I've been a labourer in many jobs, a university lecturer and long time post doctoral research fellow. I come from coherent thinkers and doers. My cultural sheath is good to me, by and large. 

I live in a bushouse in SE New South Wales, Australia. A bushouse I have taken many decades to build, as and when I could. With my own hands, most with whatever material I could scavenge. 

I'm saying it's near Eden, NSW, to protect my privacy. Ha! This is my living reward time. As a doer and a thinker. before I head back up to 'Cairns' and my 'chosen' tropical life, partner and dear friends.

Welcome to my world, our one beautiful world. If you are in a high-rise in a huge city, you can live vicariously, a little, through this site. Find some local green open space. get something going. Share music, food, dreams.

I hope to publish little thoughts most days - spontaneous; most times, to what I think about after I get up (and do a bit of gravel work). I love gravel work. All my life. Landform, surface drainage and growing food locally. 

I call myself Gravelhead, Ding Gravelhead, because it gives me some distance to write and post without too much self-consciousness. Australians know of Norman Gunston. The world knows of Dame Edna Everage. The AlterEgo gives me a little less inhibition to 'perform' as it does all with stage names/pen names. Welcome to this evolving world view.

The views expressed in these musings are not necessarily those of DGoudie. DGoudie is not legally liable for the carry-on Ding enjoys, uncensured. different legal entities ...

New doors open. Old doors , unused, get rusty hinges, freeze shut and are ignored to crumbling collapse. Look at the old ruins all over the old world. Once were vibrant. Time. Always time passing.

From my adolescence – time passes, hour glasses, each and every one.

Time passes hour glasses, then all, for you, is done.

So new doors open. An unexpected chance to do a drive over to Perth, Western Australia. I tried going there in the early 1970s with a mate, his friend, and a utility. Three young blokes on a bench seat in an old ute for weeks on interminable weeks, by the time we got from Melbourne to Adelaide, just wasn’t going to work. We whooped it up in Adelaide for a week – fun city if you know funsters who live on the inside of Adelaide – then got a plane back to Melbourne and recovery. My mate survived the round trip, the other fellow …?

So, the (car) door opens for a road trip in a couple of months to Perth. I’m Keen. With my closest mate, my partner, Fondgrin. I’m in. But … seethegoodfutureandgoforit.com? Minimise your ecological footprint? Use half a tanker of petrol?

And there is the scale, the personal scale in the 

 world view, where my desire clashes with my environmental and ecologically sustainable values 

I’m doing the trip. I want to. I can. I will. No reconciling. Knowledge, a deep sense of personal responsibility – what 

each of us do each day, in all things MATTER!

I’m sharing my worldview with you, dear reader. Life experience. Nothing about consistency or lack of internal dissonance.

We are built, most of us, on internal dissonance. Bits of our internal value systems are in conflict with each other. We make our decisions. We choose, within choice, to act in certain ways. Welcome to our human contradictions. Perhaps all we can do is 

, as best we can, toward what is going to work long term.

A dear friend, Bohny, brought an all-electric car and drove it from Cairns to Brisbane and back for Christmas. Reality is, if you charge in the middle of the solar day, 10 – 2, once you have the machinery, there is no ecological footprint. All that surplus solar rooftop energy just being surplus to mid-day use (until the authorities – with whom I worked closely with in the 1990s – enourage us all to shift big electrify uses into the middle of the day, away from morning and evening peak demands [demand-side management]). This is the future. I want to retrofit my petrol Subaru to solar electric. In 5 years, when THAT is all the rage.

The embodied energy in all our squillions of ‘good’ petrol and diesel vehicles is going to foster a sophisticated global 

 to battery electric. Mark my words and buy lots of shares in lithium and copper. And rare earths and poison mining. That is part of the price. Eggs and omelets. Internal dissonance. There is no harm-free future if we just acknowledge that we love mobility. Travel for us and goods. 

Lots of services and communications – we love communicating – can be done ‘remotely’ – the internet and various ‘facetoface’ platforms for meetings. But we love to travel. Think macrotourism. Global to local. Visiting, shopping, outings. Mmmmm travel.

We love to travel. We may want to do ‘the right thing’. I normally do – trip planning on a fortnightly basis – get all your driving chores done in one big, well planned trip of supermarket, shops, chores, hardware. Social.

But Eden to Perth and back. gobbling up petrol. Shoulda been a Catholic, so I could do action, guilt, forgiveness. I just have to live with my Protestant shame. Nobody knows but us.

24 01 17 1 a Inertia and change 1 a

two links to writing leading in to CovidTime.

