Friday, May 27, 2022

Triage

(The following is based only on limited freely available audiobooks.)


When triaging an existential wound, first keep the patient from bleeding to death.


The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

https://youtu.be/1yW2pE2VvbE

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10755075


The End of Faith by Sam Harris

https://youtu.be/gvIadvRIwKo


The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine

https://youtu.be/0vjYiCl1b38

https://youtu.be/CeEokns0gyU


The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

https://youtu.be/lPWJu9SO2XA


Capitalism and Its Consequences by Noam Chomsky

https://youtu.be/-h1CyRXHI1c

https://youtu.be/7vSOZQmeB2Y


Drawdown by Paul Hawken

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11889095


We Own the Future edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier, and Michael Karzin

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13769750


The Future Earth by Eric Holthaus

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12577622




Then treat serious wounds that are not immediately life threatening.


The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12437421


The Edible Ecosystem Solution by Zach Loeks

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14888116


The Attachment Parenting Book by William Sears, MD

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12232260


Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11187579


Teaching To Transgress by Bell Hooks

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12315281


A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11586893


An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

https://youtu.be/DrOKOJY0UlE


Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12315141


How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12624247


Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12693315




Finally, prescribe a complete holistic, preventive care regimen to induce a paradigm shift toward better health.


Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

https://youtu.be/B1gB5YtHC9c


Patterns of Connection by Fritjof Capra

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14596469


Biomimicry by Janine Benyus

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12340716


Days of War, Nights of Love by CrimethInc

https://youtu.be/V6NdGcgRS-c


Opening Up by Tristan Taormino

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10757102


SM 101 by Jay Wiseman

https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/14383332


The Way of Zen by Alan Watts

https://youtu.be/tENPNjPwN_I


Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti

https://youtu.be/lMGe5I8iNEA




See also:

My Youtube playlist "Audiobooks"

My Amazon list "Audible"

My Amazon list "Kindle"


Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Pleasure Gap

This writing is from a heteronormative perspective because I am (mostly*) heterosexual, and because that's my target audience. While many heterosexuals are enlightened on this topic, I have yet to meet an unenlightened non-heterosexual on this topic. I am also a cis male, ethically non-monogamous, and enjoy many BDSM activities and the community.

Growing up I was always baffled when boys would tease and belittle girls who were promiscuous. They would devalue them with names like "slut" or "whore" if only she dared to enjoy sex as much she did!


In addition, it seemed as if no other boys masturbated. You would be teased relentlessly if you dared admit it. The old church myths of hairy palms and going blind were still used as an ineffective club to terrorize you into denial and guilt. Many women never masturbate until adulthood, or rately.


Even then I never understood why this stupid culture did such stupid things. This stupid culture erected struct hierarchies of CEO, Reverend, Professor, and Father, all vying to control your mind through fear and ignorance.

What is wrong with pleasure? I will tell you. Pleasure is self-gratifying. The Pharaohs cannot control you when you seek optimal pleasure--that is, sometimes delaying short-term pleasure or avoiding longterm pain, and cooperating with others for mutual benefit.

I refer you the pleasure principle and the philosophies of hedonism (not self-indulgence) and epicureanism.


Therefore, the Pharaohs tell us we must be Puritans. The Pharaohs tell us who we may have pleasure with, how, and where. More importantly, the Pharaohs tell us who we may not have pleasure with, how and where. The Pharaohs control our access to pleasure, food, shelter, warmth, education, and love, and make us work as their wage slaves for crumbs from their tables. Who can deny this world is a dystopia? Who can deny that a child could easily dream up a much more wonderful world?

And so it is that endlessly abundant pleasure is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

And so it is that endlessly abundant food is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

And so it is that endlessly abundant shelter is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

And so it is that endlessly abundant warmth is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

And so it is that endlessly abundant education is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

And so it is that endlessly abundant love is commodified and artificially made scarce to control people.

I am not suggesting that everyone should pleasure everyone else. We are all allowed to discriminate how and with whom we wish to be intimate. (One branch of my family Krafted a plan to force a sort of MtF transexual transition against my will so that they could sexually exploit me--a most traumatic experience that I will never forgive).


Likewise, no Authority has the right to take our own individual right to collaboratively decide.

Which brings me back to my original point. Isn't it rather stupid that heterosexual men who desire pleasure deride women who desire pleasure? Isn't it much more intelligent to celebrate and support women who enjoy pleasure? This isn't just feminism and equal opportunity, which is merit enough, but also simple logic.

