Diplomatiaa vitun apinoille?

Erinomaisuuden ja hallitsemisen haave että tuntee olevansa joku, on hyvin luonnollista ja tapahtuu kovin usein muita polkemalla ja halveksimalla, tärkeys ja asema halutaan saada aikaan ja toteuttaa. Siitähän kiusaamisessa on kysymys, oman erinomaisuuden korostamisesta ja jonkun toisen ominaisuuksien ja taitojen vähättelystä ja mitätöinnistä. Ajattelu- ja toimintatapa on niin normalisoitunut, että itse kutsun yhteiskuntaamme kiusaamisyhteiskunnaksi, jossa sosiopaatteilla on juuri oikeat otteet ja sosiopatia on ihanne. Oletetaan että on siedettävä huonoa käytöstä, asiatonta kommentointia, vähättelelyä, vallankäyttöä, että on joka paikassa pystyttävä todistamaan olevansa kunnioittavan kohtelun arvoinen. Kysymyksessä on kunnioituksen lunastaminen, kyseenalainen kunnioitus joka on katoavaa laatua. Diplomatia tällaisessa ilmapiirissä on väärä ajattelutapa, koska se ei muuta mitään. Se ei todista henkistä vahvuutta eikä saa ajattelemaan toisin. Kun asiat käännetään muka parhain päin rauhanomaisesti keskustelemalla manipuloija ja sadisti voi jatkaa haluamallaan tavalla, koska häntä ei rangaista esimerkiksi julkisesti häpäisemällä eikä hänen ajattelutapaansa julkisesti tuomita niin että sillä olisi muutokseen johtava merkitys. Siis mitä on todellinen muutos ja kuinka muutos saavutetaan niin että totaalinen maailmankuvan ja toimintatapojen muuttuminen eli alistamisen käyttö omien tarkoitusperien saavuttamiseksi olisi mahdotonta?

Diplomatiaa on että nauraa vitseille vaikka ne eivät ole hauskoja vaan ovat kenties rasistisia, nais- ja homovihamielisiä jne. Diplomatiaa ja pelkuruutta on kun ei puolusta sitä joka on alakynnessä tai vain vähemmistössä, vaan myötäilee ja hymistelee tai ei sano mitään. Kovin diplomaattista ja mikään ei muutu. Kun halutaan ja etsitään aktiivisesti muutosta ajattelu- ja toimintatapoihin on oltava suora, ankara ja uskallettava sanoa vastaan, vaikka se tarkoittaa että sinua ryhdytään vainoamaan ja väkivalta kääntyy sinua kohtaan. Kuten olen itse huomannut, pelkuruus ja haluttomuus puuttua, silloin kun huomaa epäoikeudenmukaisuutta, on hyvin yleistä. On kovin helppoa olla vaan samaa mieltä ja keskittyä omiin juttuihin. Mikään ei todellakaan lopulta muutu vaikka niin kuvittelemme. On pelkuruutta olla myöntämättä omaa heikkouttaan, huonommuutta  ja toisen paremmuutta, etevyyttä, etenkin kun tuo toinen on nainen. Auktoriteettiuskovaisuuttamme todistaa ikuinen roikkumisemme instituutioiden antamien pätevyystodistusten perässä. Fakta on totta ja uskottavaa vasta kun virallinen taho on sen huomioinut julkisesti ääneen.

Tätä kaikkea en sano siksi, että kaipaan erityisesti huomiota taiteilijana ja kirjoittajana, vaikka olisihan se tietysti erikoinen tilanne. Sanon siksi, koska jokainen kaipaa tulla huomioiduksi tarpeellisena ja osaavana tekijänä ja ihmisenä, teki hän mitä tahansa työtä ja näin ei ole tilanne. Hyvän palautteen antaminen on ilmeisesti erittäin haasteellista etenkin ihmisille joiden on vaikea kestää toisten ihmisten osaamista, vaikea hyväksyä taitoa ja antaa arvoa. Asia tulee hyvin esille sukupuolia tarkasteltaessa, miten ja millaisia asioita toisissamme arvostamme ja mitä emme. Väkivaltainen vallankäyttö on helpoin tie helppoon erinomaisuuteen ja asemaan. Yksinkertaisin väkivaltatekniikka on avoimesti muiden läsnäollessa halveksia. Keinot voivat olla hyvin pienimuotoisia mutta toistuessaan ne tekevät tehtävänsä ja niihin on hyvin vaikea puuttua. Tietynlaiset ihmiset kerääntyvät keskenään ja jättävät ulkopuolelle ne joita ei haluta joukkoon. Tämän tapahtuessaan tarpeeksi useasti tietynlaiset tunteet saavat tulta alleen, ei ole tarvetta eikä halua olla diplomaattinen. Diplomatiaan ja hiljaiseen hyväksyntään en itse kannusta, koska ongelma on laaja, liian hitaasti muuttuva ja rakenteellinen. Auktoriteettiasemassa olevat eivät joko halua tai osaa puuttua, joten teen sen itse.

Itseänsä täynnä olevia kusipäitä kohtaan minulla ei ole muuta kuin syvää halveksuntaa enkä sitä peittele. Diplomatia vaatii kunnioitusta ja sitä mulla ei ole.

