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Capitalism, Psychopathy and Evolution
2008-04-11 17:39:00
As Capitalism is the dominant social and economic system of the Western world, we should ask ourselves what kind of person will best survive it, evolve because of it?I am convinced that it is the psychopathic personality.In my encounters with door-to-door salesmen, for instance, I become infuriated with their superficially charming attempts to manipulating me into buy their Acme product. I get rid of them quickly, not having much tolerance of these merchants who descend during - what for many is - the halcyon half-hour of post-work Soap-Opera time.There is an inherent lack of empathy in trying to seduce people into buying something that they can't afford and are plainly being ground-down into placing an order for. I couldn't do that. I couldn't relentlessly pressurise someone without feeling 'bad' for the stress I am placing upon them.Just like the psychopath, salesmen give their most aggressive sales pitches to those who are naive or 'weak'.I predict that evolution - unde...
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The London Mayoral Election Countdown (part 2)
2008-04-04 15:38:00
We will forever be mired in political infantilism if we do not abrogate these silly two dimensional concepts of leftness and rightness. While such dualism may have been valid in the twentieth century, it is a concept which has, as much as everything else, been ravaged and rendered by post-modernism.Politics possesses four dimensions, not two. The axes of left and right is redundant and have been unhelpfully bonded with the concepts of good and bad. Or labour and conservative.For example, London has a left-wing mayor. But he is not - forgive me for succumbing to these rudimentary concepts - 'good'. He may have been relatively 'good' in the eighties as a counter to Thatcher, but as time has progressed and too the meanings of what is good and what is bad.Ken Livingstone is a nasty, warped leader who associates with cold-blooded reptilians. He also breeds newts. Ken Livingstone is a man who lends his support and patronage to homophobes, anti-Semites and religious extremists.He tows ...
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I started a poke...
2008-04-01 23:20:00
There is a psychological report - which may have since disappeared into the ether as I haven't retrieved it - that stated that all conversation must obey a rule: If something you say is not helpful, educational, polite or constructive, then do not say it.It was either these four qualities or else a very similar quadruplet of factors that need to be satisfied in conversation.When I heard this report on the radio I became nascently conscious of how I speak and how wastefully. When I realised how much of what I speak is neither polite nor constructive I felt ashamed. And by that epiphany I have made my linguistic conversion.I have also become aware of how we painfully squander spoken language, our greatest asset. In spoken language we have something which sets us aloof from every other animal in the kingdom.I remember once someone astutely observed that we now say How are you! and not How are you? It is a subtle detail, but a very telling one - we neglect enquiries into meaning in...
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The London Mayoral Election Countdown (part 1)
2008-03-27 12:15:00
London's Mayoral elections are little over a month away and I am still disbelieving at how little attention the election is receiving in the press in comparison to the exposure given to the US primaries and caucuses. It's like turning up in the wrong cinema at the wrong screening and watching only the trailer before heading home. Part ly the absence of reportage is this newfound sensitivity towards '-centric' biases. The Guardian, for instance, has taken to prefacing a London Mayoral article with an acknowledgement of a London-centric bent. Best not to upset the Geordies or the Scousers (that's Boris' job).For me, as it should be for all Londoners, the mayoral elections are the most important since the post commenced back in 2000.There are for credible candidates, one of whom - let's get this out of the way now - is a laughing stock, a joke, a buffoon of the highest degree but yearns to be taken seriously. Yes, you guessed it, I'm referring to Brian Paddick.For a dose of Pa...
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Think(less) Thank
2008-03-14 16:58:00
Contrarywise to my own self-expectations, I find myself not totally uncharmed by - in spite of my long history of aversion to - the works of Banksy. On two scores I reproach myself: the first that I have a profound inconsanguinity with the (street) culture of grafitti and tagging; the second that Todd "read some feminism" Swift has lent his patronage to Banksy (and I would prefer not to be in common assent with Swift in any instance).So, I, Mr-I-Don't-Know-Much-About-Art-But-I-Know -What-I-Hate, begrudingly tip my baseball cap to Banksy. Or I would if it were on the right way round.No, it isn't art. But some of it is decent satire, funny in places and in others impressively illusory. In the later category I refer to his skeletal, Death-like monkey in a rowing boat spray-painted on the side of a real boat (or was it a barge?). My own gripe with Banksy is, however, one of his defining features: his politics. Politically, like many artisists, he is juvenile and trite, shooting at targ...

