People who have everything but have nothing to give. Something which is far away has got something worth while for them, a picture, to witness a dream and a journey. Where are you, where have you been, who are you. Is there something wrong when you want to go, realize a dream of going like leaving jail? It is good to go and come back. Philosophy of contemporary human to whom life is a magazine with constant novelty and joy, unable to stand everyday life, trivial chores thinking what there is to take, what there is to get. Cannot say I admire contemporary human as I see him and her lost. What to say to contemporary human I feel I have said quite much and feel powerless. There is so much and yet so little of everything.
environment
Inheritance of filth.
Is it a situation of the more problems accumulate and getting piled up than sorted and dealt with? As it seems problems we are dealing with are with heavy baggage passed forward. Passed on as long as it has been possible and mess having gone over the top but out of sight, and we have gone way beyond the tipping point and load has erupted all over for those who can sort it out in the best possible way try their very best? Which way is the best possible would be that for example loans too heavy to bear should be pardoned not to destroy nations but to give them a chance to recover as soon as possible. But when will the lesson be learned if debts are not paid in full? Lessons in politics have to change more straightforward to those who make the mistakes to make corruption and reckless administration impossible. Those who do politics are the ones to know they are indebted when they betray people’s trust and bring their nation to bankruptcy. Is this what happens when people do not use their voices, do not vote, do not trust the government, do not pay taxes, do not give to the community but keep all possessions and money made themselves? It is an economy of complete negligence, indifference, short-sighted fortune-seeking with no end for those fortunate ones who have played their cards well and vanished with the money.
It is comical to speak about inheritance since it firstly brings to mind riches, exploitation and something good gained via bad, given that it all belongs to the children after parents pass away, pain does not vanish, innocence is an interesting idea. Does memory play tricks on us? Inheritances come in all kinds of forms. Europe has such gruesome and vile legacy of amnesia and denial to feel astonishing numb and partly it is understandable people wish to forget our near history completely and they do forget. When spoken there is ominous silence and thought of how dare you remind us. How dare I indeed for example speak of Holocaust, it not having gone anywhere, fascism that has gone into hiding, unbeaten, fascism that to me is very clearly alive in economy and becomes more and more obvious the more arrogant and demanding corporations get and the more brutal the recession and its makings appear. We do use things basically made by slaves far away and it is easy to ignore the fact in our beautiful hygiene, indifference, wealth and modern serenity. It is easy to pose with gadgets that bring value to their owners and corporations selling them in beautiful packages. Corporations that use workers as items to be disposed when not needed anymore. Oh we just made such a good deal with Microsoft and after a while they are sacking thousands. How bloody strange Nokia.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/beware-of-people-who-always-post-selfies-on-facebook-2015-07-16 “It’s not a wonderful personality constellation”
Empatiatodistus: muumileima sian pakaraan.
Kultainen rahakas ala mainonta on mielipidemuokkausta, tunteisiin vetoamista, ihmisen turhamaisuuden ja laiskuuden, etenkin älyllisen laiskuuden rahoiksi pistämistä: mitä emme tuotteista tiedä sen parempi tuottajalle ja myyjälle. Söpöstelyllä, somilla kuvilla ja toivoa herättävillä lauseilla saadaan aikaan ostajalle tunne, että hän tekee hyvän valinnan valitessaan jonkun bio-jutun vaikkei asiaa sen pidemmälle ajattelisikaan ja vaikka oikeastaan ostamatta jättäminen olisi biompi juttu. Voi puhua aivopesusta kun mainoskampanjointi on massiivista ylilyöntiä, päällekäyntiä ja tuputtamista ja tuotteet niin ihania että ne on pakko saada. Kaikki on hyödynnettävä viimeistä piirtoa myöten koska tarvitsemme vain kasvua. Argumentit luonnon hyväksikäytön perustelemiseksi alkavat kuulostaa aikansa eläneiltä. Jatkuvaan kasvuun ei taida uskoa enää kovin moni, kuinka se olisi edes mahdollista. Siis kuinka elää säästeliäästi ja viisaasti, mahdollisimman omavaraisesti onkin tulevaisuuden haaste maailmassa jossa moni on tottunut helppouteen ja saamaan monet asiat valmiina kaupan hyllyltä. Ja mitä lopulta tarvitsemme todella voi jokainen kohdallaan miettiä koska monen yksittäisen ihmisen henkilökohtaisista valinnoista koostuu markkina. Kyse on siitä millaisessa maailmassa haluamme elää ja mikä on tarpeeksi.
