A day in the life

Trapped. Queued. Shopping... Looking at a plastic basket full of imported groceries, I find myself contemplating how fast I could escape this situation should I want to. I wonder if the sun is shining outside, and in about five minutes time, when I have paid for my temporary solutions, I will find out if it does.

But then I sat up. I was in bed. Nightmares always make me rather groggy when I wake up, so it takes a short while before I distinguish this moment from the last in the string of conscious experiences. The sun was indeed shining outside, and I feel it now warming my hair ever so gently as I bend down again resting on the elbows. I know what comes next, but the delicate grace of the consuming familiarity has to be overpowered, before I can get up and do what must be done.

Going to the bathroom for a quick leak, and I will have my breakfast afterwards. Some progressively charming people would refer to it as “a cheap golden spa with the doctor”. Reviewing the numbers popping up on the mirror as I wash my hands, I find that my recent diet has been a bit too sugar-heavy, so instead of just leaving, I tab the recommended meal touch pad.

Jumping into a pair of nano-fabric shorts and a t-shirt I feel the short chill, before I venture into the garden outside. The sun shine really is lovely today. Like a never ending and never beginning kiss on the cheek from the love of your life. But after dwelling on such a rather poetic notion for a short while, my stomach lets out a brief growl shoving me back on track. So I sign in with a finger print on the pad next to the hydroponics, and upon recognising that I asked for a recommended meal, lights beneath the artificial soil quickly appear, highlighting the necessary fruits and vegetables for my breakfast. I sheathe my hands into the gardening gloves on the desk and take to gather the components.

I must say I do not care much for the compliments I get from my kitchen, just because I went with the suggested meal to balance my vitamin intake, but I guess some concessions have to be made, if it helps other people be motivated towards a better a diet. I could just tell my kitchen to stop giving me those messages, but I like to be reminded of my own attitude. And of course there is the added bonus that fewer and fewer people have to see doctors now. I reckon medicine will easily transition into a focus on preventative treatment and health maintenance in my life time given where we are now.

Leaving the house I greet the neighbour coming home. She has apparently already been out and about on one of the new city roamers. These vehicles never seize to amaze me. Plated with a photovoltaic shell, just like almost every road is now, they run entirely on sun light, but the interesting part is that this has completely vamped society, and I think this is why people get up so early in the morning now, even though there is no labour left to do. These bikes never stay stationary for longer periods of time, and yet they have a fascinating break down rate of close to zero.

So when she gets out, I jump in and articulate my destination to the receiver. When I get to the university, I quickly traverse the stairs in anticipation of the study group I have been preparing for all week. “Applied Teraforming” has become my new hobby, and I hope to one day become sufficiently knowledgeable on the subject to teach it myself. Although most classes are now taught by the students themselves on a rotation basis, it is suggested that one takes a number of classes on a specific subject, prior to leaving the student roster and entering the the student-teacher roster.

Regarding “Applied Teraforming” I tend to day dream about a production team of developers and programmers working with me to realise my dream of a computer game, that tasks players with cultivating the best possible environment on a given planet, drawing raw data and calculating impacts made by player decisions from the global database. In turn this could become applied teraforming, if the record setting players' designs would be submitted back into the database for engineers and ecologists to review as possible schemes for real space exploration. But that is just my personal goal, and if it is to be, then I am sure I will eventually find the people I need for such a team to start working.

Later this week I did sign up for another study group called “Beyond exchange”, but I am actually considering not going. The people are very nice, but I do sometimes feel that I spent a bit too much time on that subject before Liberation, so I am not sure I would learn much from a thorough analysis into the socialisation process concerned with human interaction and that stuff. It just always seemed like a given to me that it would obviously work out in the end, even if we did not have anything left to threaten each other with.

