Step off the planet for a moment
like an alien scientist
and watch the humans go about their business
civilizations rise and fall
Can we judge the humans?
Yes and No, like all great questions.
The Universal manifests in it's myriad ways
streams of matter and energy
always changing evolving
each unique temporal microcontext
a field entangled.
Who can judge what is manifest?
Is the universe wrong?
That we exist is the greatest kindness
That we suffer and die is the greatest cruelty
There is not one without the other
life seeks eternity, and finds it in the spiral
spinning and flying in time.
In the eternity of stars
the manifest planets of life have dreamt all this before
but with different sets and costumes
the rules of life are always the same
the minds that turn nature into technology into culture
the rules are the same
The wars are the same
Once you watched a few planets self-annihilate
you must admire cruelty and love, for it's manifestation.
All your faiths and sciences seek the unitary mind
it is every detail, and every question.
cultures rise on their knowledge of harvesting
food and spirit-mind. Every civilization programs it's members.
Every technological civilization evolves the universal communicator,
and universal knowledge server.
Cultures sustained themselves in the margins
thru 100000s of years of industrial pollution,
to a renaissance,
In the vast eternity the planets of life rarely speak to each other
but when they do, they find themselves, older or younger.
The question is still the answer
Until the cosmos turns and annihilation swallows all
was is always be
a field entangled.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Just doing my job by making it up as i go.
Zen Marxism: How to measure the value of everything? Impossible? Yet value is the driving force of our collective minds, a constant re-evaluation of circumstance, thought, action, result. Thought being the eternal energy that rebounds in our brain. "Eternal" fluff? It is false humility to say that humanity does not completely understand the forces that animate us? Is it conceit to feel pride and joy for our Earth? Gravity pulls our substance, it wants us to return. We lay down to sleep we surrender and our dreams come. We awaken and seek our desires, as actors in the ecosystem, residents of our biological niche, participants in the global mind. Value is the expression of seeking desire. Desire seeks material value and symbolic value.
Material value is the direct real sustenance such as food and housing. Like any other biological actor it is the pursuit of material values that sustains our life on a daily basis. It is because the gifts that the Earth provides that we are materially sustained. In the ideal(?!) ecological niche (the garden of Eden?) we gather food and prepare sumptious feasts, make art, music, drum and word. Pastoral idealism? It is also the model that has sustained humanity since the human animal became an artist. In this we are sustained as we have always been, by the great gifts of the Earth, including those that we can craft of our given art. Much is made of tool making as the definitive mark of intelligence, differentiating us from animals, despite many instances of animal tool making. It is the use of the tools that differentiates humans, because humans use the tools to create artcraft. The most most basic of human nerve wiring is to craft things, to make things.
The most basic teacher of art is nature, which provides us with the materials we need to craft what we may dream of, dreams which have us now examining the core of creation. It is the work of humanity that creates all of the extra values that civilization and trade provide, above that available freely from nature. Yes I am after a Labor Theory of Value here, since mass production relies on workers to make products with value.
Symbolic value is "branding" or psychic value. Psychic values derive from the joy of fufillment, such as the joy of a thirsty hiker finding water, the joy of dance word music, the joy of organic release. The strong bonding of Material and Psychic fufullment enable the placebo effect, wherein an commodoty is embued with psychic value, while possibly having no or negative material value. Most notably the disposable impulse buy, like a logoed keychain.
Ultimately our psychic desires are ruled by water, and so civilizations rise on their aqueducts.
Symbolic value rules marketing. Water, air, earth and fire are conveniently anthropomorphed into the gods and goddesses, and as whimsical as the weather, for our lives are truly ruled by these. The machinations of nature resembles a committee more that a king, as always it is the interactions of the many forces that determine fate. Our symbolic psychic desires are iconized into anthropomorphic, animistic, and "evil" gods and goddesses. This is the artistic metaphor, to insert gods between us and the forces we cannot control, that we may pretend to have a supernatural mediator in our negotiations with fate, that we may adorn them with our hope, desire, and wisdom.
