consistent inconsistencies

“The fetishisation of change is symptomatic of a mood of intellectual malaise, where notions of truth, knowledge and meaning have acquired a provisional character. Perversely, the transformation of change into a metaphysical force haunting humanity actually desensitises society from distinguishing between a passing novelty and qualitative change. That is why lessons learned through the experience of the past are so important for helping society face the future. When change is objectified, it turns into spectacle that distracts society from valuing the truths and insights it has acquired throughout the best moments of human history. Yet these are truths that have emerged through attempts to find answers to the deepest and most durable questions facing us, and the more the world changes the more we need to draw on our cultural and intellectual inheritance.”

from spiked-online

“we often think community is the opposite of loneliness. when we want to avoid that loneliness, we hang out with people and fill our days with activities. but just being ‘not alone’ doesn’t necessarily qualify as community. part of being in community is knowing yourself-being in community with yourself, being comfortable in solitude and inactivity.”

-m. mowers

just re-read this article again…reminded of how great and possible this story is…

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/the-city-that-ended-hunger

“And when imagining food as a right of citizenship, please note: No change in human nature is required! Through most of human evolution—except for the last few thousand of roughly 200,000 years—Homo sapiens lived in societies where pervasive sharing of food was the norm. As food sharers, “especially among unrelated individuals,” humans are unique, writes Michael Gurven, an authority on hunter-gatherer food transfers. Except in times of extreme privation, when some eat, all eat.”