During the latest large terrorist threat against the West, if you remember the fluids that caused us to stop entering planes with baby food, I recall seeing an expert on CNN who said he could not go into any details because he was on TV.
So we are now just fine if the Government says we are to duck, for no apparent reason.
Now, this seems quite a dangerous policy to me.
And, if we do not remember the colonial thirst of, God, how many? - must be of a couple of long decades ago, how come nobody publicly wonders the sole reason for the US entering Iraq might have been precisely and nothing else - the childish attempt to snatch the oil? What a plan for this world, you guys, you..
But, what do we know of Al Quaida?
29 May 2007
15 May 2007
Zip
Don't you just love the satellite program of Croatian TV?
Ninety (literally) per cent of the time is Croats singing. Of course I konw programming costs, but - why bother then?
They are asking for it: you guys have nothing to say, is that it?
I once wrote a poem about a guy roaming a city amid all the noise, refusing to say anything yet, cause he 'would rather not disturb the peace.'
But this does not include loud tasteless singing.
Ninety (literally) per cent of the time is Croats singing. Of course I konw programming costs, but - why bother then?
They are asking for it: you guys have nothing to say, is that it?
I once wrote a poem about a guy roaming a city amid all the noise, refusing to say anything yet, cause he 'would rather not disturb the peace.'
But this does not include loud tasteless singing.
Earth Party
I read in the papers yesterday the Pope proclaimed both communism and capitalism - dead.
Indeed, as many in the former Eastern bloc naively say communism is unnatural, it is hard not to notice the 'natural' nature of capitalism when you give your entrepreneur acquaintance one-third of your salary - instead of the cover-up of working for a corporation.
It is well the great Founding Fathers of America remarked the inequality of men is inherited, biology-wise. However, they also maintained power should never turn into oppression - which is the true reason for the right to bear arms - not the ridiculous situations we sometimes today find ourselves in.
Massacres are never the solution indeed - it is doubtful whether any good comes out of violent topplings - as witnessed by coup countries. As Marx proves, the weapon is - ideology.
Now, in an age of small and big nations, a framework that obviously does not work, and huge corporations, some with dizzying budgets and most-often-than-not no agendas at all, the attention I think is to be turned to the concept of community.
What is needed is a radical reinterpretation on the Greek polis. The raw is there - prominent individuals helping the young and Africa, writers and journalists, NGOs like Greenpeace.
However, what we really need is more examples, instead of agitation. Then people will copy.
If I earn the extra kuna, hell - I'm opting for a small-scale outdoor advertising. I even learned the other day there is a special tax for that. I shall juxtapose the images from the League of Nations with ones from the UN. No text.
Indeed, as many in the former Eastern bloc naively say communism is unnatural, it is hard not to notice the 'natural' nature of capitalism when you give your entrepreneur acquaintance one-third of your salary - instead of the cover-up of working for a corporation.
It is well the great Founding Fathers of America remarked the inequality of men is inherited, biology-wise. However, they also maintained power should never turn into oppression - which is the true reason for the right to bear arms - not the ridiculous situations we sometimes today find ourselves in.
Massacres are never the solution indeed - it is doubtful whether any good comes out of violent topplings - as witnessed by coup countries. As Marx proves, the weapon is - ideology.
Now, in an age of small and big nations, a framework that obviously does not work, and huge corporations, some with dizzying budgets and most-often-than-not no agendas at all, the attention I think is to be turned to the concept of community.
What is needed is a radical reinterpretation on the Greek polis. The raw is there - prominent individuals helping the young and Africa, writers and journalists, NGOs like Greenpeace.
However, what we really need is more examples, instead of agitation. Then people will copy.
If I earn the extra kuna, hell - I'm opting for a small-scale outdoor advertising. I even learned the other day there is a special tax for that. I shall juxtapose the images from the League of Nations with ones from the UN. No text.
12 May 2007
The Future Resolution
Yesterday I talked with two bright people, separately. Really? Yes.
With my American buddy, a professor in psychology in Texas, I am afraid I once again succumbed to discussing my favourite topic: the future. She says technology revolutionized everything and indeed my book on the 'history of future' almost claims you will be able to eavesdrop on any conversation.
But I countered with the pre-tech East Germany situation, where practically every other person was an informant.
Quoting myself: That's why it is wise to adopt the no-shame policy. And smugly: I know I'm good enough.
With my American buddy, a professor in psychology in Texas, I am afraid I once again succumbed to discussing my favourite topic: the future. She says technology revolutionized everything and indeed my book on the 'history of future' almost claims you will be able to eavesdrop on any conversation.
But I countered with the pre-tech East Germany situation, where practically every other person was an informant.
Quoting myself: That's why it is wise to adopt the no-shame policy. And smugly: I know I'm good enough.
Something
The paranoid ones say the West have interests here. The West say they have interests here. Be it so or otherwise - apathy is large - it is true they always seek local partners.
However, just like explaining to kids in my late-in-life driving class when asked whether I respected the police - it is indeed boyish and immature to think they seek the best individuals. They communicate with the ones in any position of power. In any society with any corruption, the obvious consequence is that 10 years after, even the worst candidate able to gain experience is a better candidate.
