"It matters much if ..."

                 

                            we might take some care in our interactions

I have recently read in a collection of writings by Sigmund Freud
the definition of  a narcissistic way of thinking...
this definition is what I wrote down
NARCISSISTC= when the satisfaction of the instincts is partially
                              or totally withdrawn from the influence of
                              other  people."

so what is problem with that?
I do not understand why so many people feel that
"group think" is superior to individuality.


"It matters much if from a running well
We drink, or from a dark and stagnant pool."   Martial

"Those who mocketh the poor.."

                 
                                                 

                   SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT TO EXERCISE YOUR BRAIN

Not to mention possibly solve some problems

I often wonder why peoples brains are not seen as more of a resource to solve the
worlds problems instead of their bodies as a problem to be solved.
When you think about the millions of people who barely get enough
food and water to survive and what their contribution might
be if they were nurtured instead of allowed to live in grim
circumstances unable to better their daily lives. I am not talking about
just getting food and water to human beings like so many heads of cattle
I am talking about good nutrition, housing and education. Think how many
more first class medical researchers or nurses might be available to
the world. It is nothing less than absurd to allow one human being to
amass billions of dollars while letting others die a slow and agonizing death.
Not even taking into account the religious blasphemy of it, the reality of
how inefficient it is to allow this to happen undoubtedly will bring the
human endeavor to a disastrous end. One thing that the study of evolution
shows is that those species that become too inefficient did not survive.

So that line of thinking brought me to the idea that in the future a more efficient
manner of housing people might greatly improve peoples lives.
And one thing that this world could use right now is a foldable shelter or
a movable house. Of course having lived  in
tents and motor homes for some years I am prejudiced in their favor.
Imagine all the millions now living in poorly constructed temporary shelters.
There is a need to innovate and origami may play an important part in
solving this problem.

"Those who mocketh the poor reproacheth their maker." Proverbs 17:5

"In our description of nature..."

1. 

                       unidentified creature peering from bushes
           this looks like a young canine but not very foxlike

well I have some bird and frog recordings which I would like
to make available online for those folks who are isolated from
nature but the labyrinthine way that audio has to be added
to this brand of blog is beyond my capacity for now

therefore I will add some reading material which is interesting

  some sound science about what a persons body temperature should be

also i have a music recommendation

I found a DVD by "Bare Naked Ladies"
entitled "Barelaked Nadies" and found
the song "What a Good Boy" from the
stage performance at to be Roseland Ballroom
quite good. All the performers are fully clothed
however they have exposed their deepest feelings.


"In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose
the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down,
so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects
of our experience."  Niels Bohr (1934)

"...if humans were incapable of rationality..."

big news
the desert southwest is hot this time of year!
but
on a positive note
the lizards seem to like it

                                           desert iguana=Dipsosaurus dorsalis

                                          desert horned lizard (southern)Phrynosoma platyrhinos

                                    probably some species of Cnemidophorus (whiptail)

                                         

                                          zebra-tailed lizard=Callisaurus draconoides
                                  this is not the best photo of this lizard and I must say
                                in the desert wild it is a spectacularly colored lizard

but the gecko was buried in the ground

                                          desert banded gecko=Coleonyx variegatus variegatus
                                    i unearthed this animal while digging my poop hole

and the snake was just soaking up some sun

                                         gopher snake (sonoran) Pituophis melanoleucus affinis
                                this snake was laying in the road and i regret not shooing
                                  it out of the road as a few minutes later a vehicle came
                                the road and probably ran over it

any or all of these identifications could be wrong or the names may have changed
but they were observed a few miles east of the Imperial sand dunes in California.
I think some of the lizards I have seen and assumed were whiptails may be something
else...and also this area was geographically isolated by extensive sand-dunes to the
west of me and the Colorado river to the east..so they may be sub-species...

the zebra-tail scurried through my campsite daily and the iguana and the whiptail
came around regularly also

I learned some years ago that certain things make a person less threatening to
the neighborhood wildlife...it may not seem like much but I never shoot a gun,
a bow and arrow or even a slingshot around camp...it makes critters nervous.
also I never poop or pee around a campsite except in a closed container to be
buried in a hole someplace distant or dumped into a toilet or black water dump.

"...if humans were incapable of rationality, we could never have discovered
the ways in which they irrational, because we would have no benchmark of
rationality against which to assess human judgement, and no way to carry out
the assessment."  Steven Pinker

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