After BBC TVs Panorama showed how The Base expanded its network to Europe, Hatewatch can reveal that it also had success in expanding to a society whose settler history parallels the U.S.: Australia. Recorded vetting interviews, application documents, social media posts and The Bases own internal chats show that the network, led by Rinaldo Nazzaro (who operated online under the pseudonyms Norman Spear and Roman Wolf), had some success in exporting both itsideology and organizing model to Europe and settler cultures such as Australia.

The materials show that the group made significant inroads into parts of Australias far right, and in particular the Lads Society, a white nationalist group that once invited Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019, to be a member.

They also show how local Australian far-right activists acted as virtual franchisees for The Base, finding fresh recruits in the ranks of the Lads Society, a local white nationalist network, and also vetting a man who had previously run for election to Australias parliament as a member of a right-wing populist party.

In late 2017, under the alias Norman Spear, Rinaldo Nazzaro began promoting an idea with a long history among white supremacists: that the Pacific Northwest could secede from the United States to create a white ethnostate.

The proposal had previously been associated with white supremacist Harold Covingtonand his Northwest Front organization. Before him, another influential advocate was Christian Identity preacher and Aryan Nations founder Richard Girnt Butler, who until 2000 occupied a compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho. Butler was associated so closely with the idea of a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest that it is sometimes known as the Butler Plan.

Covington, who died in 2018, had a long historyin the organized white power movement. By the time of his death, however, his Northwest Front organization was largely inactive, and Covingtons main activity in the movement was writing propagandistic speculative fiction, some of which touched on race war and the establishment of an ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest.

In his 2007 novel The Brigade, Covington set out a scenario in which a guerrilla group, the Northwest Volunteer Army, is carrying out insurgent warfare against the administration of President Hillary Clinton, who has commenced a plan of white genocide. In the novel, the Northwest Volunteer Armys motto is Ex Gladio Libertas, Latin for Freedom comes from the sword, which The Base used as its own mottoin online recruiting materials.

In podcasts and social media posts at that time, Norman Spear praised Covington and the Butler Plan. He did so in an episode of Lone Wolf Radio, a podcast hosted by British white nationalist Chris White, in December 2017. White introduced Nazzaro as a Northwest Front activist and northwest migrant.

Also in late 2017, Spear released a series of videos spelling out a theory of revolutionary struggle with the stated aim of coercing the system and making it capitulate to political demands. Topics included lone wolf operations, leaderless resistance and guerrilla warfare. He advocated for guerrilla struggle wherein lone wolves would carry out acts of violence as a form of propaganda of the deed, and an above-ground leadership would negotiate with the system to achieve its military goals.

The argument was for acts of terrorism, which would bring about a condition of siege as the state imposed unsustainable condition of martial law, at which time it would negotiate with guerrilla leaders. Victory isn't inherently dependent on physically defeating the enemy, Spear said in the video. Guerrillas win if they dont lose, and the central aim was to carve off sovereign territory from the state.

Spear thus synthesized the Butler Plan with some of the ideas for destabilizing and defeating liberal democracy put forth by the neo-Nazi who had the most influence on the accelerationist movement, James Mason.

Nazzaro began advertising The Base in July 2018 and trying to recruit members. He was also active in the Read SIEGE group on white power-friendly alt-tech platform, Gab. The group was dedicated to promoting the work and ideas of neo-Nazi author Mason, who advocated terrorism as a means to creating a white ethnostate. In December 2018, through a Delaware LLC called Base Global, Nazzaro boughtthree 10-acre blocks of undeveloped land in remote Ferry County, Washington, but maintained his principal residence in Russia.

Spear also posted messagesfrom imprisoned members of the accelerationist neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division(AWD), one of the groups that sought to put Masons ideas into practice.

In fall 2018, early recruiting material for The Base stopped short of explicitly advocating for terrorism. Sources who spoke online and in person with Nazzaro, however, say Nazzaro told The Bases inner circle that in truth, The Base was an accelerationist project: Its real purpose was to hasten the collapse of American liberal democracy into civil war, and bring about a white ethnostate in at least part of its current national territory. In encrypted chats, members discussed the methods and efficacy of tactics such as sabotaging infrastructure and the finer points of guerrilla warfare.

In most of the recorded vetting interviews obtained by SPLC, standard questions for potential recruits included whether they considered themselves national socialists; whether or not they had read SIEGE, the compilation of Masons newsletters that became the central text of the accelerationist movement; and whether they believed a political solution could remedy the perceived genocide of white people.

The ideal recruit would answer, respectively, yes, yes and no.

The final question, on the feasibility of political solutions to so-called white genocide, marks a defining characteristic of The Base, and the accelerationist ideology to which it adhered.

The false belief that a conspiracy exists to carry out white genocide, or to effect a great replacement of white Americans through mass immigration, is widely prevalent across the racist far right, from outright neo-Nazis, to so-called identitarian groups, to influential Republican officials. Many white nationalists hold, again falsely, that this genocide or replacement has been orchestrated by Jews.

As Hatewatchs primer on accelerationismdetails, this belief has allowed white power movements to portray their own violence as a matter of racial self-defense. White power movements are necessarily violent because their various political projects, such as the creation of a white ethnostate, cannot be achieved without violence. But before accelerationism gained momentum, many groups and individuals sought to downplay or obfuscate this violence.

In 2016 and 2017, some did this successfully enough to reach the threshold of mainstream politics.

During and immediately after Donald Trumps successful run for president in 2016, many so-called alt-right groups which included white nationalists with such conspiracy-minded racist beliefs felt emboldened by the victory of a politician who they considered to share at least some of their values, and who they felt they had played a part in electing.

Some were enthused enough to promote their beliefs more openly, using tactics associated with mainstream forms of political advocacy in liberal democracies. Throughout 2016 and 2017, groups such as Identity Evropa(now called the American Identity Movement) openly participated in rallies, street protests, campus recruitment and publicity campaigns. Many had platforms on mainstream social media services.

Others decided that the political solution was a false promise. Some of them came to believe that pluralist, multiracial democracy was headed for inevitable collapse, and that they should help it on its way by joining one of the burgeoning neo-Nazi accelerationist groups.

Atomwaffen Division was the template for accelerationist neo-Nazism. Following the ideas of Mason, whom they adopted as a kind of spiritual patriarch, Atomwaffen advocated terroristic violence as a political tool. Having abandoned electoral politics and the mainstream political process as futile, optics were of little concern.

Just as accelerationism was gaining influence, Nazzaro appeared on social media in the guise of Norman Spear.

Before The Base was formed, Nazzaro raised his profile in far-right spaces online by claiming he had served in the military and had experience with intelligence work. While The Base was operating, Nazzaro reiterated its emphasis on action. He demanded that members engage in training and meet-ups, and that potential recruits detail any skills that they could bring to the group or teach other members.

This practical orientation, his embrace of ideas important to survivalist and apocalyptic prepper movements, the openness of the network to members of other organizations, and his adoption of Covingtons project of a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest made Nazzaros offering distinct from Atomwaffen Division and other emerging accelerationist outfits.

The Base struggled early on after leaks from its chats on an app called Riot were exposed by an antifascist group operating in the Pacific Northwest. The group gradually reestablished protocols for internal communication and vetting for new members using the encrypted messaging platform, Wire.

Its brand though drawing heavily on U.S.-specific white supremacist movements proved highly exportable to white power individuals and groups around the world.

The Base eventually recruited members in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Australia.

Eventually, some members of the group began acting on the hate The Base fostered. Former members in New Jerseyand Wisconsin stand accused of conspiring to vandalize synagogues, the Georgia cell with plotting an assassination. Charging documents for the cell based in Delaware and Maryland allege that the men discussed firing at random into a pro-gun rally in Virginia last January.

Nazzaros claim that the group had no formal member list, and even no formal existence, allowed a tolerance for double-patching or dual membership in another white supremacist group. The Base was designed as an umbrella that could draw in people who had been radicalized in other groups, like Atomwaffen Division.

Richard Tobin, 18, one of those arrested in relation to the desecration of synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin, was a member of both neo-Nazi accelerationist groups.

Late in the groups active history, it began recruiting in a country whose history of indigenous dispossession, white supremacy and xenophobic politics is on a parallel track with the U.S.

In late October 2019, members of The Bases vetting committee received a bundle of identically formatted PDF documents from five Australian men.

A sixth, who operated under the alias Volkskrieger within The Base and elsewhere online, appointed as Australian recruiter for the group in 2019, had acted as a virtual local franchisee in bringing these recruits forward for the group.

The group had had several Australian applicants and had accepted some as members. But until late 2019, according to audio recordings, none had been as dedicated as Volkskrieger, who according to open source materials and internal communications obtained by the SPLC, lives in the vicinity of Perth, Western Australia.

