How do you clean without a vacuum cleaner? Who cleans without a vacuum cleaner? No one. Really? Can you smell the new smell?

April 20, 2015July 13, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

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.

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/hillary-clinton-womens-rights-feminism/

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”

eroticism that never leaves because we desire, never is wiped away because we want to be wanted, attempts to get rid off any sexual reference is useless, an itch, a curse, a need, a part to play

March 22, 2015July 13, 2022 | Henna Timanttimetsä

There are erotic things we recognize erotic immediately, blond hair, showing full breasts and full lips (hah), accessories like black high heels, black underwear, anything black and tight clothing around toned bodies is a sign, a message and we look at such sights if they are there, because we enjoy them. We enjoy with our eyes. All kinds of reactions come about, thoughts. The more detailed, decorated the more burlesque, luring, luxurious, tempting and naughty, denied, banned, pushed away like horror that would reveal us what we really want. Erotics is an art of detail. We may think of those things if they are not present, dream of such things to wear or to look at. We look at the muscles, limbs, body parts, shapes, what is shown and what is not. Where does eroticism begin, come from is that we don’t have to look for it. It appears effortlessly, or seemingly with little effort. There are common sexually interesting features and materials which arouse savor, they are the clichés we are accustomed to, we are fed with, banalities of what sexuality is in mainstream. What is it?. Erotics is overused, capitalized. Porn is grotesque and obscene. I find it a necessary vent even the clichés: pvc-outfits, higher heels that are impossible to walk on, make-up, posing, fantasizing. Ultimately naked bodies in twisted positions. Something full dripping over, leaking over like liquid. Something that is erotic is never boring. It is still a task to put it in writing what is erotic. Human body is erotic to put it simple.

Erotica is a language that we should be able to speak, but often fail to for whatever reasons, mostly denial, fear and disgust. It is effortless but contradictory conflicting and difficult to approach. We can be naive or cynical about it. It is easy and impossible, but it is there not going away. Maybe it just is tacky, smelly and unpleasant remainder of our bestial self to put it in stereotypically normative frame. Something we like to forget. Sexuality is interesting since it does not fit in frames we so much like. It is something we like to reject, reject as a possibility, positive and joyful part of everyday. Because erotics for us is not an everyday mode, not for many women at least, not for us reasonable people who hide that side of ours, it is difficult and religion has something to do with this. It is intolerable and too enjoyable, too pushy, disgustingly everywhere, because it is not coded as the good positive thing to have but sinful, dirty and wrong that needs to be pushed distant but is force-fed, we are in constant difficulty with our sexuality.

To feel ashamed by eroticism, to hide behind a bashful little laughter. We are grown into feeling ashamed when we watch something erotic. Something that belongs to bedrooms and dark places, something, again, shameful a part of us so much that without erotic thoughts, images, desires, deeds we feel we are missing something essential, but we have to miss it to like it. Eroticism cannot be an everyday object. Objects are dead. We may be too practical for it to live with us as fully accepted part, maybe it is pragmatism to deny horny feelings. Erotica is never fully accepted, therefore we are damned. We are cursed by our desire, because of the inescapable nature of our existence. We cannot escape ourselves. Maybe sexuality would lose its edge if it was fully accepted as whatever forms it takes. What do you think? Would we be too liberated and get bored with the whole thing? To reject eroticism we become less human trying to achieve a perfect senselessness, obedient order of things without distractions or temptations.

Eroticism is cheap, it is sold and bought, true. That is much of eroticism today, a consumed item, a consumed feeling, body, intercourse, image, song, movie, advertising. Or is it so expensive we rarely can afford it? We cannot tolerate to be seen as sexual, as wanting sex.

http://review31.co.uk/article/view/314/the-rotating-bed“The weirdness of the image of Hefner in his PJs talking domesticity is doubled as we imagine this meeting of him and a similarly attired Preciado through the TV screen in the middle of the night. Just as Preciado’s curiosity stops him sleeping, so we are reeled in with a desire to see an organisation which is rarely regarded as representing anything more than the most superficial and exploitative entertainment from a totally unimagined angle.”

A sermon on Thursday: I have deep faith in human evil. No, I don’t wish it to exist and happen, but still it does, deep. I know it sounds so terrible, but I just cannot help myself.

January 29, 2015March 11, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

There is nothing that changes in terms of hatred, because it is the easy way and collective. It accelerates, spins faster and faster without us wanting to stop. We belong to it, we are of more hate than of love. Revenge is a tool for those who are not able to change, who do not want change, who are righteous. This means I have faith in people and their acting in a certain way like clockwork. You make yourselves repeat the same. You think you are complex, that is the funny part. Things you accomplish may be, but you are not.

My faith means I think there are things in us that do not change and it is the way we think and how those thoughts make action. It is not something new – evil and my faith in it. All the good people who also are bad people is a norm. We are good in our sinister, illusion-filled and self-loving way, as much as there is room for good and usually there is very little. People do have to some extent faith in the good in people, it gives us hope. We define the good and we must seek it, even promise our devotion to it. Those who exist among and within the bad is the difficult and horrible scenario and a fact, living with and inside bad knowingly, like accepting it, avoiding it so, that it does not touch nor hurt, scared and sunken. What a ludicrous idea altogether. There isn’t much we can do as it seems. Evil humanity could not be more obvious.

