Yesterday, my wife and I went to see "One night with Janis Joplin" at the Zach Theater in Austin. Kacee Claton looks and sings eerily like Joplin. Janis Joplin was a bright comet that lit up the skies decades ago and combusted in front of our eyes wide-shut. Fifty years later, we continue to bask in Joplin's light and wipe off tears when she touches us with her raw emotions and makes love to all of us. The timeless Janis Joplin, who tragically died when she was barely 27, is the essence of what a human can give to others, including her loneliness and drug addiction. For decades, Joplin's Cry Baby , has echoed in my head whenever I think about the wounds humans have been inflicting on this Earth of ours. But why are we stumbling down a slippery path of environmental destruction that must lead to an inevitable collapse of modern civilization? My explanation is that most people have a wrong frame of reference. For example, what is the essence ...
In this blog, I continue to write about the environment, ecology, energy, complexity, and humans. Of particular interest to me are human self-delusions and mad stampedes to nowhere.