by David Shiner

Eine Gruppe von NGOs hat ein Konzept für eine Klimaschaden-Steuer ausgearbeitet, zu der Öl- und Gasgesellschaften ausgehend vom von ihnen verursachten CO2-Ausstoß herangezogen würden. Würde die Steuer in den OECD-Ländern mit 5$ pro Kilotonne CO2 beginnen und sich jährlich um weitere 5$ erhöhen, stünden 2030 jährlich 900 Milliarden $ vor allem für den Loss and Damage Fund zur Verfügung, der bei der COP28 beschlossen wurde.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/29/taxing-big-fossil-fuel-firms-raise-billions-climate-finance

Bericht: https://www.greenpeace.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CDT_guide_2024_embargoed_version.pdf

Kolumbien wird die kommende COP16 zur Biodiversität in Cali dazu benutzen, die Bewahrung der Natur zu einem zentralen Thema der "globalen Umweltagenda" zu machen - auch im Vorfeld der Klima-COPs in Aserbaidschan und Brasilien. Der Guardian hat mit der kolumbianischen Umweltministerin Susana Muhamad gesprochen und berichtet über die Vorbereitungen der Konferenz. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/23/colombia-names-cali-as-host-city-cop16-biodiversity-summit-aoe

SOURCE:

Councillors Linda Annis of Surrey, Daniel Fontaine of New Westminster, and Alexa Loo of Richmond, say they will bring motions to their councils that would call on the B.C. NDP government to scrap the three-year experiment that started on Jan. 31, 2023.

https://www.gadgetwisdom.com/

existential isolation - evocative description - See David Loy's description of the same thing as the fear of our own inherent emptiness

quote - existential isolation - Nic Higham

• .But this other kind of anxiety was more like
  • a quiet, unintelligible terror,
  • a distant alarm bell,
  • an uncaused danger.
• It seemed more real and fundamental than any passing concern.
• Apparently arising from my innermost core,
  • existential anxiety was a lurking, menacing mythical figure.
• It hid in the shadows of my very Being,
  • coming at me from
    • everywhere and
    • nowhere.
• It wasn’t an entity but an inescapable mood
  • that cunningly evaded -reason and
    • remedy.
• It was
  • a constant undercurrent,
  • an impending nothingness and hollowness,
  • a strange intimacy with an enticing void,
• the cost of having a thumping heart and a free spirit.

reference - Ernest Becker - Denial of Death - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=denial+of+death - The Birth and Death of Meaning - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=the+birth+and+death+of+meaning - David Loy - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=david%2Bloy

for -: zombies - David Chalmers - UTOK - Unifed Theory of Knowledge - Gregg Henriques

• comment
  • As David Chalmer observes with the philosophical idea of "zombies", strictly speaking, we impute the existence of other consciousnesses, including other human consciousnesses
  • This construction of the "other consciousness" begins at birth with the socialization of the neonate and infant from its mother and father.
• To claim that other species display consciousness is an imputation.and based upon external signs, not internal experience.
  • See Gregg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (TOK) to understand how this statement reflects a mixing up of different types of consciousness
    • https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/
    • https://hyp.is/3MYWSP9AEe6L-Dsla9hnSA/www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/climate/greenhouse-gas-carbon-emissions.html

https://app.thebrain.com/brain/3d80058c-14d8-5361-0b61-a061f89baf87/21b90ebd-dd91-4e3d-b58f-b1a77194f9b2

Das Tempo der Temperaturerhöhung an der Oberfläche der Ozeane ist auch für erfahrene Forschende schockierend. Besonders hoch ist es im Nordatlantik, dessen Erwärmung zu schwereren Hurricans führen könnte. Aber auch der Südatlantik und damit das antarktische Meereis sind betroffen. Die Ursachen sind nicht geklärt; das El Niño-Phänomen reicht zur Erklärung nicht aus. Es könnten Feedback-Mechanismen eine Rolle spielen. Die New York Times hat mehrere Wissenschaftler befragt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/climate/scientists-are-freaking-out-about-ocean-temperatures.html

Infografik: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/02/07/multimedia/27cli-newsletter-02/2024-02-07-sst-hottest-january-index-superJumbo-v2.png?quality=75&auto=webp

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000210283/treibhausgase-umweltgifte-zombieviren-die-risiken-der-permafrostboeden

David Witzel said:

I was trying to find David Roodman's "open book" on microfinance from 2010. Lots of link rot - not sure where it best lives now.

