia and S-Day
can be drawn.
34. Q: Why am I doing this? ...
a) What else to do?
The ship is sinking. Do something!
b) God helps those who help
themselves.
c) Trust in Allah but tie
your camel.
d) Prepare for the worst case,
knowing it likely won't come.
This is
being prepared.
e) Don't expect the worst
case or we'll bring it on. But
prepare
for it to get the best outcome, regardless of what
happens.
35. We are all "stone-agers living in the fast lane".
...
a) We are only 500 generations
from the stone age.
b) ref: Introducing E.P.,
Dylan Evans, p 46
c) Our genome evolved on the
East African savannah. We are
not designed
or adapted at all for living in either
agricultural
or industrial society.
d) Cosmides: "our modern skulls
house a stone age mind"
36. excellent article in "S-Day" folder, from Fast
Company on change ...
a) Why is it so darn hard
to change our ways? ... New insights
from psychology
and neuroscience ...
b) p 59, picture of a frame:
"Frames are the mental structures
that define
how we see the world. We reject new facts that
don't fit
into those structures. So to change behavior,
you have
to change the frames."
c) p 60, picture caption:
"Paradoxically, radical, sweeping,
comprehensive
changes are often easier for people than
small, incremental
ones. That's because big changes reward
us with
quick results."
d) p 62, caption under rat:
"... specialization can breed
rigidity."
File: saj.txt
A. ---
B. Personal Development area, PDIA:
C. Personal Development Industry, lists ...
1. Why we need PDIA!
2. PD major bibles ...
a) TAGR
b) Psycho-Cybernetics
c) Strangest Secret
3. merge my research on this, at different times
...
a) \dr\success1.pco, extensive
notes apply to both pos & neg
b) \dr\sucflop*.*
c) bmva.htm: ^s PDIA Research:
Personal Development Industry:
d) bmva.htm: ^s ;Personal
Development Industry Association (PDIA):
e) @bm.xls: ^s Personal Development
Industry
f) PDIA project, started for
Greg Reid, Feb, 2008 ...
1) meeting
never occurred
2) PD lists
@ saj
3) \dr\success1.pco
4) find
orig. email w/ 4x items
5) pdia:
learn E.P., understand ourselves, clean up industry
image, rewrite bibles, take leadership position
6) the solution
box > austin research > csenar/s
7) list
of existing industry assns
8) prosperous
way down, selections ...
a> p nnn, conflicting policies
b> p 103, information as wealth
9) time
line ...
a> energy
b> PD: qualified, unqualified
c> PD: spiritual, material
d> collapse, decline of the West
10) csencur: ^s
by way (leach/lapham) ...
a> turn of 20th century as switching from petrol for
illumination to energy source
b> then: quotes.pco: destiny of mankind, spirits not animals
11) steve jobs
to skully: sell sugar water to kids?
12) history of
PDI, born in era of rising cheap fossil fuels
13) no PDIA to
revise industry tenets, so badly needed but so
little time. need to jump start it
14) swx material/energy
plane (waste/collapse/failure) to
spiritual plane (sustainable/success). apply same PD
principles. ref coue, naphill, nightingale.
15) learn about
and integrate neuroscience > limbic, e.p. >
more gene
16) then, rewrite
and provide desperately needed leadership for
the paradigm shift
g) these notes here vvv
4. expand these lists ...
a) by going thru TAGR, etc.,
and seeing what I missed
5. >> reorganize: Rather than listing pos &
neg, ...
a) take each item and analyze
it for both positive and
negative
twists. How has the industry taken positive
aspects
of PD and subverted them?
6. importance of, positive aspects ...
a) all tenets of PD work for
both spiritual and species ...
1) success,
as well as material success. We need to switch
our species focus from material/energy to spiritual.
b) read Amazon.com reviews,
TAGR, Psycho-Cybernetics ...
1) pick
important ones + have them pick some at random
2) \ps\psycho01.htm,
notes @bm.xls
3) Here
is where we get to see the core benefits of P.D.,
without all the hype and perversion that has set in over
recent decades.
c) without it, there is no
apparent solution, stuck in doom/gloom
d) problem solving, planning,
action ...
1) understanding,
study of root causes of problems
2) planning,
specific and detailed \\detailed plans
3) modeling
(Tony Robbins) "success leaves clues"
4) taking
action, acting, working the plan
5) when
plans don't work, revise them, or make new plans
e) attitude, positive mental
attitude (PMA), optimism
f) attitude of expecting or
expectancy
g) acceptance of situations,
circumstances ...
1) dealing
with denial
2) understanding
that fighting against or pushing against
undesirable circumstances, causes them to push back. We
need to accept the present to move past it.
h) goal orientation, focusing,
vision
i) willpower
j) choice, being at choice
k) decision, making a decision
l) affirmation, visualization,
imaging, autosuggestion ...
1) creating,
seeing, repeating thoughts and images of our
goals and what we are trying to create
2) language,
languaging: using words that help create, and
avoiding language that does the opposite. Choice of words
is important.
m) impossible, "magic", "expect
a miracle" ...
1) impossible
goals, shooting for the stars
2) I can
vs. I can't, possible vs. impossible
3) ^s here
for 2x impossible lists
4) TAGR,
chapter2.htm ...
a> Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life,
to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to
accept misery and poverty. A great poet has correctly
stated this universal truth through these lines:
"I bargained with Life for a penny, ..."
5) TAGR,
chapter14.htm ...
a> Miracles of the Sixth Sense.
The author is not a believer in, nor an advocate of
"miracles," for the reason that he has enough knowledge of
Nature to understand that Nature never deviates from her
established laws.
Some of her laws are so incomprehensible that they produce
what appear to be "miracles." The sixth sense comes as near
to being a miracle as anything I have ever experienced, and
it appears so, only because I do not understand the method
by which this principle is operated.
6) TAGR,
search more, there are others
7) employ
the mastermind principle
n) hunches, 6th sense, Napoleon
Hill
o) noosphere, Teilhard de
Chardin
p) paradigm shifting
q) faith, belief
r) conquering low self esteem,
guilt, negative mental attitudes
s) thinking outside the box
t) asking ...
1) asking,
Alladin Factor
2) intelligent
asking Tony Robbins
3) sitting
for ideas, TAGR, Dr Elmer R Gates, Sitting for
ideas, .\tagr\chapter11.htm
4) turning
it over to the Universe/God: when we need answers
we aren't getting on our own ... turning impossible into
possible by asking for help from a higher power.
u) ---
v) related:
w) mind programming, both
positive and negative ...
1) Our subconscious
mind doesn't care what we put in.
2) It is
impartial, like a computer.
3) We get
back what we put into our minds.
4) We are
the creator of our own realities.
5) We create
our reality in our minds.
6) garbage
in, garbage out (minds are like computers)
7) we become
what we think about, within limits ...
a> good, but problematic as stated
b> see coue @ wiki:
c> "Any idea exclusively occupying the mind turns into
reality"; but only if the idea is within the realms of
possibility.
8) thoughts
create, thoughts are things, ditto ^^
9) we are
like mirrors ...
a> What we see in our surroundings and in others are mirrored
reflections of what is going on inside our own minds. We
create our realities with our minds.
10) doom/gloom
thinking, creates doom/gloom
11) self fulfilling
prophesies
12) The Little
Engine That Could, "I Think I Can" (The Pony Engine) ...
a> I Think I Can ... I Thought I Could
b> versus: "I cannot"
13) How are we
programming billions of minds?
x) mastermind principle ...
1) \\group
mind, collective consciousness, master mind ...
2) @bm.xls,
\ps\RNA Tie Club.htm, RNA Tie Club, sounds like a
great mastermind concept. Use similar structure for Plan
S.
y) on extrasensory communication,
ESP, etc. ...
1) ref TAGR,
chapter13.htm: All known forms of radiant energy
decline inversely as the square of the distance traversed.
Telepathy and clairvoyance do not.
2) Dr Edgar
Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon, Noetic
Sciences, IONS, experiments from the moon
3) The Noosphere,
wiki: "sphere of human thought". When we
think, we transmit to all other brains on the planet
z) ---
aa) integrity
ab) congruence (Robbins)
ac) synergy, teamwork, looking past
differences to similarities
ad) persistence, never quitting
...
1) a winner
never quits and a quitter never wins
2) in adversity
and failure, lay the seeds of success
3) see "failures
who never gave up list" (here)
ae) we are one, we are all us, we
are all related, no us-them
af) re pushing against and struggling
with obstacles ...
1) They
tend to push back. In many situations, it's more
productive to employ passivity and acceptance, rather than
pushing, fighting or struggling.
2) This
goes hand in hand with Newton's 3d law, "For every
action ...".
ag) changing the world starts with
changing ourselves
ah) paying the price ...
1) ziglar:
pay first, then reap rewards
2) nightingale:
putting the wood in before getting heat
3) robbins:
plants seeds, then harvest
ai) actions have consequences (Ringer),
action > reaction
7. problems with, negative aspects ...
a) disorganized, no industry
association (PDIA) ...
1) no communication
forum, no internal self regulation
b) no external regulation
(except therapists?)
c) PD versus PDI, make the
distinction ...
1) PD teaches
us to set goals and how to use our minds to
attain them. History shows that PD methods work, and that
almost all reasonable goals, even "impossible" goals, are
actually attainable.
2) PD methods
work for simple little goals like buying a house
or getting a good job. They can also work for huge
"impossible" goals like transitioning from a collapsing
unsustainable civilization to a stable sustainable one. We
simply need detailed plans, and then to take action on
those plans.
3) PD is
the essence of the PDI. The PDI is built around the
basic concepts of PD. But PD is currently sick, out of
balance, and collapsing with the civilization that supports
it. The PDI must choose to step out of this collapsing
civilization set itself on the right track, before PD
methods can be employed in the service of this transition
between civilizations.
d) stuck in WC3 paradigm,
thinking "inside the box"
e) bad reputation, con-man,
huckster, ...
1) motivational
speaker, pep talk image
f) controversies: What the
Bleep, The Secret ...
1) See "Matt
Savinar's review of The Secret", @bm.xls
2) Byrne's
inspiration for creating The Secret came from
reading the 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich by
Wallace D. Wattles. [which of course was at a time when
oil was gushing out of the ground, and Carnegie in 1908
commissioned NapHill!]
3) Wrong
use of "law of attraction":
4) receiving
without paying the price
5) see also,
notes below re "We become what we think about",
since they guys say nothing about violating laws and right
of others, etc.
g) material/energy focus v.
spiritual focus ...
1) external:
houses, cars, boats, jobs
2) internal:
books, tapes, CD's, DVD's, seminars in distant
exotic places, requiring long flights
3) <
1% of focus has been on spiritual or species success, so
it follows P.D.'s own teachings that we become what we
think about, that we've been growing our material success
rather than our spiritual success!
4) They
give lip service to spiritual success, but the larger
stream they've existed in for 100 yrs is all materially
oriented.
5) listen
to Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret @ 28:41:
"Some like ministers and priests and other devoted people
measure their returns in the realm of the spiritual, but
again, their returns are equal to their service." This was
8 seconds out of a 31 minute message. Note that this was
in 1956 when the world was awash in cheap oil and new
discoveries, and the same year when M. King Hubbert stunned
his fellow geologists by predicting a U.S. peak for 1970.
h) industry "bibles" &
tomes to be rewritten for sustainable era
i) virtually unaware of E.P.,
and not well connected with neuroscience
j) Yale Study, even Joel Osteen
is repeating it!, @bmva.htm
k) weiji, crisis = danger
+ opportunity, @bm.xls
l) Success Magazine, 50's
era trip w/ W Clement Stone
m) Success Magazine, Peter
Lowe trip, 2001, failure & takeover
n) Peter Lowe, stadiums, plastic
pushing
o) Tony Robbins issues ...
1) @bm.xls,
Tony Robbins: Practicing What He Preaches
2) massive
fossil fuel use, Fiji, Hawaii
3) financial
seminars, options, Wade Cook
4) relationships,
wife switching
5) Unlimited
Power, leaves it unqualified
p) Napoleon Hill: "Whatever
... achieve", unqualified
q) Werner Erhard issues
r) "flying off course 99%
of the time" ...
1) Zig Ziglar
used this one. He also used the Yale thing.
2) no references,
no threshold, imprecise, unscientific,
religious vibe
3) This
is however a useful analogy for sustainability. See
notes @ sam: Wright Brothers: Sustainable Flight
s) Happiness Hucksters article
& "Cult/Therapy" folder
t) Earl Nightingale: "We become
what we think about" ??? ...
1) He leaves
it unqualified.
2) SS: 13:43,
17:48 laws, Newton
3) MVH:
25:08, adds "most of the time" qualifier
4) Emile
Coue @ wiki: "... turns into reality"; but only if
the idea is within the realms of possibility.
5) Hill:
from my notes at libyear2.pco, 2004 Cornwell update:
6) "...
acquire anything he wants ..."
7) pg 369.
collaborations with W Clement Stone: "so long as it
does not violate the laws of God or the rights of others."
[apparently they felt further qualification was required
circa 1960]. ^s \dr\tagr\*.htm for "violat" and found
similar in 3x places. Stone in 1937 originally phrased it
"rights of fellow human beings". [rather narrow]
u) see wiki article: Self
Help, book: Micki McGee: Self-Help, Inc
v) Integrity, Emissaries of
Divine Light, Heinberg connection ...
1) why is
this here?
w) FEAR = false evidence appearing
real ...
1) cute
acronym invented by someone, but by no means always
true. Fear has strong genetic underpinnings, and has been
very useful to humans and all animals.
x) Roger Bannister, 4 minute
mile ...
1) See the
wikipedia article, 06/01/08:
2) "The
claim that a 4-minute mile was once thought to be
impossible by informed observers was and is a widely
propagated myth cooked up by sportswriters and debunked by
Bannister himself in his memoir, The Four Minute Mile,
1955. The reason the myth took hold was that 4 minutes was
a nice round number which was slightly better (1.4 seconds)
than the world record for nine years - longer than it
probably otherwise would have been because of the effect of
World War II in interrupting athletic progress in the
combatant countries."
8. making the transition from cheap to expensive
energy eras ...
a) go thru above 2 lists and
create a transition list
D. impossible list \\miracle list ...
1. What is possible and impossible? ...
a) I often think that "the
impossible is really possible".
b) I also often think that
"the impossible is truly
impossible".
c) These appear to be opposite
and therefore conflicting
positions,
and I've been challenged on this. What
determines
possibility versus impossibility is not what
people think
is possible, but rather what natural law says
is possible.
I.e. if natural laws say "impossible", it
either will
not happen at all, or if it does, it will be an
overshoot
type of condition (a law violation) that will
likely end
very badly, with some form of "punishment" or
"overshoot".
On the other hand, if people say
"impossible",
but natural law doesn't confirm this
disbelief,
then it really is possible, and the only thing
that can
stop it is people's attitudes of mind.
d) During presentations, invite
readers and audience to think
of stories
and examples from their personal lives. What
have they
experienced, read in articles, P.D. books, etc.
to confirm
this?
2. see also: "impossible alliances @ \ps\ImpossibleMeetings"
(below) ...
3. see also:
4. huge impossible quotes page @bm.xls ^s "Impossible"
quotes page ...
a) [\ps\impossible1.htm]
5. ---
6. Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk, Dayton (main:
sam) ...
a) Wright Brothers, sustainable,
controlled flight, list
b) getting it 100% right!
c) after Lord Kelvin 8 yrs
earlier in 1895 stated: "Heavier
than air
flying machines are impossible."
7. Sir Ernest Shackleton, survival
8. Roger Bannister, 4 minute mile
9. Sir Edmund Hillary, Mt Everest
10. Reinhold Messner, Mt Everest summit without oxygen
11. Gandhi, Indian Independence
12. D-Day, Normandy
13. Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong moon landing, JFK: by
end of decade
14. Apollo 13, Failure is not an option, Gene Kranz
15. Chuck Yeager, breaking sound barrier
16. Pete Seeger, cleanup Hudson River, "Sailing Up
My Dirty Stream"
17. Thomas Edison, tried 10k ways to create practical
light bulb
18. Colonel Sanders, tried over 1k times to sell his
chicken recipe
19. Emperor Hirohito's surrender, 08/15/45 ...
a) see translated quotes below
under overnight changes list
20. ancient list:
21. Egyptian pyramids
22. Aztec empire, created a huge thriving empire ...
a) starting from a swamp,
with stone age tools and no wheeled
transport.
E. impossible alliances @ \ps\ImpossibleMeetings ...
1. AnwarSadat-MenachemBegin.jpg
2. Reagan-Gorbachev.jpg
3. YitzhakRabin-YasserArafat.jpg
F. failures who never gave up list ...
1. Abe Lincoln
2. Thomas Edison
3. Colonel Sanders
G. ---
H. anarcho-primitivism, neoprimitivism, list ...
1. @bm.xls, ^s anarcho-primitivism, neoprimitivism
2. industry, agriculture, critics, "back to
hunter gatherer"
3. wiki: Anarcho-primitivism
4. ---
5. Daniel Quinn
6. John Zerzan
7. Joseph George Caldwell, www.foundationwebsite.org,
Africa
8. William H. Kotke, Harbin Hot Springs \\kottke
9. Theodore Kaczynski, The Unabomber (not sure,
may advocate agriculture)
10. whatawaytogomovie.com (Bennett/Erickson)
11. Ran Prieur ...
a) See his #9. Save human
knowledge, @ saveearth.html, local:
\ps\Ran
Prieur, saveearth.htm
12. Derrick Jensen
13. Richard Manning: Against the Grain, @bm.xls
14. Marshall Sahlins, Original Affluent Society
15. Toby Hemenway, Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron?,
@bm.xls
16. John M Gowdy, Limited Wants, Unlimited Means ...
a) : A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer
Economics And The Environment
17. Chellis Glendinning, My Name is Chellis and I'm
in Recovery from W.C.
18. Urban Scout, @bm.xls
I. E.P. aware list (among PDI) ...
1. see also: @bm.xls, :evol
2. None of these are mainstream PD, but borderline,
on the
fringe:
3. Dr Timothy Miller
4. Ken Wilber
5. Daniel Quinn
6. Rev Michael Dowd
7. Paul Chefurka (not PDI)
J. E.P. caveat list ...
1. This list is for those schools of thought
that have been
misinterpreted or misunderstood.