The Panamanian Golden Frog
2008-02-13 14:07:00
We do not hear much of Panama. Apart from insurance-fraudsters Anne-Darwin and her formerly-dead canoeist husband, John, incriminating themselves being photographed there, we do not hear much of Panama.Even I, who was an avid geographer in my pre-teens and learned by rote all the capital cities of the world, would have trouble finding that slip of a country that looks as though it shoulders the responsibility of keeping the landmasses of the north and south Americas from tearing away from each other.Thanks to David Attenborough's ever enlightening wildlife documentaries - the current run named Life In Cold Blood - I know a little more about Panama. Specifically, that it is home to a fascinating but endangered amphibian, the golden frog.Attenborough's Life In Cold Blood explores the lives of cold-blooded animals (ectotherms, to use the accurate term) such as lizards, snakes and frogs. The focus of the last quarter of the second episode of the series devoted itself to the Panamanian...
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The Summer (Cold) Of A Dormouse
2008-02-06 13:37:00
There seems to be no outcry - none that I've read - that mice have been genetically modified to receive rhinovirii (which cause 3/4s of human colds) with an aim to better understanding the common cold and how to treat it.I raise you three objections: the (1) genetic modification of (2) mice in order to (3) treat the common cold.Damien and I once acknowledged a law that The closer a thing is to nature, the better it is with the converse also being true The further a thing is from nature, the worse it is.*Therefore I must - and do - consider laboratory-created genetic mutations to be unwelcome interferences with nature. Dolly the sheep should not have been artificially cloned as this is an offense to nature; likewise a lab mouse should not have a human ear grown on its back. These are glimpses of a futuristic freak zoo that humans seem hell-bent on crafting.In the same breath, or dormouse should not have its genes scrambled so that humans can inject it with virii that from which it i...
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From Chief Wiggum to Gene Hunt
2008-02-05 13:57:00
Back in the day when British policemen wore helmets inspired by mammaries, there at least was - what you could call - uniform justice.In spite of now donning different style caps, the police are probably even bigger mammaries than ever before.I was talking to a colleague today and she told me about the occasion when she was stopped and checked in public by the police for evidence of terrorism. Apparently, on no grounds whatsoever, the police searched her, appropriated her bag and emptied it, found a diary and skimmed through it (in search of lines such as "Dear Diary, today I made a failed attempt at detonating a big load of semtex strapped around my waist").In protestation, the respectable young woman asked why the police are searching her for evidence of terrorism. Without any trace of humour, charm or irony (foreign concepts to the modern bobby), they informed her that she was their young, blonde, female quotient.As my young, blonde, female colleague, and I (and everyone else) kn...
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Paradoxes Versus Truisms
2008-01-17 10:57:00
Excepting the occassional creepy, nearing-thirty year old lurker such as myself, Yahoo Answers - or at least, judging by the general immaturity - is populated by teenagers.I often visit this website to guage the opinion of the demographic which I no longer belong to. One particular question posted by an inquisitive young man on Yahoo Answers wasWhy do people hate Jews?The response to this question, posted by a (presumably) teenage female, that lodged in my memory wasIt's called anti-Semitism - Educated yourself.Maybe I have nothing better to worry about in my life that I became particularly rankled by this reply:The youngster who started the thread asked an intelligent question, a question with no readily apparent answer. Without an answer to this question, it is impossible to understand the most important historical event of the 20th Century - World War II, its preamble and consequences. To which, some haughty young strop, with an assumed air of intellectual dominance, gave an unw...
