Rule of Law. “It’s the Law!” Natural Law. The Law. The Constitution. Neighborhood Association Laws and Regulations. Housing Codes. Motor Vehicle Law. City ordinances. Food and Drug Laws. Pesticide Law. Seed Law. Conservation District Regulations. Animal Welfare Law. Affirmative Action. Reparations. U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The U.N. Agenda 21 Plan. (Sometimes my head spins […]
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Beauty, Energetics, and Limits on Quality and Quantity of Beauty
“’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” Keats But what kind of beauty? And how much of it? Moreover, what is the energy/emergy involved, and what effect does it have on symbioses/“nature”/creation? The clear-cutting of forest can result in beautiful open meadows. The contours of […]
Sort of Overwhelmed
The tone of this piece may seem to be that of “drama” because of my sad and confused mental situation in this moment. However, I will be celebrating Thanksgiving and my birthday with family and an overabundance of food and beverage this coming Friday and Saturday in a relatively carefree manner. On Friday night I […]
Cottonseed Hulls, Solidarity, and Government Regulation
I can’t move! I cannot move at all! I can’t move!! “Gene!” “Gene!!!” “Oh my God, I am heartedly sorry …” And then shortly after I had barely begun my act of contrition, it was total mental darkness and total silence! I went blank. …………………………………………………………………….. I’d completed all my responsibilities at the little feed lot […]
Fond Memories of Alton Martin of Stockdale and Devine, Texas (1916-2005), triggered by some messy winter days here in Seguin
It was a cold, wet windy winter Sunday in the Devine area of south-central Texas. “Come on outside with me Paul Bain! We’re going to take some firewood into town.” Under Dad’s direction, I chopped some oak wood alongside him, loaded it into the green 6-cylinder bobtail truck which was normally his ride to work […]
Some Good Works (URLs for them) … and Some Recurring Thoughts from pbm
https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/axial-shift-the-decline-of-trump-the-rise-of-the-greens-and-the-new-coordinates-of-societal-b0bde2613a9e?fbc https://medium.com/thebeammagazine/why-a-transition-to-clean-energy-alone-is-not-enough-for-a-sustainable-future-35eee2ac9901 https://www.aau.at/en/social-ecology/research/social-metabolism/ …………………………………………………………………………………… I’m not overly bright, but what I’ve learned over my 72 years is fairly simple for most anyone to figure out, and especially the energetic and intelligent young ones in today’s world. (Of course it doesn’t mean that we have the morals & ethics, and intestinal fortitude-individually and collectively–to do so […]
Kool-Aid? … ¡No! ¡Atole! by paul bain martin
We the people of today’s artificially capitalistic-, socialistic-, and fascistic-leaning tribes drink varying flavors of toxic Kool-Aid. This is a route to extinction for all (except for the extremophiles), i.e., these high-input, artificial Kool-Aid-sustenances and -connectors are not sustainable. I propose that we slow down, meet together in ritualistic and traditional ways, struggle to […]
To Kill! or Not to Kill? by paul b. martin
“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.” Wendell Berry […]
A Sick World of Plastic
Another Developing Addition for the Little Book on Applied Ecology: “Let’s Ban Plastic Bags Locally All Over the World!” by p.b. martin This piece is about disposable plastic bags and rectifying at least this one aspect of our downright sinful ways. And I do wish to make it clear from the outset, that despite these […]