Tidied

 

Something from a while back I’ve tried to tidy up a bit tonight.

Descartes, Confusion

 “You know your man Descartes?”

“I think, therefore I am?”

“That’s him. How could he get it so wrong?”

“What you mean?”

“It should be, “I am, therefore I think.” What does he imagine happens every time he stops thinking? He ceases to exist? Think about it: “I sleep, therefore I am not thinking. Therefore I am not. Therefore I don’t exist. Therefore I don’t sleep - because if I don’t exist, how can I do anything? Including sleep.

Whereas if I am, therefore I think, sleep, walk, whatever - that makes perfect sense.”

“He was a confused man.”

“And he was taken seriously.”

“There’s a lot of confusion out there.”

MoRe arT

 

Odd

Somewhere around Cork city.

imagE

 

The Cork Timber, Slate and Cement Company

 

Cympel

 

sky 2

 

Been doing a little work tonight on this piece I’ve shown before.

wild

 

wet less wet

 

More inK

 

Mystery, Key

 

A headline from The Telegraph newspaper. Researchers just can’t figure out what has changed that, along with mysterious huge rise in heart issues affecting young people, there also now appears to be a surge of ‘epidemic’ proportions in cancer amongst fit young people. 

Is there any common denominator within the last short few years that was introduced into the physiological makeup of a huge percentage of the population that hadn’t been part of that physiological makeup prior to then? Perhaps the discovery of some new element in the human environment that wasn’t, as said, around previously, could be the key to unlocking the mystery - and the uncovering of this missing link could prove to be a metaphorical vaccine, if you will, warding off darkness and opening the door to the hallways of illumination.

Any ideas? Answers on a postcard.

Reason and Faith

 Reason will always find reasons not to have faith.

Not sure

Not sure how much I’d say I like this but here it is regardless.

dark flow, cat

 Something pretty random that just took a few seconds, and below that perhaps a cat.

Denim

Rockstar Spruce Pipedream has teamed up with Sir Tony Blair to record a new song, titled Wearing Denim to Show My Support for the Common Man. The song has a nostalgic 1980s vibe, whilst still feeling relevant to our times. Sir Tony and Spruce are advising listeners to “turn it up loud!” 

edit: Following criticism on the grounds of misogynistic exclusivity, the song has been changed to Wearing Denim to Show My Support for the Common People. Sir Tony and Spruce are still encouraging listeners to turn it up quite loud, but are now also gently advising people to err on the side of caution with regard to decibel levels and possible effects on their hearing. “We want your ears to be in a safe space,” said Sir Tony. “But we’re still talking about rock n roll!” added Spruce.

Nietzsche, Lenin, State Idolatry

 From Nietzsche's Of the New Idol chapter in Thus Spoke Zarathustra:

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'  

Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this as the sign of the state.. 

 It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it a State. 

And with this in mind, a quick look or reminder of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, (or Marxist-Leninists). Broadly, under such statist ideologies the state is elevated to the highest power in life and effectively owns its citizens. The people don’t dwell in life, but rather the parameters of the State are said to be life itself. The state of existence and the state are one and the same!

So onto Lenin, and after he, in his benevolence, allowed general elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917 the more moderate Socialist Revolutionaries won 41% of the vote, while Lenin's Bolsheviks gained 23.5%. Lenin's response was to dissolve the assembly, and carry on as a dictatorship, justified by the term "dictatorship of the proletariat". And anyone from now on felt to be a threat to the State dictatorship was declared and demonised as “an enemy of the people.” 

So exactly as Nietzsche described, this state stated itself to be “the people”, and so to be a threat to the totalitarian system was to be, as said, “an enemy of the people.” The language of confusion.

Just to add, the typical modern transposition of that phrase “enemy of the people” appears to be “on the far-right”. And in some little snippet recently I saw an Irish governmental politician, when pressed as to what was meant by “far right”, and against which such threats the state was awarding itself powers to limit or silence “hate speech”, in her stumbling response, she mentioned a trait of being of the far-right was being “anti-government” and “anti-state.”

And even on that point, since what is historically meant by far-right is, just as with the far-left, a belief in the limitless elevation of the parameters of the state to absolute power over life, then to be ideologically of the far-right is certainly not to be “anti-state” - in fact the opposite. Though of course, despite the bandying about of words like “misinformation”, intellectual truth is not any kind of concern in these realms.

another one

 

Flux

 

Bad Tenants

 

Night

 

wet cAt

 

Hit-and-miss

 

A very quick hit-and-miss ink piece from last night.

imaGe

 

laNdsCape

 

Bunch

 There was a bunch of arseholes, and they banded together and tried to make themselves into one great arsehole.

 However successful they’d end up I admit to being of in ignorance, but I’d just suggest to never particularly trusting much in the union of arseholes.

Mattathias and the Officers of Antiochus at Modin

 

By Rembrandt, 1635.

Well

A man fell into a well, and when he came out he was full of darkness.

Someone else emerged from another well, and when he came out he was full of light.

Rockface

 

birD

 

Just something quick.

gate, grass

 

Honey

If something is coated in honey, all kinds of crap will stick to it.

Sumi-e: floating world

 

It’s a bit rough but something I went back to last night after its initial gestation a while back.

ground, house

 

Fumi

 

Other

 This is something I’d done on the other side of the sheet of the last image I posted. It’s not quite right but probably not as far off as I presumed - and so shouldn’t have gone and used the other side of the sheet to start something else.

