You need food in order to survive and be healthy, but if you eat too much, or if you eat too much of the wrong stuff, it´s bad for you. It´s the same with the information, food of the mind. If you eat too much or wrong kind, you will get a very sick mind. Balanced information diet also includes information fasting. Information needs time for digesting. If you are constantly in the news cycle, you are losing perspective. Organic identities unlike computers are cyclic and needs rest. Without rest, collapse will come.

I don´t think humanity will survive unless we have more boredom. If you ask me, what is wrong with the world in 2023, I would say that everybody is far too excited. People don´t understand the meaning of this word. They think it´s like being happy. Exciting is not happy, it´s not always good. Organism excited all the time will die. Excitement means, that body is in "fight or flight" mode, all the neurons are firing, all the muscles are tense. Very often negative things excite us - fear is excitement, hate is excitement, anger is excitement. When I meet good friend, I am often relaxed to meet him, not excited. We have got far too many exciting politicians doing exciting thinks. We need more boring politicians doing less exciting things.

Brain is wired to pay attention to excitement and to crave it. But brain evolved in situations where you did not have constant stream of excitement. Now our brains are being hacked. We are also losing our ability and skill to be bored. People will rather take electric shock, than do nothing. You can´t get to any level of peace of mind, if you don´t know how to handle boredom.

Peace and boredom are the neighbours, same way like excitement and outrage are neighbours. If you don´t know how to handle boredom, you will never experience the peace of mind. If humans don´t experience the peace of mind, there is no way the world as a whole will be peaceful.

(Yuval Noah Harari)

You will be amazed to discover how much of your decisions are not result of some mystical free will. They are the result of cultural and biological factors. This also means that you are vulnerable to be deciphered and manipulated by political parties, by corporations, by AI. People with this kind of mystical belief in free will are the easiest people to manipulate. Because they dont think, that they can be manipulated. And obviousy they can.

Humans usually understand how to manipulate something long before they understand the consequences of manipulations. We are manipulating world without understanding of consequences. Something similar can happen with the world inside us. The power to manipulate is not the same thing as understanding the complexity of the system and the consequences of manipulation.

(Yuval Noah Harari)

"Duše přijímá svět, život v celku. I se strašlivostí vesmíru, s drtivostí věčna a nekonečna. Osoba jen zčásti; ale považuje tuto svou část za všechno, za celý život, celý svět." (Josef Čapek)

"It goes without saying, I believe, that if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less. But the barrier between oneself and one´s knowledge of oneself is high indeed. There are so many things one would rather not know!" (James Baldwin)

"If you have never believed yourself to be entitled to anything, you are less likely to turn against others than you are to turn against yourself." (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)

"We can be hard and critical on structures, but soft on people. This is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures." (John A. Powell)

"When our actions begin to integrate with our beliefs, when we are doing some of the work that we know needs to be done, we have less need for the various doubles our culture offers up disguised as a good life. The allure of disappearing into our digital avatars wanes. Doubles are our opiates, we have less need for them when there is less pain and dissonance to escape." (Naomi Klein - Doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world)

"You are stuck in your body right here, but in a technical way you could be said to be in India and Iraq, you are in the sky causing storms, and you are in the sea herding whales towards the beach. You probably don´t feel your body in those places. It is as if you have two distinct bodies. You have an individual body in which you exist, eat, sleep and go about you day-to-day life. You also have a second body which has an impact on foreign countries and on whales...a body which is not so solid as the other one, but much larger." (Daisy Hildyard - The Second Body)

"At some point you´d have to live as if the truth was true." (weather station/tamara lindeman - loss).

"When people and societies enter into a state of shock, they lose their identities and their footing. Calm is a form of resistance. Calm is not a replacement fo righteous rage or fury at injustice, both of which are powerful drivers for necessary change. But calm is the precondition for focus, for the capacity to prioritize. If shock induced a loss of identity, then calm is the condition under which we return to ourselves." (Naomi Klein - Doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world)

"Conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feeling right - the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else´s profit, te feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for the system driving those feelings starts with c, but if no one ever taught you how capitalism works, and instead told you it was all about freedom and sunshine and Big Macs and playing by the rules to get the life you deserve, then it´s easy to see how you might confuse it with another c-word: conspiracy. Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion. But suspicion directed at the wrong target is a very dangerous thing." (Naomi Klein - Doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world)

"The people who are the exploiters of this planet are people who put themselves first. Unable to unself even for a moment. Put a little differently, the climate crisis can be understood as a surplus of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. It can also be understood as a surplus of self - a result of all the literal and figurative energy it takes to perform and perfect the selves fortunate enough to live outside the Shadow Lands"

(Naomi Klein - Doppelganger, a trip into the mirror world)

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"He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls." (Julius Tandler)

JAMILLOS: Kéž by to tak bylo, ale oni do té propasti nepadají - ta hrstka těch druhých je neustále zachraňuje. (kdo je vlastně hloupější?)

“Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.” (José Saramago)

"Aby se člověk cítil ve světě doma, musí si ho svou imaginací zabydlet." (Martin Heidegger)

"Choosing non-duality over duality is dualistic act." (David Chaim Smith)

PF 2024

Aubade
BY PHILIP LARKIN

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.

