December 2007
35 posts
November 2007
43 posts
paradise paved
while at home for thanksgiving i took my grandmother to see “bee movie.” we drove 10 miles to the 30 screen cineplex that stands alone in the center of a massive parking lot right off route 88 - a toll road that connects illinois to interstate 80 - the highway that runs smackdab through the middle of the coutnry, from san francisco to new york city. the movie was whatever. i feel...
Freedom
home for thanksgiving, we were talking about the development of the suburbs and highway system post WWII and i pointed out how the inefficient and decentralized design of the suburbs made it necessary for people to rely on their cars to do EVERYTHING, at the expense of our environment, among other things. my grandma said, “yes, but the personal FREEDOM that cars provide…” it...
Playing with eye phone
best response possible
[redacted]: doing coke with nagi nodas muse
ben dickinson: i'm at bee movie with my grandma
[redacted]: best response possible
I rarely sit through a whole movie anymore
I’m watching 80s horror films as research for an upcoming waverly project. So so so boring. I think as our attention spans continue to decrease while our ability to process simultaneous streams of complex information increases, everything except the most excellent, well-crafted films will become intolerably dull. This would put movies more at the level of opera or painting - the best will...
Mind Prisons Are Safe →
Late Bloomer →
simplicity
mike rempert: ive been thinking about what yousaid - tapping back into what this shit meant to us in high school. no pressure to succeed, doing it for the fun of it and you are SOOOOOO FUCKING RIGHT!!!
ben: i know it only because i have only just realized this MYSELF
mike rempert: blowing my mind with rightness! and its such a simple thing to think of! perhaps if im depressed i shouldnt engulf depressants, and maybe should do stuff I like to do because i like to do it! amazing!
ben: hahahaah. i am blogging this
mike rempert: you think im scared - fucking do it homo
“I used to know the spells, but only now do I have the magic”
– David May
Florida Fantasy →
Belief...
plugs up the holes in our understanding and helps us create the illusion of a continuous, stable, constant universe. but that shit ain’t the truth.
my sister is in freshman philosophy
sarah: u would THRIVE in my philospohy class right now
ben: great. im at the level of freshman philosophy. here's the difference between me now and when i took freshman philosphy. then, i just liked to think about stuff. now, i'm trying to figure out how to actually live my life
sarah: that's a good difference
existential fact: the only moment that exists is...
complications:
what if this moment is a nightmare? that is to say, is the human mind capable of being present at ANY moment? it depends. do we react to terror, horror, dread by a) retreating into fantasy, oblivion, death b) confronting and mastering?
tangential question: how does the aforementioned potential breakdown of the narrative of linear time-space fit in to the existential reality...
the status quo is a misery club
people want you to conform because they want you to join their misery club. people make choices that make them unhappy and so they want lots of people around to agree with them and confirm that they are at least unhappy in the right way.
i need to believe in GOD but i can't
my rational mind won’t allow it. sure, i can get into a cosmogony as per the one suggested by K Dick but this doesn’t address my NEED for GOD. that is comfort, a sense of higher purpose, and most importantly a belief in a cosmic design that is concerned with my (and everyones) wellbeing. in other words, i wish i could CHOOSE to be crazy.
the light of reason set us free and fucked...
Death Of Cinema →
via nitmesh
Unstuck in Time
as human minds develop, is it possible that we will gradually grow out of the narrative of linear time?
possible title for book
“Shitty Enlightenment”
Philip K Dick's Cosmogony →
“…The maker (called by Jakob Bohme in 1616 the Urgrund) constructed a reality-projecting artifact which then, on command, projected the first stage of the world we know. The artifact is unaware that it is an artifact; it is oblivious to the existence of the Urgrund (in terms that the artifact would understand, the Urgrund is not, rather than is), and imagines itself to be God, the only...
GOD? →
FOOD! →
No thinking allowed today
getting me nowhere
