last uploaded to htfiddler.net/psdocs: 1/13/08, 10:00 PM sad.pco, Plan S, see \ps\index.xls A. journal, running notes ... 1. when presenting, for each slide or concept ... a) Was this new info? b) Yes: rate -5 -1 0 +1 +5 ... 1) -5 strong neg prominence, leave it out (or strong disagreement) 2) -1 low neg bearing 3) 0 no bearing 4) +1 low pos bearing 5) +5 strong pos bearing, high prominence in future presentations 2. don't give in to move left or use buffered language ... a) Instead, list the caveats, and point out that action probably won't come until the pain is so great that a critical mass of the wealthiest realize that a dramatic change must take place. They will need a plan. b) ref news article on addiction, and how they really need to be in the gutter to act! c) In regards to S3, If I compromised, it would be easier to just advertise dieoff.org, since Jay already has the bases covered. The only big issues Jay misses are PDI and spiritual plane. d) This is why S3A and S3B are necessary. Most people will reject S3B since they are unable to handle one or more of the caveats. In this case, they have S3A to turn to, to build their own plan. However, I know of no way to create a sustainable planetary society except for S3B, and I prefer to shoot for the stars. It will be possible to do better than we did in Epochs 1 & 2 by applying building blocks from S3A in localized sustainable societies, and this will be beneficial. 3. admitting we (USA) were wrong? ... a) we have already done so with the African Americans, Native Americans, interred Japanese, Darwin, so what would preclude us from doing same with evolution? evolutionary psychology does have a chance 4. lay foundation, for others to build on in future ... a) like the Wright Brothers & Roger Bannister did b) I can only provide the beginning. It is up to others to elaborate. Since we are all unique, have unique situations and are re-localizing economies, there will be a kalidoscope of new ways of living emerging. c) I provide information, points of view, tools. 5. On the need to acknowledge evolutionary psychology ... a) before we can apply our free will over the long haul. b) Without a deep awareness of our true natures (and what has formed same), we will be no different than the dieters, quit smokers, quit drinkers. We are addicts, and must quit as a species. The odds are stacked firmly against us. It is hard enough to break addictive behaviors as individuals, let alone as a species. Continuing along in ignorance and denial, what are our chances of applying our will power, on an ongoing basis? Next to none. 6. seminar pricing policy ... a) online - phone bridge - in person, etc. b) contrary to fix price it due to the quicksand and collapsing dollar, yet there are expenses in the present c) 40 yrs of research and billions of work to be done to effect paradigm shift d) collect their email addresses, do it for free, send them an email and request their written feedback and free will offering 7. copyright notices copy right notices ... a) mention that if anyone wants items removed, to let us know and we will do so b) energybulletin.net: FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of issues of environmental and humanitarian significance. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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We are now accelerating to between 1000 and 10000x. 1/3d could be on a path to extinction by mid-century. 9. ref "Resumes, 4x" re my background ... a) lots of handwritten pages on my save the world, world transformation experiences 10. ref \drops\success1.pco, June, 2005 11. S2, archiving function notes ... a) ref Powerdown p 160 that mentions preservationist vs survivalist, ie. be a "preservationist lighthouse" during the dark age 12. understanding and living with collapse .. a) leave a record for future "challenge > response" ... 1) and the building of a sustainable civilization b) however, this will require a significant portion of TWO to "take the long view". Perhaps as our species grows up, this will occur. A big question however is just how a species does "grow up". Is the only way a species can learn, by adapting to a new environment? If so, we appear to be doomed to repeat the never ending collapse cycle. c) In the present, the order of the day is S2, relocalization. d) Is there a book/website on the details of relocalization? Expand what they have started at postcarbon.org. 13. new info to add re change of "super religions" ... a) See article in wiki on Peace of Westphalia. Significance: b) vv Note that this text was captured in 2005 or so and the article has changed since then. c) It is often said that the Peace of Westphalia initiated modern diplomacy, as it marked the beginning of the modern system of nation-states (or "Westphalian states"). This was caused by the first time mutual acknowledgement of each country's sovereignty. Subsequent European wars were not about issues of religion, but rather revolved around issues of state. This allowed Catholic and Protestant Powers to ally, leading to a number of major realignments. It also cemented Germany's internal divisions, keeping it from uniting into one nation-state. It is the Peace of Westphalia that is most often pointed to as the foundation for studying international relations. 