union of soviet states & union of american states making same miss-takes - bailing out aparatchik cornies & phoneys -the future is watching.
we in the west celebrated the fall of communism and now we are experiencing the fall of capitalism - socialism, capitalism, communism, theism the isms of schism - we think these isms protect us and bring us together but in the end they tear us apart as we have seen the union of soviet states down fall was because of supporting the aparatchik the aristocracy much like the french in the french revolution was about equality and fraternity whereas the american revolution was about independence - but alas and alac we need to re-invent the future as we see the same thing happening now - and what brought down communism was a financial melt down and what is bringing down capitalism and the union of american states which can now be called the union of american miss-takes - we were so full of ourselves in the west we didn’t learn the lessons from the communist fall that we were next - and that you can’t believe in your own propaganda - you can fool yourself and others for only so long - and after a while the future will catch up and fall out from under you and as we look at the fall of the union of soviet states and the experiment of communism we know its system was fatally flawed and it was too late to save it from itself - in hind sight at the time they realized they need to be more balanced and include more self initiated options of the individual to make a difference and to reap the rewards - but as we see now in russia they still haven’t learned their lesson as russia is becoming more like a totalitarian mis-stake - which never last but we also see our leaders never learn there job is to stay in power at all cost and war is the most efficient was of staying in power - i recently wrote that we are not selfish enough and that if we took selfishness to its end it would simply mean what i want for me i want for you so we can all live in peace and harmony with out fear - so we see the failed bail out of western the corporations which are the 20th and 21st century cathedrals of worship and the union of american states government presenting bailouts but is that not a form of communist solutions i ask myself in you - we already have examples in capitalism of communism in the form of the public sector of government where fire, police, military, sanitation workers are not subject to the daily fluctuations like we see in the private sector -
the union of soviet states had their wake up call years ago after realizing that bailing out broken systems and bailing out aparatchik cornies & phoneys was putting a Band-Aid on a dead person - we need to find a balance and call it by any other name we the people need to stop pretending we are zombies and we the people need to take back our future and we the people need to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over since the beginning of recorded time and we need to stop wars, violence, fear, greed, and going along to get along even though we know it’s wrong - and most of all we the people need to rethink and re-invent our selves and the flawed and failed system we keep hoping will save us but doesn’t we need to stop top down management by fear - we live in a global world of social communications and the our internet family nation needs to stand up for itself and the next time our leaders decide to have a war because that is what leaders do and have been doing since before forever - why haven’t we learned our lesson - that todays revolutionaries are often tomorrows tyrants too and we the people need to come together as individuals and next time they call a war nobody show up
we are faced with some interesting challenges and opportunities in the near future - are we going to survive ourselves or are we going to deteriorate into a self-consumed humanity that eats itself up in the process - the future not only wants to know the future is watching
be well
geo geller
the art of living is making yor life an art
commentary: The Social Reformer - Seven Da Vincian Principles
my stream of conscious response to blog post on The Social Reformer - life long learning - Seven Da Vincian Principles
well leonardo holds a special place in my imagination - he dreamed beyond himself and was able to suspend his mind - and enter into and become the things he was studying and interested in - to me genius is somebody who is interested in what they are doing and become a vacuum cleaner for everything about it in-sight and insightful - he as you say studied art like a science and science like an art - he is responsible for more mechanical inventions then we can imagine - especially buidling and farm machinery - i saw an exhibit of leonardos farm inventions in venice years ago and also in the world trade center there was another exhibit of his inventions and went to a talk on leonardo by the well known artist Mark di Suvero who’s father was a leonardo da vinci expert - and he talked about how leonardo invented modern day cranes - before leonardo they would build up and take down a crane every time they had to change the angle - leonardo came and saw that you could sandwich ball bearings between metal plates and it would rotate - and that is one example - leonardo also wrote in such a way that you had to streetch your mind to read it - i have a book of leonardos paint formulas that i studied and was amazed at how he was able to get inside the paint in addition to painting the most well known questioning smile in the world - if you look at some of his other paintings around that time you can see that mona lisa was part of a study he was exploring about the expressions of the lips - most people look at the eyes as the most reflective - so i think leonardo not only had all the above 7 things mentioned in your blog post - i wonder about his social consciousness and maybe if we relook at his paintings we will see that they are more social commentary about humanity and the state of the world around him - on how to think like leonardo one aspect is to suspend your mind and creativity is having an open mind - its interesting that the first thing on the list is curiosity - in addition to filming scientist and artist at play for a doc called playing with science http://PlayingWithScience.com for last 7 years often in the basement of a nyc cafe - cornelia street cafe on the first sunday of the month curated by noble prize winner and poet/playwrite roald hoffman and co-founded by oliver sacks were we explore the imagination of science and art around the theme of science - and having another web site curiosityitis.com which is a work in progress for those of us who suffer from too much curiosity - and in a film conversation with the father of fractals benoit mandelbrot in a snow storm i asked him what his relationship to curiosity is and he said “i fight curiosity” which i thought was an interesting food for thought - so i leave you with the thought - the art of living is making your life an art and i think the master of that was leonardo da vinci
