Thursday, December 21, 2017

Sins of Multiculturalism??



Sins of Multiculturalism??


Multiculturalism-the conscious acknowledgement of parallel to competing cultural 
strains-has always existed, but was 'confined' or repressed to the ethnic communities 
(ghettos). Only the latter-day semi-diaspora from the ghettos and the cultural contrast 
in discernment of the emigres from the ghettos, plus their new, formerly mostly 
homogeneous host-neighbors  created the de facto schisms that have now become 
secularized in institutions and politics.

This is a result of liberated minds and the re-formation (though I dare say 'reformation') 
of the cultural narrative and its emphasis of agreed commonality, of which the many 
sides now find schisms of differences.

'Do the trains run as smoothly on time' as before? No. But we're talking about an 
organism, even if it's a social organism, and not some programmed machine of 
efficiency. As was said for eternity, "...It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated 
here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly 
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...".
 We, the People-this Nation, are not some cog for a certain designed end, but much like 
a never-ending work in the process of History.. The karmic retributions of imbalances 
and inequities of the past do catch up with fabricated narratives of the winners of the 
past'.

Much as the antebellum period was one of great social antagonisms and disaffections, 
so it is justly-on both sides today. To seek to claim a universal or absolute standard 
during this gestative period would be akin to naming the gender of the fetus before it 
has reached that point in the process.

Discounting the entrenched views and relying on the practical necessity for cooperation 
in the minutiae of the mundane to accomplish the essential acts, I foresee as an ultimate, 
long term, cultural end that will bring about the politics of a centrifuged consensus, 
if not unity,  for no other reason that more existential threats and dangers from men 
and nature which will require it---THE PROPHET



Wednesday, December 13, 2017

A level of Comunality




People exist for some communal connection. Whether it is with:

A PERSON

FAMILY

NEIGHBORHOOD

ETHNIC GROUP

REGIONAL SYMPATHY

NATIONAL LOYALTY

WORLDLY CONNECTION

ABSTRACT ORIENTATION

Objectivist and others who think in terms of assets totally miss what incentivizes and motivates people’s needs for being..



What is an Extra-Terrestrial alignment?

What is an Extra-Terrestrial alignment?
UNABRIDGED TEXT

IT IS A VISCERALLY INDUCED, EXPERIENTIALLY AFFECTING MENTAL STATE; MUCH LIKE 
THE EFFECT THAT AN EXTERNAL SUBSTANCE WOULD HAVE.. BEING A VISCERALLY 
INDUCED EXPERIENCE, IT WOULD BE CARNAL IN ITS MANIFESTATION.

Friday, December 1, 2017

Speak to me in that tone of voice!





Speak to me in that tone of voice!

Have you noticed, maybe, that some of the most inspiring expressions had a quality of pitch that stirred your soul? This includes non-verbal instrumentals such as Coltrane at the Newport RI Jazz festival doing ‘My favorite Things’ or Santana at  Woodstock doing ‘Soul Sacrifice’. And the verbal utterances which had a ring of  validity that was of a resonating timber to the depths of your being..

I believe it is the animistic spirit of the Logos, whose energy drives all be-ing of space and time, as it’s channeling through the entities of this and any other dimension providing us the interlocution of its articulation of its essence in the raw vitality of the tones which reverberate in our bodies and mind. This animism, whether as a prayer or a laugh, allows us to identify for ourselves the magnificent joy of the majesty of  ‘the being’ in the moment. We call that presence from everything sacred to a horrifying curse. Yet..It is the energy and vitality-incarnated, as the sign  and symbol of that intangible, sublime presence to which we give divinical  glory in our worship and pursuit to achieve an imitation of its sublimity in our performance of comprehension of it.

It is the meaning, the purpose, and the motivation for the ends of our contentment, satisfaction, or satiation. It is the juice and the nectar that is the sweetness of our life’s appetite.  It is the object of our life’s devotion to being. And as the affirming phenomena of being exquisitely alive, It is that quality of energy and matter that is the blessed grace and answer for even the most profane of prayers..


Life's a Battlefield between the balance of those of Mental and Physical energy




Life's a Battlefield between the balance
of those of Mental and Physical energy
For those lost in body and soul, there is the balanced between physical kinetic energy and mental kinetic energy as a therapy to such a pathology. Being able to have the right ratio of mental versus physical energy will determine if you can thrive in this no-boundaries struggle of materialistic self-aggrandization.

The Earth is affected in the seasonal tilt of its axis in ways that determine what is more favorable energy distribution and utilization in the moment. The seasonal energy manifestations comes in trimester periods that imitate the 360 degree cycles of a sine or cosine curve, depending on whether your birthplace was in the southern or northern hemisphere. Let’s say that the quartile periods in the northern hemisphere are April 24th for the Earth Awakening, August 24th for the beginning of the harvest, December 24th for the Earth somnambulance, -approximately a 120 degree integral. From late August to the solstice week in December, the northern hemisphere is going to grounding itself-literally and figuratively. From the December solstice until the Spring resurrection, the northern hemisphere is coming out of its internment. From the April resurrection to the late Summer when there is the ripening, there is the predominance of the atmosphere. Just as the movement of heat energy coming from the equator influences December through August, is the reassertion of the Earth as the warm dissipates into and past December until April.

