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Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Money, Energy & Spaceship Earth
“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.” ~ Bucky Fuller
Let’s go Cosmic Fishing… One of the things I liked best
about Buckminster Fuller, aka Bucky, was his ability to entertain multiple Reality
Tunnels, and then move on. This ability to look at the world through various
lenses, appears to me as circumnavigating getting stuck in the rut of binary
thinking, but to continuously seek to see a third alternative, while many
people were distracted by arguing over this or that.
Before I dive into the topics of Money, Energy and Spaceship
Earth, I want to discuss why Bucky is so much on my mind.
Bucky keeps reminding me to “Don’t fight forces, use them.” because
I put that quote up as the background on my laptop. Swimming in Bucky quotes
helps me find my happy place, kind of like the penguin scene in Fight Club, I
find my mind relaxes, and my thoughts in words, when the come, slide into
appearance, and when I write after immersing myself in Bucky quotes, I find I
am doing what Bucky liked to call Cosmic Fishing.
Some people call Cosmic Fishing mental masturbation, and I
am sure they are right, because I do so enjoy it, either with myself, or with
playmates, which I guess would then be called mutual mental masturbation, but
calling it Cosmic Fishing feels better to me, while I enjoy the braingasms,
when my mind suddenly sees connections or distinctions I hadn’t envisioned
before. Jokes often give us a similar braingasm, when we suddenly re-frame one
reality for another, in a snap.
Most of the time, when we are busy, we’re looking for
something specific, or to do the next thing, which can be a vital part of being
productive and effective. However, many times, when we go out looking of one
specific thing, we don’t find what we’re looking for, because of all the things
there are on Spaceship Earth, the odds of finding that exact thing can be
trifling small. However, if you go out looking for anything at all, the odds of
finding something is quite good, because of all the things there are on Earth,
the odds of finding something are quite good, and that’s called Cosmic Fishing.
What some people call Nature or Mother Earth, Bucky liked to
call Spaceship Earth, to remind us of what we physically are, passengers on a
spaceship called Earth, hurling around our sun at approximately 86,000 mph. Aboard
this spaceship, money has become our primary operating system.
Money…
"Real wealth is ideas plus energy." ~ Bucky Fuller
When somebody quotes Bucky to me as saying, “You can either
make money or make sense.” I often quote back Bucky as saying, “Don’t expect me
to be consistent, I’m evolving.” In the book Cosmic Fishing, Bucky and Applewhite dialogue about how Appelgate could state that Bucky was reckless or
irresponsible with money, because Applewhite was critical of Bucky’s practice of
draining all his bank accounts at the end of every month. Bucky was a master
fundraiser, he had the gift of gab, and was mesmerizing, which was made
altogether more astonishing because he held people’s attention with strings of polysyllabic
words, which often left people saying something to the extent of, “I have no
idea what he said, but it was amazing and important!”
Bucky had money challenges, which contributed to his
depression. Bucky had gotten his father-in-law to invest money in a brick
company that utilized interlocking bricks, an invention of his which
facilitated buildings to be stronger, and built faster. Bucky saw a far
superior brick, which should be used to replace the use of traditional bricks
everywhere, but what he didn’t see, is that the bricklayers wouldn’t lay this
brick because the invention stole jobs from bricklayers. So his company went
bankrupt, and I can understand how he felt like saying that you can either make
money or make sense.
By the time Applewhite wrote Cosmic Fishing, the story of the
two of them collaborating on the book Synergetics, considered by many to be Fuller's master achievement in literature, Bucky had residual streams
of income, but his practice of draining his bank accounts every month, with the
faith that he’d find more money or resources, came when he was rebounding from
a suicidal depression, when he was personally broke, again, and he rode his new
strategy of working with money, where you spend everything you have on hand, into
a winning wave he rode all the way through to his and his wife’s deaths.
Bucky asked a lot of people, and organizations, for money,
or other kinds of resources, and got very good at fundraising for his projects
and labs. Bucky’s flow with money was a different configuration, a different
relationship, from Applewhite's save-for-retirement money practice. Applewhite’s
criticism appears to have really stuck in Bucky’s craw, because in many of the
videos of Bucky after the publication of Cosmic Fishing, he often makes a point
about how he sees himself as having been very responsible with other people’s
money. What Bucky grew to realize, was that when he had projects that did
enough good for enough populations, that he could manifest money.
Bucky’s choice to flow the money he took in each month was
part of his experiment with the Universe, where he sought to remake himself as
a servant of Mankind. We all talk about cash flow, and Bucky saw the way he
spent his money as embodying a scientific endeavor, himself, a digital
structure made real in the artifacts of his purchases, financial trimtabs that
would redirect the financial ships sailing our cash flow. Bucky was a Naval
Captain, and often employed nautical metaphors, like trimtab, which means the
rudder on the rudder of , massive ships, like the Queen Mary, or barges so big
they hold two ships which are so big that they ship other ships. Bucky saw how
a small piece of wood redirects a massive ship, and he imagined a small man
like him could redirect the world’s economic currents, by refocusing our
priorities, to family values, where the human family included 100% of Humanity.
