What We Do
Oct. 2nd, 2012 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Placebo - [My Sweet Prince]--- There are things we do, in order to feel ourselves, to be more of who and what we want ourselves to be. Some of us talk to ourselves in the rain, walking down a long dark rain-lit street, gesticulating wildly into the night air. Some of us invoke the future we want for ourselves, telling ourselves the secrets of how we need to be. Some of us dress us, in suits, in leather, in rubber and latex. Some of us draw on ourselves in ink, in sharpie, in pins and needles, to etch or sketch the story of self into onto over the flesh we at present happen to have.
IAMX - Mercy--- In order to be who and what we are, we make choices-- we decide what's important, or what's good and what's right, and we decide, from then and there, to become and to be more of that thing, and less of the lesser. We make sacrifices to ourselves, gifts of the slain, of the slaughtered, of our time and our friendships and our leisure, in order that the thing we need and the thing we want (to be) can gain strength, will, power. We choose.
There are things we need to see in this world, things we need to do, and to make happen. We want to code, or to rend a mind with our art-- words pictures songs motions movements gestures spells-- or we need need need to have someone, someone, anyone, everyone finally understand. We want to breathe life and meaning into this world, into another, into ourselves, to give us that little bit of an edge in the times to come.
Placebo - [Second Sight]--- We make the effort to make the world into something that makes its way for us and in which we can make our way. We must dig deep. We must reach far inside and find that thing which moves us, and hold it, caress it, bring it screaming and blood soaked and wet and cold and needing care into the light and we must nurture it and allow it to nurture us.
We are conceptual physical mental emotional parents, caretakers of our own future, and we must safeguard, intercept, and provide the space to live, grow, and become.
IAMX - I Like Pretending--- It's a fine line. But this can be anything. Anything you want, anything you are, anything you love, anything you wish to have to hold to be to become. It's your life and your soul and sometimes that means what you choose to do with your evening, or what you decide to do with the rest of your life. It can be everything. It is everything.
But it won't always be the same thing.
Tomorrow, I will deviate from my lesson plan of names and places, and I will talk to my students about artificial intelligence, embodied consciousness, phenomenology, cybernetics, and parkour. I will teach them names and words and works they've never heard of, and we will call this "Philosophy of Mind." This is what I need to do, tonight, tomorrow, right now. This is what needs to happen. What will you do, with your tomorrow?
Placebo - [Special K (w/ Severe Loren)]--- What will you do, today?
IAMX - Mercy--- In order to be who and what we are, we make choices-- we decide what's important, or what's good and what's right, and we decide, from then and there, to become and to be more of that thing, and less of the lesser. We make sacrifices to ourselves, gifts of the slain, of the slaughtered, of our time and our friendships and our leisure, in order that the thing we need and the thing we want (to be) can gain strength, will, power. We choose.
There are things we need to see in this world, things we need to do, and to make happen. We want to code, or to rend a mind with our art-- words pictures songs motions movements gestures spells-- or we need need need to have someone, someone, anyone, everyone finally understand. We want to breathe life and meaning into this world, into another, into ourselves, to give us that little bit of an edge in the times to come.
Placebo - [Second Sight]--- We make the effort to make the world into something that makes its way for us and in which we can make our way. We must dig deep. We must reach far inside and find that thing which moves us, and hold it, caress it, bring it screaming and blood soaked and wet and cold and needing care into the light and we must nurture it and allow it to nurture us.
We are conceptual physical mental emotional parents, caretakers of our own future, and we must safeguard, intercept, and provide the space to live, grow, and become.
IAMX - I Like Pretending--- It's a fine line. But this can be anything. Anything you want, anything you are, anything you love, anything you wish to have to hold to be to become. It's your life and your soul and sometimes that means what you choose to do with your evening, or what you decide to do with the rest of your life. It can be everything. It is everything.
But it won't always be the same thing.
Tomorrow, I will deviate from my lesson plan of names and places, and I will talk to my students about artificial intelligence, embodied consciousness, phenomenology, cybernetics, and parkour. I will teach them names and words and works they've never heard of, and we will call this "Philosophy of Mind." This is what I need to do, tonight, tomorrow, right now. This is what needs to happen. What will you do, with your tomorrow?
Placebo - [Special K (w/ Severe Loren)]--- What will you do, today?
