divineguitar

happy 2 weeks and 2 days in europe, thus far the experience has been that of living in a hotel and driving around a rented fiat panda.  a month from now i’ll be livin’ in downtown driving a vw, yet still feel dis-integrated.  until i can communicate in a polite manner, i’m going to feel uncomfortable, so immersion in the language will be critical once settled.

words and ideas in the head are still being arranged and organized as the work becomes clearer.  the military industrial complex is something else, all the rules, all the obedience, little artistry, little imagination, hence things like wikileaks spring up.  i suppose many things are kept behind curtains for the safety of humans and to stop paranoia, but I’d suggest, as with anything, the mind imagines worse than the actual reality of events.  leakage is inevitable, even with the appropriate guidelines and malleability in place, therefore it becomes more essential to ‘socialize’ what’s going on and not leave critical decisions in the hands of the few.  it happens weather the grand poobah’s want it to or not, for as David Weinberger says best, ‘hyperlinks subvert hierarchy.’

i’m still gauging the attitudes here, and i think they’ve changed over the last 10 years by a decent clip.  the intangibles are played both ways when it comes to hegemony, when you’re hot your hot, when you’re not you’re not.  i can just imagine the mutiny if there was an italian army base on us soil, it probably wouldn’t fly well — history dictates how the pieces land when the world gets shaken, its all part of some cosmic balance i suppose.

being an ant in all of this is exciting, i want to contribute ying to the yang.