With thanks to @ImDown6969 for being the serendipitous instrument of providing this quote from @shootersa![]()
that exempted me from looking for it at this TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING insight and commentary on that quote..
'I-AM' [being facetiously and metaphysically mischievous] in partial agreement with 'shootersa's' thought, tho' it borders on the cynically skeptical.
What 'shooter' is implying, that I'm inferring, is like when you're solicited by a contractor who's been asked by you to give an estimate and he comes back with a figure that would have you doing installment payments for a decade or more, when your intuitive deduction had in mind a fraction of that estimate as your costs. That's an every day occurrence of a grander macro and societal feature in this society of intellectual dishonesty and corruption-OF WHICH I AGREE.
At the same time, much like the work that's begging to be done on your house, 'Climate Change' has as many blood-sucking parasites willing to be the providers of 'the best solution for you' as that seemingly greedy contractor. In this case, we're talking about the legislators as those salesmen. That Climate Change Bill coming from the designs of the Democrat leadership does suffer from the grandness-of-scope in non-consideration of the reality of the political resistance of its proposed form of administering to it. In this particular polarized, social and political climate the angst of existential distrust of one an others intentions and end goals aggravates even the perception to be had, as well as the intensity of those near-trench lines of perception and derived rhetoric that have been constructed as a consequence to that proposal.
IN THE MEANTIME... Me here and others elsewhere are posting the on-going adversity to those victims of the on-going weather extremes and the seeming 'moral sedition' [~wink~ at 'ImDown6969'] for ignoring or doing next to nothing in the short, let alone speculated long term crisis. Much like what the song, 'The Arkansas Traveler' speaks to:
There is latently within us the flight or fight instinct. In this case, until the "danger" becomes immanently sensed as dangerously close, we, just as in the wildlife documentaries seeing the prey grazing so sanguinely as the predators close in on them, relying on their natural gifts.
I posted before that possibly and likely when and if that cataclysmic event is upon us, the 'Brainiacs' that are away in their own speculations and meditations separate from the on-going social and cultural satiations of the 'maddening crowd' would have come up with separate pieces that would be the resolving solutions to the pending calamity that the disingenuous ownership of those who were more dismissive in the past of any solutions, but NOW in this crisis for which ameliorative resources suggested earlier were suspected to a cynical assurity, are now embrace in desperation to abort the decades long invited calamity to devour by death and destruction many who were politically without a leveraged platform to effectuate their hopes and desires.
Monday, June 21, 2021
Friday, April 16, 2021
Being a voluntary serial nomad
Being a voluntary serial nomad-Spiritual Quest
(Before the notice of the involuntary economic nomads of 'Nomadland')
From August 1994 until November '99 I took advantage of the opportunity of having only myself to support to be a a nomad, 'the expression of my soul'. I did for aesthetic bias what the characters in the promotional previews for 'Nomadland' seem to be doing out of economic necessity. My tactics and strategies while being that nomad were similar to those in the movie: taking temporary, part-time gigs and off-shift jobs. My aesthetic bias, I think and believe was (and still is) a realization that the structure, as well as the availability, for work was a soul and dignity degrading experience. The adaptation and psychological accommodations, which I and others were obliged/extorted to do to 'make a living', undermined what I see as a celebration of this existence's life.
Much as the verse in Genesis 3:17-19 when Adam-n-Eve were expelled from Eden: "...19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." that has been the rationale for the consensus of our work labors.
Like these latter-day 'Nomadland'-folks, in '94 there were gigs-jobs and temporary work for those with the capability or ready-skills to do them. For many, only a driver's license was required. Others, past education-informal, as well as formal-could get you a job.
In ways much like the migrating hunter-gatherers of the pre-neolithic times of settlements and the First Nation-Native Plains 'Americans', I and the cinema depicted nomads used the mobility we had to find better 'hunting and gathering' settings for ourselves as we 'lived off the land'-economy. I see that as an increasingly gestative cultural and societal option.
The economic forces of commoditization with their political enablers whose self-interests favor and are biased to those who can fund their political aspirations, will neglect to destitution those for whom the type of wealth needed to remain established in one place is more and more precarious to being out of reach with each passing year.
