Tuesday, 7 December 2010
The Happiness Machines...The Consuming Machines
The Century Of Self Part 1 (of 4) Happiness Machines
BBC documentary ...to understand how Man/the world was designed to be a "consuming machine" !
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#
PART II
"...controlling the hidden enemy"
PART III
"...controlling the hidden irrational self...by feeding the infinite desires"!
PART IV
"...an excellent 4-part BBC documentary on the origins and power of PR (public relations) in our culture, our politics, and our government (http://bit.ly/PR-history-1)"(1)
***
More from Adam Curtis/BBC; just to end the illusion of importing "progress" :
Again an interesting documentary film on the "Nightmare of the Free World" with tremendous consequences until today:
Politics - The Power of Nightmares (3 Parts)
Part II
Part III
(1) Tom Atlee, http://bit.ly/GameChange-1
BBC documentary ...to understand how Man/the world was designed to be a "consuming machine" !
"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#
PART II
"...controlling the hidden enemy"
PART III
"...controlling the hidden irrational self...by feeding the infinite desires"!
PART IV
"...an excellent 4-part BBC documentary on the origins and power of PR (public relations) in our culture, our politics, and our government (http://bit.ly/PR-history-1)"(1)
***
More from Adam Curtis/BBC; just to end the illusion of importing "progress" :
Again an interesting documentary film on the "Nightmare of the Free World" with tremendous consequences until today:
Politics - The Power of Nightmares (3 Parts)
Part II
Part III
(1) Tom Atlee, http://bit.ly/GameChange-1
Monday, 6 December 2010
Wikileaks...Updates (6) -EthioCables
WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists...
They invest (alias Al'a Moudin) and "grab the land" in Ethiopia and by the same stroke they finance "the fundamentalists in Somali-land". In other words, it doesn't need a big political insight to conceive that the Saudi-Arabian Sources finance "the fundamentalists" in Somali-land as well - Somalia/Horn of Africa, as one of the head-regions of Islam-fundamentalists - playing a crcial role in destabilizing the region.
No more words necessary. Here is the new classical "neocolonialism" at work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables-saudi-terrorist-funding
http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2009/09/09JEDDAH343.html
What else and how much more "intelligence" does the Ethiopian political class need for its ultimate national awareness and a political reconciliation (irrespective of its affiliations; political convictions and religious beliefs).
Even just for this disclosure on Horn-of-Africa/Ethiopia/ as one of the global volatile regions /with contemporary religious conflicts), I believe, Wikileaks deserves a good portion of gratitude from "The Ethiopian"!
Gratitude for what?...
For the BIG "secret" and "intelligence" disclosed.
Which "secret" and "intelligence" ?
Actually, Nothing more than the simple fact ...የአደባባይ ምስጢር ...(as Umberto Eco on the leaks correctly noted - a real secret is an empty secret)....that, TODAY, in post modernity, behind all the tirades of human, democratic and religious values reiterated by the political classes of different Nations /The Big Western World included/, there are big economic interests of their big "Capitals" lurking behind their front-humanist-masked-faces.
Unfortunately and by the irony of a perverted historical development all in contradistinction to the big objectives of Mankind's Enlightenment promoted in the past centuries by several great humanists of their own Nations.
At this stage; putting aside all other misgivings, including the responsibility for the ongoing new "neocolonialism"1) (cf. phenomenon "Land-grabbing"), it is necessary to show intellectual honesty by noting that PM Melesse has not missed the point in this context, albeit theoretical and his ulterior purpose of building the system of one-party-state.
http://berhane-aymero.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-updates-4-cables-on-ethiopia.html
"When people are committed to democracy and forced to make sacrifices for it, Meles said, “they won’t let any leader take it away from them.” But “when they are spoon-fed democracy, they will give it up when their source of funding and encouragement is removed.”
"....Democracy in Ethiopia must develop organically, and Ethiopians must organize and fund themselves and defend their own rights.....(my emphasis)."(cf. Melesse in the US-cables)
*
This statement; be it authentic, genuine or not, IT should be taken at face value to be a challenge for any political opposition of honest democratic nature!
