[FRIAM] EU travel

Sat Jun 4 18:05:22 EDT 2022

Steve, how long are you and Mary going to be traveling in Europe?  I have
to go to Ljublijana, Sarajevo, and also Stockholm if I have time before we
get going on our new contract with the neuroscience group.  Massive fears
in Bosnia because of the new European war.  It would be cool to meet up.
Graeber's "Direct Action" is one of my bibles about organizing.  He trained
the Occupy folks. "Dawn of Everything" is a hellava heavy book (literally!)
to carry on a trip like yours. Maybe worth it.  I'm still working my way
through. Safe travels.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 3:23 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Regarding my diatribe below my logistics:
>
> I've been (re) reading Graeber's "Dawn of Everything" and would be
> interested to hear other's thoughts who might have read him as well.
>
> My own read is that he is even snarkier about "establishment scientists"
> in his domain of interest than he was in "Debt" but I do appreciate his
> thorough fact-gathering and (alternative) analysis.  His conclusions are
> often a bit hard to swallow (especially in the shadow of his criticism of
> others), but not without merit in many cases.
>
> - Steve
> On 6/4/22 10:17 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
>
> Jochen -
>
> I get "mail delivery failed" errors if I try to reply to you directly
> Steve :-( Maybe the mailbox is full?
>
> -J.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
>
> Oh, you are making a tour through Europe? Nice. Do you plan to visit
> Berlin or Germany too?
>
> -J.
>
> Yes, we are on a long visit/tour anchored by the month of June at Jenny
> Quillien's place in Weesp, NL.   She is on her own "walkabout" in Northmost
> North America ( Alaska) and has gifted a few of us under-traveled Americans
> the opportunity to settle at her place for a long visit to Europe as COVID
> has lifted and Putin has not launched WWIII (yet).
>
> The previous guests were delayed most of a week for their return to Santa
> Fe due to a false-positive COVID test, but are on their way now and we
> arrive there on the 8th, only 1  week behind schedule.
>
> I don't know of other (regularly posting?) members of FriAM living in
> Europe besides yourself.   I am sure there are some... Jenny is nominally a
> FriAM member and many of you know her in-person but we do not hear from her
> online often.   I always like to put a face with a name when I can and meet
> colleagues and correspondents in person.
>
> I missed SteveG's son Miles by only a few hours (by coincidence) as we
> flew in through Reykjavik.  I haven't seen Miles since he was about 15 or
> 16... I believe he is living in Estonia part-time and traveling the Baltics
> this summer.   I don't think we will get that far from Amsterdam, though I
> have always wanted to visit Vilnius and the district of Uzupis.   Too close
> to the wounded Russian Bear right now?
>
> This is likely our last transcontinental trip based on climate impacts,
> etc.   It feels terribly self-indulgent to burn so much jet fuel for
> "simple leisure".   This kind of travel feeds and informs Mary's travel and
> I'm using it to inform my continued study of Collective Emergent Human
> Consciousness in some sense and trying to understand the differences
> between 1st World Europe and 1st World USA, especially in terms of the
> adaptability that the Dutch, in particular, have undergone.   Being in
> villages that were occupied by Napolean and then the Russians pushing him
> back followed by the devastaion of WWI to be rebuilt and then re-devastated
> by WWII is fascinating... and these villages include in some cases 0AD
> Roman ruins and cathedrals built up to 1000 years ago and still in use.
> This kind of deep-time parallax is beyond the experience of *most*
> Americans.   The Native American Pueblo I live inside was "granted" it's
> existence by the King of Spain in 1623 but probably didn't exist until
> after the Chacoan collapse a few centuries earlier.   NM is home to Clovis
> of the famous "Clovis Points" and Clovis culture that runs back a few more
> thousands of years, but Europe's legacy of Homo Sapiens going back to early
> holocene and Neanderthalis 100,000 years earlier is mind boggling to my
> foreshortened sense of human history American Style.
>
> - Steve
>
> try my other e-mails (sas at lava3d.com and sas.lava3d at gmail.com or even 001
> 505 920 0252 by phone or whatsapp).
>
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