Saturday

The wise man says: 

'Hell has been veiled with desires

and paradise has been veiled with hardships.'

The ruler no longer says:

“You must think as I do or die”.

Now he says:

“You are free not to think as I do;

your life, your property,

everything shall remain yours,

but from this day on

you are

a stranger

among us.”

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The consumer is directed towards their desires

which are shaped and formed by the collective as such.

In films it is more strictly forbidden for an illegitimate relationship to be admitted without the parties being punished than for a millionaire’s future son-in-law to be active in the labour movement.

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Canadian pianist 

Glen Gould of the Goldberg variation fame

is described as technically proficient

but alas not very deep…can we say lacking soul

succumbing to his individual neuroses and vanity 

he put his art above all…that hallowed place of

                       art for arts sake.

It was not in service of a political or social cause

even this attempt is greater than the cookie cutter

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advertise the artistic expressions of industrial culture

gray, drab, depressing with out the flourish of work

you have entered the matrix

nothing that is a part can oppose…

she’s a  beauty…

absorbing the technical proficiency of man

in the service of self destruction…

or perhaps it is merely

a failure of the human spirit as Robert Fisk commentates

and we are only talking in technicalities.  

….

a fundamental rule…

you lose and are not free…

you are bound by social and just laws

as in never, always…normal.

You have been

commodified,

quantisized,

infantalized

derived,

manipulated and

finally exploited

as dreams become

abstract and pervasive.

On a personal note:

Getting video camera cleaned

and tuned up for trip to egypt.

where i volunteer the head guy says

“We got to sell some books,”

pointing to boxes of international organizing

which use to be about labor union…

the three prong plan

(capitalism)

1.lend them(poor people in poor countries) money known fondly as microfinance

2.let them(poor people in poor countries) work cheaply                                     and send a little money home benignly called remittances

3. those who have been living of the land give them title

i.e.

identify poor people as owners

to support the system they oppose.

these are the “hot, trending” topics

in the international development

community. 

earth

…here before and will be after…

possession is theft as the LV brothers remind

….

rulers of nature by

sheer hubris and reason…

we can only imagine…

a fish in water

creators of rules and laws

abide strenuously…

preserve/protect

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by “identifying” 

as the right 

the “other”

is dispensable  

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now in rich suburbs in the first world

we address more serious problems…

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the matrix is massive and self encompassing

with the many no choices of consumerism…

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Adorno’s negative dialect

which was merely in answer

to Hegels positive one,

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i’ll explain:

The dialect

thesis…antithesis…and then synthesis

which in Hegels view was transcendant and inclusive

Ardornoes view maybe not so optimistic.

Hegel believed we would evolve?solve

the grinding wheel of oppression

spun innocuously

 

alcohol problem

drink while you think 

 

I use to watch this woman use 

and complain about the crack

not in terms of quality

but in terms of effect.

 

It offered a glimpse

into her tortured existence

The system perpetuates the system…

i believe she quit.

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the leaders of our society

are statisticians and actuaries

ok the power brokers

quantify

we are strangers  

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whatever humanity we had left

we exploded into the hedonistic sixties

and an orgies of rights…

this non beginning 

has ended in a liberated peoplehood 

and a selfish unthinking disaster…

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

war on Iraq…

the enforced starvation of children

then full on war fare…

violence at very young ages…

in bourgeoisie society

the traumas are dissimilar

to a fathers leg blown off

and you back full of shrapnel…

or maybe just cluster

bomblets in your ankles…

without support

as US soldiers appear

and fire rains 

in the haze.

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The authoritarian figure 

where we perhaps

demand our parents’ love

we were only children…

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treat us with the love and respect

we deserved say the disadvantaged

or so the privileged believe 

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uniqueness and specialness

which by definition

sorry we can not all have

unique means not the same…

special means in a rare way…

not the subtlety and nuance

of one sided conformity

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