So Mr Fry is without doubt a very nice man, thoughtful at times, intelligent, sometimes witty although often over complicates his humour and doesn't just say something instinctive so it feels contrived but certainly reasonably witty yet he is annoying... why?
He has announced to the world he suffers from bi-polar, he has done shows about depression does that truly really help anyone. It is a problem that people have, that is difficult and challenging as he mentioned Churchill had it but didn't he get on with life. He didn't tell people, is it right that we put everything in front of people, doesn't that tend to make us feel sorry for ourselves, doesn't it make us more likely to accept it?
Someone is being mean to him, Christ Churchill had depression and led the country against the Nazis come on Stephen don't slide into self pity. Am i being too hard i don't know.
What bothers me most about Stephen is jealousy, he has travelled around the world, he is free, he has money, he can make movies, he can act, he can write, he can read, he can influence people yet what does he do? What does he truly do? He worries about himself and his depression. I say Stephen get on with it. You are incredibly lucky go write a book, go make a film, don't leave twitter because people are being mean, do it because you have a brain and should be writing something meaningful, you are a decent human being with a seriously good brain do something with meaning, then perhaps you will feel better.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Depressed - The BBC, State of the World and Marx
So it is with some sadness that the reality of the situation confronts me. Humans we are intrinsically selfish and self serving. Remove some of the fierce structure of religion and deep seated moral training from childhood and we revert to type, we are fundamentally selfish. The BBC, employers of vast numbers of highly educated liberal and otherwise worthy types is also a centre for massive abuse of public money, where the acquisition of personal comfort and wealth has become an obsession.
They exploit every legal loophole to prevent the public from knowing the true extent of waste. Presenters, who are supposed to be defenders of democracy, have their snouts in the trough of tax payers money. They are one and the same of as the fat cats that sit atop the city banks plundering every last penny, overcharging customers exploiting their oligopoly status.
There is no god of that i truly believe, but is a godless valueless society able to function when the rich or those in a position to be self serving exploit the system so brazenly and extensively. When our most educated, those with access to perhaps the most liberal and broad ranging education in history are so self serving then is Richard Dawkins truly correct. We are a selfish animal and we need some common values and a necessary obligation of duty, perhaps we do need religion.
We have lost that obligation now, and our elite exploit it in every walk of life, in every position irrespective of background and education. The elite at the BBC are no better than the Eastern European mafia, or the city investment bosses, they are one and the same self serving homo sapiens. Those at the BBC may be able to justify it much more and feel they are serving the public by going to war zones, and some will be very brave and heroic, most though are simply after number one and exploiting the system for every last penny they can. The scale and ruthlessness are on a different scale to that of the Mafia but in one way it is far worse the scale of their mendacity, self denial and pomposity.
Mr Dawkins you should write a book titled the Selfish Ape as we truly are and Marx you are wrong as you fundamentally misjudged human nature. We are the naked, selfish ape, held together by the most fragile of means, by the force of our belief, religion and national structures. These are prone to crumble and break and we revert to our fundamentally selfish, self seeking nature and this happens in every environment, culture and country. There we are stripped naked. We are capable of amazing acts of sacrifice when there are strong bonds of loyalty, belief, and conviction, when these disappear we are not left with much and no amount of education seems to prevent our worst traits from dominating.
They exploit every legal loophole to prevent the public from knowing the true extent of waste. Presenters, who are supposed to be defenders of democracy, have their snouts in the trough of tax payers money. They are one and the same of as the fat cats that sit atop the city banks plundering every last penny, overcharging customers exploiting their oligopoly status.
There is no god of that i truly believe, but is a godless valueless society able to function when the rich or those in a position to be self serving exploit the system so brazenly and extensively. When our most educated, those with access to perhaps the most liberal and broad ranging education in history are so self serving then is Richard Dawkins truly correct. We are a selfish animal and we need some common values and a necessary obligation of duty, perhaps we do need religion.
We have lost that obligation now, and our elite exploit it in every walk of life, in every position irrespective of background and education. The elite at the BBC are no better than the Eastern European mafia, or the city investment bosses, they are one and the same self serving homo sapiens. Those at the BBC may be able to justify it much more and feel they are serving the public by going to war zones, and some will be very brave and heroic, most though are simply after number one and exploiting the system for every last penny they can. The scale and ruthlessness are on a different scale to that of the Mafia but in one way it is far worse the scale of their mendacity, self denial and pomposity.
