@Host (since many of your readers won't get the meta-meta snark that was going on):
Metafilter can produce a 2,000+ comments and MetaTalk hernia over lower back tattoos on the female body (including at least three bans, and one or two voluntary permanent closings - with no-one stating the sane opinion that "Yes, it's culturally designated as this sexist thing, but we can change it", they do love their witch burnings) but can only manage 18 replies to a thread about the state of the Oceans, and 50% of those are about restaurants or bad info about how "sardines are like totally cool to eat, yo!"
http://www.metafilter.com/150043/Fishy
And that is why you get to watch the Oceans die. Narcissists.
]]>Umm, I think if you can parse the Aztec Goddess vibe, you'll probably see this entire thread differently?
It's hilarious if you do.
Hint: it was predicated and predicted and all the little boys played their tunes.
]]>Talking from private knowledge.
There's a whole thing in RD Laing where he suggest schizophrenic ward conversations consist of people talking to each other of things that other people don't have reference points for.
HP Lovecraft. Laundry.
These days, I see CD as playing a Culture Mind interacting with pre-Intervention humans. It started out well, but there is no communication via YouTube videos.
]]>Please play this in the background while reading this post
When data is processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make it useful, it is called information.
Data -> Information -> Knowledge.
It depends on how you view YouTube. It's currently massive amounts of noise drowning out signal, but...
Imagine a theoretical library (of Babel) of audio / visual culture where you can splice / segment any and all songs, film etc and use it for mimetic purposes. Your mind needs the reference, you go grab the segment you require and so on and so forth. The Platonic ideal is of course far from the reality. To reference some (out of date and horribly ancient) Jung, hacking the collective unconscious for tools.
Of course, at the moment doing this is like knapping flint to make a steel sword, but the point is there. So: it's communication, but not one you understand yet.
Two things:
1) I really wasn't joking about visual - semantic - audio as tripartite systems. 3 x 3 is the usual (think matrices) standard (and if you know your I.M.Banks, you'll spot a thread, ahem in his language choice). (c.f. V.Woolf, Between the Acts for an unusually early but mature presentation of it).
2) There's absolutely things swimming in the ocean of the mind(s) that are designed to squish minds like ours from Being. (c.f. Heidegger, Being and Time, the ontological fold between Being and beings).
]]>And this is the first and last post ever concerning cat's.
]]>This is true.
But you've read some of the comments. Do you think that adding music and pictures that will mean ten things to ten people, will make the meaning less clear?
]]>Scary that the Primus video predates the Bush presidency though.
]]>The OpEd by host is called: The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
My last post contained:
1) Communication Breakdown by Led Zepplin (you'll probably want to check the lyrics and the list of songs on the album, esp. the next one and the iconography of the Hindenburg. This is how its done, and why Rob "gets it".)
2) Quotation on the differences between data, information and knowledge.
3) Library (of Babel) and YouTube.
4) One literature reference - V. Woolf.
5) One philosophy reference: Heidegger.
6) Picasso's Guernica (you might also want to look into the ironies of its current placement and when it was covered up).
Now, it's obvious to me what the meaning is. Give it a shot.
]]>Speaking as one of the literally amusical here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusia
And for the curious, its congenital, not acquired and runs in my dad's side of the family.
]]>As an example, they'll play a sequence of randomly created notes three times, with one iteration having one note that is oh-so-very-slightly different from the other two, and ask her which sequence was different. She could do that down to a seventh of a semi-tone. That's in laboratory conditions in an anechoic room so well sound insulated you can hear your heartbeat in your ears.
And they've done fMRI scans on her brain, to contrast with those they've done on Amusia sufferers, to try to see if they can see any difference there.
Last I heard, they're still trying to work out what quirk, or quirks, can cause it.
]]>So, I did as you indicated, listened to the Led Zep song while reading your post. First chorus is at the line about "knapping flint to make a steel sword." The guitar solo started just as I clicked the Guernica link. Average adult reading speed is 250-300 words per minute, the post is 234 words, the solo starts at 1:25. I don't think I get it. Maybe I read too slowly.
I'm honestly curious what you're trying to tell us though. The environmental stuff at least makes sense to me. We all like to think we're good people - right, everyone? - but within the social frameworks we've constructed, we work much more harm than good, all told.
("Good people" drive all over the place in cars. Future generations will pay for that. Contrary to the Talmud, saving one life is not saving the world.)
BTW, it seems to me that people are pissed at you because you're accusing them of being unethical on the large scale. Which is correct, but nobody likes to admit complicity in evil. Kind of like my own reaction to feminist logic, way back when. I was offended because it was right, and I was wrong. (Charlie might remember calling me out on that, much to my embarrassment.)
I'd say give it time, but
A) As none other than Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out, a lot of people die waiting for justice to happen
B) With the biosphere falling apart under our idiotic stewardship, time may be exactly what we don't have
The problem is, I'm not seeing a solution at this point. Individually the problems could be solved, but combined I just don't see how.
When I was a kid I hoped humanity would survive the death of the Sun. These days, I still hope, but I feel like we'd be lucky to last another century.
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