There are eternal things that constitute identity and temporal things that disappear. Knowing how to feed the one and understand and let go of the other is IMHO essential.
I use the classical station in NYCity to remind me of the real identity of this culture and to calm my PTSD given to me from growing up in the extreme temporality that has often made living here for both an artist and an Indian a day to day matter. There are patterns that maintain the world and conflicts that simply destroy the patterns. Commerce is built on such things and will disappear. Economy of scale is built on being able duplicate something cheaply that you can limit enough for it to “become” valuable and thus sold. Monsanto buys up all of the seeds and invents a seed that can only be used to make one crop and doesn’t replicate itself. That way you have to buy the same product next year. Think utube and performers copyrights there. Another company puts excitotoxins in a food that makes the person not register as satisfied and desires more not realizing that they don’t need it. It’s limited! There’s not enough! You must eat more! Buy more! A doctor must depend upon illness for business so the country discourages people from taking sick leave and infects the company making more business for the medical profession and lowering costs. Commerce is to life as white noise is to a great symphony. It erases the acoustic and returns the environment to a cottony claustrophobic silence. Only the great patterns survive. If your culture is built on greatness, and limits the private sector, then it will survive. If not, then you had better have a lot of stone architecture and not be located too close to the rain forest. Otherwise no one will know you ever existed at all. Of course, if the spirit truly is eternal and balance is the symmetry of the universe then leaving this realm in such turmoil will guarantee a lack of progression and the spirit being stuck in between realities lost in ambiguity. Think acoustics, the purity of a great vowel and the contrast that devours it. In acoustics it’s called White or Pink Noise. Ask any acoustician. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:24 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: Caught in the Net Subject: Caught in the Net <http://www.tvo.org/TVOOrg/Images/tvoresources/D4048485-E9DF-A5DE-7467FF5EFB1CCD44.jpg> Caught in the Net The man who coined the term "cyberspace", science fiction writer and futurist William Gibson, discusses the new cyber-reality and where the human race might be headed next. * William Gibson is an award-winning science fiction writer, and the author of Zero History. Join the discussion on The Inside Agenda blog » William Gibson: What you should read and how you should read it <http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=3&action=blog&subaction=viewpost&post_id=13942&blog_id=323> And: internet guru and author Tim Wu, the man responsible for the term "net neutrality", discusses the rise and fall of the 20th century's leading information empires. * Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, and author of The Master Switch. Then: Is the internet robbing Canadians of a sense of popular culture? In the global digital age, does our Canadian identity and sovereignty get lost in the shuffle? * Kate Taylor is a columnist with The Globe and Mail, and during her Atkinson Fellowship spent the past year researching the future of Canadian culture in a global and digital age. All episodes of The Agenda with Steve Paikin are available on-demand in streaming video and audio & video podcasts at: tvo.org/theagenda <http://www.tvo.org/theagenda> . <http://www.tvo.org/TVOOrg/Images/tvoresources/D3992B99-CAD2-B42F-8290AA011B06D8E8.gif> <http://www.gopublic.org> In Ontario, TVO is Public Television. Find Out What Your Donation Does At GoPublic.org <http://www.gopublic.org/> <http://www.tvo.org/theagenda> The Agenda with Steve Paikin airs weeknights at 8:00 and 11:00 PM ET on TVO. Program information is subject to change. Please do not reply to this e-mail - this is an automated program and you will not receive a response. To unsubscribe to this e-mail list, go to tvo.org/theagenda <http://www.tvo.org/theagenda> , login and click 'Edit Your Settings'. You may also contact TVO Customer Relations at [email protected].
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