However, I do see the merit in the course, because we certainly did not evolve past the exchange based culture as soon as we technically could have. And if I do go, it will be to explore how the transition seems to be going based on recent findings. Most of the previous advocates of exchange came around after strife and famine were ended, but some still cling to the idea that humans are categorically egoistical, and the only reason we are currently functional in a cooperative society is because it benefits ourselves the most. I guess they could be right. But then again, the results speak for themselves. All the psychiatrists either chose another education or shipped off to the Americas to work with transitional conflicts over there, simply because the need here fell like never before a few years after Liberation.

What amuses me greatly is when I get back home and do my exercises before dinner. I was always one of those lazy kids who were never properly motivated by the physical socio-dynamics, but now that I can track my progress on a bar that slowly builds towards the next level, I find myself working out almost every day. It is purely recreational though, but I do not see why that would be a bad thing. The results are that my ulcerative colitis is kept in check, and my body has never been healthier. To think I was pretty much addicted to junk food and computer games before Liberation. Now I feel in shape, and not because I have to impress anyone but myself.

So for dinner tonight I believe I will treat myself to a soy burger with a quinoa bun and a relish of kale and pees. Afterwards I try to stay motivated towards a short session of meditation. After training for a while I can tell it helps me stay curious and open minded, but when there is no bar tracking how well I do it just gets a bit too intangible sometimes.

So have a nice evening friends. I will see you in class for “Steady-state patterning”.

1st of March

Yesterday was the 1^st of March. This kicks off the event Black March set in motion by big players and discussed earlier in these posts Black March and MoreBlack March. And I must admit that I did not think of it. I was reminded by a friend that this is the time to make a stand against mainstream media.

Rather than describing how I think this action relates to active protest against Hollywood, I will take quite a different route with this post. I am going to post a short review of the latest product from Hollywood I was unfortunate enough to support with a fraction of my purchasing power.

The movie Safe House, starring such renowned actors as Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington, was a dissappointment to me in several ways. To retain some sort of self-respect I will hide behind the excuse that recently I frequent the movies with my younger brother more than I do so with any one else. This limits the amount of inspiried independantly produced movies I get to see on the big screen. But back to the movie Safe House.

The main critique I have of this piece of so-called entertainment is that while this movie fits in the genre of action, the action scenes portrayed were so poorly realized that I drew several loud sighs and probably even rolled my eyes a few times. The camera was shaking for every action scene with no exception. In addition to this the plot was weak and unexplored. The characters also felt too weakly developed to engage the audience properly.

These and many other reasons should solidify how easy it will be to go through with Black March and refuse to support these underachieving industries claiming to profess themselves at understanding and providing entertainment.

SOPA

The Stop Online Piracy Act is generating quite a fuss today. Wikipedia and others have taken it upon themselves to openly demonstrate this piece of legislation over the next 24 hours by blacking out completely.

If you are a busy person without the time to properly study the bill and reflect upon it, the short version is that it simply removes official judges from the equation of shutting down supposed pirate bays online. If the bill is passed lawyers employed by an entertainer (or the industry) can petition the FBI to have a certain site or sites shut down without notice, if they display over 16 seconds of copy righted material. It used to be that sites were safe so long as they just did not host the content but merely linked to it. That will end with SOPA. Any individual forwarding copy righted content will face up to 5 years in jail in the US, if it is not a first offense.
Basically this means that the entertainment industry, who can afford the lawyers needed to perform this legal move, will recieve a fully authorised red button they can push whenever they want and use FBI resources to check any site they suspect for infringement.

Your favorite media sites like Facebook and YouTube will face problems with this bill as well. Just think of how many songs or videos with clips from copy righted material you have seen since you joined those communities. There will most definitely be a huge reworking of how those sites work. It could be the next step for them to inform you that you are held legally responsible for anything you link to on your profile (or perhaps that others link to on your profile).

The list of items that raises issues in this bill is quite extensive, but the online community has to remain vigilant. As the first article I linked to states this bill may have been made overly aggressive so they can make a similar one that, by comparison, will not look as bad. This is the true fight for free speach. Recently a very hot topic in my country, Denmark. You may remember the cartoons and the ensuing debate. Any compromise is still compromise, no matter how you look at it.