To have faith in the good while doing the bad is a weird thought. We cannot honestly say evil prevails in us and because of us even though it clearly does. We say it is far away and someone else. We do not admit to it and we attack it and we hate it lovingly. To have faith in those who hurt knowingly and deliberately we like to give patriotic and other explanations. To do it yourself is the unthinkable but done effortlessly. I think we are exited about the bad in us. It gives us a thrill. All the things we can do. We like to believe liars and live in a world of violence and say we are better than people before us. We have evolved. This is my faith in humanity. I believe in the bitter, hurtful and evil man. He is true to himself to the end and in a way true in his actions. Pass on the bad and it will live forever and expand many times over. The most effective part of humanity is the opposite of what is thought is good. The most effective we are in our bitter hatred. To have faith in evil of course testifies that I am evil and I do evil, I commit and worship evil. Maybe that is true since I am a human being, but at least I question myself. I do it everyday. There is no escape for humans what comes to evil. I do not know whether people who do evil things consciously declare themselves evil, very possibly they do not. Hypocrisy and denial keep the image and posture no matter what you do. People are masters of deception, self-deception and deceiving others to benefit the most powerful, to keep on going on this chosen path. I think we do change the world but not ourselves, because to change as a person is difficult and demands constant effort, which is mostly painful. Honesty and sincerity do not make the biggest paychecks, get the best respect, best positions, most friends and most wealth.

http://boingboing.net/2015/01/28/a-beginners-guide-to-the-red.html

“They want you to lift the veil pulled over your eyes by the progressives who secretly control society. Like Neo escaping the Matrix, your choice is to wake up and see how the world really is, discarding religion, subjectivity, and feminist indoctrination. Conspiracy theorists, Men’s Rights Activists, Pick-Up Artists, GamerGate, even theNeoreaction: all of these communities share a common creed, tech-fluent and superficially self-aware. To outsiders, it’s distinctly conservative. But they don’t see themselves as conservatives at all.”

Change is coming and there is no other way!

March 7, 2014March 5, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

Feminist movement Femen is fighting on the streets facing fascists, ordinary street men, politicians as well as the police, who continually arrest bare breasted women shouting Fuck your morals, God is a woman, Ukraine is not a brothel, in gay we trust, Nudity is freedom! Strength of such fearless action and devotion to the cause is impressive, appreciated and joyfully effective. Feminism should be exactly that and in there, on the streets, in demonstrations, during world cups which lure prostitution to flourish, in places where world leaders meet to make people in suits face anger, attacking fashion shows to let them who exploit hear out those who really have an important message: Listen to those whom you abuse! We are many and we force you to listen. Feminism is activism, sextremism, distraction, interruption, disturbance of status quo and destruction of seemingly comfortable balance breaking that clean surface. It is an unforgiven demand in itself and notion that women have to take their place to be heard, fearlessly speak out standing tall. Feminism is demanding abolishment of sex trade, acknowledgement of the problems which women globally face, abolishment of sexism and punishment for it, concrete separation of church and state, legalization for access to free and safe abortion, women to have decision over their bodies, punishments for rapists to be heavier than they are. It is demand for respect and dignity. Feminism is demanding human rights and lasting social change to all human beings, environment and animals. It is one of the most important global movements at the moment and the importance of change shows in the way Feminists are treated. Importance of attitude change is immediate. Importance of finding conformity a repulsive tool of oppression and fascism. Importance of learning how fascism works today and manifests itself daily in ways of monitoring, dictating, suppressing and manipulating. Place of women is displayed by showing hate against women, against Feminism, stigmatizing those who dare to speak up and act against oppression. It is one of the most important issues globally to make concrete change to better lives and rights of women, minorities and children. Situation is angering and change is slow. Hierarchy, power and position of church is immense dictating places of genders, how people should live, what is right and wrong. Religions and dictators are obstructing development of human rights for people to achieve better quality of life, better treatment and appreciation of women and children as individuals and people. I see divisions very clearly anywhere, personally and generally and I refuse to be what I should be by my gender traditionally, ordered by someone who is to be above me. I can do nothing but go against. Change is coming and there is no other way.

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There is bitterness and hurt. In political game there is always much to gain. Power corrupts has been proved true many times over. To make a revolution benefit everyone not first financially but emotionally and mentally is an ideal and to make people learn from mistakes of theirs and others would be the best revolution ever.

September 3, 2013February 21, 2018 | Henna Timanttimetsä

What kind of revolutions are at hand now? Technological advancements are spreading fast and doing just that, revolutionary evolution of man firstly on level of ideas and how ideas are put to use. Is there anything natural about it what we are experiencing now and what is the revolution part? There is no exact beginning nor end. Changing our ways of interacting, working and living is research that is interesting in terms of how we make our lives. How well do we cope with dramatic changes and altering of everyday life. It is a fast modification happening, which requires altering of habits and patterns of our thinking. Making the globe more democratic than ever, accessible. Is everyone accessible? Even the word change expects something of the individual. Emotional involvement, subjective experience, determination, devotion and work.

Human development is a complex process and it is hugely neglected by everyone, double oops. This is my claim. Hugely neglected are also human possibilities. There can be a dad who looks at his child and says out loud: that child is going to be trouble, that child will not be anything. I ask Why do you hate your child? Everyone will be something, but what, and what are people suppose to become and be is a good question. It is very common, believe it or not, to judge and treat children of your own by the most harsh ways. There is no way for anyone to know what will be, but parents are creating paths for their children which they can follow if he/she believes what parents or anyone close by is saying. So what to believe? Yes it is a cruel world, but oh there are ways to make it less cruel and the ways are very simple. They require kindness and an open mind at least. Is it too much to ask? Such a thing does not cost a thing.

You do not have kindness in your heart, learn it. It goes like this: how can I do and say things that would cause the least hurt. If you do not know what someone else is thinking or you see there are problems ASK if you can do something.

It does not absolutely mean you have to be mother Teresa, but it would not hurt to do things like her. Sometimes it just means shut the fuck up. You think ill, because it is fun for you, don’t let it out and fun is overrated. There is enough bullshit already.