Saturday, December 24, 2011
Christmas at the Mill
Polistra and Happystar are celebrating again with the annual Christmas Pyrosome, representing the useful and beautiful things that happen when animals and bacteria work in reciprocity.
[Appropriate music: Here and here, and of course here.]
This year Polistra gave Happystar two lumps of coal. In civilized times it would be an insult. In Gaian times anything you can burn for heat is a joyous gift, more precious than gold. (But don't tell the EPA!)
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2011 has been a very good year for nationalism, as all the monstrous mashups of the 20th century are coming apart. Some of them have been torn down by popular uprisings; in the Gaian world people are too weak and gutless to rise up, but fortunately the secular contraptions have consumed their own food.
As the post-Christian West writhes in its overdue death spiral, Islam starts to recapture the territory of economic and scientific rationality that it once dominated.
Tremendous things are happening in biology, while other areas of western science descend into Stalinist tyranny and Dark-age inquisition, arresting and jailing heretics who cannot follow mindless insane instantly-disprovable theories.
We can hope that negative feedback will defeat the Satanic enemies, because nobody is actively fighting them. We can hope that concrete experimental thinking will win. We can hope and pray that Life will win.
Remains to be seen.
..... And at this very moment, after a mostly dry winter to this point, we have snow. Huge cup-sized flakes. Snow-globe snow, Currier & Ives snow. I'll take this as a sign of encouragement, for lack of anything better...
Polistra and Happystar are celebrating again with the annual Christmas Pyrosome, representing the useful and beautiful things that happen when animals and bacteria work in reciprocity.
[Appropriate music: Here and here, and of course here.]
This year Polistra gave Happystar two lumps of coal. In civilized times it would be an insult. In Gaian times anything you can burn for heat is a joyous gift, more precious than gold. (But don't tell the EPA!)
= = = = =
2011 has been a very good year for nationalism, as all the monstrous mashups of the 20th century are coming apart. Some of them have been torn down by popular uprisings; in the Gaian world people are too weak and gutless to rise up, but fortunately the secular contraptions have consumed their own food.
As the post-Christian West writhes in its overdue death spiral, Islam starts to recapture the territory of economic and scientific rationality that it once dominated.
Tremendous things are happening in biology, while other areas of western science descend into Stalinist tyranny and Dark-age inquisition, arresting and jailing heretics who cannot follow mindless insane instantly-disprovable theories.
We can hope that negative feedback will defeat the Satanic enemies, because nobody is actively fighting them. We can hope that concrete experimental thinking will win. We can hope and pray that Life will win.
Remains to be seen.
..... And at this very moment, after a mostly dry winter to this point, we have snow. Huge cup-sized flakes. Snow-globe snow, Currier & Ives snow. I'll take this as a sign of encouragement, for lack of anything better...
Labels: Natural law = Sharia law
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