Mr Dawkins you should write a book titled the Selfish Ape as we truly are and Marx you are wrong as you fundamentally misjudged human nature. We are the naked, selfish ape, held together by the most fragile of means, by the force of our belief, religion and national structures. These are prone to crumble and break and we revert to our fundamentally selfish, self seeking nature and this happens in every environment, culture and country. There we are stripped naked. We are capable of amazing acts of sacrifice when there are strong bonds of loyalty, belief, and conviction, when these disappear we are not left with much and no amount of education seems to prevent our worst traits from dominating.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
A matter of intelligence.
What is intelligence, we think every day and we are labeled in one way or another people continually make judgments, but around us the world never quite matches up to our thoughts and ideas. Clever people do stupid things, dumb people make some astute observations. There are broadly several types as far as i can see:
- Memory and the ability to memorize details.
- Ability to to see through detail and pick out the pertinent points in an argument.
- Wisdom the ability to learn from experience and apply it to your decision making.
- Ability to digest a complex problem with many sides and facets and work through and apply techniques of analysis to it such as mathematics.
We simplify to make the world understandable, to allow us to function and progress, we ignore pain and suffering to allow ourselves to move on, i live in relative comfort in a European country whilst in the world people are being tortured murdered and killed.
So i read about scientific solutions to fix the problems of global warming they are talking about putting a hose spewing volcanic particles into the atmosphere, apparently some guy who Bill Gates thinks is the most intelligent guy he ever met... well that already shows a crass lack of wisdom, how many humans do we truly meet who have all the intelligence skills, zero or close to zero and they are never the types who spent years at large corporations.
Geeks should be praised for their contribution to humanity and that men in sheds have given us what we have today, yet let's never forget that the most difficult skill to acquire is wisdom and that the problem which afflicts highly intelligent individuals is arrogance, they sometimes don't step back and reflect.
So the most complex system on planet earth they think they can fix with a hosepipe into the atmosphere, perhaps they have created the cheapest weapon of war, it ignores some basic ideas. Global warming is part of the equation which involves, population, consumption, declining resources... idiots, bloody idiots... damn these highly educated Harvard types and their inability to know their own limitations, their lack of understanding of the limits of their own intelligence.....
Thanks for the contribution guys but criticize what it lacks, show us also why it is a bad idea as well, put both sides, talk about the whole problem, how are you going to solve population, declining food stocks.. good start but must do better and acknowledge in some ways you lack wisdom and go and see James Lovelock.......
- Memory and the ability to memorize details.
- Ability to to see through detail and pick out the pertinent points in an argument.
- Wisdom the ability to learn from experience and apply it to your decision making.
- Ability to digest a complex problem with many sides and facets and work through and apply techniques of analysis to it such as mathematics.
We simplify to make the world understandable, to allow us to function and progress, we ignore pain and suffering to allow ourselves to move on, i live in relative comfort in a European country whilst in the world people are being tortured murdered and killed.
So i read about scientific solutions to fix the problems of global warming they are talking about putting a hose spewing volcanic particles into the atmosphere, apparently some guy who Bill Gates thinks is the most intelligent guy he ever met... well that already shows a crass lack of wisdom, how many humans do we truly meet who have all the intelligence skills, zero or close to zero and they are never the types who spent years at large corporations.
Geeks should be praised for their contribution to humanity and that men in sheds have given us what we have today, yet let's never forget that the most difficult skill to acquire is wisdom and that the problem which afflicts highly intelligent individuals is arrogance, they sometimes don't step back and reflect.
So the most complex system on planet earth they think they can fix with a hosepipe into the atmosphere, perhaps they have created the cheapest weapon of war, it ignores some basic ideas. Global warming is part of the equation which involves, population, consumption, declining resources... idiots, bloody idiots... damn these highly educated Harvard types and their inability to know their own limitations, their lack of understanding of the limits of their own intelligence.....
Thanks for the contribution guys but criticize what it lacks, show us also why it is a bad idea as well, put both sides, talk about the whole problem, how are you going to solve population, declining food stocks.. good start but must do better and acknowledge in some ways you lack wisdom and go and see James Lovelock.......
Sunday, September 06, 2009
The Hollowing of the UK Economy
The journalists scribble away worrying about interest rates, we must get out of recession quickly, the housing bubble yet beneath the surface the tectonic plates begin to move, the UK as a leading country is finished and will struggle as a middle ranking country.
The power of finance the drug that means the government is unable to take the radical action required, the slave to the city means that the UK is literally giving away its knowledge capital to India. Why as the requirement to drive down costs means too much is being shipped overseas. In some companies now they are losing the ability to run their own systems, without which they cannot function, we are losing the skills to be able to build them in the future, we must drive down costs the slave to the city the short term requirement means we are sentencing our children to increased poverty.
Wipro/TCS names that the average man on the street will not know, they will be running the country soon and unlike wiser heads in France and Germany less a slave to the city, we will be suffering higher costs as they push them up or in many ways they will simply cut out the middleman. The government with its debts unable to operate independently and take the long-term view, the UK becoming a second rate power, and not just losing its knowledge capital giving it away for a few years of lower costs before they jack up the prices.
Does it all matter really? I guess not but crass stupidity and short sightedness is depressing to see, watch and follow. The power of the city, Britain's cash cow, yet now driving the country to give away its knowledge capital, keeping Britain short term, keeping the pound over valued, helping to destroy manufacturing, forcing the UK to give up its greatest companies, making Britain poorer.
Yet we are all to blame the welfare state built over many years, now a huge financial burden we will do anything to maintain and keep it even if it means selling the house, the car and the very organs that keep us and the country running. We are a slave to the city and the welfare state, who would have thought the polar opposites would drive us in the same direction. The welfare state drives us into the arms of finance who hate it and it makes us short term and makes us give everything away.
The power of finance the drug that means the government is unable to take the radical action required, the slave to the city means that the UK is literally giving away its knowledge capital to India. Why as the requirement to drive down costs means too much is being shipped overseas. In some companies now they are losing the ability to run their own systems, without which they cannot function, we are losing the skills to be able to build them in the future, we must drive down costs the slave to the city the short term requirement means we are sentencing our children to increased poverty.
Wipro/TCS names that the average man on the street will not know, they will be running the country soon and unlike wiser heads in France and Germany less a slave to the city, we will be suffering higher costs as they push them up or in many ways they will simply cut out the middleman. The government with its debts unable to operate independently and take the long-term view, the UK becoming a second rate power, and not just losing its knowledge capital giving it away for a few years of lower costs before they jack up the prices.
Does it all matter really? I guess not but crass stupidity and short sightedness is depressing to see, watch and follow. The power of the city, Britain's cash cow, yet now driving the country to give away its knowledge capital, keeping Britain short term, keeping the pound over valued, helping to destroy manufacturing, forcing the UK to give up its greatest companies, making Britain poorer.
Yet we are all to blame the welfare state built over many years, now a huge financial burden we will do anything to maintain and keep it even if it means selling the house, the car and the very organs that keep us and the country running. We are a slave to the city and the welfare state, who would have thought the polar opposites would drive us in the same direction. The welfare state drives us into the arms of finance who hate it and it makes us short term and makes us give everything away.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Oh the Optimists
Why won't the debate progress a little. We always get the people who say there have always been end of the world theories that never happened. Duh.... are you capable of looking at history a little longer than a twenty year period. 1347 or around that depending on which part of the world you lived in. Thirty percent of the population of Europe gone... was that not an end of the world period.
South America witnessing the arrival of the gun and germ carrying conquistadors... some people say 90% of the population of the Americas disappeared. Was that not the end of the world scenario?
Catastrophes on a mega scale happen and they happen repeatedly, so let's not stray down the Malthus said it would happen and it didn't. Malthus has been right, just look at Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa. Globally he was wrong, but he may yet have his day although i pray he won't, as i am sure he would. Oh and those that constantly criticize Malthus don't forget his massive influence on a young Darwin, somebody those very same people look up to.
So now stop the end of the world theories are stupid they never happen, to bad things happen, and they have what are our main worries. What are the risks, what can we do about it.
The main thing we have to do all over the world is moderate population increase, we have to promote family planning, if we do that one thing we have a chance. How can we solve the world's problems whether they be drug use, poverty, child labour, fish stocks imploding, the chopping down of the rain forest if population continues exploding. We have to moderate population increase and promote family planning, so do your bit for the planet, for your children, and your own long term future and promote it whenever you are with a person of influence, without it we might as well forget about global warming, and carbon emissions, it will be for worthless.
So do your bit for this planet
South America witnessing the arrival of the gun and germ carrying conquistadors... some people say 90% of the population of the Americas disappeared. Was that not the end of the world scenario?
