The great inventions are usually those that take the smallest possible step to unleash the most change.
Kevin Kelly @ Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From
Endless Curiosity
Weed-delivery guys, Bodega owners, The person holding the sign at the end of the Trader Joe’s line, Carriage horses, Food-delivery people, The New York Public Library’s homeless patrons, The NYPL’s librarians, The graphic logo of the man on the bike in bike lanes, Food-cart vendors, Anthony Weiner, Marty Markowitz, Human billboards, etc, etc.
WALDEN. ANARCHY. NATURISM. In the footsteps of late Thoreau, the 19th century anarcho-naturism is likely to become phenomenal next summer, as the occupy vibe will continue to spread to countryside and beyond…
“Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, free love, nudism, hiking and an ecological world view within anarchist groups and outside them. Anarcho-naturism promoted an ecological worldview, small ecovillages, and most prominently nudism as a way to avoid the artificiality of the industrial mass society of modernity. Naturist individualist anarchists saw the individual in his biological, physical and psychological aspects and tried to eliminate social determinations.”
Just backed Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet on Kickstarter
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Solution 239-246 Finland the Welfare Game. Ha, our homeland will be so screwed without these twisted, witty & poignant remedies for the socio-cultural maladies of our times. Thanks Martti for the spellbound Yule present!!
#future of #food - C21 food chain will be anybody’s guess, really…
Reading: ‘Adding Values: The Cultural Side of Innovation’ (the Dutch are on it, again!)
The pace of moral progress has accelerated in the last few decades… on issues such as civil rights, the role of women, equality for gays, beating of children and treatment of animals, “the attitudes of conservatives have followed the trajectory of liberals, with the result that today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals.
Nicholas D. Kristof quotes Steven Pinker at NYT Op-Ed, Are We Getting Nicer?
Welcome to the crisis that never ends… Our economic problems are really political problems. But our political problems are really cultural problems.
