Listen to the positive energy of inclusion. Just watch the faces of people who desperately needed a symbol of hope that their contributions are worth something.
He is not the source of hope.
The hope is derived from the faces seen in the crowd that were able to collectively create leadership beyond intention of grab and hide.
The hope is derived from people feeling that their purpose matters, and a spark of possibility that their efforts will not erode away into the pockets of others skilled at manipulation.
The hope is derived from judgement becoming a hollow signal of ignorance, rather than an effective means of gaining status by reducing the status of the judged.
The hope is derived from a shift in iconic symbolism that tried image building, to actually symbolize what the icon was supposed to symbolize.
The hope is derived from democracy in name only becoming truly democratic.
The hope is derived from entrenched hierarchy being the bearer of what is intelligent becoming just a nugget of the success model.
The shock and awe now is how quickly the hopeless can have hope, and how quickly the entrenched can become irrelevant.
That is what creates real hope.
(c) kenneth martin
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Friday, January 16, 2009
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The causations were spoken of many years ago. The cautions were spoken to give consciousness to the affects of building energies within our society. Dwight Eisenhower, George Orwell, Franklin Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, and countless other well-known figures who gave eloquent warnings of social ills in light of exponential social progress.
Their warnings really are not referred to often because most of their concerns are prevalent and relevant to our lives today. It affects everyday life. The "more" society wants more individual items for their money, rather than a visually pleasing, coordinated approach to life. People have fragmented minds that understand wholism, but do not have the capability to apply concepts to everyday life issues of relationships and consumerism. The concerns of cultural evolution have arrived and continue without notation or past reflections to today's world.
Industrial military complex, 1984, social dependency, intentions of science, and separation of classes are all issues that are real causations for many conflicts that exist today. Experts want to isolate the main issues of cause. They want a package of workable solutions without changing the benefits many have received from the causes.
I am truly amazed at the growing trend of leadership to rely on news reports to identify problems, and then be the teller of issues. The amazement is in the form of their surprise, and lack of foresight to provide solutions before catastrophic events have significant impact on society at large. Some have argued that government is bought and paid for by corporations and other special interests. In relationship to causations that are not identified before problems blow up; it seems to me that the benefactors from the causations have planted influence in positions that are to be identifying social imbalances before the news reports of impending doom. The experts have become the problem because they have been the most seduced by the inherent affects cautioned by the significant names of the past. Leadership has become an intention for personal wealth!
(c) kenneth martin
Their warnings really are not referred to often because most of their concerns are prevalent and relevant to our lives today. It affects everyday life. The "more" society wants more individual items for their money, rather than a visually pleasing, coordinated approach to life. People have fragmented minds that understand wholism, but do not have the capability to apply concepts to everyday life issues of relationships and consumerism. The concerns of cultural evolution have arrived and continue without notation or past reflections to today's world.
Industrial military complex, 1984, social dependency, intentions of science, and separation of classes are all issues that are real causations for many conflicts that exist today. Experts want to isolate the main issues of cause. They want a package of workable solutions without changing the benefits many have received from the causes.
I am truly amazed at the growing trend of leadership to rely on news reports to identify problems, and then be the teller of issues. The amazement is in the form of their surprise, and lack of foresight to provide solutions before catastrophic events have significant impact on society at large. Some have argued that government is bought and paid for by corporations and other special interests. In relationship to causations that are not identified before problems blow up; it seems to me that the benefactors from the causations have planted influence in positions that are to be identifying social imbalances before the news reports of impending doom. The experts have become the problem because they have been the most seduced by the inherent affects cautioned by the significant names of the past. Leadership has become an intention for personal wealth!
(c) kenneth martin
Saturday, January 10, 2009
re (repost from 1/7/09)
I see, feel, and then think. An expression should only occur after those criteria are met. Otherwise, I am full of shit.
I paint, I write. I write, I paint. Enough about me.
Good Person. Bad Person…It is the Bad Good Person who decides. Oh, hell, you decide!
(c) kenneth martin
I paint, I write. I write, I paint. Enough about me.
Good Person. Bad Person…It is the Bad Good Person who decides. Oh, hell, you decide!
(c) kenneth martin
Cynical (repost from 1/2/09)
cyn⋅i⋅cal /ˈsɪnɪkəl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [sin-i-kuhl] Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1.
like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2.
showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3.
bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
4.
