This 45 part series of vignettes with their audio file compliments give the slice of the expanse that motivates the (ir)rationales of the excuses and apologetics for this reality we deem as ‘civilization’.
A series of verbal vignettes that are a survey of the expanse in the first person, and to the observed, and to the reported deeds and thoughts of we medulla-guided beings of this ‘species-intelligence' in all its inglorious dimensions.
Language of a/the Hustle
This topic derived from a notion I had of the developed verbosity of my step-daughter's son, who 7-years ago had trouble putting together a sentence, and now because of his interactions with his remote video game partners is the most verbose by volume of words spoken in this house right now. Even more important was his relationship with others and his increased estimation of himself.
I'm going to touch on the issue of 'wokism' and 'CRT' as analogous to what the maternal grandson has achieved for himself. The extensive conversations engendered while playing the video games with remote players has developed a culture of lexicon and vocabulary that has taken him from an emotional dependency to a mercenary dependency. The former dependency was from an inability. The latter is from the newly found self-definition of himself and consequently those in his functional environment. His language development and sense of identity shows the importance of the language WE CHOOSE for our own mental navigation with and among others. The degree the language we choose is of our personal choice for our navigational and simultaneously emotional needs is the degree of our own self-determination.
It's at this point that 'the hustle' becomes pertinent to this topic. When I talk about 'the hustle', I'm talking about the means we employ 'to get by', 'to make it' on whatever terms is necessary to adapt, adjust, accommodate ourselves to our circumstances [NOT THE DANCE]
Thing about it now, is that people live in the slums and ghettoes of their minds, as they see [though don't recognize it] in the same way that people on the streets do things for things and status. It's done away from the streets in more pristine environs. Yet, the motivations are very similar.
The rat-race for trappings, whether for survival or for comfort and luxuries brings out similar rationales of expedience.
It's all about getting out of the rat-race and being free. I'd say that even for the rich with connections and influence it's still 'the great escape'. Being in a position above it all to the street hustler's being a part of an all-enveloping game is the difference of perspective with the socially and legally connected and influential to the street counter-part.
Bringing it back to language and culture, language and its lexicon are part of the aura of illusion by which you define yourself and those like you for the way you act and resultingly are.
It's here that people pimp themselves out and become whores of their own lexicon of linguistics. Give anyone, any group an exclusive space for themselves, their thoughts and choice of word descriptions then you have the self-aura of word illusions. Pimped out and whored-out by your own aura of words-a self-generated/inflicted caste.
When it's said, 'Don't blame the Playa. Blame the Game.', I'm brought back to that 11 year old kid budding verbosity from playing remote competition on video games. His verbosity of language, its lexicon of self-identity come from the context of being a playa of those games. We have developed in similar ways for our self-identification and purpose by the agenda of games that comprise how we get by and get-it-on in our 'hustle'!
There's a confluence of emergence of things.
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Rock and a hard spot for many from each of their mostly separated
locales and versions of their particular abuse exploitation of the
'ruling class' known on Army latrine stall walls from the point of view
of the drafted GI's in '70-'74, 'the Unwilling Serving the Arrogant
Ruling the Many in Your name.
Eisenhower's warning of a Mil-Indus-Complex has morphed into a network of enabling oligarchist
and wanna-be plutocrats. What was portrayed in Godfather-II of the
Havana Meet in pre-Castro Cuba by the mob bosses licking their lips of
having financial control of a government existing under an
autocratically designed constitution that suited their ends was not lost
on those who used Lee Harvey Oswald, who played the part as their patsy
in their assassination of JFK, whose planned withdrawal in
disenchantment from Vietnam and rapprochement with the Ruskis would be
starving the slush fund of over-budget contract being paid out, as well
as the Civil Rights tendency that would come after the '64 election
(never realizing that LBJ had strong populist equity sentiments as much
as the Eastern blue blood Kennedys were coming to accept. Civil rights
for the least precipitates the empowerment of assertion of rights and
necessary entitlements (health care-housing-wage equity) by the general
public.
Dems fearing a socialist revolution that would end
their pretensions of liberal minded sympathetes and access to the shared
good cop/bad cop power with the Dixiecrats/proto-free markets-GOP
wanting to maintain their control of the social hierarchy positions they
had culturally and economically over their respective under classes
have played a game that has its most audacious abuse in the
Israeli-Zionist-Palestinian-Arab Nationalist deadlock. Do just enough to
keep the Israeli-Zionist power structure as it is while providing
feckless rhetoric and ineffectual token aid to the Palestinians.
They feed on money not abstract sentiments. How ever they can contort
themselves to look as if they ever had ethical or moral sentiments when
the amoral acts of impunity would create a rhetorical backlash, at the
least: they do it.
