I have been contemplating spoken word. Listening to poetry on Tube from small club to world famous and music too ..I feel the cold cyber world does need voice. In fact, you will laugh at this because I did, I was a couple months ago on 24th street and Bryant more or less and selling books and chatting my way around noticing how strange to my eyes this New Mission world is 36 years after living in it and opening a cafe two blocks down the street in 1988. So I also was visiting a book store as I said selling books and liked the used poetry section. I tried to hook up online with an idea. In 1987 I was a participating poet at the world's longest poetry reading in downtown Sacramento in front of a cafe. 72 hour poetry reading with open mic. With sax now and then. I flashed on doing this at the bookstore on 24th street. Shot down. Owner/collective of La Raza detests open mic. Denounced me in fact from the La Raza view by suggesting the Mission is in any sense a Haute White enclave and quite unwelcome is PR of the New North Beach. Feeling moody and pissed amusing myself by liking poet and poem very much I sent him in Spanish the poem by Otto Rene Castillio --Apolitical Intellectuals. https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/apolitical-intellectuals
As per Yeats famous statement re the hoped for Second Coming and surely a (new) Revelation is at hand, and Heidegger's statement re only a "god" can save us the only kind of Being that can (possibly) make even the slightest difference is the appearance of such a God-man.
Very good analysis of the situation in the now-time of "2024" but overall there is nothing that you have written that can or will make the slightest bit of difference to this situation. So too with whatever anybody else has to say, however seemingly insightful.
The all-powerful world machine is completely indifferent to (and impervious) to anyone's objections.
We are all unconsciously trapped or patterned and controlled in the left brained spirit-killing culture competing towers of Babel/babble created by The Emissary as described by Iain McGilchrist
This situation did not appear over night as it were. It began at the time of the European Renaissance which "birthed" the appearance of the left-brained "culture" of scientism, and, simultaneously the self-serving whats-in-it-for-me religiosity of Protestant-ism which is the "religion" of the left brained spirit-killing word.
But even so the appearance of the Renaissance was slowly emerging for many centuries. It could be said that its birthing began with the scribbles of Aquinas via his infatuation with Aristotle.
Here I wish to adduce evidence that we do not know what our influence shall be as we have no idea of what a future creates. One person can make a difference but we are not privileged usually to see a Lenin, a Mussolini, a Luther
I have been contemplating spoken word. Listening to poetry on Tube from small club to world famous and music too ..I feel the cold cyber world does need voice. In fact, you will laugh at this because I did, I was a couple months ago on 24th street and Bryant more or less and selling books and chatting my way around noticing how strange to my eyes this New Mission world is 36 years after living in it and opening a cafe two blocks down the street in 1988. So I also was visiting a book store as I said selling books and liked the used poetry section. I tried to hook up online with an idea. In 1987 I was a participating poet at the world's longest poetry reading in downtown Sacramento in front of a cafe. 72 hour poetry reading with open mic. With sax now and then. I flashed on doing this at the bookstore on 24th street. Shot down. Owner/collective of La Raza detests open mic. Denounced me in fact from the La Raza view by suggesting the Mission is in any sense a Haute White enclave and quite unwelcome is PR of the New North Beach. Feeling moody and pissed amusing myself by liking poet and poem very much I sent him in Spanish the poem by Otto Rene Castillio --Apolitical Intellectuals. https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/apolitical-intellectuals
As per Yeats famous statement re the hoped for Second Coming and surely a (new) Revelation is at hand, and Heidegger's statement re only a "god" can save us the only kind of Being that can (possibly) make even the slightest difference is the appearance of such a God-man.
Yes. One can be such and also a Householder. The quantum world is upheld by Righteous people.
I would love to hear this read out loud. By a human. Would volunteer for fun. I could probably do ok. Better, you.
Very good analysis of the situation in the now-time of "2024" but overall there is nothing that you have written that can or will make the slightest bit of difference to this situation. So too with whatever anybody else has to say, however seemingly insightful.
The all-powerful world machine is completely indifferent to (and impervious) to anyone's objections.
We are all unconsciously trapped or patterned and controlled in the left brained spirit-killing culture competing towers of Babel/babble created by The Emissary as described by Iain McGilchrist
This situation did not appear over night as it were. It began at the time of the European Renaissance which "birthed" the appearance of the left-brained "culture" of scientism, and, simultaneously the self-serving whats-in-it-for-me religiosity of Protestant-ism which is the "religion" of the left brained spirit-killing word.
But even so the appearance of the Renaissance was slowly emerging for many centuries. It could be said that its birthing began with the scribbles of Aquinas via his infatuation with Aristotle.
Here I wish to adduce evidence that we do not know what our influence shall be as we have no idea of what a future creates. One person can make a difference but we are not privileged usually to see a Lenin, a Mussolini, a Luther
Good point about Protestantism being somewhat left brain.
I suffer from Protestant work ethic.
Doesn't mean that I work all of the time, but that I feel guilty that I don't.
Reading is only for after sundown or on Sunday afternoon.
I suffer to this day because of Protestant Play Ethic. Thanking everyone for a real good time.
That's a new one.
Let the good times roll coupled to American individualism and the Beastie Boys https://youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk
Poignant.
Your Castillio poem also.
It's a great summation of the loss and betrayal.