Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Decline and fall: how American society unravelled | World news | The Guardian
In or around 1978, America’s character changed. For almost half a century, the United States had been a relatively egalitarian, secure, middle-class democracy, with structures in place that supported the aspirations of ordinary people. You might call it the period… Continue reading
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Daodejing 34
#34* DAO (Great Way) everywhere. Left or right, all around. On It, the 10,000 entities† relying nurturing, never rejecting. Achieving completion without needing recognition. Feeding the 10,000 without being the master. Forever without desire: It can be called small. The… Continue reading
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piercing intension
the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading
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Article: Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty
Very intriguing e-journal. Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/composing-your-thoughts Continue reading
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A Discussion With Cryptome
Fascinating interview over at Gawker… Gawker: Snowden told the Guardian that in leaking these documents he wanted to reveal the “architecture of oppression.” You’re both architects—what does that term mean to you? Young: People take it metaphorically, but we think… Continue reading
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Putting ‘Yeezus’ Aside: Jasiri X’s Urgent Spreadable Media by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan (in Exile)
In a celebrated and much remarked upon three-minute spot that aired during Game 5 of the NBA finals, artist and entrepreneur Jay Z remarked “we don’t have any rules, everybody’s trying to figure it out. That’s why the internet is… Continue reading
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Hymn to Pleasure
Originally posted on Glorialana Magazine: Hello God! Thank You for Friday. Today is going to be your happy Friday because we will immerse in the city of pleasure. This is Vienna. I have been in Vienna and I must say… Continue reading
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Daodejing 33
#33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet unforgotten: longevity. †The characters translated in these two lines both contain the glyph for sun. Lucidity is… Continue reading
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and – or
“and” – the quality of having “or” – the quality of not-having a note struck or plucked, blown or sung… having sound: hearing having context: recognizing having start: grasping having finish: letting-go a note giving way to silence which gives way to… Continue reading
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Daodejing 32
#32* DAO (the Great Way) always and forever without name. Simple and small. Nothing under-heaven can rule over the Great Way. If Kings obey this, all under-heaven will follow them spontaneously. Heaven and earth† join together: sweet dew will fall… Continue reading
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“Ode to Joy”
Originally posted on S.'. E.'. F.'.: And yet we cannot dispense with Special Relativity either, because the mathematics there is equally flawless and the experiments are legion that confirm it. Two solutions have been proposed and both assume that the “communication” involved in Bellian… Continue reading
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