Tagged with 'utopia'

In Bali, making an offering to the gods requires three things: holy water, smoke, and flowers.
They are wrapped in incadescent, almost neon green leaves, built in boxes of woven thatch and placed in entryways, near statues of ganesh adorned with a single flower petal, usually bright red, a vortex of welcoming infinity.

I'm pretty sure that I went to my first protest today, the Wall Street protest. I say I'm pretty sure because my memory fails me at times, and for all I know when I was younger I went to a protest with my parents.

The United States is a crumbling empire, and more and more people are waking up to this.

Burning Man is a riotous yet organized celebration of music, art and excess held in the Nevada desert each year. It attracts about 50,000 visitors and becomes the third or fourth largest city in Nevada for one week each year. But while Burning Man celebrates certain types of excess, it also emphasizes stewardship of our planet’s limited resources through various means.

InHigh school I was a cynic after my friend was murdered. I had lost my belief system because I denounced the Catholic faith. I was searching my immature psyche for answers. I had not discovered shamanism or read anything about what I was writing about. I was simply writing for my journalism class in which most of my writings were never published (you'll see why).

I have a dream. I have a dream of being free. I have a dream of no longer being a slave.

From: Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

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In 1977, Dr. Ily Prigogine won the nobel prize in physical chemistry.

Perhaps he should have wond a Nobel prize for intelligent optimism.

Science will construct them on a far day:
The beautiful machines in glitter and chrome
To project the mind in a wonderful play
Like a lightening flash to Utopia's dome.

Robots and cyborgs will do the hard labor,
Humans at leisure create dashing art,
Everyone is at peace with his neighbor:
Time is the flight of a tranquil dart.

Or will they be used for strife and quarrel,

Slavoj Žižek discussing the reality of the virtual.

It has always been tempting for thinkers and historical observationalists to overlay a narrative onto to what they have known of the world; humans have a long and colourful history in the denial of contingency, in the art of myth, and of fevered teleological dreams.