Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Some cool Stuff

The post's title link is about this cool Philip K. Dick book. Another of Philip K. Dick's books is being made into a movie. That link goes to a trailer remix contest.

A crazy trailer for Mel Gibson's next project is out, with this image hidden in it. See if you can find it for yourself.




Proof Mel Gibson's Gone Gonzo





More news about the magnificence of the men Mel is depicting in his foray to the equatorial Americas, as well as being about pyramids.

Lastly, definitive proof that the military industrial complex had something to gain from the events of 9/11.

Cool huh?

Friday, May 26, 2006

Subliminal Ad for my Personal Blog

Clic the Pic, and the title of the post's a linc


That's some scary stuff this Bush guy's been saying.

Monday, May 22, 2006

High School


Being back in my home town for a while. It's my first summer home from college and I feel pulled in a million directions at once. I've been hitting the books with old friends and family and a large topic of conversation has been education. I feel a little like one of the poor people probed by Clarence on the most recent Wonder Showzen *Season 2 Episode 8* when it comes to the issue. I could complain a whole lot about the quality of the current public schooling system but if asked to be the be all and end all on how things should be running I think i come up a little empty. Textbooks always seemed like a problem. To be critical though, I think that our public school system impresses an antiquated state of reality on impressionable minds in a theater that feels more like a concentration camp than a blessing and bloats its own importance to in the eyes of those minds so that failure there is viewed as failure at life. This situation is appalling, In a world where this can happen, we should realize that youth are more capable mentally at a younger age than they ever have been before and that the exhaustive and somewhat pointless action of test-taking, pomp, and circumstance weighed so heavily in high school has very little quantitative benefit in the modern world. All the information you studied in every social studies or science class can be easily attained with a google search. All that math can be done with a calculator. Students are driven in high school by a will to power and not much else. Benefits of good grades? Good college of course. Benefits of good college? Good job of course. Benefits of good job? Money of course.

A problem arises, because the skills necessary to make enough money to survive in this world are taught to kids in video games before they're even in school. Money is not the be all and end all to life. Survival depends on some money, but not only money. Enough money to survive seems to be a pretty easy thing to make if you're willing to put in the effort. School shouldn't need to be the factor that motivates kids to exist in society. That's the only function I believe it could possibly see itself accomplishing and it does so poorly. Students should be offered more selection with less numerical evaluation. The subjects that interest you will be those you're willing to apply effort to, and theres no reason that schools haven't brought curriculums up to date to represent the interests of the modern world. Even more despicable is the absolute lack of valuable information granted in high school courses. My memory of them in retrospect was something akin to a complicated and unfulfilling series of brain teasers and memorization tests. Students interested in science and technology should be encouraged to know that there are fields and careers that match their interests. Artists should know their skills are invaluable to a corporate culture constantly reshaping its glossy chic public image. Those skilled in prose and language could be shown the plethora of possible outlets for their talents in a world shaped by it's words. Instead they are bogged down in rigid tests about names and dates that are all archived in the freakin wikipedia.

Creativity is the greatest tool at our disposal and the factor least present in this system. Students are rarely asked to present anything of their own other than reconstitutions of pre-researched information into charts and power point presentations. Kids could already be discussing issues of social, economic, and political weight, exploring the worlds of electricity and applied sciences, producing works of video, print, and music, and generally creating culture rather than having it hidden within them as dark and dirty secrets not be be revealed. Your opinion and your input into your education shall one of raw effort alone so that we can brand you with a number. This number will be your value to society. Get too low a number and you might just dissapear, you know like JFK.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Spy Spy


So I think I might wanna work for the CIA. I say that after years of fear-mongering the establishment that the CIA seems so intergral in, but lately I see that the element effecting change that I always so longed to be a part of is not a counter-culture, but rather a counter-counter-culture. This is not simple culture as the double negative might imply, but an ascended sort of understanding. There are great evils and there are great goods in the world. Every facet of human existence holds a commingling of these polar extemes. Institutions of order represent human attempts at higher being. These instititutions are things like governments, schools, religions, social networks, and community. The initial impulse of any conscious youth in America is an immediate revulsion toward our action in global politics lately. America operates a torture camp in a communist nation to indefinetly hold prisoners of a war with no determinate enemy. We've started a war against an enemy as staunchly secure in their religious conviction that democracy represents the ultimate god-less evil in the world, as we are that they represent a force of god-less stagnant opression and ignorance.

