And the mechobeast - the technostate would deny us this and replace it with bribes, trinkets, jewelry , hatchets and diseased blankets - well I don't want it - I reject it - I'll die first and god knows I've proven it.
The US , according to a recent BBC documentary can now add another mark of shame on to
Reagans tombstone - the highest child abuse incidence in the world - this means murder, rape, violence, disease and all those other bad things that the republicans don't want to pay to prevent and they have the blood of children on their hands.
I didn't write the following with the above in mind - but some sort of intuition lead me to it. Not the least being I've known people who were abused as children and it shaped them for the rest of their lives. Long ago I worked preparing FBI Uniform Crime Reports and the evidence that poverty and violence and crime go together is irrefutable .
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Well, As Donovan would say, this is the season of the witch. The days grow dark and loves sweet spark flashes. I had thought to give a little dissertation about elemental monads and their relation and non relation to fractal theory and in particular to the idea that our notions of reality are comparative and not absolute, something that goes back to Locke and his follower Jonathan Edwards. This then ties in to squares and triangles (Iterative) or circles (Fluxive).
Without such basic building blocks (monads) all perception of reality, as Wittgenstein discovered in his attempt to form a universal theory of language, is doomed. But here's the kicker the description of, the hypothesis, the definition of - whatever you use to identify such a monad is entirely artificial.
It is, as Will might understand, a calling into existence of that which was not there. There's a lite version of this concept which defines reality as that which is defined as reality - but the circularity of such reasoning is immediately obvious.
This is all very weird. In religious terms it's like saying nothing is real without faith and faith has no reason to exist. Great religious thinkers, I think, realize the power inherent in such a process. It's several steps beyond Schopenhauer s "World as Will and Representation" because the problem of such seeming self evident statements, including the Cogito ergo Sum, is they only allow for a static universe and do not take in account the passage of time.
That's why the LOGOS is like the ritual - it is more then what it is and if it isn't then it's not doing it's job, so to speak. The same exact ritual can have an infinite number of meanings and results depending on who's performing it.
As I said it's weird though because the monads of thought, "the ground of being" is admittedly artificial and therefore without that construct we don't actually exist. It's like the premise of a character in a movie. Like myself for that matter.
And when we talk about someone who can call something into being out of thin air - that's basically magic.
As the case may be however such magic can be for good or ill, most often it is determined by conditioning and on can have a devil of a time fighting it.
In raising children for instance they are so innocent and accepting that we often abuse their sense of self hood. There's at least two reasons why such things are very bad. One is invariably when we do something we are not proud of we blame the other person, but how you blame a child? Can you say you were seduced by a ten old? That a five year old cast spell on you? Obviously in child molestation one doesn't have a leg to stand on in terms of blaming the victim.
Another lousy thing about child abuse, which can be other then sexual also, is that it lasts for the victims entire life. You can forget a robbery but when you are assaulted physically, or even mentally, as a child or young person, you're triggering things on a hormonal basis that cannot be taken back.
To some degree Citizen Kane, the highly regarded film by Orson Welles about a man who got money but no love from his family is also a film about /Orson himself, a prodigy from a prep school background.
I wasn't overtly molested ever as a child, but I did become an adult, so to speak, very young. Part of it was the classic European bourgeois upbringing where a degree of maturity is expected and childish things are frowned upon. The joke is one struggles to make themselves unique only to succeed and then find that everyone else is quite content with being ordinary.
But I have known other people who had childhoods that effected them in specific ways as well. It's like they get rewired somehow, like the person who can only be excited in an abusive, exploitative relationship. Or there's also the instance where one person apparently will go out of their way to, essentially torture another and yet at the same time maintain the fiction that everything between them is fine. This is done on the part of the aggressor on an unconscious basis and therefor the clues that one is being manipulated are not there.
On several occasions I have met "persons of authority" in different fields and they have described their role as primarily "permission givers." Years ago I pointed out that one of the critical differentiations of occupations is the difference between they who can say "Yes" and those who must often say "No." Suffice to say in a large organization you want to find the person who can give you the go ahead to do what you want and want to avoid the rule enforcers who can't do anything but prevent things from happening.
We've been very fortunate here at the Tamlinmediaco because we have always had the freedom to say yes to do what we wanted. If there has been a loss to anyone it is the world's loss - but the world can get along without us and someday will.
Ultimately you probably don't have to ask permission to do the important things in life. So don't.
--Tamlin
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