What Do Dream Animals Want of Us?
An Enterview with Russell Lockhart
Robert S. Henderson
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/evFp6aY4ZVjtr8ePpWZF/full
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God and Lucifer were on a mid-
morning coffee break
at the local Starbucks
their nondescript garb
attracted no attention
nor did their conversation.
They were discussing the
possibility of a new Noah
as a way of beginning again
weighing the merits, and
finding many, but also giving
credence to a new flood
without a new Noah at all.
Why not? They agreed.
Time for something new.
My son's latest book, "Arithmetic" ha just been published by Harvard University Press. This is unlike anything you ever learned about arithmetic and continues Paul's groundbreaking efforts to change our stupid educational system and to begin to experience the poetic basis of mind even in mathematics, even in arithmetic.
Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.
The first clear and documented book on the emergence of totalitarian capitalism and why things are developing as they are both in the US and other "at risk" countries.
The author's work follows the accidental discovery of the secret papers of James McGill Buchanan (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 1986). It is his plans the Koch brothers and their "kin" are following to the letter. The book makes it possible to "see" what is going on. Buchanan argued that there is an inherent conflict between economic freedom for the wealthy and political liberty for the masses.
Now it's possible to see clearly why the face of American fascism will be unlike any previous form.
What Do Dream Animals Want of Us?
An Enterview with Russell Lockhart
robert s. henderson
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/evFp6aY4ZVjtr8ePpWZF/full
Enjoy!
Out for the morning fast walk
I head for Crow Street as I call it
My name for the tree-lined block
On the eastern edge of the hospital
It's home for a "murder" of crows
[An absurd name for a flock!]
When I arrive and head north
They begin their raucous chorus
I watch one move from tree to tree
I'm used to this now and soon
He'll fly ahead and land facing me
And waits for me to catch up
As I do, he turns and hops
Alongside, looking at me
At the corner, I turn west
He takes off to the trees
I feel blessed. Blessed by a crow.
An old man with cane stands
facing the curb intently looking
down as if to step but does not
“Sometimes a small curb is
Mount Everest,” whimsy taking
hold. “Need a hand?”
“No, sir, I need a foot that works,
That does what I want it to. You
got one of those handy?” He smiles.
“You vote for Mr. Trump?” I ask
not intending to, but out it came.
“Yes, I did.
“And what do you think of him now?”
“I think he needs a brain that works.
I’ll be long gone before that happens.”
These unintended interactions on
the street on my early morning
walks are breakfast for the soul
Always Dreaming won the Kentucky Derby.
Some nights before, I had a dream. The dream was the first line of the following poem. Each successive line came through an imaginal state I enter into for writing dream poems, that is, poems based on dreams. This dream is dark, darker beyond any conscious intention and fully belongs to the Ragnarökean images of recent dreams and experiences.
The Night Mare
The night mare will never reach the finish line
It is not a race you know
There is nothing to win
Only the soul of everything vital
Trampled asunder
All the pieces scattered
This is the end of the line
We are finished
An essential text for our time is Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle." We are all complicit in the spell of spectacle and it is making us sick. Debord's idea of "lived time," points the way to why I believe dreams are so crucial as the medicine for the future. Debord's book is available free at this link:
The Situationist International Text Library/The Society of the Spectacle
Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading. Brilliant but autocratic, Debord helped both unify situationist praxis and des...
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