The Dawn of a Mindful Universe A Manifesto for Humanity's Future by Marcelo Gleiser, 2023
An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
You'll recall that the Tories included in their last manifesto the end/curtailment of the exploitative ground rent system in England & Wales.
Well, it seems this has now been abandoned in the face of intense lobbying from investment & pension managers who receive the payments.
So, just to be clear, given the choice of helping homeowners (under leaseholds) or people in financial services, despite a manifesto commitment, the Tories chose the latter...
Every so often I get the urge to share sites like "motherfuckingwebsite.com" and its successors with coworkers, but I refrain because the language is NSFW.
So I created my own #manifesto#website, but less Oedipal and without profanity.