This new, post Trump era of knowledge driving global to local behaviour , the big deflection from chaos. It's on now. Today, this month. Certainly this year.

https://medium.com/@douglasgoudie/covid-and-out-covid-19s-place-in-our-moral-arc-our-deflection-to-a-sustainable-future-dacf2a7d046d

https://medium.com/@douglasgoudie/full-value-money-seeing-the-future-now-ef7342b9c602

these are thinking guides. And a test to get this material out, through this web site.

24 01 14 1 a Looking at money and social change

24 01 29 1 a Knife-edge decisions and actions

Those, like Saul, who say there is only the illusion of free will, that the motivation and impetus to do or not do is just the sum total of where all the current forces at play are up to, can always win that argument. Since this argument was again put to me last week from a considered and respected source, I’ve been processing it.

Einstein came up with his insights by imagining ‘mind experiments’. I’ve been reflecting and testing this whole volition thing in my own ongoing life.

Belief #27) – once it happened, it had to happen

 (in this world view, everything – think “Weather” is just a bunch of probabilities. As “possibilities” get closer to becoming certainties: there is a 20% chance of rain at 2 pm; 40% … to 100% as we get closer to a real rain event making us wet; so too is the probability of WHATEVER happening increases or decreases until something happens; OR the chance of it happening recedes to impossible.

So, in the past week, I have written each morning (or not), 

 has passed. “The moving sheet of now”, as I write this, is Monday morning. I’m 70 and have a many-times damaged back, well worn out by bulk years of physical labour. I was trained, encouraged and rewarded to do physical labour since I was a kid. At 12, about to growth-spurt, my philosopher brain – lots of articulate thinkers in my cultural sheath, who imbued me with self-belief of my intelligence and incisive analysis – said: “you can become a weedy weak philosopher, or you can be a thinker in; inevitably, my physical body, which can either be weak and sickly, or strong and robust. Decision point. I choose? to work on a poultry farm, weekends and holidays, through most of my adolescence. Motor bike crashed, industrial accidents (bit of a risk taker – I liked running the knife-edge a bit – try not to now I'm old and brittle) and working for years each as a farm labourer, commercial builder’s labourer; on my own projects, like the self built bushouse I write/wrote this from. Earthworks and drainage, road building labourer, each for years – labourer and university lecturer has been my fate, my choices made (all inevitable? No-one is ever gonna know). Endless life decisions (or the illusion of); fate, circumstance. I’ve been resting my back, reading good books. Bludging for weeks. January. Traditional western country holiday month. I’m 70. Surely I am allowed rest (again, imbued with such a ‘productive labour’, ‘good to keep busy’, ‘keep active’ world view) that dis-ease haunts me when I bludge. 70. When is my contribution/engagement discharged? This compulsion to go on. TO DO.

So, for the past few days, I’ve rested my back, felt the dull fuzzy brain and pain of what may – or not – be - mild long Covid – knowing as the body winds down from ‘useful’ to sluggish [MAXIM # 05 THE MORE Y0U REST, THE MORE REST YOU NEED.] The 

 (here is the advantage of studying formal logic at university – logic has rules, and the rules help understand changing reality – is that, to stay functional (and I think/believe human functionality is a key ‘screen and filter’ to judging people, groups, our future) you need to be a bit fit. At least a bit fit.

My land partner here for 30+ years, dear friend, one day took me to some friends in this rural district – we had to help them move some stuff. Ron Crones was that sort of bloke – he helped people. Often and with good heart.

So we get there. One of their two vehicles was blocking the drive. They knew we were coming. No clean transaction here. Self-blocking denotes poor functionality. ‘Self sabotage’ the Psychology books call it. Because I’m a high function kind of person (used to be, till age, damage and long-covid? have recently been inerting - new verb – refer Everything’s a verb – 

 me. So I have started whipper snipping, mowing, walking up to the next ridge to get my body going again) their obstruction to us helping them, by them made me a bit grumpy.

I waited in Ron’s ute. He went in to have the blocking vehicle moved. He got the key and moved it. They didnt move it for us. We were removing a table for them. Then he got our ute near the door. I followed Ron into the house. Two fat people, a couple, both on very expensive recliner chairs pointing at a big TV. engrossed in a dreary day soap. Neither got up. Barely spoke. We loaded up the table. Barely a thanks. No cuppa. Off we went.

Story – one was sick, the other a depressive. One died, the other, a few weeks later, did the exhaust pipe into their car death. His note said they couldn’t go on. Functional or not? 

Learning – inertness reinforces itself.

 Down the drainplug. The opposite to the joy of living an engaged and active life. A race to the bottom. The opposite of inspirational. Moral – fight against the coming of the night. Life is a gift. Short time living and a long time dead. 