After Spear and other Base members were banned from Gab after mid-2019, Volkskrieger was one of the few left to carry the groups banner. On Gab, in May 2019, he posted Western Australia-specific advertising for the group, advising potential recruits to contact the groups main email address.

In June, he posted photographs showing that design being used in a poster run in Perths Hyde Park. At this time, as revealed in a voice chat with The Bases leadership recorded on Oct. 20, 2019, he was the only standing Australian member of the group.

A post showing promotional materials for The Base.

Apart from poster runs, Volkskrieger claimed to have used more active methods, and his existing network of white supremacists in Australia, to find recruits.

In chats on the encrypted messaging application, Wire, Volkskrieger claimed on May 28, 2019, that he was meeting some West Aussie NatSoc [National Socialist] group today, if all goes well I might be able to send some guys our way.

Volkskrieger discussed recruiting efforts in this May 2019 post.

Eventually, this dedication to the cause was rewarded. In the October voice chat, Nazzaro, other senior leaders, and Volkskrieger discussed his new role as The Bases lead Australian recruiter.

In that conversation, Nazzaro told Volkskrieger, Youve been really solid for us,"specifying that Youve postered, youve produced some content for us, youve postered on Gab.

Nazzaro expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made in Australia up until that point, saying, Weve had 7 Australians come and go, and Weve probably had a dozen apply, adding, We think there is potential there, and We need someone to lead the charge.

Later in the call, Volkskrieger mentions collaborating on a promo image for an Australian Base cell with with Matthias, a California-based admin of an accelerationist website, FascistForge.

He also said that at that time, there were new Australian members in FascistForge who might be recruited for The Base.

In the call, the men agreed to establish a separate email account for the Australian cell, and Nazzaro and others coached Volkskrieger on methods of email vetting.

Within two months, Volkskrieger presented the group with five applicants who were ready for vetting calls, along with his own commentary on the quality of the recruits and their pathways into neo-Nazi accelerationism.

The applications and vetting interviews reviewed by Hatewatch showed that the men who applied for Base membership came from other white nationalist groups, after growing dissatisfied with those groups unwillingness to embrace more extreme tactics.

In the May voice call, Volkskrieger describes his involvement in a series of groups on Australias fractious far right.

He explains that he needs to conceal his Base membership from his comrades in the Society of Western Australian Nationalists (SWAN), which does not allow dual patching.

SWAN is a regional breakaway from the Lads Society, a national network of white nationalists founded in 2017 by prominent local far right activists previously associated with the anti-Muslim United Patriots Front, including Blair Cottrell, Neil Erikson and Thomas Sewell.

They were soon joined by other local extremists including Jacob Hersant, who was previously a core memberof local neo-Nazi accelerationist group, Antipodean Resistance.

Like Atomwaffen Division, Antipodean Resistance was formed by membersof the IronMarch forum, which helped shaped the development of accelerationist ideology and aesthetics.

Between Volkskrieger and the five applicants he brought to The Base, four claimed some involvement in Lads Society or SWAN, including one who claimed to be the Queensland chapter leader. Of the remaining two, one came to group via FascistForge, and another heard about the group on the Goy Talk website, one of a number of online hubs for the alt-right.

Lads Society has conducted a range of activities both public and private aimed at building a cadre of white nationalist activists and injecting their talking points into mainstream Australian political debate.

Away from the public eye, the group has operated underground fight clubs and maintains clubhouses in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

In 2018, reporters revealedthe Lads Societys involvement in significant far-right infiltration of the youth branch of the conservative National Party.

But the group and especially Cottrell and Sewell, its figureheads have also sought the media limelight with rallies and stunts.

In 2019, the group staged an anti-Black, anti-Muslim proteston St. Kilda Beach, in the midst of a national moral panicabout the supposed activities of African gangs in the city of Melbourne.

Cottrells, Eriksons and Sewells previous organization, the United Patriots Front, was formed in 2014during anti-Muslim mosque protests in the Australian city of Bendigo.

In 2015, members of the group beheaded a dummy mocked up as a crude representation of an ISIS fighter, spilling fake blood on the ground outside Bendigos City Hall.

That stunt led to Cottrell, Erikson and another UPF member, Christopher Shortis, being convicted and fined for inciting contempt for Muslims.

After Tarrants March 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sewell admitted on Facebookthat he had contacted Tarrant about joining Lads Society at its formation in 2017. Responding to other members concerns that Tarrants attack may have been a false flag operation, Sewell said that Tarrant had in fact been on the scene for a while.

Other reportsshowed that Tarrant had been a devoted online follower of United Patriots Front, and Cottrell in particular. When Cottrell and Sewell livestreamed their ecstatic reaction to the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, Tarrant reportedly wrote a series of comments on the groups Facebook wall.

Knocked it out of the park tonight Blair, he wrote. "Your retorts had me smiling, nodding, cheering and often laughing.

He added, Never believed we would have a true leader of the nationalist movement in Australia, and especially not so early in the game.

Like Tarrant, many young men would be drawn into the orbit of Sewell and Cottrell, the Lads Society and other groups that overlapped with or broke away from the group.

Andy Fleming, an antifascist researcher who recently identifieda number of members of the group, estimated that the Lads Society has around 80 core members, with scores more in the groups orbit.

In one vetting interview obtained by Hatewatch, a panel of Base members, including Nazzaro, tested a recruit Hatewatch has identified as a former political candidate for the right-wing populist Pauline Hansons One Nation Party (PHON). Hatewatch determined this using internal materials from The Base, material on the public record and other materials provided by Australian antifascist group the White Rose Society,

His efforts to join The Base suggest that the barriers between anti-immigrant right-wing populist electoral parties and accelerationist terror networks are permeable, and that progress through the stages of radicalization can happen very quickly.

In the interview, a necessary step for new recruits, Dean Smith, under the aliases Will and WLL2PWER,described himself as a Western Australian member of PHON who had been a candidate for the party in 2019.

He said that he had signed up for a five-year membership in 2019, and that he was still a member at the time of his vetting interview with American members of The Base.

The interview took place more than a month after the first member of The Base was arrested. Richard Tobin, 18, of New Jersey, made international news after he was chargedon Nov. 19, 2019, with federal hate crimes for allegedly orchestrating the vandalism of synagogues hundreds of miles away, in the midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin.

This did not deter Smith from seeking access to the network. When he was asked about his political background, he replied that he had been a member of One Nation for almost a year now. I signed up with them in May when I was still believing in the political system.

Being around that sort of party structure and political structure in Australia, I sort of lost faith in the whole thing. And then I decided take more direct action, and then got pushed on to the Society of West Australian Nationalists (SWAN), he said.

His loss of faith in PHON, he said, was not just due to their slow progress. He told The Base interviewers, Theyre all race mixers and it turns my gut upside down.

But he added that (SWANs) progress is too slow on things like demographic change and how the political atmosphere is turning towards our race, referencing theGreat Replacement conspiracy theory, which holds that mass immigration is a deliberate effort to wipe out the white race.

Smith also described how between joining PHON and SWAN, he had run as a candidate.

So I was a member of One Nation maybe two months, three months prior (to joining SWAN). Because I actually ran for the last Federal Election in Australia as a candidate of One Nation.

He also describes how he became more and more extreme and passionate about my views and it was harder and harder to speak out about it for fear of losing my political career.

And I thought, well, I have to sell myself to the devil to have a career in politics, or I can leave my career in politics and live an authentic life. And I think that, you know, leaving politics behind is a much better option than going for it, he said.

In his written application, submitted prior to the interview, Smith described his ideology as NatSoc (National Socialism)ubermenschnihilism, a reference to the concept of the bermensch, or superman, derived from the work of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Though Nietzsches work has been drawn on by a diverse range of thinkers and political traditions, fascists from the 20th-century European interwar period on have made simplified and selective readings of Nietzsche, focusing on his antisemitism, his opposition to democracy and feminism, his anticipation of a superior human type, and his affinity for a warrior ethos to claim him as their own.

The commonalities between Smiths online, far-right persona and his comments as a candidate helped reveal his identity.

Prior to the leak of the interview, Smith had been identified as WLL2PWR by the White Rose Society, an Australian antifascist group. Their materials were provided exclusively to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The reference to the philosopher Nietzsche links Smiths username to his far-right YouTube channel and Twitter account, both of which are also run under the WLL2PWER moniker.

On the Twitter account, Smith has repeatedly expressed disgust at diversity initiatives in a local technical college.

Smiths social media accounts make frequent references to Nietzsche and Nietzschean philosophy. In Smiths candidate profilein the Albany Advertiser on May 10, 2019, he said he would like to meet Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, and Thomas Jefferson.