But is the last premise so foolproof? Admittedly, if you e.g. run a project for the first time (isn't my example so hip?) - you shall run into the usual pitfalls. But my claim is you shall also produce the expected results; why, they even follow a methodology, imagine.
In a world that cannot afford more of the same, it would be useful to try hiring decision makers in pairs: a scarred one with advisory and veto powers, and the bright and almost innocent one with executive powers, whose job would be the much hallowed thinking outside the box.
If I seem puerile, let me offer a joke. Moscow has just celebrated something with a military parade. They had soldiers in WWII uniforms marching alongside their contemporary colleagues. My favourite paper say: with their WWIII peers.
However, just like explaining to kids in my late-in-life driving class when asked whether I respected the police - it is indeed boyish and immature to think they seek the best individuals. They communicate with the ones in any position of power. In any society with any corruption, the obvious consequence is that 10 years after, even the worst candidate able to gain experience is a better candidate.
But is the last premise so foolproof? Admittedly, if you e.g. run a project for the first time (isn't my example so hip?) - you shall run into the usual pitfalls. But my claim is you shall also produce the expected results; why, they even follow a methodology, imagine.
In a world that cannot afford more of the same, it would be useful to try hiring decision makers in pairs: a scarred one with advisory and veto powers, and the bright and almost innocent one with executive powers, whose job would be the much hallowed thinking outside the box.
If I seem puerile, let me offer a joke. Moscow has just celebrated something with a military parade. They had soldiers in WWII uniforms marching alongside their contemporary colleagues. My favourite paper say: with their WWIII peers.
06 May 2007
Go, Go, Go!
It is a sunny day in Zagreb and its streets are awash with gigantic posters of a Mr Jack Welch. He will teach leadership and, as I heard him on TV, his are the golden words of advice like 'If you don't have the edge - don't compete.'
Do his prospect pupils really know there's at least one guy teaching on Freud at the Philosophy Faculty each year? I think I could even almost prove it would be more useful for them to know there is a subconscious part of them.
Probably the best part I find to be the imagined answer of one of the followers how you really learn a lot. Well, lock me up with a medical case for 5 hours and I assure you I would learn something.
And how I love their frenzy! In their 20s or 30s, they are healthy, yet, and completely lured in a sect that adores success. They undoubtedly have their life policies, maybe even invest in funds, cause, hey, the yields are better.
Little do they know they are at the same time helping kill their parents or health-fading grandparents because of inadequate state care. But, after all, these farts were stupid enough to build all this country possesses and ignored the fact the systems were bound to fail.
Last time I witnesses such feeble propaganda was during the throes of communism. The posters also screamed about reducing consumption and the inalienable workers' rights. Now, since I know our Constitution actually enshrines private property and the spirit of individual entrepreneurship as values - I invite you to make the parallel.
It would be kind of fun to try to argue that free market represents - in contrast with the contrived economy of socialism, for all that it really does not work - a defeat of human reason. To leave it all to beneficial adjustment of chaos? Hell, yeah!
Statistics say 6 per cent of venturers manage to get rid of the needy constraints of money. The rest are 'losers.' I have never yet seen a winner and I sure doubt there is one.
Do his prospect pupils really know there's at least one guy teaching on Freud at the Philosophy Faculty each year? I think I could even almost prove it would be more useful for them to know there is a subconscious part of them.
Probably the best part I find to be the imagined answer of one of the followers how you really learn a lot. Well, lock me up with a medical case for 5 hours and I assure you I would learn something.
And how I love their frenzy! In their 20s or 30s, they are healthy, yet, and completely lured in a sect that adores success. They undoubtedly have their life policies, maybe even invest in funds, cause, hey, the yields are better.
Little do they know they are at the same time helping kill their parents or health-fading grandparents because of inadequate state care. But, after all, these farts were stupid enough to build all this country possesses and ignored the fact the systems were bound to fail.
Last time I witnesses such feeble propaganda was during the throes of communism. The posters also screamed about reducing consumption and the inalienable workers' rights. Now, since I know our Constitution actually enshrines private property and the spirit of individual entrepreneurship as values - I invite you to make the parallel.
It would be kind of fun to try to argue that free market represents - in contrast with the contrived economy of socialism, for all that it really does not work - a defeat of human reason. To leave it all to beneficial adjustment of chaos? Hell, yeah!
Statistics say 6 per cent of venturers manage to get rid of the needy constraints of money. The rest are 'losers.' I have never yet seen a winner and I sure doubt there is one.
05 May 2007
All by nature..
I have a great book, waiting to be read: it's called The Philosophy of a Townlet. It's by a Serbian author; it was written sometime in late 70s or early 80s, and I believe this is a fortunate translation. I even heard the guy exchanged letters with Beckett.
This was related to me by the same friend who, the other day, remarked on the 'patterns' in individuals' behaviour. It's actually not about patterns - but taken over chunks of ideas, prejudices and heard-of 'facts,' that become neatly incorporated into the 'natural' thinking processes. Let us avoid the problem of originality here.
If you are a growing-up boy or living in the Middle Ages, you must undoubtedly rely a great deal upon stories. But this intellectual gossip is the thought food for most of those around us.