Now, I am not a depressive. I can’t imagine. If I seem arrogant, judgmental – I accept we 

Sual would say they were destined for their lives, their deaths. My feeling/enculturation/lived experience 

belief is that there is at least a knife-edge of choice. My ‘world view’ – most people’s - includes ‘wealth for toil’. Put in, get rewarded. The legal system requires a belief in the exercise of choice. Chaos is the alternative. Most religions say – come to our belief structure and group and be saved. Be responsible for your actions. 

So once I was up – and I love being horizontal – less pain/more comfort – I made myself/enforced a discipline to sit and write this. And on. Sual would say my imposed discipline and commitment to write is something I (luckily?) got trained to have. 

Live your best life is a rulebook, a value system that Bertrant may have enjoyed. Or dismissed and puffery. But some say he was an intellectual snob. How could he not be; seeing himself – as millions did – as a leading thinker and sharer of his philosophical musings. Yea thought experiments. It got us our understandings of the very nature of existence. The facts; most fundament reality, through thinking. 

Do what is best for you, the atmosphere and the remnants of our glorious global biota. May black cookatoos survive our damaging prowess. Or not. Our collective choice.

Like the duplicity of the Catholic Church - I use this as a lead-documented example of absolute sin against others - really ‘despicable behaviour’ in commonspeak.
Pan out and refocus The ESG gobbledygook, a full rehash from the 1970s and the BRUNTLAND REPORT (1987) 

Our common future / World Commission on Environment and Development - Catalogue | National Library of Australia (nla.gov.au)

.  Put that in your rehash and package selfwords of nooutcomeslottsawords and get some smug aspirant scientist {dreamed as a child. To get a really brainy - every-one kept telling me how brainy I was, my most brainy cultural sheath [definition - #07: family and friends in your time and space - where you/your mob has come from. Definition #08: Cultural momentum - the unfolding story of your mob’s journey through time.
Cosmological reality #01: we/everything is only ever in the “now” slice of time. - all reality. Glued on the moving sheet of now. Time and space, energy and matter.
So, reading all the science sections of the 10 volumes of the Australian Arthur Mee Encyclopedia - late 1950s rainy summer holidays, Burnie Tasmania, me 10 years old {speaks volumes on MY cultural sheath.} I fantasized that one day IIIII (there are many Is; many mees; as many youse) that one day I would have a long science article in an important science encyclopedia. And I lived a life, so purposeful; so TRAINED by that cultural sheath I happened, in the past 100,000 years to pop out into my time and place. I did that childhood dream. Published lots. Post Doctoral senior research fellow and on. But I got the big encyclopedia entry 

Natural disasters and evacuations as a communication and social phenomenon (jcu.edu.au)

 Song : I got my world view, you got yours. We all popped out at different times and places. We all live in a yellow submarine. Whatever.
My mind wandered off into my proximate time - just came off three shifts of MCing at the Cobargo Folk Festival met and oldpersondanced to last night. All these youngvibrantpeople. Live nearby. Vibrant, worldclass people. Core. And me working up a Saturdayafternoon Democratic Republic of Quaama Performers Music workshop. Goldie are their name. I’d better hire the hall. The Quaama music Hall.
So we get to plan. Me born n bred Planner/geographer - people in time and space. Ah, us, upstart culmination of the organic in the universe as we are getting to know it (and … alsosmartones … Goodo, we all recognise and enjoy each other {one of the very smartest ones I ever known - and there are many - died recently. Sendoff in three days - my 103 yo Aunty - a world maths educator of the 1980s and on and on cultural sheath mine - verifiable reality/science.


Plan to settle down, simply settle down. I reckon I’ll write an MCs review of the festival. We have GOOD local musos.


So I gave up the idea of being a philosopher at 12, pre knowable growth spurt and blah blah blah realised we live in a body. A body made to move and be physical - to work and dance - insects in all dance. No biggie. And have do labouring stuff since. As well as write. So blah blah have kept writing right through to the more sitdowntimes to write.  

And … you’ve gotten THIS FAR; here’s the punch line, co-smartiesdearfriendsofmine - my writing goal these past three years since I left home - Townsville; for my ‘gettingoldquicklytime down south - I have been striving to expose the inner workings of a demonstratively high function, well programmed - reality based, ok, that tag matters - evidence/science- based understanding AND RESPONSE TO changing reality. 

And our place, impact and shared goals (longtermsettlingdown - the only value needed to collectively guide us - the rest of SUSTAINABILITY IMPLEMENTATION has already been minced and ignored too many times. We are near the end of lineargobbling capitalism. The dawning - a little later than some cultures foresaw - to the localised circular economy. Next posting with be some of the local community activationthroughmusic I’ve been working on. 

All just to show how ONE pore poor human brain works in this time period. My gift or annoyed grumpyness to YOU (your brain).

Douglas, uncovered. Temporarily, I hope. One song - Anytime, has a line: be who you are's the only way ... 

But sometimes having a stage name, an avatar, a nom-de-plume, being a Dame Edna or a Norman Gunston allows you to cut loose a little more freely than being scared of what your actual family and friends may think of your carry-on.

We all have sooo much luggage. Err .. baggage - (see Gaza/Palestine)





24 03 03 There is a moral failure here duplicity consequence # 03

Sometimes a continuous flow becomes a flow in lumps, in Quanta. Analogue or packaged.

While hoping to publish every day, sometimes injury or other bits of life block that intention. I have a fairly active life on my bush property and remotely and locally. So rather than publish all my recent little vignettes separately, I decided to parcel them up into a kind of thoughts chapter.

Recent thinkings have been around how we spend our time. How responsible we behave around our own health; social and physical, mental and in our own souls.

All the balances of too much or too little of what we need or don’t need. The universal goal seems happy healthy life. Productive, engaged, living our ‘best self’. So being a human is most complex in 2024. And this, before WW3, before the supply chains and banking systems break down. Stability and local needs-meeting, or great loss. Us the smart species, gone global for the second time ever, learning the power of ambition or the fulfilment of love. The ‘be nice to yourself, surroundings and other people and creatures’, or work toward blowing each other up.

Every decision maker – and that is all of us – are participants in this experiment. All our actions matter. The devil is in the detail. Ambitions of peace, ambitions of war. The following describes the salvation or destruction; early 2024, global story chapter:

24 01 30 1a Category human behaviour, good and bad

Philosophy has morals – concepts of good and bad.

For instance – all mammals learn early – don’t gnor nore knor nor; don’t gnore on a nipple {the dog gnored on a bone}.

That is what would happen when I was learning to write/spell.

Some people see relationships, others learn to spell. Plus variants. Some of us do maths and probability analysis. Ah, the human brain – best/most complex thing in the universe {so IT thinks. I think that God/ess/the universe itself slightly more impressive OF WHICH WE ARE A MOST MICROSCOPIC AND RECENT, SELF-IMPORTANT FLEETING PART}. And we have gone from having to move around for food (settled human life is less than 10,000 years) to optic fibres under the sea in a bioblink of time.

So one of the human rules is about duplicity. People like people who are ‘straight up and down’. We all have stories that mask the truth about motivations and goals. We want that. To get that, we have to sneekup; sneekin, to making it happen. Pretend as this, be conniving for that. To the duplicit person’s perceived benefit of their deception for self-gain. This duplicity often happens leading into a future inheritance grab. Where it suits some-ones’ perceived/felt interests to manipulate proceedings to gain advantage. All creatures no doubt (thought experiment) connive to get more for them and theirs. And evolution science says in the subtle dances of nature, biota does whatever to enhance its own self or offspring to gain. Most times, biogain is at other lifeforms’ expense.

A clear example of a duplicitperson is I think, Scott Morrison. So natural, so seemingly unaware that if he says something about leadership koos, kue, coo, kus obviously just covering his tracks in the dust of the past with a leaft leafed leaved branch of a small gum tree.

So bereft of duplicityselfrepression, when Australian ex-prime minister Scott Morrison is calmly interviewed about robo debt, he just doesn’t accept The Enquiry finding that the relevant minister – him; then – should have monitored its accuracy; nor its legality. Two things people and lawyers lower down the power pyramid tried to tell him, but were blocked. The difference between duplicitous words and clear lies is that one uses mealymouthwords. Scott Morison, on the ABC series [

] gives a free and on-record public masterclass in mealymouth duplicity. Him, it was power for self. Well born out via his many ministries.

So, in moral terms, most cultures vote against duplicity. We can’t really make laws against it. We just don’t approve. No doubt the beneficiaries and supporters celebrate at ‘getting away with it’ (there is the ‘tell’). But it undermines trust and is as old as time.

The obvious motivation, for the greedy, the overambitious, is for them or theirs, to get ahead. Or to put some-one/a group down. Shades of a superiority complex, justifyingbullying (there is another tell – there are soooo many). For whatever motivation/’reason’. The outcome of this thought experiment. Malice and a sense of special entitlement are at the heart of duplicity.Self-justifying internal narrative allows the sneaky one/ones to enact their two faced, self-interested behaviour.

 to thank for writing a handbook for duplicity.

Power for power’s sake is something most of us probably don’t understand. It never really sturd stirred in us. Oh, maybe at the community group level. I should be president. No, I should. But that is just humans being competitive. There, hopefully, is never too much sneakiness. Most of us has a moral compass, a sense of behavioural boundaries which say: behave honourably – so we can live with ourselves. How does Morison do that? Gloating? Teaching #412: the duplicitous gloat that they got away with it. {small voice, off, aside – ah, poor childhood guidance and correction – the duplicate was destined to be two faced – they couldn’t resist the forces which kept saying: nasty = gain. Pretend as this, be aiming for that.}

There is off; on, and spectra or spectrums.