In his written application to The Base, Smith says he is in his early 20s, and has skills including welding experience, and heavy machinery.

In his interview, he says he is 23.

A profilewith The West Australian on May 12, 2019, said that Smith had entered the political contest only a few weeks ago, and that while politics is a new venture for him, he believes in his partys policies.

In media interviews and in his PHON candidate profileearlier in the year, Smith said he was 22 and he worked as a laborer.

Smith made other connections between his WLL2PWR persona and PHON in 2019.

On April 14, 2019, on his WLL2PWR YouTube channel, Smith interviewedfellow PHON WA candidate Tyler Walsh, and gave direct hints in the interview that he was an active PHON member in Western Australia.

At one point he asked Walsh, What inspired you to put your hand up being such a young man like myself to go out there and basically face the world?

Looking forward to a PHON function in the Perth area, Smith said, And weve got the meeting tomorrow dont we at Vic Park, is that right?

He also described the process of joining the party and his interactions with Sheila Mundy, another PHON candidate and influential Western Australian party member.

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Buddhist teachings offer more than an escape from the samsaric world.

Every so often, Tricycle features an article from Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist journal that was in print from 19842015 and now has a growing number of back issues archived at inquiringmind.com. To remember the noted translator and author Steven D. Goodman, who died earlier this month at the age of 75, we are reprinting an essay Goodman wrote about worldly attitudes in Buddhism. The article first appeared in the Fall 1997 Liberation & the Sacred issue as Rejection, Sublimation, Recognition: Attitudes Toward Worldly Life. Be sure to check out related articles in the archive, such as Goodmans reflections on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, his musings on crazy wisdom, and his take on the Vajrayana path. If you feel so inclined, consider making a donation to help Inquiring Mind continue adding articles to its archive!

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We are what we think,

having become what we thought.

Dhammapada

Our Legacy of Received Opinions

What can one do about worldly suffering? Many Buddhist writings speak of disgust for that which is worldly. In much Buddhist parlance, things having to do with the world (Sanskrit: loka) are to be guarded against, avoided, turned away from and finally transcended, so that one can abide in a transworldly state (lokottara), at peace (shanti), in bliss (sukha), free from suffering (samsara), the painful flame of yearning (trishna) having been extinguished (nirvana). From this perspective, the world is a place of perpetually out-of-control beings who, driven by desires gone wild, try to endure the ups and downs as best they can. In fact, the Buddhist name for this world of ours is realm of endurance (sahaloka). In Mexico City Blues (211th Chorus), Jack Kerouac, that Western student of Buddhism, sings samsaras sad song.

The wheel of the quivering meat

conception

Turns in the void expelling human beings,

Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,

All the endless conception of living

beings,

Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness

Poor! I wish I was free

of that slaving meat wheel

and safe in heaven dead

It would seem that there is only one spiritual response to this mode of existence: to get out of worldly entanglements and to leave samsara.

But is this the whole story? Is this what Buddhism essentially teaches us about the world? Why has so much emphasis been put on repulsion toward worldly life? Why does Kerouacs depiction seem to ring so true? I would suggest it is because we in the West carry, like a dormant attitudinal virus, the legacy of a medieval mindset, one accustomed to the Platonic denigration of the lower appetites and to the many Biblical passages that speak of our plight as of a few days, and full of trouble (Job 13:28, 14:1) and the world as a fleeting show of vanities (Ecclesiastes). Worldly life is seen as sinful and contemptible. This contemptus mundi is amply attested to in the writings of many a medieval cleric. Typical of the period is the lamentation of the monk Jean de Fcamp (d. 1078): Miserable life, decrepit life, impure life sullied by humors, exhausted by grief, dried by heat, swollen by meats, mortified by fasts, dissolved by pranks, consumed by sadness, distressed by worries, blunted by security, bloated by riches, cast down by poverty.

Our more recent humanist tradition, which sees the individual as the measure of all things, has not entirely eclipsed the view of life as a fearful enterprise laced with sin and guilt. The pervasive influence of this mindset as a dominant cultural legacy deserves more attention by Buddhist scholars and practitioners, for it is a bias we bring to both our study and our experience of the dharma. It is well documented in the work of the French social historian Jean Delumeau. (See his Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture 13th18th Centuries.) When we orient ourselves to Buddhist traditions, we bring the legacy with us. And that, I think, is why talk of disgust for the world and the yearning to get out seems so spiritually correct. We are unmindfully viewing the wide variety of Buddhist spiritual traditions through the lens of a Christian, European heritage.

Repulsion, however, isnt the whole story. In the vast treasury of Buddhist traditions, there are other legacies, other attitudes and ways of talking about worldly life and spiritual work. The Buddhist path involves finding a suitable approach, one that honors our temperament and our potential for change.

One presentation of this variety, popular in the Buddhist traditions that took root in the Himalayan regions, consists of three possible spiritual orientations. The world can be shunned, transformed, or experienced as perfect just as it is. Only the first approach regards worldly life and the drives that fuel it as lacking value. The attitude of renunciation attempts to avoid and reject all worldly tendencies. The second approach, the attitude of transformation, regards worldly drives as worthy of spiritual engagement. Here one is encouraged to transform the worldly realm, which is seen to be constituted of both intellectual attitudes and emotional habits.

Whether one rejects or attempts to transform the world and its appetites, both perspectives suggest that life entails struggle. In psychological terms, the spiritual struggle with the world involves what Freud and, before him, Nietzsche, termed the sublimation of habitual drives. Nietzsche spoke of different methods of struggle with the violence of a drive Thus: dodging the opportunities [for its satisfaction], implanting regularity in the drive, generating oversaturation and disgust with it, and bringing about its association with an agonizing thoughtlike that of disgrace, evil consequences, or insulted pridethen the dislocation of forces, and finally general [self-]weakening and exhaustionthose are the six methods. (From Nietzsches The Dawn of Day.)

From the Buddhist perspective, renunciation and transformation are seen not as contradictory but as befitting different orientations and circumstances. As such, both are deemed noble (arya), because they lead one away from the extremes of nihilistic despair and cynicism on the one hand and self-centered absolutism on the other.

Renunciate Awareness

If one takes the approach that worldly life is a realm to be shunned, then the path of renunciation is appropriate. One trains oneself to guard the doors of perception, scanning for the arising of unwholesome tendencies so as to avoid them and thereby diminish their karmic residue. One practices calm and mindful avoidance in order to lessen upset and to let the subtle and luminous natural indwelling features of our being stabilize and, in time, become dominant.

Transformative Awareness

Using those very same doors of perception, one can view the world and its ceaseless variety of circumstances as the fuel for transformation. On this path one trains to identify worldly entanglements and upsets so as to be able to select and apply a suitable antidote (pratipatti). Through a kind of spiritual homeopathy, constricted emotional entanglement is released. This is done by dissolving egoic fixations in the universally beneficent solvents of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. One finds ways to wake up to the sufferings of the world and embrace them, never rejecting any aspect of daily life as if it were outside the project of spirit. All of creation is seen as the sacred ground for spiritual effort. This path is fed by the energetic stream that flows from the source of ones indwelling wakefulness, or buddhanature. The ever-widening stream of wakefulness overflows the limitations of egothe holding patterns (atma-graha) that reify and hence alienate our intrinsically abiding spirit of going beyond (paramita) those limitations. Our capacity to meet and dissolve habits is awakened and sustained by applying active capacities to go beyondgenerosity, ethical conduct, patient endurance, diligence, contemplative cultivation and discerning wisdom. Ultimately, every being and every problem is experienced as insubstantialpart of a magical display created by the mind and sustained by the power of karmic habits. As the Indian Buddhist philosopher Chandrakirti puts it: The mind itself creates living beings, and the great variety of worlds where they live. It is also taught that all forms of life are produced from karma; but without the mind, there would be no karma. (From his Madhyamakavatara.)

The world, then, is experienced as either an impure realm of entanglement dominated by habitual and limited mind patterns or as a pure realm of bliss sustained by unlimited wakefulness. But when reified confusion is released into clarity through the transformative power of the wakeful mind, nirvana and samsara are not experienced as separate states.

One who trains in going beyond all frustrating limits is sustained in the work by the blessings of our own discerning wisdom (prajna), which is seen as flawless (amala) and luminous (prabhasvara). The name reserved for one who has completely awakened such wisdom is Buddha. Buddha is a powerfully sustaining presence that is responsive to the needs of beings who suffer. Buddhas serve as sources of refuge and objects of prayerful supplication. They are said to abide in and support every pure realm. Those who cultivate an attitude of transformation may invite the spiritual presence of these Buddhas into their daily lives. Remembrance of the Buddha (Buddhanusmrti), is an antidote to spiritual despair; mindful faith in our spiritual capacity valorizes worldly micro hassles via acts of remembrance. Not unlike those who repeat the Jesus Prayer, Buddhists who enter the path of transformation find that they are sustained by subtle mindful mnemonics.

