On Hunger

Half the world will go to bed hungry tonight. Interestingly, among hunter-gatherer's whose lives have barely changed in 40,000 years, hunger is seldom seen. Thus, this (and not the stone age) is an era of hunger unprecedented.  

Now, in the time of material over-abudnance, starvation is not merely an overlooked, sadenning outlier.  No, it is much more than that: it has become a necessary institution. For it is always true that as material goods accumulate, people suffer, victims of the very goods they helped accumulate, and which now enslave, victimize, and starve them.  Simulatenously, they create an unceasing desire for more, and so doubly increase our hunger. 

The history of humankind is this: once upon a time we lived in a world of plenty, because our needs exactly matched our available resources.  Things were going well until one day someone decided to start hoarding.  Agriculture (i.e., animal and plant hoarding), buildings, fat people, and facebook naturally followed (note these are all forms of hoarding behavior).   

On The Coming Of The Apocalypse

The White Horse (Liar)- Bill Clinton
The Red Horse (warmonger)- George Bush
The Dark Horse (brings economic despair) -Barack Obama
The Pale Horse (world war) - Sarah (Pale)in

Immense Solar Activity. Calendars ending. Aztecs. 2012

The Evidence Is Overwhelming: The Apocalypse is Coming...


This grand cycle of evolution will culminate
winter solstice, December 21, 2012 AD. More here

The CountDown Is In Process...

Credit to: Enrique the Poet

On the political mobilization of nature in seventeenth-century French formal gardens.

Could anything possibly be more obscure?

And, yet, the importance of this phenomenon should not be underestimated. The formal garden, one of the most disturbing examples of man's obsession of tailoring nature to fit his own narrow, symmetrical, consumption-orientated mind, is in dire need of re-evaluating. As any human being compos mentis is aware, nature's political mobility seeks to achieve this. 

Ne humanas crede.

Think about it.

On War

Obama-McCain have been waging war on the American mind.  Their weapon of choice: boredom. Day after day, we are subject to a barrage of badges, buttons, and all sorts of nick-knacks, and for what?  

An election is an artificial game, which follows a strange, arbitrary set of rules.  Hence, when you enter the polling booth you become nobody.  

War, in contrast, is best defined as a game with no rules.  War is life.  It is the most biological (and therefore least artful) form of human existence. When you enter this game, you perish.  The best you can hope for is to replicate your genes and store them in the body of your "child." (I agree: disgusting!)

An information war has scorched the metaphysical plane.  Ergo, our society has entered into a state of suspension; and the flower that is art has ceased to bloom (but has not yet wilted).     

On Language

Language is a highly flawed means of communication. I call for perestroika and glasnost on the commonly accepted devices for transmission of ideas, concepts and emotions. After all, how can we as a species ever truly acknowledge the constraints that we are forever bound to if we cannot place ourselves outside of language? Pictorial representations offer a glimmer of hope, but are perhaps not entirely effective either.

Comments, offerings and suggestions are highly encouraged (nay, pleaded for).

[Quentin]
A modest proposal: at the heart of all communication is the Will to Groom. Yet grooming, as currently practiced (e.g., 'www.facebook.com'), is unacceptable. Ergo, I call for an extension of our perestroika and glasnost into the realm of grooming.

All Gloss and No Substance

Or, why PowerPoint is responsible for the death of the soul. With the advent of the PowerPoint presentation we have descended into  a society of light, color, bullet points and nothing more. 

Think about it.

On The Importance of Being Meta

Fiction and art are dead; only metafiction and meta-art are appropriate.

On Nihilism

I think God cast himself into oblivion.

There is no divine doctrine.

Do whatever you please, children.

Many things exist, but ultimately the sum is zero. There is no pillaging: we are all paying for it (we just cannot see it).

The way I see it, to encompass the whole is death itself; no longer are we bound to a particular dimension.

We think conspiracy exists but none are privy enough to realise that it is mere evolution.

If you were not tormented by others, you would find a way to torment yourself.

On the Human Obsession With Noise

The Laughter-Track; The requirement to "Contribute" in class; The Assumption that an absence of words suggests Deficiency;
All examples of the sick, carcinogenic human OBSESSION with meaningless, pointless noise.

And what is noise?

Noise is grooming. Noise is a more evolved (i.e., more efficient per unit energy) form of primitive, primate social conditioning. We call for a glasnost on noise.

Enjoy the silence. See: "Words are very unnecessary."

