For me, Steve Coogan playing the SPORTS GENIUS ALAN PARTRIDGE Would make the most concise, literal and entertaining Sports Commentator for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008.
Listening to the cliche' and cheap jibes from the BBC commentary,
These clips of STEVE at his best around 1994 in "THE DAY TODAY" are the best way to make a peaceful, insightful and fun way to watch sports.
If your going to be talking during SPORTS, do it with satire.
IMHO The day today, along with BRASS EYE and SAXONDALE are the most focused satire and critiq' of the corporate mainstream media and their deceptive language structure in the United Kingdom.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Faster Higher Stronger
Light the Passion share the dream.
You may very appropriately want to ask me how we are going to resolve the ever-acceleratingly dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas. I answer, it will be resolved by the computer. Man has ever-increasing confidence in the computer; witness his unconcerned landings as airtransport passengers coming in for a landing in the combined invisibility of fog and night. While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
So, planners, architects, and engineers take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.-- Buckminster Fullerhttp://www.bfi.org/?q=node/414
IMPERIAL SPORTS COMMENTARY.
Listening the BBC's imperial-centric commentary on all the teams here to play sports, not DO POLITICS. I must agree that
"any words or acts that interfere in other countries' internal affairs." should be dropped in favor of words describing the sporting activity, process and rules! here lies the ways to peace and understanding between people and nations.
The BBC sports commentary so far has angered me, and i can imagine at least 50 statements about INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, mostly about CHINA, that i would consider unnecessary and in stark contrast to the universally, UNITY themed Opening ceremony.
The English Imperial alphabet kicks straight in, defining the geo-political, economic, business and humanitarian issues of various places around the world with their disgusting patriotic bias. In league with Bozo the clown and his daddy's intelligence brief.
All the flags in position for the second coming of a global capitalist New World Order. Business in arms, oil, steel, germs, minerals, all mediated by the Olympic Super-race. Listening to the BBC 1 sports commentary the Beijing Olympics seems like an Illuminati Games. Teeming with the worlds sporting Hero's and political Villains. But i doubt they will interchange many ideas. Therefore, I am NEMO. nobody. Competing for no nation, no country or tribe.
Green Olympics. Graffiti Olympics. Illuminati Olympic Games. Who makes the rules. Who mediates the messages. Who's history. Who's country, boundary, language. Why and how are these things that way?
Cultural exchange between the peoples of world will not be possible with the 150 sovereign nations in the way. They must be dissolved, sportingly, with everybody becoming stewards of planet earth. drop the debt. Drop the Imperial Patriotism. Drop monotheism and DOGMA. Drop Nuclear weapons programmes world-wide. We don't need no governor.
Be a sport. Play fair. Have Fun. These Games belong to you. THE PEOPLE.
PEACEFUL GATHERING OF ETHNIC, POLITICAL, FRIENDS. Gather your pens dear athletes.
Be roll models. REJECT DOPE DEALING AND CHEATING Governments.
"any words or acts that interfere in other countries' internal affairs." should be dropped in favor of words describing the sporting activity, process and rules! here lies the ways to peace and understanding between people and nations.
The BBC sports commentary so far has angered me, and i can imagine at least 50 statements about INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, mostly about CHINA, that i would consider unnecessary and in stark contrast to the universally, UNITY themed Opening ceremony.
The English Imperial alphabet kicks straight in, defining the geo-political, economic, business and humanitarian issues of various places around the world with their disgusting patriotic bias. In league with Bozo the clown and his daddy's intelligence brief.
All the flags in position for the second coming of a global capitalist New World Order. Business in arms, oil, steel, germs, minerals, all mediated by the Olympic Super-race. Listening to the BBC 1 sports commentary the Beijing Olympics seems like an Illuminati Games. Teeming with the worlds sporting Hero's and political Villains. But i doubt they will interchange many ideas. Therefore, I am NEMO. nobody. Competing for no nation, no country or tribe.
Green Olympics. Graffiti Olympics. Illuminati Olympic Games. Who makes the rules. Who mediates the messages. Who's history. Who's country, boundary, language. Why and how are these things that way?
Cultural exchange between the peoples of world will not be possible with the 150 sovereign nations in the way. They must be dissolved, sportingly, with everybody becoming stewards of planet earth. drop the debt. Drop the Imperial Patriotism. Drop monotheism and DOGMA. Drop Nuclear weapons programmes world-wide. We don't need no governor.
Be a sport. Play fair. Have Fun. These Games belong to you. THE PEOPLE.
PEACEFUL GATHERING OF ETHNIC, POLITICAL, FRIENDS. Gather your pens dear athletes.
Be roll models. REJECT DOPE DEALING AND CHEATING Governments.
Responding to Bush's speech, delivered earlier in the day in Thailand, which praised China's modernization but expressed "deep concerns" over restrictions on faith and free speech, the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a curt statement that bristled with anger over "any words or acts that interfere in other countries' internal affairs."-- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
RAWRIENTALISM.
RAWrientalism. (first draft edited 2007)
Steven James Pratt.
RAW: Robert Anton Wilson
rientalism: Orientalism.
A secret cabal and myself have both been reading and studying many texts and ideas put together by RAW, for me over just the last 10 years, but with a more intense and deeper study over the last 6 years that has included remarkable meetings with him and equally remarkable internet supported--Edutainment classes--with him and many other RAWfull minds at the Maybelogic Academy from 2004-2006.
Around the period that RAW went passing through the Lower lights and bardo states into that great Gig in the numberless skies, i was rather frantically writing and going back through my notes to try and represent RAW, to pay tribute to him, his lives and ideas. Roughly eleven months later, after many inspiring and ground breaking multimedia tributes around the world to RAW, i feel like i have a title: RAWrientalism.
