Philip Poburka on sat 28 dec 02
and some notion of the 'Road to Hell' revisited...
Dear Earl, et all...
The thing is...
No one had said 'Bomb'...
No one had shouted "FIRE" in a Theater...
And...it is not 'like'...anyone did so.
THAT... is 'what' (among other things here) IS so
'dangerous' here in this little exemplar we have been
expressing opinions or reactions to...
The 'Climate'?
The 'climate' among other things, is a context in which
millions of people have supplanted impersonal and
remourseless beurocracies and rote aquiescence, for the
flexibility and defferences of Liveing and of defference to
Conscience and
Common Sense.
'Climate' as the lowest common denominator of people's
enableing and pandering to the least discerning or least
intelligent or most damaged inept and needy in eachother?
The least honest?
The least capable?
The most clogged up and distorted?
To the least pro-active and the most 'reactive'..?
The most emotionally needy and traumatised, self-abdicateing
and ineffectual?
Our duty is to defer to the 'authority' and dominance of
that?
That is our 'guide' for how to live?
I believe if we think about this clearly, we should prefer
to eliminate the inimicals in ourselves, (and if we do not,
we may not well address the inimicals 'outside' of us, nor
tell what they are doing, nor
see them straight, or see them as such, at all even...) and
we may wish others our best to do likewise in themselves,
that they may Live sensibly and socialize lovingly.
Trauma is no guide for that...it is it's nemesis.
And as we or they may operate through just such charged
emotional associations at the expense and exclusion of
reason and
Conscience, I think that this appreciation is a good place
to
begin.
No one shouted 'Fire'...no one said 'Bomb'...
It is important we pay attention!
We are getting to where we want to punish people for things
they have not done, simply because we are reminded of some
association in our battered psyches, as has us
uncomfortable.
Maybe we should also punish someone because they 'look
like' (meaning NOT look like at all, but say, have a similar
jacket...but in that sense LOOK LIKE our cousin Ed who was
rude at those family reunions back in 1962?
The care we take in the criteria as by which to define
deeds,
things and events IS the quality by which we live or die.
It is that simple.
The need to resonate with other 'victims' ?
Or to console one's own abdicated choices, one's own
life's limitations of sense, and of allegences as diminish
or exclude 'choices'...THAT is the
'climate'...THAT is the 'monster on elm street'.
THAT, if anything is, is the 'enemy' here...that
process...that collusion...that implicit and explicit demand
between people that they abdicate their intelligence and
reason and Conscience and be 'victims'.
If millions choose imbecility, abdication of Conscience,
complaiscency and
seduction into victim mentalities, into their own trauma,
thence into other's trauma
evokeing their own, and
electing the 'safety' of ontological servitude and
defference to the
hysterias and displacements of their own and other's
trauma, the choice
IS already tyranny, and a
profound inexorable diminution of Living.
It is the old 'joke' revisited, of the old woman who had two
Chickens.
One got sick, so she kills the healthy one to make 'soup'
for the sick one...
THAT is the first 'enemy'...and it allways is and was...
That 'spiral' goes 'down'...not 'up'...it has lots of
company.
If we should think clearly and kindly, we should refute and
weed-out that collusion and sense-robbing 'consolation' in
ourselves.
Sometimes we need to think about how we 'feel', and how we
'feel'
about how we 'think'...
Our attention TO that IS the quality of our lives.
The feelings as guide our thoughts may benifit, or we may
benifit, in the quality of our thought, to evaluate the
structure or origins or nature of the feelings as guide us.
Enableing or colludeing with the violence or threat of it
from the permutations of internalized trauma of others IS
the Road to Hell.
It's disguises are known as 'family-systems'...thence as
'society', 'government' and, it is 'death'
in a (or to a 'victim', anyway) /seductive' disguise as says
HERE is 'safety from the violence of
the (violator) protector'. Safety from the violence of the
victim
trying to victimise you.
And they will too, almost every time, even if only bye
demanding you conceed and enable them AS victims.
The price is paid sleeping and waking.
The price is 'death' or Hell...
It already is, and of it's price is the inability or
unwillingness to be other than innurred to it AS that.
It becomes 'reality'...
It is our absence IN our Lives, and our allegiences as
accrue to the paradigms and permutations of the fear we have
of the violence or
threats of it from others, or internalizations of that IN
ourselves.
Then what we have is 'that' business interacting with
itself...it is that which is
interacting...the seduction is
complete, and the victims innured to the process want to
make new victims, and innured to the
'evidence' of it, everything just makes more of it then.
I know...I have lived it...I have at times surrendered to
it.
I saw what I was doing and have been weeding it out of my
Garden.
"GUIDE"...as is not to be confused with 'coerce', 'lead' or
push, or pander for fear of violence from the trauma others
carry in them ( or that we may carry in ourselves)...the
more 'emotional charge' something has, the more suspicious
OF it we ought to be. NOT the more yielding to it's
influence.
'Guide'...with consent OF our discernments and Conscience as
to the voracity, nature and import OF these 'feelings'.
Call'd otherwise, 'Common Sense'...
That...or death.
Them's the choices...and it is that 'simple'.
Your pal,
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl Brunner"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Black boxes, and consequences, or moreso, the
consequences OF the 'consequences' it seems...?
Come on Phil, like it or not, the current climate in the
world does call
for a certain amount of brains and common sense in what we
do. If not
arrogance, than stupidity. Say the word bomb in an airport
or on a
plane. In my view, the same thing.
The underlying principle of terrorism is "fear". The idiot
could be
defined as a terrorist even if he caused no physical damage.
Terrorist,
create and prey on fear.
Earl Brunner
Philip Poburka wrote:
> While I do not know this Artist, and I do not know
anything
> about them, the only thing I have to work with, as is not
> knowledge, but heresay, is, that: He had painted the word
> 'fear' on some black cardboard boxes and set them on the
> ground in a public place.
>
> Where is the 'arrogance' here?
>
> 'Youthful' or otherwise?
>
>
>
> We were told the 'authorities' arrested him, and as well,
> 'closed' the public place for sometime.
>
>
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