CHOO CHOO WADDUP MAH HOMIES (had to refrain from a using a slang term there for courtesies sake)
Once a week sounds like the right amount for a blog so let me get back on track here with that.
Abstract Rude Jedi Mind Flow style now but I still want to get in all the badass tonic herbs of Chinese herbalism (kicks Indian herbs in the butt in my eyes not to even mention "Western" herbs...) as well as some more qigong.
Music contemplation will follow in the comments.
As a society, we've become suspicious of such acts. Out of ignorance or laziness or timidity, we've turned the Luddites into caricatures, emblems of backwardness. We assume that anyone who rejects a new tool in favor of an older one is guilty of nostalgia, of making choices sentimentally rather than rationally. But the real sentimental fallacy is the assumption that the new thing is always better suited to our purposes and intentions than the old thing. That's the view of a child, naive and pliable. What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges us or diminishes us, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.
- Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
I recommend his book The Shallows actually if you must read one.