At the moment we are putting up with monitored just about everywhere we go online. This should be the apex of what they achieve. It really should. Make no mistake, this is a tool for the elite. It allows the industries to maim smaller businesses and persons, first of all because they did the lobbying for this bill and so has inspired quite a lot of what is in it, second of all because legal action is rarely a service rendered by the people at the bottom. Like I said it is a big red button in the big office.

If you view this from another perspective you might draw attention to the fact that studies have been done on how censoring, even on a small scale, affects the online community. Eli Pariser draws a verbal canvas of the situation in this presentation, where he talks of how the social media sites have already started filtering content to stream line your intake of their service.

Functional Sociology

Marketing 101 will teach you that relating to success can achieve success. So in my moment of weakness I have decided to let myself become rigorously inspired (steal) the name of my new favourite concept: Functional medicine.

Watch this following presentation by Dr. Mark Hyman and then continue with this post to witness my attempt at expanding on his perspective. It is a piece on health care looked at in a refreshing way, because it brings back the scientific method to a field that has long been like a library, as opposed to a vibrant, dynamic art of complimenting health systems through research which medicine should be.



I am no scientist. I hold no degrees and though I may be studying at a university right now, I will hardly have anything professional to say on neither the medicinal matter nor the sociological matter, as I am studying IT which is about as far from health as you can get in the sphere of knowledge. Or well it is not, but you get my point. However, this will not stop me from comparing this piece of science to my own theory of how societies work.

Because I believe that if Mark Hyman was working in the field of sociology rather than medicine, he would be suggesting that we start using a systems approach to how we govern our societies. He would point out that we are currently upholding thoughts and ideas on how to treat societal issues that are centuries old if not millennia.

Hyman says that diseases do not exist. Not in the sense that we understand diseases. They are not bad things that just happen and have to be treated. They are the responses of your own body attempting to deal with an imbalance. What does that mean? It means that diseases are currently understood in a way that does not help us with anything other than categorising the fallout they produce.

From this perspective we can try and understand diseases in a new sense. Diseases are the general categories we deal with when we collectivise symptoms, a package of symptoms that when appearing simultaneously makes up a collection of unwanted physical reactions in a body and we label that a certain title, like cancer or pneumonia, so we can quickly reference how we normally proceed with treatment. 
But perhaps we should start looking at causality instead? Because you can cure as many symptoms as you want, it will make no difference if you load your diet with the wrong food, get no exercise and maintain a stressful position at your job. Conventional methods do attempt this. But they will never succeed because their perspective is based on a per case basis.

A diagnosis will be damn hard to do if you cannot identify the problem, and you mainly do that by looking at symptoms. I do the same when I build web pages or software solutions. I try to recreate the issues brought up to me by a client on my own screen, so I can see the "leakage" and seal it. This is a symptom-oriented treatment and it works only in secluded, primitive systems. 
You could probably relate this to problem solving in your own life as well. Issues are easy to deal with on a per case basis so long as they are kept in a neat and orderly pile. As soon as they are no longer kept in that neat and orderly pile, you will start experiencing a growing sense of stress, whether or not you get the symptoms is irrelevant, because you can no longer manage the entire pile mentally. This is the reason you started using the systems approach that led you to conclude that the neat pile would be optimal in the first place. Even if this happened subconsciously, it did happen none the less.

Attempting to be bold I will now directly attack a major paradigm that is older than I care to try and guess at.

Crime does not exist. Not in the sense that we understand crime. It is not a bad thing that just happens and has to be dealt with. It is a response given by parts of the social community caused by an imbalance in the system. What does that mean? it means that crime is currently understood in a way that does not help us with anything other than categorising the fallout it produces.

