Up here in the greater Victoria area, we've recently had a bit of a snow storm (30-60 centimeters for the last three days) and I wanted to provide a brief metaphor: ethnicites will fight brutally, undertaking ethnic cleansing and ethnic realingment in their own parochial areas for ancient reasons resulting in brutal suffering, and yet temporarily unite to carry out further atrocities in the name of god, country in pure, post-geo-ethnic nationalism. Water constantly circulates through the ages in the ocean, a tiny section at the top being lifted into the sky, some to fall as rain in the Amazon and some to fall as snow in Canada. The randomness and blind prejudice of birth and formation of a human is akin to this. Two H's and two O's are still present at the bottom of the ocean as much as it is in the snow I hold in my hand. They are uniquely and universally different, water, snow, hail, ice and clouds working to melt and freeze each other. They are all conduits for something bigger, something unstoppable. If H20 is ethnicity, it is both a part of that unstoppable snowball, and an aside from it.
To move forward we must recognize this and shape our actions, our consciousness and our decisions regarding the small change we can make in the greater change in the world.
Just a thought. Remember to check out www.narconews.com for updates on the developing story in Oaxaca, Mexico and Reuters Alertnet or other resource for news abouth Somalia and the illegitimatized state of Eritrea.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Evicted!
Well, I'm sorry to say the two weeks notice and three days grace has passed for Eritrea, who was put on notice for supporting the Islamist in southern Somalia. Recent news concerning attacks by the government, against the people and lately journalist has forced us to evict the aforementioned "State of Eritrea" from the land it currently claims. Its name shall be taken from all maps, and all international recognition (lead by this organization) shall cease. We ask all those connected to the government or control structure of the evicted member to step forward into our custody.
Please stay tuned for an ethnomorphology.blogspot.com map of the world. Here's how it works: the first person to e-mail me their call out or thing they want on notice a ethnomorph@gmail.com gets to name the country the will replace the area the State of Eritrea used to rule.
quote of the day:
"[Eritrea is] Throwing its own media workers in jail is another terror tactic from a state that has already shut down the entire private press and refused to account for 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails, three of whom are feared dead"
--Julie Crawford
So, e-mail your call outs/on notice request with the name of the new country to: ethnomorph@gmail.com
Please stay tuned for an ethnomorphology.blogspot.com map of the world. Here's how it works: the first person to e-mail me their call out or thing they want on notice a ethnomorph@gmail.com gets to name the country the will replace the area the State of Eritrea used to rule.
quote of the day:
"[Eritrea is] Throwing its own media workers in jail is another terror tactic from a state that has already shut down the entire private press and refused to account for 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails, three of whom are feared dead"
--Julie Crawford
So, e-mail your call outs/on notice request with the name of the new country to: ethnomorph@gmail.com
Monday, November 13, 2006
Hella Pixelated: The Superliminal Remix
| DJ Supraman remix of Hella Pixelate: A Visual Extraveganza...., this video inverts and and supra-speeds the original way beyond the sub- and cognitive consciousness and into the Hella Conscious, the Superlymonal, the Superliminal, the supra-man matrix. Music by DJ XTB, Amp Attack and The Game | |
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Responce to Libretarian girl
I'm responding to Libretarian girl's post on the civil war:
Some people have made some great points, but as a proud member of the far-left I'd like to add a little.
First, I don't hate America, I'm a dual-citizen of Canada and America, and consider America--faults and follies included--to be neither evil or some kind of new Jerusalem. Of course slavery was bad, but it wasn't like the mason-dixon line delineated an end to slavery. http://www.slavenorth.com/
Now the reason that slavery didn't continue, as stated on the link, is largely the non-development of large-landowner(plantation)based agrarian economy.
So here we see an economic divergence, just as there is a rise in sectionalism during the late 1820's, following the end of fervent nationalism inspired by the war of 1812. At the same time there is great expansion into the west, both playing into the hands of sectionalist politicians and exasperating their differences.
This battle of political influence becomes the central narrative of the period from the mid 1830's through the 1850's. I should add I have no paticular guilt about this as an American. As a member of a species who did cruel things like this across the world, I suppose I feel a level of shame and horror. Also, to be perfectly realistic, wars are never based on ideals. They're based on economics, politics and power, and even the few examples to the contrary barely hold up to a hard look-over. People may think or be told that there are idealistic reasons for the war they are/were in, but it happens every time. (American Revolution-motivated by want of power over politics and economics among the rich-planting class, not idealism about liberty and freedom among the common people).
Slavery acts as one facet of this struggle from the 1830's-50's. The other equally important facets include issues like tarriffs, states' rights and the economic dynamics as the North industrialized.
To say the South didn't have a problem with its rights being trampled on is to fundamentally misunderstand the issue. Its not an issue of whether it was happening, but if they thought it was happening. If you feel threatened, it doesn't matter if you actually are, you respond in the same way.
I don't have the info to get bogged down in an argument about the foundations of the republican party, but the whole "The real history of the Civil War is that people in the North got fed up with allowing the barbaric practice of slavery to continue" is a half-truth designed to mislead. You can say that the fear Lincoln would end slavery caused secession, but again this fits into the greater fears of Northern control over the South, held by both the majority white poor and the minority white, rich land and slave owning upper class.
