The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday September 11th, 2022
The Next Phase by David Sparenberg
The process of individualization is the current phase of human evolution. This phase began to democratize at the European Renaissance. Now it wanes. The two World Wars increased the scale of human targeting—in state terrorism, suffering and annihilation. Auschwitz was the terminus of civilization; the atomic atrocities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, warnings against omnicide. The largess of human personality vanishes. Environmental consequences of modern warfare are scarcely spoken of. We continue in systems of falsification and exploitation and a culture of excesses and violence.
What is wordless is unthinkable. When naming happens the named is open to endless communication.
The next phase of human evolution is the transformation of ego-self into eco-self. In core dynamics this shift involves turning the long journey into the interior outward to geo-biotic relationships and in dialectic alternations between reaching deeply into the past of origins and moving conditionally into an Ecosophic Future.
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The most beautiful thing I can make is this haiku #poem by Abigail George
“Air. Heir can’t be cured –
I’m bee farmer caught stealing.
Hospitality.
Swallows flit in the air –
Only the houndish-rain can cure me.
The don’t know regret.”
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Sceptic feathers #45 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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