***
1) Responsibility for all, including all the barbarous horror of atrocities taking place in the dungeons of his regime, depicting the serious edge of communal and individual psycho-collapse in which the Ethiopian society is submerged and showing how far & beyond imagination the perpetrators of the horror are literally mentally sick and perverted. (added after reading the report "Horrendous atrocities in Ethiopian prisons" 26.12.2010)
They invest (alias Al'a Moudin) and "grab the land" in Ethiopia and by the same stroke they finance "the fundamentalists in Somali-land". In other words, it doesn't need a big political insight to conceive that the Saudi-Arabian Sources finance "the fundamentalists" in Somali-land as well - Somalia/Horn of Africa, as one of the head-regions of Islam-fundamentalists - playing a crcial role in destabilizing the region.
No more words necessary. Here is the new classical "neocolonialism" at work.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cables-saudi-terrorist-funding
http://wikileaks.fi/cable/2009/09/09JEDDAH343.html
What else and how much more "intelligence" does the Ethiopian political class need for its ultimate national awareness and a political reconciliation (irrespective of its affiliations; political convictions and religious beliefs).
Even just for this disclosure on Horn-of-Africa/Ethiopia/ as one of the global volatile regions /with contemporary religious conflicts), I believe, Wikileaks deserves a good portion of gratitude from "The Ethiopian"!
Gratitude for what?...
For the BIG "secret" and "intelligence" disclosed.
Which "secret" and "intelligence" ?
Actually, Nothing more than the simple fact ...የአደባባይ ምስጢር ...(as Umberto Eco on the leaks correctly noted - a real secret is an empty secret)....that, TODAY, in post modernity, behind all the tirades of human, democratic and religious values reiterated by the political classes of different Nations /The Big Western World included/, there are big economic interests of their big "Capitals" lurking behind their front-humanist-masked-faces.
Unfortunately and by the irony of a perverted historical development all in contradistinction to the big objectives of Mankind's Enlightenment promoted in the past centuries by several great humanists of their own Nations.
Thus:
There is no other way in which Humanism and Democracy can develop other than organic and indigenous to its own space and mind. Ethiopia and the Democratic Ethiopian state!
*Thus the metaphor in the logo of this blog:
The fishes get their prey, if only YOU "move, click and tick" (say... reflect) in the aquarium. If you "play & prey (even pray)" outside the aquarium...it is meaningless ...for the fishes!
*At this stage; putting aside all other misgivings, including the responsibility for the ongoing new "neocolonialism"1) (cf. phenomenon "Land-grabbing"), it is necessary to show intellectual honesty by noting that PM Melesse has not missed the point in this context, albeit theoretical and his ulterior purpose of building the system of one-party-state.
http://berhane-aymero.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-updates-4-cables-on-ethiopia.html
"When people are committed to democracy and forced to make sacrifices for it, Meles said, “they won’t let any leader take it away from them.” But “when they are spoon-fed democracy, they will give it up when their source of funding and encouragement is removed.”
"....Democracy in Ethiopia must develop organically, and Ethiopians must organize and fund themselves and defend their own rights.....(my emphasis)."(cf. Melesse in the US-cables)
*
This statement; be it authentic, genuine or not, IT should be taken at face value to be a challenge for any political opposition of honest democratic nature!
***
1) Responsibility for all, including all the barbarous horror of atrocities taking place in the dungeons of his regime, depicting the serious edge of communal and individual psycho-collapse in which the Ethiopian society is submerged and showing how far & beyond imagination the perpetrators of the horror are literally mentally sick and perverted. (added after reading the report "Horrendous atrocities in Ethiopian prisons" 26.12.2010)
Wikileaks ....Updates (6)
Umberto Eco on Wikileaks:
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/414871-not-such-wicked-leaks
More from presseurop.eu:
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/415811-dictatorship-transparency
And more from "Counter Punch" - A furious version -
Paul Craig Roberts: What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us
*
Beaking Info: http://wlcentral.org/
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/414871-not-such-wicked-leaks
More from presseurop.eu:
http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/415811-dictatorship-transparency
And more from "Counter Punch" - A furious version -
Paul Craig Roberts: What the Wiki-Saga Teaches Us
*
Beaking Info: http://wlcentral.org/
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A Flash of the Day (Archive)
1. Working on the big "GOOD SENSE": The sense of Beauty.
6. Demoralization is a disgusting political tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the inhumanity of the employer! A disaster! (7/10/2010).