Directly Liberating Awareness

The third noble attitude toward worldly life is radically different from those of rejection and transformation. It is one of direct liberation. Here the world and ones place in it are directly recognized as free, unlimited and unconstrained just as they are. Every mode of experience, every situation is freeing. Whatever arises is recognized as it arises and in that recognition is freed. There is nothing to reject and nothing to accept. Things just happenbeyond every scheme for improvement, beyond yearning and hope for betterment. When experienced like this, all occasions are delightful, the cause of merriment and laughter. The Buddha Shakyamuni was known as the one who laughs and the fourteenth-century Buddhist savant Longchenpa reminded us, When we see the world as it really is, then we will laugh out loud. This is the naturally abiding manner of Buddhas: spiritual energy enjoying itself and communicating everywhere with laughter. It is the mystic mode, reserved for those rare gifted souls who live in the world free from all compulsion to transcend it, who have realized the truth of freedom in the ordinary. They are sustained by a continuum of spiritual awareness, for like the saints and mystics of every tradition, they exhibit unshakable confidence in the pure unbounded ecstasy and delight of living. This way of living dissolves every tendency to go astray into distorted modes of perception and response; it is beyond limitations based on clinging and aversion. Yet this is not a transcendent stance. It is the direct recognition of how things naturally abide as Buddha energy inand asthis present moment, which is open, effulgent and continuous.

This brief survey of Buddhist attitudes toward the world and transworldly yearning is an attempt to convey a sense of the range of approaches reflected in the traditions. I would suggest that each of these approaches can be found within every living Buddhist tradition when dogma yields to direct experience. As such, no approach is higher or lower; each perfectly fits a certain temperament and capacity. Perhaps the greatest challenge is to discover as best as one can the noble approach for which one is best suited and to honor and accept the wide diversity of other approaches to the dilemma of human existence.

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Sensitech, Inc., NXP Semiconductors NV, Rotronic, ORBCOMM, Nietzsche Enterprise, Testo, Haier Biomedical, Emerson, ELPRO-BUCHS AG, Signatrol, Omega, Oceasoft, Monnit Corporation, Duoxieyun, Dickson, LogTag Recorders Ltd, Berlinger & Co AG, The IMC Group Ltd, ZeDA Instruments, Cold Chain Technologies, Jucsan, Controlant Ehf, SecureRF Corp., vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring, Zest Labs, Inc., Gemalto, Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd., Infratab, Inc.

In the global Cold Chain Monitoring market report, there is solid in-depth data on various segments as well. These segments give a deeper look into the products, applications and what impact they are going to have on the market. The report also looks at new products and innovation that can be real game-changers.

The Report is Divided into The Following Segments:

Market Segmentation by Product Types: Hardware, Software

Market Segmentation by Applications: Pharma & Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Others

Regions Mentioned in the Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market:

The Middle East and Africa North America South America Europe Asia-Pacific Middle East Oceania Rest of the World

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Table of Content: Chapter 1 Industry Overview 1.1 Definition 1.2 Assumptions 1.3 Research Scope 1.4 Market Analysis by Regions 1.4.1 North America Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.2 East Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.3 Europe Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.4 South Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.5 Southeast Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.6 Middle East Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.7 Africa Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.8 Oceania Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.9 South America Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.5 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 1.5.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 by Consumption Volume 1.5.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 by Value 1.5.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Price Trends Analysis from 2021 to 2026 1.6 COVID-19 Outbreak: Cold Chain Monitoring Industry Impact

Chapter 2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Competition by Types, Applications, and Top Regions and Countries 2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Type 2.1.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Type (2015-2020) 2.1.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Type (2015-2020) 2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Application 2.2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Application (2015-2020) 2.2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Application (2015-2020) 2.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Regions 2.3.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) 2.3.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)

Chapter 3 Production Market Analysis 3.1 Global Production Market Analysis 3.1.1 2015-2020 Global Capacity, Production, Capacity Utilization Rate, Ex-Factory Price, Revenue, Cost, Gross and Gross Margin Analysis 3.1.2 2015-2020 Major Manufacturers Performance and Market Share 3.2 Regional Production Market Analysis 3.2.1 2015-2020 Regional Market Performance and Market Share 3.2.2 North America Market 3.2.3 East Asia Market 3.2.4 Europe Market 3.2.5 South Asia Market 3.2.6 Southeast Asia Market 3.2.7 Middle East Market 3.2.8 Africa Market 3.2.9 Oceania Market 3.2.10 South America Market 3.2.11 Rest of the World Market

Chapter 4 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import by Regions (2015-2020) 4.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Regions (2015-2020) 4.2 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.3 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.4 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.5 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.6 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.7 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.8 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.9 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.10 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020)

Chapter 5 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 5.1 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 5.1.1 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 5.2 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 5.3 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 5.4 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 5.4.1 United States Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 5.4.2 Canada Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 5.4.3 Mexico Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 6 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 6.1 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 6.1.1 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 6.2 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 6.3 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 6.4 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 6.4.1 China Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 6.4.2 Japan Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 6.4.3 South Korea Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 7 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 7.1 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 7.1.1 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 7.2 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 7.3 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 7.4 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 7.4.1 Germany Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.2 UK Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.3 France Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.4 Italy Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.5 Russia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.6 Spain Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.7 Netherlands Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.8 Switzerland Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.9 Poland Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 8 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 8.1 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 8.1.1 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 8.2 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 8.3 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 8.4 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 8.4.1 India Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 8.4.2 Pakistan Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 8.4.3 Bangladesh Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 9 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 9.1 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 9.1.1 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 9.2 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 9.3 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 9.4 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 9.4.1 Indonesia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.2 Thailand Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.3 Singapore Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.4 Malaysia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.5 Philippines Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.6 Vietnam Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.7 Myanmar Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 10 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 10.1 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 10.1.1 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 10.2 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 10.3 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 10.4 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 10.4.1 Turkey Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.2 Saudi Arabia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.3 Iran Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.4 United Arab Emirates Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.5 Israel Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.6 Iraq Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.7 Qatar Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.8 Kuwait Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.9 Oman Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 11 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 11.1 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 11.1.1 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 11.2 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 11.3 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 11.4 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 11.4.1 Nigeria Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.2 South Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.3 Egypt Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.4 Algeria Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.5 Morocco Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 12 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 12.1 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 12.2 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 12.3 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 12.4 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 12.4.1 Australia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 12.4.2 New Zealand Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 13 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 13.1 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 13.1.1 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 13.2 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 13.3 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 13.4 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Major Countries 13.4.1 Brazil Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.2 Argentina Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.3 Columbia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.4 Chile Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.5 Venezuela Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.6 Peru Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.7 Puerto Rico Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.8 Ecuador Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020

Chapter 14 Company Profiles and Key Figures in Cold Chain Monitoring Business 14.1 Sensitech, Inc. 14.1.1 Sensitech, Inc. Company Profile 14.1.2 Sensitech, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.1.3 Sensitech, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.2 NXP Semiconductors NV 14.2.1 NXP Semiconductors NV Company Profile 14.2.2 NXP Semiconductors NV Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.2.3 NXP Semiconductors NV Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.3 Rotronic 14.3.1 Rotronic Company Profile 14.3.2 Rotronic Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.3.3 Rotronic Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.4 ORBCOMM 14.4.1 ORBCOMM Company Profile 14.4.2 ORBCOMM Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.4.3 ORBCOMM Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.5 Nietzsche Enterprise 14.5.1 Nietzsche Enterprise Company Profile 14.5.2 Nietzsche Enterprise Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.5.3 Nietzsche Enterprise Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.6 Testo 14.6.1 Testo Company Profile 14.6.2 Testo Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.6.3 Testo Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.7 Haier Biomedical 14.7.1 Haier Biomedical Company Profile 14.7.2 Haier Biomedical Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.7.3 Haier Biomedical Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.8 Emerson 14.8.1 Emerson Company Profile 14.8.2 Emerson Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.8.3 Emerson Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.9 ELPRO-BUCHS AG 14.9.1 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Company Profile 14.9.2 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.9.3 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.10 Signatrol 14.10.1 Signatrol Company Profile 14.10.2 Signatrol Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.10.3 Signatrol Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.11 Omega 14.11.1 Omega Company Profile 14.11.2 Omega Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.11.3 Omega Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.12 Oceasoft 14.12.1 Oceasoft Company Profile 14.12.2 Oceasoft Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.12.3 Oceasoft Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.13 Monnit Corporation 14.13.1 Monnit Corporation Company Profile 14.13.2 Monnit Corporation Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.13.3 Monnit Corporation Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.14 Duoxieyun 14.14.1 Duoxieyun Company Profile 14.14.2 Duoxieyun Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.14.3 Duoxieyun Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.15 Dickson 14.15.1 Dickson Company Profile 14.15.2 Dickson Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.15.3 Dickson Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.16 LogTag Recorders Ltd 14.16.1 LogTag Recorders Ltd Company Profile 14.16.2 LogTag Recorders Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.16.3 LogTag Recorders Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.17 Berlinger & Co AG 14.17.1 Berlinger & Co AG Company Profile 14.17.2 Berlinger & Co AG Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.17.3 Berlinger & Co AG Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.18 The IMC Group Ltd 14.18.1 The IMC Group Ltd Company Profile 14.18.2 The IMC Group Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.18.3 The IMC Group Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.19 ZeDA Instruments 14.19.1 ZeDA Instruments Company Profile 14.19.2 ZeDA Instruments Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.19.3 ZeDA Instruments Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.20 Cold Chain Technologies 14.20.1 Cold Chain Technologies Company Profile 14.20.2 Cold Chain Technologies Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.20.3 Cold Chain Technologies Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.21 Jucsan 14.21.1 Jucsan Company Profile 14.21.2 Jucsan Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.21.3 Jucsan Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.22 Controlant Ehf 14.22.1 Controlant Ehf Company Profile 14.22.2 Controlant Ehf Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.22.3 Controlant Ehf Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.23 SecureRF Corp. 14.23.1 SecureRF Corp. Company Profile 14.23.2 SecureRF Corp. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.23.3 SecureRF Corp. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.24 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring 14.24.1 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Company Profile 14.24.2 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.24.3 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.25 Zest Labs, Inc. 14.25.1 Zest Labs, Inc. Company Profile 14.25.2 Zest Labs, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.25.3 Zest Labs, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.26 Gemalto 14.26.1 Gemalto Company Profile 14.26.2 Gemalto Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.26.3 Gemalto Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.27 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. 14.27.1 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Company Profile 14.27.2 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.27.3 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.28 Infratab, Inc. 14.28.1 Infratab, Inc. Company Profile 14.28.2 Infratab, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.28.3 Infratab, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)

