I remember a line from the hit HBO series "Mad Men".
In the episode where Israel and jews are inevitably plugged, the uber dignified and classy jewish retail heiress advises her ad agency exec fling about his Israeli government clients - a not so subtle word to the wise on israelis : "Never cross them!" (the exclamation is mine though).
Sandler makes good on this in his latest soft-porn outing, and does good by his zio-jewish roots.
Putting lipstick (or slapstick) on a pig? You betcha jewish nose, er, ass.
It would be funny, if the pig he was selling wasn't responsible for a continuous stream of war crimes and violations of international law like ethnic cleansing wars of agression and false flag terrorist campaigns.
Of course all the JAP extras in the movie are going gaga over the cod-piece-adorned jewish pretty boy.
Contrary to the apparent patronizing, arab stereotypes remain unchallenged in this shlock and are notched up - but what else could we expect from an israel promotional film?
Here's a joke from the movie: A palestinian business would succeed if only they hired an israeli to pork their neshakhim customers. Geddit? Most arab viewers don't! they just laugh at this shit, not realizing the joke's on them.
Here's another "problem" this film aims to to solve. Arabic mainstream cinema still holding out on profanities, unlike the European counterparts? No problemo. let's work arab profanities into the dialogue of the arab characters used in jewish movies.
The movie makes a lot of points.
First off the bat, Israelis are kickass at hacky sack. Those israelis, they're such peace-loving hippies.
Notice the Arabesque work on the windows at Sandler's israeli home. I couldn't help wondering how many of the American and Arab fans of this movie realize it is probably because the house once belonged to Arabs who were kicked out of it.
And while israelis enjoy the fine healthy low-cholestrol vegetarian cuisine of baba ghanoush and hommos dips , arabs the actual originators of that cuisine and those names eat the bogus "Mukhin Tukhin" - sort of like the Khlash Kalash in the Simpsons episode "Homer vs. the city of the New York" . uh, huh. What else?
Also one learns from this movie that Arabs just love their goats. You gotta wonder why.
And where are the Americans in this movie?
Check out the American's mom getting serviced by the Israeli guys. She doesn't mind even over the protests of her emasculated american son. Must say there's a tad a realism there. After all, if it ain't sexually promiscious it ain't american.
D'ailleurs, only in America does an actor like Sandler get to become a movie star and then get away with bashing and stereotyping Americans as either rich republican community-destroying tycoons or as white supremacist militant gunnuts (or as ex-topless model nymphomaniacs with genital sores like the character portrayed by jewish Lainie Kazan - a real life ex-topless model).
Well, the last i checked Walmart, and all the banks, movie studios and newspapers were owned and run by second and third generation naturalized jewish immigrants.
But why let that get in they way of bashing and demonizing Sandler's own country, huh?
Heck the true blue all-american congressmen and women already debase their own country, way more than Sandler or Shpielberg or Eisner or Weinstein do in their movies.
And Mel Gibson? Bashing Mel Gibson? Ouch.
Why? because he filmed a passion play and said the jews are behind all the wars? It isn't like he was wrong on that one.
There's more. Arabs in the US are not professsionals and academics. But taxi drivers and newspaper stand sellers who order stuff from terrorist shopping lines , and look fearfully over their backs when speaking ill of "Khizballah shmizballah" - as if NYC is awash with arab terrorist ears , rather than with Israeli intel and smuggling mafia.
Back to Arab stereotypes though. Not only they're cab drivers rather than high-end professionals, they're also extremely rude, calling their old lady customers "old cow" and "die in hell".
In contrast of course, the Israeli commando come hair stylist protag is so nice to old ladies, he generates the bulk of the business to the fledgling palestinian hair styling business, literally by turning it into a whorehouse for the aging esteem- and attention-starved ladies.
Are arabs thumbing their nose at this? I highly doubt it. They're too busy eating each other for breakfast and putting each other down , while they're oblivious to this shit. In fact the arabs actually enjoy this crapola, too thick to see the rank anti-arabism and israeli promotion on display here.
The actress' bimbo character has this exchange of lines with Sandnigger, er, Sandler (emphasis mine):
prototypical arab-american bimbo - "i got sick of all the hate, on BOTH sides"
Sandnigger,er, Sandler - "yes , especially yours".
And the arab character takes it, lets that line pass. Her next line?
the model arab female for the jewish producers of this film says: "Both sides crazy".
Both sides crazy?
Where is Said when you need him? Sandler's arab "other" in this film is again feminized. Let me elaborate: It wouldn't be so becoming / seemly /acceptable if jewish commediennes Tina Fey or Molly Shannon or Sarah Silverman played leading parts where they fall in love with an Arab male. Geddit? That's the point.
But to give credit where credit's due, the extras dressed up in veils sitting around John Turturo's character in the one of the scenes at the "mukhy tukhy" restaurant , do indeed look like the veiled Arab sluts and prostitutes that adorn the streets of most Arab capitals. Nice touch , Smigel and Apatow.
Smigel? Smeagul?
In closing, the main point that comes across in this movie is taken: Zionists are as messed up as ever.
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16 October 2008
17 September 2008
film review draft: the happening (2008)
- Dear M. Night,
scenes where a largish number of extras group together doing mostly nothing but "focus" on and follow developments in a protagonist's unfolding personal drama, like talking on the phone to her kids who are facing danger do not work.
you gave us unexpected helpings of such scenes in lady in the water and the village. These in terms of drama do not cut it anymore in terms of believability , since you're a "realist" gothic director would exclude this bullshit from the threshold for sus. of disbelief.
Secondly, they are distracting. even if well played by the extras no one expects a dozen people let alone more to stand around following the conversation of a poor woman in distress on a cell phone no less.
No seriously, drop the sentimentality. Sure give us the hard facts , the drama/action events but don't pause and linger after each one to pout and try to show and savour rather academic emotion. Our emotions are intelligent and elicit themselves by themselves. they don't need these outdated methods to be evoked.
- There was the scientific gaffes which got a thorough drubbing in many filmgoer reviews websites . but one of the criticisms can be overlooked like we had to do in "The ruins" (2007) which is the speed of an evolving plant action , a central premise to the story. ... Read more
scenes where a largish number of extras group together doing mostly nothing but "focus" on and follow developments in a protagonist's unfolding personal drama, like talking on the phone to her kids who are facing danger do not work.
you gave us unexpected helpings of such scenes in lady in the water and the village. These in terms of drama do not cut it anymore in terms of believability , since you're a "realist" gothic director would exclude this bullshit from the threshold for sus. of disbelief.
Secondly, they are distracting. even if well played by the extras no one expects a dozen people let alone more to stand around following the conversation of a poor woman in distress on a cell phone no less.
No seriously, drop the sentimentality. Sure give us the hard facts , the drama/action events but don't pause and linger after each one to pout and try to show and savour rather academic emotion. Our emotions are intelligent and elicit themselves by themselves. they don't need these outdated methods to be evoked.
- There was the scientific gaffes which got a thorough drubbing in many filmgoer reviews websites . but one of the criticisms can be overlooked like we had to do in "The ruins" (2007) which is the speed of an evolving plant action , a central premise to the story. ... Read more
music note: the "world" mislabel
a lot of labeling / mislabeling / marketing music as "world" actually does that music a disservice or injustice.
a lot of music called "world" should be simply called "folk".
it would be arrogant to reserve the folk label only to largely anglo-saxon or gaelic music or even restrict it to just european regional musical flavors.
yet other music might now be simply local folk or tinge - but is more distinctly within a well known genre , such as soul , funk , reggae , ska, latin, techno, jazz, pop , gospel choir, dance , etc.
The slapping of a "world!" sticker did not have to be endured in the case of modern latin american music - whose genres were recognized in the english musical lexicon and were identified by the proper names of their own styles ranging from son rhumba and salsa (cuba,...) , bossa nova (brasil) to tango (argentine)
likewise, nor should the tree of genres of musics in africa suffer a "world" label that bypasses the complexity and variety even within localities by omitting naming them with their proper names.
it is notable that some of the latin style names and the way they carry over to african styles from the sahil to the sudan (eg, sudanese rhumba) help in mapping to their sources the many african influences on modern music. ... Read more
a lot of music called "world" should be simply called "folk".
it would be arrogant to reserve the folk label only to largely anglo-saxon or gaelic music or even restrict it to just european regional musical flavors.
yet other music might now be simply local folk or tinge - but is more distinctly within a well known genre , such as soul , funk , reggae , ska, latin, techno, jazz, pop , gospel choir, dance , etc.
The slapping of a "world!" sticker did not have to be endured in the case of modern latin american music - whose genres were recognized in the english musical lexicon and were identified by the proper names of their own styles ranging from son rhumba and salsa (cuba,...) , bossa nova (brasil) to tango (argentine)
likewise, nor should the tree of genres of musics in africa suffer a "world" label that bypasses the complexity and variety even within localities by omitting naming them with their proper names.
it is notable that some of the latin style names and the way they carry over to african styles from the sahil to the sudan (eg, sudanese rhumba) help in mapping to their sources the many african influences on modern music. ... Read more
Etymo note: the glyph R and Rei, Rex , Ric , rich, Roye , Roy , Roi , Reg, Regular, Regn. , Reign, Reich , Raïs, Ra'is
Proto sinaitic may have had a considerable genealogic influence on proto-canaanite , whence phonoecian and its descendants come (nearly all non-logographic alphabets (as the wikipedia article, "Genealogy of scripts derived from Proto-Sinaitic", also notes.
There is a clear descendance from the hieroglyphic Ra's (head) representation of a head and the proto-sinaic glyph to the proto-canaanite then phonecian P pointing left, then the greek Rho with the glyph P .
the origin of this letter in proto-cananite and phoneician was rather pictorgrammic or ideographic , originally taken from a graphic refernce to "head" part of the human body. this relation persists through proto-sinaitic and to hieroglyphic where the pictogramm is derived.
as such the glyph's logogramic ancestor was a morpheme which semantic content got sublimated abstracted or removed while some graphic form was retained.
so it is ironic that the european term for the monarch , at least starting with latin
"rex" and "regula" would come to be represented with an initial R .
though it is difficult to look at Rex , Rei, ric and ra'is or ra's and not get ideas.
compounding this is that ra` and rais and ra's and the pictogram all originated in the same country, the antecedent in a direct line to the european alphabets.
compound this further with the persistence of the morpheme "ra's" head in semitic language such as arabic. though, here, in the semitic language the glyph is far from the P or R glyph.
On another strain , that is however more tenuous and speculative , the egyptian word Ra' denoting at least a sun god , if not a brahman-type or godhead deity , may have been at the origin of the transition to the latin Rex, a name which would also written with the letter Rho and glyph P which descends from the writing 'head' in proto sinaitic.
This is only one reason to surmise an afro-asiatic origin to the latin Rex .
Another reason could be the glyphic link itself. ... Read more
There is a clear descendance from the hieroglyphic Ra's (head) representation of a head and the proto-sinaic glyph to the proto-canaanite then phonecian P pointing left, then the greek Rho with the glyph P .
the origin of this letter in proto-cananite and phoneician was rather pictorgrammic or ideographic , originally taken from a graphic refernce to "head" part of the human body. this relation persists through proto-sinaitic and to hieroglyphic where the pictogramm is derived.
as such the glyph's logogramic ancestor was a morpheme which semantic content got sublimated abstracted or removed while some graphic form was retained.
so it is ironic that the european term for the monarch , at least starting with latin
"rex" and "regula" would come to be represented with an initial R .
though it is difficult to look at Rex , Rei, ric and ra'is or ra's and not get ideas.
compounding this is that ra` and rais and ra's and the pictogram all originated in the same country, the antecedent in a direct line to the european alphabets.
compound this further with the persistence of the morpheme "ra's" head in semitic language such as arabic. though, here, in the semitic language the glyph is far from the P or R glyph.
