Who’s not here?
March 11, 2025
My mind has never been in firm contact with the real world as a whole – rather, flashes of that, but better grasp on the ideal one
March 11, 2025
Animal fuels – first whale, seal, yak, beef fats and tallows, then a jump to fossil fuels – brought into being new forms of consciousness and value
February 25, 2025
The point of this whole current “sudden pro-Russian turn” is to get Ukraine to sign the deal on US ownership of mineral rights
February 20, 2025
It’s not a policy direction, it’s a negotiating ploy – getting the deal is always Trump’s primary goal, that’s how he moves through the world
Given the reality of time, and therefore change, as a foundational principle of existence, one of the fundamental human issues is faith – in the continuity of identity through change, perhaps in the goodness of identity, or change as progress towards something better, or in existence as nurturing toward humanness, etc
February 20, 2025
One goal for education, art, religion, or culture can be the creation of occasions for participation in meaning and commitment
February 11, 2025
Whatever the experience, of primary psychological importance is whether it ends with a feeling of satisfaction – as a thing in itself, independent of dynamics like achievement, fulfillment of goal or expectation, pride, pleasure, satiation, fullness, etc
February 11, 2025
Satisfaction is what closes off regret, shame, aloneness, shoulda, self-analysis, self-centeredness
Gaza might become Trump’s obsession, his chance at real world-shaping glory, at really building for the ages – like Rome, or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or the Taj Mahal, or the Pyramids
February 11, 2025
Including creating a permanent place for the Palestinians somewhere else, since he’s a magnanimous and caring king They say it’s never been done
The imagined topography of Massachusett depopulation can be thought of in the same ways we think about Pompeii
January 23, 2025
Including, how the volcanic ash enriched the soil for later agriculture
The History of Scientific Agricultural Methods is the Story of the Evolution of Modern Consciousness
January 9, 2025
The Origins of Transplantation Nurturing Breeding Territories, Ranches, Farms, Gardens Estates Landscape Architecture Scientific Agriculture Trans-Plantation Economies The Monkey and the Weasel
Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D. 