Overkill

We thought one thing, then another thing happened. Well that's just what nature does. We hardly could even think about extinction, but Pliestocene extinctions seemed to follow humanities spread.

It's okay to be wrong. some people even say that it can be awesome.  Heck, it's better than that. Yet it can be even better to realize what you don't understand....but not to deny what you think you know. Just don't let what you think you know from learning what truely is.

Some where along the line, most of us become confused and concentrate too hard reinforceing  to be right

Finding the origins of humanity is an ongoing process like learning about any subject can become.  It's not hard to learn if one has an open mind. A little empathy can take one incredibly far. It's really not such a radical experiment, but it does need to be practiced.

I didn't realize that there is a Bold Predictions, Stearn Warnings theme at TED....let's take a look...
yeah, I had to start with Hansen....he didn't dissapoint. In that talk he stated that there are predictions that we may see 20-50% species extinctions by the end of the century....yeah, that's just in a century. What could happen in the next century, or the one after that? Too bad we don't have a better moral operating system. We are working on it though. Damon Horowitz calls for one and I've used "what should I do?" as a koan for many years now.

Integral Activism is an expression, a byproduct of that question and influenced in part by contemplating the eightfold path....and by lacking a career path. I also think that we can create a database of people along with what they have intellectually consumed....and by creating a ciriculum of what is most important to understand to become the best person a person can become. What are the most important insights? Perhaps I can find this discussion or create it on the TED site. Maybe that way we can cultivate wisdom so we don't have Our loss of wisdom....

Richard Wilkinson explained How economic inequality harms societies, another fantastic talk.



I just love those correlates.