Olá Bo & all,<br><br>I remember you from "The
Quality Event", but never wrote to the Lila Squad, and
only joined the CW after you mentioned it. In the last
two months I've been posting to the moq focus, and
trying to recall ZMM & Lila. I read Lila a long time ago
(3 years?), and didn't "digest" it properly (lack of
*avalability*, you know?) 'cause I went too fast and my english
was +/-. ZMM, on the other hand, is quite present, as
I went through it many times. Yesterday, I started
reading "The Tao of Pooh" (simple & fast reading) and I'm
on my way to Lila. Hope I have the energy..
<br><br>Don't know if you heard of this book.. these links can
give a good idea of it (bet you'll like it, Geoff -
and it has a lot in common with Sara's
writings):<br><br><a href=http://gweezlebur.com/pooh/index.html
target=new>http://gweezlebur.com/pooh/index.html</a><br><a
href=http://www.just-pooh.com/tao.html
target=new>http://www.just-pooh.com/tao.html</a><br><br>By the way, I'm writing
from Portugal.. also find
the Bahia fascinating, Sara, and Brazil in general..
while NZ plays a bit of a mystical role 'cause its in
the "antipodes"(?) of Portugal (this comes from
childhood..)<br><br>"..such sinus curves can't go on - it's forbidden
mathematically.." <br>I think a lot about this.. with the kind of
evolution taking place, (exponential growth in population,
food & energy consumption, pollution production,..)
maybe "space" will be the way out (!) for the future
(western) generations. <br><br>For a start, I would like to
see the "Economic indicators" - as these gain a life
of its own and start "steering" world life -
evolve.. (the United Nations Development Programme is
pointing good directions - but the adoption of that kind
of reasoning is slow (or
stopped))<br><br><a href=http://www.undp.org/hdro/
target=new>http://www.undp.org/hdro/</a><br><a
href=http://www.undp.org/hdro/highlights/statistics.html
target=new>http://www.undp.org/hdro/highlights/statistics.html</a><br><br>Consid\
er, for example, access to safe water, water
withdrawals, renewable water resources, supply of calories fat
& protein, infant mortality, adult literacy,
unemployment, refugies, child labour, slavery, women rights,
work time, suicide rates, jailings, juvenile
convictions, rapes, homicides, housing, sanitation,
dependency, renewable energy use, nuclear waste, hazardous
waste, waste recycling, protected areas, carbon dioxide
emissions, sulfur dioxide emmissions, deforestation, massive
extintion of species, civil rights in general, public
spending in education, in health, in military, phone TV
computer & internet access - info-exclusion, tuberculosis
malaria & AIDS cases,.. I guess it never stops.<br><br>It
is consensual (?) that half of the world population
lives under conditions that the european and the
american (at least) journalists consider sub-human. ..and
yet there's not a lot of action.<br><br>This is
getting long.. I'll leave Pirsig for another time.. he's
always present, anyway.<br><br>Cheers,<br>
João<br><br><br>PS:"..birds opening milk bottles and the monkey's potato
washing technique spreading over great distances and
across the seas.." - where can I find this, Bo? Like
Diana, I'm enthusiastic about your future explanation..