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Ricky Gervais: Modern Hero
2007-12-27 23:43:00
Congratulations to Ricky Gervais who, with his television shows the Office and Extras, encapsulated the existential crisis of modern existence and - through David Brent and Andy Millman respectively - man's inevitable breakdown in response to that crisis.The Office, in both my opinion and by general consensus, was a shade better than Extras. However, today's (the 27th of December's) Christmas edition - and climax - of Extras surpassed everything else.I would go as far to say that tonight's episode of Extras was the best comedy - no, television - I have ever watched.The Office and Extras were more than comedy because theirs was not the goal to make people laugh simply by reeling off joke after joke that - as law of averages would predict - eventually produce a laugh here or there. Nor, unlike most sitcoms, were its episodes self-contained: Most sitcoms are exercises in arrested development, whatever character growths occur within its thirty-minute time-slot, inevitably returns to...
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Sementivae Update: Keeping Regular
2007-12-07 13:38:00
Apologies to Sementivae's readers for the absence of blog entries in the last few weeks. Those few weeks were hectic, with many imperatives competing for my attention.With those imperatives done & dusted, I shall be committing myself to keeping ever regular as to this blog.NB. I trust the bran in the picture (right) is not Kellogg's brand seeing as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg originally devised his cereals as anti-onanism weapons against (boys but mostly) girls.
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Real Estate: The Root Of All Evil
2007-11-16 13:41:00
Money, it is widely said, is the root of all evil. Anyone who cares or dares to look beyond the quotidian (and life-span) utilities of money can reach no other conclusion that money is responsible for much of what is wrong with the world today: selfishness, narcissism, the fragmentation of both community and family, the devaluation of culture, bland (and brand) homogeneity of the majority of countries world-wide, pollution, the killing of flora and fauna, subservience, making humans function as automaton. The list could be even less finite.To say money is the root of all evil, I conjecture, is accurate only as much as the dart flies into outer-bull.Real estate is the root of all evil. Bull's eye.Money is evil; money forces us all into complicity over the destruction of our selves and our planet, but it is, in theory, possible to escape the money trap (if one so desires).Let's say I am dissatisfied with the actions and consequences of my day-to-day life. I wake up in the morning an...
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Paris Hilton: What Is Her Opinion On Drunken Elephants?
2007-11-14 23:18:00
It's a rare boon to have the opportunity to legitimately use one of the world's top ten search terms in my blog title and content but, seeing as the opportunity has presented itself, it would be churlish of me to let is pass. So here goes:Paris Hilton . Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton.So, for those of you who are regular readers of my blog, a warm welcome back. For the guys who hazarded upon this site looking for naughty pics of Miss Hilton, there's a treat for you in the top-right corner.Yes, it seems that the delectably pleathered Paris has hit the news for a pro animal rights comment she made. Or was it a pro animal rights comment? Her PR person says it wasn't.You see, Paris recently expressed concern for the welfare of Indian elephants which had gone on the rampage after imbibing quantities of home made rice-beer.Until Paris made her comments in Tokyo last week, very few of us were aware that there is an epidemic of elephant alcohol abuse endemic to North East India which is res...
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The Petrified Forest: A film not to be forgotten
2007-11-09 16:54:00
The Petrified Forest , released in 1936, is a remarkably prescient film. After watching it this week for the first time, it instantly became one of my favourite films.One of my reasons for recommending this film on Sementivae is because of, as I say, its prescience - specifically its prescience on matters of the environment.Leslie Howard - who gives such a fantastic performance that I forgot I originally watched the film for the posthumously better-celebrated Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis - is the protagonist Alan Squier, an Englishman rambling in the Arizona desert, who meets and falls in love with Gabrielle Maple (Davis), a waitress at the cafe (and gas-station) found, geographically and metaphorically, on the edge of the expansive wilderness.Their brief acquaintance is only allowed to deepen from passing infatuation into love when fate intervenes and escaped prisoner, sociopathic killer Duke Mantee (Bogart) and his fellow gangsters, take them hostage.It's an excellent film with...
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If you're thinking about being my search engine, it don't matter if you're
2007-11-06 17:51:00
This is not exactly news - I am bedridden with flu at the moment and the grey cells aren't functioning, so my output is limited - but there's an interesting theory that Google (the search engine that most people use daily to perform searches) would be more environmentally friendly - that is, would consume less power - if it were black rather than white.To this effect, Blackle, a black "Google" was created (NB. Blackle is not owned by Google). The theory is that a white screen uses 74 watts and a black screen 59. If Google itself were black, it is speculated/calculated that 750 Megawatt-hours would be saved per annum.The reality is that Blackle probably only saves energy when used on CRT monitors but not LCD monitors.However, Blackle - regardless of its black is more green than white claim - poses a problem to the vast majority of us who use computers - How do we make web-surfing more environmentally friendly, less energy-gluttonous?For the time being, I may persevere with Blackl...
