Post Idea World
Selingkuh Tak Sampai - 2004 - Agus Suwage
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For millennia, human civilization has been flush with a succession of paradigm shifting, big ideas. Modernity's Hegelian world spirit, Nietzschean death of God and Heideggerian Being gave way in postmodernity to Foucault's dispositif, Fukuyama's end of history, Derrida's deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome. And yet, while we all assumed that big ideas would keep flowing hard and fast forever, in the last few years it seems that the wells of inspiration are running dry. There is a dawning realization that truly novel, creative ideas have suddenly stopped coming. Nobody knows why.
The conceptual drought couldn't be happening at a more inopportune moment. Seven billion of us are struggling through the most severe ecological, financial, political and spiritual crisis in our history. This time the catastrophe we face doesn't affect a single nation or region or continent … it is all the more terrifying because it is global and simultaneous. Odds are that if we can't pull ourselves out of this decline then we just might descend into a horrifying thousand year long dark age … an age of scorched earth authoritarian-capitalism, brutalism and mayhem which will make the genocides and holocausts of the previous century feel like foreplay. We've not only run out of ideas; we're running out of time.
Now more than ever we need the creative breakthroughs and outlier brainstorms that can shift the terrain of thought, revealing exits, opening possibilities, potentially saving us all. We need mavericks of indie media who can kill the commercial virus that infects our information flows. We need a brilliant new crop of economics students who can stand up to their professors, topple the neoclassical paradigm and replace it with a new, true cost model. We need potent new ways of dismantling corporate rule and killing corporate personhood. And then there is the biggest challenge of them all: how to spark a social revolution, an insurrection of everyday life that sweeps across the globe just in time to avert the final catastrophe?
It may be that our abandonment of the natural world and wholesale migration into cyberspace has cut our roots and scrambled our neurons beyond repair. We may be in the midst of an irreversible mental breakdown of the human race that parallels the irreversible collapse of our planet's ecosystems. This eco-psycho spiral may do us in. Maybe it is already too late?
But issue #99 of Adbusters is not about despair, it is about hope and revolution and living without dead time … it's about testing the waters and discerning whether we can muster the psychic energy for an almighty turnaround.
for the wild,
Kalle Lasn and Micah White
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Streetjustin4
"kill corporate personhood"
Communities being invaded by frackers and over ridden by their elected officials can establish Home Rule. Withthat in place communities can write their own laws stating that they do not recognize corporate personhood. They can state that all laws, preemptions, and permits given to faux persons such as corporations were not made with the consent of the people and we do not consent therefore such are not lawful and we do not recognize corporate personhood.
Article is thinly referenced with respect to philosophies. That we have a culture that would stomach the supremes slow creation of corporate personhood is the end game of platonic idealism which says that an idea of a thing is more true than the real thing. Philosophical antidote would be Merleaux Ponty. And there is The Spell of the Sensuous. Everybody here is saying a common thing - get real, connect, ground up, grass roots...
Streetjustin4
"kill corporate personhood"
Communities being invaded by frackers and over ridden by their elected officials can establish Home Rule. Withthat in place communities can write their own laws stating that they do not recognize corporate personhood. They can state that all laws, preemptions, and permits given to faux persons such as corporations were not made with the consent of the people and we do not consent therefore such are not lawful and we do not recognize corporate personhood.
Article is thinly referenced with respect to philosophies. That we have a culture that would stomach the supremes slow creation of corporate personhood is the end game of platonic idealism which says that an idea of a thing is more true than the real thing. Philosophical antidote would be Merleaux Ponty. And there is The Spell of the Sensuous. Everybody here is saying a common thing - get real, connect, ground up, grass roots...
osyran2
An interesting article. Made me think; so much so, in fact, that I became a member to make this my first blog here (thanks for the opportunity). I think it did miss a few points though. For the most part a great deal of 'unknown' technologies lies within the R&D departments of various government and corporate systems. Plenty of researching, but none of the development. I write about tech, but I know plenty of other issues relate to innovation, be it in science and tech or plain ol' philosophy, which is changing by leaps and bounds now. Philosophically speaking, of course. :)
In Canada we have a great deal of highly intelligent people, but most go 'elsewhere'. A consistent and problematic 'brain drain' as a result of large corporations preventing competition among the smaller businesses, which have neither the capital or the personnel for effective think tanks. The decision of larger corporations and governments to hold their research findings out of the prying eyes of the public is the most likely culprit of this global stagnation. A prime example; Tesla's research documents and experiments. But others include solar and radio technology, medicine, pharmaceuticals, computing, nano-technology, and SO much more.
Education is Canada, imo is still excellent, but it too is becoming stagnant. Over time more people, particularly the young, are becoming more and more fervent about getting an education, rising costs of tuition and a general lack of innovation in our schools is also a contributor. Lack of intellectual sharing is something that should be put on the table. Innovation can be a huge factor in creating jobs and a stable economy. Standardization of old technologies should also be updated to include more green technologies.
