there was a mad bomber in Jakarta the other day.. I heard it on the radio. I leave it on by mistake sometimes after some program or other and get a dose of the ‘news’ before I manage to silence the thing. ..
if you've ever tried drinking the water there, then you're not going to be surprised....hard-line corrupt secularist government, violently established by american agents against mad bombers. I really don’t know for whom I have less sympathy. murderers.
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the capitalists have no capital.. which makes them hoarders. capital implies a willingness to invest in plant and labour. hence capitalism. hording is something completely different. it’s a poverty consciousness and destructive. capitalism is as good a financial setup as the people who conduct it. the people who conduct it are as good as their principles.. if their principles fall low enough then they will lose them. democracy is no different. corruption endangers both.
40 years since the moonlanding.. these days the question of space is about seti. the search for intelligence. in space.. I assume that includes earth.. its not surprising they have found so little here that they point the telescope outward. according to some, the prospects are not looking good. but at least the search goes on. hehehe.
the other day I heard a professor explaining his theory that it wasn’t just the eating of meat that made pre-humans into homo erectus.. it was the cooking of food facilitating digestiom/absorbtion of proteins.
it was interesting as the concept sheds light on political economy---- as a rudimentary or fundamental in human life.
having a fire involves organization and science. cooking and storing food involves a political and economic organization. the food must be prepared and stored. it requires allocation of resources. orchestration.
it was the cooking of food the professor argues, that changed man from being more like a primate.. with huge teeth and belly .. and enabled her to devote resources to more than chewing food which is what takes up most of the day of your average primate and i guess neanderthal.
thus a move made by prehumans enabled the development of humans up to and beyond the point of proving that people can walk on the moon. a dead planet.
in mythology it was the friend of man --prometheus --who stole fire from zeus and gifted it to mankind. it wasn’t the cooking but the fire that made the difference..
others say that the divine spark was transmitted to earth from the Logos of Venus. depends if one is more scientific, religious or poetic. but the spark of reason was given to man.. or mind. manas … despite appearances.
and so the long journey began.
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