joined on 08/19/07
last updated 10/03/07
"To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
about me
i believe in the primacy of loving-kindness. i'm blunt honest to the point of being obnoxious. i subscribe to safe-sane-&-consensual freakishness & self-expression. i think duality is a quality of our bilateral brains.
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"Music, Music, Music (& other popular cultural artifacts . . . )"
"Money is like manure, it should be spread around."
Brooke Astor, 1902 - 2007
i am the want
the need
taking no heed
flame for the fire
i am molten desire
a flame for the funeral pyre
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
energize, educate, theorize, radicalize, enlighten, engage
art can be thought of as that which deals with evocation of emotion, science concerns itself with the quantification of the material, observable world, & philosophy & religion get what's left . . . . . .
"Many explanations have been offered to make sense of the here-today-gone-tomorrow nature of medical wisdom — what we are advised with confidence one year is reversed the next — but the simplest one is that it is the natural rhythm of science. An observation leads to a hypothesis. The hypothesis (last year’s advice) is tested, and it fails this year’s test, which is always the most likely outcome in any scientific endeavor. There are, after all, an infinite number of wrong hypotheses for every right one, and so the odds are always against any particular hypothesis being true, no matter how obvious or vitally important it might seem."
from: Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy? By GARY TAUBES Published: September 16, 2007 NYTimes
Sun, September 16, 2007 - 10:36 PM
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. . . but then i think everyone is; most cannot cop to their own inner uglies. i try to make a regular habit of it, of asserting all the boundaries that make me a prickly person to be around.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it -- always."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
we were raised to be veal
my cousin says. she ran
to big cities, far away.
she’s a strong heifer
dedicated to the art of survival.
we’re meant to be veal,
she says it several times,
& I will not contribute
to my own annihilation.
strong heiffers can kick your ass
ask the matadors . . . .
i agree, we’re all that way
trained to be so nice, so nice, so nice,
to give everything away
& like nothing in return.
it suits the rearers
selfless children do more.
at least child doesn’t wait parent
anymore, aren’t beaten en masse
for the craziness of the adults.
but there we stand
at 27, 42, 68 years &
we hold out our arms &
we say, here, ya want
some more? bite off another
piece, take that whole left
arm, it’s not like i need it.
bite off some buttock.
take the leg & the other one, too.
& they’re partway up my leg &
i’m screaming wait!
what are you doing?
STOP EATING ME!
i want me back!
where have i gone?
why do i keep disappearing?
why do i keep disappearing?
why do i keep disappearing?
we’re raised to be veal
i agree again & again
the world needs more
strong heiffers fleeing . . . .
everyone who has one
thinks everyone else
should have one
as punishment
or revenge
or obligatory indenture
fuck day jobs
that suck the joy
from the day
fuck day jobs
that waste time & energy
more than detroit ever did
fuck day jobs
that demean & debilitate
& cost a million species
work is
the highest expression
of our best selves
anything less is suicide
annihilation of our souls
for material survival
homelessness
apt reward
to indolence
how dare you know how
to be productive
without a boss
how dare you
organize
your own time
you need a day job
you have to pay
to play
following your instincts
is dangerous
who knows where you’ll go
a little knowledge
is dangerous
freedom is lethal
you need a keeper
someone should
tell you what to do
for just enough pay
to get barely by
to spend too much
to own too many things
to want too much space
to hog up the whole world
you need a job
to justify your existence
otherwise, you’re worthless
get a job
get a haircut
you’re a bum
why do we give in
to this crap
why put it on replay in our heads
everyone who has one
thinks everyone else
should have one
should shoulder the pain
stiff upper lip
leave your emotions at the door
tactics of the workaholics
our heroes in this land
of the do-too-much
(cuz we consume too much
take too much, hurt too much
trash too much, complain too much)
but never mind that
look to the gods of industry
& the goddesses of media
note the rewards of frenzied activity
the satisfactions of owning it all
being the biggest money-grubber
of course
a day job
won’t get you there
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