Back in my printed ‘zine days in the early 90s, I was reading in one little samizdat publication a little article titled something “Destroy All Digital Clocks.” The writer’s point was that looking at digital read-outs makes people stupid. See, the digital is for the stiff and left-brained, and nullifies the creativity of the right brain.
On a recent visit to my daughters in upstate New York,we watched “Gone With the Wind” on one of the cable TV stations. A main character in that great movie is Ashley Wilkes. At one point while we watched, that rogue Rhett Butler refers to him as “that stupid Ashley.” After that, whenever Mr.
When I was a kid, I would look at these, and be inspired. Check out the back issues of the Whole Earth Catalog, Co-Evolution Quarterly, and Whole Earth Review, all precursors of sorts to Evolver. Here's the link: http://www.wholeearth.com/back-issues.php
Article categories include:
Understanding Whole Systems
Shelter and Land Use
Industry and Craft
Communications
Community
Nomadics
Yeah, I know, as we get older the time seems to be going by more rapidly than in the past. But, really, what the hell is going on now as Novelty increases and we hurl headlong into the Singularity. The weeks, days, and months are flying by. I can't keep up. Anybody else have thoughts on the subject? Here's some guy's thoughts:
This chilling and powerful short story by Bruce Sterling was first published in 1989. I read it around '94 and re-read it on Sept. 12, 2001. In the story, Sterling pre-cogs the Crusader vs. Jihad world that we inhabit today, and presiently explains the Jihadist position from the main Muslim character's point of view. It's eerie.
Came across this essay again after all these years--From Bob Black
No one should ever work.
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.
Today at work I took a break from peering at my computer screen and looked out my office window. From the 38th floor of my building in New York City’s Financial District, I can gaze upon the glory of Manhattan, from downtown skyscrapers all the way to the fabled Empire State and Chrysler buildings of Midtown.
Today was different though.
A new perspective presented itself.
I saw this movie the other night as a rep of the New York Peak Oil Meetup Group (Dan Miner, the group's leader, will be at the tonight's Dec 15 Spore at Collective Hardware). Well done, in my estimation. No new real information, but a good reminder we have to get the word out to the normals and squares.
Here's a link to the film's site: http://www.ageofstupid.net/
I can grok these. None of that "shalt not" or sabbath jive. I gotta promote the first one--see my profile and the "why I'm here" section. I got these from: http://www.theelderbrother.com/kogi/index.cfm?ObjectID=14 Anybody know the true origin, tribe, etc.?
The Ten Native American Commandments
1.Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect.
2.Remain close to the Great Spirit.
So, I asked my friend Theresa, "Do you ever want to go to outer space?" She replied, dismissively, "That's a stupid question. We are already in outer space, revolving around the sun."
Can't argue with that.
While attending the generous two-for-one happy hour at Otto's Shrunken Head (14th St near Ave B) last evening, I got into a creative mood. Surrounded by the lushness of tiki decor, I took a square bar napkin and decided to draw an album cover of a record that never existed and never will.
"Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space." --Douglas Adams
Check out outer space: http://www.ultrafeel.tv/planet-earth-galaxy-space/
Mavericks of the Mind and Voices from the Edge contain thought-provoking interviews by David Jay Brown with over forty of the leading thinkers of our time on the subject of consciousness. Here's the link: http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/
I first read about this in Robert Anton Wilson's "Cosmic Trigger" many, many moons ago. Now, thanks to this fad called the World Wide Internet, I actually get to read it for the first time. Hope you like it, too. It's very short, but here's an excerpt:
So this morning at the local deli I bought a Tazo brand Organic Iced Green Tea With Spearmint and Lemongrass. A hippie brand for sure, with stuff about the wonders of life and such on the label. Underneath the cap was an invitation for a complimentary tea learf reading at the company's Web site. So I went there.
Never saw these before. Pretty wild and, yes, visionary. Dig the title of the one shown here: "The Kali-Yuga: The End of the Universe at 424826 A.D. (The Cosmos Falls into the Chaos as the Shakti Oroboros Leads to the Elimination of all Value Systems by Spectrum Analysis)"
Here's the link to view more: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=7805...
In Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the Penfield Mood Organ is a device that characters use to pick the mood they want to be in. It's not clear how it exactly work but they just dial a number into the machine that corresponds with the mood they want to be/ experience.
Some examples from the book of the moods that people choose:
-Happiness to be awake
-Anger
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
