What is it that is present and outraged with "the aspect of the lecturer as dictator and the student as the slave of the dictator"?
The expressiveness in the moment of what I can only call primordial wisdom is that which gives the moment its scintillating quality, the signal of sentience manifest.
— Karma Chöpal 5AUG08

 

Paradigms:
  • Productivity; Motivation and Reward - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (YouTube; TheRSA Channel) by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) (see RSA Comment)
  • Civil Society; Ecology and Development - "The Plundered Planet" with Paul Collier (The New School NYC on YouTube); Montage of Paul Collier interview from "Sunday Edition" on CBC Radio 1 (30MAY2010); Centre for the Study of African Economies
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    "Human nature has this principle quality: That of being social"
    "This is the true civil nature of man...."

    — Giambattista Vico
    "The New Science" (1774)

    "The Oil Spill as Metaphor for Our Times" on TechPresident.com 31MAY2010

    [...]
    "Tell me, did you do anything after watching the spill for a while? I'm betting the answer is no. And how did you feel, as you watched it? Transfixed and dazed, right? Like rubbernecking past a car accident. Did you get out of your car to offer help? Probably not."
    [...]

    My comment, awaiting moderation --bdt

    It's as though an impedance mis-match

    I can't recall someone refusing to help.
    Oh, I know the cog- and social-psych about displacement of responsibility, I'm not quibbling with that.
    But I can only speak from my own perspective. And if that perspective is from "off the beaten track", well, that's not by accident.

    I remember helping a communications net during a storm ... 1968, ham radio ... I was 14. I think that has informed what I've been up to since then.

    More recently, as for big efforts, with Katrina ... basically the same thing, but this time enabled by web tech.

    I've never found folk to be other than helpful and even generous. Maybe even self-sacrificing.

    It's the Kitty Genovese effect. (March 13, 1964, gentle reader.) Thus has it always been, I'm sure.
    But is it more so now? Or, to be more self-revealing: isn't it more so now?

    I started my work on "participatory deliberation" in 1975 because I was seeing people with as though ever stronger opinions with as though ever less grounding in policy.
    It's existential, n'est-ce pas? My tactic is to concentrate on the best of "subjective narrative". (see Jurgen Habermas on "discourse ethics"). An example? Folk from Valdez AK heading to the Gulf area. To pitch in? Maybe ... or maybe just to share their pain.

    It's a fractal sorta thing, I suspect.

    @bentrem

    "One needs to be nominalistic, no doubt: power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategic situation in a particular society." (History of Sexuality, p.93)

    "Domination" is not "that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society." (ibid, p.96)

    "One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character." (ibid, p.97)

    "The analysis [of power] should not attempt to consider power from its internal point of view and...should refrain from posing the labyrinthine and unanswerable question: 'Who then has power and what has he in mind? What is the aim of someone who possesses power?' Instead, it is a case of studying power at the point where its intention, if it has one, is completely invested in its real and effective practices." (ibid, p.97)

    "Let us ask...how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviours, etc....we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects." (ibid, p.97)

     

    Mind is Unfabricated - (Mind) seems to be projecting (Ch'ar-Ba), but it is not an entity since it does not develop or decline during the three times. From the very moment of its arising, the past (of the mind) has ceased and its future has not yet arisen. In its present, there are no separate aspects of rising, dwelling, and cessation, and it doesn't exist (even) if you search for it down to temporally indivisible moments. So the mind exists neither as perceiver nor the perceived. Therefore, one should remain natural.
    "Buddha Mind; an Anthology of Longchen Rabjam's Writings on Dzogpa Chenpo"
    Tulku Thondup, Rinpoche
    Snow Lions Publications, Itaca, NY (1989)
    Chapter 4: Philosophical View of Phenomenal Existents - pg. 266

     



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