Thursday, April 9, 2009

zenophobia

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Backward in time

the plant explains
the seed explains
the earth explains
the water explains

Here and now
explains the map
Past and future
stand in reflection
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It is so easy to die
let your life to this moment go
and admit about this corpse
what you could never admit about
"yourself "
It is so easy to die
when you do it this way
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I am Philosopher


I am philosopher because I love wisdom
and I love the love of wisdom
and because i have taken the time to learn to
say and think loveOf* wisdomOf*


i am philosopher because i make no apologies
for seeking the truth above all things


i am philospher because everything i do
and learn and experience adds to one thing:
"what is this and how does it work?"





i am philosopher because i say so
because i look in every field, every art,
every image or movement for one thing


i am philosopher because i can tell the
difference between the sign and the signified


i am philosopher
i philosophize always


i am philosopher
because "people" hate me
i am a gadfly
i am hemlock
i am refusenik
and commie


i don't stop asking
expanding
including
reasoning

ever


i am


i am not disturbed by Godel
or Turing machines

computation is not at odds with philosophy


i am not at odds with Bayes


not only is "god" dead
god was never alive
nor any true believer in god


i am philosopher
full time


when i eat (what is eating, what is food)
when i shower (what is clean, what is running water, what is sensation)
when i dream - what i dream


i am philosopher in spite
of the puppet show called
culture

with planned stages like chickens hatched
and farmed each with chicken myths repeated
endlessly


in spite of colonies
and atavistic loyalties
in spite of stoogism

and impenetrable hypocrisy


i philosophize in the thick
of being right

i philosophize as the world prays
to walls and rocks and books and bosses and fathers and feelings
and mom

i philosophize against
against
against


fight-flight, punishment-reward, pain-pleasure, plus-minus....

these are the politic of Braitenberg vehicles
no room for philosophers in there




what kind of philosopher MUST know these things - must know de-sade and sartre
and soren and witt (in words and in pictures) and buddha?


what kind of philosopher MUST know about everything
that changes everything?!


"my kind' ...





What a racket there is each time an ape presents.
Each symbolic ape pulling the lever that labels
the specimen correctly - each receiving their treat


What monotony! Lifting the cup to their lips with
the same expression each time
laughing at the same place each time
voiding in the same place
and calling it "being at home".


"the first technology fed on superstition and fear
- it was called religion
the second was based on religion, and power
-it was called empire
the third was based on stupidity and cowardice and empire
-it was called self-preservation


the fourth was based on empire and self-interest and deceit
-it was called the middle class
the fifth technology was based on everything else"