How Baby Boomers Ruined TIME-USE and impact on Millennials

David M. Boje Nov 9 2015

QUESTIONS Class 12 Nov 9th

1. Compare the generations on how they (Baby boomers, Millennials) have shown interest or total disregard in social-ecological behaviors and practices for the next generations?

2. What is the climax ecosystem and how can your generation create sustainable practices of consumption, production, permaculture?

per·ma·cul·ture – DEFINED- the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient.

Boomers did not have time horizon to 7th generation

Boomers focused on over-production & over-consumption

Boomers’ time-practices had a destructive impact on ecology

Time and Sustainability by Rau & Edmondson

What is time?THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF TIME

1. Clock time

2. Work and Leisure and Consumption time-use

3. Short-term and Long-term time horizons of different generations

4. Discretionary Time we have each day

5. Time that is less Resource-Intensive – e.g. leave car home, bike and walk more

I am an ethnographerI study time habits and how to downshift the

over-consumption & over-production of my generation

I study how our TECHNOLOGIES remove us from the NATURAL WORLD, make us live in VIRTUAL WORLDS

What are they doing?

Who are Millennials

What to do?1. Schedule more sustainability development

actions among Millennials.

2. Clean up the low value-added & wasteful actions of Baby Boomer generation

3. Get better organized, live more simply, smaller footprint on planet

4. Knowing how to live sustainably beomces a TIME PROCESS, not an instant remedy

TIME to change how Baby Boomers are using up life resources of Millennials

EXPAND Greening Time

EXPAND Simple Lving Sytles

EXPAND fore-hav-ing, fore-sight,

fore-structuring, fore-concepts,

fore-CARING for Green

SHRINK Boomers’

Waste, Use-less over- Consumption

Manage TIME for

Sustainability

4 causalities

Baby boomers are the efficient cause of material conditions of sustainability because their formal view and final cause pragmatics are way off the sustainability mark

Boje's BLACKSMITH ONTOLOGY YouTube

Blacksmith and the four-fold causes

A blacksmith considers )logos) and gathers (versammelt) as the efficient cause (doing the hammering of the metal with tool: hammer). The material cause (the iron that already contains the shape/form of the house shoe). The blacksmith hammers and forges the horseshoe form (formal cause). But the final cause is the whole use of it in equine work.

Blacksmith way of being indebted to the four-fold causesway of being indebted (überlegt sich und versammelt die

drei genannten Weisen des Verschuldens).

In quantum storytelling, the efficient cause (blacksmith) is NOT outside the material cause (the substance iron).

The blacksmith is co-complicit, has co-liability with material, form, and final (pirpose).

“The learning of being with material as in smithing, watching for the impurities in coal, the color of the flame indicating requisite heat, knowing what forms such a heat might afford rather than simply always getting the heat to a right temperature” – Robin & Matthew to David Boje

Blacksmith PragmatistThe blacksmith is already enmeshed in

apprenticeship, amid things ready-to-hand Being-in-the-world

It is not that smith and iron are present-at-hand. “But nature must not be understood here as what is merely objectively present, nor as the power of nature” (Heidegger, # 70).

BlacksmithBlacksmith is active, letting form and material

emerge, standing, pulling story out of the ‘fire.’

Not just making iron things, but held in technology’s sway, its mode of revealing

I gather all four causes and bring thim into sway

Blacksmith bringing-forthbringing forth (Her-vor-bringen; poiesis) of the

horseshoe; a presencing of what has always been there as the form, material, effect – and not as something the blacksmith as a creator effects

The horseshoe is not present, the blacksmith brings-forth something that is ABSENT by allowing and nurturing the possibilities in wider systemic interwaving and interrelations

I bring the forge, anivl, hammer, tongs, tinto realtion, along with the water, and by practice I measure the ehat by the color of the iron

Bringing something aboutThere is health and safety in brining something

about, the fumes of the coal fire, the heat of the fire and iron, thewider effects of the balcmskithing, in our motality as the technological intensification gets stronger, in the power hammers, challenging forth more speed, more efficenty, but using more energy

These are revealing moments for bringing-forth, the wider place and time of horseshoes for horses, for transport, for war (colonizing) in the days of Don Onate in New Mexico, then the use of iron to make shackles of slavery

Baby boomers came of age in an era of unprecedented prosperity. They were raised by parents who had survived poverty, war and the true sacrifice of a generation burdened with great moral struggles.

The perfect example of this was the 2008 collapse of the toxic housing debt market. In government, baby boomers ballooned the defense budget beyond the point of reason. They then raided government programs to pay for their mistakes. Regarding the environment, baby boomers left the United States reliant on coal (cough, cough) while eroding the advanced nuclear energy infrastructure built by their parents.

The millennials may take lots of selfies and tweet about the mundane, but it is those same people who are facing unprecedented challenges now and will continue to face them in the future.

Today, young adults are faced with a job market that is hyper-saturated by graduate level degrees and short on decent paying jobs.

Struggling millennials are not buying homes or cars, and are putting off marriage and children far longer than their predecessors. Additionally, lower incomes at the beginning of a career dramatically affect the overall earning potential of an individual. Millennials can therefore look forward to far less success than their parents.

RESTORATION OF LIFE ON EARTH chap 16

create a new land based food-growing culture that aids the earth

QUESTION: "How do we live in balance with Nature?"

What is CLIMAX ECOSYSTEM?

What this means is, that it takes energy to fight life which is making an effort to rebalance itself. To do this requires fertilizers, poisons, petroleum, steel mills, agricultural universities, polluted waters, dead seas and on and on. 

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Our System of Baby Boomers

A system whose purpose is to extort surpluses from the soil requires a fight against nature, usually in the form of mono-cropping, and that all important pattern of empire- simplification and control

What to doIntensive Gardening, Simple living

A scaling down, downshifting of our consumption and production habits and practices

Paul Hawken, at FINDHORN

“Everything here is produced by the 'law of manifestation' which is the tenet that if you are following that voice within you which is the higher consciousness common to all men, then you are 'in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing' and all of your needs will be met. Your needs- not your desires. The faith that they feel is like a rock-it is immovable”.

Pulling it all togetherHow to live in harmony and balance with Nature

How to life with less so we have more time to tend to Nature