“Fixing the world’s problems and fixing your own inner dysfunction are inseparably unified objectives. It’s okay to emphasize one more than the other at different stages in your life, but valuing one without valuing the other is a contradictory, intellectually dishonest position”
— George Atherton (@notrehta) January 28, 2020
Nuclear power & hydropower form the backbone of low-carbon electricity generation.
— IEA (@IEA) January 23, 2020
This analysis focuses on the role of nuclear power in advanced economies & the factors that put it at risk of future decline.
Learn more ⬇️https://t.co/QzL4rwMbHo
https://t.co/yBgt3b5htH via @NatObserver. Good suggestions here, given the questionable journalism in some sectors of the industry. Some publications are aligned with political parties and therefore les than objective.
— rhodogal (@sarmcbride) January 18, 2020
Same with media. Corporations pay the wages, control the career progression of journalists. So journalists' first loyalty isn't to readers, but to the corporations they depend on for their livelihood. This *structural* analysis of social power is ignored by the media, of course
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) January 17, 2020
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Narcissistic assholes. Hmm. Whatever may be thought of anyone or anything is simply one view of what is. Another is that nothing depends on nothing and nothing doesn’t change. In other words, nothing is other than the whole. No one is. There is no unchanging essence to anything or anyone. Even a so-called narcissistic asshole is nothing other than the whole.
“… things are not as they are seen, nor are they otherwise.” Lankavatara Sutra (!tw)
We’ve all known people who’ve changed their belief systems. Whether it’s switching political ideologies or converting to a new religion, we’ve all witnessed with our own eyes that people have the ability to willfully change their beliefs. Unless you’ve been living an incredibly boring and immature life, you’ve probably made such a change yourself at some point, too.
What’s very, very strange, and very very unfortunate, is that when such changes in belief systems occur it tends to go unnoticed and underappreciated just how significant it is and how enormous its implications are. We discover that we have this incredible superpower to change our beliefs whenever we want, and instead of paying attention to that superpower and what it means for our lives, we focus on the new belief system instead.