Railing against society's

I would like to paraphrase two parts of a book I read called Factor 4, by Weizsaecker & the Lovins Bros.

Correct economic theories are often misused...
- Expressing economic output as the sum of market value of goods, services, bads and nuisances sold for money, excluding everything that has no price (eg caring for loved twos) or is priceless...By most measures human happiness has been falling since the early 1970s while GDP has been growing... [helped by] remedial costs of dealing with depletion, pollution, deferred maintenance or renewal, and social disorder]

- Assuming that depletion and pollution cost nothing...What better way to pay tribute to our children's boundless technological ingenuity that making sure they'll need it?

- Treating consumption of capital as income. Income should be the maximum amount you can consume without being worse off than when you started.

- Assuming infinite substitutability of artificial capital for natural capital.

In another section they talk about some of the problems facing the world. Three in particular resonated with me:
- widespread emotional misery (historically, evolutionarily speaking, is this normal?)
- the urban megalopolis trend, especially in developing countries
- the governability problem both at the national scale and at the global level

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It's looking like the Golden State Warriors are going to make the playoffs for the first time in 13 years. It's times like these when having a sports portfolio really pays handsome dividends. They're not in yet - tomorrow they've got to beat Portland in Portland or hope the Clippers lose to Nyahlins. But I think they're specials. They'll probably play the team with the best record in the league, Dallas, which stars Dirk "Diggler" Nowitzki. Thing is, they've actually beaten Dallas the last three times they played, so you never know...

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My brain kinda hurts. I had a really weird dream the other day. You know how dreams are generally weird? And then once every so often, a dream comes along that puts all others to shame, and leaves two questioning two's sanity? Makes you throw your hands up and concede defeat to the gods of craziness? I am a nutbar.

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You know the free form urban running, jumping and climbing movement, perhaps started by some young buff French guys? There was a documentary called Yamakasi about it on SBS last night. Very impressive. Everyone should be doing this. On your way to work. In the office. At home. We'd all be more limber, have better abs, know more about our body's limits and feel a greater connection with the physical world we live in. Who will join me? You are aware that you desire this.