The wall disappears
like a wave's crest falls
out of sight
and you enjoy the view
You're about to see
following
in anticipation
Day 3325, crest.
Daily picture, PoetryPhilosophy
Day 3324, country above all.
Daily picture, My thoughts
I watched some America news again and realised….America is both the wealthiest country and the poorest country in the world. They truly believe what they tell themselves and don’t realize that there is another world beyond their own. Even well-educated people in America talk about America as being something special. The following quote from Barack Obama, for instance.
“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.”
In my book, the last people who were so proud of their country were the Nazies in Germany and Italy. Obama is of course no Nazi but for some reason he also worship the flag and obviously need it as some kind of security blanket like the rest does. Or did he had to play that card? And is that not even worse? Obama is probably a decent person, but the constant pledges of allegiance he made while growing up have also had an influence on him. Perhaps he could have said that we are all humans and that all these distinctions are merely made up.
Day 3323, is that so?
Daily picture, Poetry
If you put your four best parts together
you will be left
with less than mediocracy
Day 3322, along.
Daily picture, Poetry
Everything is in order
except for the things you push along
Day 3321, optics.
Daily picture, Poetry
In my reflection the crooked lines
are straight
not because I want to
because they should
It's a matter of optics
Day 3320, Bauhouse.
Daily picture, My thoughts
I watched a fascinating documentary about Bauhaus, an art school that had a profound influence on architecture and design. What I liked the most in this documentary was what it showed of the students and how progressive they were 100 years ago. It was, of course, only a tiny island of light in a large sea of backwardness, but it’s good to see that contrast when it is so hard to see now. I also understand better now why I enjoy taking pictures of all these straight and clean lines; perhaps that resonates with the progressive mindset I aspire to have.
Day 3319, glas house.
Daily picture, Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science
Book Three
194 The “openhearted.“- That person probably always acts in accordance with secret reasons. for he always has communicable reasons on his lips and practically in his open hand.
Day 3318, I just.
Daily picture, Poetry
I just want to sit down.
Day 3317, forgotten.
Daily picture, Poetry
I love that we have trees besides the road
standing in a park all alone
or in a corner
looking at it all
because in the forest they are in their city
never alone but forgotten by all
Day 3316, lines
Daily picture, Quotes
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.
Piet Mondrian
Day 3315, concreet.
Daily picture, Poetry
That what once spilled over order
leaks down crossing all the lines
and dries
imagination
Day 3314, forty years ago.
Daily picture, Quotes
Radicalizing Democracy
Kick it Over magazine interview question in 1985: You’ve said in your writings that we are undergoing a change as far-reaching as the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture or from agriculture to industry. Could you elaborate on this and talk a bit about why this is occurring now?
Murray Bookchin: The transformation I have in mind is cybernation, genetic engineering, nucleonics, and the sophistication of electronic technology in vast numbers of fields and the development of means of surveillance of a highly sophisticated form. The extent of the transformation is absolutely astonishing. What we find today is a totally immoral economy and society which has managed to unearth the secrets of matter and the secrets of life at the most fundamental level. This is a society that, in no sense, is capable of utilizing this knowledge in any way that will produce a social good. Obviously there are leavings from a banquet that fall from the table but my knowledge and my whole experience with capitalism and with hierarchical society generally is that almost every advance is as best a promise and at worst utterly devastating for the world.
Read the rest here: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/raddemocracy.html
Day 3133, streets.
Daily picture, Poetry
The night streets were dark
where I looked down
before crossing the empty street
and saw nature reflected
left undisturbed
Day 3312, notebook.
Daily picture, Quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writings from the Early Notebooks
Notebook 29, summer – autumn 1873
16 All drives are connected with pleasure and displeasure there can be no drive for truth, i.e. for a pure truth entirely without any consequences or affects, because at that point pleasure and displeasure would cease, and there is no drive that has no premonition of pleasure in its own satisfaction. The pleasure of thinking does not indicate a desire for truth. The pleasure of all sensory perceptions derives from the fact that they are brought into being through inferences. To that extent man is always swimming in a sea of pleasure. But to what extent can inference, a logical operation, give pleasure?
Day 3311, from earth.
Daily picture, Poetry, Quotes
We live in darkness
a modern cave
we believe
not the messenger
who speaks differently
another way
not from heaven
but from earth
Krishnamurti
Chapter I
Education and the Significance of Life
When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. This is especially true in colleges and universities. We are turning out, as if through a mold, a type of human being whose chief interest is to find security, to become somebody important, or to have a good time with as little thought as possible.
Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult. Conformity leads to mediocrity. To be different from the group or to resist environment is not easy and is often risky as long as we worship success. The urge to be successful, which is the pursuit of reward whether in the material or in the so-called spiritual sphere, the search for inward or outward security, the desire for comfort—this whole process smothers discontent, puts an end to spontaneity and breeds fear; and fear blocks the intelligent understanding of life. With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
Day 3310, fundamentals of Anarchism.
anarchism, Daily picture
FUNDAMENTALS OF ANARCHISM Free Association & Freedom
You can find the text here: https://ia802307.us.archive.org/33/items/zinelibrary-torrent/associat.pdf, and also here and more: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
Free Association is the idea that we cannot be free as individuals without having free relationships with others, that no one person can be free unless we are all free and that for each of us to be free we must work together to insure that everyone else is free. In an Anarchist society people would cooperate with each other to achieve the following:
Complete Social Freedom Including Sexual Freedom and Reproductive Freedom: People associate because all participants want to.
Freedom of Speech, Press and Information to include all forms of communication and education.
Complete Cultural Freedom including the freedom of individual tastes, lifestyle, entertainment and other preferences.
Freedom of Movement: All people must be allowed to live where they chose, travel where they chose, shop where they chose (e.g. do business where you chose), recreate where you chose, etc.. This includes the freedom to migrate and immigrate without being restricted or discriminated upon because of your place of birth or the place of birth of your ancestors.
Nochrisis 