(initial capital letter) cynic (def. 5).
(sourced from dictionary.com)
I think #2 is what makes me a cynic, and it's not the surface honesty that cultures demand. Cultures demand honesty in areas of human desires that are meant to use morality as a hostage-taking device for people to gain influence over others. The irony is that I distrust the very people who proclaim authority and judgement over most human elements of life. The people who claim authority over people of lesser character due to their deeper intellectual qualities usually passed down from generations past.
My cynical nature has evolved from delving into the true nature of intellectualism. Simply, the proclaimers almost uniformly inherited wealth from their family tree. Self-proclaimations of entreprenurialism, sophistication, and authority are almost always dishonest. "Entrepreneurs" who inherited the family business. Sophistication of the one who buys an expensive dress, but demeans the staff. The authority on attributes of trade skills, and the knowledge required to do such. The definition of self is least trustworthy, as one attempts to assert their authority and judgement over and on another.
In fact, I am a cynic in the bubble of greatness and experts. I find that I am the most positive person in the world of "whores, gamblers, and thieves". There is a certain honesty about humanity that exists in this world where the intention to hurt others is extremely rare. I do not encounter the same feeling in the bubble of greatness and experts. The wealth created from bubbles is often pocketed at the expense of a corporate rainy day fund. The intention of success hurts how many people? Yeah, the great ones were building up the stock price for "the people". "The people" have given their money back. The authorities and experts have run to "the people" to bail them out. Who has deeper character? It is an interesting statement about the culture today that Robin Hood is seen as a criminal. I wonder if that is going to change!
(c) kenneth martin
–adjective
1.
like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2.
showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, esp. by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3.
bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
4.
(initial capital letter) cynic (def. 5).
(sourced from dictionary.com)
I think #2 is what makes me a cynic, and it's not the surface honesty that cultures demand. Cultures demand honesty in areas of human desires that are meant to use morality as a hostage-taking device for people to gain influence over others. The irony is that I distrust the very people who proclaim authority and judgement over most human elements of life. The people who claim authority over people of lesser character due to their deeper intellectual qualities usually passed down from generations past.
My cynical nature has evolved from delving into the true nature of intellectualism. Simply, the proclaimers almost uniformly inherited wealth from their family tree. Self-proclaimations of entreprenurialism, sophistication, and authority are almost always dishonest. "Entrepreneurs" who inherited the family business. Sophistication of the one who buys an expensive dress, but demeans the staff. The authority on attributes of trade skills, and the knowledge required to do such. The definition of self is least trustworthy, as one attempts to assert their authority and judgement over and on another.
In fact, I am a cynic in the bubble of greatness and experts. I find that I am the most positive person in the world of "whores, gamblers, and thieves". There is a certain honesty about humanity that exists in this world where the intention to hurt others is extremely rare. I do not encounter the same feeling in the bubble of greatness and experts. The wealth created from bubbles is often pocketed at the expense of a corporate rainy day fund. The intention of success hurts how many people? Yeah, the great ones were building up the stock price for "the people". "The people" have given their money back. The authorities and experts have run to "the people" to bail them out. Who has deeper character? It is an interesting statement about the culture today that Robin Hood is seen as a criminal. I wonder if that is going to change!
(c) kenneth martin
re (repost from 1/2/09)
The new year is bringing in interesting commentaries from people in different economic situations. People in the depths of despair who have had their retirement funds cut in half, or their real estate value drop by 20 percent. The hardship articles and interviews concentrate on the millions who will have to somehow find a way to live on less in the coming years. Stress is in the form of people concerned about their jobs, overleveraged homes, and retirement that was supposed to lead to luxury. Experts are trying to convey how to manage that stress and save money.
It is the saving money concept that is creating the extreme hardship for people in communities who own the businesses. Most businesses are people who do not get paid, and losing their job is the equivalent of people trying to save money on what they provide. They do not have retirement funds or health plans. It is amazing to me how consumers who have salaries walk into places of business commanding services from people who earn a fraction of the consumer's salary. Yet, the provider is perceived to be one who can afford to give things away. The media provides "expert" advice without consideration that the collective result of their advice will create havoc for fellow citizens who are already in dire straights.