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Do you know Jemma Lucy? Fractions

She is lighter now than when she started some weeks ago. Lighter, not as heavy as she was in her heaviest, approachable. Less of flesh, fleshiness in right places, round but not thin nor fat, seductive to look at.
Picture of a naked woman hand on crotch smiling by the pool. Jump in.
Picture of a woman in bikini posing and bending. Jump in. Picture of a woman flaunting her ample cleavage, perky posterior in a snake print swimsuit soaking up in the sun. Jump in.

boob boob boob job, job job job toned body in a khaki bikini on Ibiza Holiday after causing a stir. Stirring beauty. How does she do it?
Beauty sported with a pair of pale pink jogging bottoms, look at her ass. Now hands full with her Luis Vuitton carrier in one hand and a mobile in the other barely containing herself in floral bikini, look at her ass. Jemma Lucy looks like she is pregnant. Look at her ass. Who needs the millennium falcon pert posterior in revealing swimsuit? I don’t even know what that means.

What is eating? Everything. This action we must do and be compelled to commit every day. Stay focused even though the focus is on wrong things, always the same things, such as asses and breasts, sex and things we can grab. Nothing wrong with sex. No, but something wrong with neuroticism and blind obsession. Body means very different kinds of things to everybody even though it is to mean very simple pleasures in life and yet a necessity to be able to enjoy one’s body and somebody else’s body, to enjoy life. And how do we do it? No other interest than self-interest and pictures to look at?

Intrinsic value, a term in ethics.

It is absolute certainty of valuable existing in us and among us, undoubted, undeniable worth and meaning. One can think it is unmeasurable, uncountable, it is not necessary for humans to acknowledge? So when said art has absolute value (mathematical term) intrinsic value, what is it that is valuable in art? It’s mere existence, it is made by someone, it is a message, what? To understand value is to grow value something. What we most value as humans and how we become to value something is through necessity, guidance and skill. Our needs bring value. What kind of needs do we have other than basic ones to stay alive?

My task as an artist

Of course I am going to say things you do not like. I’m saying it because nobody else is not, because we are supposed to be scared and be careful of what we say and do. Of course I am going to do other than what you expect me to do, I do as I see best. You do not like honesty, it is clear. Honesty hurts, it is brutal. There is no other way of growing and evolving than being honest. Of course I am going to bring up issues you do not want to see and hear about. Why am I talking about things that were? Aren’t we over those things? Why do I look back like it would matter what happened before? It is because nothing has changed and the same happens over and over again. Things that were are also things that will be. We haven’t changed that much if at all. My task as an artist is to make you look at yourself, make you see what is going on, what happens, what chances do we have and what if we do not have any?

That is also a task of an activist. Can one be activist alone? Obviously yes.

Education the gift

Schooling is a priority in making society making people evolve as makers and thinkers. The more knowledgable and capable members of society are the better and more civilized society is? I wish. It is a complex issue even though it should be quite simple: there are people who have knowledge and skills that other people need to survive and should learn and know. Altruism and sharing sound so good on paper. Just as eating and production of food are in principle the simplest of things. We must eat and we must learn otherwise what else is there. Where does the complexity arise is what kinds of things there are to gain, who benefits, gets respect, has the most assets and what is shared. There are schools who take pride in giving the best possible teaching possible, then there are schools that think they are giving the best possible teaching for their students but fail to do just that. There are schools who concentrate in mere existing and fooling students who thought they would get proper instruction in to a craft but did not. There are schools who fail but fail to see that they fail because they are full of themselves thinking they do their best and are the best in their field. How do these delusional and grandiose ideas get born and why isn’t there enough will to correct failed schooling? There are people in power who like to protect interests of theirs. In education big money moves as does merit. Teacher’s position is still appreciated not to speak of position of a professor. It is undeniable and critique is taken personally even though it would be at place and accurate.
There are fields where I have had the best schooling there is. Art has not been that kind of field. Art has proven to be a kind of field where expertise and quality do not play the most important role. Low quality of schooling has been a rule. Progress happens very slowly for various of reasons, one being that money and merit play such a big part. When teachers are picked by merit gained in the field of art no experience in teaching is required. What is a student here, in this game of merit? Arrogance and enjoyment for entitlement tend to be more important to hold on than making progress. Interests of those who enter the field of art do not seem to be interesting enough. It is strange to be a customer in a shop where the customer has no authority, value or say over. Especially when schools get public funding one is to think the primary requirement of high quality of teaching is provided self-evidently, the tools for students to survive at the chosen field as artists.
Contempt and sensitivity towards straightforward criticism where one has to be scared of retaliation and being left outside is not uncommon. Such happened to me at art school for filing complaint some courses were not taught at all. So to complain for not getting what is promised nothing is given as a punishment. To file a complaint is normal in a shop when the product is not what the ad promises it to be. What is the legal position of the student in such case when school refuses to take responsibility for adequate schooling, school refuses to provide what it promises taking complaint personally and putting student in a position of air, a button which has no say over. Since it is an insult towards the student to lie, to play with future career of this student who wants to get the skills and info to manage in a profession. My conclusion is that schools who do not take professional quality of teaching seriously and do not know what it should be are not doing their job, are not there for students but for themselves.
Yes education is a gift and I take it very seriously since my work is the most important thing in my life. There are people who do not see this clearly and do not appreciate what I do as there is little merit and little money involved, also telling work should not be the main issue in one’s life. In this bullshit world it is the most important thing and I refuse to think otherwise. There are people who study to get a well paid job and respected place in society. I study for various reasons, reasons I have to explain over and over. Why I study something which possibly has no high pay in sight, why I study something which clearly is not in demand. What is in demand are quick winnings and being a successful consumer. What comes to schooling oneself I decide what is important for me to learn not my school, not the job market, not what sells. Art school that does not have expertise in poetry should find expertise instead of telling we really don’t know what to say.