From this perspective we can try and understand crime in a new sense. Crime is the general category we deal with when we collectivise incidents of violence, whether material as physical violence or intangible as theft. It is a package of social symptoms that when appearing simultaneously makes up a collection of unwanted social reactions in a community and we label that a certain title, like murder or embezzlement, so we can quickly reference how we normally proceed with treatment.
But perhaps we should start looking at causality instead? Because you can imprison as many people as you like, it will solve no problem if you load society with inequality, bridge no differences and maintain consumption patterns at the price of social capital. Conventional methods do attempt this. But they will never succeed because their perspective is based on a per case basis.

And crime is just one single element on a list of the issues society is attempting to handle in this fashion, with a less than optimal result yielded in almost every case, due to faulty measures believed to be correct. I could draw this same parallel with obesity, teenage birth rates, mental health, child well-being, social mobility, drug abuse etc.
I believe you understand my point by now though, so I see no reason to repeat myself further. If you want you could try doing it yourself and you will start to see an emerging pattern. 

This is the basis of a systems approach. It is the mechanisation of problem solving, the automation of re-indexing, and it frees up your time as a mental librarian and gives you more time to do abstract work on solving new and exciting issues instead.

V For Revolution

Another great movie from the Wachowski brothers, also holding a great deal of social commentary beneath the initial layers of visually well made action, is the movie V For Vendetta. This movie is certainly one of my favorites, and it achieves such status with me because of how it propels an alternate perspective on these increasingly harsher measures being taken in the time of crisis. All in the name of seizing control of the issue before it gets out of hand.

While I can sympathise with the inherit logic in such a sentence that is it for the good of the people and the good of society, it simply fails to roll out in such a fashion in quite a few attempts. As we have discussed prior terrorism is not just some random idea brown people start thinking about out of nowhere. It takes a big spark to motivate such violence. Most of them have witnessed horrible things to get to where they needed to be to make such drastic moves.
To be clear I am not condoning any act of terrorism, but I will certainly be the one to argue for the understanding of the core nature of it. The media portrays it as close to being the number one issue for any contemporary society.


So to spread it out even thinner one could theorise that terrorism can be diluted and "fought" in this manner, by reducing the amount and size of the measures being taken to prevent it. Perhaps the resistance movements would have been less prevalent if the germans had been more civil in occupied territories during the war? Inhumanity can easily stir violence where otherwise there was no basis for it.


Something else to think about is also the fact that too many people are labelled terrorists when they are no such thing. The rebels in Iraq for instance might consist somewhat of organized terror cells still fighting for Al Qaeda or Saddams memory or whatever, but would you not even consider that some of them just fight the occupation because of the endless stream of unfortunate events the millitary has been involved in ever since the beginning of this pitiful war?


And with that I think I will let V talk to you all about the very possible future of our society, assuming no measures are taken to remove this inconsistent fear that makes us grip the hands of any who endows to save us. He is talking to you about you and it is relevant for you because you are the one who will bring yourself in this situation.

3D printing

Today I saw something remarkable. You probably already know about 3D printing and the prospects of such an addition to society in terms of production. But with this following example you should be able to take it a step further and visualise just how absolutely gigantic a step this could be socially. To enable costumisation on a completely new level along with reducing imports and exports.

Consider the opportunities.

Groceries

With New Year's Eve drawing close everyone is starting to reflect on what changes they desire to see in 2012. It probably comes as no surprise that I would like to see quite a few. But I will not be listing all of these today. Instead I will share a few thoughts on how I personally intend to greet this new and blank page in the book of me.

Today I went for some grochery shopping, and I did this with the intention to try and see whether it was possible on my budget to purchase only organic. To my amazement I actually ended up with a shopping bag that costed me about one and a half as much as I normally spend on food for a couple of days, and this was even with a few extra items I would not normally need.

Now the prices where I live are normally a lot higher for organic products, but given that I have a physical condition that requires me to be more healthy in my diet, I did pick up an interest to learn about cooking and food in general. This was a while back, and it probably started before I was diagnosed, but it is quite evident now that I have changed my view on eating.

On my normal budget I never knew I could afford to buy organic and healthy food in the maner I exhibited today. I am not a vegan or vegetarian, but I do not eat a lot of meat and I should stay away from milk in any shape or form, and the meat certainly is the expensive part of any diet in the area where I live.