News flash to a public seemingly uninformed about who really owns Amercan businesses. You are eliminating jobs when you justify unethical consumer behavior. Unethical behaviors such as returning used goods, changing price tags, and negotiating with known untruths in an attempt to get more and more for "less" are collectively making products and services less available. The affects on smaller businesses are obvious. However, unethical consumer behavior is now becoming the death of jobs at even the largest companies. Unfortunately, the jobs most affected are the ones paying $10 an hour.
I find interviews communicating hardship because assets have declined from $2Million to $1M insulting to millions of people who do not have any assets. The people who have $62 in their bank account trying to find rent for the next month. It is an indictment against a culture when it thinks of their wealth that was made on asset bubbles, who now have hardship because their wealth has declined. That is not hardship. Hardship is when you have $62, and someone who has wealth tries to make you feel like you are screwing them by charging them $25 for cutting their grass, or cleaning their windows. Sometimes, the insult comes in the form of someone walking into an artists studio who wants a piece of art. The insult is in the form of "I am willing to hang your art" in my house. I do shows around the world, but I would be priviledged to let you take one of my paintings for nothing. Hmmm. Finding a deal as reached unethical levels in our culture, and this is having a profound impact on the economy. This is prevalent in our culture!
(c) kenneth martin
It is the saving money concept that is creating the extreme hardship for people in communities who own the businesses. Most businesses are people who do not get paid, and losing their job is the equivalent of people trying to save money on what they provide. They do not have retirement funds or health plans. It is amazing to me how consumers who have salaries walk into places of business commanding services from people who earn a fraction of the consumer's salary. Yet, the provider is perceived to be one who can afford to give things away. The media provides "expert" advice without consideration that the collective result of their advice will create havoc for fellow citizens who are already in dire straights.
News flash to a public seemingly uninformed about who really owns Amercan businesses. You are eliminating jobs when you justify unethical consumer behavior. Unethical behaviors such as returning used goods, changing price tags, and negotiating with known untruths in an attempt to get more and more for "less" are collectively making products and services less available. The affects on smaller businesses are obvious. However, unethical consumer behavior is now becoming the death of jobs at even the largest companies. Unfortunately, the jobs most affected are the ones paying $10 an hour.
I find interviews communicating hardship because assets have declined from $2Million to $1M insulting to millions of people who do not have any assets. The people who have $62 in their bank account trying to find rent for the next month. It is an indictment against a culture when it thinks of their wealth that was made on asset bubbles, who now have hardship because their wealth has declined. That is not hardship. Hardship is when you have $62, and someone who has wealth tries to make you feel like you are screwing them by charging them $25 for cutting their grass, or cleaning their windows. Sometimes, the insult comes in the form of someone walking into an artists studio who wants a piece of art. The insult is in the form of "I am willing to hang your art" in my house. I do shows around the world, but I would be priviledged to let you take one of my paintings for nothing. Hmmm. Finding a deal as reached unethical levels in our culture, and this is having a profound impact on the economy. This is prevalent in our culture!
(c) kenneth martin
Reflective Expressionism (repost from 12/28/08)
Refective Expressionism is a visual and written form of communication that requires feeling to be the basis of thought. I see, I feel, and then I express myself. The concept requires expression to be formulated from creativity and knowledge, rather than ignorance. Ignorance is a "bad" concept only if the transgressor takes leadership of a situation. Otherwise, ignorance is neutralized by a willingness to listen, learn, adapt, and change perceived notions.
(c) kenneth martin
(c) kenneth martin
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Easy
Reflective expressionism is easy. You just say what is on your mind; spontaneous connections from your insides up to your brain. It is is reactionary; it has to be since the universe around us creates the environment that we are in now, in relation to how our individuality reacts to it. It is easy to be an individual that expresses the qualities of life that makes each of us tick. It is easy on television when the producers cut and paste what they want to show so that they can make a person look like their desired purpose within the show. You should be an individual like this person. Be this way. Be that way. It is still coercive, and has become the mantra for a society that has taken individualism into the realm of expressive thought that must win arguments
Reflective expressionism is a construct of being who you are by your definition, when many are leaving you as a result. Money is leaving you, and people stop loving you when you do not have money in this culture. Ironically, they say that you left. You try to connect. You try to come over. You try to leave a message. They leave messages of condescension that they use to argue their attempts to engage. The tone says it all. Reversal never happens, and you realize they just want you the way they want you to be for them. They never loved you, but rather they wanted you to provide them with what they got out of you. I do not think I am alone in this thought; our culture promotes love following the money.
