James C Morrow has been advocating paradigm shift to altruistic Degrowth for well over ten years. The images from his Twitter feed have been shared widely, nudging the recipients to revise their worldview. His blog entries provide ideas that help to broaden our outlook and understanding. James advises that 2 billion people might be a sustainable figure, similar estimates are mentioned in this paper.
Within the context of universal models, world models, human world models, and the particular world models that each of us have built up over decades through which to interact with others and the world in general, James suggests that the following research papers are of interest, they are based upon work first carried out in the 1960s:
| A Unified Theory of Schizophrenia & Bipolar Affective Disorder | link |
| Cognitive Illusions – Weaving the Fabric of Reality | link |
| Paranoia and the Externalised Perceptual Misalignment Hypothesis.. | link |
| Recognition as a Conceptual Correlation Process – An Object-Based Approach | link |
| Recommended: Ways of Being, beyond human intelligence by James Bridle | link |
| Recommended: Feeling and Knowing by Antonio Damasio | link |
Poems by James Morrow:
Profit of Doom (written May 2001) Just the other day An angry businessman Appeared on TV “Damn those protestors, Because of them my profits Are down by half today Why can’t they just Leave us alone?” But should you go With the flow when it’s All down the drain? Should you turn the Tide or just run and hide? Prophet of loss Slight of mind Ache one day at a time Rhythm, or Rhyme? ~~~~ MCD (written April 2021) Now that mad car disease is endemic in London And is spreading rapidly to other cities and towns Has anyone considered mass slaughter of all cars In the infected areas and within a two hundred mile radius? To ensure that this, admittedly drastic, policy is effective In stamping out this disease before it spreads out of all control All movement of cars in and out of each infected area must be stopped Local scrapyards must be re-established and all affected cars burnt or buried Tight restrictions must, of course, be placed on all vehicle movements In order to ensure safe transportation of cars in areas currently free of MCD Strict guidelines must be enforced, and no car allowed to be moved except Within carefully disinfected transporters which must avoid all rush hours All live cars seen in MCD infected areas must be clamped on sight And taken away for incineration or burial Illegal movement of suspected cars - At night by transporter, for example - Must be severely punished If we take this drastic action now We might have this disease under control before Fossil fuels run out and all vehicular life ends Stamp out MCD before it stamps out life You know it makes sense Save our transport Re ’cycle ~~~~~ Grocery Rhyme (Written March 2001) Bad bad blackened sheep, Have you any fuel? Yes sir, yes sir, Three sheds full. One for the cow herd, One for the swine And one for the little lambs That aren't even mine. ~~~~ Apparently (written April 2001) Apparently Jesus Christ came back To save the world last year When he tried to help a friend His friend tried to help him And shut him up before He upset anyone Silenced by sedatives He was bundled away To a place of safety and Is now tightly wrapped in A chemical straitjacket For his own good Even now He has no insight Into his illness No one can Save him From His madness They’re looking Into the Pope now Apparently ~~~~