University of British Columbia professor Suzanne Simard, who explains how “trees in a forest ecosystem are interconnected with the largest, oldest ‘mother trees’ serving as hubs.
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Techno Occult: Hypersigils Reconsidered
Three important things:
1. Wearing masks alters our perceptions, especially of ourselves. Masks can be used to embody ideal personas or create anonymity. They also affect our self awareness, encourage less limited behaviors and reduce reliance on a singular self-narrative.
3. Putting on a mask, especially one deliberately constructed for a specific purpose, is a very powerful tool for self-transformation work/magic.
2. The Internet allows us to create and change masks very quickly. It also provides far more anonymity than most physical masks, heightening both effects.
Techno Occult: Hypersigils Reconsidered
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Read moreBuzludha is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism. Designed by architect Guéorguy Stoilov, more than 6000 workers were involved in its 7 year construction including 20 leading Bulgarian artists who worked for 18 months on the interior decoration. A small, universally expected donation from every citizen in the country formed a large portion of the funds required to build this impressive structure that was finally unveiled in 1981 on what was the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state.
Buried in the monument’s concrete structure, is a time capsule containing a message for future generations explaining the significance of the building.
In September 2011, the Bulgarian cabinet transferred ownership of the monument to the Bulgarian Socialist party.
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov declared, “We shall let them take care of it because here it also holds true that a party which does not respect its past and its symbols has no future”.
This is Africa, our Africa.: It’s well-documented that classical Greek thinkers traveled to what we now call Egypt to expand their knowledge.
Read more "This is Africa, our Africa.: It’s well-documented that classical Greek thinkers traveled to what we now call Egypt to expand their knowledge."Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and others traveled to Africa, & studied at the temple-universities Waset and Ipet Isut for many years and took the knowledge back to their nations to teach others.So by the time Europeans came to colonize Africa, Africa was very well “civilized”.
So why…
Border controls, currency controls, wage and price controls– these are the usual tactics of desperate, insolvent governments. As times get tougher, they tighten their grip, foolishly believing that they can decree and legislate their country back to health. In the early 4th century AD after decades of economic turmoil and social strife within the Roman […]
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Read moreAs Gregory Clark has shown, for most of human history, as clever people have been inventing things, their new ideas could travel no faster than horses or ships could carry them. Research by Richard Duncan-Jones showed that information of major world events moved at an average of 1 mile-per-hour for most of the last 2000 years, from the Roman Empire to the early American empire, until the invention of the telegraph for the first time allowed complex information to move faster that people (speaking of disruptive!). In other words, if an “iPhone” fell through a worm-hole onto the head of some Spanish guy in 1000 AD, news of this incredible event wouldn’t even reach China for five months.
For this reason (and because there was no such thing as an airplane in the 18th century) the most famous inventions of the industrial revolution some took DECADES to gain a foothold in other countries. The cotton mill, invented in 1771, took 20 years to get to the United States, Clark writes. Watt’s steam engine took 30 years to get to India. The steam railway, invented in 1825, reached the U.S. by 1830, but history doesn’t show its adoption in Sweden or Portugal for another 30 years. Part of this lag was trade laws and a protectionist British government, which clung jealously to its tech talent. But even with spies lurking around the factories of London, it still took several decades for the most disruptive technologies in millennia just to cross the the English Channel and North Sea!
In other words, to praise the speed of the iPhone’s adoption is really to praise other disruptive technologies – the telegraph, the airplane, the intermodal container – that make the immediate worldwide adoption of new products possible. To call the iPhone the fastest most-disruptive technology in history is really just another way of calling it the most recent most-disruptive technology in history. No shame there, but let’s share the love with the other disruptors.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 