- Do you know that the EU shall.. according to their law..
- Tesla had plans to..
etc.
Scholarship after all only increases the probability of truth and indeed insists on hypotheses, but this is a world of true make-believe, sorcery and real witches. This is a world unanalyzed, where after decades of unexplained wrong-doing the culprits are incinerated, on account of obvious gut-feeling.
Herds gone rampant. Wonder how we get anywhere.
On the other hand, how convenient that it was the Romantic period that insisted upon the genius of one. Leadership only channels the same thing.
Perhaps one of the most incisive images one can think of is of a silhouette whispering something in somebody's ear.
This was related to me by the same friend who, the other day, remarked on the 'patterns' in individuals' behaviour. It's actually not about patterns - but taken over chunks of ideas, prejudices and heard-of 'facts,' that become neatly incorporated into the 'natural' thinking processes. Let us avoid the problem of originality here.
If you are a growing-up boy or living in the Middle Ages, you must undoubtedly rely a great deal upon stories. But this intellectual gossip is the thought food for most of those around us.
- Do you know that the EU shall.. according to their law..
- Tesla had plans to..
etc.
Scholarship after all only increases the probability of truth and indeed insists on hypotheses, but this is a world of true make-believe, sorcery and real witches. This is a world unanalyzed, where after decades of unexplained wrong-doing the culprits are incinerated, on account of obvious gut-feeling.
Herds gone rampant. Wonder how we get anywhere.
On the other hand, how convenient that it was the Romantic period that insisted upon the genius of one. Leadership only channels the same thing.
Perhaps one of the most incisive images one can think of is of a silhouette whispering something in somebody's ear.
04 May 2007
OFr. stile, from L. stilus.
How difficult to reach, how difficult to abandon!
A musical has it there is nothing new that can be said at all, dicarding the trifles of new technology etc., but that it would be new if you said it. No matter how true that is, are we indeed a fixed lens?
But taking a look at any great writer, how darling hope fails! Hemingway is but Hemingway - and cannot get beside himself. Even Pessoa is same in endless repetitions of his schizophrenic 'personalities.'
Then how to surprise? My instict says the notion is cooperation with other writers.
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
A musical has it there is nothing new that can be said at all, dicarding the trifles of new technology etc., but that it would be new if you said it. No matter how true that is, are we indeed a fixed lens?
But taking a look at any great writer, how darling hope fails! Hemingway is but Hemingway - and cannot get beside himself. Even Pessoa is same in endless repetitions of his schizophrenic 'personalities.'
Then how to surprise? My instict says the notion is cooperation with other writers.
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
Carl Jung
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
02 May 2007
In Medias Res
It was today I discovered I had a proper relationship with my dog.
It's not the mere 'Sit!' in question here – as some of more inexperienced of you might think – it's this complex, dominant unfortunately, process of internegotiation taking place.
Of course, I love him. I think it indeed base enough not to have to explain what relationships are about; suffice it to say I try to turn him a bit into a cat. What can I say, some petting is necessary. The reverse is true for cats, obviously. If it does not return when called, what good is it, after all?
But what this actually means, naturally, is that you can tell the owner by its dog. And if, so they tell me, statistics do not lie that the majority of family do not talk to each other, why should it be strange these already tamed animals fight in the park?
And the simplicity of lifestyle – ah! Today, having finished with a job, we walked, we ate, we slept, and we walked. He waited while I had coffee, and I was patient while he was rollicking with some other same-sized dog in the grass, having a watchful eye lest the kids should hurt themselves.
Children lead the lives of approximately the equivalent share of care-free enjoyment, and perhaps their characteristics that strikes me most is how soon tears can be replaced with laughter.
To get back to the point, however; no thing is ever done. Whereas each new word, written or said, might call for a new one to interpret or correct it right, as we cerebral types would have it, the same is valid for acts. Even if it is only a highly mannered farewell to the first dog.
It's not the mere 'Sit!' in question here – as some of more inexperienced of you might think – it's this complex, dominant unfortunately, process of internegotiation taking place.
Of course, I love him. I think it indeed base enough not to have to explain what relationships are about; suffice it to say I try to turn him a bit into a cat. What can I say, some petting is necessary. The reverse is true for cats, obviously. If it does not return when called, what good is it, after all?
But what this actually means, naturally, is that you can tell the owner by its dog. And if, so they tell me, statistics do not lie that the majority of family do not talk to each other, why should it be strange these already tamed animals fight in the park?
And the simplicity of lifestyle – ah! Today, having finished with a job, we walked, we ate, we slept, and we walked. He waited while I had coffee, and I was patient while he was rollicking with some other same-sized dog in the grass, having a watchful eye lest the kids should hurt themselves.
Children lead the lives of approximately the equivalent share of care-free enjoyment, and perhaps their characteristics that strikes me most is how soon tears can be replaced with laughter.
To get back to the point, however; no thing is ever done. Whereas each new word, written or said, might call for a new one to interpret or correct it right, as we cerebral types would have it, the same is valid for acts. Even if it is only a highly mannered farewell to the first dog.
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