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[[[Spelling variations are part of the soul of writing and convey information on its own, as does variations in lineshift usage.]]] [[[Once in a while we will remove something from this archive section so the overall quantity is at all time quite moderate; for those who wish reprints of earlier works they will then with some level of probability be able to trace them as chapters in published nonfiction books by this author.]]] [[[Note: THE TEXTS TO BE ARCHIVED ARE AS A RULE PUT THERE RATHER AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY APPEAR IN THE MAIN ../economy.htm NEWS SECTION. THESE USUALLY HAVE FEATURES INVOLVING FOUNDATIONAL THOUGHTS ON WHICH MUCH THINKING APART FROM WHAT GOES ON JUST WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN CAN BE FOUNDED. THEY ALSO USUALLY APPEAR AS CHAPTERS IN THE ALWAYS FRESH BOOKS EACH YEAR SIGNED BY ARISTO TACOMA. THESE BOOKS ARE SOLD ALSO AT PHILOSOPHICAL TALKS WITH LIGHT SEMINARS ARRANGED THE SAME DAY AS SPRING/BI PAINTING EXHIBITIONS OPEN, WITH THE CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH OF SPRING/BI WITH A WOODEN BACKGROUND ON WHICH BLACK AND SPRING GREEN ARE APPLIED WITH PLEASANTLY UNRULY LINES, AS BRIEFLY INDICATED AT THE DICTIONARY yoga4d.org/super.]]] ALL WORK CAN BE A JOY -- But it must be moderate enough in how much time and energy each session of work requires, and it must be seen to have a function of relevance to society [As of 2011:4:9 (afternoon, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] The meditator knows that all laziness can be a joy, but perhaps, at the moment of writing, it is not understood by everyone that every type of job whatsoever can also be a joy, given two conditions: moderate amount of it, and a clear-witted perception of its function relative to the goodness of society as it is or as it will develop. This, I think, is the necessary perspective we need to take with us to shape adequate politics to handle what across the globe is called 'the problem of unemployment'. All over Earth, tremendous resources are going in to trying to get people having jobs rather than hanging around and having a number of potential issues, ranging from illness to the temptation of crime, and typically with some measure of poverty which however vary according to state finances, and also according to what the state has landed upon, at least temporarily, as its take on this challenge. I began this article by an overstatement. It is not true that EVERY form of laziness can be a joy, even to the person who has begun opening herself to the sensitivities of feeling the order of cosmos, whether as prayer or as the meditation in doing something pleasantly repetitive, or the meditation of reading, drawing, or employing a mantra, or meditation as dance, also the dances known as martial arts be it qi gong, shadow boxing or whatever. For laziness ought to be experienced as deserved, as a meaningful breaking of recreation of the body, the skin, the brain, the hairs, in between just such functional work as is the alternative to laziness. It can be part of laziness to drowse on in bed after a couple of days of hard action, sorting memories, asking fresh questions, going in and out of dreaming, gradually emerging in a vast creative way for the evening, after late cleansing. Such laziness is not in the slightest sense wrong: it is meditative, whether consciously done as meditation or not, and of excessive importance to get many times pr month for the teen glow of the skin and firmness and overall fitness of the body to refurbish itself with fresh coherence. Those who slosh in alcohol or much tobacco or much of any type of chemical restorative beyond simple food concentrates get a too artificial repair of the body and the mind to truly regain that teen glow which is both health and sexuality in one dancing, fearless, playful innocence. Moderation, then, is what must be applied as to any type of work. The more stressful the work, the more moderation must be applied. But the stress can only be kept reduced, kept down, kept fully in leashes, if existential problems about this work is not bothering the person overly much. In my brief experiences of work in some of the departments of the United Nations -- in Oslo, New York and Mexico -- I was attracted to the U.N. place solely because of its official definition -- to enhance peace among the world's populations, all that -- but found that, amongst the staff, the concern most clearly expressed was that of the inadequacy of other U.N. departments (or staff), while the idealistic spirit I had hoped to sense being cultivated there seemed to be almost quite as remote in any of the large companies in which I had done some computer programming work earlier on. In one way, one might say: leave the cultivation of the idealistic spirit -- or the explanation of how this work or this company or organisation fits in a functional sense with