RAW's condensed experience montage or "coex system" of communication, his certain special ways of using words and language have a distinctive "Oriental" flavor to them. Rawrietalism is related to the spatialized conceptions of time in themes of Chinese poetry. Ezra Pound and James Joyce as two great western WARRIORS, whose glossings RAW applied like a Renaissance master; to finish off a Canvases at the exhibit of his Oriental Coex Systems: Taoism and Quantum Mechanics. RAW's first published article called "The Tao of Joyce. (Realist 1959)" makes clear to me that RAW was involved deeply in RAWrientalist studies for over fifty years. "Taoists were familiar with these relativistic considerations long before Einstein." he writes.
The meters of RAW's prose and the collision of iconographic images from the History of the world, and popular western culture attain the goals set by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Marshall Mcluhan, Timothy Leary but with just words. Just words and a limitless imagination and optimism and compassion to fill their boots. To calibrate and sensitize the neural mechanisms of perception, to help us "see" better. To attain Relaxation and powerful insights and an increased sense of the contents of one's memories. Technically and methodologically RAW delivers neuro-linguistic equations, balanced and tested and re-balanced, grammatically balanced, semantically balanced with the engineering skills of any Watchmaker or Geneticist.
I think that a kind of sub-structure or "binding" agent throughout RAW's texts, this language vs. the equation equation; has the strongest affinity with the principles of Taoism and Quantummechanics, that i can locate. If the paradox of locating the "non-local" in RAW literature helps describe a "non-thing": invisible RAWrientalism, "Coex systems" which conceal themselves everywhere within the environment, maybe comparable with what Philip K. Dick describes as ZEBRA and VALIS?
This remarkable and limitless abilities that RAW had for understanding Mathematical structures, logics, probabilities, operationalist languages, General Semantics, Clionical and Experimental Psychology, Journalism, Prose Fiction, Critical writing and letter writing were all used in a humanitarian effort to balance the equation IMHO.
Maybe RAW's technical and practical skills as a satirist and writer are equalled elsewhere in the dungeons of the literary world, but it was the content, both the quality of the subjective content and the "time-binded" always challenging, cultural content of RAW's writing that sets him apart from everybody else. The despicable, the Taboo, the stuff that nobody else sane dare write about, these are the things RAW applied his Genius and methodological "process" too, and so freeing all humanity from the chains of fear and Terror that hold us down. Somebody unafraid to follow their own way to resolving their life-cycling equations. Always questioning everything wherever it takes the mind, but holding true to structures and frameworks and models at the same time. And having good cheer and Hilaritas. A balanced "center" or balanced "Stereo" mix between left and right brain characteristics. What i choose to call Rawriental Daoism.
Raw's Ideogramic Method?
RAW managed to distill "ideogramic Method" through the lens of Ezra Pound as, what i now newly call; RAWriental perception--a window of visual meaning with an equal persuasion and power as linguistic sequence. "ideogramic Method" makes sense as a typical Rawriental journey beyond language where alphabet, predicate and subject seem to deconstruct, synthesize and resurrect themselves into a picture-word, a sigil, or a poetic experience of "epiphany" in the mind. But writing about pictures like writing about people in this special way seems to me to contains a continuous flow backwards and forwards, a "process" of metempsychosis. A constant questioning and establishment of free-space for "mind" to add its own subjective meaning and playful commentary. Like the "space" a legendary Jazz master would create seemingly out of nothing, again the fullness of emptyness; expansion and contraction, appearance and disappearance, the non-location of the Tao in Raw's writs.
My tribute to RAW for the most part relates to the peace that comes from balanced communication, his Taoist, Zen-Buddhist qualities as a wise man of the West and his continued influence on peaceful optimistic and co-operative communications between cultures. Spreading Oriental like intelligence of a beneficial nature to allsentient beings.
Steven James Pratt.
RAW: Robert Anton Wilson
rientalism: Orientalism.
"The two philosophers most frequently mentioned in Finnegans Wake, Nicholas of Cusa and Bruno of Nola, taught a dialectic of resolution of opposites. Joseph Needham in his monumental Science and Civilization in China, repeatedly mentions both Bruno and Nicholas as the only two Occidental philosophers before Liebnitz to have a basically Taoist outlook" --RAW
A secret cabal and myself have both been reading and studying many texts and ideas put together by RAW, for me over just the last 10 years, but with a more intense and deeper study over the last 6 years that has included remarkable meetings with him and equally remarkable internet supported--Edutainment classes--with him and many other RAWfull minds at the Maybelogic Academy from 2004-2006.
Around the period that RAW went passing through the Lower lights and bardo states into that great Gig in the numberless skies, i was rather frantically writing and going back through my notes to try and represent RAW, to pay tribute to him, his lives and ideas. Roughly eleven months later, after many inspiring and ground breaking multimedia tributes around the world to RAW, i feel like i have a title: RAWrientalism.
"This book intends to change your way of percieving/conceiving the world, without drugs or drums or voodoo, simply by using words in certain special ways." --RAW, E-mail to the Universe.
RAW's condensed experience montage or "coex system" of communication, his certain special ways of using words and language have a distinctive "Oriental" flavor to them. Rawrietalism is related to the spatialized conceptions of time in themes of Chinese poetry. Ezra Pound and James Joyce as two great western WARRIORS, whose glossings RAW applied like a Renaissance master; to finish off a Canvases at the exhibit of his Oriental Coex Systems: Taoism and Quantum Mechanics. RAW's first published article called "The Tao of Joyce. (Realist 1959)" makes clear to me that RAW was involved deeply in RAWrientalist studies for over fifty years. "Taoists were familiar with these relativistic considerations long before Einstein." he writes.
"The purpose of this present brief essay is to show that the Chinese philosophy of the Tao contributed largely to the shape of Joyce's affirmation. "Laotsey taotsey" (page 242), or Lao-Tse's doctrine of the Tao, explains a great many things about Finnegans Wake: the river-woman symbol, the Shem-Shaun dualism, the special quality of Joyce's humor, the "time" philosophy underlying its form." --RAW.
