living is wasted on getting and spending
waste no moment, want nothing, be well
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in the paradigm shift following Galileo, our culture let go of the medieval picture of the solar system, but “surprisingly little hung on the matter,” says Daniel Quinn in The New Renaissance (archived) – a passionate call for another paradigm shift, one where we let go of the medieval view of humanity that we cling to in spite of the threat to so many species, including our own
after reading The New Renaissance – the prepared text of a 2002 talk that Daniel Quinn called a concise expression of the basic message of all his books – please take a look at the related notes and links under the horizontal rule below
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live and let live
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity,
wasting not a moment of being aware of being
and wanting nothing, not even this
be well
in the paradigm shift following Galileo, … (!?) / results of a search for this term
image source [NASA Goddard, 2010] / cached and archived … image also used here on an earlier notrehta site
at least two trillion galaxies [NASA Goddard, 2016]
at least two trillion galaxies [NASA Goddard, 2016]
related to the Daniel Quinn talk, the infographic below is of data mostly from a 2002 book by Vaclav Smil, The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change, and was created by Randall Munroe for this xkcd post
meanwhile, there are lab-grown versions of animal products as food, as made by Perfect Day, for example;
for more on precision fermentation, see George Monbiot: Can we feed ourselves without devouring the planet?
see also animal husbandry: maybe the beginning of the end – a post on an article by Peter Singer
!w2 Daniel Quinn / Wikipedia entry for Daniel Quinn (1935–2018)
On the Excellence Reporter, Daniel Quinn ponders 500 essays collected there about THE MEANING OF LIFE. See it here: https://t.co/M8NWUOdkss
— Daniel Quinn (@_Daniel_Quinn) March 28, 2016
click on the tweet for part 1; part 2 is here
and here is what is going on now, 16 years after that 2002 talk by Quinn: “Here’s how it works. Go down to Brazil, … ”
video embedded in the article linked to in this tweet:
“We used that forest to hunt and collect fruit. People from other communities got honey there. Now life has become impossible.”
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 18, 2018
“Bye-bye indigenous people. This world is not a place for you. The world is a place for us … that’s who the world is for.”https://t.co/K1Y8uG266K
The Washington Post's George Will on the legacy of Apollo and "Chasing the Moon," both the six-hour film and the companion book which informs this column.https://t.co/J3hnisYubI
— Chasing The Moon: The Book (@ChasingMoonBk) July 17, 2019
see article from tweet – cached*
The visible universe (which is hardly all of it) contains more than 150 billion galaxies, each with billions of stars. But if there were only three bees in America, the air would be more crowded with bees than space is with stars. The distances, and the violently unheavenly conditions in “the heavens,” tell us that our devices will roam our immediate cosmic neighborhood, but in spite of Apollo 11’s still-dazzling achievement, we are not really going anywhere.
2019-07-19: added tweet above and block quote from tweeted article
2023-01-24: inserted line in notes above with link to post with video/transcript of TED talk by George Monbiot2023-07-20: inserted line following that line to link to post on an article by Peter Singer
2023-09-19: commented on notes and links directly under the horizontal rule; introduced “paradigm shift”