A sanctum of knowledge

so if i asked you where to find a doctor
or a dentist
or meat
or a mind altering substance
you could without google

but then if i asked you to point the way to the griots
or the custodians of contemporary or otherwise knowledge
or if i asked you the location of where your money is printed could you do so without research

and does this not equate to imbalance
if one can readily point and lead the way to vice but not virtue










^^ this got to me
where is our prioritization
and this is the imbalance
so we recount these logos but not even the trees in our local park



so where do you find these well of autonomous knowledge
people outside of
boxes
and ditches

these philosophers and architects of  lived futures

some would claim university but you would not have found malcolm x and buddha there

one could say the library
but i did a whole piece about the debacle at a certain library
of certain contemporary libraries

and libraries are genuinely seen as being devoid of conversation
and do you just interrupt one engrossed in  days past and present re imagined

then i ask where would you find me

and then their other suggestions like events but like with these so called centres of intellectualism
it is not always the case like said concert
but what for those anti capitalists
being proposed their elixir is behind a door of capital
kind of defeats the point or will at best deter it

then lastly there are the bookstores

and there are the attempts to create havens of our own

philosophical anime aka Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor part 2

i did say this is the best anime i had seen
and we pick up after the boat incident
and he has incurred more debt via the interest on the borrowed money

and is now working in a convenience
store to pay of the debts

but is haunted by shadows and specter of debt collectors
coming to get him at any moment


he is visited by this man again but this time with a more humble approach
and will let him clear his current debt and maybe get more as with gamble of before

so kaiji goes to the location
and sees some of the people from the boat
and a guy from his convenience store
and the guy he saved

who is not a betrayer but extremely grateful to kaiji
for saving him and once again they do not know what the gamble is until the very last minute

they put in coffin like boxes and then transported
and then they are beset by their test
to walk across a thin beam
but they cannot touch it with their hands or instant disqualification
and with that they are told to start

they see how ludicrous this is
they are not playthings for the rich who are jeering them on from the sidelines
greyhounds to be bet on

but they are reminded that the fist one two across get 20 million and 10 million respectively
and with that one person sets off before kaiji
and then the others set of but before long a person falls off but the fall is not igh enough to kill them but is high enough to break bone and injure contestants upon falling

kaiji is gaining on the person ahead of him but cannot overtake him because the beam is to narrow
he is then notified
by the jeering bureaucrats and elite millionaires and heiress
to push
kaiji denies in the name of humanity
or his morality he will not push

put looking left he sees a person push crying whilst doing so and apologizing
and then it is repeated again

the kaiji is tempted to follow suit but refrains but sees the person behind ready to push him and he tries to reason the struggles with him then they both lose their balance and are disqualified

but would we have done a kaiji or pushed like the others
they are led into a holding room whilst waiting for the games
and with every passing game you saw an increase in the loss of humanity
for in the first group was 6 out of 10 survivors
then there was 5
then 4
then one

and then the twist they find out they are not getting the money unless they do one more gamble
for host rationals
they are freeloaders wasters
who have done nothing to be rewarded with such money
and that they should earn it

which ties in with wage slavery
that the only commodity some people have of value is their time
but for these people
their lives were currency

and the next gamble was worse than before
whereas previously the fall would injure them
this fall would kill them

but they embark after a rallying of the troops by kaiji
so they embark


with no safety net and the prize of 20 million yen at the end of this stretch

but this is when it gets crazy

they have even higher elites watching them this time and getting a kick out of seeing these people put themselves on the line

but that host thinks he is helping these people
for he calls them trash who have never followed through with anything in their lives
wasting away and wasting life
and they are in this cotton wool illusion

kind of like this bag of nuts contains nut situation
and some would say it is darwinistic
law of the jungle

but others may see it as he is trying to unlock inner potential
and them dying on this bridge is in a nobler fashion than it would be if they died in a gutter
or from alcohol poisoning
or drug addiction

they soon after seeing one person fall to their deaths

want to quit and ask for the electricity to be turned off
i forgot to mention that that was a deterrent for the contestants
to just hug the pole and shuffle along

the host retorts no
and that these people are quitters
always looking for the easy way out

and to back out of anything

and soon after the refusal
three are left
kaiji
the guy from his work place and the guy he saved

but here is where your heart strings or essence is tugged
for ishida the guy he saves knows he cannot go any further and will die

he offers kaiji his ticket so he can claim ishidas prize so as to bail his wife out of debt
and give her some happiness and peace he could not give her
since he has been a useless husband

and kaiji does not want to take it insisting that he is spouting nonsense but will make it
but then is persuaded to take it
kaiji carries on towards the goal
and after awhile turns round
and
finds ishida not behind  him
he had fallen

