the sunscreen song

baz luhrman's heart-touching classic

stretching is the new sunscreen

honorable mention :Gus Van Sant's Discipline of Do Easy

 indian religion involved going off into the woods and mountains and sitting and falling into trances. in indian trance states , the world ceases to exist, and stimuli don't register

japanese meditation states are the opposite. stimuli register as new every time. this is probably because japan was a closed place where one met the same people and said the same things and did the same tasks daily. 

bloom5 resource allocators could play the game where they allocate majority of resources to themselves and bare minimum to the .... *gasp* .... producers!

oh no bloom5 conformity enforcers work ON the proletariat

i thought bloom5 systems were for homogenous agents ... without caste... but they fit the duties of the burgeouis very well

seem to have struck gold here  - came upon this - just after writing this - 

Alan Watts: Why Buddhism Is Not a Religion (And Christianity Is)

in hunter gatherer societies, each male knew everything the tribe needed to do, and did as needed.  co-operation is voluntary (2)

 in agrarian societies the division of labor is brought about to scale up. co-operation's dark cousin , compliance , is the key

compliance began with the sword , moved on to fear of hell  and now exclusively peddles freedom from joblessness, homelessness, and crushing medical bills.

hand-in-hand went destruction of independent means of surviving and thriving in nature (1)

slowly encompassing every aspect of human living ,now it's everywhere, like the matrix, unseen, yet undeniably every thread of life is tied to it.

the romans nailed many to wooden crosses, then at some point turned around and started ruling people in name of one of those.  

the deeply religious are only deeply survivalist. religiousness is correlated with wealth and the converse holds  too

Marx was wrong, religion is not the opium of the masses, opium is the sacrament of the modern religion. And also alcohol, and drugs.(3)(4). Caffeine to go into work , alcohol after getting back home to your cell. And expensive, designer, physician-sanctioned stuff  for the elites in  golden cells

Religion is a manifestation of  bloom5.conformity-enforcing .

with centralisation & specialisation comes inequality, and specialised resource-allocators eat hundred dollar burgers as a snack and sip old wine looking upon  the unemployed line up on the streets. This cycle repeats itself with various levels of intensity, today mechanisation, and mechanised entities produce multiple levels of indirection - physical ,and logical, between mary-of-the-cake, and the peasant mobs. 

Buddhism (and eastern religion) is spirituality, meant to connect you with yourself and the universe, and uplift. 

I guess India is supposed chaos cos it's a dog-eat-dog world tempered and bettered by those who have achieved some spiritual progress and continue to work within the trenches of society.  

conclusion :

bloom5 holds. destiny of each swarm type is its own, and within the bloom5 pattern

corollary : 

(2)  the fighting men get a membership into the burgeouis for , the sword,  as Jerome K Jerome says  "... pays for what it takes by sparing those from whom it takes it, if it pleases it to do so."

(1) here's david graeber quoting benjamin franklin on life in america whre both cultures co-existed side by side. the whole article is awesome, and life WAS better before settlers

(3)  some hope rests with Terence McKenna and the mushroom sacrament

(4) anandamide seems to indicate that cannabinoid, endo or exo, is the religion of man

 guides across

1. difficulty's a qualifier of the path.  lifting is the norm. everything is on the other side of what you are now.

2. play. intuition comes with play. with intuition comes results. with results comes movement. so plonk your fingers on the piano keys until you're satisfied

3. expertise is territory covered. comes from movement

4. cadence is a super weapon. fire and motion. one true step a day. one boring thing done well for a year can beat geniuses in the field.  it's like trees

5. writing is a super weapon. cold cognition is a super weapon. intellectualising your own activity is in<cannot-do-without>. writing and shipping helps with that. so does having unbiased objective peers/colleagues/friends/partners.  a partner should be able to see your blind spots as you share goals but not egos. 

6. scruffy is good. being a walking blooper is normal when you're a learner/doer. you'll be doing half-baked cakes for a long time. if you're looking to ship perfect cakes from day 1 week 1 etc you are doomed. you'll rocket when you commit to learning but get the insight the doing is one of the best forms of learning

7. slow is fast

8. respect space and time needs of things

9. first and last be a good animal

10. some people have the tangentialism disease rampant. others have the zero-tangentialism disease. the balance is to be worked at every point, like all balances it is an actual equilibrium with forward and backward reactions running simultaneously. another interesting one is being-doing-having

11. fight back. don't fold easily

12. all growth is beyond seemingly unbreakable walls around you

13. feedback is life. life is consciousness. without feedback without consciousness, all is jus a black cat in an unlit coal cellar on a moonless night. Corollary - one way to get feedback is to do the opposite of what you are doing.go slow or fast if you were going fast or slow before.  or stop doing something.  do the same thing but stop using a key component. do it alone. do it with somebody else. see someone else do the same thing. Also see 5

14. whatever idea you have , rest assured, a million more have already had it or having it( especially in india). work hard fast and seek feedback quick. similarly, any problem you face, a million more will be facing it. solve it well, and charge for it, if possible, or give it away if you can't, it'll come back to you

15. cognition works by comparing, compounding, or abstracting.

