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Geodesic Culture
Robert Hettinga
It’s green here.
We’ve been getting a lot of rain here. Well, a lot of rain for the elbow of the Caribbean anyway. You get a lot of weather here in general, the biggest hurricane in Caribbean history happening just nine years ago. Cat five because there’s no cat six, to bowdlerize the joke about a nitro express rifle round. We all learned to see the world at 220 miles an hour that morning. Telephone poles broken off as far as the eye can see, newfound appreciation for reinforced concrete construction and all that.
Meteorology being second only to open sloop racing as the national sport here, my list of weather bookmarks is as long as my arm and all, I eventually noticed what I called the Anguilla bubble. You look at the rain on radar, harder since the closest radome on St. Maarten blew away nine years ago, and rain hits a wall about six or seven miles out and doesn’t fall here.
The resulting climate is, again, neologistically, west Texas with a beach. Tropical savanna with thirty three beaches, to put a finer point on it.
The resulting culture is pretty much West Texan as well, though the calypsonian version of Texas twang (drawls are for Orange you see, not Amarillo) is not so apparent here, at least for us non-belongers.
Anguilla is, like West Texas, a tough place. The slaves brought here were first turned loose a couple or three days a week to tend to their provision grounds and fish traps, and, eventually manumitted outright, or certainly abandoned, when actual colonial economics failed outright, through death by disease, and certainly by drought and the lack of arable land. The running hypothesis here is that Anguilla rose out of the sea as a fossil coral reef by the Caribbean plate shoving up against the Atlantic, currently isolated from its neighbors by one temporarily warming interglacial or another, and that, strangely enough, all the actual dirt got blown here off the Sahara over the ages.
Kinda looks that way when you look at the small patches of agricultural bottom land, dusty and orange, signifying iron, I suppose. Hell, there’s a bunch of bottom land stuck way up in the sky over on Saba, so much so, they named the largest town up there for it: The Bottom.
Most of Anguilla’s bottom, if you will, is situated in the middle of the island, in The Valley, the only town worthy of the name, except maybe for Island Harbor, the rest of the concentrated populations here are villages, and are explicitly named as such. Sandy Ground Village, Pond Ground Village, and so on. Lots of names describing the kind of soil. Where one has one’s provision ground, you see, Stoney Ground, etc.
People have lived here about as long as people have lived in Boston, for instance. Even had commerce with Grand Banks cod fishermen trading salt fish for salt, which can be picked out of various salt ponds, of which there are almost as many as beaches. Behind any appreciable beach is a salt pond, even.
So, for some reason or other, La Nina, most likely, we got a bunch of retrograde rainwater from the Orinoco or someplace down there, and we’ve gotten a lot of rain through the back door of the Anguillian Bubble. So it’s green here.
We have been driving the poor house here to rack and ruin, and only go after the barely-cut bush about three or four times a year. Been about six months, now, and the yard is now festooned with a bunch of locust bushes on their way to becoming trees. Gotta fix that.
Ran into the guy who re-roofed our house after life at 220 mph, loading his pickup at the grocery store. Having fallen off another roof and broken his back sometime before he hired a crew and did ours, it turned out he’s doing gardening now. And the odd construction management job. Being he’s probably 80 years old, that makes sense. Seeing as he’d been raised on a southern Illinois farm on the Kentucky border, he’s not about to stop working, so I’m thinking, okay, Mrs. RAH and I are thinking, that maybe he’d scare up a small army of unindicted co-conspirators and attack our Locust tree infestation. Prolly a good idea. It’s pretty green here, and the yard has gotten outta hand.
Finally, having thrown the requisite dosh at Elon, I figure I’ll try to start writing again. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I’m prompted by yelling at clouds while listening to Bedford and Davidson on Poulos, and Lionel Shriver on Nick Dickson this morning, sitting at the gas station drinking breakfast, consisting of a couple cans of white Monster. Something I do almost every day at seven when they open up. I’ve learned through hard experience not to keep the stuff in the house, or I’d drink it all in vast quantities. ADD and caffeine do compliment each other, but not that much.
Probably not going to talk about the weather in Anguilla much, except when it’s extremely interesting, and maybe not so much about Anguilla even, which is becoming very interesting, but not shitting where you sleep has never been, reducible to practice, as the man said...
“... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience.” -- Edward Gibbon, ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
Cheers,
RAH
May 20, 2024
Seafeathers Bay,
Anguilla, BWI
Robert Hettinga
It’s green here.
We’ve been getting a lot of rain here. Well, a lot of rain for the elbow of the Caribbean anyway. You get a lot of weather here in general, the biggest hurricane in Caribbean history happening just nine years ago. Cat five because there’s no cat six, to bowdlerize the joke about a nitro express rifle round. We all learned to see the world at 220 miles an hour that morning. Telephone poles broken off as far as the eye can see, newfound appreciation for reinforced concrete construction and all that.
Meteorology being second only to open sloop racing as the national sport here, my list of weather bookmarks is as long as my arm and all, I eventually noticed what I called the Anguilla bubble. You look at the rain on radar, harder since the closest radome on St. Maarten blew away nine years ago, and rain hits a wall about six or seven miles out and doesn’t fall here.
The resulting climate is, again, neologistically, west Texas with a beach. Tropical savanna with thirty three beaches, to put a finer point on it.
The resulting culture is pretty much West Texan as well, though the calypsonian version of Texas twang (drawls are for Orange you see, not Amarillo) is not so apparent here, at least for us non-belongers.
Anguilla is, like West Texas, a tough place. The slaves brought here were first turned loose a couple or three days a week to tend to their provision grounds and fish traps, and, eventually manumitted outright, or certainly abandoned, when actual colonial economics failed outright, through death by disease, and certainly by drought and the lack of arable land. The running hypothesis here is that Anguilla rose out of the sea as a fossil coral reef by the Caribbean plate shoving up against the Atlantic, currently isolated from its neighbors by one temporarily warming interglacial or another, and that, strangely enough, all the actual dirt got blown here off the Sahara over the ages.
Kinda looks that way when you look at the small patches of agricultural bottom land, dusty and orange, signifying iron, I suppose. Hell, there’s a bunch of bottom land stuck way up in the sky over on Saba, so much so, they named the largest town up there for it: The Bottom.
Most of Anguilla’s bottom, if you will, is situated in the middle of the island, in The Valley, the only town worthy of the name, except maybe for Island Harbor, the rest of the concentrated populations here are villages, and are explicitly named as such. Sandy Ground Village, Pond Ground Village, and so on. Lots of names describing the kind of soil. Where one has one’s provision ground, you see, Stoney Ground, etc.
People have lived here about as long as people have lived in Boston, for instance. Even had commerce with Grand Banks cod fishermen trading salt fish for salt, which can be picked out of various salt ponds, of which there are almost as many as beaches. Behind any appreciable beach is a salt pond, even.
So, for some reason or other, La Nina, most likely, we got a bunch of retrograde rainwater from the Orinoco or someplace down there, and we’ve gotten a lot of rain through the back door of the Anguillian Bubble. So it’s green here.
We have been driving the poor house here to rack and ruin, and only go after the barely-cut bush about three or four times a year. Been about six months, now, and the yard is now festooned with a bunch of locust bushes on their way to becoming trees. Gotta fix that.
Ran into the guy who re-roofed our house after life at 220 mph, loading his pickup at the grocery store. Having fallen off another roof and broken his back sometime before he hired a crew and did ours, it turned out he’s doing gardening now. And the odd construction management job. Being he’s probably 80 years old, that makes sense. Seeing as he’d been raised on a southern Illinois farm on the Kentucky border, he’s not about to stop working, so I’m thinking, okay, Mrs. RAH and I are thinking, that maybe he’d scare up a small army of unindicted co-conspirators and attack our Locust tree infestation. Prolly a good idea. It’s pretty green here, and the yard has gotten outta hand.
Finally, having thrown the requisite dosh at Elon, I figure I’ll try to start writing again. We’ll see how long that lasts.
I’m prompted by yelling at clouds while listening to Bedford and Davidson on Poulos, and Lionel Shriver on Nick Dickson this morning, sitting at the gas station drinking breakfast, consisting of a couple cans of white Monster. Something I do almost every day at seven when they open up. I’ve learned through hard experience not to keep the stuff in the house, or I’d drink it all in vast quantities. ADD and caffeine do compliment each other, but not that much.
