April 2017
Ko’olau Mountains Oahu
Ego
Old Knowledge
Books and DVDs
– 1:30
So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s Letters from Iwo Jima
by Kumiko Kakehashi
The warriors of Japan, filled with ego and devotion, were willing to risk everything for their emperor, their country, their lineage, and their people.
– 2:38
Emperor. 2012. Film. Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox star in lead roles as General Douglas MacArthur and Brigadier General Bonner Fellers respectively.
War is generally full of demonstrations of ego and will. Domination and battle is full of ego. Propaganda is part of war and politics, and is likewise full of lies, deception, and ego. All of this has purpose in human survival and evolution.
– 4:09
On the path to enlightenment, one’s path is generally to minimize and even overcome ego.
– 4:28
Get out in nature to realize how unimportant you are. You are just one small part of nature.
– 5:10
Read some of the classics. New information is not necessarily better than old information.
5:22. I misspoke. I might better have said: “It’s not easily evident that writers of the recent decades and now in 2017 are producing classics in the same way scholars consider a work to be a classic. Times today are different. There are some classic works that come out of science, for example, books on new discoveries. But it’s arguable that we are not seeing the same game-changing classics in poetic works like The Iliad and The Odyssey.”
– 5:44
Dale Carnegie, 1910s-1950s: Writing about what works and gaining converts to his formula. Authoring books as a living is often a game of self-promotion, beating out the competition. Gaining market share, gaining a platform. He was a salesman and lecturer by talent. He even changed his name from Carnagey circa 1922 to sound more affluent, and sell more of himself and his books.
– 6:15
Federal minimum wage was not established until 1938. There was no minimum wage in 1920. An average hourly wage for a clerk in a store was less than 10 cents an hour in 1920.
– 6:50
The leader of the pack, the head of the tribe.
Oglala Sioux medicine men. See https://youtu.be/g4-5Jjsy_FU
“The Heart of Everything That Is” author visit to Fort Collins
– 8:00
Survival by group and individuals is best scene as a survival of the cooperators.
– 8:41
Crooked: A History of Cheating in Sports, 2002
by Fran Zimniuch (I’d rate the writing and organization of this book as a C+, but it’s still worth the reading for content.)
– 9:00
Judith Swaddling, PhD wrote the excellent book The Ancient Olympic Games in 1984. She is a recognized expert in this subject and it shows.
– 10:03
Flip channels or learning something new.
– 10:20
The old physical movement videos do work.
– 11:00
The Hunter-Gatherer workout.
– 12:00
Beware of what comes out of your boca grande.