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15th June 2014, 16:03
Got Some Time?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Bulletin_Atomic_Scientists_Cover.jpg
the 'doomsday clock'
People talk about the establishment, the system, the nation -- these are all such permanent-sounding words. Honestly, though, they don't represent much in the end but a somewhat larger pile of sand in the desert of the forgotten.
It's sad, but true -- even the largest of monoliths eventually passes beyond memory. By sheer luck a few of them are rediscovered by archaeologists or historians, myth-busters (grave robbers?) and adventurers, and re-introduced to human observation.
You know what, though? It seems like discovery has become old hat. As technology blossoms into its fullness, the news outlets fill to the brim with stories of ruins, pyramids, megaliths, etc. even bunkers (!) -- yet few of these stories seem to satisfy, or even make it to page 1 unless they appear on a science site.
What are we remembering then? Has our daily helping of trivia got anything at all to do with history? Will learning it spare us any future trouble? Or have we allowed our minds to be lent out -- "EMPTY SPACE HERE: INQUIRE WITHIN" -- to anyone sufficiently capable of titillating and exciting us?
Most of you are familiar with Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory".
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.[2]
It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time.
As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".[3]
This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.[4]
Although fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase, the imagery precedes his transition to his scientific phase by fourteen years, which occurred after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Scientific American Dares to Ask, Are your 9/11 Memories Your Own?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/09/11/911-memories/
Are your 9/11 memories really your own?
By Melanie Tannenbaum | September 11, 2013
My memory of where I was and what I did on 9/11/01 is an example of a flashbulb memory, which folk theory has raised onto a pedestal as the best, most vivid, and most accurate type of memory one can possibly hold. Where were you when you found out that JFK had been assassinated? Where were you when you found out that Princess Diana had died? Where were you on 9/11? Many people can tell you exact details of that day in 1963, 1997, or 2001 — down to the outfits they were wearing and the breakfasts that they ate.
Yet, interestingly enough, although most people believe that they remember these moments perfectly, people actually show frequent errors in their recall.
________________________________________________________
Conspiracy Theories and the Oral Tradition
Lots of you guys probably noticed what I did when the so-called "Tea Party" tried to stand up and define itself. People started going to Town Hall. They attended public meetings. Shared opinions in a shared room -- and the government hijacked, co-oped them, and effectively shut them down. Sure, they still cause a Republican upset here and there, but the movement itself has been redirected like people move a river bed.
But going back to Town Hall -- the big difference between Town Hall and the "Flashbulb Memory Media" of our times is the oral tradition. Sure, someone is taking notes, and there could well be a Minutes book lying around, but Town Hall meetings are typified by people standing up, getting the floor, and speaking aloud.
_________________________
Stephen King is a prolific North-Easterner who knows all about Town Hall. Maybe he's not the best writer, but as a point-maker and story-teller, he's hard to beat. And in the context of terrorism and disaster, King loves to re-introduce the phenomenon of Town Hall as a completion of the mass psyche's thought processes.
In fact King, while developing one of his deaf-mute characters in the book "THE STAND", makes a statement that "The thought process is incomplete without expression".
Where is our chance for expression in America? Without Town Hall, what are people DOING with all the factoids, hand-me-downs, snippets, smears, pot shots, and statistics they gather from watching the news on TV every day?
And could it be that this generation of "watchers" has even lost the ability to gather information in the first place? Not only incapable of expressing an opinion, but incapable of independently gathering enough information to FORM an opinion?
_____________________________
This is NOT a cricitism of PA, mind you!
But tell me, who's the most recent PAer to write a full-length book?
How about the last one to write a screenplay?
A broadway production, or even a 15 minute Hamlet?
A poem?
Believe it or not, and this seems to be backed up by the forum archives if nothing else, Poetry is pretty much all that's left to humans (the only form of "older" media we remember how to produce!) in terms of the ability to express.
___________________________________
DARK POETRY
And what kind of poetry does gallows humor produce?
Anyone else tempted to think of "Watership Down?
Who was it that brought up the rabbit "Silverweed" recently, and his macabre odes to the snare?
To those familiar with Silverweed's lines, are you reminded of Hollywood? MTV?
The absolutely MASSIVE amounts of public attention and energy devoted to distraction from the grim reality of death and destruction?
Don't we have more to say than a few lines of rap or requiem? :suspicious: :wof:
____________________________________________________
I am not 100% percent sure of what I was supposed to say in this post...
But I will leave what is here so far and hope that someone here understands what I am saying.
That we need to recover that sense of "Long-sight", that planning ability that spans generations and ages, and forget this "play-by-play" nonsense that the MSM has implanted within us.
People used to get more done before the media had them running in circles like chickens with their heads cut off.
