tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post2589992327984635646..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Senses of CollaborationCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-54726659630060743452010-10-16T10:20:56.054-07:002010-10-16T10:20:56.054-07:00I think they all overlap and none are mutually exc...I think they all overlap and none are mutually exclusive. Many organisms begin separately or antagonistically, and then become mutual, and then end up incorporating one another, and end up as the same mechanism. Rhizomatically speaking, that's how entire ecosystems work.<br /><br />And economics works like that, too.<br /><br />When it's in someone's interest to play ball with another person, a compact of sorts appears.<br /><br />Even in our mutual blog comments, it helps that we're out of different paradigms, or there'd be no reason to comment.<br /><br />That's what Ron and Kim Jong-Il didn't understand.Kirby Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-13320215233595275002010-10-16T07:41:51.958-07:002010-10-16T07:41:51.958-07:00The exploding human population promises to cancel ...<i>The exploding human population promises to cancel out all other mitigations, and the rate at which such eventualities are approaching is itself increasing. Capitalism is showing clear signs of failing to address these emergencies, since it is based not on real tendencies and conditions in the biosphere, but on synthetic applications of presumed "value" which inaccurately measure the true effects and consequences of consumption.</i><br /><br /> Malthus nearly predicted as much and was hated by capitalists and Marx (one of the sons of Rousseau, arguably)--both sides of the dialectic depend on the myth of progress.<br /><br />Peak oil will put a big dent in economic Reality. IT's already arrived, really--US oil production fell off starting in 70s. Even the fiendish Marx would remind us that the owners/executives will continue to grow obscenely wealthy as the resources dwindle--to a certain point. The BP disaster was a sign of Peak Oil times, as well--though demopublicans still demand offshore drilling.<br /><br /> Alas, at times the situation seems more Sci-fi like, that p-etic--PK Dick's bad futurist dreams, however pulpy or boring. the Banality of....... kipple.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-69995778662384601532010-10-16T00:06:25.109-07:002010-10-16T00:06:25.109-07:00My guide to the Forbidden City said her name was R...My guide to the Forbidden City said her name was Red. She thought the Hall of Clocks was a waste of time and seemed peeved that I spent half of my time on her tour there. I didn't ask her if she'd read Mason and Dixon or The Island of the Day Before. She didn't speak much English.Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05061304265345986242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-15075027513950238102010-10-15T21:06:48.428-07:002010-10-15T21:06:48.428-07:00Excellent essay. Very well stated. I think there m...Excellent essay. Very well stated. I think there may be something analogous between the "joker in the pack" and the clinamen to which Lucretious refers in De Rerum Natura, the "swerve of the atom." It is what makes combinations not only possible, but infinite. Steve McCaffery has an essay about this. I'm paraphrasing here, but he says something to the effect that letters, conceived as atoms, and being perpetually volatile, introduce deviance as the basic rule of grammar. <br /><br />It also strikes me as supremely ironic that poets, working in solitude, and working hard to achieve originality, are working in the most public and social of all mediums.John Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.com