tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post332234330355395471..comments2024-03-15T07:38:08.505-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: The Green Rooms of the AbandonariumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-17103447241000252302018-05-22T08:28:36.108-04:002018-05-22T08:28:36.108-04:00,linh dinh, at his postcards... blog, expresses an...<i>,<b>linh dinh</b>, at his postcards... blog, expresses an anti-academic opinion:</i><br /><br />To write, one should read very carefully, that’s all. See all the different ways Hemingway or Annie Proulx build a sentence, for example. Teachers and writing workshops aren’t just useless, for the most part, but likely harmful, for you’re prone to be learning from not just a failed writer but someone who’s hustling for a deeply corrupt and intellectually crippling institution, an American university. On top of that, you’ll receive idiotic inputs from your fellow students. Although people can learn directly from Celine, Paul Bowles and Whitman, etc., at minimal cost, many are still willing to go into suicidal debt to receive instructions from a cast of dishonest incompetents, and they do this because they’re much more interested in networking than writing.<br /><br /><br />https://linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com/2018/05/ben-niespodziany-interviews-me.htmlmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-83311108681060811692018-05-20T11:14:45.467-04:002018-05-20T11:14:45.467-04:001
i went to the 'african anthropocene' li...<b>1</b><br /><br />i went to the 'african anthropocene' link, thought it made an excellent point, and left a comment - right now it appears there, but as it could be interpreted as racist - not my intent, i assure you, i am among the least racist people you could ever meet - it may be deleted<br /><br />it's the joke where tonto says, "what you mean 'we', white man?"<br /><br /><b>2</b><br /><br />and speaking of '-ocenes' - and of the wild west - "home, home on the range...where never is heard a discouraging word" - some people have a tendency to overdue the discouraging words, in my opinion - <br /><br />speaking from my own autobiographical experience, in college a young woman with whom i was never physically intimate told me i was rather like the character 'eeyore' in the winnie the pooh books - over the course of years i came to understand what she meant and have tried to moderate this tendency<br /><br /><b>2a</b><br /><br />as the applied philosophy collective 'monty python' pointed out, look on the bright side - of life, and of death [this relates, in a way, to matthew sweeney's current situation, discussed in your link 'posthumous oblivion']<br /><br /><b>2b</b><br /><br />anyway, like the free range mom running for county council [danielle meitiv] i recognize that the situation is serious, but i consider that efforts to ameliorate it are still worthwhile, and so i have, for several days, wanted to find ways to express this - that it's darkest before the dawn, that there is still hope for truth, beauty and love in this cruel world<br /><br /><br /><b>2c</b><br /><br /><br />and then, this morning, while reading a norwegian master's thesis on shantideva's most famous work - the BCA - i came across these words from the dalai lama, from a talk in january 2009 - <br /><br />The core of the Buddha’s teachings, he continued, is the concept of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda), a term that would come up frequently throughout his explanation of the texts. In Mahāyāna Buddhism it is the idea that all things are interconnected, subject to causes and conditions, and on ultimate analysis can be said to be “empty” (śūnyatā) as they do not have independent existence. Its philosophical ramifications are dealt with specifically in the 9th chapter of the BCA. In his short introductory discussion of this concept the Dalai Lama brought up the challenges of global warming as a good example of this. Global warming, he suggested, is a result of humankind not paying heed to the effects our lifestyle can have on the environment. It is a worldwide problem and one that illustrates that our lives are all interconnected, and that no solution can be reached if the whole world does not work together to solve it. When we understand how interdependent our lives are we will easily develop compassion for our fellow beings who we see are in the same situation as our selves. In this short introduction then the Dalai Lama elegantly summed up the central teaching of Mahāyāna, the need to develop wisdom (prajñā), the insight into dependent origination, and skillful means (upāyakauśalya), compassionate techniques that can alleviate the suffering (duḥkha) of the world.<br /><br /><br />https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/24076<br /><br /><br /><b>2d</b><br /><br />interdependentocene<br />skillfulmeansocene<br />wisdomeocene<br />compassionocene<br />alleviationofdukkhaocene<br />implementationofthepowerofloveocene<br /><br /><br /><b>2e</b><br /><br />q.how's the future of humankind, the biosphere, and the planet?<br />a. compared to what?<br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com