Most times an electric light is off or on. An aeroplane – flighing flying or grounded.

But the light may be dim, the plane taxiing.

Moral #13: there is right or wrong. But it depends on which cultural filters you push that moral judgement through. It depends on any unique circumstances. How much coercion or depravation or despair is in your life. It is easy for I, a member (– ALWAYS – at this time) of the older, safe, comfortable white middle class in a wealthy country; and fully ‘free’ within the laws of Australia, NSWales, to pontificate. But there is international law, religious law. So those who can or force themselves, generally conform. Maxim #01: Create and allow with as much personal freedom as a flourishing and safe society can facilitate.

So, in the right and wrong yibberyabber – it is generally clear – free, flourishing, safe for all – to add RESPECT. Once we have respect – for self, for others; we have a chance at techno-sustainability. Viable futures fair. Easy decision support system for gauging more plausible futures which accept responsibility for having such prowess we are poorly impacting our shared atmosphere and must (must not as coercion as bioimperative) rapidly deflect to technosmarts for our love/need for external energy, transport, and communications. To simply make it good where we are, simply make life good for the locals.

Our collective right or wrong now is to spiral into war with our staggeringly impressive prowess – electricity to spaceships in 300 years (compared since 700mill years of modern earthlife, 100 000 years of us, the upstart species on this one-shot planet). Warfare or peaceably and fairly, continue our journey of 15,000 years to settle down. Make that good, long term.

It’s a simple brief, and a simple choice. Good or bad, as we go global for the second time, these last explosive 400 years of capitalism with few real morals, religions, some more pushy/aggressive/brutal than others, and nationalism, the great rallying point of war – and sport? Either safe settlement or the horror of war and loss. 2024 is this knife-edge for our collective future. Simple, really.

Responding to a dear old friend, Seaa, from some of the above

‘I thrust in the practice in reckless optimism.’

I choose to act in a trusting way; an optimistic world view; which guides me to be a bit reckless/careless/risky risk-taking; BELIEVING that the outcome of this risky move will work out fine.

If it ain’t reckless; if there is no real risk = you are predisposed to believe taking CALCULATED RISK is ok.

Logic Printout # 24 - the 20s guides to risk-taking group - if it is likely/you trust an action will work out fine (Optimistic) then it probably ain’t all that reckless. More RECK.

You RECKEN it’ll be fine - not reck less - is kinda high risk.

For my writing purposes, My next character is old

Duncan Waters (Ding Gravelhead hung up his heavy gravel tools at close of business yesterday, after 30+ year completion of 1 Km of good bush driveway. Gravelhead retired. Who saw that back-protecting strategy coming?

Less hard work – ideally no hard physical labour, let me introduce Duncan Waters -

Sand and sweeping man. Known since early childhood as Biscuit - Bisc to his family and Friends.

One Alta -Ego of yours I’ve long known is Seaview Seeker … kinda looking for knowledge; wisdom; peace through contemplation. Predisposed to happy/nurture. Love. Relationship nurturer and appreciator.

The influences of your Martys, Tims. Vics. Old school mates threaded now through many decades. The young adult gang, bonds kept alive and well strong. Family ongoing, growing.

Seaview Seeker - Mr Seeker/ peace-keeper Seeker I’d like our writing to tap, to bring forward. I’ll post our stuff as little or as much as suits. Maybe we plat (a word funny in the looking) a new discourse … ready?

And the slightest tinge of … what … huh … dry humour; me ?

Quicky
So I have a vibrant social network. One mate – Sleve – who half gets my thinking.
Well, he helped make it; from shared houses since the 1970s, to sometimes wild adventures in three states, over decades. Well, he likes to write. So I've started something with him [Starter Bisc].

Like the pop star says: living your best life is hard work. Lots of YOU MAKING EFFORT. You gotta push your cart if you want it to move. All else are busy with their own carts.
The big picture is simply revalue money as well outlined by others [].
So Sleve – Seaa, love the title Wellwood among the sticks. 

My Gravelhead – going forward, Sandy - writing is located inland from Eden. A little privacy deflection deception.
You will always be a sailor, wind over your brow-jutted dome. It’s what we’ll do together sometime latish winter … if we get a summer.
Learn a quiet background music instrument. And on. A busy couple of days for me now, then on with the writing.

Had a morning of 12 tonne of gravel road base and a big grader and vibrator roller for 4 hours. Gravelhead’s last big project before retirement.