The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
—The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear—no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.

And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape,
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

Devs - Poetry Scene - (Aubade by Philip Larkin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3DtMAUZ-p8

There can be no knowledge of oneself except in relationship - in relation to all of life. Why? Because, in truth, there is but a single body - the body of life. The enlightened wisdom that all beings seek is found in perfect relationship so intimate that there is no separation between known, knower and the knowing. In this knowledge we are the oak, and the one who cuts down the oak, and the bird who lives in the oak and the watcher of the oak.

Technology, information, knowledge, these all tend to give "mastery over" but not the wisdom of what to do with that mastery. If this partial knowing is developed lopsidedly, as within our culture, then there is deep alienation with ourselves, our bodies, nature. This alienation breeds an aggression whose hostility lashes out at the body of life. As the anorexic is at war with their embodiment, humanity is now at war with its enworldment.

The frenetic pace of technology allows for greater communication but less and less communion. Social media allows for huge amounts of talking but there is little true listening. To understand life in its wholeness, to understand yourself, or any "other", you must develop a tremendous stillness, capacity for listening, observation. For this you must face the addiction to stimulation that our culture offers to replace the loss of intimacy.

To know the world with open-hearted tenderness insures that one will indeed be broken hearted but also that one will know joy - both the joy of this world and an unborn joy beyond touch of decay or corruption. in this joy one discovers a love of live, a love in life, a love that pervades life. This Love of Life knows there must be relationship unspoiled by the wounds of memory. The mind, still, silent, without avoidance is swept through by the wildfire of Love and grief.

100 Days of Enlightened Mind by Traktung Khepa - Issuu
https://issuu.com/traktung.khepa/docs/eye_to_form_is_only_love_original

One of the roles of philosophy is to play the fool, or idiot. From its inception, philosophy has been closely tied to idiotism. Every philosopher who has brought forth a new idiom - a new language, a new way of thinking - has necessarily been an idiot. Only the idiot has access to the wholly other. Idiotism discloses a field of immanence of events and singularities for thought. This field eludes subjectivation and psychologization altogether. Communication achieves maximum velocity when the Same reacts to the same. In the inferno of the Same, communication attains its highest speed. In light of compulsive and coercive communication and conformism, idiotism represents a practice of freedom. By nature, the idiot is unallied, un-networked, and uniformed. The idiot is a modern-day heretic. Etymologically, heresy means choice. Thus, the heretic is one who commands free choice, the courage to deviate from orthodoxy. As a heretic, the idiot represents a figure of resistance opposing the violence of consensus. The idiot preserves the magic of the outsider. Today, in light of increasingly coercive conformism, it is more urgent than ever to heighten heretical consciousness. Idiot communicates with the In-communicalble. As such, the idiot veils himself in silence. Idiotism erects spaces for guarding silence, quiet and solitude, where it is stil possible to say what really deserves to be said.

It´s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces donť stop people from expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and even rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

Pure immanence is the void, which can neither be psychologized nor subjectivized. Immanent life is lighter and richer - indeed, freer - for such emptiness. The sphere of immanence to which the idiot gains admittance is the matrix of de-subjectivation and de-psychologization. It is negativity, wrestling the subject out of itself and liberating it into the immensity of an empty time. The idiot does not exist as a subject - he is more like a flower, an existence simply open to light.

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

As narration, syllogism represents the opposite of addition. Big Data is purely additive, it never comes to an end, to a conclusion. In contrast to the correlations and additions that Big Data generates, theoretical thinking represents a narrative form of knowledge. The Spirit is a conclusion, a syllogism, an integral whole in which component parts are meaningfully preserved. The intergral whole is a conclusive form. But without Spirit, the whole world falls apart into merely additive, unincorporated elements. Spirit constitutes the world´s interiority and composure - what gathers, or composes, everything within itself. Theory is also conceptual - syllogistic - because it comprehends all the elements it includes. Ultimately, the "end of theory" that Chris Anderson has trumpeted means taking leave of Spirit. Big Data makes Spirit - that is, thinking and thought - wither and die. Human science that is purely data-driven is, in fact, no longer human. It has no Geist, or Spirit. Totalized data-knowledge amounts to absolute ignorance, the absolute zero of Spirit.

Unlike mere addition, narration is a syllogism. Knowledge - the state of knowing - is a syllogism. Rituals and ceremonies are syllogistic forms too. They represent a narrative process. As such, they have their own temporality, their own rhythm and pace. As narratives, they defy acceleration. But when all syllogistic forms fall apart, everything has become additive, where all narrative tension - any vertical tautness - has gone missing, total acceleration sets in.

Today, our perceptive apparatus itself is incapable of arriving at any conclusion, it just clicks its way through the endless, digital net. Our senses are completely distracted. Yet only contemplative lingering manages to achieve any meaningful end. Shutting one´s eyes offers a symbol for arriving at a conclusion. Abrubt change from image to image, from information to information, has made any such contemplative conclusion impossible. If all that qualifies as reasonable is a syllogism - a conclusion - then our era, the age of Big Data, is an epoch without reason.

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