Catastrophes on a mega scale happen and they happen repeatedly, so let's not stray down the Malthus said it would happen and it didn't. Malthus has been right, just look at Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa. Globally he was wrong, but he may yet have his day although i pray he won't, as i am sure he would. Oh and those that constantly criticize Malthus don't forget his massive influence on a young Darwin, somebody those very same people look up to.
So now stop the end of the world theories are stupid they never happen, to bad things happen, and they have what are our main worries. What are the risks, what can we do about it.
The main thing we have to do all over the world is moderate population increase, we have to promote family planning, if we do that one thing we have a chance. How can we solve the world's problems whether they be drug use, poverty, child labour, fish stocks imploding, the chopping down of the rain forest if population continues exploding. We have to moderate population increase and promote family planning, so do your bit for the planet, for your children, and your own long term future and promote it whenever you are with a person of influence, without it we might as well forget about global warming, and carbon emissions, it will be for worthless.
So do your bit for this planet
Friday, July 10, 2009
What do you do when down - Read Darwin
So I can't face reading about the state of the world, I almost can't pick up a newspaper at the moment as so few people seem to be really thinking about the great problem of our age Earth management. They don't realize that without resources to sustain population, whether it be food, oil, fish or sheer living space we will turn on each other. We have repeatedly in the past.
So Obama visits Ghana, we talk about human rights, extremely important, but if we don't manage this earth all the our beautiful freedoms will disappear. So we have a conundrum; Democracy and freedom are based on mass bribery of always more yet always more is killing the planet or the life that we require to sustain us.
So it is all so obvious you go to any busy location with lots of humans and just watch and then wonder can this be sustained with minimal regard and thought for the earth?
So I read Darwin, or the voyage of the Beagle to take me to another time and another Earth. Oh he would weep now, if he were to take the same journey now, the tears would flow down his cheeks.
I watched some skate boarders the other evening they were being photographed in a concrete jungle with graffiti. That is all we will have left, the people will not be able to amaze at nature, it may look green in areas, but nothing much of any size will live. So we will be left photographing humans, doing something as mundane as skate boarding not a killer whale chasing a seal.
Everywhere he saw life, everywhere...
In all the noise of the Internet will this make a difference, will I be able to influence someone with far superior prose and connections than me? Probably not the odds are very small.
Well I have Charles for the duration of the book and then there will be another book, and perhaps just perhaps someone might stumble across this blog and think about the Earth a little, I hope so. We can but hope...
So Obama visits Ghana, we talk about human rights, extremely important, but if we don't manage this earth all the our beautiful freedoms will disappear. So we have a conundrum; Democracy and freedom are based on mass bribery of always more yet always more is killing the planet or the life that we require to sustain us.
So it is all so obvious you go to any busy location with lots of humans and just watch and then wonder can this be sustained with minimal regard and thought for the earth?
So I read Darwin, or the voyage of the Beagle to take me to another time and another Earth. Oh he would weep now, if he were to take the same journey now, the tears would flow down his cheeks.
I watched some skate boarders the other evening they were being photographed in a concrete jungle with graffiti. That is all we will have left, the people will not be able to amaze at nature, it may look green in areas, but nothing much of any size will live. So we will be left photographing humans, doing something as mundane as skate boarding not a killer whale chasing a seal.
Everywhere he saw life, everywhere...
In all the noise of the Internet will this make a difference, will I be able to influence someone with far superior prose and connections than me? Probably not the odds are very small.
Well I have Charles for the duration of the book and then there will be another book, and perhaps just perhaps someone might stumble across this blog and think about the Earth a little, I hope so. We can but hope...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Depressed State of the world
I am incredibly depressed as I write this. I went diving in the med brought by locals who knew an area yet there were hardly any fish, could have been coincidence perhaps yet I did this years ago and there were swarms of fish.
I spoke to the locals there are much less fish now, squid gone...
We are killing this planet let's not beat around the bush, she is dying slowly, or life is. We are going through a massive amount of species extinction, polluting the planet, chopping down the habitat. Talking about global warming is stupid; the subject should be Earth management.
She is dying around us yet, most of the elite seem to have little complete grasp of the larger issue. Mr. Lawson the absolute idiot to think he had an important job writes a 120 page book, was he too lazy to spend a bit more time on it discusses that one issue. You miss the point Mr. Lawson you tried cooking? You might do a better job. If you are going to think on this issue do it properly and think of the whole problem. Whether global warming does or doesn't happen we need to manage this planet which equals:
Habitat protection. What are all the services it provides us? Can we just turn everything to farm land or will it have other effects?
