Cactus sun set, chin chin

Among many things that are fucked up homelessness is the one that is on the list of immediate to deal with and abolish.

It has been something that I feel very strongly about. Everybody has a right to have a home. It is a human right and therefore an acute issue for governments to take action over since it is a serious human right violation and a kind of bottom from where it is difficult to get up on one’s own. It is a duty of nations to provide affordable housing for their citizens. It is the least you can and must do. To comprehend why this is not happening is extremely difficult, but I try. Why do we have nations? What are nations for other than making profit for the rich, for corporation, to provide cheap labor, infrastructure and tax money to exploit? Since it is Christmas time and according to latest statistics in Great Britain alone there are thousands of homeless people, we are obligated to act upon it, to help. Those who are the lucky ones and have roofs over their heads, who have means to do something, what can you do? http://www.homeless.org.uk/facts/homelessness-in-numbers

What would be the most helpful thing is to radically lower prices of rents, to regulate how much is the limit above which prices do not go. Housing is an area of business in which people ruthlessly exploit lives and livelihoods. When paycheck is not enough to pay the rent government is not doing its job. Extortion and rip off that is what is going on and is outrageous, wrong and unjust. “Nobody should be in the streets; that is the problem with this whole thing,” said Sandy Perry, a minister and outreach worker with the Affordable Housing Network who has been at the Jungle daily trying to help. While he agrees that the Jungle, with its piles of garbage, buckets of human waste and now rising creek waters, “is not a nice place to live,” Mr. Perry said the city ought to have a better plan for homeless people in general.

More than a few of the encampment residents said they were victims of rent increases. Yvonne Vabiseo grew up in San Jose and had a job and an apartment until recently. “I worked at Dollar Tree,” she said. “I had a car and my own place.” She lost her job just as her rent was raised, prodding her into homelessness.” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/us/driven-from-silicon-valleys-jungle-homeless-face-limited-options.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1

The results of world having been conquered. Are you liking it?

What is especially sad when people who are politicians in the EU, salesmen, businessmen, journalists etc. discuss what Europe should do now as it is in continuous depression, they talk about industrial expansion, innovative technological conquering of markets, new electronic devises, growing of the GDP and how do we get this growth we much need and desire. How do we get growth? What is it in this self-centered world view that is so revolting is that there is nothing that is more precious than what we gain, what we make of it, to profit, to make the wealthier even more rich by exploiting the poor. Terror and devastation that has happened is happening in many African countries still. Blindness continues and we like to move on without much thinking about it. It is intolerable ignorance and indifference by governments and corporations in terms of making money out of misery of people and abusing natural resources as sucking blood with unstoppable thirst. There are severe catastrophic situations many countries have found themselves in without much hope getting out of these violent and horrible paths taken and acts of crimes committed.

This all is nothing new. The most devastating thing is that so little has changed and is changing. Natural resources lure crime, destitution and hopelessness make people desperate and cruel. Or is it greed that makes cruelty a never-ending way for humans?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Belgian_Congo_.281908.E2.80.931960.29
”The new president had the support of the United States because of his staunch opposition to Communism, believing that his administration would serve as an effective counter to communist movements in Africa. A one-party system was established, and Mobutu declared himself head of state. He periodically held elections in which he was the only candidate. Although relative peace and stability were achieved, Mobutu’s government was guilty of severe human rights violations, political repression, a cult of personality and corruption. Corruption became so prevalent the term ”le mal Zairois” or ”Zaïrean Sickness”,[26] meaning gross corruption, theft and mismanagement, was coined, reportedly by Mobutu himself.[27] International aid, most often in the form of loans, enriched Mobutu while he allowed national infrastructure such as roads to deteriorate to as little as one-quarter of what had existed in 1960. Zaïre became a ”kleptocracy” as Mobutu and his associates embezzled government funds.”

To save a national park in Congo, to save the gorillas living in the park, to stop illegal drilling of oil in the park, to stop war, terrible injustice, crime and tragedy of ours!!!

If we do not protect what is there to protect what do we have left? 

What do I know of soul and what do I need to know of soul.

