2023/01/14 - Christina’s FiveQuestions - 5Q - January 2023

1. What are you grateful for from 2022?

I’m grateful for my mommy. I’m grateful for a wood stove and arms which still work to saw wood. I’m grateful for bunnies and ravens.

2. Has the internet changed the way you think?

At first I read this to mean, “has the internet changed in the way you anticipated?” The answer of course is yes. The power of infotech to eviscerate our contemplative faculties is QED at this point.

More philosophically: The internet has removed much of my prior faith in technocracy and the wisdom of boffins. The internet never should have become the standard medium of communication. We aren’t ready. It was best when it was an ancillary novelty for the isolated, a backup amongst backups. Whenever a technology becomes an unavoidable necessity, you know it’s bad for you.

3. What do you believe is true though you cannot prove it?

As Chris Hedges would say, “the good draws to it the good”. Such belief works best without the insecurity of proof.

4. What have you changed your mind about and why? If possible, use an example from 2022.

I used to think we had a moral obligation as a species to revive extinct species and provide for them in a wild habitat. Now I am much more suspicious of these efforts as merely yet another front of gene cartels and biotech cults to patent (enslave) various forms of life. A talk by Beth Shapiro recently made me reconsider this.

5. What would you like to return to?

1987, but knowing what I know now.

Bonus. Three things to love in life?

㊀ Deep dish home made pizza.

㊁ Children asleep at night in the back seat while classic country music plays on the car radio.

㊂ Trees. All of them. Each and every tree ever held upon Earth’s good bosom.

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