So this was more or less just a cheerful post about how I tried something different to see if I could make 2012 a year with an improving diet for myself, and the first step proved to be succesful. And now I will be off to the kitchen to make myself a wholesome meal.

I hope you have equally important prospects for this new year. The revolution in you is the most important one.

New World Order

A friend of mine linked to this Forbes article that talks about how only a handful of corporations own a gigantic sum of the total money sequencing going on in and around the world.

In truth, I don't know how I should feel about this issue. It might be devastating because it enables the obscure thought that they can push and pull society in any direction they so choose, but then again, maybe they can't. As we have seen with the recent uprising in Occupy movements, it is becoming quite clear that even if there ever was a mastermind trying to plot out the worlds economy (the worlds fate), one such person or group cannot fully control the subjects that inhabit the economy. At least not entirely.

Sensationalistic titles aside, I do not believe that there is some huge conspiracy to push the world in a singular direction, and as stated above even if there was, it would hold less than the power needed to do so in any case.


It does empower communities to realise the power of group pressure. Even the establishment with all their millitary and police are subjects to the effects of group pressure. If the public wants something, it is simply a matter of determination and numbers to make it happen. Through elections, through riots or through revolution.


Does that mean that we can simply lay back and expect the future to deliver onto us the sweet redemption from anything we find remotely nasty in society? 
No it most certainly does not. Because a society is made up of its inhabitants and you are one of these. Since all human beings are socially dependant upon relating to each other, it becomes in your own interest to regard it as your job to take part in the process of bettering society.

You are a cell in a body. You have your duty as the red blood cell to feed and fuel the system, but you also have your duty as the white blood cell to find and root out negative influences on your host body. And every time you decide against your job as either of these cells, you leave that amount of extra work for all the ones that do.


Now as a patient diagnosed with a chronic disease that could have been caused by my own immune system, it becomes a reasonably acceptable metaphor for why it is in your own interest to part take in the movement towards changes in society, for otherwise your opinion could go unheard. The social immune system consisting of the people attempting to make their voices heard can overreact and cause a counter-productive outcome.

As we saw in the Bolsjevik revolution, where only a fraction of society seized control over the dissatisfaction of the public, and used this to stear away from the good of the many in order to realise the goals of the few.

In other words, change is coming. Make sure you get on that bus and help out, because if you do not, you have silently consented towards whatever the outcome will be.

War

The atrocities of war are getting to a point now where it is about time the western world dawns upon the fact that this "war on terror" has to stop.

You might as well call it a war for terror, seeing what the outcome is. The establishment is attempting to loot and pillage poorer nations rich on oil. If this was ever a humanitarian project, why would you fly right over Sierra Leone and Somalia to get to Iraq and Afghanistan (and to make Iran start sweating in the middle).

Released this monday is a letter by a member of the US Army, who has witnessed first hand the ugly face of war. You can read the relatively short but important letter here as well as watch the documentary made about this soldier just below the transcript.


I could draw this back to prior points made about how public opinion is shaped through advertising and similar tools of manipulation, but I believe you should be quite capable of making that connection yourself.
For something has certainly shifted, since we are now generally capable of shutting this information out, even though it has been a reoccuring element in the independant press ever since the war began, when we would sit no longer than 60 years ago and scoff at the nazis and their doings. If you regard that as a stretch of a comparison, please return here after you have read the short letter I have linked to above. When you carve a hand-cuffed mans skin off his face, you must descend into the same category as we used to reserve for the nazis. Where else would we put such inhumane people?


If you know the story of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, you will recall that one of them is named War. And war is indeed a corner stone in the international degeneration of society, if not in the end of the world. Loosely interpreted you might say its a part of the end of the world as we know it.


Please take part in spreading the grim message that is reality. There are others trying their best to make you think about pop star shows and soda drinks instead, so your help is needed.

