Wednesday 30 April 2014

PRISÕES POLÍCIA E CASTIGOS - E. CARPENTER 1910 NA SOCIEDADE O QUE SE PROTEGE E A QUE PUNE É GRANDE A DIFFERENÇA

NO TEMPO DE ELISABETH AS PUNIÇÕES CONTRA OS VAGABUNDOS

O AZORRAGUE O FERRETE A FORCA NADA FIZERAM POIS AS CAUSAS ECONÓMICAS

QUE PRODUZIRAM ESTAS HORDAS DE VAGABUNDOS PERMANECERAM

A DISSOLUÇÃO DOS MOSTEIROS DAS CORPORAÇÕES URBANAS.

A PRISÃO COMO ORGANIZAÇÃO EM VEZ DE CREAR CIDADÃOS,

PRODUZ CRIMINOSOS PROFISSIONAIS

ELLA VIZA MAIS ATERRORIZAR QUE REGENERAR

QUALQUER QUE SEJA A SOCIEDADE OU REGIMEN ACABA POR FORMAR UM TYPO

ESPECIAL DE PRISIONEIRO.

QUE SE ADAPTA AO SEU MEIO

O HOMEM DEVE DEIXAR A SUA VONTADE À PORTA PARA A READQUIRIR CINCO

SETE E QUINZE ANNOS MAIS TARDE

Monday 24 March 2014

NA REALIDADE SOMOS UMA POPULAÇA INACTIVA CUJAS MOLES PAIXÕES SÃO FACILMENTE MOBILIZÁVEIS POR DEMAGOGOS JORNALISTAS CHARLATÃES DE ÍNDOLE VÁRIA E OBVIAMENTE ADMITO-O LOUCOS AND FAT BASTARDS E BARBUDOS NÃO SEI PORQUÊ MAS OS BARBUDOS TÊM PROPENSÃO PARA MESSIAS OU OS MESSIAS SÃO UNS HEBEFRÉNICOS A QUEM A PREGUIÇA IMPEDE O DESBASTE DAS PILOSIDADES? É UM DAQUELES MISTÉRIOS QUE FICAM PARA A CIÊNCIA DA MEMÓRIA FUTURA DUM PRESENTE MAL PASSADO OU PARA A MEMÓRIA PASSADA DUM PRESENTE SEM FUTURO OU PARA UM PRESENTE SEM MEMÓRIA DO PASSADO QUE É FUTURO UMA COUSA DESSAS

Imagine the two of us then standing in contemplation before the
hideous grandeur of one of those steel mills which dot the milway line.
I can almost hear him thinking
'So it was for this that you deprived us of our birthright, took away our slaves.
 burned our homes, massacred our women and children, poisoned. our souls,
broke every treaty which you made with us and left us to die in
the swamps and jungles of the Everglades!"
Do you think it would be easy to get him to change places with
one of our steady workers?
What sort of persuasion would you use?
'What now could you promise him that would be truly seductive?
A used car that he could drive to work in?
A slap-board shack that he could, if he were ignorant enough, call a home?
An education
for his children which would lift them out of vice, ignorance and
superstition but still keep them in slavery?
A clean, healthy life
in the midst of poverty, crime, filth, disease and fear?
Wages that
barely keep your head above water and often not?
Radio, telephone,
cinema, newspaper, pulp magazine, fountain pen, wrist watch,
vacuum cleaner or other gadgets ad infinitum?
Are these the baubles
that make life worthwhile? Are these what make us happy, carefree,
generous-hearted, sympathetic, kindly, peaceful and godly?
Are we now prosperous and secure, as so many stupidly dream of
being?
 Are any of us, even the richest and most powerful, certain
that an adverse wind will not sweep away our possessions, our
authority, the fear or the respect in which we are held?
This frenzied activity which has us all, rich and poor, weak and
powerful, in its grip-where is it leading us'!' There are two things
in life which it seems to me all men want and very few ever get
(because both of them belong to the domain of the spiritual) and
they are health and freedom. The druggist, the doctor, the surgeon
are all powerless. to give health; money, power, security, authority
do not give freedom. Education can never provide wisdom, nor
churches religion, nor wealth happiness, nor security peace.
What is the meaning of our activity then? To what end?
We are not only as ignorant, as superstitious, as vicious in our
conduct as the "ignorant, bloodthirsty savages" whom we dispossessed
and annihilated upon arriving here-we are worse than
they by far. \Ve have degenerated; we have degraded the life which
we sought to establish on this continent.

