Writer's block is like suffocation. You try and you try to find something to take in, something to release... yet there is nothing; not an ounce of substance to purge, arrange, or even to mutilate.
Writer's block is like starvation. You struggle and struggle not simply to find something to satisfy but to find satisfaction in the cavern of emptiness in which you find your self.
In other words, I feel as though I have nothing to say with a simultaneous impulse to speak. I've had the idea of making this blog reflect more personal matters, considering most of my writing is of an impersonal nature.
I go from the mountain of wisdom to the valley of indolence immediately. Choking on that which nourishes me. Sheathing thy heart in the presence of love. In darkness there is only dark.
Ashamed? Echoes of a life faded. Remnants of a phantasy gone. Rewrite to mend. Write as re-creation.
Struggles only to find rest. Rest only to make way for struggle. I lay down my pen to take up the world, come to find the world was there all along. Rest within struggle. Struggle within rest.
Absent of life in the vestibule of pain, no threads with which to take shelter and no drive with which to relate.
In vice, thy hands, crumble and work for no coronation nor the verbiage of one's bloodied brow.
Your daemon, my muse; evoke the unholy to reap the Eucharist.
Shrouded, enshrouded in veils of consortium - vast arrays of myopic shutters that betroth the vastness of expanseless self in confines of best regards and sacred distrust.
Truth, said the Greek, plays in your blindness - deceives you for amusement as tail chases dog; lighten up, fellow longstockings, let loose thy bind unto the pockets of sane.
These thoughts, those thoughts, the thoughts thought of in disparate space, evoke entrapment in an invocative way, way which suggests the way out is the way in in inverted schemes beyond cognitive time or mentated place.
Word, I assure you, insofar as assurance reinforces persuasion and supports engendered conviction, is at game with isness as it is.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Hip Hop and Heart
School has preoccupations. Namely: Commercialism. School as industry, as commercial entity.
This preoccupation is enacted thus: The message deemed of teaching worth is what the merchant demands the consumers and producers of their goods or services require for operation. This is true whether the data is liberal or scientific or if it is theological or mystical. The force driving the requirement is nonetheless concerned with delivering their product (material or ideological) to others, at cost (financial, mental, or physiological). The conviction to deliver is the medium.
If, as McLuhan stated, the medium is the message then it is clearly recognized that trade-enforcing behavior is the message taught in school. To the commercial mind-set and life-style it is a logical message: This information moves money, which enables sustenance acquisition, which supports money movement, which acquires sustenance, and on and on; thus knowing this information is of critical importance and should be the basis of education.
Simple. But irrational. Logic is not a means of deducing truth but of mapping and directing linguistic pursuits. Rationale is not synonymous with logic. Rationale is the act of rationing, of delivering and dividing attention among various basins in some ratio. In a logical system the aim is not truth but sound language - words which successfully bend the mind according to intent. In a rational system the aim is balance, accountability, and efficiency - economy, in a word.
If, as McLuhan stated, the medium is the message then it is clearly recognized that trade-enforcing behavior is the message taught in school. To the commercial mind-set and life-style it is a logical message: This information moves money, which enables sustenance acquisition, which supports money movement, which acquires sustenance, and on and on; thus knowing this information is of critical importance and should be the basis of education.
Simple. But irrational. Logic is not a means of deducing truth but of mapping and directing linguistic pursuits. Rationale is not synonymous with logic. Rationale is the act of rationing, of delivering and dividing attention among various basins in some ratio. In a logical system the aim is not truth but sound language - words which successfully bend the mind according to intent. In a rational system the aim is balance, accountability, and efficiency - economy, in a word.
There is a common, perpetuated, and propagated misconception - misinformation indeed. Perhaps disinformation... Economics as measured by monetary trade indices. Economics is not concerned with GDP or with sales and profits, stocks or bonds - those are the property of commerce.
Commerce and economics are not synonymous. Commerce is the propriety of merchants, it is involved with the trade, bargain, and sale of what on the surface are termed 'goods' or 'services' - on deeper inspection one sees these as abstractions or symbols (repositories and generators) of human attention and concern. Mercantilism is the edifice of supplying, restricting, and distributing consciousness. Schools are the mouthpiece of this contraption, wherein neurosocial conditioning engenders the personality platforms conducive to commerce.