Chapter 15 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Price Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Value and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Value and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2021-2026) 15.2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume and Growth Rate Forecast by Regions (2021-2026) 15.2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Value and Growth Rate Forecast by Regions (2021-2026) 15.2.3 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.4 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.5 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.6 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.7 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.8 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.9 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.10 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.11 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Price Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Price Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.4 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume Forecast by Application (2021-2026) 15.5 Cold Chain Monitoring Market Forecast Under COVID-19

Chapter 16 Conclusions Research Methodology

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The Age of Enlightenment was a period in European history from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century when Western philosophers and scientists wrestled with concepts of 'human nature' and 'natural rights'. Some argued that all people had inherent social and political rights but many more advocated for the reordering of social hierarchies using 'scientific' proof to divide people through the identification of 'natural' differences such as gender and race. Much of the oppression and imperialism that marked the period was supported by these ideas.

"Throughout the 18th century, Western fashion, including footwear, was central to the 'naturalization' of difference in Europe," says Elizabeth Semmelhack, Creative Director and Senior Curator at the Bata Shoe Museum. "Distinctions between men and women, children and adults, Europeans and 'Others' became increasingly codified through clothing. Yet, European fashion was also used to blur the lines between classes as social mobility and access to consumable goods grew as a result of imperialism."

The exhibition was thoughtfully designed by the award-winning designers Arc + Co who focused on creating a space that engages with the powerful themes and issues of the 18th century explored in this gallery. With loans from the Gardiner Museum, the design also includes a look at contemporary footwear, asking visitors to reflect on shoes and society today. Highlights include:

The BSM thanks partners Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund and the Toronto Star. More information about The Great Divide can be found here, along with a teaser video here.

Celebrating 25 years of the World at Your Feet with a growing international collection of over 14,000 shoes and related artefacts, the Bata Shoe Museum showcases 4,500 years of footwear history. batashoemuseum.ca, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook YouTube channel

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Justin E. H. Smiths most recent book, Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason, addresses beliefs about politics, gender, nature and reason by opposing the discourse of fundamental irrationality with accepted forms of rationality. Smith believes that the dialectical tension between the two is paramount owing to the inevitable rise of irrationality, which has proliferated in the face of our desire to purge it. As Yascha Mounk, the American-German political thinker, writes, the book is an urgent warning that no grand design of perfect rationality can provide the solution to the depravity of this political moment.

The order of human history, from the beginning up to the present perversion of rational thinking by all manners Trump, has a catastrophic impact on the well- being of humanity. The loss of faith in the structures of democracy points to an apocalyptic end. The effort to model society on rational principles has not fructified, going by the long and cyclic dark history of civilisation, of wars and violence, of religious fanaticism and irrationality. Our inherently dialectical history confirms the simultaneous birth of opposing forces at the outset of the assertion of any truth: The thing desired contains its opposite. Thus the trajectory of liberal democracy evolving into totalitarianism was present in the brute forces of Italian fascism or German Nazism. The dearth of ideology is reflected in the irrational outburst of our times, particularly with the birth of vulgar nationalist fervour and muscular racial superiority.

Smith offers the example of how mathematics was demonised in the 5th century BC for its dependence on numbers and decimal series that were endless and irrational. Anyone who believed in mathematics was drowned at sea in the Gulf of Taranto. The drowning of Hipposus, a Pythogorean philosopher, about a century before Socrates explains the upsurge of irrationality in the face of the pursuit of a science that, in later centuries, would usher in the Age of Enlightenment.

Citing the example of the discovery of a human bone at the beginning of Stanley Kubricks 1969 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Smith calls attention to the realisation by a protohuman creature of the value of a bone as a lethal weapon but also as a tool for survival. Similarly, technological breakthroughs bring along a world of comfort or misery, peace or violence, rationality or irrationality.

Something clicks in the mind of a person and then nothing is the same, especially when you attain new power and knowledge that can be used for new occasions for violence. All knowledge, therefore, has brought out the best and the worst in us, a balance of problem solving and problem creating in the service of the most exalted faculties of the human mind that become occasions for the flexing of muscle and, when this is not enough, the raining down of blows. This is the age-old record of human rationality, and therefore also of its irrationality, the exaltation of reason, and a desire to eradicate its opposite.

Take the example of the cultural frenzy of the cyber world that intensified into an unforeseeable landscape of customs and mores, underlain by new political norms and new institutional structures visible in the ideology of the white supremacists, Brexit fanatics or the ultra-nationalists gripped by the narrow boundaries of identity politics.

A world overwhelmed by the use of the Internet allows anyone to get on it, make a noise and change the world for the worse. Instead of the improved access to what we had valued, the Internet has succeeded through its accelerationism in destroying the world of journalism, academia, commerce and publishing industries, thereby disrupting and forever altering the nature of what we have always valued.

In his diatribe against the misuse of the Internet, Smith opines that although initially it was hoped that the Internet would provide some form of collective will and deliberation, it has drowned humanity in the quagmire of an unpredictable response to level-headed statements with the rise of sheer abuse and often concerted and massive campaigns of abuse...from some sock puppet labouring away at a Russian troll farm, working to insinuate some new falsehood into public consciousness. Reasoned arguments are few and far between, and the epidemic of images, allusions and jokes form the basis of a narrative deeply aimed towards the distortion of reality.

Smith considers the Internet today a far darker place where the normal and predictable response to reasonable statements is, if it is coming from strangers, sheer abuse, and often concerted and massive campaigns of abuse; if it is coming from friends, then it is generally vacuous supportiveness, sheer boosterism with no critical engagement or respectful dissent.

Can we finally come to the conclusion that what makes human beings unique is our irrationality? Apart from the damage caused by outrageous reasoning, Smith underlines the human aspect of our self-interest and existential choices based on expected outcomes.Why then does a father offer to vacate his space for his child on a lifeboat? This expression of irrationality, argues Smith, surpasses the realm of good and evil:Life would be unlivable if they were suppressed entirely. Smoking a cigarette or climbing a cliff without a rope seems ludicrous. Irrationality, Smith asserts, is in itself neither left nor right, nor good nor bad. It is a twin of reason and therefore equally vital to human development.

The rational thought propagated during the Enlightenment fails to hold up in an era of senseless pursuits coupled with our unrelenting predisposition to irrationality. The history of human civilisation is witness to the struggle between the forces of rational and irrational thought and the author has made a compelling case for the inevitability and value of the existence of both in our lives. His warning in the end is what humanity must heed: We are, then, not so far from where Hippasus found himself millennia ago. The Greeks discovered the irrationality at the heart of geometry; we have most recently discovered the irrationality at the heart of the algorithm, or at least the impossibility of applying algorithms to human life while avoiding their weaponisation by the forces of irrationality. If we were not possessed of such a strong will to believe that our technological discoveries and our conceptual progress might have the power to chase irrationality, uncertainty, and disorder from our livesif, that is, we could learn to be more philosophical about our human situationthen we would likely be far better positioned to avoid the violent recoil that always seems to follow upon our greatest innovations, upon bagging the great hunting trophies of our reason.