It would be ironic that this civilization, much as the classic civilizations, will be brought down by the migrating immigrants of economic necessity, plus the growing cohort of more aesthetic, communal anarchists who come to perceive the present economic order as inherently and inequitably corrupting. At the same time the precepts of the migration-ethos will be the default aesthetic for a more equitably and distributive civilization.
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
Mihi, Domine exaltetur manus mors est (Me, the Hand of Death)
Ego autem, Domine exaltetur manus mors et in anno quarta BUCINUM tyrannos crediderim, hoc referre ad alia mors in population res agit.
Nonne hoc sciant omnes pereunt necessitatem? Programmed sua fata es, Deus. Non sunt nisi in visu meo, et tardus escapees pepercit a morte contraxit. Nulla libero, auctor nullam licentiam indulgere singula. In tantum autem est rectitudo naturalis in corpore autem sunt de dictamine naturae suae invenire dilato expiabat sanctuarium ab abusus est libido animum eorum: quapropter etiam de sanctionibus tyrranical retributionum suae 'auctoritates. (Translation: A)
Etiam in rectitudinem tuam, caro mortalis, est subiectum ad papilionem: et karmic consecutiva effectus, aut aliorum Kyrie Eleison tua facta, et sola ad terrestres veniamus, extra naturae, ex conprehensibili et inconprehensibili, quod imponeret suas dynamics cognitve in agro. Sunt enim orae eligere disordines morum angustus est ultra indoctrinating fallacias confirmant et aliter dicere.(Translation: B)
At gravis, non est hic commisserate tribulationibus tuis conpatiens publica fata et ego vobis significantes, quod ibi sunt omnia, incommutabilis tibi quod non in se haberi rem vestram propria mentis et obductionis et vindictæ. Hoc enim non est una privilegiata ad peccandum proclivior. Is est unus sensus et sunt gradus discreti in nuanced et prudens actus. (Translation: C)
Si tamen credunt illa vita est tua ad id quod cupio et volo facere, ignorans quid occurrit, vel ponens surdus et caecus confidunt in efficacia illa sociali narrationes, libertatem, et libertas non sequitur 'enim vestra sunt, tunc vos discede ab messis frigus animarum pastores tamen cadaueribus. (Translation: D)
Ego sum qui autem vocatis inanis mortem. Ego enim est receptaculum et redivivus bin eorum qui munera umquam arbitraretur aut ab eorum ageret nesciens, et scientia. Ego valorem securior ad te, et dabo te statum saecularia vel aliis dare tibi. Ego messorem consequentia cernit, sive bonum, sive malum. (Translation E)
Haec est veritas. Lacrimas quoque George terribilem et aliis possibilities pro te, quae tibi manet modo aliquid vel aliqualiter. George, quod anima est pars fructus est vitae caro de cautione pro ea. Hoc ducit ad mortuum finem proprie. Cum spe, sed cum dolore, culpa pudoris et doloris est quod meminimus Georgium (Translation F)
Tragoediam suam in figura ponens peremptorio termino ad supplicium est secundum ampliorem putat de myopia ad humanitatem fingere ex itsself celebrationem. Nam et ipse carnifex, Chauvin, George et in supplicium et enablement psyches quam ducti sunt ex hoc fas Fatum est nomen cuiuspiam historiam effluere, Paeoniae exercitu, pro ministerio quo nunc coactioni obnoxiae sunt in vinciturque. (Translation G)
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Friday, September 18, 2020
Degenerative cultural effects of a monolithic societal media source
Degenerative cultural effects of a monolithic societal media
I first noticed those effects in the early morning hours of
August 31st, 1997. I was listening to the radio feeds of one
of the Richmond Virginia TV-station’s broadcast of
‘THE ADVENTURES OF HERCULES’. This particular episode
had the two protagonists, Kevin Sorbo-Bruce Campbell, in a
time warp that took them back where they encountered
themselves in their early twenties. The plot was slickly written
for the listening I was doing; since the satire and ironic play of
words about themselves and their younger versions engaged my
post-midnight cognitive faculties to a heightened alertness
because of
the novelty of the plot’s dialogue.
That’s when the NEWS FLASH of Princess Di’s death in that
car accident
interrupted the programming for not only the total nullification of that
program, but onward until her funeral procession several days later. I
had a favorable opinion of Princess Di, believing she did Prince Charlie
a great favor in marrying him, more than he being her blessing. That
favorability ended from the hype of wall-to-wall, MEDIA SATURATION
that exploited her death for the ratings feast of viewers to emote and
overly commiserate Di’s death.
A nurse who was working the same night shift as I, and who’d never said
a word or acknowledged my existence prior to that early morning, came
into the workroom where I was. She was all red-eyed with tears and
asked me ‘If I had heard the news about Diana’s death’. That nurse
was balling over someone she never knew, but was going to use previously
ignored me as her compatriot-in-sorrow!
Geesh! It showed me at the moment and the coming days how much
the media seeks to herd our attitudes, thoughts, and feelings with
their affecting narratives. An observation I share with the conservative
Right’s complaint about the biased, manipulative mainstream media.
Later the SAME GOP/Neoconservative Right, along with the same
enabling media sycophants, did the same thing leading up to the Iraq
War incursion.
Even today, the air-brushing away of the bad policies of the Obama
Administration have been used as a faux-narrative of contrast to the
‘Good-ol-days’ of Obama or the decency of George W. Bush’s actions to
the present outrages of the Trump Crimes-against-Humanity
Administration. People consciously use such cynical rhetoric as part of
the attempt for a monolithic and homogeneous credence for their silo
agenda.
As much as ‘the ills of social media’ are bemoaned, they are the
bastard-progeny of the mass media which sought and still seeks to
herd thought and opinion into agenda corrals of their liking and purposes.
There are silos of group-think that are encouraged on a number of
social media; Facebook being one of the prime abusers of such venues.
In those venues, you can find the same indoctrinated mindset of socially
associated background as the basis of the premises used and that
excludes any attempt to have or take the perspective of a contrarian
thought, which would be seen only as existentially contentious
to the holder of the other thought.
Those venues are also portals of discovery of affirmative thought
for what would otherwise be self-identified by the individual as
their esoteric or idiosyncratic, “unusual” or “weird” thinking of
themselves. Social media can allow for the individuals to find
sympathetic and affirming thoughts not found in their pedestrian
locales.
Individuals can pick and choose what is relevant and applicable to them,
as they do in the produce section of their supermarket
-unlike the homogenized, one-size-fits-all, secondary education system
that was the conditioner of the herd-manipulable mentality for us all.
That mentality continued in higher education courses of tunnel curricula
pedagogy, the STEM and Business majors, who in seeking the
‘golden-rings’ of wealth, advocated the philosophies and theories that
grew as rationales of justification for the workplace adaptations and
administration for the production of the products of those theories
and philosophies in the ‘go-along-to-get-along’ mentality.
For those, who by anomalous circumstances or conscious decisions
of conscience, existed and still exist outside the herd mentality,
they are the potential targets of the consequences of ‘media driven’
herd-mentality, antagonisms. Also, they are the involuntary, rhetorical
frontiersmen and pioneers of free-range, idiosyncratic thought of
this age. In their intrepid picking and choosing of their own aesthetics
and memes/totems of affinity, they’re developing an emotional intensity
which has been neutered out of others for a docile and ineffectual
‘public civility of decorum’.
In their state of acute emotional intensity and mental focus, a new
civil-art and thought-architecture is germinating being constructed
in the public organism. Just as the proverbial ‘weed in the
sidewalk’, the stubborn resilience of these
alternate thought forms can be attributed to much greater than
the normative dismissals of sociopathic dysfunction. It is the
discerning discovery of threads of thinking that weave a more
appealing, elegant, and functional cultural fabric for the present
and the prospective future.
It is these collective aggregates that are the renaissance
alternative to the dysfunctional malfunctions of the present social
order in meeting both the intellectual plus the emotional
synchronization for satisfaction and fulfillment that is benign and
‘does no harm’, individually or holistically, in the short-or-long-term.
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