July 2011
2 posts
Whilst Away
The theories of Paulo Freire on oppression are only theoretical. I speak about this being yet on page 50 of the book but while what he speaks is true, it is only useful to a theoretical purpose. Any application of the deliverance from oppression is actually conflict resolution. Conflict resolution is important and is important to the topic of oppression but there is no person without the...
With the Appeal
If every action, you were responsible in the eyes of everyone you know, what then would be different of the way you act? Only your thoughts to yourself, what things would you not do? What’s the point of being existential when you don’t have to account for your actions permanently?
Theory: “If entry and exit are too easy, commitment, trustworthiness, and reciprocity will not...
June 2011
3 posts
Differencing
Actively changing stuff is all good for the attempt. The reality is things are always changing regardless of your attempts. Hoping to make things change because you feel they aren’t just means you aren’t really paying attention to the ever present change. Thinking things aren’t changing and that we need to change things, means you’re stuck in an old way of thinking. This...
Weak Current – Social Capital
In 2000 Robert Putnam wrote a book entitled Bowling Alone. He detailed the collapse in social capital over the last third of the twenty-first century. Social capital is human networking. There are three different types of capital, understanding the difference helps us understand social capital. Economic capital is the most familiar use of the term capital. This capital is about monetary wealth,...
Looking through the bottle's neck.
There are documentaries about global issues. I dare not say about every global issue because there has yet to be a documentary about over population. I just watched a great documentary about the industrialization of water. Honestly one of the most basic things is being commodified and sold to people at a higher price than it was originally (free). The amount of control this puts into corporations...
May 2011
1 post
Response to your instruction
Spoken word less heard with ears on inside thighs
Soft lips moving hips a language being spoken
Deaf ears the world writes and speaks with hand.
Between thighs much more spoken.
Soft cozy creation of life being mined and left forgotten
in the language of discussion.
Feminists erecting picket signs.
Deaf culture creating a voice.
Emerson speeches world wide
to a graduating classes of...
April 2011
5 posts
Sound not heard.
Between them there sat a Rubik’s Cube, a puzzle that normally meets the player with a spatial confusion. He has been teacher her to solve it using a coded formulation that redefines the six sides of any room you are in for the rest of your life.
“When you try to solve it make sure the yellow side faces West and the blue side faces up. That way you will always have a better...
humorously
The answers are never simple. Anarchy, feed the starving children, raise third world standards up to first world comforts, lower the human population, religion, dissolve the civilization structures, destroy dams, free animals, stop eating meat, increase education standards, communism, democracy, capitalism. These are all easy solutions for our problem. Any problem can be boiled down to a...
Pre-humously
The weather is exactly how it was predicted. Jake was walking to Balbo Park and he noticed three small clouds in the sky, just big enough to take turns providing shade. The wind wasn’t blowing. It wasn’t too hot but just warm enough so the sweater Jake always wore regardless of the temperature, started making him uncomfortable. He was on his was to a spot of tourism so he could...
Symptoms
Pick any philanthropic avenue and in the spirit of post modernism I can detail what is wrong with this specific area of ‘help’. The big problem is that no matter what philanthropy you choose it is a symptom of a larger problem and that by alleviating the symptom and not addressing the problem, nothing philanthropic is really making a difference, just alleviating a symptom and...
The person holding the chainsaw
What are you doing? You’re about to cut down a tree. I know this is just your job. You need a job and this is what you know how to do. There is a whole system out there that you cannot be considered responsible for. You didn’t create the desire for trees, but there is a market out there for trees. This is just your small participation in a whole system that you aren’t...
March 2011
3 posts
Coffee Filter
He started searching for places to submit to. It was as if there were an endless amount of possibilities. People constantly gave him different references. “This place has writers interested in the same things as you. The audience is practically already there.” He submitted. Waited a week. He waited another week. Then rejection came.
Submission after submission, he...
Sustainable Development
“How did anyone survive without cell phones?” Brad knew his question was rhetorical. He understood the world once existed without a bulk of the technologies we have now. He is aware everyday of the convenience he lives upon. His job is in international importation law. He knows where resources are allowed to come from, where they go, why things cost so much or so little. He was...
The reason we are not equal
When you step up the pyramid,
you step on me. Keep climbing
Hope for the top. When you get there
Leave crumbs, maybe you’ll remember where you came from.
Consider those crumbs charity, giving to the less fortunate, less successful.
Keep climbing, keep building the human pyramid
Have babies, they are adorable stepping stones.
