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Rebel

Thanks Kate for very stimulating comment. I think the last post was kind of scream for freedom : ) which develops after you are boiled again and again in the same kind of soup. It is like you want to rebel against the constraints. Nevertheless I am happy low-CO2 bicycle rider. Today I had my first ride after long winter. Sun was awesome. I took even a picture on the way showing nice contrast between empty biking road running along the busy 5 lanes Epping Road - all packed up with cars. I cant find wires at the moment to upload the photo. They are gone somewhere in one of the hundreds boxes around here. We move out from St Leonards. Tomorrow we rent a van and organize stuff for our new flat in Macquarie Park. This is going to be our first flat. Only us. Freedom :)

Risky Climate

An ad on main page of my uni + interesting description made us go to the lecture of Peter Singer: http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/events/index.asp?ItemID=3834 Subconsciously I have more respect to the professors who try to look in a dissent way. Suit is a standard, they are usually shaved too : ). Peter Singer didn't bother to look good. But OK. I put off all the prejudices and I decided to stay and to listen to his lecture on "Climate Change". There was nothing new to me about this topic. I think I repeat myself if I say we witness the birth of new religion: Climatology. Peter is like one of its Apostles. He is vegan, he is enlightened. I had a fun on producing new Decalogue for him which fully follows his believes. 1. There is one Climate Change 2. You shall have no other fears 3. You shall not make yourself any other idol 4. Stop criticising Climate Change 5. Honour abortion and euthanasia - they reduce our population 6. You shall not kill any trees - they absorb dangerous CO...

Bore, Store, Ignore.

Sarah Dunant a writer of "Sacred Heart" reveals in last Saturday Spectrum how contemporary art, religion and politics are tightly interwoven with each other. She does it by describing XVI Venice. I think the things has not been changed much in that matter. How could you explain fact that Australian Government spent more money on storing the carbon deep under than on reducing it? http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html So. Jewish religion developed the rule which prevent the believers from swine meat consumption. It was at the time of very dangerous parasite called trichina transmitted by pigs. No one knew it at that time. In the Middle Age religion put more constraints on people. Peasants were pressed down this way so that more goods would go to their Master, In Current Age things turned upside down. We deploy anything what makes us constrained. Consumption is guru. Contemporary art connects extremes. Behave as freely as you can because it brings ...