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Over 20 years ago Chomsky recognized the ruse of the facetious delineation of the terms "first world" "third world" etc countries. The world under the dying paradigm is being equalized in the economic, social, political, spiritual, dumbing-down of all of her inhabitants.
The US according to the arcane terminology is now effectively a 3rd world country. People's heads here are so full of trivial tidbits and snippets of information that intelligence is measured in one's command of useless factoids of information sans experiential or practical aptitude. Wage-slavery keeps people unable to effectively operate at a max holistic, developmental potential. That's right-people are becoming stupid, more superficial and self-absorbed, and this by insidious design. I know a chick in her 3rd year of college who thinks Australia was a peace-loving non-participant in world war 2. Airhead.
Good to see you on the grid again Persephone!

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>> ^persephone:
Where'd ya get the Drizabone?


the lady knows her oilskins...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Been playing an acoustic guitar cover of this with @persephone on the mandolin - I honestly didn't know Steve's version was a cover. I wish I did, because the original is awesome.

>> ^persephone:

I'll take 20 minutes of meditation a day over any old Freudian psychoanalysis, thank you. Psychology is the business of any dedicated Buddhist.


While I agree that meditation is a worthwhile endeavor for any psychologist or any person aspiring to become happier and more at peace, I take issue with your misinterpretation of Freud's theories, which have been maligned ever since they were mistranslated into English.

In the original, they are as true today as they were at the time he posed them, perhaps even more so.

These cats have inspired me-I have all the gear to begin doing a similar thing....call me lazy, call me bitter, call me next year for another interview, persephone.....some folks are simply waiting for the cosmos to kick in....don't really have an excuse anymore not to except for the uncomfortable wiggle of performing live-

Great interview guys-Hey...Could y'all cover a Black Sabbath tune alla, Cardigans??....Love that stuff!
Or some Judas Priest alla Hayseed Dixie...Nothin' funner than bluegrass covers of heavy metal tunes! You have a soft little lilting voice Nataly Dawn...cheers to the both of you.

>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^CrushBug:
What cracks me up is that hospital births are a relatively recent concept. Women have been birthing on their own for thousands of years. A birth is a natural event, not a medical problem to be solved.

Antibiotics are a relatively recent concept. Before that people died of all kinds of infections we would laugh at today. Modern medicine is a "recent concept." The average life expectancy, a few hundred years ago, was thirty. Should we go back to that, just because it's "natural"?
I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to give birth however they want -- but don't claim that it isn't inherently more risky than giving birth in a hospital. "Natural" doesn't necessarily always mean better.

I totally agree with you and was in no way trying to imply that. My issue is with the approach that birth is a medical problem to be solved, that the mother is in need of being fixed. That part is not the case. We have made many medical advances over the years and I am appreciative of these advances especially when my son was hospitalized for 4 days. Did I think we should have hung out at home and burned incense and hoped for the best? Hell no, we went to peds emergency.

That being said, if all things are equal, and there is no obvious risk to mother and child, why should there be a "No home births" rule/law made based on fear and what might go wrong? The facts don't support it.

>> ^dag:
What's Ron Paul's position on home birth, Blankie? The libertarian position would seem to be at odds with him being a mainstream obstetrician.


I'm not sure, to be honest. He's probably for it. I think the one position where Ron Paul and I don't see eye-to-eye is the abortion issue. He's against it, and I'm for it as an option.

The Libertarian position wouldn't be against an obstetrician, because we believe simply in individual choice over coercion. Whether you choose an obstetrician or home birth is incidental as long as it's your choice and not that of someone else or someone using political influence.