"Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen."

-Lord Byron

"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."
-Lord Byron, Manfred

Aaron Weiss from mewithoutYou

Check out the Evolver Project.

There isn't much there right now, but bookmark it for the future because if it succeeds it could be very transformative. For it to work, they will need every one of us to participate.

The EVO membership will be a database of ecologically sustainable companies that members can access. In doing so, we can stop buying products that were made overseas, shipped across the world, sold to us and then thrown into a dump where it releases toxic chemicals into the earth and air and start buying localized products made from ecologically friendly materials.

For a description of Evolver magazine, head over to the Evolver Project website and check it out yourself.

It was not unrequited love
That bade my 'wildered spirit rove;
'Twas not the pride disdaining life,
That with this mortal world at strife
Would yield to the soul's inward sense,
Then groan in human impotence,
And weep because it is not given
To taste on Earth the peace of Heaven.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Retrospect, Stanza II.

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own."

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry, Stanza XIII

The below video is one of four half hour videos of a dialogue Douglas Rushkoff and Daniel Pinchbeck gave recently.

You can find the rest of the vids at Key 23. As of this post, only three of the videos are available, but the fourth one should be up soon.*

*Update: Fourth vid is up now.

Rushkoff and Pinchbeck Dialogue Part 1 of 4

Post-Modern Prophecy: Urgent Myths for Urgent Times? A dialogue between authors Daniel Pinchbeck and Douglas Rushkoff. (Part 1 of 4) Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of "Breaking Open the Head" (Broadway Books), and "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin). His articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Village Voice, Arthur, and many other publications. http://www.breakingopenthehead.com Douglas Rushkoff's titles include Cyberia, Media Virus, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Coercion (winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award), and Get Back in the Box. The first collection of his Bible-based comic book, Testament, came out this year from DC/Vertigo. http://www.rushkoff.com

I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with this blog, but I thought this was important enough to post about it and point it (the blog) out to people.

Robert Anton Wilson is dying and Douglas Rushkoff is asking for some help so he can die in his home and not destitute in some hospital or wherever they put society's rejects. I'm glad to see that Bob is able to stick around for another month or so and I am happy I was able to do my part. The man's writing is legendary in my book and I'm glad I could give back to the bastard who first showed me the fnords, Chapel Perilous and that my birthday is sacred.

Even if you could care less about RAW, it's an interesting "human story piece".

Then black despair,
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Dedication, Stanza VI.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame
Over his living head like heaven is bent,
An early but enduring monument,
Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song
In sorrow.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais, xxx.