Monday, December 3, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
here come the hive
Monday, October 1, 2012
hard reset
Monday, August 6, 2012
fantasies, semi-fiction, not-non-fiction, smokescreens, lies, deceit, money-motivated, misdirected nationalism, a dedicated zombie population, apathy, greed, SHALL I CONTINUE?!
Incoherent is the only coherence I can work from me these days when most are bound by chains of metaphor and our prison is our own to construct...It's like "Choose Your Own Adventure"! Isn't it great. We can fictionalize our every day stake and our choice of Novocain is just about endless here in the USofA. Has 2012 made me cynical? When I drop the guard and conscious mental state...FUCK yeah! Do I wish to remain cynical, nope... that's a start, right?
I'm going to attempt an 'out' and construct creatively concrete counter-cynicism, it's the only way:
Fuck it, I want it gone.
Fuck it, I want it out.
Fuck it, we have
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Confront Tyranny
This breeds thoughts in my mind that point to the potential violence in the USA if we were to follow a similar course to many regions in social/political/economic upheaval. I am not a pacifist but I do not want to see familiars pitted against familiars when the world has potential to be such a beautiful place.
Today I am providing links to videos that some may deem "inspirational". Whatever it is, I hope it propels you into positive #directAction that does more to construct creatively than to destroy and agitate without due cause.
Do not be afraid, do not back away -- confront tyranny!
Enjoy:
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
In the future when we analyze this contemporary age with hindsight it will be easy to say what, "should have been done". We can't necessarily know that, but after reading this piece I stand by creativity being our greatest ally. Create (it's OK if it's replication of previous known technology, etc.) systems that foster sustainability with all things. Sound too moo-poo??? Here's a "profound" example: start a garden!!!
'Creativity', not cynicism and paranoia should be the motivator for development/invention/evolution of technologies and systems.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Science Fiction
May 02, 2012 1:43am
You are the first person I have heard make this comparison publicly, and it does, to me, seem almost too apropos... I had been wondering myself whether the author intended it to be a commentary on our current situation. I was talking recently with a radical East Indian activist who put forth an interesting perspective on it, however, when I suggested that I saw the story as an allegorical attack on our mores and systems. Admittedly she had not read it and was basing her response on my description, but I do feel her take is worth repeating. She feels that the background of the story - that of a global conflict which led to the survivors forming the thirteen colonies - actually feeds into the fear mythos of the powers that be, especially when considering the target audience of the series. She feels that rather than it being a diatribe against inhumanity, it actually supports our whole obsession with the inevitability of war, of doom, of a future which we'll have to survive rather than create.
Someone in a position of influence (could have been someone in Obama's Administration) recently was complaining that science fiction is always too glum about the future, that it is constantly portraying a dismal or even disastrous period ahead which the various protagonists are living through or dealing with in various ways. Personally I feel that there is a lot of that genre that is a serious attempt to look ahead from present trends and tendencies and to mirror the darker sides of our human nature as a warning, to wake us from our fascination with technology and remind us that we must be very careful since it is essentially only a few millennia since our primitive brains were dictating our activities. It is no longer in the interest of the human race to act as if every stranger is a threat, or to feel - like a child of a large family at the dinner table - that we must grab at whatever is near us and hoard it against potential famine, to the detriment of any other unfortunates at the meal.
To the degree that there still seem to be many, many people out there who are determined NOT to see the disturbing aspects of our human civilizations, I think perhaps yet another vision which almost literally throws them back in our face may be helpful: it is so important to wake up and see ourselves as we are - an amazingly creative species which has powerful self-destructive tendencies when common sense is ignored. But I do see the aforementioned activist's point also, that young people need to have hope rooted in a determination to create the kind of world they would LIKE to live in, rather than giving them the sense that - no matter what they do - their best chance is only to survive in the world previous generations are busy foisting on their backs. The Occupy movement is just such a declaration of determination, as I see it: at its root it is a dramatic, vital, radical re-envisioning of human values and relationships, not just with each other, but with the earth itself... a powerful rejection of habitual negativity and short-sightedness. It says, to paraphrase the Hunger Games cry: "We shall make our own odds, in humanity's favor".
Monday, April 9, 2012
a start... 4th dimension
An example:
There is something to this mormon culture… now wait, let me make this clear: I don’t harbor ill or think it folly that some mormons truly connect with the cosmological principles of the LDS faith and see them as a perspective of part of the all that is (and here I feel defeat for yet unable to glance empirical vernacular and feel a bit begrudged for yet still cemented in the metaphysic form). But that doesn't allow us to forget and brush under the metaphorical rug the harmful practices of exploitation exercised by a patriarchal institution. Nonetheless, let's return to cosmology and according to a definition is:
- An account or theory of the origin of the universe. ----> here I would add "...of the origin and continuing evolution of the universe".
