Sunday, December 14, 2014
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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
‘The Rain Song’ by Led ZeppelinDoes it really get much better...
‘The Rain Song’ by Led Zeppelin
Does it really get much better than this?
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
"Say my name," said my new coffee cup. It’s the one who...
"Say my name," said my new coffee cup. It’s the one who knocks.
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Monday, October 27, 2014
Monday, October 13, 2014
‘Postcards From Paradise’ by Flesh For LuluHad this on #cassette...
‘Postcards From Paradise’ by Flesh For Lulu
Had this on #cassette back in the day…
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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
The Golden Premise
Descartes big thing was discarding everything that he couldn’t verify as an immutable truth and then starting from there. First premise; cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am. He believed that a strong philosophy, like anything built to last, would not stand without a firm foundation.
Philosophies are fun to play with. They come and go and like tattered flags their loose strings drift across your vision and you have fun grasping at them. Sometimes you pull on one that is firmly entrenched in its banner and you can follow it to its source. Other ones aren’t so strong and when you pull the flag unravels and you’re left with a useless thread.
The beauty of Descartes is that you can come back to his idea of a first premise. There must be a philosophical foundation. And it is applicable to anything before and after Descartes.
(What is my point? Do I have one?)
The world today is a banner made up of the cheapest flags. Everything seems to be unraveling. Nothing but loose threads. We’ve lost a useful first premise.
Logic and free thought — the cogitatio that must lead to the sum — is absent.
But here it is. I firmly believe in the Cartesian cogitatio of being. And once I think, once I realize that I AM… I develop an idea of what is good for me and what is bad for me. Shortly thereafter (or even before) I am aware of other people who are all thinking and being. It comes as no surprise then, that almost every major belief system has at its heart some variation of the Golden Rule — do unto others as I would have done unto me.
The Golden Rule isn’t just some hokey hippy dippy claptrap. It makes LOGICAL sense! If I think and exist and am able to perceive the existence of others then I develop empathy. I cannot live alone, I depend on these people around me. They have power to help or hurt me. So I realize that they are made up of what I’m made up of. What hurts me, most likely hurts them. Cogito ergo sum - Do unto others - quid pro quo.
But we’ve lost that. Maybe not you. Maybe not I. But WE as a SOCIETY have lost that. We cynically scoff at the Golden Rule in the name of personal gain. “Do unto others whatever I can get away with” is the perverse darwinistic mantra of the corporate oligarchy in which we live. And they feed it to the masses as they do unto them unspeakable things. Because the propaganda says, “hey, just do it. Tomorrow, you may get to do unto others and get away with it.”
- I think therefore I am.
- I feel therefore I am human.
- I know what feels good and what hurts.
- I want better therefore I treat those around me better.
Doesn’t really seem that hard. Just need to lift the obfuscating veil. There is nothing behind that curtain. It’s that simple.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
The universe speaks through music and laughter. If you are fluent in those languages, you are close...
The universe speaks through music and laughter. If you are fluent in those languages, you are close to our source.
I have a special respect for those who communicate in those codes. Make me laugh and you are my kindred. Move me with music and you remind me of the stars that birthed us.
Inspire me and remind me that there is more to be perceived than the easily perceptible.
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Sunday, August 10, 2014
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Friday, August 1, 2014
Head games
If we’re going to play the game, why not discard the aspects that unnecessarily harm us?
Part of being human lies in being able to create your own symbolic matrix. And too many of us choose the hegemonically implanted illusion.
Slough off the useless paradigmatic nightmare
At this point in history, anyone still thinking about the world in terms of “Jew”, “Muslim”, “Christian”, “American”, “Palestinian”, “Israeli”, “Democrat”, “Republican”, “British”, “German”…. and all other variations of “Us” and “Them”… anyone STILL thinking in those terms is living in a sad sad matrix. All of these mental constructions that equate to semantic distinctions, variances in inherited belief systems, and arbitrary lines on a map are sick sad destructive illusions.
Turn on the news and watch horrible people doing horrible things for bullshit ideas. People lobbing rockets at others for bullshit. People destroying woman and children for bullshit. Israel, Palestine, Nigeria, Syria, Tibet, Ukraine, Takeyourpickestan, and the United Whateveryouwanttocallit. It’s all bullshit. It’s a game we made up at some point in history and somewhere in this thousands-year game of telephone we forgot that we could change the rules whenever we want.
Israelis, Palestinians, Whites, Blacks, Mexican, Texan… fuck it. Just live. Find something more constructive to care about.
//rant done.//
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack? Beats Deal Suddenly Makes Sense - Forbes
"Crucially Apple would also strengthen the hold it has over users by tying them even tighter into its proprietary ecosystem. Yes Beats may primarily have been about securing a streaming music service, but suddenly the ability to earn multi-millions from locked-in Lightning headphones, license fees and sales of adaptors makes for a very juicy side business.
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But Customers Lose
The problem is most customers will lose out, even die-hard Apple users.”
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