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Harry Kills Harrier?
2007-10-31 14:20:00
The legally-protected hen-harrier is a rare and endangered bird in England, two of which were killed on the Royal Estate of Sandringham last week. Prince Harry and a friend were the only two people out shooting on the estate at the time in question which means, as to finding the culprits, we can probably file Sherlock Holmes' and Hercule Poirot's business cards back into the drawer.I have always liked Harry, enough to forgive him his endorsement of that idiot Kanye West at the concert he arranged for the memory of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales. I admire him for his determination to be deployed in Iraq and he did have a certain down-to-earth consternation about him when England were denied a cast-iron try against South Africa at the Rugby World Cup final (even if his bar-tabs are less earth-bound and more stratospheric).Still - and whether guilty or not of killing the hen-harriers - 'gaming' is atavistic and, no matter how much of a bubble the Royals may live in (and it ca...

Is Twelve Monkeys The Solution For 25 Primates?
2007-10-28 15:08:00
I am thinking of the Terry Gilliam film Twelve Monkeys . I watched it maybe a half or whole year ago on VHS with bad audio, which made the gripping-if-convoluted plot difficult to follow. Like most of ex-Monty Python Terry Gilliam's films (the dystopian Brazil, the insidious fantasy of Piano Tuner of Earthquakes), Twelve Monkeys requires - and deserves - to be revisited.Although I have still seen the film only once, I have nonetheless revisited it in my head increasingly of late because of its environmental subtexts.Never a fan of Brad Pitt, I nonetheless admire his portrayal of psychiatric patient Jeffrey Goines, an animal rights activist and anti-consumerist. It is a confluence of two events - the release of humankind cleansing virus and the release of animals from captivity - that enabled (non-human) animals to once again live in freedom and prosperity.Whether The Army of the Twelve Monkeys were responsible for releasing the virus is doubted, but they definitely claim responsi...
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Let the tennis-playing puffins be or How to stay faithful to your mobile ph
2007-10-25 12:46:00
As I was driving to work this autumn morning - daylight in retreat, fog on the grasslands - I was listening, as one is wont to do on such drives, to the radio. (My station of choice is Magic FM, as I grew up in the 80s and there is a lot of nostalgia value on 105.4).Between a segue of three songs are the adverts. The usual ones warning me that the chip in my windscreen needs to be inspected (I may have a chip on my shoulder but not my windscreen, boys), the TGI Friday one advertising Jack Daniel's Sesame Chicken and a travel agency that puns its destinations, such as "business Tripoli".But to break the routine a little there was a new advert for a mobile phone which has the latest doo-da that replaces the old oojamafluke and it's absolutely essential that we upgrade.Mobile phones have come along way since they resembled a brick. With every gadget and gizmo added, mobile phones become harder to recycle. They are one of the most environmentally-unfriendly technological products beca...
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Cool Earth
2007-10-24 13:39:00
I am currently reading about the charity Cool Earth which advocates protecting the South American rainforests by allowing charitable donors to give money to Cool Earth so that they can secure large parts of endangered rainforest and keep the loggers at bay.On the surface it sounds like a noble idea, though I will do some thorough research on the Cool Earth project before endorsing it. The result of my research shall be reported later on this blog.One point that has already been mooted is that the indigenous rainforest peoples should be allowed to administer the rainforests - their homeland - for themselves.

Capitalism & The Misconstrual of Death
2007-10-19 14:42:00
In a previous post I speculated that capitalism is grey. From empirical observations, I have predicted that the increase in capitalism will increase the canvas of grey around the planet. Now I would like to propose that capitalism breeds a misunderstanding of death: It is said that when you expire you can't take wealth with you. The main objective of capitalism is to earn money, this cannot be disputed. Therefore, the capitalist who hoards his monetary wealth must be ill-at-ease with the concept of death, for his own mortality forces him to acknowledge a cut-off point at which the treasures that he has expended so much effort in acquiring - that he has considered so useful and central to his raison-d'etre - suddenly becomes useless. Mortality, with great severity, contradicts the philosophy of the capitalist. The exclusive pursuit of money is self-limiting, literally. It requires that one focuses one's energies on constructing an empire of monetary self-gratification, perpe...