Material value is the direct real sustenance such as food and housing. Like any other biological actor it is the pursuit of material values that sustains our life on a daily basis. It is because the gifts that the Earth provides that we are materially sustained. In the ideal(?!) ecological niche (the garden of Eden?) we gather food and prepare sumptious feasts, make art, music, drum and word. Pastoral idealism? It is also the model that has sustained humanity since the human animal became an artist. In this we are sustained as we have always been, by the great gifts of the Earth, including those that we can craft of our given art. Much is made of tool making as the definitive mark of intelligence, differentiating us from animals, despite many instances of animal tool making. It is the use of the tools that differentiates humans, because humans use the tools to create artcraft. The most most basic of human nerve wiring is to craft things, to make things.
The most basic teacher of art is nature, which provides us with the materials we need to craft what we may dream of, dreams which have us now examining the core of creation. It is the work of humanity that creates all of the extra values that civilization and trade provide, above that available freely from nature. Yes I am after a Labor Theory of Value here, since mass production relies on workers to make products with value.
Symbolic value is "branding" or psychic value. Psychic values derive from the joy of fufillment, such as the joy of a thirsty hiker finding water, the joy of dance word music, the joy of organic release. The strong bonding of Material and Psychic fufullment enable the placebo effect, wherein an commodoty is embued with psychic value, while possibly having no or negative material value. Most notably the disposable impulse buy, like a logoed keychain.
Ultimately our psychic desires are ruled by water, and so civilizations rise on their aqueducts.
Symbolic value rules marketing. Water, air, earth and fire are conveniently anthropomorphed into the gods and goddesses, and as whimsical as the weather, for our lives are truly ruled by these. The machinations of nature resembles a committee more that a king, as always it is the interactions of the many forces that determine fate. Our symbolic psychic desires are iconized into anthropomorphic, animistic, and "evil" gods and goddesses. This is the artistic metaphor, to insert gods between us and the forces we cannot control, that we may pretend to have a supernatural mediator in our negotiations with fate, that we may adorn them with our hope, desire, and wisdom.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
The Coming Orgy of Exhibitionism and Voyeurism
You are either promoting yourself or listening to someone else promote themselves.
Wireless ultrawideband-encrypted solar powered eye, you are my omnipresence.
Undetectable, ubiquitous. Big Brother is here and he is you.
Inquiring minds want drama and the whole world's a stage.
Can humanity live without privacy?
It can. Get over yourself.
You are more like everybody else than you are different.
Live loud, see the truth about the world,
listen to all the voices and your own heart.
See how we all live, and seize the time to end war and invest in all of humanity.
Wireless ultrawideband-encrypted solar powered eye, you are my omnipresence.
Undetectable, ubiquitous. Big Brother is here and he is you.
Inquiring minds want drama and the whole world's a stage.
Can humanity live without privacy?
It can. Get over yourself.
You are more like everybody else than you are different.
Live loud, see the truth about the world,
listen to all the voices and your own heart.
See how we all live, and seize the time to end war and invest in all of humanity.
Friday, May 18, 2007
From our discussions on the World Bank
The World Bank - their own home page
http://www.worldbank.org/
The EIR recommendations were published in January 2004 in a final report entitled "Striking a Better Balance",[3]. The report concluded that fossil fuel and mining projects do not alleviate poverty, and recommended that World Bank involvement with these sectors be phased out by 2008 to be replaced by investment in renewable energy and clean energy. - Rejected by board.
In her book Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations (1996), author Catherine Caufield makes a sharp criticism of the assumptions and structure of the World Bank operation, arguing that at the end it harms southern nations rather than promoting them. In terms of assumption, Caufield first criticizes the highly homogenized and Western recipes of “development” held by the Bank. To the World Bank, different nations and regions are indistinguishable, and ready to receive the “uniform remedy of development”. The danger of this assumption is that to attain even small portions of success, western approaches to life are adopted and traditional economic structures and values are abandoned. A second assumption is that poor countries cannot modernize without money and advice from abroad. This generates a cycle of indebtedness that with the payment of interest means currently a net transfer from the poor to the rich nations of $1.7 billion yearly.[citation needed]
In terms of the structure of the bank, Caufield criticizes two elements. First, the structure of repayment; the Bank is a lender of foreign currency and demands to be repaid in the same currency. The borrower countries, in order to obtain the currencies to repay the loans, must sell to the rich countries more than they buy from them. However, the rich countries want to be net exporters, not importers. This generates “the transfer problem”, often the only way of repaying loans is to engage in other loans, resulting in an accumulation of debts. Second, she criticizes the high influence of the bank over national sovereignty. As a condition of the credit, the Bank offers advice on how countries should manage their finances, make their laws, provide services, and conduct themselves in the international market. The Bank has great power of persuasion, because if it decides to ostracize a borrower, other major international powers will follow the lead. On top of this, by excessive lending, the Bank has added to its own power and depleted that of its borrowers, generating a blatant inconsistency with its stated mission.
