Mandala No. 8 (Black Rose and Shiva)
I'm pretty much like you. Only different.
November 17, 2011
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Lapidarium notes: Kevin Kelly on Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution “When we look...
Kevin Kelly on Technology, or the Evolution of Evolution
“When we look at technology we see pipes and blinking lights. But in the cosmic view, technology is the acceleration of evolution.
In the abstract, natural evolution is an exploration of a possibility space. It is a way for…
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"‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue’
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority.
We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’ "
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority.
We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’ "
— Robert Anton Wilson, American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, civil libertarian (1932-2007)
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June 21, 2011
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