Play Things

Video Games are akin to books and movies, and yet toys.

Art can be a highly questionable concept that might be associated onto conceivably anything with any context for whatever principles or philosophies. If there is a subject on earth that could be associated with the pinnacle of broad extremism, it might be the proclamation and subsequent questioning of an art subject.
An exceptional example of this would be ‘Piss Christ’ a picture taken in 1987 by Andres Serrano that is of a small crucifix photographed in a jar of the photographer’s urine. In addition, twenty years later his exhibit ‘Shit’ that was a collection of feces from various subjects photographed on a pedestal.
Therefore, people have said Andres Serrano’s pictures are art and people have questioned ‘is it art?’ which is a prime question that seems to perpetuate art debates. A question that is more of a doubtful remark than anything else and probably the number one source of art debates.

Is the subject highly questionable?
Is the subject difficult to understand?
Does the subject stimulate thoughts or emotions?
Does the subject have some sort of cultural or natural semblances?
Whether the answer is yes or no to the questions it is art. It is always art. Someone can say ‘No, it’s shit.’ and yet it seems in the case of Andres Serrano and his 08′ collection, yes, indeed, it certainly is shit.

A Push in The Right Direction

What is with this environmentally friendly period we are going through?

Why is it everywhere and why is it so important?

What’s with HD television?

Have you ever found yourself asking any of these questions?

Sometimes a push in the right direction, be it a direction you may have already been going; can be a very good thing indeed. It seems as though everywhere you shop or travel, watch on T.V. etc. there is something about the environment and something about HD T.V.

Both of these topics revolve around a consumer push. A presentation of ideas to be adopted and lived by. It is one of the major commercial hallmarks of the last decade and continues the strong uphill progression- as we continue to ask for better more refined versions of what was previously available. We want it faster, better, and stronger than the previous generations and at a reasonable price. And so that’s what we see. New high output low input, low cost, low power consumption appliances. New high output, high resolution, larger than life televisions. These are two major areas of improvement highlighted commercially more than any other facet of this day.

It’s friendly, it’s obvious, and it’s probably what you never knew you wanted.

Life is Control

We are driven through necessity to gain and retain the ability to cultivate money. Our survival depends on it and you, as a human being cannot avoid it. I’m certain several people through the ages have longed for work or employment not for what they can do for others but what they want for themselves, thinking always and only about what they have to gain, what they must gain. If you are a construction worker and you are contracted to build where a fresh water pond used to be you would do it. That’s your job and that’s what you do. You’d have something to gain, your continued lifestyle and the companies who commissioned the contract would have real-estate to sell to people who just want to fuck in private, spawn babies, and whom hopefully will see them grow up to be just like Mom and Dad.

Aren’t all the operations of human kind based on our united strength?
Isn’t that the whole point of working for others?

Others get richer while you toil away, reaping only but the most remedial benefits in hopes that you will profit from a well-accommodated life that lets you eat, shit, and fuck how you like.

The Earth is not dieing. If anyone concedes and accepts the terms;
“We are killing the planet.” then they also concede to Gaia theory which denotes the planet is a living thing like you or I.

We are overly contrived ego-driven idiots believing whatever spoon is fed into the gapping gullets of our illustrious cattle class. The cattle class wants to be like the rich class because more money means better food and happiness, maybe it could even mean better sex. When really, the fat ones in the cattle class are not unlike the rich class as they too are busy shoveling whatever they are given into their bellies, up on drugs, too busy to have a conscious thought as next meal is already done, frozen, and in waiting. L. Ron Hubbard the founder of scientology once wrote that being overweight or fat was good survival. He too was fat and rich. Maybe he was trying to make himself feel better. We all die. Everyone dies. Some fat people die from terrible violent heart problems. Religion won’t stop it and a new solar panel powered HD television may only make it worse. A lot of the cattle class knows the rules. They stick to the yard, close to the trough.

Animals don’t need to be conserved. Conservationists are not saving wild life they are containing it. Every animal tagged is maimed. Three in five animals caught in the name of documentation are taken apart and analyzed. A biologist tented a small island about thirty years ago and filled it with toxic gas. The experiment is based on trying to find out how long it takes for diverse life to come back. This is good science and a billion dollar industry. Billons of dollars are needed so that people pick up their shit and get some actual work done at some point.

Where I come from on these issues is in finding that the human species has claimed this planet. We have claimed the title of dominance. Over ninety nine percent of all life species that has ever lived has died off. The space race I was and is still mostly about getting us as faraway from this solar system as possible in the event of a catastrophic celestial event that would otherwise render earth uninhabitable, so as to avoid complete obliteration. Hopefully we may avoid a celestial event that could destroy Earth. That’s one of our species current goals and I don’t think cats and dogs are coming for the ride either. I think we are having pity on them.