:shocked:
p.s. We've got all the time in the world.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Bulletin_Atomic_Scientists_Cover.jpg
the 'doomsday clock'
People talk about the establishment, the system, the nation -- these are all such permanent-sounding words. Honestly, though, they don't represent much in the end but a somewhat larger pile of sand in the desert of the forgotten.
It's sad, but true -- even the largest of monoliths eventually passes beyond memory. By sheer luck a few of them are rediscovered by archaeologists or historians, myth-busters (grave robbers?) and adventurers, and re-introduced to human observation.
You know what, though? It seems like discovery has become old hat. As technology blossoms into its fullness, the news outlets fill to the brim with stories of ruins, pyramids, megaliths, etc. even bunkers (!) -- yet few of these stories seem to satisfy, or even make it to page 1 unless they appear on a science site.
What are we remembering then? Has our daily helping of trivia got anything at all to do with history? Will learning it spare us any future trouble? Or have we allowed our minds to be lent out -- "EMPTY SPACE HERE: INQUIRE WITHIN" -- to anyone sufficiently capable of titillating and exciting us?
Most of you are familiar with Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory".
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch.[2]
It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time.
As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".[3]
This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.
Asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dalí replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun.[4]
Although fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase, the imagery precedes his transition to his scientific phase by fourteen years, which occurred after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Scientific American Dares to Ask, Are your 9/11 Memories Your Own?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/09/11/911-memories/
Are your 9/11 memories really your own?
By Melanie Tannenbaum | September 11, 2013
My memory of where I was and what I did on 9/11/01 is an example of a flashbulb memory, which folk theory has raised onto a pedestal as the best, most vivid, and most accurate type of memory one can possibly hold. Where were you when you found out that JFK had been assassinated? Where were you when you found out that Princess Diana had died? Where were you on 9/11? Many people can tell you exact details of that day in 1963, 1997, or 2001 — down to the outfits they were wearing and the breakfasts that they ate.
Yet, interestingly enough, although most people believe that they remember these moments perfectly, people actually show frequent errors in their recall.
________________________________________________________
Conspiracy Theories and the Oral Tradition
Lots of you guys probably noticed what I did when the so-called "Tea Party" tried to stand up and define itself. People started going to Town Hall. They attended public meetings. Shared opinions in a shared room -- and the government hijacked, co-oped them, and effectively shut them down. Sure, they still cause a Republican upset here and there, but the movement itself has been redirected like people move a river bed.
But going back to Town Hall -- the big difference between Town Hall and the "Flashbulb Memory Media" of our times is the oral tradition. Sure, someone is taking notes, and there could well be a Minutes book lying around, but Town Hall meetings are typified by people standing up, getting the floor, and speaking aloud.
_________________________
Stephen King is a prolific North-Easterner who knows all about Town Hall. Maybe he's not the best writer, but as a point-maker and story-teller, he's hard to beat. And in the context of terrorism and disaster, King loves to re-introduce the phenomenon of Town Hall as a completion of the mass psyche's thought processes.
In fact King, while developing one of his deaf-mute characters in the book "THE STAND", makes a statement that "The thought process is incomplete without expression".
Where is our chance for expression in America? Without Town Hall, what are people DOING with all the factoids, hand-me-downs, snippets, smears, pot shots, and statistics they gather from watching the news on TV every day?
And could it be that this generation of "watchers" has even lost the ability to gather information in the first place? Not only incapable of expressing an opinion, but incapable of independently gathering enough information to FORM an opinion?
_____________________________
This is NOT a cricitism of PA, mind you!
But tell me, who's the most recent PAer to write a full-length book?
How about the last one to write a screenplay?
A broadway production, or even a 15 minute Hamlet?
A poem?
Believe it or not, and this seems to be backed up by the forum archives if nothing else, Poetry is pretty much all that's left to humans (the only form of "older" media we remember how to produce!) in terms of the ability to express.
___________________________________
DARK POETRY
And what kind of poetry does gallows humor produce?
Anyone else tempted to think of "Watership Down?
Who was it that brought up the rabbit "Silverweed" recently, and his macabre odes to the snare?
To those familiar with Silverweed's lines, are you reminded of Hollywood? MTV?
The absolutely MASSIVE amounts of public attention and energy devoted to distraction from the grim reality of death and destruction?
Don't we have more to say than a few lines of rap or requiem? :suspicious: :wof:
____________________________________________________
I am not 100% percent sure of what I was supposed to say in this post...
But I will leave what is here so far and hope that someone here understands what I am saying.
That we need to recover that sense of "Long-sight", that planning ability that spans generations and ages, and forget this "play-by-play" nonsense that the MSM has implanted within us.
People used to get more done before the media had them running in circles like chickens with their heads cut off.
:shocked:
p.s. We've got all the time in the world.