Money & Energy…
"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. But if we got onto a planning planning basis, the government could trap pollutants in the stacks and spillages and get back more money than this would cost out of the stockpiled chemistries they'd be collecting." ~ Bucky Fuller
Money flows, and it was called ‘currency’ long before we used that word to represent the flow of electricity. The currency of money powers a business in a very similar way to how the currency of electricity powers a radio, in either case, if the currency stops, everything stops working.
Money flows through me with every purchase I make, and the
goods and services I want come to me. I am directing bits of currency to flow
as I vote with my dollars for what I want most. Then, in the process of
becoming somebody else’s currency, governments and other litigious entities
take their entitlements. It is a complex tapestry, and Money is the thread that
holds industry and community together, and what is often meant when we hear the
phrase, The Economy.
The Economy, however, is not the only currency. In art, we
speak of Social Currency, something other than money, which describes the agency,
charisma or persuasiveness of a person, or group. This power of influence might
be described as brand equity, respect, or leadership in other contexts.
However, there is a bigger Energy impact on humans than money or other forms of
social influence, and that’s Nature, the human life support system on Spaceship
Earth.
Energy is never cheated, and cheating can divert energy and money agreed upon to go for the public good. While people and businesses may cheat on their taxes, what we pay in money, Nature never cheats, and always gives us the energy we deserve. It appears to me that the trick facing humanity today, is to agree on the dashboard by which we steer the operating system of our spaceship. To do this, we need to transcend what in the 1950's was defined as healthy self-interest, where self-interest meant personal, or familial, self-interest, to seeing Humanity as a vested self-interest.
In academia, the study of cheating is criminology. As long as criminology has been a field of study, it has always been haunted by the theory of "the competent criminal." For obvious reasons, criminologists, psychologists, and sociologists only study failed criminals–that is, those persons whose criminal acts led to their conviction and to punishment. If there’s a group of people out there who commit crimes and are not caught, and live happily ever after, then criminology is not a study of criminals, but of incompetents, bumblers, and fuckups and should instead be called fuckupology.
The challenge is that we can't cheat our way to better health. We can invent profitable solutions, and create pathways for sustainability, within The Economy in which we are now embedded, an invented mathematics that has brought wondrous human achievements, but a human invention, nonetheless. The systems of Nature will be here with or without humans.
Energy is never cheated, and cheating can divert energy and money agreed upon to go for the public good. While people and businesses may cheat on their taxes, what we pay in money, Nature never cheats, and always gives us the energy we deserve. It appears to me that the trick facing humanity today, is to agree on the dashboard by which we steer the operating system of our spaceship. To do this, we need to transcend what in the 1950's was defined as healthy self-interest, where self-interest meant personal, or familial, self-interest, to seeing Humanity as a vested self-interest.
In academia, the study of cheating is criminology. As long as criminology has been a field of study, it has always been haunted by the theory of "the competent criminal." For obvious reasons, criminologists, psychologists, and sociologists only study failed criminals–that is, those persons whose criminal acts led to their conviction and to punishment. If there’s a group of people out there who commit crimes and are not caught, and live happily ever after, then criminology is not a study of criminals, but of incompetents, bumblers, and fuckups and should instead be called fuckupology.
The challenge is that we can't cheat our way to better health. We can invent profitable solutions, and create pathways for sustainability, within The Economy in which we are now embedded, an invented mathematics that has brought wondrous human achievements, but a human invention, nonetheless. The systems of Nature will be here with or without humans.
Money, Energy & Spaceship Earth…
"We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We're not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work?" ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
"We are on a spaceship; a beautiful one. It took billions of years to develop. We're not going to get another. Now, how do we make this spaceship work?" ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The Economy appears to me as the story propagated by The
Ruling Elite, and perpetuates a narrative that takes itself very seriously, and
as well it should, because The Ruling Elite control what’s being built and
destroyed on Spaceship Earth, to remind us of what we physically are, passengers
on a spaceship. In this metaphor of a spaceship, money has become our operating
manual.
When we look at our planet as a spaceship, we can begin to see
world data as the dashboard of our life support system on Spaceship Earth.
However, we’re so new to seeing ourselves as on a spaceship, with a limited
amount of renewable resources, which when contaminated, take generations or
ions to detoxify.
Switching to look through the lens of theatre, Cash Flow often
appears to me as strings of Energy. Money directs the flow of human energy, and
in this way, our human population appears to me as marionettes, with Earth as
our stage, where money, religion and enculturation are pulling our strings, as
interconnected puppet masters, but where Money often has the strongest pull. Bucky wrote about the pull by these forces as the Grunch of The Giants, and Humanity being blind to these forces he described as The Dark Ages.
