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Drew-ism

the earth is a lucid dream

 

 

Drew-ism

I love the blog-o-sphere, but I miss the biosphere.

Quote of the Day

"Mythological thinking is striving for a total world view.'

--James Barr

Drew-ism

fall into the center of the music. find the silence.

Things that are Awesome:

The song "In the End," by Rush.

The next time somebody says, 'the Earth will be fine,' please call them a dumbass

OK, this is becoming one of my pet peeves.

I've been in conversations about the ecological situation, and the fate of the planet, at least since I started college 20 years ago. And I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone say something like this:

"You know, the Earth will be fine; It's humans who will be extinct."

Or "The planet will survive just fine, it's just that humans won't be around." Or something like this.

I'm sure I must have heard this 45 times or more. In fact, I think I've even said it myself. Year after year, it keeps getting repeated as if it's a clever, insightful, or accurate rejoinder.

But it's not.

Just last Saturday night I heard it said by a noted environmental thinker, Stewart Brand. Brand is the visionary who created The Whole Earth Catalog and called for a photograph of Earth from space. Brand is also a bit of a contrarian. He's not afraid to advocate a controversial idea, such as nuclear power or GMOs. But even knowing the contrarian side of Brand, I was stunned to hear him repeat the old canard about how 'the Earth will be fine..."

Here's the context:

This was a panel of ecological folks that followed a screening of an excellent new documentary, "Climate Refugees." Brand and others were discussing the immense threat that climate change poses to humanity and civilization. This is, of course, a clear and compelling point that we all need to understand. But to my mind, Brand stretched the point too far when he implied that the only threat or primary threat was to civilization. Specifically he said "Life will be fine." And later, "The planet's OK."

This was more than enough to send my pet peeve sensors into high alert.

But it doesn't matter who's recycling this golden oldie, because whether it's an environmental legend, your earnest college roommate, or an annoying co-worker, here's why it's totally wrong.

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what a jerk

Have u seen Sarah Palin roll her eyes at a woman because that woman is a teacher? Everything u need to know about Palin is captured right here.

Drewism

We are one. And you are too.

Quotes from "Ignore Everybody," by Hugh MacLeod

Here are a few quotes I liked from the book, Ignore Everybody, And 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh MacLeod:

"Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you....You don't know if your idea is any good the moment it's created. Neither does anybody else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is....And asking close friends never works quite as well as you hope, either. It's not that they deliberately want to be unhelpful. It's just that they don't know your world one millionth as well as you know your world, no matter how hard they try, no matter how hard you try to explain."

"Van Gogh once told his brother, 'No painting ever sells for as much as it cost the artist to make it.'"

(The following pithy statements are from cartoons that MacLeod draws on the back of business cards.)

"Stay ahead of the culture by creating the culture."

"I no longer have feelings. I had them once but then I got scared of being poor."

"the good news is they're hyper-connected. the bad news is, that's all they are."

"'I can't take this shit anymore!' he said, mistakenly."

Drew-ism

We need to cause enough disturbance to make the system nervous.