h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Through time man has dreamed many things. Most, we have accomplished....as your article so well explains.

Peace, love and security have been, so far, the only elusuve ones. One day they will be realised; for anything that mankind dreams en masse will, eventually, be accomplished.

I am not a "Trekkie", though I am a big fan of the series and films. It has struck me, in my 46 years on this globe, just how far we have progressed toward Mr. Roddenberrys' utopian dream. A large amount of his mental creations, both scientific and social, are now a part of our everyday life.

We'll not see the full realisation of this dream in our lives, but in a few hundred...(dare I say thousand?)years, we will be there....or will have been destroyed by our own hand.

I must say, it is a most thought provoking article you have in this edition, but then that is not uncommon for you! Keep up the good work!

NM

* speechless *

*still speechless*


~jwf~

I agree, very nice article. unfortunately I am unable to comment further due to the fact that your bit of philosophy is probably the one to push my brain to overload. I have in the few hours since I got out of bed learned about thecnoshamanism, Ernesto Guevara (El Che I believe he was known as, Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist), the idea of crossculturism as opposed to multiculturism, and now the idea that these crazy dreams I have could come true. I think I'll drag the kid out for a long walk and digest some stuff. hope you are having a great day, or at least some great dreams

technoshamanism
crossculturalism
multiculturalism

see I can type

hi paulie,
please,
tell me more about technoshamanism
peace
~jwf~

A bit curious myself!

NM

>> A bit curious myself! <<

Yes, perhaps if we ask nicely she'll come back and explain.

~jwf~

sorry about that, I've been otherwise engaged, I say that like it was something exciting, but it's just regular old boring stuff like sinus headaches, kid's homework and arguments with my husband. all togheter exactly what I have come to expect from Monday.

anyway what I know about technoshamanism I learned from this entry A848397. It's in peer review right now. I don't know exactly how you go about it just yet but I think it has to do with music and dancing which certainly sounds fun anyway. Cept I can't dance unless I am drunk and I can't get drunk anymore cause I fall asleep first.

That's something I always wished I could do, just get up in front of people and start moving my body around however I want. Do you guys dance? Kinda off the subject a little, but not really, it's all about what you dream of doing and whether you can do it or not. I should make a resolution with myself, that I will get up and dance, in front of people, not drunk, sometime before I die.

eeerrrmmmm....forgive my conservative nature, but I have a hard time envisioning "mosh pits" as a bona fide religion.

While I'll agree that dancing may be good for the soul, I don't see it as a particularly spiritual endeavour.(yes...I understand ancient religious rites....and I think the same of them)

That being said....GO DO IT!!! Go dance!

I use to dance at any chance I got, but sadly Monsy does not care much for it. She is a bit self consious about it, as you are. Don't be.

Try it...nobodys' watching anyway...and I can promise you'll enjoy it!

NM

mosh pits! is that what a rave is? guess I really should have looked it up. I can imagine how ridiculous I would look

I've been trying to talk my husband into lesson togheter, he's not going for it though. guess he's even shyer than I am

Lemme see if I got this right.

So, ...'techno'-shamanism is like whirling dervishes. But instead of the traditional instruments, the chanting and the full skirts, it is set to new-age electronic techno-rhythms with strobe lights and ecstacy and called moshing by people who put metal things in their belly buckles?

Sheesh, the more things change, wot!
About the only similarity I would have immediately recognised is the smoke in the air. But now I think onto it, it seems to me that spinning round on an office chair after six aspirin and a coke would have much the same result. Oxygen deprivation, toxic narcossis and inner ear disorientation. Oooo - speak to ME god!


~jwf~