One of my favourite posts in this blog is called Whole Earth Catalog – 50 Years. Read through to the end of it to find the gem, in my opinion, which is to understand the sad contortion of humanity’s destiny with the creation of the Whole Earth Catalog. That subtitle, Access to Tools, is so significant, more significant than Stuart Brand realised or that any of us realised at the time.
Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand
This Journal has Just come out. — Clipped the whole page here. Note the articles are online! I love that. I’m interested in the psyche and climate.
The cover by Nigel brown is great.
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DOC’s hydro approval damns bats | Stuff.co.nz
Planning a tramp here, and then find that there is a threat. I hate that!
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Therapy and the world
Just as I completed the last post I saw this post in GroupTalk:
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Here’s how I see it. Moreno started it with this:“A truly therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective than the whole of mankind. But no adequate therapy can be prescribed as long as mankind is not a unity in some fashion and as long as its organization remains unknown. It helped us to think, although we had no definite proof, that mankind is a social and organic unit.”
That opening from Who Shall Survive by Moreno is exactly the philosophy that underlies Jim Rough’s Wisdom councils, though he may not know it. This another example of how some other philosophy amplifies how I see Moreno’s work more clearly.
Later: Sunday, 26 December 2021
I must have written this in a time I really lost my Marxist perspective. This unity approach is annoying.
Psyche and cyberspace
I am adding a quite a few political posts of late. I put them in the World category. But I think I’ll stop posting them, and focus on psyche and cyberspace.
I see the fate of the world as a psychological phenomena. The cyberspace aspect is vital as well, so my “World” posts are not really off topic. I am deeply concerned, angry, and scared about the fate of the world. However there are a bunch of left-wing bloggers and websites that do all of this really well. Maybe I’ll put a bunch of those in the sidebar. Promote them more.
We are heading for disaster with war, climate and nuclear weaponry. If the world is like the Titanic, then we need to avoid that iceberg, grab the wheel, or slow down, or strengthen the ship in some way.
What I know best is psyche and cyberspace. In those fields there may be some answers. I think I have been posting in vain to vent anger, to point to the Emperors new clothes, to say we are on the eve of destruction. But I will sticl with the way in which psychological work is needed.
Crazy? It might sound that way because we are in an Orwellian world, where words mean their opposite. Or they mean nothing at all.
Psyche always was a complex idea. Think of Marx’s idea of class consciousness.
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12 September 2021
Did not post this in 2010, but put it up today. I’ve added the tag: About – about me about the world and about this weblog.
Climate change – Malcolm Turnbull MP (Aust)
Is the proposed ETS in Australia any better than the NZ one, which the NZ Greens say is a scam to make the rich richer & won’t do anything for climate?
Are the NZ Greens right?
Malcolm Turnbull makes sense, (who thought I’d be quoting an Aussie Liberal!)
First, let’s get this straight. You cannot cut emissions without a cost. To replace dirty coal fired power stations with cleaner gas fired ones, or renewables like wind let alone nuclear power or even coal fired power with carbon capture and storage is all going to cost money.