Thursday, December 10, 2015

Projection

We speak of the personification of inanimate objects all the time, with various degrees of approval and disapproval attached depending on the instance.

We say that this car looks sad and dejected and beaten down because it hasn't run in a while, and that firing it up implies some glorious reawakening, whereas really we are reading our personal excitement onto the machine. This is easy for an intelligence to do when interacting with objects.

But what of the feelings of the engine housings as they strain to contain the bucking engine? What of the chassis as it struggles to hold the body? What of the engine as it catches aflame? What of the earth as its blood is extracted and lit and dumped into the sky?

One attitude or perception may see to the firing up of the car's engine, and a celebration of such, whereas another attitude or perception could see the metal beasts laid to rest. 

Where the aperture of perception opens and closes, where the awareness of a given constellation of affairs is scaled out or back, and attached with value, the manifestation of the reality changes.

What is it that will become animated? This depends on what one is, what one sees, and what one chooses to do with what one sees.

Dance with Capital

A dance implies a giving and a taking, an exchange of energies.

To get out of capital, one has to get a bit into it, and so on.

To leave capital, one needs energy, which one must take from capital, as it spreads itself total. To take energy from capital, one must be capital, if only a bit.

As more leave capital, whether silently and through non-participation, or through force, or through something in between, capital will change in response.