mornings down at the cafe where i read my paper and enjoy my first coffee are not the same without Leary to bounce ideas around with, instead it a casual comment on some weather or a quick hello with the old sicilian lady, this morning i read about how the fast food marketers are saying they do not target children, yet one only has to watch childrens tv to be bombarded with adverts for macdonalds and fizzy drinks, the minister for health tony abbot, says it's up to parents to have control of what their children eat, but he probably got paid a few grand to say it.
jake and i went shopping for i pods, he picked up a good deal on the new video i pod and then we watched 'the blue planet' on dvd, he nursing a hang over, me just feeling lazy.
end up on 'sam i am's'sofa for the rest of the evening, generally perfecting the art of being lazy.
text messages come think and fast from the gold coast, generally emilie curious about me, i answer to the best of my ability but some questions don't have answers.
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yeah, it was a bit sad to leave the old coffee shop morning debriefing scene - but really...how far can we go in a coffee shop?
it would be far sadder for another year to pass and us just sat there as two retired intelligence agents complaining about small minded politics on an inconsequential island.
i miss talking to you. but the coffee shop etc i can dispense with. id rather take all that on the road and develop those ideas out at the interface. id rather talk with you while the bullets are flying.
in many ways weve just uploaded now to digital thought meshing as opposed to the old way. its much more efficient. cuts out the ums & ahs. refines the actual info down to the necessary bits.
leary always said that it was a vital stage where most communication is electronic with only special moments of shared specetime connection.
its the information thats important - like you say. its the 'bouncing around of ideas'. i think the co-ordination with the intake of caffeine has a lot to do with it too. the lift in brain activity right at the moment the ideas are about is the exact process of imprinting; fill an environment with info, tweak the neurosystem enough times until something connects. simple.
cafes the world over are filled with revolutionaries who cant tear themselves away from their cups, cant sustain once the caffeine boom subsides.
theres not much conversation in the world beyond moment to moment stuff made to sound cool. too easy.
one day we will do coffee again.
i was just being whimsical here, it's a passing thought, a moment in time frozen on the end of my fingers and screen.
there's many ways to skin a cat i guess, sometimes you gotta go find one to skin, sometimes one just comes to you, me i have a house filled with cats at the moment, and for you they lay over the border, guns, drugs and money, do those things really change the world Proffessor? i think revolutionaries need to drink more coffee and sit around more cafe's, that way they are not shooting up people or running redundant memes, the real revolutionaries are out there having private revolutions.
everything changes the world.
some people in some places need the world changed a little more dramaticly. maybe the further down the circuit scale you go the more intense the revolution must be.
seems to be that the change many revolutionaries are looking for is any change, any shift from the stagnant oppression of a system that refuses to allow for it.
i agree that many revolutionaries only go on to become dictators themselves. and yes, these should probably stay in the cafes.
the real revolutionaries are revelationaries.
its putting ideas into action and action into ideas that makes a revolution.
be aware that the myth of my border activities is often far from the reality. and that what these are 'borders' of is not necessarily geopolitical.
i tend not to broadcast what goes on there.
all revolutionaries are real revolutionaries, whatever the nature. you cant fake a revolution.
i personally like mine to be as much on a psychedelic-quantum level as a cowboy-apocalypse now one. each to their own.
think of it as me taking my love to somalia.
private revolutions can sometimes take place very publicly. information uploading at high velocity is revelation. this happening to enough people and forming critical mass can be revolution. all revolution is very private, very personal to those involved. seeing it on cnn or reading the sutra is not the revolution - its the story of the revolution. the dude on the ground going thru a million years of evolution as he struggles with his own cells to upload to higher information - thats the revolution and the revelation.
anyone facilitating that process, whether theyre in a cafe or smuggling in laptops or lecturing on information dynamics is a revolutionary. anyone who is intentionally involved.
revolution need not be violent. but some times it appears that way. sometimes the violence is the revolution, sometimes it is to keep back forces that would prevent the revolution. usually, it stops the revolution.
the real revolution is in the synapse - the boom that surges thru the system for the first time when it realizes it is not oppressed from surging further, that no siren is going to sound for thinking one step beyond what the system defines, that no mandate is blocking higher experience.
in one place revolution brings the right to recognize the autonomy of movement of those who speak a certain dialect. in another, revolution allows people to ingest chosen chemicals free of harassment, in another still revolution allows laws of physics to be exercised.
so yes guns, drugs and money do change the world. just look on the tv.
but they are not the only things that do. and they usually only change the world in a very base, clunky, narrow kind of way.
remember; it is the story that i currently have anything to do with guns, drugs and money. i dont support these things any more than i condone them. those that use these means are making the choice from their own perspectives.
my revolution is from my perspective.
my revolution, as you know because you share much of it, is the one that allows me to sit in front of a room of new-age do-gooders and qualify my statements by saying they have been to the ends of the earth and thru the insanities and juxtapositions and un-cnn-isedness that exist wherever information states collide. whether it be confrontation with the DMT gods or networking with burmese insurgents or chewing over quantum theory down the cafe, its all revolution if taken to be.
we have the liberty to sip coffee in safety to snowball our revolution. tho advanced societies may laugh that we dont have the liberty to take mescalin as well. some societies havnt yet the liberty to sip their coffee. for me to be an example from the future for them of what is possible then im being my own revolution. their struggles for their border or their language or their rights or their freedom is their affair. my personal revolution is to be the example that upward change is always possible and worth engineering. and i offer this example & encouragment to anyone struggling anywhere.
"hang in there. physical struggle is only necessary to certain level. beyond that, it all opens out" i say.
they are plenty of mercenaries, dealers, warlords up the border. the logistics of monkey flesh is big business.
but theres only one johnny starseed preaching turn on, get smart, plug in.
yeah i can dig that, well some of it, the trouble is there's to many revolutionaries and not enough revolution, we all seem to be in the same state as a race as we were 2000 years ago, except this time we have more toys. i did actually know that the 'cover' was guns drugs and money, sometime's i take the method acting to far, errr, apoplogies, Proffessor. It's a funny old world innit, one minite you're sipping a tea in china with an old opium dealer named Chan, the next you are floating down the Thames on a barge with a bunch of gypsies, planning to rob an art gallery. I like the whole theft of art thing, that's revolutionary thinking, especially if the artist then steals their own work. I was thinking of you exploits with adammed.This in itself has the potential to become an revelutionary art movement.
As far as guns go, yeah they have their place somewhere, i just don't think they belong on my planet along with these dictators and petty tyrannts, but the fact is they are and we have to deal with them, it's crazy that we are still trying to kill one another becuase of memes, the planet is resourseful enough for us to live sustainably, but oh no we gotta introduce some dogama, the fact is people should be allowed to believe whatever they want, as long as it don't interfere with some one elses belief. It's the old AC principle, 'Do What Thou Will.'
Spread Love in Somalia man, i wish i had some left over to spread but i am loved out at the moment, maybe after a good nap.
your right there, hijacking art is a much more revelationary revolution than poking sticks at warlords.
trading in contraband consciousness and smuggling neuro-uploads across borders of corporate funded stupidity will always be the frontier.
the great confrontation with the redundant meme mercahnts is risky business. if we lose the world tumbles into boredom + inanity. gotta keep fresh young brains juiced with new chemical recipes, mixing new molecules to found new biospheres.
you know all this stuff...
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