American
physiognomy.
In the towns and cities you find the typical
American everywhere.
 His expression is mild, bland, pseudo-serious
and definitely fatuous. He is usually neatly dressed in a cheap
ready-made suit, his shoes shined, a fountain pen and pencil in
his breast pocket, a brief case under his arm-and of course he
wears glasses, the model changing with the changing styles. He
looks as though he were turned out by a university with the aid
of a chain store cloak and suit house. One looks like the other,
just as the automobiles, the radios and the telephones do. This is
the type between 25 and 40. After that age we get another typethe
middle-aged man who is already fitted with a set of false teeth,
who puffs and pants, who insists on wearing a belt though he
should be wearing a truss. He is a man who eats and drinks too
much, smokes too much, sits too much, talks too much and is
always on the edge of a break-down.

Friday 17 January 2014

THE MIMICRY PARADOX - SURVIVAL IS SHARING OF A CON'S PATTERN OR AN CONSPICUOUS PATTERN?

SAUDADE.....É DORMIR SEM SABER ONDE
CHORAR SEM SABER PORQUÊ
CHAMAR QUEM NÃO NOS RESPONDE
ABRAÇAR QUEM NÃO NOS VÊ
PONDE O VOSSO CEGO OLHAR PONDE
E LÊDE LEDOS QUEM NÃO VOS NÃO LÊ
DORMINDO NÃO INTERESSA ONDE
CHORANDO QUEM NÃO NOS RESPONDE
E MIRANDO QUEM NOS NÃO VÊ
LIKE SOCIALISED COCKROACHES
COMO EU E VOCÊ
IN BLIND APPROACHES
A QUEM NÃO NOS LÊ
A statistical argument for the homophony avoidance approach
 to the disyllabification of Chinese ROACHES



A third class of intelligences stressed the urgent necessity for great public enterprises to correct the paradoxical increase of unemployment consequent upon the increase of productivity that had taken the shiftless world by surprise.
  That was an independent maladjustment.
  But thinkers of this school were apt to disregard the importance of monetary rectification
. As to who was to control the more complicated methods of mutual service proposed, the world money and the world socialism and so forth, there was an even greater diversity of outlook and an even greater conflict of mental limitations.
As Desaguliers says in his summary: "People could not get out of the sinking social vessels in which they found themselves for the simple reason that nothing but the imperfectly assembled phantom of a salvage ship was yet in sight, a large rudderless, powerless promise, so to speak, standing by."
Only very knowledgeable people could have foretold then how nearly this phase of throwing out bright but disconnected ideas was drawing to its end, and how rapidly the consolidation of social and educational science into an applicable form was to go forward, once that it had begun.

 The rush of correlated social discoveries and inventions to the rescue of mankind, when at last it was fairly started, was even more rapid and remarkable than the release of steam and electrical energy in the nineteenth century. It went on under difficulties.
Perhaps it was quickened and purified by those very difficulties. Gustave De Windt's great work, Social Nucleation (1942), was the first exhaustive study of the psychological laws underlying team play and esprit de corps, disciplines of criminal gangs, spirit of factory groups, crews, regiments, political parties, churches, professionalisms, aristocracies, patriotisms, class consciousness, organized research and constructive cooperation generally.

 It did for the first time correlate effectively the increasing understanding of individual psychology, with new educational methods and new concepts of political life. In spite of its unattractive title and a certain wearisomeness in the exposition, his book became a definite backbone for the constructive effort of the new time.