7. "In Girard's language, the law order is "mythical" and as such obeys the logic of the founding murder." (cf. Peter Robert Stork; 2005)
8. "Wenn sich zwei streiten, freut sich der Dritte"/When two people quarrel, a third rejoices... This will be a legacy; and in the 21st century, "Wenn sich zwei einigen, freut sich der Dritte" may take over. /A mutual understanding of two people rejoices the third/.
9. My quotation of the Day (8.11.10):
Baldwin’s thought: ("The Baldwin effect")
“It is as inexorable as the colour of his eyes and the shape of his nose. He is born into a system of social relationships just as he is born into a certain quality of air. As he grows in body by breathing the one, so he grows in mind by absorbing the other.’ (Baldwin, 1906: 69-70)
10. If "I AM" the observer (the conscious entity) so that the quanta of matter/mass (the wave function) would collapse to be a particle /the particle object), enhancing IT to the phase of THE Existing Reality.
Couldn't I -The Self- hope and help the spiritual energy/ my consciousness/ as well, to extend the transformed energy /After Life/to collapse into that existence of "THAT Beyond" Life (1). Life pertaining to "intelligent" energy (spiritual beings in the sphere of the Akashic Field), as the reflection of the "intelligent" matter or mass (human beings in the sphere of "thermodynamics" or gravity ). 17.11.10
*
(1) like J.Wheeler's Model of "the participating observer" in the Universe.
11. Forget Time! And mind Your Mind only (24.11.10).
I.e. "Talk about "time out of mind"!"(1)
12. Wikileaks in Amharic philo-play:
የዊቂ -ሊቅ ሰዋ ስው ...ባልታወቀ ነገር፤ሊቅ ፤ቂል ፤ ቅልቅል ፤ ቅል፤ ቀላል ቂል ወይስ ....በቃኝ ብሎ፤ ቅንጣት ቅብ -ብቅል ቀልቦ ፤ወደ ብቃት ሲቃ፤ ሲግዋዝ ይሁን ፤ ሲያንቀጠቅጥ ወይስ ተቀላቅሎ ሲያንቀለቅል።ያልታወቀ ነገር። 02.12.10
13. Gates and Centres:
Life , nature and actually the whole Universe know nothing about Top and Bottom or Up and Down. There are just centres in reality. Centres and Centres with all of them having their Gates, Gates leading to the Centres. What is wrong with mankind, always with the tick for tops and bottoms or ups and downs and not centres, but fixed to the gates, without the moral courage to move towards the centres -to build the symphony- the symphony in the SPHERE.
The SPHERE:
- The SPHERE of IDEAS is THE WORD of the SOURCE. THE WORD - The PLAY where this ASHORE and that BEYOND of the HARMONY is eternally tuned to exist in the SYMPHONY of ALL, flowing and floating like in the "Ballet piece of Joseph Strauss " -the Dynamiden Waltz- with every being offering its harmonious "musical touch". (cf. The Harmony Model)
Morning, 03.12.10
ሰው በምግብ ብቻ አይኖርም....ወሎ
14. መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ /+++ተጨማሪ!/
( via cf. "The Logic of Sense" /Deleuze) (9/2010)
2. በትርታ ይጀምራል፤ ትር ትር ይልና ይተርታል ወይንም ይተረታል ወይንም ተረት ይሆንና ይተረተራል፤ ተረት ይሆናል።(9/2010)
3. Degrading the other to "none-will" is inhuman and counter productive... The human point is to come to a common "Big-Will"(10/2010)
4. The "inner universe" (mystics) to the "outer universe" (physics) is allegorically related as the conscious mind to the virus in the human body. (6/10/2010)
5. Feeling is the language of the "inner Universe". Music/arts is the interface between the "inner" and "outer" universe.
7. "In Girard's language, the law order is "mythical" and as such obeys the logic of the founding murder." (cf. Peter Robert Stork; 2005)
8. "Wenn sich zwei streiten, freut sich der Dritte"/When two people quarrel, a third rejoices... This will be a legacy; and in the 21st century, "Wenn sich zwei einigen, freut sich der Dritte" may take over. /A mutual understanding of two people rejoices the third/.