Where we are born in that continuum determines if we are of the Earth (the physical energy) or of the Sky (the mental energy). If we are born in the physical periods, we need the mental energy balance during the physical periods, as the mental period birthings need to stress more physicality during those periods.

This has been lost during the period of estrangement-4000 B.C to the Present, just around 6000 years or approximately 360 generations. During this period of imbalance between the mental and the physical, marked by the calamities of either too much of either physicality or mentality with little moderating of either the needed physical or mental energy, human history has seen the horrific consequences of this imbalance. Right now Human history is in the hyper-mental period, where the prospective, abstract thought means more than the empirical physical limitations. We can not sustain ourselves past our physical and mental limitations. There will always be a greater kinetic force, and there will always be something beyond our empirically deducible imaginations to which we could not or should not aspire.

In the micro-realm of our knowledge (or lack of knowledge) of our own seasonal ratio of mental energy to physical energy, it has greatly influenced the distortions in which our lives exist. I will use my own birthdate, August 24th-not counting the solar cycle of the year I was born.

My birthday occurs at that point where the heat of the summer gives way to more cooler nights that extend their cooler temperatures into the day time, as the northern hemisphere begins its tilt toward the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. What is relevant to me is that the air (the mental) which had been predominating during my gestation, at my birth gives way to the northerly earth properties of my location of that time of year. Though my ontology was strongly influenced by the intangible qualities of the atmospherics, the quality influences of the hardening, cold earth were my greeters into this domain.
Yet I was born during the age of the cerebral energy-the mental kinetics. My parents, who were inhibited by the region of their birth for their physical capabilities, though both were born in the September-October period of increasing earthly conditions-3 to 9 and 2 to 10 of physicality-they had to stress the mental. It carried over in their training with me and my siblings. With me as a 4 to 8 physicality and in a more liberating, liberal environment, I could have been more physical than the seeming ‘8 to 4’ ratio they treated and trained me.

My latent physicality I kept me in touch, more, for my incidental needs than any conscientious effort on my part, in my earlier years. Having been roped into the military between the ages of 22 to 53, kept me obligated to some conscientious attention to my physicality and the processes for maintaining that physicality. After the 53rd year, the philosophy and purpose of being physical beyond the secular, military standards began to come to my awareness.

In attaining some homeostatic balance, I came to not only a spiritual insight, but a social position of cultural misanthropy. That misanthropy was from recognizing the cultural snares to my emotional and physical self-abuse in my default position of being a part of the trends. It is then that I perceived the metaphoric connection of ‘total warfare’ and the battle for existence, world wide, for people and other species from the aggrandizers. But people were generally accomplices and enablers of their own adverse circumstances by not existing in a homeostatic balance in their mental and physical energy.

Using my state as an example, I am a 4 month physical energy and an 8 month mental energy framework. From August to December four month period to have balance I should be reflective, first, before I act. From January to August, I can be more intuitively physical in my approach. On a graph, my mental utilization would be at a high in the last week of August. It would diminish until the last week of February [which coincidentally is also the time of the year when the first warm snap occurs in the mid-Atlantic latitudes]. From late February to late August, I’d be cultivating by physical engagement in the surrounding environment, and with what I had reflected on in the August to December period when I was in a more refrained ascetic and monastic detachment from non-essential physical kinetic proactivity. I’d be doing more proactive kinetic activity after December until late August at my birth anniversary, when I enter the reflective celebration of the harvest of knowledge from my kinetics of the prior eight months.

Unlike this protocol and paradigm, most people are unwittingly programmed to be herded to cyclical rituals of artificial functions, which at one time may have had a sacred, homeostatic meaning for their physical and mental ‘well-being’. They are individual and mass victims in a contra-physiological agenda of illusions and delusional behavior which makes them collateral damage in the temporal and secular, humanistic agendas, in which they are programmed to involuntarily exist.



Most think that by some physical, organized, kinetic arrangement they will achieve a resolution to the vexing and chronic issues of human existence. In fact, they are perpetuating the karmic cycle which is camouflaged in the external styles of the means of its expression, but little in the inner, general character essence of the human psyche. The brilliance of yesteryear, could be clothed in contemporary trappings and still have the same acceptance and fame that has made it timeless over the ages. It is those things that have timelessly sustained themselves that are very likely models and templates of the homeostatic balance between mental and physical energy application-in all seasons.

When you are attuned to the rhythms of your birth moment ratio of mental-to-physicality, you are more likely to refrain from many of the cultural inducements for compulsive physicality or mental obsessiveness. As it is, people have been led by the wrong signals for their body’s physiology, thus indirectly affecting their mind’s proper perspective. This is the root of the deprivations of disparities and imbalances we see in human culture.

The strength of unity we seek in humanistic temporal or spiritual realms is not achievable by association with external trappings, but with the repressed and now latent internals within us, of which we are mostly ignorant. It is an individual quest for finding the valid, defining network which associates us with the surrounding space and its times. Without this achievement we are potential victims and casualties of this adverse paradigm of logic we inhabit.