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So anywho, our species next evolutionary diffusement? Wrapping our mind (more like unwrapping our brain) around the 4th Dimension (sound the trumpets)! 2 break the dualism of ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ our self. As a collective (all fucking last one of us) face the tribunal (i.e. the liminal phase where we more or less are accepted or not into whatever margins we are touching that we have not yet entered) and then pass into what we could generalize as the 4th Dimension by being able to perceive and comprehend all that contains what our temporarily limited (not statically) perception allows. We will be able to glance back as we do now to the spatial references of the 2nd and 1st dimensions.
We need a lot of help and a holistic approach to complete such an intrinsic feat… that includes and not limited to cosmological perspectives (pagans, catholics, mormons, muslims, buddhist, hindu, wiccans, etc.), philosophies, metaphysical, mystics, wizard-like-folk … and what we majorly lack is the empirical approach of hard science. Let us begin.
Can we do it?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
unfinished "money" opinion.
We have to keep money out of occupy because that holds it in check only to grow as a true grassroots and populous movement. Money begets agenda…
- When necessity for money (e.g. bail funds, etc.) the populous will rally around cause and quickly bring funds forward. When fundraising is a motive to store up cash then the money is a forethought and agenda is directed toward that. And we all know what happens after that don’t we? Poop.
- If we want to get past a monetary system (which begets evil, 1% sorta thing!) we act as without that system (i.e. live our ideology directly) and without doing so only are doomed to repeat the continuous mistakes of past “revolutions”. Paradigm shift, not reform. Fuck reform.
- Keep money autonomous. One-time use, etc. when needed. Not appropriate to make an agenda that’s formulated around allocating money. Same ol’ same ol’ and does nothing to exemplify the change we desire. If we do not want an economic system which begets inequality, etc. (all the issues we harp and protest around) then we have to minimize our participation in such a system. Having a job is not a fault, especially when it’s to maintain a familial unit, but the fault is found in organizing in methods all too familiar to failure or exploitation. Example: let’s not ever lobby congress or raise money to have the funds to battle an issue. This creates alienation and marginalization of those who disagree. To remain grassroots one has to remain fiscally inept, “under-funded”, etc. so it cannot act as the corrupting/manipulating power that it is. The true rallying point is not the money raised and the direction that money takes when agenda is created, but rather, the ability to remain loosely organized, transparent, all-inclusive, etc. Money corrupts and takes us away from those grassroots principles. Money in Occupy will not get anymore of the 99% out in the streets than any other lobbying group, mainstream media news source, bourgeois NGO, etc. Occupy will then be lost to those elite groups pushing their own agendas rather than the agenda of the 99%. They will no longer be an appendage of this movement, i.e. the global paradigm shift.
- AGAIN, lack of money creates broad and general rallying cries which unify the 99%. On the other hand excess money creates competition between affinity groups who view their cause as more important and pressing than another. Let affinity groups store and constantly raise money and do with it as they wish.
- OCCUPY IS AN IDEA, IDEA’S ARE HARD PRESSED TO KEEP A FORM AND THAT IS ONE OF THE KEY SURVIVING ELEMENTS TO A MOVEMENT THAT OCCUPY SHOULD BE SYMBOLIZING. IF OCCUPY FAILS TO SYMBOLIZE THAT THEN ANOTHER SYMBOL WILL EMERGE AND THE REFERENT WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
the internet will save us
The internet will save us and those that want to control that will soon see that you cannot disband this community.
Welcome to the broadest, most diverse and all encompassing community ever created in our short human history.
How does one expect to gain control of that?
Beats me.
Simply, measures of legislation are a feeble attempt. Fortunate for the populous, legislation cannot control the flux of institutions that politics created -- then how can legislation and law enforcement control a culture, realm and entity that changes and morphs an enumerable amount of times in 24 hours?
Rather than fight it and attempt a few last power grabs the elite should acquiesce and participate positively in this paradigm shift that has initiated.
WE ARE IN AN ONTOLOGICAL SHIFT, TAKING ALL THE GOOD WE HAVE WITH US...WELCOME TO THE AGE OF US. ONE WORLD.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Divided we fall...
“Solidarity” can be defined as: Unity or agreement of feeling or action, esp. among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.
It is unity with mutuality: The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction.
