basho's blog

"Progressive" is not fighting injustice. It is not working out policies that will benefit education, the environment, health organizations, or society in general. "Progressive" is not a concern for mutual cultural understanding, for world peace. It is not a fight for freedom. (The great majority of this website's activity is not "progressive".) "Progressive" is not envisioning a better future.  Read More »

I'm so sick of all the people who casually rattle off "Oh I don't have a religion, I don't believe in God, I'm an atheist." As if to have any faith in a higher power is nothing but pure foolishness and ignorance.  Read More »

What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point.  Read More »

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defiance

weed
red and gold
grandma

the written word
a breath obscure

(I need my fragments
I need to feel a steady base
I need to feel my shatter and ruin)
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attempt to revivify childhood:
laughter in tumbling torrents  Read More »

Why I Write (Words to get beyond words)/
Why I Think (Concepts to get beyond concepts)
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The subtle tie between experience and language cannot be denied. The larger a vocabulary one has in a given subject, the more in-depth and intricate one can experience that subject. Vice-versa, the more experience one has with a certain subject the more language he will have to communicate it. Consider, for example, a food critic.  Read More »

Our culture tends to be highly objective when it comes to our value system. We are in an eternal rush to assimilate objects. Money (our official value symbol) is the "objectification of objects", meaning it represents a universal abstraction of the worth of objects, the market value of objects, if you will. Thus, we "objectively" view objects.  Read More »

In one of my classes we have recently been studying a text by Jean-Luc Marion. In the little I have read so far, Marion has given an extremely interesting approach to the notion of the gift in our society.  Read More »