The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich: A history of Fascist America
These books are being collectively written by the Samizdat of the day aka the net
http://delicious.com/slark/theunitedstatesisfucked
Integral Naked - Jim Garrison - Politics in the 21st Century - Part 3 - In Hot Water
23:01 - 23:16
quote from Aeschylus:
Drop by drop pain that cannot forget falls upon the heart until against our will in our despair comes wisdom by the awful grace of God.
Robert F. Kennedy - Echoes of 1968
Humanity achieved man landing on the moon and the creation of the Internet as a result of the Cold War.
What will humanity achieve as a result of the War on Terror Overseas Contingency Operations?
The Internet is prototyping the future of humanity
I believe integral is already doing for humanity what integrated circuits and the Internet has done for computers.
Integral approach
Comprehensive, inclusive, balanced
Healthy development of body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature
All the good stuff with none of the crap
The best of everything for everyone
Integral app - an integrally-informed approach
Seeking the Good, the True, the Beautiful
Experiencing the Journey, the Conversation, the Balance
Contemplating the Numinous, the Divine, the Ineffable – that which is beyond words
Every word – poetry
Every movement – dance
Every thought – prayer or meditation
7 Tribes (world views)
- National tribe
- Military tribe
- Law enforcement tribe
- Business tribe
- Academic tribe
- Journalist & NGO tribe
- Citizens, citizen advocacy organisations, labour unions, & religions
Robert David Steele interviewed by Kent Bye for Echo Chamber Project
Source: C-Realm Podcast 115 - Good to Know
Sinking into the green swamp whilst munching on our watermelons and, needless to say, choking on the indigestible pips.
Everything
- The entirety of human history (and by extension the history of the universe)
- The entirety of human knowledge
- The entirety of human experience
Digitus dei est hic
WWWIIFing: Willing Worldwide Workers Integrally Informing Friends
WWOOF Australia
SD, SK-G, & Whole Writing are APIs for IOS
An ancient Chinese proverb says “Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness” (which inspired AI’s logo).
I have modified that saying to the following:
Better to edit one Wikipedia article than to curse the mass media.
Better to download & use one piece of open source software than to curse Microsoft.
Better to post one blog entry than to curse Rupert Murdoch (unless of course you are posting on MySpace :-P).
open source software : open standards documents :: GM-free : organic food
the reality television genre is TV disappearing up its own asshole
http://slark1.blogspot.com/2006/02/you-said-it-daily-terror.html
What’s on TV Tonight? Humiliation to the Point of Suicide
Torture Hits Home - When the Unthinkable Becomes Acceptable
Georges Bernanos quotes
The horrors which we have seen, and the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people.
source
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don’t despise it. But it can’t quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Oh Dearism
Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
To be able to find joy in another’s joy, that is the secret of happiness.
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don’t know it.
source
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.
source
I propose a significant reduction, if not the complete elimination, of entire industries. These are industries that predominately ply in the trade of human misery and suffering eg. the fashion industry, the cosmetics industry, the advertising industry, and the mass media.
At current rates of consumption, the use of the word “sustainable” is unsustainable
consumerism
Debt is the slavery of the free
The less you have, the less you want
Work, consume, don’t question?, die
weapons of identity in a consumerist arms race Mark Latham on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton excerpts
Human
Hubris <---------------------> Humility
I am not a consumer
I am a human being
I am not a customer
I am a human being
I am not a client
I am a human being
I am not a motorist
I am a human being
I am not a taxpayer
I am a human being
I am not a ratepayer
I am a human being
I am not a voter
I am a human being
I am not a demographic
I am a human being
I am not a victim
I am a human being
And so are you
I am a physical being
I am an intellectual being
I am an emotional being
I am a spiritual being
I am a sexual being
I am a humourous being
I am a moral being
Homo cum humani nil a me alienum puto.
I am a human being. Nothing human can be alien to me.
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) 154 BCE
I’m not interested in fashionable, I’m interested in functional
I’m not interested in acting, I’m interested in authentic
I’m not interested in convenient, I’m interested in creative
I’m not interested in crap, I’m interested in quality
I’m not interested in quick and easy, I’m interested in character building
thoughts -> habits -> character -> destiny
sources of perennial wisdom
ancient/modern
Eastern/Western
religious/secular
technical/colloquial
Embrace the paradox
Transcend the dichotomy
something the contradiction
Life is but a journey – one does not arrive, one merely passes through.
One passes through experiences, one passes through relationships, one passes through world views, ideologies, belief systems.
This day is a precious gift. Good health in body and mind is a precious gift. Am I going to squander these gifts? Or am I going to cherish them?
What am I going to do with
this moment
this day
this year
What am I going to do in this lifetime
to make the world a better place?