Gaming

Normally I do not read a lot of blogs myself. I tend to find the scope of most blogs a bit too narrow to keep me interested. However, a month ago I tried searching online for a release date of an upcoming game I was looking forward to. Although no specific date came up, my search did introduce me to an article talking about a rumour of one such release date. The article went on to describe the rumour, but what interested me was the link to the blog where the article had its roots.

Now I am a daily subscriber to the news posted on this blog, simply because the writer has a fascinating way of researching and commenting on the games industry. The author's views on production for greed resembles my own quite a lot, and recently a post was made about unethical game design. In this post the author went on to comment on how the industry manipulated consumers and tried to prepare them for the upcoming world of in-game marketing. Soon you will see billboards for soda in the background of your gaming environment.

This is all just to show a little bit about how the blog caught my eye. It has more of a social perspective to it than just commenting on these products we enjoy as players, which is obviously why it appeals to me.

Now to the point. This morning the blog was updated with a post about how the author was hoping for the Stop Online Piracy Act bill to be passed. I will leave you to read up on SOPA and the points made on the blog about this bill.

It may just be sarcasm, but even if it is it shows how negligent the entertainment industry is towards its own consumers. The grand argument is that if everyone were to pirate every produced piece of entertainment available, no entertainers would make a living doing what they do and we would cease to be able to live in this wonderful amusement park we see around us today. We are bombarded with amusement every hour of every day. Some of it we are responsible for seeking out ourselves, some of it we are deliberately forced to endure, for instance while riding the train, as I am now, where billboard after billboard is passing us by telling us that our lives would improve immensely if we were to put money in the pocket of some socially degenerative industry.

How would you feel if your country was trying to enact a bill, giving the industry a red button they can push whenever they feel your favourite sites on the internet might be linking directly to copy righted material?

I hope you would feel like this guy.

Focus

This piece will be about focus. As I described in an earlier post, I have been finding it difficult to keep concentrated when it comes to my work at the university. There seems to be too many distractions. Now it is perfectly normal to not take a step back and ask whether or not I am just plain lazy. Perhaps that might be the sole case. But perhaps other things might be a factor as well. I will try to interpret and relate this situation to a broader social perspective.

You see in the current consumer culture, host bodies of the consumer choke points (the vast majority of companies) go out of their way to ensure that their products occupy your daily life for as long periods as possible. The big ones try to optimise the amount of time per day you spend thinking about their products, because association is everything in a culture based on impulsive shopping and decision making.

In a former post I mentioned how the most important revolution that needs to occur is the one within your mind. That is because of this endless stream of impressions you are receiving from these sources that try their best to get your attention and as much of it as possible. It is because your identity is shaped to be contingent upon these stimuli you have learned to associate with your well-being. Be it having a soda with your meal, an ice cream on a hot summer day, saving up for that car you think would look cool or feel great. All of these things have made their entry into your world view at one point or another. They are not novel ideas or wants. A lot of them are carefully manufactured and shaped to make you behave in a certain way.

Think about this: The smartest people working in advertising are the ones that achieve not only you as a consumer, but you as a branded consumer. Suddenly you are sporting a product with a gigantic logo in the side, and you are providing a non-stop commercial for the company that owns the product brand. Additionally you are providing this service free of charge. Simply because it has been flooded into the media, the anti-social culture shaper of the west, that it is preferable for things to be this way.

Why?

Entertain this thought for a while. Ponder why it is preferable for a company to have consumers feeling that doing their job of marketing for them should earn you no reduction in the product price, no monthly salary for your work, and it certainly should be associated with no deliberate lowering of your personal integrity at all.

The answer should be simply. It turns you into a money-maker for the company even after you have done your final purchase with them. For you are now showing all your peers that this product is pre-approved by you. This enters into the debate yet another concept: Pre-approval. This is very important, because socially our culture forces us into a social hierarchy, and as such, the people that are below you are thought to be impressed by you and your actions. Your actions include your purchases, and you show off your purchases by using them in your everyday life.