On another strain , that is however more tenuous and speculative , the egyptian word Ra' denoting at least a sun god , if not a brahman-type or godhead deity , may have been at the origin of the transition to the latin Rex, a name which would also written with the letter Rho and glyph P which descends from the writing 'head' in proto sinaitic.
This is only one reason to surmise an afro-asiatic origin to the latin Rex .
Another reason could be the glyphic link itself. ... Read more
egypt mother of the world + synthesis from a probabilistic clou
there is another reason to vindicate the proverb / adage "egypt is the mother of the world"
the first reason i'd thought and mentioned before on past blogs is the genetics view that current humanity hail from a stock of a few tens of thousands originating in africa (perhaps east africa) - who thus must have fanned out onto the rest of the ma`moura. This means that they must have passage this passage mostly through Egypt.
Such movement being essentially generational and slow , most if not all of the people of the earth today have had egyptian-born ancestors who may have lived all their lives in egypt - bona fide egyptians.
now the other reason, in light of an earlier language note , would come from a proto-sinaitic script origin to the proto-canaanite->phonecian script .
Such a vector seems to agree with the genetic conjecture that modern humans have come from an original african stock that migrated through egypt.
the proto-canaanite script , via its phonecian and aramaic script descendants has led to most of the alphabets or abjads used in the world today from indochina to europe to the native americans.
this observation also lends credence to the deduction of genetic links that accompany script lineages and divergences.
thus earlier i conjectured earlier that a glyphic lineage link might exist between south arabian and ancient berber and that it might indicate a genetic or ethnic lineage also between the arabian bedouins and the berbers.
now by the same mode of the thought we can also conjecture that a glyphic lineage from proto-sinaitic to proto-canaanite corresponds to a genetic / ethnic lineage between the egyptian people (themselves a link in the genetic chain from the east african stock) and the canaanites and their descdendants who populated the fertile crescent.
Update:
It must be recognized that Egypt was not (or could not possibly be) the only route out of Africa. The close relationship between the South Arabian and Ethiopic scripts leaves little doubt as to direct contact across the strait Between Southwestern Arabia and Africa's eastern pseudopod, so-called its horn, that was as intense as that between Phonecians and Greeks. This is in addition to the much-recorded common history of both regions.
Likewise, movement across the Gibraltar strait is not inconceivable, and some suggest that
this raises questions like but whence came the felix arabs? In such trangenerationally slow processes, did south arabia first become inhabited by a population drift from the north and ultimately via sinai? Or was colonialization started by early east african seafarers?
We find that in this transgenerationally slow process of population movement and ethnolinguistic genesis ,
a. more fidelity may be found in a continuum model were movement could have reached there simultaneously or nearly so from both west and north.
b. such movement would likely be bidirectional and indeed omnidirectional. This is after all human activity accumulated over many generations.
The continuum model thus postulates movement of people pretty much in all directions, including a continuum of motion or flow closing the path geographically circumscribing the red sea into a closed cycle of population movement. Even like a vortex. This blurs the certitudes on whether the earliest south arabians came from the north or the west (or even from the east), giving instead a probability distribution. Though I wonder if this would hold up to genetic and protegenic data on the regions involved.
Just taking the physical analogy a qubit further , in its own context (which is inferred from religious text to be open), it is not insignificant historically that the continents were connected, bridged as it were, at Egypt and not in the south. And that the Sinai passage has been in the stewardship or fief of rather than that of others.
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the first reason i'd thought and mentioned before on past blogs is the genetics view that current humanity hail from a stock of a few tens of thousands originating in africa (perhaps east africa) - who thus must have fanned out onto the rest of the ma`moura. This means that they must have passage this passage mostly through Egypt.
Such movement being essentially generational and slow , most if not all of the people of the earth today have had egyptian-born ancestors who may have lived all their lives in egypt - bona fide egyptians.
now the other reason, in light of an earlier language note , would come from a proto-sinaitic script origin to the proto-canaanite->phonecian script .
Such a vector seems to agree with the genetic conjecture that modern humans have come from an original african stock that migrated through egypt.
the proto-canaanite script , via its phonecian and aramaic script descendants has led to most of the alphabets or abjads used in the world today from indochina to europe to the native americans.
this observation also lends credence to the deduction of genetic links that accompany script lineages and divergences.
thus earlier i conjectured earlier that a glyphic lineage link might exist between south arabian and ancient berber and that it might indicate a genetic or ethnic lineage also between the arabian bedouins and the berbers.
now by the same mode of the thought we can also conjecture that a glyphic lineage from proto-sinaitic to proto-canaanite corresponds to a genetic / ethnic lineage between the egyptian people (themselves a link in the genetic chain from the east african stock) and the canaanites and their descdendants who populated the fertile crescent.
Update:
3.XI.2008
It must be recognized that Egypt was not (or could not possibly be) the only route out of Africa. The close relationship between the South Arabian and Ethiopic scripts leaves little doubt as to direct contact across the strait Between Southwestern Arabia and Africa's eastern pseudopod, so-called its horn, that was as intense as that between Phonecians and Greeks. This is in addition to the much-recorded common history of both regions.
Likewise, movement across the Gibraltar strait is not inconceivable, and some suggest that
this raises questions like but whence came the felix arabs? In such trangenerationally slow processes, did south arabia first become inhabited by a population drift from the north and ultimately via sinai? Or was colonialization started by early east african seafarers?
We find that in this transgenerationally slow process of population movement and ethnolinguistic genesis ,
a. more fidelity may be found in a continuum model were movement could have reached there simultaneously or nearly so from both west and north.
b. such movement would likely be bidirectional and indeed omnidirectional. This is after all human activity accumulated over many generations.
The continuum model thus postulates movement of people pretty much in all directions, including a continuum of motion or flow closing the path geographically circumscribing the red sea into a closed cycle of population movement. Even like a vortex. This blurs the certitudes on whether the earliest south arabians came from the north or the west (or even from the east), giving instead a probability distribution. Though I wonder if this would hold up to genetic and protegenic data on the regions involved.
Just taking the physical analogy a qubit further , in its own context (which is inferred from religious text to be open), it is not insignificant historically that the continents were connected, bridged as it were, at Egypt and not in the south. And that the Sinai passage has been in the stewardship or fief of
16 September 2008
language note: language
from http://www.omniglot.com/writing/swahili.htm :
The earliest known manuscript in Swahili, a poetic epic, was written in the Arabic script and dates from 1728. During the the 19th century Swahili was used as the main language of administration by the European colonial powers in East Afrian and under their influence the Latin alphabet was increasingly used to write it. The first Swahili newspaper, Habari ya Mwezi, was published by missionaries in 1895. ... Read more
The earliest known manuscript in Swahili, a poetic epic, was written in the Arabic script and dates from 1728. During the the 19th century Swahili was used as the main language of administration by the European colonial powers in East Afrian and under their influence the Latin alphabet was increasingly used to write it. The first Swahili newspaper, Habari ya Mwezi, was published by missionaries in 1895. ... Read more
11 September 2008
film review draft
the wokowschis' Speed Racer
The quickest impression this flick gives is its color styling. the color style is reminiscent of the worst 90s disney and daytime tv cartoon style. as krisfaluci noted on the latter, it is ugly.
When I first saw that flick, I thought woe , that's the wochowskis' matrix - their head trip...
Geuaaaah. At first I thought primary colors? but then no. it was not a primary theme like the 80s Dick tracy . it was ghastly. hello john krisfaluci? whaddaya think of the color styling on that thing?
Another big thing about this flick i guess is the races. nevermind the over the top combat that's going on instead of racing. the thing is, I've played car racing video games before - so the spectacle wasn't new to me. Nor was it new since the spectacle (not very convincing) of roadside combat from the matrix 2 or 3 "recycled" or "unloaded" or whatever it was called.
Point is if a racing game I came across looked like that (there's a racest "environment" in there that looked like a take on that mosque in spain with the many columns and striped arches, but large enough to accomodate the feeding frenzy of racing combat that was going on.
i guess criticizing a wochkowskys' flick is like shooting fish a barrel, or nit picking about how bad a movie made by cinderella's evil stepsisters would be , but here goes.
christina ricci must have been really jonesing for work - as in hasn't been getting any - to work in this affair. Then again, being from the "makers" of the matrix , it was bound to be a hit and a sound biz decision for her.
The sets are terrible.
The conceptions of technology eg computer displays , sets, "workflows" like the workers on the indoor segway highway (segway?) were to be polite, not inspired.
john goodman is not well directed / motivated here. i think i now have a visual of what some reviewers call "phoned in his performance"; though assuming he's a good actor, that'd be harsh.
i didn't like the boy or his persona.
the monkey pet , have they been reading jo zette et jocko ?
They must have been watching however a lot of Pixar. I could see some of Cars in there also Monsters Inc., the Incredibles.
But also Willie wonka and the chocolate factory. wasn't it disney that made the remake?
Cutouts? The big corporate mega conglomerate baddie is keeping a life size cut-out poster of god knows what pre-war industry or racing illustrous personnages in tall hats? What the hell was that.
Don't get me started on the score. Which is odd because just today i checking an early Peter jackson (braindead, 1992) , a real rather provincial (the from down under complex) and primary Jackson material . Anyway , listening to the score on Braindead i could appreciate the effort that was made to punctuate and synchronize with the horror-comedy action. In this flick , however, Speed racer, the score, like other scenes was ham-fisted.
it's like the whockoskis' or whatever don't have good taste in colors or music, or what makes for "impressive" and what doesn't , and what's cool and what's not.
which brings me to that it was not cool - cf. the scene where the CEO and the family on what I guess is the corporate conglomerate's "tour train" slide into what looks like a huge bar with gaudy rococo - think gold guilded over purple , intense fuschia-ish pruple. Also with golden edge lighting occasionally on the actors style of a setting sun ray from across the window.
I now recognize that not all outrageous is "good". There is good outrageous outlandish and there is bad outrageous .
did i mention the snakeoil character?
oh or the childhood memory of a letter murder?
like others (see cloverfield and the prior std fest from spielberg to menachemgolan) they are fixated on the t word.
as i'm listening now to the single "Acceptable in the 80s" by Calvin Harris, it Incidentally feels appropriate.
The visuals (game-like CGItricks and all), the cultural assumptions / pretensions would seem to have worked better in the 80s.
I mean when you got a desert-side fight scene that if you pause looks like a Madness video, you got 80s trash on your hand.
One particularly mean race is set in what seems to be one of the wakoskys' personal nightmares: a sort of hybrid arab/muslim/christian european locality called Casa Cristo, a take on the arabs' casa blanca i guess (the sets in that sequence are all their take on arabesque - that's where the bad guys are hanging out and where the snake oil character - a rival race driver - hails from.
There's also the bashing / stereotyping of france, one of the myriad tv presenters cutaways was a clearly disapproving "disgusted" frenchman.
It's clear now after watching matrices 2 and 3 , the freudian v for vendetta and this , that th re were different creative forces at work on the Matrix (the first , the only one).