People don't love money. That would be a sin. People try to create relationships with other people that have money. Children know who has an inheritance available, and grow into adults creating relationships with people that can create a life of luxurious surroundings, or simply the life of walking and thinking at a snails pace. Oh, sure, life gets hard for people that have resources. It is difficult to know where to put that money, and difficult to pay people $100 or $5000, for fixing your computer, designing your kitchen, mowing your lawn, or painting your properties. Life is really difficult, I know, when the kids just won't listen to reason when they choose to major in that instead of this more socially desirable choice. People worked hard for their money, and I will never make them feel bad for it. Nobody should feel bad for having more resources than someone else.
The essence of today, however, is that the idea of "work" has become a negative in our culture. Don't believe me. Walk into a club today, or a park today, and listen to conversations. Conversations about the desirability of working. Desirability of people enjoying what they do on a daily basis. Desirability of people who "don't have to work". Work today has become the business of manipulation and political advancement within the organization of choice. Relationship-building has become the culture, and by nature, relationship-building has become the building of relationships for the concept of earning as much money as possible. This is work in the United States in 2008.
Some may say this is cynical. There is no reason to be cynical when you are on the inside of the circle. However, the resources within the circle are getting a little more scarce, and it is getting nasty inside the circle. People are showing their person. The who comes out to be seen by many. The essence of work, and those that love for the sake of love, and not relationship-building, may become the people who adapt to culture that is in need of energy. In the last several years, laziness in physicality and mentality has grown that has created a great cultural divide between people on auto-pilot, and those who think quickly. An energy exists in people who do not read static books, but rather, evolving stories. People who can foresee results by thinking quickly about what is transpiring in front of them will adapt, while others will believe history repeats itself in all cases. History does repeat itself. Most people will wait for the glory days to return, while a few people will see that their is a major change in what people want and need in our culture today.
People, today, need a sense that someone really cares about them. Can you buy that? I have had a lot of people "love" me, but I can honestly say that reflective expressionism has led me down a path where one other person and I are the only people who care about me. Finding out who really cares about me, I believe, is the essence of what our culture needs as individuals going forward. Everybody loves everybody, today. But, does anyone care about you when you don't have the ability or soul within to provide them everything they are seeking all the time. It is a give and take. The people or person who cares about you takes the time to know the who, even when you may not know yourself.
When, and if you, are a person who seeks to know oneself, then the person who cares will facilitate your path, not stand in the path of status quo. If you are a person who has had to hide yourself because it was not condusive for career or power gain, then the person who truly cares will accept the consequences of your desire to stop hiding. In fact, the person who truly cares would say, "what took you so long". Finding people that care has to evolve, and probably will never come from where you may think. It is a human quest to find people that care about you, but reflective expressionism will provide you the isolation of those people who wanted you around, but always had to win the argument of the "who of you" being wrong. Life's quest was to find why things never seemed quite right in some environments.
Reflective expressionism makes it very clear that I do not like arguments because the arguments were always won by people who had to have their way. I know some will say that I am arguing by writing expressions of feeling leading into thought. This is not argumentative intention. It is my expression of who. The only right is because I'm writing it. This is not a prototype of self-help. This is a prototype of living who I am, while not accepting the directives of others about who I should be in their attempt to control their environment around them. If I make people curious, it is usually from people who live on the line of comparability in relationship to them. They truly cannot believe I don't care about "what they do for a living" or "what house I live in". I truly don't care about "getting ahead" or "how nice a piece of property I own". I truly can enjoy a snippet of a beautiful view of nature in Gary, Indiana, as well as in Monterey, California. Do I need to own that view? Do I need to take a picture of that view? It is etched in memory.
People are afraid of what lies ahead. I am often. As I write this today, I am not. At one point in the past I would say, "from here, I could only go up". As of today, I don't care if I go up, down, sideways, or anyways. It is just another societal measurement of progress to drop now.
