I think another question we need to ask is: “Do we as human beings want a better quality of life for ourselves and our children?” If the answer is “YES!” then the fundamental role of all education whether it be publically or privately supported is to subvert the dominant paradigm. Children must be empowered to destroy the traditions of their progenitors in order to be able to live as truly human beings!!
The binding force for all American institutions is the American tradition. Tradition maintains the flow of American ideals and principles as set forth by the makers and preservers of tradition. Advertisers establish the tradition of their product. They create the need for a traditional item. The haute cultur debate in academia is currently focused on how the 90’s purveyors of cultural paradigms and traditions are misusing and abusing the counter-cultural activities and values of the 60’s. As the American Native indians would say, “this is truly a frozen Begging Way.” Americans hold a deep respect for tradition and its rightness of ways. We have been conditioned to need tradition--to keep faith in the established way. The FALLEN STAR BOY MYTH of the Plains tribes speaks directly to the need to destroy the bearers of tradition who hold life hostage by fear.
I feel as though i am advocating an educational environment which strongly focuses on the shamanic and on the process of the development and ritualization of OTHER THAN HUMAN WISDOM. There seems to be more and more material which supports my view that the weakness in space/time continuums can be exploited through various shamanic techniques. The non-material substance of the universe becomes malleable; the freedom of Reichian orgone being to literally travel through space and time by non-action in non-space and non-time seems most appropriate.
Coulianu's work especially, asserts my own belief that the frameworks of consensually agreed upon ‘universe’ are illusory, and that 'ALL' THERE IS can be accessed through the mind mirror. In other words, rather than sending matter through space at enormous expense of energy, it is simply a "matter" of bringing the place in space to the mind. Inherent within each dollop of a four dimensional referent of space/time are all of the manifestations, structural configurations, and potentialities of the "creation of" and OTHER THAN HUMAN WISDOM in that object of consciousness.
My concern is to "show" the possibility of utilizing the archaic techniques to access this state. Obviously a mass media form requires the mythic struggles within, thereby opening the doors of perception and common sense to awareness. It is then the "story" that is important in the communication. The merging of myth with vision as process to revelation has always been an essential part of creation. This series of essays and annotated bibliography are infused with the ‘process’ as ongoing revelation and manifestation of creatively swimming in the oceans of possibilities of OTHER THAN HUMAN WISDOM. I quite literally let the books open where they would, i let the myth tell me where to look and how to use the texts, i used my three visions to open the paths to reflection and truth---all as process for confirming my faith in the accuracy of my thought.
For a GAIA to survive with the requisite complexity and diversity of life, all human educational systems must be destroyed and recreated. The Phoenix of the Wakinyan will guide the future generations towards the harmony and joy that bio-regionally supported, ecologically sustainable, economies will provide for all life.
So what does this mean to the corporate elites? Great wealth is believed to be the basis of power and therefore the progenitor of solutions for future human life. If, given sufficient wealth, groups of individuals believe they will be capable of purchasing safe habitats for their survival. These habitats will include: safe water; clean foods; proper health care; high technological support systems using all remaining available fuel sources; biospheric prophylaxis and multi-stage flitration systems for breathable air and reduction of radiation both man-made and natural; sophisticated hvac units to preserve the viable range of climatic conditions required to grow plants and animals for food sources; etc..
Obviously the rich would need to purchase the loyalty of many armies and other outside services to preserve their lives. The most probable vision of this course would include much from Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale , in which the wealthy have shut off access to their geographic region and use expendable human resources to maintain the safety and cleanliness of same. The most basic and all too entirely obvious conclusion is that billions of people will have to die suffering deeply and gravely so that a very few(less than 1/2 of 1% of the Earth’s population) can survive the environmental breakdown.
There is an underlying philosophical etiology of this scenario which encourages both its coming to pass and the lack of resistance to it. It can best be summed up in the context that for the Judeo-Christian-Muslim civilization the provebial expression suffering builds character applies to all human relations, while for the Buddhist-Indigenous populations their mantra of suffering is the cause of all human problems and only compassion will suffice evinces the aura of GAIAN wisdom. It is clear that the arithmetic of the rich based on the corporate capitalism of “western civilization” must by its own definitions show that might makes right and only the strong survive and other such platitudes of Darwinian social and physiological triumphs.
The simplicity of the rational solution to the degradation of GAIA, “killing off inferior species to insure the survival of the fittest against all other odds” is not a new concept. Indeed it reeks of a certain traditionalism from the earliest of Christian empire builders. Dare we forget the Native indigenous american peoples!
One further extremely important aspect of cultural and species specific genocides is the evolutionary diversity of the MEME pool. The studies of the evolutionary/revolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins, in such works as The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype and River out of Eden, proposes that in much the same way that genes carry the patterns of development and inherent GAIAN wisdom from generation to generation so to do MEMES. These are the units of coding for memory or information survivability and are tagged to the DNA of all life forms on the planet. In we humans our memes would possess cultural attributes and, given a proper set of philosophical constructs, could be manifested through what Jungians describe as cultural archetypes.