I was planning to avoid this doobie if it weren't for a friend's recommendation, whose past recommends fell flat frankly. i just don't learn. ... Read more
The quickest impression this flick gives is its color styling. the color style is reminiscent of the worst 90s disney and daytime tv cartoon style. as krisfaluci noted on the latter, it is ugly.
When I first saw that flick, I thought woe , that's the wochowskis' matrix - their head trip...
Geuaaaah. At first I thought primary colors? but then no. it was not a primary theme like the 80s Dick tracy . it was ghastly. hello john krisfaluci? whaddaya think of the color styling on that thing?
Another big thing about this flick i guess is the races. nevermind the over the top combat that's going on instead of racing. the thing is, I've played car racing video games before - so the spectacle wasn't new to me. Nor was it new since the spectacle (not very convincing) of roadside combat from the matrix 2 or 3 "recycled" or "unloaded" or whatever it was called.
Point is if a racing game I came across looked like that (there's a racest "environment" in there that looked like a take on that mosque in spain with the many columns and striped arches, but large enough to accomodate the feeding frenzy of racing combat that was going on.
i guess criticizing a wochkowskys' flick is like shooting fish a barrel, or nit picking about how bad a movie made by cinderella's evil stepsisters would be , but here goes.
christina ricci must have been really jonesing for work - as in hasn't been getting any - to work in this affair. Then again, being from the "makers" of the matrix , it was bound to be a hit and a sound biz decision for her.
The sets are terrible.
The conceptions of technology eg computer displays , sets, "workflows" like the workers on the indoor segway highway (segway?) were to be polite, not inspired.
john goodman is not well directed / motivated here. i think i now have a visual of what some reviewers call "phoned in his performance"; though assuming he's a good actor, that'd be harsh.
i didn't like the boy or his persona.
the monkey pet , have they been reading jo zette et jocko ?
They must have been watching however a lot of Pixar. I could see some of Cars in there also Monsters Inc., the Incredibles.
But also Willie wonka and the chocolate factory. wasn't it disney that made the remake?
Cutouts? The big corporate mega conglomerate baddie is keeping a life size cut-out poster of god knows what pre-war industry or racing illustrous personnages in tall hats? What the hell was that.
Don't get me started on the score. Which is odd because just today i checking an early Peter jackson (braindead, 1992) , a real rather provincial (the from down under complex) and primary Jackson material . Anyway , listening to the score on Braindead i could appreciate the effort that was made to punctuate and synchronize with the horror-comedy action. In this flick , however, Speed racer, the score, like other scenes was ham-fisted.
it's like the whockoskis' or whatever don't have good taste in colors or music, or what makes for "impressive" and what doesn't , and what's cool and what's not.
which brings me to that it was not cool - cf. the scene where the CEO and the family on what I guess is the corporate conglomerate's "tour train" slide into what looks like a huge bar with gaudy rococo - think gold guilded over purple , intense fuschia-ish pruple. Also with golden edge lighting occasionally on the actors style of a setting sun ray from across the window.
I now recognize that not all outrageous is "good". There is good outrageous outlandish and there is bad outrageous .
did i mention the snakeoil character?
oh or the childhood memory of a letter murder?
like others (see cloverfield and the prior std fest from spielberg to menachemgolan) they are fixated on the t word.
as i'm listening now to the single "Acceptable in the 80s" by Calvin Harris, it Incidentally feels appropriate.
The visuals (game-like CGItricks and all), the cultural assumptions / pretensions would seem to have worked better in the 80s.
I mean when you got a desert-side fight scene that if you pause looks like a Madness video, you got 80s trash on your hand.
One particularly mean race is set in what seems to be one of the wakoskys' personal nightmares: a sort of hybrid arab/muslim/christian european locality called Casa Cristo, a take on the arabs' casa blanca i guess (the sets in that sequence are all their take on arabesque - that's where the bad guys are hanging out and where the snake oil character - a rival race driver - hails from.
There's also the bashing / stereotyping of france, one of the myriad tv presenters cutaways was a clearly disapproving "disgusted" frenchman.
It's clear now after watching matrices 2 and 3 , the freudian v for vendetta and this , that th re were different creative forces at work on the Matrix (the first , the only one).
I was planning to avoid this doobie if it weren't for a friend's recommendation, whose past recommends fell flat frankly. i just don't learn. ... Read more
05 September 2008
geneaology of scripts
A partial geneaology of scripts with a conjectured interpretation.
legend:
ivory ellipses represent languages
purple edges mean "maybe"
green edges are standard genealogical connections. ... Read more
03 September 2008
etymo note: some cultural notes
many western words cognate with counterparts in the indian languages, particularly hindi , have a B sound in their western branches, that is
substituted with a V sound in the indian languages.
This pattern is also found in some languages neighboring the indian subcontinent such as farsi and turki.
Indeed we find that identity between an eastern V with a western B (phoenician greek romance and germanic - don't know about celtic yet) in the russian or slavic languages as well.
Incidentally this division is more of a true (more literal) east-west division with russia, persia, turkic asia, india on the east * (not mentioning the far east, the more easterly half of this "east") ; and europe , at leastthe western levant ** , and africa on the western side.
As if
* this includes the caucasus, being a region comprising the extensions of three nations, the russ, the turks, the persians (kurds are a turkic people) and perhaps those of arab or semitic nations too.
** the arab world would happen to be smack in the middle looking onto both sides - though the linguistic implications thereof do not concern us here.
then we have to think what does it take for a person to sound a B as a V.
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in the process of imagining realizing the hindu religion is as it were to its people it helps to think of ancient greek religion.
firstly, we must ask whether we can talk of a greek "religion" in the first place. it seems to me from past encounters in reading that individual regions bestowed their own religious elements, not least bringing / adding their regional deity(ies) to the relgious dogma of "belief". it would thus appear that greek religion which we know chiefly via mythology related to us by poets (maybe they weren't poets
at all) was in fact my fragmented regional religions and cults sharing a common general pantheon that rather liberal in its admission policy and a general cosmogony. these common religious elements become closely tied / entertwined with linguistic features (such as greek names for hell like hades and to culture in general (contributing to a large canon of poetry dramaturgy folklore and philosophy).
It seems reasonable that hinduism is similar in this way to its greek
contemporary.
as it were there may have been a brief and interesting encounter between indic culture and perhaps by extension hinduism and buddhism and greek culture in the moment of alexander the great.
another linkage bridging the two east and west localities (hind/sindh
and europe) is the famed indo-european , or indo-aryan connection
connection and ethnic.
a reasonable / useful reminder is the paradoxical disdain of those germanic aryans to the roma who by most trusted accounts hailed from india during the late middle ages.
i was once told that hinduism is a collection or agglomeration of numerous local cults sects and regional folk religions. an agglomeration that catalogues regional and recurrent elements such as deities and that embraces different scriptural books into a common persistent pantheon and textual canon.
it should be understood as such.
i would hazard that the degree of fragmentation not only in a typical "religion" 's divergent spiritual schools but als in its sects is much higher in hinduism than it is in islam (both now with comparable population sizes ).
that degree of fragmentation is a good measure of the aspect of religion concerning the solidity and consistency of its defining dogmatic idiosyncracies.
for instance compare the degree of fragmentation in divergence from central dogma in protestantism with that of its counterpart in catholicism.
hinduism is more fragmented than buddhism as well.
the modern (recent) spread of interest in hindu belief and practices - largely in the form of exceedingly peripheral orders and sect and schools - is trans-atlantic phenomenon. to a larger extent, the
persistence of the hindu collective religion despite the presence of more consistent forms of buddhism , and abrahamic religions , may have been also the effect of a western europe influence in the form of colonization (the dutch and then french and english east india companies , and the raj).
I could not help but notice the effect the raj has had on the displacement of a largely muslim predomination throughout the indian subcontinent , not only in terms of political power but also in terms of population size.
to appreciate the effect this kind of displacement or eradication has on the collective power and reach of the muslim religion,
we can use as an illustration the analogue of the effect displacing the arabic alphabet as the alphabet for many of the turkic languages from xin-jiang/turkestan in the east to turkey in the west,and replacing it with latin and cyrillic on the mutual reach and readibility between arabic and all those languages.
the displacement of both population (by expulsion or extermination)
and influence in many parts of the muslim worlds have been a recurrent pattern in the era european colonization that extends from the late midieval age to the present time. this has also been true in the case of latin american and australian nations and elsewhere.
in light of european colonization's displacement of social orders prevalent in the XVIth cent. the persistence of the archaic hindu system today may have been due to a revival and a patronage exercised over it by the brits.
this is not dissimilar to charges of british incubation of other religious trends such as arabian wahabism or ismaili and bahai religions.
one finds a pattern here, for it was in england as well that some of the more exotic offshoots of protestanism took refuge or were incubated.
Even if this is not true for the modern hinduism in the subcontinent, it would account for much of hinduism's interface with the "west"
(for it is through the residual colonial filter that hinduism comes in contact with arabs africans and latin americans in addition to europe)
particularly in the form of the exceedingly divergent sects and imitations of western-tinted persuasions such as the transatlantic movement of hare krisna - notably with charges of abuses among the western dominated communities.
P.S.
As if to support the argument , after posting the current entry i ran into this passage at wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_denominations
):
"Influential 19th to 20th century Hindu revivalist organizations include Arya Samaj, Tilak Mission Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Brahmo Samaj, Parisada Hindu Dharma, Prarthana Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana, Swadhyay Movement, Swaminarayan Sampraday, Sathya Sai Organisation.
Hinduism was politicized in the context of the Indian independence movement, and has resulted in the rise of Hindu nationalism to a significant political force in the Republic of India." ... Read more
substituted with a V sound in the indian languages.
This pattern is also found in some languages neighboring the indian subcontinent such as farsi and turki.
Indeed we find that identity between an eastern V with a western B (phoenician greek romance and germanic - don't know about celtic yet) in the russian or slavic languages as well.
Incidentally this division is more of a true (more literal) east-west division with russia, persia, turkic asia, india on the east * (not mentioning the far east, the more easterly half of this "east") ; and europe , at leastthe western levant ** , and africa on the western side.
As if
* this includes the caucasus, being a region comprising the extensions of three nations, the russ, the turks, the persians (kurds are a turkic people) and perhaps those of arab or semitic nations too.
** the arab world would happen to be smack in the middle looking onto both sides - though the linguistic implications thereof do not concern us here.
then we have to think what does it take for a person to sound a B as a V.
----------
in the process of imagining realizing the hindu religion is as it were to its people it helps to think of ancient greek religion.
firstly, we must ask whether we can talk of a greek "religion" in the first place. it seems to me from past encounters in reading that individual regions bestowed their own religious elements, not least bringing / adding their regional deity(ies) to the relgious dogma of "belief". it would thus appear that greek religion which we know chiefly via mythology related to us by poets (maybe they weren't poets
at all) was in fact my fragmented regional religions and cults sharing a common general pantheon that rather liberal in its admission policy and a general cosmogony. these common religious elements become closely tied / entertwined with linguistic features (such as greek names for hell like hades and to culture in general (contributing to a large canon of poetry dramaturgy folklore and philosophy).
It seems reasonable that hinduism is similar in this way to its greek
contemporary.
as it were there may have been a brief and interesting encounter between indic culture and perhaps by extension hinduism and buddhism and greek culture in the moment of alexander the great.
another linkage bridging the two east and west localities (hind/sindh
and europe) is the famed indo-european , or indo-aryan connection
connection and ethnic.
a reasonable / useful reminder is the paradoxical disdain of those germanic aryans to the roma who by most trusted accounts hailed from india during the late middle ages.
i was once told that hinduism is a collection or agglomeration of numerous local cults sects and regional folk religions. an agglomeration that catalogues regional and recurrent elements such as deities and that embraces different scriptural books into a common persistent pantheon and textual canon.
it should be understood as such.
i would hazard that the degree of fragmentation not only in a typical "religion" 's divergent spiritual schools but als in its sects is much higher in hinduism than it is in islam (both now with comparable population sizes ).
that degree of fragmentation is a good measure of the aspect of religion concerning the solidity and consistency of its defining dogmatic idiosyncracies.
for instance compare the degree of fragmentation in divergence from central dogma in protestantism with that of its counterpart in catholicism.
hinduism is more fragmented than buddhism as well.
the modern (recent) spread of interest in hindu belief and practices - largely in the form of exceedingly peripheral orders and sect and schools - is trans-atlantic phenomenon. to a larger extent, the
persistence of the hindu collective religion despite the presence of more consistent forms of buddhism , and abrahamic religions , may have been also the effect of a western europe influence in the form of colonization (the dutch and then french and english east india companies , and the raj).
I could not help but notice the effect the raj has had on the displacement of a largely muslim predomination throughout the indian subcontinent , not only in terms of political power but also in terms of population size.
to appreciate the effect this kind of displacement or eradication has on the collective power and reach of the muslim religion,
we can use as an illustration the analogue of the effect displacing the arabic alphabet as the alphabet for many of the turkic languages from xin-jiang/turkestan in the east to turkey in the west,and replacing it with latin and cyrillic on the mutual reach and readibility between arabic and all those languages.
the displacement of both population (by expulsion or extermination)
and influence in many parts of the muslim worlds have been a recurrent pattern in the era european colonization that extends from the late midieval age to the present time. this has also been true in the case of latin american and australian nations and elsewhere.
in light of european colonization's displacement of social orders prevalent in the XVIth cent. the persistence of the archaic hindu system today may have been due to a revival and a patronage exercised over it by the brits.
this is not dissimilar to charges of british incubation of other religious trends such as arabian wahabism or ismaili and bahai religions.
one finds a pattern here, for it was in england as well that some of the more exotic offshoots of protestanism took refuge or were incubated.
Even if this is not true for the modern hinduism in the subcontinent, it would account for much of hinduism's interface with the "west"
(for it is through the residual colonial filter that hinduism comes in contact with arabs africans and latin americans in addition to europe)
particularly in the form of the exceedingly divergent sects and imitations of western-tinted persuasions such as the transatlantic movement of hare krisna - notably with charges of abuses among the western dominated communities.
P.S.
As if to support the argument , after posting the current entry i ran into this passage at wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_denominations
):
"Influential 19th to 20th century Hindu revivalist organizations include Arya Samaj, Tilak Mission Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Brahmo Samaj, Parisada Hindu Dharma, Prarthana Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana, Swadhyay Movement, Swaminarayan Sampraday, Sathya Sai Organisation.
Hinduism was politicized in the context of the Indian independence movement, and has resulted in the rise of Hindu nationalism to a significant political force in the Republic of India." ... Read more
30 August 2008
thoughts on Sicko
an incredulous moore - "So you got no paper rolls, paper tissues or uh kitchen towelette rolls?"
cool french/canadian/brit - "what do you mean?"
moore - "so how do you wipe your ass?"
cool french/canadian/brit - "oh they come and wipes our asses for us"
This little caricature pretty much summarizes Michael Moore's Sicko.
As familiar as I was with the horrors of American medical care there were still jaw dropping moments in that documentary (polemic or not).
Then a few thoughts hit me.
How is it that the biggest bully (the biggest richest nation) in that block of germanic nations we call "The West" has such depraved inhuman health compared to the other western nations ?
The US has always struck me as a sort of large scale (continent-sized) human experiment in nationhood, social and political order.
To a large extent it is, but it is not one for its own sake by any means. It seems more and more plausible to me that the happy Europeans with their universal health coverage and significantly less stressed lifestyles are the real beneficiaries behind this experiment of the US.
The US as it were serves merely as the whacking club to be used by the Europeans to secure their position and advancement in the world and in history.
It is thus that we find the repressive totalitarianism and inhumanity of the social order in the US , in order to cow its population into compliance with implementing Europe's big stick in the world.
It is thus that that belligerent rich big nation treats its citizens so ruthlessly. It is more of a tool in the hands of its real masters and beneficiaries, Europeans.
Another thought. It is this model of society that is being pushed at the "third world" with pervasive ubiquitous cultural encroachment through their "world-class" mass media / entertainment industries.
It is thus that Oliver Stone, Spielberg, Woody Allen are better known throughout the world than Claude Chabrol or Ingmar Bergman or Michel Ocelot or Hayao Miyazaki or Kurusawa.
It Seems that promoting Hollywood and its projection of the American socio-political order is what matters more than promoting the "real" culture being produced in Europe.
another thought. How with such a film out can the rotten politicians still perform their dirty play on the people? And how come the people still take. And just who are those fucking tools in political party conventions cheering and clapping and glorifying those same crooks that have robbed the terrorists (americans) of their humanity ????
Another thought. I am actually one of the stupid people because since my mid-teens it was the US and its culture that commanded my attention and aspirations, not the better more civilized societies in western europe. I was duped largely because no other culture was promoted around me so forcefully but I also fell for it like a brick because I did not know better, was not better discerning.
Only by the time I reached my late twenties did I realize that the country or society I had looked up to , was not the best one. It was the wrong one. There were better societies and cultures to be found in europe and Canada (as far as modern urban societies go). But by then it was too late for me. Too much had been invested by me, mentally, socially, ideologically , that I was left with no resources to switch to a new direction. When the inevitable ideological and financial break down came, the only way was back to where I came from - a place which rejected me upon arrival.
yet another thought. How is it that Americans have come to this? It is a question that Moore asks after sampling how radically different life is for Americans from other western societies.
This is what occurs when you let your country get run by misers. Something that was somehow not fully achieved in Europe.
The money dries up. social welfare and solidarity dries up. The faucets are turned shut.
Instead the Americans (or rather terrorists) are fed a steady diet of fear , war mongering and significantly phobias against all that can be good for them.
As Moore rightly wondered, why is that American opinion leaders want Americans to hate the French? Could it because the French are actually good to themselves? That they actually have a functioning democracy that puts intellectuals rather than media whores in public office, and that actually pushes and accomplishes the good and well-being for the population ? Yes, Michael. That's right.
Americans were taught since the 1950s that socialism is evil and a menace, and have been made to actively fight it in Italy and Greece and Portugal and latin America and Asia and Africa with the most ruthless and bloody ways - even while at hte same time, their far mentally superior kith and kin in Germany, France , Britain , Canada and Scandinavia quietly implemented socialist policy in health care and social welfare and labor rights.
The terrorists were fed a steady of fears and wars against helpless peoples and nations who would have otherwise made great friends to the Americans (eg, the south east Asians and the arabs and the Africans) and made great contributions to american society. Instead of being allowed to be a truly universal human experiment in which all input was welcome , it was restricted to input by Germanic whites only and their necrotic miserly financiers - to serve as a big stick to defend both the germanics of Europe and the petty supremacist and misanthropic fantasies of the necrotics.
The steady diet of fear and phobia and hysteria that is force-fed to Americans since they flip their first comics or watch their first cartoons is a theme that has featured prominently in a lot of Moore's work , such as Bowling for Columbine.
Americans are ruled by fears and phobias and constantly told to be afraid. They are literally ruled by terrorism . And this is terrorism if ever there was a good example. And this is how they deal with other peoples they seek to control and subjugate.
The other tool this movie pointed out for control of the people is debt. It is to keep them in debt even "before they get their first job". Keep them indebted and demoralized.
I felt Moore treated these two means of control well in his documentaries and is prominent in this one.
But as he says, disenfranchised dehumanized demoralized as we (he was refering to Americans, and I refer to us the overseas subjects of the necrotic empire) have no other choice but to "hope for the best" - lest we regain our humanity and get labeled "terrorists" by the terrorists.
here in Egypt we have been following the same American (terrorist) model. Remove social safety networks, endenture the people into debt demoralization and megalomania. We are being steered and herded into "a society of me not we".
Anyway, polemic or not, sensationalistic or inaccurate or not, ishta `aleik ya Michael. You touched me again. ... Read more
cool french/canadian/brit - "what do you mean?"
moore - "so how do you wipe your ass?"
cool french/canadian/brit - "oh they come and wipes our asses for us"
This little caricature pretty much summarizes Michael Moore's Sicko.
As familiar as I was with the horrors of American medical care there were still jaw dropping moments in that documentary (polemic or not).
Then a few thoughts hit me.
How is it that the biggest bully (the biggest richest nation) in that block of germanic nations we call "The West" has such depraved inhuman health compared to the other western nations ?
The US has always struck me as a sort of large scale (continent-sized) human experiment in nationhood, social and political order.
To a large extent it is, but it is not one for its own sake by any means. It seems more and more plausible to me that the happy Europeans with their universal health coverage and significantly less stressed lifestyles are the real beneficiaries behind this experiment of the US.
The US as it were serves merely as the whacking club to be used by the Europeans to secure their position and advancement in the world and in history.
It is thus that we find the repressive totalitarianism and inhumanity of the social order in the US , in order to cow its population into compliance with implementing Europe's big stick in the world.
It is thus that that belligerent rich big nation treats its citizens so ruthlessly. It is more of a tool in the hands of its real masters and beneficiaries, Europeans.
Another thought. It is this model of society that is being pushed at the "third world" with pervasive ubiquitous cultural encroachment through their "world-class" mass media / entertainment industries.
It is thus that Oliver Stone, Spielberg, Woody Allen are better known throughout the world than Claude Chabrol or Ingmar Bergman or Michel Ocelot or Hayao Miyazaki or Kurusawa.
It Seems that promoting Hollywood and its projection of the American socio-political order is what matters more than promoting the "real" culture being produced in Europe.
another thought. How with such a film out can the rotten politicians still perform their dirty play on the people? And how come the people still take. And just who are those fucking tools in political party conventions cheering and clapping and glorifying those same crooks that have robbed the terrorists (americans) of their humanity ????
Another thought. I am actually one of the stupid people because since my mid-teens it was the US and its culture that commanded my attention and aspirations, not the better more civilized societies in western europe. I was duped largely because no other culture was promoted around me so forcefully but I also fell for it like a brick because I did not know better, was not better discerning.
Only by the time I reached my late twenties did I realize that the country or society I had looked up to , was not the best one. It was the wrong one. There were better societies and cultures to be found in europe and Canada (as far as modern urban societies go). But by then it was too late for me. Too much had been invested by me, mentally, socially, ideologically , that I was left with no resources to switch to a new direction. When the inevitable ideological and financial break down came, the only way was back to where I came from - a place which rejected me upon arrival.
yet another thought. How is it that Americans have come to this? It is a question that Moore asks after sampling how radically different life is for Americans from other western societies.
This is what occurs when you let your country get run by misers. Something that was somehow not fully achieved in Europe.
The money dries up. social welfare and solidarity dries up. The faucets are turned shut.
Instead the Americans (or rather terrorists) are fed a steady diet of fear , war mongering and significantly phobias against all that can be good for them.