These must be clarified
in order to go forward with
an understanding of E.P.
2. selfish gene, Richard Dawkins
3. survival of the fittest, see Miller, Human
Nature
K. more than five generations list ...
1. Long Now Foundation, @bm.xls, 10k years
2. Sally Erickson, hundreds and thousands of
generations
3. Thomas Berry, @bm.xls, "scale of tens of
millions of years" ...
a) "we have to have a program"
4. Daniel Quinn, "millions of years"
L. song list, \cp\csen\song.pco + @bm.xls "Plan S, S-Day,
Song Lists"
M. charismatic entertainer/leadership/politico list ...
1. The new leadership, which was formerly from
academic,
business & military community.
2. full list, wiki: List_of_actor-politicians
3. Ronald Reagan
4. Sonny Bono
5. Jesse Ventura
6. Arnold Schwarzenegger
7. Al Gore
8. Fred Thompson
N. violinist/fiddler list ...
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Albert Einstein
3. Richard Heinberg
4. Julian Darley
5. Dr Jack Lessinger
6. James Howard Kunstler
7. Dale Alan Pfeiffer
8. US Senator Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia,
\dr\senbyrd1.jpg
9. Thomas Lowe, Jackson, Mississippi (insurance
policy)
10. Charlie Chaplin
11. Jack Benny
12. Henry the Fiddler
O. Thinking About the Unthinkable, "The Forbidden List" ...
1. formerly: "boogie men", verboten, gotcha,
discussion list
2. ---
3. science, religion, spirituality
4. evolution
5. death
6. suicide, assisted suicide \\euthanasia
7. starvation & famine
8. cannibalism
9. slavery
10. child labor laws & customs
11. collapse of complex civilizations & empires
12. sex & reproduction
13. forced sterilization
14. birth control
15. limiting population
16. conventional warfare
17. nuclear warfare, nuclear terror ...
a) @bm.xls ^s nuclear terror
18. terrorism
19. nuclear energy
20. human rights
21. reductionism
22. asteroid impact ...
a) @bm.xls ^s NASA, Asteroids,
Meteors, Comets, NEAR, etc.
23. supervolcano
P. collapse, authors, list ...
1. see also: @bm.xls :Collapse
2. 1776-1789: The History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
3. 1918: The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
4. 1961: A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee
5. 1988: The Collapse of Complex Societies,
Joseph Tainter
6. 2004: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed, Jared Diamond
7. 2005: How Civilizations Fall, John Michael
Greer ...
a) A Theory of Catabolic Collapse,
John Michael Greer (The Archdruid)
b) online only: @bm.xls, saved
locally
8. 2008: The demise of civilisation may be inevitable
...
a) April, 2008, Debora MacKenzie,
in New Scientist print ed. +
found a
free online copy @bm.xls
9. 2008: Reinventing Collapse, Dmitry Orlov
(June, 2008) ...
a) @bm.xls Russia General,
Soviet Russian View of American Collapse
Q. overnight changes, rapid, violent, list ...
1. differentiate between changes that were ...
a) human caused, via planning
and action
b) human caused, unplanned,
unforseen, accidental
c) naturally caused
2. This also relates to paradigm shifts ...
a) people are forced to (reluctantly)
give up their paradigms:
b) due to conquerors, conquistadores,
empire builders ...
1) ie. Native
Americans, Inca, Aztec, Maori
c) due to natural circumstances
...
1) ie. Hohokam,
Anasazi
d) in both instances, refugee
situations happen, both
geographical
and cultural/ideological
3. This list can be used to show that our situation
is not
unique but has happened many
times before. Massive, rapid
collapses and changes are
common. It helps to understand
what CAN happen (as opposed
to "we will continue on our
trajectory of increase forever").
It also helps to get
some distance on the situation,
which can promote a sense
of calm toward the mission
at hand. With this calm, we can
proceed in a positive, rational,
analytical manner ... i.e.
"We have a problem, lets get
to the bottom of it and solve
it." versus a negative, fearful,
doomy gloomy manner ...
i.e. "Woe upon our stupid,
ignorant, delusional species.
There is no solution, so we
must face our doom and collapse
together."
4. volatile, bubble bursting
5. will it happen again, could it happen again?
...
a) no way to know, but it
is looking more and more likely
every day!
6. Wiki: ^s bm.xls: Death Tolls from War, Disaster,
Famine, Disease
7. book: The Day the Universe Changed, James
Burke
8. book: Collapse, Jared Diamond
9. see also: list in "S-Day" folder:
"Great transformations, paradigm
shifts"
10. -
11. here are some "human caused, via planning" ...
a) Magna Carta
b) Treaty of Westphalia
c) D-Day
d) Euro, currency
e) Sweden, driving switch,
09/03/67
f) WWII, Rosie the Riveter,
Victory Gardens, transforming
factories
from non-war related mfg to war mfg
g) Marshall Plan, post WWII
h) like many large mergers
and acquisitions
12. 1929 stock market crash
13. Enron, Arthur Andersen
14. WorldCom
15. Tyco
16. 9/11/2001 \\9-11
17. Barrings Bank, Nick Leeson
18. Tulip Mania
19. Berlin, Germany: wall went up, wall came down
20. Soviet Union collapse
21. Aztec, Tenochtitlan, Cortes
22. Inca, Pizarro
23. Titanic
24. Pearl Harbor
25. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hirohito surrender ...
a) @bm.xls ^s hirohito surrender
speech
b) Hirohito quotes:
c) "If we continue to fight
this war, this weapon will destroy
the Japanese
nation and bring about the total extinction of
the human
race."
d) "grand peace for all the
generations to come by enduring
the unendurable
and suffering what is unsufferable"
e) ie. in our darkest hours,
we sometimes opt to continue
26. Hurricane Katrina
27. Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, 08/01/07
28. Northeast Blackout of 2003 (@ wiki), see great
article @bm.xls
29. San Francisco Earthquake
30. Chicago Fire
31. Pompeii
32. Tsunami, Asia
33. Hitler, Holocaust
34. Native American genocide
35. Black Death/Bubonic Plague
36. Irish Potato Famine
37. Easter Island
38. Nauru Island
39. Weimar Republic's Hyperinflation
R. Timeline of Current Collapse. We are in it NOW!
...
1. formerly: collapse/explosion, we are in it
NOW, list
2. Like being shot out of a cannon in slow motion,
we live in
the midst of collapse.
Like fleas riding magic carpets
thru thin air. It is
not something that might hit us just
around the corner! We
have been dropping like flies (i.e.
fleas) since 1914.
3. setting the stage:
4. 1648, Peace of Westphalia
5. 1687, Isaac Newton, Principia
6. hitting the iceberg:
7. 1712, Newcomen, steam engine
8. 1859, Drake, Titusville, PA, first oil well
9. 1864, Abe Lincoln, corporate corruption,
republic destroyed
10. 1877, John Wanamaker department store, Philadelphia
11. warnings start:
12. 1904, Henry James
13. 1911, Edna Ferber
14. collapse:
15. 1914-1918, WWI
16. 1918, Spengler, Decline of the West
a) wiki: "Spengler explained
that he did not mean to describe
a catastrophic
occurrence, but rather a protracted fall - a
twilight
or sunset."
17. 1939-1945, WWII
18. 1947, Doomsday Clock, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
19. 1970, Toffler, Future Shock
20. 1983, Critchfield, Villages < why here, sustain.
in non-WC3 settings
21. 1993, Yergin: The Prize
S. Western Civilization, WC1, WC2, WC3, List ...
1. @bm.xls ^s Western Civilization
2. WC1: 776 BC - 1687, Ancient Greece to Newton,
agriculture ...
a) sustainable in the 10 MY
view, however has many drawbacks
versus hunter/gatherer
per the "back to hunter gatherer"
list, above
3. WC2: 1687 - 1910, Newton to Petroleum, industry
starts (steam 1712) ...
a) unsustainable in long term
(ie. many thousands of years)
b) see also Al-Jazari, may
have been as early as 1200!
c) Per Ray Anderson in "The
Corporation", industry started in
1712 (25
yrs after 1687), when Thomas Newcomen invented a
steam driven
pump. Per wiki article: "often referred to as
a father
of the Industrial Revolution".
4. WC3: 1910 - automobile, Petroleum, high industry,
green revolution ...
a) world population explodes
from a baseline of 500 million,
unsustainable
in short term (ie. hundreds of years)
T. ---
U. related, combine?:
V. scope list, frame list, frame of reference ...
1. see also [dw40] (sam) ...
a) For instance, the scopes
can be combined.
2. see also "S-Day" folder, "5-14-05 brainstorm"
...
a) There is a group of paper
clipped papers with many notes
and scrawlings
on this. Heading "Aperture of Awareness",
which is
old, incorrect verbiage.
3. synonym list ...
a) scope
b) frame, frame of reference
(hold up or show picture frames) ...
1) There's
a good one in the Fast Company article (sag).
c) filter
d) point of view, viewpoint
e) planes of travel
f) planes of awareness
g) scales of time and space
...
1) Odum:
Prosperous: p 72: Scales of Time and Space:
"Our world is made of systems of many sizes ..."
h) lens angle
4. related to: "save the world list" here [below]
5. -
6. time
7. evolutionary/species (self <> universe,
continuum) ...
a) This can even be extended
to non-living inanimate objects.
For instance,
some people feel great empathy and connection
to things
like books, artwork, rocks, crystals, antiques,
antiquities,
artifacts, collectibles, etc.
8. geographical/political (neighborhood <>
world/universe)
9. cultural/paradigm (includes religion/spirituality)
10. discipline/specialty (specialist <> generalist)
...
a) ie. specialist to generalist
on the knowledge continuum
b) not necessarily occupation
related, although it often would
be, like:
food, water, energy, financial, etc.
c) Flatland: "dimension"
11. matter/particles, micro to macro, quark to universe
...
a) micro: energy, DNA, genes
b) the gargantuan giant picture
(universe)
c) the itsy bitsy micro picture
(particles, electrons)
d) Odum, Prosperous, p 279,
"from molecules to the stars"
e) We are somewhere in the
middle of these two, but mostly on
the micro
side. Our major concerns right now are material
resources
and how we use them to make us happy, and our
brains and
how we use them to create both our internal and
external
worlds.
f) Best place to focus is
on our genes. It's a gene's world!
W. Frames of Reference to Save the World By, List ...
1. related to "scope list" here [above]
2. Integrate with faith and hope ...
a) which like "saving the
world" has no focus. What are we
being faithful
to, or hoping for? We have no consistent
plan, no
focus, no vision. All P.D. literature requires
specific
goals. If we do not give our brain something
specific
to focus on or strive toward, it has no target to
hit, therefore
no goal, no plan, no action, no results.
3. Who is "we"?
4. What is "the world" that needs saving?:
5. -
6. universe
7. Milky Way galaxy
8. solar system
9. earth
10. life on earth, past, present, future ...
a) 3.8 by, 30+ billion species
and counting
b) biocracy note here, moving
from democracy to biocracy where
planetary
management manages the planet for all life
11. life on earth, currently 100 million species
12. human family (homo), 2.6 million years, past,
present, future
13. modern humanity, homo sapiens, 40,000 to 200,000
years
14. Western Civilization
15. Western Civilization 3 (WC3)
16. USA (or "my country")
17. region (metropolitan area or state)
18. school, company, club, organizational affiliation
...
a) especially in regards to
sporting and economic competition
19. neighborhood, my lifestyle (home, friends, family,
job, etc.)
20. me: my next 30 to 90 days (paying the rent, buying
food and gas)
X. ---
Y. related, combine?:
Z. Total Extinction of Humanity is Unlikely, List ...
1. more, @bm.xls, wiki: Risks to civilization,
humans and planet Earth
2. possible ways of extincting homo sapiens
(possible but unlikely):
3. nuclear holocaust, total
4. climate change, of a drastic, extreme nature
5. asteroid impact
6. per Dowd, huge problems, though not likely
to extinct:
7. supervolcano, volcanic activity, massive
\\super volcano
8. methane burp
AA. Who Shall Inherit the Earth? The Dependency Pyramid ...
1. formerly: dependence pyramid list \\dependency
pyramid
2. Who shall inherit the earth? Who will
survive extinction,
within the human species?
It all depends on how deep we
let the dieoff go, and providing
some of us survive total
extinction.
3. "But the meek shall inherit the earth; and
shall delight
themselves in the abundance
of peace."
--Psalm 37:11, King James
Bible translation
4. from most likely to least likely, imagine
upside down pyramid:
5. ---
6. uncontacted people ...
a) will certainly survive
even the deepest collapse, with the
possible
exception of an extreme nuclear holocaust or an
asteroid
hit. ^s @bm.xls uncontacted.
7. hunter-gatherer societies
8. remote inhabited island societies, like ...
a) Tristan da Cunha
b) Tikopia
9. wilderness survivalist types (Tom Brown Jr,
Eustace Conway)
10. indigenous peopled villages
11. remote villages
12. plain people (Amish, Mennonite, etc)
13. WC3:
14. Third World
15. Developing Nations
16. First World, Industrialized Nations
17. Mormons
18. United States of America <> China/India (a
tossup here)
19. planetary management (presently The World Order)
AB. ---
AC. energy, related:
AD. energy sink demo list ...
1. gold coin example ...
a) How much is this gold coin
worth @ today's prices?
($600-$800).
b) Get a gold coin and set
it on a table, then the floor ...
eventually
1 mile underground of a football field
c) who will come get it?
2. deep lake filled with beer, wine, or other
favorite beverage ...
a) but covered over, all except
for a small hole, large enough
to fit an
arm thru
3. good quick demo found in an article ...
a) "No matter how you look
at it, producing hydrogen from
water is
an energy sink. If you don't understand this
concept,
please mail me ten bucks and I'll send you back a
buck."
AE. energy density list, @bm.xls ^s Energy Density List
AF. Innumeracy list, @bm.xls ^s Innumeracy, huge numbers, orders
of magnitude
AG. Jevons Paradox, Energy Efficiency, Conservation, Fallacies,
list (@bm.xls) ...
1. slide [dw11]
2. slippery watermelon seed analogy
3. to defeat Jevons Paradox, everyone changes
together: S-Day
4. Rocky Mt News article, 08/30/05 ...
a) now w/ news articles in
a folder
b) appears to be from editorial
page:
c) TechCentralStation:
"The 'energy
cost' of transportation in the U.S. fell by
nearly one-third
between 1973 and 2003; that is, we used to
use nine
gallons of fuel for every hundred vehicle miles,
now about
six. But total fuel use did not drop by
one-third.
Instead, fuel use rose by more than half. CAFE
standards
don't lower energy use. They merely satisfy the
need of
politicians to convince an unsuspecting public that
they're
doing something. It's time for the public to wake
up to this
scam." --James K. Glassman
5. related: "Environmental Man" clipping ...
a) in "S-Day" folder from
Twelve Tribes Earth Day 2007 freepaper
6. the dream of the so called "paperless office"
AH. waste: energy efficiency, energy conversions list ...
1. Who has a $20 bill in their pocket?
Offer a dime in
exchange. What happened
to the $19.90?
2. How many hours do you have to work to fill
up your car?
For what purpose?
3. Ever go out for a jog? Where did your
energy go?
4. Ever touch an engine after driving?
How about the tires,
wheels, muffler, tailpipe?
5. What happens to the heat? Warms the
air, i.e. global
warming!
6. Discuss max efficent energy conversions,
like walking,
recumbent bikes, etc.
Also, Daedalus, human powered
aircraft ^s @bm.xls.
7. @bm.xls ^s human powered [finds vehicles
and aircraft]
AI. ---
AJ. centric list (ie. flat centric, euro centric, etc.) ...
1. reorienting our egos from various *centrics
[dw15]
this list completely superceeds
[dw15]
2. historic worldview shocks
3. ---
4. flat centric > round ...
a) The earth is flat.
>> The earth is round.
5. earth centric > sun ...
a) The earth is in the center.
>> The sun is in the center.
6. creation centric > evolution/natural selection
...
a) We were created by God.
>> We evolved from chimpanzees.
7. euro centric (Piltdown) > africa ...
a) We originated in Europe.
>> We originated in Africa.
8. ego centric (self centered) > gene ...
a) We are in control.
>> Our genes are in control.
b) see note on this @ sag.pco
^s "ego centric"
c) references: Dawkins: Selfish
Gene, Morrison: Spirit in the Gene
d) Dowd calls ego centric,
anthropocentric, human-centered
AK. point the finger, list \\finger pointing point finger ...
1. \\pointing the finger their fault laying
blame blaming
indignation
2. see sae.pco, "how societies change"
3. see [dw44]
4. us them us-them creation stories
5. -
6. Instead of getting to the root cause of our
problems (the
evolutionary nature of our
brains), we look for fault,
greed, ignorance, stupidity
and delusional thinking in
others. We look to blame,
rather than take responsibility,
or simply acknowledge that
shit happens. This feeds and
perpetuates the us-them myth.
It dissipates our precious
and limited energies.
And it excuses us from having to get
our shit together and grow
up as a species! It excuses us
from having to look in the
mirror. "We have met the enemy
and it is us!" -- Pogo.
Daniel Quinn: "I am a member of
taker culture."
7. great antidotes for us-them thinking ...
a) Jessie H O'Neill, The Golden
Ghetto
b) Ray Anderson clip
c) mill.pco, like paul allen,
john templeton, etc.
d) DNA videos @bm.xls &
\mnbps
e) Rockefeller quotes (quotes.pco)
f) Rockefeller heirs @bm.xls
(exxon)
g) Orlov, pg 19, para 1: "Imperialist
Aggressor" vs "Evil
Empire"
... "like stepping through a mirror".