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You Can't Own The Desert
2007-10-18 11:33:00
There is a scene in the English Patient, where Almasy and his best-friend Madox discuss the urgency of securing the Saharan desert."What do we find in the desert?" Asks Madox "Arrowheads, spears. In a war if you own the desert, you own North Africa." Almasy scoffs disdainfully "Own the desert?"The idea of property and ownership - of land, of people - was a central theme of Anthony Minghella's award-winning film The English Patient.Almasy - played by an on-form Ralph Fiennes, alongside an otherwordly Kristin Scott-Thomas (pictured) - abhorred the notion that reserves of nature could be owned for martial, strategic, financial or Imperial gain.It is our turn to scoff disdainfully as Britain divulges its plan to carve a piece of the Antarctic desert for itself.The claim for propriety of a slice of the Atlantic would give Britain exploratory rights for gas, oil and minerals.Mining and drilling for oil would disrupt the fragile eco-system of the Antarctic, one of the few remaining wilder...
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The Colour of Capitalism
2007-10-17 13:47:00
By default the earth is green and blue and I would guess, although I have no scientific proof, that these are the colours that make us happiest. After all, we tend to associate the blueness of skies and of seas and the greenness of grass with a Paradisial idyll.As I observed in a previous entry, Capitalism is diametrically opposed to nature. I believe that the war - if you will - between the opposing forces of nature and of capitalism can be symbolised by the consumption of green by grey.That is, capitalism is inherently grey and, because of capitalism, the world can only become greyer until it is overwhelmed by greyness.How can capitalism be grey? Capitalism renders the world to grey because its ultimate goal is to expand as quickly and as cheaply as possible. As such, when capitalism builds its edifices - its offices, its industrial parks - it will built them cuboid and concrete, until the skyline is obfuscated with grey cubes. In the mind of capitalism there serves no purpose in ...
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Al Gore Wins Peace Prize
2007-10-12 12:23:00
Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for disseminating greater knowledge about man-made climate change. In my opinion it was a deserved award. In the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (buy), Gore presented the science behind man-made climate change with both eloquence and transparency.The documentary is a necessary education and - perhaps it shouldn't be so - great entertainment: My wife and I were compelled to watch the DVD from beginning to end without pause for break (we seldom get through a feature-length without respite).I know from reading various subscriptions that there are those who will never accept the man-made catastrophe of climate change as reality - that it is merely scaremongering, but whether you believe Gore's claims or not, it is undeniable that there is more rubbish on the street, increasingly diminished bio-diversity, more animals on the brink of extinction (such as the polar bears, pictured), more factories coughing toxic fumes into the atmosphere...
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The Greener Office
2007-10-08 13:17:00
As David Brent in The Office warned about squandering paper "It doesn't grow on trees".Such were the days when that saying was not oxymoronic, that the implied abundance of trees was fact.The theory goes that capitalism is anti-nature because everything natural recycles or regenerates. Capitalism, by-and-by, does not recycle (though see earlier posts of carbon trading here and here).Indeed, it is in the office, a sort of epicenter for capitalism, where a great deal of paper wasting / non-recycling occurs.Paper is essential to the office - things are ordered on paper, put into order on paper, indemnified by paper, memorised on paper, copied onto paper, printed onto paper, so forth and so on.One of the biggest wastes of paper in the office, I think, is this form of socialising where someone prints out something they read on the Internet for someone else. It is done with the best pro-social intentions, your colleague sees something on the 'net they think you will be interested in, th...
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Carbon-Trading: Too Much For the Human Mind?