Are we likely to run out of water can desalination help? Which countries will that effect?
Are we polluting and over fishing the seas endangering humans that survive off fish primarily? Is farmed fish really a solution?
Is the world getting warmer what are the effects?
What drives the agricultural revolution is that sustainable at ever greater population levels?
Morally should we allow the great extinction event to continue? Is it possible to prevent?
Which animals can we afford to lose for our own self preservation? Are we sure of all the effects of the myriad of others that are dying out?
Is our life style sustainable at ever increased population and consumption levels?
Earth management is the question.
Like most people I have friends I don't want to isolate myself I have a normal job so I hold all this worry anger and depression inside and I write to strangers in the hope I might incite some clever people to begin thinking about the challenge of our age. We are all so polite. I am actually thinking of going up to strangers and giving them an information sheet, standing outside universities and giving them an information sheet as I want to see the elite thinking about this problem and reading.
I left an information sheet in a bookshop the other day with a reading list and why as I hope I may incite some people eventually to begin reading some of the important books.
I met a girl doing a masters in Ecology she didn't know about the Columbia Earth Institute, she hadn't read any Jared Diamond, didn't know Jeffrey Sachs I mean for f*&k sake what are we teaching people. Why do we let our elite off so lightly read for Christ sake, read about these problems before it is too late, especially as you are doing Ecology and if you are going to write about it Mr. Lawson, even if you think it will all be great look at the whole problem and stop acting like an educated idiot.
I read something the other day and he said if it doesn't feel right it probably isn't right, go to a large sporting event, concert or even a busy beach and watch the people with their mass consumption, mobile phones, designer clothes they throw away, the cans thrown to one side and then think can this really go on? Does it feel right to abuse the planet so? Are there really free rides in the universe?
I spoke to the locals there are much less fish now, squid gone...
We are killing this planet let's not beat around the bush, she is dying slowly, or life is. We are going through a massive amount of species extinction, polluting the planet, chopping down the habitat. Talking about global warming is stupid; the subject should be Earth management.
She is dying around us yet, most of the elite seem to have little complete grasp of the larger issue. Mr. Lawson the absolute idiot to think he had an important job writes a 120 page book, was he too lazy to spend a bit more time on it discusses that one issue. You miss the point Mr. Lawson you tried cooking? You might do a better job. If you are going to think on this issue do it properly and think of the whole problem. Whether global warming does or doesn't happen we need to manage this planet which equals:
Habitat protection. What are all the services it provides us? Can we just turn everything to farm land or will it have other effects?
Are we likely to run out of water can desalination help? Which countries will that effect?
Are we polluting and over fishing the seas endangering humans that survive off fish primarily? Is farmed fish really a solution?
Is the world getting warmer what are the effects?
What drives the agricultural revolution is that sustainable at ever greater population levels?
Morally should we allow the great extinction event to continue? Is it possible to prevent?
Which animals can we afford to lose for our own self preservation? Are we sure of all the effects of the myriad of others that are dying out?
Is our life style sustainable at ever increased population and consumption levels?
Earth management is the question.
Like most people I have friends I don't want to isolate myself I have a normal job so I hold all this worry anger and depression inside and I write to strangers in the hope I might incite some clever people to begin thinking about the challenge of our age. We are all so polite. I am actually thinking of going up to strangers and giving them an information sheet, standing outside universities and giving them an information sheet as I want to see the elite thinking about this problem and reading.
I left an information sheet in a bookshop the other day with a reading list and why as I hope I may incite some people eventually to begin reading some of the important books.
I met a girl doing a masters in Ecology she didn't know about the Columbia Earth Institute, she hadn't read any Jared Diamond, didn't know Jeffrey Sachs I mean for f*&k sake what are we teaching people. Why do we let our elite off so lightly read for Christ sake, read about these problems before it is too late, especially as you are doing Ecology and if you are going to write about it Mr. Lawson, even if you think it will all be great look at the whole problem and stop acting like an educated idiot.
I read something the other day and he said if it doesn't feel right it probably isn't right, go to a large sporting event, concert or even a busy beach and watch the people with their mass consumption, mobile phones, designer clothes they throw away, the cans thrown to one side and then think can this really go on? Does it feel right to abuse the planet so? Are there really free rides in the universe?
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