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Arriving on #Amsterdam Airport the number of escalators out of order is remarkable. #Calvinist ethos or #climate change?

A lot of energy wasted on skirmishes between #conservative and #progressive among the future ruling elite assembled here on #Nostr Can we at least agree on #nonduality as guiding principle?

Nice that you point out the overlap of Smith and Marx. Stark opposition of ideologies usually fades when you actually read the founding texts. Which I haven't in this case, admittedly. So maybe you can help me here. Were Marx and Engels (themselves members of the elite if I am not mistaken) serious about the dictatorship of the proletariat? It seems so obvious that a ruling elite will emerge no matter what (as of course indeed happened disastrously in Communism). Perhaps the real protagonist here is the spectre of Progress, which of course used regimes of both socialist and capitalist persuasion to come into its own, wiping out traditional ways of life as it came.

Will come back and take a closer look at this witty piece View article →

If #hivemind is a creature of centralized social media (insect colonies are centralized), what should the collective intelligence of decentralization be called? #asknostr

Not sure who needs to hear this but R. Gordon Wasson's 1950s discovery of an active sacred mushroom cult in Mexico and the ensuing collaboration with Albert Hofmann (who had just serendipitously synthesized LSD from ergot fungus) was Providence in action. It may take another century or so for this to be fully digested and benefit Western culture #shroomstr #religion (excerpt from The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries)

Hello Nostriches does anyone perchance have a lead into União do Vegetal (UDV) in Florida or Texas?

Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal in the United States

Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal in the United States

A Blessed New Year! #asknostr #ayahuasca

So yesterday I joined my in-laws to #Catholic mass. Incense, robes, the Book.. I do sympathize with a good number of #conservative #Christian nostriches but I think I have reached a point of no return; joining organized #religion is just no longer an option it seems. This is probably due to my #liberal arts education (influenced by #relativistic Frankfurt School and the like). All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.. This is my fate; my only real option is to view it positively.

When in Rome, do as the Romans.. merry christmas America!

As mason's apprentice in #Amsterdam I discover the wealth of traditional bond systems for brick #masonry. From top to bottom: Cross bond (the most commonly used in buildings age 100 or more); Flemish bond; Norse bond; standing bond #architecture

IMDb

Hidden Hands (TV Mini Series 1995– ) ⭐ 8.0 | Documentary

53m

#history of #modern #art