Kuten tiistaina esitetyssä Ajankohtaisessa kakkosessa 14.7.2015 lihantuotannon tärkeydestä nykyisessä yhteiskunnassamme väittelivät MTK:n eläinlääkäri Leena Suojala ja Suomen Eläinoikeuspuolueen projektipäällikkö Lotte Suveri http://areena.yle.fi/1-2449118. Mielenkiintoiseksi keskustelun tekee se että lihantuotannon ja syönnin merkitys ja arvo on lihantuottajien edustajan mukaan syvällä yhteiskunnassamme, perinteinen hyvä vaikuttaen lähes pyhältä, ihmistä voimaannuttava oikeutettu tapa ja ruokana terveellinen tutkittu proteiinin lähde, joten tapojemme on oltava muuttumattomia, koska ne on hyviksi todettu yhteisvoimin. Olemme hyvinvoiva energinen kansa joka murisee syödessään. Tätä pysyvää elämäntapaa, eläinten hyödyntämistä tuotteina ihmisille alisteisina on jatkettava sellaisenaan, koska siinä ei ole mitään väärin. Ihminen ainoastaan toteuttaa omaa oikeuttaan ottaa luonnosta tarvitsemansa palauttamalla sinne ainoastaan jätteensä. Jos tapamme ottaa tarvitsemamme olisi luonnollinen luultavasti emme joutuisi käymään moista keskustelua, koska silloin kunnioittaisimme muita elämänmuotoja ja niiden elämiä, ylipäänsä muita. Eläinlääkäri Suojalan argumentti ihmisen luonnollisesta taipumuksesta empatiaan eläimiä kohtaan on vähintäänkin arveluttava. Lihatuotannon yhteydessä ihmisen hyvyydestä puhuminen on etovaa. Itse en näe lihantuotannossa ja einesteollisuudessa mitään hyvää. Luomun voi jotenkin sietää siinä sentään yritetään tehdä lihantuotannosta kestävä. Käsittääkseni suuri osa ihmisistä ei tiedä mitä syövät saati kysy mistä ruoka on peräisin. Korjatkaa ihmeessä jos olen väärässä. Millaisesta empatiakyvystä se kertoo voi miettiä tai mielenkiinnosta ruokaa ja tuotantotapoja kohtaan.
Oireellista on kuinka suuri teollinen toimija kuin lihantuotantoteollisuus on puolustautuu halveksumalla vaihtoehtoja sanomalla veganistisia ajatuksia absurdeiksi ja hankaliksi toteuttaa. Perustelemalla niinkin alkeellisin väittein kuin että ihmisen on pakko saada eläinproteiinia ja eihän täällä härkäpapu kasva teollisuus todistaa oman tietämättömyytensä ja muutos haluttomuutensa muutosten maailmassa. Muutosvastarinta on samanlainen kuin ydinvoimakeskustelussa tahi missä tahansa perusarvokeskustelussa jossa vaihtoehto on aina altavastaaja ja väärässä koska perinteet ja jatkumo velvoittavat. Vaihtoehdot saavat tilaa ja kannatusta kun asiat menevät todella pieleen ja umpikuja on näkyvissä. Ydinvoiman ja lihankasvatuksen umpikuja on hyvin selvä. Kumpikin on epäeettistä tuhlausta ja luonnon tuhoamista. http://www.kodinkuvalehti.fi/artikkeli/glorian_koti/puutarha/kokeile_papujen_kasvatusta_3_hyvaa_papureseptia
Toki on totta että kotimaassa tuotettu liha tulee lähempää kuin Kiinassa kasvatettu luomupapu. Taistelu eläinten oikeuksista on oikeutettu jo sillä perusteella että eläinten kohtelu voi olla täysin ala-arvoista johon ei viranomainen puutu ennen kuin eläinaktivisti on omin luvin käynyt asioiden laidan kuvaamassa. Sitä ennen kaikki on vain ja pelkästään hyvin: eläimet ovat tyytyväisiä ja saavat tarvitsemansa hoidon ja ihmiset päivittäisen lihansa. Täysin käsittämätöntä on että eläinlääkäri näkee eläimen ainoastaan ihmiselle alisteisena ja tämän ainoana oikeana tapana nähdä eläin. Kun käyttää ’asiantuntijaa’ busineksen voittojen maksimoimiseksi kannattaa valita ihminen joka ymmärtää että asioilla on toinenkin puoli ja joka ymmärtää että vaihtoehdot ovat tulleet jäädäkseen. Ne ovatkin lihantuotannolle todellinen uhka, koska faktat puhuvat puolestaan.
