It is long past due that the Congress investigate this U.S. government assassination program. The politically inconvenient truth, however, is this: An actual investigation would require the Democrats pounding Cheney over his concealment of an assassination program (that allegedly was not implemented) to focus their investigation on how President Obama actually implemented and expanded that very program.
Scratching the surface
Painting 4
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I doodle quite often, more often than I post. There is usually one word for the ones I do post here. Satisfaction. It may not be a lot of satisfaction, or a feeling that lasts. But that seems to be the single criteria.
The current exhibit in my Gallery website is a selection where the satisfaction has persisted.
On the evolution of science.
I have just listened to a spectacular podcast. From 2006 – I missed it till I changed my system of managing podcasts – giving in to the iTunes default way.
Kevin Kelly – The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Download: iTunes — Direct download
The textual summary is here:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kelly06/kelly06_index.html
I continue to discuss the podcast and relate themes to my own writing.
One
McLuhan (Wikipedia) said the computer was the extension of the brain, in the same way the wheel was an extension of the legs. Prosthesis. Kevin Kelly (podcast) has taken this a step further. The web, the cloud, the one connected machine, is an extension of the self. Well done. Everything is out there in that cloud.
But self? What is self?
Via negativia, it is not the thoughts, not the sensations, not even the breath as air interfaces with the body, it is not the body. Psychodrama postulates the personality as the sum of our roles and more than the sum of the parts, and each role is part of a system of networked roles. I’m tempted to say the self is our networked roles, and that they are extended into the net. Useful as that idea might be it is not the self.
And does self have a small or a capital S? to place the notion in a Jungian frame, self or Self? Another word for “me” or an archetype?
Is it the self that dreams?
The self is what’s left when we drop the ego?
It is not so much a mystery, but a difficult thing to talk about. Psyche, soul, self, spirit all these things are usually appended to a tradition of language, they are hard to talk about without metaphor, as there is no “thing”. Soul, in the Archetypal psychology tradition is somewhat different from soul the Christian tradition. Ken Wilber tried to typologise it all, usefully?
For all that, Kevin Kelly’s contribution adds something wonderful to the sphere of discourse. And via negativia, something similar happens in cyberspace as in the age old discourse about Self. Is the Net the hardware? It is not the hardware. Is it the software then? Certainly not one particular bit of software, and not really all of it either. The net involves people, it is between people, perhaps it is people mediated by the net. It is a conversation, one conversation.
One. There may be a few small clouds but to be really part of anything is to be connected to the net, to the one big cloud. One net. Hold that idea and reflect on the collective unconscious. Also hold the idea that all life is expression of one unfolding DNA fest. And then note the religious idea we are all one.
Once again I am at a familiar place, psyche & cyberspace resonate, psyberspace.
Interview with Charles Eisenstein
Play has been on my mind. And I just listened to this which sounds ok to me about halfway through there is a good bit on play.
From http://www.futureprimitive.org/
Joanna Harcourt Smith interviews
[Charles Eisenstein] June 27, 2009 – Interview with Charles Eisenstein
(50 minutes – 17.3mb)
Charles Eisenstein is the author of The Ascent of Humanity: The Age of Separation, the Age of Reunion, and the convergence of crises that is birthing the transition – a book about the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective: the evolution of the human sense of self.
Paint
Paint
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Paint2
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Used digital paint for these. Don’t often do that.
Out Walking (then) Tweeting (now)
I am tweeting pictures. I am waltzzz on twitter
But really, my main photo page is in Flickr
I must say I am enjoying my Yoono sidebar in Firefox – I am suddenly integrating twits with fotos & facebook. It makes such a difference to me that I can see the pix in the sidebar.
Socialism – USA
New Zealand out of Afganistan – time to get more vocal!
Is there any opposition?
Here are some links- in no particular order:
Dominion Post – NZ may face tradeoff in Afghanistan 11 June 09
Herald Looks like a decision re SAS is due in August.
Socialist Aotearoa Obamas mass slaughter. The one bit of opposition I can find on the net in New Zealand!
Greens Not showing a lot of guts here, but they do mention civilian deaths (google).
