Comments on: The Endless Parade of Saddam Faces We Call Life

By: World Contact Day « cannablog

World Contact Day « cannablog — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:42:54 +0000

[...] Hat-tip. [...]

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:56:52 +0000

And I thought John Dillinger died for our sins. It was really Bruce Lee!

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:05:18 +0000

Assume for a moment that what Grant Morrison said in that video is accurate and the universe can be accurately considered as a single entity (of which we’re all part) growing through the pre and perinatal stages of being. So if you consider the development of human society as having gone or going through the basic perinatal matrices Grant theorises that the 20th century was humanities perinatal matrix stage 3 event which leads us on to stage 4 next which is the release of birth.
Now I was also listening to one of the pop occulture pod casts recently in which it was stated that certain people believe or have believed that we are moving through time backwards. Or more accurately that our experience of time is backwards to it’s actual direction progression. That would mean that the growth of this being that is the universe and is also all of us is actually moving backwards from our perspective. Meaning that the next thing we should expect as a society is basic Perinatal stage 2 not stage 4.
Moving back to what Grant was saying in the video he said that the idea of self and a sense of individuality are fairly recent concepts (the last 2000 years or so) and although they have brought us far they’re becoming a hindrance and thus should be cast off again. Let’s reverse the direction of time again. Now that the past is the future we’re actually moving away from the idea of self. Meaning that Perinatal stage 4 (the release of birth) actually happened far off in the distant past, perhaps around the time that we developed (or is that lost since we’re moving backwards now) the sense of “I”. It also means that in the future we can expect to find ourselves in Perinatal stage 1 “Oceanic Bliss” (where every desire is provided for (perhaps through technology perhaps through magic or perhaps both) and then we’ll gradually fade away becoming more individual and more separate as we head to wards the end (which is actually the beginning) of time.
This may seem a pretty bleak image on which to finish so lets look at this from the correct temporal perspective. Uncountable bajilllions (which is a word that means very big numbers) of humans moving through time being absorbed into our parents as we go. As we move onward we move closer, becoming less separate as there are less and less of us and gradually the sense of self, which separates us, dissolves and we become closer still. Now there are only a few humans wandering the plains of Africa in a small tribe so close and so bonded by our shared identity that we’re almost one being. And time moves on as the universe grows smaller and smaller til it reaches a single point and from that point emerges a creature that looks like a glowing silver ball. Time and space have stopped and a new creature is born into the 5th dimension. At least, if you believe Grant Morrison.

By: CAB

CAB — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:56:54 +0000

interesting that you mention reality tunnels sketchmonkey. tim’s riff on the universe’s experience of itself makes me think immediately of such. if all the self or the universe can consist of is experiences of itself, what is happening as it examines itself? it would be something like a feedback loop, or one of the reciprocal equations at the bedrock of chaos theory - it’s as if with every moment a deeper layer is created, an additional pair of brackets (surrounding nothing) - something like a constant tunnelling-in (or -out, depending on your frame of reference.) when pkd described valis as possessing an armillary coherence could he have meant tunnel-like?

By: Rev max

Rev max — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:27:12 +0000

Aliens and Anorexia

By: Darkshadow

Darkshadow — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:57:43 +0000

Weee, catching up again after the holidays. Hope you had a good ‘un, Tim.

Looks like some sort of dam is breaking up in you, Tim. Do you feel like something is rushing around somewhere in your thoughts? You’ve got a very stream of consciousness thing going here, it’s awesome.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:46:29 +0000

awesome, awesome post.

experience is life.

interesting insights into corporate capitalization of the recognition that mass media is obsoleted by democratizing technology (ie, the internet).

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:52:42 +0000

Perhaps we should start getting used to the idea that schizophrenia is our natural state of being.

Been getting used to that for about five or six years now!

the old way is on the way out.

The old way is the only way left to us. Backwards is the new forwards.

had bill hicks not passed away on his own he would have met a similar fate.

Bill Hicks, like all prophets - murdered.

By: Jennifer Emick

Jennifer Emick — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:53:39 +0000

Yeah, the ads always give me pause… freaky stuff. I guess that’s why they’re so effective. The funniest, I think, was on a news site with a story about a punk rocker who was booted from school for wearing lipstick, the ads were for lipstick and punk CVDs.

Funniest part, though- about invented the ads, did nothing with them, and sold it all to Google. I always wonder who it is who’s going “d’oh” every night before bed…

By: holdercc

holdercc — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:29:13 +0000

What are neural networks but algorithums.