February 2011
2 posts
Assassins
There is a common theme in movies about high paid assassins and I’d like to explore the reason behind biting the hand that feeds. From Bourne Identity to the current The Mechanic and countless others, assassins seem to be destroying the very system that has made them assassins and has made them rich. Is this just the structure of the assassin world or are we actually interested in removing the...
Not Enough
I do my best thinking on the merry-go-round. Not A+ work all the time, it isn’t a miracle worker, but I’ve learned that if I go just fast enough to make everything a blur but not so fast that I get sick, I start thinking from new points of view, different angles, and the blur becomes more defined.
Walking home from school yesterday, as I normally do on non-rainy days, I...
November 2010
1 post
Barefoot Scrivenger
The Barefoot Bandit was arrested today, and I sat in my kitchen and read about him and his adventure. While he was commandeering planes from run ways, teaching himself how to fly just by putting himself in the pilot seat, flying himself to the Bahamas and living in the woods, I spoke with a convicted criminal about the best way to make an appeal. He was convicted of burning government...
October 2010
3 posts
Above the Crowd Sourcing
Holding hands like a business meeting
when I got above the people
I could see the division of labor.
The cogs and wooden toy soldiers
they diversified like moths
at the first street light.
Holding hands with each stranger
never wondering where they
fit in...
Disaster Us
Moving bookcases speaking for
The tectonic plates
Translations of world history
Filtering through coin machines.
Commodified Johnny sits eating
A seedless apple
Rivers sifted for gold
Captured, bottled, and sent up stream.
The low self esteem...
Drinking a bottle of Dorian Grey
Competitively melancholy, he aged like Charles Bukowski. He learned how to tie his tie, from Hunter S. Thompson. He took notes from Hamlet and dreamed he might be the next Kurt Cobain. All the sadness he could muster couldn’t make him frown, Because unlike all of them, he felt he knew the problem. The solution could be quite simple if we all stopped living as if alone. We just had to start...
August 2010
2 posts
Differences
The difference between myself and all the other people who woke up this morning is shrinking with each morning. I’ve enjoyed thinking of myself as special but the world is becoming increasingly the same with each passing day, and it isn’t just the cultural diversity that is disappearing, it is the biological diversity that is decreasing as well. There are more humans that wake up every morning and...
Peace Signs
If you advocate Peace, I encourage you not just to think about the end of war but the cause of war. I do not advocate war but I’ve yet to meet a person who advocates peace whom also has an understanding of the violence caused by importation and exportation. Peace is really a hollow misrepresentation of our exploitive capitalist fundamentalism.
Peace being such a red herring has turned its...
July 2010
2 posts
Interested in Mental Health? 5150?
Talking to people further away is easier, does this help us psychologically or hurt us? Do we promote healthy community lives or do we encourage an unhealthy amount of solitude?
When you can meet a new person everyday for the rest of your life, how important do we treat our relationships?
Is there a connection with the rise in the percentage of depression, and the continued disappearance of real...
The Voice of Ghost Acreage:
“If you build it, they will come.”
http://math.berkeley.edu/~galen/popclk.html
June 2010
1 post
Areopagitica
It is a wonder trying to figure out what needs to be said. So many artists with well defined methods and no matter how well they say something, you have to wonder, is what they are saying important to them?
It is important to be prolific, just like it is important to use big words, but the real importance should always be the importance of what is being said.
When someone asks you a question, in...
May 2010
1 post
When is there one right way to do anything?
Is there one right way to open a door?
Is there one right way…
to eat.
to sleep.
to do a math problem.
to drive a car.
Is there ever one right way to do anything?
If you do find one right way to do something, does this mean it is the right way for everyone to do this same thing?
What is tradition, what is policy and procedure? These are people saying there is one right way to do...
April 2010
3 posts
Seven Billion
The problem isn’t that you make waste. That is very normal. Nature expects you to make waste and has a process and a use for your waste. The problem is that there are seven billion people making waste, and that isn’t normal. Why do we pretend like helping the planet is a personal issue. If each personal minimizes their waste output we could minimize our impact, doesn’t take into...
Earth Day is such a sad day.
TED talks pisses me off sometimes. This video ( http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_builds_green.html ) is such bullshit that it isn’t even funny. If you haven’t seen First Earth, youtube it, and then you’ll understand why.
Also vegetarianism doesn’t help conserve shit.
At my work they had a booth in the employee break room to help the employees observe Earth Day. I...
Boss man.
Hierarchy. It’s made up. In our collective heads. The origins of hierarchy were before logic. Humans are social creatures. The hierarchy we now pretend is real, isn’t real. It’s enforced hierarchy by us collectively. Too many people work jobs where they understand and obey the hierarchy. After obeying it long enough, they cling to it. If they make it up the hierarchy they think...