Until we can more honestly teach ourselves about our own drivers, and the dashboard of our spaceship, we will be living in the dark.
I go to Bucky's words when I want to feel happy because his ideas give me hope and practical paths for being more effective, and in better flow with my fellow passengers aboard Spaceship Earth.
Bucky's words appear to me as rallying for us to study Livingry, what some might call sustainable successology, the process of learning to live with increased personal integrity, and enhanced global harmony with Nature. His parting question to Humanity was...
"How do we make the world work for 100% of Humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without economic, or ecological, disadvantage to anyone?" ~ Bucky Fuller
Until we can more honestly teach ourselves about our own drivers, and the dashboard of our spaceship, we will be living in the dark.
I go to Bucky's words when I want to feel happy because his ideas give me hope and practical paths for being more effective, and in better flow with my fellow passengers aboard Spaceship Earth.
Bucky's words appear to me as rallying for us to study Livingry, what some might call sustainable successology, the process of learning to live with increased personal integrity, and enhanced global harmony with Nature. His parting question to Humanity was...
"How do we make the world work for 100% of Humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without economic, or ecological, disadvantage to anyone?" ~ Bucky Fuller
Monday, March 9, 2015
Howard W. Campbell
The Autobiography Of An Inattentional Magician
Chapter 1 Awareness
To write an autobiography of Howard W. Campbell would be as
asinine as to read an autobiography of Howard W. Campbell, so we have that in
common. I was just reflecting on how
much of a cosmic schmuck I am for swiping brilliant sleights of mind and not
crediting my sources. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.
I always imagined someone else volunteer their services
before my 2nd autobiography. Unfortunately, my self-appointed-biographer Liz Boswell
has shown no interest whatsoever in drafting a manuscript before I die, which
precludes my perspective on my methodologies, like the dialogue between
Buckminster Fuller and his biographer Applewhite in Cosmic Fishing. And so, I
am forced to take on the task myself, knowing such a memoir will be useful for
many of the others.
This ouroboros manuscript is a self-refinement delivery
mechanism. However, at times I feel distracted from what I had imagined was the
goal of my present theatrical play, The Three, a One-Act theatre of the mind
that makes the zeitgeist of our dominant modality irrelevant. When my brain
begins to reel from dehydration, I make an occasional cheese dip. I should be
drinking more water.
Doctors have agreed I am psychologically unemployable, and
so I receive SSDI. I’d like to prove them wrong, but I’m not willing to work in
QRC for ethical reasons. For the last two years, I have not been hired for any
of the 28 jobs for which I have applied. Perhaps employers sense in me a denial
of their values. That’s not my intention. I simply vibrate differently, and I
stand up for my civil rights. Employers and landlords have even said that they
physically fear me, yet I have zero history of violence, and no arrest record.
I begin my examination of the method. I repeatedly say that the tensegrity of
my work relies fundamentally on two basic principles: lovemarks and
synergetics, or metaphysical gravity as Bucky would call their application.
I have practiced the fine art of cosmic fishing, and while
it comes at some cost, this practice has made me, I dare say, the performer of
the most amazing card trick you have ever seen in your entire life, and for
which I now see I was a bigger cosmic schmuck than I ever possibly imagined. My
cosmic schmuck principle holds that if you occasionally notice that you've been
thinking or acting like a cosmic schmuck, you will become less of a cosmic
schmuck, and the more often you notice that you're thinking and acting like a
cosmic schmuck, the less of a cosmic schmuck you become. On the other hand, if
you never, never, never suspect you might be thinking or acting like a cosmic
schmuck, you will remain a cosmic schmuck for the rest of your life.
Sunday, July 20, 2014
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, November 11, 2012
1728
Heather smiled when she overheard Angela saying, "Howard, you walk around acting as if you are a living legend in your own mind."
"Yes I do," said Howard W. Campbell, III, son of the illustrious time traveler Howard W. Campbell, Jr. Howard's agreement sent a reverberation through her body with the jolt of realization of an unrequited urgency when her indictment was taken as: yes. Howard continued, "My best selling PDF called FREEbookWORTHreading.doc explains my approach to FaceBook branding. It's called Legendary Branding because I haven't gotten anyone else to play me, yet." He wrinkled his forehead with a tilt to the left, "Actualy, that's not such a bright idea. I just want a vacation from this stage, and I'd like to hand the stage over to somebody for a while."
It's tough writing about myself in the 3rd Person.
And so begins the science fiction novel...
Abracadabra
The Autobiography of an Inattentional Magician
By Howard W. Cambell, III
We are amongst fewer than two-dozen tourists being asked to move along as we are guided inside the United $tates $enate corridors.
Our tour guide Judy puts a little extra chi in the human accent with which she delivers memorized quotes from a script surely written by some intern, who went to some website that might as well have been called Senate Fun Facts & Fnords...