8. So here is a list of some of the typical
"thems" fingers
get pointed at:
9. -
10. bad people
11. rich people
12. evil people, "Evil Empire", "Axis of Evil"
13. greedy people, people who "take more than they
need"
14. elite people, elitist people
15. unloving people, people who have forgotten how
to love one another
16. stupid, ignorant, delusional, deluded, idiots
17. neocons
18. fascists
19. imperialists, "Imperialist Aggressors"
20. the world order (TWO), the new world order
21. the illuminati
22. globalization, WTO, GATT, NAFTA
23. big corporations, multi-national corporations
24. oil companies
25. monopolies
26. big government
27. military industrial complex
28. republicans
29. democrats
30. liberals
31. conservatives
32. politicians
33. capitalists
34. communists, socialists
35. men, women
36. evangelical Christians, Christian right
37. organized religion
38. evolution
39. creation science, intelligent design
40. immigrants
41. cheaters
42. skeptics
43. scientific reductionists (reductionism)
44. mainstream culture, cultural non-creatives
AL. planetary management communication list ...
1. use The Solution Box (TSB)
2. use the graphic in "Slides, Misc" sub-folder
...
a) that I drew for Rusty and
Kimberly Hanley
3. mastermind draft trim tab
4. front door approach, foundations, etc.
5. networking
6. persistence, gentle, subtle, use back door
networking ...
a) The point is not to get
them to even read it, but rather to
become aware
of its existence. Some will pick it up.
Others will
wait until it's really needed.
b) Remember that it is estimated
there is a maximum of only 7
links between
every person on earth. "There could be
someone
in the room right now who is ..."
7. set Plan S at their feet (Oprah, Ishmael
example)
8. use stepping stones, like "writing elected
representatives":
9. via Entertainment Industry, especially news
media
10. via Personal Development Industry (after PDIA
& rewrites)
11. target establishing a presence at their conferences
12. Contrast seeking agreement between 6 billion vs
6 thousand ...
a) We are talking 6 orders
of magnitude (1,000,000) here. It
will be
very difficult, but by using the mastermind
principle,
possible. This group is much more likely to
understand
scientific principles than the rank and file.
This will
promote agreement. While there is no natural law
prohibiting
the rank and file of humanity from coming to
agreement,
the chances are virtually nil.
b) The best action for rank
and file to take is to communicate
via Entertainment
and PDI to the mastermind group.
13. -
14. study planetary management in detail, past and
present
15. list current organizational & individual members
16. profile "
17. communicate Plan S vision w/ "
18. communicate as a group
19. communicate as individuals, by providing contact
info
AM. ---
AN. merge these 2:
AO. Specialists' Not Invented Here (NIH) List ...
1. formerly: NIH problem list
2. Everyone needs income to survive in WC3,
including Save the
World types. So people
write books, create websites,
PowerPoint slide shows, make
videos, tour, speak, etc.
These are mostly specialists
who end up competing with each
other for ever shrinking dollars,
as energy and stuff
becomes more expensive and
the economy of our planet tanks.
3. As new information arrives or generalists
try to connect
the dots of all the specialists,
this info doesn't fit into
the specialist paradigms,
and is thus rejected. What we
end up with is the classic
Daniel Quinn, Sinking Ship
Parable. We have dispersion
of energies and cacaphony.
There is a lack of focus,
planning, direction, vision.
4. Speaking of Daniel Quinn, even he readily
admits, "I am a
member of taker culture!"
He makes his living writing and
selling books.
5. What to do? Appeal to specialists to
understand the Plan S
Specialist <> Generalist
database and to see where their
specialty fits within it.
Then, continue to function if
they wish in their specialty
niche within the local frame.
Also, understand that their
underlying motivation comes
from the "more genes" and
the "spirit genes". I.e. they
are busy enacting their genetic
programs. In most cases,
their specialty paradigm is
a religion that helps them
connect with like minded people
to form a tribe, with all
its social benefits.
So that activity can and should be
continued, however with a
new understanding of its purpose
for them individually and
for their extended group/tribe.
Then they can also connect
in a larger global frame with
Plan S, and plug into the
generalist paradigm. This is
operating in different frames
simultaneously.
AP. Lack of Vision, Focus. Splintered, Dispersed Sub-Groups ...
1. formerly: sustainability, change the world,
sub-groups
(+notably absent), list
2. Consider merging this list w/ sac.pco ...
a) networks to communicate
Plan S with, list
3. lack of focus, kalioscopic vision, cacaphony
and dispersion
of energies. lots of
wheel spinning and wasting of energy
and resources.
4. everyone comes with their specialist agendas,
and an
urgency to support their cause
or specialty
5. listed in no particular order:
6. ---
7. environmentalists
8. futurists
9. hippies, old and young
10. new agers
11. cultural creatives
12. new thought church types
13. unitarian church types
14. communal and community living advocates
15. spiritualists
16. activists of all types, sizes, shapes and colors
17. progressives
18. peak oil types, geologists
19. deep thinkers, philosophers
20. voluntary simplicity lifestyle folks
21. back to the land types
22. head for the hills types
23. patriots
24. conspiracy theorists
25. permaculture types
26. Y2K types
27. food types: vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists
28. ---
29. +notably absent, low participation:
30. evangelical Christians, Christian right
31. non-"white, well educated, first world types"
32. minorities, people of color
33. working class, blue collar, laborers
34. mainstream culture, "cultural non-creatives"
AQ. ---
File: sak.txt
A. ---
B. related, but separate:
C. Myths, Ghost Dance, Cargo Cult, List ...
1. greatest illusions and delusions list, in
both the
mainstream and the activist
communities
2. Note: Some of this list may be feasible (even
essential)
during transition & descent,
but most will not work for the
long term. eMergy analysis
is required for all phases
(transition, descent, long
term).
None of this will "save WC3".
3. see also :julie list
4. fallacies due to lack of information and
magical thinking,
confabulation, hard wired
for God, religion, spirit
5. magical thinking that will save us (WC3)
... ideas that
will never produce agreement
among scientists
6. reminiscent of the American Indians' "ghost
dance", or the
"cargo cults" of the South
Pacific
7. this includes me for most of my 40 yrs of
study, until I
discovered Miller, EP, Hanson,
Savinar
8. 10 steps forward, 100 steps backward
9. ---
10. alternative energy
11. renewable energy
12. nuclear energy
13. biofuels, biodiesel, veggie oil, ethanol
14. hydrogen
15. going green (see @bm.xls, greenwashing)
16. sustainable development
17. conservation
18. efficiency
19. energy saving devices
20. hybrid cars
21. hypercars
22. flex fuel cars
23. ecotourism
24. relocalization (see below)
25. biomimicry
26. nanotechnology
D. Myth of Relocalization, Regional Economies ...
1. Relocalization is a myth. We have been
building two regional ...
a) economies for 10,000 yrs,
and a true global economy for 500
yrs.
b) @bm.xls ^s International
Trade, Commerce, History
c) silk road, chaco canyon,
mesa verde, aztec, inca, maya
d) cahokia mounds, comment
from YouTube vid: "I did research
on the trade
links between MesoAmerica and Cahokia. It is
impressive."
(can't find source of this comment).
e) See video @bm.xls, showing
water routes @ 3:01+
f) ancient trade between Africa
and Mesoamerica
2. infrastucture destroyed ...
a) top layer of onion, look
underneath, all the other layers
are gone!
b) we are like fleas shot
out of a cannon ...
1) all riding
on our tiny specialist magic carpets. The only
thing that sustains us is the momentum from the charge. We
look below and see the long drop down.
2) Or, we
are like a herd of buffalo charging towards a
precipice, blind to what is on the other side.
3) How are
we supposed to "relocalize" when local economies
took millennia to evolve? We have lost most of the
components. Most of the topsoil and natural resources are
gone, the interlinked economic system & infrastructure is
lost, and many vital skills are lost.
4) law:
Newton's "equal and OPPOSITE REACTION" ...
a> forget relocalization ... more like dieoff, re-migrate &
re-populate.
b> Example: The Pima Indians discover the Hohokam's irrigation
canal system, but all the Hohokam were gone!
c> This scenario will actually be likely, if James Lovelock's
predictions re global warming turn out to be correct. He
is predicting mass migration to the far north.
5) Plan
S seems like it has more potential if we can pull it
off.
c) Mountain View, Arkansas
example: Wal-Mart comes in and
destroys
infrastructure that took a hundred years to
create.
d) The mental knowledge in
the old timers brains, libraries,
museums,
is great! But its all worthless if the resources,
infrastructure
and supply lines have all been torpedoed!
e) Cumberland General Store
still sells the old stuff ...
1) but only
when and where they can get it. As their
suppliers/manufacturers stop making, they stop selling.
2) They
sell the old stuff, but thru the new infrastructure.
And to whom? By their own admission, the big movie houses!
3. copied this from sac: Plan S, S-Day, basis
and benefits, list ...
a) [legal basis from planetary
management, including planetary
constitution,
laws, law enforcement, tax structures,
resource
based currency and economy]
b) i.e. The bottom up approach
cannot be used for these. They
can only
be created from the top down.
4. on short memories and everything turning
into its opposite ...
a) This explains the problem
with the activists who are into
the bottom
up political ideology, "power to the people".
It's false,
since everything eventually becomes its
opposite!
b) from Organic Inc, a book
by Fromartz (found this at Amazon
review page):
"Fromartz recounts the tale of Kellogg, a
company
whose founders cherished lofty aims of spreading
health and
nutrition but who ironically ended up promoting
mass-market,
sugar-laden cereals quite contrary to what
they had
originally envisioned." Confirmed by Udo Erasmus
in his book
Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill, p 391, Kellogg
comment.
c) Re: Saul Alinsky, Rules
for Radicals, from Pat Wagner ...
1) peg:recv:10
Oct 2007 ...
a> "I studied under George Benello, a sociologist who was a
friend of Alinsky. In the last couple of years of his life,
Alinsky found he was being asked back to the same
neighborhoods to oust the bullies he had put in power. I
think he does talk about this in one of his books as well."
2) peg:recv:21
Oct 2007: 2 more emails, needing to be read and
filed
5. CarolynBakerSwitchFlipped.htm ...
a) see notes, moved to sak:
depression list, PMA list
b) see related comments there
re progressive, solutions and titanic
6. ref @bm.xls: Innumeracy, huge numbers, orders
of magnitude
7. "us-them" mentality, rather than "just-us"
8. old hippie, new age, activist vibe permeates
...
a) the current version (postcarbon.org,
relocalize.net). The
Christian
mainstream is de facto not included or reached
out to.
It is insular, provincial, and to some in the
mainstream,
offensive, trivialized, and marginalized.
b) clubs for aging boomers,
hippies
9. see also, saj.pco ...
a) Lack of Vision, Focus.
Splintered, Dispersed Sub-Groups ...
1) Same
sort of situation. These are fringe groups that are
not reaching out to the mainstream, mostly for de facto
reasons.
b) Who Shall Inherit the Earth?
The Dependency Pyramid ...
1) Some
western areas may be devoid of people. This seems far
fetched at the moment, but it is certainly possible.
c) Contrast seeking agreement
between 6 billion vs 6 thousand ...
1) So many
left wing activists are writing off planetary
management, thinking they are the greedy bastards who are
causing all the problems. The truth is that we cannot
write these people off ... we can't write anyone off!
10. My experience in Fremont in Seattle, mid 1980's
...
a) 029 keypunches, 7094, getting
data off 9 track tapes for
the Pentagon
b) How easy to preserve knowledge
from the past, in an era of
increasing
available energy. But even so, much knowledge
was lost
from ancient civilizations around the world. Now,
we are talking
about preserving knowledge from this high
energy era
during a period of declining available energy.
11. positive comment: relocalization groups ...
a) are good entry points for
more humans who are waking up and
plugging
in. But they are no different than any other type
of club,
group or specialist organization that deals in one
or more
of the issues covered in sab.pco. Relocalization
will never
really happen, as touted by the postcarbon
model.
E. ---
F. action list, what people can do to help Plan S, list ...
1. see also [dw48]
2. simplify ...
a) 3 cat: (tax deduct? Heartland)
b) 1: one time cash, thx for
venue, movies, presentation
c) 2: ongoing support "
d) 3: gung ho, urgent, large
scopes: go to the big detailed lists
3. If you see something missing here, let us
know. We'll add it.
4. now, next week, or whenever: ACT! No
action, no results!
5. re money, time, or both ...
a) Most folks have more of
one than the other. Whatever you
have the
most of is where you might want to think about
giving.
6. re "I'd love to help, but I don't have any
extra time, ...
a) money or energy for this!"
b) So this means it's time
to get back to the drawing board
and reconsider
your scopes. Then, make a list of how you'd
ideally
like to spend your time, money and energy. Then,
adjust how
you're currently spending. Some things will
likely have
to get cut out ... let go of. This can
actually
feel good, as unfulfilling, nonproductive
activities
get jetisoned, and replaced with fulfilling
actions,
in line with your newly defined focus.
7. notes re taking action v not taking action
...
a) Some of the skeptics think
it is not for us to act but for
God ...
that God will do it all. See quotes.pco for
Einstein
and Burke quotes. (see "julie list" below)
b) My position is that some
must act but not all. Trim tab
could mean
that even 1% would be plenty. In an individual
body, intellectual
growth occurs in the mind. The rest of
the body
is along for the ride. And it is similar in our
species.
Those who feel the calling on an intellectual
level will
respond, and the rest will then say, "See ...
God did
it!" Everyone can be right. So I am looking for
those who
are called to act.
c) Attitude 1: It's all up
to God and I will gladly accept
whatever
God has in store for me.
d) Attitude 2: It's all up
to God and God is watching all of
our thoughts
and actions. I know that God will help those
who help
themselves. I will look to be in God's good grace
by doing
everything in my power to help our species grow
and transition
to a sustainable, stable civilization.
e) All the above are valid.
The point is to make a choice,
and to make
it a conscious choice, i.e. a choice from a
state of
being fully awake and informed, rather than from
being asleep
and uninformed.
8. Ran Prieur: How to Survive the Crash and
Save the Earth (9 points)
9. staffers: volunteers, employees, review RFP
notes from ps_launch01.doc
10. redeploy your and your family's assets, lives
and goals ...
a) Stop acting clueless and
helpless, and start taking bold
action immediately.
We are available to assist.
b) Reevaluate your goals and
attitudes based on the
information
presented here. Stop assuming everything will
be the same
forever. WC3 is mostly peaking and descending.
c) Survey the way you use
your material/energy resources,
every minute
of your day. Working, sleeping, eating,
playing,
thinking, recreating, praying ... everything that
you do.
Look at material and energy in all forms: (list is
at saa,
^s "personal and family coaching").
d) Develop new goals in line
with your scope and new
information
you are learning. Build a new personal
paradigm,
i.e. 10 sided emotional structure.
e) Redeploy your material/energy
as rapidly as possible toward
your new
goals. Bear in mind that investments in the old
crumbling
order will be losing value quickly. Seek to
invest in
a sustainable future, which will be growing.
f) Set your scope, i.e. frames
of reference. Who and what are
you wanting
to focus on? Apportion your resources
according
to your various scopes.
g) Overwhelmed by it all?
Use our Plan S coaching service to
help build
a personal action plan for you and your family.
11. Study, re-education, become more of a generalist
...
a) Study individually, or
with friends and relatives.
b) Invite me/us by for 1 to
4 weeks of local workshops.
c) Learn what's going on here,
but don't focus on the past and
the problems,
as they will bring you down. Focus instead
on building
the future solutions ... they will bring you up
and get
you excited.
d) Be skeptical. I could
be wrong about some of what I'm
teaching
and planning. I will provide competing and
contrary
views. Check 'em out. You are responsible for
your life
and what you choose to put into your brain, not
me.
12. re scopes, frames ...
a) Examine yours and create
action plans for various scopes.
They may
conflict, and that's ok. It's the nature of
acting on
different scopes simultaneously.
b) set time frames: short
+ medium + long = 100%
c) set other frames too: see
scope list, frames list
d) It isn't necessary to get
really detailed here. But it is
important
to set some boundaries, to help confine, direct
and focus
your forthcoming actions.
13. urgency ...
a) Consider your sense of
urgency re collapse. Is there time
to read,
study, etc? Do we have a year, 10 years? This
figures
into the mix of considerations re. scopes.
14. ---
15. financial/fundraising area:
16. model the Barack Obama, MoveOn.org programs for
grassroots ...
a) systems that work on many
small contributions
b) facebook?
17. re "What can I do to help?" and fundraising ...
a) For people who have jobs,
are already overwhelmed but can
do some
cash flow:
b) Use the thermometer approach
and start small. Then start a
relationship.
Have them watch my/our results. After
delivering,
ask for more.
c) State what will be done
with funds. Then do what is
stated.
Run down the big "to-do" list @ saa.pco.
d) They can earmark for a
sub-project if they desire.
e) TAGR, chapter2.htm "I bargained
with life for a penny ..."
f) TAGR, chapter6.htm "My
name is Phillip D. Armour."
18. re sending money ...
a) tax deduct: heartland
b) no tax deduct: paypal,
mail check (get mail addr), send to
bank, prefer
an off amt like 99.93 or 102.17 (get acct #)
19. send email, request reminder
20. re the big bucks, "getting rich", accounting,
fraud concerns ...
a) not for me personally,
I live on 1.5k to 2k/mth regardless
explain
overhead for office, storage, health club,
computer,
motor vehicle
b) all funds raised go to
Plan S, reaching all goals ASAP
c) you can watch the action
at blog, website, Google Group,
etc.
d) see how we live and operate.
see if we walk our talk.
hold us
accountable! In an era of embezelment and fraud, I
plan to
be ever vigilant to insure that we don't fall into
any old
patterns of excess, so that we can channel all
donated
energy towards building a sustainable, stable
future for
our young species.
e) see notes re planetary
management fundraising: sag.pco ...
1) ^s re
losing electric grid and world's financial system
2) This
also applies to anyone who has conventional
investments in CD's, real estate, stocks, bonds, etc. What
will these assets be worth after a severe deflation? 1929
revisited. Consider an investment in Plan S as a strategic
investment in a transition to sustainable.
21. re fundraising levels or tiers ...
a) venue: ?
b) movies: 2 to 5 ea
c) me: $2k/mth, do the 200
@ $10/mth thing
d) tier 1: 100k to launch
organization, professional staffing
e) tier 2: 1 million, to start
on saa "to-do list"
f) tier 3: 1 to 10 billion,
to take worldwide, get to S-Day ASAP ...