As actors in this adverse paradigm, we must deal with the discernment of our own unique algorithmic code of optimal energy-balanced efficiency, but we must recognize what IS the imperative social relationships and duties we have with other beings-tangible and intangible-in our surrounding environment.

No matter the genetic, social, ethnic, cultural, or national relation there is a transcendent order derived from the time of our birth, as I first prefaced on this post. Except for those random moments in which urgent actions are needed, we are limited (or bound) to the parameters that have constructed what we could potentially do in our energies in any particular space-of-time. As is written in the Bhagavad Gita’s chapter 18, verse 47 . When You are at your wits end, it is better to give yourself to what you can do physically, than to hyper-stress yourself on things beyond the conceivable for you. In the same way, when you have reached the limits of your physical vitality, it is better to give your body over to rest and let your psyche indirectly-to-directly provide you with the rejuvenation and motivation you need, in the direction you need to be focused.

As this applies to your interaction with people and the moments, there are people who on a classic battlefield, who would be triaged as such:
Extrapolating from these categories, it can be conjectured that on a psyche-basis, those in the immediate category could be those who’ve experienced a one-time traumatic event and can be helped with some form of therapy. The ‘delayed’, ‘minimal’, and ‘expectant’ categories would have their corresponding psychic injuries for which the actor could or couldn’t address successfully for the benefit of the victim in an efficient expenditure of energy on the actor’s part.

‘All lives matter’ to the extent that they ARE recoverable for what would be functionally more practical than the ‘unconditional love’ love of codependency and enablement, but would be more the unconditional passion for what can be feasibly accomplished for those who are less the victims of their own conscious and willful neglect for themselves, and more for those for whom external circumstances have not so damaged them for any usefulness and productiveness to themselves, and, hopefully, to others.

We are in a conflict of wills with others and our own shortcomings. If one can attain that energy balance for the times to be primarily kinetic to the times to be primarily reflective,  then we can navigate through the metaphorical booby-traps, mindfields, and hostile or friendly fire that is the metaphysical reality of this hyper-materialistic, self-aggrandizing battlefield of diverse and divergent perceptions.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Incarnated, Commissioned Pedigree: Tiger Year, First New Moon Virgo , born on Thors day at 630pm



[Link to the footnote annotated draft of this post]
Tiger Year
 first New Moon Virgo, on Thors day evening

This sequence was the predicate of my birth. From that birth I was accorded the entitlements of being born in that sequence with fortuitous sensory seedings that gave me hints and clues which individually teased my thinking. As those hints and clues aggregated I realized I had a role transcendent to the mundanities of possession and title trappings of others’ pursuits. I was the passive conduit for a presence that manifested the instrumentality of its equity and justice within my sensory boundaries.
I became aware of it, first, on the corner of E. Genesee and Westcott Street one cold, wintry, January day..

Years passed, and I had moments not as great as that wintry day, but they were times for me to say “Thanks!”. The presence was always in the background camouflaged in the animisms of the moment.

By the time of my senior year I had moved away from considering the words in the Scriptures as the final world on our morality, let alone ontological genesis. My newly developing iconoclasms tended to more metaphysical rhetoric, which brought me to the next serendipitous revelation of existential potentiality.


A dream I had just after the Christmas break was the beginning of the clue and signs for what the Presence was preparing my still very methodology-clueless mind by metaphors for what I was to face over my life. That dream was followed by several equally metaphorical, symbolic dreams to give me an orientation for my now pilgrim-seeking efforts.
Having few with whom to share the metas of my speculations, plus no longer having the intense time investment in the study of these metaphysics left me treading water and drifting away from considering anything more than the secular routine tasks I was facing weekly and yearly for most of the next decade.

Near the end of that decade of secular accommodation by me, I began to have dreams similar in their metaphoric import as the dream I had called, “The Dream-for the Record”. That began my intellectual reformation from being another temporal widget of hollowed-out spirituality. I knew there was a role for me to play but what would it be?

I got another clue from a feral-spirited co-worker who gave me a text of the Bhagavad Gita, in which two chapters- 3 & 18- provided me with purpose and guidance I needed. Ten years later I would receive a text, the ‘Futuh al-Ghaib’, that placed in perspective the futility of living in profane pursuits for having any expectations of blessings being bestowed on me for my efforts. The comprehension of the significant of these texts became the predicate for the next period of synchronistic blessings which showed me the fortuitous grace of being a devotee to the ethos of ‘the Presence’.


Having those confirming fortuitous serendipities and synchronicities as the refocusing of my attention and acknowledgement on the powers of the Presence, I entered a new chapter in the relationship with the Presence. It was giving me hints of its origin and obliged roles I’ would be doing for the sake of having the incidental contrast in my interactions with others person’s characters for the karma that would befall them: the street person, the weight lifter, the strange nurse, the gold-digger, the entrepreneur. By their inherently corrupt to vacuous ethics or their naive faith in false paradigms, they were the latest examples of the sometimes cruel and indifferent vindictiveness of karma.

