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joaquim #249 krishnamurti was a great favourite of mine for many years in 1999 i happened to be in chennai overnight for a flight out and found a small hotel about a km from k’s mansion home which was and still is […]

 you might like this joaquim an article about doug rushkoff and tech blowback and how tech ‘barons’ like musk  bezos suckerberg et al are in escape mode  he takes a shot at richard dawkins to […]

strato #173 And it seems, the planet, the Earth. Nature is fallen. It has to go. It’s basically unlovely. nutshell you could be quoting my born again rapture seeking christian friend i sometimes meet on my daily walk

bravo strato #76 but bravo joachim too for bringing out the best in strato

michael #51 sorry michael and marco i knew it was one of you m boys who wrote about orwell the ragged book is one long heavy tome but easy to read am also reading your krauss book on feynman quantum man that’s a […]

michael 100  in reference to your george orwell posts from way back am at present well into a book that orwell said was well worth reading (even though it is sometimes teachy/preachy and repetitive) the […]

marco #12 nice summary of china’s geopolitical moves will be sending your piece to someone who ‘gets’ china  

nothing wrong with a day of rest even a i might be in favour of such a concept wondering how much greenhouse gas emissions could be cut with those jewish and free presbyterian sabbath restrictions having one […]

strato #57 some great shots in there strato Toronto University ought to sack him.[jp] He has forfeited his credibility. Made a huge fortune out of it. It’s lucrative, gaming the restive and credulous. jp i […]

further comment on book owning the future on book club

am now on the chapter in owning the future by adrienne buller and mathew lawrence (what a great wee book) chapter called fossil fascism a term dear to my heart coined by andreas malm and the zetkin collective  

phil #41 She ushered in the age of greed and slammed two doors on the victims of her own failed economics. in owning the future by adrienne buller and mathew lawrence thatcher comes in for this blast for selling […]

strato #30 Victims of historical capitalism, its system of ownership, rentierism, and wealth concentration. am into owning the future by Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence (as recommended on  book […]

marco #25 in a country without statutory health care, without statutory maternity leave, without statutory paid sick pay, without statutory annual leave entitlement, without universal childcare (etc. etc. etc.), […]

strato adrienne buller is indeed a breath of fresh air on the darker side i am reading the darkness manifesto by  Johan Eklöf on light pollution’s devastating effects on life but at least it’s something that h […]

michael #6 and phil #8  (way back in january) thanks to both of you for those reviews of and comments on hofstadter’s i am a strange loop  they got me going on it i’m about half way thru at the point of his wife c […]

darwin day reading a book leading up to this day a few pages a day with the great man always in mind full of endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful

strato and phil
brilliant sequence of comments and links
a media studies course with music and laughter
 

strato #337
always like to see jordan peterson taken apart
his pompous youtube presence is dispiriting
together with lomborg and lindzen
their schtick reeks of fossil fuel funding
 

here in ontario canada where the ministry of education
has mandated holocaust education for gr 6 students
you cannot find any free streaming of the ken burns series
even tho pbs buffalo serves ontario/toronto
and […]