The young will take over eventually, but it should not take so long, when it is them that will gain the benefits...that is to say, if they are educated in their particular vocation with the high level of education they are looking for. Time will tell, but something somewhere needs to give.
osyran2
An interesting article. Made me think; so much so, in fact, that I became a member to make this my first blog here (thanks for the opportunity). I think it did miss a few points though. For the most part a great deal of 'unknown' technologies lies within the R&D departments of various government and corporate systems. Plenty of researching, but none of the development. I write about tech, but I know plenty of other issues relate to innovation, be it in science and tech or plain ol' philosophy, which is changing by leaps and bounds now. Philosophically speaking, of course. :)
In Canada we have a great deal of highly intelligent people, but most go 'elsewhere'. A consistent and problematic 'brain drain' as a result of large corporations preventing competition among the smaller businesses, which have neither the capital or the personnel for effective think tanks. The decision of larger corporations and governments to hold their research findings out of the prying eyes of the public is the most likely culprit of this global stagnation. A prime example; Tesla's research documents and experiments. But others include solar and radio technology, medicine, pharmaceuticals, computing, nano-technology, and SO much more.
Education is Canada, imo is still excellent, but it too is becoming stagnant. Over time more people, particularly the young, are becoming more and more fervent about getting an education, rising costs of tuition and a general lack of innovation in our schools is also a contributor. Lack of intellectual sharing is something that should be put on the table. Innovation can be a huge factor in creating jobs and a stable economy. Standardization of old technologies should also be updated to include more green technologies.
The young will take over eventually, but it should not take so long, when it is them that will gain the benefits...that is to say, if they are educated in their particular vocation with the high level of education they are looking for. Time will tell, but something somewhere needs to give.
Anonymous
Why would the corporations such as oil and pharma want green cars or cures to illnesses?
IMHO what needs to give is people's complacency and blind allegiance. Any system requires The People to prop it up and sustain it.
Anonymous
Why would the corporations such as oil and pharma want green cars or cures to illnesses?
IMHO what needs to give is people's complacency and blind allegiance. Any system requires The People to prop it up and sustain it.
I am sorry this...
This comes from my sense of not wanting American companies to return to profitability and never wanting to hear about that process again or allow people to continue to suffer under it. I say its a broken incentive mechanism that was always over billed and can't be fixed.
It's time to put an end to profitability. The for-profit firms can be converted by the process of democracy into a kind of non-profit where all the proceeds are distributed to the employees because they generate the proceeds in the first place and they generated the resources that put the capital in place to begin with. Let's fire the capitalist class into permanent retirement.
Each will contribute according to his ability and each will take according to their need. As Proudhoun said, "slavery is murder" and wage slaver spent at unnecessary tread milling jobs surely qualifies.
As Proudhoun said "I know what law is and it is crime"... it seems we are getting the kind of law that looks like crime now.
I am sorry this...
This comes from my sense of not wanting American companies to return to profitability and never wanting to hear about that process again or allow people to continue to suffer under it. I say its a broken incentive mechanism that was always over billed and can't be fixed.
It's time to put an end to profitability. The for-profit firms can be converted by the process of democracy into a kind of non-profit where all the proceeds are distributed to the employees because they generate the proceeds in the first place and they generated the resources that put the capital in place to begin with. Let's fire the capitalist class into permanent retirement.
Each will contribute according to his ability and each will take according to their need. As Proudhoun said, "slavery is murder" and wage slaver spent at unnecessary tread milling jobs surely qualifies.
As Proudhoun said "I know what law is and it is crime"... it seems we are getting the kind of law that looks like crime now.
I am sorry this...
This comes from my sense of not wanting American companies to return to profitability and never wanting to hear about that process again or allow people to continue to suffer under it. I say its a broken incentive mechanism that was always over billed and can't be fixed.
It's time to put an end to profitability. The for-profit firms can be converted by the process of democracy into a kind of non-profit where all the proceeds are distributed to the employees because they generate the proceeds in the first place and they generated the resources that put the capital in place to begin with. Let's fire the capitalist class into permanent retirement.
Each will contribute according to his ability and each will take according to their need. As Proudhoun said, "slavery is murder" and wage slaver spent at unnecessary tread milling jobs surely qualifies.
As Proudhoun said "I know what law is and it is crime"... it seems we are getting the kind of law that looks like crime now.
I am sorry this...
This comes from my sense of not wanting American companies to return to profitability and never wanting to hear about that process again or allow people to continue to suffer under it. I say its a broken incentive mechanism that was always over billed and can't be fixed.
It's time to put an end to profitability. The for-profit firms can be converted by the process of democracy into a kind of non-profit where all the proceeds are distributed to the employees because they generate the proceeds in the first place and they generated the resources that put the capital in place to begin with. Let's fire the capitalist class into permanent retirement.
Each will contribute according to his ability and each will take according to their need. As Proudhoun said, "slavery is murder" and wage slaver spent at unnecessary tread milling jobs surely qualifies.
As Proudhoun said "I know what law is and it is crime"... it seems we are getting the kind of law that looks like crime now.
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