I am not a female.
My most extensive bout of diaper changing was over 35 years ago, when I routinely changed diapers on adults with mental ages of one or two, in a mental hospital.
Never been a parent.
But neither did I grow up a privileged upper middle class male, waited upon hand and foot while I floated above it all , exalting in my profound thoughts.
Pause here for loud guffaw from Rebecca....
I had led a frugal life, living on a very small income and working at a variety of manually-oriented jobs.
I am very aware of the ability of material limitations to prevent grand ideas ever coming into actual existence.
And I have an ingrained respect for street smarts - be they from adults with a mental age of one or two, from infants with mental ages of one or two, or even when coming from the very humble-seeming bacteria.
Most think that World War Two was the apogee of modern science.
I ,and Adorno, disagree.
I see it was the time when Modernity was finally given its oats and told to 'go for it' .
Modernity then proceeded to 'go postal' and tore itself apart - on the inside .
It took thirty more years for Modernity to start to show its scars --- and it is still not dead yet.
I am here to help kill it - before it kills all of us and all of the Earth...
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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