(thanks online dictionaries)
As much as one can legitimately credit the 99%, Occupy and other affinity groups with the hashtag #winning (e.g. bank day transfer, SOPA temporary failure, change in national discourse, etc.) we must also consider in what forms the elite, or counter, has pushed back. Never should we forget that these are the masters of subtle tactics. Behind closed doors and in unknown locations there is talk of how to disrupt the momentum of the populous as it yawns and stretches its limbs, awakening from a long deep slumber. These parasites, who grab all they can in times of our slumber (i.e. apathy), have grown fearful but yet remain powerful and their greatest tactic is to see us die from within.
In-fighting is all that will bring us down. Our numbers are many and together we are the people so who is left to defeat us? Together there is no use for the term defeat, win, etc. Together we form the populous consensus and with that our future.
Let us be wary of marginalizing any group with which we should stand in complete solidarity even when we disagree with their tactics. Let us not denounce each other when the 1% exacts daily violence on whole populations. Discourse, critique, compromise, etc. are one thing. Marginalization is another. The 1% is “#winning” when we spend all our efforts to debate who is “right” or “wrong”. As David Graeber stated:
Since we are talking about Gandhian tactics here, why not consider the case of Gandhi himself? He had to deal with what to say about people who went much further than rock-throwing (even though Egyptians throwing rocks at police were already going much further than any US Black Bloc has). Gandhi was part of a very broad anti-colonial movement that included elements that actually were using firearms, in fact, elements engaged in outright terrorism. He first began to frame his own strategy of mass non-violent civil resistance in response to a debate over the act of an Indian nationalist who walked into the office of a British official and shot him five times in the face, killing him instantly. Gandhi made it clear that while he was opposed to murder under any circumstances, he also refused to denounce the murderer. This was a man who was trying to do the right thing, to act against an historical injustice, but did it in the wrong way because he was “drunk with a mad idea.”
Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly denounced in the media, just as non-violent anarchists are also always denounced in the media (and I might remark here that while not an anarchist himself, Gandhi was strongly influenced by anarchists like Kropotkin and Tolstoy), as a mere front for more violent, terroristic elements, with whom he was said to be secretly collaborating. He was regularly challenged to prove his non-violent credentials by assisting the authorities in suppressing such elements. Here Gandhi remained resolute. It is always morally superior, he insisted, to oppose injustice through non-violent means than through violent means. However, to oppose injustice through violent means is still morally superior to not doing anything to oppose injustice at all.
And Gandhi was talking about people who were blowing up trains, or assassinating government officials. Not damaging windows or spray-painting rude things about the police.
Link to Graeber article: here
Gandhi never denounced those who were, in some form or another, united in a cause against the brutal power of the 1% (in their time exercised in the form of colonialism). Today we fight the same concept and are opposed by the same type of power. In his time many elite attempted to pit those in that movement against one another. They were not successful. Nor should they be today.
Beware of those that would make this their main focus. Beware of those who would rather denounce an affinity group rather than the common opposition. For if that is their goal then they act as extensions of that opposition and play into the most subtle of their tactics. This tactic being: pit them against themselves and watch them destroy themselves from the inside-out.
Unfortunately for the 1% too many are now aware of this. We are too awake with eyes wide open. As those around you open their eyes be there as a companion, a friend, in solidarity – even when your ideologies stand so far from their own. We are in this together and mutually we will support each other. If you do not appreciate one’s tactics then do not participate or perpetuate that tactic or idea. If it comes to be the consensus of the populous then so be it. If it is not then let it go. Most of all, NEVER denounce a fellow 99percenter. By doing so the 1% maintains this violent scheme and wins by doing nothing – an age old tactic...but this time it will not work.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Rant #1
While many look up to elite for design and function they also are confused as to “what is” and “what isn’t” ours. The dismissal (in one’s own mind and group consciousness) of the legitimacy of these institutions (government, banks, academia, police-state authority, etc.) aids one in looking forward, backward, up down and all-around to gain true perspective of individual and group needs and the means necessary to organize and actualize one’s own inspirational design so long as it is not inherently violent to those with the desire to coexist in mutual respect and exchange.
-Strength, courage and perseverance .
Friday, January 6, 2012
99% -- expect us
The people have started to stir and in the serious/beautiful year of 2011 many of us were active in fanning the flames of anti-apathy. We will continue to do so. As the whole of us reach for a shift in our greater ontology while taking all the awesomeness we have with us to the ideal the 1% must know that many of us will not rest. 1% has much to fear. I do not speak of violence and tactics. I speak of their days being numbered. People are starting to care too much and that will eventually carry us from our literal and metaphorical lazy-boy chairs and couches to wherever it is that we are needed. We function as individuals, in many forms, but move as a whole in one and mutuality is an ingredient to the glue that will hold us together.
Look here for future messages and such concerning the new life rushing into the lungs of a formerly depleted and sedentary humanity. We are the 99% -- expect us.