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Great minds discuss ideas
Mediocre minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Pulp Fiction exegesis
Jules: Wanna know what I’m buyin’ Ringo?
Ringo: What?
Jules: Your life. I’m givin’ you that money so I don’t hafta kill your ass. You read the Bible?
Ringo: Not regularly.
Jules: There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin’ that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before you popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. Now I’m thinkin’: it could mean you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be a shepherd.
YouTube – Pulp Fiction Restaurant Scene
Geeky metaphysician, debug thyself
e-mail except from Victor
I do think that SOME sort of academic pursuit would be very good for you as you have to exercise that considerable intellect of your’s, young Stephen. I don’t think you should worry about it being overly vocationally oriented: pursue interests & passions. If you do that, you’ll probably gravitate into something you are naturally good at doing and will find a vocation because you do it well. Doing something because other people find it a useful avenue into the workforce ignores the fact that you are NOT the average Joe. You can do many things, I’m sure, that would severely challenge the average specimen. So leave the humdrum accounting bullshit to the poor sods for whom thats all they can manage, and pursue things that that brain of yours thinks are engaging. Here endeth the lesson.
Celebrities – the pantheon of gods and godesses in our postmodern civilisation
FIIAT
- the Fundamental Inherent Interconnectedness of All Things
- fiat (Latin): let it be
Life
We convince ourselves that life will be better once we’re married or have a baby or two or when their older, or when they’ve left home.
We tell ourselves that life will be complete when we have a nicer car, go overseas on a holiday, make more money, have less bills.
The truth is – there’s no better time to be happy than right now!
Our lives will always be filled with challenges, unfinished business, debts to be paid, obstacles to climb.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So – treasure every moment you have.
Yesterday is History.
Tomorrow – Mystery.
Today is a Gift.
That’s why it is called the present! So…
Work like you don’t need money.
Love like you’ve never been hurt.
And dance like no-one is watching.
Take care and enjoy the moment!
author unknown
Blessed indeed are those ears which listen not for the voice sounding without, but for the truth teaching inwardly. Blessed are the eyes that are shut to outward things but intent on things inward. Blessed are they who are glad to have time to spare for God, and who shake off all worldly hindrances. Consider these things, O my soul, and hear what the Lord your God speaks.
Thomas Kempis (1379-1471)
You do the things you have to do in order to do the things you want to do.
Postel’s rule/prescription/law
Be generous in what you accept and conservative in what you generate.
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
ACM Queue – DNS Complexity: A journey into the sublime complexity of the domain name system
3 questions to ask before saying anything
Is it true?
Is it useful?
Is it kind?
basic functions of the human brain (or any other neural net)
pattern recognising & reinforcing
flow
connections
Scientific American Mind – Cognitive operators
cognos
- The cognitive cosmos – the information universe
- The holographic nature of the cognos
The fractal nature of perception
holarchic fractal structures
nested structures
order within chaos, chaos within order
analogue within digital, digital within analogue
linear within cyclical, cyclical within linear
A methodology for assessing, analysing, and documenting methodologies.
I would rather be depressed or anxious about what is going on around me that affects me, than be ignorant or oblivious or in denial about what is going on around me that affects me.
Big pharma can go get phucked
My reality cheque bounced
A cynic is what an optimist calls a realist
The beaten track is the safe path
voluntary simplicity
noise
Having happiness as a goal in life is like designing an engine that doesn’t make any noise – Slashdot fortune cookie
The less signal, the greater the likelihood that noise will be interpreted as signal
Welcome to ABC Classic FM online: Classic FM is a performance space, a library, an encyclopaedia, a friend, and a journey of discovery. You’ll hear our presenters celebrating music as no others can.
http://www.abc.net.au/classic/ (archived)
The rhythm of your voice is the rhythm of your thoughts – guest on ABC Classic FM Margaret Throsby 2006-07-27 (Rowena Balos)
Your life is being monitored and recorded for quality and coaching purposes.
If you do not want your life to be monitored and recorded, then, well, too bad.