9. My quotation of the Day (8.11.10):
Baldwin’s thought: ("The Baldwin effect")
“It is as inexorable as the colour of his eyes and the shape of his nose. He is born into a system of social relationships just as he is born into a certain quality of air. As he grows in body by breathing the one, so he grows in mind by absorbing the other.’ (Baldwin, 1906: 69-70)
10. If "I AM" the observer (the conscious entity) so that the quanta of matter/mass (the wave function) would collapse to be a particle /the particle object), enhancing IT to the phase of THE Existing Reality.
Couldn't I -The Self- hope and help the spiritual energy/ my consciousness/ as well, to extend the transformed energy /After Life/to collapse into that existence of "THAT Beyond" Life (1). Life pertaining to "intelligent" energy (spiritual beings in the sphere of the Akashic Field), as the reflection of the "intelligent" matter or mass (human beings in the sphere of "thermodynamics" or gravity ). 17.11.10
*
(1) like J.Wheeler's Model of "the participating observer" in the Universe.
11. Forget Time! And mind Your Mind only (24.11.10).
I.e. "Talk about "time out of mind"!"(1)
(1) http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Time.html
12. Wikileaks in Amharic philo-play:
የዊቂ -ሊቅ ሰዋ ስው ...ባልታወቀ ነገር፤ሊቅ ፤ቂል ፤ ቅልቅል ፤ ቅል፤ ቀላል ቂል ወይስ ....በቃኝ ብሎ፤ ቅንጣት ቅብ -ብቅል ቀልቦ ፤ወደ ብቃት ሲቃ፤ ሲግዋዝ ይሁን ፤ ሲያንቀጠቅጥ ወይስ ተቀላቅሎ ሲያንቀለቅል።ያልታወቀ ነገር። 02.12.10
13. Gates and Centres:
Life , nature and actually the whole Universe know nothing about Top and Bottom or Up and Down. There are just centres in reality. Centres and Centres with all of them having their Gates, Gates leading to the Centres. What is wrong with mankind, always with the tick for tops and bottoms or ups and downs and not centres, but fixed to the gates, without the moral courage to move towards the centres -to build the symphony- the symphony in the SPHERE.
The SPHERE:
- The SPHERE of IDEAS is THE WORD of the SOURCE. THE WORD - The PLAY where this ASHORE and that BEYOND of the HARMONY is eternally tuned to exist in the SYMPHONY of ALL, flowing and floating like in the "Ballet piece of Joseph Strauss " -the Dynamiden Waltz- with every being offering its harmonious "musical touch". (cf. The Harmony Model)
Morning, 03.12.10
ሰው በምግብ ብቻ አይኖርም....ወሎ
14. መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ /+++ተጨማሪ!/
ጥብቅ ማሳሰቢያ ሸክላን ለምትሠሩ፤
እዚህ መቃብር ላይ አፈር አትዝገኑ፡፡
ሲነድ ሲቃጠል ሲጨስ በመኖሩ፣
ሲቃጠል ለሚኖር፣
ለጀበና መሥሪያ አይሆንም አፈሩ፡፡
+++
(አንድ ከሚመለከተው የተጨመረ!
ከመቃብር በፊት)
ሰው ለመስራት ብቻ ከፍቀደ አየሩ
ክህነት ካላችሁ አሰቡ መርምሩ
ተራ ከገባችሁ ዘክሩ አስዘክሩ
ያልሆነው እንዲሆን ምከሩ ሞክሩ
ሽቀጣና ሽቀት እንዳይሆን ሃገሩ
አንድ ቀን እንደሆን አይቀር መቃ-ብሩ።
Michelle Holliday's Humanity 4.0
15. Human DIGNITY:
21st century is the era of Liberation Movements for Human Dignity, encompassing all other Movements, to make them superfluous – non-dogmatic, non-religious and non-ethnic with the great Common Collective Will for Human Empathy!
11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day, the Landmark for a radical break with all Tyrannies!
Thanks to Tunisia -The Heroic Pioneer of Freedom!
እንደዚህ ሆነና ...እስኪሆን ይሆናል!
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