Our living planet is in the midst of one of the great mass-extinction events of all time. Human beings are facing precarious predicaments on economic and ecological fronts. We’re entrenched in a myriad of behaviours destructive to the health of individuals, societies, and whole ecosystems. Better ways exist, but we seem resistant to making them happen. Organic Mechanics believes that to change our behaviours we really need to change our culture, which requires a fundamental change in how we think. How we think is directly related to the relationships we’ll forge with living beings of all kinds, to the questions we’ll ask, and the problems and opportunities we’ll perceive to exist in the world. How we think is directly related to the meaning and purpose we ascribe to life on earth. Since Science defines and underlies our culture’s rationality, it is in part through Science that these changes must come.
In other multimedia news, on April 4th 2011, Alexis Pietak was hosted on Katarina Rosamunde’s Wellbeing Show on Otago Access Radio (OAR 105.4 FM) in Dunedin, New Zealand. Alexis and Katarina discuss Alexis’ new book, Life as Energy, as well as their thoughts, feelings, and concerns about modern views of holistic medicine. Please enjoy the podcast of this show:
In my personal sphere, some casual debates are simmering. Has the number and severity of earthquakes been increasing in the past five to ten years, or is it just a matter of public perception?
Imagine an aeroplane flies low over a big city like New York, scattering twenty dollar bills down over the urban centre. These bills are laced with a unique poison that’s invisible, scentless, and so toxic that merely picking up a bill and putting it into your pocket is enough to initiate a horrific three-day process leading to your inevitable death as there’s no antidote. The government is behind this procedure as it believes that a specific human enemy has infiltrated the urban community. Moreover, it claims that only the human enemy will pick up the poison-laced money. All other citizens will simply leave it alone. Sounds absolutely ridiculous, right? Of course. All types of people are bound to pick up twenty dollar bills that float down from the sky. Yet this ridiculous scenario directly parallels the use of aerial-dropped poison in New Zealand’s forest ecosystems and the government’s claims to its selectivity and safety.
Organic Mechanics 
In my personal sphere, some casual debates are simmering. Has the number and severity of earthquakes been increasing in the past five to ten years, or is it just a matter of public perception?
Imagine an aeroplane flies low over a big city like New York, scattering twenty dollar bills down over the urban centre. These bills are laced with a unique poison that’s invisible, scentless, and so toxic that merely picking up a bill and putting it into your pocket is enough to initiate a horrific three-day process leading to your inevitable death as there’s no antidote. The government is behind this procedure as it believes that a specific human enemy has infiltrated the urban community. Moreover, it claims that only the human enemy will pick up the poison-laced money. All other citizens will simply leave it alone. Sounds absolutely ridiculous, right? Of course. All types of people are bound to pick up twenty dollar bills that float down from the sky. Yet this ridiculous scenario directly parallels the use of aerial-dropped poison in New Zealand’s forest ecosystems and the government’s claims to its selectivity and safety.
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