Passionate

“Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?”

“I’m a very passionate person.”

“And what kinds of things are you passionate about?”

“Mostly just double-entry bookkeeping.”

isLand

 

I don’t think I’ve posted this one before, which I’ve had lying around for a good while and just touched up a bit.

Part: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

 

figURe

 

This isn’t quite how I’d like this to be, but here it is.

Perhaps

“Perhaps what you desire is not happening, but what needs to happen is occurring.”

Father Thaddeus of Vitovnika.

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blackbird through a wet window

 

sky

 

Sumi-e again

 

Something from a while back on Sumi-e paper I went back to try to touch up and finish up.

Your Dwelling Place

Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit.

Jeremiah

Often Again

 

Loop  Guru again

Hope (Riding on a Camel Somewhere)

 

By the band Loop Guru from 1993.

I Prefer

 

‘I prefer to talk to God about you than to talk to you about God.’ Saint Paisios. 

I don’t deserve to feel a deep connection to this man but regardless, for whatever deep reasons, he’s the modern spiritual figure with whom I feel the deepest respect or bond.

ThREe

 

face

 

water again

 

water, heron, boat

 

Winged

 

Soldiers

There was a great battle amidst a great conflict going on, and there were these soldiers, all ready for the fight, but unfortunately they were facing the wrong direction, didn’t recognise who was who and fired at their friends instead of their enemies.

Crudeness

 This in its crudeness was done in just a few seconds last night but tonight I’ve worked on trying to refine it a bit.

Cars

 

ciRcle

 

Offend

“What do you think of the people indoctrinating children with gender ideology - implanting thoughts, for example, in their very impressionable and trusting minds that they may be the wrong sex and so on?”

“I think a passage from the Gospel of Luke comes to mind: ‘It would be better for them that a millstone were tied around their neck and they thrown into the sea than that they should offend one of these little ones.’”

blaCk

 

tonIghT

 

Something I’ve been doing tonight.

Two Devils

There were two devils who always worked together in a kind of good cop bad cop scenario or alliance. The first devil would tempt someone with pleasure, and as long as the tempted gave into these temptations - whatever their particular form - then there was little need for the second and perhaps more formidable devil to make an appearance. But if someone made some concerted efforts and resisted the first devil’s temptations, for let’s say a week or even more, then the second devil would come in and tempt with pain. That is he would harass the thoughts of the one trying to get free with thoughts of despair, blasphemous accusations of God’s heartlessness and so on. Then eventually the tempted, perhaps just to get respite from these awful assaults, would return and give in to the temptations of the first devil, and the poor tempted one would be back to square one again. The thing was of course to push past both of them and then onwards to whatever or would come next.

Be Happy

Just a quick thought on the World Economic Forum, whose good people and doctrines your government and mine are most likely aligning themselves with.

So, what I’d like to do is unite their famous promise of  “You will own nothing and be happy” with the description of humanity by one of their best known ideologues, Yuval Harare, as “soulless, hackable animals.”

And so we end up with: 

“You are soulless, hackable animals who will own nothing and be happy.”

You’d have to be some kind of far-right, conspiracy theory loon not to buy into a vision like that. I think the idea of the actually being happy in this scenario, rather than being a reassuring solace, is maybe the most terrifying aspect here! - and which is exactly the warning of Huxley’s Brave New World. Actually, just now coming to mind is a think-thank scenario with these WEF beings - Klaus Schwab, etc: 

“We cannot simply stay here, Yuval, in our ivory towers making grand plans for the future of humanity. We must get our ideas across to the masses. They are not so bright, many of them, so how can we make them understand? We need succinct slogans to let them know what we are envisaging and what we are doing for them.”

“What about: ‘You are soulless, hackable animals who will own nothing’?”

“Yes, yes, that is very good. But maybe it will be seen as a bit harsh. You know how dark in their imaginings some of these people can be. ”

“Yes, you are right, Klaus. I have seen this firsthand for myself. They can be very irrational. But what about this: ‘You are soulless, hackable animals who will own nothing and be happy’?”

“Brilliant! Everyone loves happiness! How do you do it, Yuval? You have the populist touch. You have your finger on the pulse.”

“I have always been a man of the people, Klaus.”

“Yes, yes, that is very true. I admit I sometimes envy you for this. You must be careful not to make me too envious, Yuval.”

Food, Climate

My interactions with the emanations from the media are as minimal as possible and so I’m not ever likely to be too informed on the debates of the day, but  a very quick observation on the governmental targeting of farmers so as to reduce their output and impact on ‘climate change’.

Well if a world was experiencing catastrophic climate change, you know how one should expect one of the most crucial manifestations of this to be: lands turning to wastelands and a lack of agricultural output, and onwards to food shortages and mass starvation. If on the other hand we have an abundance of agricultural output, and where governments are intentionally stepping in to impede all this production of food, well then such an environment is not experiencing any climactic catastrophe. Repeating myself, the signs of a catastrophe would involve a lack of food, not a surplus of food. To think otherwise is simply the perversion of logic. It’s akin to saying a business is in trouble because it is making too much profit.

seen

 

A scene I spotted earlier today.