tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537045684820674531.post4372658891626212628..comments2024-03-29T04:11:05.026-07:00Comments on Consider The Source: A Good Time to Take Up the Fiddle - Casually Documenting Our Collective Descent Into Madnessmikeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537045684820674531.post-37140459734647605232012-03-26T01:46:56.165-07:002012-03-26T01:46:56.165-07:00The Ryan Budget: "Rats in the streets gnawing...The Ryan Budget: "Rats in the streets gnawing at your bones."<br /><br />It's going to be hard to determine a winner in the struggle over reality.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537045684820674531.post-24457866248969032812012-03-25T06:50:42.014-07:002012-03-25T06:50:42.014-07:00I read this in New Scientist and it seemed to reso...I read this in New Scientist and it seemed to resonate with what I read in your post. (Sorry for the copypasta but it's behind a subscription firewall) The last sentence sums both your and their points. [Emphasis mine.]<br />= = = = = <br />Your report on climate change sceptics targeting schools in the US (25 February, p 6) shows that we have entered a time of crisis and confusion, with what counts as knowledge seemingly up for grabs, and society's hold on reality looking increasingly shaky.<br /><br />Science attempts to understand things in a way that is independent of our thoughts about them. Our social constructions, on the other hand, would not exist outside of our shared web of beliefs, desires, intentions and expectations. We have become so preoccupied playing games with that socially constructed symbol we call money, for example, that we have forgotten the total dependence of the economy upon ecology, and seem to be destabilising the latter upon orders from the former.<br /><br />What most conservatives fear is that the public will one day see this, begin to integrate scientific knowledge into their world view, and restore proper dependency relations, changing our social institutions accordingly. What the conservatives want to conserve, in other words, is an abstract conceptual scheme that is out of touch with reality, not the concrete Earth systems that actually support our lives and are now urgently in need of conservation.<br /><br />Little wonder that they seek to cast doubt not only on climate change but also on evolution and the origins of life. <b>The battle for humanity's future, therefore, must be recognized as a battle over the nature of reality itself.</b>Willynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537045684820674531.post-27311301450631576332012-03-24T17:21:26.317-07:002012-03-24T17:21:26.317-07:00Of course, steps must be taken to prolong his life...Of course, steps must be taken to prolong his life.<br /><br />There are still entire cities to which he has not laid waste, millions he hasn't killed or made homeless.<br /><br />So much still to do...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537045684820674531.post-778219097414041902012-03-24T17:06:06.000-07:002012-03-24T17:06:06.000-07:00O.T.?
Aide says Cheney had heart transplant
~O.T.?<br /><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/aide-says-cheney-had-heart-transplant-230644930.html" rel="nofollow">Aide says Cheney had heart transplant</a><br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com