The book is a fascinating narrative, ranging across philosophy, politics and current events.This intertexuality defies the received assumptions of philosophy, science and Enlightenment with the central focus on the transitory nature of the triumph of reason. Understandably, the Enlightenment had built into its very essence the curse of racism and the white supremacist mindset that resulted in the imperialist scheme of dominance through the manifesto of the civilising mission. No wonder that such a political and cultural world-view set humanity towards the irrational path of genocide, war and totalitarianism. The paradox therefore lies in the fact that along with these dark forces that the Enlightenment unleashed, there was also the birth of the liberal ideas of anti-slavery as well as the malaise of materialism overtaking the world. Humanity, indeed, has failed to draw the rational or right inferences from the perceived facts and has carved out for itself a dialectical history of tensions and ambiguities, of madness and sanity, of liberal thinking and totalitarianism.

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The Bata Shoe Museum, which officially reopened last month in Toronto, is kicking off its first show of the season with The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment.

The Canadian museum will explore how fashion and footwear, played a central role in defining the 18th century. The exhibition features shoes from around the world that are over 300 years old. The Great Divide is the first of three shows the museum plans to open as part of its 25th-anniversary schedule.

Throughout the 18th century, Western fashion, including footwear, was central to the naturalization of difference in Europe, said Elizabeth Semmelhack, the creative director and senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum.

The Great Divide explores issues of gender and race through the lens of imperialism and colonization. The exhibit features 18th-century artifacts that highlight the complicated histories of privilege, danger and resistance that continue to be timely, 300 years later.

An 18th century Indian English womens sandal from the Bata Shoe Museums The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment exhibit.

Some highlights of the show include the evolution of the Indian jutti sandal and how it influenced English footwear during Great Britains colonial period. Another memorable pair from the exhibit are moccasins that were said to have belonged to a Myammi leader Little Turtle who occupied the Northwest territory of the United States during the 18th century. He led one of the worst defeats against the U.S. when defending Myammi territory at the Battle of Wabash in 1791.

This moccasin is said to have belonged to Myaamia leader Mishikinawa, also known as Little Turtle, and is currently on display at the Bata Shoe Museum.

The show also includes loans from the Gardiner Museum as well as contemporary footwear that reflect how shoes continue to symbolize shifts in society today. The exhibition was designed by award-winning designers Arc + Co and curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, the senior curator and creative director of the Bata Shoe Museum.

The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment is open until Feb. 2021. For more information about the exhibition and how to purchase tickets, head to batashoemuseum.ca.

Cant make it to the museum? Weve rounded up some of the best shoes featured in the exhibit for you. Luckily, the Bata Shoe Museum also has a few virtual exhibits online. Shows include Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels in partnership with Google Arts and Culture, On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada and its semi-permanent on-display collection All About Shoes.

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When Bob Riefstahl founded2Win! Globalalmost 20 years ago, he was ahead of his time. His company provides winning pre-sales, client-success skills, and culture guidance for technology companies. Today, his clients include IBM, Adobe, CISCO, Siemens, and Microsoft.

However, in the beginning, things were quite different.

Riefstahl says, "When we started, software sales were stuck in the past. Big tech companies like IBM had a particular way of doing things, and most of the smaller companies emulated the big boys. Had that not changed, companies like Big Blue (IBM) may have fallen by the wayside. Technology is a two-step process that includes both development and sales.

He also states, The greatest technology in the world is meaningless if nobody buys it."

At the time, Riefstahl and crew began peddling what they knew. Technology companies listened, and the result has been a seismic shift in the economy of the world.

Riefstahl saw a need for technology companies to come out of the shadows and deliver what Riefstahl believed was a beneficial evolution in the way people were able to use and prosper from technology. Many believe that his company and way of doing business were an essential part of the technology revolution.

But now, Riefstahl sees a different need.

"Education has needed a technological wake-up call for some time. With the Coronavirus pandemic forcing learning online, that call is happening too quickly delivering punishing blows to our teachers because they don't have the correct knowledge and training to teach online successfully. Like anything else, teaching and delivering presentations online is a learned behavior," states Riefstahl.

Just like in 2001, when Riefstahl was motivated to help technology companies succeed, he now wants to help children learn in a new virtual world.

He states, "Plain and simple, children are the world's future, and I have two sons who were both products of the public school system, and both excelled in their careers. If we can help teachers that work with kids in very diverse school systems, we can create a better world."

Riefstahl believes his company's expertise and experience in the business sector can translate well in the education sector.

They train the largest and most successful technology companies in the world to use soft-skills to help them connect with prospective buyers of their products in a virtual environment.

Their most deep-rooted focus is on the product presentation and demonstration, and they base it on neuro-linguistic programming.

Riefstahl realized the same techniques that his company uses to teach to some of the most talented and highly paid workers in the world could be effective with the teacher and student experience.

They teach people how to be effective communicators during in-personandvirtual engagementsand have been doing so using virtual classrooms for over ten years.

Riefstahl's virtual training started in 2008, and he saw the immediate benefit and impact by leveraging a flip-the-classroom approach.

When the pandemic broke, rather than experiencing a loss in business, Riefstahl's business began to accelerate.

He says, "I have many friends who are teachers or know teachers, and many are struggling with virtual classrooms. At that point, I realized our methods, with some modifications, could be a lifeline to teachers and students."

Rather than testing the water, Riefstahl and 2Win! Global have jumped in the deep end, and he has big expectations in his company's ability to help educators.

He says, "Now and in the future, we want teachers to feel empowered, inspired, and enthused about teaching in the unfamiliar medium of virtual. We have found that our same classes taught virtually produce as good of a result as in-person classes. We want students to have that same experience."

Riefstahl hired Joan Jahelka, a lifelong educator and fellow Colorado resident, to lead the company's first offering, theClassroom 2.0series, set to debut in mid-August.

They will deliver the series into three parts:

Module One: To help teachers understand how to set up their home and teaching virtually.

Module Two: To help teachers understand the soft-skills necessary to transform their virtual instruction. This module will help to ensure the student learning experience and retention are the best.

Module Three: To help teachers and administrators understand the nuances of child privacy in virtual instruction. All the modules will be delivered in a crisp, micro-learning style using two to five-minute video segments.

Riefstahl's team at 2Win! Global believes that the education division could eventually become profitable, but that is not their primary concern.

"This goal is much more of a charitable offering on our part, and much less about profit. Our price points on this course are such that we believe it would take years to cover our costs. That's okay, because our motivation is about making a difference to kids and teachers," said Riefstahl.

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The 'woke' will lead us to enlightenment

Won't it be swell when Sleepy Joe takes over. The rioters will lay down their weapons. The media will be giddy with hope and change. The Black Lives Matter movement will be ecstatic that an old, doddering, white man has weakly grasped the helm while cruising full speed toward the shoals.

The woke will choose the appropriate statuary and sports team names. All will cheerfully sing the proper gender pronouns. Marriage and gender will be transformed. All unrest will cease; the masked sociopaths will halt their destruction.

The systemic racism of the privileged white class will gloriously evaporate like a cloud of steam. All will hold woke opinions as all other opinions are blatantly false. White people will genuflect to all other races, cause, well, we got it coming. Everyone will achieve equally as the field is now level for all. Forget about ability and striving for achievement. That sounds awake, certainly not woke.

The sanctimonious, imperious, authoritarian, censorious woke will lead us to enlightenment. It appears the only police the left desires is the thought police.

Jim Howard

We must reaffirm American principles

We are being assaulted by the cancel culture movement and by the protests of Black Lives Matter. Opposing voices on college campuses have been shouted down; editors or reporters who question the movement are silenced; even corporate executives are bowing before the mandates to repudiate the America of the past 250 years.

Most Americans are shaking their heads at this effort to destroy our history and values. Yet we remain separated and silent. I am sure there are millions of Americans, liberal and conservative, who still believe the nation was founded on principles of individual liberty and the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

These Americans believe the family unit is fundamental. They have served together on boards and commissions and debated their differences while acknowledging their agreements. They are in business, think tanks, politics, church and our universities. We need them to step forward and find common ground. We need to reaffirm our fundamental American principles.

There are millions who have been called "the silent majority," but we need to remain silent no more. Future generations depend on us. Now is the time to act as proud Americans.

George Davenport, Signal Mountain

What did we learn from Dr. M.L. King?

We have witnessed burning, looting and destroying statues representing our history and culture. Our Constitution allows peaceful demonstrations, but it has turned out to be lawlessness beyond what any civilization should allow. So far, I've not been able to figure out what is wrong with these people and their cause.