there is more to this then meets the eye
g-oh
commentary: vitamin deficiency - response nytimes - News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins
vitamin deficiency–who protects us from those who say they are protecting us - this is amazing vitamin scandal story - who do we believe the vitamin pharmaceutical industrial military government media complex of global incompetent companies who keep feeding us their propaganda and their take this and leave the driving to us -
we are shocked when we find out we have ben betrayed by our protectors, government, food and drug administration etc - but then again as Saul Bellow says, we are shock resistant maybe the only thing that can touch us is poetry (art) - we are shocked when we hear things like the food and drug administration allowing hazardous food and things out of China and into our mouths and homes and FDA only recently opened up offices in China - but lest we forget who we are trusting to protect us - the Chinese don’t have a history of oversight like we like to believe we have and yet here in the west our western definition of over-sight often means we the people are blind-sighted and blind-sided - we have seen this idiotcracy in all aspects of government oversight that they are blind deaf and dumb to what they don’t want to hear and have a blind eye too - our present government of we the business first have done another excellent job of wearing the emperor’s new clothes and deceiving us all coming on top of the present economic meltdown - the point is we can’t trust what comes out of the mouths of people who keep telling us they are protecting us and who have agendas and protecting their position at we the peoples imposition and expense - but the real mea culpa belongs to the media for being weak and fearful and saying one thing and not reporting on things we the people need to know but are more afraid of unintended consequences of their own agenda which is not protecting the people as much as we would like to think - the vitamin story is something we wanted to believe in and for decades all the research which was often funded by the corporations themselves to get the desired results has been misleading us down the garden path - as Thomas Jefferson said “he would rather see a strong press rather then a strong government” - the future is watching and wondering too - geo geller
food for thought - i think the problem with selfishness is we don’t take it far enough - we aren’t selfish enough - we don’t take it to the end of the examination the exploration - which to me is if we all were truly selfish we would want to live with out fear to be happy healthy wealthy content and live in a creative and humane society and be able to enjoy life to the fullest - i believe we all would want that both individually and collectively - if we think about it how can we enjoy all these things if we are alone and have everything we wanted and everybody else is struggling - that’s only half way down the road of selfishness but to go to the end who would we enjoy our selfishness with if we were alone and paranoid like most leaders of the world - they get to the top and then they have to worry about being toppled and protecting themselves - that is no way to live - but this is as far as our world has taken selfishness too - by the very nature and concept of selfishness as i see it we aren’t selfish enough i personally would want to live in a world where i and everybody had what i/we/they would want for themselves and everybody else too - a content and full world - but we live don’t live in that world we live in a paranoid schizophrenic world where the politics of fear and poverty prevail and where we go along to get along even though we know its wrong - its short sighted selfishness = the status-quo and that is why we need to be collectively selfish if we are going to survive ourselves and the future is going to have a future too - food for thought -
geo
you might wonder what happened to the yellow brick road - well all i can say is there is more to this then meets the eye
food for thought on reading The Social Reformer - philosophy of history
interesting how you take us on a voyage of science and art of history - when i believe as a documentary filmmaker that everybody has a point of view - and also in doing a documentary called - Who’s Wearing the Emperor’s New Clothes - if so many people believe in something how can it be wrong - exploring the media, propaganda, the power of fear and the fear of power the point in reference is everybody has their own truth as they see it - ie. the Palestinian people have their truth and the Israelis have theirs - to me truth is a convenient lie we want to believe in - or more to the point we all change the facts to fit our needs and history is a fiction of facts or a faction - we tend to believe because we want to desperately believe in something even if it is in our own propaganda - it is said that the hunter tells the his side of the story and the lion has his side which is often never told - so we only get half the story anyway the truth of the matter is that matters of truth are often seen as matters of fact but in fact they are often going along to get along even if its wrong - some food for thought - g-oh
We the People - social media social sculpture - involving artist in the imagining the future together, the future is watching and waiting for us
excerpt from note to Obama Transition team http://change.gov/page/s/contact
“ We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable - Thomas Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse 1822 ” more Thomas Jefferson food for thought quotes
Obama needs to engage we the people if we are going to have a creative and humane society we artist need to be part of the conversation along with other stake holders in imagining the future - both on and off line - especially now that the government trust and economic melt down has created an even larger gap between rich and poor between the haves and the have nots - we need to energize individuals to feel like they are important and can do something in their/our own way in our/their own back yards too, to make a difference and one way is to have conversations with we the people and for we the people to do our part for the future we have to be fearless and stop pretending we are zombies and going along to get along even though we know its wrong - we have socially meaningful dialogs between ourselves and our leaders who are us about what concerns us and not just talk and complain but do something about it and flap our wings and change the direction or create a storm but put into action things which are not harmful to each other and to our planet our home - we have to be better guests - the future is watching and waiting for us
food for thought
geo geller
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