Simon,

No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy? Sounds great. It’s true that people died very young though.

Did you read what I just said? There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.

However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too c…[Read more]

Strega wrote:
it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.

I take your point, that living conditions and the lack of advanced medicine would have made…[Read more]

I wonder if Schrödinger was ever nervous on Christmas morning as he opened his boxes of presents? Did he call his cat “socks”??

Reg:

Arizona senator who thinks mankind came from monkeys has a say in childhood education.

Senator Farnsworth didn’t say he thought mankind came from monkeys, but rather that the Theory of Evolution said so. He is doing a good impersonation of a monkey by flinging poop, though.

Also, Mitzi Epstein got it wrong when she said that “Evolution…[Read more]

As always, you are very welcome Strega 🙂

Thank you Reg. I’m really touched. Your poem is amazing and I’m honoured by the dedication.

(And thanks for Sunday School!)

I smoked some good weed last night. I imagined an artist digging into the earth for inspiration with bare hands and scraping the hand of a philosopher digging from the opposite direction…. so I wrote a poem. I will dedicate it to Strega 🙂

Digging

You dig from your side
with charcoal hands,
following a feeling
you can’t quite name.

I dig fro…[Read more]

Have a great week and Happy Solstice from close to where I live, this morning. More here.