solitary life

This I who comes to this world alone

And passes away from this world alone -

It’s the same I who lives in this humble hut all alone.

- Japanese Zen master Sengai 1750-1837 Song of Solitary Life

enemies of the state

There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people.

When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

-Adama, Battlestar Galactica

“We are the devils men”

- Colonel Saul Tigh (left)

karma karma

But when the karma come back for what you do
It’s too late to make up – some excuse

- where do we go, talib kweli

realisations

calvin & hobbes

naked truths

strange brew

why?

workspace

ambiguities

speedbump

united states of the poor

Williams: For over two decades poor people in the US have been criminalized and vilified.

Video available here via Steve Williams: Organizing for the poor.

our vulnerable monsters

“The monster concept is… a permanent player in the moral imagination because human vulnerability is permanent. The monster is a beneficial foe, helping us to virtually represent the obstacles that real life will surely send our way. As long as there are real enemies in the world, there will be useful dramatic versions of them in our heads.”

- Monsters and the moral imagination by Stephen Asma in The Chronicle, 25 Oct 09