Mental Notes July 24 2009

the ambiguous past

decadence

work ethic

technological evolution

philosophical evolution

financial evolution & adapation

synthesis

constituting the new frontier

hopes, dreams, and adventure in the unknown

envisioning tomorrows people

the sickness of fear run amok

survival versus living

stepping beyond nutshells


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Kenneth Burke's Pentad

5 basic components for seeking motives

1. The act: What was done?
2. The actor: Who did it?
3. The agency: What means did the person use to make it happen?
4. The scene: Where & when did the act happen and in what circumstances?
5. The purpose or motive for acting: What could have made the person do it?

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What features would appear strange to the Old Ones?

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Quote: "Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates Beauty as it hates Truth." - H. L. Mencken, 1920s, pg 404

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What devices may create coherence?

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ordinary or typical?

what changed?

not tolerable...

when was withdrawl?

silence

protest vs dialog

emotion & feeling

identity

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video-logic: Jeffrey Moritz

recent evolution of logic?

compliance?
complimentary?

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Article: "The American Revolution Considered As An Intellectual Movement" by Edmund S. Morgan

Question:
What fundamental event is producing the leaders to carry forward the strands?
Which strand is being carried forward with greater certainty?

- evidenced by what opposition or support arises promptly and spontaneously

What more completely unites than anything which follows?

Quote: "They who are from the first so fully aware where the logic of their position could lead them but keep their peace..." Morgan

Quote: "The growing conflict was not irretrievable, but that to retrieve it would have required an understanding on each side of the exact limits of the other's claims." Morgan

Illustrating degree of spirit involved:
Quote: "The American Revolution must also be seen in the context of the history of political ideas. Never before in modern times had a colony revolted against the mother country and survived; never before had it, after physical survival, embarked on a republican experiment in government; and never before had it dared to risk such an experiment on so vast and scattered a territory as did the United States." Esmond Wright, Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution.

Quote: "The transforming radicalism of the American Revolution.....above all else an ideological-constitutional struggle and not primarily a controversy between social groups under taken to force changes in the organization of society"(p. viii) and that, "the fear of a comprehensive conspiracy against liberty through out the English speaking world....lay at the heart of the revolutionary movement."(p. x)

hmmm, we've come round the circle once again....and how many returned among us with it?

through debate and dialog on the issues of the time between 1776 and 1787 a singular people emerged.

Question: wondering how many people today have read the Federalist Papers as part of education? not many imo

all that with an uncanny familiarity afoot perused. Two strands split by perspective when one vision was not shared; including a break in distinctive values & experiences. Same as today. But in this case there is also two broad social groups involved, one of which is forcing sweeping changes in the fabric of society....the fears confirmed have established a heart for movement in at least one of the strands.

- capacity to draw upon dreams of the higher self
- the tidal movement of inclinations
- laments vs purposeful weavings of values, vitality, & positive intent.

Question: is the circle bringing back into synchronistic action a new version of the concern over "human depravity and divine perfection" ?

My Recent Reading List

Well here is my current reading list. I have several questions in mind while reading. Those questions are what is the depth of differences in thought process Today versus the common processes of the past. Why in our wealth of knowledge and maneuverability today is there an ignorance involving the fundamental principles that America is about? Why do common individuals take for granted the sacrifices that their parents, grandparents, etc made to build and achieve today's prosperity? Why is there a lack of concern or initiative to react to today's dive from prosperity when there are things which could be done?

Online Video & Audio: Gerald Celente
Online Blog Follow: Catherine Austin Fitts

Book: A Pocket History of the United States; Authors Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, with Jeffery Morris

Book: Born On The Fourth of July; by Ron Kovic

Book: Cultures In Conversation; by Donal Carbaugh

Book: Common Ground: Reading and Writing about America's Cultures; by Laurie G Kirszner and Stephen R Mandall

Book: All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten - Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things; by Robert Fulghum

Book: Causes and Consequences of American Revolution; Edited by Esmond Wright

Book: The Civil War: A History; by Harry Hansen

Book: Out Of Many: A History Of The American People; By Faragher, Buhle, Czitrom, & Armitage

Article: The Haves and the Have-Nots, by LynNell Hancock

Evidence of the Inequities Within Human History

They're Baaaaack!

They're Baaaack!
Both of them!
The gophers and the Yuppies.









Well the west coast yuppie rich friends are back in Montana! They spend boatloads of money flying out to Great Falls and renting a mini-van or truck to visit our ranch to shoot gophers every year. They spend all day at it too.

The gopher terrorists....their guns are high powered and have scopes....so you can imagine just what that does to bulls-eye gopher, a synonym for exploding gophers? I don't know.

I do know I don't like the fact I have so many my prime pastures look like the ground is moving in the morning and the pasture grass I seeded last year isn't getting a chance to grow because of them. So west coast yuppie rich friends...have at it! Enjoy.

That which tickles some turkeys is an onerous chore to others. I need a few more west coast yuppie rich friends and maybe I'd have perfect pastures and fat sheep.

lol, Cy




For more information about the notorious Montana Gopher... aka Ground Squirrel:


http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=2420





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Someone Had An Awful Lot Of Time On Their Hands

As my friend Jeff Adams puts it, "Even if I bought one of these, I wouldn't be able to find ammo for it...ha ha."

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Me, I just peel myself off the ceiling laughing like a loon. Boy, do I love human creativity....my question: Is it operational? Say yes, please. I wanna see it work. Cy

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(five days later the owner blew his two story barn to into smithereens, testing it, because he needed a new one anyway and he didn't feel like taking it apart board-by-board......just joking, of course, its a man's grill of the bbq variety.)

Cyrellys ni Geibhendach

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It's Garden Craze Time

Spring has finally rolled into Central Montana after a final winter blast that laid three feet of heavy snow across the land. In my hand rattle my seed packets itching to slip into the cool soil where nature and germination create their yearly miracle.

I've blue corn to plant this year but that will have to wait one more month....after the holiday, around the first of June. Right now it is endless rounds of potatoes into the ground. The soil has been dormant all winter under a thick layer of compost.

At the end of the growing year the barns are cleaned and all the old footing goes to the garden to refurbish the soil over the winter months. The soil underneath stays loose and airy aided by earthworms and other microorganisms.

Today I added something new, raspberries and blackberries...they come as inauspicous looking twigs tied to a support pole of bamboo stuck into a pot of soil....a 1x1 hole in the ground and firmed soil around the wood-be plant an it is ready to begin its future. I've a nice straight row of them now...only thing left to do is water and wait....

There is a spiritual affirmation to working with the elements of soil, sun, water, and seed. It is true that when you focus on the individual plants over their growth that they seem to grow greener, healthier, and tastier. I know this because one year I experimented with it. The ones I left to fend for themselves seemed a poor shadow of the ones given the greater attention.

This year is going to be a year of expansion....I'm going to grow the garden itself by a few think....musing this over daily is becoming a hobby. Like furnature in the house, constantly rearranging the mental picture of what I want where, and what I'm hoping it to look like in full bloom. I think I've moved the onions two dozen times already...when I seed them at last then I shall be satisfied per force.