This is a learning (and sharing) project dedicated to dissecting, examining, and confronting the deception dependent Republican assault on climate science and rational constructive debate ~ I invite good-faith discussion.
Please realize your relentless deluge of fund raising texts - filled with melodramatic to hysterical messaging - is counter-productive.
If the Democratic Party isn't changing minds, we are losing!
DNC needs to inform, engage, and motive us! These constant texts do nothing but irritate and worse - they drive people away because we are tapped out. Instead, why not help us regular grassroots people network with likeminded Democrats to raise awareness. Let's recapture the sense of the community spirit that once fueled our democracy.
We need substantive helpful information and connection building.
A suggestion: Why not a private Democratic online discussion forum.
I am an evolved biological sensing creature, a filament in the pageant of Earth’s evolution.
I am the product of nearly half a billion years of Earth’s uninterrupted generations of research and development and reproduction.
My Body/Brain is the cumulative product of Earth’s evolutionary processes;
My Mind is the cumulative product of my Body/Brain interacting with my world (interior & exterior);
My God(s) along with all of my other thoughts are the product of my Mind.
I appreciate and respect the Physical Reality ~ Human Mind divide(with its many cascading implications) and believe it’s about the most fundamental observation we can make regarding our human condition and it is worth ruminating on since all else proceeds from there.
I respect and appreciate serious science as our best chance to understand ourselves and the Earth that sustains us. I also believe that the science of our Earth/biology/evolution and deep time offer opportunities for spiritual revelations, challenges and resolutions well beyond what our self-created ego-driven religions can offer.
Democratic Party leaders how will you start reconnecting with alienated voters whose budgets won’t allow for constant political donations?
Oh if wishes were horses and I had tons of money, then someone at Democratic headquarters would listen to this suggestion. We could talk it around until a big wig decides to take the idea for themself and make it happen. Politics at its best.
Now it’s the proverbial, … never mind. Now, if you think it's a good idea, pass it along.
DNC’s never ending assault of political donation demands have become counter productive. We need ideas and community and encouragement.
What’s worse is the melodrama, rarely do those Democrat texts communicate any constructive information or reason to engage.
We need substantive helpful information. We need something with teeth that engages.
One suggestion, why not a private Democratic online discussion forum. The DNC could communicate directly with interested voters; create a platform to inform, engage, motivate and help us network directly with likeminded.
Give us something to help build a little tangible feelings of solidarity.
A CFI member recommended that I listen to this interview of Michael Muthukrishna. I’ve listened to it twice and enjoyed the interview, especially the first 50 minutes about how we got here. Some fine observations that sync with my understanding. I made plenty of notes and will save them incase someone shows an interest in discussing the talk. What I want to discuss happened 51 minutes into the discussion.
Can we even imagine a “Theory of Everyone,” providing basic organizing principles for society?
Michael Muthukrishna (Ph.D. in psychology) believes we can, and indeed that we can see the outlines of such a theory emerging, based on the relationships of people to each other and to the physical resources available.
Michael Muthukrishna received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of British Columbia. He is currently Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. … His new book is A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. podbean.comVideo Link
“Phase transition in mental ability” - an interesting key concept, I like it. Are human’s capable of such a thing? I ask because reality challenged the entire human race in the 1960s to ‘70s. It came as a realization and warning that humanity and Earth had entered dangerous unchartered existential territory.
Thanks to science we were increasingly taking on Godly powers and our population had entered an exponential population explosion, while Earth's natural systems and landscapes had limits who's crossing would start increasingly damaging those complex systems that support human society, and if we were really careless, we could even trigger events leading to our extinction.
The choice was simple, slow down a little, use a little forethought and wisdom before rushing into the unknown. To recognize and learn from our mistakes. Learn more about Earth’s processes. Strive to work with those processes. Instead the powers-that-be decided citizens should hold nature and Earth's needs in contempt.