As such, all other forms of life on this planet are obsolete, as they cannot outrun celestial events – not unless we want them to. Although at this point we can’t either, but we can however terraform the landscape to better suit us until then. By creating our own environment away from the affects of weather, we can be sustain ourselves. A dog dieing of cold in winter has got nothing at all compared to a cardboard box, shed, garage, or our houses. Our personal space is even more important to us through rough times as sometimes the atmosphere doesn’t agree with us so we close the windows and adjust our thermostats accordingly, like a space station or point of deployment. Cloths are like our second layer of skin completely necessary for our survival on more than one occasion, slightly reminiscent of space suits in that regard, as we require them to survive on earth at this point. We are continuing to look into space travel. We’re doing a lot of our experiments here on Earth totally passively and presented in an acceptably mundane way. We let animals live out of pity. Not love. We have pets because it’s a mundane subconscious way of claiming their dependency. They will only live if we let them. We hang onto technology with tooth and nail because we know without it we our future would be lost.

I used to ask myself questions like “In the end is survival worth slavery?” and “What is freedom if we are not free?” and I would embark on such taboos with the ardent approximations I am desperate to perceive, that people don’t want to work but work because they have to. Our societies system of work or the societal circle jerk that I’ve come to call it with much undo regard and scorn is a very thought out system that is created to perpetuate itself, which is why it has survived and will remain for ages maybe even eons to come as most of our legacies will be carved out of it’s continuance. Recently I approached the idea that work is not slavery, although we have to do it regardless if we want to or not, completely regardless of that, work is a form of altruism and should be liked and fun. Work is an extension of love to others, as if the human species came together through the ages not for personal gain but for unity and compassion in the name of our neighbor’s neighbors and their kin. These things only being thought in a refreshing soliloquy I began to notice that more people agreed with my ‘modern slavery idea’ with a kind of depressive and reluctant “Oh.” over the positive aforementioned. Uninspiring as both ideas are, it seems both are tried simultaneously. Which is why everyone has and needs a job.

One of our jobs, concerns, and passions is animals. Animals do not need protection where protection equals absolute control. It’s an oxymoron to call it what it’s not. A wildlife park is a designated area for wildlife to live. It’s not built to make a zone where people can’t kill them; it’s made so that we don’t have to kill them if they wonder into our territory. They have their side we have ours. All animals are cute and cuddly to us. We have a fetish-like lust to take care of them because we know already that we have potentially killed them all. This fetish-like attraction is not unlike the same attractions some people feel for those who wear glasses, or those who think braces add a level of cuteness to a smile. These are attractions to disabilities or weakness as it appeals to us in a way that says, “I can protect you.” Which also in a sense says control and through control total ownership.

Energy is not a problem it’s a solution. A new low input high output machine has less to do with ecology and more to do with economy. You won’t save an owl using a more expensive long lasting light source. You won’t save anything but money by spending more now and less latter. That’s it. This rule applies to fish and low flow toilets and this rule also applies to furnaces and global warming. If we have to take precautions on a can do basis the issues are obviously not as severe as they could be. Things could be much worse if we stopped trying, which tells me we have to try harder in every aspect of our life. A slow push is being made toward the total conversations to come. Global temperature alteration, animals dieing, environmental damage, these things are happening. You cannot prevent these events in anyway as they are already happening. You can only try to depress the event in your own individual way. Or at least that’s what media is telling everyone right now. Media abuses our passion for learning and exploits our tendencies. Media has this way of making people who consume it paranoid. It’s really difficult to get away from bad media. Reliable news sources shouldn’t print celebrity gossip, or religious dogma.

When real information is in short supply creating a social flux is the next thing to do. Consider this…

What would mass media have to talk about if not for 911?

Where does knowledge stop being informative and start becoming redundant?

Technology Harvest

Would you have been born if the television was not invented?

There is Biology, Anthropology, Sociology, dermatology, and many more words that have ology on the end them and for the most part they all describe a field of study and practice. Technology represents tools and toys of all kinds, what is this ology for then? Is technology a study? The particle OLOGY comes from the Latin word logos meaning to study. Techn can be derived as TECH or tool. So does the word then describe The Study of Tools or The Tools of Study, is technology a practice through examination? The generator of knowledge is sometimes the apparatus itself, which in many cases requires some kind of learning to understand or operate correctly. As a new working understanding of the tool develops the presence and purpose of the tool can then be derived by its use. The ideas, the questions, and the development of the apparatus may spark a new generation of specialized tools. A hammer can be substituted with any hard blunt object and can also be combined with other tools such as a crow bar, or axe. In millennia long past it’s asserted that workers had an assortment of rocks laden about their work areas all with distinct properties and purposes. A new understanding of the apparatus is a working solution to a problem, the affirmation of the tools purpose, and the inception of productive engineering.