The meters of RAW's prose and the collision of iconographic images from the History of the world, and popular western culture attain the goals set by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Marshall Mcluhan, Timothy Leary but with just words. Just words and a limitless imagination and optimism and compassion to fill their boots. To calibrate and sensitize the neural mechanisms of perception, to help us "see" better. To attain Relaxation and powerful insights and an increased sense of the contents of one's memories. Technically and methodologically RAW delivers neuro-linguistic equations, balanced and tested and re-balanced, grammatically balanced, semantically balanced with the engineering skills of any Watchmaker or Geneticist.
I think that a kind of sub-structure or "binding" agent throughout RAW's texts, this language vs. the equation equation; has the strongest affinity with the principles of Taoism and Quantummechanics, that i can locate. If the paradox of locating the "non-local" in RAW literature helps describe a "non-thing": invisible RAWrientalism, "Coex systems" which conceal themselves everywhere within the environment, maybe comparable with what Philip K. Dick describes as ZEBRA and VALIS?
This remarkable and limitless abilities that RAW had for understanding Mathematical structures, logics, probabilities, operationalist languages, General Semantics, Clionical and Experimental Psychology, Journalism, Prose Fiction, Critical writing and letter writing were all used in a humanitarian effort to balance the equation IMHO.
Maybe RAW's technical and practical skills as a satirist and writer are equalled elsewhere in the dungeons of the literary world, but it was the content, both the quality of the subjective content and the "time-binded" always challenging, cultural content of RAW's writing that sets him apart from everybody else. The despicable, the Taboo, the stuff that nobody else sane dare write about, these are the things RAW applied his Genius and methodological "process" too, and so freeing all humanity from the chains of fear and Terror that hold us down. Somebody unafraid to follow their own way to resolving their life-cycling equations. Always questioning everything wherever it takes the mind, but holding true to structures and frameworks and models at the same time. And having good cheer and Hilaritas. A balanced "center" or balanced "Stereo" mix between left and right brain characteristics. What i choose to call Rawriental Daoism.
Raw's Ideogramic Method?
"The Tao is in the dung," said Chuang Chou.
RAW managed to distill "ideogramic Method" through the lens of Ezra Pound as, what i now newly call; RAWriental perception--a window of visual meaning with an equal persuasion and power as linguistic sequence. "ideogramic Method" makes sense as a typical Rawriental journey beyond language where alphabet, predicate and subject seem to deconstruct, synthesize and resurrect themselves into a picture-word, a sigil, or a poetic experience of "epiphany" in the mind. But writing about pictures like writing about people in this special way seems to me to contains a continuous flow backwards and forwards, a "process" of metempsychosis. A constant questioning and establishment of free-space for "mind" to add its own subjective meaning and playful commentary. Like the "space" a legendary Jazz master would create seemingly out of nothing, again the fullness of emptyness; expansion and contraction, appearance and disappearance, the non-location of the Tao in Raw's writs.
My tribute to RAW for the most part relates to the peace that comes from balanced communication, his Taoist, Zen-Buddhist qualities as a wise man of the West and his continued influence on peaceful optimistic and co-operative communications between cultures. Spreading Oriental like intelligence of a beneficial nature to allsentient beings.
Sin, jih, jih sin (Day by day make it new.) Olympic Pound?
I have being research-ching into some Chinese poetry and culture, mostly through the lens of Ezra Pound via Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, over the last 5 years.
Pound seemed interested in SPORTING ECONOMICS. And he invented Chinese poetry for the western world. During the Beijing Oilympics 2008 i will be returning to Ezra Pound often.
Confucious keeps getting quoted on BBC coverage of the Olympics!
Sin, jih, jih sin [Day by day make it new]
Pound seemed interested in SPORTING ECONOMICS. And he invented Chinese poetry for the western world. During the Beijing Oilympics 2008 i will be returning to Ezra Pound often.
Confucious keeps getting quoted on BBC coverage of the Olympics!
As for message/ there is a straight tradition. Kung, Mencius, Dante, Agassiz.
And that shd/ be stressed sometime.
The Answers are all in the Four Books/
BUT the barbarians need the ODES. --Ezra Pound to Achilles Fang, 4th Feb 1953.
Confucius or K'UNG Fu-TZU (Kong Fuzi) (551-479). Chinese philosopher. Unsuccessful in his political career, he spent his late years editing classics and teaching disciples from all parts of China. Confucian thought appealed to Ezra Pound as humanist discourse. He translated into English the first three of the Confucian Four Books: Da xue as Ta HIO (1928) and The Great Digest (1947); Zhong yong as The Unwobbling Pivot (1947); and Lun yu as Confucian Analects (1951). Confuciansim plays an important role in The Cantos. EP's Confucianism is treated in Mary Paterson Cheadle's Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations (1997) and Feng Lan's Ezra Pound and Confucianism (2005).
FENOLLOSA, ERNEST (1853-1908). American orientalist. After a tewlve-year sojourn in Japan he became the curator of oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1890-7). His Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art was published posthumously in London in 1912. In 1913 his widow Mary Fenollosa entrusted to EP his notes and manuscripts, which yielded Cathay (1915), "Non" or Accomplishment (1917), and "The Chinese Written Character as a medium for Poetry" (1919).
King Wen (11th Century). Father to China's third dynasty Zhou. After capture and imprisonment, he continued to fight the Shang, a dynasty eventually overthrown in the hands of his son King Wu. As one of Confucius' ideal model rulers, he is listed in Canto 53. ----Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends, Edited and Annotated by Zhaoming Qian. Oxford University Press 2008. Page 230.
Sin, jih, jih sin [Day by day make it new]
Oilympic Flames. Oilympic cooking?
Oilimpic Flames.
Since alls
war that end war let sports be leisure and
bring and buy fair. Ah ah athclete, blest your
bally bathfeet! --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 279.
The wonderful story of Jesse Owens seems like a fairy tale to me, a modern folk tale in which the skill, dexterity and physical ability of a single individual human being overcomes and dances-a-jig upon the face of evil political super-power, in the Jesse Owens case Adolf Hitler, and one of the most violent and openly hateful super-powers in history--The Nazi Party.