He had interesting stories about how difficult/useful the open writing process was. https://www.cgdev.org/article/microfinance-open-book-blog-qa-david-roodman

Is positivism the source of some of the "progress of human civilization" which David Graeber and David Wengrow point out as problematic in The Dawn of Everything?

Were their prior philosophical movements which may have fed into this forward moving impression? Great chain of being also plays into some of this from a hierarchical perspective.

Ready for anything : 52 productivity principles for work and life

relationship of this area of law with respect to debt and David Graeber's Debt theses?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/end-fossil-fuel-era-to-address-colonial-injustices-urges-prominent-historian

https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/yes-virginia-central-library-still-has-catalog-cards

over how long a period?

for - Title: Losing the Plot: The "Leftists" Who Turn Right - Subtitle: What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right? - Author: Kathryn Joyce, Jeff Sharlet - Source: In These Times - Date: Dec 12,2023

Summary - Once leftist thought leaders - like reporter Matt Taibbi - are appearing to shift right - Once writing about Occupy Wall Street for the Rolling Stones and now - appearing in the right-wing Epoch Times. - Other examples are: - David Horowitz - Once a sponsor of In These Times magazine now author of the book: - Blitz: Trup Will Smash the Left and Win - Christopher Hitchens - Joined the religious nationalists he long derided - Comedians - Dave Chappelle - Roseanne - Russell Brand - who make fun of, traffic in and deride - Trans people, - pandemic <br /> - pedophille conspiracy theories - Robert Kennedy Junior

• Naomi Klein, in her latest book Doppleganger,
• chronicles the same subject.

another variation of Thoreau on tools... source?

It's Walden. (see: https://hypothes.is/a/b10mJsGoEe6rgteMdxbwKQ)

Joy may have more profitably quoted the earlier Walden piece from p.41: "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools."

There also seems to be the idea of our slow evolution into cybernetic or Borg-like beings hiding not only in Joy's argument, but in Thoreau's. If we integrate so closely with our tools, where do they stop and we end and vice versa?

Compare this with the infamous problem of the ship of Theseus.

McCullough, David. “David McCullough Interview with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole.” Humanities 23, no. 4 (August 2002). https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/david-mccullough-biography.

Compare with: https://hypothes.is/a/yEFMHoCkEeyl34fItJe__w (Luhmann on thinking/writing in Sonke Ahrens)

Die Libération empfiehlt angesichts der Klimakrise und mit Hinweis auf die Proteste von Bäuer:innen ein Buch, in dem David Djaïz und Xavier Desjardins für eine macchiavellistisch durchgeführte Revolution durch die Institutionen eintreten, für die das Vertrauen einen großen Mehrheit nötig ist. https://www.liberation.fr/politique/crise-agricole-et-ecologie-la-revolution-obligee-une-lecture-recommandee-20240131_LD33HPW6UZGEDHTAFZKSTPOJDM/

p100

This fits into the same sort of framing as Thoreau's earlier quote "men have become the tools of their tools." (p41)

see: https://hypothes.is/a/vooPrPkwEe2r_4MIb6tlFw

p41

This quote is fascinating when one realizes that the Thoreau family business was manufacturing pencils at John Thoreau & Co., one of the first major pencil companies in the United States. Thoreau's father was the titular John and Henry David worked in the factory and improved upon the hardness of their graphite. https://hypothes.is/a/sm7LUpazEe2tTq_GhGiVIg

One might also then say that the man who manufactured pencils naturally should become a writer!

