tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post4823012745285240425..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: What is Politics?Daniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-13910398480524082052011-05-20T20:29:34.385-07:002011-05-20T20:29:34.385-07:00Thanks for the permaculture, dusty. Now if I can o...Thanks for the permaculture, dusty. Now if I can only find those co-eds smoking grass amidst the kale, all would be right in the world....Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-75650905972833877442011-05-20T18:25:57.156-07:002011-05-20T18:25:57.156-07:00Big ups to the Perm Cult.
My first exposure to pe...Big ups to the Perm Cult.<br /><br />My first exposure to permaculture was from a bunch of sweet girls in Manson family era dresses that taught a DeCal organic gardening class at UC Berkeley. <br /><br />There was something about a bunch of neo-hippy Rhetoric majors smoking grass amongst kale and rogue asparagus that made the idea seem magnificent.Chad Lotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532435215151055258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-40896651602657644222011-05-20T02:25:39.559-07:002011-05-20T02:25:39.559-07:00Yes yes, I alway feel dirty after voting.
In fa...Yes yes, I alway feel dirty after voting.<br /><br /><br /><br />In fact the only times I've ever felt clean after<br />doing the deed I voted for a loser—turns out voting for a loser can be quit empowering, I strongly recommend it.<br /><br /><br />@Schealler: Im with you on the picking sides thing.<br />vote: green, worker, libertarian, socialist, whatever the hell you want it will always be more democratic then the damn dichotomy because the dichotomy is king.<br /><br />@coffeen: concerning "political that sees the world in terms of thermodynamic flows of energy" I assume you've heard of permaculture.<br />permaculture is quite literally the design of thermodynamic energy flows. Usually applied to housing and gardening it can be applied to any thing that flows, any system of movement.<br />The main point is to maximize benefit connections, so no one component has to carry all the wait.<br />Damn that sounds like communism but really its not its more like libertarianism lots of tax evasion and shit, only with out all that pick your self up by your boot straps bullshit. one permaculture Masanobu Fukuoka made a style of gardening could No-Dig.<br />How can you beat that?<br /><br />I see a lot of parallel between what permaculture calls organism and delueze calls bwo. What Delueze might call organism permaculture calls monoculture.<br /><br /><br /><br />here are some links:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture<br /><br />http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/<br /><br />http://cityrepair.org/<br /><br />By the way dose any one know how to imbed video?<br />It used to be so easy with youtube...dustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-28638788485168715422011-05-20T01:20:37.190-07:002011-05-20T01:20:37.190-07:00Yes yes, I always feel ashamed when ever I vote, i...Yes yes, I always feel ashamed when ever I vote, its like being cot doing something dirty by your mom. <br /><br />The only times I've ever felt clean after voting is when I voted for a loser. By the way voting for the loser is strangely empowering — I highly recommend it.<br /><br />vote<br />green, workers, libertarian, socialist what ever the hell you want<br />it will always mean more then voting for the damn dichotomy, because the dichotomy is king.<br /><br />now for a "political that sees the world in terms of thermodynamic flows of energy"<br />have you considered permaculture.<br />Permaculture is literally the design of thermodynamic energy flow, usually in the form of a forest gardening and ecological housing but it can be applied to anything else. The mapping of energy is truly the key component.<br /><br />here are some sites.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture<br /><br />http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/<br /><br />http://cityrepair.org/<br /><br />by the way dose any one know how to imbed video?<br />it used to be easy with youtube.dustygravelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01877215902611486889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-76209407084072499042011-05-19T21:37:56.843-07:002011-05-19T21:37:56.843-07:00These conversations are unbearable. What's so ...These conversations are unbearable. What's so egregious is the self-righteousness of those who think thinking about elections or big issues makes them somehow connected and active, somehow political. When in fact, they are the fucking problem, recapitulating the system in their righteous fervor.<br /><br />The worst are those who condemn me with bile when I dismiss voting as a complete irrelevancy. Voting, they imagine, is some secret source of power. While, to me, it is an act of enormous shame and humiliation, an elimination of my personhood, a dehumanizing act.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-53939098219626747202011-05-19T20:01:27.647-07:002011-05-19T20:01:27.647-07:00I always switch off when politics comes up in conv...I always switch off when politics comes up in conversation with my friends.<br /><br />K leans left, and B leans right.<br /><br />K and B occasionally get into a discussion about something political. The two nearly always head straight for the left/right party line. I usually have no opinion to start out with, so winning me over becomes the aim of the game.<br /><br />One week I'll side with K.<br /><br />The next I'll side with B.<br /><br />The week after I might side with B again.<br /><br />Then following that, maybe K. Or maybe B.<br /><br />Then B and K both get angry with me for not picking a side.<br /><br /><em>Not picking a side?</em><br /><br />Yes, they say. You're not picking a side.<br /><br />Look, I'm going with the good ideas I find. I don't care about what 'side' they come from. Take the good bits from everything and leave the rest. Why not?<br /><br />B and K together: Because you can't get a majority party that way.<br /><br />So you have to take lots of ideas you think are bad just to get a small sub-set of the ideas you think are good enacted?<br /><br />B and K together: Yes, of course. (confused) Isn't that obvious?<br /><br />No! That's insane!<br /><br />Hey, that's politics.<br /><br />O_oDaniel Scheallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14398750017377767417noreply@blogger.com