I still was not thinking in terms beyond my carnal and temporal identity, so I was thinking of ethics in terms of what others weren’t doing than the broader purpose for why I should be scrupulous in my ethics-to create a context of aesthetic reference points for my own functional identity in being more than an adherent to a proscribe behavior. To the extent when I did react with ethical diligence, I set the preconditions for how others Karma would be divined.

All these interactions, particularly after I got on the internet in 1997, I retrospectively see as my latest efforts to have the social connections which weren’t feasible or possible in my life of anonymous marginality prior to the internet. In fact the ‘marginality’ I had perceived about my condition was a contrarian force for which ‘the ‘Gita’ and the other academic, mystical, plus occult texts had been seeding my mind. The irony of my further misanthropy in a world of greater social connectedness was driving me into conscious and incidental isolation and detachment from the culture and its social features. Even my present (and LAST carnal) marriage I found myself categorizing its 15+ year state as a partnership guided by existential preconditions for an ethical duty, than as the humanistic celebration of a joint intangible purpose beyond the nuts-and-bolt mechanics of a partnership.

I found that it was not being involved in a proactively direct, social dialogue and action that was either satisfying or effectual, but it was the indirect, proactivity in tuning and fine-tuning my ethical intent and actions in a more asocial, ascetically monastic self-dialogue and minimalistically necessary, imperative activity which best complemented the character of the manifestations of that Presence, guardian-mentor.

My carnal being’s social status and roles are coincidental, apocryphal and many time irrelevant footnotes to being the conduit that is resonantly in-synch, consciousness-wise with the ‘Presence of Cosmic Time and its elemental Substance’. My birth moment was and is the commissioner for my carnal existence. As such, in that orientational, consciousness relationship I am telemetrically connected to the ethical equity of balance of Cosmic Time. As its involuntary or incidental conduit, I make it possible for the rectifying adjustments of conditions or catalytic thoughts that are ascribed to conditions of serendipity, synchronicity, and karma.
I am one-of-you in form, but not purpose, in this telemetric orientation. I am an anonymous avataric sign of this algorithmic design of logic that is the operating system of this existence.

Monday, November 13, 2017

My (and Our) Male mea culpa of gender privilege abuse


My and Our Male mea culpa of gender privilege abuse

Though there are some of us who’d whine and complain; and many, not as mentally and ethically disciplined, who have the thoughts that women have a cultural advantage. But we know that isn’t so, even before the times of accepting the rectitude of aspects of politically (aka, culturally) correct decorum. We’ve known it in our pre-pubescence as we noted the roles of multiple options and opportunity to which we could be chosen or to which we could aspire as males; they weren’t there for females, whose alternative beyond being seen as over-aggressive of pushy-aka, Bitchy-was to be an in an auxiliary or ancillary role to a male.

The world had been constructed to be the oyster gem for males, with or without not being at the top of the pecking order of male privilege. We knew of the wink-and-nod excesses that awaited us, who’d be willing to forsake any moral, let alone ethical limits on our behavior. We had our version of the jihadist ‘72 virgins’ in the here-and-now at that level. (Wasn’t that, subconsciously, a motivation for those who loved the competency and proficiency of excelling at any sport, because there would be cultural female quislings, who in finding a way to make-it in their life would be complicit at that quid pro quo level of privilege?

Though an impractical and fanciful aspiration for many males, we knew that both the cultural, social, and secular environments had been structured so that we could have our micro-version of authoritarian leverage over women, if the circumstances were compromising enough to compel a women to accommodate her integrity and virtue so she could have the position of association or status with a male of position. Even ‘Love’ and romance were part and parcel of the social set-up. Beyond the truly serendipitous and organic scenarios of affection and passion being the result of what was equally esteemed of the virtuous character held between two people of the opposite sex, romance was based on objectified, commercialized, both culturally and socially indoctrinated ethos of expectation which made a social caste system in which the women were at a disadvantage.




The abuses of the famous and notorious are as much the extreme derivations of the micro-aggressions carried on as par for the social and cultural situation that has been the legacy of the power disparity between men and women for generations. Only the rhetorical and intellectual championing by fearless women, followed by anecdotal to now social idolization of women of physical prowess has made clear the reassessment by males of women as pieces of accoutrements in the home and the workplace.

For we men who intimately knew of our utilization of our leveraged social positions with our female contemporaries and who crossed or brazenly flirted with the line of ethical-let alone moral- rectitude with the  females in our social and cultural universe are the unindicted co-conspirators of the more notorious in the news headlines of the present.

In a sense, beyond adherence to some more formalized standards of personal rectitude, so to avoid the political retributions of being apprehended or outed for some irrectitude, we men know that what is needed is more than some restraint on our privileged-to-excess male-id, but our own self-abuse of being complicit in a system of mores to institutional ethos which seeks to exploit the leverage disparities of positions of status and power in this economic order. In the end, has it not been all about on an intimate personal and public-social level “to have or to have not”; those external false standards of accomplishment that makes us
the ‘Male Rats’ we have been?

