Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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  • Isaac Newton put it best:

    “I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

    It’s completely stupid, short sighted and ignorant of us to think that we know everything there is know about the universe and natural world. There is still so much more to learn about and understand and probably far more than we can even comprehend.

    But we also have to regulate how much we know and don’t know and how we can understand or not understand … because as Richard Feynman put it …

    “Keep an open mind … but not so open that your brain falls out”









  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoFunny@sh.itjust.worksAdulting is hard
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    24 hours ago

    Been sober for 30 years now and in all that time, I’ve felt the same about everything since … I feel like a kid most times and I like doing a million things, watching movies, playing games, going online, reading, working on my shop, motorcycle mechanics, engine mechanics, wood working, building and learning a hundred other things.

    Instead of killing or dulling my senses, I enjoy doing anything and everything at my own pace.







  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoWikipedia@lemmy.worldHyperreality
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    I found his documentary ‘Hypernormalization’ when I first started torrenting stuff and I can’t believe that it is from 2016! I had read about it from recommendations from people and forums and wanted to get it but couldn’t access it so I found a torrent for it. All of it felt like 20 years ago because the quality and style of the documentary is very vintage, as if it were produced in the 80s or 90s because a lot of the stock footage is from the BBC archives. He didn’t need a lot of fancy visuals in order to carry on a very informative and insightful discussion on the history of society and our way of thinking over the past 60 years.

    To me Adam Curtis is to society/politics/history … in the same way that David Attenborough is to ecology

    Adam Curtis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

    You are right and I should go back on his documentaries again … I had been wanting to watch more of his documentaries before but I had forgotten about it all. Thanks for the reminder!