society, with the wellbeing of humanity -- to the individual. But, on thinking about it, it is to me clear that it is the task of the bosses in ANY type of an organisation to give not only a task, but also an explanation of how this contributes to the good of society, even if very indirectly. For this is the ground-contemplation, in words, in gestures, in a smile of communion, which replenishes our energies in going to meet with a task, that it has a function in society. It is not something the individual must do in between the morning cleansing and the morning coffee. It requires time, and it must have time. Official time. If then a company exists for no other reason than to give an extra bunch of dollars to someone who is already having way too many of them, there is no way a meaningful explanation can be given for ANY job inside that company. But if politicians work out a framework, they can coerce the company prime goal descriptions to relate to the wellbeing of humanity, and those who have too many dollars, in whatever currency, have enough money to comply with such a framework. It is, therefore, a clear limit to how much so-called organisational consultants or whatever they call themselves -- they have, in the recent decade, given themselves several new names and acronyms, -- a limit, then, to how much such consultants ought to try to make a job which doesn't really have a function seem to have a function. And so this is part of the key to get rid of the issue of unemployment as an issue. People have the right to avoid jobs that are too greedily extracting many many hours of them pr week, especially when these jobs cannot honestly be motivated by anything but the salary motive. It is the sloppiness, then, associated with the political framework that allows society to be clipped so much apart by reckless, un-functional companies that they cannot offer opportunities of that type of work which satisfy the two after all VERY simple criterions, (1) that it is moderate in the claims of the energies of this person, and (2) that an explanation of its function relative to society is constantly and naturally given, an explanation that does indeed hit the mark. So, if society corrects the framework for existence of jobs, then certainly everyone will take on jobs, and then it is possible with ease to explore the meditator's truth: that every type of job, just as every type of well-deserved laziness, can be a joy. NEED TO REVISE COMPULSORY AND HIGHER EDUCATION -- The blooming period, esp. for girls, have moved: but compulsory and adviced education length, paradoxically, is at a historical maximum [As of 2011:4:8 (morning, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] What with the coming of Internet and the gadgets of electronics, with all their menues and extension options and the new type of society-make-up now seen, statements like these abound -- in music culture, in fashion culture, in common parlance -- quoted from memory of recent readings: "14 is the new 16" (some years ago) "11 is the new 14. But one has to be able to do design like one four times that old." "Some thinks that 12-year-old girls are a special version of 16-year-old girls." "She is already 19. Way too much to begin on this race." "NN is turning 18 and will soon look like a **** just like NN. But, fortunately for us, she has a gifted little sister." "Anybody above 9 must be considered old." But as much as some people declare it wrong that the 'innocence' of children is challenged by a music, fashion, industry and technology culture that wants them to 'stay as children' for as long as possible, there are many voices who chime in with Pink Floyd's classic "The Wall" and claim that compulsory education and recommended (strongly recommended) higher education -- colleges, high school, or even universities -- taking up years and years, ushering boys and girls well into their upper twenties before it is complete, is all about making them into "another brick in the wall". The rapid advance in pop technology has, indeed, put into question the whole point of sticking for years and years, full-time, at outdated books, just to realise that -- instead of 'starting out life with innocence intact' they are 'starting out life already old enough to be practically a retired person'. As if the technology development, oriented much towards getting kids up-to-date and above adults wasn't enough, world puberty age statistics show that more and more kids are getting into puberty already at the very first schoolyear. The protection of innocence seems then also betrayed by the raging hormones inside their bodies, to confound the question of what indeed is the proper way of growing up and attacking the world, careerwise, in the most harmonious way. I think the whole trouble began when politicians across the world, more or less, begun to talk about "knowledge society" and of changing education at all levels to be relevant for this "knowledge