Existence

BECAUSE IT'S ONE CHOICE TO MAKE,

BUT ULTIMATELY BECAUSE IT'S OUR ONE TRUE

RESPONSIBILITY.

Liberty, rights, freedom...

none of it exists without in-spired and ecologically functional, cognitively polyphasic societies.

(photo by Kairologic, 2011)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1390667/Seventeen-lost-pyramids-thousands-buried-Egyptian-settlements-pinpointed-infrared-satellite-images.html

http://sourashtri.blogspot.com/2010/10/dwarka-india-12000-year-old-city-of.html

http://www.mostlymaya.com/el_mirador.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157784/Do-mysterious-stones-mark-site-Garden-Eden.html

Dendrochronology... was advented by whom again? For what purposes? Is there more reason than one?


Probably.

Probably. Magnetic pole reversals ARE NOT A JOKE.

Keep your eye on the Epa's UV Index in days to come - where there's smoke, there's fire; and, where there's UV there's increased X-Ray exposure too.  Clothing won't save your butt on that one.  Caves, stone and metal structures, and large bodies of water... just may.

And, besides, the main point is that we must move away from the ecological teleology

of the "Occidental" human superiority complex.  If historical and ancient societies could be broken to pieces by resource troubles, and they knew the elements better than we've understood until recently, we too have some things to think about.

“[...A]nthropologists have greatly informed debates about human psychology and cognition. The first and most obvious conclusion, reached before the end of the nineteenth century, was that “primitive” peoples are not ignorant, nor are their lives dominated by magic; they invariably have a deep, rich, and more of less systematic knowledge of their environments.  As time has gone by, we have learned how traditional peoples can maintain a religious view of the world and still combine it with a hardheaded, factual view. By contrast, Western society has developed its characteristically detached and disenchanted view of nature. As a result, many are now saying that the Western world has lost something.” [Sutton and Anderson 2010:115, emphasis added]

Of the native and remaining indigenous peoples of the world, “We may not find their religions persuasive or their [ethnoecological and ethnomedicinal] techniques infallible, but we may be able to build on their experiences to devise more powerful ethical teachings. It seems likely that we will survive only through combining Western science with a new ethical, moral, and religious attitude toward the environment.” [Sutton and Anderson 2010:116, emphasis added]

(Sutton, Mark Q., and E.N. Anderson

2010 Introduction to Cultural Ecology, second edition. Lanham: Altamira Press.)