1) Note
that there are almost 1000 billionaires, not to
mention corporations, governments, etc. These 1000 control
about $3.5 trillion, so 1 to 10 billion is small change.
22. cash to bucket
23. check to bucket
24. tax deductible via Heartland > $100 ?
25. earmark funds for a sub-project as in saa: to-do
list
26. Certificate of Support ...
a) for helping to move humanity
towards S-Day
b) for those who want one,
maybe have a pdf they can print out
and fill
in and hang on the wall or put in a scrapbook.
27. ---
28. thank you
29. get on Plan S mailing list, join discussion group,
blog
30. reciprocal links at your website(s), pointing
to/from Plan S
31. pledge $ or time per period: month, quarter, year
32. pledge a tithe: % of income per period: month,
quarter, year
33. pledge same for your company or organizational
affiliation
34. if pledging time, show ...
a) saa.pco: to-do list, HP
stuff here \\tasks list
b) sac.pco: staffing, needs,
list
35. offer services at cost, reduced price, or in kind
36. networking: I know, I know someone who knows ...
a) for direct support or stepping
stone ...
1) entertainment
personality
2) P.D.
personality
b) to: planetary management
personality, especially those on
the "mastermind
draft trim tab" list
c) relentless but gentle networking
...
1) Dan Quinn
> Oprah's doorstep example
37. spread the word: do programs in local area ...
a) do programs otr
38. spread the word: global outreach
39. ---
40. see also: thegreatstory.org/join.html for an interesting
model
G. personal choices, list ...
1. Choose one or more from this list, and split
time between
them. This especially
works well if choices are from
different frames.
2. Plan S should support people with information
on all these
options.
3. -
4. make no changes, hope for the best, resign
to fate
5. voluntary simplicity, simple living
6. Penturbia, escape to rural areas
7. intentional community building
8. wilderness survival, withdraw completely
9. city survival, permaculture, @bm.xls City
Sustainability Projects
10. Plan S, work towards S-Day
H. puzzle slide variations list ...
1. older charts: dw37, dw38
2. see my new 8.5x11 diagram showing all these
3. There may be additional ones in folder, now
that the
diagrams have been consolidated.
4. This is a list of various ways to depict
the puzzle slide
and also the generalist database.
The 2 are related, and I
need to decide whether they
should be combined or not.
5. link this to Lessinger & S-Day.
6. link to the Al Gore/Upton Sinclair quote
...
a) "It is difficult to get
a man to understand something when
his job
depends on not understanding it."
b) Then alter the quote for
various rooms, i.e. for "his job",
substitute
> "keeping his wife and family", "keeping his
golfing
buddies", "his church", etc.
7. -
8. 2 piece puzzle. Use the 1967 Sweden
example. To avoid
calamity, the entire puzzle
must switch in an instant, as
opposed to gradually.
9. Vertical model with tabs that flip left to
right. When all
tabs are flipped together
instantly to their opposites,
they all fit together nicely.
But if flipped one at a
time, they don't.
10. Graph format with different height bars to depict
the
strength of understanding
of a single specialty.
11. Traditional puzzle but looking like a CD (round
w/ hole in
middle). This is good
for showing the transition from
ego-centric to gene-centric.
12. laser pointer model, using 2 discs, with one shining
on the
round traditional puzzle
13. Library of Congress, flashlight example
14. Internet, 20 billion pages ...
a) Here is an order of magnitude
exercise:
b) look @ 100/day, 365 days/yr,
80 yrs = ~3 million pages
c) 3 million pages = 1.5 hundredths
of 1 percent (of 20 billion)
I. solutions: existing solutions, existing plans, list ...
1. moved to plan-s.org
2. -
3. "no solution", list ...
a) dieoff.org, Jay Hanson
b) latoc.net, Matt Savinar
c) wawtg
J. books I read long ago that warned, list ...
1. see also, Jay Hanson's dieoff msg # 3942,
Subject: the club of notable
failures
contains: "Social impacts:
no limits to growth"
it lists many examples of
earlier warnings, not heeded
2. ---
3. Silent Spring
4. Muddling Toward Frugality
5. The Hundredth Monkey
6. How You Can Find Happiness During the Collapse
of Western Civilization
7. How Much Is Enough?
8. The Limits to Growth
9. Beyond the Limits
10. Survival Into the 21st Century
11. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years
12. Saving the Planet
13. The Coming Economic Earthquake
14. Land of Desire
15. Earth in the Balance
16. The Unreality Industry
17. The Great Reckoning
K. Skeptics Reading/Viewing List ...
1. GGWS, with warning caveats @bm.xls ...
a) @bm.xls, review it and
note ...
1) all correct
and incorrect observations.
2) ref email,
peg:copies:9 Jan 08:subj:GGWS & Responses: 4 boxes
2. The Ultimate Resource, Julian Simon, etc.
3. The Bottomless Well, Peter W Huber
4. Climate of Fear, Thomas Moore
5. Doomsday Has Been Cancelled, J. Peter Vajk
6. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
7. Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological
Apocalypse, Ronald Bailey
8. peakoildebunked.blogspot.com
9. The Singularity is Near, Raymond Kurzweil
10. Blue Planet in Green Shackles, Vaclav Klaus
11. --
12. then send them to books, websites, DVD's showing
the
challenges and let them decide
for themselves
13. but, is there time? why not err on the side
of safety and
prepare, transition, paradigm
shift, as mentioned in "Most
Terrifying Video ..."
L. No Common Vision List (Julie List) ...
1. formerly: species-centric list \\human-centric
list ;julie list
2. At website, provide "off ramps" to support
people to go
persue their passions in these
various views.
3. Various responses to Plan S and any other
discourse on the
future of humanity, the earth,
climate change, western
civilization, etc.:
4. ---
5. "The American lifestyle is not negotiable."
--President George H.W. Bush,
also attributed 10 years
later to Dick Cheney
6. God is in control here, not us humans.
There's nothing we
can do, so why not just sit
back and enjoy it, while it
lasts? All attempts
by humans to plan or design their
future have ultimately backfired,
so we should stop, and
leave it all up to God.
When our number is up, it's up!
[Reply: God helps those who
help themselves. Trust in
Allah, but tie your camel.
Be prepared. As you sow, so
shall ye reap. We need
to do all we can do, and then leave
the rest up to God.
What is the likelihood God will look
favorably on a complacent
people who do nothing, versus
people who do all they can?]
7. No matter what we plan or how hard we plan,
we can never
anticipate what will actually
happen and when, so why
bother? No matter what
we do, there is a great chance
we'll be wrong, and in retrospect,
our preparations will be
seen to be in vain.
8. This talk of collapse is ridiculous.
Sure, there are a few
problems, but humanity has
always kept getting better, and
always uses its ingenuity
and creativity to solve its
problems ... read Julian Simon
and others on the skeptic
list. The doomsayers
have always been wrong: Malthus, Paul
Ehrlich, and they are wrong
again. There are no limits to
human creativity and ingenuity.
9. There is no problem. Technology, renewables
will bail us
out. The "clean and
green" approach proposes using
large-scale renewables like
wind, solar, biofuels and
hydrogen to maintain our high
energy way of life and keep
us complacent and consuming.
Raymond Kurzweil says "The
singularity is near".
We will be saved by renewables,
nanotechnology, virtual reality,
etc. This will be the
paradigm shift. We will
cover the desert with solar
panels. The "bright
greens" led by Alex Steffen and World
Changing appear to be in this
camp. [response: Where is
the emergy analysis on this?
How do we keep it all in
repair for 10 million years?]
10. The happy go lucky: Que Cira, Cira. What ever
will be, will
be. Why worry, be happy!
Go with the flow. It'll all
work out. It always
does.
11. Global warming caused by humans is a hoax perpetrated
by
Democrats and liberals from
the left. -or- This has never
been proven by science.
There is no point taking action
until we know for sure what's
really happening.
12. Everyone should become Christians and behold the
rapture.
The anointed will rise to
heaven together!
13. Islamic Jihad will purge the world of the evils
of secular
Christianity, and usher in
the glorious age of Islam.
14. Why fight our God given evolutionary design?
Collapse is a
normal state of affairs.
We were designed for collapse,
and it will repeat itself
time and time again until our
species finally goes extinct.
There is no way to avoid it,
so we should not try.
Just accept it, like we accept death
of individuals and extinction
of species. It is a normal
part of the cycle. [Reply:
sure, but if this is the way
we're going to go, shouldn't
it be our species' conscious
choice, rather than an unconscious
sleep walk?]
15. [escapist] There's no way to fix it.
Time to head for the
hills, and get out of the
way. Kick back, far from big
cities. Put up a tipi,
grow a garden and watch it all
crumble and collapse.
16. Extinction of humanity is coming sooner or later.
Why not
sooner? Collapse of
WC and/or extinction of humanity will
be welcomed by the larger
community of life, and should
therefore be welcomed.
Humanity is a virus, a weed, a
cancer, a blight on the earth.
So we should all face our
demise with good cheer, and
stop all efforts to save
anything. [Julie: stop
being "species-centric",
"human-centric",
The Voluntary Human Extinction
Movement @bm.xls] [Reply: We
are like infants or children.
Do we treat our infants and
children this way?]
17. [Anarcho-Primitivist] We should all go back
to being
hunter-gatherers and live
like we're designed to by
evolution and our DNA.
When agriculture started 10k years
ago, that was the beginning
of all our problems.
18. [head in the sand variants] I refuse to
feel any fear. I
disagree with this fear-based
view of reality. I refuse to
give it any energy, as giving
it energy empowers it. If we
simply ignore it, it will
go away or die. [response: good
to overcome fear, but this
is no excuse to ignore our
problems. rather than
focusing on fear, become aware of
problems, and then build a
great future!]
19. [law of attraction, thoughts create our realities,
variants] There is nothing
"out there". We create our
experience within our minds.
If we think thoughts of
despair and collapse, we will
create despair and collapse.
All we need to do is think
positive thoughts of our future,
and we will create it.
20. I can't change. I'm too old, too set in
my ways, too
[___(fill in the blank)___,
etc. etc. etc.] I just hope
the collapse waits for me
to die first, so I don't have to
feel any of the pain.
I hope I die before the oil runs out
or the planet gets too hot.
Too bad for the kids.
21. "I'd rather be dead than red", updated for the
21st
century: "I'd rather
be dead than be forced to live in
some lifestyle other than
the modern Western industrial
lifestyle." (i.e. the one
I grew up in and am used to,
which is non-negotiable!)
22. There is no time left to be thinking about long
term, ten
million year views!
Time has run out, and we must now act
immediately in the short term,
to avoid total collapse and
extinction of humanity (or
irreversible global warming).
If we don't act in the short
term, there will be no long
term! [response: We
are already in the collapse, and all
the near term responses are
in conflict with one another,
since there is a lack of any
kind of long term vision. See
"Planet of Weeds" @bm.xls.
See saj.pco: extinction &
dependence pyramid lists]
23. Sinking Ship Parable, Daniel Quinn: Refers to
all the
specialists and NIH (not invented
here) crowd, that thinks
their specialty or invention
is the most important and is
the one that will save the
world. [retort: Quinn writes:
The last thought of more than
one of them was, "I never
dreamed that solving humanity's
problems would take so
long---or that the ship would
sink so SUDDENLY."]
24. We can't lose the progress we've made during the
industrial
era. Life was SO VERY
HARD in the past!
25. I just showed up here with a physical body at
this time in
the process. I'm just
one person. What can I do? I don't
know what I can do as just
one person. It's not my
responsibility. Responsibility
lies with politicians,
scientists, religious leaders
... not me.
26. People always change, but only when the going
gets bad
enough ... when the pain is
too much to bear any longer.
We're not there yet.
People will only change when they're
forced to.
27. [Rev Michael Dowd's, Beyond Sustainability]
In
Tier 2 thinking (Spiral Dynamics),
we welcome bad news,
chaos, and breakdowns.
Historically, they drive evolution
by unleashing great creativity!
This is like the Chinese
symbol for crisis = danger
+ opportunity. So we should
embrace this bad news!
[He doesn't however suggest what,
if any, action we should take
to mitigate.]
28. ---
29. assump: go thru all of s??.pco. Do I really
need an
assumptions list? Why
am I doing this? What's in it for
me? Do I REALLY believe
that Plan S can work?
30. If indeed, I'm like the violinist on the Titanic
who put
his fiddle down to knock on
stateroom doors, is this what
(you/people) would prefer?
Or would you prefer I just shut
up and went back to playing
pretty fiddle/violin music to
lull you in your sleep, while
the ship sinks, and hopefully
you get to die quickly and
painlessly?
M. \ps\timeline.xls, list ...
1. see notes at bottom re Amory/negawatts rebuttals
2. esp. that high material/energy route is not
provided for in
genome
3. see also timelineindex.com, great one!
N. depression list, PMA list ...
1. This list has 2 sections. The top one
is the depression,
gray goo, area. The
bottom one is the PMA section.
2. ---
3. depression, gray goo, "What can I do?", "solutions",
longing for "hope":
4. sac: D words, meanings, list
5. Darwin: "confessed to murder"
6. Mary Clark's students ...
a) ref Mary Clark on Human
Nature, HumanNature1.htm
b) "I'm glad I know all this
but I kinda wish I didnt"
c) "the problems but none
of the solutions"
d) "can't change human nature"
7. Carolyn Baker, students, progressives, Titanic
...
a) CarolynBakerSwitchFlipped.htm
b) "they tend to sink in their
chairs and tell me that they
feel overwhelmed
not only with the daunting reality of the
planetary
situation but even worse, that they wanted me to
offer them
"hope", and are disappointed that I instead
offer them
responsibility."
c) "Yet even more delusional
are those who call themselves
progressive.
.... they must pre-occupy themselves with
"solutions"
that have nothing to do with the actual state
of the earth
and its inhabitants but which offer a false
sense of
making a difference."
d) "... Titanic was sinking
it would have made no difference
if hundreds
of its passengers had collected endless buckets
of water
the ship had taken on and emptied it back into the
sea, but
it may have provided them with a momentary sense
of participating
in a "solution."
8. Tim Bennett's comments to Carolyn Baker ...
a) CarolynBakerSwitchFlipped.htm
b) "Tim's comment that when
people ask "What can I do?" they
don't really
want the truth but rather ten easy steps that
will require
no sacrifice, no pain, and certainly no change
of lifestyle."
9. book review, The Selfish Gene, "wished I
could unread" ...
a) SelfishGeneReview.doc
b) blame "The Selfish Gene"
for a series of bouts of
depression
... strong personal crisis ... not yet overcome
the effects
of this book on me ... everything is just a
blind dance
of atoms ... in my more depressed moments, I
have desperately
wished I could unread the book, and
continue
life from where I left off
10. ---
11. Widen the scope, look at the big picture ...
a) fill in the "don't know
I don't know" area
b) connect the dots
c) Move away from the belief
that "There's nothing that can be
done".
Move towards the belief that "There is always
something
that can be done."
12. Adapt my personal list (letgo1) for general use.
...
a) Use general categories
and give them some good starters
that have
global appeal. Then let them fill in their
personal
stuff.
13. Paul Chefurka remedies @bm.xls ...
a) Population Decline - Red
Herrings and Hope: Where then is the hope?
b) How do you fight the despair?
14. saq: hope list in the big website
O. Skeptics Attitudes List (Where is this coming from?) ...
1. What assumptions, what genetic pattern, is
operating?
[behind this question or challenge?]
First examine:
2. 3x: know, don't know, don't know don't know
3. genetic pattern/influence
4. centric list (ego, creation, etc.)
5. save the world list
6. scope
7. attitude
8. focus (rear, forward)
9. fearful
10. language
11. personal paradigm
12. sustainability, change the world, sub-groups (+notably
absent)
13. species-centric list (julie list)
14. -
15. Often the question will either answer itself,
or disappear,
once the above are examined.
If there are other people
present, ask for volunteers
to act as a jury, to examine
and answer the question or
challenge.
16. This same process can be used when there are personal
challenges aimed at me.
I am an imperfect human, not a
god. So I will make
mistakes. If my critics, skeptics,
challengers want to attack
me, I must be open to self
learning and improvement.
So we then have to examine all
these facets from both sides
to gain a clear picture.
P. Integration of all Brain/Mind Disciplines, Generalist
View ...
1. formerly: brain-mind disciplines, list
2. Providing the users manuals for how our brains
work. Note
that these disciplines are
disconnected, and need to get
connected.
3. micro : Evolutionary Psychology (E.P.)
4. middle: Neuroscience
5. macro : Personal Development (P.D.)
6. related: Von Mises, Praxeology
Q. web marketing concepts, list ...
1. DSK Dan Kennedy stuff
2. www.tenniselbowtips.com, has a great model!
3. Google, Advertising Programs
R. Occam's Razor (simplest solution, no proof, just a theory)
...
1. ref @bm.xls: Occam's Razor, Simplicity In
Science
2. Re: Copernicus & "It's a Gene's World"
chapter, i.e.
putting the gene at the center.
3. Occam @ wiki:
"entities should not be multiplied
beyond necessity"
This is often paraphrased
as "All other things being equal,
the simplest solution is the
best."
4. see also Einstein: "Everything should be
made as simple as
possible, but not simpler."
5. Copernicus effected a grand paradigm shift
(1543:
heliocentric: sun is center
rather than earth is center),
based on Occam. This
greatly simplified astronomers
observations, and ability
to explain observations.
6. In terms of our new paradigm, it is based
on a gene's view
of the world, rather than
our self-centered ego-centric
paradigm. Once we put
genes and genetic evolution at the
center, then everything becomes
very simple and our course
(as a species) becomes obvious.
7. In a gene's world, reproduction is everything.
From there
its all downhill.
8. So we can compare our paradigm shift to the
one 300-500 yrs
ago. When confronted
with a vastly simpler explanation, we
can cling to the sinking ship
we are addicted to, or build
a new ship around the new
explanation. This is what was
done 300-500 years ago with
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton,
Westphalia.
9. We are in the early stages of E.P. (it's
a theory), similar
to where the world was at
back in the 1890's re. Darwin.
Still lots of controversy.
But our species cannot afford
to wait another 50 to 500
yrs to see if E.P. passes muster
as a "law". It's application
(putting genes at the center,
"gene's world"), greatly simplifies
our world view and
shows us a path to sustainability,
so it appears to fulfill
the Occam's Razor test.
