Archive for March, 2008

Reality versus Reality

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Quantum physics or mechanics. Atomic level reality. Interconnectedness. Nothing really exists without the apparatus that defines it. Things aren’t real, no thing is real. (And nothing to get hung about. John Lennon, Strawberry Fields Forever) The nature of reality.

As I ponder some of the revelatory modern thinking coming out of the physics arena I still can’t help but look out my door and see the world. There it is, solid, real, and apparently consistent.

The irony of this is that physically speaking there is no physical, philosophically speaking the is is what you want it to be yet we all agree the sky is blue and the sun is yellow. I dealt with that quandary in the classic Devin Castles favorite Is the sun green? by Off Every Day. Yes, we all perceive differently. Yes, the sun may in fact be green, or are we all color blind?

Here is what I am getting at, if we all create our own reality, yet we are all interconnected, yet we are all individual, yet we all agree on the same reality, yet we all create our own reality, you see where I am going, the dichotomy of that thinking becomes nearly hypocritical and rationalistic. Get on with it. Live life. Ponder later.

I look up, raindrop in my eye.

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The United States of America

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Ah yes. The greatest country in the history of the world.

Built on freedom, tolerance and self governing through agitation and opposition to tyranny.

How far we have come.

As we tenuously cling to all of the above and the people are lulled ever deeper into a sense of helplessness the cycle prepares to repeat. Will the US survive? Absolutely.

The very core of our identity (I am a natural born US Citizen, literally not just constitutionally) gives us the tools, the power, to renew ourselves, our country, our identity and wash ourselves clean of corruption and plutocracy.

Why mobilize?

Why not?

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Prudence and the People

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I came up with this phrase in a context entirely not of its making. So to speak, write. So let’s leave that out and move to what I liked about the saying in the first place.

Prudence and the People sort of evokes an interesting combination looking at prudence as what I consider a constraint notwithstanding John Lennon’s wonderful tribute to some chick he was enamored with in his incredible Dear Prudence. Yeah, he was married at the time and I doubt there was anything more than a certain “lighten up” in his tune.

So I am gonna have to reference the dictionary definition of prudence here. Should I say a dictionary rather? I can’t think of this word without thinking about my buddy Greg Borden’s mock quoting of George H. W. Bush saying “wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture” about some US interests that have long faded into history. George knew his English apparently.

So let’s go with self interest for prudence, or self interest and caution with discretion. So I guess, really, it’s the sound of Prudence and the People that get’s me going, not the meaning. But once the words roll off the tongue or mind then the meanings one gives them can begin to coalesce, of course with point of view, and humor and irony typically abound. Prudence and the people. I suppose the irony I see is that people are typically not very prudent, at this juncture, and though we have animal instincts to preserve our self interests we in fact are destroying the same on a daily basis. I also like to think of Prudence as an entity, now, here they are, Prudence and the People. Nice band name.

Let me introduce you two Mr. Wild Abandon’s playground long in the works and at last manifested by a need to upload massive files, Freedom Philosophy, where one can digress with great eloquence and meet Adam’s dad Jared. Or is Adam Jared’s son? Who belongs to whom?

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