"Ever since 1728, every state has two—and only two—Senators, each Senator represents a vastly different number of people. For example, each Senator from Wyoming (our least populace state) represents 246,981 residents, whereas each Senator from California (our largest state by population) represents 18,378,333 constituents." It's like I'm waking up to new reality on these excursions with Angela. There's no context, and then she does theatre, ala Medium Cool, the 1969 American film my mom took me to see when I was one-years-old, a cinema vérité-style documentary combining fictional and non-fictional content, a movie the United States National Film Registry and the Library of Congress both label as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Angela dropped serious dollars to pull off this scene for her zombie movie: Do Zombies Dream of Electric Sheeple, an inquiry into entertaining ourselves and the decline of the west, and believe IT or Not, iT's a comedy. Angela hooked us both up on a White House VIP tour. We aren't being sheepled.
Heather and I don't know what Angela has planned. This is exciting. Gar :-) And Judy is enhancing our anticipation by being barely sexy, perhaps more properly reported as sleightly burlesque, "According to Senate rules, flowers are not permitted in the Senate chamber, except on the desk of a deceased sitting Senator on the day of his eulogy."
Judy has the body of a trophy wife, and the confidence that rarely comes without poll dancing. She appears to me as though she'd be an exuberant aide, and won't go off talking points. She flirts attention my way with Heather. That sexes up a room for bigger sales with platform selling, in other words, she'll be a profitable addition to our circus should she escort some R&R business our way. Don't read me wrong. We don't trick. Don't come to our house to get laid like that. Circus house is about visual entertainment, without contact, unless you are taking one of our acro yoga classes.
Heather & I help Eli & Pearl maintain Circus House's positive currency, as reflected in the direction of our cash flow. Rising financial tides help all of us in Circus House.
What we've all been discovering, back home in Ashevile, North Carolina, in our home many call Circus House, is that running a circus is largely about being consummate hosts, and forgiving and letting go, and being mindful of now, as we regularly steer a new trajectory. We consciously re-traject towards what appears to us as a better tomorrow.
In Circus House, if I may generalize, we tend to speak living, by sometimes, by way of short-handing our philosophy through the words and images of R. Buckminster Fuller, P.T. Barnum and pre-Constantine Jesus. So hear it goes...
"Be confident, without pulling the wool over your eyes. A lot of people have remained poor, or ruined themselves, because of this destructive tendency. These people see a sure success in every undertaking, which is why they stick to nothing, abandoning one business after another. The fable about the hunter who sells the bearskin before he shoots the bear shows that this tendency goes a long way back. Unfortunately, the fable and experience have not cured people of the habit." ~ P.T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum's philosophy... Now, that quote is great, in my opinion. Can we agree that's far more interesting than more Senate Fun Facts?
It's not Judy's fault she has to say these scripted phrases instead of talking with us. She gestures to a statue, perhaps intentionally modeling Wheel of Fortune's legendary master of the sexy hand flourish, Miss Vanna White. Judy smiles, and says, "As per the U.S. Constitution, Senators were elected by each state legislature until the 17th Amendment, ratified in 1912, allowed for direct election by the voters in each state."
Their are three hot women in our pack who are feeding me energy. Heather and I are presenting ourselves as a couple, separate from Angela and Jared, Angela's videographer and in real life she is one of his fag hags.
One of the many things I admire about Angela when I'm not distracted by the radiance of her body, is her dedication to her art.
Whatever you do, do it ardently. If necessary, get used to getting up early and going to bed late. Never leave any stone unturned. And if you only have one hour to work with, make sure that what you do in that hour is perfectly done. The old proverb makes a lot of sense: ‘What is worth doing is worth doing well.’ Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.
P T Barnum
We turn a corner, and instead of going up to the balcony, the guard leads us down the hall with the arrow saying... Senate Floor. I have a feeling this is Angela's stage. Heather, sensing me, or figuring it out separately, starts video taping our walk, and I follow her lead. Heather says heartfeltly, "what a wonderful video taping opportunity" and I see two more people start recording video.
Onto the empty senate floor, with darkened extremities. When I see Jared separate from Angela, I glide Heather and I behind her, creating distance so we can get good, usable video. This is game on. Jared walked to the far side of where we are allowed.
I say to the rest of the folks on our tour, "Look!"
Angela smiles, and says to the Senate Floor, "In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years."
Our senate fills with to what extent 15 people can produce enormous applause.
Heather turns to me and says, "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."
Monday, August 27, 2012
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Relentless Kindness Tour 2012
Festival House Productions presents...The Relentless Kindness Tour
2012
Sydney 12/12/12
2012
Sydney 12/12/12
Staring Anna Zinova!
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
How to get rid of a headache (works for me)
When I get a headache, I close my eyes and run through a inner-process that evaporates the headache. Here's how...
1) Close your eyes
2) Inside your mind circle around the headache
3) Observe the colors, the size, how it is moving
4) Observe what happens when you blow on the headache
5) Look for how the headache lightens as you circle around and blow on the the headache, the colors lighten, the size decreases and the movement becomes evaporative
6) REPEAT steps 3-5 until headache complete evaporates
I usually spend three to seven minutes on a headache.
