Seguinite Pat Hoppe … & Arthur Miller’s All My Sons … de facto lack of familial/”community” communication …
and the high-inputs of private & militaristic monies and resultant corruption
All My Sons opens this weekend at The Texas | Seguin Today
C-SPAN’s Discussion of Tocqueville’s insights into (U.S.) democracy and
of toxic polarization problems for our big-moneyed/ignorance-based two-party “democratic” system
[The Man Who Understood Democracy] | C-SPAN.org
Billie Crystal’s Tribute to Muhammad Ali … and his and Ali’s effective communication!
(2666) Billy Crystal’s Muhammad Ali tribute – 15 Rounds (1979) – YouTube
(First you must establish connections/credibility …
hand milked since I was five, taught important basics by the Peñas and Cruzes, we Martins raised hundreds of Durocs & crosses, Uvalde & San Diego, saved in the Mill accident by the Haywood brothers, Aggie & Animal Eight, did loops & immelmans & spins & slow-circling stall-prone landings and damn near killed myself a couple of times in Naval Air in the late 60’s/early 70’s, sé comunicarme en portuñol bastante bien, wonderful Helen, neighbor, in the very first Master Naturalist class, requested to testify to city councils, commissioners’ courts, school board, state legislator committees, Sunset Commissions, Federal District Courts.
Be careful! Don’t overdo it paul bain!!!
Then keep it short and succinct. Speak their lingua … about …
communication with humanity* and nature**, connectivity, climax communities, evapotranspiration rates, biomes, second law of thermodynamics, topsoil, H2O, photosynthesis & net primary productivity, energetics, biodiversity, succession and r & K-strategists, negative & positive feedback***, evolution, giants of the education process, communicate, …
Well! You pretty much screwed that one up paul bain martin! This is not their type of jargon.
Maybe hit ‘em hard with the “morals and ethics.” …
Malala Yousafzai, Dorothy Day, Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, Jesus of Nazareth, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama told us to do this be socially just, humane and ecologically sane and to strive for socio-ecological justice.
Sort of superficially at least, many, many agreed with these great humanitarians. Nevertheless, percentwise, fewer and fewer are truly practicing the Golden Rule, or Ethic of Reciprocity, in 2022!)
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Well anyway, a matriarchal-agrarian ecosphere in concert with dynamic homeostatic symbioses, and abiding by the Golden Rule, Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Precautionary Principle and practicing agroecology & “Less Is More,” including less artificialization, is the only way to quality life for all for the longest period of time. … That’s it!!!
I hope the elementary youth who come to the 69 and Lambshead Ranches to hear about ecological principles and processes in September & October eventually learn this.
I hope the elementary youth I learn with at the Seguin Outdoor Learning Center in October & November learn this.
I hope the Master Naturalist class in Schertz near where I used to teach biology at the “Mark Twain” high school … have learned this.
I hope the few folk who read Games We Play & Less Is More & Doughnut Economics & Prosperous Way Down & Small Is Beautiful … & a Rice University graduate’s Steady-State Economics … learn this and begin to critically think and decision-make!.
I do hope our local governmental entities and all of our local population all learn this through “positively ethical applied community ecology” across curricula & campuses of all our local human organizational entities. … Nevertheless, I am well aware that being deep in the rut of an economic system of growth which is rampantly headed over-the-cliff in a world of almost eight billion humans who do a poor job of interfacing with the 10+ million other species and who are becoming more & more disconnected with the Land … makes it difficult to effectively initiate communication locally and globally in a sustainable ecological fashion.
Many hopes!
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*Mostly the poor, powerless, disenfranchised, havenots.
**Try a week-long bicycle ride from dawns to dusks through the Hill Country of Texas in the spring. Smell these hills and the Land. Taste the fresh air. Hear the insects and birds and mammals communicating. See the beauty of diversity. Feel the wonder of dynamic homeostatic symbioses. (I have.)
***Positive feedback—you create global climate change with local high input/high throughput systems, and you simply produce more air-conditioning systems which augment the deadly climate change problem. Negative feedback—You realize growth is the problem … and climate change and other socio-ecological destruction is the manifestation. You implement anti-growth strategies & tactics!
pbm
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