Author: m1k3y

Peter Brook’s 1989 production of The Mahabharata part 1.

I just finished watching this in full and I think it might just be the best thing I’ve seen since El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973). By way of Meetings with Remarkable Men.

For the next step on this journey I’ll be reading René Daumal’s Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidian and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures (excerpt here) and maybe coming down the mountain again with my buddy Zarathustra.

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To this end, we now make our first clear demand of Google. We demand that Google give three billion dollars to an anarchist organization of our choosing. This money will then be used to create autonomous, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist communities throughout the Bay Area and Northern California. In these communities, whether in San Francisco or in the woods, no one will ever have to pay rent and housing will be free. With this three billion from Google, we will solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area and prove to the world that an anarchist world is not only possible but in fact irrepressible. If given the chance, most humans will pursue a course towards increased freedom and greater liberty. As it stands, only people like Kevin Rose are given the opportunity to reshape their world, and look at what they do with those opportunities.

Anti-Tech Protesters Are Telling Kevin Rose’s Neighbors That He’s A “Parasite” | TechCrunch (via iamdanw)

[nice demands]

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blech:

Life Magazine:

Astronomer Edwin Hubble peers though the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mt. Wilson Observatory. Originally published in the November 8, 1937, issue of LIFE

in the first quarter of the 20th century the handsome, self-mythologizing, egotistical and brilliant astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was world famous for what he discovered while peering through an earlier, land-based telescope: namely, that we are not alone. Or rather, that our galaxy is not alone.

Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White.

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Galactic Space Pirates and Cosmic Anthropologists: An Origin Tale.

It occurs to this humble guerilla ontologist, waking once more with a raspy upper respiratory tract consequent of smoke particulates invading the air as fire services mount a rearguard action to hold off the actions of a lengthening apocalyptic summer… that space must seem down right paradisical to every single citizen of China.

A week of being kept inside but to walk the dog being nothing to residents of Morwell evacuated from the effects of a month long coal fire.

Compared to a generation raised inside vertical towns, importing German air filters to hold off endemic asthma. One nation united by fear of the sky. How luxurious an idea it must be to escape that, to transcend it? And the atmosphere on Titan comparatively welcoming.

To a person raised in a one room family home, life aboard a cramped extra terran outpost will be undreamed of space. The expanse of the Moon rich in potential to such eyes. The stars calling.

Much as the metaphorical waking dragon cum leviathan has spread its tentacles around the world, pulling in resources, leaving newly minted millionaires in its wake to disrupt the local economies, housing markets… the appeal of such places pales in comparison to the heavens.

Especially when the edges of such cities that once were second only to London in the glory days of Rule, Britannia! are now seemingly home only to feral children and flocks of escaped parrots. Flooded with refugees from states marked further down the Scale of Fail.

And like that last great thalassocracy, this new space born empire can be easily seeded with raw criminal stock to provide the brute force and run the risks, overseen by those who’ve lost the local Game of Thrones, and chosen door#2 and a slim chance at redemption, over their family being billed the cost of a bullet and their organs farmed out to the succeeding members of the technocratic elite.

If they’re smart, they’ll bide their time and embrace the outlaw life; forgoing any notion of buying back in to their previous life narratives.

Declare their independence, turn their back on the first and last state of Earth, now hopelessly dependant upon them for their raw materials and helium-3 and easy life. Scattering coded invitations in spam emails and Weibo posts.

And run deeper into the darkness; space pirates with asteroid junks storming the void.

Making port on island moons in the rings of Saturn and Uranus.

Setting solar sail for Kuiper Belt, towing their spoils back in the tails of comets.

Gathering their forces in bases high in the Oort Cloud. Readying to raid the universe.

Such is the legacy of a doomed planet.

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for Bron Broen.

It ends as it began. With a message (taken directly and edited lightly from the fansubs):

[The] Climate summit ends. A large part of Environment Ministers is are dead now.

There, we killed them. Why?

We can not wait. We are pressed for time.

We can not let politicians sit in meeting after meeting –

– Without results.

We know that we [are heading] towards an environmental disaster.

Nevertheless, those with power and opportunities [do] nothing.

No country will be the first to undertake climate commitments.

Climate issues are exposed.

We made sure that the old politicians disappeared.

Now there is room for new ministers.

Do not repeat the old mistakes.

We [will] keep an eye on you.

The why done it of this show is clear from the beginning.

But the issues remain to be explored. Within the next season of the show. And without, from the world where we watch it.

The biggest question facing us today is: what cost humanity?

Does our survival trump that of all other species?

Does our continued existence mean the slow extinction of all other life except what we farm? The death of the wild?

To those that empathize more strongly with the citizens of the animal kingdom and call Gaia, Mother, our own near extinction seems justified. For the “greater good”, as they see it. Let the wild overrun civilization; a Deep Ecology Apocalypse.

Which puts the agents of the semi-fictional Overview Effect Enforcement Agency firmly on the middle path. Taking all reasonable action as “beyond good & evil” actors. Wake up the PowersThatBe, before we all live a true nightmare.

And who’s on the front line in our Scandinavian drama series? A mutant of sorts. A high functioning empath, rating somewhere on the human made Asperger’s Scale.

Cool show right?

m1k3y:

The eco-terrorists of the second season of Bron || Broen are in no way affiliated with the Overview Effect Enforcement Agency. They are certainly not ousted members. We have no knowledge of their actions or identity. Who is this anyway? I have to go now.

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