Why does this work? Because two things can't occupy the same space. When you go inside your mind and blow good energy on yourself the headache goes away.
This works for me.
1) Close your eyes
2) Inside your mind circle around the headache
3) Observe the colors, the size, how it is moving
4) Observe what happens when you blow on the headache
5) Look for how the headache lightens as you circle around and blow on the the headache, the colors lighten, the size decreases and the movement becomes evaporative
6) REPEAT steps 3-5 until headache complete evaporates
I usually spend three to seven minutes on a headache.
Why does this work? Because two things can't occupy the same space. When you go inside your mind and blow good energy on yourself the headache goes away.
This works for me.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
sitting in an empty theater
This blog is a new thought experiment. This blog takes the reader through a process known to cure irrational fears and phobias. Can a person cure themselves of irrational phobias simply by reading a blog post? You tell us if this works for you, or send your friends to: http://ImagineYouAreHere.com
Before we begin, I want to make absolutely sure that you want to be cured! Perhaps there's real-world safety in having your anxiety, albeit to a lesser extent. That's 100% fine, simply realize that if you want to remove an anxiety or a phobia, it can be 100% gone in as few as three or four times of going through a mental exercise.
Imagine you are here sitting in an empty theater. I'm going to ask you to do a few things really quickly. So that, when we're done, your phobia won't bother you at all, ever again.
I'll give you step-by-step instructions, and then you may want to close your eyes and go inside and follow these directions:
1) Imagine you are sitting in an empty movie theater. On the screen, you see a black-and-white snapshot just before you had a phobic response.
2) Now float out of your body to the projection booth above. From the projection booth, you can see yourself sitting below and see yourself in the still picture on the screen.
3) From the projection booth, you play the movie of the black-and-white snapshot, from the beginning until just beyond the end of the unpleasant experience. Freeze that slide frame!
4) Now leave the projection booth and jump inside the the slide on the screen. Change the picture to color, and run that image backwards as fast as possible.
5) Notice in what ways you can now look at phobic stimulus without a reactive response. Leave your comments and questions below please.
Now is the time to close your eyes and see yourself experiencing life differently. For many people, simply engaging with their fears in reverse loosens up the hold they used to have on folks.
Some NLP patients of mine found value in freezing the movie at a painful part, turning that sepia tone, and turning it into a postcard they folded and put away.
Namaste,
Ben Mack
Before we begin, I want to make absolutely sure that you want to be cured! Perhaps there's real-world safety in having your anxiety, albeit to a lesser extent. That's 100% fine, simply realize that if you want to remove an anxiety or a phobia, it can be 100% gone in as few as three or four times of going through a mental exercise.
Imagine you are here sitting in an empty theater. I'm going to ask you to do a few things really quickly. So that, when we're done, your phobia won't bother you at all, ever again.
I'll give you step-by-step instructions, and then you may want to close your eyes and go inside and follow these directions:
1) Imagine you are sitting in an empty movie theater. On the screen, you see a black-and-white snapshot just before you had a phobic response.
2) Now float out of your body to the projection booth above. From the projection booth, you can see yourself sitting below and see yourself in the still picture on the screen.
3) From the projection booth, you play the movie of the black-and-white snapshot, from the beginning until just beyond the end of the unpleasant experience. Freeze that slide frame!
4) Now leave the projection booth and jump inside the the slide on the screen. Change the picture to color, and run that image backwards as fast as possible.
5) Notice in what ways you can now look at phobic stimulus without a reactive response. Leave your comments and questions below please.
Now is the time to close your eyes and see yourself experiencing life differently. For many people, simply engaging with their fears in reverse loosens up the hold they used to have on folks.
Some NLP patients of mine found value in freezing the movie at a painful part, turning that sepia tone, and turning it into a postcard they folded and put away.
Namaste,
Ben Mack
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Zen & The Art of Zynga Poker
Friends of mine meditate in different ways. For me, it’s Zynga Poker.My friend Maria Morris wakes up early, sits quietly and breathes, “My thoughts are howling dogs. And sometimes I have a cat that’s been indoors and sees Mommy is awake and wants to be fed and lets me know by meowing every ten seconds. So meditating with either dogs or cats or thoughts: why bother? Because it helps focus during difficulties. AND when you create that habit, it also opens the door to peace, joy, and the divine.”
I want peace, joy, and the divine.
And, I’ve explored a little with meditation. But nothing gave me that consistent grounding until I discovered tournaments on Zynga Poker.
For me, meditating is playing a whole tournament sticking strictly to Basic Strategy. You see, I am an adrenaline junkie. I’ve heard myself talk myself into calling or betting with garbage cards. I want to play more hands than would usually be profitable.
