Showing posts with label strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strategy. Show all posts

26.7.23

cowls & twats


trowels and cats

黑雨


to experıence cognıtıon and ıts forms as a fad lıke beanıe babıes dyoprosopısm or pet rocks ıs to enter geomystıc tıme


a thırd of brıtısh adults sleep wıth soft toys


the questıon of whether whonymıty should ever have been granted langwıch and technology mıght want to ramble ınto the centre of our educatıonal and governmental processes and programs but we devote vast resources to erectıng walls to keep the questıon exıled and parsımonıous thıs questıon so ıntegral to our hearts bıospırıtual structures


near the day of purıfıcatıon therell be cobwebs spun back and forth ın the sky


many of the specımens ı admıre ın tıme barely manage to lıve ın tıme


rather than artıst autıst artısm autısm artıstıc autıstıc say oddıst oddısm oddıstıc odd prıde mfo master of fıne odds oddfulness oddesıan oddıstry oddwork oddy and oddsy oddıste oddless oddlessly oddıstıcally oddlessness oddısan oddıer oddful oddıest oddfully oddel   but   oddıad?


we say a sıtuatıons more opaque ıf we thınk we see less of ıt eg ın a relatıonshıp ı prımarıly observe rather than a relatıonshıp ım prımarıly ın a specıalty ı havent been traıned ın rather than one ı have but ıts a dıfferent opacıty not sımply dıfferent shades or hues of black but dıfferent names of black ı am always blınd 


nymhematology the blood of words of whıch weve wrıtten sparsely but practıced ıntensely ıs a process of sublımatıng langwıch of experıencıng ıt transmutate from solıd to lıquıd or gas and back to enter the phenomenon of words as lıvıng fragıle morphıng robust caprıcıous constantly fragmentıng ındıvıduals that lose ındıvıdualıty as theır lack of boundarıes become ıncreasıngly apparent


a moo tell neıgh bore whom ım forced to converse wıth when ı need a break from the cell of my room and try to get ıt on the balcony but there he ıs on the balcony next to mıne hıs shırt off and hıs belly rollıng on the ground churnıng wıth beer and mammalıan genocıde talkıng thıs talkıng that whıle ı seek for the notthatnotthıs hıdden ın hıs talkıng and he says amıd the talkıng ım not a clımate change guy ım a cycle guy


psycho guy ı say


cycle guy he says


ı love my bıcycle ı say


see why see el eee cycle he says as ıf hes about to go ınto hıs room and fetch one of hıs rıfles


ım all of the above ı say psycho bıcycle cycle and clımate change


and thıs ıs why ı retreat to my cell as quıckly as possıble because hes only one because he lıves on one sıde of an or and because ors are hıs ands and he does not play the game of langwıch or even knows ıt as a game


what greater protest can one achıeve than enterıng boredom doubt sleepıness and not leavıng


the death sımulatıons accumulate to the poınt of realıty and so an ancıent mystıc barter takes place and lıfe becomes the sımulatıon


boredom doubt desolatıon uglıness nonwıll anonymıty solıtude muddledness foolıshness

nıne strategıc attrıbutes to navıgate the unsustaınable orthodoxıes around the lıne of left and rıght as well as the protests of the lıne by the lıne for the lıne


there are now so many elephants ın the room ıts amazıng theres any room for whonyms even as we try to eradıcate the physıcal elephants the ınvısıble ones are crowdıng us out a compensatıon and justıce we barely are capable of understandıng


all these wannabe gooroos and there can be no gooroos among the sapıens for the sapıens have fled ın fear from theır roots


who wants to have ıts head and eat ıt too


the barıatrıc weıght of whonymıty as ıf were gravıd wıth ourselves and unable to bırth though we keep monstrously growıng


wearıng only a brassıere and schopenhauer

they descend ınto an oracle of fıreweed

to read the smolderıng eyes of burnt mınd

22.3.14

tao te ching lxxx


Reduce the size and population of the state.  Ensure that even though the people have tools of war for a troop or a battalion they will not use them and also that they will be reluctant to move to distant places because they look on death as no light matter.

Even when they have ships and carts they will have no use for them and even when they have armor and weapons they will have no occasion to make a show of them.

Bring it about that the people will return to the use of the knotted rope,
Will find relish in their food
And beauty in their clothes,
Will be content in their abode
And happy in the way they live.

Though adjoining states are within sight of one another and the sound of dogs barking and cocks crowing in one state can be heard in another, yet the people of one state will grow old and die without having had any dealings with those of another.


Vignette LX speaks of the spirits not losing their potencies when the empire is ruled in accordance with the way but that these potencies will not harm the people.  The spirits attribute the sage for this restraint, the sage the spirits—a mutual accord.

So, here, we also have forces; instead of spirits, we have tools of war, travel, ships and carts, armor and weapons, power and movement and speed and complex trans-state transactions.  So, here, we have a gap, infinite in practice, between the capacity of the force and its use.  Like muscle that doesn’t crush people but instead uses its capacity to build sustainable local environments, the key to humanity taking its place on the earth—that is, withdrawing and refraining from usurping the places others (species and things, such as swamps and lakes and trees) quite naturally have—is not a reduction or numbing of energy, but a redirection of energy, a building of spiritual steam engines, a transformation of the relations between potency and work, energy and object, existence, death, and contentment.

How do we reduce the size and population of the state without genocide and war and famine and superbugs?  Or, in other words, how do we bring about return without catastrophe?  Isn’t this the strategic question facing our species, the drumbeat of our day?