“Of the Thousand and One Goals”

SCA Goal Statement

“Of the Thousand and One Goals”

I give my body to you. I have my presence to testify that I hear the call to respond. I see you there, and I will move myself to offer healing and supplement with all my life energies knowing they will often be dismissed. I will pursue my work with my heart and inspiration. I will look for you when I forget myself. I will feel your pain and hold it in reverence as though it were mine own, asking forgiveness for never feeling enough. I will work for you/me. I seek a voice. Visions that encounter representations of the other: I will receive your gift as best as my full power will allow. Laugher will be my refuge and peace my offering. The sheer practice of self-determination I will refine as I read, write, and speak. I will expect failure over and over again, but I will hope for the surprise that enters in the experience of finishing well. I demand of myself strength in the subtle sense, of a kind that prevails among the strongest type. This is: holding with care the memories of the oppressed and down trodden: prophecy the messiah always-to-come. This is: giving priority to critical capacity building where emancipation is the practice of intervention. Goals are sought in the disperse right of silenced voices. Action is a goal: Action on behalf of a new cultural alliance between planet and people; between racisms of inherited curse; on behalf of our leaders whose knowledges must be deconstructed and informed. The goal is to change a world – my goal. My goal is to forge a revolution that refuses domination and exploitation and demands democracy-to-come, freedom-to-come, and justice-to-come.

“Into all abysses I still carry the blessings of my saying Yes.”

Avatar: Cultural Incarnations

Avatar: Cultural Incarnations

Avatar is 21st century movie magic culture. It is the cult of hollywood performed to perfection. American culture ate this film. I consumed this film. Avatar is the product of US-secular/christian-consumer culture gone mad; it filled the masses; it was the bulldozer; it assimilated the ‘other’. I argue that the material production of Avatar is its own critique: the excess of wealth, privilege, and access needed to produce the film is an index, a scaffold, that marks the asymmetrical levels of global inequality in the present. In this way I believe the film is offering insight into subaltern realities that always already confront the encroachment of dominant military/industrial practice and ideology. When and where does US secular christian culture wake-up to its own participation in the formations of violence, historical and present?

The critique of Avatar stands firmly in relationship to its ‘other’ readings - its possibility. Avatar is an event that projects an image of possibility on the American psyche: the possibility of integration. Avatar animates cultural dialogue attempting to integrate many dynamic forces: science/religion, sacred/profane, nature/culture, matter/spirit. The integration of these forces bridge the gap of correspondence between neurobiology and life-after-death, indigenous knowledge and genetic engineering, wisdom and technology. Avatar makes possible both the critique of industrialism and capitalistic orders, while “seeing” new ways of ecological being, even an economy of spirit (Ewah). It is at once mythical and magical, science fiction and social commentary - integrated.

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Chat History

3:59pmKurt

whats been goin on man

4:01pmMe

Hey Kurt! just hanging at the house today - delaying looking for a job!

4:03pmKurt

me too man. I could study the variations of dust collection at different temperatures with my degree right now. But at least it serves a purpose.

4:03pmMe

haaaha yes1

4:03pmKurt

lol

4:07pmKurt

so how is the philosophical world. Im sure there is much to ponder these days

4:07pmMe

Well the philosophical world is moving toward the ecological world trying to quit thinking about dust and actually engage the soil...

But dust can be so interesting.. fragments of skin and micro-biotic organisms feeding on all kinds of shit..

4:09pmKurt

hahaha, i beleive its aliens

4:09pmMe

hahaaa

4:09pmKurt

those little green bastards. You know that DNA is like a program in the matrix, just created by someone smarter than ourselves

4:10pmMe

well if you blur the atmospheric boundaries of earth and space then you allow for the fact that organisms are known to exist in every environment we've been able to take a close look at… you might argue that everything around you including yourself is an "alien"…

4:10pmKurt

sad thing is, is that they may all be females

4:10pmMe

hahaa

4:10pmKurt

yep

4:11pmMe

they just made the first synthetic cell. God bless genetics!