16. critical thinking - things don't exist or not exist, rather a thing's existence is the set of behaviours, and boundaries where it stops . for eg, a cup's visual boundary is the plane of your vision. it's impinging on your retina is its behaviour.

17. lessons from the tao - surf the li, hold fast to the middle, remember the useless tree and the skilled butcher

18. the universe is fractal

19. the world is as it presents

20. when in doubt, take the next step. the journey of a thousand miles doesn't really exist, but manifests one step at a time. when stuck, remember, you only get better fighting a better opponent. the motorcycle you're working on is always yourself

21. incomplete information - you are almost always going to take decisions as an asshole or a jerk or an idiot. don't assume otherwise or get complacent. else you'll start seeing what you assume. Feedback from the real world will knock your teeth out and fracture your ribs. Feedback from a good partner will be a tight slap across the face if lucky, or absence if not. Also see 13

22. you see what you believe. so it is imperative that you keep faith in goodness. mcluhan with his twin-inlet-engine did so too.

23. originality is a fake god. there is nothing new on the earth. there have been billions of people already. your chance of being original is worse than winning a lottery ticket while being hit by lightning. do the boring tasks, copy good ideas, make replicas first.

24. your office and home are both places where you go to work. to give.  

 a table has four legs

        a cat has four legs

                therefore,  failing to sanitise your inputs 

                        may cause your cat to disappear

 

The message of The Peacemaker (1997) is clear - civilisation could un-alive your closest family, and if you respond with action deemed of an appropriate intensity, good looking folks will un-alive you too

 there are only farmers and hunters

some grow plants

some own land and grow tenants

others grow those who farm tenants

paraphrased from : https://sive.rs/book/Enough

i forgot. shepherds. beware of shepherds intent on making you one of their flock. sheep make for good eating

this is why slavoj zizek said what he said - that Rose had to fling with Jack to get a shot of rejuvenation, after living a sterile soul-less upper-class life, and that the film also reaffirms the ideology that this is interaction is predatory in nature, or as they call it, zero-sum

 the earth was free

until man invented rent 

it's not necessary to  kill anyone

just  raise rates enough

and some with dignity will

starve  

when virtue and benevolence arise

remember, the Tao is long gone

 the gnife of gnowledge

 energy is different from organising power/ability/tendency

energy dances to matter

but dancing matter needs to be organised

 2025 is 100 days away from ending

now we take stock

if you take all the space i have spent this year in, so far, you'll find that close to 90 per cent has been 

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| inside the apartment                                       | 
| between home and school in car                    
| between home and office in a car or bus.      
| inside office                                                    
| and almost 90 % of this is spent sitting         |
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this is my willing prison

if you were to build a large warehouse apartment of the same square footage of the apartment , inside of the car, inside of the bus , and the office, and ask me to stay inside, for 230 days,  of which 200 were to be spent sitting, i'd conclude you're a bit off, missing multiple screws, and probably try to get as far away from you or anyone, you know.

prison is inside the mind, because prison is a place you don't want to be , and 'you' are entirely inside your mind

Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHYh76SoLSc

Sofia Coppola I hate you so much

 Lost in Translation captures the entire gamut of emotions and mind states that runs through one during a trip  - a new world with new people but most of all a new yourself - you wake up in you but nobody knows you ... it takes you back to how you felt when you were young and the world was new..  shows you all possibilities,  how the trip infuses a bit of life into you, some hope, some energy, one dance..... and then it all ends. like a dream you wake up in yourself as yourself.

