Thursday

Poems for the Shaw

has been typed out again

and upon a closer reading

this is a twisted love story

                         and a labor move

the elements are not bouncing of one another as much as i would like…

and i can not remember all of it that well…

it was ten years ago as of November…

so i still have time

though i don’t really want to do this for the rest of my life…

Art

does one orphan a piece of art or is it constantly evolving…is it ever time to let  go…does one feel this way about a child…do we have influence…

 

we assume that cognizant progress is on par with our biological development and pointedly we have a large complicated brain…are we evolving?   is art?

Nature

one reason to be suspicious of capitalism is the amount of waste…just think advertising,

professional sports…

they took something we loved as children and made it into a transaction…

their is barely any street in basketball anymore…

nash is cool…

from a private school on an island in canada …

i thought those inner city usa schools a little tougher…

The professionals 

are over coached

the guys playing on the street got schooled on the playground…

the game has become corporatized…

you do not see a George Gervin, a  Dr. J, a Michael Jordan, a Gus “The Wiz” Williams, a downtown Freddy Brown

MJ passed the torch to Kobe…

aside

Michael jackson was used to corporatize music…

Kobe Bryant was used to corporatize basketball…

Tiger was used to popularize golf

obama i hope is different

Kobe schooled by his semi professional dad over in europe…

michael jackson,from a very young age 

and tiger woods…same as kobe

three superstars who were robots…

super ambitious fathers have brought these art forms to technically proficient levels…

but to bring it back to basketball jordan was cut from his grade eight team,

Kobe was learning Italian and being a very big fish in a not so big pond…Italy is known for football 

Tiger is an admitted sex aholic

Kobe Bryant was accused of rape

Michael wanted to be white…or at least lighter

they’re all weird…maybe everyone is weird…

Money

tiger makes a 100,000,000 year

you make above average 50,000 year

tiger’s year is worth

2000 times what your year is

say you’re a well paid teacher

tiger is worth a 1000 times more than you per year                       because his face and reputation will sell products…we admire good golfers and …if he uses Spalding clubs and has been golfing eight hours a day since he was  2…

quickly you reach the needed ten thousand to become good at something…10,000 so the university professors reckon…            so say he takes a few days off

even by the age of seven he has put in 10, 000 hours…

throw in some nartural talent and a dull personality…and you have a tiger…

golf is important…

people who play golf well

know what kind of golf clubs to use…

i buy those golf clubs and i practice and i get better…

so when you go to heaven and god says

“What did you do this life?”

“i got my handicap down to minus two…”

“ok you can stay…”

for many rich people it is part of their humanity…i kid you not…

hitting white balls into holes on manicured lawns, is more important if we prioritize, than saving sick children…

Oh oh

the bourgeoisie are cruel bastards who have no incentive to think deeply about the plight of others…

question “is my comfort deserved?” will arrive

regardless of what has happened in the past

it is going on…

we have exploited say 50% of the earths resources, roughly say, since the start of the industrial revolution, say 500 years…

the numbers are actually much tighter…

say in another 500 years they’ll be nothing left say five generations…people live longer…

in THE THIRD WORLD…

PEOPLE ARE BEING EXPLOITED

IS THAT OK…

PART OF PROGRESS…?

 

WHEN THEY CONSUME

That 500 YEARS GET’S SHORTER…

           WE ARE GETTING MORE EFFICIENT…

THE WORD PROCESSOR

GIVES NICER, SMOOTHER WRITING

BUT MOST OF THE THINKING IS DEFFICIENT

READ AN OLD BOOK BY AN INTELLECTUAL, EVEN from 60 YEARS AGO…

THEN READ ONE TODAY SHROUDED IN  OBSCURE JARGON.

Marx

They are following Marxist footsteps

but the economy keeps getting more complicated.

Marx saw wealth as a surplus of labor.

The only thing of value was labor in Victorian capitalism 1800’s…

you got paid for what you produced…

but the product was not yours…

a farmer labours in his field

and produces surplus produce

which he sells…the money is his profit

the proletariat are paid by the hour and do not have this option…

value is time…sell their time for money to survive in capitalistic system…

at the end of the day all we have is time…

but rarely is that part of the equation

the last social critics of note,

adorno and another german dude who wrote the Dialect of Enlightenment felt the case was so far gone they were writing for the silent witness…

Habbermas…

not many have even heard of

Marx

offered a thorough indictment of his epoch…

but no one has really come up with a more convincing system…perhaps capitalism only needs refinement…

interestingly capitalism has no philosophers…only critics…

perhaps this is an indictment of philosophy but i don’t think so…

make advertising illegal and then see what we consume..or perhaps waste is inherent in the wheel…                  

Back to Pomes for the Shaw…

because my memory is faulty both of the past and of the future i will have to use my imagination…as John Lennon urges in song…

i will be in Edmonton near the beginning of February to take some pictures of the conference center and get a feel again for what was going on…it can’t hurt the book.

The snow has turned to rain and when i went to start my car/truck the battery was dead. The owner of the cabin left his VW van here and i used it to charge the battery…i was going to google something but i figured out how to do it by myself…the vehicle sputtered to life and i drove to the awful village for a new book.

“First as Tragedy, Then as Farce.”   by Slavoj Zizek.

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