I am 77 and neuro atypical. I am married to a stoic philosopher and if we had committed to group living we would both be the dearly departed.
I woke up early Saturday morning to listen to Ali Velshi discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Thomas Huxley's Utopia was his grandson's Hell on Earth. My classmates thought me a deaf mute but I was reading Orwell when I was three. I had a PhD vocabulary at seven and I understood the Bullshit they said even then and I kept my mouth shut as Thomas Grey once said. Where ignorance is bliss t'is folly to be wise." I love AI it is neither artificial nor intelligent; it just follows orders like every good Nazi. There is nobody around us with a giant mezuzah on their front door. Our Prime Minister talked about the SS St Louis at today's holocaust memorial. Of My maternal grandmother's family many rest at Babi Yar. We built synagogues in Kiev over 2000 years ago and it took a piano playing Jew to finally turn us into real Ukrainians. I buried Old Glory over a year ago when the America I loved committed suicide. I will fly a flag of maize and blue just like my father in law who ran for congress on a scientific logical platform with a Midas touch and was thoroughly admonished by the Calvinists in Western Michigan. I am totally without understanding of group living I am not neurotypical but we have donated what we could to promoting group living despite being space cadets on a mission from the goddess.
Even just the short line about sealing cracks in the miso jar while grieving and hoping and living was so life giving today. Thank you for all your work
Thank you, Norah! The process of making miso and placing a wish on it has been very powerful for me several times in my life. There's something about believing in the future... thanks for reading and supporting!!
Wow wow, I read some of the signs on the Bayocean spit recently but none of them (that I saw) mentioned the phallus and its punishment. What knowledge!
I am really enjoying the color palette of the first photo set, the greens and oranges threading through both (and the peanuts, biohazard, triangles, shapes, textures)...something in here is doing it for me
Looking up Hot Lake now. Thinking about strikes and the role of (local/state/non-carceral) government workers in such actions…,
I read those same signs and the only thing I really remember from them was this haunted feeling that one of the co-founders (who had disappeared) had clearly been murdered by his wife. Which is not what the signage said but I swear it's what it implied. And I thought: The writer of this signage is suspect! And then I found this much better history. It's deeply thorough, unafraid of indigenous expertise and the word phallus, AND as far as I could see it never mentions the disappearance (and implied murder) of the co-founder. So anyway... Isn't that detail about the South Wind god so beautiful!
AND ALSO, I want to hear more of what you're thinking about strikes and the role of (//) government workers in such actions! <3 Corey and I were talking about general strikes and I was saying that although a single one makes so little difference, these are muscles we need to learn to flex. Maybe this strike or any one-day strike can't make the impact we want and expect, but learning how to stand when called and how to summon others is a muscle we need to build. And there is so much more power when it can be coordinated--ie by a union or organized government workers (within a union?!). All this said: what are you thinking about??
Completely! The hubris is so rampant, even now, as you say! I hate to hear that about your neighborhood! There is really nothing more valuable than knowing a place first-hand. No amount of consultant expertise compares to a grandma! Thanks for reading and commenting!!
Thank you Lola,
I am 77 and neuro atypical. I am married to a stoic philosopher and if we had committed to group living we would both be the dearly departed.
I woke up early Saturday morning to listen to Ali Velshi discuss Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Thomas Huxley's Utopia was his grandson's Hell on Earth. My classmates thought me a deaf mute but I was reading Orwell when I was three. I had a PhD vocabulary at seven and I understood the Bullshit they said even then and I kept my mouth shut as Thomas Grey once said. Where ignorance is bliss t'is folly to be wise." I love AI it is neither artificial nor intelligent; it just follows orders like every good Nazi. There is nobody around us with a giant mezuzah on their front door. Our Prime Minister talked about the SS St Louis at today's holocaust memorial. Of My maternal grandmother's family many rest at Babi Yar. We built synagogues in Kiev over 2000 years ago and it took a piano playing Jew to finally turn us into real Ukrainians. I buried Old Glory over a year ago when the America I loved committed suicide. I will fly a flag of maize and blue just like my father in law who ran for congress on a scientific logical platform with a Midas touch and was thoroughly admonished by the Calvinists in Western Michigan. I am totally without understanding of group living I am not neurotypical but we have donated what we could to promoting group living despite being space cadets on a mission from the goddess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo3kowiyG1Y&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGAVMfo3kowiyG1Y&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7IP4UlXvG8&list=RDL7IP4UlXvG8&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oua0Puihrkc
Even just the short line about sealing cracks in the miso jar while grieving and hoping and living was so life giving today. Thank you for all your work
Thank you, Norah! The process of making miso and placing a wish on it has been very powerful for me several times in my life. There's something about believing in the future... thanks for reading and supporting!!
Wow wow, I read some of the signs on the Bayocean spit recently but none of them (that I saw) mentioned the phallus and its punishment. What knowledge!
I am really enjoying the color palette of the first photo set, the greens and oranges threading through both (and the peanuts, biohazard, triangles, shapes, textures)...something in here is doing it for me
Looking up Hot Lake now. Thinking about strikes and the role of (local/state/non-carceral) government workers in such actions…,
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I read those same signs and the only thing I really remember from them was this haunted feeling that one of the co-founders (who had disappeared) had clearly been murdered by his wife. Which is not what the signage said but I swear it's what it implied. And I thought: The writer of this signage is suspect! And then I found this much better history. It's deeply thorough, unafraid of indigenous expertise and the word phallus, AND as far as I could see it never mentions the disappearance (and implied murder) of the co-founder. So anyway... Isn't that detail about the South Wind god so beautiful!
AND ALSO, I want to hear more of what you're thinking about strikes and the role of (//) government workers in such actions! <3 Corey and I were talking about general strikes and I was saying that although a single one makes so little difference, these are muscles we need to learn to flex. Maybe this strike or any one-day strike can't make the impact we want and expect, but learning how to stand when called and how to summon others is a muscle we need to build. And there is so much more power when it can be coordinated--ie by a union or organized government workers (within a union?!). All this said: what are you thinking about??
Completely! The hubris is so rampant, even now, as you say! I hate to hear that about your neighborhood! There is really nothing more valuable than knowing a place first-hand. No amount of consultant expertise compares to a grandma! Thanks for reading and commenting!!