In 2008 this tale of a good hero overcoming an evil villain, or at least dancing upon the face of evil--if you wish to adopt the popular dualism good/evil--seems an encouraging one we can all learn from. A Positive story of an individuals brilliance demonstrated through skill and endurance. I think that the general heart, of all humanity, or an approximation of all humanity would agree that if you can show your the BEST, then fairs fair. You are the best, or fastest, or highest scorer or most original, and the list goes on and on with adjectives to describe WHY somebody is GOOD. Not just good, but VERY VERY good. Some might even say the best, although i doubt that Tina Turner had table-Tennis in mind when she wrote "Simply the Best"? Many other songs with the words GOLD. WINNER. BEST in them get prescribed by our Big Telecommunication Brothers.
"Free speech without free radio speech is as zero --Ezra Pound, Canto 74.
objectivity and fairness seem to become hyper-skewed around the language surrounding Sporting events, especially the OLYMPICS. Sometimes i think that violence and tribal tensions in many cities across the world are aggravated by BAD LANGUAGE use by the media and the press. There is always an very obvious dualism when TWO teams are playing one-another, but to slip outside of the SPORTS GAME itself into the social, political, economic, gastric and other areas of human experience with this dualistic view seems a terrible blow to any neurological revisions or peaceful-poetic modes of communication.
And frustratingly to me, SPORTS seem to hold mostly VERBS in their track-pack. But to begin mixing metaphor's and facts together when writing or talking about Sports, or sports people: ATHLETES brings up many problems. At least to my understanding. The WHY question arises often. Why are the sports-people doing such and such an event, and not ________ sporting event? WHO MAKES THE RULES? And of course there is the giant carbuncle on the WORLD SPORTING COMMUNITY: DRUGS. (Or some drugs, not all drugs. Sugar seems to still be tolerated and at the heart of most sporting sponsorship deals.
But before i get into the paradoxes and more negative criticisms of the Olympic Games, SPORTS in a general sense, and the language by which we describe these activities; i would like to refocus upon Jesse Owens, and call for everybody to excel in whatever it is they are GOOD at. Practice your crafts and activities and don't be afraid of the big bad wolf, or the so called super-powers. Hopefully by 2012 the world will have lost its fascination with SPORTS CELEBRITY ICONS and re-focused attention on the process of the activity that they are actually doing. And then asking what else can they do? And why are our political puppets on the TV screen, the most un-sporting individuals upon planet earth!
Maybe we should look for our LEADERS and government officials among those who have a great sporting ability and/or accomplishments? Quick in body quick in mind? or Robot Mind robot body?
Well one view: sports is sports. Politics and governance is politics and governance.
Ice cream is ice cream. Horse dung is horse dung. The Mixing of these terms can bring to mind, and page, some nasty smells and sights. Mixing up an INDIVIDUAL with the NATION they are representing visualized as the flag-costume that many athletes pimp. Unable to wear their own colors? Literally wearing the COLORS AND SYMBOLS of THEIR pirate slave nation. But in the process world this seems to me like only going half way. Why not wear your nations statistics, constitutional documents or MOTTOS, or their BEST Graffiti? You want to play communication and costume games.
ZEN and the art of Oilympic Engineering.
“Dom on dam,
dim in dym. And a capital part for olympics to ply at. Steadyon,
Cooloosus! Mind your stride or you'll knock. While I'm dodging
the dustbins. Look what I found! --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 625.
I fess up that i don't really know ZEN, but ZEN knows me i suspect, and when i read about ZEN, swordsmanship, calligraphy and Tea Ceremony i get the feeling that they have a similar sentiment as i, when asking questions about SPOTSMANSHIP, Sports, Athletes, Games and Rules. Some Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian thinking and ancient wisdom also feels inviting with its flexibility towards WHY people do activities.
Although ZEN seems defined by the Japanese Culture and its Master Teachers, China also has many ZEN like qualities, and when you dig into it you can make ZEN, Confucianism, Taoism and other forms of Buddhism interchange many positive attributes between one another. Respect of others, oneself and the environment. And they can also be shown to carry less appealing traits depending on who is carrying and translating the signals.
"fair dream of
sport and game and always something new. --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 472.
Here in the West it seems a similar situation to me, but with a stronger wind blowing dogmatic certainty in all directions from some but not all of the Christian, Judean, Islamic world views. And with an unfortunate fascination with WHO's GOD is better and more rightfully certainly better than another's. Such are the pitfalls of monotheism, church/state capitalism and Alphabetic Monopoly. I think the same BAD influences and impulses are at work in the Communist East and the Democratic West. The bridge can be constructed or burnt down depending on WHAT it IS you are doing. WHY you do what you do. WHO benefits from your activities. These impulses or the meaning behind the meaning and beyond classification, due to the language barrier between western-occidental Alphabet cultures and more Eastern-Oriental Ideogramic Cultures. Impulses are very hard to represent scientifically, but with sports and games and athletics we have an open invitation to ask these questions, but when the economic and political drives/impulses far out balance any artistic or poetic drives/impules we have a CONTRADICTING GAMES.
Imagine if the United Nations, The Olympic Committee and the World Bank, IMF etc. all gathered to compete? But in 2008 the GAMES are changing. THE NEW GLOBAL GAMES ARE EMERGING. Without any rules, the EARTH is begging to play GAMES. And if our HUMAN games do NOT begin to include a HEALTHY PLANET EARTH and environment soon. The GAMES may appear to be a posh get together of the worlds elite sports-priests to sell whatever it is their NATION state is selling. As POLITICAL ACTION AND PROTEST will not be tolerated at the Olympic Games and most sporting events to be frank, then the possibility of a cultural exchange and a playful loving get-together goes out the window. But still the question begs.
"We are now in a position to get rid of the 150 sovereignties and
have a re:circulatory, interacommadative, world-around
democratic system. -- Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path, page 287.