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/ - World Bank Publications
http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/GMIS/home.do?siteId=2
http://www.whirledbank.org/ - satire
http://www.infodev.org/en/index.html
http://www.econjustice.net/wbbb/ - World Bank Bonds Boycott
http://www.50years.org/ US network for Global Economic Justice
http://www.worldbankpresident.org/ - discussion on Wolfie and who's next.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=World_Bank - Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wbimf/ - World Bank and IMF
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/index.htm
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback) by John Perkins
Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin
------------------------------------------------
Turkey -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3432.htm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3432.htm
http://www.foreignpolicy.org.tr/
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America's Idiotic Political Debates
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/von_hoffman
Vice President's Remarks at a Rally for U.S. Troops at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070510-5.html
The Good American
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070510_the_good_american/
‘Legal Stealing’
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070510_legal_stealing/
Shoot an Iraqi over the Internet
http://www.artthreat.net/2007/05/210
Mother's Day for Peace
http://mothersdayforpeace.com/index.php
http://www.robertgreenwald.org/
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/greenwald
Political Animal - note: Economic Update
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2077241,00.html
http://www.worldbank.org/
The EIR recommendations were published in January 2004 in a final report entitled "Striking a Better Balance",[3]. The report concluded that fossil fuel and mining projects do not alleviate poverty, and recommended that World Bank involvement with these sectors be phased out by 2008 to be replaced by investment in renewable energy and clean energy. - Rejected by board.
In her book Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations (1996), author Catherine Caufield makes a sharp criticism of the assumptions and structure of the World Bank operation, arguing that at the end it harms southern nations rather than promoting them. In terms of assumption, Caufield first criticizes the highly homogenized and Western recipes of “development” held by the Bank. To the World Bank, different nations and regions are indistinguishable, and ready to receive the “uniform remedy of development”. The danger of this assumption is that to attain even small portions of success, western approaches to life are adopted and traditional economic structures and values are abandoned. A second assumption is that poor countries cannot modernize without money and advice from abroad. This generates a cycle of indebtedness that with the payment of interest means currently a net transfer from the poor to the rich nations of $1.7 billion yearly.[citation needed]
In terms of the structure of the bank, Caufield criticizes two elements. First, the structure of repayment; the Bank is a lender of foreign currency and demands to be repaid in the same currency. The borrower countries, in order to obtain the currencies to repay the loans, must sell to the rich countries more than they buy from them. However, the rich countries want to be net exporters, not importers. This generates “the transfer problem”, often the only way of repaying loans is to engage in other loans, resulting in an accumulation of debts. Second, she criticizes the high influence of the bank over national sovereignty. As a condition of the credit, the Bank offers advice on how countries should manage their finances, make their laws, provide services, and conduct themselves in the international market. The Bank has great power of persuasion, because if it decides to ostracize a borrower, other major international powers will follow the lead. On top of this, by excessive lending, the Bank has added to its own power and depleted that of its borrowers, generating a blatant inconsistency with its stated mission.
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/ - World Bank Publications
http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/GMIS/home.do?siteId=2
http://www.whirledbank.org/ - satire
http://www.infodev.org/en/index.html
http://www.econjustice.net/wbbb/ - World Bank Bonds Boycott
http://www.50years.org/ US network for Global Economic Justice
http://www.worldbankpresident.org/ - discussion on Wolfie and who's next.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=World_Bank - Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wbimf/ - World Bank and IMF
http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/index.htm
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback) by John Perkins
Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin
------------------------------------------------
Turkey -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3432.htm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3432.htm
http://www.foreignpolicy.org.tr/
----------------------------------------
America's Idiotic Political Debates
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/von_hoffman
Vice President's Remarks at a Rally for U.S. Troops at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070510-5.html
The Good American
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070510_the_good_american/
‘Legal Stealing’
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070510_legal_stealing/
Shoot an Iraqi over the Internet
http://www.artthreat.net/2007/05/210
Mother's Day for Peace
http://mothersdayforpeace.com/index.php
http://www.robertgreenwald.org/
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070521/greenwald
Political Animal - note: Economic Update
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2077241,00.html
A Perspective on Ireland from our Political Discussions at the Conscious Lounge
http://irelandsown.net/
Y: My daughter lives in Dublin now, works there. I visited her last December. we drove to Belfast one day and took one of those black taxi tours.
