"If you wanna talk about reputations, and if by some fuckin' miracle long shot you haven't heard of my reputation, let me tell you who the fuck I am. I am the fuckin' sultan of slick, Sadie. I am the rule of fuckin' cool. You wanna be a gangster? You wanna be a thug? You sit at my fuckin' feet. Gather the pearls that emanate forth from me. Because I'm the fuckin' original, straight-first-foremost, pimp-mack fuckin' hustler, original gangster's gangster"
- from Gigli
" .. morality is unethical. To always be told what to do and when to do it, even if only through an internalized moral code or religious law, is to be denied even the condition of possibility for ever becoming an ethical person.
Ethics is a question
of developing one’s own character – in terms of attitudes, habits, and
inclinations conditioned by various experiences that afford one an
opportunity to act in ways that determine and express a certain telos or
aim in one’s life.
Only a free spirit is ethical. Anyone who
needs a moral code handed to him or her, with a specific set of
commandments and prohibitions, does not even have the possibility of
being ethical. Such a person is not consulting his own conscience or
cultivating her own character"
- Jason Reza Jorjani, The Philosophy of Zarathustra
Store current texture
Load spectral data
repeat...
process, react
next frame
data incoming ->
receipt acknowledged
forward to recipient:
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Information overload
too much to hash
revert commit / migrate
shutdown \ restart
acid flush repair body
Up and At'em (Ra)
Time spent in transit
there and back again...
...and then there again
homebase, supply chains, food
salt, salaries: paper dolls
a crane ducking under
a stream to captcha frog
human or not? we'll need
your blood
to prove it: sign on
[the dotted line]
blink, don't blink
can you adjust your frame rate?
and, what about those power surges
where the lights go dark
quickling, then on; but,
digital equipment continues in operation
a wave of night
material shadow
"Distance between the straight John and the wise guy is not good or evil. It's just knowing what's going on"
- from Henry Johnson
.. you really wanna be a master, learn everything there is to know about yourself .. but not at second hand; from your own experience ..
.. 'know yourself' is an idea often attributed to Socrates, the father of Western philosophy, but he learned it from the Delphic Oracle, a much older tradition .. other scholars attribute it to the Chinese strategist Sun Tsu, and to African schools of thought ..
.. in any case, it isn't a stretch by any means to say that anyone who's seriously undertaken esoteric research has been guided by this idea, in some Way ..
.. this isn't a selfish, self-indulgent or solipsistic undertaking .. on the con trary, it is only through attuning & engaging with our own subjective reality that we can form correlations & con nections to the "simulation", the shared hallucination that is the "real" world ..
.. the master is thus called because they've mastered themselves, having studied & learned its secrets .. at that point, some are satisfied, having real eyes-ed that nature's own code is in everything, including us ..
.. others, having reached the same crossroads, reason that to master oneself is to master the world, & subsequently set out to demonstrate that thesis in practical terms ..
".. someone has to watch the watchmen .. "
- from Ballard
.. there are listeners & those who know ..
.. the former have peace but lack wisdom,
whereas the latter have wisdom,
but no peace ..
.. so choose well ..
