i feel bad for the human, but i am surprised that people are confused why the whale did this
‘why did a whale kill a human?’ ‘i don't get it’
‘["killer whale shows" at sea world] will not resume until trainers understand what happened’ (AP)
i hope this questioning will eventually lead to, ‘whales don't like being kept captive’
it made me think me of this video (8:46 to end) of an elephant at a circus who breaks out and gets shot repeatedly in the street, and a woman is yelling 'fucking animals' and the elephant falls onto a car and dies
i feel bad that humans get hurt in these situations, but i hope people think about what the cause probably is: nonhuman animals are resisting confinement and forced labor
whales at seaworld are used as someone else's tool. as the AP article describes, trainers ‘ride on their backs and jump off them’
in the article i read, they discuss calls to 'destroy' 'the creature'
[i write more about nonhuman animal exploitation at l.o.v.e.'s vegan blog]
[glenn posted this in a comment but i wanted to bring extra attention to it, this video]
notes on 'sentences' by robert grenier
i am reading robert grenier’s sentences, which is free online. i really like it
excerpts:
reading sentences makes me really like things, and it makes me feel really good to be alive
sometimes when i have been reading things like this or like ron silliman's ketjak, i feel like i am nostalgic even for things that are happening right at that time
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if anyone has suggestions of movies, music, or books for me, please post them in the comments section of this
excerpts:
‘trouble with chess is it doesn't make any noise’
‘this is
comfortable
out back’
‘want to // borrow // two chairs’
‘refrigerator so long’
‘put down newspaper for him’
‘READ A LITTLE CLOUDY’
‘worse than that I'm hard at work’
‘attempting to scrub’
‘I'll stir’
‘almost full moon thinking of you’
‘shadow like Iowa’
‘glad we got those sandwiches’
‘I'm Ronald McDonald // and it's a seaside town’
‘lover’
‘I drink rice’
‘Mary you talk’
‘the blankets are here’
‘who
ate
the
sherbet
Laura’
reading sentences makes me really like things, and it makes me feel really good to be alive
sometimes when i have been reading things like this or like ron silliman's ketjak, i feel like i am nostalgic even for things that are happening right at that time
/
if anyone has suggestions of movies, music, or books for me, please post them in the comments section of this
aesthetics and identity
i have noticed my worldview changes a lot depending on what i am passionate about at the time
in high school i liked the band slipknot. i did not only like slipknot because i liked the music; i did not only like the music because it was 'good' music. slipknot was how i saw the world
in 2006 i read ee cummings a lot. i did not only like ee cummings because i liked his poetry; i did not only like the poetry because it was 'good' poetry. my worldview was based on cummings. cummings wrote about being different from 'mostpeople' and he wrote in a way that was different from most people. the year i started reading cummings i started eating vegetarian and writing poetry
in 2008 i read walt whitman a lot. i did not only read whitman because i liked his poetry; i did not only like the poetry because it was 'good' poetry. my worldview was shaped by whitman. whitman is about being alive, tearing down dualistic hierarchies, and embracing everything. the year i started reading whitman i became active as a vegan, i stopped buying sweatshop clothing, and i started reading critical sociology
i am interested in works that can be this way for people, works that 'matter' not only in the context of art but in the context of being alive
there are types of movies that can be people's 'favorite movie'
my brother and i have both watched american beauty over 10 times. we don't do this because it's 'well made' or funny. the movie embodies a worldview we identify with
my personal goal i think is to create books that can be people's 'favorite' books
in this post so far i have focused on how artists and writers embody worldviews, but i think almost anything can do this
my brother likes biking, and he watches biking videos in his free time because that is what he likes. he has said that biking represents things to him: environmentalism, being healthy, being frugal, having freedom
leaflets or documentaries on specific issues are still valuable because people need actionable steps and reasoning for specific movements, but the amount of people willing to consider those movements is, i think, shaped by the music people listen to, the novels people read, the video games people play
because the core of a person is shaped by those things and their time is spent thinking about those things. those things seem just as powerful as the specific 'should' of an ethical formula, especially over time
people's interests/passions are not just things they like. when people are excited about some thing, over time that thing shapes their core from which their decisions/feelings flow
when people become involved with some thing, they don't usually identify with all of it. they identify with some of it or they have a logical reason to do it, but the time spent involved with that thing brings them to identify with more elements of it
my brother was not very concerned about health when he started biking, but over time being in that community and practice he now appreciates the health benefits of biking. a friend of mine started dumpstering a year ago. at first he did it only to save money; now he understands it as an anticorporate activity
to notice the correlation between aesthetics and identity is to be empowered as a producer of culture i think
people dismiss fiction and poetry as 'just' 'creative writing,' but i think a widely read book, or 10 books, or 3 books and a blog, can do a significant amount to change culture over time
in high school i liked the band slipknot. i did not only like slipknot because i liked the music; i did not only like the music because it was 'good' music. slipknot was how i saw the world
in 2006 i read ee cummings a lot. i did not only like ee cummings because i liked his poetry; i did not only like the poetry because it was 'good' poetry. my worldview was based on cummings. cummings wrote about being different from 'mostpeople' and he wrote in a way that was different from most people. the year i started reading cummings i started eating vegetarian and writing poetry
in 2008 i read walt whitman a lot. i did not only read whitman because i liked his poetry; i did not only like the poetry because it was 'good' poetry. my worldview was shaped by whitman. whitman is about being alive, tearing down dualistic hierarchies, and embracing everything. the year i started reading whitman i became active as a vegan, i stopped buying sweatshop clothing, and i started reading critical sociology
i am interested in works that can be this way for people, works that 'matter' not only in the context of art but in the context of being alive
there are types of movies that can be people's 'favorite movie'
my brother and i have both watched american beauty over 10 times. we don't do this because it's 'well made' or funny. the movie embodies a worldview we identify with
my personal goal i think is to create books that can be people's 'favorite' books
in this post so far i have focused on how artists and writers embody worldviews, but i think almost anything can do this
my brother likes biking, and he watches biking videos in his free time because that is what he likes. he has said that biking represents things to him: environmentalism, being healthy, being frugal, having freedom
leaflets or documentaries on specific issues are still valuable because people need actionable steps and reasoning for specific movements, but the amount of people willing to consider those movements is, i think, shaped by the music people listen to, the novels people read, the video games people play
because the core of a person is shaped by those things and their time is spent thinking about those things. those things seem just as powerful as the specific 'should' of an ethical formula, especially over time
people's interests/passions are not just things they like. when people are excited about some thing, over time that thing shapes their core from which their decisions/feelings flow
when people become involved with some thing, they don't usually identify with all of it. they identify with some of it or they have a logical reason to do it, but the time spent involved with that thing brings them to identify with more elements of it
my brother was not very concerned about health when he started biking, but over time being in that community and practice he now appreciates the health benefits of biking. a friend of mine started dumpstering a year ago. at first he did it only to save money; now he understands it as an anticorporate activity
to notice the correlation between aesthetics and identity is to be empowered as a producer of culture i think
people dismiss fiction and poetry as 'just' 'creative writing,' but i think a widely read book, or 10 books, or 3 books and a blog, can do a significant amount to change culture over time
