My video coincides with a writing blitz, ostensibly in response to Curt's call for content, given a new BFI website going in. I'd started with the opening paragraphs a couple weeks ago, and the piece had mushroomed on Github ever since.
Yes, this is a time of family gatherings and/or family consciously choosing to play it safe in our second year of covid, when variants name delta and omicron were all the buzz.
However our family has established a pattern of scholarship and learning around Christmas, as you'll find if you consult these blogs going back. Our default gift giving gathering had become Laurie's Hanukah party. However these rituals were all disrupted.
The TrimTab Book Club is Curt's project. I didn't learn of it right away and was invited to join around the time Princeton's architecture program was a main focus, number twelve on CJ's reading list for last year: R. Buckminster Fuller: pattern-thinking by Daniel López-Pérez (Spain, 2020). Bucky had taught at Princeton that time. This time a core focus with the Geoscope, as an idea.
I'm thinking in terms of movie-making in my year end video, by contrasting possibilities for the future as I would movies we might want to make, or see made.
Some resource hogs are hell bent on continuing to waste.
My editorial sense tells me we can't spare the time on such pointless detours. Any wars between Russia and Ukraine for example, have to come across as both avoidable and pointless. My brand of cold warrior is about keeping it too cold for the hot heads to get their favored fireworks going. Meaningless fevered dreams needn't gain traction, praise Allah.
