Diary (April 17, 2020)
Online diary of Karl Jones for Friday April 17, 2020.
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Post-nation-state worldview
Humanity began in small groups, which became villages, cities, city-states, kingdoms, empires, and, in our time, nation-states.
The long term pattern of civilzation is larger groups, larger numbers of people who are Us and not Them.
It stands to reason that the next stage is post-nation-state.
No single nation-state can "lead", because "leadership" by a single nation-state is old-style nation-state thinking.
[Source: Facebook comment]
Civilization as we know it has already ended
People worry about the end of civilization as we know it.
This is foolish.
Civilization as we know it has already ended.
See Future Shock by Alvin Toffler.
Wedding Horns
3:26 pm: Sound of honking horns, two or three cars, from a couple of blocks away. Must be a wedding -- the honking has that happy-honk quality of the Just Married Motorcade. I'll bet there were cans tied to the Newlyweds' car, though I was too far away to tell.
Angry Jason Lewis
I try to never pay any attention to Jason Lewis, because I have the impression that he is permanently seething with righteous anger of the "what's wrong with other people and what should be done to them" variety, and I very much want to not live in a world like his.
His anger is bad enough. (All emotion makes people less intelligent.)
But some men *cultivate" their anger, take pleasure in the act of raising and harvesting ill will. This I cannot abide.
Source: Comment @ Facebook
Apolemia
If I were going to invade this planet, I would definitely choose a small, simple, fast-replicating organism.
I was thinking bacteria. They form colonial streams under stress, you know – very useful for invading hominid planets.
But this Apolemia may be a better approach.
- Comment @ Boing Boing
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External links
- Facebook comment
- Apolemia @ Wikipedia