(c) kenneth martin
Reflective expressionism is a construct of being who you are by your definition, when many are leaving you as a result. Money is leaving you, and people stop loving you when you do not have money in this culture. Ironically, they say that you left. You try to connect. You try to come over. You try to leave a message. They leave messages of condescension that they use to argue their attempts to engage. The tone says it all. Reversal never happens, and you realize they just want you the way they want you to be for them. They never loved you, but rather they wanted you to provide them with what they got out of you. I do not think I am alone in this thought; our culture promotes love following the money.
People don't love money. That would be a sin. People try to create relationships with other people that have money. Children know who has an inheritance available, and grow into adults creating relationships with people that can create a life of luxurious surroundings, or simply the life of walking and thinking at a snails pace. Oh, sure, life gets hard for people that have resources. It is difficult to know where to put that money, and difficult to pay people $100 or $5000, for fixing your computer, designing your kitchen, mowing your lawn, or painting your properties. Life is really difficult, I know, when the kids just won't listen to reason when they choose to major in that instead of this more socially desirable choice. People worked hard for their money, and I will never make them feel bad for it. Nobody should feel bad for having more resources than someone else.
The essence of today, however, is that the idea of "work" has become a negative in our culture. Don't believe me. Walk into a club today, or a park today, and listen to conversations. Conversations about the desirability of working. Desirability of people enjoying what they do on a daily basis. Desirability of people who "don't have to work". Work today has become the business of manipulation and political advancement within the organization of choice. Relationship-building has become the culture, and by nature, relationship-building has become the building of relationships for the concept of earning as much money as possible. This is work in the United States in 2008.
Some may say this is cynical. There is no reason to be cynical when you are on the inside of the circle. However, the resources within the circle are getting a little more scarce, and it is getting nasty inside the circle. People are showing their person. The who comes out to be seen by many. The essence of work, and those that love for the sake of love, and not relationship-building, may become the people who adapt to culture that is in need of energy. In the last several years, laziness in physicality and mentality has grown that has created a great cultural divide between people on auto-pilot, and those who think quickly. An energy exists in people who do not read static books, but rather, evolving stories. People who can foresee results by thinking quickly about what is transpiring in front of them will adapt, while others will believe history repeats itself in all cases. History does repeat itself. Most people will wait for the glory days to return, while a few people will see that their is a major change in what people want and need in our culture today.
People, today, need a sense that someone really cares about them. Can you buy that? I have had a lot of people "love" me, but I can honestly say that reflective expressionism has led me down a path where one other person and I are the only people who care about me. Finding out who really cares about me, I believe, is the essence of what our culture needs as individuals going forward. Everybody loves everybody, today. But, does anyone care about you when you don't have the ability or soul within to provide them everything they are seeking all the time. It is a give and take. The people or person who cares about you takes the time to know the who, even when you may not know yourself.
When, and if you, are a person who seeks to know oneself, then the person who cares will facilitate your path, not stand in the path of status quo. If you are a person who has had to hide yourself because it was not condusive for career or power gain, then the person who truly cares will accept the consequences of your desire to stop hiding. In fact, the person who truly cares would say, "what took you so long". Finding people that care has to evolve, and probably will never come from where you may think. It is a human quest to find people that care about you, but reflective expressionism will provide you the isolation of those people who wanted you around, but always had to win the argument of the "who of you" being wrong. Life's quest was to find why things never seemed quite right in some environments.
Reflective expressionism makes it very clear that I do not like arguments because the arguments were always won by people who had to have their way. I know some will say that I am arguing by writing expressions of feeling leading into thought. This is not argumentative intention. It is my expression of who. The only right is because I'm writing it. This is not a prototype of self-help. This is a prototype of living who I am, while not accepting the directives of others about who I should be in their attempt to control their environment around them. If I make people curious, it is usually from people who live on the line of comparability in relationship to them. They truly cannot believe I don't care about "what they do for a living" or "what house I live in". I truly don't care about "getting ahead" or "how nice a piece of property I own". I truly can enjoy a snippet of a beautiful view of nature in Gary, Indiana, as well as in Monterey, California. Do I need to own that view? Do I need to take a picture of that view? It is etched in memory.
People are afraid of what lies ahead. I am often. As I write this today, I am not. At one point in the past I would say, "from here, I could only go up". As of today, I don't care if I go up, down, sideways, or anyways. It is just another societal measurement of progress to drop now.
(c) kenneth martin
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