Strays

I'm sure most of us have had experience with stray animals. Those of us who haven't surely have known someone who has relayed a similar story as the one I'm about to relay.

Homeless, hungry, and scared. If you offer them a kindness they are sure to repay it in gratitude, love and loyalty. A dog can recognize a hardship. And a dog can recognize a kindness. They recognize that hardship comes from a cold hard life and kindness comes from the hand of a compassionate soul.

A dog will remember the hand that feeds.

Try extending a kindness to a human. More often than not, whatever they cannot steal from you and sell they will break and shit on. And they will blame you for not having the things they stole and for the shit they left on everything else.

Humans are shit.

They're Doing It Wrong

We propose that pain intensity is not the best measure of the success of chronic-pain treatment. When pain is chronic, its intensity isn't a simple measure of something that can be easily fixed. Multiple measures of the complex causes and consequences of pain are needed to elucidate a person's pain and inform multimodal treatment. But no quantitative summary of these measures will adequately capture the burden or the meaning of chronic pain for a particular patient. For this purpose, nothing is more revealing or therapeutic than a conversation between a patient and a clinician, which allows the patient to be heard and the clinician to appreciate the patient's experiences and offer empathy, encouragement, mentorship, and hope. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1507136?query=TOC&

The Mechanics Of A Free Society

The Mechanics Of A Free Society details some of the basic organisational structures that I believe will be necessary for living in a money-free world. I felt that such a document was missing from the various different groups and thinktanks out there, most of whom invest much of their energy discussing mechanization and cybernation. It is my view that there are more pressing and practical things that need to be understood relating to our own social behaviour.

I think such a document may also have value in helping people who have doubts about our shared vision to make that all important leap from the impossible to the possible. :)

I hope you find it useful. If you do, please feel free to share it around.

Here's the PDF:
http://www.freeworldcharter.org/files/The_Mechanics_Of_A_Free_Society.pdf

and it's also on the Freeworlder Blog too:
http://freeworlder.org/blogs/item/81-the-mechanics-of-a-free-society