More Texts Fall 2023

 

A place to think about big picture? For me I send out texts of what I'm thinking. (Now I put them into the supplementary pages of blogs.)

It really comes down to this--the human animal wants to survive. In order to survive, it is willing to exchange external obedience for survival. It did so as an infant. As an adult, it has other choices, especially as it realizes that animal survival is not actually a complete victory, not the only victory that is possible.  --t(his is me talking now. I am not quoting anyone.)
4:41 AM

The human animal is desparate above all to survive and to find conditions favorable to stable and permanent pleasure in the external world. This is not possible, stable and permanent pleasure. We must instead find the experience of being in the external world rooted in something beyond it.
4:44 AM

Where do you go when there is nothing in the external world to experience and the only place you can go is within the expanse of your inner consciousness. Where are you then? Who are you then? What is there to experience but warmth, light, gladness, calm. This is why people who almost die and come back, say it was so nice. I didn't want to come back, but I came back because there is something more I need to do, someone I need to love, people that love me, a purpose I have beyond myself that I have to act on. . .(this is me talking now)

Life Alive Organic Cafe just opened in Dedham:

Find us at:
220 Legacy Place
Dedham, MA
(between the Nike Store and Caffé Nero)

In a few years, the "charts" will be filled with famous bands and AI versions of them.  John Mellancamp and John Mellancamp AI, Rolling Stones and Rolling Stones AI, Billie Eilish and Billie Eillish AI. I bet some of the Billie Eillish AI will be enhancements of the "regular" studio effects version. Who knows.
10:48 AM

But eventually, people will care less about music, and it will be more like wallpaper.

No one will be doing karaoke versions of the hits of the day. Jimmy Fallon won't be doing impressions while the original artist (or ai version of the artist) plays.

This is an artifact of a time when music could blow your mind. And live events even more so.


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film about the last beatles song, which will be "out" tomorrow: 

The first time I heard it, it just showed the "album cover". The second time, I saw the Peter Jackson video, where they mix in them at different ages, which is kind of what your mind tends do anyway, and it becomes about gain and loss, and separation and connection across time where you experience a version of simultaneously being aware of different ages at once. Which seems fitting in a song called "Now and Then". Really a fantastic thing--
2:58 AM

And it can be interpreted as John talking to 2023 Paul, among other things, about mourning, about spiritual connection beyond our location in time, which is what drove John and Paul as boys who lost their mothers and kept mourning them and grieving the love that was lost when they were taken from their lives early.

Dennis Kucinich (before he quit as RFK, Jr. campaign manager, or maybe just after) "We are at an exceedingly dangerous moment of world crisis when the fragile bonds which connect us, each to the other, are being torn asunder by acts of mass murder, the miasma of apartheid, oppression and occupation, stereotyping, racism, bigotry, accelerating mistrust, desire for vengeance and retribution, compelling a dialectic of conflict which could lead to the destruction of the world.    

Our survival as a species depends upon surmounting moments such as these, making of human relations a science, and human and ecological security the highest purpose of the work of people everywhere. When our brothers and sisters are killing each other, it is imperative, in the name of all humanity, that we intervene to stop the killing so that all may survive."

It's worth training to transcend. If we don't, we're stuck here. Here is not going to work. I can see that. And even if transcending is subtle, I can already see I'm ahead of where I was as an ignorant youth, squandering precious life cluelessly. Feeling good feels good, but nothing external lasts or satisfies, so what do we have to work with? The current breath is all you can "hold onto".
5:46 AM