As Moore rightly wondered, why is that American opinion leaders want Americans to hate the French? Could it because the French are actually good to themselves? That they actually have a functioning democracy that puts intellectuals rather than media whores in public office, and that actually pushes and accomplishes the good and well-being for the population ? Yes, Michael. That's right.
Americans were taught since the 1950s that socialism is evil and a menace, and have been made to actively fight it in Italy and Greece and Portugal and latin America and Asia and Africa with the most ruthless and bloody ways - even while at hte same time, their far mentally superior kith and kin in Germany, France , Britain , Canada and Scandinavia quietly implemented socialist policy in health care and social welfare and labor rights.
The terrorists were fed a steady of fears and wars against helpless peoples and nations who would have otherwise made great friends to the Americans (eg, the south east Asians and the arabs and the Africans) and made great contributions to american society. Instead of being allowed to be a truly universal human experiment in which all input was welcome , it was restricted to input by Germanic whites only and their necrotic miserly financiers - to serve as a big stick to defend both the germanics of Europe and the petty supremacist and misanthropic fantasies of the necrotics.
The steady diet of fear and phobia and hysteria that is force-fed to Americans since they flip their first comics or watch their first cartoons is a theme that has featured prominently in a lot of Moore's work , such as Bowling for Columbine.
Americans are ruled by fears and phobias and constantly told to be afraid. They are literally ruled by terrorism . And this is terrorism if ever there was a good example. And this is how they deal with other peoples they seek to control and subjugate.
The other tool this movie pointed out for control of the people is debt. It is to keep them in debt even "before they get their first job". Keep them indebted and demoralized.
I felt Moore treated these two means of control well in his documentaries and is prominent in this one.
But as he says, disenfranchised dehumanized demoralized as we (he was refering to Americans, and I refer to us the overseas subjects of the necrotic empire) have no other choice but to "hope for the best" - lest we regain our humanity and get labeled "terrorists" by the terrorists.
here in Egypt we have been following the same American (terrorist) model. Remove social safety networks, endenture the people into debt demoralization and megalomania. We are being steered and herded into "a society of me not we".
Anyway, polemic or not, sensationalistic or inaccurate or not, ishta `aleik ya Michael. You touched me again. ... Read more
14 August 2008
some informatic notions that apply to us macroscopically
Warning: This post contains idiocies and is best suited for idiots rather than smarter people!
(This particular train of thought is expressed elsewhere in earlier notes of mine from the period 2005 - 2006, which should be incorporated into any future edits of this post.)
There are some analogues to quantum informatic observations that may apply to us as individuals. This is a first (or second) attempt to enumerate them.
But first a recap of the question of scale.
* The wave / particle duality applies to all things. This is not observable for objects that are much larger than the quantum scale precisely because wave properties such as diffraction and interference become negligible as size scale increases. The properties are there, but they are negligible. As a result wave properties and measures like uncertainty are infinitesimal for objects such as ourselves.
uh, End recap.
However , some informatic properties seem to hold across scales such that their measure does not vanish as we increase in size scales.
Thus for instance,
1. A measure of information is the amount of uncertainty as to the possible content of a given "message".
We see the quantum physical manifestation of this in the case of a confined particle.
The more tightly a particle is confined in space - such as the case of an electron confined to the diameter of the atom - the more uncertainty that results in measuring its position or momentum. This is because the volume of confinement is so small that the momentum of the measuring tool (usually an incident body such as photon or some other particle) interferes significantly with that of the object being measured.
Yet an analogue also presents itself in the case of an individual. If we consider a single single individual (a person) in a very large volume (in a city). There is very little uncertainty as to their whereabouts with regards to the confines of the city.
No matter where or how they move , the likelihood is very high that they are anywhere in the confining space (city).
If we reduce the scope of the confinement space (down to a neighborhood, or the volume of the individual's residence) , predicting where the individual will move next, carries more and more uncertainty, and thus a higher measure of information.
2. In another unrelated way of looking at things, the wave nature of matter can be analogous / can be applied to the way information travels among persons, and throughout a social medium.
We see interactions of information that include: exchanges of information; these result in and are caused by changes in energy states; diffraction , such as in the way information radiates from a given individual (a tiny aperture) out onto others; interference which could be construed as how different pieces of information contribute to reinforce or weaken the spread of a given piece of information; we see also that pieces of information , form cummulatively "bigger" ideas , perhaps in a similar way to how a signal's waveform is composed of many harmonic components.
The analogue between information transfer among individuals (at a high semantic level) and wave interactions can be tenuous when we consider things like : what is the analogue of frequency / wavelength , intensity and energy of information that flows between individuals. Yet with some work those analogues could be pinpointed. For instance the energy of a piece of information can be expressible in the "reach " of that information. For instance, a piece of information that gets exchanged between two friends and stops there, has a lot lower energy , than a piece of information such as a news headline, a proverb or a meme that has a reach as wide as an entire society or community.
Another way to consider the energy of a piece of information , is the amount of energy it takes for it to spread to its farthest extent, or the amount of energy that gets unleashed due to the spread of that information.
For instance information (or misinformation) that results in wars or economic upheavals , could be said to carry a lot of energy.
The intensity or amplitude of a given amount of information can also be expressible in the "reach" that amount has, not only in how far the information is carried throughout society, but also in how long that information persists.
For instance a piece of news spreads and dies out in a relatively short period of time, compared to a proverb that keeps moving among people for centuries.
The foregoing thus highlights a few qualities that one can play with in constructing a meaningful analogue for high-level semantic information from wave terminology:
- how far information travels
- how fast it travels
- the energy cost for that information's motion
- the energy cost occuring as a result of that information
- how long the given information persists in motion
- The complexity of a piece of given information in terms of the smaller components of information that comprise it.
Looked at in a very large scale, we can see such information interactions as ripples
throughout society , while at a very small scale we are looking at the very discrete nature of information transfer from one person's mind to the next. The quantization of information transfer is at the level of individual persons who receive process re-transmit or hold a piece of information they receive. ... Read more
(This particular train of thought is expressed elsewhere in earlier notes of mine from the period 2005 - 2006, which should be incorporated into any future edits of this post.)
There are some analogues to quantum informatic observations that may apply to us as individuals. This is a first (or second) attempt to enumerate them.
But first a recap of the question of scale.
* The wave / particle duality applies to all things. This is not observable for objects that are much larger than the quantum scale precisely because wave properties such as diffraction and interference become negligible as size scale increases. The properties are there, but they are negligible. As a result wave properties and measures like uncertainty are infinitesimal for objects such as ourselves.
uh, End recap.
However , some informatic properties seem to hold across scales such that their measure does not vanish as we increase in size scales.
Thus for instance,
1. A measure of information is the amount of uncertainty as to the possible content of a given "message".
We see the quantum physical manifestation of this in the case of a confined particle.
The more tightly a particle is confined in space - such as the case of an electron confined to the diameter of the atom - the more uncertainty that results in measuring its position or momentum. This is because the volume of confinement is so small that the momentum of the measuring tool (usually an incident body such as photon or some other particle) interferes significantly with that of the object being measured.
Yet an analogue also presents itself in the case of an individual. If we consider a single single individual (a person) in a very large volume (in a city). There is very little uncertainty as to their whereabouts with regards to the confines of the city.
No matter where or how they move , the likelihood is very high that they are anywhere in the confining space (city).
If we reduce the scope of the confinement space (down to a neighborhood, or the volume of the individual's residence) , predicting where the individual will move next, carries more and more uncertainty, and thus a higher measure of information.
2. In another unrelated way of looking at things, the wave nature of matter can be analogous / can be applied to the way information travels among persons, and throughout a social medium.
We see interactions of information that include: exchanges of information; these result in and are caused by changes in energy states; diffraction , such as in the way information radiates from a given individual (a tiny aperture) out onto others; interference which could be construed as how different pieces of information contribute to reinforce or weaken the spread of a given piece of information; we see also that pieces of information , form cummulatively "bigger" ideas , perhaps in a similar way to how a signal's waveform is composed of many harmonic components.
The analogue between information transfer among individuals (at a high semantic level) and wave interactions can be tenuous when we consider things like : what is the analogue of frequency / wavelength , intensity and energy of information that flows between individuals. Yet with some work those analogues could be pinpointed. For instance the energy of a piece of information can be expressible in the "reach " of that information. For instance, a piece of information that gets exchanged between two friends and stops there, has a lot lower energy , than a piece of information such as a news headline, a proverb or a meme that has a reach as wide as an entire society or community.
Another way to consider the energy of a piece of information , is the amount of energy it takes for it to spread to its farthest extent, or the amount of energy that gets unleashed due to the spread of that information.
For instance information (or misinformation) that results in wars or economic upheavals , could be said to carry a lot of energy.
The intensity or amplitude of a given amount of information can also be expressible in the "reach" that amount has, not only in how far the information is carried throughout society, but also in how long that information persists.
For instance a piece of news spreads and dies out in a relatively short period of time, compared to a proverb that keeps moving among people for centuries.
The foregoing thus highlights a few qualities that one can play with in constructing a meaningful analogue for high-level semantic information from wave terminology:
- how far information travels
- how fast it travels
- the energy cost for that information's motion
- the energy cost occuring as a result of that information
- how long the given information persists in motion
- The complexity of a piece of given information in terms of the smaller components of information that comprise it.
Looked at in a very large scale, we can see such information interactions as ripples
throughout society , while at a very small scale we are looking at the very discrete nature of information transfer from one person's mind to the next. The quantization of information transfer is at the level of individual persons who receive process re-transmit or hold a piece of information they receive. ... Read more
09 August 2008
Satirist's history of quantum mechanics
07/30/2008
Intro
Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics that has the unique characteristic among other laws of physics that scientists have deliberately sought to make it unintelligible to anyone that tries to understand it. The Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg who presided over the merger of electromagnetic weak force fields, said that it is so simple that it made scientists deliberately shroud it with needlessly complicated and diversionary allusions for fear of losing their jobs or that the commies and chinese would "get it".
As a manifestation of this scientists and educators like Richard P. Feynman proclaimed that it is a theory that no one can understand, even though he used it to repeat the work of Weinberg and others.
On the other hand, according to David Bohm "Feynman doesn't know what he's talking about and the jury is still out on my theory of the universal rheostat", hence giving rise to the "many-worlds" interpretation, in which , every few years someone comes up with a completely different meaning for quantum mechanics.
Examples of the many interpretations postulated by the many-worlds interpretation include:
* The many-worlds interpretation - the schizophrenic multiverse theory basically states that when you decide and proceed to do an action , every other choice of action is also taken and carried out in parallel worldlines
but you are just stuck with the one with the most negative consequences for you.
* "string theory" , aka the planck guitar theory. Viz. there exists a stupidly tiny guitar at just below the planck length that hums out energy and mass forming leptons or bosons as the mood may it take it. This theory is said to have been inspired by the Beatles' "While my guitar gently weeps" .
* Quantum gravity , in which scenario the graviton finally makes up with the photon and other force particles (known as bosons), and agrees to enter into a joint force field with them.
* the Bohm Rheostat: David Bohm postulates the universe is regulated by a large variable resistance radio rheostat just outside the universe
History of development
In 1907 Max Plank cut a deal with Albert Einstein, they'll share the credit for the planck and energy equations that were so obvious after maxwell's and lorentz's work into two seemingly different concepts E = mc2 and E = mu.h and share all the benefits. In truth , neither of them understood any of it (until de Broglie figured out that electron energy was also quantized like the photon) and had come across it rummaging through the papers of obscure polish and italian physics students.