I make a claim: It is somehow a self-evident reality that there is a soul in every living and thinking thing, so there is a conscious mind in a body, it is consciousness and unconsciousness and ability to evolve and learn. But what is the thought and the idea of a being? To live without reason bound to one’s form without power to change one’s situation? If every living thing has the soul thinking and rational making are not necessary. Does soul make importance and worth as such? I ask because life as such does not make value, not even human life in the world today. Inequality prevails. We do not know whether soul lives on after death, but we like the idea for it to wonder and find another body to live in or with for soul to inhabit a place after the body is gone. Strange maybe the idea of soul doing something consciously. Soul to have a meaning as a soul. Is it spirit or soul or just life suddenly born in whatever form and obeying life’s circle and laws? Circle of visible bodies with spirits, wandering souls with us. For somebody to have soul means depth in person, insight in life and will to explore. A certain openness towards life, its mess and mystery. Clarity and fearlessness to face life, to make harmony out of disharmony, ability to express personality and originality. Soul is personal view, intellect and experience shared. Soul is mystery which is its beauty. We do not know. Something we wish to find out but do not completely never will. I like the idea that soul is simply to have a life therefore every living thing has the soul.
Given the idea that soul is the distinguishing mark of all living things, including plants, the Greek notion of soul is, as we have seen already, broader than our concept of mind. For it is at least conceivable, and probably true as a matter of fact, that there are living (hence ensouled) organisms without minds, without, that is to say, desire and cognition by sense or intellect. (Plato appears to think that plants do have minds in this sense, because he takes them to exhibit desire and sense-perception (Timaeus 77b), but that is presumably supposed to be a matter of empirical fact or inference, rather than simply a consequence of the fact that plants have souls.)” Do not whip a puppy as it is a soul of a friend.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ancient-soul/

Distance of things as artificial difference in things and for people, natural as a happening. Distance between to tell who we are, for us to know what we deal with and what we do not.

Distance to those unworthy, to the garbage, to those who are to be forgotten and unspoken of. Distance to foul, to smelly, to politics, to difficulty, to hunger, to trouble, to suffering, to death, to murder: distance can be silent killing, denial and horror in front of life and cruelty of man. To make a gap between clean and dirty in order not to be infected, exposed nor influenced by: not to change. Distance is to dream the far away land, to dream something to find out of reach, something unexpected and new. It is not understanding, something that is incomprehensible and for some reason out of grasp. Distance is to hold a secret, to feel veiled, to feel hidden, to avoid speaking the achy issues, to be in silence. Distance is to be silent when one should speak, to not speak for those who would listen, to not see those who wish to be seen and not to face what becomes of seeing. Distance can be fear of change, fear of acting out, fear of putting oneself into it, into solving the problem of distance. Distance is inability.

Distance meaning the state of not wanting to face oneself, somebody among somebodies, not to face things done, but escape, escape situations of shame in shame, distance kept from feeling appallingly ashamed. Distance is to make a difference between us and them, between people and people, between not understanding. Distance is isolating, it can be too much to live in isolation, but it can be living in periphery without a need to leave. Isolated from what, far from what, marginal to what? Distance now is an effort to make it unimportant, making it important still as a making.

Oh you are so far away, there, somewhere, come here. How distant are we? Do we know each other? What is the distance between us? The actual length? What kind of journey does one have to travel to get here, to get there?

Distance is guilt. Distance is how you look at things. It is to forget and it is a physical fact. How well do we admit that we are unable to take over distance. How much are we unwilling to acknowledge our incapability to rule completely distance, conquer length and void of an area as material and immaterial. To acknowledge distance is to make immaterial visible.

