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Dear Readers,
Many imaginations in North America, and likely on every continent, are emotionally ensconced in the USA political campaigns. Those dramas seem peculiarly scripted and choreographed for stage productions of actors labeled presidential candidates, who get coached on changes too conspicuously charged with ambiguous hope.
If you’ve experienced world weariness by staying awake to the world at-large, perhaps returning our consciousness about three times weekly to music, art, and literature may for a while fade away emotional residue of globalization: an old idea that would not exist without wars, and now international in complexity, according to some studiers of geopolitical history. Refer globalization, featuring George Friedman, founder Stratfor dot com, video daily podcast; duration 8.53
Hover here, then KEEP THE CURSOR HOVERED anywhere in the video screen. To finish, press F5 on your Windows keyboard.
No education that is not founded on art will ever succeed.
~ Margaret Mead (b 1901), cultural anthropologist, focused on child rearing, personalityLawrence Krauss, a cosmologist talking with biologist, Richard Dawkins, quoted a physicist who several years ago told the USA Congress that particle accelerators [inferring scientific ideas] may not help the defense of a nation, but would help keep a nation worth defending. Krauss’s talk with Dawkins, YouTube, part one duration 9.22
There are several reasons I find solar sciences fascinating, and most importantly the Sun’s influence on Planet Earth and us human Earthlings. Here are cute lyrics to an upbeat tune performed by an alternative rock group, and below the lyrics is a fun musical performance with which you and your children may sense a want for dancing!
| The sun is a mass of incandescent gas The sun is hot, the sun is not We need its energy Without the sun, without a doubt There’d be no you and me |
We Were Listening
We already know the Sun will shine whether or not we humans exist, and the Sun doesn’t have a clue anything exists, even itself. The Sun doesn’t distinguish what’s or who’s best—as does one of our earthly species, namely us—and it doesn’t shine differently on rulers than on citizens. The Sun doesn’t have feelings; it neither speaks languages nor knows they exist; and it knows not music or art. The Sun blazes without humans’ permission.
The Sun’s existence depends neither on knowledge nor wisdom for life, and, obviously, neither does humankind’s. All that might have ever been noted about our species’ masculine rulers is they trashed a planet with helps from stupefied gawkers, guessers, builders, imaginators, mongers of war.
Thank goodness for the millions of our species who make time for reading deeply, making notes, and helping the rest of us analyze a new world disorder. Over the next few years, you and I will in all probability look back to say we were listening for what was to happen next.
But, we had been listening all along, attempting to make lemonade from lemony affairs. We were listening for the moments when disorder could be breathed out as easily as happiness could be breathed in. We were listening as forthcoming decisions had been chosen from remembered information blended into our bodies as feelings. We were listening to the music of the Universe, sensing quivering energies in and around our lively bodies, intuiting in any instant however we had been ably trained.
Preconceptions Rule
Financial speculators and their ruling bankers have not and currently do not listen if countries’ leaders and their citizens promise disagreements, which are in time overridden by hierarchies’ preconceptions.
Moreover, it is easily noted throughout history that common populaces, agreeable or not, had been rulers’ repressed enemies easily threatened by imaginations ruled by volumes of preconceptions (or superstitions) of invisible spirits, angels, and deities. Later, fables about humans who hadn’t chosen a certain plan for eternal salvation scared people into believing they would coexist in what was an invisible everlasting torment after death. And there’s the invisible ghostly presence (or spirit) that stalks its way around the planet, assuring a covenant with believers that they will properly perform their redemptive assignments with no chance of life after death. There! For our purposes, that pretty much covers three prominent monotheistic systems noted as ‘isms’—ruling rampant paranoia, insinuating insidious things invisible: Christianism (including Vaticanism), Judaism, and Islamism.
Many humans have easily imagined themselves sinful, self absorbed abhorrences born in sin yet saved for eternity by faith in invisible, obsessive compulsive deities. Preconceptions of religious reality and their memes rule by faith on demand, which I have had much experience first hand. Faith too many times exacts little or no questioning of religious ‘evidence and facts’ based on things invisible, severely restricting the invisible psyché.
Religious believers’ undenied self blame can move into self indulged paranoia: guilt-based biases and invisible memes gone faithfully unquestioned can rule religious imaginations over millennia. Preconceptions may become faith’s fertile soil bearing thorny gardens of self proclaimed messianic dictators, tyrannical police states, distorted media, compromised art, moralized science, bullied democracies, and despots’ fleeting earthly powers.
Adapting to New Events
“I see myths and similar story telling as a way to internalize events which may be larger than the scope of the human mind to easily come to terms with. It seems to me the NAZI mythology didn’t really spring to life overnight, but was formed over a hundred-year period…, then crystallized as a result [in] one of the greatest catastrophes ever to befall mankind: the first world war.
“I would tend to agree that a mechanism for the unification of large groups of diverse people will have to be narrative in nature, and that its creation can be tended towards a benign goal, or it may chaotically appear on its own destructive accord. But like most permeating stories, it must find roots in some catalyzing signature which I fear will have to leave a scar.
“To this end, once again, I don’t see the end of the world coming for humans, or view these eco-apocalyptic tales as doing anything but reinforcing the flawed myths of human intervention in global events which are eons in the making and quite possibly beyond our ken. Such notions are hubris.
“Mankind can set about doing the only thing which has kept any creature from extinction on this planet—adapting to new events with rapidity ahead of disastrous consequences. And this is something we are good at.
“Our stories, and our anthems need to be able [to] reinforce possibilities which can be embraced without substituting an afterlife, or a technological solution to problems which have been caused, essentially, by religion and machines.” Refer barracuda, writer, Rigorous Intuition, a forum, as of 070808
Our Shining Eyes
New stories and anthems and possibilities for human experience on Planet Earth have already begun. Not even despots and their ruling financiers know for sure how our species will respond. But our shining eyes will again bring music back to lighten lives who lost their own music.
Our shining eyes can become radiantly apparent when we’re listening to music we deeply enjoy. If we together are listening to music I’m passionate about, then classical music would be playing.
The TED talk by Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, simply and enthusiastically trains us on what to listen for in classical music. He is known around the world as a guest conductor and a speaker on leadership, and he can do both in a single performance. He draws people to music, opening minds and creating harmonies, looking into faces’ shining eyes of listeners and their colleagues.
Many of us classical performers and enthusiasts have been disappointed since every public educational system on Earth appointed identical hierarchies of subjects. Picture an upside down pyramid with no shortage of mathematics, engineering, languages, and humanities cascading from top to the bottom where performing and silent arts struggle for air.
Rather than educating ourselves and children in the arts, we have educated ourselves and children out of the arts. Educational systems have mined our minds in ways we have strip mined Earth for certain commodities; for the future, the systems will not serve. Refer Sir Ken Robinson, TED talk duration 19.29
If I made up a mission that would last the rest of my life, my mission is your enjoyment of enough classical music that you would choose the composers you like best! Our shining eyes would rival the Sun.
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