'Borges represented the humanist view of media that stressed the social aspect of art driven by emotion'
What does this mean?
Do I agree with it?
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
why not write in ink?
... just some unedited thoughts scribbled on a flattened out sandwich box from a couple years back ...
Why not write in ink if the computer's always in the way? So many sensations to experience outside in physical world from spicy food to scented candles. Here even I used forms I've learned from media. The journalistic alliteration of 'from spicy to scented. Getting dizzy, getting cold, getting nervous, scared, excited. All better than fake light pushing into my eyes. Cold blue light which illuminates my page from white Microsoft Office. It guides my pen. Pen pen pen pen15. Immeasurable. We consume electronic entertainment because we are lazy. It seeps down our throats and we croon at the sweet humour honey. We don't listen, smell or breathe. Just cheat by jumping our minds with cables. Jump start the day with a YouTube million hitter and your set. Like the cock who interviewed me for that job at DARE. 'So which blogs do you follow?' 'Uh ... BBC News ... day in pictures' 'Ahhh, I have all my links feeding my blogosphere wank hall'. So all transient, ephemeral, trivial, uninspiring information comes straight to my desk and I spend the first 15 minutes ... ah, what a life. Who can live it? I mean properly LIVE IT? What do they run on? Lattes and megabytes. Football stats and Esquire. 'What all men must own' articles. It's scary. I know we're not supposed to judge. Not that. I'm making a personal rule not to judge. But sometimes, fuck. How? All I can think is ... poor souls. Where are there souls? Who keeps them? Which demon? An then there's straight up uncomplicated HEALTH. It's so simple. Don't smoke, don't drink, just drink smoothies and have sex. Cycles, drink water, eat fruit, drink soup, sleep a lot. Listen to music, live. Keep warm, keep laughing. Write or paint if you want to. Several is just a posh way of saying seven. Sing and dance as much as possible. Hug people properly. Be open and unafraid. Don't worry. Ever. Who can turn a 31 sided puzzle into a square? ALWAYS LEAVE SOME ROOM TO THINK.
Why not write in ink if the computer's always in the way? So many sensations to experience outside in physical world from spicy food to scented candles. Here even I used forms I've learned from media. The journalistic alliteration of 'from spicy to scented. Getting dizzy, getting cold, getting nervous, scared, excited. All better than fake light pushing into my eyes. Cold blue light which illuminates my page from white Microsoft Office. It guides my pen. Pen pen pen pen15. Immeasurable. We consume electronic entertainment because we are lazy. It seeps down our throats and we croon at the sweet humour honey. We don't listen, smell or breathe. Just cheat by jumping our minds with cables. Jump start the day with a YouTube million hitter and your set. Like the cock who interviewed me for that job at DARE. 'So which blogs do you follow?' 'Uh ... BBC News ... day in pictures' 'Ahhh, I have all my links feeding my blogosphere wank hall'. So all transient, ephemeral, trivial, uninspiring information comes straight to my desk and I spend the first 15 minutes ... ah, what a life. Who can live it? I mean properly LIVE IT? What do they run on? Lattes and megabytes. Football stats and Esquire. 'What all men must own' articles. It's scary. I know we're not supposed to judge. Not that. I'm making a personal rule not to judge. But sometimes, fuck. How? All I can think is ... poor souls. Where are there souls? Who keeps them? Which demon? An then there's straight up uncomplicated HEALTH. It's so simple. Don't smoke, don't drink, just drink smoothies and have sex. Cycles, drink water, eat fruit, drink soup, sleep a lot. Listen to music, live. Keep warm, keep laughing. Write or paint if you want to. Several is just a posh way of saying seven. Sing and dance as much as possible. Hug people properly. Be open and unafraid. Don't worry. Ever. Who can turn a 31 sided puzzle into a square? ALWAYS LEAVE SOME ROOM TO THINK.
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
shine
I suppose its just an anxiety to live within the world of thought.
It is of course possible to earn a living through one means and use your spare time to learn and engage intellectually with the world. Whether it is more, less, or equally fulfilling to do this I cannot say.
Noam Chomsky says real thinkers engage in 'the constant struggle to create a better world'
I don't accept the notion that we cannot create a better world. Relativism? Each-to-their-ownism? .... nah ...
I don't care if its for selfish reasons that one wants to be part of an intellectual circle or to understand the world better. I think its important. I think its important for those who can think to think properly. To question and grind up against the norm. There are many philosophical loops that will swing you out of the firing line of responsibility.
It is not that you have to actively convince others of another way but that you are aware that there is another way and that you think about it, learn about it, and respond to it in an intellectual and illuminating way. Even if that way only illuminates yourself.
Shine on brother.
Shine on.
It is of course possible to earn a living through one means and use your spare time to learn and engage intellectually with the world. Whether it is more, less, or equally fulfilling to do this I cannot say.
Noam Chomsky says real thinkers engage in 'the constant struggle to create a better world'
I don't accept the notion that we cannot create a better world. Relativism? Each-to-their-ownism? .... nah ...
I don't care if its for selfish reasons that one wants to be part of an intellectual circle or to understand the world better. I think its important. I think its important for those who can think to think properly. To question and grind up against the norm. There are many philosophical loops that will swing you out of the firing line of responsibility.
It is not that you have to actively convince others of another way but that you are aware that there is another way and that you think about it, learn about it, and respond to it in an intellectual and illuminating way. Even if that way only illuminates yourself.
Shine on brother.
Shine on.
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