So let's use it now. Waiting will
surely bring dieoff and disaster,
and complete the collapse
already in progress.
10. What happened with Galileo? The church took
over 300 years
to finally admit they were
wrong. Do we have another 300
years to wait?
11. Cite the "experimental cure", "guinea pig", "alternative
medicine" scenario.
We constantly submit as individuals to
"unproven" therapies that
seem promising, out of the hope
they may work and cure our
ills. In doing so, we don't
complain about the lack of
scientific proof. Plan S, which
is based in the 3 brain-mind
disciplines, is likewise an
"unproven" therapy for humanity's
ills. So what are we
waiting for? Let's go
for it!
12. Example: the "watering the crops" analogy.
While plenty of
rain, everyone eats well.
A few notice that crops grow
faster after it rains.
A drought arrives and people are
starving. A few suggest
hauling water or digging a ditch
and watering the crops.
The naysayers retort, "But no one
has ever PROVEN that watering
makes crops grow faster ...
it's just a theory."
Do we act, or not? It's our choice.
File: sam.txt
A. index + add/chg to [dw??] slides 1 to 53 ...
1. This refers to the meeting on 09/05/05 with
Dave Wann &
Jeff Graef which was recorded
to 3 mp3's @
\mnbps\mp3\DaveWann folder.
The meeting yielded 53x,
8.5x11 pages, which are numbered
[dw01] thru [dw53], and
are in the "S-Day" folder.
Also, both Dave and Jeff have
copies of these 53 pages.
This is an index of the most
important pages, and notes
re. additions & changes to make
to those pages in the future.
2. The 3 mp3's correspond to these 53 pages,
so they should be
kept in order and used for
reference while listening to the
mp3's.
3. ---
4. [dw2] stats.xls (now I call it timeline.xls)
5. [dw3] Richard Leakey (Sixth Extinction)
...
a) This is old. Latest
version is:
10 million
year species span, list (sam)
6. [dw4] 30 Billion Species, shows species
span curve ...
a) Says 99.9% extinct.
Correct to estimates of [99.7% to
99.9999%,
ref sam.pco]. Curve also applies to
civilizations.
More notes @ sam.pco.
7. [dw10] Amortization of Non-Renewables ...
a) This was from when I thought
in these terms. I now think
this is
quite unlikely, however it is food for thought.
Also "amortization"
is a poor term. Rationing has been
proposed
but its not a whole lot better. Perhaps
allocation
or apportioning?
8. [dw11] Jevons Paradox ...
a) This page contains no details.
See details on Jevons
Paradox
@ saj & @bm.xls.
9. [dw12] Precious Metals Economy vs Resource
Based Economy ...
a) There are a few handwritten
notes here.
b) sam: Resource Based Economy
and Currency
c) @bm.xls :resources
10. [dw14/dw53] No Concerted Action + Why? (sam)
11. [dw15] Historic Worldview Shocks (replaced by:
centric list, saj)
12. [dw17] Brain-Mind (replaced by: brain-mind disciplines,
list, sak)
13. [dw18] Neuroscience (see sag, ^s rhawn)
14. [dw19] 5 Generation frame of reference ...
a) This thing is wrong in
a few places.
b) The shared genes relate
to 100% of all genes, not 1.6% as
shown.
c) The current gene count
is in the range of 23k to 25k, not
50k or 100k.
d) Estimates of chimp and
human dna, range from 96% to 99%
similarity.
e) 160 year window for the
5 generations.
f) Add 7 generations.
@bm.xls ^s Seven Generations, Iroquois
15. [dw20] 10 sided emotional structure ...
a) aka "personal paradigm",
as in "personal computer"
b) add a screen/filter surrounding
it
16. [dw21] Interlocking Personal Emotional Structures
...
a) the honeycomb/beehive structure,
needs artist rendering
17. [dw22] Jeff's Flag Imagery, how we are tied to
the past ...
a) showing a human creature
inside a cube filled with amber
and tied
to flags from our pasts in the 10 areas
b) like [dw42] A
18. [dw23] Lessinger Waves, my diagram showing his
classic L-Waves ...
a) No GLW's here. Just
the basic waves.
19. [dw24] Lessinger, page from website showing first
4 waves
20. [dw25] collapse experience continuum ...
a) Effect of Western Civ.
Collapse on Individuals.
b) This is old, and to some
extent superceeded by:
dependence
pyramid list (saj)
21. [dw26] Population Reduction, Carrying Capacity
...
a) shows my est. of 90% reduction
vs. Jeff's 35%
b) ref sam.pco: 500 million
carrying capacity, list
22. [dw28] Grand Lessinger Wave concept ...
a) "A Generalists' Solution
for a Softer Landing"
b) This is the GLW slide.
It shows his 5 L-Waves inside my 3
GLW's.
23. [dw29] Peter Russell, TGB, Consciousness Era ...
a) His 5th wave in The Global
Brain. Refute it as new age
religious
thinking, like the Indian's "ghost dance".
Replaces
it with a more scientific type of consciousness
era.
24. [dw31] Lessinger Fashion Shift (Paradigm Shift)
...
a) T diagram with old fashion
| new fashion
b) gives examples of each,
like: local mom & pop stores |
shopping
malls w/ chinese imports
25. [dw32] Grand Lessinger Paradigm Shift (Super Religion)
...
a) compares GLW1, GLW2, GLW3,
and major tenets of each
b) This whole thing must be
oriented to the umbrella super
religion,
or planetary management, elites.
c) It may be necessary to
have a second table like this for
the rank
and file religious adherents that are living in
parallel
to planetary management.
d) combine Conserve + Efficient
e) re GLW2, "Anti Nat.-Law",
reword that ...
1) likely
refers to Christian bias against scientific
knowledge among high status people during this GLW
2) or simply
that as people learned the natural laws via
science, they didn't understand the need to live according
to them, for reasons now explained by E.P.
f) re GLW3, "Non-Spirit (as
unexplainable force)" ...
1) i.e.
spirituality is respected and revered, and understood
to not be something from the supernatural, but rather
something of natural origins that has not yet been
explained by science. It may be explained someday by
science, or it may not.
g) couple "living within our
means" with "natural law" ...
1) GLW1:
live within means, unaware of natural laws
2) GLW2:
live not within means, wile learning natural laws and
not understanding the need to abide by them
3) GLW3:
live within means, aware of natural laws
26. [dw33] Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the
Negative ...
a) but what's pos?, what's
neg? Shows paradigm shift
relativism.
Shows magnifying glass on 1687 and 1969.
27. [dw34] A: Tom Robertson Quote
28. [dw34] B: Religions Adherets Pie (from adherents.com)
...
a) re Hindu, also not a problem
w/ evolution
b) Where does J Gordon Melton
fit in?
29. [dw35] Super Religion View, Umbrella, Paradigm
Shift ...
a) The Religion View
b) Shows shift from GLW2 to
GLW3 with 2 umbrellas switching,
but underlying
adherents pie remaining unchanged.
30. [dw36] Specialist-Generalist Continuum ...
a) shows combining of scientific
and spiritual realms into one
continuum.
31. [dw37] Puzzle Slide ...
a) see the "puzzle slide variations
list" (sak)
32. [dw38] Puzzle #2 (has a few more simple examples)
33. [dw39] Specialist - Generalist Grid
34. [dw40] re scope, frame of reference, synonyms,
combining ...
a) synonym list, moved and
expanded (saj)
b) ---
c) Discuss combining of different
frames. For instance the
species
frame can be considered either within the present
time frame
of 1 to 100 million species, -OR- within the
larger time
frame of 1 to 30 billion species plus all the
future billions
yet to evolve.
d) Re #2 evolutionary/species,
add "life". Are we concerned
with me/I,
my immediate family in the 160 yr frame,
humanity,
some or all other species existant presently, or
all species/DNA
based life over the 5 billion year long
haul?
e) Add #6, matter/particles,
micro to macro, quark to
universe.
This relates to energy since energy is used to
rearrange
particles.
35. [dw41] Ishmael, Sinking Ship Parable
36. [dw42] A: 10 sided structures, chained to past,
like [dw22]
37. [dw42] B: Users Manuals, Science: basis for agreement
a) bottom: shows 60-90%, chg
to 1%, cite Trim Tab ...
1) @bm.xls
^s trim tab \\trimtab
38. [dw43] TSB: fixit1.gif, printout
39. [dw44] us-them slide drawn at the Dave Wann meeting
...
a) Where do you draw the line?
40. [dw45] History & Problems of PDI, need to
rewrite "bibles"
41. [dw47] Mass Media, notes on problems with Mass
Media
42. [dw48] Softer Landing Goals, 4x actions listed
...
a) combine w/ sak: Action
List?
43. [dw51] Plan S, S1, S2, S3 (an old slide)
44. [dw52] ditto ^^, w/ more details
45. [dw53] Why No Concerted Action To Date?? (sam)
B. Evolution vs Creation Debate ...
1. formerly: christian support list, christian
list
2. see also @bm.xls Scientific Method, Evolution
v. Creation
3. tbf: journal items, some duplication ...
a) Christian woman piano science
teacher in Lakewood, CO church ...
1) Playing
violin Thanksgiving, 2006, met a woman at piano
(Ruth) who accompanied me. ref: \mb\entcolo.pco ^s
mountair
2) "The
Bible tells what God did, and science tells how God did it."
3) Cambridge,
MA, church analogy
4) different
time frames, 2.6 M.Y. <> 7 days (Cj Goodwin)
5) allegory/parable,
as in Santa Claus
6) Perhaps
this could be used as an opener to talk in
Christian churches, especially near universities.
b) All the leaders of the
last intellectual revolution were
all Christians:
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton
c) The Catholic church condemned
Galileo to life imprisonment
in 1633.
Recently, the Church reviewed the case and in
1983 concluded
he should not have been condemned, after 350
years!
We don't have 350 years now!
d) On Christian poverty, etc
...
1) 1902,
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience:
"We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient
idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation
from material attachments, the unbribed soul."
2) Lewis
Lapham: "ideals that embodied the values of thrift,
productive labor, the ownership of land, republican
government, Christian poverty, and plain speech"
3) Odum,
Prosperous Way Down, p 54, quoting Schumacher near
top: "sad at [the] loss of classical Christian heritage"
e) Seek Christian ministries
that understand science and
allegory
and want to take Plan S to the world! Bridge to
Joel Osteen.
4. ---
5. Where there is no vision, the people perish.
--Proverbs 29:18
6. Copernicus (1514/1543, Catholic Cleric),
Galileo 1633, Newton 1687
7. Copernicus supported by several in the church
1533-36 ...
a) Obviously there were widely
varying attitudes even 500 yrs ago!
b) see /wiki/Copernicus, notes
@bm.xls, ^s heliocentrism, saved local
8. 1900's: William James, Charles Wagner, etc
(see 1993 Land of Desire)
9. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, denied publication
during lifetime ...
a) wiki article: Pope John
XXIII (1958-1963) rehabilitated him
posthumously,
and, since then, his works have been
considered
an important influence on the contemporary
church's
stance on evolution.
10. Galileo: 1979, Pope John Paul II admits treatment
was wrong ...
a) In 1983, Church commission
concluded that Galileo should
not have
been condemned.
11. Giordano Bruno, Pope John Paul II apology ...
a) wiki: Four hundred years
after his execution (burnt at the
stake, 1600),
official expression of "profound sorrow" and
acknowledgement
of error at Bruno's condemnation to death
was made,
during the papacy of John Paul II. Attempts were
made by
a group of professors in the Catholic Theological
Faculty
at Naples, led by the Nolan Domenico Sorrentino, to
obtain a
full rehabilitation from the Catholic authorities.
12. Einstein: "Science without religion is lame, ...
a) religion without science
is blind."
13. 1993: Land of Desire, William Leach, Lewis Lapham
review ...
a) p 192, Rauschenbusch, Christianity
and the Social Crisis ...
1) beseeches,
savages, gorge, fast, emptiness, delusion
b) p 203-4, 1901, Charles
Wagner, The Simple Life, Christian terms
c) p 215-6, 1907, Edward Ross,
impersonal commercial institutions
d) p 260, 1902, William James,
The Varieties of Religious Experience
e) ---
f) "land of desire replaces
the older religious and political ideals"
g) "Christian poverty"
h) "liberation from material
attachments, the unbribed soul"
i) "$4 trillion -- the balance
tips toward the weight of spirit."
j) finis: \ps\lapham.doc
14. 1994: Austin office, "Allah is one, Allah is everywhere
..." ...
a) stuck in "misc" sub-folder
b) see limbic system below
15. Evolution DVD: What About God?, PBS/Nova/WGBH,
Liam Neeson
16. friends (Terry, CC, CJ), strike "evolution" from
dictionary? ...
a) No ... all agree that the
word has utility and should be
kept in
the language.
17. Time: 10/25/04, The God Gene, Is God in Our Genes?
18. Time: 10/09/06, Chimps and humans share almost
99% of their DNA.
19. 11/06, Ruth/piano, Lakewood, CO: bible <> science
20. Google: limbic spirit religion amygdala christian,
@bm.xls
21. limbic system, neuroscience, @bm.xls: ^s Christian
perspective
22. Katrina: Christians, Jews/Nechama, hippies, all
working together
23. Creation-evolution_controversy, wiki notes @bm.xls
24. Madrid, 1995, Europeans can't believe Americans
still creationists!
25. E.O. Wilson quote, 1998 ...
a) "The human mind evolved
to believe in gods. It did not
evolve to
believe in biology. Acceptance of the
supernatural
conveyed a great advantage throughout
prehistory,
when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in
sharp contrast
to the science of biology, which was
developed
as a product of the modern age and is not
underwritten
by genetic algorithms." --E.O. Wilson,
preeminent
Harvard University biologist.
b) @bm.xls ^s believe in gods
c) wiki article:
d) Scientific humanism
e) God and religion
26. Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, 2003, Keith
Miller ...
a) Rev Dowd reviews: One of
Christianity's best-kept secrets
is that
the vast majority of evangelical scholars and
theologians
do not see a conflict between creation and
evolution!
27. Sojourners Magazine, Jim Wallis
28. \MNBPS\DNA.*.flv < great DNA animations
29. The Language of God ...
a) : A Scientist Presents
Evidence for Belief
b) a:Collins, Francis S
c) c/2006
d) p:Free Press
e) note: 255x4*
30. comment posted on scienceblogs.com on DNA video
...
a) "And creationists say that
by taking a god or 'purpose' out
of the picture,
we fail to see beauty in nature! This is a
perfect
example of what Dawkins wrote in "Unweaving the
Rainbow,"
that the closer we look, the more we understand,
the more
beautiful nature becomes.
31. Ireland: Catholic-Protestant, Iraq: Shia-Sunni
...
a) demonstrating internal
disagreement and conflict within
both Christianity
and Islam.
32. scandals, sexual, financial ...
a) Jim Bakker
b) Ted Haggard
c) wiki:Roman Catholic sex
abuse cases
33. ---
34. God's Warriors, Christiane Amanpour, see notes
@bm.xls:
35. Richard Cizik, National Association of Evangelicals
36. Greg Boyd, St Paul, MN
37. John Green, Pew Forum
38. ---
39. Joel Osteen, Denver, Pepsi Center, preaching about
genes & DNA
40. Republican debate from Tampa, FL, bible is "allegorical"
41. 2007 E.O. Wilson: The Creation ...
a) With his usual eloquence,
patience and humor, Wilson, our
modern-day
Thoreau, adds his thoughts to the ongoing
conversation
between science and religion.
42. 2007 Rev Michael Dowd: Thank God for Evolution!
...
a) @bm.xls, liblist2.pco,
pdf download, YouTube
b) wiki: Evolution Theology.
In his slideshow of 02/23/08 in
San Diego,
he had a slide, "Evolutionary Theology Movement"
with several
references. Get the references from Michael.
c) Day & Night Language,
@bm.xls YouTube clip
43. 2008 re Dawkins', The God Delusion ...
a) Amazon.com has more critically
positive reviews for
Dawkins'
book than his competitors' books. So there is a
lot of controversy
and critical thinking happening on the
planet right
now.
C. Wright Brothers: Sustainable Flight > Sustainable Civilization
...
1. formerly: Wright Brothers, sustainable, controlled
flight, list
2. @bm.xls ^s wright brothers
3. see Gary L Bradshaw (san) + @bm.xls "To Fly
Is Everything"
4. great quotes, specific to the impossibility
of flying ...
a) "Heavier than air flying
machines are impossible."
--Lord Kelvin,
famous British mathematician, physicist, and
President
of the British Royal Society, 1895. 8 yrs later,
the Wright
Brothers flew.
b) related by Lord Kelvin
in 1900: "There is nothing new to be
discovered
in physics now. All that remains is more and
more precise
measurement." Five years later, Albert
Einstein
published his paper on special relativity.
c) "It has been demonstrated
by the fruitlessness of a
thousand
attempts that it is not possible for a machine,
moving under
its own power, to generate enough force to
raise itself,
or sustain itself, in the air. " --M. de
Marles,
Les Cents Merveilles des Science et des Arts, 1847
5. Thousands have tried for over a thousand
years to fly, and
thousands have crashed in
the process. It wasn't until
1905 that the Wright Brothers
perfected their Flyer III
machine, and got it 100% right.
Prior to that 90%, 98% and
99% were achieved by them
and others, but success was not
achieved until 100%.
6. They had no "users manual".
7. They worked, experimented, trial and error,
failure after
failure, hard landings, bruises,
broken bones,
discouragement, and eventually
succeeded, for many reasons:
8. never gave up
9. applied scientific method, methodical
10. worked as generalists, connecting hundreds of
specialties
11. learned from their failures, made corrections
12. finally got it 100% right
13. ---
14. Ray Anderson compares WC3 w/ pre-Wright Brothers
unsustainable flight in YouTube
clip:
@bm.xls Ray Anderson on Sustainability
15. Re. the ground rushing up, but imperceptibly during
the
early stages. Ray Anderson
talks this was as does Daniel
Quinn in Ishmael.
16. Ishmael, find the part where he talks about taking
off in airplane ...
a) and see the ground rushing
up, getting closer and closer.