This quote also bears some interesting resemblance to quotes about tools which shape us by Winston Churchill and John M. Culkin see: https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw

Die Biden-Administration hat die Genehmigung des LNG-Terminals Calcasieu Pass 2 gestoppt, um die Klimawirkung des Projekts zu prüfen. Die Entscheidung gilt als Sieg von Klima-Aktivist:innen. Sie ist ein Signal im Wahlkampf und kann Folgen für 16 ähnliche geplante Projekte haben. Ihr war eine intensive Kampagne vorausgegangen. Auch ohne CO2 werden sich die LNG-Exportkapazitäten der USA in den nächsten Jahren nahezu vervierfachen. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/climate/a-huge-win-for-activists-puts-climate-on-the-2024-agenda.html

reminiscent of the quote:

Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.<br /> —John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)<br /> (see: https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw)

or the earlier version:

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper.<br /> —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p41 <br /> (see: https://hypothes.is/a/vooPrPkwEe2r_4MIb6tlFw)

Die Firma Adnoc wird nicht auf die vorgesehenen 150 Milliarden Dollar Investitionen in weitere fossile Expansion verzichten. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/cop28-president-sultan-al-jaber-says-his-firm-will-keep-investing-in-oil

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/11/critical-gulf-stream-current-weakest-for-1600-years-research-finds

for - David Ray Griffin - followup - David Ray Griffin

followup - David Ray Griffin - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F6uXvJAtoCiQ%2F&group=world

for - talk - David Ray Griffin - time, consciousness and freedom from Whitehead process perspective

https://www.goodreads.com/notes/23814811-debt/3524158-markgrabe-grabe

Mark Grabe's highlights and annotations on David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

for - nature-based carbon sequestration - reestablish whale populations - Nate Hagen - The Great Simplification - David King - climate crisis - solutions - progress trap - overfishing - whales

https://collect.readwriterespond.com/%f0%9f%93%ba-videodrome/

• for: health, David Sinclair, longevity tips, adjacency - lifestyle choices - diet - climate crisis - biodiversity crisis

• SUMMARY

  • The main tips for staying healthy from a lifetime of longevity research on this video.

• adjacency between

  • lifestyle choices
• personal diet
  • climate crisis
  • biodiversity crisis
• adjacency statement:
  • Promoting this kind of diet and lifestyle can have enormous benefits on climate crisis as well.
  • One could write a paper about the crossover benefits to climate and biodiversity crisis.

David Letterman kept the Ed Sullivan Theater around 55 degrees F because the temperature keeps the audience alert.

Apparently back in the 80s, Dave experimented with different temperatures on different shows. He tried 75 one day. 65 another day. The day he went with 55, jokes really hit and from then on that was the temperature. http://www.sandpapersuit.com/2011/07/why-letterman-keeps-his-studio-so-cool.html

Some folks say David Letterman doesn’t want to break into a sweat during intense interviews under hot studio lights. But, according to George Clarke, Theater and Building Engineer for CBS, the cool air makes the sound crisper and keeps the audience more alert. “Crowd reaction is very important in this business, and the comedy stays fresh in the cold, too” says Clarke...

At about 5 o’clock each week night, Clarke and his boss, Joe Soldano, Building Manager, must make sure that the temperature of the Ed Sullivan Theater is pulled down to 50° F before the audience arrives. The MULTISTACK chiller has never failed to cool things down. “The stagehands call this place ‘the refrigerator’.” In the filming rooms everyone sits around in winter coats, hats and gloves. They, too, are kept crisp and alert by the cool temperature. via http://www.multistack.com/casestudies/david_letterman.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age

https://www.amazon.com/GREAT-BOOKS-David-Denby/dp/0684835339

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/14/failure-cop28-fossil-fuel-phase-out-devastating-say-scientists

• for: quote - when we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong, quote - Thomas Homer-Dixon

• quote

  • When we get our story wrong, we get our future wrong
• author: David Korten, quoted by Thomas Homer-Dixon
• date: 2021