How do I meditate? I play a poker tournament on Zynga. My goal is to follow Basic Strategy, which requires I slow myself down. I find again and again that Basic Strategy outperforms improvised exceptions to the rules. When I win you can hear me yell, “Thank you Basic Strategy! Thank You BASIC STRATEGY!”
If I were really meditating, I’d be content with following Basic Strategy and I wouldn’t allow my feelings of winning and losing to over shadow my ability to follow a predetermined plan for my play.
What I do know is that on days I can’t stick to Basic Strategy, I’m on tilt. Time to slow down a notch, or two. That’s when I notice… Wow, I was rushing.
In that moment, I breathe easier.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Media Ecology... we are living information
We replicate DNA as bio-information, living 
information. Memes ride on DNA, impacting the distribution of DNA.
Memes bond with humans all the time, affecting our behavior. When we sense things differently, our behavior changes. Memes you ingested today may impact your optic nerve for the rest of your life.
From a replication perspective, the human brain can be seen as a female host in which memes replicate themselves into active form, impacting their environment via the altered human actions.
This appears to me as interspecies symbiosis.
With Mans ability to wield mass energy, it appears to me as an intellectual error to take the phenomenal world as more or less real than it's memetic counterpoint that holds the space for its present existence.
We take salaries and turn the dollars into choices, content and information. There is an emerging language describing how everything is happening. We are part of this language. Changes in the content of the information changes us.
You are rich in streaming information, entering you, processed by you is projected outward. You are not often aware that you are doing this, when from a replication perspective, is all you are doing.
The changes in information can be told in narratives as stories, or backlinks to blogposts.
information. Memes ride on DNA, impacting the distribution of DNA.Memes bond with humans all the time, affecting our behavior. When we sense things differently, our behavior changes. Memes you ingested today may impact your optic nerve for the rest of your life.
From a replication perspective, the human brain can be seen as a female host in which memes replicate themselves into active form, impacting their environment via the altered human actions.
This appears to me as interspecies symbiosis.
With Mans ability to wield mass energy, it appears to me as an intellectual error to take the phenomenal world as more or less real than it's memetic counterpoint that holds the space for its present existence.
We take salaries and turn the dollars into choices, content and information. There is an emerging language describing how everything is happening. We are part of this language. Changes in the content of the information changes us.
You are rich in streaming information, entering you, processed by you is projected outward. You are not often aware that you are doing this, when from a replication perspective, is all you are doing.
The changes in information can be told in narratives as stories, or backlinks to blogposts.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Magic Of The New Millenium
bridging the oughts
In 2002, I was in a DAS meeting I shouldn’t have been with my colleague Ms. Kimberly Rushton. DAS is the strategic arm for cross-selling Omnicom clients.
In 2003, friends of mine published a legal version of my report embedded in the novel http://PokerWithoutCards.com. Few people could see what I described. Those who did fueled a growing fire by giving me intriguing quotes, the sound bites that help with hendselling Poker Without Cards, my novel.
As a result of this book, Ben will never work in advertising again.
-Douglas Rushkoff, 2003
Poker Without Cards was called a cult-classic by our advocates, and much worse by our detractors. There were a few of us who bonded together and inspired some readership. Why?
It wasn’t for my prose. What I learned in that DAS meeting. In Poker Without Cards, I couldn’t speak to exactly what I saw, nor did I ever mention the name DAS. Here’s as close as I wrote in 2002…
HOWARD CAMPBELL: I work for Omniscient, the world’s largest media conglomerate. Our goal is to create a full interactive experience with our client’s products in the most rich and realistic environments possible. Omniscient sees its clients as a revenue delivery system. They aren’t a communication company; they’re a human interaction delivery mechanism, servicing everything from recruitment to health care to private investigation and security. They do population control, overseeing everything that relates to employees as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984. Omniscient companies interface with humans. They are beginning to comprehensively manage human resources. Humans are not souls, but energy to be extracted and managed.
DR. WILLIAM FINK: You are being a little extreme.
HOWARD CAMPBELL: Am I? Omniscient companies handle everything that relates to humans. From company culture to ascertaining if employees are doing what they are supposed to, all the way down to screening emails. When voice recognition software is privately available, they will screen phone calls also.
In the above excerpt from Poker Without Cards is a non-classified, poetic way of describing Omnicom’s business plan. In a satire, an artist is allowed to use the likeness of public figures in works of art.
The DAS Meeting
Ms. Kimberly Rushton and I were witness to a presentation that scared both of us, how a communication company transforms into a human interaction delivery mechanism with increased levels of surveillance. We saw a 45 minute PowerPoint in a hall of cheering salespeople and strategists.
I had a hard time processing that event. I told HR I was going to see my psychiatrist because I was seeing flashes of color. Later, she would claim I said no such thing to her.
How naïve was I? Very.
Let me explain what this technology means to your average corporate executive, around the globe…
Imagine you are an executive newly hired for a Fortune 1,000 company. Your compensation package includes all you communication devices, right? Guess who retains the right to mine that data? Voice recognition automatically captures phrases with keywords. Big Brother is not sponsored by your government, it’s brought to you by your employer.
