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Evolution of The Mind
Arthur Koestler quotes
Life to me is not an aimless point of evolution for humanity. Ever since I was a little boy I wanted to be an astronomer. Look into the sky, try to understand the unknown. I have always been curious about my existence. Why am I/we here? Theories would come and go. My struggle with religion would come and go. Is there a God? Is the bible legit? There is alot of basic questions you need to answer before you can consciously pick a path in life. At the age of (sike!) I am beginning to choose my path, and the path I lead is then transformed into the path that my seed will begin on. If you agree with that statement, you must agree that the path one generation of people lead is thus transformed into the path the next generation starts on. As it has been for some time now, the next generation has to right the wrongs of the previous generation. Almost like a cosmic spell checker... but its a life checker.
I like the quote above alot because it subtly shows life's purpose...to me at least. The brains ability and what we actually know that we can do leaves room for an excessive amount of potential. Potential to do unfathomable things (I believe). Both good and bad. The only thing is that the bad unfathomable will only allow us to live but so long. It will only allow us to grasp the negative potential so far before we destroy our beings, our natural way of life, and drift so far from love that hell might as well be its name. On the flip side, the positive unfathomable is endless. Imagination is endless. Love is endless.
Revolutions most always start in the mind. Revolutions seem quite necessary in a detailed aspect in the story of the human being. I believe that the next evolution will be of the mind? Dictionary.com defines the Mind as:
1. (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
2. Psychology . the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.
3. intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.
If a one year old is playing with her toy and has no clue that the square block goes in the square hole, the learning aspect of this toy only exist as potential. Until one day she accidentally puts the ball through the circle opening. It wasn't purposefully done but in realizing the ball went through the circle hole an understanding she was not use to has now started a revolution in her mind about this toy, it changed the way she perceives this toy. Now in order for her to master this toy an evolution of her mind must occur, creating a thought process that was not known to her before. Now after mastering her toy, the road to looking at life's experience as practical and logical has begun for little bonquiqui (sorry I had to). As I said before revolutions seem necessary in the detailed aspect in the story the Human Being; but let's pull back and take a more holistic view of this story. Revolutions are like first few attempts at starting a lawn mower, where the actual starting of the mower is evolution. once the evolution of the mind starts, once we begin to understand logical perceptions that we had no understandings of before, will we begin to understand our brains and reduce its potential. If you believe in evolution, if you believe in continual progression, the reduction of potential is necessary. Thus making revolutions humanities way of subconsciously understanding the potential of the mind,and its attempts at evolution.
"The brain is the tool and the mind is the application of its potential" Eteeks Sivad
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Brain Food: Books Every Black Man Should Read
This is a RE-POST... Just in case you did not catch it the last time.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Inspir(e n)ation of W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B Du Bois
Double-consciousness, the affects of an afflicted being. An affliction caused by the pressures of a societal construct originating from the hatred of the beings original consciousness. A state of internal dissonance with ones being. In my opinion the Dual-Consciousness of African-Americans shall only last as long as it takes for an individual to conform to the American social, and political constructs spawned from an Anglo-Colonial Paradigm. For American-Africans the Dual-Consciousness shall last as long as the search for a history, culture, and truth is sought in a society influenced by an Anglo-Colonial Paradigm. Some people forget, or never knew the real indignations the people of Africa really endured. Misinterpreting behavioral patterns as cultural or nationality traits. Dismissing the situational factors which reveal immoral justification of national pride and elitism. Creating a domino effect coupled with the misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and misguided compassion from European Colonialist to American Capitalist . Creating a downward spiral, in which a hole was dug and which will continue to be deepened as long as the descendants of Africa strive to be African Americans instead of American Africans. We must master this Dual-Consciousness to elevate our beings; to not only know where we are now, but also to know where we came from, and who we truly are. To master both consciousness would be to access evolution, freedom, and understanding.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Dream Variations- Langston Hughes
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
In some place of the sun,
To whirl and to dance
Till the white day is done.
Then rest at cool evening
Beneath a tall tree
While night comes on gently,
Dark like me-
That is my dream!
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening...
A tall, slim tree...
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
To Be In Love - Gwendolyn Brooks
To Be In Love by Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love
Is to touch with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.
You look at things
Through his eyes.
A cardinal is red.
A sky is blue.
Suddenly you know he knows too.
He is not there but
You know you are tasting together
The winter, or a light spring weather.
His hand to take your hand is overmuch.
Too much to bear.
You cannot look in his eyes
Because your pulse must not say
What must not be said.
When he
Shuts a door-
Is not there_
Your arms are water.
And you are free
With a ghastly freedom.
You are the beautiful half
Of a golden hurt.
You remember and covet his mouth
To touch, to whisper on.
Oh when to declare
Is certain Death!
Oh when to apprize
Is to mesmerize,
To see fall down, the Column of Gold,
Into the commonest ash.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Who The F*$% Are The Joneses
Now I got po' money
Society had me, now the youth striving for
Mo Money! Mo Money! Mo Money!
Its funny how expectations
Lead to wasting
As we strive to keep pacing
In the subliminally abvious race
To keep up with the Jones
I want their stonses and their phoneses
How Much?....!! man FUCK the Joneses!
Keep chasin, ill stop hear and catch my breath
...and just
Take it all in
Like my forgotten brothers the Dogans
The Dogans are African show mens
In our society they would be Po' men
But in life they flow in
Using their melanin to know
Like they been knew space before the Europeans
Deeper than the debts of NASA
Type of intellect that would make an ASSA
Mysteriously knowledgeable, call them voodoo intellects
Being the very essence of that which they try to understand and describe.
