Kombinat!
There are No Shortcuts
Yesterday
on NPR I have listened to the story of Rafe Esquith, inner-city LA school teacher of 24 years. Simply amazing. This guys is great. He has written a book
"There Are No Shortcuts"Excerpt:
"...I am going to lose more than I win. There are many times when, despite my efforts, I will lose children to poverty, ignorance, and, most tragically, a society that embraces mediocrity.
But that doesn't paralyze me anymore. I have a code, as any good teacher or parent must have. It doesn't matter if the odds are against me. It doesn't matter if I lost a battle yesterday. It doesn't matter if the odds are against me. It doesn't matter if I'm just one fellow trying to fight television, corporations, and a society that hasn't yet achieved Dr. Martin Luther King's dream of judging someone by the content of his character.
I knew that I had to be the person I wanted the kids to be. I never wanted my kids to be depressed or despairing about any bad breaks or failures that they've had. Well, that had to apply to me as well. I now knew that if I wanted the kids to work hard, then I'd better be the hardest-working person they'd ever known. If I wanted them to be kind, I'd better be the kindest human being they'd ever met. Teaching must be by example, not by lecture."
His words inspire. His salary depresses me. Perhaps the title of his book should be a used to call Congress to increase teachers' salaries. Perhaps another book could be written titled "There are No Shortcuts. Pay Up!"
Common Wealth Party Dumpster Oratorios
Let us gather 'round our Dumpster.
"Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand" ~ Peter Gabriel
Been having a nice exchange of ideas at WealthBondage. Generation of Distinctions. Context creation and all the usual crap you do when you mix language and human beings. Go visit. Yes, it's all about fucking more females. Such is the life of Primates.
Marla Ruzicka Killed in Baghdad
Doc reports that Marla Ruzicka was killed in Baghdad."Wont' you grieve with me for my yellow rose
Shed a tear for her blood stained clothes"
~ Watching TV, Rober Waters
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A blinding flash of obvious
What if I made myself as a business entity. What if I could completely became a corporation. I substitute myself for corporation. This would be a new type of citizen possibility. Equal.
What if each person in America incorporated themselves? What if each person would create a corporate structure in which their worldly affairs could dwell and play out. This I haven't thought before.
Who can help me with this project? I wan to cease to exist as a human being and become a corporation. I will speak new language. Instead of going to get a haircut I will visit an accountant every month to style my image.
I simply love this idea. Wanna steal it? Run with it? Who wants to join this project?
a sort of a homecoming
Sending Hello! Been a while. Travelled a bit. Visited many places. So now I shall welcome myself back. Back to this conversation creation molecular realignment of meaning making production.
Freedom did get me there a bit Harry. Been battling the Warren Commission. I told them I saw that dude in Dallas on a grassy knoll but they still concluded that JFK died of self inflicted gun shot wounds. So much for bearing witness.
And yes Jeneane, I've first visited Pope Johannes Paulus Secundus in December of 1987 at Cite Du Vatican. I was young and full of dreams and I told him I was going to change the world and work for Peace on Earth. He just smiled. - Ever since then I've been embarassed of my dreams. Dreams don't work. So what works? - Human beings have been engaged in this discourse for a long time. Nice Paradox it is. - Let it be, Let it be - Love
Pope is dead. I see him with a Tralfamadorian dimension. All slices of life. As a side note: Tralfamadorians saw Time in it's entirety. They saw its beginning and end, thus a person's life was seen at all possible points of time of their existence and not only the moment you met them. Nice way to see someone. You could see a killer on TV and weep for he was once an innocent baby. You could see a baby and wonder what kind of Human Being-ness will he have along the way towards death. - Alas we don't see people this way. Too bad. It's a lot of fun.
Seth Godin has a new marketing book and a new website for it. It's completely idiotic. I've read most of his other books. They too are idiotic. But he is having fun. Perhaps duping us, the readers - selling us the Dream. New shapes of Dreams. Marketing the Marketing Dream. I think if I was him I would be too embarassed to constantly write so much Kaka De La Torro and maintain the excitement of continuous innovation. I am not sure that the world needs another marketing book, and from Seth Godin for that matter. I do hope that what the world needs is people teaching other people how to read and write so they can express their grievances to Governments that oppress them and articulate their commitments so that others know what you find worth living for.
A bit on Satire
One way we know Satire is when someone is telling a Joke about a Brutal Dictator - yet telling a Joke about a Brutal Dictator to the Brutal Dictator and having him laugh his ass off without killing you - Well, that's another kind of Satire.
Bada Bing!
Kombinat! is back
Testing the post. from my new setup in an undisclosed location in the jungle of Costa Rica (I love the
Rey coffee here. So smooth). Next month gonna be back in US. They going to Colorado and Seattle and July back to Germany. It's good to be an Ambassador of Ownership Society. I love our Empire.