My back is happier laying down. My writing and publish compulsion are met by writing {reclining writing} an email to myself, so I tap this in on the reclinerbed and next retrieve the text on the laptop -situpbusiness to stick into Seethegoodfutureandgoforit.com

My busi time is done so read and write and local music gets back forward to do.

To dream perchance to plan and do … bon voyage, dear friend. I bet, like mine, your travel bag is open for additions.

I’m off to roll the 1 km of driveway in the drizzle before some proper rain this evening. Mmmmmm land form and surface drainage runoff … mmmm

Moral decisions - decision to ‘do the right thing’ - lead to moral actions.

Thought experiment - Putin or Netanyahu decide to stop blowing other humans to bits. Morally, a pretty simple choice …

But consider their decision support system - how will any behaviour increase my power.

Planetary danger #05: men who seek power and control more than all else. Their decision-support system {concept #30 - our human traits} is fine screened and filtered to more personal/less personal power. They have done it for a living. They are very good at gaining and holding power. Check.

Their decisions - will I seem weak, or strong? Will my enemies be emboldened or beaten into oblivion? Who is my Brutus, my Traitor? What does Machiavelli say?

Who can I trust? Will this give me more personal power and control, or less … in the world of brutal power forces, in which I am tethered in the middle of. This is my world.

It’s why we invented democracy, and why no politician wants participatory e-vote democracy. ‘Cause then each of us could vote on whatever … once we had settled on a shared set of values and aspirations - to improve our bioreality and personal life, within an agreed social contract of personal conduct.

24 02 28 1a a big slice to eat and digest

24 02 04 1a The logic printouts for long term survival

If you push human knowledge through human logic filters, these human behaviour changes (a) respond to these desperate luming looming catastrophes (b) to avert (c) and achieve /start life changes (d) to live the best shared future. Shared with the remnants of global biota (Gb).

Concepts #01 we are responsible for our behaviour. This concept avoids (b) Hopelessness. Sad though that option is, it is Headnoise # 55 {the sad 5x group). 

Concept#01 Move you and yours toward the more hopeful.

Logic printout # 01 find things in your own life to contribute to; to do, to make your life better.

Start with washing things all the time - cleaning. Yes, you heard it. Housework. The dishes. Your bedding. And for those being bombed by others; seen family smashed by the tools of bad behaviour. The hope is to make it good everywhere. Simple. Stop the patently bad behaviour. We don’t care for your angry headnoise # 66 (the angry 6x group). Your back story of slapping some-one/some-thing {OTHER} down. To teach/punish/obliterate with slaughter and crushing pain and deadly suffering. JUST STOP. Like the whole destructive-with-compelling-justification. On May 8th 2024. This is an urgent logic printout. Ask any from all the true and pure religions/work views and the subtlest of nature - fate and circumstance made real. Long rule time and the seasons of blooming life changes.

Humans in time and space – what a story “The upstart species”.

Gravelhead (retiring - one last driveway touch up. Might have some pics. And emerging persona, Sweeping Duncan Waters, Upper Ferntree Gully. Oh Yair. Champion for Archie Roach Day, May 8.)

There is off; on, and spectra or spectrums

Most times an electric light is off or on. An airplane – flying or grounded.

 But it depends which cultural filters you push that moral judgement through. It depends on any unique circumstances. How much coercion or depravation or despair is in your life. It is easy for I, a member (– 

) of the older, safe, comfortable white middle class in a wealthy country; and fully ‘free’ within the laws of Australia, NSWales, to pontificate. But there is international law, religious law. So those who can or force themselves, generally conform. 

Maxim #01: Create and allow with as much personal freedom as a flourishing and safe society can facilitate.

So, in the right and wrong yibberyabber – it is generally clear – free, flourishing, safe for all – to add RESPECT in our definitions of right and wrong. Once we have respect – for self, for others; we have a chance at technosustainability. Viable futures fair. This provides an easy decision support system for gauging more plausible futures which accept responsibility for having such prowess we are poorly impacting our shared atmosphere and must (must not as coercion; as bioimperative) rapidly deflect to technosmarts for our love/need for external energy, transport and communications. To simply make it good where we are, simply make life good for the locals.

Our collective right or wrong now is to spiral into war with our staggeringly impressive prowess – electricity to spaceships in 300 years (compared since 700mill years of modern earthlife, 100,000 years of 

, the upstart species on this one-shot planet). Warfare or peaceably and fairly, continue our journey of 15,000 years to settle down. Make that good, long term. Global to local.

It’s a simple brief, and a simple choice. Good or bad, as we go global for the first time, these last explosive 400 years of capitalism with few real morals, religions, some more pushy/aggressive/brutal than others, and nationalism, the great rallying point of war – and sport? Either safe settlement or the horror of war and loss. 2024 is this knife-edge for our collective future. Simple, really.

