Routh Bolomet

Routh Bolomet was an... interesting speaker.  She gave an anecdote of how she came to Hawaii from California, where she did enough drugs to turn her brain into mush (as she explained a CAT scan showed).  She told a story of the organic farm she lived near on the north shore, and how that farm was actually spraying pesticides which was having an adverse affect on her health through its seeping into the water supply.

The rest of her presentation was a bit of a blur to me, as it involved a lot of philosophy I didn't really agree with.  For example, one of her quotes was that "you don't grow plants, you're growing the soil".  She made multiple mentions of how current science is essentially wrong in a lot of regards, and to this I had to tune my mind away from the presentation.  It's one thing for me to be open-minded, which I usually am, but in this case the argumentation had such a small base, I felt that she wasn't arguing for a side which I don't agree with, but rather something completely different (in some cases from common sense).  The presentation began to ramble on different philosophies and alternate religions (which included an alternative sect of Hinduism), to which I couldn't really follow.

Another concept she spoke of, which I can't remember the technical name, had to do with mass consensus.  She explained that if just 10,000 people learned how to do something, the entire human race would automatically know how to do it too, regardless of contact with any of those people.  She used the example of a case where she says a population of monkeys were taught how to peel bananas before eating them, and suddenly monkeys all over the world began to do that too.  This is a concept I don't agree with at all as I think there are many contradictory examples.  For one, it is a fact that more than 10,000 people currently know how to swim, but there are still many people who do not possess that ability.