The oft overlooked modality of being human, is that to over intellectualize methods, leaves the intellectual in a position of vulnerability unto the bureaucracy of things and perhaps not the ‘ability of things’.
It is always painful to behold our method of complexity leaves a vast landscape of humans without understanding us, and us marooned from knowing where our food and hands meet in union of closeness.
We have a system of kings, becoming as one can visualize, the villages of a thousand kings, all self important, and all justified in being important, merely because the persuasion of society is to become a king, or the individualism to ‘control’ our destiny from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ in full colonial correctness to ‘become something’ or to ‘become a career’.
This is so forthcoming that the labels used, continually crush possibilities and turf out others with objections of others to exist.
By way of example, this morning I apologized to my son for fitting the stereotype of, “you can not live in the basement forever”. This is the first objectionable statement to remove the home he knows by objectifying the home as a weakness, not a strength, love of course is the strength and eviction to a sibling is akin to expropriation as a right to betterment.
Who is to say, that my home is not to become the foundation of a university, the foundation of a central meeting point, the foundation to a guidance temple, or just the intelligence centre of something more than all the other boxes on the street.
Atomization is tough - we're all dealing with it in various ways. But you're right. One approach is to try to see the "center that is nowhere and everywhere." To celebrate home. Family. Solidarity.
A friend pointed out (in another comment thread) that Gramsci's "organic intellectual" is relevant here.
We should strive to ground our intellectualism in community building, or grow up and maintain a connection *with* the communities we discuss. I remember Meagan Day recently talking about how any socialist should really join an organization, or better yet (if the option is open), work in the communities they're trying to raise labor consciousness around.
I intellectualized and procrastinated, just as my associate Douglas Rushkoff had for many years, going public is then an adventure of fear as we move out of the bubble of self preserved thoughts and into the real world of confronting strangers who are not us, not of our thoughts, and often have no idea of our motives as they are abstract to conventional wisdom, when in truth the assumption of conventional wisdom, is to always have a motive of extraction, in the commons, we call this in conventional terms, friendships, or schmoozing with the crowd and searching for opportunities.
This is why I started the Repair Café, independent of any previous programs of ‘volunteering’ by demand, but volunteering of personal necessity to not remain silent.
The study of non violent communication, is an important asset, in discerning live interactions, we can largely, not always, disarm conflict before it surfaces, or at least perform self preservation while our team guards remove the assailant of harms.
The whole process is comedic when the truth is understood of petulant humans.
The oft overlooked modality of being human, is that to over intellectualize methods, leaves the intellectual in a position of vulnerability unto the bureaucracy of things and perhaps not the ‘ability of things’.
It is always painful to behold our method of complexity leaves a vast landscape of humans without understanding us, and us marooned from knowing where our food and hands meet in union of closeness.
We have a system of kings, becoming as one can visualize, the villages of a thousand kings, all self important, and all justified in being important, merely because the persuasion of society is to become a king, or the individualism to ‘control’ our destiny from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ in full colonial correctness to ‘become something’ or to ‘become a career’.
This is so forthcoming that the labels used, continually crush possibilities and turf out others with objections of others to exist.
By way of example, this morning I apologized to my son for fitting the stereotype of, “you can not live in the basement forever”. This is the first objectionable statement to remove the home he knows by objectifying the home as a weakness, not a strength, love of course is the strength and eviction to a sibling is akin to expropriation as a right to betterment.
Who is to say, that my home is not to become the foundation of a university, the foundation of a central meeting point, the foundation to a guidance temple, or just the intelligence centre of something more than all the other boxes on the street.
Atomization is tough - we're all dealing with it in various ways. But you're right. One approach is to try to see the "center that is nowhere and everywhere." To celebrate home. Family. Solidarity.
A friend pointed out (in another comment thread) that Gramsci's "organic intellectual" is relevant here.
We should strive to ground our intellectualism in community building, or grow up and maintain a connection *with* the communities we discuss. I remember Meagan Day recently talking about how any socialist should really join an organization, or better yet (if the option is open), work in the communities they're trying to raise labor consciousness around.
I intellectualized and procrastinated, just as my associate Douglas Rushkoff had for many years, going public is then an adventure of fear as we move out of the bubble of self preserved thoughts and into the real world of confronting strangers who are not us, not of our thoughts, and often have no idea of our motives as they are abstract to conventional wisdom, when in truth the assumption of conventional wisdom, is to always have a motive of extraction, in the commons, we call this in conventional terms, friendships, or schmoozing with the crowd and searching for opportunities.
This is why I started the Repair Café, independent of any previous programs of ‘volunteering’ by demand, but volunteering of personal necessity to not remain silent.
The study of non violent communication, is an important asset, in discerning live interactions, we can largely, not always, disarm conflict before it surfaces, or at least perform self preservation while our team guards remove the assailant of harms.
The whole process is comedic when the truth is understood of petulant humans.