Now is the Happiest Time of Your Life
“Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present More »
Archive for the “thoughts” category
Musical Dissonance
Just pondering how rubbish it is when you meet someone new and they look through your cds or iTunes or whatever and say More »
Democratic capitalism?
“Democratic capitalism” cannot exist……because capitalism beats democracy every time, like scissors beats paper or stone beats scissors. photo credit: Brainless Angel
Help Haiti — drop the debt
I’ve just signed a petition for the cancellation of Haiti’s US$1 billion debt. Haiti’s people should not be made to pay back loans More »
Music of the Sun: The Eternal Fascination of Yes!
Not individual, demonstrating future in the present, lofty ambitions even though faintly ridiculous. Prog rock. Progressive Rock. Filthy, hated, heretical noise, utterly shunned More »
It’s Official: There is No Self
In short, the concept of the self or individual is used by corporations to flatter you, make you feel special, and make you buy stuff. This also cuts you off from the truth that there is no self, nothing to seek for, and separates you (as the illusory idea of a self) from your essential contentment and perfection (despite the undeniable challenges inherent in relative physical reality). Once cut off, you need something like a new iPhone in order to make yourself feel whole again, but because it’s only a substitute for true contentment, the satisfaction does not last for long.
Are You the One?
[lang_en]I was just thinking about the concept of ‘the One’ in relationships and how it affects our expectations. People fall in love and More »
Colliding Utopias… and John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’
The main assumption arising from utopianism is the pernicious notion is that ‘the end justifies the means’- or put more prosaically, ‘you can’t make an omlette without breaking eggs’ – real-world meaning: ‘you can’t make a utopia without breaking heads’. Current atrocities are excused by the justification that ‘it’ll be worth it in the end’ i.e. when the utopia has come to pass and everyone is happy.
The Purpose of Art…
…is to let the glow of life shine through the surface. photo credit: freeparking
Fossil Fools
Power company EON is hoping to build the first new coal-fired power station in the UK for a generation on the site of More »