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Sosiaalisuuden harha

Kanssakäyminen on tärkeää hyvinvointimme kannalta. Meidän on päivittäin, suurimman osan meistä, oltava tekemisissä toisten ihmisten kanssa positiivisissa merkeissä ilman konfliktia tai sen pelkoa. Jos ympäristö on vihamielinen kanssakäyminen käy epämiellyttäväksi ja mieluiten ihminen eristää itsensä ympäristöstään jota ei voi muuttaa. Ihminen toimii melko suoraviivaisesti, ei välttämättä loogisesti ja kuin olisi parasta, mutta epämiellyttävän karttaminen on melko loogista. Loogisinta olisi halu ja tarve muuttaa ympäristö itselle sopivammaksi ja pistää vastaan kuin alistua. Ihmisen luonto ei ole alistuva vaan muuntuva, uskova ja keksivä. Toisinaan ja hyvin usein ihmisen toiminnalla on perusteita joita on vaikea ymmärtää oikeudenmukaisiksi ja kaikkien kannalta hyviksi ja harkituiksi sellaisiksi. Vaikka kuinka haluaisimme nähdä itsemme monimutkaisina ja tarkasti harkitsevina ajattelevina ja älyllisinä olentoina tekomme usein ovat ihan muuta. Tämä älyllisyyden harha on hämmästyttävä. Tekomme tosin aiheuttavat monimutkaisuutta olivatpa ne kuinka yksinkertaisia ja helppoja tahansa. Siinä ihmiselämän hämmästyttävyys; pieni ele saa aikaan myrskyn, suuttumuksen ja vastakaiun puoleen ja toiseen. Suuttumus vaikuttaa olevan vahvempi kuin lempeä asioiden pohdinta ja kääntely kantilta toiselle eikä suuttumus ole ainoastaan pahasta. Konflikti ja kriisi ovat olellisia kehityksen kannalta. Tuohtumus joukkotapahtumana aiheuttaa yhteisöllisyyden tunteen samanmielisyydestä joka työpaikalla, koulussa ja sosiaalisessa mediassa saa aikaan joukon johon on helppo yhtyä. Oikea vastaan väärä, on osattava valita ja miksi mieluiten valitsemme helpon tien. Suuttunut on oikealla puolella ja hänen suuttumuksensa on kuin todiste siitä. Hän tuntee vahvasti asian puolesta. On mielenkiintoista kuinka voimakas tunne negatiivinen tunne on. Se valtaa ihmisen jos hän niin tahtoo. Kun tätä suuttumusta toistetaan yhä uudestaan se todentuu vahvasti ja syntyy konflikti ympäristön ja itsen kanssa. Siitä tulee todenmukainen todellinen uhkaava tilanne ja varteenotettava uhka. Entä kun kyseessä on varsin paljon hyvän tavan ja järjen vastainen asia jota voimallisesti puolustetaan ja joka silti nähdään hyvänä. On arvioitava hyvä ja kuinka hyvä on hyvä kenellekin. Kuinka olemme tasapuolisia ja kuinka paljon emme ole. Olemme itsekäs laji, joka osaa arvioida oman ja muiden itsekkyyden. Itsekkyys, itsen puolustaminen ja selviytyminen eivät varmaankaan poikkea muista lajeista. Kuolemaa pelkää luultavasti jokainen ja omaksi valitun elämäntavan säilyminen yleensä on prioriteetti. Ihminen voi valita haluaako hän ainoastaan yhden selviytyvän vai mahdollisimman monen.

Mikä tässä sosiaalisuudessa on harhaa, harhauttavaa tai todenmukaista? Voi kysyä, mikä on harhaista ihmiselämässä ylipäänsä. Ovatko tunteemme todellisia, mihin pisteeseen asti ja kuinka niistä tulee todellisuutta? Ne ovat totta omassa kehossa, aivoissamme ja kun jaamme kokemuksemme tunteistamme. Sosiaalisuus on jakamista ja saamista. Mitkä asiat ovat jakamisen arvoisia ja miksi jaamme jotakin. Jaamme nykyään paljon tietoa josta syntyy virtuaalitodellisuus ja osin konkretia, osa tiedosta jää ilmaan ja kuvitelmiin roikkumaan. Kuinka todellisuus muuntuu ja syntyy on lopulta ihmisestä riippumaton vaikka kuinka näemme itsemme kaikkivoipaisina. Maailma on olemassa ilman ihmistä kun todellisuus ajatellaan että aurinko nousee joka päivä ja että todellisuus on maailma, maapallo ja avaruus sitten vasta ihmiset.

Sosiaalinen ihminen on arvostettu kun taas yksin jäävä ei. Yksinolo ja syrjäytyminen syystä tai toisesta nähdään ihmisen omana vikana. Yksinäisyys kärsimyksenä, jota on vaikea kestää, koska olemme niin sosiaalisia. Ihmettelemme ääneen asioita joita emme ymmärrä. Haluamme muuttaa ne joita emme ymmärrä ja joiden elämäntapa on meihin verrattuna huono tai väärä. Mitä me olemme on jatkuvassa muutoksessa kuten myös se, mitä meidän pitäisi olla ja mitä suostumme olemaan. Kuinka valitsemme olla ja kuinka paljon voimme valita. Mielipiteisiimme ja elämiimme vaikutetaan jatkuvasti manipuloimalla. On tiedettävä mitä uskoa ja mihin vaikutettava jotta asia muuttuisi. Meidän suorastaan täytyy verrata itseämme toisiimme kilpaillaksemme. Kilpailuyhteiskuntaa pidetään edistyksellisenä. Mielellämme näemme itsemme tärkeinä, kaikista tärkeimpinä, joiden tapa elää ja ajatella on oikea. Eli mitä on sosiaalisuus on edelleen hyvä pohtia. Kuinka sosiaalisuus ilmenee ja mitä haluamme jakaa sosiaalisina ihmisinä, mitä itsestämme annamme ja mitä emme. Kuinka teemme sosiaalisuuden emme ainoastaan itsellemme mutta myös muille.