Maybe I have to open this a little bit (how about it?) and sex-appeal.
I would like to stick something inside you. It is madness. She is mad.
elitismi
Bourgeois illusion of superiority. Why is it an illusion and why is it a strong one in not so good way? Guarding, watching and monitoring, making fixed conclusions.
What is wrong about having thoughts of being above, of being better than. It sucks the oxygen. It is constant awareness of what is good and bad, disapproval, contempt and hate. It is an idea of finished perfection. In an atmosphere of shells and competition of who shines best illusions prevail as does envy. Class is a world of contracts, fulfilling expectations and requirements. It is to observe, punish and exclude. Illusion becomes reality through possession and wealth, but is still illusion. Look what I have got and you do not. It is a again immature way of survival of the fittest and seeing there is nothing wrong with it. Sentences like I would fuck her, but I would not introduce her to my mother hint to idea of royalty via blood and position. Same idea goes with gender and sex, the idea of superiority and false ideas of what is good. Why someone is above is the thought of having something better others do not have. I wonder what that is. Usually it is only money. It is also defining what is cheap and what is expensive. Ideas about master race have not disappeared and deeds of those masters are swept under the carpet. We like to live in imaginative fantasy and be part of the elite. Question is how elite is defined and how necessary it is. Who does it serve other than itself?
What is the heavy baggage of the act and event revolution? What is the heaviness?
The question is what is seen as heavy, unbearable, intolerable. The weight of revolution is obviously blind violence and inequality, which follow many political revolutions. The same that happened repeatedly to people in mass scale happens to those who had power – the joy of making the oppressor fall down bad. Those who made the effort and decision to rise up have also responsibility to do otherwise. Isn’t it revenge what makes revolt. So it is a difficult case of multiple desires, choosing rights and wrongs. It is justified to rise up and rebel, the question is how to do that. The heavy baggage is the pay back, unwillingness and inability to actually change something and ignorance, inability to see other than bitterness, hurt, rage and hate that have piled up, inability to answer in other way than what was given before by those in power. Heavy is the powerlessness and the absolute need to gain overwhelming power over others. See what I can do, me, who in your eyes am nothing. How to grow above revenge and be just? It is an enjoyable situation to be able to be actually seen as a whole person and not a slave and nothing. To accomplish and gain worthiness. Sad thing is it has to be accomplished, value as a human being. Some see revolution as an opportunity to gain power. That is what revolution is about, but it is not enough to want power, one has to be able to use it constructively. One thing more is how does one empower oneself to be better, how does one become wise?
What is good to do in terms of changing society?
Do we all know what is bad leading and do we know the concept of democracy? Is it applied democracy, or facade and a phrase, manner of speech to make the speaker sound like a good guy with good intentions, democracy a thing like honey, to which we are reaching but do not have.
People want democracy, but people do not vote. People want prosperity, but do they want all to prosper? When we talk about democracy, we think the self-evident, freedom, wealth, health care, welfare, equality, work, education and so on. Good things, easy living, peaceful society with benefits and enjoyment of life. If people choose they are not interested in politics and do not use their vote, what happens? I think the result is happening now.
I use the word democracy, not in the ancient meaning that there would be some who are allowed to vote (free men) and those who are not allowed to vote and take part (slaves and women). I use the word democracy in the meaning that everyone has a voice and power. It is up to everyone individually to decide how to use that power of his/hers. To live in a system that is based on a noble idea of participation and trust should be easy. Do we have that kind of political system in use or only on idea level? That the one you give your vote does and works for what he or she promises to.
Politics today is done poorly partly because those who are interested in voting are conservative conformists and lean too much on religion in their decision-making. Too many people boycott elections, do not participate and follow what goes on in the world. Conservatives have an active role in molding society. Why do they always seem to be the ones with the assets, say over and connections? Why CEOs are listened to as political advisers? Well because we are run by economy and business and we want salesmen stars to give advise how to make a fortune. Corporal rulers are very loud, opinionated and listened to. Good performers are luring, so is power. As politics so is business a stage act. If people, the average men and women think the current system/s is/are rotten and does/do not represent him/her, the people, but the interests of the politicians and corporations, what kind of system would do representing better? Who would represent you best? Or is politics about representing the nation and interests of a nation? Are interests of nations interests of the people of the nation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Aesthetics of a Water Bottle.
What is there in a water bottle tossed on the side of a road? What kind of story does it hold? Where to begin, when approaching such seemingly insignificant object, and what lies in the insignificance? A plain water bottle is an object, which requires to be studied more closely as a unique culturally bound phenomenon, a kind of necessity and luxury item. Bottle of water, and other containers of beverages we carry with us, are products of commercial commodity culture. Objects, meaningful in more ways than just as helpful containers of drinkable liquid. Plastic bottle is a design object, which is meant to be used once and disposed. Still, in order to be sold, a bottle has to be aesthetically desirable package of everyday with desirable contents and message. It is at best, pleasure for the eyes and a way of presenting one’s way of life. Within the field of industrial package design there are trends and phases, fashions circulating and directing what we drink, how we drink, where to drink and why. Culture, which is also directed by nutritionists and other experts in media.