Experience the conduit and the many trails that run through the head and heart.
Or choose to experience MSM Google et al versions of you.

Buy a new you to decide…

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:05:54 +0000

That Grant Morrison video is astounding and very apropriate to the things that have been discussed lately.

By: alistair

alistair — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:43:15 +0000

bruce lee was crucified for calling the technocratic game. we are set to the task of arguing over who`s map is more accurate, while life slips on by all the while.
andrew dice clay was murdered similarly for trying to wake men up to the bullshit of feminism. he told the truth about what women are really like and because he was too popular for his mouth they decided to give him a sitcom to die in. had bill hicks not passed away on his own he would have met a similar fate. people who carry similar messages generally meet a similar fate. either dying or sitcoming.
here`s a short but instructive list;

lenny bruce.
richard bandler. (lawsuits.)
drew carey.(his stand-up is wild.)
even george carlin……………

interestingly european comics of this type tend to stay truer to thier word.

eddie izzard.
billy connolly.
benny hill.
tommy cooper.

maybe it`s american consumer-biased media that is the killer……………….

By: hebrides

hebrides — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:06:01 +0000

The Bruce Lee video is great. When he talks about being dogmatic about style leading to being mechanical he sounds so much like Gurdjieff and the idea of the Sly Man.

Enjoying the free-form transformation of your writing style and posting format. It’s beautiful and those Saddam pictures feel like a great gonzo compliment to the stuff Jeff Wells does with photos over at his site.

Good on you. Keep exploring…best for the New Year.

By: sketchmonkey

sketchmonkey — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:37:28 +0000

Great post, Tim. It all comes down to reality tunnels... & our ability to shift our perceptive vantage point amongst them, ala good ol' RAW. Video may have killed the radio star, but the new emergant 'reality' (of which the internet as we now know it is but a herald, IMO) demands a sacrifice of the old political goats. Which begs the question, who is the new goat gonna be? Or might the tables be turned, with mankind finding iteself on the sacrificial menu? Revelation, that which might be revealed, is all around us, if we have the experience to see. To be sure, the Apocolypse is nigh. As our friend Alistair & many others have noted: the old way is on the way out. However, we must take great care, lest we fall into the old traps in a new guise. "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." Bruce Lee... ah, we hardly knew ya. The complete interview is well worth checkin' out. Mr. Boucher: keep on keepin' on into the New Year & beyond!

By: fuj

fuj — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:08:36 +0000

I am getting to be a little bit like a mad scientist.

More like a mad poet, methinks! With some very nice insights of late, given sufficient headscratching to get at them. What’s happening to the individual? And to time?!

we donâ€™t have multiple stored variants of ourselves. We have multiple experiences of ourselves.

Perhaps we should start getting used to the idea that schizophrenia is our natural state of being. Obviously God has multiple personality disorder, with each of Hir parts playing a part. What if each of our inner part has a voice? Some organs tend to figure more prominently than others… *ahem*. Or chakras, memes, archetypes, fish sticks, Pokemon, yo momma?
This Grant Morrison vid is worth checking out (again), particularly after 21:30.

Excellent book linking appetite to culture.

By: speedbird

speedbird — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:51:33 +0000

I think being aware that each of us has a way-of-seeing-the-world (possibly shared with others) which doesn’t necessarily show us the world as it really is (whatever that might mean) is on the whole a good thing. I met a guy once who clearly hadn’t a clue that anything like a way-of-seeing-the-world might even exist. He was really scary.

Technology changes and ways-of-seeing-the-world (is there a simple word for that?) change. As an instrumental musician, Itunes is currently scaring the crap out of me.

And my crazy-ass recurring unicorn dream is back. This is probably a good thing (and also probably irrelevant to this thread, but I felt like sharing).

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:27:20 +0000

The ads Google is serving on this page automatically are fucking brilliant:

- Saddam Hussein Articles
- Connect With Your Angels
- Eating Disorders Seattle
- Intuitive Counsel

Fuck, they are almost saying what I want to say better than I am saying it and all they are doing is applying an algorithm to my text. But the thing is, all I am doing is applying an algorithm to reality, and sucking important things out of it - we call this our “experience”

So that means the ads from Google are experiencing our experiences of actual life… For now anyway!

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:24:21 +0000

That picture of Saddam in his “hiding place” - the diagram - what the hell is that? Who is he - David fucking Blaine?