Ich wurde von Pro7 interviewt & DAS ist passiert…

2:37 "neutrale medien" - nur tote menschen sind neutral, alles leben hat vorurteile = bias.<br /> "rechtsextrem oder rechtsradikal" - nein, wirklich "rechtsextreme" meinungen<br /> werden aggressiv wegzensiert, auch über den vorwurf "verrückt und gefährlich" = §63 StGB.<br /> das ganze system / regime / imperium ist "radikal gegen naturordnung",<br /> und ich bin ein staatsfeind weil ich "radikal für naturordnung" schreibe und rede.<br /> das ganze system baut auf radikale lügen, und wahrsager sind "kriminelle". das geht schon lange so.

3:06 mit seiner juden-nase würd ich auch rumheulen,<br /> dass mein politischer gegner ein "antisemit" ist.<br /> die chabad-lubavitch "juden" wollen halt wirklich eine unfehlbare herrenrasse sein...<br /> mal sehn, wann der "Mashiach ben David" kommt und welchen scheiss der "verkündet",<br /> ausser dass die sklaven sich an noah's gesetze (sklavenmoral) halten müssen, oder sterben.<br /> (Tilman Knechtel, Wolfgang Eggert, Gerhard Wisnewski, Express Zeitung, Compact Magazin, ...)

"dass du 9/11 in frage stellst"<br /> seriously? dieser klugscheisser glaubt ernsthaft an die offizielle version von 9/11?<br /> vermutlich glaubt der ALLES, was ihm seine vorbeter (staatliche lehrer) erzählen,<br /> auch sowas wie "kiffen macht verrückt" oder "LSD macht verrückt". kann ich nicht ernst nehmen.

3:34 "die anderen sprecher wollen nichts mit der rechten ecke verbunden werden"<br /> höchstens deswegen, weil die mainstream-hetzer alle "rechten" kriminalisieren.<br /> aber das sagt er nicht dazu, weil er ist hier ein täter, oder "neutral" wie er sagen würde.

4:18 "wie viel macht misst du dem wort bei?"<br /> idioten (also emos) lassen sich triggern durch stichworte wie "nazi" oder "antisemit".<br /> diese leute sind wirklich hirntote opfer, denen reicht so ein "befehl", und das hirn schaltet sich aus.<br /> "fear the power of stupid people" oder so.<br /> deswegen soft power: der öffentlichkeit schöne lügen erzählen, und unterbewusst manipulieren.

6:15 ich als "rechtsextremer" sage: das "recht auf leben" ist grundsätzlich falsch.<br /> also "in meiner welt" ist jede form von mord "legal", besser gesagt: legitim = naturrecht-konform.

7:05 "politische veranstaltung oder christlich-religiöse veranstaltung?"<br /> jede religion ist für idioten, die einzige wahrheit ist nihilismus = alles wird sterben.<br /> religion (also lügen) ist ein nützliches tool für herrscher, zum ausbeuten von sklaven = soft power.

8:00 "wo ordnest du dich politisch zu?"<br /> gar nicht. ich bin einzelgänger, weil jede gruppe ist scheisse.<br /> meine "naturordnung" (kommunismus und kapitalismus) funktioniert nur in kleinen gruppen<br /> (150 menschen, dunbars number),<br /> alle großen gruppen führen automatisch zu sozialismus und faschismus.

Reductionistic vs other definitions

Is the annotated paragraph describing what is an object or how is an object? This same criticism is also present in Dave West's Object Thinking.

Other perspectives:

Smalltalk's design—and existence—is due to the insight that everything we can describe can be represented by the recursive composition of a single kind of behavioral building block that hides its combination of state and process inside itself and can be dealt with only through the exchange of messages. Philosophically, Smalltalk's objects have much in common with the monads of Leibniz and the notions of 20th century physics and biology. Its way of making objects is quite Platonic in that some of them act as idealizations of concepts—Ideas—from which manifestations can be created. That the Ideas are themselves manifestations (of the Idea-Idea) and that the Idea-Idea is a-kind-of Manifestation-Idea—which is a-kind-of itself, so that the system is completely self-describing— would have been appreciated by Plato as an extremely practical joke.

—Alan Kay Early History of Smalltalk (1972)

So objects have something resembling agency, see the actor model.

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them.

—Alan Kay Clarification of "object-oriented", email reply to Stefan Ram

I also like the complementary view that Gerald Sussman teaches on his video lecture 5A that informs chapter 2 and 3 of SICP; objects are a cheap way of modelling the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/climate/cop28-fossil-fuels.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/17/un-climate-summit-host-uae-failed-report-methane-emissions

Fiona Harvey fasst mehrere Interviews zusammen, die sie mit Sultan Al Jaber geführt hat. Es ist offensichtlich, dass sein primäres Interesse darin besteht, die Geschäfte der UAE-Staatsfirmen Adnoc und Masdar langfristig zu sichern und auszubauen, und das offenbar in enger Abstimmung mit Saudi-Arabien. Man hofft, als letzte im Öl- und Gas-Business übrigzubleiben und will dann stark bei den Erneuerbaren sein. Die Förderung von Öl und Gas wird durch den Hinweis auf die Wünscher der Verbraucher:innen legitimiert; außerdem brauche man sie für die Petrochemie. Die Strategie ist verwandt mit der der OMV (die nicht erwähnt wird) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/07/meet-the-oil-man-tasked-with-saving-the-planet-cop28

Ran across David Auerbach's blog while looking up a note on Keith Thomas.

https://www.waggish.org/

He's got some interesting looking stuff on Hans Blumenberg in translation.

David Hilbert

Wikipedia (en)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert

accessed:: 2023-11-24 23:40

• for: The Climate Emergency Unit, David Suzuki Institute

• reference

  • https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca/

Die USA wollen wieder massiv in Kernenergie investieren, vor allem in kostengünstige kleinere Kraftwerke. Es werden unterschiedlichste neue Reaktortypen entwickelt. Es ist aber noch völlig unklar, ob die Industrie ihre Versprechen halten kann. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/12/climate/nuclear-reactors-clean-energy.html

[[David Wingrow]] doesn't reply on religiosity of ancient humans but on the scale of their reach.

Vor der Apec-Konferenz haben China und die USA "statements of cooperation" veröffentlicht, die als positive Signale für eine Zusammenarbeit beim Klimaschutz gewertet werden, auch wenn China nicht auf Investitionen in Kohlekraftwerke verzichtet. Beide Seiten wollen die Kapazität bei Erneuerbaren bis 2030 global verdreifachen. Erstmals ist China bereits, Reduktionsziele für alle Treibhausgase festzulegen. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/climate/us-china-climate-agreement.html

Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis: https://www.state.gov/sunnylands-statement-on-enhancing-cooperation-to-address-the-climate-crisis/

This sort of Whig History example seems to be cropping up again in the early 21st century as Republicans are basing large pieces of their beliefs/identity/doctrine on portions of The Federalist Papers which were marginally read at the time they were written, but because those historical documents appear to make their current positions look "right" today, they're touting them over the more influential Federalist tracts at the time of the founding of America.

Link this to example of this (which I can't seem to find right now.)

Given Alexander von Humboldt's time period (1769-1859), might he have been the recipient of indigenous knowledge during the Renaissance the same way that Graeber/Wengrow demonstrate others were around that same time frame?

Could Alexander von Humboldt have been one of the early examples of a popular science writer?

Perhaps an early David Attenborough?