14. 04/23/06, "humanity's greatest opportunity" ... a) driving from 24 hr fitness to MileHi Church b) Lately have been thinking about the flip side of doom/gloom, by looking at what's next. Thinking of "door closes" another "opens" quote. What's next? c) oil/metals currency vs dollar d) postcarbon relocalization e) s-day f) These are things humanity can get excited about and stop wallowing in the gloom of losing the exciting but doomed and filthy fossil fueled industrial era. g) Driving ... visualizing the Tenochtitlan image. Thinking about all the incredible knowledge amassed on wonderful ways to live, in low energy fashion, prior to the modern age. But also about their slave classes and the many ways they ignorantly squandered energy in wars and uninformed strange religious rituals and practices. h) Now, with our brand new attitudes, we can see all the factors coming together to create a new wonderful era for humanity: 1) We found the fossil fuels and finally learned the basic natural laws that govern our universe. We don't have to focus on our ignorant use of these resources, anymore than we have to focus on other ignorant behaviors from other eras. Focus on the positive aspect of all the knowledge we gained. 2) We can now go back thru the past 40,000 years of our species experience, and pick the best stuff. Hunter-gatherer, Sumer, Egypt, Greece-Rome, Aztec, Inca, Maya, Western Civ. There are hundreds if not thousands of cultures that can be studied worldwide and thru the ages, each with valuable wisdom about how to live joyous, happy, fulfilling, content lives, without squandering tons of energy. 3) We are finally aware of our genetic makeup, and can take purposeful action based on same, to extend our species-span. 4) We can eliminate most reasons for war, which has been primarily fought over religious differences and resources. This confers great energy savings. 5) We can finally get efficient in our energy use. 6) We can minimize the pain of paradigm shift, by all shifting together (S-Day), rather than the haphazard meandering muddling processes of the past. i) So many will think, "That's IMPOSSIBLE ... 6.5 billion change all at once!" But now it's time to apply PDI. If we think impossible, of course it will be. j) We think possible and ask how? The universe will answer us. There is no known natural law that prevents 6 to 10 billion individuals from creating a paradigm shift all together. k) So stop focusing on all the doom/gloom, peak oil, war, collapse, etc. That focus just perpetuates, and creates self fulfilling prophesy. Stop focusing on the pain of the loss, collapse, losing our "American way of life". Leave the old paradigm behind, and focus instead on creating a new wonderful way of living, never done before, and how exciting it will be to make the shift all together at the same moment. We get to step into the future together! 15. 04/28/06, about pissing people off and losing friends ... a) If you are a passenger on a sinking Titanic, there comes a point where you realize you are going to lose your friends anyway, since you will soon all be in the water together freezing to death. At that point there is no longer any need to edit your comments, to conform to social norms, etc. If there is any way to save more of the people and valuables on board, it is time to blurt it out, regardless of how ridiculous or absurd. b) Much of what I blurt here will be seen as ridiculous, blasphemous even. Each individual part will be out of synch with the prevailing order. But taken together in an instantaneous flip, the pieces will fit together, as in the puzzle slide. We need a new order, a new way of thinking as Einstein and Fuller advise. This is my stab at that new order. In time, parts of it will be wrong, will not fit, will not work. Regardless, it is time to get this out and start a dialog with my fellow humans. 16. on short memories and everything turning into its opposite ... a) from Organic Inc, Fromartz (at Amazon review page): Fromartz recounts the tale of Kellogg, a company whose founders cherished lofty aims of spreading health and nutrition but who ironically ended up promoting mass-market, sugar-laden cereals quite contrary to what they had originally envisioned. b) Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Pat Wagner ... 1) peg:recv:10 Oct 2007 ... a> I studied under George Benello, a sociologist who was a friend of Alinsky. In the last couple of years of his life, Alinsky found he was being asked back to the same neighborhoods to oust the bullies he had put in power. I think he does talk about this in one of his books as well. 2) peg:recv:21 Oct 2007: 2 more, need action 17. microcosm of western civ: smartest guys in the room 18. on discovering "who we are" and "being ourselves" ... a) Individually, we find we are happiest, after a long process of discovering "who we are", and then "being ourselves". This is the process of personal growth. When we try to live life in violation of our internal code, we are very unhappy indeed. b) Humanity evolved in a hunter-gatherer tribal dispersed energy environment. This code is written in our genes. We are just discovering this, and this information is not accepted by a good half of us. Until the 1800's we didn't even know