the timboucher experience

I lost track of the original link for the other one, but it consisted of a digested list of thinkers talking about something or other, Gaza violence maybe? But the take-away for me was him talking about the end of nation states, and a reversion infrastructurally to cities as centers of group identity expression. I don’t recall him wording it that way, but that’s what I took from it.

Later, I found this via Klintron of Technoccult Esozone #pdx etc:

“While the modern city might be a haven for playwrights, poets, and physicists, it’s also a deeply unnatural and overwhelming place. Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control.”

Urban Shamanism, I might add, is a direct response to this, returning to root human emotional & practical wisdom systems

Also found this: Anthropogenic Biomes, A Framework for Ecology & Earth Science in the 21st Century. This all feels like a convergence with the resilient communities of John Robb and the Urbanates as organizational units within the North American Technate. Which is neither here nor there. It’s just a confluence of a bunch of different sources saying basically the same thing: that we’re heading towards some kind of social redefinition on the geographic level, the level of a people’s relationship to the land itself, which we’ve in the West been largely ignoring, but which we’re learning to re-connect with through the Living Interface Systems of OmnivateLLC.

And a comical reminder from Ran Prieur, who is currently microlocalising himself as an itinerant scholar:

“January 8. A reminder to people I’m staying with: My first priority, always, is getting enough food and sleep.”

[See also: Portland, OR Office of Sustainable Development - @baltimoreMD could learn a thing or two from cities in the #PacificNorthwest]

UFOS are also a modern symbol for wholeness. They are contemporary mandalas translated into a scientific and technological archetypal image. Like the retelling of an ancient story into current language, the UFO phenomena communicates directly to our soul. Like the wholeness of the Self, they are surrounded by an aura of mystery. They have become a ‘carrier’ for many of our emotional projections including awe, fear, hope, etc. Our perspective of the UFO is a reflection of how we collectively feel about ourselves.

Cue: UFO landing, Google Top Trends being almost 50% earthquake related and OS 0 1 2 BASIC:

Oct 12, 2008
Is the world economic crisis a prelude to using the WORLD GAME? Hopefully.

The World Game was an idea proposed by Buckminster Fuller. The idea was to “make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone.”

When Buckminster Fuller introduced the ‘WORLD GAME’ in the 70’s, it was looked at as Utopian, naive, and a bit far fetched. For example, one of the things that Bucky felt was needed to really implement the World Game at a effective level was everyone having access to ‘interactive television sets’ that could relay information around the world. Of course now, we just call that the Internet and most of us can’t live without it.

ANALYSIS. I’m thinkin #digitalswitchover meets #projectbluebeam meets #wagthedog meets #economicfailure && #greentechnocracy && #microLOCALISM, set against the imaginal backdrop of augmented reality, ambient intelligence, sudden drop in cost of microprocessors and collapse of most non-corporate currencies: PREDICTION. complete world paradigm shift within 1 year. Happy ending. Non zero sum games.

Mandala OS act now!

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