2007-10-01 13:17:00
Further to my assertion of neutrality with regards to the neutralisation of greenhouse gases through carbon trading:If I have a reservation it's that carbon-trading will be a further abstraction of money and of the economy. I believe that the more abstracted the economy, the more we humans are afflicted by material greed. The simplest economy was when a commodity was itself: water as water, food as food, shelter as shelter etc.As economy and trade complicated, money became a convenient token. The first coins were developed by Lydian king Croesus (pictured), around 560 BC. Coins were used an abstracted representation of what could be bought. So the coin was - and is - the abstraction of food, water, and shelter and whatever else can be bought. As we progress even further into the digital age, coins themselves become abstracted into electronic representations of themselves. A double abstraction, if you like. And so we are taken another step further away from whatever it is the moneta...
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Dear Reader, Please Place Your Vote
2007-09-29 17:58:00
This is an update encouraging Sementivae's visitors to take a few seconds to vote on the poll on the right hand side-bar of this site.The poll is Which is the biggest threat to bio-diversity?Sementivae will run the poll until the New Year when we hope to have a sizable number of votes to have meaningful data.The rather charming young couple in the photograph are much more endearing and persuasive, so I shall leave it to them to win your vote.
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A good word for - and from - Mel Gibson
2007-09-28 10:24:00
Mel Gibson ignores warnings over moving to Costa Rica, Mel Gibson has/has not fallen off the wagon, Mel Gibson has/has not fallen off the wagon (again), Mel Gibson arrested for drink driving, Mel Gibson implies saccharine qualities to female law-officer's mammaries, Mel Gibson's films are historically inaccurate says academic, Mel Gibson tells academic to fu...Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson has received an iniquitous quota of negative press, which is a shame given that he has made two of the most challenging, contrary-to-the-sensibilities-of-Hollywoo d films in under a decade (The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto) and, amidst all the bad press, has participated in - seldom-publicised - philanthropic acts and gestures and has spoken out in favour of the preservation of Mayan Culture and rainforests.From an interview on Star E-Central, Gibson is reported to have donated $500,000 to help protect El Mirador from logging and farming. As Gibson stated in the interview:[T]he forest is t...
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Carbon Credits: Paying For Indulgences?
2007-09-26 15:40:00
For the record, I am, at the present time, neutral about going carbon neutral. Mainly because carbon-trading is currently a speculative economy and a lot of confusion and misinformation surrounds it. Carb on -trading is, in theory, quite a simple concept to grasp. However, the information about it has been poorly presented, and not without bias, that many - myself included - have wrested with the concept.I hope to put it succinctly: Carbon-trading is to start in 2008 under the second phase of the Kyoto protocol when businesses will be allocated a "carbon allowance".By "carbon allowance" it is meant that a business is allowed to emit carbon-dioxide without penalty until its emissions reach a pre-determined threshold.If the business exceeds the carbon emission threshold, it will be required to buy credits to compensate these excess emissions.Likewise, if a business falls below its pre-determined threshold for carbon emissions then it acquires credits which it can sell to the businesses ...
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Vote: Which is the biggest environmental threat?
2007-09-26 10:17:00
On the right-hand side-bar, there is a (straw) poll on which you can cast your vote. The question is Which of these is the biggest threat to global bio-diversity? You may tick one or more of the answers provided.The poll will run until the end of 2007, which, I hope, will allow enough time to accrue enough votes so as to have an accurate idea of what people think is the cause - or causes - of threat to bio-diversity.Please take a few seconds to cast your vote - thank you!
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Sementivae's First Post
2007-09-25 09:48:00
This is, in some ways, a difficult time to begin a weblog devoted to environmental conservation & restoration. At a time when politicians and high-street chain-stores are jumping with equal verve onto the 'green' bandwagon, it is only reasonable to question anybody who now professes a concern for the welfare of the planet.In the UK the Labour government have introduced taxes on flying supposedly to reduce carbon emissions. The Conservative opposition had morphed their familiar blue torch logo into a green tree and then into its current incarnation as a blue tree (seemingly uncertain of what balance of 'greenness' and 'blueness' is required to win over tired - no, narcoleptic - voters) .High-street stores are now promoting environmentally-friendly shopping bags and are bidding to out-green their rivals. And what the shops dish-out, the consumers consume.There is no shame in questioning the motives of going-green at-large. Politicians ultimately seem to be either stealth-tax...
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