Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto hardcopy update

Nordica picked up the proof and says it looks good enough to print! They'll be going out either Friday or Monday. We both still think we need a better introduction, it was hard to write it after so many years since we wrote the online manifesto. I continue to find and read excerpts and essays published online about Hegel and want to address their arguments. Seems like there's more and more available and I wanted to use the intro to describe the dialectic in philosophical terms as well as for average readers. Which I think is appropriate, whereas Nordica wants it to be simple, like 2020. Maybe next printed version will have 2 intros, one from her and one from me. She's the best business partner I've ever had but that doesn't mean we share the same creative expression. She is an srtist first, drawing and graphics are her passion and she sees things so differently than me, a non-fiction writer who loved Facts on File. I'm hoping someday she'll be inspired to do a comic strip of our little "league", she can draw the cutest little people and you know exactly who they are. She's done some of me that are just funny looking and the nugget people are my most favorites. One time she drew me as this little tiny nugget lady and the community cop was this big huge nugget with a gigantic mouth sneering down at me.

Plus this whole health aspect that she's into is rubbing off on her old ma. I've learned a lot about natural remedies and how good you feel when you eat good food. This is a direction that would be worth pursuing as one alternative to continuing writing about Etzioni and the global government. Since the comms are moving into their solution based mentality then I'm wondering if it isn't time for us to do the same. I know there are things out there that have been taken from us and things that have been planted that are poisoning us and killing us, and like everything else connected to the "plan," it's been going on for a long time. I used to tell Nordica if I've been eating and drinking poison my whole life then it's too late for me, and wouldn't it be better if we give her the expensive food since she has hope, and leave me in peace to smoke my cigarettes and drink my coffee and occassionally eat toast. But with the amount of fresh food and pure juice in our home the past year (because she's breastfeeding) I ate so good that now I'm actually mixing my Tops tobacco with Catherine's Summerwind Tea, a mixture of mint, chamomile, spruce tips, fireweed, rosehips, yarrow, clover, wormwood, coltsfoot, raspberry leaves, organic orange peel. It's been sitting here for months since I never drink anything but coffee, and then tonight Nordica suggested I try smoking it. It's a lovely blend, it actually soothes my throat. My tobacco will last a long time doing this, and maybe so will I. :)

6 comments:

  1. "try smoking it" boy have I got in a lot of trouble with that line over the years. hehe!! Great post, I'll be back.

    Chris

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  2. Hehe Scavenger. Who were you saying it to?

    And yeah SCP, actually, I do smoke a pipe occassionally, as well as cigars, and have been known to participate in a modern version of a Lakota Ceremonial Pipe, and I frequently share my personal Peace Pipe with my neighbors and friends.

    I like to smoke, and it's amazing that the only smoke that bothers Nordica is packaged American cigarettes, which she showed me has some nasty chemicals. Says that's the smell she hates and swears was going to kill her if I kept smoking them. I have often wondered if cig additives were designed to help pass more communitarian regulations forbidding smoking, in the same way food additives that cause obesity were designed to help establish a war on obesity.

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  3. Niki,

    Before enlightenment

    chop wood
    carry water

    After enlightenment

    chop wood
    carry water

    Sorry. Can't remember what thats from.


    Joni Mitchell THE THREE GREAT STIMULANTS lyrics

    I picked the morning paper off the floor
    It was full of other people's little wars
    Wouldn't they like their peace
    Don't we get bored
    And we call for the three great stimulants
    Of the exhausted ones
    Artifice, brutality and innocence
    Artifice and innocence

    No tanks have ever rumbled through these streets
    and the drone of planes at night has never frightened me
    I keep the hours and the company that I please
    And we call for the three great stimulants
    Of the exhausted ones
    Artifice, brutality and innocence
    Artifice and innocence

    Oh and deep in the night
    Our appetites find us
    Release us and bind us
    Deep in the night

    While madmen sit up building bombs
    And making laws and bars
    They'd like to slam free choice behind us

    I saw a little lawyer on the tube
    He said, It's so easy now, anyone can sue.
    Let me show you how your petty aggravations can profit you!
    Call for the three great stimulants
    Of the exhausted ones
    Artifice, brutality and innocence
    Artifice and innocence

    Oh and deep in the night
    Appetites find us
    Release us and blind us
    Deep in the night
    While madmen sit up building bombs
    And making laws and bars
    They're gonna slam free choice behind us

    Last night I dreamed I saw the planet flicker
    Great forests fell like buffalo
    Everything got sicker
    And to the bitter end
    Big business bickered

    And they call for the three great stimulants
    Of the exhausted ones
    Artifice, brutality and innocence
    Artifice and innocence
    Oh these times, these times
    Oh these changing times
    Change in the heart of all mankind
    Oh these troubled times

    joni mitchell.

    Don't you love those words Niki?
    You're not alone.

    Love,
    Sue

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  4. Cut your own firewood, and it will heat you twice.

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  5. Cool! I'm looking forward to buying a copy. ;-)

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