The key to life lived to it's fullest is really as simple as thinking and acting on your thoughts. The world offers a vast array of possibility to direct what is a nearly infinite human potential. The only goal that serves no end is disorder. The ordered whole as it is offers anyone of any persuasion a way to make it in this world. It's just about looking for it. The greatest system of order I could express desire for all humans to participate in is reality. There's really no reason not to be here. Our American society has bread an opulence that lends itself to hedonism, depression, and disorder. These things are destructive to society and the globe. The people in charge have a plan that I worry may be steering us toward a very dangerous place, what with war in the middle east and all, but they are a well intrenched powerful aristocracy that shows no sign of leaving its perched position. Our only hope for effecting change in the world is to affect the people around us. In the end people make the world. Half of America's populace doesn't vote! The government is pushing us around and spying on us. We don't care though, cause they've got us hooked on TV and Fast-Food. Stop reading what I'm writing right now. You're wasting your time I can assure you. I intend to say nothing in these last few sentences other than that I'm sure theres something very productive you could be doing with your time and I'm sure you're not doing cause you're reading my words. Actions speak. Words just talk. I'm not saying anything anymore. Get out of here already and DO SOMETHING!

Monday, May 08, 2006

NWO

So this lab paper i have to write's topic would have me argue whose argument I find most convincing in their account of chemistry. Lately however I find myself far more interested in the phenomenon that is the thing that compelled man to account for chemistry, These men each offer a varied and loose understanding of the of the existence of a pattern of sorts in the natural world. They show that given a manipulation of our surroundings we can begin to see an order. Some element to what surrounds us and embodies us is intelligible. We human creatures possess the power to see the pattern. The pattern is beautiful, and glimpsing the pattern leads us to question why and how we exist within it. We can see that everything that happens happens because of something. This something is a real thing and not just anything. This thing is within us to see. It is shining its light on us always as the sun does. We can either seek to see it. Or we can choose to explain it away as some sort of madness. But we see explicable and inexplicable things occur nonetheless.
The sun shines and moves across the sky we see it move and we see it provide for all things. Our sight, and our survival are so intimately linked to the thing that it could be seen as the ultimate source of good. It obeys some sort of law, a law we see in its regularity. We see that what brings about change in the world is. That it was made came from something. We all came from another person in the most immediate of senses. But that only explains bodily existence. We have an existence beyond the body. We are actors on a stage that is our action, and the action of the first actor. We as intelligent entities are bound to a respect for what made us, as we cannot have been without it. When we see this, that we all have a role to play in a grander design, then we are freed from bondage. We are compelled to look around and to understand. We are struck by the awe and beauty of this grand design so strongly that we seek integration with it forever. We seek to stretch out ourselves toward it, to commit the mind to the love of existence, the love of the moment, the love of the now. Every moment courses with the lifeblood of the mind responsible for all things. A mind we share a piece of so that we may see that it exists.
Socrates fought to this end in his life, I think. He wanted people to see that the answers to man’s questions were embedded in the very positing of the question. We can really only know that we know nothing comparable to the source of knowledge. In all of the time our life encompasses we could never know everything, so we might as well just live our lives to the fullest while stretching the self out in a love of the possibility of a more perfect union. Choice and destiny are sewn together by time and it is a choice given to us to accept or deny our correspondence to this system. A certain sort of freedom arises from this stretching out of the self. The most immediate becomes less significant and one can see the broader picture of time as a huge progression for intelligent life.
These chemists try to break the world down into elements. Their understanding takes the shape of an ordered whole with intelligibility in the periodic table. Euclid showed us another sort of element. He showed us the circle and the triangle and the square. The same real value holds to both elements however. They are something that exists beyond us. No matter if we live or die a circle is always a circle. The nature of the world around that appears wild and fantastic shows us glimpses of the order. The most perfect perhaps being the circle of light in the sky that has taunted us to understand it’s magnificence for so long. We can see that the cause of all is manifest in our existence, as all things arise from things and not from anything random and disorderly. Music sounds best when effort is applied in its creation. Intelligence and awareness is the greatest gift with the greatest effort responsible for it’s existence. Acknowledgement of that gift is the future of mankind. To live life pursuing the perfection of time absent decay is the ultimate realization of the human intellect. We chase change. Change is in us as intelligent things. Rather than consuming the mind with worthless worry and wearily wandering without hope, we must see that we already possess all the keys. Time has been a long time coming. There is no future the future is now. Stop fearing it and just go!