You may recall a couple of years back when the hot topic was Neil Strauss, the author of the book The Game. In this book Neil theorised that women are like clock work and the discipline of picking up women should therefore be a trainable one. Now to my understanding his theories are by no means scientific, but they do have one very valuable point that I would like to emphasize to prove my own theory of consumption patterns.

Much like when trying to attract the right partner, we exhibit a lot of the same patterns when trying to make the right purchase or show off the correct social attitude. This is why pre-approval is everything today. There are so many things to buy and so many potential partners to chase, that we rely on some sort of highly integrable way of gauging whether a product or partner is right for us.

An associate of Neil Strauss said that an effective way to create attraction about your own person as a male is to team up with a female friend, or even better with two female friends, when going out, and then walking through the place you end up arm in arm with these women. Obviously it has to look as though you are simply pre-approved, not taken, by these women. It forms the illusion that you are independent of everyone else in that place, because you are already sorted out with what you need. You become an object of attraction because you exhibit the act of being attractive. It is a self-perpetuating circle.

So this is why the people that you look up to have the power over pre-approval for you. This is why James Bond sells cars. This is why Sarah Michelle Gellar sells shoes. This is why Santa Claus sells Coca Cola.

Now the interesting part is that this is perfectly honest business for most companies. It is respectable and people enjoy being a part of it. Consumer culture has now assumed such a stand-point in the west that we are what we buy. Because it displays who we are trying to associate with that is higher than ourselves in the social hierarchy.

Hence the revolution that needs to occur first is the one within your mind. You need to be liberated of what the hierarchy is being skewed to sell to you. You need to be able to make your own decisions about what to relate to and be relevant to.

Start out with shutting off your television.

Poetry

I could not possibly claim to be a poet for revolution if all I did was shover you with my ramblings in verbal form. So as a fun thing I thought I could do today, I'm going to introduce you to a singer and song writer I recently have taken quite a liking to. Granted you will experience him as quite on the toes in some areas, if you get into him, and you might also label him as more of a social revolutionary than an anarchistic revolutionary. These two terms do go hand in hand on a lot of subjects, and I would define myself in no way as a regular libertarian that simply seeks to reduce governmental control. I do believe that big business is a chokehold, and given less regulation, they would only choke us all faster. So if I had to pick sides, I suppose you could say that I am more of a red than a blue anarchist.

And because I have already taken up your time describing uninteresting terminology, I will without further ado introduce you to Mr. David Rovics with his song: ”I'm a better anarchist than you”, because irony is such a sweet dish when served in this fashion.

Revolution

What is a revolution?

I will leave you to look it up, if you feel the need for a cookie cutting dictionary interpretation and structural analysis of the word. In my mind the word simply means fundamental change. While a reform is diplomatic and compromising, a revolution should be neither.

What is a revolution good for?

Simply put, an infinite amount of achievements. A fundamental change, either from interior or exterior workings, often is brought about with the expectation of bringing about a more fruitful direction. Such is also true of a reform, but the result of a revolution is more often than not quite a lot more radical in its new direction than a reform would be. To be diplomatic certainly has its uses on a more social level, but if you look at nature you will notice that diplomacy is just about nowhere to be found. Not just globally, but universally, it is true that any element exposed to a force greater than its tolerance will yield. Ask any person you know that actually read their physics book.

A revolution then would be superior as a solution to a crisis, if the optimal change in direction needed for the host element is radically different from the current one.

Why would I propose revolution on multiple levels of society?

Because I believe that a vast amount of elements within society, which I will most likely be covering in greater detail in later posts, has to change within the near future, for our species to retain a reasonable chance of cultural survival. In the event of a complete societal breakdown, for instance if the economic crisis worsens and sends the super powers to their knees and the ensuing panic within the western world tears the economic boundaries asunder, our cultures might not make it into the history books. And more importantly our health care systems, educational systems etc. all need to keep running, even through massive societal change for obvious reasons.

