Sunday, November 29, 2009

Of recent me. A Green Thought.

hm.. mentally-blank on what to put down here after 120 rush hours (1-3 hour sleep daily, not that bad huh). Well..writing blogs feels kinda different from writing diaries. The latter has no restrictions while allowing you to pour daily reflections though. Some chaps would just tell you, Hey this is the world today! Go-online, paperless, Go-green!


But do we?

In terms of saving papers, yes i agree wholeheartedly but one has to be cautious that Go-green term is more of eco-intelligence as how I termed the "money-concept" in the previous post. Put it in a simpler way, it's Brainwash-ing!
How? well then some of you might find it prevalent for a normal household to be air-conditioned in Singapore which ironically happens to be in the Tropics (hot and humid is unbearable but wind & rainfall neutralize such conditions at some point). However back in the 70's before the advent of air-cond system people would look for electric fan during hot sunny days.



My point is, despite a sense of mannerism in the socio-behavioral system of human i.e. people are distinguished from the way they think and sense, when put into a larger picture, a community or group, tend to be "naturalized"  into such wider group in as much as their thinking are restricted to a certain extent. While democratic decision calls for majority votes, oppositions are expected to conform to the ultimate upshot. Just like the air-cond, there were of course people rejecting such idea of cooling and yet when the whole world is believing this new guy, what's more they can say? All we might do is to thumbs-up, blindly adopting this technology cuz this is a total monopoly, a market of no rivalries. So what happens is the ensuing interests, firms wanting to be part of the system for the sake of profit, money to be more precise, trapping themselves in another spatial concept...by forming cartel perhaps, air-cond of different branding starts popping up in the market.

We all know that technological advances in a great leap ever since the Millennium causing us to undergo an exponential growth (termed in the popular video DID YOU KNOW). In fact, issue of sustainability has to deal more than just the social equity, of population explosion and widening rich_poor gap; but the forgotten mother nature and economy (ironically, yes, in order to survive - could be of money or not at all). If we study closer social-behavioral framework from the Paleolithic era to the Modern age, we could see a shift from self-sufficient agriculture to barter system and finally an economized agriculture when everything is equivalent to money values. Indeed a change from practical to physical then realistic and abstract.

This is nonetheless a linear progression although the current state suggests a rather superficial situation especially with the rapid development of virtual medium, internet, 3G and etc. However, the concept of such linear flow still  remains a contending idea.. who knows it could be a Cyclical flow, when disaster hits and we are denude of all our current financial system that we must rely on the basic, primitive means of survival, growing plants, barter system and so on. One apple for two oranges?

Are we not sensitive to alternatives when we are bounded within these "abstract spatial model" of the current world? Are we, in a way, not competent with our fellow aliens because of the evil of mankind to crave for money and wealth instead of preserving our natural senses? Because nowadays we are more or less a visual animal, we rely much on what we see...not the others. For instance, air-cond shuts down our natural thermal adaptation. Cuz we are living in the tropic and it will make us less attuned to this climatic condition.

Alright, I am not anti-air-cond freak or something, I live with it too sometimes when the climate is just too unbearable. I just want to raise a concern over the concept of Go-Green. For it to work, we must make sure it is not another Spatial-concept framed by some people, just to dig the most profit from us. In other words, it means do it in the physical & practical way.









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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

机械的节奏

哈。。与其与时间共舞,不如再歇歇脚。。。况且人生,休息就是为了走更远的路(好可怜的脚,天生就得看地上,天天磨擦,现在连休息还被这么样的形容。。。)

人家说吃得多,易发福。。。还得看消化系统吧!
近来跟sustainable, history字眼走得很靠近,愈来愈不信眼前的一切。
小时候在班上哭,老师分糖果唯的是分散我们的注意力,那不哭换来几颗糖果,在小孩的贸易世界里总算值得吧。哭就与糖果在脑海扯上了潜意思关系,哭就是糖果,再不如美丽的铅笔。。等等。小小的关系凑成了每个人不一样的历史。你童年捉蜻蜓的童影,我小时的战前小屋,他亲朋戚友的欢笑声,我夜半宁静的眼泪,生日的炸鸡,童军的日子。。。每个人都有他乡的故事,解释了今天我你他的分别。

那这些童影叙述了无数的联系物。。。你的蜻蜓,我的Nona树,他的沙滩映照。。。
昨天的历史说明了今天,创造着明天。
 相信每个人都是特别的。

那社会呢?城市呢?我们是它们多元化的元素 么?
从脚步,到马蹄,四轮直到二轮知道没有轮。。飞跃天空的梦想终于在一个世纪前实现了,间中丢舍了不少人命。。牺牲者。。那好奇地,今天大家都复古。。脚踏车,无碳城市。。
我们是否运用科技来抵达过去?因为天时地利不允许我们对昔日的追溯。
sustainable。。说着人类多过自然界吧。

狂想? 世界在退化。
也许达尔文在其进化论嘲笑人类的无知吧。。。
 与其在寻找它的真实性,恐龙绝种与人类诞生的missing gap..
不如看看人类今天的区别吧。
早期的人类,homo sapiens 取代了 neanderthal也许后者不能自行交配。。。
前者虽懂得性别的分区但男女大致上都裸身, 气候不适才配上一些“棉衣”。今天我们男女有不一样的衣服,穿着。从内裤到胸罩到丁字裤,从男扮女装,女伴男装。。。今天的我们是否迷失了自我?早期的社会是否男女更平等?因为 男女坦然地面对彼此的不同点,互相学习。。早期的人们很努力,明白物的价值,种了一箩菜换取一箩苹果。如今这个了解被物质蒙骗了,所以有了金钱的虚拟物品。那是现实,那超现实主义是否说那只纯粹一张废纸呢?是某个王八相出来的概念。这一切`只是我引用的假设。
 从男尊女卑到女性主义到人道主义。。。我们在改变。。。到底怎么样的改变呢?
从BARTER到金钱系统。。。我们是否无能为力再没有私心?
从动用劳力到依赖机械。。。说明了其后遗症,头大四肢萎缩的人类。。。八十年代的恐惧。
 Social constructivists的诞生,种种。

达尔文,你是在说“进去退化论”吗?
某某反对你的宗教集团说你在临终前说了你犯了一个人生最大的错误。。。
那又是什么呢?

还是。。。 你只是想说你错在相信人类?

人啊。。很乱的。
一公斤的头脑,半斤的心脏。。。我们就已是复杂的机械。
几百万斤的建筑物,几百万深的科学道理,我们一一解剖。那我们真真解剖过自己吗?
真理存不存在。。。不必寻找,就看你的信念。



 在聆听我们左胸-机械之节奏的同时,
莫忘达尔文的含沙射影。。。。。。



也许食物链还没完?


也许达尔文还没完成他的构图?忘了机械的来袭?


                                                                     也许人类只不过是个原点。



 哈。。。。。。。。

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