RT @jayrosen_nyu: CNN in reverse journalism mode. Instead of people who know more than you filling you in, people who know less than you freezing you out.
"attention scarcity, cognitive surplus ... contemporary buzzwords that have nothing to do with anything apart from academic discussions. these concepts have no relationship with the self as consciousness and their existence act as barriers to expansion of awareness. which, if done, eliminates them."
- Gregory Lent
"one advantage of hanging out in india as an addicted meditator for so many years, being in the company of saints and gurus, things like "remote viewing" are so obviously part of a naturally developed awareness that it seems silly that anyone would doubt it. third chapter of patanjali's yoga sutras has a nice list of the mental powers of a developed mind. as for neuroscience, it is quite safe to ignore it as the phrenology 2.0 that it is."
- Gregory Lent
"i prefer my input on attention from to be from yogis .. they understand it in terms of mind, self, awareness, consciousness, and are not trying to make a career with ideas about it."
- Gregory Lent
Re: The Weakening of Nations: How Tax Work-Arounds Undermine Our Society - Eric Garland - International - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/interna...
"from a whole-systems viewpoint, earth as a single unit, there is nothing wrong here ... except that this activity is done to propagate non-whole-systems thinking. should disqualify one from citizenship."
- Gregory Lent
"crap. schadenfreude ... one of the best factories in china. and for pure factory hell, try the chemical factories, or the factories that make all the shit in home depot that is on its way to a landfill near you. hate the mindset behind this article .. old-paradigm thinking"
- Gregory Lent
"hmm .. i couldn't get past the feeling of watching a soap opera, upper or lower class .. at least with downton abbey, season two. wretched, in the end. and zero social learning for me."
- Gregory Lent
"the i is consciousness .. consciousness makes the brain, not the other way around."
- Gregory Lent
RT @markmackinnon: Tonight it's BBC's turn to get censored in China. Martin Patience's report on cadmium spill in Longjiang River replaced by a black screen...
"too bad no one asked, where're my tweets? i would pay money for a printout of ny 45,000 tweets, just to see my learning curve and to recover the gems"
- Gregory Lent
"the news is the news .. me-too journalism, a meme pops up, then is written and rewritten through endless articles and posts, all about the same thing .. apple in china, the latest example"
- Gregory Lent
"Only one group matters to have on your side ... The police. If the guys with clubs turn around, then government will change. And anyway, it has to. Evolution demands it."
- Gregory Lent