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Masterpiece of Disingenuity « MotherSky — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:45:50 +0000

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By: Jessica Murray

Jessica Murray — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:40:26 +0000

Joseph,
Even the beautiful title of the work you cite — The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light — expresses Mr Thompson's point. And it reminds us that "ugliness" is just a form of intensity, to which the perceiver attaches value judgment.
It strikes me that over-simplification is another thing that can take over when entities are dying: groups in peril start getting simplistic and dumbed-down. But this, too, could be expressed either with consciousness (paring down to the genuine essentials of their tenets) or lack of consciousness (e.g. the GOP reducing everything to black-&-white judgments).
Thank you so much for this.
Jessica

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:59:43 +0000

Jessica -- about your parenthetical comment, (All processes in existence, from the 2,000-year-long Age of Pisces to the Republican Party, are liable to turn ugly just before they die)...this is William Irwin Thompson in "The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light" (1981): "Every form of culture, in its vanishing, receives it most elaborate and intense expression."

Seen this way, these are hopeful times, indeed.

Once again, you nail it all. More, more. Joseph

By: Jessica Murray

Jessica Murray — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:55:14 +0000

Friends,
Wheez, disgust and disgrace are apt words. As we keep addressing the tasks upon us in word, deed and thought, we're doing all we can do -- and that's everything. As Anonymous #2 says, there is no separation from the process of Life, aka Natural Law; and if we each live thru our chart, the forces of obstruction will die a natural death. /I agree with Anonymous #1 that there is excellent stuff on TV, too. But when my children were young I realized that fighting to confine our video hours to the good stuff would take all my energy. As in AA, it was easier to go all the way and just ditch the set altogether. /I understand, mpk, that Big Pharma has a huge presence on the tube now which is especially appalling because of the assumption it instills, as you say, that drugging the self is normal./Anne, welcome.
As the Eclipse builds over head,
blessed be.
Jessica

By: m.p.k

m.p.k — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:50:58 +0000

One thing I've noticed is how TV promotes the idea that Big Pharma is indispensable to human health. It's a huge agenda. I have never owned a television and have basically lived the last 17 years without one in my residence.

By: Anne Whitaker

Anne Whitaker — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:02:29 +0000

HI Jessica

although I have been reading your aticles in TMA for some time, this is my first visit to your blog and I like very much what you say and the pungency with which you say it. Personally, I now ration my own TV viewing to nature programmes (whilst we still have nature to look at!) and not much else. I despise most of it.

I'd like to add your blog to my blogroll.May I do that?

Best wishes

Anne W

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:53:52 +0000

We can do anything. I am a son of god and live by the laws of creation, I bow to no one much less to those taken from the heart. I am free and as love I live where the extraordinary is possible at one with all things. I have no fear. My spirit broken, my face crushed into the ground. Eyes picked me up when I saw beyond a face, a child in an older man's body.
There is no separation from the process of life.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:02:02 +0000

Great post – there is good stuff on television, very creative minds at work, but as you point out, the lowest common denominator is awful. And the choices about what is newsworthy are really disturbing, when one celebrity story dominates the news for days and weeks while other important stories are ignored.

By: wheezyzorg

wheezyzorg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:34:11 +0000

While my viola gently weeps. Disgust and disgrace are the adjectives that come to mind when considering the media slime oozing from our teevees. It seems as if the elites would rather commit suicide by planetary destruction than embrace a newer, saner paradigm of love, light, peace, progress, and freedom. Even without their obstruction, the tasks in front of us are monumental to comtemplate and go begging to be truly addressed even in word, much less, deed.