Robert L. Moore — Coping with Grandiosity in Our Lives. LECTURE 1:  The Flood.

Presented at the Oblate School of Theology’s 2014 Summer Institute conference, Coping with Grandiosity in Our Lives: The Deity and the Dragon Inside Us, continues Dr. Robert Moore’s important research on the growing epidemic of grandiosity and unregulated energy, and what we can do about it. Each of the following presentations includes a lecture followed by question and answer session with the audience.

LECTURE 1:  The Flood: Facing the Growing Global Epidemic of Grandiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgJtc-7UG4
LECTURE 2:  Understanding Our Need for a Psycho-Spiritual Ark
LECTURE 2:  Understanding Our Need for a Psycho-Spiritual Ark
LECTURE 3:  The Real Ark: Building the Followship of the Golden Dragon
LECTURE 3:  The Real Ark: Building the Followship of the Golden Dragon

Older institutions are collapsing and being replaced by a scientific one. Creating another blanket authority of dogma to follow.

Personal, political, and cultural dragons of chaos (archetypes) flood each of us with emotional jargon filling us all with discord.


#carljung #psychology #socialstudies #history

Is it safe?

We'll start this thread off with some education. 

Leftist Teachers Going After Your Children! But don't let that scare you! (Much )

https://rumble.com/v13t33l-leftist-teach...ldren.html

The eventful life of one Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Wonderful Radio Version with Derek Jacobi, from the book by Robert Graves.

https://youtu.be/rnwUxIk5dhY

The U.S. nuclear power industry's 93 reactors generate more than half of the country's carbon-free electricity, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). But 12 reactors have closed since 2013 in the face of competition from renewable energy and plants that burn plentiful natural gas.

In addition, safety costs have soared after the 2011 tsunami at Japan's Fukushima plant and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The industry produces toxic waste, currently stored on site at plants across 28 states.

The program could help a range of utilities, including PSEG (PEG.N) and Constellation Energy Corp (CEG.O), which currently do not have plan to shut plants.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-a...022-04-20/

California willing to keep nuclear plant running to keep lights on

It followed a Los Angeles Times interview with the governor published on Friday in which he said the state "would be remiss" not to apply for funding under a new $6 billion federal program aimed at helping nuclear power plants stay open.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/califor...022-04-29/

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

The notion of human beings as consumers first took shape before World War I, but became commonplace in America in the 1920s. Consumption is now frequently seen as our principal role in the world.

People, of course, have always “consumed” the necessities of life — food, shelter, clothing — and have always had to work to get them or have others work for them, but there was little economic motive for increased consumption among the mass of people before the 20th century.

Quite the reverse: Frugality and thrift were more appropriate to situations where survival rations were not guaranteed. Attempts to promote new fashions, harness the “propulsive power of envy,” and boost sales multiplied in Britain in the late 18th century. Here began the “slow unleashing of the acquisitive instincts,” write historians Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb in their influential book on the commercialization of 18th-century England, when the pursuit of opulence and display first extended beyond the very rich.

This article is adapted from Kerryn Higgs’ book “Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet.”

But, while poorer people might have acquired a very few useful household items — a skillet, perhaps, or an iron pot — the sumptuous clothing, furniture, and pottery of the era were still confined to a very small population. In late 19th-century Britain a variety of foods became accessible to the average person, who would previously have lived on bread and potatoes — consumption beyond mere subsistence. This improvement in food variety did not extend durable items to the mass of people, however. The proliferating shops and department stores of that period served only a restricted population of urban middle-class people in Europe, but the display of tempting products in shops in daily public view was greatly extended — and display was a key element in the fostering of fashion and envy.

Although the period after World War II is often identified as the beginning of the immense eruption of consumption across the industrialized world, the historian William Leach locates its roots in the United States around the turn of the century.

In the United States, existing shops were rapidly extended through the 1890s, mail-order shopping surged, and the new century saw massive multistory department stores covering millions of acres of selling space. Retailing was already passing decisively from small shopkeepers to corporate giants who had access to investment bankers and drew on assembly-line production of commodities, powered by fossil fuels; the traditional objective of making products for their self-evident usefulness was displaced by the goal of profit and the need for a machinery of enticement.

“The cardinal features of this culture were acquisition and consumption as the means of achieving happiness; the cult of the new; the democratization of desire; and money value as the predominant measure of all value in society,” Leach writes in his 1993 book “Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture.” Significantly, it was individual desire that was democratized, rather than wealth or political and economic power.

The 1920s: “The New Economic Gospel of Consumption”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-bri...r-culture/

#truthsocial #twitter #trump #covfefe #elonmusk 

A Gooey and Delicious History of Mac and Cheese, a Meal Once Fit for a King




Ever heard of the fabled land of Bengodi, where they roll macaroni noodles down a mountain of parmesan cheese, straight into your mouth?

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/hist...and-cheese

Dust to dust, heya?! lol

Don't forget all that water.