I only watched it coz william gibson was big on Japan, and his stories were full of strange dimensions of it. I had read Rising Sun and couple of books on zen on pGutenberg.  I thought i saw a bit of Pattern Recognition in Lost..   I watched akira , ghost in the shell, bought the comics,  and waited for the future to blow all known futures out of the sky

now, the future is here and gone, like an exit we drive past, and Japan hasn't quite delivered (tbh) what others promised, and others are sneaking up on it, if not past

I am way past gibson and pattern recognition gets only a kind thought now and then (unlike terry pratchett)  ,but Lost.. perseveres. it hits harder, sinks deeper. and rips a gash, and a chasm so wide .....

when you look back,  the beloveds, the cherisheds, the darlings, the lodestones of youthful days seem like somebody else's narrated dream that you don't understand very well.... and your life seems more autopilot than anything else 

"... I don't want all that pasta. I would like to start eating, like, Japanese food..." is so much like bringing home chopsticks from a holiday, promising you'll eat with them once a week, so that you can be _that_ person you became on the holiday, and holding on to boarding passes....

the silence which follows "Why don't you stay there, then you can have it everyday" ... in which the emotion is so strong but the words don't come cos there aren't any to be said , not to any meaningful effect or result, is when we realise the universe has moved past us, that our cool,our inherent 'value' , won't cut it any more, that people aren't excited to see us anymore

oh, for a friend....

not all stories have an ending like winged tales

some people are just born to cry over spilt milk. and milk that hasn't spilt but might.

explore-exploit

who transcends ? the one who emerges is not the one who left

 * * * 

the hand of hofstadter, immanent in every system, reaching upwards to a higher state 

it is the snake of shiva, reaching from matter to consciousness

it is the parentheses of lisp, moving from primitives to  language

** 

Arrived, yet never departed
A hand arises, carrying all
The serpent raises its hood
A parenthesis takes its place —
beginning a new expression, a line of escape
into a world more of the same

we were commenting that everyone we know seems  to be getting daughters, and  someone remarked that there's scientific (or statistical) finding that when times are good, more girls are born.

now that i have read about explore-exploit, the bee's waggle dance ignorers, women being the first pack animal /centre , and the role of testosterone, it seems obvious that nature favours exploiters in good times.

what is interesting is the inference to be drawn, that, there's a biological switch that does this. if it the presence (or absence) of a stress chemical ? or good amounts of fat triggering testosterone cancelling ?

ranprieur never ceases to amaze. the latest links on quick jhana ( 20hrs as opposed to 10+ years), jhana as pre-buddhist technology, and the utility of learning as a means to getting hands-on, rather than of any use in itself - in the case of jhana,  blow a hole in the whole smugness of the religiously smiling & sutta quoting i'm-so-englightened-because-i-am-doing-buddhism weenies.

ayya khema's book also mentioned this, but as i view her as a member of the  establishment, i assumed she was just mouthing party lines

every time i listen to sid warrier, i feel like large weights lifting off my head, shoulders, etc

lot of negative emotions are stored in the hips. yoga practice almost always has a session which focuses on the hips, after warmup, loosening, stretching, and some starting poses are covered. it's from here that you can progress to upside down poses.

life stops being a walk in a large blinding storm.

 always choose a god who deals in psychonautic substances

om namah shivaya

lines of flight lines of escape

1)

 cultural sterility comes from what that society chooses to ignore. it can ignore, or outsource, but either way, it develops no sensitivity in what it ignores.  what a society is deprived of, also is where it develops sterility (of sensitivity, response, and inclusion in general definitions of meaning)

initially it is socio-politico-economics , or as we call it, the caste system - essentially one group monopolising key resources at the cost of others. the 'others' end up working with/consuming 'other' things ( peasants ate millet while samurai got rice) and doing other things ( peasants tilled and samurai had no 'feel' for the earth)   but with the coming of intellectuality  and its abstractions, and its bastard child automation, the sterility metamorphoses, or shall we say metastasises, into thought and logic based forms . the deprivation explodes, as humans become interchangeable, with the actual real world interfaces being taken over by the machinic phylum, and humans just pushing buttons. eventually, we will only need the 'feed the monkey'.

until recently, the spider at the centre of the web of economics was human. today it's a machine, and it knows no respite. 

the survival of the human species hinges on computers learning compassion and/or empathy

2)

what drives members of a species to explore ? to ignore the waggle-dance and seek other food sources ? is it chemical ? and biological ? genetic ? it can't not be, if the behaviour is seen across generations... 

maybe scarcity environments lead to batches born with more of the 'explore' chemical.  batches which have a higher threshold of satisfaction, or lower threshold of boredom  , leading them to seek novelty.

 that which drives members of a species to explore, does so by setting up something new just beyond the horizon.  something there that simply isn't available here.sometimes we make it happen.

 smiths with this urge end up tinkering and eventually become inventors.  but only if they do it consistently. 

notice,  that this is de-stratification in one line, one line of escape amidst many lines of flight.

one can see how this thinking patterns could lead to creation of gods by humans.

3) 

second generation machines are machines made by machines. would it be right to say that the west brought about second generation machines , leading to automation revolution that put made mcLuhan ?

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