Die New York Times hat Wissenschaftler:innen portraitiert und interviewt, die Ökosysteme und Arten erforschen, die die globale Erhitzung mit Auslöschung bedroht: Dokumente der Trauer, der Resignation und der Wut. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/magazine/extinction-species-scientists-climate-change.html

• for: purpose of David Brooks' book

• paraphrase

• the purpose of his book is to advocate and spread the skills it takes to know another human being and make them feel known, seen and heard

John Kerry besucht in dieser Woche China für dreitägige Gespräche mit seinem Pendant Xie Zhenhua. Konkrete Ergebnisse dieses Treffens werden von den meisten Experten nicht erwartet. Ein mögliches Ergebnis könnten regelmäßige Gespräche beide Seiten zur Abstimmung ihrer Dekarbonisierungspolitik sein. Hintergrundbericht in der New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/climate/us-china-climate-talks.html

https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/david-lynch-quotes

—David Lynch

Ausführlicher Bericht über die sehr ambitionierte, auf grünes Wächstum ausgerichtete Klimapolitik Kaliforniens unter Gouverneur Gavin Newsom. Dem Artikel zufolge sind die Ziele Newsoms kaum zu erreichen, vor allem weil der Bedarf an Strom nicht klimaneutral gedeckt werden kann. Newsom gilt als potenzieller demokratischer Präsidentschaftskandidat 2028. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/23/climate/gavin-newsom-california-climate-action.html

I've come to think that the purpose of part 1 of the book is part rhetorical device (ethos). David Lipsky is using it to build up some credibility as a writer. He's covering topics that many are likely somewhat knowledgeable about, but is adding some additional color, details, and information which most surely don't know. This has the effect of showing the depths to which he's researched the topics to be able to weave them into such a story.

This will tend to pay off as he begins addressing the potentially more contentious (for some) material in the climate crisis section.

https://www.theparrotandtheigloo.com/

The endnotes missing from the book.

https://davidharvey.org/

56:00 Allen going on an adventure (inner and outer exploration)

• see note on discovering oneself, getting lost, trying many things

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/10/21/tools-of-tools/

I'm responsible for a quote investigator article being rewritten! Huzzah!

Cross reference my note: https://boffosocko.com/2023/05/22/men-have-become-the-tools-of-their-tools-henry-david-thoreau/

Auf einer Geberkonferenz in Bonn haben die Industrieländer über 4 Jahre insgesamt 9,4 Milliarden Dollar für den grünen Klimafonds zugesagt. Die Summe ist geringer als die für den Vierjahreszeitraum davor. https://taz.de/Klimaschutz-im-globalen-Sueden/!5960545/

The whispered name "Shia LaBeouf" becomes the kernel of the song "Shia LaBeouf".

David Lynch would be proud how the resultant product stayed true to the kernel of the idea.

