Dae Jang Geum in non-Korean blog; yay!

[ginnycat5]

I was completely surprised to see Dae Jang Geum referenced in a comment on a blog entry (about how recent women's progress has been very dependent on abundant fossil fuels). The blog author/owner is a mother/writer/farmer/activist who is a scientist by training and has been taking in foster children as well as raising her own 4 young sons while running a seedling and produce business. (whew!!!)

snippet from:
Adam Eran
January 16, 2013

Tying sex / gender issues to energy makes some sense. Despite Dae Jang Geum, humanity would likely not have had the wherewithal to produce consistently safe C-sections and modern contraceptives without the leisure and science that followed our industrializing of stored solar energy.....

scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2013/01/16/why-sex/

Maybe people will look her up?

Astyk's blog is thought-provoking, too. All our labor-saving appliances, transportation, and health-care equipment depend on fossil fuels. And our winter heating.....(we haven't even reached 5 degrees today). Okay, am putting my head back in the sand, fingers in ears, until some time later....

[TheBo]

Hmmm. Sounds a little strained and convoluted to me. I'm talking about Adam. But I always hate people who (mis)use "factoid." Dummies.

As for our gender's miraculous emancipation through cheap energy, yeah, So? What is her point? Is she saying we shouldn't seek cheaper means of using solar and other responsible energy sources? The oil was good enuf for me mum it's good enuf for me? Or is there some other message I cannot extract from all this pompous verbosity?

Do I sound cranky? I think I sound cranky.

Bo

[TheBo]

I was too cranky, wasn't I. Sorry Ginny. I wasn't being cranky at you.

Bo

[ginnycat5]

Hi, Bo! I think she's saying that the cheap easy-to-get energy is getting exhausted, and we'd better think of substitute ways of living because we will not be able to go on in the manner to which we've been accustomed. That's why I wanted to put my fingers in my ears, etc. I don't want to think about it sometimes. Or most times. Even though I think it's the truth.

So, I don't know why I keep reading apocalypse-type science fiction. Probably the same reason people go to horror movies, for the thrill. I just finished one, Supervolcano, by Harry Turtledove. Pretty good. One I liked better is his In the Balance:

After arriving in the Earth's solar system, the Conquest Fleet's essential personnel are awakened from cold sleep after a twenty-year journey originating from Tau Ceti II. Fleetlord Atvar is busy making final preparations for the invasion of Earth, expecting a rapid victory over the primitive beings that populate the planet. He is interrupted by a communications officer who reports that radio emissions are emanating from Earth. Atvar refuses to believe the report since the most recent intelligence, gathered from a probe that visited Earth in the 12th century, indicates that the inhabitants are a pre-industrial species.

The Conquest Fleet reaches Earth orbit in December 1941 and begins surveying the planet. They are shocked to find that in the course of only 800 years the inhabitants have moved from a primitive agricultural society to an industrial civilization. The Race's technology has hardly changed in more than 50,000 years and other known intelligent species are similarly slow to evolve..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwar:_In_the_Balance

When the aliens reconnoitered Earth, they saw men on horseback, with spears. They came back to conquer us, with their colonists not far behind, but we aren't the pushover they expected. Hah! Lots of fun, with [real] history woven in.

[TheBo]

LOL. Sounds like a hoot.

[ginnycat5]

It is a hoot, i. e., when the focus is on the invaders' male-female relations, when the females go into heat, and there's a lot of disruption in their normally well-run government offices. ;D Also, it turns out that our dried ginger is addictive for the aliens......