what a gene was or how it operated. None the less, our species will likely be happiest learning who we are, and living in accordance with our code. c) The prevailing culture on Earth today is Western Civ. It arose in Western Europe, notably out of England (Newton) and Italy (Florence/Galileo), both solid bastions of Christianity. While Western Civ. has gone worldwide and has infiltrated most major religions, it remains a Christian based phenomenon. Since Christianity adheres to the creation story, it is at direct odds with the evolution story, and therefore doesn't accept the gene theory of who we are. And this creates great tension and unhappiness and conflict for people who yearn to learn who they are and how they should live. d) Continuing to attempt to carry on in a high energy way of life, means continuing to not acknowledge our genetic program, and continuing to live in conflict with it, and therefore continuing to be very unhappy. And yet, the cat is out of the bag, and especially many young people will want to live in the fast lane. Perhaps Joseph George Caldwell at the Foundation Website has a good idea. Split into 2 small societies, one hunter-gatherer and one industry based. This way people can learn about our genetic program, and make their own choice. They can even go back and forth at different times of their lives. 19. Genetically, we evolved to be politicians and religious ... a) adherents, not scientists and mathematicians. So we are not predisposed to think about the metrics of our energy use. Most of us are innumerate, especially with numbers and statistics many orders of magnitude away from our daily experience. Thus we deceive ourselves into thinking renewable energy will save the day. 20. Note similarities between Skilling/Lay at Enron ... a) and others who rose to great heights only to fall to low depths. Napoleon, Hitler, Santa Anna, etc. b) This is the result of genetic programming. 21. possible writer, Bethany McLean ... a) parallel fraud and collapse of Western Civ. with Enron b) human nature, selfish gene, young, exc writer, attracts filmmakers, people story, investigator, likes to understand how things really work, doesn't appear to have a political agenda, understands self delusion 22. Stanley Milgram, early 60's ... a) Milgram experiment b) characteristics of evil people c) "50% of subjects were willing to shock to the death so long as the commands came from a seemingly legitimate source" 23. Yeast dieoff curve, saw in Heinberg's video ... a) at BVR public meeting 05/15/06, Boulder. 24. 06/02/06, new way of thinking (einstein, fuller) ... a) air clean, sex dirty (sex: fun on low energy) b) solar car races, across Australia, USA ... 1) having fun on low energy budget c) up phase of fossil fuel era ... 1) FUN: most happiness by wasting as much energy as possible! d) down phase of fossil fuel era ... 1) FUN: most happiness by conserving as much energy as possible! 2) Question: How can we have the most units of fun per unit of energy expended? SEX! e) new way of thinking: checkout parties f) Everything that was verboten and blasphemous now comes up for consideration and use, as we move to a whole new way of thinking! 25. singularities ... a) fossil fuel/hydrocarbon era b) conquistador's gold export era c) etc. d) one-time events during human development never to be repeated ... what are others? 26. all change at once, overnight paradigm shift ... a) Likely I already have a slide on this. b) cruise ship: day > eve c) winter > summer d) culture to culture changes in attire e) How weird to cross dress! Likewise, how weird and inappropriate to try and put a tenet or facet of one paradigm into another paradigm. f) Imagery: Inappropriately cross dressed people. 27. re: uninformed ... a) from generalized uninformed (glw1) b) to specialized uninformed (glw2) c) future: to generalized informed (glw3) d) ? DOES THIS MEAN that I have a new entry in the glw1-3 slide? 28. Thomas Kuhn, Paradigm Shifts 29. wiki: Scientific Method 30. where ff=fossil fuels/hydrocarbons ... a) ff were put there for a reason: we get informed! Should we go back to our uninformed ways, or move forward into an informed future? Why were these ff put here anyway? Perhaps so we could become informed and live the rest of our species span in an informed state. 31. 2001: A Space Odyssey, inspiration ... a) is a mini version of GLW1-3. Dawn of Man is 1, space travel is 2, newborn child at end is 3. b) Re my "spaceman" orientation, this is a spiritual journey ... taking humanity into the next realm. 32. JUST START TEACHING WHAT I KNOW AND PUT THE CAN OUT ... a) have "overview/beginner sessions" b) then a rotating specialist session with details that folks can pop in on anywhere in the middle, as long as they have the overview/introductory session behind them 33. re "this is impossible" "this guy is crazy" ... a) I understand this mantra. Been there, done that. But it is the mantra itself that stands between possibility and impossibility. Change it to: "this is difficult but possible". The mind starts asking for answers, plans, ways. With the former mantra, there is no looking. Instead we take actions to insure further impossibility. Humans are reknowned for doing impossibly difficult things. b) Saving the world is all mental ... it's how we use our brains. 