WHY NOT get the leaders, KINGS and Queens, Emperors and Princes, CEO's and Major BIG shot REAL Estate owners and HOLY chosen ones to COMPETE! COMPETE. PITCH you skill and wisdom up to the world! We are ALL WATCVHING NOW! So why not use the GAMES as a window of communication, without RULES. With Impulses to PLAY and test and learn and feedback with each other?
What of Literature, ART, Music, Economics, Medicine, Cooking? they are all a part of the OLYMPIC or SPORTING EVENT, but unless they are from a corporation that is paying some FATMAN somewhere, they cannot communicate. No matter how GOOD. FREE. Beneficial and humanitarian the case may be. The Olympic Games will NOT become a POLITICAL and/or Economic GAMES, but a purely SPORTING EVENT. In the spirit of fair play, you know, like the war in IRAQ (Gagging)
I echo the fact that 'no one has written anything decent about sports except HOMER (In snatches). And if you write artistically about speed, the color, and the sound and fury of boxing, you'll find it more difficult than writing about the echoes of Confucius, Buddha or Finnegans Wake. HAN and T'ANG dynasties emphasized sports besides the arts. MING and CH'ING dynasties relegated athletics to an inferior position. The greeks were aware of the importance of exercise.'
"my pen is upt to scratch, to compound quite the makings
of a verdigrease savingsbook in the form of a pair of capri
sheep boxing gloves surrounding this matter of the Welsfusel
mascoteers and their sindybuck that saved a city for my publickers,
Nolaner and Browno, --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Page 412.
Now America and the United Kingdom and much of the world is in the throws of ATHLETIC GODS taking over the entire planet. Better writers than writers. Better politicians than politicians. Scientists. Talk show hosts and sales people for the SUGAR industry. I am being a bit negative again here, but thats because i see a contradiction GAME being played out. How can you support a team that is sponsored by a company that robs you? Rob them back? Rub their back. Write on?
It seems the Olympic Games and most Sporting events attract Testosterone and ALPHA Male activity, even in some female competitiors. Gymnastics has become a kind of strange celebration of what i see as female, but thats my subjective view. Of course women should be able to compete in sports and athletics like any man, also a man should feel comfortable playing cook or nurse. Here we have an example where these activities are not really conducive to the OLYMPIC games, OLYMPIC COOKING? Fastest, most nutritious, Biggest? sort of breaks down a bit. But still, why are only the current official OLYMPIC ACTIVITIES mostly physical strength and endurance activities opposed to skill and intelligence activities?
I hope i have raised some questions, and i hope to come back and wax on more about SPORTS LANGUAGE and COMMERCE.
"Infantilism incresing till our time,
attension to outlet, no attension to source,
That is: the problem of issue. -- Ezra Pound. Canto LXXXVII.
--Steven Pratt, May 1st 2008.
Doping, Education, Health. Sport? Politics?
The Oilympic Games in Beijing seem to have already been hijacked
By Political leaders and their political language.
The sports people are not being equally quoted or given a VOICE by the major media today.
Its just their actions and not their words that are broadcast to the world.
Meanwhile the political world leaders have their actions hidden,
And their Big Bully Brother words broadcast as FACT!
While the fans have neither words or actions of any interest,
But we find their sayingings like "Go Olympics"
All over the brain numbing news.
To say nothing of the semantical disturbance created by
Individuals reffering to nations as GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
Rather than fictitious phantom sovereign entities,
Pirate Sovereign entities that seem to promote patriotism and other such semantical disturbances!
And i agree with whoever said that
PEOPLE WHO WAVE FLAGS DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE ONE!
Make your own flag!
Who are you?
I am Nemo!
By Political leaders and their political language.
The sports people are not being equally quoted or given a VOICE by the major media today.
Its just their actions and not their words that are broadcast to the world.
Meanwhile the political world leaders have their actions hidden,
And their Big Bully Brother words broadcast as FACT!
While the fans have neither words or actions of any interest,
But we find their sayingings like "Go Olympics"
All over the brain numbing news.
To say nothing of the semantical disturbance created by
Individuals reffering to nations as GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
Rather than fictitious phantom sovereign entities,
Pirate Sovereign entities that seem to promote patriotism and other such semantical disturbances!
And i agree with whoever said that
PEOPLE WHO WAVE FLAGS DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE ONE!
Make your own flag!
Who are you?
I am Nemo!
More world leaders – more than 100 sovereigns, heads of state and heads of government - will be attending the Beijing Olympic Games, as well as 170 Ministers of Sport.
As well as discussing the Beijing Games, Rogge will be using the meetings as an opportunity to raise issues of concern to the Olympic movement – the fight against doping, and the role of sport in education and in improving public health. -- www.olympic.org
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws. True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe. --Buckminster Fuller: Operating manual For Spaceship Earth
SWIMMING and NIKE and ADIDAS
Swimming in a new suit.
With an energy bar,
X-MEN suits.
Nike and Adidas await sportspeople
Like hungry Sharks.
With an energy bar,
X-MEN suits.
Nike and Adidas await sportspeople
Like hungry Sharks.
SUPER PHANTOM FEATHERED FLYWEIGHT.
Short Heavyweight champion of the word.
Light water weight - butter - fly.
Milk honey herb on verb
--GODISTURBER in the sporting world.
Backstroke, no race
No competition.
Total immersion version of swimming.
For peace.
Athletics, poetics, psychology, economics
These are the pass times of revolutionary sportspeople.
Going beyond sport.
To say nothing of the anti-christ, or
Religion, Tony Blair, George Bush and Bethlehem
And Yeats poem -- the second coming.
Light water weight - butter - fly.
Milk honey herb on verb
--GODISTURBER in the sporting world.
Backstroke, no race
No competition.
Total immersion version of swimming.
For peace.
Athletics, poetics, psychology, economics
These are the pass times of revolutionary sportspeople.
Going beyond sport.
To say nothing of the anti-christ, or
Religion, Tony Blair, George Bush and Bethlehem
And Yeats poem -- the second coming.