As they use their techno savvy to see into space ass
Floating adrift, satellite, picture taking ass
Not knowing for sure, speculating, theory making, always right never wrong, but mostly wrong barely right, anti unity for right asses
Mean while the dogans live bare foot in the cliffs in Africa
With precise overstandment of the stars of distant Galaxy's
Which to the rest:
Imagined at best
Double take into the sky
They lie
Good try
Goodbye
Wait
Oh shit!
The data from techno savvy says the bare footed black men from the cliffs of Africa, the voodoo intellects.They... they..They were correct with pin point accuracy down to the star they said was there but we didnt believe them until technosavvy told us it was actually there plus the planet that orbited that star that they said was there is there too... techno savvy confirmed that aswell.
SO WHAT ARE WE REALLY LIVING FOR?
AND WHO THE FUCK! ... ARE THE JONESES?
Monday, May 23, 2011
Culture and the Capitalist Monsters
This is my artistic rendition of a capitalist society using culture as their fuel to power their monsterous businesses. Thus causing cultural expressions to become trends and fads thus diminishing its potential to grow into something contributable to humanity and creating a shallow perception of cultural inginuity for capital gain.
The Definition of Me
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”
M.Consulere
What is Fashion
OFFENSIVE
A Fashion Intellect understands the concept of perception and the affects it can have on everyday situations. The ability to perceive is one of societies strongest but also most debilitating characteristic in my opinion. The term " do not judge a book by its cover" had to have derived from some continuously fallible misconceptional trait. But where there is a misconception; there is room for exploitation, and as many great athletes know and understand, the best offense is a great defense. An author does not slap their title on a plain book cover and expect it to sell out the store. Understanding your market and strategy goes a long way in marketing and designing a book cover or sleeve. This is basic business 101. If the content of this book has best seller potential, it wont sell like it should if the cover does not speak to people. (figuratively speaking... or am I?... just kidding... or am I??) This is the mindset a Fashion Intellect should have when getting dressed for potentially progressive opportunities, which should be everyday.
A prime and most typical situation is a job interview. a Fashion Intellect should analyze as such:
- Type of job
- Position Environment (Work aspect)
- Position Requirements (What will be asked of you)
- Work Environment (Company Culture)
- How to be perceived
- Obvious Position Perception
Once the analysis is done, a compilation of the most appropriate outfit and persona can be selected. Now some of you might say... That's a bit much, throw on some slack, a button up and tie and your good to go...(I hope not), That seems conniving, or may ask what do you mean select a persona?shouldn't you be yourself?...
In my opinion, I do not think is it a bit much or the least bit conniving. Not if you understand that you are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul, as William Earnest Henley states in his poem Invictus. Also when I say select a persona I am in no way saying that you should pick from the vast personality types there are in this world and not be yourself. First let me say if you are interviewing for a position in which you feel like you have to be someone other than yourself, I hope that this is a temporary job and if it is not then that job is not for you (my opinion). With that said, human beings are complex creatures (well most of us). Their will be sides of us that will be ideal and sides that will lack luster in an interview and eventually job setting. The idea in selecting a persona is to identify and separate these character traits. Making a conscious effort to focus on executing the ideal traits and suppressing the lack luster traits as you see fit during an interview and any (potentially) important meeting. I call it being yourself, as you see fit for your benefit.
Fashion is way more than just clothes my friends. It is also a personification of who you are and the ability to express yourself. Expressing yourself in a way that makes others see you as you want them to see you. In short self branding.
More to come
Sivad
Blind Intellectuals
I awoke realizing my intellectual is considered by most to be called a transexual always changing seeking out a newer existence but the persistence of my heart doesn't allow me to fail we were raised with the notion that god has a pre planned trail that we must follow with the eye site of Mr.Wonder have you ever sat back and wondered if that yellow brick road that Dorothy followed was nothing more than a dream that Martin Luther had that was hollowed ........ Or swallowed by the doubt of pessimism into the belly of abyss returning my wonder with nothingness ... Leaving me back at square one wondering... But as I lookback feeling like an ass...I understand... I understand! This shit happened only to nurish my greater self... So as I wonder on wondering till the next meal... I smile for this blessed feel
FASHION, TRENDS, AND THE CAPITALIST MONSTERS
Societies youth today can take a lot from this quote by Edna Chase. With the term "swag" widely used, although highly misunderstood, fashion trends are getting way out of hand. Used as capitalistic marketing tactics, trends are no longer natural reactions of societies psyche, but are testaments to big business and their marketing departments. Manipulation of consumer susceptibility to the media and the influence of societies perception of hierarchical characters, are leading to the creation of capitalistic kingdoms. Further tipping the balance of buying power into the hands of the "Royal Family" ... Big Business. So the Question is not whether a trend can be stylish, but whether or not the trend is right for you? Style not only marks a person that can dress, but also a person that has a sense of ones own self. If you can see past the illusionary tactics of "marketing" and have a good sense of ones self, you are already on the road to being a stylish individual.
By Sivad
- Peter F. Drucker
Words From:
"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime."
With these words from W.E.B Du Bois I choose to strike a match to relight that flame with in our very being as humans, to stive and progress forward in ways we only dreamed of. Today, not tomorrow. Right now, not later. It is our job to "be", as it is in our title as Human Be-ings.