ALTRUISM, ANARCHISM, PANTHERISM, SOCIALISM, MUSIC, MELANIN, RACE/GENDER/CLASS, FOSSIL FUELS, FRACTAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE, PSYCHIATRY, CONTROL UNITS, SCIENCE FANTASY AND FICTION, GRAFFITI, SPOKEN WORD, SOME OF YOU AND ME.
Get Your Own! | View SlideshowPEOPLE WITH AN INTEREST IN FRANTZ FANON. PEOPLE WITH AN INTEREST IN COLONIALISM, BOTH ACTUAL AND PERCIEVED. ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN THE FORMATION OF PERSONALITY, OR THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY AS A PROCESS, AS A PSYCHIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROCESS FROM CHROMOSOMES TO YOUR PLACE IN SOCIETY...PEOPLE WITH A VIEW ON 'NO HUMAN CONTACT' SUPERMAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS, LIKE ADX FLORENCE. IT'S A QUESTION FOR YOUR CONSCIENCE, BUT AS A CONCERTED ATTACK ON THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND PSYCHE, COULD THERE BE ANYTHING WORSE THAN BEING LITERALLY ENTOMBED IN A SPARTAN CONCRETE COFFIN, MEASURING 7 BY 9 FEET, FOR EVERY REMAINING DAY OF A PITILESS LIFE. IF YOU WERE JETTISONED INTO SPACE, IN A SEALED CAPSULE WITH NO WINDOWS, WITH WITHERING MEMORIES AND ONLY INSECTS FOR COMPANY, HOW LONG WOULD YOU LAST? WE LIKE TO THINK IT WAS BUILT FOR THEM, THE PARIAHS, BUT IT WAS BUILT, JUST IN CASE, FOR YOU AND ME. PEACE, FROM MY RADICAL REPUBLIC.WHY ANARCHY?ANARCHY IS THE ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE OF INDIFFERENCE, OF SEXISM, RACISM, FASCISM, NATIONAL SOCIALISM, THE LEGACY OF ENGLISH IMPERIALISM AND ALL AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES.ANARCHY, FOR ME, RESTS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL PRINCIPLE, ‘I AM, BECAUSE WE ARE’. ANARCHISTS EMBRACE BOTH AUTONOMY AND EMPATHY. ANARCHY IS THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY ABRIDGED WITH A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE. SO I ACKNOWLEDGE ALL MOVEMENTS WITHIN THE ANARCHIST/SOCIALIST SPECTRUM, BUT RESIST THOSE THAT WOULD SEEK TO IMPOSE DICTATORSHIP AND BUREAUCRACY ON HUMANKIND, WHICH I BELIEVE IS ANATHEMA TO THE HUMAN DISPOSITION AND SPIRIT.I BELIEVE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE INTRINSICALLY, NATURALLY, GOOD AND JUST. I BELIEVE MOST PEOPLE ARE SIMILAR TO ME; LIBERTARIAN IN SPIRIT, RATIONAL IN OUTLOOK AND RECIPROCAL AND CO-OPERATIVE IN MOST RELATIONSHIPS.NONETHELESS, THERE ARE NOW FEW NATIONS AND SOCIETIES ON OUR PLANET THAT ARE NOT BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF FORCE. WHEN I WOULD WELCOME CONVERSTAION, NEGOTIATION, PERSUASUION, CHOICE, A COMPROMISE, I AM FACED WITH APATHY OR DOGMATISM, COERCION, LIES AND AN ALIBI. THESE REGIMES HAVE CREATED CULTURALLY, SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY INFLEXIBLE SYSTEMS, WITH SOCIETIES DRIVEN BY CASTE, CLASS AND REACTIONARIES. THEY CULTIVATE AND EXPLOIT THE DISCONTENT AND DISHARMONY BETWEEN US AND IN CONSEQUENCE, FOR TOO MANY OF US, OUR ONLY DISCOURSE WITH INSTITUTIONS IS AS A RESULT OF CRIME, MENTAL DISORDER OR