Then the
crash.
b) This is the history of
human flight. We kept crashing, and
we kept
trying. Eventually, we learned to fly.
c) Learning how to operate
a stable civilization is the same
sort of
process. Plan S provides a vital database of
information
useful to present and future policy makers.
17. ---
18. Now, we want to learn how to live sustainably,
as a
species. Our situation
is just like learning to fly.
There is no "users manual".
We must learn by trial and
error. Until we get
to 100%, we will crash too, but we
can't give up.
19. This is multi-generational. We must never
give up as a
species!
20. Finally with E.P. & neuroscience, just in
the last couple
of generations, we get enough
"users manual" to hit the
100% mark. So there
is no excuse now to not use this
information and grow up as
a species!
21. ---
22. Kimberly asks, "What will a sustainable civilization
look
like?". We don't know,
any more than the Wright Brothers
could envision what our modern
aircraft would look like.
All they could do was inform
future inventors and engineers
what things were necessary
to build a flying machine that
wouldn't crash.
23. ---
24. Hamlet Jones joins Jay Hanson (recv:8 Feb 08)
in stating
the list is "strictly scientific".
So here we had Lord
Kelvin, a world renowned scientist
stating "impossible".
Sure it was done w/ fossil
fuel, but how about Daedalus
then? Of course it used
machined parts. In any case, is
sustainable civilization really
impossible or do we, like
Lord Kelvin, merely think
it so? What if we change our
thinking?
25. Jay is like Lord Kelvin, the stodgy old bard who
scoofs at
what is to him, obviously
impossible. I am like the Wright
Brothers who looked at the
heavier than air birds and
realized that there was no
natural law that prohibited
human flying machines.
And I believe we are in a similar
juxtaposition. Within
5 to 20 years we will be ready to
implement S-Day.
26. ---
27. Re: "flying off course 99% of the time" (PDI).
This is a
great analogy for sustainable
civilization. See wiki
article on Flight Dynamics,
pitch, yaw, roll. Also wiki:
servomechanism (@bm.xls).
When driving a car, all we have
to worry about is yaw, since
there is a road underneath us.
When we get off course, we
instinctively make corrections
to stay on the road, and avoid
crashing. But the Wright
Brothers had to also deal
with controlling pitch and roll,
and they did. They got
it 100% right!
28. Now, we can use the same concepts to learn how
to fly a
civilization sustainably,
and keep it from crashing. There
are many more variables to
watch and correct for but we can
do this. Apply the principles
explained in Maltz's
Psychocybernetics.
29. Apply what H.T. Odum explains about pulsing.
If we watch a
car or aircraft closely, we
can see the pulsing. There is
a constant experience of getting
slightly off course and
then correcting. Most
of the time crashes are avoided. We
can do the same with civilization,
rather than continuing
the cycles of crashes Toynbee
and others explain. Rather
than the giant cycles (pulses),
we can have tiny ones and
avoid crashing. Little
waves instead of big ones.
D. U.S. Tour, cities list ...
1. New Haven, CT, Yale
2. major college/university towns
3. big cities w/ lots of capital
E. names, taglines, handles, hooks, list ...
1. "It's a great day at 'Our Sustainable Future'"
2. "We can't change our genes, but we can change
our memes!"
3. "Plan S: Sustainable Living for the Long
Term"
4. "Plan S: A Prosperous Way Down"
5. "A world that works"
6. "Building a sustainable world"
7. "Building a sustainable civilization"
F. summaries, elevator speeches, 1 paragraph, 1 page, list
...
1. 12/06/06, Brian email, elevator speech ...
a) "I am working on a detailed,
written plan to create an
instantaneous
paradigm shift that will put humanity on a
sustainable
course for the long term."
2. 12/06/06, Brian email, 1 para ...
a) The name of this detailed,
written plan, is "Plan S". It
is about
setting a day in the future, called S-Day. On
S-Day the
big paradigm shift will happen worldwide. The
"S" may
mean any of these:
survival,
species, sustainable, save the world, solution
box
The plan
is based on a generalist's understanding of the
universe.
Humanity is currently faced with an endless
barrage
of "doom and gloom thinking", and remains stuck in
patterns,
some of which have been lurking for thousands of
years.
There is plenty of awareness of what is wrong, and
very few
plans on how to fix it all. This situation is
partly due
to our current specialist orientation as a
species.
My work is about stepping way way back, looking
at the big
picture, studying many different specialties,
and in the
process, getting at the root causes of
humanity's
problems. I then study a variety of solution
aiding strategies,
and apply classic problem solving and
brainstorming
techniques to come up with a generalist's
solution
and plan. This is Plan S, and S-Day.
3. 12/25/06, ps_kotke.doc, 13 point summary
...
a) ^s "Plan S is a generalist's
plan"
4. 04/12/07, ps_launch01*.doc, 15 bullet point
summary ...
a) ^s "main points of Plan
S"
5. 05/18/07, ps_phase1f.doc, short para ...
a) I have spent forty years
studying the problems we face as a
human species.
My work as a generalist has allowed me to
step back
to see the big picture of how our civilization
has failed,
why it has failed, and what we must now do to
succeed.
I am working on Plan S: a detailed, written plan
to create
a major paradigm shift that will put humanity on
a successful
and sustainable course for the long term. I
need your
help in completing this plan.
6. 05/18/07, ps_phase1f.doc, 3 para executive
summary
G. 10 million year species span, list ...
1. What follows is a composite of Richard Leakey,
E.O. Wilson, Stuart
Pimm, David Suzuki, and several
Wikipedia pages:
The universe is ~13.7 billion years old.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is ~13.6 billion years old.
The earth and our solar system are ~4.6 billion years old.
DNA based life emerged ~3.5 billion years ago.
~30 billion species have existed on earth to date.
Of these ~30 billion, ~100
million species exist today. The rest are
extinct.
Simple math tells us that of
~30 billion total species, 99.7% are
extinct, and .3% are present
today. [In The 11th Hour, David Suzuki says
99.9999% are extinct! + more
notes on extinction in journal sad.pco]
There have been ~6 "major mass
extinction events" over the past 540
million years.
We live during the latest (6th)
extinction event. Our rate of
extinction is ~300 species
going extinct per day. The typical range
expressed is between 100 and
1000 per day.
E.O. Wilson estimates that
during this 6th extinction, half of all
present species will go extinct.
This would be ~50 million species.
This current major mass extinction event is being caused by humanity.
The background rate of extinction
is ~4 per year. The typical range
expressed is between 1 and
10 extinctions per year.
Simple math tells us that humanity
is causing the extinction rate to
be ~10,000 times the base
background extinction rate, give or take an
order of magnitude.
Humanity or "man" (genus Homo)
appeared ~2.5 million years ago, in
the form of Homo Habilis (handy
man).
Homo Erectus likely harnessed fire ~1.5 million years ago.
Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens
have been around for ~160,000 to
~195,000 years, based on the
fossil record in Africa.
Fully modern (mentally &
spiritually) Homo Sapiens have been around
for ~40,000 years, based on
the Cro Magnon cave excavations.
The horseshoe crab (Limulus
Polyphemus), is alive and well today, and
has enjoyed a species-span
of ~400 million years.
There are many species of cockroaches
that are alive and well today,
that have enjoyed a species-span
of ~400 to ~500 million years.
The average species-span of
large mammals is between 1 and 4 million
years. Homo Sapiens
is a large mammal.
The sun's hydrogen supply will power it for another ~5 billion years.
Present conditions in our solar
system that support "DNA based life
as we know it", are likely
to continue for another ~1 billion years.
Homo Sapiens will someday be
extinct. Our species-span may be
affected by how we (intentionally
or unintentionally) use our
collective brains, to either
reduce or prolong our species-span.
Based on the above:
It is very likely that humanity
could be present on earth for another
1 million years.
It is reasonably possible that
humanity could be present on earth for
another 10 million years.
It is possible but unlikely,
that humanity could be present on earth
for another 100 million years.
Consider the increasing possibility
of an asteroid collision,
or other unknown event.
It is theoretically possible
but highly unlikely, that humanity could
be present on earth for the
remaining 1 billion years that the earth
can be expected to support
life.
Based on my work as a generalist
taking the "big picture, long view",
and based on the above, I
am working on plans for a 10 to 100 million
year species-span for humanity.
This all means that we are presently
an infant species and are
accordingly behaving in infantile ways.
This should be expected and
is not any more unusual than watching the
infants of any species (including
humans), acting in infantile ways!
H. Why No Concerted Action To Date?, List ...
1. [dw14/dw53]
2. Or, "Why 10 Steps Forward, 100 Steps Backward?"
3. Problem: "If we had only started 30 to 50
years ago ..."
(ref sak: "books I read long
ago"), "Now we are in
overshoot and collapse.
Time has run out."
4. This mantra MUST STOP today! Every
time it is repeated it
programs more brains for resignation,
inaction, and
failure.
5. Here are the reasons why we failed.
These must all be
overcome, before concerted
action takes place.
6. ---
7. uninformed: lack of users manuals (all 3x)
8. specialist frames, ~16 generations of inbred
specialization
(see ishmael.com, "sinking
ship parable")
9. [ADDED] Specialists' Not Invented Here (NIH)
List (saj)
Specialists get locked into
their 10 sided emotional
structure (personal paradigm)
and can't get out.
10. becoming a generalist takes decades, requires
a rare
interest in "everything",
& WC3 is heavily biased against
generalism & provides
no rewards for becoming a generalist.
It tells us, "You must specialize.
No man can do it ALL!"
11. Lack of: Decision -> Plan -> Action (i.e., no
P.D. awareness) ...
a) No awareness of problem
solving methodology/process.
12. Unawareness of the existence of "The Solution
Box" (TSB). ...
a) Once existence of TSB becomes
known, there is an additional
problem:
the disconnect between groups A,B,C & D in TSB!
13. Crystaline structures, 10 sided emotional structures
(paradigms), built over 6,000
years.
14. classic addictive behavior ... no change occurs
until
massive pain sets in and forces
the change.
15. 3 brain-mind disciplines (P.D., E.P., Neuroscience),
not in
relationship, still specialized
and separate
16. PDI still stuck in old paradigm, not taking up
their vital
leading role. Still
stuck in the "unlimited power",
"unlimited material wealth"
modes.
17. Mass Media, stuck in the old paradigm. Everyone
ends up
suffocating in the collective
"mass media gas chamber",
featuring constant information
about war, death, disaster
and destruction. The
mass media in turn, is programmed by
the public, which demands
this dreary news, based on its
genetically programmed human
nature.
18. politicians & religious leaders, uninformed,
lack of will,
short-term horizons, frames
of reference.
19. [ADDED] unlike the Wrights who achieved 100% after
much
research and many failures,
we are still lagging far
behind. We need to get
to that 100% to achieve sustainable
civilization.
20. [ADDED ] incorrect focus focus focus ...
a) why humanity failed to
heed the warnings and got worse instead:
b) For the last 50 years (MK
Hubbert, 1956), we were warned.
We made
minor improvements with recycling and air quality
(in a few
areas), but these were overshadowed by our
continuing
to get worse in most cases, and at an ever
accelerating
rate.
c) Why is this so, and what
can we do to turn it around?
d) The answer lies in part
in what we have been FOCUSING on
(PD theme).
We have been focusing on our problems. We
read lots
of books, newspapers, magazines, saw lots of
TV/media,
documentaries, videos that brought our focus onto
our problems.
Since no specific detailed solutions were
also available
to be presented, we focused exclusively on
our problems
(rather than solutions). This became like a
cat chasing
its tail, a self fulfilling prophesy.
e) Why does focus on problems
make them worse? We get
depressed
and enter into a doomy gloomy state when
presented
with problems for which there is no known
solution.
We then fail to take action, since there is no
action plan
available.
f) To make matters worse,
we then seek relief from our pain
and depression.
We then escape into a myriad of addictive
behaviors
and distractions, like food, drugs, alcohol,
sports,
TV, Internet, movies, pornography, etc., and an
endless
stream of entertainment options. These serve to
numb us
out from our pain and depression, and further
remove us
from any ability to focus on problem solving,
planning
and action.
g) The result is that rather
than solving our problems, we are
actually
increasing them at an ever accelerating pace.
Quote from
Ran's saveearth.htm: "... didn't we turn it
around,
we sped it up: more cars with worse efficiency,
more toxins,
more CO2, more deforestation, more pavement,
more lawns,
more materialism, more corporate rule, more
weapons,
more war and love of war, more secrets, more lies,
more callousness
and cynicism and short-sightedness."
h) The way around all this
mess is to LEARN about our
challenges
(problems), but DON'T FOCUS on them. Instead
FOCUS on
learning about their causes, plan, find solutions,
take action.
This is PD 101, a major basis for Plan S.
This concept
is well represented graphically by using the
three wise
monkeys: "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no
evil" with
hands over eyes, ears, mouth. Show focusing on
problem
vs having awareness of problem, while focusing on
plan/solution.
See 3x5 slip with rough diagram.
21. ---
22. It is now HIGH TIME TO UNDERSTAND AND OVERCOME
all this.
It must all be understood
and overcome, before a successful
transition to a sustainable
civilization is possible!
I. getting better, getting worse, list ...
1. (expand fr sab)
2. Why be a pessimist or optimist. The
vast majority are one
or the other. Important
to be a realist, and see things as
they actually are.
3. jerry jeff walker, walker's collectibles,
will there be any ...
a) Well, we're on our last
legs as you can see Lord
so we're
down to the bendin' end as they say
we just
wanted to check out and find out
is everything
gonna be in the middle
not too
far, not too short, not too big,
not too
early ... right on time.
is everything
gonna be right up ... there
4. getting to the platform (to catch the train)
...
a) This is the idea that we
can't catch a train without first
getting
to the right platform at the right time. If we
aren't on
the platform, we miss the train.
b) We need to understand the
world as closely as possible to
the way
it actually is, in order to get on the platform to
catch the
train.
c) Wright Brothers, 100%
5. On balance, we are getting worse a lot faster
than we are
getting better. This
is unsustainable!
6. Prepare an example of getting better in some
areas, worse
in others, with a negative
balance. Use money or some
other easily understood concept
to demonstrate. It could
even be we have many small
gains, offset by a few huge
losses.
7. ---
8. getting better, but not fast enough ...
a) caveats: jevons paradox
& eMergy. Some of the items in
this list
appear to be helping, but in reality they are
not, either
because of jevons paradox, increased eMergy, or
both.
b) ---
c) Knowledge Explosion
d) Recycling
e) Cigarette Smoke in Public
Buildings
f) Crime Rate in Some Big
Cities is Down
g) Ozone Hole Getting Smaller
h) Smog in Some Big Cities
is Reduced
i) Starting to Ban Trans Fats
j) Waterless Urinals
k) Low Flow Showerheads
l) Healthier Food and Food
Labeling ...
1) organic
foods
2) community
supported agriculture (CSA)
3) farmers
markets
m) Some Countries and Companies
Banning Plastic Bags
n) Companies Increasing Consciousness,
ex. Interface, Ray Anderson
9. getting worse, way too fast ...
a) see sab.pco for the complete
list
b) increasing energy use
c) depletion of fossil fuels
d) depletion of all non-renewable
resources
e) global warming
f) species extinction
g) overpopulation
h) terror, war, violence
i) debt
J. Reasons to Bring WC3 to a "Softer Landing" ...
1. unsustainable: violates natural laws of energy
2. high energy is destroying the Earth's life
support system
3. DNA: It's not our genetic design to live
this way
4. we're spiritual beings: happiness via spirit,
not material
K. 500 Million Carrying Capacity, List ...
1. This is a list of sources that mention 500
million (give or
take) as a critical carrying
capacity of Planet Earth.
2. @bm.xls ^s Population, World Population,
Carrying Capacity
3. ---
4. pop. curve in 1650 (1995 World Almanak),
500 million
5. James Lovelock (Gaia Hypothesis), 500 million
6. Joseph George Caldwell writes ...
a) "The thesis of this book
is that when fossil-fuel reserves
deplete
in a few years, the global human population of
Earth will
drop to about 500 million people or less -- a
small fraction
of the current six billion."
7. Georgia Guidestones, 500 million, @bm.xls
8. Jay Hanson, farewell.txt, 200 million
9. Robert L. Hickerson, quotes Prof. Ken Watt
of UC Davis ...
a) ref @bm.xls, "approximately
100 to 300 million people",
Watt on
Carrying Capacity, from dieoff page158, Robert L
Hickerson,
Life-Expectancy of Industrial Civ
b) In personal communications
with Prof. Ken Watt of UCDavis,
Watt stressed
the importance of energy use per person. He
also said
that he and about 100 other scholars "believe
that energy
and numbers of births will be the two key
variables
in determining the character of the future. We
now feel
the planet and humanity can only coexist as a
living system
for a long time if the human population gets
down to
1/70 to 4/70 of the present level. It is difficult
to see how
to do that without violence..." 1/70 of the
present
global population is approximately 100 to 300
million
people. That's for the whole planet!
10. 11th Hour, 0:15:43, Thom Hartmann, .5 billion
to 1 billion max
11. crudeawakening.org, 1:18:29, Roscoe Bartlett says
...
a) "many people believe 1.5
to 2 billion" but this is nothing
but a guess.
12. Howard Odum, A Prosperous Way Down, p 170 ...
a) "will eventually have to
reduce either their populations or
their living
standard (emergy use) by 80 to 90 percent"
b) This was written around
2000 when world pop. was around 6
billion.
An 85% reduction in pop. would bring it down to
900 million.
13. Paul Chefurka, one billion ...
a) "perhaps one billion members
before the end of the century"
b) in his: Population Decline
- Red Herrings and Hope
14. Dale Alan Pfeiffer, in Eating Fossil Fuels ...
a) he apparently projects
2.5 billion. But I just noticed
that at
his mountainsentinel.com site. Haven't read the
book yet.
L. "Know", "Know I Don't Know", "Don't Know I Don't Know"
...
1. pie chart, circle chart w/ 3 wedges
2. This slide is in 3 categories: Knowledge,
Paradigm Shift
and Scopes.