In Poker Without Cards, I treat BBDO and Omnicom as public figures and I refer to them as CCEO and Omniscient. In other words, real life companies BBDO & Omnicom are in my novel as CCEO & Omniscient.
In 2002, I was in a DAS meeting I shouldn’t have been with my colleague Ms. Kimberly Rushton. DAS is the strategic arm for cross-selling Omnicom clients.In 2003, friends of mine published a legal version of my report embedded in the novel http://PokerWithoutCards.com. Few people could see what I described. Those who did fueled a growing fire by giving me intriguing quotes, the sound bites that help with hendselling Poker Without Cards, my novel.
As a result of this book, Ben will never work in advertising again.-Douglas Rushkoff, 2003
Poker Without Cards was called a cult-classic by our advocates, and much worse by our detractors. There were a few of us who bonded together and inspired some readership. Why?
It wasn’t for my prose. What I learned in that DAS meeting. In Poker Without Cards, I couldn’t speak to exactly what I saw, nor did I ever mention the name DAS. Here’s as close as I wrote in 2002…
HOWARD CAMPBELL: I work for Omniscient, the world’s largest media conglomerate. Our goal is to create a full interactive experience with our client’s products in the most rich and realistic environments possible. Omniscient sees its clients as a revenue delivery system. They aren’t a communication company; they’re a human interaction delivery mechanism, servicing everything from recruitment to health care to private investigation and security. They do population control, overseeing everything that relates to employees as depicted in George Orwell’s 1984. Omniscient companies interface with humans. They are beginning to comprehensively manage human resources. Humans are not souls, but energy to be extracted and managed.
DR. WILLIAM FINK: You are being a little extreme.
HOWARD CAMPBELL: Am I? Omniscient companies handle everything that relates to humans. From company culture to ascertaining if employees are doing what they are supposed to, all the way down to screening emails. When voice recognition software is privately available, they will screen phone calls also.
In the above excerpt from Poker Without Cards is a non-classified, poetic way of describing Omnicom’s business plan. In a satire, an artist is allowed to use the likeness of public figures in works of art.
The DAS Meeting
Ms. Kimberly Rushton and I were witness to a presentation that scared both of us, how a communication company transforms into a human interaction delivery mechanism with increased levels of surveillance. We saw a 45 minute PowerPoint in a hall of cheering salespeople and strategists.
I had a hard time processing that event. I told HR I was going to see my psychiatrist because I was seeing flashes of color. Later, she would claim I said no such thing to her.
How naïve was I? Very.
Let me explain what this technology means to your average corporate executive, around the globe…
Imagine you are an executive newly hired for a Fortune 1,000 company. Your compensation package includes all you communication devices, right? Guess who retains the right to mine that data? Voice recognition automatically captures phrases with keywords. Big Brother is not sponsored by your government, it’s brought to you by your employer.
In Poker Without Cards, I treat BBDO and Omnicom as public figures and I refer to them as CCEO and Omniscient. In other words, real life companies BBDO & Omnicom are in my novel as CCEO & Omniscient.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Just for their Profits
Local cell phone accessory store needed a website. Here's what I gave them.
I simply wanted a strong indexing website with multiple calls to action.
I simply wanted a strong indexing website with multiple calls to action.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
blu paints BIG BANG BOOM
JAS introduced me to this marvelous artshow/creation
BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Monday, July 5, 2010
AIR IN THE PARAGRAPH => The Narcissist Is I
My Submission ISSUE #14(theme is narcissism image is FPO)
The Narcissist Is I
by Ben Mack
Showering under tepidly warm water at New York Presbyterian Hospital Dr. Christopher Michael Barberio had a quaking insight—I am a Narcissist. Holy fucking Mary, mother of Jesus, Jesus was right. Jesus had been teaching him, “Forgive them for they know not what they do” and Dr. Barberio had been too self-absorbed to grok that this meant him, too.
Dr. Barberio’s head hurts, as it thumped the back of the shower just before he went slithering down. Awkward, yet safely situated, Dr. Barberio knows an orderly is about to bust in on him at any moment, and he knows his head hurts, and his mind is reeling from the blast of the impact inside his mind, realizing he is a Narcissist.
Orderly Adigbola bursts through the unlockable bathroom door yelling, “What was that?” She’s a virago, an angry woman who eats through her denial and does faux Zen on the weekends to discharge the pain she inflicts on others for a living. Imagine a black version of Nurse Ratchet, only with less power and more rage.
It is unpleasant for anybody to be a naked patient in front of her, especially a doctor.
“I fell” dismisses Dr. Barberio as he grasps the shower-hand-rest to help himself up. Hospital showers are about as safe as they come, following self-contained underwater colonies and submarines. Stay on focus… explain what happened. “I slipped.”
Adigbola, “I see that. You faint or something?”