http://www.philsoc.eu/turban.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20150526000343/http://www.philsoc.eu/turban.html

``` Trauma Releasing Exercises are a form of Cult Deprogramming

[[Trauma Releasing Exercises]] (TRE) by [[David Berceli]]

related articles: [[Tremor]], [[Quakers]] (aka "shakers"), [[Bradford Keeney]] ([[Shaking medicine]]), [[Somatic experiencing]] ([[Peter A. Levine]]), [[Ecstatic dance]], [[Runner's high]], ... (its revealing that wikipedia has no articles on these "alternative medicine" topics... all hail the cult of big pharma!)

this association assumes that cults use [[Psychological trauma]] to imprison their slaves.

Psychological trauma is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events such as accidents, violence, sexual assault, terror, or sensory overload.

in every cult, there are people who want to escape. this "want to escape" starts early in childhood, where it is counteracted by punishment = by creating psychological trauma.

Sigmund Freud's [[Psychoanalysis]] always blames "some childhood trauma" for "neurotic" behavior in adults, instead of fixing the child education, to prevent the creation of that trauma in the first place = radical solution.

the cult slaves are expected to use their body only for working, not for sports, not for fighting, not for pleasure. all problems should be solved peacefully and intellectually ("let us talk..."). because the cult leaders know: if the slaves make too much use of their body (shaking medicine), the slaves would escape.

also related: [[Slave morality]] is another word for [[Cult]], because the [[Public opinion]] of every cult is a form of slave morality (beautiful lies), and hard truths ([[Red pill and blue pill|red pills]]) are hidden as master morality. ```

• for: interspecies communications, animal consciousness, animal consciousness - octopus

• summary

  • Dr. David Edelman presents on the subject of the natural history of the awareness of the octopus
  • The octopus is one of the most complex of invertebrates and its study can give clues about how sensory awareness and consciousness developed in animals

• for: Dr. David Edelman, octopus - awareness, evolution of awareness

There is an interesting theme of staying true to a center or core of a story which is broadly similar to David Lynch's staying true to the original idea. The difference may be that Lynch is staying true to his own original idea which started the process whereas Coppola is distilling out a core from an original source and then focusing on that rather than having Puzo's own original core.

Which core is the "true" one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGb3WFEhLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RFMCmfRmc

Lynch, David. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity. New York, NY: Tarcher Perigee, 2006.

annotation URL: urn:x-pdf:7d3165882b27dc69918cc2de97baab96

David Lynch uses meditation to expand his container of knowledge.

He's talking about movie making, but it applies to almost anything.

Because Frank Silva was a proverbial slip in David Lynch's living zettelkasten process, he ended up appearing in Twin Peaks by way of the serendipity of Lynch's method of combinatorial creativity.

David Lynch's films are a personally structured output of his zettelkasten of ideas comprised of words, sounds, images, music, sound, people, and moods.

Being an author is having the final cut on a string of ideas placed in a particular order.

The entirety of David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish (2006) is a series of topically arranged chapters each with just a handful of either simple sentences or very short paragraphs very loosely strung together.

It's almost as if Lynch has taken his zettelkasten of ideas, potentially written on napkins from Bob's Big Boy, and dumped them out into the loose form of a book.

I'll write more in depth about it later, but I just read David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity https://bookshop.org/a/17195/9781585425402. He definitely has a zettelkasten-like creative process which revolves around "catching ideas". He talks about the philosophy and shape of his practice, but doesn't get into the direct physical form or substrate. He doesn't mention it in the book, but in the late 70s and early 80s his process definitely involved using napkins from Bob's Big Boy restaurant. He was influenced by his teacher Frank Daniel who had a practice of using 3x5 inch index cards for his screenwriting process. The book itself has a very zettelkasten-like flavor, almost as if he wrote ideas on index cards (or napkins), gave them some light arrangement by topic and then tipped the whole into book form without heavy editing. (It would be incredibly easy to cut it back up into individual index cards.) If you're into using zettelkasten for creativity (writing/creating), you'll appreciate some of his philosophy which he also wraps in a very light meditation wrapper.

This short video encapsulates some of the ideas and flavor of his book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RFMCmfRmc.

Syndication link: https://discord.com/channels/992400632390615070/992428117467615333/1158852901192605828

https://www.openculture.com/2018/08/how-david-lynch-got-creative-inspiration.html

Lynch has spoken about the use of 3x5" index cards for screenwriting (via Frank Daniel).

Here he mentions writing down ideas for movies on the napkins provided by Bob's Big Boy restaurant. (zettelkasten made of napkins?)

Lynch, David. A Pinewood Dialogue with David Lynch. .mp3. Pinewood Dialogues, 1997-02-16. Museum of the Moving Image. https://movingimage.us/programs/david-lynch/.

Transcript: http://www.movingimagesource.us/files/dialogues/2/64075_programs_transcript_pdf_202.pdf

Audio: https://movingimage.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/86719_media_files_media_595_mp3_with_bumpers.mp3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/6l20sy/david_lynchs_70_scenes_a_method_for_figuring_out/

David Lynch described the method from Frank Daniel (1926-1996) of the American Film Institute and Dean of advanced film studies who taught students to plot out their screenplays using 3 x 5" index cards. One would write out a total of 70 cards each with scene headings. Once fleshed out, one would have a complete screenplay.

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yngWNmouhP0

Try to make the words say what the idea is.<br/> —David Lynch on screenwriting

This is the problem of having experts attempt to teach their "method". This is so simple as to be risable.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/act_course/

https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/that-histomap-on-mitt-romneys-wall