Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a 1902 essay collection by Russian naturalist and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. The essays, initially published in the English periodical The Nineteenth Century between 1890 and 1896, explore the role of mutually-beneficial cooperation and reciprocity (or "mutual aid") in the animal kingdom and human societies both past and present. It is an argument against theories of social Darwinism that emphasize competition and survival of the fittest, and against the romantic depictions by writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who thought that cooperation was motivated by universal love. Instead Kropotkin argues that mutual aid has pragmatic advantages for the survival of human and animal communities and, along with the conscience, has been promoted through natural selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution | The Anarchist Library
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Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed to be "appropriate" to the context of its use.

https://www.appropedia.org/Appropriate_Technology

"The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought.

Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.

But this was not how the author of the book ended the story. He said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears. “Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.
“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.

“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate the beauty close at hand.”

“But… was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.

“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder.

“After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: “I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“What a lovely story”, the alchemist thought."

— Paulo Coehlo, (1988) The Alchemist

La Plata, Argentina, from above

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https://redd.it/cx558h

Fun fact: This NASA project had been underway for years. The previous iteration had references to The Venus Project on it's now defunct website.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=K3K990kVLS0

Remember, eating the rich may result in prions or disease.

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