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The Purpose of A Drop of Rain
Rather than just read the news stories every day, it seems like it might be useful to expand on the context that surrounds the stories that are starting to flood the internet and print media. There’s a lot of background information behind pretty much every major story that’s unfolding day by day, and it’s not always easy to keep up.
Not everyone has time to dig their way out of the morass created by a virtually non-stop stream of corporate produced spin and misinformation, and far too many people are falling for blatant internet myths and cynically generated ‘research’ whose primary aim is to derail attempts by humanity to stop the process facing us before it’s too late.
This corporate backed misinformation material is produced for one and only one reason: the companies that promote it realize that it will cost them profits to adapt to new situations like climate change etc, so they cynically decide that if they can keep you confused and unsure, they can get away with their lunacy for a few more years.
This blog will try, as much as possible, to avoid corporate generated doubt and misinformation. Will it succeed? We’ll do our best, and will look for what seem to be the best sources available as often as practical.
Where does the name A Drop of Rain come from? It did not come from this Saudi Aramco source. But the idea might not be that different:
For, as the Arab proverb says,
“The beginning of rain is but a single drop.”
About the Site
The header image is a nice shot from deep inside the California Big Sur Ventana wilderness, from Ventana Double Cone, about 5000 ft. That is an actual view from a peak, in other words.
A Drop of Rain is built with, and runs on, Free Software. The site is developed in Debian / Linux, and is served by Apache / FreeBSD.
Free software is software that gives you the user the freedom to share, study and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free.
To use free software is to make a political and ethical choice asserting the right to learn, and share what we learn with others. Free software has become the foundation of a learning society where we share our knowledge in a way that others can build upon and enjoy.
It’s about time for people to start understanding that we are not separate from nature or each other, no matter how much we want to delude ourselves into believing such nonsense. If you’re not willing to do what it takes to change things, in your daily life, don’t bother asking anyone else to do it either.