Most religions theoretically prescribe noble teachings. But in reality these lofty standards are often far removed from those religions' actual thought and practice. Do Christians, for example, really live up to the teachings of Jesus?

Position in our society is believed to be fixed on the merits one has earned in a past life. Our society needs to be re-educated to a point of responsibility our forefathers have handed down to us. Martin Luther King, Jr. had to visit India to learn about a nonviolent society. Has his teaching made any difference in our society?

Amos Taj, Ooltewah

Forget Trump, Biden; vote Jo Jorgensen

Nothing has changed. We still have a horrible president and a horrible Democrat running against him. If you want to change people, you have to vote differently.

Jo Jorgensen is the Libertarian Party's candidate for president. Look her up. Not only intelligent, but very well spoken and honest. Jo Jorgensen is everything Trump and Biden are not.

Once again, to effect change, vote differently.

Mark Tyson

Bennett cartoon was 'gallows humor'

I cannot believe the TFP allowed Clay Bennett to publish a "gallows humor" cartoon at the expense of our children last week.

It was an image of a funeral home with a sign that said, "Back to school sale." Isn't this supposed to be a family newspaper?

Bennett's cartoons are never encouraging, never positive and especially never funny.

Rev. Betty Latham

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Freemasonry, known popularly for its white aprons and arcane symbols, is the world's oldest fraternal organization. Despite its longevity, Freemasons have long been shrouded in mystery. To outside observers, the organization's rites and practices may seem cult-like, clannish and secretive even sinister. Some of this stems from Freemasons' often deliberate reluctance to speak about the organization's rituals to outsiders. But it is also partly the result of many popular movies and books, such as Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" (Doubleday, 2003), that have fostered misconceptions or depicted the order in an unflattering light.

In reality, however, Freemasonry is a worldwide organization with a long and complex history. Its members have included politicians, engineers, scientists, writers, inventors and philosophers. Many of these members have played prominent roles in world events, such as revolutions, wars and intellectual movements.

Related: Belief in 'Da Vinci Code' conspiracy may ease fear of death

In addition to being the world's oldest fraternal organization, Freemasonry is also the world's largest such organization, boasting an estimated worldwide membership of some 6 million people, according to a report by the BBC. As the name implies, a fraternal organization is one that's composed almost solely of men who gather together for mutual benefit, frequently for professional or business reasons. However, nowadays women can be Freemasons, too (more on this later).

But Freemasons, or Masons as they are sometimes called, are dedicated to loftier goals as well. Bound together by secret rites of initiation and ritual, its members ostensibly promote the "brotherhood of man," and in the past, have often been associated with 18th century Enlightenment principles such as anti-monarchism, republicanism, meritocracy and constitutional government, said Margaret Jacob, professor emeritus of European history at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of the book "The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).

This is not to say that Freemasonry is wholly secular and devoid of religious aspects. Its members are encouraged to believe in a supreme being, which in the parlance of Masonry, is known as the "Grand Architect of the Universe," Jacob added.

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This Grand Architect, Jacob further explained, is akin to a Deistic creator rather than a personal God as envisioned by Christianity. The concept of Deism, which has its origins in the 17th century Enlightenment, promotes the idea that the supreme being is like the ultimate "watchmaker;" a deity that created the universe but does not play an active role in the lives of its creations.

A code of ethics also guides the behavior of members. This code is derived from several documents, the most famous of which is a series of documents known as the "Old Charges" or "Constitutions." One of these documents, known as the "Regius Poem" or the "Halliwell Manuscript," is dated to sometime around the latter 14th or early 15th century, and is reportedly the oldest document to mention Masonry, according to the Pietre-Stones Review of Freemasonry, an online magazine written by Freemasons. The Halliwell Manuscript is written in verse, and in addition to purportedly tracing the history of Masonry, it also prescribes correct moral behavior for Masons. For example, it urges members to be "steadfast, trusty, and true," and "not to take bribes" or "harbor thieves."

While many Freemasons are Christians, Freemasonry and Christianity have had a complex, often divisive, relationship. Some orthodox Christians have taken issue with Freemasonry's Deism and its frequently perceived ties to paganism and the occult. But the Catholic Church has been among its harshest critics. In 1738, a Papal decree prohibited Catholics from becoming Freemasons, Jacob wrote. Even today, the Papal ban on Freemasonry remains in place, with the Church declaring Freemasonry "irreconcilable with the doctrine of the Church," according to the Vatican.

The origins of Freemasonry are obscure, and the subject is rife with myth and speculation. One of the more fanciful claims is that the Freemasons are descended from the builders of Solomon's Temple (also known as the First Temple) in Jerusalem, according to Jacob. Others have argued that the Freemasons began as an offshoot of the Knights Templars, a Catholic military order dating to medieval times. And the famous American revolutionary Thomas Paine attempted to trace the origins of the order to the ancient Egyptians and Celtic Druids. There has also been a longstanding rumor that Freemasons are the same as the Illuminati, an 18th-century secret society that began in Germany, Jacob wrote. Most of these theories have been debunked, though some people continue to believe them.

"Freemasonry has its origins in the stonemason guilds of medieval Europe," Jacob told Live Science. These guilds, especially active during the 14th century, were responsible for constructing some of the finest architecture in Europe, such as the ornate Gothic cathedrals of Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London.

Like many artisan craft guilds of that time, its members jealously guarded their secrets and were selective about who they chose as apprentices. Initiation for new members required a long period of training, during which they learned the craft and were often taught advanced mathematics and architecture. Their skills were in such high demand that experienced Freemasons were frequently sought out by monarchs or high-ranking church officials, Jacob said.

The guilds provided members not only with wage protection and quality control over the work performed but also important social connections, she added. Members gathered in lodges, which served as the headquarters and focal points where the Masons socialized, partook in meals and gathered to discuss the events and issues of the day.

However, with the rise of capitalism and the market economy during the 16th and 17th centuries, the old guild system broke down, Jacob wrote. But the Masonic lodges survived. In order to bolster membership and raise funds, the stonemason guilds began to recruit non-masons. At first, the new recruits were often relatives of existing members, but they increasingly included wealthy individuals and men of high social status.

Many of these new members were "learned gentlemen" who were interested in the philosophical and intellectual trends that were transforming the European intellectual landscape at the time, such as rationalism, the scientific method and Newtonian physics. The men were equally interested in questions of morality especially how to build moral character. Out of this new focus grew "speculative Freemasonry," which began in the 17th century. This modernized form of Masonry deemphasized stone working and the lodges became meeting places for men dedicated to and associated with liberal Western values, Jacob said.

"Freemasonry as we know it today grew out of the early 18th century in England and Scotland," she said. A major turning point in Freemason history occurred in 1717, when the members of four separate London lodges gathered together to form what became known as the Premier Grand Lodge of England. This Grand Lodge became the focal point of British Masonry and helped to spread and popularize the organization. Freemasonry spread rapidly across the continent; soon there were Masonic lodges scattered throughout Europe, from Spain and Portugal in the west to Russia in the east. It was also established in the North American colonies during the first half of the 18th century.

By the late 18th century, at the height of the Enlightenment, Freemasonry carried considerable social cachet. "Being a Mason signaled that you were at the forefront of knowledge," Jacob said.

Freemasonry wasn't always welcomed, however. In the United States in the 1830s, for example, a political party known as the Anti-Masonic Party formed, the Washington Post reported. It was the nation's original third political party and its members were dedicated to countering what they believed was Freemasonry's undue political influence. William Seward, who went on to become President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state, began his political career as an Anti-Masonic candidate.

The early Masonic lodges were exclusively male, meaning that women were prohibited from membership, a point made clear in the "Old Charges" ("no bondmen, no women, no immoral or scandalous men..."). This tradition, a principle that reflected the predominant social arrangements of the time, continued for many decades, especially in Great Britain.

But over the years, women increasingly began to play active roles in the organization, especially on the European mainland. In France during the 1740s, for example, so-called "lodges of adoption" began to appear, Jacob said. These were lodges that admitted a mixture of men and women, the latter mostly the wives, daughters and female relatives of the male Masons. They were not fully independent but were sanctioned by and attached to the traditional male lodges. Soon, similar lodges of adoption sprang up in the Netherlands and eventually in the United States.

Out of this tradition, Masonic organizations were eventually formed that admitted both men and women as full members. Some of these organizations included the Order of the Amaranth, the Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem and the Order of the Eastern Star. In these organizations, both men and women partake in Masonic rites and women can hold positions of authority and leadership. The highest ranking woman in the Order of the Eastern Star, for example, is known as the "Worthy Matron" and is the presiding officer of the organization. There are also several Masonic-related girls' and young women's organizations, such as the Order of Job's Daughters and the International Order of Rainbow for Girls, both of which are active today. The Rainbow Girls are an offshoot of the Order of the Eastern Star and is largely dedicated to service and charity.