Ei ole mitenkään uutta että toisinajattelija kohtaa vähättelyä ja totaalisen torjunnan etenkin kun kyse on luonnon ja eläinten suojelusta. On käyty ja käydään yhä todellista kamppailua luonnon puolesta riistokapitalismia vastaan. Monet näkevät edellä mainitut luonnon ja eläimet omaisuutena ja vastaanväittäminen saa aikaan vihareaktioita. Vaihtoehtoiset tavat ajatella horjuttavat voimasuhteita, rahavirta on uhattuna koska lihan liiallinen syönti on myös terveysuhka. Kun taloudelliset punnukset ovat painavammat kuin eettiset jälki ei välttämättä ole kovin kaunista. Eläinaktivistit ovat ottaneet suuren henkilökohtaisen riskit kuvatessaan kuluttajille kuinka heidän ruokansa tuotetaan. Jossakin vaiheessa todisteita olisi uskottava, etenkin kun ihminen on eläinlääkäri Suojalan mukaan niin kovin empaattinen ja haluaa eläimille parasta.
2008
My clothing line expands and so does the Universe
How do you clean without a vacuum cleaner? Who cleans without a vacuum cleaner? No one. Really? Can you smell the new smell?
I have a cleaning dilemma which is ideological, not that much that I didn’t know what to do. Is it also a gender issue, environmental? Do I dare to ask? Can you imagine living without a vacuum cleaner? It is a similar kind of question as could you live without a car or two. It very often is for many unimaginable. Why is it so unimaginable? Life would get difficult and uneasy if we didn’t keep it together with helping equipment. Our everyday problems are solved and we don’t have to think much about it just. Sigh of relief. One could almost feel like a freak without the basic tools, left without lacking something important which is meant to be with us organically like a friend. Almost, hey. Of course this is a question of how much space one has to do clean and what kind of dirt we are talking about. When it comes to professional cleaning ladies, who clean for living, it is good for their health to have ergonomic light tools, essentially important. Cleaning ladies’ work is hazardous, unappreciated, loathed even. Something you do not easily see, stay interested in unless the job is not done. To pay attention to those people who take care of our spaces is therefore important. They are many and invisible as long as they stay quiet and do their jobs. Cleaning personnel get paid poorly, pay which does not enough include to the fact it is a dangerous job to maintain surfaces. Health risks are there how the work is done and what kind of poisonous cleaning detergents are used, not to mention people looking down on you as you haven’t moved up in the world. Detergents can smell good for a minute. Spraying detergents is the same as breathing them so you can imagine what the shit can do in the long run. As garbage men, cleaning ladies and janitors are doing socially extremely important work, think about it what they could do: stop the whole of society. Can you smell the new smell?
Interesting point here is how we assume, forget, do not think, see the obvious or ignore completely because we don’t have to pay attention. All we have to do is to know the necessity of technology and total superiority of things we own, their unquestionable value to us, that we know they are right for the job they are designed to and we can have them. Tasks and needs which cannot be done otherwise, who would want to anymore. We would soon be asthmatic and living in filth like our ancestors going nowhere. It is the power of advertising, powerful collective suction and consuming mindset to owning, to expertise, re-organizing, planning and performing proper civilized human beings who maintain themselves. Especially herself who has to know how to maintain this perfect image, how to be in it. It is so precise of an image holding on to us tightly. Letting go is overwhelmingly problematic. We have our reasoning which is part of the problem. Effectiveness is all. This reasoning is solving only the surface of things without wanting look inside.