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

We humans as conductors, primarily, in a cosmic network



We humans as conductors, primarily, in a cosmic network

One way to view the male and female libidos other than their  procreative-mating functions is to consider the intra-specie and the supra-terrestrial, paranormal signals, which are generated by the aroused, excited human creatures. Whether by ‘romance’, by abstract, objectifying, covetous lusts, or it’s siblings-masturbation,  substance abuse highs, or other esoteric means, we are sending to and receiving signals from the environment, with the object of our  attention, as well as into the ambient ether surrounding us.

Each of the aforementioned at their most acute intensity are so single-minded in obsessive preoccupation that they have achieved a near-state of clear-mindedness, sans the object of their emotional energy. In that state of mind of minimal (even with the obsessive) distractions, if they achieved a physiological  catharsis (climax), their minds will have and ECT-effect . In that affected state, the person becomes ‘open-minded’ to signals, which normally would be drowned-out in the deluge of social and environmental noise within and outside the person.

Those signals are part of the vibrations that have their source from the origins of this universe-(the Big Bang) . Those origin signals and their vibrations are the predicate for how all matter and energy has been organized. Much similar to our body’s stem-cells, those signals are the raw energy pulses of the default template for our existence. Just having a subconscious, receptive, connection with those signals allows our body’s cognizance to recalibrate itself from the social-environmental noise din of temporality. As we make this connection, we enter into its telemetry on our out-going energy signal-vibrations. Its signals establish a beachhead in our subconscious sensory receptors which transmit their interlocution of those signals to our conscious associating processing faculties.



With that we become part of the stem-signal web network- our  synaptic, original and default neural home-base. In that web network  we are exposed to the transmitted radiations uploaded from other cosmic sources. In essence, we have our ‘library card’ to the vibrations of all eternity. Unlike the narrow focus of our local provincial dramas of our carnality-mentioned in the first paragraph-we learn that by reaching that post-cathartic, mind-cleared state, it gives us entrance into the cosmic vibrational streams of energy not beholding to physic-consequences of  the terrestrial realm.

This begs the question, “Is our carnal state just a logistical support base for these cosmic stem-signals?”  As a previously affected subject to this connection, I found both coincidentally and incidentally that at these levels of intense, energy excitation and arousal there are collateral atmospherics, unrelated to my conscious or kinetic intent, yet serendipitous to synchronistic to my existential-holistic well-being and expansive upon my formerly more narrow perspective of my probable material options.

It is more a holistic, global reorientation than being part of a fortuitous tactical advantage of expedience. This network existing as a pipeline conduit to and through you makes you a relay. An interesting aspect is that the female, because of her anatomy and physiology is the most likely node for the nexi of human connection. As that node she, the female, in contradiction to many of the cultural and social conditions in this paternalistic structured world, can be the figurative and literal ‘handler’ as the catalyst-facilitator for these states of climatic, excited. visceral-to-neural energy agitation.

Digressing a bit for an explanation of the female role transformation: as the pilloried sexual objectification of women which spawns the  unwelcomed male predations on women has been pointed out, the projection of physical female attractiveness is a primal trigger for the less, libido-repressed or restrained male. This condition runs counter to the tasks designed for the gender-neutral roles of the technological, post-industrial, post-modern cultures. Any Freudian analysis of the ways of bonding between a woman with either the MALE or female child would point out the behavior modeling imprinted in the woman-to-future male or future female in the exchanges of providing bodily satisfaction. That satisfying becomes a reinforced habit in the infancy-toddler ages that becomes a behavioral trigger for the more matured male or female person.
Despite the temporal social paradigms, the cultural roles of the more profound visceral interaction are more than latent appendages of the past. They are still emotional dynamics needing personal, as well as social, management.

One option for management would be to end the taboos on aggressive libidinous behavior on WOMEN. In the Yin-Yang world of male-female dynamics, the female is depicted and portrayed as the passive reactor than being the initiating aggressor. As societies have moved to more gender neutral roles, the passive reactor has taken more passive-aggressive postures, when not outright assertive about her libidinous preferences. The eruption of vocalized protest and outing of male sexual abuse and harassment is signalling a long-overdue upgrade from the former passive-aggressive responses. This change should be supplemented with the ability not only to initiate and assert the terms of engagement, but to assume a matriarchal regnum for being the determiner of the progenesis of the human species. They would choose the men to be consorts for being the potential breeding mates.

This would turn the whole ritual of male and female relations on its head. This would be liberating, also,  for those men NOT delegated for the consort-mating role, because they would be aware from post-pubescence  of the alternative latitudes of ‘liberties’ they would have in not trying to be the peacock-of-desire in finding their social role. Auto-eroticism and regulated escort-prostitution, along with the more tolerated views on homo-eroticism would exist. The non-delegated consort mates would have the greater opportunity and chance, other than those in acutely intense consort-mating relations, to exceed the latitudes of sensory excitation; because there’d be only the limits of their auto-homo erotic imaginations or  the serendipity of a symbiotic to synergistic commercial escort.