34. attitude, doom and gloom v greatest opportunity ever ... a) glass half empty or full? b) I present info on specialties. c) Reader installs attitude. They will see what their attitude allows them to see. d) Go to the ink blots analogy from Miller, How to Want. e) If having trouble, review "the mind" from 3 point triangle: ev psych, neuroscience, PDI. f) Everything we create as a species is the result of our colllective mind and its attitude. Start with yours! g) From PD to SD: pers dev > species dev! 35. species modeling, per Tony Robbins ... a) If individuals can model, why can't species? Have we ever done something like S-Day in the past? Yes: Euro, D-Day, Westphalia, Magna Carta, etc. b) We can also model past successful civilizations. Look at what kind of policies produced longevity and success in civilizations, and model that. c) Move from impossibility to possibility! 36. video/workbook production ... a) Goldhil Educational, standarddeviants.com, Camarillo, CA b) looks like they bought Cerebellum, Falls Church, VA c) fun, graphics, animation, course curriculum development 37. re ace in the hole: PDI ... a) re: a "reformed and enhanced personal development industry" b) reformed, meaning overcoming the limiting concepts of the past 100 yrs c) enhanced meaning incorporating latest info from e.p. & neuroscience d) ref to this industry as the only ace in the hole we have against the dire conclusions drawn from the work or Savinar and Hansen 38. attitude v problem (doom/gloom) & solution approaches ... a) Do not dwell on either the problem or solution. Instead, focus on attitude adjustments. Whenever the info becomes overwhelming, too much to handle, depressing, focus on attitute, a PDI operative/attribute! Always recall: b) our problems were created by our minds c) our problems dwell in and fester in our minds d) since our problems were created by our minds, they can equally be solved by our minds 39. problem list (ref :simmons above) ... a) Don't dwell on it. They know it all. Reduce to 6 pt type and let them research each, using Google. 40. classification of information in this treatise ... a) Due to generalist nature, how is info classified, both regarding problem & solution? Use dewey decimal, since it is widely known and used in wiki. 41. WHERE AM I AT RIGHT NOW? How to present ... a) scan & photograph what I got currently in folders, 3x5, mp3, computer files, etc. and present this to helpers 42. locate motivated graphic artists & ghost writers ... a) to create an initial manuscript & website, who would like to share in proceeds, rather than paying outright. 43. the human brain, neuroscience: imax: wiredtowinthemovie.com 44. re lack of users manuals ... a) We evolved in low-energy, uninformed, environment & didn't need users manuals to live! Do trees, flowers, lions, tigers, bears, spiders, racoons, squirrels, ants, need users manuals? b) But now that we have the beginnings of users manuals, should we throw them away, and go back to living as we evolved to live? A complex question. 45. "Think in different patterns" ... a) Found in Miller, Chap 4. Echoes of Einstein, Fuller, thinking "outside the box". 46. March of the Penguins, exc reference for "gene's world" ... a) view. Here is a species run entirely on instinct that has learned to carry on in a sustainable manner, in an environment that we would never dream of trying to survive in. b) Their entire lives are spent eating, surviving, and reproducing (preserving their gene pool). 47. Brian Basor, Benjah, community: thelastbite.blogspot.com 48. reductionism, part equals the whole ... a) Dr Weil, Eating Well for Optimum Health, hardback, c/2000, p 139, para 2: b) ... "To recommend the use of one, isolated element of a complex family of protective compounds in plants is to fall under the spell of reductionism, the belief that the part equals the whole. Unfortunately, that way of thinking now dominates Western medicine and science." c) exc on specialization v generalization/systems thinking 49. specialists feel uncomfortable moving away from their specialty ... a) since it is what is familiar. It's like visiting a foreign country with a different language, foods, religion, customs. We now have to learn all kinds of new things, which takes effort. Older adults do not learn as easily as young children, who pick up new information effortlessly, like sponges. b) However we must move into this uncomfortable zone in order to build plans that are general and system-wide. If we do not, our lack of comfort will be far greater, as vast numbers of humans freeze and starve to death. 50. Robert Newman site: No Planet B (history backwards) 51. re biofuels, solar energy, alternative energy & pyramids ... a) Pyramid schemes sometimes pay off handsomely for the founders and first ones to "get in". However the ones later in the pipeline and toward the end (when all the fools are rushing in), lose big time as they pay off the founders and first-ins. b) This will be the net effect of the rush to "sustainable fuels" and the continuation of the big party. 