Three hours of pre-game analysis for a regular season football game. Thirty seconds of gloss about two wars and why 15% of American’s are now on food stamps.
“Miraculous you call it, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
They’ve got Pepsi in the Andes, Mcdonalds in Tibet.”
There is no thought apart from thinking,
no thinking apart from thinker
no feeling to be felt
only feeling.
A democracy of ballots is absurd in a culture of instant information and hyper connectivity.
Representative democracy is a vestige of the previous era when information was scarce, moved slowly and was tightly controlled by a tiny minority of the population.
Why reduce the impossibly complex workings of an entire country down to a few multiple choice questions when we have the technology at our fingertips to be active participants in making the decisions that govern us?
x—x—-x-
Horses have a sensitive spot at the back of their head known as the poll. A rider can exert pressure on this spot using her reins, and when the poll is flexing properly, the rider knows the horse is submissive and under control, at which point the horse is said to be ‘on the bit’.
At the speed of light, election polls create the opinions they pretend to record. The question is how much longer will the internet generation stay on the bit?
“Money is a fiction. So why stop at one fictitious currency? Why not have hundreds of currencies each for different uses?” - The Future of Money Project
We will inevitably reach some similar conclusions about the future of time:
Hours, seconds, days, weeks, months, years
are all just useful fictions
but if you take them too seriously
they hide the real fabric of what they are pretending to measure.
Time, like space, is not an empty container to be filled
but a product of relationship,
inseparable from the happenings themselves.
And wealth is not the stuff that we accumulate
but the ‘well being’ (weal + health)
that emerges from its interactions.
For better or worse, our electronic environment entangles us in everyone else’s fortunes. As a result, our notion of wealth is changing.
… just as new measures of time will enable and help express radical new kinds of happenings.
Why wrap the open culture movement in a bubble of consumerism?
Why appropriate the hub of a bankrupt way of life that’s designed for cars and consumers not communities?
Build a playground, not a mall.
Give people lots of beautiful, ad-free public spaces
with free, blistering fast internet access
and the rest will follow.
every thing
The cutting edge of your awareness
every body
dilates to incorporate the entire global sensorium
every moment
Fact and fiction woven so tightly together they become one.
every thought
The distinction between life and art
every perception
disappears entirely.
tagged and indexed
related and recontextualized
rhymed and remixed
in real time
“The knowmad’s praxis is online parkour”
- @notthisbody
Brilliant.
The web is hypercity - an extension of our urban environment - and it takes a new kind of athleticism to find, negotiate and remix patterns of information where others only feel the Crush.
But Parkour sees the urban environment as a series of obstacles. The goal is is to find the most efficient way through the maze. Freerunning uses many of the same movements, but also celebrates self expression and the joy of urban acrobatics. This seems more in tune with the way we make sense of our web of instant information … at our best we are like children, learning by playing, exploring, using our environment to discover ourselves.
Science begins with a subject and an object.
Religion begins with a creator and the created.
The illusion is the same.
There is dogma in any.thing that claims to contain every.thing.
God is a verb
not some omnipotent ruler looking down on all of this.
And if there was a big bang,
you and I aren’t something at the end of the process;
You and I are the big bang …
The original force of the universe.
We are the creator and the created
Inseparable from the creating.
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Yet the conflict between science and religion drags on … while …
on the streets, the Beatles are still more popular than Jesus Christ,
quantum physics reads like a zen riddle,
and techno teenagers rely on rhythm and rhyme,
- not reason -
to make sense of living at the speed of light.
