M.I. Lastman's Blog, page 8
June 9, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Mankind truncates natural redundancy with tragic results: loss of habitats, loss of species. 
In Nature redundancy is usually the only real scheme for survival. With enough individuals some will survive. Humans take maximal advantage of this strategy and deny it to countless other species.
In Nature redundancy is usually the only real scheme for survival. With enough individuals some will survive. Humans take maximal advantage of this strategy and deny it to countless other species.
June 8, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
It is easier to build more of the same than it is to unbuild what we’ve already made. That is true tragedy.
The first picture represents a generic new housing project. The second picture shows an Ukrainian city in the early stages of abandonment. The third shows a later stage of abandonment. Our inability to clean up as we pursue reckless growth can only lead to a tragic end. We are avidly making our own destruction.
The first picture represents a generic new housing project. The second picture shows an Ukrainian city in the early stages of abandonment. The third shows a later stage of abandonment. Our inability to clean up as we pursue reckless growth can only lead to a tragic end. We are avidly making our own destruction.
June 7, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Have we started to think about growing smaller once more -about taking no more than our share? 
The first picture represents us a collaborator with Nature, the second as a destroyer of Nature.
The first picture represents us a collaborator with Nature, the second as a destroyer of Nature.
June 6, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Nothing else in nature needs our technology. Did God tell us to exterminate countless other species for our own good?
There he is again: good old God the Father creating earth for us to mess up.
There he is again: good old God the Father creating earth for us to mess up.
June 5, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
A bigger digit in the dyke is a larger stopgap. It won’t address the problem of too much water or demand for energy. 
They wind turbine industry is the perfect example of the hubris of mankind: bigger and bigger technology to satisfy bigger and bigger demands. The windmills in the first picture met a very low demand for artificial energy.
They wind turbine industry is the perfect example of the hubris of mankind: bigger and bigger technology to satisfy bigger and bigger demands. The windmills in the first picture met a very low demand for artificial energy.
June 4, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2014
We waste so much of our lives on congestion; we should do something about it. 
What more is there to say?
What more is there to say?
June 2, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
A society that suppresses women’s thinking, loses at least half of its potential for good ideas 
There are few things that have resulted in such pernicious harm as the stupid and iniquitous inequality of women. These crosses symbolize the war on women that is now being waged in northern Mexico. However, the greatest loss that results from treating women as unworthy of the capacities of men is the loss of ideas - ideas that could lead us to a much better world.
There are few things that have resulted in such pernicious harm as the stupid and iniquitous inequality of women. These crosses symbolize the war on women that is now being waged in northern Mexico. However, the greatest loss that results from treating women as unworthy of the capacities of men is the loss of ideas - ideas that could lead us to a much better world.
Aforementioned: Aphorisms and questions for 2015
Since men have so many truly terrible ideas, maybe we should stop telling women that "father knows best." 
June 1, 2015
June 01st, 2015
Men, let women decide for themselves.They’ll agree with us most of the time, and have better Ideas some of the time. 
This blog should be taken quite literally. There is no reason why women should not have full authority over the business of their intellect. Most truly free dialogue ends with some sort of agreement. Where there is no agreement, a women is exactly as likely to have the better idea as the man. The lovely girl pictured above is Malala Yousafzai. I have no idea who the young man in the second picture is, but he might symbolize the distrust that is so much a part of the testosterone storm.
This blog should be taken quite literally. There is no reason why women should not have full authority over the business of their intellect. Most truly free dialogue ends with some sort of agreement. Where there is no agreement, a women is exactly as likely to have the better idea as the man. The lovely girl pictured above is Malala Yousafzai. I have no idea who the young man in the second picture is, but he might symbolize the distrust that is so much a part of the testosterone storm.
May 31, 2015
Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2015
Humans hosted Spanish flu; the biosphere hosts the Plague of Homo Sapiens; pathogens often kill their hosts. 
The truth inherent in this blog is undeniable: humans area biological entity so out of control that if the disease is not addressed soon, it will destroy its host, the biosphere.
This truth is passionately ignored.
The truth inherent in this blog is undeniable: humans area biological entity so out of control that if the disease is not addressed soon, it will destroy its host, the biosphere.This truth is passionately ignored.
