tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post114292459324391103..comments2023-10-20T22:58:52.569+03:00Comments on Botanist on Alp: Thoughts on the morning busstockholm slenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1143022853091807092006-03-22T12:20:00.000+02:002006-03-22T12:20:00.000+02:00That's quite the eternal question: I - quite cloud...That's quite the eternal question: I - quite cloudily - think that awareness is or could be a route towards more rational control. In many ways our society is not aware at all: we have all this feverish activity directed towards immediate self-interest channeled by the accidental, ever-changing structures of history. If we would be aware of this nature of things, would we not act otherwise, more wisely?stockholm slenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1143022157925021782006-03-22T12:09:00.000+02:002006-03-22T12:09:00.000+02:00It would be so interesting to know; how many peopl...It would be so interesting to know; how many people are and have been channeling this recognition, as you rightfully suggested, to more meaningful things and how many might have and still are defeated by it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1143012230684436792006-03-22T09:23:00.000+02:002006-03-22T09:23:00.000+02:00Well, but could it also be that when regonizing th...Well, but could it also be that when regonizing this ephemeral nature of our pursuits, we might be able to focus our efforts to more meaningful things? This feverish activity might not be wholly beneficial. It is very hard, ever, to think of alternatives for the actual occurrences but I think it might be the key to all meaningful progress. But you are right of course: the great transformation goes on.stockholm slenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1142976401204134732006-03-21T23:26:00.000+02:002006-03-21T23:26:00.000+02:00But isn't the vast transition still with us? It mi...But isn't the vast transition still with us? It might be not so much bricks and mortar type but on a ideological level and the most of all on a economical. For better or worse, we hardly resemble even ourselves, as a thinking spieces, just some 30 yrs. ago.<BR/><BR/>In order to really succeed, one must be able not to see ones surroundings in this kind of temporary light. This is, ofcourse, a denial of the fact but it is also the only way, for us, to remain serious in our daily pursuits in achieving those goals that have been deemed, at that particular moment in time, to be important. Naturally, somebody looking back a couple of decades later, might summarize it with a terse statement; much ado about nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1142963881234452702006-03-21T19:58:00.000+02:002006-03-21T19:58:00.000+02:00My feelings exactly: one day people will wonder ab...My feelings exactly: one day people will wonder about this way of life and see it as something totally dead and gone. And we still take ourselves, our passing concerns so deadly seriously. It is also very true that Finland has changed very rapidly - probably the quickest transition of any Western society, in many areas passing directly from agriculture to the service industry. And so much changed along with that vast transition. It must have been very strange for those that lived in the middle of all that tumult.stockholm slenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1142957725246903202006-03-21T18:15:00.000+02:002006-03-21T18:15:00.000+02:00Isn't it strange how totally societies change? Fin...Isn't it strange how totally societies change? Finland is such a prime example of a very quick change. It's so hard for me to comprehend how my grandparents thought when they were young about almost anything since their world was so different. My grandparents were all born after the 1918 Civil War, so it was actually their parents who faced society disintegrating right in front of them. Yet it must have been an exciting ride for anyone who made it from the early part to the late part of the 20th Century.<BR/><BR/>I sense also the feeling that when I look out of the bus window or stroll down the city streets, that all of this is soon to be documented in a museum as something reminiscing from a long-gone era. It's like walking at Sofiankatu and looking at the pre-1917 trilingual street signs, a place that used to be real but exists now on display for us who came after them. Somebody after us (if we're lucky, including ourselves at a later date) will see pictures and exhibits about our way of life and sigh, how was that ever possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com