MANIFESTO: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
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,

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.

Pell = Far

MUSIC VIDEO Pell by Yann Tiersen

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.

not for sale
not for sale
none of it's for sale
whether someone wants to buy it or not
it's not for sale
- barters and fair trades only -

water // fuel

ends to means

BOOK In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck (1936)

"In my little experience the end is never very different in nature from the means... There aren't any beginnings... Nor any ends. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee or understand."

entitlements

Title
subtitle

A provision made in accordance with a legal framework of society
a right successfully claimed by an entity over another upon an arbitrary* framework


* based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system