he had fallen silently
he had covered his mouth
so as not to make a peep as to not disturb kaiji
kaiji reflects on this as do i

for a man who was not strong enough to make it to the end
he
was more than brave enough
to quiet himself for kaiji
put others before himself
and become more than the alcoholic coward
in debt up to his eyeballs

it just had me ponder on the strength
it must take
for you to be at the precipice of oblivion
or forty story fall
and to put yourself after someone else
was touching


wow

and so kaiji and sahara his colleague

carry on sahara makes it to the end first and he he sees the people
the audience watching him
and kaiji feels something is wrong
and tells sahara not to go
sahara does not listen he opens the window and is blow back by the draft
to his death


now i am feeling like wow he got to the end and he was robbed but his death can save kaiji
who then sees that there is a path which seemed invisible before
is now visible a glass stair case suspended
and with a leap of faith kaiji gets to the top

but he still does not get the money on the grounds that he forfeited

Martin you are the king jr

Mlk jr day is a day celebrated by many especially in america
but it was pointed out to me that only since the noughties has it been a recognised national holiday in all fifty american states

martin was branded many things in his day but what gets me is the way he is branded now
and what are people really celebrating when they celebrate mlk jr day

is it the case of appeasement a spin move on the side of pr
to promote what the system was once again and that history favors the victor
and the worrying thing is that without a civil rights movement
the same country that celebrates a holiday in his honour would of gladly carried on its racist oppressive ways

or is it the case of people celebrating that there are people who will stand up for what they believe in against all odds and adversities
and it gives hopes to others fighting other fights that even though now they may call you a trouble maker a conspiracy theorist and many other things
they may even set dogs on you and burn your house down
but through all that you may get to the mountain top
and see the promised land you are helping to pave the way for

or is it a celebration that we are being aware of history and will not be doomed to repeat it
and though through omission and misinformation about the transatlantic slave trade and its remnants there is at least one beacon you are aware of who fought back against injustice hatred and ignorance

which gets us to ponder as we go from this

would we do a martin luther king jr

and are there some causes still looking for a champion

because even though it is called martin luther king day
we know so many more names it could be called by and perhaps we all name it after different people

like malcolm x day or angela davis day or
huey newton day
rosa parks day
harriet tubman day
steve biko day

Role reversal

William shakespeare famously wrote

all the worlds a stage
and all the men and women are merely players
they have their exits and their entrances
and one man in his time plays many parts

we all have our roles and even our costumes
thought of as uniforms which get us into character
but what of the roles of others

a clear view can be taken from the retail sector
where the workers act as different cogs of a grand machine
mostly not noticed by the consumers
aka costumers

you have your front of house the presentable smilers and greeters
the focal points of queries
then for most you have the cashiers
which is what is seen on the surface
whereas underneath is teeming with movement an action

the public space is that the public space where the environment is controlled
from mannequins in transparent windows
or enticing products and advertising
once entering the shop there is an ocean of goods between you and the cashiers

but underneath the appearance and out of view of the shopping experience are
others holding on to a livelihood and propping up your image of the public domain
always stocked shelves or railings
the removal of clutter on the floor
clutter that even you might have created

and with your general questions easily answered by those front of house
the more dense and complex they become the more of the players behind the screen emerge
such as managers and non front house staff

this is best shown in a footwear shop
where only one piece of footwear is present
and then your footwear is searched for and the focus now becomes behind the screens
away from the eyes of the public

but it is not only the public who do not see
some of the staff do not see the workings of those
behind the curtains
such as with a band most peoples eyes are on the lead singer
but what about the drummer or keyboardist

i was lucky enough to experience recently the workings of a stockroom worker
and how the person came in before the rest of the staff
early morning hauling product up a forty five degree slope
sometimes without help
and that their were others who actually goaded him about his relevancy
and if he does any work

but his was the tale of just one person who is invisible and bereft of thanks
i previously talked about talents and how people do not always recognise their own
but what about the importance and talents of others
the greatest problem affecting teams are the egos and the appreciation of the others job

which is seen greatly in sport
such as football most people focus on the big moments
oh he scored a goal
and he saved the team
the individualistic knit pickings born from a collective movement

so perhaps we can go away thinking of the roles of others
because their is no star player without the team backing them

for no matter how good you are or think you are
eleven versus one in a football match will always be one sided
and that there is no i in team

For we all have our roles but sometimes a little role reversal may just do us some good

I would like to give thanks to all the readers and promoters
and the mediums that are involved in this process

i will try to get my next post out within the next four days
as well as the vlog

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=3yo7tCKJmls&ns=1