For both the initiating matriarch female or the non-selected male, they both are at liberty to explore and reach that climactic satiation which enables them to reach that level of energy to be in the energy shell of the cosmic-stem signals. Thus, they bring more of  the mass of humanity to these upper potentialities of kinetic motivation and mental insights and inspirations. The former dramas of the repressed or passive aggressive female and the hyper-aggressive male environment go away as the objectifying posturing and gestures fall away for the female-centered node of matriarchal initiation for social relationships. Those relationships promote the connection to the cosmic stem network, as well as having the cohort of non-selected males whose libidinousness finds new liberty in auto-homo erotic, and commercially regulated symbiotic and synergistic, ‘escort’ personal services.

Instead of the distracting and dissipating energy spectacles meant to ultimately provide a comparable distinguishment between people, there is a universal symbiotic and synergistic series of formal and informal, cooperative relations for which a mutuality of exchange is the end-game. Those cooperative relations raise the energy vitality of the individuals to get them connected to the cosmic stem energy source. At that source level in the network with the ‘library card’ energy connection, our identity becomes the relayed source of energy coded from the telemetry between-from we, the extensions, to the source.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

The shortcomings of the cultural, let alone academic, pedagogy

The shortcomings of the cultural, let alone academic, pedagogy
Also at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/15105546  

For the sake of clarity:
Pedagogy-the means by which knowledge is transferred
Academic pedagogy-the formalized institutional methods of knowledge transference
Cultural pedagogy-the intra and cross generational means of passing on social mores and its component knowledge

A more important point is whether our education systems are teaching us just more sophisticated ways of 'moving the deck chair seating-priorities on the Titanic' , instead of questioning the meaning and purpose for the 'Titanic' and its alternate utility and legacy. Where education is not accentuated because of voluntary and involuntary circumstances, then the skills sought for having some substance and security degrade away from the individual and onto other agencies of support-human and otherwise. Education, being the indoctrinated acculturation, at the least, of individual's to the present social paradigm becomes a two-edged sword of is it the the egg (the cultural pedagogy system) or the chicken (the recipient, aka student) who is defective? Or is the education a reflection of a historical social order for which the results are intended for the present status quo- for better or worse? Does that social order reach an inflexible inertia moving towards entropy: ‘Entropy-a system that reaches its maximum point for its algorithmic design (mostly unintended), and goes into increasing inefficiencies of results into its inevitable decline..’.  

One of the present shortcomings of the educational system is that it's done for the sake of the statistical measure on the administration and the faculty, than as a diagnostic aid for the potential learner .. So curves are implemented to raise grades to the bureaucratic standard, leaving the child with a hollow miseducation and a ‘participation-trophy' as a certificate


Seeing that Nature has its own geologic renewal and deterioration cycles for the perennial seasons to geologic time, which before humanistic dominance was working pretty well for several billion years, are the cycles of rise and decline a human the blind spot in its social order construct ?
As a Math-phile, I learned that the process, NOT THE ANSWER-per se, was the meaningfulness of the drill. Seeing the architecture of the gauntlets of logic one has to traverse to come to a definable end is the training than any of the superficialities and atmospherics of that architecture's discovery. Cognitive tools developed from prior experiences (aka, social background) effect the apprehension of other tools. Speaking as one AA-person of the 50's and 60's, plus w/contacts w/kids from working class to upwardly mobile and affluent households; where there was some form of intangible organized focus in routine, the willing child was able to comprehend the logic (aka 'cultural skewed bias') more intuitively than those for whom process of organization in routine was more random and not as important as the utility of the result
What of the opinions of the suitability of math and science courses as perpetuating white privilege? The uses to which math studies are directed has a naturally winnowing set of qualifications for their end use, for which only a certain percentage of the population would have an aesthetic or a facility to pursue. Yet there are aspects of math, whose applications branch into the arts-visual, auditory, tactile-that could be taught. The author of the article would need to be a pioneer in the alternative methods of understanding math applications, than be making a pointless critique on the aspect being taught for its present ends.

IQ is the result of (non)learned habitual cognitive responses. If it is the result of  a person who has an impediment, short of a diagnostic medical one, that will affect their level of learning, whatever emotional handicap, be it their immaturity or the 'lessons' they do and can grasp for utilitarian expediency-as well as the many intangibles mentioned- will determine if a person decides to make a living at the Highway Interchanges, panhandling for hand to mouth OR have the learned organization and discipline to follow a regimen they are familiar with for a greater achievement..

It's MORE THAN just WILL, but the trainings to be familiar with what one's applied will can achieve. As others have noted,".. enabl[ing]e one to make valuable contributions to a modern civilization with[in] a computerized economy." makes my argument about education being a fabricated product and result of an arbitrary (social) condition.. Some are better conditioned by contemporaneous social circumstances to do such.. Change the circumstances, you change the result

Knowing kids who've had little to no exposure to numbers besides money-change given them, there is a disadvantage to kids in two ways 1) they have probably been passed-on because their test grades, not their full comprehension of the subject matter was competent. (I took Math Fusion over in summer school after 9th grade because the teacher just pushed the material too fast for me to comprehend-obtw, I got 90+ in summer school). 2) teaching to the test skips the minutiae details that are essential for the less familiar/skilled students.

Learning, as you may know, is based on the proficiency with which you are familiar with precursor tools by which the knowledge foundation is built. If, there are reasons other than a lack of will for the absence of those foundational tool proficiency. An opinion writer, who has a beef with the pedagogy, which could very well be outdated for the demographic she must teach at the prescribed standards didn't take account for previous possible deficiencies, but only account for the median knowledge which previous lapses, including the two I mentioned here and earlier (sensory reception noise and the general social conditions) have not been accounted. My high school chemistry teacher was superb at humanizing the developments of the paradigms and protocols of chemistry. Those characterizations were the hook by which I distinguished for learning the different chemical concepts and processes-earning me a 96 on the final exam. The PROCESS was the focus and the persons were coincidental beneficiaries of that initial serendipity of the PROCESS.

As for the family environment: 'De facto parents', parents by adverse circumstances (not the traditional courtship by way of PLANNED and ORGANIZED-but what is part of the spontaneous social milieu). You know, as I know: How many times is something that's spontaneous-on trivial things-ever becomes a long term benefit? Thus, with environments that enable such random spontaneity... there ya go! Concerning "...a little thought and a lot of caring." What non-didactic, not formally taught, fertile and horny guy or gal (take a look around at the titillations in our present media environment!!) at 13-17 years is going to be thinking or caring about what happens after the burning urge has been satisfied? What teen ager or school drop-out (excluding Steve Jobs, etc) has the skills, let alone moxy to make it in this economy or just have the access to reliable knowledge for good guidance and advice? It is a vicious cycle of a lack of skills compounded by the consequences of the lack of skills (Learned!)

What about when the 'parents' are barely out of their adolescence ? OR when parents are the extensions of their vocational or detentional economic absence, with the kids being latchkey agents of self-parenting?  The parents, beyond the nominal names on a birth certificate: if the 'parent' is unprepared to be a parent, then there is no such thing as the 'parenting' to talk about. That lack of preparation can come from immaturity, involuntary circumstances (not medical) and medical circumstances... There is a context beyond the individuals-for most conscientious persons where those few classic cases of negligence exist that is conscious negligence.   

Another way of viewing intelligence: How well would a high IQ or 700+ SAT/ACT person do in the street-life.. A whole different set of skills and knowledge.. With luck and a good mentor, their native skills could get them by. Without such social support, they be as lost as a kid who hasn't read more than one book per year prior to 1st grade.
Only those so insecure to prove their superiority or deflect any projections of inferiority digress or divert the point of the PROCESS to such secondary trivialities of ethnic ownership, as far as discussion of IQ is concerned.


This is good a place to posit this theorem on intelligence,civilization and their rise and fall as it applies to 'education'

Why is it that those advanced (LITERATE, MATHEMATICALLY ADVANCED) 'civilizations' declined-from the Babylonian-Egyptian-Greek/Persian-Roman (and now Western Civ.). Most theories put the onus on the degeneration (entropy?) of the ruling class and the expansion of an increasingly ungovernable illiterate class. I think this theory takes a tangential slice of the entire picture. Since the wonders of those civilizations had to have been done by insightful minds (sans alien help).  Then why did those cultures whose mental capacities allowed them to reach the ability to have those achievements deteriorate?

My conclusion is that from the first inspirational insight, the actor had a cleared mental-emotional field for the processing of associated connections to come to their 'Eureka!'-moment. As these person with that serendipity had also the status or patronage to leverage these fundamental insights of development, they were able to train others who to a lesser, the same, or greater degree, depending on the mental and space they were PRIVILEGED to acquire, achieved a comparable positions of influence within their cultural group. The more advanced and nuanced the training, the need for institutions and the criteria for entry into those institutions. As has been noted elsewhere, earlier phases had the demographic space and utility for the new initiates. At the same time, those who had apprehended or achieved at a lesser level found whatever compensatory 'rewards' in the mental and emotional derivations from that level; creating a de facto caste for themselves.

A guy has a book out with a theorem that at a certain point of being self-consciously 'knowledgeable', people decide that further knowledge is not necessary, since they have been certified by past grades, certificates, etc.. As those heterodoxies for different mental and emotional contentment of their ambience became more distinct from the those with a more focused mental and less diffuse emotional attentiveness to the by-products of the original 'Eureka!' insight, there becomes a supportive and consuming classes of cohorts along this line of separation. Those operating with a more cleared mental and emotional sensory field in contrast to those who actively sought or were involuntarily exposed to a more cluttered mental and distractive emotional field as part of their normal routine, branch off to a different level of cognitive perception.

I suspect that at the apogee of this kind of development there were those few with the privilege of space and time, probably patronaged, if not supported by the authorities as their logistical-financial support, to have the access to the training and development of skills wanted by those in control-politically, economically, and culturally. All the rest of the populations served in a minor support capacity to the political-economic-cultural patrons. 'The rest', without some fortuity of circumstance became more disposable as tangible commodities and devalued as intangible beings. As long as 'the rest' had some modicum of material and emotional security, they were quite smugly content with their level of self-reflection that dealt with the heterodoxies of thought and feeling for their aesthetic castes.

