so, we've got some new cover art up on what will probably inri085:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-spontaneous-combustion-of-leonardo-pisano
leanardo pisano is fibonacci - leonardo of pisa. i might change that to a wrinkled shot of fibonacci, but that gets the point across for now.
...& also for what will likely be inri087:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/xenophanes
But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
...
Ethiopians say that their gods are snub–nosed and black
Thracians that they are pale and red-haired
Friday, September 27, 2019
he could have just asked his daughter, though.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-greta-thunberg-climate-change-action-1.5299674
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-greta-thunberg-climate-change-action-1.5299674
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
20:55
why don't i march any more?
i was always looking for a broader movement; i've never held out much hope that any specific protest is going to really accomplish much, and to a certain extent these marches are even really a symptom of the problem - if these people would march on factories instead of down streets, right? we'll know we're ready when we stop marching and start doing.
the march was always a meeting place, somewhere to try to network, and that was always it's real value, as a stepping stone to broader organizing. so, the most important thing that came out of occupy was that i found myself in a social group that included a lot of self-identified anarchists - not because of anything specific to the action, but due to the long term implications around movement building.
i more or less stopped entirely when i got to windsor. it's partly because i found myself immersed in my art, which is a good thing, but i could have made time. that i didn't had more to do with a level of cynicism that sunk in around the ubiquity of capitalism, and the realization that these activists would never be ready to actually change anything. they were, in truth, capitalists to their bones......and i just found myself wanting to get away from them.
there was never a point where i thought that a climate march would have any meaningful actual effect on policy, but there was a point where i thought it might be a good place to meet people to plan deeper organizing around. i've largely abandoned this, in favour of a technological determinism: we're going to have to wait for things to fail, first, and then react. sad, but probably true...
i like the politics, but i don't like the people.
i'll be more productive arguing with people on the internet than i will be marching.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
i was always looking for a broader movement; i've never held out much hope that any specific protest is going to really accomplish much, and to a certain extent these marches are even really a symptom of the problem - if these people would march on factories instead of down streets, right? we'll know we're ready when we stop marching and start doing.
the march was always a meeting place, somewhere to try to network, and that was always it's real value, as a stepping stone to broader organizing. so, the most important thing that came out of occupy was that i found myself in a social group that included a lot of self-identified anarchists - not because of anything specific to the action, but due to the long term implications around movement building.
i more or less stopped entirely when i got to windsor. it's partly because i found myself immersed in my art, which is a good thing, but i could have made time. that i didn't had more to do with a level of cynicism that sunk in around the ubiquity of capitalism, and the realization that these activists would never be ready to actually change anything. they were, in truth, capitalists to their bones......and i just found myself wanting to get away from them.
there was never a point where i thought that a climate march would have any meaningful actual effect on policy, but there was a point where i thought it might be a good place to meet people to plan deeper organizing around. i've largely abandoned this, in favour of a technological determinism: we're going to have to wait for things to fail, first, and then react. sad, but probably true...
i like the politics, but i don't like the people.
i'll be more productive arguing with people on the internet than i will be marching.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
20:45
so, i put a sequence for the unofficial bundles up, as well.
https://www.youtube.com/user/deathtokoalas/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=49&disable_polymer=true
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
https://www.youtube.com/user/deathtokoalas/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=49&disable_polymer=true
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
19:18
it's always hard to get valid information out of these sorts of events, but it doesn't seem like much actually happened today in egypt besides a round-up of some protestors. it almost seems like a sting - and, yes, they'll do that.
i want you to be careful not to fall into the narrative that the protests are being driven by "islamists". for all it's backing by the theocratic regimes on the peninsula, egypt is actually a fairly secular society that is more like turkey than saudi arabia or iran. egyptians are not particularly religious people, and islam is not particularly popular, there. broadly speaking, egyptian society doesn't even seem to have much of an aversion to restrictions on "religious freedom" that many westerners would consider a little over the top - they have stricter rules on islamic dress than most western countries do, and at times have even passed laws against beards. you'd be surprised, if you don't know about it. so, when you see or hear the egyptian government blame the protests on "islamists", it's essentially a smear - and a transparent one that's set up by design. the real threat to the rulers are of course the leftists, but the regime will actually demonize the religion as a conscious control tactic.
this is of course different from what happened in syria, when you had an actual, literal invasion of foreign backed terrorist groups into the country. there's nothing like that happening in egypt, which has a substantive defense force that could wipe out such a thing pretty quickly.
the 2011 protests were largely driven by secular leftists to start with, before the security force co-opted them. and, even as the government blames the unrest on islam, it will send agents to try and rouse up religious sentiment, both because it will make the protestors unpopular and because it will make them easier to control. if there are any protests allowed to continue at all, those protests will be at the mosques.
which is why i would present the following proposal to my egyptian comrades as a tactic: avoid organizing on fridays. it's a setup. pick any other day. pick saturdays!