Hoisting himself up, Chris turns off the shower. “My foot must have been between the non-sticks when I turned on the ball of my foot and the next thing I knew I was slipping.”
This is the time to be as humble as Chris can muster, which is truly what he intends based on his insight just moments ago. The trick here is turning off his reactive mind in the face of a vast superiority complex.
Chris takes his towel from beside Adigbola. “My foot must have been between the non-sticks when I turned on the ball of my foot, and the next thing I knew, I was slipping. I landed safely.” She is staring at him. Okay, time to dry.
Before unwrapping and exposing his genitals Chris turns away from Adigbola. Chris’ drying ritual starts with his hair. Under the stare of Orderly Adigbola, an intensity best described as sustained scrutiny, Chris asks, “Do you want me to see Dr. Jamie to look at my head? I’m not bleeding or anything, but maybe it would be good to be safe?”
Safe. That’s a magic word that hospital staff can’t hear too often. Ironically, it’s a word that when CIA operatives use means simply the opposite, the asset is a danger requiring containment. A safe house is not engineered for the safety and happiness of the person, but for the safety and security of the operation.
Adigbola, “That won’t be necessary.” She continues to observe Chris as he turns around. Now fully exposed, and presenting himself as carefree, she crosses her arms and says, “You just made me late for dinner because I can’t leave until after I write up this incident report.”
Dr. Chris censors himself from asking: what incident. The primary difference between a so-called hospital and a traditional corporation is how they sort minutia. For instance, when somebody in a for-profit occupational environment says what incident, everybody upwardly mobile gets those words to be code for: let’s pretend this didn’t happen. However, in so-called non-profit hospitals that phrase is heard as caustic and a symptom of denial.
A secondary distinction between hospitals and healthy corporations is their relationship with the absurd. No well-branded corporation would have a classification of folks called rapists. Throughout most Western hospitals you will see signage like that of Howard W. Campbell THERAPIST
Lucky Mike, also known as Dr. Christopher Michael Barberio had been meditating on the wisdom of Jesus of Natheris when figuratively lightening struck.
Jesus had been teaching him, “Forgive them for they know not what they do” and Dr. Barberio had been too self-absorbed to grok what this meant for him, until moments ago. What Chris transubstantiated appeared to him as an enveloping lovingly warm pink light filling his shower as he realized that as he was capable of forgiving other for they knew not what they did, he was capable of forgiving himself for what his own trespassings because he knew not what he had done, back then, at those times.
He was free at last.
To the amateur, or layman, sharing such an insight might appear hugely therapeutic. To the high strained professional such as Adigbola, this is evidence of need for greater medications. The mentioning of religious experiences without the context of a Judeo-Christian arbiter of reality, frequently called a priest, pastor or minister, would be alarming to a pseudo-Zen practicing aggressively-anti-socialite such as New York Presbyterian Hospital’s Adigbola.
For Adigbola and scaredy-cats like her, “Zen” is a panacea to “forget” traumas. She’s not likely to see that she smothers her monkey-mind the way an alcoholic tames their demons. So it goes.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
magic, fire & sanity
"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist." ~R. Buckminster Fuller
Sanity to me is seeing one battle, an individual struggle of accepting whatever death means to you; insanity is insisting others share your perception of reality.
Any war is a collaborative dance, accelerating an inevitable reveal regarding what death means to each of us.
Some say the world will end in fire...
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire, I hold to those who favor fire.
(no True Bokonist will agree with me)
And if the world shall parish twice,
I feel that for ditraction ice is also great,
and will suffice.
Thinking leads to weaponry,
feeling leads to compassionry.
Until we grok contelligence,
We are frocked systemically.
Until magic is dispelled as reality,
we are imprisoned in a sacred age
of darkness, rarifying wonders
as so-called miracles.
Those whom are bound by desire,
see only their outward continer.
Yet their burning fire completes
our shared retainer.
Trauncated is our outward container,
denying a Fuller grace of interconnected magic.
Truth beauty; beauty truth... That is all I know
of magic, and all I need to know.
Sanity to me is seeing one battle, an individual struggle of accepting whatever death means to you; insanity is insisting others share your perception of reality.Any war is a collaborative dance, accelerating an inevitable reveal regarding what death means to each of us.
Some say the world will end in fire...
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire, I hold to those who favor fire.
(no True Bokonist will agree with me)
And if the world shall parish twice,
I feel that for ditraction ice is also great,
and will suffice.
Thinking leads to weaponry,
feeling leads to compassionry.
Until we grok contelligence,
We are frocked systemically.
Until magic is dispelled as reality,
we are imprisoned in a sacred age
of darkness, rarifying wonders
as so-called miracles.
Those whom are bound by desire,
see only their outward continer.
Yet their burning fire completes
our shared retainer.
Trauncated is our outward container,
denying a Fuller grace of interconnected magic.
Truth beauty; beauty truth... That is all I know
of magic, and all I need to know.
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