Anyway, I like your post. We're way centralized but I think there's hope for music (ie, my city has some great community music(great thrashcore scene)) and politics/etc (Green Party is growing (sorry, I have to rep the GP when possible)).
Kenneth Branagh has a version of Othello that I havn't seen yet. Branagh's Shakespeare movies are usually really good, we should get together and watch it. It has Lawrence Fishbourne as Othello, Branagh as Iago, I dunno who else.
P.S. Skinhead punk has always been about unity. Dropkick Murphys = Unity Music. I know punk is way too simple, but that is a musical community that really about coming together.
which castaneda book? if it's one of the first two, read it. if not, don't bother.
this detachment from community is only our inability in this reality to see the wholeness that pervades every moment, everything, everyone. even our inability to see this wholeness is wholeness. chris, brother, i have so much to share with you! i'm going to write you a letter tonight.
You have to frame this in historical context. Our western alienation started with agriculture, which produced a sort of Dominionist attitude with which women became subjugated, as well as the earth. Indeed, some humans lost perspective, driven by greed -- it seems the love of money really is the root of all evil! (Hunter-gatherer nomadic societies were much more egalitarian and democratic, less violent, with a true appreciation for the interconnectedness of ecosystems, as well as their own relationship with the universe. Our own democracy was based more on Native American culture than European ideals -- it just took Whitey regurgitating it to get Whitey to listen.) We know that as early as the Roman Empire, possibly before, philosophers decried the destruction of the land due to farming. The physical necessities of supporting the system fed the social/spiritual sickness, which perpetuated and expanded the system, which fed the alienation and social stratification -- from slavery to the present point of our malignant Car Culture
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i understand what you've said. but all of this is perfect. this supposed alienation that we (choose to) experience is but another side of interconnectedness. that is what i mean by wholeness.
regardless of what we are experiencing, every moment is perfectly whole, for all reality is always happening.
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We're meta-metaphysics! I think it's healthy.
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Got me there.
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P.S. Skinhead punk has always been about unity. Dropkick Murphys = Unity Music. I know punk is way too simple, but that is a musical community that really about coming together.
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this detachment from community is only our inability in this reality to see the wholeness that pervades every moment, everything, everyone. even our inability to see this wholeness is wholeness. chris, brother, i have so much to share with you! i'm going to write you a letter tonight.
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regardless of what we are experiencing, every moment is perfectly whole, for all reality is always happening.
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