SELLING SWIMMING
My respects to Mark Foster.
UK Maverick and Bad-boy of swimming,
Selected to be the UK Flag bearer.
1948 at the XIVth Olympioc games, London
Korea beat Iraq 120-20 and
China beat Iraq 125-25 in basketball.
Iraqi basketball team of 2008?
How have the Bush/Cheney Blair/Straw wars
Effected IRAQI olympic basketball?
I wonder if Iraq plays much baseball?
Addidas anbd Nike get into swimming promotional business.
Sporting creative capitalism?
Haliburtan, I.G faben, BAE systems, FOX, CNN and Rockerfellers
What makes GOOD and BAD creative capitalism?
Livingry vs. Killingry and the links between their backers
Stock holders and intelligence briefs.
Good and/or Bad business as usual?
Why is business and how is it business as usual?
Selling the mostly invisible and unknowable
"products"
To the mostly invisible and unknowable individuals?
Selling truth and reality with a super-hero sports complex?
The media sports police and propaganda machines whirl.
How many sugar filled products can a sports-person sell?
How many pairs of shoes can a runner sell, how many drugs?
Don't start me to talking about swimming,
Its hard to swallow,
I care for swimming facilities and health and fitness
Within the community.
Everybody should have a chance to swim,
Not just the great atheletes of the great Nations!
My sporting bet is that in these 2008 OLYMPICS
The most power crazed, militaristric, industrial
Agricultural Nations will seize the most
GOLD AND SILVER.
As throughout History!
Bush is opening the games,
Go figure...
At the end of these summer games 6008
The hierrarchy of super-TSOG nations may look
The same as past Olympic games.
The Big, rich, bully nations at the TOP
The poorer, smaller, war-torn nations at the BOTTOM.
Or missing from the GAMES entirely.
How about a hadicap for competing SPORTING NATIONS
Who harbour NUCLEAR WEAPONS, or deal arms or
Maybe a national pollution hadicap?
What is a professional atheletes carbon footprint like
Compared with the vast majority of earth population?
Jet setting sports people, why not run or swim home?
I communicate these words with a sportsmans experience
10 years in the swimming pool, swimming throuigh the ranks
County, District and National champion (20 years ago)
--Plus all my underwater dreams (See wordspore.blogspot.com
I have practical and theoretical knowledge of swimming,
The slogan i created on the 31st December 2005 at
Brierley Hill Swimming baths was SWIMMING NOT WINNING.
In the face of my defeat by Dudley Council, and the closure
And eventual demolishion of the functional swimming baths.
Where i had swam over 10'000 miles and taught numerous Children
To swim over the last 20 years.
I refused to leave the pool between 3.30 and 4.20 PM.
They lifeguards and Leisure staff called the Heads of staff
In dudley, and the local POLICE.
The errected a steel fence around the pool and even started
Draining the pool with ME in it.
Eventually i completed 78 lengths in protest
I also threw a Hereford and Worcestershire GOLD medal away
Into the pool, as a symbol of my disgust as the double crossed
Crooked lies perpetuated within both local and national Government.
I'm still not bitter and i have my focus.
I'm going for GOLD now.
For the banks.
What is money, HOW is it and why is it that way.
Who distributes it and how.
Tell me, tell me all.
GOLD!, how is it gold and why?
Silver?
What creates and inflates and deflates values systems for MINERALS?
Availability? USURY?
How about the relative value of paper money?
An olympic gold medal should go to a nations sporting
Economists, the indipendent journalists who ask and seek
the question of HOW and WHY is money money?
The history of credit, war bank-rolling, money games and rules?
Play the game, be fair
Think social credit and Silvio Gessell's natural economic order
LETS. Major Douglas, Ezra Pound and Robert Anton Wilson!
How do you sell sports?
Put a little sugar on it, brand it.
Apply non-sporting business tactics?
letr the games begin!
--fly
UK Maverick and Bad-boy of swimming,
Selected to be the UK Flag bearer.
1948 at the XIVth Olympioc games, London
Korea beat Iraq 120-20 and
China beat Iraq 125-25 in basketball.
Iraqi basketball team of 2008?
How have the Bush/Cheney Blair/Straw wars
Effected IRAQI olympic basketball?
I wonder if Iraq plays much baseball?
Addidas anbd Nike get into swimming promotional business.
Sporting creative capitalism?
Haliburtan, I.G faben, BAE systems, FOX, CNN and Rockerfellers
What makes GOOD and BAD creative capitalism?
Livingry vs. Killingry and the links between their backers
Stock holders and intelligence briefs.
Good and/or Bad business as usual?
Why is business and how is it business as usual?
Selling the mostly invisible and unknowable
"products"
To the mostly invisible and unknowable individuals?
Selling truth and reality with a super-hero sports complex?
The media sports police and propaganda machines whirl.
How many sugar filled products can a sports-person sell?
How many pairs of shoes can a runner sell, how many drugs?
Don't start me to talking about swimming,
Its hard to swallow,
I care for swimming facilities and health and fitness
Within the community.
Everybody should have a chance to swim,
Not just the great atheletes of the great Nations!
My sporting bet is that in these 2008 OLYMPICS
The most power crazed, militaristric, industrial
Agricultural Nations will seize the most
GOLD AND SILVER.
As throughout History!
Bush is opening the games,
Go figure...
At the end of these summer games 6008
The hierrarchy of super-TSOG nations may look
The same as past Olympic games.
The Big, rich, bully nations at the TOP
The poorer, smaller, war-torn nations at the BOTTOM.
Or missing from the GAMES entirely.
How about a hadicap for competing SPORTING NATIONS
Who harbour NUCLEAR WEAPONS, or deal arms or
Maybe a national pollution hadicap?
What is a professional atheletes carbon footprint like
Compared with the vast majority of earth population?
Jet setting sports people, why not run or swim home?
