Another bright day – no ice on the wash buckets – it did not freeze during the night. Spring is coming up here in the high country – the aspens are starting to leaf. This has been the longest drought I’ve ever known, said the old man. There was talk of hunting deer. Went up Dog Canyon beyond the line shack. It got me in trouble with the wife one Thanksgiving day. He had told her he was going hunting. Be back in time for dinner, she had said. He had promised her that he would. But he got the biggest buck that he had ever shot and they were further up the canyon than they thought, past the old line shack almost to the Mescalero Apache Reservation. By the time they came dragging in proud of their feat she was furious – having missed the turkey spread that she had worked all day to prepare.
Experience is never immediate or direct but is always mediated by organizing patterns and structures – – Mark C Taylor – The Moment of Complexity, 2001 p67
I went into Santa Fe and got the 10,000 service (AutoCare -first 25,000 miles free) for my truck. I got the taillight fixed too – Trail Dog got some treats – all the ladies ughed and awhed over him - It’s always like this I say to Frank, the service manager – Now I see, he says. I need a little dog too. Got on the Internet – updated Facebook – I had 171 E-Mails. Then after breakfast at Denny’s I headed back towards the mountains. My face felt hot when I had been indoors – It’s because it is sunburnt, I think – But I feel no pain. When one get older one always feels some pain – and one or two more aren’t even noticeable.
Windy is not weather / Rain which is weather / Sunshine which is weather / Dry wind is not also weather – Gertrude Stein – Stanzas in Meditation, 1956 p222
It was windy and warm yesterday. Today there is no wind. It is sunny today. The weather is perfect for once. This elevation has me winded. America’s Conservation Corp has a group of young people out here building a trail. Young kids? Not exactly. College students. I talked with a young woman from Germany – so how much trail did you build today? She thought for a while. Then she replied, oh, maybe ten meters. They are all camped over at the group site in a ring of two man (person) tents everyone (i.e. tent) a different color. In the morning and in the evening they hike between their camp and their work site. Unlike the seven dwarfs they don’t do it as a group nor do they sing. Not as a group but singularly and in small clumps – you can observe relationships developing by watching the pairings as they occur. I can hear the tamping of hammers and the hewing of axes during the day off in the trees. They walk along the stream bank and pass by my campsite. They have six days left to finish this project. I heard a tree fall early this morning.
The time of education is still addressed in general under the terms of a modernist meta-narrative that has lost its purchase: the passage from ignorance to enlightment in a particular time span – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p127
The ideal worker
Labors contently
At low wages
Which is best accomplished
By eliminating all his options
The search for the
Ideal worker
Goes on – Some employers
Dream of robotics
A Zombie is a bio-robot
But the ones in the movies
Are too dumb.
At least they don’t need
Food nor shelter
Which is good. But they
Refuse to work during
Daylight and they are
Too awkward for assembly
Line work
There’s got / to be more in a picture / than the billboard sight / we first / get // of it – Jonathan Williams – Jubilant Thicket, 2005 p268
The knowledge is dependent on how much you already know. The information is dependent on how much you don’t already know
The jacaranda, for instance is beautiful / but not serious. // That much / I can guess – Rae Armantrout – Versed, 2000 p20
A great poet becomes profound and then dies. Some poets are occasionally profound and never die
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it – G W F Hegel
Tax the rich; they have all the money. If you try to tax the poor, you will go broke.
The curious homeopathy of American politics… means we need a large does of the same poison - Thomas Frank – Harpers, Feb 2011 p8
Five Economic Myths:
1) The Great Moderation: we have tamed economic bubbles
2) Efficient Market Hypothesis – the price is always right
3) Dynamic Stochastic Equilibrium – monetary mechanism can match supply and demand to mitigate inflation before unemployment
4) Trickle-Down Economics – economic intervention should always help profit-making
5) Privatization – a worldview and first principle of Capitalism
Ruling ideas arise not from their persuasive power or inner logic but from the interest of ruling groups – Joshua Clovers – The Nation 4/23/11 p32
One can assist the producers
Or subsidize the consumer
Or subsidize the consumer
One can even do both
But except for food stamps
It is always those that have
Who get
America’s collective goal
Has always been to
Support those who want
Rather than those who need
Call it a meritocracy
Call it a meritocracy
It only takes a small bureaucracy to
Administer to the few
The point here is to refuse to equate accountability with accounting – Bill Readings – The University in Ruins, 1996 p131
Systems necessarily include what they cannot include
All of me is within the head, only the tail remaining outside: flagellant, spring-like… All is become mutable. I am monstrous, my head merges into the attic, the attic into blackness – Paul Metcalf – Collected Works vol.1, 1996 p11
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