K: Very sad place, isn't it?
Y: It was quite interesting.
K: (Belfast)
Y: Yes, it's sad, but at the same time I felt a grain of hope.
K: I don't see much hope for a united ireland in the next 10 years,
and we have other problems. Education, drugs, illiteracy in the north, gangs, organized crime
Y: I was struck by the difference between the the Catholic an Protestant neighborhoods.
K: Our Teoseach Bertie Ahern is a corrupt bastard,
K: And our beloved president (Who I totally support.) REFUSES to come out of the closet! :p
Aye Something like 60 odd percent?
I forget the exact number - of NI families, are living off of welfare. It's horrible.
Alot of those nicer protestant areas are former catholic areas too -
K: in the 70s, the prods had alot of riots, drove the catholics out of their homes.
K: That's why the PIRA had to step in, but it was too late.
Y: My impression was that the Catholic area was cleaner and more prosperous than the Protestant area.
K: You must remember cleanliness is next to godliness for them ;)
Y: But I couldn't feel too sorry for the Protestants.
K: Remember that not all protestants are unionists, there are many protestants who want a united Ireland.The greatest Irish Republican hero, Wolfe Tone, was a protestant who died for a united ireland.
Y: How do you explain the troubles?
K: Just as many of the murderers on the british SAS teams were catholic.
The troubles arose out of, of all things, bad policing. And the fact that the Republic of Ireland did nothing to lobby for home rule in the north, after the war of independance. It was too busy trying to settle itself down. So, we have 6 countys up there in the 60s, and it's a time of social disobedience and change. The catholics complain that even though there is a seperate NI Parliament, it is entirely protestent and that they are being driven out of all the good jobs.
And all this is true 0f the police force was also 90 percent protestant, and there was a good amount of injustice. So the english say "Alright, we'll protect you Catholics as we consider you fellow Englishmen!" How noble. So they send in the military to "protect the catholic population from discrimination" And the protestants are not happy - they start to riot and loot.
And the british army, mostly protestant, and the police, mostly protestant, Do nothing.
They simply back off, cordon off government areas, and let the protestants do their thing.
It was alot like the american Zoot Suit riots. So, the catholics feel a little put out, and the troubles began - the IRA sent up weapons to the north, and the PIRA split out of them and began an agressive campaign, Killing soldiers and Unionist paramilitary members,
meanwhile, the unionist paramilitarys, with intel provided by the british army, don't just attack the IRA, they kill catholic civilians. Anyway, it's a mess.
Y: By unionist you mean pro UK?
K: You can read more at IrelandsOWN.net Unionist means, someone who believes that all of ireland, and the north currently, should be considered part of the United Kingdom, yes.
There are also Scottish Unionists, Welsh Unionists, Cornwallish Unionists, and Manx Unionists.
For a good level headed look at the troubles, and the current situation, I recommend you read "Rebel Hearts" By Kevin Toolis.
Y: My daughter lives in Dublin now, works there. I visited her last December. we drove to Belfast one day and took one of those black taxi tours.
K: Very sad place, isn't it?
Y: It was quite interesting.
K: (Belfast)
Y: Yes, it's sad, but at the same time I felt a grain of hope.
K: I don't see much hope for a united ireland in the next 10 years,
and we have other problems. Education, drugs, illiteracy in the north, gangs, organized crime
Y: I was struck by the difference between the the Catholic an Protestant neighborhoods.
K: Our Teoseach Bertie Ahern is a corrupt bastard,
K: And our beloved president (Who I totally support.) REFUSES to come out of the closet! :p
Aye Something like 60 odd percent?
I forget the exact number - of NI families, are living off of welfare. It's horrible.
Alot of those nicer protestant areas are former catholic areas too -
K: in the 70s, the prods had alot of riots, drove the catholics out of their homes.
K: That's why the PIRA had to step in, but it was too late.
Y: My impression was that the Catholic area was cleaner and more prosperous than the Protestant area.
K: You must remember cleanliness is next to godliness for them ;)
Y: But I couldn't feel too sorry for the Protestants.