again: it's hard to get information out of these places, but you should assume that this is a secular protest for basic rights for now, regardless of what the state broadcasts, and regardless of how the western media picks it up. we'll see how that develops over time, and what kind of character it takes on - and whether it's still worth your moral support or not. but assume secularist, a priori.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-tense-and-divided-egypt-braces-for-more-protests-on-friday/2019/09/27/a7b779d4-e086-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
i want you to be careful not to fall into the narrative that the protests are being driven by "islamists". for all it's backing by the theocratic regimes on the peninsula, egypt is actually a fairly secular society that is more like turkey than saudi arabia or iran. egyptians are not particularly religious people, and islam is not particularly popular, there. broadly speaking, egyptian society doesn't even seem to have much of an aversion to restrictions on "religious freedom" that many westerners would consider a little over the top - they have stricter rules on islamic dress than most western countries do, and at times have even passed laws against beards. you'd be surprised, if you don't know about it. so, when you see or hear the egyptian government blame the protests on "islamists", it's essentially a smear - and a transparent one that's set up by design. the real threat to the rulers are of course the leftists, but the regime will actually demonize the religion as a conscious control tactic.
this is of course different from what happened in syria, when you had an actual, literal invasion of foreign backed terrorist groups into the country. there's nothing like that happening in egypt, which has a substantive defense force that could wipe out such a thing pretty quickly.
the 2011 protests were largely driven by secular leftists to start with, before the security force co-opted them. and, even as the government blames the unrest on islam, it will send agents to try and rouse up religious sentiment, both because it will make the protestors unpopular and because it will make them easier to control. if there are any protests allowed to continue at all, those protests will be at the mosques.
which is why i would present the following proposal to my egyptian comrades as a tactic: avoid organizing on fridays. it's a setup. pick any other day. pick saturdays!
again: it's hard to get information out of these places, but you should assume that this is a secular protest for basic rights for now, regardless of what the state broadcasts, and regardless of how the western media picks it up. we'll see how that develops over time, and what kind of character it takes on - and whether it's still worth your moral support or not. but assume secularist, a priori.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-tense-and-divided-egypt-braces-for-more-protests-on-friday/2019/09/27/a7b779d4-e086-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
18:50
"but, nobody listens to records. the future is in the singles market."
that's what they said in 1962, too.
and, even if they're right, that doesn't mean the albums market will cease to exist altogether.
i don't want to write singles. or, well, i do, but not like how you're thinking. i like big, epic records. that's enough of a market, for me.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
that's what they said in 1962, too.
and, even if they're right, that doesn't mean the albums market will cease to exist altogether.
i don't want to write singles. or, well, i do, but not like how you're thinking. i like big, epic records. that's enough of a market, for me.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
18:01
i had to crash this morning; i'm actually glad that i got a normal amount of sleep for the first time in a while. i'm done the spell check, and i got most of the internal cross-referencing done, at least. the music document increased by one page, whereas the dtk document increased by 7 pages. i still have to cross-reference the music document with the dtk document. then, i need to make sure i didn't drop any posts, before publishing and filing.
i should be done by the morning at the latest, i think. i hope.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
i should be done by the morning at the latest, i think. i hope.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
16:11
our constitution does not have property rights in it. trudeau won that fight, mostly because he had the ndp on his side.
and, it almost didn't have religion in it, it very well could have not had religion in it, but the west wouldn't have supported it, if it didn't.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
and, it almost didn't have religion in it, it very well could have not had religion in it, but the west wouldn't have supported it, if it didn't.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
15:59
i've stated this before: it was an error for the elder trudeau, or for jean chretien as it may have fallen to him, to concede these points to the lougheed conservatives. if they couldn't get the signature without conceding religious rights, they should have given up. it should have been a deal-breaker. the liberals should have held to their convictions and fought harder to keep religion out of it - because they were right, and their arguments against religion in the constitution have panned out.
if we could open this back up again, i'd be on the side that the liberals were historically on, which is to get religion out of the constitution altogether.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
if we could open this back up again, i'd be on the side that the liberals were historically on, which is to get religion out of the constitution altogether.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
15:49
listen, i think i've been clear. i believe in a rights-based society, i believe in the rule of law and i believe in an enforcement mechanism.
but, i don't believe in property rights, and i don't believe in ethnic rights, and i don't believe in religious rights, either.
so, it's not a question over whether we're to have rights. we agree on that point. what we disagree over is what those rights are to actually be, which is a debate that we had not so long ago in canada, and which is clearly less closed than some would like to think.
further, the inclusion of religion in the constitution was an issue of major public debate - this wasn't obvious, wasn't without major detractors, including the elder trudeau, himself. it was the religious right, then and still led by alberta's conservative party, that insisted on the kind of language that we ended up with. if it was solely up to the elder trudeau, he wouldn't have given you the rights that his son is being criticized for not standing up for.
and, this goes back to these definitional debates about left and right, yet again.
there's nothing weird about me standing here as a left-liberal and questioning the role of religion in the constitution. we did that. it was the tories - the political ancestors of jason kenney, not of justin trudeau - that fought so hard to get that language in there, and that the chretien/trudeau liberals had to concede to to get the thing signed.
