Two documentaries it`s NOT wise to miss out on

Yes, my beloved and loyal blog followers (as I am sure there are many of you out there, listening to this voice of mine that thus does not resound like an empty echo!) I know I have kept you waiting for such a loooooooong time, post-less, seduced and abandoned by my enlightening, life-saving (if not giving) musings. BUT, fear no more...because your benefactor is back, and she has brought you (by the mercy of....herself...praises be unto her!) two documentary series you SHOULD NOT miss out on (at least, not those of you in the geek segment, which I`m sure you are plenty).

So, I bring you our old trusted friend and chosen practitioner for the SPP essay: James Burke (we`ll have a post on another project of his, Knowledge Web, soon). The Day the Universe Changed and After the Warming deal with Mr. Burke`s main theme (or obsession...but the good kind of obsession): how technology is influenced by changes (societal, climate) and how in turn, it triggers changes that act as feedback and here we are going round and round in an ever expanding circle of madness (but the good king of...hmm...).

What I would like to point out, is that in The Day the Universe Changed, although Burke seems to adopt one of postmodernity`s most ill-used concepts, i.e., that of no view of the world (whether mythical, religious or scientific) is better than the other, in that they are all equal and do the same, he does highlight in the concluding episode of the series the basic difference between them (one that is soooo often overlooked INTENTIONALLY ): if you admit that you are creating the universe according to the frame set you have developed any given time, and that it is a version of the truth you are presenting, and not a portion of a yet-to-be-discovered incontestable truth, sooner or later you will come across the holes in your cheddar...I mean, your Weltanschauung. And when the plot thickens, you can either change the storyline (as has been the case with science) or you put some cotton balls in your ear and hope it will go away. Now, whether one or another of these methods is more beneficial to man, it is in itself a long and heated debate...point is, the difference between these views had to be highlighted, so kudos for James!