fractal fragments swept ashore
There are a lot – and I mean a whole boatload – of fantastic reasons to be angry at purveyors of social media services, publicly sourced video and other content. I read about it all the time, my friends talk about their various grievances, but I’m only marginally engaged with social media and end up […]
Read More Social Media PsychosisI’ve seen several journal articles recently regarding stateless persons and the serious difficulties they face from lack of access to basic social services. I’m curious about why statelessness is being framed as a problem with only one solution: national citizenship. In an increasingly global-minded humanity, we strive to overcome the obstacles created by nationalism and […]
Read More The Problem of Statelessness– SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; I withdraw from the still woods I loved; I will not go now on the pastures to walk; I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea; I will not touch my flesh to the earth, as to other flesh, […]
Read More This Compost!We deem ourselves as more ‘intelligent’ and ‘competent’ than processes like evolution because we think we understand how those processes work. Then we attempt to use our ‘superior’ intellect to create bananas and cocoa trees that are such an improvement on ‘dumb’ evolution they can barely survive. We ‘improve’ livestock and food plants into inbred monocultures far […]
Read More The Hubris of AI AdvocatesGaunt, sickly, listless, mindless shells of what were once vital human beings, desperately cannibalizing each other in a wasteland stripped bare as they spread disease to everything they touch… Zombies! Right? We name the things we see in our dreams so we can talk about them. Names mislead! We have a collective, biological awareness – […]
Read More THAT THINGI never knew mine, and always thought the worst of him from afar. It’s made me independent. My son knows me well, and loves me terribly. Sometimes it makes me feel like the worse of us two, my father and I. In what I enjoy today, I’ve designed such loss for the morrow. Conceived […]
Read More TerribleOur grandparents taught us to say “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” They didn’t just tell it to us, they made us say it back. Made us repeat it. Made us burn it into our minds & hearts. I believe that it has become, of late, in ‘The […]
Read More Sticks and StonesI would like to share one of my all-time favorite modern poems: “Israel,” by Leonard Cohen, from “Book of Mercy,” (emphasis added by me) Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation – none […]
Read More At War With MercyAs soon as a sage wrote “Dao” in The Laozi, Dao was a concept, but it is a concept that points at the Tao which is not a concept. Dao means “Not Dao.” Therefore the conceptual Dao is a recursive and self-contradicting pointer by intent (very elegant coding, really). This is, IMO, the heart of […]
Read More In Both Places At OnceI need a car to succeed where I live. This doesn’t mean that I now live inside my car! It doesn’t mean that I never take walks, never sit on the grass, never take a shower… no. A car is a tool. Tools are to be used, well-honed and well-cared for, then set aside. We need language […]
Read More Sleeping On A Tool-Bench
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