How have things happened in the last couple of days? Well it has been quiet with all the grown-up grandchildren gone, though Lillie is still here. I wrote about cave paintings the other day and the book I was reading. It sparked a controversial comment, very long and referenced and it seemed to me not troll like at all. But written by someone who was young and the pulse of strong opinion coursed through them. I read the links but at the end of the day deleted the comment, though I have kept a reference for it.
When you get old, strong opinions are watered down and one looks at the world quietly, knowing full well you are not going to be in it for long ;). I notice there is a definite troll going round, commenting with the repeated word 'die', not upsetting, just childish.
I wake up early, at the behest of my cat, who either wants feeding or her water bowl topped up. When we have both settled I turn to my tablet for things to look at. Today Bernie Sanders with a talk about the billionaires taking over the reins of power in America. Musk of course comes to mind, a stupid man who thinks he can strut the world stage and tell everyone what to do. I blanched the other day when he wanted to control Wikipedia in some way. We know that not all fares well in his little world of acquisition. X has lost a lot of contributors. But hey-ho!
I watched a small video on the parlous state of towns in Cornwall, especially Cambourne. The tents for the homeless part of the graveyard territory. Ever since mining and fishing has become almost extinct, the place has closed down. Of course tourism prospers in the pretty villages that edge the sea but it brings its own problems in expensive holiday homes forcing the young out of the county. Apparently lithium has been found, and a mining firm has already opened last October but it will not go far as giving employment to the many.
Lastly I watched a small local video about the abandoned Rodwell Hill Farm that is up on the moors above Todmorden and the several suicides in the barn over the decades. Making a life up on the moors must have been very hard, I can even think I hear Catherine calling out 'Heathcliff, Heathcliff' from those dark grey walls of the farmhouse. Anyway I shall put the link up and no-one has to watch it but it is the part of Todmorden I am not able to reach.
Edit: It is good to go back on old blogs. This one from 2010 records the day, sometimes I wish that like Tasker I could reprint my old blogs. But it seems impossible. Firstly they come out with a background of red when they come forward onto a new page, and should be able to remove the colour the words overlap the sides.
Hi Thelma
ReplyDeleteI hope Musk doesn't get involved in British politics.
I think he should focus on what made him great - industry and innovation.
Hey-ho, as you say. Heading out to do some chores later today.
Liam
Morning Liam, yes we are mostly back to the commonplace of ordinary life. As for Musk he is only human and I think the more we talk about him, and Farage 'bigs' him up the more self important he becomes. At least in his own mind.
DeleteI rather like Todmorden but had not heard of that barn.
ReplyDeleteMorning Mark, There are several ruined farms up on the moors. Very bleak you can well see why the Brontes and Ted Hughes were so miserable in their writing. Todmorden is a small place but buried in a valley that is sometimes a bit depressing.
ReplyDeletePaul Knight of 'Landscape' blog writes very eloquently of the landscape round here.
The New Year will bring many challenges as my country is in such confusion about what will happen next. Holding my breath and hoping things won't be as bad as many of us imagine. I turn 75 this year and am angry that 4 years of my future are wasted on Frump years! Ugh!
ReplyDeleteHope the New Year brings you good health, peace and joy, Thelma!
Look at it this way Ellen. Politics go on above our heads, we have very little input, just one vote to be precise. Use it and then forget about all the grubbiness in politic land ;)
DeleteI think of Cornwall as a prosperous county and I am sure it is for some but clearly not all.
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Deleteit doesn't have much going for it Andrew except tourism and mineral wealth. They also see themselves as very independent of the rest of the country.
I got that 'Die' one sometime back. I was pretty shocked to see it. John Gray said that he thinks it is a 'bot', not human at all. I only had it once, and once deleted, I never received it again.
ReplyDeleteStill to receive it Debby. Must admit the message is pretty scary though
DeleteConstructive Criticism:
ReplyDeleteThe authors of "The Dawn" claim human history has not "progressed" in stages, or linearly, and must not end in inequality and hierarchy as with our current system... so there's hope for us now that it could get different/better again). As a result of this fake hope porn it has been widely praised. It conveniently serves the profoundly sick industrialized world of fakes and criminals. The book's dishonest fake grandiose title shows already that this work is a FOR-PROFIT, instead a FOR-TRUTH, endeavour geared at the (ignorant gullible) masses.
Fact is human history since the dawn of agriculture has "progressed" in a linear stage (the "stuck" problem, see below), although not before that (https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything ). This "progress" has been fundamentally destructive and is driven and dominated by “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” (https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html) which the fake hope-giving authors of "The Dawn" entirely ignore naturally (no one can write a legitimate human history without understanding and acknowledging the nature of humans). And these two married pink elephants are the reason why we've been "stuck" in a destructive hierarchy and unequal 2-class system , and will be far into the foreseeable future (the "stuck" question --- "the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode?" or "how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles" --- [cited from their book] is the major question in "The Dawn" its authors never really answer, predictably).
Worse than that, the Dawn authors actually promote, push, propagandize, and rationalize in that book the unjust immoral exploitive criminal 2-class system that's been predominant for millennia [https://nevermoremedia.substack.com/p/was-david-graeber-offered-a-deal]!
"All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organization. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie. With their different motives, those who need experts are falsifiers and fools. Whenever individuals lose the capacity to see things for themselves, the expert is there to offer an absolute reassurance." —Guy Debord
A good example that one of the "expert" authors, Graeber, has no real idea on what world we've been living in and about the nature of humans is his last brief article on Covid where his ignorance shines bright already at the title of his article, “After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep.” Apparently he doesn't know that most people WANT to be asleep, and that they've been wanting that for thousands of years (and that's not the only ignorant notion in the title) --- see https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html. Yet he (and his partner) is the sort of person who thinks he can teach you something authentically truthful about human history and whom you should be trusting along those terms. Ridiculous!
"The Dawn" is just another fantasy, or ideology, cloaked in a hue of cherry-picked "science," served lucratively to the gullible ignorant public who craves myths and fairy tales.
“Far too many worry about possibilities more than understanding reality.” --- E.J. Doyle, American songwriter & social critic, 2021
"The evil, fake book of anthropology, “The Dawn of Everything,” ... just so happened to be the most marketed anthropology book ever. Hmmmmm." --- Unknown