Probably not going to talk about the weather in Anguilla much, except when it’s extremely interesting, and maybe not so much about Anguilla even, which is becoming very interesting, but not shitting where you sleep has never been, reducible to practice, as the man said...
“... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience.” -- Edward Gibbon, ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
Cheers,
RAH
May 20, 2024
Seafeathers Bay,
Anguilla, BWI
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Predictably, some people disputed what I said about ecosystems being real i.e. they exist independently of what humans think about them, and "the economy", not being real, because it's just a human construct.
I will demonstrate my point with a simple thought experiment.
1/
I will demonstrate my point with a simple thought experiment.
1/
Economic processes are real, but only if people engage in them, and are all playing by the same rules. Spending money, producing goods, engaging in business.
But there is no independent entity called "the economy". That is just a random construct.
2/
But there is no independent entity called "the economy". That is just a random construct.
2/
If all humans died off completely, say some pandemic or whatever, and became extinct. There would be no trace of "the economy", it would cease to exist. It only exists, if people pretend it is real. If they're all playing the same game, by the same rules.
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Tyranny: Opportunities are limited & controlled by state. Advancement depends on loyalty to the regime; culture is censored and manipulated.
This is the Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali, originally built in the 13th century and restored in 1907.
Why does it look so distinctive?
Well, it's a perfect example of Sudano-Sahelian Architecture, a style totally unique to West Africa...
Why does it look so distinctive?
Well, it's a perfect example of Sudano-Sahelian Architecture, a style totally unique to West Africa...
Between the 9th and 15th centuries several major kingdoms emerged in West Africa.
Because this was an era of overland commerce — gold and salt and ivory were transported along trade routes to North Africa or the Middle East, and from there to the rest of the world.
Because this was an era of overland commerce — gold and salt and ivory were transported along trade routes to North Africa or the Middle East, and from there to the rest of the world.
So the money came pouring; consider Mansa Musa, King of Mali in the 14th century.
Some say he was the richest person who ever lived — when he went on pilgrimage to Mecca, during a stay in Egypt, Mansa Musa gave away so much gold that he apparently disrupted the local economy.
Some say he was the richest person who ever lived — when he went on pilgrimage to Mecca, during a stay in Egypt, Mansa Musa gave away so much gold that he apparently disrupted the local economy.
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Let's go with fitness niche
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1. Market Research on Youtube
2. Ask AI
To ask AI, go to Gemini and type the prompt "Give me most profitable niches to start a faceless YouTube channel with high CPM rate in 2024"
Let's go with fitness niche
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There has been an utterly damning judgement in the case of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre versus their ex-employee Roz Adams, who was subject to what the judgement calls a ‘heresy hunt’ for her gender critical beliefs. ERCC’s investigation of Roz is described as Kafkaesque. 1/10
This statement by Roz gives an insight into who she is as a person. Roz’s top priority has always been the survivors of rape and sexual assault ERRC was supposed to serve. Aside from being a highly qualified support worker, Roz is a person of bravery, integrity and compassion. 2/
Why was Roz subject to disciplinary action and discrimination in the workplace? Because she wanted to ensure that rape and sexual assault victims knew whether the person supporting them would be a man or a woman, in order to give informed consent before commencing counselling. 3/
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1. Pleased to publish my latest essay in the pages of the @AmericanAffrs Journal regarding the challenges in the submarine industrial base and the problems they cause given the prominence submarines play in our war plans. americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/sunk-a…
2. The essay covers a lot of ground, looking at how we leaped out to an early lead developing the first nuclear powered submarine and then focusing on quieting technologies. These submarines, fast attack submarines and "boomers" dominated the Cold War competition.
3. But then we won that competition and in a series of disastrous moves, we allowed the submarine industrial base, both shipbuilding and submarine maintenance workforce, to shrink precipitously from 50K workers to just over 12k and from well over 100 boats to under 50.
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Crimes committed in Gaza must be prosecuted at the highest level, regardless of the perpetrators.
The fight against impunity wherever crimes occur is a priority for Belgium. Belgium supports the work of the International Criminal Court. (1/3)
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