This has a grim optimism that I did not get from reading DeBord's 'Spectacle' Unfortunately this is about 49 minutes too long for the attention deficit society so those who most need to watch it won't. Thanks for posting.
@PI: good point. How indeed do we slow our high velocity info-flow down enough to cultivate mindfullness? I support disruption. Massive Disruption.
@PC; same as above, DISRUPTION. Disruption of regular thinking and experiencing patterns in ourselves and others. Culture-jam. Disruption of lifesyle choices and habitual dwelling. They create 'gremlins'; become gremlin. And place wrenches into systems. I know of no other way...
Fuck! Doesn't it make you crazy - 4 people commented (read 4 people watched the film) and one of them was you. Mind you there's not much one can say about the film... other than: fuck!
I'm already way past the point of being surprised by the lack of response by such information.
People everywhere are in shock, literally. Lost and confused. And I suppose many of us don’t even know how to respond – we're too busy just trying to keep it together long enough to deal with the stress of our life-conditions. Many of us have few opportunities to think if another world is possible, let alone the energy to go about and make it happen.
A large part of the problem is that the “game” is set up such that we are compelled to "play" it, even as most of us know the rules favor a tiny minority of powerful people. This is not an excuse: it is just the way it is.
But I do think we have a responsibility to our children, and their children, to stop living so recklessly and stupidly. But can we change the way we live? And how do we overcome the fear and ideological smoke screens that paralyze us?
I’m pondering just that right now: solutions, ways forward, lines of flight. I have some ideas but we’ll see if I get time to articulate them.
And thanks for continuing to stop by. Your ‘voice’ is a valuable one.
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yikes.
on a side note, what ever happened to pneumatic tubes?
This has a grim optimism that I did not get from reading DeBord's 'Spectacle'
Unfortunately this is about 49 minutes too long for the attention deficit society so those who most need to watch it won't.
Thanks for posting.
EXACTLY! That's how it is... DISGUSTING! but how can we change this bulldozer...how can we break through the illusion...how can we destroy it?
PC
@Tom: yikes indeed.
@PI: good point. How indeed do we slow our high velocity info-flow down enough to cultivate mindfullness? I support disruption. Massive Disruption.
@PC; same as above, DISRUPTION. Disruption of regular thinking and experiencing patterns in ourselves and others. Culture-jam. Disruption of lifesyle choices and habitual dwelling. They create 'gremlins'; become gremlin. And place wrenches into systems. I know of no other way...
Fuck! Doesn't it make you crazy - 4 people commented (read 4 people watched the film) and one of them was you.
Mind you there's not much one can say about the film... other than: fuck!
@Pisces Iscariot
I'm already way past the point of being surprised by the lack of response by such information.
People everywhere are in shock, literally. Lost and confused. And I suppose many of us don’t even know how to respond – we're too busy just trying to keep it together long enough to deal with the stress of our life-conditions. Many of us have few opportunities to think if another world is possible, let alone the energy to go about and make it happen.
A large part of the problem is that the “game” is set up such that we are compelled to "play" it, even as most of us know the rules favor a tiny minority of powerful people. This is not an excuse: it is just the way it is.
But I do think we have a responsibility to our children, and their children, to stop living so recklessly and stupidly. But can we change the way we live? And how do we overcome the fear and ideological smoke screens that paralyze us?
I’m pondering just that right now: solutions, ways forward, lines of flight. I have some ideas but we’ll see if I get time to articulate them.
And thanks for continuing to stop by. Your ‘voice’ is a valuable one.
M.
A Valuable voice, thank you, it's good to know that at least one person thinks so (besides my wife).
Your summing up is spot on and falls in with the Camus' ideas about the absudity of our existence.
You keep delivering stuff like this and I keep returning to hear it.
Hello, fellow wage slave. Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Yes, Burroughs is envy-worthy too.
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