3. Use it to show the limited extent of our
knowledge. Our
current paradigm is informed
only by the "Know" wedge. To
design and install a sustainable
paradigm for the long
term, we need to become generalists
and venture into the
"Don't Know I Don't Know"
wedge. Then, the path ahead
becomes visible and clear.
4. use in presentations:
5. opener: "How many people believe that 'knowledge
is power'?"
1985, Andrew Garvin, wrote:
How to Win With Information
or Lose Without It
6. introduce the pie chart w/ the 3 wedges
7. We are sooooooooo uninformed (not ignorant,
stupid,
delusional). Languaging!
How are we programming our
brains?
8. engage the group. For each item, find
out where everyone
sees themselves in the 3x
"don't know's"
9. Point out that all our 1's (know's) are the
result of the
prevailing paradigm, WC3,
since we are all enmeshed in that
paradigm. We are a part
of it. People's lives are always
shaped and molded by the prevailing
paradigm they are a
part of. The only ones
of us who are exceptions to this
rule, are those who engage
in a program of self study
(rare).
10. If there are 1's (know's) present, have them explain,
rather than me. Then
I learn new things, rest my voice, it
becomes more like a workshop,
and I look less like a
know-it-all. Ask them
to volunteer, if I forget to ask, or
if my info is inaccurate or
fuzzy.
11. Re the 3x: Use a voting system which must add
up to all
participants. First,
disclose when I first learned the
information. If a bunch
don't vote, use a blind voting
system.
12. ---
13. relate all this with Flatland
14. relate to Jay's farewell.txt and difficulty of
understanding for all the
reasons he points out in that
paper
15. importance of time and patience to "grok" the
material.
16. in presentations, have readers and audience give
themselves
a score based on the "study
order" column of pskb.xls,
based on their familiarity
with the material, both major
(1-4) and minor (5-9).
The more familiar they are with the
major points, the easier to
understand Plan S.
M. Resource Based Economy and Currency ...
1. vs all current forms of fiat currency &
"funny money":
Precious Metals, Paper, Debt
Based, Fractional Reserve
Banking, Derivatives, etc.
2. @bm.xls :resources
3. sam: [dw12]
4. Re resource depletion ...
a) There has been so much
written about government regulation,
taxation,
rationing, controls, etc. These are all
abridgements
on personal freedom and are unnecessary.
b) The ideal method to conserve
non-renewables is thru a free
market oriented
resource based economy & currency. This
combines
Ludwig von Mises' policies with a new currency.
However
for such an economy to work efficiently on a global
basis will
require more computing power than we will likely
have over
our 10 million year long term. We can still
institute
a resource based economy without using computers,
however
it will likely be imperfect and easily abused.
c) To minimize abuse and cheating,
we will have to turn to the
family,
religious leaders and education system to inform
all people
of what happened during the wasteful and
polluting
1800-2100 AD time frame when we were highly
uninformed
about our planet's resource base. By using
education
and peer pressure, we should be able to reduce
abuse and
cheating to tolerable levels. Note that our
religious
institutions are already providing marriage and
drug counseling
services and helping members of their
flocks get
out of debt. So why not incorporate messages to
help us
all live within our means?
d) This system, while imperfect,
may be our best hope of
installing
a sustainable civilization on earth for the
remainder
of homo sapiens' species-span of 10 to 100
million
years.
e) Re. free market vs. central
planning: Communist Eastern
Europe,
cheap government subsidized cigarettes and alcohol
dispensed
to the masses to keep them placated. This is
what central
planning gives us. Is this what we want?
5. contrast prices, re need for resource based
economy ...
a) cheap airline trip, expensive
cruise, space tourist
b) our current prices using
fiat currencies help destroy our
resource
base
c) we need a currency system
that informs people of the true
costs of
goods and services
6. Prosperous Way Down, Odum, p 281, emdollar
as basis for
resource based economy ...
consider this!
N. Ancient Civilizations, Grandeur of, Collapse of ...
1. bm.xls: ancient civilizations, includes :collapse
section
2. bmva.htm: ancient civilizations
3. personal visits: Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde,
Pompeii,
Herculaneum, Rome, Bandelier,
Spiro Mounds, Matavenero y
Poibueno
4. museum visits, video/documentaries, books,
websites, etc.:
Egypt, Aztec, Inca, Maya,
Olmec, Tenochtitlan, Anasazi,
Ephesus, Teotihuacan, Hohokam,
Lascaux, Hopewell Mounds,
Cahokia Mounds, Machu Picchu,
Sumer, Greece, Hangzhou
O. Overlapping Cycles Cause Confusing Noise, Randomness ...
1. parallel Dewey/Mandino's Cycles w/ Odum's
pulsing
2. random, randomness, noise, noisiness
3. Dewey/Mandino spoke about cycles on Venus,
hidden by
clouds, impossible to discern.
Odum speaks about same in
Prosperous Way Down, pgs 81,
281. Many short cycles
interfere with each other
and appear to be random or noise.
They are hard to discern.
Same concept.
File: san.txt
A. fundraising ...
1.
[In order to avoid disclosing
personal information, I have
removed the names of all personal
acquaintances from this
list.]
2. learn to fundraise with many small donations
on Internet ...
a) like Barack Obama did in
2008, or like MoveOn.org does.
3. Forbes, Edward L Bernays, Land of Desire,
Century of the Self ...
a) Use same mental technologies
as PR, advertising, marketing,
use sell
Plan S and fundraise for it. Trillions of cash
awash in
the current system.
4. @bm.xls, :Paradigm Shift, Generalists I Am
Aware Of ...
a) & Yahoo! Groups:
b) the_dieoff_QA
c) energy resources
d) running on empty
e) etc.
5. @bm.xls, Plan S, fundraising
6. work all balloons in TSB (Fix-It, PDI, Ent,
TWO)
7. scan Pn's for others noted
8. corporations ...
a) Research corporate giving,
consciousness, green attitudes.
Like Ray
Anderson, BP, Disney, WFM, etc. There are likely
many.
b) The Corporation, filmmakers
9. Fortune 500, Fortune 1000 (find via wiki
article)
10. Forbes, many lists of richest this and that ...
a) Note: They keep several
years of ratings online. Don't
know if
they scroll off at some point.
b) The World's Billionaires,
@bm.xls
11. wiki: List of Billionaires (worldwide)
12. wiki\Time_100, most influential from Time since
1999
13. business week, philanthropy, etc ...
a) 11/29/04, huge issue covers
both organizations and some
corporations
b) 11/28/05, ditto, p 62,
John Templeton into Evolutionary
Psychology,
connecting religion and science
c) ref bm.xls, some stuff
saved locally
14. individuals, see business week
15. Rotary, Masons, service organizations, etc.
16. religious & spiritual organizations of all
types
17. peace organizations, like ...
a) peacejam.org, based in
Arvada!
b) especially those catering
to young people
18. colleges & universities, like ...
a) humboldt state, arcata
b) new college, sarasota,
santa rosa
c) antioch
d) evergreen state, olympia
e) etc.
19. genius, high IQ, intellectuals ...
a) 09/17/06: CNN, Gupta, Genius
Program
b) MENSA
c) gifted children programs
d) etc.
20. Who's Who of the Elite ...
a) dup entry from liblist3.pco
b) ": Members of the Bilderbergs,
Council on Foreign
Relations,
& Trilateral Commission"
c) a:Robert Gaylon Ross Sr
d) c/2000
e) p:Rie
21. Superclass, David Rothkopf, author
22. Superclass, Amazon reviewer ...
a) I am also familiar with
the $60,000 a year special database
that charts
the top dogs and every membership, association,
investment,
etc.
23. ^^ several more @ liblist3.pco
24. my suppliers: storage, office, food, gas, phone,
etc. ...
a) request gratis, discount,
waver of profit, etc.
25. long term thinkers, paleoanthropologists, geologists
...
a) people like Richard Leakey,
Ken Deffeyes
26. entertainment ...
a) bands
b) richest entertainers
c) entertainment properties,
corporations ...
1) like
Sumner M Redstone at Viacom
d) wiki: List_of_show_business_families
e) Wayans family ...
1) Entertainment
Weekly: Most Powerful Family in Hollywood
2) wiki:
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wayans is also a vegetarian and
a supporter of animal rights group, PETA.
27. politics: wiki: List_of_U.S._political_families
28. stars, personal connections via Don Bright/Gary
Starr ...
a) Leslie Nielsen, Ted Turner,
et al
29. children/kids, ref People Magazine issues ...
a) 01/27/03
b) 07/23/07
c) So do they do an issue
once every 6 months?
30. children & grandchildren of wealthy people
on this list
31. reseach on web ...
a) ^s google worlds richest
people
b) Forbes site exc with slideshows
32. library ...
a) srds
b) mailing lists of high net
worth individuals
c) fundraising
33. network with Harper Magazine editor
34. plan0/1.pco people lists, mine
35. shoe leather: ask companies, churches for $$'s
36. fundraising hook (generalist/specialist) ...
a) Federation concept, ie
go from specialists to generalists
b) World Federation of Sustainable
Specialists ref plan2.pco
c) check Ulrich's or whichever
lib ref book lists associations
37. grants, foundations, etc ...
a) Steve, may have written
grants with Dennis Weaver
b) Steve, 4/05 meeting: mentioned
a Boulder grant writer:
[name removed].
Her husband is into wind energy and drives
an EV.
c) International Humanities
Center, www.ihcenter.org (Cory/EC)
d) Collapse, Diamond, p 528,
list:
e) W. Alton Jones Foundation
f) Eve and Harvey Masonek
and Samuel F. Heyman and Eve Gruber
Heyman 1981
Trust Undergraduate Research Scholars Fund
g) Sandra McPeak
h) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
i) Summit Foundation
j) Weeden Foundation, weedenfdn.org
...
1) adverse
impact of growing human populations and overuse of
natural resources on the biological fabric of the planet
k) Winslow Foundation
l) others Jared mentions in
papers found online:
m) Guggenheim Foundation
38. sponsorship ...
a) Think about who stands
to gain from a project, good or
service?
b) re Plan S: Cumberland General
Store, gold dealers, survival
businesses:
publishers, food storage, water purification,
micro hydro,
etc.
39. \cp\csen\csenar/s.pco: [P1][P2]
40. invisiblechildren.com, Annual Reports ...
a) At the end of the 2007
pdf, see "special thanks to" list
41. The World Order, @bm.xls, World Economic Forum,
etc.
42. ted.com yearly convention, now in Long Beach,
1000 people
43. LA's South Central Farm wiki article on 05/08/08
has list ...
a) of 2 dozen celebrities
who support the farm
44. ---
45. article about local Seattle outfit in Millionaire
Institute
stuff
46. also, search with fj for "kessler" and related
terms
as there's some stuff dangling
in j2/j3, etc
47. regarding getting on with building a business
...
here is a list of resources
I already have to draw on ...
a) Think and Grow Rich
b) Tower Books
c) SPL
d) U of W Business Library
e) University Bookstore
f) CompuServe Forums
g) need to round robin all
work in all areas - time slicing
recur.pco
h) go thru all my myriads
of files/resources!
48. BUSINESS HELP SERVICES ...
a) Millionaire Institute (see
white envelope in stack)
b) try out Kessler Exchg (Business)
1-800-435-4200 for
a 2 month
trial membership at $10.00
1) belated
reply card came from Geoffrey Kessler,
The Kessler Exchange, 11661 San Vicente Blvd, LA 90049 to
2522 1st W (control #'s for chg of addr are 218047 A026)
c) SBDC/SBA
49. Ed Begley, Jr, environmentalist actor
50. Bono
51. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Warren Buffett),
60+ billion ...
a) @bm.xls, \ps\BillGates.RollingStone.mp3
b) Svalbard doomsday vault:
c) Norway paid for construction
of the vault, while Microsoft
founder
Bill Gates paid to ship the 1,500,000,000 seeds.
52. Oprah Winfrey
53. Bill Cosby
54. Sting & wife: Trudie Styler
55. Chuck Leavell, Atlanta AFM member ...
a) saw afm article on his
environmental interests
56. Ted Turner, ref Ishmael/Daniel Quinn award he
gave
57. Michael Moore (Bowling For Columbine)
58. Jesse Jackson ...
a) ref ability to get into
forbidden places like Cuba, Iran,
etc.
59. Jimmy Carter
60. Bill Clinton ...
a) 09/23/06:
b) Clinton Global Initiative
c) Green Fund, principal investors:
d) venture capitalist Vinod
Khosla
e) supermarket magnate Ron
Burkle
f) Hollywood producer Steve
Bing
g) Former World Bank President
James D. Wolfensohn will serve
as the fund's
managing director; Clinton will serve as a
senior adviser.
h) 2007 book: Giving
i) using Internet to raise
big funds from small givers
j) mentions Nonzero, Robert
Wright (EP) in Rolling Stone 40th intview
61. Rupert Murdoch (research) ...
a) Rupert Murdoch, who is
bankrolling a global-warming
initiative
62. Ted Halstead ref bmva.htm
63. Reader's Digest \\readers digest
64. Ed Bass/Bass Family, Dallas/Fort Worth ...
a) Tucson's Biosphere II
65. www.vonmises.org, huge list, many with websites
66. vs, simplicity, sustainability groups ...
a) small donations from the
multitudes
b) newciv.org, simpleliving,
etc.
67. Robert F Kennedy Jr
68. Pew Charitable Trust ...
a) Vicki hustled 300,000 for
Affluenza
69. Gerry Spence
70. Senator Byrd, fiddler
71. Threshold: www.thresholdfoundation.org
72. Doughnuts \\donuts
73. O'Neill, Jessie H O'Neill, The Golden Ghetto ...
a) www.theaffluenzaproject.com,
The Affluenza Project, ref
bmva.htm
b) ref in Curing Affluenza,
Tony Campolo
c) 12/06/07, problems with
website, apparently transitioning
from affluenza.com
and several broken links
1) this
one works:
www.theaffluenzaproject.com/home/aboutjessie/
74. morethanmoney.org, another socially responsible
giving org.
75. Jared Diamond
76. Dr Bruce Lipton, Stanford, mind/body connection,
ev psych?
77. Napoleon Hill Foundation, naphill.org ...
a) from about us on their
webpage: "A nonprofit educational
institution
dedicated to making the world a better place in
which to
live."
b) Hammond, IN: www.naphill.org/contact
78. Meryl Streep (Race To Save The Planet, violin
movie)
79. Pierre Omidyar, eBay ...
a) omidyar.net (Omidyar Network,
Redwood City, CA)
b) pierre.typepad.com
c) ref bm.xls
d) eBay bio: "Committed to
unleashing human potential, Omidyar
Network
uses a broad toolset to build and sustain
environments
that enable individuals to improve their lives
economically,
socially and politically."
80. Jeffrey Skoll, billionaire eBay, movie mogul ...
a) financed Gore's global
warming movie
b) wiki: Skoll was influenced
by authors such as Aldous Huxley
and Ayn
Rand and intended to become an author writing
motivational
books and books on tackling the world's
problems.
The Skoll Foundation's assets rank it as the
largest
foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in the
world.
c) Participant Productions,
an L.A.-based media company
founded
by executive producer Jeff Skoll. The
Montreal-born,
Toronto-raised Skoll has made it his mission
to back
socially relevant projects (including such recent
films as
Syriana and North Country).
d) innovative ideas with extraordinary
determination, tackling
the world's
toughest problems to make things better for us
all
e) participantproductions.com
f) skollfoundation.org
81. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com ...
a) Blue Origin's Goddard Rocket,
First Flight, November 13,
2006, first
flight of a novel private space vehicle
Blue Origin
has finally released photos and video of the
first launch
of its prototype vehicle, which occurred on
November
13. Blue Origin is the company owned by amazon.com
founder
Jeff Bezos.
82. John Mackey, Whole Foods ...
a) saving the planet
b) libertarian
c) personal worth $50 million
d) jarrard may be able to
connect to him
e) wiki: In a debate in Reason
Magazine between Mackey, Milton
Friedman,
and T.J. Rodgers, Mackey says that he is a free
market libertarian.
f) flowidealism.org < liberating
the entrepreneurial spirit for good
83. Gary L Bradshaw, Mississippi, Wright Brothers
...
a) discovered 09/07/04, studies
creativity in science and
invention,
site: "To Fly Is Everything"
b) invention.psychology.msstate.edu
84. Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic "anything
is possible" ...
a) Saw on Larry King/CNN,
05/17/06. Virgin investing in
alternative
energy. Aware of global warming. All spare
money into
ethanol, windfarms, solar heating. Cellulose
ethanol,
from waste products.
b) www.kicktheoilhabit.org
c) 9/06, pledged $3 billion
to battle global warming
85. Robert Redford, actor, environmentalist ...
a) ^s goodle [robert redford
building]
b) Sundance Channel: The Green,
started April, 2007
c) Sundance Institute
d) Park City, Utah
86. Wal-Mart, The Walton Family ...
a) Rob Walton, Toyota Prius
b) Read Fortune, 11/15/04
issue on The Waltons
87. Hewlett Foundation ...
a) "which has become a leading
backer of research into
renewable
and clean energy policies" ... found in news
story 12/08/04,
on coal and energy policy.
88. Gene Kranz, NASA, re using Failure Is Not An Option
...
a) to help save the world
89. Paul G Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder \\paul allen
...
a) ^s google: paul g allen
b) www.vulcanproductions.com,
Clear Blue Sky Productions
c) Clear Blue Sky funded the
NOVA/WGBH Evolution 7 part DVD.
d) Time, Chimp to Man, 10/09/06,
p 53, Allen Institute for
Brain Science,
$141 million, mouse brain genome
e) See paulallen.com and answer
his base questions completely:
f) What should exist?
To me, that's
the most exciting question imaginable. What
do we need
that we don't have? How can we realize our
potential?
What will it take to solve important problems
and improve
people's lives? What should exist, and how
might we
create it--right now?
I have always
been captivated by new ideas that answer
these questions.
g) contact from pbs.org site:
Jason J.
Hunke
Clear Blue
Sky Productions
206-342-2277
jasonh@vulcan.com
90. Marshall Sahlins ...
a) www.prickly-paradigm.com
b) Stone Age Economics, "the
original affluent society"
91. film makers \\filmmakers ...
a) Ken Burns
b) Keith Merrill
c) Mickey Lemle, www.lemlepictures.com
<< exc
d) Kelly Way <kellyway@mac.com>
< at peakoil.net ...
