6.10.18
– Lunar calendar
12 animals, 2 forces, 5 elements & 5 organ-meridians
I am goat-yin-earth-spleen
Righteous/honest/responsible/loyal/stable/tough/calm/reserved/thoughtful/stylish/nurturing
Forging ahead without unity leads to abandonment, and unity without forging ahead leads to stagnation
Generating/developing (as opposed to overcoming/controlling) relationship
Earth contains/develops metal (ambition & progress) & absorbs/controls water (brilliant mind/agile aptitude)
Health – eat plenty of fruits & nuts. Avoid red meats. Spend enough time outdoors. Have a regular systematic routine for eating & sleeping.
Thinking in the morning
Enjoy eating sweets and listening to (& singing with) music
Free speech as exercise
Tendency to worry
– I must intentionally reinforce my type, through strategic choices for living, in order to strengthen my own sense of identity. This would help me be more confident & happy.
Base “I ought to do…” on “I am…”!
– Weekly rhythm – on a particular kind of day (explicit), the other elements are also present (implicitly).
How you manage this paradox – the degree to which you can unify these diverse forces within your self – will determine how successful you are.
Are you spacious & tenacious enough?!
– Gush-Up economy
Agribusiness
Robber barons
Aristocracy/nobility
lifer
“The more you have, the more you can have!”
spigot
“The sanctity of private property never applies to the poor”
The ghost of capitalism
Carnivalesque elections
Daylight robbery
The Privatisation of Everything
MNCs – you can’t live without us!
Salwa Judum
Terms of Engagement
Kill on suspicion
The ecological & social reengineering of Central India
Undemocratic laws & serious conflicts of interest
SIR/SEZ
From condoning to active abetment
Blood money, squaring the books, the algebra of infinite justice
Quick & large population transfers
Military perception management for political purposes
Psychological warfare
Corporate Philanthropy
cognoscenti
Strategic brand manager
Benign mega-sponsors of art
Unlawful Activities Prevention Act
Special Public Security Act
Anti-government ideas as cognizable offense
Unpopular journalists, academics & filmmakers
Surreptitious state
The seamy underbelly of Shining India
Exquisitely burlesque
The sledgehammer of moral purity
The star chamber of global corporate governance
Elitist, secretive, abusive
Legal kits
Endowed foundations
Missionary capitalism
Systems maintenance patrol
Institutional sanction
Seed money
Suave, smiling assassins
Grant-funding
Foreign policy pressure group
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
UN, IMF, World Bank
Converting money into power via NGOs!
Reserve currency
Globalize, standardize, monopolize
Shell companies & offshore accounts
The Trilateral (now pentalateral) Commission
McKinsey Global Institute
Aspen Institute
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Gates ~ Ambani, Tata, Godrej, Vedanta
NRA
Credit union movement
– To what extent should the content influence the form?
I read stuff in the allotted periods of my weekly routine.
But, can/should I also make my lifestyle open to alteration by these readings, or should they just remain cogs in the wheel of my system?
– Can a billionaire (or a chief minister) be innocent/honest/benevolent?
– Are democracy & capitalism really compatible bedfellows?
– Malcolm X — ‘Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.’
Hate crimes
Thirty Called Arson
– plebeianism
vulgarism
Nietzschean eternity
Siren song
gloaming/dusk/twilight
eyeteeth
Noble lies
Double sense
Socratic impiety
Shadow work
Untimely meditations
Optimistic nihilism
“Whatever!”; “So what?!”; “Duh!”; “Bla!”
Amor fati
The faith of the New Philosophers
Infinite responsibility
The gay/joyful science
Dummy/bum
Philosophy and misanthropy
– Distinguish:
Growth/evolution
&
Transformation/resurrection
– I am simultaneously filled with self-pity and pride!
I am so miserable and impotent, but I am nothing like these half-humans around me……
Life is so easy for them! But can I ever desire to be in their shoes? Never!
Psychological depression ~ spiritual joy
– Unfortunately (or luckily), spiritual growth is a completely voluntary enterprise, in a world filled with powerful compulsions……
I have seen that the proportion of people even interested (in self-work) is less than 1%
– साला
badass
motherfucker
Try to remember
Kierkegaard’s repetition and Nietzsche’s eternal return
Try to remember
Celebration/enjoyment > entertainment/recreation
The miserable righteous and the happy wicked – can/should this be changed?
– I’m feeling okay. Relaxed. A bit distracted. Mild cold.
– SFG Learning meeting topics/themes – issues/problems/challenges, ideas/concepts, traditions/religions/philosophies, practices/skills/actions, persons/events/trends, etc.
– SFG Vs:
1. Overwork
2. Consumerism
3. Technocracy
4. Slavery to family duties/social roles
5. Idolatry of fun/relaxation
6. Anti-intellectual religious piety/moral prudery
7. Super-spirituality/solo mysticism
8. Simplistic activism/reductionist science
– The human condition as one long shock therapy!
– I don’t like you because you don’t like me. But what if I’m wrong about my understanding of you in the first place?
7.10.18
– Can an intellectual be conservative and can a conservative be intellectual?
– The Moth Spotify podcast
True Detective (S02) 👍🏽
8.10.18
– Declension & inflection
Subsumption & bonding
Thinking from, or out of, the body
Philip Goodchild
Infect & mutate
From pleasuring to enjoyment
Absolute immanence & radical immanence
Nature > ecosystem
Philofiction
Immanental ecology
Chimeric identity
Non-thetic transcendence
Second innocence
Pornstar tattoos
– Integrating chores & entertainment!
