Ian Beardsley
10-12-2004, 08:11 AM
O.K. I seem to just get a lot of people mad at me when I talk like this, but now I am getting a little braver because I recognize its niche. It is Flamenco. I majored in Spanish in college, so let me translate this flamenco song by Lole y Manuel.
"But we continue along that path"
"that path of light against love"
"that light that is in the earth
"but that we all put out"
"Senor or the infinite space."
"You who has peace between your hands"
"release it senor, I am begging you"
"teach my brothers to love.
I wrote this to Mr. Jan Hearthstone, author of "Model Earth"
(http://gief.pair.com/hearth/modelearth.html)
which I am now thinking is flamenco in philosophy, in consideration of the above translation.
Dear Mr. Jan Hearthstone it seems to me that your "Model Earth" is the most sensical thing I have read to date. All we really have to do is "choose humanity's option for success" to quote the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Yet everyone seems so reticent to do something that seems to me would be better for themselves. It would be best for us all, the turning point for humanity to enter a world worthy of an advanced civilization, precisely because it does not tell anyone what is best for them, but rather realizes that we must act to achieve a "unitary vision" through active debate so that we can put an end to war and exploitation, and do something meaningful as a people. Is it that we are genetically incapable of becoming Arthur C. Clarkes "starchild" that can sally forth into the unknown without fear, and find our purpose, if not at least answer why we are here and how it all happened? I would hate to think we are not capable of it.
--Sincerely, Ian Beardsley
:doh:
"But we continue along that path"
"that path of light against love"
"that light that is in the earth
"but that we all put out"
"Senor or the infinite space."
"You who has peace between your hands"
"release it senor, I am begging you"
"teach my brothers to love.
I wrote this to Mr. Jan Hearthstone, author of "Model Earth"
(http://gief.pair.com/hearth/modelearth.html)
which I am now thinking is flamenco in philosophy, in consideration of the above translation.
Dear Mr. Jan Hearthstone it seems to me that your "Model Earth" is the most sensical thing I have read to date. All we really have to do is "choose humanity's option for success" to quote the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Yet everyone seems so reticent to do something that seems to me would be better for themselves. It would be best for us all, the turning point for humanity to enter a world worthy of an advanced civilization, precisely because it does not tell anyone what is best for them, but rather realizes that we must act to achieve a "unitary vision" through active debate so that we can put an end to war and exploitation, and do something meaningful as a people. Is it that we are genetically incapable of becoming Arthur C. Clarkes "starchild" that can sally forth into the unknown without fear, and find our purpose, if not at least answer why we are here and how it all happened? I would hate to think we are not capable of it.
--Sincerely, Ian Beardsley
:doh: