tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post170924215045370596..comments2024-03-28T15:17:43.056-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: The Long EmergencyCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-76599640180820492692019-05-07T18:19:21.645-04:002019-05-07T18:19:21.645-04:00I'm looking forward to your new Monday report....I'm looking forward to your new Monday report. I have absolutely no hope that there will necessary action taken on a global scale to change things. None. But it's always good to stay informed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-48052866087903530792019-05-06T11:53:51.700-04:002019-05-06T11:53:51.700-04:00Great news. I personally would be willing to trans...Great news. I personally would be willing to transform my life drastically and immediately.<br /><br />I had a job once, overseas, making music. It was 1998. Email was just beginning to become indispensable; I used the public library for it. I had no phone, no computer at home, no radio, no television. <br /><br />I'd go to work (making music, either rehearsing or performing), exercise, go hiking with friends, prepare meals or go out to eat, and practice my music on my own. I read about one book per week, usually novels. Once a week, I'd insert a lot of change into a payphone on the street and call back to the States to talk to people I was close to.<br /><br />It was a great existence. It was all real reality, not virtual, very rewarding, with no car or digital devices. I had what I needed, without excess.<br /><br />I'd be happy with community, mass transit, proximity to friends, contributing through useful work. Maybe one day we'll be able to teleport. You may say I'm a dreamer ... but I'm not the only one, JL! Change our ideas about what is important and what "success" is, and we'll be able to live in a paradise. It was before we messed with it. Keep our technology and science and find benign ways to power it. And for God's sake, end war. Have an international army, no national ones, and a World Court, like in the wonderful book I'm reading, Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land."Don Quixotenoreply@blogger.com