OR god damn genetics??

which ever…

4:11pmKurt

hahaha. God must be a woman

4:12pmMe

ha - if (God) is at least as good looking as our best woman…

I'd like to fuck it

i"m cracking myself up man…

4:14pmKurt

hahha, hell yeah

if she looks like christi brinkley, im a beleiver

4:14pmMe

yes!!

4:15pmKurt

have you read the 12th planet?

4:15pmMe

no - it sounds familar tho

4:17pmKurt

It's a book written about how the sumerians were the first homosapiens, which were a hybrid between neolithic men and aliens

sounds fuckin nuts, but i read it and it made tons of sense

there is actually a gap between the neolithic and us that is unexplained

4:18pmMe

its sounds awesome - it like plausible fiction or something

4:18pmKurt

yeah

i thought it sounded crazy, but it has crazy amounts of research support that is amazing

4:18pmMe

well there are gaps everywhere there's also really plausible continuity as well… between species I mean

4:20pmKurt

yeah, they probably have not found the one "in between" yet

4:20pmMe

research, research, research… yes… I think I want to rule the world through creative research

4:20pmKurt

hahaah

4:20pmMe

Isn't that what Apple and Google are doing?

4:20pmKurt

Just convince the world that you know everything, and they will treat you like god

yeah pretty much

4:21pmMe

Like Adrian in the Watchmen

4:22pmKurt

yeah, was he the blue dude with the huge wiener?

4:23pmMe

no… he was the one who put the blue dude - Dr. Manhattan - to shame by being smarter than him in order to save the world

4:25pmMe

I've got to get my ass home this summer… we can debate and create over beers…

4:25pmKurt

oh ok. I just saw it once, but it was kewl as shit

hell yeah man. Im still workin on my book. Its gonna be nuts

4:25pmMe

you're working on a book?

4:26pmKurt

oh yeah. I thought i had told you about it a couple of years ago

4:27pmMe

I'm sure you did and I was either high or drunk… but that's so cool man

4:27pmKurt

Hell yeah man. its completely unique

Its like a biblical, mythological, science fiction

4:28pmMe

fucking awesome.. congrats

really?!

that's so cool

4:28pmKurt

thanks dawg. i love writing. wished i would have went to school for literature instead of business

4:29pmMe

go make friends with lit professors and set in on classes

4:30pmKurt

i would, but i have already studied all of those writers that they introduce you to. But I'm sure it would lead to some form of improvement.

4:31pmMe

well we'll definitely have to sit down.. I'd love to get a run down of all the ideas your working with.. I might be of some help?

4:32pmKurt

hell yeah, i bet man

4:33pmKurt

The imagination is the most powerful thing of earth. You can do anything or be anybody in your mind, ya know

4:34pmMe

absolutely Kurt - is so cool you're reminding me of that too.. we should set examples for one another by living beautifully

4:35pmKurt

hell yeah man

the imagination is the cure for all things

4:35pmMe

wow - hell yeah!

haaaha

4:35pmKurt

when your depressed, you imagine things will get better, when your sick, you imagine you will get better

4:36pmMe

yes

4:36pmKurt

when your dead, hopefully you can imagine being alive again

4:36pmMe

that's it

haaahaa

Yeah!

I don't necessarily think it might not be just that simple

4:37pmKurt

i know man

if everything is in the form of light, then how is a thought any less relevant than an action or object

its all real somehow, dammit your getting this philosophical stuff out of me man

4:41pmMe

yeah you're exactly right… Teilhard de Chardin - a Catholic scientist, dead in like the 60s maybe later - he was convinced that literally all matter was spirit and all spirit was matter. He had very cool ideas you might check out his most important work: The Human Phenomenon...

4:42pmKurt

awesome, i will check that out

of course i guess spirit could be translated by science into "energy"

4:42pmMe

Its all "Evolution of Consciousness" stuff

4:42pmKurt

depending on your point of view

4:42pmMe

exactly

right

I've got to take off for a bit

4:43pmKurt

yeah, i do too. Im going to amigos here in a bit

4:43pmMe

talk to you soon man - thx for catching me…

4:43pmKurt

nice talking you dude.

4:43pmMe

haaha I'm jealous

the same

later

4:44pmKurt

later