Slavery was an important part of their economic dynamics, one that they felt was wholly threatened by the North. Their fear of no more slave states is more about political influence than it is about the righteousness of slavery. It is equally about the set of other motives (federal power etc).
As many have pointed out above me, if you look at the primary source writings of the time, the vast majority of the north (the "moral majority") was a product of the time, overtly racist and accepting of slavery. There was a vocal minority that opposed slavery, but while they certainly player more heavily into Lincoln's administration then earlier ones, they were not the factor that the south was afraid of. People weren't fed up with slavery, they were strong unionist, distrustful of secessionists and southerners, a purely geo-cultural effect. Which is my final point, and where I agree with dablameit, that there is an important geo-cultural (rising out of economic disparity in the North and South, and geographically based cultural differences and prejudic) divide that drove the common people behind their leaders (driven by economics, power and politics) during the civil war.
Slavery was important, but was in no way the central or singular conflict.
Some people have made some great points, but as a proud member of the far-left I'd like to add a little.
First, I don't hate America, I'm a dual-citizen of Canada and America, and consider America--faults and follies included--to be neither evil or some kind of new Jerusalem. Of course slavery was bad, but it wasn't like the mason-dixon line delineated an end to slavery. http://www.slavenorth.com/
Now the reason that slavery didn't continue, as stated on the link, is largely the non-development of large-landowner(plantation)based agrarian economy.
So here we see an economic divergence, just as there is a rise in sectionalism during the late 1820's, following the end of fervent nationalism inspired by the war of 1812. At the same time there is great expansion into the west, both playing into the hands of sectionalist politicians and exasperating their differences.
This battle of political influence becomes the central narrative of the period from the mid 1830's through the 1850's. I should add I have no paticular guilt about this as an American. As a member of a species who did cruel things like this across the world, I suppose I feel a level of shame and horror. Also, to be perfectly realistic, wars are never based on ideals. They're based on economics, politics and power, and even the few examples to the contrary barely hold up to a hard look-over. People may think or be told that there are idealistic reasons for the war they are/were in, but it happens every time. (American Revolution-motivated by want of power over politics and economics among the rich-planting class, not idealism about liberty and freedom among the common people).
Slavery acts as one facet of this struggle from the 1830's-50's. The other equally important facets include issues like tarriffs, states' rights and the economic dynamics as the North industrialized.
To say the South didn't have a problem with its rights being trampled on is to fundamentally misunderstand the issue. Its not an issue of whether it was happening, but if they thought it was happening. If you feel threatened, it doesn't matter if you actually are, you respond in the same way.
I don't have the info to get bogged down in an argument about the foundations of the republican party, but the whole "The real history of the Civil War is that people in the North got fed up with allowing the barbaric practice of slavery to continue" is a half-truth designed to mislead. You can say that the fear Lincoln would end slavery caused secession, but again this fits into the greater fears of Northern control over the South, held by both the majority white poor and the minority white, rich land and slave owning upper class.
Slavery was an important part of their economic dynamics, one that they felt was wholly threatened by the North. Their fear of no more slave states is more about political influence than it is about the righteousness of slavery. It is equally about the set of other motives (federal power etc).
As many have pointed out above me, if you look at the primary source writings of the time, the vast majority of the north (the "moral majority") was a product of the time, overtly racist and accepting of slavery. There was a vocal minority that opposed slavery, but while they certainly player more heavily into Lincoln's administration then earlier ones, they were not the factor that the south was afraid of. People weren't fed up with slavery, they were strong unionist, distrustful of secessionists and southerners, a purely geo-cultural effect. Which is my final point, and where I agree with dablameit, that there is an important geo-cultural (rising out of economic disparity in the North and South, and geographically based cultural differences and prejudic) divide that drove the common people behind their leaders (driven by economics, power and politics) during the civil war.
Slavery was important, but was in no way the central or singular conflict.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Somalia
Now here in in the greater Victoria area, we have a large expatriate Ethiopian population. They're good people, and come to me for advice as the transition into a new cultural (morphing) where they are not the dominate ethnicity. They also give me information on a subject I'm very interested in, Somalia. The BBC may have a section under Somalia called 'surviving anarchy', but thats just another oversimplification from those tea-drinking, Mercedes driving extreme-centrist who can't even hold a candle to the CBC. They're Called Out. I've also put Dr. Math on notice for being a conformist who won't stand up to the Industria-Mathematics Establishment that is responsible for the largest caper in American history, math. Can't divide by zero my parakeet! 1 divided by zero is ten. One goes into ten exactly ten times, which is a combination of one, and zero. Its mathematically provable with a Isoceles triangle, who was usurped by that Dr. Math of the 6th century BC, and is therefore called out.
Anyway, in Somalia, they're is a lot of confusion and talk about war. Islamists are within 30 km of Baidoa, where those peons in the so-called interim government are hiding out. To maintain order, the good people of Ethiopia have graciously stepped in a few troops to help out. Its only rational, despite the fact many of my Ethiopian friends seem to think the interim government hasn't failed, and is still a good hope (sound like some other country located in the Mid East?).
Anyway, the solution is the establishment of ethno-clan-based government like Somaliland or Puntland.
quote of the day:
"We are telling the American population we are not a threat to them. They should remove the administration of Bush, which resembles the Nazi government of Hitler in so many ways." --Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed
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