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Venus Dreaming

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venusprojectNow this is the stuff of my childhood dreams.  When my imagination was still unbounded and unfettered by the burdens of reality and the skepticism of age I dreamed of molding and forming society like play-dough.  The Venus Project, the brain child of Jacque Fresco, is doing just that.  This is the luxury of genius at its best.  Even at first glance I can recognize the science fiction novels I have read that have been influenced by this stuff.

But is all of this just modernist, Jean-Luc Picard type thinking that is already being supplanted by the post modern sense of relativist spirituality?

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Redneck Supported Agriculture

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Homes never smell like vinegar baths anymore.  When I was a wee one there was an informal holiday around my house that I guess could have been remembered as “Canning millet_gleanersDay.”  Much of this holiday’s kitchen rituals remained a mystery to me, but the days leading up to the “great pot” were like Easter and a safari combined.  It was my job to roam the hills or the draws harvesting anything from wild plums to mustang grapes.  Then, through a vinegar haze, these wild gems somehow became jam.

These efforts at gathering in the wild crops from the creek and bramble are only one branch of the redneck supported agricultural tree (which has now become endangered).  The second, and more important, is gleaning.  Some today might call this stealing, but come on.

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The Guerillas Have Reached SLC (Go SLUGG!)

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Earth day is in the air and granolas are coming out from under their winter stupor here in Salt Lake.  This is the day to celebrate temporary amnesia for so many earth activists, so grim so much of the time.  But not today.  At the University of Utah earth lovers, granolas and tree huggers of … Read more The Guerillas Have Reached SLC (Go SLUGG!)