Doreen Michele

My interest is in community development work or fostering civilization and I never know how to explain that in a nutshell. An ancient Greek once said something like "Man is a product of the polis." Polis is the Greek city-state and I don't think there's an equivalent English word. The statement gets translated variously as "Man is a political animal." or "Man is a social creature." Polis wasn't just the legal and political structure of a particular form of government. It was also the social fabric of their society.  In a word it was the community.  Humans are a group animal and some are more social than others but even those who don't much socialize depend heavily on the works and products of other people to have a civil lifestyle.  Few people live completely alone while raising  or hunting all their own food, making all their own clothes, etc. Even hermits typically live in a house built by many workers and eat food grown by someone else a...

Traditional Chinese soap https://youtu.be/O-9CuiaxLGQ?si=pXCEadUy6aLYQXzp Coconut  https://youtube.com/shorts/ilcmMWvFRi8?si=GCufITjjnDqFudBE Tallow soap https://youtu.be/lI_YjQYw0G4?si=2QCqXPT__6Hh6N_c Ancient soap making. 5 minutes. I've watched half https://youtu.be/UobWYWSxV_8?si=HZ8FypmXadNQp-0o Turning olive oil into soap https://youtube.com/shorts/xQE9spcfoQM?si=2oC16QT--MvJ8UHQ

What is a weir https://youtu.be/YkR79oDAgOg?si=ujfFajXaKXhu9Iwk Ancient city that mastered water https://youtu.be/xLaLpMeOyHk?si=xj6-m_Qifj9BGUtN Curved gabion lid https://youtube.com/shorts/Oor6yPjP6Ig?si=FA28ZD655Cwk7ik4 Ancient pump https://youtu.be/7OHCOFFUamQ?si=LJ2M8D96gXjyK_5x Primitive water filter https://youtu.be/nSBwJNDDUfc?si=i4_LzlK45mMmcaYD When do we have enough swales? https://youtu.be/B7nPkWBZVyA?si=yPayhYRXdM4jY6Ze Construction de gaviones https://youtu.be/WRSPrtNiiDE?si=Xcrt0XLFl_EnOeR- Weirs https://youtu.be/SibnBH4Htjo?si=KRcfEJVI-OyKTp5O Construct your own gabion basket 45 second clip https://youtu.be/UWGbJn7vYzk?si=AvDAuhdRb4p8yVLR Gabion Pillar https://youtu.be/IzzW9jNCgVE?si=L8YOT1qAZWqekAFV How Romans Made Water Run Uphill  https://youtube.com/shorts/858RhPi14FU?si=4rixns9LgOs35Ktj Survival water filter  https://youtube.com/shorts/MQWosAbsxLc?si=x-Mfb-Gcqng5zsmh Gabion steps https://youtu.be/B-THMEXWBiI?si=ceQgBjgTio_6yvN0 River Training  https:/...

No wheels, no kiln Making primitive pottery in the city How to center clay Almost anywhere kiln How to make clay at home

I like running my big fat mouth via keyboard and internet. I like sharing what I know in hopes it improves things for someone and I'm very socially observant. I've spent a lot of years trying to find ways to mitigate problems like: 1. People feeling like I'm dictating answers to them rather than just trying to add information to their decision-making process.  2. In online forums, people squeeing at me like I'm a celebrity, thereby sucking the life out of the conversation and promoting drama. 3. People lining up in two groups as either strongly FOR my "position" or strongly AGAINST it! I would rather we all tell our story to create a database of experiences so the person asking the question has options.  4. Trying to account for the internet having a highly diverse audience, so no matter what I say, some people are likely to misinterpret something. I work very hard at including provisos, warnings, links to background information and other safety things. I like...

The existence of trans people speaks directly to the defects in heternormative culture. I am trying to: 1. DESTROY heternormative culture.  2. Install something less dysfunctional in its place.  The site Formulary of Life exists at all as a power play political move to say FUCK YOU DONALD TRUMP.   Donald Trump is openly transphobic, homophobic, racist, hates Native Americans, has a wife more than twenty years younger than him and in a nutshell represents everything wrong with heternormative culture which actively promotes subsistence culture  and actively turns sex into a negative experience we should fear and loathe. Heternormative culture is a paradigm that insists that there's one and only one correct lifestyle: A nuclear family with a breadwinner father, homemaker mother and dependent minor children. This encourages old farts like him to marry much younger women under circumstances that make it a negative experience for everyone involved resulting in Ameri...

Trump has said that no further attacks on Venezuela are imminent but that they may become necessary if the country’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, does not acquiesce to U.S. demands for access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. France has nuclear power because it's the only way to secure adequate energy, a national security issue, without being someone's bitch.  The US isn't that savvy and has decided to be the schoolyard bully taking your lunch money because we can't adequately manage our affairs in a civilized, competent fashion.