52. re pyramid schemes and con-artists ... a) western civ: the greatest scam/scheme of all time! 53. beginning > middle > end ... a) To get everyone acclimated to the scope/frames concept, define B M E for: b) universe 13.7 billion c) galaxy ? d) solar system & planet earth 4.6 billion e) life on earth 3 billion f) large mammals ? g) homo 2.2 million h) homo sapiens sapiens 200k i) agriculture 10k j) major religions 8k k) western civilization 350 l) USA 230 m) industry 200 n) your blood family to 5 generations 150 o) your life ? 54. The Little Engine That Could, "I Think I Can" (The Pony Engine) ... a) I Think I Can ... I Thought I Could b) versus: "I cannot" 55. micro <> macro view ... a) the gargantuan giant picture (universe) b) the itsy bitsy micro picture (electrons) c) We are somewhere in the middle of these two, but mostly on the micro side. Our major concerns right now are energy and how we use it to make us happy, and our brains and how we use them to create both our internal and external worlds. d) Best place to focus is on our genes. It's a gene's world! 56. contrast prices, re need for resource based economy ... a) cheap airline trip, expensive cruise, space tourist b) our current prices using fiat currencies help destroy our resource base c) we need a currency system that informs people of the true costs of goods and services 57. ref cs96 & media: problem statements with no solutions ... a) promote the doom & gloom mentality. So dieoff and LATOC both commit this sin, but are unaware of it. 58. on genius & pioneers ... a) see quotes, several there b) von mises, @bm.xls c) \dr\PioneeringPersonalities.jpg < Udo 302/3 59. quotes from Udo ... a) p 316 ... 1) We are arrogant to think that we can just replace the requirements for our own health, ... convenience of a long shelf-life. b) p 350 ... 1) To enjoy the gift of life, we must live in line with our genetically and biologically determined nature. 60. Udo on doom, p 391, Kellogg quote 61. people are forced to (reluctantly) give up their paradigms ... a) due to conquerors, conquistadores, empire builders ... 1) ie. Native Americans, Inca, Aztec, Maori b) due to natural circumstances ... 1) ie. Hohokam, Anasazi c) in both instances, refugee situations happen, both geographical and ideological 62. are we a "great" species? ... a) No ... not yet. Its still a gene's world. For some reason we appear to be the only highly intelligent, self reflective species of the 30 billion so far. But we still operate largely from instinct, a product of our genes. Our one claim to fame is that we have discovered the "users manual" for the natural laws of the universe, our bodies and our brains. But that doesn't make us great, since so far, we are only using our discoveries to waste and destroy everything in sight. Where we may attain true greatness is when we apply this knowledge to live sustainably, within our means, and in harmony with our world and other living creatures and non-living resources. b) There is nothing that guarantees we will do this. If there is no crisis (ref Toynbee), there is no reason to believe we will. Without a crisis, it appear we will do what we have always done ... return to a simple, low energy way of life. c) So many authors end their books with a bunch of false hope ... ending on a "positive note". Most recent is Collapse by Jared Diamond. What we need is realistic endings. If things get bad enough, quickly enough, then here is a plan we can use. If things fall apart slowly, then we will indeed "muddle towards frugality", and we will be like the slowly cooked frog. 63. re gladiators, genital mutilation, etc. ... a) We look at others of both past and present in horror: b) gladiators, cruel & unusual punishments: burning at the stake, electric chair, the stocks, the rack, genital mutilation, hitler, Aztec sacrifice, etc. c) now, we get to look at ourselves and our list of 100+ horrors, that we have become used to and addicted to d) The doom and gloom is not just over the horizon. It is here right now, in the present. 64. re Toynbee and the frog boil ... a) Will we have an acute challenge that causes us to rise up and meet it, like the fast boiled frog? If yes, then we will be looking for a plan. If no, we are likely to boil slowly like the frog and never jump out, never meet an acute challenge, never implement the plan. b) Ref Zbigniew Brzezinski's, The Grand Chessboard, p 211 available at Amazon.com: "truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat", mentioned in Ruppert video. Keyword is "perceived". Threat may or may not be real. And a real threat may not be perceived. But if a real threat does become perceived and that perception is common to many people, then we have a quickly boiled frog scenario, and there is a possibility of action ... ie. searching for a plan. 65. chimp v human dna, 96 to 99% similar ... a) Miller says we are closer than zebras are to horses. b) Time, 10/09/06, cover: How We Became Human, p46, top left: c) "a human is closer to a chimp than a mouse is to a rat" 66. meaningful specifics vs. wandering generalities ... a) Whenever possible and time permitting, I will be as specific as possible. However in many cases generalities will have to do. I must leave to others and time to fill in all the specifics. You can help by filling in specifics, and by understanding that in our highly complex universe and civilization, that no one individual may be privy in a single short lifetime of all specific details.