Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Baby Jesus are all three in grave danger of being #unbelieved in all the time. Where is good myth going? Should it at least point to some kind of truth? Looking for evidence of UFOs is easier than finding anything that resembles faith these days. The show-me-the-money people always seem to win. If money were real, and currency was something not to take for granted in terms of value, what is the value in lying to your children about Santa? Why is teaching your kids about Jesus illegal in so many countries? So what if he’s considered a myth. You don’t need an AK47 to shoot the Easter Bunny do you? Is myth so unimportant in your life that you cant acknowledge Kris Kringle’s humanity? Why not do the same for Joseph’s stepson? (So what if he thinks he’s God?)
ecosystem studies
The Noosphere
I keep everything I do public. The public domain belongs to me and I to it.
I am the new “public official” assigned to discover or coin #terms within the emergent “Noosphere” of the new world.
Given: Means
The means justify the ends. Abstraction as a means to the end in which knowledge, wisdom and understanding take their place at the head of the whole realm. OzoneFarm has an existence first in the noosphere and is therefore impervious to physical, material or otherwise tangible control. The intent is to create a generic domain where anonymity reigns supreme and practicality rules from moment to moment, day by day. To be of value to Earth and Earthlings, someone or something must assume a position above and beyond the planet and it’s current inhabitants…
learn more
Google Analytics and OzoneFarm
This is a test post for Google Analytics and I’m kindof a newbie. Trust me.
“The Pop-up Community” … a new social mindset!
Interesting insights, Clay. It’s refreshing to discover others thinking along these lines.
I believe from what I’ve seen that spontaneity will play a big role in future communities of place. I haven’t yet made it to Detroit, but it’s on my list of urban adventures I’d like to include in my list: Memphis, St Louis, Nashville, New Orleans and Chicago. I have limited my scope to the Mississippi Basin in hopes of understanding why North America has not capitalized on its amazing topology akin to earlier civilizations that emerged around the Nile, the Amazon and the Euphrates. America seems to have developed from sea trade and its economy appears to favor the coasts.
In the big mid-western cities, I’ve seen forward-thinking groups that had formed naturally and became quasi-institutional within their urban cultures. Smaller cities, especially college towns, have exhibited some of the qualities you describe. What I’m waiting to see is resilient mobile elements that are capable of intentionally nomadic modes of influence that could interweave rural and urban frames together in a balanced way. There is so much fertile land and natural waterway infrastructure between the Rockies and the Appalachians but not near enough human presence to fully work it.
What I think is needed is a mobilization of intact support from the coastal regions to offset the menacing forces that are exploiting the nation’s mid-section for the wrong reasons and propagating a wrong mindset. At least in New England and the West Coast, proper notions of sustainability have entered the collective consciousness. The Midwest, I’m afraid, is under the cloud of 20th Century reductionism, inappropriate producer-consumer relations and the megalomania perpetrated by Big Ag, Big Oil and Big Business. Sustainability evangelism via something like ‘pop-up communities’ could help.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Keyline Design with Darren Doherty | TreeYo Permaculture
Here’s a great post about a great Keyline Design and Broadacre Permaculture class conducted on The Farm in Tennessee by Darren Doherty.
I don’t HAVE 99 Dollars
And I shouldn’t NEED that many!
Next Level or Point of No Return
OzoneFarm has been an imaginary domain since my wife zeroed all my accounts and kicked me to the curb back in 2003. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to reconcile with her or her world, but my world of ideas and ideals is still quite intact. The ship is anchored over Fort Defiance near Cairo, Illinois and there it shall remain anchored until we at least or at last succeed. I’m in Chicago working on some “cultural infrastructure” for use in the 23rd Century. By 2020, everything should be in place and running, if they let me live that long.
Thanks to the resilience of the Internet itself, at least a bare-bones version of Yeoman’s OzoneFarm will “exist” in some form never again to be sabotaged, sidetracked, deleted, lost, dismissed, denied or even discouraged by those who lack anything from a the most basic understanding of sustainability to the complete inability to entertain a single original thought.
Here’s a link to the current working draft of the executive summary, introduction and some primary ideas:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-CEmIJKsso0o/UcMnTygDzAI/AAAAAAAAASY/kWG1d35UvZY/d/2013-06-20
Next: DTOM: Dialog/Transaction Object Model (Don’t Tread On Me) – Patent not needed.
Arduino for sensor-actuator networks
Arduino may easily do the jobs I was talking of earlier this year. As rainfall begins, the network across the topography will sense it, open some channels and close others and the dance will begin. Capturing the excitement and energy of a any event from a summer shower to a thunderstorm …
I’m a Christian Communist. I believe the Second Coming of Christ is the coming together of everyone who is meek enough to be open. That’s a pretty strange view to some, but it’s the simplest way to put it. Jesus is the Ultimate Celebrity. Everyone will know it’s Him.
How to create a virally social movement that brings together the world
SYNTHESIZE
1. Bring together people of different worldviews, different demographics, different political views on an issue of interest, or conflict. These can be food issues, neighbourhood violence issues, economic issues, governance issues, cultural difference issues, race issues, etc..
2. Use a facilitated method like Non-violent Communication, Dynamic Facilitation, Bohmian Dialogue, Deep Democracy, Insight Dialogue, or any of the methods coming out of the Synthesize movement to bring people together
3. Blog about the results of this facilitated dialogue as part of the Synthesize movement. Write about if for a magazine.
4. Connect with others in the Synthesize movement. Share info with others who do a Synthesize circle. Also once people start Synthesizing and posting their results we can search on the internet for who has blogged/written about Synthesize and reach out to them through social networks and other…
View original post 134 more words
ozonefarm 