Discuss The Knowledge

A Secularly Sacred Book I favor a Secularly Sacred Book as the medium for The Knowledge. While I hesitate at the term 'sacred', the model of religious scripture as a vessel for a set of related memes (memeplex) is among the most successful we know. I believe The Knowledge will benefit from a secula...

Oh Sinnerman is a traditional folk tune about The Day, with lots of great renditions.

Nina Simone can really rock it.

YouTube Link: https://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDZsABHUbQ

In Normal Accidents , Charles Perrow argues that systemic accidents are 'normal' in the sense of being spontaneous, unavoidable, emergent properties of complex systems. Worse, their contributing causes are often obvious in retrospect, but very difficult to foresee in prospect. Perrow identifies thre...

Interesting, and certainly contributed to an historical, industrial revolution! On a related note, one of John Michael Greer's seven modern technologies he proposes to be worth preserving is 'double entry book-keeping'. As capital has been a player in all IRs to date of which I'm aware, certainly su...

HugelKulture is raised-bed farming over wood/organic debris 'hills'. The hills retain water, averaging rainfall over time, and provide nutrients to surface crops. Harvest and tending is at easier arm's length. Typically surface plants follow a succession cycle. It may be that this type of agricultur...

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGSEbfegrs

Good, driving tune for bombing down the crumbling infrastructure.

Good, human story of getting by post nuclear war. Just plain folks, who happen to live in a castle. But it's well written and believeable.

Wikipedia link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil