10/28/19
durable
"There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that." - Mark Twain
what is
substantive - true - durable
constant - ubiquitous - invisible
10/17/19
10/4/19
9/14/19
a blank sheet of paper, 8.5 x 11
folded into a simple paper airplane
and thrown into the air
watch it soar for half a second
in awe
it hits the ground, still
and the next kid gets a blank sheet of paper
folds it into a simple paper airplane
throws it in the air
and again, in perpetuity
one sheet, one flight
folded into a simple paper airplane
and thrown into the air
watch it soar for half a second
in awe
it hits the ground, still
and the next kid gets a blank sheet of paper
folds it into a simple paper airplane
throws it in the air
and again, in perpetuity
one sheet, one flight
7/13/19
from 1966
BOOK America and Americans by John Steinbeck, 1966
"The best a slave-owning community can do is to make resistance seem hopeless. One way of doing this is to brainwash the slave from childhood with the conviction that he is inferior, stupid, weak, and irresponsible. A second method is to catch resistance in the bud and to punish it mercilessly; a third, to break up families and friends so that no possible tribal association can gather or establish itself; and fourth, and perhaps most important, to keep education, with its inevitable questioning and communication, from the slaves at all costs...
At intervals, men or groups, through fear of people or the desire to use them, have tried to change our direction, to arrest our growth... This will happen again and again. The impulses which for a time enforced the Alien and Sedition Laws, which have used fear and illicit emotion to interfere with and put a stop to our continuing revolution, will rise again, and they will serve us in the future as they have in the past to clarify and to strengthen our process."
"The best a slave-owning community can do is to make resistance seem hopeless. One way of doing this is to brainwash the slave from childhood with the conviction that he is inferior, stupid, weak, and irresponsible. A second method is to catch resistance in the bud and to punish it mercilessly; a third, to break up families and friends so that no possible tribal association can gather or establish itself; and fourth, and perhaps most important, to keep education, with its inevitable questioning and communication, from the slaves at all costs...
At intervals, men or groups, through fear of people or the desire to use them, have tried to change our direction, to arrest our growth... This will happen again and again. The impulses which for a time enforced the Alien and Sedition Laws, which have used fear and illicit emotion to interfere with and put a stop to our continuing revolution, will rise again, and they will serve us in the future as they have in the past to clarify and to strengthen our process."
5/30/19
5/27/19
5/21/19
5/2/19
4/15/19
4/6/19
4/1/19
3/30/19
2/9/19
MANIFESTO: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
PRAGMATICO: The Person Looking out the Window from their Desk
A poem by Wendell Berry
PRAGMATICO: The Person Looking out the Window from their Desk
A poem by Wendell Berry
Not a poem by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
Okay with the salary, barely got a raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
not enough vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
time to make things by hand. Don't
to know your neighbors and to die.
know your neighbors all that well.
And you will have a window in your head.
And you are looking out the window at the office
Not even your future will be a mystery
The future is a mystery,
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
sometimes. Though your eyes are usually stuck on the screen
and shut away in a little drawer.
looking into those windows.
When they want you to buy something
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
they email you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
to stay longer at work, they don't say anything.
So, friends, every day do something
So, you'd like to do something every day
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
that doesn't comply. Love the cold.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Let your phone die. Work slower.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Take all that you have and know it's more than enough.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Be patient.
Denounce the government and embrace
Denounce technology but use
the flag. Hope to live in that free
it well. Hope to live in a world
republic for which it stands.
where you have power.
Give your approval to all you cannot
Give that power to others without losing
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
your own. Do not fear the unknown, for it is
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
the source of curiosity.
Go with your love to the fields.
Spend time with all that you love.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
Get enough sleep. Rest when
in her lap. Swear allegiance
you are awake. Commit
to what is nighest your thoughts.
to your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
As soon as the feed
can predict the motions of your mind,
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
put down your phone for a second. Leave
to mark the false trail, the way
it on the table, and go
you didn't go.
to another room.
Be like the fox
Be like the rock
who makes more tracks than necessary,
that is at the bottom of the sea
some in the wrong direction.
not doing anyone else any favors.
Practice resurrection.
Practice.
2/5/19
1/26/19
prefix: inter
PREFIX inter-
meaning "in between,” “among,” “in the midst of,” “mutually,” “reciprocally,”“together,” “during”
If there were social movements before called the industrial revolution, the modernist movement, the feminist movement, I'll venture to posit the rise of another movement that is beginning to emerge as its own.
The rise of the inter-
international
interdisciplinary
intersectional
interracial
intergenerational
interstellar
interactive
intermediate
interdependent
interface
interreality
(The) internet
In contrast to former ideals of purity and categorical discreetness, space has been created to facilitate the formation of an in-between. In analogous terms, an integral versus algebraic math, thermodynamic versus mechanical physics, and fluid versus binary gender.
The prefix, trans- could also be considered, meaning "across," "beyond," "through," "changing thoroughly," "transverse," although it recognizes categories to move into and out of. Similarly, inter- conveys a notion that there are bookends, limits to the in-between space. Although there may be times where society can function, unreferenced to limits, I'll focus here on inter-.
International: entities moving between and interacting within multiple national governments
Interdisciplinary: entities moving between and interacting within multiple disciplines
Intersectional: entities moving between and interacting within multiple categories of identities
Interracial: entities moving between and interacting within multiple race categories
Intergenerational: entities moving between and interacting within multiple age groups
Interstellar: entities moving between and interacting within multiple astrological masses
Interactive: of multiple entities influencing or having an effect on each other
Intermediate: coming between points in time, place, order, character, etc.
Interdependent: of multiple entities dependent on each other
Interface: points where multiples entities meet and interact
Interreality: the merging of multiple (real and virtual) worlds
(The) Internet: "a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols"
Is there value in seeing inter- as an emerging movement? Less about any agenda to associate with the emergence of inter-, positing it could be a simple exercise of observation.
meaning "in between,” “among,” “in the midst of,” “mutually,” “reciprocally,”“together,” “during”
If there were social movements before called the industrial revolution, the modernist movement, the feminist movement, I'll venture to posit the rise of another movement that is beginning to emerge as its own.
The rise of the inter-
international
interdisciplinary
intersectional
interracial
intergenerational
interstellar
interactive
intermediate
interdependent
interface
interreality
(The) internet
In contrast to former ideals of purity and categorical discreetness, space has been created to facilitate the formation of an in-between. In analogous terms, an integral versus algebraic math, thermodynamic versus mechanical physics, and fluid versus binary gender.
The prefix, trans- could also be considered, meaning "across," "beyond," "through," "changing thoroughly," "transverse," although it recognizes categories to move into and out of. Similarly, inter- conveys a notion that there are bookends, limits to the in-between space. Although there may be times where society can function, unreferenced to limits, I'll focus here on inter-.
International: entities moving between and interacting within multiple national governments
Interdisciplinary: entities moving between and interacting within multiple disciplines
Intersectional: entities moving between and interacting within multiple categories of identities
Interracial: entities moving between and interacting within multiple race categories
Intergenerational: entities moving between and interacting within multiple age groups
Interstellar: entities moving between and interacting within multiple astrological masses
Interactive: of multiple entities influencing or having an effect on each other
Intermediate: coming between points in time, place, order, character, etc.
Interdependent: of multiple entities dependent on each other
Interface: points where multiples entities meet and interact
Interreality: the merging of multiple (real and virtual) worlds
(The) Internet: "a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols"
Is there value in seeing inter- as an emerging movement? Less about any agenda to associate with the emergence of inter-, positing it could be a simple exercise of observation.
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