I communicate these words with a sportsmans experience
10 years in the swimming pool, swimming throuigh the ranks
County, District and National champion (20 years ago)
--Plus all my underwater dreams (See wordspore.blogspot.com
I have practical and theoretical knowledge of swimming,
The slogan i created on the 31st December 2005 at
Brierley Hill Swimming baths was SWIMMING NOT WINNING.
In the face of my defeat by Dudley Council, and the closure
And eventual demolishion of the functional swimming baths.
Where i had swam over 10'000 miles and taught numerous Children
To swim over the last 20 years.
I refused to leave the pool between 3.30 and 4.20 PM.
They lifeguards and Leisure staff called the Heads of staff
In dudley, and the local POLICE.
The errected a steel fence around the pool and even started
Draining the pool with ME in it.
Eventually i completed 78 lengths in protest
I also threw a Hereford and Worcestershire GOLD medal away
Into the pool, as a symbol of my disgust as the double crossed
Crooked lies perpetuated within both local and national Government.
I'm still not bitter and i have my focus.
I'm going for GOLD now.
For the banks.
What is money, HOW is it and why is it that way.
Who distributes it and how.
Tell me, tell me all.
GOLD!, how is it gold and why?
Silver?
What creates and inflates and deflates values systems for MINERALS?
Availability? USURY?
How about the relative value of paper money?
An olympic gold medal should go to a nations sporting
Economists, the indipendent journalists who ask and seek
the question of HOW and WHY is money money?
The history of credit, war bank-rolling, money games and rules?
Play the game, be fair
Think social credit and Silvio Gessell's natural economic order
LETS. Major Douglas, Ezra Pound and Robert Anton Wilson!
How do you sell sports?
Put a little sugar on it, brand it.
Apply non-sporting business tactics?
letr the games begin!
--fly
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
FAIR GAME AND OLYMPIC ECONOMIC RULES?
Who can FIX the Olympic itch?
I want to see a FAIR GAME.
Fair PLAY in the Public OLYMPIC
COURTS. Pools and Fields 2008.
SPORT AND FAIR PLAY?
Who's in training to be a good sport?
A better competitor. More FAIR and thoughtful?
Individuals, nations and one planet playing
Fair games with the worlds eyes watching via
TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
Competition and battles between representatives
Of different tribes.
Not only in it for the Money or sponsor?
For the spirit of sportsmanship.
The GREAT OLD ONES (GOO)
Sports-people inspire every-people to
Transcend any limits and go beyond the
Physical and mental HURDLES any GOO
May have set for us.
To be the best?
Who measures the best and with WHAT INSTRUMENTS
Do they do their measuring with?
The CLOCK.
Scale. Photograph. Human Eye. Human subjective taste.
Where is the FAIR AND EQUAL.
NON-biased.
To be a sportsperson and be playful
Open to f-e-e-d-b-a-c-k
Willing to change and modify individual
Activity, based on the freshest data,
In the interests of humanity, the group and the
SPORTING ACTIVITY.
I see a fair sportsperson having the positive
Attributes that our political representatives LACK.
Willingness to play create the NEW and
FEEDBACK.
The sporting and pleasure groups and appear to me to
NOT have mastered the political principles
And
The political groups see to lack mastery of sporting
And pleasure principles.
--To say nothing of religion.
Fair play, Fair rules and equal chances.
Equal ECONOMIC stability for ALL the global
Competitors in the free SPORTS market.
BEYOND SPORT. Into the spirit.
Equal and fair access to equipment and
Facilities for the worlds SPORTS-PEOPLE.
----------Those who wish to PLAY the games.
Sporting events are picture postcards for PEACE
Between nations and peoples everywhere. PLAY not war!
Different gene pools with different nationalities
Coming together! to play a world game.
The question hangs in the air like Napalm!
WHY CAN'T OUR POLITICAL LEADERS PLAY FAIR?
What on earth are sporting economic models and theories.
Sporting economic practice? In a Tsarist Occupation Zone.
Why are economics sporting?
Human writes...
Contradictions to the meaning of Global Justice
One rule for one, one rule for another,
Who owns the means to distribute the information?
Who makes economic sanctions that help close-down
Sports Courts, swimming pools and schools in
Some countries.
National spending on sports and sporting facilities,
Versus National Defence spending.
Who makes the international rules of ECONOMIC trade
Relations.
Who sets the bar?
Who most influences a nations sports budget,
Sports people or politicians and ministers
Or political sports-people?
How do the mob-rules of politics influence
The strict rules of sporting bodies authorities.
Sport in the time of war
Football on the battle fronts of WWI.
Running. Running. Running.
Jumping, shooting, fencing, throwing things.
Sporting events between
WARRING nations and tribes to make a peace.
To force out the difference, peacefully.
Individual representatives of their tribe
--Clad in their clans flag rags
And medieval symbols.
In full sporting battle
With each other and with the game rule matrix.
All in full public view?
Speak to me now,
Sporting entity, speak, tell us a tale
Who are you?
What, why, how is sport sport?
DRUGS and their sporting DAMNBIGUATION
Who measures the drugs,
Who defines them.
Who decides what substances are UN-FAIR
And an UN-sporting advantage for All competitors
What helps the athlete?
Sports get you own hard-wired DRUG-BRAINS pumping DRUGS
All over your body.
Sports people are allowed to show Ecstasy in public,
HIGH on their activity, high on their own DRUG (endorphins)
DRUGS manufactured in their own illegal heads.
--According to some of the most popular sporting authorities
So called...
Most drugs used in sport illegally don't make you HIGH
Like weed and sh rooms, no, they make you stronger,
Calmer etc. For mostly physical benefits. Tranquillity.
An Olympic Economic vision
Sporting in its practice. Fair. Sporting economics!
Self-depreciating currency as a FAIR and EQUAL
World game!
Life and trade upon a really -free-fair
Playing field
Social. Economic. Humanitarian.
The name of this game is
DOING MORE WITH LESS.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER OLYMPIC WORLD GAMES!
Individual vs. The Sovereign State
The furthest distance covered with the lightest
FOOTPRINT.