we see the consequences of that language, don't we?
and, i want my secular left back.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
but, i don't believe in property rights, and i don't believe in ethnic rights, and i don't believe in religious rights, either.
so, it's not a question over whether we're to have rights. we agree on that point. what we disagree over is what those rights are to actually be, which is a debate that we had not so long ago in canada, and which is clearly less closed than some would like to think.
further, the inclusion of religion in the constitution was an issue of major public debate - this wasn't obvious, wasn't without major detractors, including the elder trudeau, himself. it was the religious right, then and still led by alberta's conservative party, that insisted on the kind of language that we ended up with. if it was solely up to the elder trudeau, he wouldn't have given you the rights that his son is being criticized for not standing up for.
and, this goes back to these definitional debates about left and right, yet again.
there's nothing weird about me standing here as a left-liberal and questioning the role of religion in the constitution. we did that. it was the tories - the political ancestors of jason kenney, not of justin trudeau - that fought so hard to get that language in there, and that the chretien/trudeau liberals had to concede to to get the thing signed.
we see the consequences of that language, don't we?
and, i want my secular left back.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
15:36
for the swans fans...
https://www.youtube.com/user/deathtokoalas/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=48
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
https://www.youtube.com/user/deathtokoalas/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=48
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
06:09
no money until tomorrow morning.
so, it would seem as though i'm in tonight.
and, they are calling for rain with a high level of certainty, as well.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
so, it would seem as though i'm in tonight.
and, they are calling for rain with a high level of certainty, as well.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
05:39
what did i even to today? this was a bad month, in terms of productivity, really.
i can't get it back.
but, i need to pivot dramatically and really focus. i've been scatter-brained far too long, now. let's see if i can order myself a little....
there's not any use in finishing up the legal stuff for tomorrow, i'd might as well wait until monday.
i did want to start the alter-reality when i got through the rebuild. i wanted to start it for mid-1989. i guess it's not so bad if i do catch up, but i wanted to be done the rebuild by now. i don't want to juggle that - let's just pick up the pace on the rebuild.
i can plan around cleaning in here tomorrow or the next day. the p-trap seems to have held since this morning. i think it had something to do with his air conditioning, and it's actually getting cold tonight, so maybe i've put that off for a bit.
and, i'll see what i want to do this weekend when i find out oif the cash has come ino r not.
is that everything?
i wanted to publish the 10/2013 documents before the end of september, so that's what i'll be doing tonight. i have eaten. i may have to shower later, if it gets cold in here (and the heat doesn't turn on, which it maybe should).
i'm just banging my head against the wall on the political file - we're not in a revolutionary moment, we're in a reactionary moment, and it's just a question of navigating through it.
i can't be too hard on myself, or i'll get apathetic. the uploads and planning last week weren't awful; it had to be done, at some point, and i wasn't feeling well. i got some documents filed at the beginning of the week. yesterday was largely about the gas leak, and i'm just starting today, really. it's not so bad....
i just get upset with myself, sometimes. you might imagine that i'm mad at myself for other reasons, but i actually wish i had more writing and more music available. i can't get depressed, i just need to pivot.
so, i'll have to run these files through spell checks, cross-reference everything and clean them up. hopefully, they'll be published by sunrise, or so.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
i can't get it back.
but, i need to pivot dramatically and really focus. i've been scatter-brained far too long, now. let's see if i can order myself a little....
there's not any use in finishing up the legal stuff for tomorrow, i'd might as well wait until monday.
i did want to start the alter-reality when i got through the rebuild. i wanted to start it for mid-1989. i guess it's not so bad if i do catch up, but i wanted to be done the rebuild by now. i don't want to juggle that - let's just pick up the pace on the rebuild.
i can plan around cleaning in here tomorrow or the next day. the p-trap seems to have held since this morning. i think it had something to do with his air conditioning, and it's actually getting cold tonight, so maybe i've put that off for a bit.
and, i'll see what i want to do this weekend when i find out oif the cash has come ino r not.
is that everything?
i wanted to publish the 10/2013 documents before the end of september, so that's what i'll be doing tonight. i have eaten. i may have to shower later, if it gets cold in here (and the heat doesn't turn on, which it maybe should).
i'm just banging my head against the wall on the political file - we're not in a revolutionary moment, we're in a reactionary moment, and it's just a question of navigating through it.
i can't be too hard on myself, or i'll get apathetic. the uploads and planning last week weren't awful; it had to be done, at some point, and i wasn't feeling well. i got some documents filed at the beginning of the week. yesterday was largely about the gas leak, and i'm just starting today, really. it's not so bad....
i just get upset with myself, sometimes. you might imagine that i'm mad at myself for other reasons, but i actually wish i had more writing and more music available. i can't get depressed, i just need to pivot.
so, i'll have to run these files through spell checks, cross-reference everything and clean them up. hopefully, they'll be published by sunrise, or so.
the liberals are supposed to do better than this.
at
00:48
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