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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Anonymous
Japanese Wind Lens!:
http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/japans-next-generation-of-renewable-energy/
But who cares?
"World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns" --
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change
.. and see WMO Provisional Statement on the Status of the Global Climate:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html
While here at home:
"Given lack of consensus as to the “primary” causes of mental distress, this proposed change [ in the definition of what constitutes a Mental Disorder ] may result in the labeling of sociopolitical deviance as mental disorder." -- last paragraph of "Sociocultural Variation" paragraph of American Psychological Association petition against proposed version of DSM-5.
See also blog "DSM5 in distress" at Psychology Today.
The DSM-5 is the fifth revision of the DSM, which is the manual published by American Psychiatric Association, which "... provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States of America and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers." (Wikipedia).
Let's hope the dolphins at least escape.
Anonymous
Japanese Wind Lens!:
http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/japans-next-generation-of-renewable-energy/
But who cares?
"World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns" --
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change
.. and see WMO Provisional Statement on the Status of the Global Climate:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html
While here at home:
"Given lack of consensus as to the “primary” causes of mental distress, this proposed change [ in the definition of what constitutes a Mental Disorder ] may result in the labeling of sociopolitical deviance as mental disorder." -- last paragraph of "Sociocultural Variation" paragraph of American Psychological Association petition against proposed version of DSM-5.
See also blog "DSM5 in distress" at Psychology Today.
The DSM-5 is the fifth revision of the DSM, which is the manual published by American Psychiatric Association, which "... provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. It is used in the United States of America and in varying degrees around the world, by clinicians, researchers, psychiatric drug regulation agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and policy makers." (Wikipedia).
Let's hope the dolphins at least escape.
Anonymous
Oops, sorry. Link to APA petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dsm5/
Anonymous
Oops, sorry. Link to APA petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dsm5/
Anonymous
You are suggesting that we need to fight fire with fire. We do not require yet another ideology or belief system. We don't need yet another incredibly subtle, reasonable, comprehensive intellectual model or any such thing. I would say we simple need to observe reality. It is the only thing simple enough to be passed on through word of mouth. Our ability to see the real, which has a neurological basis, has been atrophied. The more we try to idealize and image everything around us the more we exclude the possibility of seeing things as they are. We are trying to untangle a web of ideas by thinking about them...confounding the problem! Insist on fundamental, simple reality. Don't try to persuade, manipulate or debate about that which is factual and don't confuse reality with the idea of reality. The public are bombarded by ideas to the point that they have stopped listening and settled on whatever particular idea gives them the feeling of security, because otherwise they become anxious. They have settled on the idea of security instead of actual security, the idea of society instead of actual society, etc etc. Stirring them up and hoping that your ideology will be the one they settle on next is business as usual. You don't want or need to unsettle them or have them believe this or that, they just need to actually observe the world which you will not get them to do, by giving them another mental image to play around with. It wasting time. If people at least have contact with reality then differences of opinion are not so critical, maybe there are different ways of sorting things out, we can choose or try them all, but what are the actual problems? Without consensus on the basics of all this, then we are all talking about different things and all we have to offer the world is endless cogitation. Let's simply insist on actuality and from there we can have a foundation from which to work, actual, grounded, proven knowledge and wisdom instead of only the appearance of it. When you remove all the opinions there is not that much left that people need to be aware of and it is simple enough that anyone can grasp it so why the need for some big idea? We don't need everyone on the planet to fully understand the subtleties of various economic, political or philosophical theories. Hoping that the big idea is coming along to save everything is our habit because we have assumed that we can think our way out everything, we can't think our way free from an imaginary society because the more time we spend cogitating on reality the less time we spend actually observing it. It disconnects our intelligence from our situation and that is the opposite of science or meditation. We have to achieve some things bodily. OOOOPS excuse me for ranting!!
Anonymous
You are suggesting that we need to fight fire with fire. We do not require yet another ideology or belief system. We don't need yet another incredibly subtle, reasonable, comprehensive intellectual model or any such thing. I would say we simple need to observe reality. It is the only thing simple enough to be passed on through word of mouth. Our ability to see the real, which has a neurological basis, has been atrophied. The more we try to idealize and image everything around us the more we exclude the possibility of seeing things as they are. We are trying to untangle a web of ideas by thinking about them...confounding the problem! Insist on fundamental, simple reality. Don't try to persuade, manipulate or debate about that which is factual and don't confuse reality with the idea of reality. The public are bombarded by ideas to the point that they have stopped listening and settled on whatever particular idea gives them the feeling of security, because otherwise they become anxious. They have settled on the idea of security instead of actual security, the idea of society instead of actual society, etc etc. Stirring them up and hoping that your ideology will be the one they settle on next is business as usual. You don't want or need to unsettle them or have them believe this or that, they just need to actually observe the world which you will not get them to do, by giving them another mental image to play around with. It wasting time. If people at least have contact with reality then differences of opinion are not so critical, maybe there are different ways of sorting things out, we can choose or try them all, but what are the actual problems? Without consensus on the basics of all this, then we are all talking about different things and all we have to offer the world is endless cogitation. Let's simply insist on actuality and from there we can have a foundation from which to work, actual, grounded, proven knowledge and wisdom instead of only the appearance of it. When you remove all the opinions there is not that much left that people need to be aware of and it is simple enough that anyone can grasp it so why the need for some big idea? We don't need everyone on the planet to fully understand the subtleties of various economic, political or philosophical theories. Hoping that the big idea is coming along to save everything is our habit because we have assumed that we can think our way out everything, we can't think our way free from an imaginary society because the more time we spend cogitating on reality the less time we spend actually observing it. It disconnects our intelligence from our situation and that is the opposite of science or meditation. We have to achieve some things bodily. OOOOPS excuse me for ranting!!
bcountry
Rant on Bro Sis?
And hopefully you got weight off your chest. Is it quiet in there now. So now what do you see feel ?
It's good to have opinions as long as you're not those opinions. We're all frustrated, sit with that for a while!
not sure its a win win to project ones...emotions onto others. Sit with that for a while
Don't overlook the garbage along the trail. We all own it....Time for compassion
bcountry
Rant on Bro Sis?
And hopefully you got weight off your chest. Is it quiet in there now. So now what do you see feel ?
It's good to have opinions as long as you're not those opinions. We're all frustrated, sit with that for a while!
not sure its a win win to project ones...emotions onto others. Sit with that for a while
Don't overlook the garbage along the trail. We all own it....Time for compassion
Anonymous
If we sit with it long enough we begin to find, inwardly, outwardly and indeed fifth dimensionally that without the wanting of or for we become and begin to become a state of oneness with the becoming which draws the spirit beyond the moment and deeper within the moment to transcend our physical being in an astral projection that becomes the moment of what was or is and will be which really is one oneness of the duality of oneness. sit on that for a while
Anonymous
If we sit with it long enough we begin to find, inwardly, outwardly and indeed fifth dimensionally that without the wanting of or for we become and begin to become a state of oneness with the becoming which draws the spirit beyond the moment and deeper within the moment to transcend our physical being in an astral projection that becomes the moment of what was or is and will be which really is one oneness of the duality of oneness. sit on that for a while
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