Moral Economy Project Symposium and Outreach

I said in a recent writing of mine that I had adopted a statement: "shut up....do" That I'm not completely comfortable with.  The reason is because while some are gifted at the activity of talking ahead of their head, more cerebral sorts are easily stifled by the overwhelming noise inside their head in response to what's going on outside.  The net result of the talker and the thinker is pretty much the same in the end and the difference between noisy expulsions and eat/digest is negligible, both winding up in elimination on one end or the other.  And "do" doesn't quite accomplish much as a mindless, speechless thing either.  All things in moderation; perhaps.  Independently, activities as such possesses about as much sense as salting the sea to add more flavor.  The disparity between existence and existing, however marked, is also fraught with a  surprising network of relationships and correlates that make the numerable topics one might choose to stew or speak on at minimum challenging. It seems useful, given a context of collective tooling that includes humanity and nature (human nature and nature nature) to generate communication that runs by a certain set of rules (the "r" word) - something our ancestors were able to do prior to the moment language entered into the picture.  I wasn't there but can imagine that to the sensibilities of modern man (whatever "modern man" is called now by Anthropologists or first world marketing experts) bludgeoning another organism posing a threat to him/her with a big stick may be appalling but I tend to think that if we don't get back to the organization of nature without trying to organize her, we may find ourselves sentenced by her capable, less than preferred, swift, ambiguous judgment - competent, unbiased Jury not required, thank you.  I want to know as I figure out how to think, speak and do; what would nature do? (WWND - bracelets available by calling...)  It seems reasonable to adopt a personal stratagem among civilized society's preconditions where innovation is driven by the notion that clever humans evolve alongside clever nature. I think it possible to move thoughtfully, even innovatively and delicately in a way that can boast of organic dimensions in which innovation reflects an evolutionary process that honors life in equal measure to death.  The imbalance caused by fear of death by we humans is untennable to nature.  Maybe if we stopped to watch her graceful, effortless stride in irresistible directions, there would be an ease about both ends of life, self possessed as it is with all the privileged happenstance between start and finish...or end and end, as the case may be.