Delusionorium! The grand Illusion of mirrors, mascara and modernity!

BTW, guys, this problem of CO2 rising is not just due to the billions of humans, their cars and cattle!

Just clearing natural habitat releases carbon from the biomass of the ground into the atmosphere. In Queensland, Australia for example, for every hectare of land cleared, they release 100 tons of carbon into the air!

The problem is that learning biology and geography, what people do in other lands and the like is considered optional, naive and a diversion to sports and "real practical knowledge for life” in many educational systems. Childrens' weekend TV shows have mad scientists trying to bamboozle everyone to control the world.

People graduate as engineers and lawyers, becoming captains of industry or of cruise ships innocent and ignorant of the facts of life of our own ecosystem.


In fact mention of ecosystem brings otherwise competent fun people to a state of ridicule about our concerns and responsibility to account for what we are doing.


We are therefore used to looking at the product we want to consume. We just like a friendly interface of things. We only need to know what button to push, not how to really make something work or what the significance of things really is.

We look at the superficial, put on acid washed jeans, crack open a beer or even a great wine and smile at our achievements!

This is, mon ami, mon tres tres cher ami, le grand illusion, what I call "The Delusionorium".

Asher.

In brief, if the birds die, then we are the dinosaurs too!

"The Grand Delusionorium"




In the Bible story of the Tower Of Babylon, ancient Babylon threw the resources of its Empire to the construction of a massive tower to rise high above the ground, past the sky, to the heavens. This would be the greatest achievemnt of man, conquering the only remaining power, God! This was, for sure, an ambitous project; but do-able by Bible standards. After all, the pyramids showed that we could literally move mountains and make new ones!

On this occaision, however, God thought otherwise! (S)He solved the problem by scrambing the communications of the architects, engineers, craftsmen and workers, giving each man a different language. Soon building ground to a halt!

In my poem, The Grand Delusionorium the words are collapsed together to initially at least, achieve incoherence for example,

Wehobblbent is of course, We hobble, bent

So in this poem, this interference with written language arrests communication. Like the engineers' workers in Babylon, all are present, but cannot express thoughts, intent or needs.

The comfortable visual interface is lost. This loss relates to our own delusional sense of competence. In fact we suffer a psychosic of pragmatic omnipotence over nature.

Asher

Asher Kelman said:

Just clearing natural habitat releases carbon from the biomass of the ground into the atmosphere.

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Not just that, but these were trees that were consumers of CO2 and producers of oxygen.

- DL

of course my tongue is planted firmly in my cheek in previous comments. Although I stand by my belief that the global warming issue is a lie, I am actually horrified at what is going on with the planet. I don't understand how massive parcels of forest can be burned in Indonesia for the purpose of farming. Or the Amazon forest be razed at an alarming rate, or here in Tasmania, Australia, old growth forest being raped for the purpose of woodchip production. It's bullshit, & were only talking about trees here, what about the other many issues relating to the poisioning of the planet. It may be that the planet has enough healing power to sustain tha attack for a while.....but how long. I fear for our home.
Lets hope thay get the 1DSMKIII out quickly while we can still enjoy it (humor)

Cheers,

Paul

I know I get preachy sometimes, photography is a great route to getting intimate with everything else!

Asher

I have been thinking about the US decision to extend their dominion over our private thoughts and correspondence, ideas and inventions and views of everything. We also see that in religious movements that have answers for everything. They just are all driven by the inner strength that comes from the ideas they have integrated to their being.

Control of people? The Chinese do it as do the Taliban. We now do this in the name of protecting liberty and our democracy. How then do we justify invasion of privacy and making available our own creative work to anyone they choose?

Still, no doubt, they believe they are doing the right thing to maintain the integrity of "our way of life" and our freedom. A more cynical mind would say, not they are not deluded, rather know they are doing wrong, trespassing and stealing! That I think is simplistic.

I consider we all wrap ourselves in a cloud of delusions of being "right". The head of homeland Security does not, I'd wager, think he is undoing the fabric of democracy.

That cloud of delusions, the appeal to words like "Freedom!" screamed by Wallace in "Braveheart" in a horrible "crucifixion-like death, is what prevents much progress in dealing with ethnic and other big issues that divide us. Some yell "freedom" and other's some holy words of salvation.

We need to break though the grand scheme of things, the grand "delusionorium". It should start in school, not in highscool or college.

Instead of other entertaining studies, rationalism should be taught from primary school. The rest, cultural matters are decorative. We need to fight against being treated like sheep!

Asher

Hi, Asher,

Asher Kelman said:

The Grand Delusionorium

Howfar Havwegon . . . .​

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