Did anyone tell the kids that the director is in London. Because there was this chaotic mice-will-play attitude today. I dolled out stacks of pushups, with quite a few students volunteering to do pushups. This has the effect of disrupting the class long enough to prevent getting anything of note done in the available half an hour.
I've watched Star Wars again recently and it has got me thinking. I'll elaborate when I have a bit more time, but I basically would like to put down a philosophy for the future, and a bit of an indictment of the present.
I am impressed with Kunstler(www.kunstler.com), whose book I am reading. He is well informed, a fairly modest if opinionated man, who has made a name for himself as a commentator for our times.
I have some strong opinions I would like to explore, and develop into a philosophy and psychology. It is based on disenchantment of our times, and also to bring consciousness into our own deluded daily life. We're a sick society, I am afraid, in more ways than we can even imagine. We take care of our own worse than ants and bees do. I believe he is remarkably astute.
We need to realise that we are part of a system, not the authors of it, or the writers of a new one. That same system is about to contain the plague (that is us) now running riot on this planet. All the the solar energy that we've converted into thermal energy is in the system, feeding weather systems and being absorbed into massive water systems. Diseases are being rejuvenated, and are on the move. And we march on, programmed by fantasies of inifinite growth in a finite world.
Earth is about to administer a kind of antibiotic, except it is specific to the human race. If you don't believe this, or you believe it's not that bad, you're foolish, and there will be a rude awakening.
I'll soon elaborate also on what I feel we can do, and indeed, whether we might be better off just accepting our fate, because the tide facing us cannot be turned.
I only ran once last week, and will up the ante in that department, and get to the pool this week. Need to keep the body healthy, or the mind just runs over everything, leaving one obsessive and miserable.
The weather's warm and sunny outside. I'm going to wear below-the-knee cargo pants this week, while the cat's in London.
Now to sleep.
1 comment:
as a teacher you are in a very powerful position to impact on lives, tell staries about 'what would happen if soneone tunred the oil tap off for one day'. I'm considering writing a children's book on that topic.
you can start a business that develops some kind of renewable energy, or a restaurant that serves only fruit and veg.
well you shouldn't do things if you feel guilty or uncomfortable doing them. it's reality that we still have to work to have a reasonably normali life, even if the world is increasingly screwed up.
maybe travel to places and do something there. i considered teaching for a volunteer orgsanisation on the nepalese border.
saving the earth is really something we can only do by joining hands, and that's really done through communication and in being with groups who similarly engage in disciplining our behaviour.
i still think life is a gift and one we should enjoy. a lot of wisdom and love for the earth is imparted, i feel, in the outdoor play of mountains, triathlons etc.
more practical things for us to do is to encourage those around us to live more consciously, and to be more alert to what is approaching.
and then there is reading...
if u come up with new priorities, let me know what they are...
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