Watch this documentary!
Harness the power - watch it large :D
You can take a lead into a new life by simply watching this!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Wonder Drug Banishes Fear
Documentary about a 'new' drug. It banishes fear, and more besides! It cures allergies, increases intelligence and stops smoking!!
Watch this documentary!
Harness the power - watch it large :D
You can take a lead into a new life by simply watching this!
Watch this documentary!
Harness the power - watch it large :D
You can take a lead into a new life by simply watching this!
Friday, October 5, 2012
Advertising
Let's put it bluntly - ADVERTISING SHITS ME.
By and large. Apparently advertising works, but I've yet to understand why. Well, I do kind of know - it pricks the subconscious of consumer minded people. They think that they have to buy something because the advert appeals to them. Quite often, adverts hardly mention the product. This way the message bypasses conscious thought and enters straight into the subconscious, where it can become part of a person's programming. At least, that's the theory as I understand it.
So people buy things that they don't need and spend money on the useless rather than the useful.
And I apparently am some kind of freak for not being sucked in by it all. Sure, I buy things, but I buy want I want, not something that I am told to want.
This makes me wonder what is going on in the minds of habitual consumers. Nothing that they are aware about, I imagine. So we end up with the 'Unconscious Civilisation', blindly following whatever crumbs are laid out for them. We end up with a Global Financial Crisis (the biggest farce since the Depression - after all, there's still the same amount of stuff about the place - more even. All bubbles will burst eventually. Yet, our resources are still the same as they always were.)
I seem to be getting sidetracked.
Advertising per se is not the problem for me. It's the mindless hype, the dumbing down, the sheer idiocy of how a product is going to make your life one of bliss. Give me a break! Our lives start with ourselves and flow out into the world and back again. Whatever you put into it should enhance, not distract.
And herein, I think, is the issue: a little escapism is one thing, but a lifestyle based on escapism is the path to ruin. And this is the lifestyle that advertising encourages. So while the prices of new gadgets comes down, the cost of living itself rises. Money is not a good gauge of cost because the actual energy required to import something from China is higher than something locally produced, even if the monetary cost isn't.
Sidetracked again.
We need a Conscious Civilisation. We need a world in which people do not use ideology or religion as an excuse for grabbing power, where we assist each other in producing a better place to live, where messed up instinctive drives do not rule the night on our streets, where we work together, where the individual has rights but so does the group.
God, all this from my distaste for advertising.
Advertising is designed to appeal to fear and greed. If we do not live in fear and do not feel greed, we are free. I think that is my point.
Here's a nice photo of a city park to end with, just because I like it.
By and large. Apparently advertising works, but I've yet to understand why. Well, I do kind of know - it pricks the subconscious of consumer minded people. They think that they have to buy something because the advert appeals to them. Quite often, adverts hardly mention the product. This way the message bypasses conscious thought and enters straight into the subconscious, where it can become part of a person's programming. At least, that's the theory as I understand it.
So people buy things that they don't need and spend money on the useless rather than the useful.
And I apparently am some kind of freak for not being sucked in by it all. Sure, I buy things, but I buy want I want, not something that I am told to want.
This makes me wonder what is going on in the minds of habitual consumers. Nothing that they are aware about, I imagine. So we end up with the 'Unconscious Civilisation', blindly following whatever crumbs are laid out for them. We end up with a Global Financial Crisis (the biggest farce since the Depression - after all, there's still the same amount of stuff about the place - more even. All bubbles will burst eventually. Yet, our resources are still the same as they always were.)
I seem to be getting sidetracked.
Advertising per se is not the problem for me. It's the mindless hype, the dumbing down, the sheer idiocy of how a product is going to make your life one of bliss. Give me a break! Our lives start with ourselves and flow out into the world and back again. Whatever you put into it should enhance, not distract.
And herein, I think, is the issue: a little escapism is one thing, but a lifestyle based on escapism is the path to ruin. And this is the lifestyle that advertising encourages. So while the prices of new gadgets comes down, the cost of living itself rises. Money is not a good gauge of cost because the actual energy required to import something from China is higher than something locally produced, even if the monetary cost isn't.
Sidetracked again.
We need a Conscious Civilisation. We need a world in which people do not use ideology or religion as an excuse for grabbing power, where we assist each other in producing a better place to live, where messed up instinctive drives do not rule the night on our streets, where we work together, where the individual has rights but so does the group.
