If you have a televisionturn it offhang a blanket over itThenunplug itfrom the wall. What shall you do with your brain and heart andsoulwhen thetelevisionisn’t taking it all? The beast of bore-domisnothingcompared to the best of freedom. Choose your toolschoose your couragetake a step on your pathprepare your lineage If you have notifications likedturnreadthemcommentedoff. Just for a dayan experiment, you couldContinue reading “TV”
Aventura
‘Twas a dark and stormy nightFog and sleet infesting the atmosphereSails tearing from the riggingAnd mutineers lurking in the hull. Battered by these insalubrious ethersWeakened by these vindictive soulsI forge forwardOver towering crest and yawning trough. My treasures safe in the holdMy bow impregnableAnd though my deck be treacherous with iceMy rudder steers us true.Continue reading “Aventura”
Secondary Progression
Comparison I discovered yesterday that my mother and father both have the same progression cycle: at the moment, they are one year away from Progressed Moon conjunct Progressed Sun. Both are experiencing a phase of life where they are throwing away many things and clearing out the old to make way for the new, asContinue reading “Secondary Progression”
Australian Shame
I’m becoming more and more certain as I engage in my second degree that Australia, the white side of the society, is deeply ashamed of itself and rightly so. This would explain the way many Australians are assimilating into American culture: by divesting themselves of their brutal and hypocritical past and aligning themselves with theContinue reading “Australian Shame”
Dispossession, Mining & Technologies
This essay argues that the dispossession of native peoples around the globe originates within the worldview of the colonial empires of western Europe. This worldview underpins globalisation and continues impacting human lives and natural ecosystems. In Australia, one clear example of this worldview in practice is mining: one tentacle of globalised industry. The result forContinue reading “Dispossession, Mining & Technologies”
Pluto Transit Midheaven
Pluto symbolises the termination of something, its disintegration, and that thing’s recomposition. The Ninth is what we know about the world, the Tenth our place in the world based on our comprehension, and the MC what we stand for and what component we are in society. Everything attempted until this transit falls apart as theContinue reading “Pluto Transit Midheaven”
Universal Control
No lag. At all. For all the non-tech and non-Apple users who may read this, let me explain. Since Jobs unveiled MobileMe a very long time ago, the idea of linking all your data and devices together disturbed the ‘people’ at Microsoft, RIM, Motorola, Samsung and Nokia: ‘How could this even be possible?’ they wailed,Continue reading “Universal Control”
Wishful Thinking
‘Oh, it was meant to be.’‘It was destiny.’‘It happened according to fate.’ Or, worst of all:‘It is God’s will.’ In a conversation about the types of people ‘we bring into our lives’, I realised that this phrase is loaded with ignorance. Ignorance of psychology and ignorance of social identification. Earlier, I was accused of ‘choosing’Continue reading “Wishful Thinking”
Design and Popularity
How devices are designed has more to do with the vision which contextualises that design: difficult to use hardware and irritating software convey little vision or little talent to manifest a big vision. When Blackberry released their messaging system, it was based on the vision of easy texting. Android was updated in 2009-2011 based onContinue reading “Design and Popularity”
White Skin Black Soul
The lucky countryShimmers in the sunSoaks in the rainsLosing gum trees. Men with guns and germsBurnt by the sunShivering in the wintersShow no concern. Centuries of genocideWhite men stealing black babiesGenerations of traumaWhite courage died. Money flows herePower followsThe lucky countryRansacked clear. Foreign godsAlien technologiesKnow nothingTo survive the odds. Not here.Not in the lucky country.GenocideContinue reading “White Skin Black Soul”
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