A California native, who asked to remain anonymous, and who was a member of the Rainbow Girls in the 1970s, remembers the organization fondly. As a young woman, she said, she was never made to feel lesser because she was a member of one of the female organizations. "We were autonomous," she told Live Science. "We always decided our own agenda."

"If anything," she continued, "looking back, the organization gave me a glimpse of a slightly utopian society because we were very democratic. The organization was well run and well organized."

Today, traditional Masons are still exclusively men but the related organizations of female Masons are still active, many involved in charity, education and character-building.

Similar to its relationship with women, Freemasonry in the United States has had a complicated history with ethnic minorities, especially Black Americans. After Freemasonry was established in the American colonies, but prior to the Revolutionary War, a few free Black colonists, including a man named Prince Hall, petitioned for membership in the Boston, Massachusetts Lodge, according to Ccile Rvauger's book "Black Freemasonry," (Simon and Schuster, 2016). Hall was denied but he persevered, eventually receiving a charter in 1784 from the Grand Lodge in England. The Masonic lodge he established was the first African American lodge in the United States, and became the basis for the many other Black lodges that subsequently sprang up. These Black lodges were named "Prince Hall Lodges" in the founder's honor, and were established exclusively for African Americans.

Although the Masonic codes do not strictly prohibit the membership of non-white ethnic minorities, integrating the mainstream lodges has been an on-going struggle. Attempts to integrate the mainstream lodges have been met with varying success. "There are liberal lodges that make the extra effort, but most just go with whoever turns up," Jacob said.

However, even as late as the first decade of this century, attempts to integrate some lodges in the southeastern United States have met with opposition from some white members, the New York Times reported.

Several prominent historical figures have reportedly been Freemasons, including Simn Bolvar, known as the "liberator of South America"; the French philosopher Voltaire, known for his voluminous philosophical and political writings; and the famous German poet and writer Goethe. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the famous composer, became a Mason in 1784. His renowned opera, "The Magic Flute," contains elements of Freemasonry, and is a paean to his Masonic beliefs, NPR reported.

In his book "Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840" (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), historian Steven Bullock noted that several of the Founding Fathers and notable American revolutionaries and presidents were Freemasons, including George Washington, Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Jackson. Franklin was one of the first Freemasons in what was then Colonial America, and in 1734 he became the Grand Master of the Philadelphia Lodge, according to a 1906 article published in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

The world of Freemasonry is composed of esoteric signs and symbols that are baffling to most non-Masons. Perhaps the most common are the compass and square, which are the universally recognizable symbols of the organization. They typically emblazon the lintels above lodge entrances and can be found on the aprons worn by Masons during rituals.

Although there is not a single, universally agreed upon meaning, most Masons would probably contend that these two objects in conjunction are meant to represent how a Mason should conduct himself, according to an online dictionary of Masonic symbols. The square signifies that a man should act "square" with his fellow man that is, he should be honest and forthright in all his dealings. The compass is a reminder to engage in moderation, and not to get carried away by life's vices.

In general, Masonic symbols such as the beehive, the acacia tree and the all-seeing eye, to name a few are meant to invoke ideals, remind members of correct modes of conduct and behavior, and impart important lessons.

"The symbols of freemasonry largely have to do with ethics how one should live their life," said the former-Rainbow Girl.

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Today, Freemasonry is undergoing a decline.

"The lodges are having a terrible time recruiting men," Jacob said. "Most young men today don't accept these kinds of distinctions such as places exclusively for men and places exclusively for women."

Consequently, membership in lodges has dropped and the pull to join an exclusive, privileged enclave of men does not carry the attraction it once had. Although there are Masonic lodges in every U.S. state, many of these now stand vacant.

One of the reasons for this decline has been competition from similar fraternal and service organizations, such as the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and E Clampus Vitus. But it's also possible that this decline can be explained by the different values espoused by the newer generations, value systems that are often at odds with the previous generations.

The problem of decline, Jacob said, is rooted in the current composition of the lodges. Most members, she noted, are between the ages of 50 and 60, are predominantly white and hold very conservative politics. "This has no appeal to the younger generation," she said. "Even the armed services are integrated now by race and gender, but not the lodges."

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Kurt Vonneguts short story 2 B R 0 2 B talks of a utopia that has turned out to be a dystopia where everything is controlled by the government and the political system serves only the elite. Sheikh Tasmima Mrenmoi argues that we are living in similar times

KURT Vonneguts short story 2 B R 0 2 B is a Juvenal satire. The Federal Bureau of Termination in 2 B R 0 2 B is promoting selective immortalities in several places for example, Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers. In these lines, it shows that killing people seemed like an enjoyment for the volunteers who are supposedly the doctors and people liked them. Vonnegut is not afraid of his chosen words either, hes constantly offending people as well, like Swift.

Restoration has some qualities of Renaissance which means the zeitgeist is more or less the same. Restoration is the age of isms and the era was all about what was challenged before. In other words, an era of light, hence the enlightenment. The light of enlightenment is knowledge, if we remember how we lost the paradise we lost the fruit of knowledge so knowledge can be sometimes forbidden and if we pursue it, it can be destructive we may lose our paradise.

Therefore, the restoration era was all about challenging what was conceived before, the restoration is an era that begins to challenge the innocence of the renaissance. The Renaissance era embraced humanity with all its faults and restoration did not. In other words, the renaissance argued humanity and the restoration era developed the notion of humanity. A sort of critical analysis of human behaviour.

Now if the restoration era is compared with the current time, connect it with the present context, in case a COVID-19 vaccine is finally prepared and ready to be in use, a selected few community will enjoy the privilege first as opposed to the entire world. In that case, are ideas like equality, fraternity, and liberty an illusion that humans had been chasing since the dawn of civilisation or do they really exist and are waiting for us to be found?

The readers of the satire could surely connect with the current COVID-19 situation as it can be assumed that if corona vaccine is finally prepared only a selected few community will enjoy the privilege first as opposed to the entire world. The terms equality, fraternity, and liberty are illusions that humans had been chasing since the dawn of civilisation.

Human behaviour and their minds have been constructed in such a way that the ideas of equality, fraternity, and libertymight not be chased ever, no matter how many eras come after the restoration era. Massacres like COVID-19 shall presume and the words like equality, fraternity, and liberty shall remain an illusion.

The short story, if compared with the situation currently, would be our situation if we survive COVID-19. Few years from now, the world would be much more concerned about controlling the population. Killing off old people and making a father choose, which child he wants to save would be considered to be a wise verdict. The painter draws a world which is fallacious and can only be imagined.

He knew that he would never paint again. He let his paintbrush fall to the drop-cloths below. And then he decided he had had about enough of life in the Happy Garden of Life, too, and he came slowly down from the ladder.

As he slowly came down the ladder, he gave up. His beautiful world inside the painting shall remain a happy dream. Just like the Rape of the Lock, Gullivers Travel and satires like these remain in our bookshelves after we are done with the course, we analyse the messages, the words and what not.

But the question lies, are the changes really being made? When a situation arrives, writers and free thinkers do their role in the best possible manners to make us all aware of the situation, it is up to us how we respond. Just like the muralist got down the ladder, they all do so at some point.

In the final lines, as the hostess thanks the mural, it proves how the advanced society is imposing and trying hard, barring the population of the society. Whereas, an individual in a democratic country has every right to live. Similar situations arrived in Swifts Gulliver's Travels when Gulliver was compared to an animal. The mural is no less than an animal when he was thanked. The harsh political system questions his identity, whether to be or not be?

Therefore, the responsibility of a free thinker in a time crisis is to convey the message to the whole humanity including the political world using satires and allegories. He has delivered the message, now rest depends on people and the countrys political system.

In Vonneguts 2 B R 0 2 B, the desire to create autopian world has reached a level, where its almost like a dystopian world. Where the world has collapsed into a sad depressing place. Government is controlling everyone and no one can be a human anymore. Vonnegut in the first few lines of the story showed us how perfect the postmodern world is. Whereas, at the end he enlightened us with the reality.

The whole play talks about the shallow government system, of not only the England or American but of the entire world. In a search to create a utopian world, we have created this dystopian, shallow world where, the term equality has become vague.

Even in crisis like corona virus, the entire world has proven to be disgusting. Corruption has been going on since the beginning of the perfect world and question lies for how long? No matter how many eras pass by the world will be among the fallen ones, we have lost the paradise and everyone in this world is in search of their own perfect paradise. Is the paradise going to be or not to be? Or are we all stuck in this maze, each with a story of its own, many bleak, scary stories.

Sheikh Tasmima Mrenmoi is a student of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

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