God, all this from my distaste for advertising.
Advertising is designed to appeal to fear and greed. If we do not live in fear and do not feel greed, we are free. I think that is my point.
Here's a nice photo of a city park to end with, just because I like it.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
How to make simple stone tools
This video from New Scientist shows a Bonobo, the gentler cousin of the Chimpanzee, making stone tools after the fashion that the earliest human ancestors would have done.
Watch this and take a peek into our own distant past!
Are we alone in the universe? I doubt it since we have company right here on Earth.
Watch this and take a peek into our own distant past!
Are we alone in the universe? I doubt it since we have company right here on Earth.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Japanese breakthrough makes wind power cheaper than nuclear
The International Clean Energy Analysis (ICEA) gateway estimates that
the U.S. possesses 2.2 million km2 of high wind potential (Class 3-7
winds) — about 850,000 square miles of land that could yield high levels
of wind energy. This makes the U.S. something of a Saudi Arabia for
wind energy, ranked third in the world for total wind energy potential.
Read the rest of the article.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
LAIBACH / OPUS DEI / LIFE IS LIFE
This is an epic, life-affirming song!! Mkes you want to affirm or die!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Petition to protect the Tarkine Rainforest
If you live in Australia, why not sign a petition to protect the Tarkine Rainforest from damage.
This is ancient remnant forest from the supercontinent Gondwana! It's safety should not be taken for granted!
This is ancient remnant forest from the supercontinent Gondwana! It's safety should not be taken for granted!
Saturday, May 5, 2012
THE WHITE SHARK KAYAK STORY
Interesting story here about people studying the Great White Sharks off South Africa.
As usual, the animal and the myth do not match - the sharks are far more interesting than that.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Great Blue Heron Nest - Live
This Great Blue Heron nest is in a large, dead white oak in the middle of Sapsucker Woods pond, right outside the Cornell Lab's Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity. ...read more.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Not entirely forgotten
No, I've not forgotten this blog. But I have wondered what I can usefully bring to it that wouldn't just be re-iterating everything that's been already going around.
Yes there are social issue that need dealing with. And there are people who want to control the world, control us and mash us underfoot and destroy nature. It's that simple. I don't understand their need to do so, but it comes from a frightened ego, one they've inherited down the family lines or picked up from somewhere. Trying to oppose force with force, though, becomes a little futile.
When inner change is achieved, I believe (and hope I'm not wrong) and I mean on a mass scale, those people will have no power over us.
What is required for inner change? Not religion, not ideology, not forcing others to accept our beliefs.
We need to accept ourselves.
We can follow a few basic rules:
be kindhearted to all life - including your own,
spend a little time each day being aware of your own inner experience of that moment and remember that everyone else, including animals and I suspect plants, are also having an inner experience in relation to their worlds,
love your life, no matter what shape it is in.
These rules are not ones to be obeyed, but a way of being that is simply a basis for a better world. They are not difficult and do not demand much. But with this little, something may be achieved.
Yes there are social issue that need dealing with. And there are people who want to control the world, control us and mash us underfoot and destroy nature. It's that simple. I don't understand their need to do so, but it comes from a frightened ego, one they've inherited down the family lines or picked up from somewhere. Trying to oppose force with force, though, becomes a little futile.
When inner change is achieved, I believe (and hope I'm not wrong) and I mean on a mass scale, those people will have no power over us.
What is required for inner change? Not religion, not ideology, not forcing others to accept our beliefs.
We need to accept ourselves.
We can follow a few basic rules:
be kindhearted to all life - including your own,
spend a little time each day being aware of your own inner experience of that moment and remember that everyone else, including animals and I suspect plants, are also having an inner experience in relation to their worlds,
love your life, no matter what shape it is in.
These rules are not ones to be obeyed, but a way of being that is simply a basis for a better world. They are not difficult and do not demand much. But with this little, something may be achieved.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Making good use of limited space
I saw this video some time ago and just came across it again.
This Hong Kong architect has transformed his small apartment into a transformer-home with 24 rooms.
You need to see this to believe it - brilliant!
This Hong Kong architect has transformed his small apartment into a transformer-home with 24 rooms.
You need to see this to believe it - brilliant!
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