Your life is not important to us.
meetspace/crapspace/greenspace
meetspace – my body/mind/spirit connecting with another body/mind/spirit (eg. physical intimacy, virtual communities, hiqual books/music/movies/URLs, great minds discuss ideas, meditation/prayer)
crapspace – distractions, pathologies, noise (SNR), destruction, ignorance, denial, apathy (eg. town, suburbia, traffic, untrusted people, vast majority of mass media)
greenspace – non-human natural physical environment (eg. the river, the beach, the bush)
meetspace – maximise exposure
crapspace – minimise exposure
greenspace – maximise exposure
balance exposure to meetspace & greenspace
suffering
lack of awareness
lack of understanding
lack of empathy
lack of education
lack of maturity
lack of development
lack of consciousness
digital camera criteria
good optical zoom, viewfinder, takes AA batteries, SD/MMC slot
Celestia zoom
move mouse pointer off screen
P, M, O, B, E
zoom out – End (planet, moon, inner solar system, outer solar system, sol, neighbourhood, stars, galaxy, local group)
zoom in – Home (local group, galaxy, stars, neighbourhood, sol, outer solar system, inner solar system, moon, planet)
E, B, O, M, P
rotate Earth to centre on equator
F, L, L
think local, regional, national, global
act local, regional, national, global
rapidly iterate towards technically elegant solutions
The roll of the genetic, parental, and circumstantial dice
My other bumper sticker says something witty and self-referential
At the end of the day, the bottom line is, that in the fullness of time, and without prevaricating or beating around the bush, or saying the same thing twice (or two different ways), that when its all said and done, when the horse has bolted, the cows have come home, and the cat is out of the bag…
Don’t dumb it down, look it up
Be active assertive rather than passive aggressive
Don't get worked up over things, work out, so you can work out things
Observations of Reality
- The vast majority of everything is crap (Sturgeon's Law).
- Every person has their own agenda.
- Nothing is simple, including this statement.
Movement/culture/group/fashion
By definition, this must be a mass attitude, for any simplistic reduction of ideas to an easily identifiable movement/culture/group/fashion subdues original & independent thought as a result of compromises of disparate insights/thoughts/ideas/opinions.
System
An organisation of resources (human, financial, matter/energy, or/and time) where each participant in that system conforms to a predetermined role; modifications to systems involving people are resisted by an inevitable consequence of those systems: bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy
A macro-attitude of a lack of motivation to react to any individual because the system obfuscates & introduces errors, also the system, being physically, psychologically, politically, and legally greater than the sum of the resources that make it up, has more power to act and react than has the individual.
Waves
Agricultural revolution: Beginning of industry (regulated work for humans).
Industrial revolution: Beginning of automation of industry (invention of machines to do work, humans work like these machines).
Information revolution: Beginning of delegation of work from humans to machines which work like humans.
1 & 2 are hardware-specific, with invention of software 3 is hardware-independent i.e. virtual rather than physical.
Third Wave Existence
Totally relative personal space/relative personal time.
Space: Instantaneous/near-instantaneous global access to all digitally encoded information eg. the Internet.
Time: Asynchronous communication eg. fax, e-mail, voice-mail.
Totally event-driven, as opposed to time-driven, interaction with external entities.
Totally customised sensory input eg. digital earplugs.
Humans and Their Environment
Humans behave like their environment
eg. act like animal (independent or small groups) in prehistory,
eg. act like machine (interdependent) in industrial revolution era,
eg. act like [pure thought?|software?] (customised, event driven, relative, global tribalism) in information revolution era.
Opposite magnitudes for small and large
A small quantity of x has consequences of positive magnitude on a system, a large quantity of x has consequences of negative magnitude on a system, or vice versa.
Examples
Force of repulsion between particular subatomic particles (protons, neutrons and/or electrons) at large distances.
Force of attraction between particular subatomic particles (protons, neutrons and/or electrons) at small distances.
A small dose of amphetamines on people with ADD (attention deficit disorder) results in a decrease of brain activity.
A large dose of amphetamines on people results in an increase in brain activity.
At the onset of a manic phase, a calming effect results.
Further into the manic phase, an increase in energy results.
Round-trip Engineering
Any changes that are made to the source code will be reflected in the model and vice versa.
Pountain, D., "Best CASE Scenarios: Choosing OO Methods" in Byte Vol. 21 No. 8, August 1996, McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., p. 40IS 13.
Reverse Engineering?
Subjective Ethics
Each person has a subjective understanding of ethics, that is there seems to be a consensus by the vast majority of people on most things as to what is good and what is evil, and this consensus is what is macro-perceived as human morality. Each of us, however, have our own unique conception of highly ethical and highly base actions. For example, in my opinion one of the worst sins that you can commit is to be an arrogant prick and/or a complete idiot, and a noble act is to live authentically and to realise your full potential (god I hope I don't sound like one of those $500 motivational seminar dickheads...)
Lawyers
Lawyers are necessary for these reasons:
Because the complexity of our lives is so much greater than in the past, we cannot now directly talk to or understand each other.
Because we cannot understand each other, and also because each of our lives is so different, we fear each other.
Because we fear each other, we don't trust each other, sign up contracts, inevitably break them, and then sue each other.
Functional Evolution
The more stupider you are, the more likely you are to kill yourself and/or someone else of equal or greater stupidity.
Eclection
An eclectic collection of connections