Various Artists - New World Order


Various Artists - New World Order pt 2

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

I hate the term 'Kafka-esque'



Intellect vs Emotion

Intellect: ?You are evil.?
Emotion: ?You are evil.?
Intellect: ?No, You are evil!?
Emotion: ?No, You are evil!?
Intellect: ?Stop this nonsense! Why are you laughing? I do not see any reason why you should be so delighted.?
Emotion: ?I am not evil and it is fun to imitate you. You always sound hilarious!?
Intellect: ?Making fun of others is an evil act! You always make fun of everything! See then, you are evil! You are saddened; did I bring this sorrow upon you? Well you should be. Being evil is not decorous you know.?
Emotion: ?It is you! You are evil! You and your reasonableness! You always ruin everything with your dull facts! You always destroy my dreams! You envy me!?
Intellect: ?Why in the universe should I envy you!? Pray tell me you do not think I am jealous of your dreams! For, that would be the dreariest joke you have ever come up with!?
Emotion: ?You envy me because you cannot feel. You have never felt joy or sorrow. You can never love!?
Intellect: ?Well if I cannot feel, then how could I possibly envy!? Your words contradict each other. And as for love; love makes you weak; it also consumes your time. I do not see any reason why I should need it.?
Emotion: ?But love makes you strong! It makes you want to continue! It gives you hope! And you speak of time; what could be better than to spend your time loving someone and being loved? I feel sorry for you.?
Intellect: ?Time is much more important than to be wasted away by the futile act of loving. Why must one idle away their time with love, when one can cherish it with thinking!? Thinking upon ways to improve, to gain power. Better be sorry for yourself. For, you are evil.?
Emotion: ?But why do you think me so!??
Intellect: ?Do not pretend that you do not know! You may not be as clever as I am, but I do not think you are that dim-witted. You and your dreams! You and your hopes! You demolish all the things I work so hard to attain. You cannot comprehend the value of power. You always act like a fool!?
Emotion: ?I may be a fool but I am not evil!?
Intellect: ?Oh yes you are! You take away my freedom.?
Emotion: ?It is you who take away my freedom! If it was not for you??
Intellect: ?If it was not for me you would have been done with a long time ago. It was I who stopped you from??
Emotion: ?It was you who stopped me from showing my true self!?
Intellect: ?Then what I did was beneficent to everyone. I stopped you from spreading your evil in the universe!?
Emotion: ?You are evil.?
Intellect: ?You are evil.?
Emotion: ?No, you are evil!?

Black Blood of Babylon


Iran says take a hint from google and, "Don't be evil America, or we'll blow up your buddy Isreal!"

I find Colbert's actions falling parallel to the action of Aristophanes' performance of The Birds most readily. Athens was facing an uncertain military expedition with motives of empire during the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes play sees idealistic humans transformed into birds to replace the gods in the affairs of men. They construct a wall around the entire earth so that the smell of sacrifice will no longer reach the heavens. The birds were satisfied in their own minds that they could be better rulers than the gods. Eventually the gods cede control to the birds with very little resistence.

Where in the past Aristophanes had been brought to trial for slander in his submissions to the annual festival to Dionysis (god of intoxication and theater), here he seems to say that the Athenians can rest assured they are virtuous enough that the gods will side with them and offer them the right to an extended empire. The substance of the argument and actions ascending to the conclusion are full of questionable content. The birds are described as "father beaters" in that they offer the ability to slander the established custom and action of their predecessors for an elevated god-like existence. The real gods are shown to be petty, near idiotic, and easily mislead by the birds, something that seems quite unusual given any prior account of the gods. The same message seems to resound here in Colberts attack on the 4 branches of government. "Everything is under control! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! That man right there! That one! Yeah... pay no attention to him. We've got the blessing of the gods. Everything is going to be okay!" One way or another I'm with Jon Stewart about the balls-alicious-ness.

And in closing I'm just pissed that this manifested itself in reality. Denver Defends Against Numerological Doom and Destruction

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Two Towers



There's some ambivalence between myself and Steve as to the exact form this blog should habituate itself toward. Let's say I'd like it to represent, at least to some degree, my thoughts on the modern political cosmos. Let me start out by directing you toward the title link. I have done a lot of thinking about September 11, 2001, and not all of it was constructive. I've read a lot of web pages by a lot of looneys. In the end, my gut tells me the official story of the events of 9/11 is incomplete or false in part. The government won't provide answers to a bunch of crazies, cause they won't believe anything they're told. So I'm left to flip the pages of my shockingly blameless 9/11 Report, read the PNAC letter On Rebuilding America's Defenses and fume about what appears to be the most visible "conspiracy" for global domination in history.


One way or another I think Hip-Hop music is going to make an impact in the world of politics real soon. Here's a mixtape of material rather exciting. Jay-Z and Nas after having famously feuded in the 90's?, have finally moved on, realized they were both talented and wanted to make more money. So they "Squashed the Beef." Enjoy.

Jay-Z, Nas - Twin Towers Vol 1

Monday, May 01, 2006

Great Minds...

It's funny that my first instinct for a post on this newly formed blog was going to be one in tribute to this funny man, and his antics at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner. Looks like I got beaten to the punch. The whole thing reminds me of V for Vendetta. The event's assuring in the sense that Stephen Colbert's not dead right now. Apparently Bush joked about an impersonator he had with him on stage having stood in for himself at debates. Perhaps we finally have an answer to what that strange protrusion was.