24 01 31 1a The spectra of specta

Before the last ice ages, finishing about 12,000 years ago, humans hadn’t invented much building.

Some sort of shelter; sure. Pulled down branches, ferns and lean-tos to shelter a bit from the rains. Caves were good.

But how many caves do you know of? Not many. Or any. We all had to keep moving to get food. That was who we were. Wherever we were. Then, from about 8000 years back, in some few places across our beautiful globe, people started harnessing animals and cultivate food – where there were such foods as could be ‘harnessed’.

So then some of us didn’t have to keep moving for food. That, in different places – India, China, northern places above England. Africa. A fairly long list. Central Italy; all became great deflection points of our globes’ story.

A big new title theme for our existence – 

. And so here we are. Kinda globalising, these past 400 years, now in the middle of this once-only 

. Every way forward through and after 2024 is going to be different. Or the same. In some ways.

My theme songs are self-help. No-one should care about you and your wellbeing more than you. SO if you care enough to make a future better for yourself, you have to DO STUFF. Make effort. And you need to persevere. P for Perseverance. And, last night, I realised we each need a steely discipline as well. I want to write. I need the discipline to write, to share, perchance to dream of the new god – making a difference. Not like David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Gretta Thunberg. Like Gravelhead. 

Australian, knock-about; gravel lover and most thoughtful. Mixed social and solitude. Lucky in oh so many ways. But to make our plausible, and now futuresrealistic dreams come true, we need to develop our value systems – what matters to us, the principles that make that into sensible action, and the Effort, Perseverance and Discipline to make it happen. 

Yesterday I had a visit from a dear friend of long shared experience, and her friend. They were Christian, evangelical. We spoke of the present. Trump. Truth. Direction. So much convergence between my breed of science – reproducible, testable; tests ongoing and developing of what we think changing reality is based on (energy matter and time dancing with each other – whatever any of that trilogy

 is - perceived and testable reality) and their breed of faith-based, God - as a distinct entity reality. 

I say, since adolescence – God is the universe, the universe is God. They see God likely to intervene. I kinda agree, but with us as part of God. God’s agency is our agency. We need to make effort in this post Trump Era (surely, they WILL post him. To jail). His legacy may be real. Not as a symbol of capitalism, power and democracy all eaten and poorly expelled as excrement most foul, but as a symbol of the path we ALMOST headed down. Did he understand respect for others, compassion, empathy (I think a viable global future is ALL about those things). It doesn’t seem Trumps’ value system was much more than very clever SELF. Arrogance and bullying seemed to have been his thing. More contempt than compassion.

                                                                  Bm7 Notes BbABbAFD.

From Africa/ we spread out/ to the east/ north and south/

2. We moved in groups// took different routes//

Along the seas, through desert sands. From near and far/ through distant lands/ We all come from somewhere 

We’re so clever/ we’re so mad from somewhere/ From somewhere

Now we know we’re somewhere/// Now we know we’re somewhere. 

) We fight for space/ you want my place!!

So many weapons, terrorists face // // BUT WAIT!!

We’ve got our stance // we like to dance//// Dance can take us somewhere …

) Insects dance, all animals dance. All cultures

 It’s the 2020s; wars there’s plenty////

We’ve had our Trump and now we’re stumped//

….. (then fade:) we all come from somewhere

Now this web site is starting in, I’ll make the effort, persevere, use discipline, to insert a recorded copy of the song, performed. Multimedia. Oh yair!

24 01 16 1 a E for Effort, P and D

24 01 30 2a Category human behaviour, good and bad

[For instance – all mammals learn early – don’t gnor nore knor nor; don’t gnore on a nipple {the dog gnored on a bone}.

Some people see relationships, others learn to spell. Plus variants. Some of us do maths and probability analysis. Ah, the human brain – best/most complex thing in the universe {so IT thinks. I think that God/ess/the universe itself slightly more impressive}. And we have gone from having to move around for food (settled human life is less than 10,000 years) to optic fibres under the sea in a bioblink of time.]

So one of the rules is about duplicity. People like people who are ‘straight up and down’. We all have stories that mask the truth about motivations and goals. We want that. To get that, we have to sneekup; sneekin, to making it happen. Pretend as this, be conniving for that. To the duplicit person’s perceived benefit of their deception for self-gain. This duplicity often happens leading into a future inheritance grab. Where it suits some-ones’ perceived/felt interests to manipulate proceedings to gain advantage. All creatures no doubt (thought experiment) connive to get more for them and theirs. And evolution science says in the subtle dances of nature, biota does whatever to enhance its own self or offspring to gain. Most times, biogain is at other lifeforms’ expense.