There's NEVER been a democracy, per se. Just
a gradual break down of oligarchic and plutocratic privilege. But the
breakdown got to the point where the ruling class and those benefiting
from it saw that 'Democracy' was too expensive to continue domestically
in the form of wide spread distribution of tangible wealth that would
put limits on their earnings. So 'over there' to developing countries as
China and India, then SE Asia and eventually Africa where the human an
raw resources are cheaper to come by then in the democratizing domestic
domain.
Like starved pack of animals we fight with each other over the scraps WE ARE ALLOWED to have.
Have what ever reasons you choose.
The reality and depths of the wretched destitution and unwanted misery reside in the fabric of this soulless civic, seeking the solution which their pain has numbed to an anesthetized dystopia avoidance for fear of losing this miserable existence's sensations-the sum total of their cherished being.
The sacred vernacular and colloquial that's used more for signifying and social posturing that became a cultural censor and consensus, than a clarifying analysis of 'what is', it is bastardized and prostituted worse than the human representations of those terms.
More insidious is the herd "bravado" that exists in defining what and who is by that vain and feckless 'sacred vernacular and colloquial' that allows shows of social consensus of performance cultural angst for comfort in the absence of engagement in moralistic grand standing in amoralistic circumstances!
As some have asked of my identity...
But first, to answer the comments of my verbalisms. It can be prose, which gives neutered, reductionist facts of instruction-or hopefully-information. Or it can be an abstract art that affects and forces us to no longer be detached, but emotionally engaged.
I see that an "artist" is unconcerned of the value others will place on what's been created. Much as the MGM logo states
, ARS GRATIA ARTIS [art for the sake of art], I attempt to cohere, if not adhere to the spirit of that dictum.
I do it for those souls living in muttering resentment to their secular overlords leverage of economic or emotional power over them. I do it for those inspiring souls, who-for me-were prematurely aborted by their Icarus lifestyles that were a misfit for their time and place. For these and others who aren't allowed or unable to have such a platform to procreate into the moment, I do this.
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Speaking of 'procreation', I will address the defamations about my 'identity'. Unlike those who bind themselves to their provincial place in this time and space, I've come to see myself as an extrapolated, metamorphic reincarnation of the history of my birth date's agelessness heralding of endings/beginning of things. I am the progeny of the eruption of Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, the bringing to end of Rome by the Goths, the brutality done to the Huguenots in France, the winds of Hurricane Andrew upon the shores of southern Florida-the announcement/pronouncement of the change's advent-historically and seasonally. What dominated before was no more. I unconsciously, at first, and now more compulsively consciously now am and have been that irrepressible new moment which is an inherent challenge to those of smug presumption of what is in form and substance. THAT IS WHO I AM, beyond the identifiable an from the anonymous and anomalous.
Beyond your temporal ego to your timeless being < Pi-edPiperHound >
Once you get home and unwind, if at all. Where does your mind and soul reside? In the irksome agitations of the day. In the exhilarations of your engaging the day's moments? The after-work physical and mental venues of escape?
In one of those venues of escape, are there insights on things you noticed about yourself that were more applicable to other things
than the time, place, and
events in which they
were taken note? Were
those things transcendent in quality
and for your present thinking and future behavior?
If that former narrative rings true in your memory of things, have there been other similar insights
that are related in the nature of being transcending thoughts and perspective changes of behavior?
It's these things that remove you from the immediacy of your present circumstances and the roles you choose or are obliged to assume for those circumstances, does it bring you to a stoic place of detachment and connected to grander principles and their aesthetic trappings that envelope those principles?
Those aesthetic trappings bring you to an attitude that what your expressing or exhibiting isn't for the benefit of your ego's admiration or status for itself or from others. What you
first see retrospectively and now is prospectively being a channel and
the vessel-pawn of a perceived imperative of Time's demands in its visitation to the doings of the temporal moment.
In that retrospective insight and prospective willingness, you acknowledge yourself being a citizen of eternal Time, that has its own standards that go past doing things for your standing among others in your physical and social space in the present, but in support of the future consequence beyond yours or your contemporaries presents angst of conceivable thoughts and emotions
de Ol'Hound
Elijah Anderson on the burden of being Black in white spaces
Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, discusses his latest book, “Black in White Space,” which documents the unique challenges facing Black people as they navigate overwhelmingly white settings and struggle to overcome stereotypes that continue to stigmatize them.
The pressures to be cohesive and acculturated in micro-social interactions and the indirect institutional manifestations and decorum have created the friction that E. Anderson expounds upon. The lack of a nuanced, intimate empathy by most non-minority, white students to the ethos of Black people who are descendants of their ante-Bellum-to-Jim Crow progenitors and the ethos they developed as a reactive, coping mechanism to those environments that were repressive and terroristic to Black life has its latter-day modified, evolved, coping forms of non-minority attitudes of today.
Even with more integrative and pluralistic interactions that allow more latitude in the micro-interactions, the macro-scenes resistance to Critical Race Theory doctrine, per se, and other contemporary progressive (but short of hype-sensitive and over-the-top, so-called "wokeness") aspirations reveals the present nuanced distinctions of friction between Black and non-minority culture.