K: Remember that not all protestants are unionists, there are many protestants who want a united Ireland.The greatest Irish Republican hero, Wolfe Tone, was a protestant who died for a united ireland.
Y: How do you explain the troubles?
K: Just as many of the murderers on the british SAS teams were catholic.
The troubles arose out of, of all things, bad policing. And the fact that the Republic of Ireland did nothing to lobby for home rule in the north, after the war of independance. It was too busy trying to settle itself down. So, we have 6 countys up there in the 60s, and it's a time of social disobedience and change. The catholics complain that even though there is a seperate NI Parliament, it is entirely protestent and that they are being driven out of all the good jobs.
And all this is true 0f the police force was also 90 percent protestant, and there was a good amount of injustice. So the english say "Alright, we'll protect you Catholics as we consider you fellow Englishmen!" How noble. So they send in the military to "protect the catholic population from discrimination" And the protestants are not happy - they start to riot and loot.
And the british army, mostly protestant, and the police, mostly protestant, Do nothing.
They simply back off, cordon off government areas, and let the protestants do their thing.
It was alot like the american Zoot Suit riots. So, the catholics feel a little put out, and the troubles began - the IRA sent up weapons to the north, and the PIRA split out of them and began an agressive campaign, Killing soldiers and Unionist paramilitary members,
meanwhile, the unionist paramilitarys, with intel provided by the british army, don't just attack the IRA, they kill catholic civilians. Anyway, it's a mess.
Y: By unionist you mean pro UK?
K: You can read more at IrelandsOWN.net Unionist means, someone who believes that all of ireland, and the north currently, should be considered part of the United Kingdom, yes.
There are also Scottish Unionists, Welsh Unionists, Cornwallish Unionists, and Manx Unionists.
For a good level headed look at the troubles, and the current situation, I recommend you read "Rebel Hearts" By Kevin Toolis.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Flickr Photos of Second Life Politics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/venicevandal/sets/72157594474252794/
Ordained For Peace
I have adopted the character of Reverend Billy,
shouting PEACE-A-LUJAH from the Capitol.
"Shopocalypse! Shopocalypse! Shopocalypse! - save your soul if you can we may be doomed by nightfall!
Peacealujah Brothers and Sisters, we must lead the way to the promised land.
We must exorcise the cash register, of the evil within it
Let's leave now, children! Starbucks is over!
We are drowning is a sea of identical details.
We all must join together with the Church of Stop Shopping!"
My Poster and Art display on Progressive Island is part of a "Revolutions" exhibition.
The SLLA continue to call for Avatar Democracy. There was a LATIMES front page article about the Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA). Then more interviews and articles, especially channel 4, a british channel. The journalists would tend to play up the terrorist angle, but SL is cartoon violence. I'm really more into networking and talking about real world democracy, but I enjoy a good demonstration and theatrical political statements....
I got bombed by the "Patriotic Nigras" on Progressive Island. They are 15 year olds I hear.
Shit covered penis image bomb, so gross jerks! It's just for lulz...laughs, junior mayhem.
We plan for a Earth-Day to May Day period of celebration. I need volunteer models for a photo session to duplicate a Walter Cranes May Day drawing with avatars.
shouting PEACE-A-LUJAH from the Capitol.
"Shopocalypse! Shopocalypse! Shopocalypse! - save your soul if you can we may be doomed by nightfall!
Peacealujah Brothers and Sisters, we must lead the way to the promised land.
We must exorcise the cash register, of the evil within it
Let's leave now, children! Starbucks is over!
We are drowning is a sea of identical details.
We all must join together with the Church of Stop Shopping!"
My Poster and Art display on Progressive Island is part of a "Revolutions" exhibition.
The SLLA continue to call for Avatar Democracy. There was a LATIMES front page article about the Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA). Then more interviews and articles, especially channel 4, a british channel. The journalists would tend to play up the terrorist angle, but SL is cartoon violence. I'm really more into networking and talking about real world democracy, but I enjoy a good demonstration and theatrical political statements....
I got bombed by the "Patriotic Nigras" on Progressive Island. They are 15 year olds I hear.
Shit covered penis image bomb, so gross jerks! It's just for lulz...laughs, junior mayhem.
We plan for a Earth-Day to May Day period of celebration. I need volunteer models for a photo session to duplicate a Walter Cranes May Day drawing with avatars.
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