society". This resulted in a vast increase of the somewhat meaningless pressure on getting people to do complicated arithmetic and specialised studies leading to some sort of higher degree, and it led to jobs starting to select people on the grounds of such degrees. Instead, the knowledge or information technology oriented society has made it far more easy for kids to get entirely up-to-date in many subjects without spending time at higher education places at all. To truly respect the times we are in, I suggest that -- as an extreme measure worth thinking about: * dismiss formal education papers as irrelevant * get back to evaluating real skills and real quality of behaviour when it comes to jobs * dismiss full-time compulsory education and rather make a part-time education compulsory only for the smallest of kids, with: * an optional part-time education open for everyone no matter age, in all walks of life * do not try to impose an adult-fake-version of childhood "innocence" on children anymore, but rather get real about the fact of the openness and transparency of the knowledge society -- let children be as much children as they want to, and as much adults as they want to -- it is not something to be regulated by politicians * put in, as part of the compulsory minimum education, a combined esthetics and ethics course which can be nicknamed something as 'the beautiful action', where quality of behaviour and an artistic and also spiritual longing for deeper values can be seen to be penetrating all walks of life. THE THREE FORMS OF BEAUTY -- though beauty is not, and cannot ever be, limited in any way to a system, formula or recipe [As of 2011:4:3 (evening, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] The three forms of beauty are (1) the absolute (2) the relative, but real (3) the cartoon inspired dimension, lingering in between the two I say this solely because of the attribution of 'fantasy' to the exploration of the spiritual beauty concept in the V&A 2011 exhibition on Aesthetics. Only a believer in dark atheism can say of exploration of beauty that this exploration belongs to fantasyland. Only a believer in decay can declare of aestheticism that it is but a wave or a political phase, which art must evolve out of. It is peculiar how the gardens and too-big castle rooms, and the greed to up one's prestige among the aristocratic families of Great Britain can ensnare the minds of thinkers to go so deeply into barren illusions as the V&A museum -- the museum of Vanity & Ambition, is that what V&A means? What London must have is just a whole lot more of the bohemian spirit of the Preraphaelites, the PRB-signers of their explorative paintings. The fact that PB or PRB didn't do it all the way through -- this exploration of beauty -- meant that they got imitators, because there are always some who are ready to copy that which doesn't shine too well to be copied. So PRB spread, in a fashion, so much all across the world that the world could not go into a reverse. Still, it was incomplete, and something new had to be worked out. For PB or PRB stuff looked too much like photo, which came on more and more, and it became too fat, too big-jawed, too small-eyed, and the friends became too engaged in their women and parted due to animosities, if we are to believe the biographers. It is not all that interesting, but it is a fact that the exploration of spiritual beauty HAD to transcend the limitation imposed on it in Italy by the Vatican, though the Borgia family with the sex-loving Lucretia did something more bohemian and far more PRB-like than those who tried to keep to christianity as a religion where the sensual belongs to the Devil, and where God is king over the land where bodies have no hearts in them -- the bloodlessness and non- sensuality of a big portion of Italy's religious art destroyed Italy's religious impulse, and it hasn't fully recovered from this to this day -- and this despite the fact that catholics more than protestants have protected a fair degree of sensuality in their worldview -- yet both fell immensely short of the potentials which could have been unleashed with the coptic approach, if expanded eclectically as I have done. So estheticism wasn't a wave for there wasn't all that much esthetics at that time -- though enough to make Tolkien make what he made, inspired also by norse myths and by the WW II around him. The girl belonging to Tolkien's vision of God -- the king of wizards called Bombadil -- this girl was none other than a skinny, pretty-footed version of the girls in the most successful of the PRB paintings. This girl, commander of the spring, one of God's muses, above time and above the lower muses, or the elves, -- or some would perhaps choose the vocabulary of a hierarchy of angels, as the catholics have done -- and her sisters occurring in veiled form around in Tolkien's masterful stories -- became archicons for the fashion industry photographers, for the weavers