for the first time i think i have suffered a mild bout of depression, in contrast to a deep clinical one, thank god
it was and is horrible
reading manage your mind helped but it took me some time to get to it and the process continues
Blogs
probably more than 45 million people died during the great leap forward 1958-62
a man-made version of hell
"Everything is water and the world is full of gods" Thales
karen armstrong makes the case for an apophatic theology that seeks god in the unknown and this ineffable aspect can link it to mysticism
just wondered how much theology richard dawkins has read
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of all property of all emigrants and rebels.
that will do for a start
saw an interview with eric hobsbawm and bought a foot of his books
i was probably being distracted by life and missed "a new theory of urban design" when it came out in 1987. i can't quite believe it but just knowing it's title and reading nearly everything else from the center for environmental structure, i assumed i had read it
an account of an experiment simulating the creation of urban fabric guided by wholeness
the theory is completely incompatible with present-day city planning, zoning, urban real estate, economics and law
it will require a revolution to implement any of it
finally got round to reading the copy of influences that colin ward gave me when he visited me above dad's place
of the nine people he presents
william godwin
mary wollstonecraft
alexander herzen
peter kropotkin
martin buber
william richard lethaby
walter segal
patrick geddes
paul goodman
i was aware of only four
on the last page he posits the idea shared by many of them "that the field we choose to call town and country planning was not a profession but a concern of every citizen"
in reference to paul goodman he states "There are more ideas to the page in Communitas than in any other book i have read" and consequently there is a copy heading towards the goobs shelf as i write
part 2 in praise of colin ward
in "debt: the first 5000 years" david graeber, an anthropologist, considers the economic myth of barter and concludes that money is the result of the abuse of power backed up by violence
"The real question now is how to ratchet things down a bit, to move toward a society where people can live more by working less. I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren't hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they're probably improving the world more than we acknowledge. Maybe we should think of them as pioneers of a new economic order that would not share our current one's penchant for self-destruction."
amen
nai zindagi naya jeevan was the first asian language program on british television
in urdu and hindi it means new life, new way
belle just pulled the perfect cuntish stunt learned suckling her mother's tit, of telling me she was not home educating as dominique was waiting in the car to pick up rose
i was total crap and kicked the house door closed on her and it took me an hour to not burn all trace of her left in the building and to calm down enough for noe to agree that i was right even when my intensity ray was turned off and i was facing away from him and standing quietly by myself in the garden
meanwhile, eco just phoned to say he was popping round. yippee!
i swear on my mother's grave, not that i know its location, that as long as i live i will never speak to belle again and i say that as odin's fucking paki dad
