Much of the wisdom we need to address such mega-issues already exists. Most of these solutions are dispersed* and not broadly recognized and agreed-on. Furthermore, we have failed to demonstrate a collective capacity to implement such solutions in sustainably intelligent, integrated, responsive ways. The barriers to collectively recognizing and implementing wise approaches to our challenges are as complex as the challenges themselves. We face obstacles ranging from wildly imbalanced social power and entrenched institutions to broadly shared dangerous assumptions about the good life and even profound limitations and distortions of our individual and collective mental and emotional capacities.
As far as I can tell, effective and lasting solutions to our current mega-challenges will require a deep transformation of our ways of thinking and behaving accompanied by a fundamental re-visioning of our civilization and its underlying assumptions.
The criminalization ofĀ political speech andĀ activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so commonplace that the Center for Constitutional RightsĀ refers to it as āthe Palestine Exceptionā to free speech.
Today's highlight was easily the evening seance with John McAfee who is building the World Brain with blockchain. China, Iran, and Russia are going to bury the USA for the simple reason that the US Government is corrupt to the bone and all of the US IT CEOs are criminally negligent in willful disregard for the public interest.
At the meta level, Day 2 saw Bob Brady of Georgia donate $15,000 toward the wrap ($8,500) and travel expenses ($100 a day mostly gas).Ā God Bless Bob. Note the three books under his arm. #UNRIG is reaching out to David Stockman in particular, but the bottom line is that we must all demonstrate unity in demanding integrity in our government.
Mixed feelings as I sit here in a KOA Campground at 10:30 pm on a fine Tennessee evening. Here is today's report:
01 We bought the RV. This could not have been done without IndieGoGo, the PayPal donors, and two private donors.Ā $65K for used RV, after a day of driving it I am well pleased BUT it is noisy, hot, and not not not as much fun as anyone might think.
01 RV designers are idiots. They should all be sent to sea in a Navy 44 going 9 different directions at once in heavy waves.Ā An RV is a sailboat with four wheels. These morons have not designed lips on tables or dividers in the fridge or the cabinets, so an RV is a trash basket in motion until one makes up for the poor design.Ā The second idiot assumption is that plugs only need to work when you are stopped and the generator or shore power is on.Ā Unbelievable how an entire industry can be so stupid for so long.
03 Gas mileage today was 6.4 MPG.Ā Started at 7219 miles with a full tank, filled up with 34 gallons before coming into the campground, at 7438 miles, a total of 219 miles driven today.
04 Cynthia does NOT want to sleep on this RV, I have told her so already. If we can raise the money she needs a diesel RV that is sound-proof, and no more than two drivers.Ā I would be glad to have a driver so I could spend time tending to all those that are donating and emailing.Ā This 33 foot version is a SMALL sailboat.Ā Two people — a driver and the principal — at most.
05 Had my first two accidents: cut close to a gas station island and the protective steel tube half-closed the large copper exhaust (fixable, no skin damage); and then driving into a WalMarts scrapped the left half of the roof with tree limbs I did not see.Ā No damage.
06 T-Mobile Hot Spot from my iPhone is working. Only $25 a month (onĀ top of the $85 a month that EIN pays) for super speeds everywhere they reach — which is not everywhere, especially in the West, will need an AT&T sidebar.
07 KOA Campgrounds is amazing.Ā Cannot say enough good things about them. Clean, professional, everything a campground should be.Ā I stopped in some ratholes before finally nesting with KOA.