of stories of supergirls and so on. BUT THERE IS NO AESTHETICAL WAVE. Just as life is not a wave, so beauty is not a wave: life is foundational, health is foundational, beauty is foundational -- and art is an elevation of what is foundational to lift up humanity's spirits and souls to glimpses of connectivity with the absolute. In any case, some decades went before others picked it up, in new ways -- such as in the Madonna cartoon-oriented impressionistic stuff of Munch, or the kiss by Klimt, and then the mantle of art went, for a while, before Internet, over to Vogue and such; with the coming of the new thinking on what feline femininity is all about by photos of Campbell, Schiffer, Moss in the 1990s -- with then the sudden transformation of thinking on Earth by the connected computers of the Internet. Beauty is not a wave. It is, as Jiddu Krishnamurti pointed out, Danger. The absolute beauty sought through spirituality is like the flame Moses saw on the mountain, the flame that said -- I am That I am -- and which added, coincidentally, that anyone who sees it (Moses, fortunately, had his back to it), must die: the beauty of God and his muses cannot be faced by any human being. If they try to hard, they get into that feverishness of mind which indicate that the soul has taken a pause, the pause that marks the sad signs of incoherence, also called "insanity", but this latter word should really never be used by anyone who has a societal function as to anyone else, for it requires something beyond mere human perceptiveness to do the ultimate distinction between coherence and incoherence. The relative beauty shouldn't be fixed up -- it can be abstractified, perhaps half-way towards the cartoon (ref. my Profile program, and my Luminous program) -- but it should be left at relativeness, though that is not the same as to say that there is not an ocean of difference between a photo that shows relative beauty and one other photo, perhaps of same person, which doesn't show beauty. I would say it is hubris to try to reach spiritual beauty of the absolute kind with a photo: about such things, perhaps in a slightly different context, I have written much about. The third category of beauty speaks of leaving aside the pressures of shadows and of going beyond too-fixed expressions of emotions; it simplifies, enhances fun symmetries, sometimes with daring strokes of assymmetry and the arrhythmic, and it dancingly can emphasise the kid's possible natural skinniness into the sweetly absurd -- with proportions between leg-length and torso-length heightened towards spiritual absoluteness, but with the intended height of the girl small enough to make her cute enough to fit well within the cartoon dimension. There is a reason why the atheist type of chattering goes on so rapidly and so intensely, -- and yet we must not confuse rapidness with consciousness. The more rapid computers get, the less consciousness they allow to prosper. Duration is essential, which is the approach we take with Lisa GJ2 Fic3, the programming language. A game is not a game without some playful free fluctuation, nor is it a game without some duration. Consciousness cannot be transferred into a domain where excessive greed for speed has destroyed the humane, natural feel of technology. Too-rapid commenting in too-rapid computer networks and too-much phoning and too-much chatter is but nervous cocaine-like twittering without depth. So also must we say of art that it mustn't be too much of it, for too much means too much rapidness, so too little duration, too little consciousness in them -- even though each lucky item which survives the artist's hand which deletes some of the delicate creations when they are wrong may have been unfolded too-fast for thought, in a meditative moment. Art, naturally, is done best by the female, for she gives duration to what she is doing, inspired by the arrythmic duration of her own menstruation. One who taught me much of how to work with art (F.W.) said -- or so I understood -- that there is rather little point in making art while one looks at models, -- for then it would merely be an imitation of the looks of her; but if the models are giving an energy, then, looking away from the models, there is an expression from within which can be art. But art must also give humanity the type of stimuli that goes beyond the predictable, the easy-to-overview, -- the interesting type of RFFG or relatively free fluctuation. The teaching of some bits and pieces of Manhattan, New York, to all artists, I would say, is this: juxtapose much of the relatively unpredictable, relatively abstract, relatively squarish, much lighted up, tall, and with playful words written on it -- I am thinking of Times Square also -- so as to shatter the human self for a sweet moment and open it for Beauty. But do not make a system out of beauty, not a recipe out of it, nor say, please, that is a wave. Nobody owns it, nobody should copyright a label