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are a couple movies I would like to watch with you when you get out here:
sicko
flow
just any old documentaries, i'm intrigued,
maybe a couple playing at Unurban
UCLA student film showings
schindler's list (I still haven't seen it; have you?)
one flew over the cuckoo's nest
some pasolini and kubrick perhaps
minus all the ones you aren't for

is san antonio okay again for the moment?

opposite day

But if you think there's something else
Well you're right, there is
There's something else
But if you think I'm gonna tell you, think again
Why should I even think of telling you what there is
Yeah, 'cause silence is knowledge
And knowledge is power
I'm under explicit orders to dare not speak its name
Listen up, I just work here
Oh I dare not speak its name

andrew bird, "opposite day"

the emotion is the meditation, thank you.
No, you are not going crazy, you totally told me about visiting schools! I wanted to say that I was developing two ideas, and one of them is building with your idea about visiting schools, visiting a set of related places. I didn't convey that right.
Potatoes burn!
oh man, ever read the richard feynman quote about being able to see the universe in a glass of wine, or something? what if the secret to our los angeles endeavors is focusing on a microcosm, really well?

I like both of those ideas a lot. I had thought of visiting schools in fact, and I can't believe I didn't tell you because I was so excited about it. But hey, listen. The emotions don't keep you from meditating, the emotions are the meditation. The trick is to simultaneously feel the emotion and to feel the unchanging part of you that has survived since birth and will survive until death... and to give both equal credence. Just trust yourself, Suz. I love you.

listen up, i'm going to be working for the census pretty soon. this might Lead to some interesting new Leads. I'm thinking about all your new ideas. And have a few up a sleeve of my own as well. Once has to do with community film screenings. one is more along the lines of visiting schools. I love that February is ahead.

Hey, Crumpleena. Here's the deal: I recommend reading America and the World (conversations between Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski). And then in that book they refer to another of Brzezinski's books called Second Chance. I haven't read Second Chance yet, but from what they were describing it sounds like the closest thing we are gonna find to what we are talking about (in terms of education) in the mainstream. I will respond to your comments tonight, and I am very stoked to. I have to go to work now (finally I get to say that too and not be a big lazy loaf like I always am). (Oh, and just to be sure, you know that underdog line is a Spoon song--I can't be taking no credit for that, missy.)

Gramsci was only depicted in this article, he didn't talk for himself. But from what Morera wrote, Gramsci endorsed neither "intellectual" nor "non-intellectual" influence in shaping society (I agree calling us all intellectuals is an empty gesture). At one point, Gramsci is described wanting the "teachers" to be learning as much as the students, and the "students" to be teaching as much as the teachers. This was what interested me: he described a civic scenario of dialectical, continual learning. Jumping off of the old cliche "Everything is politics," the article talked about how there is no such thing as a neutral civil society- even the ordinary organizations, like the PTA or some neighborhood red cross group, people are involved in day-to-day change their political agenda and function the more aware their members are of their own needs and desires. Maybe they don't call it "political agenda," but every dollar allocation contributes to the direction of a group. Civic education, whether its main goal is increased self-awareness or increased exchange between social sectors, is all about that human need to share you wrote about. Yes, we all need and want to share. I think the hard question is always the way we end up sharing- our sharing intelligence?
I like the one-liner post. "They've got no fear of the underdog. That's why they will not survive."
I'll get back to conceptions of the world after work.