When the means to acquire the benefits of 'the good life' became more narrow and seemingly rationed to those at the top of the official and informal patronage hierarchy, and those means for acquisition became so nuanced in their technical skills; then those who were on the ancillary branches of the patronage support, plus those totally outside that support system, became expendable to a corruptible mental and emotional degree-further degrading the character of the holistic whole.  At this point those of the Eureka!-class mindset were no longer one of the people adding to the general knowledge and well-being of the clan or tribe, but had become the instruments for their patrons' privileged position and wants. Thus 'knowledge' had become the prostitute of need, than the offspring of inquiry. Schools of thought, from formal institutions to populist cults had their own operational code.. That code was for whatever level of compensatory satiation, NOT the well-being of the whole, which had outgrown its functional capacity to be of general use to the whole, but, primarily, to the predisposed or fortunate few of status or condition. The rest of the populace's mental and emotional space was preoccupied with mostly the tactics and few strategies for finding and getting whatever for their near-term horizons-NOT the original free,uncluttered, and abstracted-minded individual of the original 'Eureka!'.

With the degradation of a general, public, academic pedagogy that could be utilized by a diversity of the mental and emotional heterodoxies of short-term thinking (6-mos to 5 years), let alone the hand-to-mouth level existence of the most marginal; there became not only the lack of coherence, but the lack of adherence to any commonality of society, and increasingly less for the pillars of social order for that society.

Civilizations, as we speak of them as the humanistic achievement of sophisticated intelligence, could very well be more like the tip of the iceberg above water, while beneath the surface are (to mix metaphors) the evidence of the dysfunctionally of the limited potential of the distribution of shared, disseminated, knowledge. From that lack of addressing those not privileged to be existing in a sensory zone of minimal mental and emotional noise, the 'iceberg' has been weighing itself down, by not having a varied and versatile enough numbers of uplifting channels of educational means to allow the flow of thought to be assimilated throughout its body to the various branches which support its apex above the surface (of comfort).

'Intelligence' is, mostly, the acculturation and training for the skills desired for the socio-economic system, and the advantage would go to those who have or find access to the tools for those skills; circling back to the acculturation and training."

The technological civilization, which has dominated the world until this postmodern era, required a different set of cognitive skills that were derived from the needed and inspired tools developed from necessity and off-shoots of necessity. That other peoples didn't acquire or use (the Chinese with gunpowder) these tools in the way the technological (finding adaptations for accomplishing of tasks not provided by nature) oriented societies had is talking about two types of intelligences, as you now see documentaries of people from technological societies going to 'the bush' to find nature based medicines of the non-technological, so-called primitive peoples.

There's a Charlie Rose (charlierose.com) interview w/Tom Friedman of the NYTimes. The interview focused on the reactionary, near-term cathartic reaction in present day (Trumpian) US policy that are related to the 'Win'-results than the affected processes for that resulting 'win'. The mental disposition for having or being given something w/o the fore-actions of an organized, methodical discipline run parallel with lack of 'academic achievement'. Without the social disciplines of organization, the mental perceptions and general cognizance of the phenomena would be densely obtuse and obscure, if not entirely unknown.

This interview provides an allegory and an analogy to what happens when by social conditions, individuals (Trump) or groups have been conditioned by their historical environment to take a mental perspective that is within their accumulated skill set of operational tools. Their behavior (exhibited intelligence) can be tied to past social influences and conditions that have enabled their responses. Trump, for all his material advantages, acts in affirmative hubris as a person beyond the natural physics of consequences on which others of the 'Bell Curve' would be subject. Though Trump may view his Presidency as a validation of his 'intelligence' it is a train-wreck amplification of recklessness (with authority). Put this in a micro-context with 'sub-intelligent' groups and you have the same, possibly more short-term reckonings of adverse consequences that we are serial-viewing with the Trump regime.

This link is a relevant piece done on PBS Newshour tonight https://www.pbs.org/newshour/econom...e-american-dream-may-depend-on-where-you-live. How one’s surrounding environment influences the horizons of one’s way of perceiving potential phenomena

Take-away: Intelligence is not a signifier of any genetic superiority, as it is the efficiency of the use of whatever level of resource tools one has gained in their interactions with their social environment. An example: If any two pair have the same 'pedigree' of background along with similar training I would expect at the worst a 60/40-40/60 series of results. When there is a wide discrepancy and social-historical forces are not included in the analysis, then the data for reaching what would be a genetic deduction would be faulty.

The pedagogy that has driven education allows for the tolerance of learning castes by the reliance for learning on a state of mind for which sensory noise disturbance needs to be at a minimum. But the modern social order has an over-saturation of environmental sensory noise for the general populace, leaving a wide swath, particularly with historically marginal groups, denied assimilation and acculturation to the tools of learning for economic competence and sustenance. Those groups are left to fabricate their own paradigms of learning, creating dysfunctions to social adhesion and coherence that lead to dystopian and nihilist groups as a consequence of those reactive, organic heterodox alternatives in those subsets from the more detached and insular pedagogical status quo.