So bereft of duplicityselfrepression, when Australian ex-prime minister Scott Morrison is calmly interviewed about robo debt, he just doesn’t accept The Enquiry finding that the relevant minister – him; then – should have monitored its accuracy; nor its legality. Two things people and lawyers lower down the power pyramid tried to tell him, but were blocked. 

The difference between duplicitous words and clear lies is that one uses mealymouthwords. Scott Morison, on the ABC series [

] gives a free and on-record public masterclass in mealymouth duplicity. Him, it seems, was power for self. Well born out via his many ministries. So in moral terms, most cultures vote against duplicity. We can’t really make laws against it. We just don’t approve. No doubt the beneficiaries and supporters celebrate at ‘getting away with it (there is the ‘tell’ that it is know to be wrong, but do-able). But it undermines collective trust and is as old as time.

The obvious motivation, for the greedy, the overambitious, is for them or theirs, to get ahead. Or to put some-one/a group down. Shades of a superiority complex, justifying bullying (there is another tell – there are soooo many). For whatever motivation/’reason’. The outcome of this 

: Malice and a sense of special entitlement/worthiness are at the heart of duplicity. Self-justifying internal narrative allows the sneaky one/ones to enact their two faced, self-interested behaviour.

Power for power’s sake is something most of us probably don’t understand. It never really sturd stirred in us. 

Oh, maybe at the community group level. I should be president. No, I should. But that is just humans being competitive. There, hopefully, is never too much sneakiness. Most of us has a moral compass, a sense of behavioural boundaries which say: behave honourably – so we can live with ourselves. 

Teaching #412: the duplicitous gloat that they got away with it.

 {small voice, off, aside – ah, poor childhood guidance and correction – the duplicate was destined to be two faced – they couldn’t resist the forces which kept saying: nasty = gain. Pretend as this, be aiming for that.}

The escalating destruction in the middle east and Ukraine.

If you are the US boss, you decide to blow up bits of terrorist Yemen. Now that’s gotta help world peace. Or not.

Blow up more things and people or stop and figure out what we all want long term, AWAY FROM IDEOLOGY. Away from power and control.

I live in the Australian bush. A thinker and a writer, some kind of trained futurist. Trained through generations. And universities and Australian Research Council research into threats and effective deflection from major loss or damage. Great response and success for effective weather warnings, but not so much for the doh! factor in the crucial bio-human survival pivot year. Blowing stuff and people up is the wrong direction.

Some need power more than others. Force gets power; and money is power like mass and energy, in physics, is one thing. MoneyPower.

Global function with least disruption comes via democracy, with all its flaws. It can, at it's worst, throw up the powertrained Trump obsessive occasionally (America does extremes in leaders better than most - Tricky Dicky, Kennedy, Raygun, the peanut farmer … what was his name again?), but generally America muddles along. The powerful rich, the massed poor. The super military and financial power, with it’s assumptions of superiority, and its realities of its Eastern failures, now China is out from under.

But democracies are best because we can, more or less bloodlessly, kick out a powercrazed dickhead.

But there are states; based on hatred and aggression and obsessions of Abrahamic revenge and Male dominance. Abraham: monotheist, has a lot of blood and good to answer for. But we don’t have to have both, going forward. Or Chinese wandering eyes. We are all 3 years from a self-chosen local paradise. THE GREAT DEFLECTION OF THE 2020s.

Follow through these becoming portals of deflected cultural momentum. Share the link. Lets kick this on to David Attenborough. Gretta Thunberg. Heck, even …

Some years back I wrote the backbone of a 90 minute Musical - TownsvilleMusic at it’s core of creativity – as a 10 minute song, in three parts. Based on music by my dear friend Fonely; it is about the present. And the future. It looks at the rise of GLOBAL$.

The Dutch leading the world in forming a pooled investment in merchants; in first-world plunder, and the rise and fall of the Guilder. A riveting song in 7 parts. “Tulips and raptors”. It goes, with music and movement and messages and meaning, through OUR PROFOUND PROWESS to Elon Musk. He put a sportscar into space. And on. So tomorrow, I’ll start mapping that out. And on.

And the adding of morality to capitalism as a major virtue signal/reward/punishment to preferred low-impact behaviours and directions. All the sustainability stuff is known, except how to make it happen. That is our path to global peace. Where you are.

I give thanks to my partner, son and dear family and friends; most to my parents for my existence and my good luck as to the where, and the when; and to whom I was born.

The time and space and world view of a natural geographer, as you are, reading this.

With YOUR amazing brain and incomprehensible complexity of your storyline to and through 2024 to beyond.

DingGH. 13/1/24 Sunday when this story starts. It is our story. We are in the door of 2024

SEETHEGOODFUTUREANDGOFORIT

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