Quash your obsession with noise to free your soul from the chains of earthly desires. You have everything you need to survive. Stop the grooming. Make grooming an embarrassing vestige of thoughts I once had. Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad (See: E.B. Browning).

On Micro-Aggression

We, the aforementioned, propose a new term to guide our academic inquiry: micro-aggression. By micro-aggression, we mean a deterministic, logical behavioristic account of every-day violence.

Credit to: Jaymie Paige Stein, for her ongoing work and research in this field.

On Historiographic Metafiction

History is a mere fabrication. Nothing matters. Be here now.

History is used to control people through the construction of a community mythology centered on forcibly-imagined events.

On Elevators (Lifts)

Elevators are one of the most inappropriate inventions of modern times. It is not the concept per se, but instead the execution of the elevator plan that falls so short of appropriateness. A situation in which human beings are forced into such unwanted intimacy is inherently wrong. Humans as a species were not designed to cope with other (nay, unfamiliar) humans in confined spaces. Ipso facto, elevators serve only to make the experience of existence even more painful that it has to be.

Take a journey in a peopled elevator today, and just feel the tension that suffuses the very air space into which you are confined for those torturous moments as you desperately await your destination. Unpleasant, isn't it?

My proposition? Individual elevators. (In addition to this, I would like to see isolation booths in libraries)

For other examples of inappropriate human confinement, see: underground train networks, espec. the London Tube.

Hoc est in votis

Limerick for D.W.

There once was a pupil named David Wu.

Sad face! His website was overdue,

So he worked through the night.

"I won't fail at life!"

Undergrad? Undergrad, Harvard's a zoo.

On Personalities

The term "personality", used to describe the traits that make each human being an individual, is a misnomer.  "Personality traits" are merely outward manifestations of insecurities, of which nearly all humans are suffused with. The only secure people are those with absolutely no "personality". 

Consider various "personality traits": 

Humour- Little more than a defense mechanism utilised in order to deflect attention from oneself and onto a situation, alternative person etc.

Kindness- Little more than a desperate attempt to win the approval of others.

Ambitiousness - Little more than deep dissatisfaction with oneself and one's position  in life.

As a consequence, our personalities are little masks which we wear, even to deceieve ourselves, each personality hiding from the others, every person a set of personalities, insecurities.  

But where, boys and girls, do insecurities come from?  They are bred from fear, and fear is the greatest enemy of all.  

Take off your masks; do not be afraid.

Think about it.

This Picture Reminded Me of a Book

System.out.println("The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.");
God jewGod();
Boolean jewGod= false;

Child littleChild = "David Wu";

//This picture disturbed me on many levels.    

Why There is No Morality

Morals evolved. Morality is blindly selected for things that are necessary for survival, and nothing else. Therefore there is no universal morality, and if there is no universal morality, then there is no morality whatsoever.

Fin

The Devolution of Mankind

Humans are devolving.  We repeat: humans are devolving.  By devolving, we mean a whole host of ideas about revolutionary behavioral change.  Our story begins with the stone age, and ends with the silicon age.  Our bodies have become useless, and our brains are only useful insofar as they master the circuitry required to interact with the machines which rule our lives (see: video games espec. Rock Band).  

The Perfection Delusion

Perfection cannot be achieved because if you could imagine it, you would achieve it.  Therefore, perfectionists should instead be referred to as striving-for-perfection-ists.  Perfection is a delusion, and those who strive for it are likewise deluded.

The Perestroika of Self-Esteem

How does one embark on this seemingly impossible task?

The loss of self-esteem is a terrible thing. How do you retrieve it? Where does it even go?

The answer is in the enchanted forest. Everyone is lost in the forest.  

When a preying mantis male encounters a female and the two mate, the wedding ceremony typically ends with the female consuming the male.  The reason:  it is highly unlikely that the mantis will find another female, and so he has to make the most of his opportunity. Rather than destroy the female's self-esteem, the male instead enriches, with literally all he can offer, both the mind and body of his invertebrate bride.  

Grey Squirrel: America's Revenge

Long ago, a man named Christopher Columbus inhabited a boat for an inappropriate amount of time and crashed into a distant island, whereby he and his tribe proceeded to kill or enslave all the inhabitants.  

Next came the squirrel, who left America for the distant shores of England.  Here, they encountered their own 'red man,' the red squirrel, that is.  There was a struggle.  Swiftly, their evolutionary history enabled them to poison their aboriginal rivals, thereby rendering the indian squirrel extinct, and ensuring American hegemony.  

Revenge through reverse-colonization?  We think so.