power

Warmhearted gentleman, a fucking dick full of human charity and goodness.

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Well yes it is amazing what a man can do.
I was not going to write about this but I’m going to anyway, human nature what can one do about it. Not beat it at least. Natura corrupt and there is no way to defeat it, to be better than nature of ours, nature of mine is to become a robot. Meaning not letting desires and hormones get the best out of you. Self-control, rational conscious learning of living with people. It can go horribly wrong. It is a strict code and manipulation to live as a human and nothing is set. Knowing what to do even when you don’t. Mostly we are not 100% sure of anything.

The thing is out there and in here, the beast and survival of the fittest is not going anywhere. Do we still know what it is all about to be human? There is a lot of negative things out and in use. For what I know we very much think we know ourselves and what is good to do. We know and like to think we know our fellow human beings as well. Of course.

The act of knowing, of beginning to know, of letting know, informing. We must know what is true and be true to ourselves. Is it at any cost and is true to oneself deceitful to someone else?

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.

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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?

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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?

Female body is strictly regulated possession, it is under conscious and cruel use of power. We monitor consciously and unconsciously bodies of ours and others to fit in. It is obsessive and means are never enough. This is an everyday topic, topic of attraction and what kind of options we have and are given.

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How does a person become herself/himself in a society of strict codes of living? To do things that are forbidden and hide with them, or to do what you like and face consequences and punishments. Is being yourself to be able to do what you wish? Aren’t I and self connected in doing and making my way, which all should do. I become me when I am active, because making makes me evolve as a person. What is this person to society? In this sense it is horrifying to think that women are restricted from doing and being active persons. Women are restricted from evolving globally. I am also product of my society where I am what I do, a making, accomplishing person. Those who do not work what are they, why are they labelled as something less? Making which does not directly create money is considered not as important. Money makes value. To be important is to label, to have a say, what is that for a position? There are examples of where women are under strict religious order (it looks to me the most of the world is under such order). Women are monitored, capsuled and punished if not doing as they are commanded to do. I do not speak of one particular religion. It seems to be characteristics of all religions to have power over women, of what they are capable of. Women are under command whether it is faith or capitalism. Why is it that women need to be under authority of man. It is hilarious to even have to ask. It is a joke, the authority of man and the desire for power over. It is a joke to want power for the sake of having power.

Power within

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It is an inevitable force within human and animal relations to look for order and through desired constructions and rules make structures to live by and evolve. Some kind of dictating of order is necessary, manners of interacting need to have commonly accepted patterns and ways of happening to be successful. Order and usage of power is a livelihood necessity which is either gained or lost based on situations, abilities, rivalries, politics making and favoring. It is often forgotten notion that everybody has power. Every act and word is individual power used and passed forward to make an impact, to make part of one’s own, play a part, be part, be active participant even though one may feel passive and not having a voice to be heard, one has to believe that power is there in every thing one does and we like to use it to benefit ourselves and people close to us. Which characteristics of ours make us leaders, persecutors, rulers, dictators, traitors, tyrants, obedient, unlawful, unfaithful, how we decide for ourselves and for others is a scheme of multiple issues and things to consider that play their role in anyone being powerful and to which extent. One part is to succeed in making decisions, to know what to do and executing ideas, dealing with the results and to move forward. To know where to go and what is to be done.

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?

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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?

Censorship as way to do the world and stomping the world to stay the same. It is interesting to analyze cultural scenes since there are people who seriously have power over what we see and use as culture and as art. The power of expertise given status. It is also a world of relations, golden handshakes, hear say, loads of cash and again talk over who is proper and good at the same time.

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It is a common practice of everyday. We do it to ourselves and to others by looks, talk of all kinds of subtle and not so subtle ways of letting know what is good. It is a mind control, behavior control, strategy control. Reasons for control often are not letting upset and hate show, fear, any kind of emotions, sexuality, personality, difference show in order to maintain discipline, order, conformity, hegemony, to maintain power or just to oppress because of having power. It is a forceful tool to be able to censor and make it a mental behavioral state as well. People who censor themselves in fear are easy to control.

Forces of those who wish things to stay the same. And what things are those and who are the forces who have such a wish? State of eternal growth, state of holy image, state of pedestals. To push the envelope is to say of having search for new expression. Expression defined by the one who is expressing, artist who lives expresses, everyone has expression of their own. Who sells the expressed, what is new in this picture of making money? Nothing. Do artists express to make money? and what is expression, and what is art, when does expression become art. It is expecting the unknown to be found, expecting it to be found, expecting the unknown to be. It is a state of trust to express. Then make it a vendible product.

For me pushing the envelope is a pop term. Music world is an interesting scene talking about censoring and expression. Pop artists pushing some envelope of theirs and possibly the establishment’s as far as the record companies allow them to push. To push the envelope against those who actually have power is for a recording artist suicidal end of a career kind of scenario. Someone has put something in the way to be pushed and push push it hard. Usually it is artists themselves who have boundaries to be changed. That is not a surprise. Controversy, scandal, provocation are marketable items nowadays like ever. Controversy is to rub your ass against male crotch and stick your tongue out. Huge is only the amount of press. To use sex for making money is not news. It as such is not incredibly pushing the envelope. To actually stop obeying pop cultural idiosyncrasies would be.

There are rules to be broken. That almost is a rule for creativeness to find its explosiveness. There are ideas and ideologies to be shocked and thinking patterns to be changed.

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Tradition is natural, to work is natural, because it and it has been going on so long, so it must be the right thing to do. Logic is naive and defensive. Working class and middle class values can be aggressive and tiring. Values of owning and working make who you are. Both classes have somewhat similar desires, to be well-off, safe and prosperous. Such values have been mocked in several occasions by artists as the way artists are mocked by people who happen to have the so-called real jobs. It is a mockery and on and on battlefield of people who do not want to understand each other’s ways. What is an installation and do you still do art, still are the usual questions I get to hear. I guess it is your thing. My thing? Doubt and suspicion are obviously your thing.

Equipment is secondary. In terms of revolutionizing society, making society work for all of its members freedom of expression is vital. To take it, because very often it is not given on a plate, the possibility, appreciated or even legal. It also seems to me creativity must be opposed for us to find its power.

How to change society for more tolerant? Could that be your thing?

We really can destroy you, we really can and we will. (I believe you, I didn’t think anything else. I don’t expect anything else.) You should be more careful. (Not going to be, but thanks for the warning. You mean I should know my place. I know it alright, how do you think I got to be a badd ass.))

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You betray me, I betray you. And then you don’t touch me in anyway anymore. Learning to know me…Good. It’s funny you thought you did. So funny and happening in repeat. Yes it’s my cute appearence, it can fool you. Is this about hate or feelings at all? This is about identifying ignorance, selfishness, arrogance and teaching others to have less limited way to look at things and other people. Hmm, I’d say this is about survival. Someone trying to make life worth living, and so far it has been, though not easy, but easy doesn’t make you grow. I’m growing! I’m going to be a blooming tree. How much bullshit does it take? Grow with Bullshit! How much can one person take? A lot!! Humans are incredibly sustainable. I am sustainable, flexible learner on this beautiful planet. Question is why some want destruction and think they can get away with it?

Which movie? Kääk 2.