Later on, ca. 1913 the two incorporated a corporation for their "quantum racket" (known in german then as quantumracket) which they called the Max planck Institute. That institute became a magnet for bright but socially failed physics students whom Planck and Einstein mobilised to rummage through all the papers in the trash of foreign university students.
Around that time also Einstein invited over indian physicist Bose to complete an experimental round of poker played exclusive by physicists whose last name begins with "Bo" (Bohr, Bohm,Bose and Born) with de Broglie also around to service the decks take the players coats and bets and serve meza and drinks. But Bose decided to start an audio components company instead.
Dirac Jordan , Bohr De Broglie and others only managed to catalog the results in the early 1920s, as Bohr once noted in retrospect "it was just in time to provide a scientific basis to explain away the german inflation, and also in time , no pun intended, for the fox-trot , which was described by a discrete wave function that led our boy Schrodinger to his wave equation."
In 1925 , the Max Planck Institute students, "Planck's gang" as they were called met Swiss chemist Sandoz who invented LSD and the Mozambiquan white crested kaka monkey smallpox virus. He introduced them to LSD with spiked drinks, and they had a trip reported to involve a lot of long spontaneous synchronized bouts of laughter. it was in the course of that mind altering meeting that quantum mechanics took its most recognizable shape and formulation.
It was there and then that Schrodinger deduced his famous Schrodinger wave equation from the probability density of getting laid among randomly matched foxtrot and charleston dancing partners. Simultaneously, Dirac came up with a harmonic analytical matrix formulation of Schrodinger's equation just to spite Schrodinger and prove to all once again he was the superior mathematician; in retaliation for which , Hilbert punished the entirety of the hallucinating Planck's gang (and unknowingly future generations of physics students) by replacing Both Schrodinger's wave mechanical formulation and Dirac's matrix formulation by an exceedingly complicated complex vector space which he called after himself and to which he applied Dirac's vector operators. Everyone hated the remoreseless Dirac just then, and even more so the merciless Hilbert. But later on various reports from personal correspondence and bathroom scrawls, the group would shares jokes about how the mathematics of quantum theory surpassed Einstein's understanding since 1905.
Despite its promise by the time quantum mechanics "came out" to the scientific community, the great depression hit and everyone went broke and unemployed. Numerous repeat visits to the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland were reported of the "Planck gang" or Planckenga(umlaut)ng as they were called in austro-hungar-holy-roman-prusso-germanic-empire.
Shortly after the depression WWII took place and Heisenberg and Niels Bohr had a slapping duel in Coppenhagen after a bout of drinking.
Fed up with his inability to navigate Hilbert and Dirac's mathematics which by then became the sole language in which quantum mechanics was written, Einstein got angry, moved to the United States, signed up for the army and invented the atom bomb, famously writing to the ruler of the land , "PS. this powerful-as-the-sun device will also kill more people faster than anything that hit the planet since Noah had to build an ark," - which note the president obliged by trying it out on a couple of non-white cities.
From 1939 it became clear that every particle had to have its own field. This was the beginning of quantum field theory which postulates that physics will no longer study nature but rather sublimate it entirely in abstract algebraic concepts like non-homogeneous group theoretic representations and homotopy.
Just as at the turn of the XXth cent. the line was blurred between a particle and an electromagnetic wave, since the 1967 "Summer of Love" and the following near worldwide student riots of 1968 protesting the sheer decadence religious zeal and contempt for the gravity of war of the hippies and yippies, the line has been getting increasingly blurred between the concept of a particle and that of a purely conceptual , not even hypothetical , but virtual pseudoparticles.
The Nobel prize winner for his quantum well-digging and quantum field prospecting Yang Tchi Chi Che Chiuh, PhdE2 noted in Physical review letters at the end of the last decade that physics is now in the realm of studying abstract mathematics blurring the line between nature and other people's fallible minds.
After the implications of the new physics became clear, in the period from the 1960s onward to the present time, no popular science books sought to explain it but rather writers resorted to throw up paradoxes and misquoted zen and hindu allegories to confuse the readers about it rather than elucidate them. Consequently only those science authors that take a solemn oath at Princeton Institute of advanced physics to describe quantum mechanics only as a paradoxical unintelligible theory that defies our common sense are permitted to publish material about it.
Principles of quantum mechanics
* When in a tight spot , your uncertainty and the uncertainty of you both go through the roof
* God does not play dice and does not want us to know anything beyond a certain infinitesimal limit. Our senses and tunneling electron beams cannot go beyond that certain infinitesimal limit, which we would only understand we if had infinitesimal minds, which we don't.
* Two electrons will go through each other or appear at two places at onces, making them apparently advanced Pythogerean acolytes.
* If you truly enjoy quantum mechanics , chances are you are unemployed and have no social life.
* electricity is monopolistic while magnetism is dipolistic and gravity is apparently nonpolistic. On the other hand , the strong force is tri-polistic, having an RGB-component technicolor charge.
* The nucleons are made of tiny quirks : These are called "Cuteheart", "Tiny", "Uptown", "Beautiful", "Stimpy" and "Weird". These have a funniness charge , as opposed to the electric-shock charge of the electrons and other leptons. The study of quirks is thus called Funny Quantum Dynamics. It is hypothesized that a seventh as yet unobserved quirk exists that is tentatively called the "Colorific" which leads to the field of acoustic-quantum chromodynamics.
* Even if you understand quantum mechanics, we will never live long enough to learn enough math to do quantum dynamics.
* The "Force" does exist but no one has been able to pin it without it breaking some conservation law or shattering mirror in a cosmic mirror store called "CPT symmetry". Also it is now in the "Dark Side" as only 0.04% of the universe (yes all those gargantuan galaxies and gassy clouds) is made up of matter , and the rest is "dark matter".
Implications
* Zen Buddhism is just a smart alec attempt by popular science writers to obfuscate the simple facts about quantum mechanics.
* The universe appears to physicists to suffer from multiple-personality disorder and maybe autistic.
* If you ever run into Einstein (after death or in some parallel worldline) do not mention the names Hilbert, Dirac or Schrodinger or even the Max Planck Institute.
* Another postulate is that some subatomic particles are extremely shy and will puff themselves out into a cloud the way Nightcrawler does when looked at. The measure of a particle's refusal to get measured properly is called the Planck Shyness.
* Quantum mechanics will not make computers cheaper because the software would still be expensive (for the deadbeats: and have to be used in cracked mode which will always break requiring a reformat).
* Software user login modules around the world will have to be rewritten - because with the advent of quantum computers quantum algorithms would render passwords useless. This is known as the Quantum computer Problem.
* For the first time in history a computing machine beats the Turing machine, probably: Big Blue and many other supercomputers and even the Earth simulator could never beat the Universal Turing Machine at computer chess tournaments, but finally quantum computers showed that they would tend to beat the imaginary Turing machine with a probability distribution of a 97% WIN superposed with a probability 3% LOSS in a single computational step, given that all physicist in the room keep their fingers crossed in order to raise the a priori probability of winning.
* quantum mechanics does not solve the greenhouse water and energy problems . However it is postulated that if successfully married to relativity theory by tying them together with planck guitar strings and if the supreme court approves the vote count, they will form the theory of everything, which nonetheless will still not solve the energy problems.
* No matter how much you explain it to them, people will misunderstand that quantum effects only apply for small corposcule/wave scales and not at the macroscopic scale. As a result the theory is often misused to justify a complete absence of logic and common sense in the practical life fields of business, law and government. ... Read more
Intro
Quantum mechanics is a theory of physics that has the unique characteristic among other laws of physics that scientists have deliberately sought to make it unintelligible to anyone that tries to understand it. The Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg who presided over the merger of electromagnetic weak force fields, said that it is so simple that it made scientists deliberately shroud it with needlessly complicated and diversionary allusions for fear of losing their jobs or that the commies and chinese would "get it".
As a manifestation of this scientists and educators like Richard P. Feynman proclaimed that it is a theory that no one can understand, even though he used it to repeat the work of Weinberg and others.
On the other hand, according to David Bohm "Feynman doesn't know what he's talking about and the jury is still out on my theory of the universal rheostat", hence giving rise to the "many-worlds" interpretation, in which , every few years someone comes up with a completely different meaning for quantum mechanics.
Examples of the many interpretations postulated by the many-worlds interpretation include:
* The many-worlds interpretation - the schizophrenic multiverse theory basically states that when you decide and proceed to do an action , every other choice of action is also taken and carried out in parallel worldlines
but you are just stuck with the one with the most negative consequences for you.
* "string theory" , aka the planck guitar theory. Viz. there exists a stupidly tiny guitar at just below the planck length that hums out energy and mass forming leptons or bosons as the mood may it take it. This theory is said to have been inspired by the Beatles' "While my guitar gently weeps" .
* Quantum gravity , in which scenario the graviton finally makes up with the photon and other force particles (known as bosons), and agrees to enter into a joint force field with them.
* the Bohm Rheostat: David Bohm postulates the universe is regulated by a large variable resistance radio rheostat just outside the universe
History of development
In 1907 Max Plank cut a deal with Albert Einstein, they'll share the credit for the planck and energy equations that were so obvious after maxwell's and lorentz's work into two seemingly different concepts E = mc2 and E = mu.h and share all the benefits. In truth , neither of them understood any of it (until de Broglie figured out that electron energy was also quantized like the photon) and had come across it rummaging through the papers of obscure polish and italian physics students.
Later on, ca. 1913 the two incorporated a corporation for their "quantum racket" (known in german then as quantumracket) which they called the Max planck Institute. That institute became a magnet for bright but socially failed physics students whom Planck and Einstein mobilised to rummage through all the papers in the trash of foreign university students.
Around that time also Einstein invited over indian physicist Bose to complete an experimental round of poker played exclusive by physicists whose last name begins with "Bo" (Bohr, Bohm,Bose and Born) with de Broglie also around to service the decks take the players coats and bets and serve meza and drinks. But Bose decided to start an audio components company instead.
Dirac Jordan , Bohr De Broglie and others only managed to catalog the results in the early 1920s, as Bohr once noted in retrospect "it was just in time to provide a scientific basis to explain away the german inflation, and also in time , no pun intended, for the fox-trot , which was described by a discrete wave function that led our boy Schrodinger to his wave equation."
In 1925 , the Max Planck Institute students, "Planck's gang" as they were called met Swiss chemist Sandoz who invented LSD and the Mozambiquan white crested kaka monkey smallpox virus. He introduced them to LSD with spiked drinks, and they had a trip reported to involve a lot of long spontaneous synchronized bouts of laughter. it was in the course of that mind altering meeting that quantum mechanics took its most recognizable shape and formulation.
It was there and then that Schrodinger deduced his famous Schrodinger wave equation from the probability density of getting laid among randomly matched foxtrot and charleston dancing partners. Simultaneously, Dirac came up with a harmonic analytical matrix formulation of Schrodinger's equation just to spite Schrodinger and prove to all once again he was the superior mathematician; in retaliation for which , Hilbert punished the entirety of the hallucinating Planck's gang (and unknowingly future generations of physics students) by replacing Both Schrodinger's wave mechanical formulation and Dirac's matrix formulation by an exceedingly complicated complex vector space which he called after himself and to which he applied Dirac's vector operators. Everyone hated the remoreseless Dirac just then, and even more so the merciless Hilbert. But later on various reports from personal correspondence and bathroom scrawls, the group would shares jokes about how the mathematics of quantum theory surpassed Einstein's understanding since 1905.
