Dimensionally Barrett

You are here. Image Credit:  NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The end of one revolution around the sun is pretty much done and we are on our way on another. The days will lengthen until the summer solstice and then begin their reduction, yet all remains in balance. The planet will continue to spin for a few billion years more, by which point, one assumes, we – humanity, that is – will be long gone. I spend and have spent, a lot of time looking at long temporal eras. I’ve been immersed in a number of cosmologies – principally Buddhist, Daoist, and Hindu – and have an amateur’s grasp of geologic and cosmic time from physics and astronomy. Existence, felt human existence as I’ve experienced it, seems to take place on multiple planes of time. The brain gets quiet in the face of dizzying time scales. I can somewhat grasp what a hundred years feels like. I’m closer to that number than I have ever been and a century no longer seems so long. I remember the Beatles o...

Over the past week, Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the case for Myanmar against charges of genocide   to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague. The formal charges were brought by Gambia and this has pushed forward the stark contrast of Aung San Suu Kyi as a former representative of the oppressed as a mouthpiece for a nationalist regime. On its surface, it’s easy and heart-breaking to support the narrative but digging a bit below the surface, there are other counter-narratives. I’d like to drill down into some of the facets of these narratives. I had shared a post to an article at Myanmarmix.com that garnered a response from a Burmese friend of mine. I suggest reading that article before continuing on and also reading the article to which my friend linked here . I’ll add links at the end of this post, as well. My friend writes: “[T]he above tagged article [ Political Correctness and the Genocide Case Against Myanmar ] is one i love to read about ...