Learning to enjoy all the mundane and discerning the discipline in/of celebration
From plans, hours & days to needs, tasks & moods!
Fatigability & flux
Order >> chaos >> flow!
– Distinguish:
The naiveté of most people
&
The natural state of the great
9.10.18
– Recollection as backward repetition
Repetition as forward recollection
Diegesis and mimesis
The poet and the ironist
The narrative and the essay
Aufhebung/sublation
Anamnesis and mediation
The instant outside of temporality
Eleatic immobility
Kierkegaardian dialectic
Inverse, transition, kinesis – “to take again” – gjentagelsen
Suspending temporal sequence
caesura – the point that breaks the line
//
The eternal moment
Non-chronological future
Non-concept, non-being
Pure noise
Privileging the now while excluding presence
yawl, spumy
Elemental fury
Space & time; matter & energy; flesh & spirit; life & meaning
The sublime impression purged of all teleological judgments
Sublime > beautiful
A voyage without destination
Beyond meaning/purpose
prosaist
Orphic
Auditive horror
Paradoxical meaning ≠ pure noise
The absent beloved as muse
Allegorical expectations – visual fantasies to auditory enthusiasm
Mythical expressions
Pathetic letters
Parabasical picture
Ironic intervention
Decisive point
Famous non-meeting
Thieve’s language
Ordo inversus
Indirect message
Hardly exist
Desiring the invisible
Impossible passion
Paul Celan
Sublime reversal – walking on one’s head
The rhetorics of temporality and the temptations of permanence
Repeated reversal
Struggling for initiative
Opening decisiveness
Linguistic order and raw passion
Textual phenomenon as existential possibility
Negative insight ~ anterior sign
The authentic predicament
Mirroring/imaging
Mystical suggestion
Opening decisiveness
Subjective doubling
The simultaneous juxtaposition of the split causes vertigo/madness
The mirroring in the eyes of lovers ~ perspective to eternity
Falling between the in and out
Suspended ignorance
Grammatical meaning Vs. Rhetorical meaning
Sudden revelation >> disseminated discontinuity
Permanent effect
The all-pervading (disruptive) point
The ironic break in the allegorical line
The trace of language
retournement
langage
Satan’s most popular prank
Ironic sense – between/beyond understanding and nonsense
Mechanical reduplication
Aesthetic ideology
Basic baselessness
Feigned meaning
Stutter in a void
Irony as nothing less than the systematic undoing of all understanding
Laughing at one’s own fall – simultaneously acting and observing
Recollection and repetition as the same movement, but in opposite directions
Popular farce
When you haven’t got the category of recollection or repetition, all life dissolves into an empty noise devoid of content.
Diacritics
– He/she who wants to move into the future, must risk the loss of, not only the past, but also the present!
Movement in time ~ walking – split the present into two and then making one “swing on the other”!
– Nietzsche was influenced by……
– Everyday is work cum freak-out cum contemplative day!
Stop classifying activities
But then, how do I……?!
– The rupture is the point!
That which makes any meaning impossible becomes the source of all motivation/intention/action!
– Pedestrian bridge
Google Keep & Tasks – why necessary when Google docs and calendar already there?
– Smoking ~ ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Gehenna – the pit of unquenchable fire where the worm never dies
– I want to:
Do nothing
Be quiet
Go deep
Feel good
Read, listen, think & write
At least when you’re not with others, be solitary!
I must fearlessly descend into the abyss, without escaping into spiritual disciplines, chores, career, family, consumption, entertainment, etc.
To provoke, tease & insult oneself……!
– The invisible walls of ideology
Intoxicated speech
Piety is the determinate & regulated directing of attention
Disquotation
10.10.18
– Doe Projects
Strike a pose. Pose a strike
Uma Jolie
Video slideshow
Solomon Grundy
11.10.18
– Devastating wisdom
Tomorrow never comes – literally!
So,……….
– What relation/connection/relevance does the person & life of U. G. Krishnamurti have with what/who came to being after the “event”?
There is an interesting & mysterious interplay of continuity and discontinuity here……
The truly great is one who is completely free of the drive to be good or better!
Life = survival + experience/entertainment (enjoyment-suffering) + death
My neighborhood – these dogs barking………. 😎🐶
UG ~ First Adam/Second Christ – if he is “human”, then no one else is!
Maybe people could come up with new philosophies and spiritualities based on UG, just like some have done with Laruelle’s Non-philosophy…
The ultimate ethic is also the most bas(e)ic!
12.10.18
– hotrod
13.10.18
– Depression-addiction-violence
If you have none of these, you’re dead indeed! 😎
– Ethic ~ preference
Period.
– I agree with UG that defecation is the most pleasurable sensation!
But why is it so??
The natural state requires a cellular revolution (the body cannot be fully separated & liberated from the mind in any other way)… And that is not attainable by any means.
Distinguish:
Mindful living
&
The natural state
All I can do is try to align my life a little closer to “living without the interference of thought and the wisdom/intelligence of the body”, using my intellect & will, based on the (auto/biographical) descriptions of/by UG……….
– shanghaied
quip
piquant
– Movies:
“Udta Punjab” (Hindi)
Awe-some!
14.10.18
– Spotify daily mix
“Beneath the Encasing of Ashes” by As I Lay Dying – soundtrack to UG’s calamity!
– Life > consciousness!
The living body > the desiring/believing/thinking person!
The fundamental/basic is also the ultimate/supreme!
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