Introducing the Steader Heap.
Heap up quotations, concepts, little gleams of beautiful prose, let them break down and work together in your mind until they come together to help you create something fruitful.
If you are up Kerrville, TX, way, this weekend, you might stop by the Beef and Bitcoin conference. It sounds perfect. (Yes, BTC. Sound money is to society as permaculture is to farming.) https://www.kerrvilletexascvb.com/events/2022/the-beef-initiative-conference
Christopher Alexander, RIP:
I believe most urgently that a lot of modern behavioural pathologies are related to man‘s withdrawal from natural circumstances: from realities of life and death, from constraints on our abilities, from the fundamentally biological basis of our appetites and instincts, etc. I think this alienation from nature is at the root of leftism and a lot of the most destructive leftist impulses.
Interesting to chew on
Cyber isn’t healthy. It should be. https://palladiummag.com/2022/04/01/palladium-is-now-templeos/
Our information environment and space of action overall is increasingly owned and curated by an expert elite for political and commercial effect, with enough gated access to productivity, society, and bureaucracy to keep us dependent and unable to unplug. In concrete terms, most of what it does is deliver a steady stream of pornography, entertaining memes, political slogans, and commercial advertisements. There is no health in it, nor in us who worship at its altar.The metaverse tendency outcompetes current alternatives but strips human agency out of the system. Without agency over the world in which we live, people cannot develop the forward-looking spirit that is necessary for growth and life. A universal of stagnant and declining cultures is that ambition, creativity, and spiritedness are crushed into tracked sandboxes where they are no longer dangerous. Power is dangerous, but without it, the human spirit fades into decadent self-medication. Biological and social reproduction cease. We can see this in the cultural decadence and cratering fertility numbers, and the metaverse promises only to further disempower the human user. We can be sure that it will eventually fail by burning out its own base, taking us with it if we let it.
We are not retreating from the world. We are working out how to save it.
Tips for good beautiful content welcome. Always happy to add good steady-y stuff to the heap.