Despite its promise by the time quantum mechanics "came out" to the scientific community, the great depression hit and everyone went broke and unemployed. Numerous repeat visits to the Sandoz laboratories in Switzerland were reported of the "Planck gang" or Planckenga(umlaut)ng as they were called in austro-hungar-holy-roman-prusso-germanic-empire.
Shortly after the depression WWII took place and Heisenberg and Niels Bohr had a slapping duel in Coppenhagen after a bout of drinking.
Fed up with his inability to navigate Hilbert and Dirac's mathematics which by then became the sole language in which quantum mechanics was written, Einstein got angry, moved to the United States, signed up for the army and invented the atom bomb, famously writing to the ruler of the land , "PS. this powerful-as-the-sun device will also kill more people faster than anything that hit the planet since Noah had to build an ark," - which note the president obliged by trying it out on a couple of non-white cities.
From 1939 it became clear that every particle had to have its own field. This was the beginning of quantum field theory which postulates that physics will no longer study nature but rather sublimate it entirely in abstract algebraic concepts like non-homogeneous group theoretic representations and homotopy.
Just as at the turn of the XXth cent. the line was blurred between a particle and an electromagnetic wave, since the 1967 "Summer of Love" and the following near worldwide student riots of 1968 protesting the sheer decadence religious zeal and contempt for the gravity of war of the hippies and yippies, the line has been getting increasingly blurred between the concept of a particle and that of a purely conceptual , not even hypothetical , but virtual pseudoparticles.
The Nobel prize winner for his quantum well-digging and quantum field prospecting Yang Tchi Chi Che Chiuh, PhdE2 noted in Physical review letters at the end of the last decade that physics is now in the realm of studying abstract mathematics blurring the line between nature and other people's fallible minds.
After the implications of the new physics became clear, in the period from the 1960s onward to the present time, no popular science books sought to explain it but rather writers resorted to throw up paradoxes and misquoted zen and hindu allegories to confuse the readers about it rather than elucidate them. Consequently only those science authors that take a solemn oath at Princeton Institute of advanced physics to describe quantum mechanics only as a paradoxical unintelligible theory that defies our common sense are permitted to publish material about it.
Principles of quantum mechanics
* When in a tight spot , your uncertainty and the uncertainty of you both go through the roof
* God does not play dice and does not want us to know anything beyond a certain infinitesimal limit. Our senses and tunneling electron beams cannot go beyond that certain infinitesimal limit, which we would only understand we if had infinitesimal minds, which we don't.
* Two electrons will go through each other or appear at two places at onces, making them apparently advanced Pythogerean acolytes.
* If you truly enjoy quantum mechanics , chances are you are unemployed and have no social life.
* electricity is monopolistic while magnetism is dipolistic and gravity is apparently nonpolistic. On the other hand , the strong force is tri-polistic, having an RGB-component technicolor charge.
* The nucleons are made of tiny quirks : These are called "Cuteheart", "Tiny", "Uptown", "Beautiful", "Stimpy" and "Weird". These have a funniness charge , as opposed to the electric-shock charge of the electrons and other leptons. The study of quirks is thus called Funny Quantum Dynamics. It is hypothesized that a seventh as yet unobserved quirk exists that is tentatively called the "Colorific" which leads to the field of acoustic-quantum chromodynamics.
* Even if you understand quantum mechanics, we will never live long enough to learn enough math to do quantum dynamics.
* The "Force" does exist but no one has been able to pin it without it breaking some conservation law or shattering mirror in a cosmic mirror store called "CPT symmetry". Also it is now in the "Dark Side" as only 0.04% of the universe (yes all those gargantuan galaxies and gassy clouds) is made up of matter , and the rest is "dark matter".
Implications
* Zen Buddhism is just a smart alec attempt by popular science writers to obfuscate the simple facts about quantum mechanics.
* The universe appears to physicists to suffer from multiple-personality disorder and maybe autistic.
* If you ever run into Einstein (after death or in some parallel worldline) do not mention the names Hilbert, Dirac or Schrodinger or even the Max Planck Institute.
* Another postulate is that some subatomic particles are extremely shy and will puff themselves out into a cloud the way Nightcrawler does when looked at. The measure of a particle's refusal to get measured properly is called the Planck Shyness.
* Quantum mechanics will not make computers cheaper because the software would still be expensive (for the deadbeats: and have to be used in cracked mode which will always break requiring a reformat).
* Software user login modules around the world will have to be rewritten - because with the advent of quantum computers quantum algorithms would render passwords useless. This is known as the Quantum computer Problem.
* For the first time in history a computing machine beats the Turing machine, probably: Big Blue and many other supercomputers and even the Earth simulator could never beat the Universal Turing Machine at computer chess tournaments, but finally quantum computers showed that they would tend to beat the imaginary Turing machine with a probability distribution of a 97% WIN superposed with a probability 3% LOSS in a single computational step, given that all physicist in the room keep their fingers crossed in order to raise the a priori probability of winning.
* quantum mechanics does not solve the greenhouse water and energy problems . However it is postulated that if successfully married to relativity theory by tying them together with planck guitar strings and if the supreme court approves the vote count, they will form the theory of everything, which nonetheless will still not solve the energy problems.
* No matter how much you explain it to them, people will misunderstand that quantum effects only apply for small corposcule/wave scales and not at the macroscopic scale. As a result the theory is often misused to justify a complete absence of logic and common sense in the practical life fields of business, law and government. ... Read more
beauty of nature
note: further down in this post the importance of defining what is meant by the terms organization and design is inevitable and a definition is hazarded which sheds needed light of the scientific sort on the nature of nature .
we find beauty in the intricacies and visuals of nature continuously on every scale from the molecular and subcellular to telescope deep field scales . Beauty and perfection as in flawlessness of design are thus found at every level of organization in the phenomenal world - the world of hadath, or of hodooth , or of al-mahsoosat , or of al-shahaada (witness, testament, witnessing).
it is clear also that moving through the scales of scope or size, we move through successive levels or layers of organization - we might also be able to say through layers of abstraction .
it would be remarkable that the level of complexity remains constant , but does it?
is the level of complexity (design complexity, constraint complexity , in terms of all the "rules" or laws being played out , size complexity - but then again what kind of size? - the same for a system of atoms and molecules and ions in subcellular systems and a system of a group of galaxies ?
in terms of number of atoms and molecules, of course the group of galaxies would be of enormously larger "size" then the number of atoms inside a single cell,
but would the number of stars or star systems be comparable to the number of molecules or atoms inside the cell ?
if so would this mean that both systems would have the same "size" complexity ?
another feature is that densities of matter between dense and very sparse alternate in succession as we go from small to large scale of scope of what we observe - eg from the atomic scale to that of galaxy superclusters and whatever lies beyond
at higher levels of organization.
Back to density , the densities of matter fluctuate as one traverses both distances and orders of their magnitude.
as one goes from the nucleus of an atom , and the enormous distance compared to the nucleus' size , until we reach the electron cloud and the fuzzy borders of the atom , there is a palpable large amount of void followind the closely packed density of matter inside the nucleus at least at the level of baryons,
like neutrons and protons.
as we get farther from the nucleus and the much larger atom, the size of the system observed also grows , and now we can look an entire molecule ,
which replaces the period of void with a densely packed "matter" in this respect atoms rather than nucleii ,
and a certain level of organization seems to bind the molecule together , and further still , another level of organization bind large numbers of molecules together into lattices or crystals or foams or fibers of some sort or another forming various kinds of materials, our own familiar macroscopic kind of objects,
in a very large collection of materials nearly constantly changing into each other makes up our planet and a very densely packed amount of matter measured in macroscopic units like tonnes .
but that density and the size of our entire planet is again followed by even larger size of the distance of void between it and other such "planets" like the moon further defining a yet larger system, the binary system of earth and moon , which again is followed by a long distance of void much larger in diameter than the system's , until we start encountering other similar systems comparable in size which ranges in difference from the asteroids to giant planet-satellite systems like jupiter and saturn and even the sun , the star of the show.
the entire solar system incredibly much larger than any of its constituents is itself tiny compared to the sphere of void that surrounds it until other systems comparable in size to itself are encountered, forming galaxies and later yet groups of galaxies.
is a molecule's organization more complex than that of an atom?
is that of a block of material or cellular organelles more complex than the molecules?\
of coures the molecules of blocks of material are much less complex than those of cellular subsystems ,
and the homeostasis of a system such as the cell required to maintain the state of a living cell is clearly a lot more complex than that the kind of homeostasis needed to maintain the state for a block of rock , ie for a block of rock to continue to be a block of rock .
which incidentally brings us to the important point on what is organization and why do i use the term design ?
would not the use of design immediately suspend my discourse from the sphere of science altogether, since i betray an a priori belief in God ?
well, not necessarily , which is the crux of the point.
the level of organization of a natural is the sets of all the rules or laws or algorithm or constraints that keep the system behaving in the natural way , such as we observe the system in nature. the level of organization defines the structure , form , behavior , and stasis as well as eventual change of any given system in nature .
organization thus defines states of systems, and the state machines (or algorithms , or functions) of different natural systems of all scales of size (and complexity).
this is even more dramatically seen in biological organisms such as ourselves where the natural system is very complex , its homeostasis is very complex and is defined as a program of automatic control that lasts since our conception until our passing.
such a program (program as in algorithm, or automatic machine) yields an autonomous self-repairing self-motivating etc. orgranism, that though changing over the course of its lifetime, consists at every instant of a stasis or homeostasis suitable for its functional wellbeing at that moment.
That homeostasis is maintained throughout and fits perfectly - or takes into account the long-term changes that occur to the organism from formation to death and decay . (of course long-term could mean years and decades for a a human , but only a few hours or minutes for a bacterium or weeks for an insect)
I do not think there can be discussion of systems in which is so clearly present automatic control , along with its subsystems of feeback , error detection and correction , without talk of design .
thus speaking of design in natural systems is not unscientific at all - it is very much in the domain of applied science as not only matters of engineering but also as that finished examples of functional and very well "designed" systems that surround us in nature , including our own selves.
It is not unscientific either to speak of the beauty we collectively feel when confronted with the elements of "design" or organization of such systems , literally from first sight (the visually aesthetic) down to the minutest details (the continuity of intricacy throughout from the global system to the smallest discernible constituent subsystems)
whatever the significance or meaning of that experience of "beauty" that we feel or note when observing physical systems it is not at all unscientific to take account of it at least by making note of it. in fact refusing to make note of it and trying somehow to make use of it in the scientific work (and technological work) is more unscientific in approach , as some information is omitted purely at the discretion of the scientist or technology designer which could prove important in the understanding of what these systems mean. ... Read more
we find beauty in the intricacies and visuals of nature continuously on every scale from the molecular and subcellular to telescope deep field scales . Beauty and perfection as in flawlessness of design are thus found at every level of organization in the phenomenal world - the world of hadath, or of hodooth , or of al-mahsoosat , or of al-shahaada (witness, testament, witnessing).
it is clear also that moving through the scales of scope or size, we move through successive levels or layers of organization - we might also be able to say through layers of abstraction .
it would be remarkable that the level of complexity remains constant , but does it?
is the level of complexity (design complexity, constraint complexity , in terms of all the "rules" or laws being played out , size complexity - but then again what kind of size? - the same for a system of atoms and molecules and ions in subcellular systems and a system of a group of galaxies ?
in terms of number of atoms and molecules, of course the group of galaxies would be of enormously larger "size" then the number of atoms inside a single cell,
but would the number of stars or star systems be comparable to the number of molecules or atoms inside the cell ?
if so would this mean that both systems would have the same "size" complexity ?
another feature is that densities of matter between dense and very sparse alternate in succession as we go from small to large scale of scope of what we observe - eg from the atomic scale to that of galaxy superclusters and whatever lies beyond
at higher levels of organization.