COMPLICITY. ACRIMONY, GRIEVANCE, RECRIMINATION, NIHILISM AND DESPAIR BECOMES UNAVOIDABLE, BECOMES INEVITABLE AND THIS PROPELS SOCIETY, THE WORLD, EVER CLOSER TO CATASTROPHE. BUT EVEN THOUGH THIS CONFLICT, THIS ENDLESS PURSUIT OF PHYRRIC VICTORY IS SEEMINGLY PERPETUAL, DISASTER IS NOT INEVITABLE….COURTNEY.MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM THE HUDSUCKER PROXY(1994) NORVILLE BARNES INTRODUCES THE HULA HOOP TO THE BOARD; Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done? Board Member 2: Does it have rules? Board Member 3: Can more than one play? Board Member 4: What makes you think it's a game? Board Member 3: Is it a game? Board Member 5: Will it break? Board Member 6: It better break eventually! Board Member 2: Is there an object? Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done? Board Member 5: Does it come with batteries? Board Member 4: We could charge extra for them. Board Member 7: Is it safe for toddlers? Board Member 3: How can you tell when you're finished? Board Member 2: How do you make it stop? Board Member 6: Is that a boy's model? Board Member 3: Can a parent assemble it? Board Member 5: Is there a larger model for the obese? Board Member 1: What if you tire before it's done? Board Member 8: What the hell is it?NONSENSE IS INSIDIOUS!FOR THE SOCIALLY UNCONSCIOUS AMONGST US, JUST A FEW WORDS ON SCHIZOPHRENIC ILLNESS. SCHIZOPHRENIA IS A SYNDROME. IT IS A COLLECTION OF VERY DISTRESSING SYMPTOMS. THE PRINCIPLE FEATURES BEING DELUSIONS, WHICH ARE QUESTIONABLE AND FALSE BELIEFS THAT ARE HELD TO BE IRREFUTABLY TRUE. THESE BELIEFS ARE IN TURN ALLIGNED TO THE CONVICTION AND SENSE OF RUTHLESS AND REMORSELESS PURSUIT, PARANOIA. HALLUCINATIONS OF SIGHT, SOUND AND TOUCH, SUCH AS OMNIPOTENT, BERATING VOICES, VISIONS OF PHANTOMS AND PHYSICAL SENSATIONS LIKE PEELING YOUR OWN SKIN CAN ALSO BE PRESENT AND POTENT. THE PERSONALITY THEN DISINTIGRATES AND THERE IS NO SENSE OF OWNERSHIP OF THE PERSONAL INTERNAL WORLD OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. THERE IS THE BELIEF THAT PERSONAL THOUGHTS ARE EXPOSED TO THE WORLD OR INSERTED BY OTHERS NEFARIOUSLY. IT CAN BE DEGENERATIVE, BUT IT IS NOT, IN ITS ESSENCE, ORGANIC. THE PSYCHOMOTOR, THE DRIVER BEHIND CO-ORDINATING ACTION, PERCEPTION, JUDGEMENT, MOTIVATION, INSIGHT, FALTERS AND IT'S COHESION IS ERODED AND LOST. THE PSYCHOSIS THEN PLATEAUS. IT IS A TORTUROUS ILLNESS THAT CAN EVOLVE INSIDIOUSLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN YOUNG ADULTHOOD. FOR ME, THERE IS NO OTHER ILLNESS THAT CAN SO EFFECTIVELY DESTROY THE PROSPECT OF PLEASURE.....ENJOY.SHHHHHHH!!!!!AVOIDING INTENSE AND TRAUMATIC SITUATIONS CAN SOMETIMES BE TRAUMATIC AND INTENSE.
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'The Wretched of the Earth', 'A Dying Colonialism or Year 5 of the Algerian Revolution', 'Black Skin, White Mask', all by Frantz Fanon.'My Traitors Heart', by Rian Malan. '1984', 'Animal Farm', George Orwell.'Soledad Brother', George Jackson.'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 'A Brave New World', Aldous Huxley.