We like to think it is us, who have the control. In some ways we do. We are the ones using money and choosing. We are taught to think we deserve to be spoiled and are worthy of little daily treats. To a certain point, we use power and control over the market, which in the end is us. On the other hand, we have no control whatsoever, especially what comes to wanting to be seen, spoiled, fulfilling desires and being worthy of sweet luxuries. We like to state our worthiness with expensive goods and services. In that sense, our commercial culture is very immature and predictable. We follow our primal emotions. Holding drinks and packages is similar to holding a phone, which act and item represent accessibility, capability, visibility, fun, enjoyment, having wealth, illusion of business and continuity.
Interesting part is, what comes to making visual world for consumers. How tiny particles as bottles and packages largely make the luring culture. Products of unsustainable, emotionally oriented culture, visible surfaces, which are used for mass consumption purposes to be delivered, placed to be seen, offered to be wanted and sold in never-ending speed. It is our take-away culture to carry food, walk with food and drinks while working, doing and making; meaning having an active life. Do we drink water to stay slim, have a good skin, or just because we are thirsty? Plastic bottles can be recycled, but still they are waste and made of nonrenewable material. Such small, ’practical’ choices, which pile up may be easy, and we do need to drink fresh water daily. Still the cost is quite dear, when one measures up the material discarded in the long run. According to survey by Food and Water Watch in the US in 2009, consumers purchased 8.45 billion gallons of bottled water [1.]. Luckily for the environment, figures declined from 2008 2,5 percent due to recession, as people cut down unnecessary expenses. Something good comes out of having financial low, which also proves our constant need for consuming more than is necessary when it is financially possible. As it goes, the small percentage of world’s population uses the most resources environmentally and economically.
1.https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled/bottled-water-bad-for-people-and-the-environment/ 8.4.2014 Food and Water Watch is a nonprofit organization, which advocates for common sense policies that will result in healthy, safe food and access to safe affordable drinking water.
I ride the wave that is what I do
It is difficult to point to direction of those smooth guys and place the blame on clean-looking, polite and correctly behaving politicians on a red carpet waving (not carrying guns, but image of a gun is upon them, built-in their moves). The act of correctness has immense impact, a trained performance on media stage, an imitation of certain kind of hygienic perfection. Forming perfect sentences, speaking in tone, well-chosen, friendly, amusing, joking and funny. Funniness appeals (is that why they joke on set or is it to hide something), verbal seduction and smelling good. Interesting is the connection between amiable smell and words said. It is part of politeness to create light atmosphere. Our senses, traditions, make-believe and biases are in an important role when focusing on and using stereotypes and how stereotypes got made, how they live and create our world. That is what stereotypes do strongly and strangely; create what we see, want to see and hear, and we creating stereotypes again in return, giving back the received filth ignoring truth. Prejudices being translations and rendition of the unchanged melody.
What do religions mean by standing on foundations of supernatural and having authority to define the natural, through belief and tradition? It is a fact that science has developed in an enormous speed and has proved evolution and shown us how nature works. What is the difference between fact and fiction must be clear for any sane person. Belief and concrete evidence of our biology do speak different tongues. That is what we are biological beings, part of nature. No I am not denying faith nor divinity, to me they speak differently than any religious doctrines and heads of churches.
Why female body continues to remain the main object of terror and possession of man? Women are still fighting for human rights to happen on many levels. But all in all women’s rights have taken big steps forwards globally during couple of decades, lots is still to be done. It is astonishing how heavy the battle is.
Divinity in service of leadership
Cases of hypocrisy and macho-made divine culture is the case in many sizable and powerful nations exploiting faith. Staying and gaining power, to justify and make ill human action have God’s blessing. One side to tyranny is to build a legend and myth over one person and make him second largest in the known world. Who could be bigger than God who is a man himself. Totalitarian power is based on underestimation and anti-intellectual forceful superiority of chosen ideology and chosen humanity which steps on diversity and difference, which usually are seen as threats. There is a strict pure way to rule and think, which wishes to eliminate all other ways of expression, knowing, living and believing. This is how capitalism functions at the moment with the help of surveillance and the very orthodox goal of only expanding its power and wealth of those who serve this particular God. (For a moment it sounded like Russia.)
God who is the ultimate authority working through and with those who dare to speak his words. Words of God which cannot and must not be questioned, but are interpreted and decoded (translations of translation, faith at work in multi-production of men with power and production of meaning). What comes to Christianity and power it holds in the world of religion it is clearly said thou shall not kill and the same goes for judging. It is not up to people to make the ultimate decisions over anyone. This I understand is against death penalty, ill-treatment of homosexuals, disabled and of anybody. One who is truly having faith should know this and obey.
To what extent power is an illusion itself? How do those who are underdogs and servants, those who are marginalized to position of having nothing but their hands, their bodies and thoughts make themselves heard. Animal reaction in a situation of testing and showing power is to bite and attack or humble and take the given place. The one who mistreats you over and over again how does he get his power?
How to end extreme poverty and why it has not ended already?
How to end poverty of mind and emotion? How to give compassion room? When is collective love going to happen? What could collective love be globally and locally?
Majakollektiivi Timanttimetsä 