involving the word in a primary form, and much as there is hubris to claim the possession of absolute beauty -- a very severe hubris -- it is also a form of hubris to say of art that it EVER can go beyond beauty in ANY form. It is the aspiration to beauty which, when taken to the pleasant, meditative extreme, that also becomes the aspiration to compassion, to goodness, to humour, to wholeness, to health and healing, and the natural togetherness of these timeless values for all exists in the female brain, written in both manifestly and, more importantly, at a subtle level, more subtle than both genes and the control-genes that by some has been (wrongly, in my opinion) been called 'epigenetic'. When we then hear that people in many places of the world are requesting abortions after having used certain technologies to determine the gender of the foetus soon after conception, so as to increase the amount of males born relative to females, it is not strange that the world is so full of wars. Males are stupid, and the more people who get this fact fully realised, the more it should be clear that those countries which are in favour of abortion should campaign to have the tendency reversed, by employing just the same techniques as have led to this abhorrent false development in world population statistics. This, too, is part of the exploration of beauty: what it means to contribute in ways that are deeply righteous towards a more beautiful world. Of course, one has to then do one's bit of personal spiritual exploration so one doesn't for one second fall into the catholic web of nonsensical categorisations of conception as a moment of soul and spirit. Souls and spirits are far more demanding than that. A mere blob of a beginning foetus is not enough invitation for reincarnation. Give the newborn a year or, better still, a year and a half, and we can begin to talk about soul and spirit. Before then, I would say -- and all my intuitions have agreed for a long time with this fully -- the child is more biology than person, -- which is not to deny that there are immense personality aspects even in a manifest way in the baby, and fantastic skills such as the capacity for the newborn to handle water perfectly. The world opens for a person who dedicates herself to beauty, beyond the formula, beyond any waves, beyond any limiting political definition-attempt of art. Beauty is non-en-cageable. NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON TRIES, PERHAPS FALSELY, TO NARROW THE SCOPE OF THE PRE-RAPHAELISTIC BROTHERHOOD -- The London exhibition claims that the point of Rossetti and his friends was to merely object to realistic art, in a fantasy category which the V&A museum denotes a subsection of a 'cult of beauty' [As of 2011:4:3 (morning, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] For those who have any sense of deeper nuances in what art, including the art made now -- which no longer is typically called 'contemporary' for the word ART has become too rich to be limited to such a quasi-revolutionary adjective -- art is new, contemporary art is past-century -- they will know, on seeing what Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his friends did wasn't merely to object against ugliness. Rather, they were objecting to catholic branding of beauty within its own doctrines with its thin-lipped, droplet-shape faces, devoid of heart-beats. That was not just the actual reality of these paintings, but also part of the reason why they called themselves P.B. or Pre-Raphaelistic Brotherhood -- viz., before Raphael. What they did was to throw away some, but not all, of the conditions surrounding the beauty concept, and recover what we can reasonably call some elements of russian girl beauty -- high cheekbones, sensual lips, and in their best paintings, large, and somewhat wide and sometimes very slihgtly slanted eyes. This is not a Cult of Beauty. It is an attempt to understand one bit more of beauty as such, beauty as something spiritual, and obviously reaching something new while just as obviously not yet touching on the fullest sense of the more masculine feminine young supermodel with long legs as fully came through with Naomi Campbell. The fact that many artists to-day has very little anatomical understanding does not justify that these artists can rebrand honest efforts by some artists who worked hard at what they did, and did so creatively -- like the P.B. folks in 19th century -- as a mere political movement. This is but cover-up of the degeneration which too long has been hailed by art historicians as evolution. The challenge to the artist who wants to make a living in economical terms out of making art is that beaty is a call on selflessness, and does not yield to as many insincere options as those who merely seek a new concept to brand to their name. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ================ BBC World Service as of 2011:4:3 reported on the V&A exhibition .