Whats the fuel cost to the environment to get all these athletes
To BEIJING?
To win is to win with a Clean track record.
A good national track record too, and a
New Individual best performance--
UNITY between self & State!
Not to speak of the other.
Grounded in fairness.
Let the games begin and the rules all change.
Let the people play everywhere.
SPORT is only possible between equals!
Like COMMUNICATION.
I want to see a FAIR GAME.
Fair PLAY in the Public OLYMPIC
COURTS. Pools and Fields 2008.
SPORT AND FAIR PLAY?
Who's in training to be a good sport?
A better competitor. More FAIR and thoughtful?
Individuals, nations and one planet playing
Fair games with the worlds eyes watching via
TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
Competition and battles between representatives
Of different tribes.
Not only in it for the Money or sponsor?
For the spirit of sportsmanship.
The GREAT OLD ONES (GOO)
Sports-people inspire every-people to
Transcend any limits and go beyond the
Physical and mental HURDLES any GOO
May have set for us.
To be the best?
Who measures the best and with WHAT INSTRUMENTS
Do they do their measuring with?
The CLOCK.
Scale. Photograph. Human Eye. Human subjective taste.
Where is the FAIR AND EQUAL.
NON-biased.
To be a sportsperson and be playful
Open to f-e-e-d-b-a-c-k
Willing to change and modify individual
Activity, based on the freshest data,
In the interests of humanity, the group and the
SPORTING ACTIVITY.
I see a fair sportsperson having the positive
Attributes that our political representatives LACK.
Willingness to play create the NEW and
FEEDBACK.
The sporting and pleasure groups and appear to me to
NOT have mastered the political principles
And
The political groups see to lack mastery of sporting
And pleasure principles.
--To say nothing of religion.
Fair play, Fair rules and equal chances.
Equal ECONOMIC stability for ALL the global
Competitors in the free SPORTS market.
BEYOND SPORT. Into the spirit.
Equal and fair access to equipment and
Facilities for the worlds SPORTS-PEOPLE.
----------Those who wish to PLAY the games.
Sporting events are picture postcards for PEACE
Between nations and peoples everywhere. PLAY not war!
Different gene pools with different nationalities
Coming together! to play a world game.
The question hangs in the air like Napalm!
WHY CAN'T OUR POLITICAL LEADERS PLAY FAIR?
What on earth are sporting economic models and theories.
Sporting economic practice? In a Tsarist Occupation Zone.
Why are economics sporting?
Human writes...
Contradictions to the meaning of Global Justice
One rule for one, one rule for another,
Who owns the means to distribute the information?
Who makes economic sanctions that help close-down
Sports Courts, swimming pools and schools in
Some countries.
National spending on sports and sporting facilities,
Versus National Defence spending.
Who makes the international rules of ECONOMIC trade
Relations.
Who sets the bar?
Who most influences a nations sports budget,
Sports people or politicians and ministers
Or political sports-people?
How do the mob-rules of politics influence
The strict rules of sporting bodies authorities.
Sport in the time of war
Football on the battle fronts of WWI.
Running. Running. Running.
Jumping, shooting, fencing, throwing things.
Sporting events between
WARRING nations and tribes to make a peace.
To force out the difference, peacefully.
Individual representatives of their tribe
--Clad in their clans flag rags
And medieval symbols.
In full sporting battle
With each other and with the game rule matrix.
All in full public view?
Speak to me now,
Sporting entity, speak, tell us a tale
Who are you?
What, why, how is sport sport?
DRUGS and their sporting DAMNBIGUATION
Who measures the drugs,
Who defines them.
Who decides what substances are UN-FAIR
And an UN-sporting advantage for All competitors
What helps the athlete?
Sports get you own hard-wired DRUG-BRAINS pumping DRUGS
All over your body.
Sports people are allowed to show Ecstasy in public,
HIGH on their activity, high on their own DRUG (endorphins)
DRUGS manufactured in their own illegal heads.
--According to some of the most popular sporting authorities
So called...
Most drugs used in sport illegally don't make you HIGH
Like weed and sh rooms, no, they make you stronger,
Calmer etc. For mostly physical benefits. Tranquillity.
An Olympic Economic vision
Sporting in its practice. Fair. Sporting economics!
Self-depreciating currency as a FAIR and EQUAL
World game!
Life and trade upon a really -free-fair
Playing field
Social. Economic. Humanitarian.
The name of this game is
DOING MORE WITH LESS.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER OLYMPIC WORLD GAMES!
Individual vs. The Sovereign State
The furthest distance covered with the lightest
FOOTPRINT.
Whats the fuel cost to the environment to get all these athletes
To BEIJING?
To win is to win with a Clean track record.
A good national track record too, and a
New Individual best performance--
UNITY between self & State!
Not to speak of the other.
Grounded in fairness.
Let the games begin and the rules all change.
Let the people play everywhere.
SPORT is only possible between equals!
Like COMMUNICATION.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
QUESTIONS FOR THE OLYMPIC SPIRITS.
1. How do the rules influence the games. Who makes them, where do they come from?
2. What are the rules of sponsorship for Olympic sporting entities? What makes a professional and an amateur in 2008?
3. How does politics influence the Olympic Games in 2008. The corporate media and private interests vs. Sportsmanship for ALL THE PEOPLE?
4. What can we learn from the past Olympic Games, how do they effect the host nation, who benefits and who losses out?
5. How can the structure of SPORTING events help make more sense of the political events and how to do INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (The best in their field meet and play in front of the world!)
--Fly
2. What are the rules of sponsorship for Olympic sporting entities? What makes a professional and an amateur in 2008?
3. How does politics influence the Olympic Games in 2008. The corporate media and private interests vs. Sportsmanship for ALL THE PEOPLE?
4. What can we learn from the past Olympic Games, how do they effect the host nation, who benefits and who losses out?
5. How can the structure of SPORTING events help make more sense of the political events and how to do INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (The best in their field meet and play in front of the world!)
--Fly
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