March 2010
1 post
With regard to thinking as a practice and not...
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle
February 2010
1 post
References List: random 2-26-10
No reference reflects my thoughts entire, no conspiracy theory represents my thoughts, all references should be seen as an opportunity to think about things differently. Believe nothing and everything, just make a practice of thinking, inside and outside the box, laterally and vertically, think about things you agree and disagree with, think about yourself and the ‘other’. Think and...
January 2010
1 post
"Seeking pupil with an [Earnest Desire] to save...
Pavlov was a Russian psychologist who developed a technique for training dogs through association with their physical needs. He is famous for being able to make dogs salivate by the sound of a tuning fork. He came up with a good pattern of learning and a perfect explanation of apathy and procrastination.
Our physical needs are becoming increasingly more and more disconnected with the things we...
December 2009
2 posts
Question "Who am I?" - Identity in purpose.
“Why am I?” —— Why is an exponential question, that if asked enough, always leads to some form of theological understanding. Of course your perception of the ultimate “why are we here?” plays a part in how you interact with here and now. I’ve said it before, but again here, if you think your actions in this life (now) will have an effect on a different...
Question "Who am I?"- Identity as a place.
“Where are you from?” ———— When I am asked this question I rarely repeat the same answer as before. I am often tempted to, when asked, think up a new response to this question because most of the thoughts I have put into answering this question is too long to say when responding to the individual who asked it and is usually only attempting to make small...
November 2009
2 posts
Momento Vita
The back right fender of the car was hit while I was going seventy miles an hour on a busy freeway. I was driving to a special appointment autopsy class, where we were going to be introduced to cadavers for the first time. Bodies donated to science, or as I liked to think about them, the poor people we study, so the rich might be able to live longer.
The great thing is I didn’t panic. Some person...
No such thing as a private sunrise.
Every living creature does not die alone.
You are not alone.
Loneliness is an imaginary sickness designed to make us reproduce and want to live forever.
October 2009
6 posts
A pawn, the throne.
There once was a pawn,
Who fell in love with a king.
The king knew and cried a tear.
He said, “I’m not a king and you’re not a pawn
but that you’ll never know
so this won’t work.”
Pawn: “Just make me a queen and we can make it.”
King: “You’ll never be a queen, it’s not possible.
I could think you a queen but you never...
Tympanic Interpretations
. . … . . … . . …
the strong don’t kill the weak, but they might let them die
diversity created you, and now you bite the hand that feeds
the keystone species of the globe is soon gonna die, and we sit around wondering what to try
don’t be angry with the blind, because they can’t see. just keep telling them what the world looks like
hope enough filter through...
Lean on me
As a social commentary I wish I could see an animated version of an Rx pill singing Bill Withers’ _Lean On Me_…
Centralization of Power- Chapter One: Gender
There are certainly natural centralizations of power within gender. As explained in the intro they are not necessarily required in our current social situations, but the way humans are made, there have been social structures in place in our history and they have had uses in gender.
A family living off the land might for instance run into a period of scarce resources, and the priority to the...
Centralization of Power (of resources): Intro
First there are some centralizations of power in the social structures outside of humans. The social structure of wolves for instance is a place to look at the ‘alpha’ male, which arguably might be a projection of our social structures on to these wolves, but they certainly have a social structure. When looking at the social structures of other animals we do need to understand that...
overboard
The sinking ship… is the best metaphor for most argument that goes on.
I heard on the radio while I was on my way to work, two hosts making popular argument about the creation of man. I don’t even care to get into what I actually think about the creation of life on earth and how man came about, what I really wonder is why this argument itself is so popular compared with what this...
September 2009
3 posts
Choose wisely
Your inabilities reflect your choices.
Religion...
Just thinking your actions will have a consequence in another life diminishes the idea that you are fully responsible for your actions in this life.
Lissener
There are always complications on where to start because it is so difficult to see and understand what a beginning is, when in reality there is no beginning. So this discussion will start with what it means to lissen. Often times there is a connection between listening and talking, but this connection is not part of the definition of a lissener. Lissening is meant as observation and perception of...
August 2009
2 posts
Those moments when you feel truely inspired by...
What’s the difference between killing a carrot and killing a cow?
What is there to fear about Anarachy?
discussions of 'what is art'?
Art isn’t just a talent. It upsets me when I find myself around a group of talented individuals who don’t really have anything to tell the world. They have the skill to say anything, so they recreate the same messages of their favorite art, in their own style. They don’t even think about what they are saying though.
I was with some talented musicians the other night and they...