Technology & Civilization

Technology is not a sign of civilization, even the most barbaric of cultures may have the greatest of technologies.

Creoleness

"Creoleness is the interactional or transactionnal aggregate of Caribbean, European, African, Asian, and Levantine cultural elements, united on the same soil by the yoke of history."
-Jean Bernabé

The Key to Success

The key to success, whatever that may entail, is self discipline.

Featured Painting

Tiger Drinking from a Raging River
by: Kano Sansetu

Wisdom

Wisdom is gained through the accumulation of experience, of pain.

Future

Future.
An extreme respect and disregard for tradition
and the past.
An obsession and distrust for novelty
and the future.

Victims, Victors, & Transcendence

The victors write and control history, and it can be assumed, every other discourse in the history of mankind. The victims are left behind, without a voice, left to fend for themselves in the struggle for victory. Recently there has been more attention given to the victims of history, a subject called history from the ground up. However, this revolutionizing of discourse, while staying within the traditional space opened for the discourse, does not go beyond the cycle of victims becoming victors.

In order for the victim to become the victor, the victim must do whatever was done to them to another people. They must learn to victimize others, and grasp proudly there victory. This is the cycle of violence visible in our history up to the present.

To become victorious means to victimize, this must be transcended.

The Realization of Beauty

Is the realization of beauty possible? The realization of beauty is without comparison, as beauty is not a measurement.

Featured Painting

Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre
By: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

Featured Poem

Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.

Al andar se hace camino
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino
sino estelas en el mar...

Todo pasa y todo queda,
pero lo nuestro es pasar,
pasar haciendo caminos,
caminos sobre el mar.

-Antonio Machado

Collateral Murder

Newly leaked video of civilians being killed in Iraq.

Political Language

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.
-George Orwell

Featured Painting

Flower Seller by Diego Rivera