Therefore, I am among those who reclaim the word "slut," redefining it as a term of endearment and badge of honor for those sexually liberated women who choose to adorn themselves with that term (not all do). While I refuse to use the "N-word," or "faggot," I imagine it is similar for those oppressed populations who say, "You cannot hurt us with this word anymore. It is ours now." In the same light, I love sluts, women who dare to enjoy pleasure without shame--but only in the appropriate setting with those who accept the term from me, and never in a professional environment.

Stupid, primitive, fear-based culture, oh how I loathe thee. You have caused so much unnecessary suffering for me and billions of others.




The following are just a few videos to maybe, possibly, open the minds of a few.







* I identify as about a 1 on the 0-6 Kinsey Scale.



Update: These definitions are not conventional, but allow me to, um, indulge...

Hedonist: One who maximizes the most pleasure even at the cost of pain over time.
Epicurean: One who optimizes pleasure over time by balancing it against the cost of, or risk against, pain.

Using these somewhat conventionally inaccurate, but useful for my purposes, definitions, Epicureans are not strictly ascetics. They are strategists for a thriving, vibrant sustainability. Ascetics strive for an infinite dullness. Hedonists, using the same errant definitions, are ultimately self-destructive. In this sense, I am an Epicurean.

Moderation in all things, including moderation.

Saturday, April 30, 2022

On BDSM

I like BDSM and some kinks quite a lot. To me, it is very liberating, even spiritual, plus just plain fun. There are many aspects I enjoy, especially power exchange; in particular, Daddy Dom, though Pimp, Master, and similar roles are high on the list too.

However, I differentiate between fantasy and roleplay. I value concepts such as Safe, Sane, and Consensual, defining Consensual as FRIES: Freely given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific. 

Even playing serious roleplaying games such consensual-nonconsent are still only that: only games that require lots of communication, negotiation, informed consent, safewords, and a community that provides information and oversight.

See Games People Play by Eric Berne for a primer on transactional analysis
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345410033/

I'm currently reading Screw the Thorns, Send Me the Roses by Philip Miller and Molly Devon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0964596008

They talk a lot about how the negotiation and limits are dictated by bottom, who voluntarily submits in exchange for what is agreed upon. It is the bottom's "consent to be governed," just as much as it is the top's consent to govern. This is an ongoing process.

Now, if someone is an abusive relationship, or if someone violates boundaries by being violent in any way toward me or others I care about, I will not ask the violator's consent to govern! Nope, I will not hesitate to stop them or, failing that, terminate them.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

On Time Travel

I've written about this and similar elsewhere.

A 2D map projects a representation of a 3D globe only by distorting distance, direction, shape, and area. Some projections minimize one or more distortions at the cost of forfeiting other distortions.


In the same way, complex and abstract theoretical physics and spiritual concepts, as they are related, must be simplified to comprehend at the finite material plane of the living organism consciousness computing level we call brain-mind. Distortions occur in modeling.


I wrote briefly on the concepts of dimensions before.


Each instance of expanding dimensions is utterly incomprehensible to consciousness in the preceding dimension, unless it is able to think "outside the box" so-to-speak; that is, escape from the confines of what the imagination has offered as a boundary and structure for the consciousness-reality to grow within.

It is my understanding that at least some dimensions above the sixth are actually smaller states, such as the rough surface of silk that is not apparent at our scale, only under a microscope; or superimposed states, such as so-called negative mass that rises above the space-time plane (and even escapes it); or at mega-colossal scales, when you become aware that the universe is in fact a fractal representation of a conscious being asleep in a dream in a "world above"; or higher states yet still above that; the Great Wheel, the Cosmic Ferris Wheel containing many smaller ferris wheels.

Where was I? Oh yes, space-time.


So the third-fourth dimensions are often commonly thought of as like a movie reel, each moment on time as like one frame. Remembering the distortions of projections that must be made, it is like that, except the movie reel is a blanket that stretches out in every direction. Every moment or frame is like a box on graph paper that becomes lined with yet another layer of coordinates when you zoom in, or fade as you zoom out.

The "blanket" of space-time is essentially flat at our scale, is dancing mad at the string scale, and somewhere in between it is like the contours of the planet: hills and mountain peaks, sinkholes and trenches.

There are many possibilities of everywhere occurrence along this blanket of space-time, possibly infinite, or at least within the bounds of probability that can be stretched. The you that is conscious of being you (your spotlight you or ego-self) wanders (usually) in more or less one general direction along this blanket of possibilities like a Plinko puck from The Price Is Right, singing mad at the quantum level, peaks and sinkholes at usually rarely seen or barely experienced levels.