The Silver Surfer, my ex wife and me.PEACE BE UPON US ALL. ?AS YOU KNOW, THE CONCEPT, OR NOTION, OF NATIONALITY AND RACE IS QUESTIONABLE, BIOLOGICALLY. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN US ARE A REFLECTION OF THE DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS WITHIN WHICH PEOPLE HAVE LIVED OVER COUNTLESS GENERATIONS. THIS IS ALSO KNOWN AS A CLINE; THE EVOLUTION OF PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE, THE VARIABLES BETWEEN US, THAT OCCUR ACCORDING TO CLIMATE AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME. WHERE THE SUN IS HOT AND THE AIR IS HEAVY, HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED WITH DARKER SKIN AND BROADER NOSES. WHERE THE CLIMATE IS COLD, WHERE THE SUNLIGHT IS LESS ACUTE, THE AIR IS THIN AND RISES SLOWLY, PEOPLE HAVE LIGHTER SKIN AND NARROWER NOSES. IF WE THEN ADD HIS HEIGHT, HER WEIGHT, YOUR HAIR, BOTH TEXTURE AND COLOUR, THOSE EYES', HER LIPS, THAT LASHING UNDECIPHERABLE TONGUE AND MY INTELLECTUAL ABILITY, YOU SHOULD FIND A SINGLE POINT THAT YOU OCCUPY WITHIN THE SPECTRUM OF HUMAN LIFE. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, NATIONALISM, LIKE RACISM, SEEKS TO DISTORT A SELF EVIDENT FACT; THERE IS ONE PLANET TO WHICH WE ARE ALL BORN AND I HAVE AN UNDENIABLE RIGHT TO EXIST............'RADICAL PSYCHIATRY AND MOVEMENT GROUPS’. BY CLAUDE STEINER. 'Radical psychiatry's main goal is to help human beings overcome alienation. Because overcoming alienation requires contact with other human beings in groups it is important that radical psychiatry provide guidelines for the healthy functioning and survival of groups. When people who are interested in radical changes organize groups they quite naturally wish to organize them along lines which differ from the authoritarian and alienating basis on which oppressive, establishment groups are usually organized. As a consequence the structure of such groups is usually uncertain and indeterminate, and the cohesiveness of such groups against external attack is weak. There are two types of attacks upon movement groups which have become classic examples: one of them is the levelling of hierarchies; the other is the game 'Lefter Than Thou''...THERE CLEARLY IS A POLITICS OF IDENTITY. BECAUSE, AS WE KNOW, RACISM, UNLIKE FASCISM, IS AN INTRA AND INTERPERSONAL DYNAMIC THAT DISCOLOURS AND CORRUPTS BOTH OUR OWN SENSE OF SELF AND OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS. SO TO DEFINE AND DETERMINE A POLITICAL DIRECTION BASED ON SKIN COLOUR, CULTURE OR MORES IS, IF WE LOOK AROUND THE WORLD, MISGUIDED AND RIDDLED WITH CONTRADICTION AND CONFUSION. THE STRENGTH, VITALITY AND BEAUTY OF THE PLANET WE ALL SHARE IS DRAWN FROM ITS INFINITE VARIETY. THE COMPLEX ARRANGEMENT OF LIFE, BOTH IN ITS CHAOS AND ORDER, IS THE PRINCIPLE FEATURE OF OUR EARTHS UNDISPUTABLE BEAUTY. EXCLUSION IS THE WEAPON OF ARROGANCE. INCLUSION REQUIRES THAT WE SIMPLY OPEN OUR EYES. A PRINCE, MALCOLM, ONCE SAID, ‘ONLY FIGHT THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING YOU’. QUITE PRECISE, YET UNIVERSAL IN ITS SIMPLICITY. PEACE, COURTNEY.FRIDA KAHLO IS AN ICON; A FEMINIST ICON FOR MOST OF THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD, WOMEN OF COLOUR. SHE WAS A BRILLIANT 20THc MEXICAN SURREALIST ARTIST. FRIDA HAD A PHYSICAL DISABILITY AND EXPERIENCED DRAINING, EXHAUSTING PHYSICAL PAIN FOR MUCH OF HER ADULT LIFE. FRIDA ALSO STRUGGLED IN HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER PARTNER, DIEGO RIVERA, ANOTHER ARTIST WHO AT THE TIME HAD A REPUTATION THAT FAR EXCEEDED HER OWN. HER PAINTINGS, THEN, WERE ABOUT HER UNCONSCIOUS HOPES, DESIRES, TORTURE AND TRAUMA AND HER WORK MADE THE IRRATIONAL SEEM LOGICAL AND THE IMPOSSIBLE, PROBABLE. SO ALTHOUGH HER PAINTINGS WERE ON THE SURFACE NARCISSISTIC, SHE WAS, IN FACT, COMMITTED TO PASSION, AS IF IMPRISONED BY INTENSITY. WAR AND PEACE, COURTNEY..