Back to density , the densities of matter fluctuate as one traverses both distances and orders of their magnitude.
as one goes from the nucleus of an atom , and the enormous distance compared to the nucleus' size , until we reach the electron cloud and the fuzzy borders of the atom , there is a palpable large amount of void followind the closely packed density of matter inside the nucleus at least at the level of baryons,
like neutrons and protons.
as we get farther from the nucleus and the much larger atom, the size of the system observed also grows , and now we can look an entire molecule ,
which replaces the period of void with a densely packed "matter" in this respect atoms rather than nucleii ,
and a certain level of organization seems to bind the molecule together , and further still , another level of organization bind large numbers of molecules together into lattices or crystals or foams or fibers of some sort or another forming various kinds of materials, our own familiar macroscopic kind of objects,
in a very large collection of materials nearly constantly changing into each other makes up our planet and a very densely packed amount of matter measured in macroscopic units like tonnes .
but that density and the size of our entire planet is again followed by even larger size of the distance of void between it and other such "planets" like the moon further defining a yet larger system, the binary system of earth and moon , which again is followed by a long distance of void much larger in diameter than the system's , until we start encountering other similar systems comparable in size which ranges in difference from the asteroids to giant planet-satellite systems like jupiter and saturn and even the sun , the star of the show.
the entire solar system incredibly much larger than any of its constituents is itself tiny compared to the sphere of void that surrounds it until other systems comparable in size to itself are encountered, forming galaxies and later yet groups of galaxies.
is a molecule's organization more complex than that of an atom?
is that of a block of material or cellular organelles more complex than the molecules?\
of coures the molecules of blocks of material are much less complex than those of cellular subsystems ,
and the homeostasis of a system such as the cell required to maintain the state of a living cell is clearly a lot more complex than that the kind of homeostasis needed to maintain the state for a block of rock , ie for a block of rock to continue to be a block of rock .
which incidentally brings us to the important point on what is organization and why do i use the term design ?
would not the use of design immediately suspend my discourse from the sphere of science altogether, since i betray an a priori belief in God ?
well, not necessarily , which is the crux of the point.
the level of organization of a natural is the sets of all the rules or laws or algorithm or constraints that keep the system behaving in the natural way , such as we observe the system in nature. the level of organization defines the structure , form , behavior , and stasis as well as eventual change of any given system in nature .
organization thus defines states of systems, and the state machines (or algorithms , or functions) of different natural systems of all scales of size (and complexity).
this is even more dramatically seen in biological organisms such as ourselves where the natural system is very complex , its homeostasis is very complex and is defined as a program of automatic control that lasts since our conception until our passing.
such a program (program as in algorithm, or automatic machine) yields an autonomous self-repairing self-motivating etc. orgranism, that though changing over the course of its lifetime, consists at every instant of a stasis or homeostasis suitable for its functional wellbeing at that moment.
That homeostasis is maintained throughout and fits perfectly - or takes into account the long-term changes that occur to the organism from formation to death and decay . (of course long-term could mean years and decades for a a human , but only a few hours or minutes for a bacterium or weeks for an insect)
I do not think there can be discussion of systems in which is so clearly present automatic control , along with its subsystems of feeback , error detection and correction , without talk of design .
thus speaking of design in natural systems is not unscientific at all - it is very much in the domain of applied science as not only matters of engineering but also as that finished examples of functional and very well "designed" systems that surround us in nature , including our own selves.
It is not unscientific either to speak of the beauty we collectively feel when confronted with the elements of "design" or organization of such systems , literally from first sight (the visually aesthetic) down to the minutest details (the continuity of intricacy throughout from the global system to the smallest discernible constituent subsystems)
whatever the significance or meaning of that experience of "beauty" that we feel or note when observing physical systems it is not at all unscientific to take account of it at least by making note of it. in fact refusing to make note of it and trying somehow to make use of it in the scientific work (and technological work) is more unscientific in approach , as some information is omitted purely at the discretion of the scientist or technology designer which could prove important in the understanding of what these systems mean. ... Read more
concert video revu draft: Maceo 2003
notes for
Reviewing a video of the Maceo Parker concert at:
B Jazz Burghausen 34. Internationale jazzwoche 2003
A - What does it feel for Maceo and for other jazz musicians and observers that Maceo's set, a funk set, be packaged along with "jazz".
to be sure other jazz festivals, and a lot of what gets labeled as jazz (usually cheaper or free concerts) is actually more on the pop/rock and particularly r&b or soul and funk side of things.
Interestingly Maceo did address that question in his words to the audience - after "Uptown" :
He expressed thanks for those responsible for having them there , and gratitude for having been on tour as long as 3 months by then, and thanks
" also to be invited in the [he signals quotation marks with his fingers] jazz [hesitates] concert , we really appreciate that although ... we don't do jazz [he smiles and audience laughs] thank you."
obviously also the other jazz musicians and the listeners don't mind and perhaps they particularly don't mind Maceo himself. It could thus be down to the likeability of the person himself. Eg, no one would at a jazz or heavy metal festival would complain , however strange and unlikely it would be, if say Stevie Wonder walked in on stage as a guest , or was invited to be one of the acts.
Then again there is the more technical question of funk's proximity to acid jazz, fusion, particularly modern easy listening and groove oriented popular jazz, like benson , etc; as well as funk's distance from the mainstream of pop or black pop like r&b and soul, and its other proximity to that other niche in modern popular music, rock and even hard rock.
like the blues funk is a lot like a root ( a root of musical genres). a raw form that informed so many "genres" , from dance disco to soul to rock music to acid jazz , and later to the neo-funk or new wave / minneapolis sound / "funk" of the eighties.
so perhaps that too contributes to the acceptability of an act like maceo's in a german jazz week.
A.bis. - when he started talking i also wondered about that seeming presumption of english' universality when they speak in english on the stage - though this is not only true of north american acts, but also some non native english speaking european ones.
For Maceo just went through his word in english, and to be sure the audience sounded like it understood every word of it.
i felt it was a bit presumptuous on his part, even given the fact that it is lingua franca throughout the world by now particularly via the ameriganos.
zappa , by contrast treated it differently.
in some spanish concert he spoke spanish to the audience, probably the one in barcelona the video; then on vol. 3 cd 2 of YCDTOSA, he talks in italian to what presumably is an italian audience (easily verifiable).
B - nice to see Maceo so recently (2003). Also saw 16 minutes of him from 2002
C - prim and proper act and lineup - dressed in comfortable dark dress suits (except for Corey)
D- much the same lineup from 2002
E - The Hammond organ
F- Gimme some more does not sound as funky , lacks the beat of the studio version i used to have
G - Uptown: the Solos , trombone, trumpet , hammond then Corey Parker . No body applauded for the hammond and his solo was sort of cut in by Corey (though surely it's all rehearsed and intended) but there wasn't closure for the hammond solo and certainly no time for an applaused as Corey walked upstage to do his lyrical act.
H - "Baby knows" by prince.
I- Cover of McCartney's "My Love" that segue's to Hey Jude's chorus :)
is beatles music part of maceo's unive ... Read more
Reviewing a video of the Maceo Parker concert at:
B Jazz Burghausen 34. Internationale jazzwoche 2003
A - What does it feel for Maceo and for other jazz musicians and observers that Maceo's set, a funk set, be packaged along with "jazz".
to be sure other jazz festivals, and a lot of what gets labeled as jazz (usually cheaper or free concerts) is actually more on the pop/rock and particularly r&b or soul and funk side of things.
Interestingly Maceo did address that question in his words to the audience - after "Uptown" :
He expressed thanks for those responsible for having them there , and gratitude for having been on tour as long as 3 months by then, and thanks
" also to be invited in the [he signals quotation marks with his fingers] jazz [hesitates] concert , we really appreciate that although ... we don't do jazz [he smiles and audience laughs] thank you."
obviously also the other jazz musicians and the listeners don't mind and perhaps they particularly don't mind Maceo himself. It could thus be down to the likeability of the person himself. Eg, no one would at a jazz or heavy metal festival would complain , however strange and unlikely it would be, if say Stevie Wonder walked in on stage as a guest , or was invited to be one of the acts.
Then again there is the more technical question of funk's proximity to acid jazz, fusion, particularly modern easy listening and groove oriented popular jazz, like benson , etc; as well as funk's distance from the mainstream of pop or black pop like r&b and soul, and its other proximity to that other niche in modern popular music, rock and even hard rock.
like the blues funk is a lot like a root ( a root of musical genres). a raw form that informed so many "genres" , from dance disco to soul to rock music to acid jazz , and later to the neo-funk or new wave / minneapolis sound / "funk" of the eighties.
so perhaps that too contributes to the acceptability of an act like maceo's in a german jazz week.
A.bis. - when he started talking i also wondered about that seeming presumption of english' universality when they speak in english on the stage - though this is not only true of north american acts, but also some non native english speaking european ones.
For Maceo just went through his word in english, and to be sure the audience sounded like it understood every word of it.
i felt it was a bit presumptuous on his part, even given the fact that it is lingua franca throughout the world by now particularly via the ameriganos.
zappa , by contrast treated it differently.
in some spanish concert he spoke spanish to the audience, probably the one in barcelona the video; then on vol. 3 cd 2 of YCDTOSA, he talks in italian to what presumably is an italian audience (easily verifiable).
B - nice to see Maceo so recently (2003). Also saw 16 minutes of him from 2002
C - prim and proper act and lineup - dressed in comfortable dark dress suits (except for Corey)
D- much the same lineup from 2002
E - The Hammond organ
F- Gimme some more does not sound as funky , lacks the beat of the studio version i used to have
G - Uptown: the Solos , trombone, trumpet , hammond then Corey Parker . No body applauded for the hammond and his solo was sort of cut in by Corey (though surely it's all rehearsed and intended) but there wasn't closure for the hammond solo and certainly no time for an applaused as Corey walked upstage to do his lyrical act.
H - "Baby knows" by prince.
I- Cover of McCartney's "My Love" that segue's to Hey Jude's chorus :)
is beatles music part of maceo's unive ... Read more
was hendrix worked to death ?
Was watching the "Classic Albums" video on a Hendrix album that i can't remember, and in it was a brief history related by the various interviewees of the incredible tour schedule that hendrix and his band had to endure.
they were hopping continents on a daily basis for extended periods. i am no physician but it strikes me as intuitive that this much haul with a lot of substance abuse and the energetic performances and bad unhealthy food would lead to a complete deterioration of the body.
their financiers or managers or minders / whtever had a responbility not to work him that hard, and more over they had a responsibility to look after his health, , see that , he does not overdose , given the environment in which he was given so much booze and drugs . ... Read more
they were hopping continents on a daily basis for extended periods. i am no physician but it strikes me as intuitive that this much haul with a lot of substance abuse and the energetic performances and bad unhealthy food would lead to a complete deterioration of the body.
their financiers or managers or minders / whtever had a responbility not to work him that hard, and more over they had a responsibility to look after his health, , see that , he does not overdose , given the environment in which he was given so much booze and drugs . ... Read more
