Bjorn K Holmstrom

I think we are missing out if we replace all manual labor, it has a value at least in our current biological configuration. I am speaking from experience, I have suffered sever depression for five years and something that helped me out was doing wood crafts and other manual labor at a local reconstructed Viking village. There was also some garden work. I also have fond memories of working half-time a year in a greenhouse, the monotony of tasks have great value for developing concentration, focus and awareness, not to speak about the connection with nature, and led up to some of my first awakening experiences in which no psychedelics were involved. I would like to see the production of food become somewhat more local (of course not all crops can be grown anywhere, at least right now it does not seem feasible) and I would like to see more young people and more old people activated in these endeavors, instead of being locked up in the school ("prisons") and elderly homes ("prisons"). I envision local communities setting up for example a web-site of work that can be done, and people signing up for the tasks freely. It does not need to be paid work, but could of course include that if for example some extra-ordinary knowledge is required. The thing is, now we more an more can learn precisely what we need via the internet. Eventually we might grow out of the need for material sustenance, but come that day when it may.

Just want to point out that there is no "true" view of the Earth revolving around the sun, it depends on where you set your fix-point and orientation in space. One can easily set up the case where the Sun does revolve around the Earth.