And since the fabric of the multiverse is made of possibilities, possibilities created themselves; if they can and it works, they will. They are dark worlds and exotic worlds where consciousness does not incarnate in the same way we would call life in this light-dominated matter universe. But consciousness is consciousness, different as we are in stages of development, paths of evolution, and cosmic medium strata.

So time travel can does exist, and there is no paradox. You do not cease to exist of you kill your grandfather, you merely--to borrow the simplified map once again--eliminate one frame of the movie reel; or rather, one tiny speck out of an endless ocean.






Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Spiritual Plan

"We're going to torture you and then make all your sexual fantasies come true as compensatory healing."


"No, please do not do that. I do not want that."

"Trust us. You'll love it."

"No I won't. Do not do that."

"We want this to happen. We want the thrill of torturing you and the bliss of literally living vicariously through you during the fantasy period."

"So this isn't even about me, but for you? Definitely no!"

"Plus, we bet the house that the pain-pleasure conditioning will break your spirit and make you our slave."

"I do not want this. I do not want you. I will hunt you down and terminate you. You will be permanently deleted."

Beneficieries

I had a dream I had 9 trillion dollars to spend. I could spend it on myself or give it away with or without "strings attached".

I decided to give it all away, but first I cut down all of those who had power and abused it; all those who abused and/or exploited those who were vulnerable; and all those who value deception and/or devalue truth. Of course everyone makes mistakes, but I am referring to those who are intentional and serial, as a way of being. (I am also not referring to safe, sane, consensual, well-communicated, and negotiated adult games with safewords, otherwise known as BDSM).

After I cut the unworthy down, I gave everything they had away, and my fortune away as well:

  • 20% Indigenous peoples
  • 20% Africans and African-Americas slave descendants
  • 10% United Indian Subcontinent (including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) for sustainable development and the reunification of pre-partition India
  • 10% Korea (DPRK and ROK) for their peaceful reunification
  • 5% Palestinians for their independence and dissolution of the Israeli state
  • 5% Kurdistan Kurds for their independence
  • 5% Tibetans for their independence
  • 25% Everyone equally nominally (again to those listed above who already received), so that the poor benefit more by ratio of what they previously had
It would be a completely anonymous gift. There would be no "strings" or contingencies for the gift, but if the beneficiaries were curious, my book* would be available for free to read. It is not required reading. Future publications would undoubtedly improve with revisions. Critics would likely have valid critiques, and other authors would likely have even better ideas in their books.

* (An edited compilation of writings from my blogs,  Facebook and Fetlife posts, and Twitter tweets; notes to myself and others via text, email, and other means; my Youtube playlists; my personal book library and Amazon wishlists;  discussions I have had; and even references to people and material I wish to amplify.)

Linux

xargs rm -f < trump_circle trumpers mcconnell_circle GOP altright qanon fundamentalists

xargs rm -f < zionists mossad

xargs rm -f < borisjohnson_circle liztruss UK_cp

xargs rm -f < bolsanaro_circle brazil_psl

xargs rm -f < putin_circle russian_onf russian_oligarchy

xargs rm -f < modi_circle india_rss india_bjp

xargs rm -f < xijinping_circle

xargs rm -f < duterte_circle

xargs rm -f < orban_circle hungary_fidesz

xargs rm -f < duda_circle poland_pis

xargs rm -f < lepen_circle france_rn

xargs rm -f < mbs_circle

xargs rm -f < chile_vamos

xargs rm -f < panamapapers_guilty pandorapapers_guilty paradisepapers_guilty bahamasleaks_guilty swissleaks_guilty suissesecrets_guilty luxleaks_guilty mauritiusleaks_guilty

xargs rm -f < pentagonpapers_guilty churchcommittee_guilty pikecommittee_guilty 911commission_guilty ciatorture_guilty afghanistanpapers_guilty Jan6_guilty wikileaks_guilty ddosecrets_guilty

xargs rm -f < blog_guilty blog_abuse

See:

nice -1 demsoc
nice -2 sjw
nice -3 sensual
nice -4 green
nice -5 science
nice -6 mystic
nice -7 intersect
nice -8 anaarchy
nice -9 priblogs

See:
  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_principle_(psychology)
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_politics
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
  9. Priority blog posts
    1. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/03/concentric-rainbows.html
    2. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2021/10/if-i-ruled-world.html
    3. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2021/09/human-operating-system.html
    4. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/04/green-urbanism.html
    5. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/04/worldwide-enlightenment.html
    6. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/03/wikipedia-articles-of-study.html
    7. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2021/11/my-social-media-links_15.html
    8. https://koreanseoulfood.blogspot.com/2022/04/audiobooks.html

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