Like kings and queens, we are born into a kingdom forged so strongly that today stands only our land. There is only the kingdom. All of our wants are derived from the kingdom and we can only seek to receive what want through the work of those within the kingdom. What is at hand will be bared by the toils and strength of our unity, those who lived before us who also had been birthed a kingly birth within this kingdom they had built, so to we shall build it. It is the toils of others that have us live this life; it was the life’s work of those who have died yesterday to bring us what we may want tomorrow, and they worked so that we might have it.

In the name of bringing us what we desire we work in a well developed system of commerce, reaping our rewards for perpetuation of our society. We work and others work in hopes that through reward and sacrifice we may all feel provided for as we provide for others. Ever desire has made us who we are.

Our system of commerce is a well developed literacy of numbers and trade. We imply worth and supply those who are in demand. We barter and commend good business with good politics. It can be said that before we were a technologically based society we were a political society, but, it is rash and fool hardy to consider politics came first, for to have politics we need an agenda, something to gain – something to have. Having had blurred the lines of conformity so profusely that the idea of the self is now something bartered and paid for, as to sell oneself short. A title or social status that can be bought and purchased just like anything else which might be attributed to lifestyle or on an even more superficial level, by clothing. Thus I have come to the conclusion that we are an animal of business and not politics.

Names in history are quoted endlessly as to how political we are, making grandiose remarks regarding our growth and development. It was the first want of that helpful, wonderful, tasty thing that someone had. It was the longing to attain that thing that required we barter for it. A political act of communication in the event nothing of interest could be traded, or an action of violence to get without giving. Or the greater toil of bitter and reluctant sharing.

Humanity is a collective or royals laced with only the impurity of self deceit. We work no land but the kingdom and we reap only that which we have had prescribed by others. We are at the mercy of the enclave. The dead and soon to be forgotten dieing leave us their work behind. Oh where to put the bodies? Why must we accept such harsh responsibilities? Our weaknesses can bring out the strengths in others. We are willed to be apart of society so that those who offer contributions to our collective might get a well deserved reward.

Technology is something of a toil from the long and ancient dead. Excavations of relics from the ruins of Mesopotamia, Central American, and Baghdad show us they indeed had batteries and thus electrical power over two thousand years ago. What did they create electric power for? Is the next question looking for an answer the common people don’t know so gossip professionals who know how to earn money ploy on this while the professionals in the field continue their search for tangible evidence.

Propaganda is expected to be packed and shipped as on sale idealism where there is an exploitable basis. The product labelled I don’t know for sure and is a creative reference product that serves as a tool of ignorance and misinformation. Those striving to assimilate new or interesting information can at times sell themselves short and buy lies. The creators of the product knew what they wanted, money and I call them gossip professionals. They don’t care how those seeking to be informed try to feel learned from their material. They sell idealistic harping devoid of facts and substance. The only tangible evidence is commonly accepted as the work itself in that it was created with an overtly exploited purpose and thus the basis must have some sound principle. And yes the work does have sound principle to feel the niche until the real answers are found.

A telephone call, an email, a break up, and a child being born are all formally connected with technology. Every single event that comes to pass us by on our way our great and all powerfully fleeting now spirals around us as we try to reach out to the future so that we can derive present gains. With no real investment there is obviously no real interest. The work corresponding to the next generations of technology is already under contract, having had the blue prints copied and licenses. The next generations of ideas are already being bought and sold.

Technology today represents a new form of life. It has manifested itself in solidarity, replicated effectively, and adapted receptively. Changing and dividing while the strongest survives and goes on to pass its traits to the next generation. Technology is a presence among us. Like a living organism it thrives. Its intercourse is deeply rooted in the business of self interest, it’s a prime directive is based solely on desire. Getting people what they want for a price that has yet to be paid. The selfishness of the machine governs our lives. We can’t work without NEEDING money or credit. We need money and credit to survive because all the food and land as been locked up, the kingdom has land lords and land ladies, all of whom most of us owe a debt. We are forced to pay with our life, integrated into this system, a system that gives you something you want only after you have given others what they had wanted.

Technology is a study of life. As we create it, it governs us, as it governs us, we seek only to survive in a world dominated by it. We are spacemen on our home planet protected by our cloth, as we have grown too frail to survive with only our flesh in the world. We need shelter from the elements when the wind penetrates our cloths, we need food to survive the harsh and bitter days. As our collective grows we may need to found new settlements and create more protection for the children. We have to form a union and seek our societies survival through proper cultivation as what can only be described as the technology harvest.