Hi Kris,
As I get back into editing / indexing my first actual/virtual
Harbin ethnographic book - I just sent off chapter 5 to a friend (with
two Harvard degrees, whom I know from QMeeting in SF) to "finalize" it
(and also to a group of SF Quakers/friends who have publishing experience) - and
developing World University further, I looked up "cynicism" per your
recent text just for clarity's, as well as my own understanding's,
sake(s) ~
cynicism
1 an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism: public cynicism about politics.
• an inclination to question whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile; pessimism: cynicism about the future.
2 (Cynicism)a school of ancient Greek philosophers, the Cynics.
As
I think about cynicism re "people ... motivated purely by
self-interest", I come back again and again to John Money's "Concepts of
Determinism" as an explanation for motivation and especially re
pairbondage and troopbondage - http://scottmacleod.com/cynicism
1 an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism: public cynicism about politics.
• an inclination to question whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile; pessimism: cynicism about the future.
2 (Cynicism)a school of ancient Greek philosophers, the Cynics.
Your recent talk here looks interesting -
https://www.utexas.edu/cola/ historicalstudies/events/ event.php?id=32086. Can you share a link to a recording. How would you characterize briefly "Deep History" and what is great about it for you?
Just
came upon these two interesting GD films on Youtube, with much about
Deadheads and hippies, about which I have a kind of interest
anthropologically, as well as at WUaS -
Ken Kesey takes the Grateful Dead on a field trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Tie Died Grateful Dead Parking Lot Scene Documentary (1990s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=vCUP6bP17fg
- and which also kind of complements my recent Pgh holiday experiences in terms of vibe, but also are suggestive of a kind of atmosphere which might inform a virtual Harbin in relation to further creating a virtual earth for STEM research (in Google Street View with OPenSim / SL per what we talked about at the Epple's where we first kind of talked - here are the slides from my Berkeley talk this autumn -
- and which also kind of complements my recent Pgh holiday experiences in terms of vibe, but also are suggestive of a kind of atmosphere which might inform a virtual Harbin in relation to further creating a virtual earth for STEM research (in Google Street View with OPenSim / SL per what we talked about at the Epple's where we first kind of talked - here are the slides from my Berkeley talk this autumn -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2015/11/waters-36-slides- from-uc-berkeley-talk.html), and what I'm calling ethno-wiki-virtual-world- graphy -
How
do you think this GD ethos might migrate into a film-realistic,
interactive, group build-able, 3D, with avatars, virtual earth and
virtual Harbin Hot Springs? Show films of Harbin (of which there aren't
many) in the virtual earth for wiki-STEM research by all of us? :) ...
but also with hard science research and computer modeling, and in all
languages.
Here, by the way, is the Green Tortoise adventure trips' page if you might be interested some time - http://www.greentortoise.com/ adventures/adventures- departure-name.php
- in a trip together. The GD Parking Lot Scene Documentary may have a
lot of the same energy that can happen on Green Tortoise trips (and at
the Rainbow Gathering, and in some ways at Harbin ... but raising a
family might be much better on Juniata ) ...
Here, by the way, is the Green Tortoise adventure trips' page if you might be interested some time - http://www.greentortoise.com/
Not
sure I should send this email to you, Kris, recognizing what you
texted about not wanting a spiritual, emotional, or romantic,
relationship so just emailing here as a friend and to share ideas. Being
idea-friends with you appeals to me, but we're both pretty busy, and
live ~1400 miles away, too ... so we may not have much time for this
either.
On with editing chapter 6 of 9 in my first Harbin book here.
On with editing chapter 6 of 9 in my first Harbin book here.
Friendly cheer and Happy New Year,
Scott
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Grateful_Dead -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Grateful_Dead
Hippies -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hippies
Entheogens -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Entheogens
Film_-_Documentaries -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Film_-_Documentaries
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