Whereas commerce is focused on human financial acquisitions, the concentration of economics involves the arena in which commerce takes place. The focus of economics is objective resource rationing, the focus of commerce is polilogical resource control. School is the means of achieving this control by embedding conviction in the neurophysiology of students-to-be-consumers/workers.
It is not the aim of the teacher, nor the educational institution, to fashion commercial tenacity in upcoming generations. Although it is not the aim it is nonetheless the outcome. The cause of this current is the medium through which it passes: Commercialism, the very structure from which the school is given shape and takes form. The lessons of time and space taught by commercialism - which forge our conception of necessity, duty, and value and organize the structure of all information - come laced with neural signals and social cues that denote a given attitude and affect.
Affect, attitude, space-time structuralization become the templates through which all experience is filtered. The content is irrelevant in that the act of receiving so thoroughly mutates the information as to render it entirely dissociated from its initial form and meaning. In this way Education is actually the embellishment of neurological habits of sensation. Who controls the habits controls the organism. But again, the purpose is not to gain control - the result is. The purpose is quite what is stated: learning, progress, success, etc. etc. But let us rekindle an elementary lesson pushed aside in elementary school...
The map is not the territory, The menu not the meal, The word not the truth. The word is not the truth. There are many levels of understanding, various platforms from which meaning is orchestrated and attributed significance in relation to the scale in application. There is a level where the word is the truth. That level is God(Buddha)-consciousness. And I assure you, my friend, if you THINK you are at that level it is GUARANTEED that you are not. At that level the word is truth because there is only truth. We are not at that level. We are not there because we are at the social level, where word is not truth; at the psychological level, where word is not truth; at the personal level, where word is not truth.
On these levels there exist subjects and objects of language, the spoken and the spoken of. At the G/B-C level there is not form and representation, there is only thusness - existence unabated and unconstrained. On these levels people mislead themselves unintentionally and thereby misdirect others under the guise of righteousness, hence: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." With commercialism embedded so thoroughly in the nervous system and language of human beings it is more likely that this underlying motive-mechanism acts as an amoeba.
Whereas commerce is focused on human financial acquisitions, the concentration of economics involves the arena in which commerce takes place. The focus of economics is objective resource rationing, the focus of commerce is polilogical resource control. School is the means of achieving this control by embedding conviction in the neurophysiology of students-to-be-consumers/workers.
It is not the aim of the teacher, nor the educational institution, to fashion commercial tenacity in upcoming generations. Although it is not the aim it is nonetheless the outcome. The cause of this current is the medium through which it passes: Commercialism, the very structure from which the school is given shape and takes form. The lessons of time and space taught by commercialism - which forge our conception of necessity, duty, and value and organize the structure of all information - come laced with neural signals and social cues that denote a given attitude and affect.
Affect, attitude, space-time structuralization become the templates through which all experience is filtered. The content is irrelevant in that the act of receiving so thoroughly mutates the information as to render it entirely dissociated from its initial form and meaning. In this way Education is actually the embellishment of neurological habits of sensation. Who controls the habits controls the organism. But again, the purpose is not to gain control - the result is. The purpose is quite what is stated: learning, progress, success, etc. etc. But let us rekindle an elementary lesson pushed aside in elementary school...
The map is not the territory, The menu not the meal, The word not the truth. The word is not the truth. There are many levels of understanding, various platforms from which meaning is orchestrated and attributed significance in relation to the scale in application. There is a level where the word is the truth. That level is God(Buddha)-consciousness. And I assure you, my friend, if you THINK you are at that level it is GUARANTEED that you are not. At that level the word is truth because there is only truth. We are not at that level. We are not there because we are at the social level, where word is not truth; at the psychological level, where word is not truth; at the personal level, where word is not truth.
On these levels there exist subjects and objects of language, the spoken and the spoken of. At the G/B-C level there is not form and representation, there is only thusness - existence unabated and unconstrained. On these levels people mislead themselves unintentionally and thereby misdirect others under the guise of righteousness, hence: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." With commercialism embedded so thoroughly in the nervous system and language of human beings it is more likely that this underlying motive-mechanism acts as an amoeba.
Economics and Ecology are one study of a single topic: Resource utility.
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