It should be clear now that my view on the future of this current culture is quite bleak. But honestly, why would you even spend more than the time it takes to load up a YouTube video of Rihanna on this blog, if you had a problem with a revolutionary approach to social evolution. Quite simply I am of the impression that this culture will be surpassed soon. Therefore I am only interested in making the transition to whatever comes next as smooth as possible.

The social immune system of the world is hard at work right now. Just like a cancer grows within the body without the host noticing it before it is too late, we have not yet reached global awareness of the fact that our current ways is no longer sustainable. If the goal is to achieve the highest standard of living possible for as many as possible, then this system is rapidly being outgrown by the rising demands for actual resolve.

Where do I propose the revolutions start off?

Jiddu Krishnamurti said that a radical revolution of the mind needs to occur, and I agree whole-heartedly. You need to take back what is yours, because I can promise that you have been robbed. Just as everyone else has. By advertising, by politicians, by your parents, by your peers, by your diet, by your habits, by your likes, by your dislikes. Every one of those elements and an almost endless list of others within your life has been acting and reacting to shape you as an integrated cogwheel in the machinery of society. Modern psychology claims that you are the product of your surroundings, and if it is true that you have any type of free will in that equation, then you are in turn able to interact with and change your surroundings to knowingly or unknowingly reconfigure your own programming and thereby change your behaviour. That is as much free will as you can get, assuming the discipline of scientific psychology to be a resourceful one, and for evolution to be anywhere close to truth, it is all you need.

I already have a future post planned that will comment in greater detail on how evolution and biology plays a big role in my view on humanity.

How do I plan on convincing 7 billion people?

Well, some are ahead and some are behind me in this train of thought. What I am aiming for personally right now is to be able to shut down the parts of my personality that keeps me addicted to unsustainable practices. Such as eating junk food and being socially self-centred. In essence I am trying to practise what I preach, and this is harder than first assumed. Believing that the world needed to change was unfortunately not enough to spin my life around and become a social beacon of hope.

Currently I do have an interesting task going on actually. I started at a university earlier this year, and I do find it difficult to muster the patience and concentration needed to do my work properly instead of just playing games and day dreaming about the new society.

At this point I do not know what my next post will be about, but I'm very excited to find out. Stay tuned.

Introduction

So this will be the first post on my not as first blog. While the other's never got properly off their feet, I do have hopes for this place.

What to expect from this project? A bit of everything really. Without being anywhere near an expert on blogs, I would venture the guess that most people start out with saying that their blog will just be for thoughts and ideas. Initially mine should be no different. But I often find myself catching on a writer's fire when I start jotting down ideas, so this might lead somewhere interesting.

So without further delay I'll just dive right into the thoughts of tonight.

Why this name for a blog? Well, after lunch, dinner and coffee for the 10.000^th time with the family it became apparent to me that this could be delayed no further. Am I simply rebelling against my biological roots and their attempt at forced inheritance? Perhaps. But then again I would expect most people around my fitting age of 24 to be about the same place in their life.

Poetry for Revolution was the product of about 15 minutes of rising frustration over all the good ideas for things I wanted to write down for you, but lost track of because I was stuck in the proces of chosing a name for my blog. The title perhaps reflects this even more so, as I simply picked my regular internet nick and put 's blog at the end of it. In my defense I would say that my imagination sure has been working today. Perhaps that is why it took an ill placed, but hopefully minor, vacation when I needed it for this simple task.

Okay I promise: No further rambling from now on. Poetry for Revolution is going to contain my views on local and global life. I will attempt to verbalise perspectives that seem wide to me, and I will be doing this to hone my communicative skills, as well as to get a more clear view of what my personal evolution looks like.

Perhaps this blog will be more for me than it will be for you, but we will see where it goes. My heart certainly is full of hope that this will serve as a proper outlet for my frustrations with the world that we inhabit. Trying to keep it constructive is certainly something I will be aiming for, but I shall guarantee no such thing.

My next post will detail the initial analysis of why I believe in a need for revolution on many different levels of societies.