Certain MEMES gain, over eons, the capacity to become highly successful replicators and thereby, weaken their competition. This monopolization of information and singular patterns of survivability, tend to encourage mutations and random fractal based chaos which needs fewer opportunities to destroy the once mighty and powerful Selfish gene/ meme/phenotype; a process described as the loss of evolvability. It is therefore imperative that the greatest distribution of meme/gene diversity be propagated through both cultural and species diversity to insure the best possible sources for evolvability. Preserving diversity is then the role of all species but especially those that are more prone to the lure of the Selfish. (re: homo sapians sapiens;\global corporate capital consumerism). We can read this as the meme for the whole lineage and traditional western mind virus we have referred to as the Judeo-Christian-Muslim civilization.
In the most “wig-bubble” parameters, human memes carry all of the proto-typical information for the entire manifestation of the GAIAN DNA as ‘it ‘ has been revealed. Such a view would necessitate the recognition of the greatest possible diversity of all species as well as of all human cultural possibilities; this being due to the need for the information which is dormant from generation to generation to re-express itself to itself. Without this interdependent reconnection the memes would be justified in losing the capacity to carry the referential symbolisms and thereby empower the carrier(i.e. homo sapian sapiens) to eliminate the potential survivability or evolvability of the diverse information/ sentient being streams.
It is afterall the long term welfare and survival of the children which is our essential role. And without the diversity of cultures and languages in our classrooms how can children grow to learn to respect and cherish the necessary diversity of all species. This is a cyclical demand. For all life to exist in healthy harmony, the new generations of two leggeds must protect all species. To do this they must learn that diversity is maximally beneficial. To learn this they must experience cultural and linguistic diversity in the classroom. Cultural and linguistic diversity grows solely from the diversity of the species of the planet, GAIA.
Elegance is the best and perhaps even the only revenge against chaos, my good old trail buddy, he said. And the key to elegance is play. As who knows better than our fun-seeking verbal jeweler the intrinsic importance of the play repeat play of light and shadow and also sheen, sparkle, glitter, and twinkle? If you miss that and the verbal and auditory equivalents to it, such as connotation in words and overtones, chords and so on in music, shame on you my good man. You might as well be a stone, or a particle or a wave. Because we’re talking about the quality and potential range of human consciousness, my fellow sojourner.
The other night i had the opportunity to sing and pray with Lightning Horse, a keeper of the sacred white buffalo calf pipe given to we Lakota nearly 20 generations ago. I later told my students about this because the return of the sacred white buffalo woman can only be analogized with the hope filled desires of Christians around the world to see Jesus of Nazareth again walking around with them. The strength of spirit that one receives from such pure joy greatly outweighs the visage of the Grand Inquisitor. It was an experience that my pubescent herds called really cool!
One of the residues of the evening was an image in my mind of a painting that was being left unfinished; and i can only describe it this way:
a large canvas is covered in light blue lines which give only the slightest hint of shape, form, and texture. the spaces between the lines are matrixed with constantly changing patterns of numbers. this is quite literally a “paint by number” blank which no one seems to want to hold, color, or finish.
I believe the numbers are changing through the efforts of critical commentators whose views are trying to portray a vision of the future of the United States as accurately at possible given the machinations of capital, human greed and beliefs, and ultimately the decay of the planet GAIA. What keeps the painting from being finished is the anxiety and fear that the final image seems to be evoking as it develops. I think this pattern holds true for every writer who attempt to grasp the golden ring of prescience.
But!! It is time to show the world what the painting will look like so that there might still be a chance to significantly change the vision and the outcome. The refusal to paint the picture continues to empower the double face Unktehi spirits who would destroy our world.
So here’s how i see it:
When colored by the numbers the painting becomes a view of the US dominated by corporate capitalists who have used the conservative christian agenda to assert the dominance of a few white males to the positions of complete and autonomous authority. Most of country looks like scenes from BLADE RUNNER or CLOCKWORK ORANGE or ROLLERBALL. The political authority rests in hands of the moneyed puppets we see in handmaid’s tale, snowcrash, and virtual light. Whole cities are used as prisons for people of color and poverty in which they must fend for themselves among the toxic and poisonous remains of planetary decay. The heat and humidity are unbearable. The enclaves of the rich white people are islands of biospheric separation protected by the use of sophisticated technologies which were developed under the guise of star wars. Robotic armies directed by virtual commanders hunt down the pockets of thought and consciousness much like those found in farenheit 451 or the diamond age drummers. Symbolic iconographic media pollutes the dumb-downed minds of the serfs and peasants whose only sustenance comes as rewards for performing hazardous and toxic services jobs and cleanup. And this is just America.
My sense is that these visions are neither harmonious nor appealing. My sense is that we hope they go away. My sense is that wishing and hoping are not capable functional elements of change.
You have discovered arachnoanarchy
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