"Inasmuch as it expends a great deal of energy to force people into the straightjacket of commandments and prohibitions, disciplinary power proves inefficient. A significantly more efficient technology of power makes sure that people subordinate themselves to power relations on their own. Such a dynamic seeks to activate, motivate and optimize - not to inhibit or repress. It proves so effective because it does not operate by means of forbidding and depriving, but by pleasing and fulfilling. Instead of making people compliant, it seeks to make them dependent.

Power that is smart and friendly does not operate frontally - i.e., against the will of those who are subject to it. Instead, it guides their will to its own benefit. It says "yes" more often than "no", it operates seductively, not repressively. It seeks to call forth positive emotions and exploit them. It leads astray instead of erecting obstacles. Instead of standing opposed to the subject, smart and friendly power meets the subject halfway.

Smart power cosies up to the psyche rather than disciplining it through coercion or prohibitions. It does not impose silence. Rather, it is constantly calling on us to confide, share and participate: to communicate our opinions, needs, wishes and preferences - to tell all about our lives. Friendly power proves more powerful, as it were, than purely repressive power. It manages not to be seen at all. Today´s crisis of freedom stems from the fact that the operative technology of power does not negate or repress freedom so much as exploit it. Free choice (Wahl) is eliminated to make way for a free selection (Auswahl) from among the items on offer.

Smart power read and appraises our conscious and unconscious thoughts. It places its stock in voluntary self-organization and self-optimization. As such, it has no need to overcome resitance. Mastery of this sort requires no great expenditure of energy or violence. It simply happens."

(Byung-Chul Han - Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power)

INK_FLO: T.S.Eliot je super:

“And after our all exploring we will end up where we have started but know it for the first time.”

Kde je ta moudrost, co ztratili jsme ve vědění?
Kde je to vědění, co ztratili jsme v informacích?

(T. S. Eliot)

"Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths." (Joseph Campbell)

„Zdalipak ses,“ ptal se ho jednou, „ zdalipak ses naučil od řeky tajemství: že není čas?“ Vasudévovu tvář přeběhl jasný úsměv.

„Ano, Siddhártho,“ řekl, „je to přece tohle, co máš na mysli: že řeka je všude zároveň, u pramene i u ústí, u vodopádu, u přívozu, u peřejí, v moři, v horách, všude zároveň, a že pro ni je pouze přítomnost, nikoli stín budoucnosti?“

„Tak je to,“ řekl Siddhártha. „Když jsem se to naučil, podíval jsem se na svůj život a byla to také řeka a chlapec Siddhártha byl od muže Siddhárthy a od starce Siddhárthy oddělen jen stínem, ničím skutečným. Ani Siddhárthova dřívější narození nebyla žádnou minulostí a jeho smrt a návrat k brahmanu žádnou budoucností. Nic nebylo, nic nebude; všechno je bytí a přítomnost.“

Siddhártha mluvil zaníceně, toto osvícení jej hluboce obšťastnilo. Ach, nebylo snad všechno utrpení čas, nebylo všechno sebetrýznění a strachování čas, nebylo všechno obtížné, všechno nepřátelské ve světě pryč a překonáno, jakmile byl překonán čas, jakmile bylo možno čas odmyslet? Mluvil zaníceně. Vasudéva se však na něho zářivě usmíval, souhlasně pokyvoval, pokyvoval mlčky, rukou pohladil Siddhárthu po ramenou a vrátil se ke své práci.


Herman Hesse, Siddhartha, 1967

QWWERTY:
Why Gifted Kids Are Actually Special Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUjYy4Ksy1E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQC0jfH_rrM

Trauma Trooper (Perry Bible Fellowship strip)
[KERRAY @ ALTERNATIVE & STRANGE COMICS - zvlastni komiksy kresbou ci myslenkou vybocujici z mainstreamu ...]

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šlohnuto z Ústavu

"There is no single truth. There is no one word that can describe it. But give me some poetry to describe around a point, and I can give you its exact coordinates." (Mark Angelo Harrison - A Darker Electricity: The Origins Of the Spiral Tribe Soundsystem)

'SPIRITUAL' RED FLAGS TO WATCH FOR (AND THEIR MEANINGS):

1: To 'hold space' for someone = To sit and stare at someone with emotional issues for an uncomfortable amount of time, then pat yourself on the back for basically doing nothing while your homie has a breakdown.

2: I'm in transition = I'm unemployed and totally fucking lost, so I have created an identity out of being an opportunist. Maybe you have some trim work for me or food? Or a trade? I do crystal readings!

3: I'm processing a lot of downloads from the Universe = I smoked too much DMT and can’t afford therapy. By pretending that my fragile brain is a sacred record keeper, I receive validation for speaking gibberish.

4: I'm a lightworker/empath = I am depressed and unstable and take zero responsibility for my own self-destructive tendencies, and need to focus on condescending your dark shit to avoid my own. (PS: I'll diagnose you as a narcissist)

5: I am a Reiki Master= I crave human contact, And this makes me feel less insecure than Tinder. I can cross personal physical boundaries with ease if I so choose, depending on what my client looks like, or I can think about random things while getting paid handsomely to hold my hands awkwardly over someone’s body.

6: You have an amazing Aura = I would love to bang you.

7: I am writing a travel blog = I don't want to go home, I no longer fit in: I never have. I don't know where I will end up, but I’d like to get paid to figure it out.

8: I'm not looking for a relationship/ only deep soul connections = I have commitment issues and fear of intimacy so I collect partners with compatible insecurities. I understand you will head off to Thailand soon anyways. “Bread-crumbing my love keeps me safe” is my mantra, while I dip my dick like a candlestick in every Shanti ratchet priestess in town.

9: 'Inner Goddess Within' workshops = An understanding of daddy Issues and a way to overdevelop the masculine side to protect the little girl within. Helping participants to surrender to the bias that all men are shit ( all of this for a nominal fee). The level 2 masterclass will teach you how to galactivate your man’s scrotum chakra enough to make him forget that you pay for bullshit workshops with his harvest money.

10: A guru = Someone who has overstepped the threshold of self-development into supreme egotism and found a niche market. Carries a flute and has a name you can't pronounce (though his driver's license says Steve) and chants words he doesn’t understand. But interesting tattoos...right?

11. A shaman = see above.

12: Worshipping the Beloved = Classic scenario where a cluster B personality type convinces you at a festival that you are their twin flame, lost for centuries in the ether. If you have never been loved by your primary caregivers, this is paradise on earth as your fear of abandonment gets spanked with a mala on the magical, mystery tour of self-deception.

13: In the flow = I never commit to anything, especially plans to do anything with anyone, so that I can completely flake out and not take any responsibility for it; ie I didn’t pay my phone bill this month.

14: Co-creating a retreat/gathering = my borderline personality friends and I have exhausted all other means of making an honest income, and have decided instead to use our social media clout (aka naked buttcheeks) to radically overcharge a too-large group of saps for 2-14 days of mediocre vegan food, awkward group encounters, and real-world-style sexual politics.

15; Substance Free Event = Powder drugs are fine but if you bring alcohol, we’ll judge the shit out of you. Tobacco’s cool if you snort it and call it "ceremony" or roll your own.

16: Speaking My Truth = I reserve the right to be an asshole in this conversation and you must honor it, regardless of how deep my delusion may be. I’ll probably use this phrase every time I don’t want to be called out for my phone bullshit, because it’s all perspective man."