1) Asleep
in America, May, 2005
2) 05/02/05,
emailed him
e) Gregory Greene, Toronto
filmmaker ...
1) www.endofsuburbia.com
2) also
Barry Silverthorn responded to my email
ref peg:recv:20 May 04, per website, he owns a 92 mpg
little car
f) Aaron Russo
g) Michael Moore
92. gaiam.com, Boulder/Broomfield
93. Shell, BP, GE, ABB ...
a) per Plan B, Lester Brown,
pg 161, all in wind business
94. Wendell Berry ...
a) In Distrust of Movements
@bm.xls, he's a great generalist!
95. Maurice & Hanna Strong, Crestone, CO
96. GE: Ecomagination \\general electric ...
a) ref Morey's peg:recv:9
May 2005 ...
b) www.ge.com/ecomagination
97. Daryl Hannah ...
a) solar powered home in rocky
mountains, biodiesel
b) Hannahs been involved in
the biodiesel movement for years.
In 2004,
she accepted the Influencer Award at the National
Biodiesel
Conference & Expo and was honored with Willie
Nelson at
the Environmental Media Awards.
c) South Central Farm, featured
in Escape From Suburbia, wiki:
"chained
herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm
for three
weeks to protest the farmers' eviction by the
property's
new owner"
d) vegetarian since age 11
e) many youtubes with her
98. Ben & Jerry's \\ben and jerrys
99. Patagonia
:0. Home Depot ...
a) Home Depot, a North American
DIY brand, which gives away
millions
through its program of Good Works.
:1. Paul Newman, www.newmansownorganics.com
:2. Angelina Jolie (U.N. refugees) ...
a) connection to Patch, gave
money to go to Cambodia
b) spoke at 2006 Davos, World
Economic Forum
:3. W Edwards Deming Institute: www.deming.org
:4. Google, eBay, and other wealthy successful young
corps ...
a) google.org ...
1) Dr. Larry
Brilliant, Executive Director, from Seva, Feb, 2006
b) google.com/grants
c) wiki:Google Foundation
d) Larry Page @ Clinton Giving
bash, Sep, 2007, Harlem
:5. George Soros ...
a) biographer Michael T Kaufman:
He let me know once that he
would gladly
give up his entire fortune if he could write a
work of
philosophy that would exist for a thousand years.
I mean his
ambitions are not small.
:6. Rockefellers ...
a) Ref quotes.pco. @bm.xls
^s rockefeller heirs
:7. John Templeton \\john marks templeton...
a) see notes here re his interest
in religion, science,
Evolutionary
Psychology
b) author: Is Progress Speeding
Up? Our Multiplying Multitudes
of Blessings,
1997
c) see wiki article on him,
Selected publications, lists 7,
Scientists
discover God, etc.
:8. Richard Rainwater ...
a) Rainwater, number 112 on
Forbes magazine's list
of the 400
Richest Americans, warns that an
"economic
tsunami" is about to strike the global
economy
as the world runs out of oil.
b) ref bvr blog 12/21/05
c) ref LATOC, SecondPage.html
:9. Hillary Duff, philanthropist, gave to Hurricane
Katrina
;0. Udo Erasmus, Fats guy ...
a) into peace, evolution,
politics, psychology, a world that
works
;1. Ray Kurzweil
;2. Robert Newman, Rob Newman, British commedian
;3. Jamie Johnson's documentary Born Rich (google
it)
;4. Alanis Morissette ...
a) global warming DVD, buddhism,
spirituality, navaho
b) My life purpose is to inspire
courage and compassion and
the raising
of consciousness on this planet.
c) Scott Welch
Mosaic Media
Group
9200 Sunset
Blvd, 10th Fl.
Los Angeles,
CA 90069
310-786-4900
;5. leonardodicaprio.org, web movies ...
a) #23 on OK Mag: Top 50 Charitable
Celebs list
b) @bm.xls ^s Leonardo DiCaprio,
The 11th Hour, Warner ...
1) notes
@ libvid.pco
;6. Bill Ford, Ford Motor Company
;7. Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, Houston, PDI/Christian
perspective ...
a) has a sermon about genes
;8. Kimbal Musk, started PayPal & Tesla Motors,
per Steve ...
a) solve mobility problem
& put people into space
b) brother Elon Musk
c) Musk Foundation
;9. Patrick Moore (formerly Greenpeace) ...
a) wiki: "By the mid-1980s,
the environmental movement had
abandoned
science and logic in favor of emotion and
sensationalism.
I became aware of the emerging concept of
sustainable
development: balancing environmental, social
and economic
priorities. Converted to the idea that win-win
solutions
could be found by bringing all interests
together,
I made the move from confrontation to consensus."
<0. Cheryl Crow (singer) ...
a) toured in biodiesel powered
bus, use only one sheet of
toilet paper
<1. Dennis Kucinich
<2. Long Now Foundation, www.longnow.org
<3. Bill Joy, Aspen, Sun Micro founder
<4. NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg
<5. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
<6. James Levoy Sorenson, billionaire, Utah ...
a) wrote Finding True Balance:
Great Balancing Acts of Life
b) passions: DNA, peace
c) when factions learn that
they share a common ancestry -
that Jewish
Israelis are related to Palestinians, Sunnis to
Shiites
- there will be peace on Earth
d) @bm.xls
<7. Al Gore, Global Marshall Plan, @bm.xls
<8. Kevin Wall, liveearth.org (gore)
<9. Madonna ...
a) wiki article:
b) it is my plea to the audience
to encourage mankind to help
one another
and to see the world as a unified whole
c) My specific intent is to
bring attention to the millions of
children
in Africa who are dying every day, and are living
without
care, without medicine and without hope. I am
asking people
to open their hearts and minds to get
involved
in whatever way they can.
=0. Estefan: Emilio and Gloria
=1. Jim McLaren, www.chooseliving.org, quadriplegic
w/ foundation
=2. Steve Case (AOL), Jean Case, www.casefoundation.org
=3. The Top 50 Charitable Celebrities, OK Magazine
=4. ;Shakira ...
a) mgr: Ceci Kurzman, Nexus
Management Group
b) Pies Descalzos
c) ALAS Foundation ...
1) America
Latina en Accion Solidaria - Latin America for
Solidarity
2) Spanish
singer Miguel Bose will serve as executive director
of ALAS.
d) wiki on Shakira: "Shakira
was recently ranked at number 48
on the list
of Top 50 Most Charitable Celebrities by OK!
magazine."
e) I love reading about history.
f) wiki: "Shakira is currently
attending classes at UCLA,
majoring
in the History of Western Civilization."
g) article @bm.xls: Shakira
Rests Hips to Study at UCLA.
"Introduction
to Western Civilization: Ancient
Civilizations
from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843."
h) quote from Unplugged DVD:
"No one taught me to dance
Arabic-style.
It's proof that genetic memory really
exists."
i) Sep, 2007, Giving - Live
at the Apollo w/ Clinton in Harlem ...
1) Shakira
called everyone in the crowd to action. "This is a
moment in history to act as a global community ... of
citizen activists."
2) "We can
be the architects of change," she said.
3) @bm.xls,
YouTube, 7:50, Shakira's speech @ Clinton Global Initiative
j) quote found on a website
...
1) Shakira
says:
Technology scares me. We live surrounded by a battalion of
sounds, engaged in ostentatious displays of new recording
techniques. But, to me, the fundamental essence of a song
lies in the melody and the lyrics.
k) ---
l) book: Shaira, Woman Full
of Grace, see "book notes" folder
m) Cartagena
n) Tim M: freak of Nature,
me: Mars
o) Spain-new world: hubbert:
collapse
p) Om Shanti Om
q) Gaviotas
r) C:\MNBRIP\Shakira\PeteForShakira.mp3
s) fourth richest woman in
the music industry by forbes.com ...
1) after
Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion
t) On Tuesday [04/2/08] Shakira
held a lecture in a campaign
against
global warming held on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The aim
of the campaign is to educate young people about
global warming.
=5. Enya
=6. Michael Franti
=7. Norah Jones
=8. Alicia Keys
=9. Willie Nelson, Peace Research Institute, willienelsonpri.com
>0. John Robbins & his son at Yes
>1. W Clement Stone, Jessie Verna Tarson foundation,
wcstonefnd.org ...
a) \ps\Clement Stone Foundation.htm,
mentions son Norman, a
psychologist
b) located in SF @ Presidio
in Thoreau Center for Sustainability
>2. Benton Foundation, www.benton.org ...
a) found via oneworld.net.
Oneworld's CEO is Michael Litz,
formerly
CTO at Benton. Benton funds Oneworld.
>3. Celine Dion
>4. Norman Hughes
>5. Criss Angel, magician, psychologist ...
a) Bring him in as the magic
man, someone who understands the
mind, and
a charismatic leader of his generation. How can
we employ
magic to create a paradigm shift?
>6. Paul Hawken
>7. Ray Anderson, see his youtube videos
>8. Bethany McLean, Fortune Mag, wrote Smartest Guys
in the Room
>9. tidesfoundation.org, funded Annie Leonard's storyofstuff.com
?0. E.O. Wilson, see wiki article ...
a) Wilson is known for his
career as a scientist, his advocacy
for environmentalism,
and his scientific humanist ideas
concerned
with religious, moral, and ethical matters.[1] As
of 2007,
he was the Pellegrino University Research
Professor
in Entomology for the Department of Organismic
and Evolutionary
Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow
of the Committee
for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist
Laureate
of the International Academy of Humanism.
b) Scientific Humanism
c) God and religion
?1. Chalmers Johnson - Speaking Freely, @bm.xls
?2. Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire
?3. Shai Agassi, Project Better Place, @bm.xls ...
a) "I'm a problem solver"
?4. Bianca Jagger, see her wiki article, many affiliations
File: sap.txt
A. journal, running notes ...
1. biocracy (vs. democracy) ...
a) discovered this term from
Dowd. already noted at saj in
the "save
the world list".
b) Learn more about biocracy.
Nothing @ wiki yet. Nice idea,
but has
anyone developed it yet?
c) Likely related to resource
based economy, which if properly
implemented
preserves all life.
d) Re democracy, isn't this
just the tyranny of the majority?
Remember
the John Quincy Adams quote: "democracy never
lasts long
... murders itself"
2. kevin trudeau law of success infomercial
2/24/08 ...
a) 800-991-1448
800-240-3417
cs east
no website
yet
3. orlov on collapse ...
a) I therefore take as my
premise that at some point during
the coming
years, due to an array of factors, with energy
scarcity
foremost among them, the economic system of the
United States
will teeter and fall, to be replaced by
something
that most people can scarcely guess at, and that
even those
who see it coming prefer not to think about.
4. slow boiled frog analogy ...
a) compare to Toynbee about
challenge-response: no challenge,
no response!,
ie no S-Day. Since I, like Russell Means,
want sustainable
for the long term, I welcome collapse.
But some
just want it easy ... "no pain in my lifetime" ...
a slow death.
And then we get more of what we've always
had ...
civ after civ, rising and falling.
b) Ran thinks it will be a
slow collapse.
c) My two cents: things come
down much faster than they go up.
5. We can only obey laws we're aware of! ...
a) so let's become aware and
obey!
6. notable rebounds, bounce backs ...
a) chernobyl, mount saint
helens, russia, hiroshima, nagasaki
b) of course they had fossil
fuels
c) But even after the most
severe dieoff, within 1k to 10k
yrs, humanity
will rebound! They will look back on us, as
we do on
Sumer ... some mythical, distant, ancient
childlike
civilization that stripped the earth of most of
its vital
resources.
7. do you remember the titanic? ...
a) do you remember people
were told it was unsinkable? this
was magical
thinking ... the ghost dance, the cargo cult.
now we are
surrounded by one chorus of doom, that the ship
is going
down and it's too late ...... another chorus of
optimism
... that humanity has always gotten better, is
highly creative,
that the rapture is coming, that the
singularity
is near, that paradigm shift is just around the
corner.
so where is the middle ground? where is the all
encompasing
view ... the realist?
8. @bm.xls: peakoildebunked.blogspot.com ...
a) see his Confessions of
an ex-doomer
9. Richard Heinberg @ Findhorn, April, 2008,
@bm.xls ...
a) Several comments of his
reinforce and support Plan S.
Review and
make notes.
10. re. prospects for more peace and understanding
between countries ...
a) look how these have been
positively influenced on the
personal
level by attendance of families to est/Landmark
and similar
personal development seminars (i.e. Rick
Hassan).
11. We can be thankful fossil fuels are limited on
our planet ...
a) It seems as though just
enough were created to allow us to
learn the
operating rules, without complete destruction of
the biosphere.
We will now be forced back to living on
dispersed
sunlight and other less concentrated energy
forms, but
if we are careful, we can save the most
important
information we've discovered.
b) If fossil fuels were unlimited,
we would certainly destroy
the biosphere,
due to our genetic heritage. It appears
that our
tendencies toward more energy and material use is
vastly stronger
than any tendency toward conservation.
12. Von Mises, Human Action, some useful quotes from
pdf ...
a) \MNBPS\humanaction.pdf
b) printed page # on page/pdf
page number
c) 35/59: The human mind is
not a tabula rasa on which the
external
events write their own history. It is equipped
with a set
of tools for grasping reality. Man acquired
these tools,
i.e., the logical structure of his mind, in
the course
of his evolution from an amoeba to his present
state. But
these tools are logically prior to any
experience.
d) 46/70: Inheritance and
environment direct a mans actions.
They suggest
to him both the ends and the means. He lives
not simply
as man in abstracto; he lives as a son of his
family,
his race, his people, and his age; as a citizen of
his country;
as a member of a definite social group; as a
practitioner
of a certain vocation; as a follower of
definite
religious, metaphysical, philosophical, and
political
ideas; as a partisan in many feuds and
controversies.
He does not himself create his ideas and
standards
of value; he borrows them from other people. His
ideology
is what his environment enjoins upon him. Only
very few
men have the gift of thinking new and original
ideas and
of changing the traditional body of creeds and
doctrines.
13. Lets all buy big yachts, become space tourists,
...
a) live in giant castles with
golf courses, private aviation,
and heck
... let's throw in Rolls Royces for everyone!
b) Look at our current demands
vs. demands of the past, even
200 yrs
ago. We think that our present way of life that is
preposterous,
unsustainable and unthinkable is in fact
normal.
And yet to think of all becoming space tourists or
to all visit
other solar systems and galaxies on holiday
would be
insane!
14. During all of prehistory, murder was de facto
legal. ...
a) Now it is illegal everywhere.
That was once considered
unthinkable
and impossible ... for the vast majority of
human history.
b) So now, why don't we make
war and waste illegal. Of course
this is
unthinkable and impossible, and yet there is no law
of nature
that prohibits it. So why not give it a try?
c) Employ the resource based
economy to enforce these bans, so
we can use
our dispersed sunlight energy budget
economically.
15. see note at san.pco re Bernays and the trillions
that can ...
a) be used to implement Plan
S, S-Day, etc.
16. one definition of sustainable, sustainability
...
a) found in C:\R\PS\Howard.T.Odum\Energy,
Ecology, &
Economics,
1974.htm
b) Sustainable Society:
"A society that balances the
environment,
other life forms, and human interactions over
an indefinite
time period."
17. Evolutionary Psychology (EP) skeptics ...
a) are skeptical since EP
is spoiling their day, week, month
and life!
Can't blame em, can we? Ref. 10 sided emotional
structures,
genetic programming towards conservatism.
18. Re: Titanic, Katrina: full range of responses,
pos to neg ...
a) and we can expect the same
during WC3 collapse. It will be
all over
the map when all 6 scopes are considered.
19. re all controversial blasphemous statements ...
a) that could elicit dramatic
responses from both pessimists
and optimists,
republicans, democrats, etc. ... give 3
reflections:
pessimist, optimist, realist (Plan S)
20. time to move to acceptance and get past our doom
(D words) ...
a) into action. Stop
wallowing in the mucky gray goo! There
is work
to be done. This is Plan S.
b) stop acting like deer in
the headlights! lets get to work!
c) slam-dunk: multi generational
database
21. miracle: S-Day, base on Shackleton, Wright ...
a) impossible list, Hill on
miracles, chapter2 & 14 of TAGR
(notes in
saj)
22. religion > spirit > amygdala > limbic ...
a) brains come equipped with
some kind of not understood
transmitters.
ESP. ref Hill, Chardin: 6th sense, noosphere
b) perhaps this not understood
phenomenon is related to our
limic systems?
or perhaps not. maybe we will never know.
23. re. specialist <> generalist ...
a) Tom Robertson's review
of Prosperous/Odum @ Amazon.com:
b)
The difficulty
in all this is indicated by the fact that
there is
no Nobel prize for looking at the whole of our
world. Those
fabulous awards go to those who are very good
at knowing
parts, with very little idea of how the parts
come together.
Instead,
there is the very quiet Crafoord Prize for those
who try
to let us know more about the systems of our
world--which
of course H.T. Odum and his brother Eugene won
back in
the early 1980s.
24. re. Parallel Worlds: Sci./Mechanical vs Religious/Metaphysical
...
a) see 8.5x11 rough graphic
of this @ "S-Day" folder, "Slides,
Misc" sub-folder,
"2 parallel worlds"
b) from wiki article: David
M. Scienceman:
c) "Dr. Slade believed that
there should be a political party
that represented
the scientific point of view (Cadzow
1984). He
envisaged a Scientific Party, where the members
would be
required to have mastery of one easily available,
readable
and comprehensible book of general science."
25. re. doom and gloom, psychology of ...
a) emotional evolutionary
response to news of impending
change,
unknown, uncertainty
b) The cripling lethargy and
inaction must be overcome. We
need to
step back, see the big picture, understand our
options
and take action.
c) The emotion is less in
response to change and more in
response
to the unknown. Since we don't know what's coming
and when
(in the short term), it is hard (impossible) to
create a
plan and take action. So its not knowing and
uncertainty
that cripples us.
d) Plan S, moves away from
the short term, to the long term
which is
much easier to see and understand, and therefore
much easier
to plan and act on.