if i don't write right now, i won't be able to ever. i came back from a stressful vacation, just because. my choice of not having drama in my life worked and i started worrying about work due to lack of problems.
also realizing i won't be able to go turkey to work (ok, maybe istanbul), i came back to heidelberg with great motivation due to a destroyed ego. mevlevi acolytes go into 40 days of seclusion just before their acceptance. if accepted they start out by cleaning, cooking and washing in the temple. before you give up your your property and everything worldly, you first need give up on your ego. it is self emancipating.
i met a lot of interesting people, and discussed a lot of interesting things during my vacation. from open source science to a cultural conscientious objection.
but before i write about them all, i need to leave for a workshop on sustainability. meaning, let's not listen to karl marx, and find ways to maintain conspicuous consumption, but this time reborn as environmentally responsible. physicist are collaborators in this story (sorry patrick!)
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ReplyDeleteNo need to apologize. I don't see the revolution coming yet, but I see we definitely need to change something. Therefore, I'd say, let's start to change things now where we are able to change them. May be you are right, may be not. I do not know. But we need to act soon, and sustainability seems to work (at least to me).
as i told you also, the bit about the workshop comes soon ;)
ReplyDeleteafterall my impression is positive of sustainability. marxism is more than anything else a tool for analysis, and sustainability is the proof that marxist analyses (from 100 years ago no less)were correct, the action you choose is upon the perspective i believe.