If we lost machines like washing machines and vacuum cleaners it would mean cleaning work renaissance with laundry and household staff. Would it be class society all over again? Nevertheless there would be work if there were people who needed the service and paid for it. It is easy to see how important hygiene is for our everyday lives and how easily we ignore this fact.
What do you know about vacuum cleaners is another question and I bet nothing much. Where do they come from and where do they go? They, our tools, do the job just as well and much better than the old ones. New ones keep on appearing, designed, manufactured and they look amazing matching our interior of chrome and glass which need to be spotless. We are instructed how to plug-in, put on and how to operate. If you are not able to there is something wrong with you no doubt. To get rid of the things when they have lived their lives with us can be a bit tricky if you are willing to put effort and time in to that not so tiny ecological dilemma. We don’t have to know machines we use well, we don’t have to know where the materials come from, how the cost of machines get made and who profit the most. Vacuum cleaners are made super easy to use, everybody can use them, everybody can have them and will have a vacuum cleaner. What other this machine does than suck dirt and dust and what kind of life does a vacuum cleaner as an object represent is the easy comfortable living without dirt without effort. It provides and represents health. Even our apartments have closets for the thing with a long tube and heavy body. It is an essential tool cleaning your car, sofa, carpets quickly without too many extra movements and tricks.
Why I talk about vacuum cleaner is that I don’t own one and I happened to ask the cleaning lady who works our building could I borrow the one she uses. (I got a face) Nobody asks such questions because everybody has their own. So I think it is a very interesting cultural question of how we consume, how we maintain our standard of living and take care of our property, homes and which items belong to a modern household. I am in many ways a minority, by far.
Can you imagine people who live without vacuum cleaners, what they are like? At what point imagining life without those essential machines in our lives has become almost impossible?
To get stuck with ideas of how modern life is arranged and should be lived is where the closed society is born. Not that societies were not closed before, but there is a large problem waiting to be solved about how we evolve or do not and in some ways it is not new and some way it is terrible isolation which is almost impossible to change. What kind of society is closed and how do we open it or better yet encourage people to open up society as a culture and as a structure?
Yes it is a bit perverse question, psychological, and you can begin to imagine all kinds of alternatives, horrors, To think what do I mean with cleaning can too be very different than idea of cleaning to a super hygienist. Why do I even ask is because we assume too much. We have vacuum cleaners and they work perfectly fine, mostly. A machine almost all households have like a self-evident equipment so much so that to think cleaning without this noisy part of home would be unthinkably. To me it strongly seems people as modern population have come to a point where we do not see the opportunities there are. We like to be stuck and like our comfort.
http://home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner.htm ”2. As the fan blades turn, they force air forward, toward the exhaust port(check out How Airplanes Work to find out what causes this).”
Jacqueline Rose on Zionism, Freud, Sylvia Plath and more with Justin Clemens.
P.S.
Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment
Hillary Clinton isn’t a champion of women’s rights. She’s the embodiment of corporate feminism.
”Clinton recounts in her 2003 book Living History that Walmart CEO Sam Walton “taught me a great deal about corporate integrity and success”
2001
China arrests seven Tibetan monks | Free Tibet
China arrests seven Tibetan monks | Free Tibet Monastery under heavy surveillance and monks relentlessly harassed
The burning Sheets(pink). Naivety of a dream catcher on a concrete balcony with glass shades on the first floor. Disliked the kitsch and the thought of a b-horror movie in YouTube in ten parts.
pleasing stuffing, filled but not full, exhausted, drained, sucked, emptied, done. Wanting to fill it because of lack of content and the feeling of fulfillment all the time that is compulsory. Drank in between the birches in cool calm despite the sign of a mall in bright red behind there and the dirty double trailer truck on the side of the road towards a pulp factory which has been closed for some time. It is dark. Drinking in the dark the blue, yellow and red, drinking a wish and the thought of full, drinking the landscape, drinking the melancholy and the night, drinking the time, drinking the passing cars, drinking the dirty snow, drinking the shoes, drinking the hands. Not who drank but why. The problem is what you are. That is why.
Majakollektiivi Timanttimetsä 