“The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.”
― Zhuangzi
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"We are stuck in a bad Zombie movie, just with out the zombies" - was my wife's fitting reaction after haven been through countless hours of highly nonsensical and intrusive "health regulation" procedures at the Japanese border. An unprecedented level of theatrical harassment to "keep everyone safe". "Asteroid please" is an appropriate request in reaction to this clown world.
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Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
Dr. Cristin Kearns uncovered papers showing the sugar industry secretly funded Harvard research downplaying role of sugar in heart disease - fingering dietary fat instead.
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"The mushroom told me that nobody knows jack shit about what's going on." - Terence McKenna
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Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future (The Atlantic)
"Remote work lays bare many brutal inefficiencies and problems that executives don’t want to deal with because they reflect poorly on leaders and those they’ve hired. Remote work empowers those who produce and disempowers those who have succeeded by being excellent diplomats and poor workers, along with those who have succeeded by always finding someone to blame for their failures. It removes the ability to seem productive (by sitting at your desk looking stressed or always being on the phone), and also, crucially, may reveal how many bosses and managers simply don’t contribute to the bottom line."
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Disgusting Colonial Mentality, illustrated with Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
#Comment: If one pays close attention, it is evident that the UK and many of the other "former" colonial powers are still run by such deeply hateful, disgusting madmen up to this day.
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Chaco Canyon - Sacred land of the Hopi
Related: Ancient DNA Yields Unprecedented Insights into Mysterious Chaco Civilization
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Robert Anton Wilson interviews David Bohm, the famous theoretical physicist
Bohm: "If you take a holistic view and try to apply it everywhere and refuse to think of any alternative, you will make mistakes. In fact, it was the mistakes of the medieval holists that led to the rebellion against them and the rise of mechanistic philosophy in Bacon and Newton. Now I think we see again in our time that the limitations of the mechanistic view are becoming obvious, so we need a new development of holism again. But the problem is never in any particular model per se. The problem is that models are thought, and thought is the past and can prevent us from fresh thinking now. No model is equal to the whole universe, because the only thing equal to the whole universe is the whole universe. No thought can grasp the whole, because thought is a part, not the whole. So we need to use each model where it is useful and replace it, without regret, when it is no longer useful." [...] "However, my best guess is that as we go along we will see more and more that these models are not mutually exclusive. We will see, I think, that the universe is like music, and that there are always at least two themes interwoven."
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Astromycology: "Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms" (via)
Mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts
