“The action that has meaning for the living has value only for the dead,
finds completion only in the consciousness that inherit and question.”1
THE LAW
The Second Law of Thermodynamics?2
There is no free ride, no free lunch.
Energy cannot be recycled.
There will be no …
… No perpetual motion machine!
As energy is transformed,
It tends toward uselessness.
(Don’t cry over spilt milk;
It is water under the bridge!
“You break it, you own it!”3)
A GOLDEN RULE … IF ONLY WE WOULD PRACTICE IT
[2019. The Golden Brat “Leaders” of the U.S., Brazil, Russia, Syria, and the
Philippines (et al.) Embody the Antithesis of an Ethic of Reciprocity4]
An ethic of reciprocity.
Do well for all others.
All biota!!
SHARE!
Open borders.
Realize PEACE! …
Isn’t this being human???
Human beings???
Being humanity??
Humane?
OIKOS
Earth and daily solar energy–
That which runs the Earth,
Are finite.
(Life=Matter
Organized by “working energy”.)
And all is connected
Mostly in trophic webs
And in a zero-sum game.
Abide by a precautionary principle.
Every action has a negative consequence
For someone,
For something.
Be cautious and tentative.
All is connected.
THE MOST IMPORTANT TRUTHS?
Small is beautiful.
Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology …
PEACE …
Is beautiful.
A REAL TRUTH
Disparity and walls beget War.
And WAR IS HELL!!!!!!!!!!
War and warring beget War and warring.
Disparity, walls, injustice,
War, wars—
Industrial-military-(congressional) complexes—
Are NEVER good ideas5.
SCIENCE
(What’s God got to do with it?6
Skepticism is healthy
For individuals, for demes & populations,
For ecological communities,
For dynamic homeostatic symbioses.
Robust, inquiring, agitating skepticism,
Not blind faith,
Is the first step toward Truth.)
GRATIA!
Amen René Char.
Amen E.F. Schumacher … Wendell Berry.
Rumi … Shakespeare … Arthur Miller.
Langston Hughes … James Baldwin.
Kurt Vonnegut.
Margaret Sanger … Dorothy Day … Rachel Carson.
David Pimentel … David Suzuki.
E.O. Wilson.
Helmut Haberl.
Francis … Gandhi … King …
(In this list
There should be …
MORE WOMEN!!!)
AETERNUM
Today is the first day of the rest of… our lives, …
Our deaths, … our lives.
Today is the first day of life.
“The action that has meaning for the living has value only for the dead, finds completion only in the consciousness that inherit and question.”1
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1 Char, René. 1973. Leaves of Hypnos. Translated by Cid Corman. New York, NY: Grossman.
2 http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/2015/03/23/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-it-is-in-many-ways-the-most-important-and-should-be-the-first/
3 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/the-pottery-barn-rule-syria-edition/408193/
4 And these reckless fools have tremendous power and very dangerous toys with which to play destructive and deadly games.
5 Walker, Alice. 2007. Why War Is Never a Good Idea. HarperCollins. & Brimlow, R.W. 2006. What About Hitler?: Wrestling with Jesus’s Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World. Brazos Press.
6 Ingersoll, Robert (edited by Tim Page). 2005. What’s God Got to Do with It? Steerforth Press.
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