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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
July 28, 2012 11 Dimensions
Posted on Facebook, July 28, 2012
This morning, listening to a re-run of this million-dollar-detrimental-radio-talkshow super big mouth-piece R.L.'s wisdom (regarding free will, institutional justice...etc. "philosophical" mumbling), I impulsively jumped out of my bed, ranting these words at him (indirectly at my radio :P!). Without this stimulation , these 14 lines wouldn't exist. Thanks for the silver lining from this Muddy cloud :D!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
The Generational Karma - 君子恥言義, 而揚利??
Dr. Michael Parenti's websites:
http://michaelparenti.org/ ☮
http://michaelparentiblog.blogspot.com/ ☮
No War But Class War Part one and Part two
http://michaelparenti.org/ ☮
http://michaelparentiblog.blogspot.com/ ☮
No War But Class War Part one and Part two
An Introduction to an Anarcathist's Catideology
Socio-political Felineology #11 July 26, 2012
An Introduction to an Anarcathist's Catideology
His Majesty the Elder- Wow, joined this household when he was a speculative feline supreme being. No one knew where he was from when he was a wanderer on Nebraskan streets as a starving naturalist 18 years ago. He seemed keen to select a pool of caregivers. At least, he also chose a music professor’s family as a back-up caregiver for a period of time, and later he gave up that family.
Wow, is a noble loner believing in an individualistic type of non-violent anarcathist philosophy. He is associated more with the early Taoist philosophers, such as Lao-zi and Zhuang-zi than that of Bakumin or Most’s.
Surely, he seems prefer “negative liberty”, opposing to any house rules and any other feline control over him due to his born-free spirit. Thus, he does not buy in any other feline social wing’s positive liberty - "recognizing equality of entitlement" to achieve his potential. Why does he need to believe in those "artificial equality” notion, if his bio-genetically endowed strong fangs, claws and agile physique make him a fittest survivor in the wilderness? Confusing, isn't it - thinking and behaving like a progressive Libertariancat???
But joining in a human family, he needs different strategies to cope with the stress of how to trade off between his precious feline freedom and the plenty of deliciously secured foodfood. He did make a hard decision, hopefully, not to lose both!
Obviously, you can tell he is skeptical of "Feline folks, unify, you lose nothing relating to your fangs and claws, but the windows and doors"- in the contemporary catpitalistic society.
Having said so, he does believe in Goodwin’s idea. It says that all the feline beings need to be educated with felineology via the Stimer’s personalist catedagogy to enlighten the feline anarcathist. Alas, even our human friends are unable to access the proper amount of education, why his feline folks?
Instead, as Illich mentions that “deschooling” seems more popular in many feline households – they are taught the instant catgratification and feline mass/conspicuous consumption manipulated by the maga-feline-food business-industrial complex.
Wow in quest - "Can you imagine ½ of my feline folks are overweight and obese with all sorts of modern feline diseases plaguing in our feline communities? The myth of us folks having 9 lives has lost 8 in this tightly encapsulated world. Even though I don't believe in the Feline universal health care, I foresee that my other feline members and I in this household can bankrupt my caregivers sooner than later!"
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Socio-political Felineology #10 " A 'Self-Made' Feline Majesty's Cognitive Fascination "
Socio-political Felineology Course ID: 809- meoooow-☮ _(♥)_♥(☼◠‿◠)☮( =';'=)Course ancillary #10
Note - Nothing to do with the "Dark Night Rises"...
" A 'Self-Made' Feline Majesty's Cognitive Fascination "
This is Her Majesty 恰查某 (Spicy Meow or a.k.a. Young-Young to pair with Ying-Ying,-Mummy). See above photo.
Young was adopted from the local Humane Society 10 years ago. According to the available info, she seemed either severely bitten by dogs (under her chin, there was a long and deep scar when adopted), or been abandoned in the wilderness and someone rescued her to the Humane Society.
All I can say is that she is a very adorable, self-reliant, and headstrong "Republicat" - what an oxymoron :3!
She believes that all felines should pull up their paws with their own pawstraps, no matter the straps are available or not. She worships Social Darwinism of survival of the fittest and enjoys monopolizing the catnips, foodfood, treattreats, toytoys, and nice bedbeds...and so on goodie stuff, and then preaches on other feline folks that this is a feline free market world, go ahead!!
Surely, she claims all her hard earned goodies and entitles even more.. These attractive thinking and behaving deeds amaze me constantly. Was she "born" that way, or learned from "me" or someone-someplace else??? :P!
She also convinces herself that she could get out of the humane society was because she worked very very hard by sitting, sleeping, and waiting for her hard "earned" opportunities to happen :P.
Anyway, she does have good values regarding her independence without being helped or using other public resources to be flourishing!
Her motto is " See, I can make everything out of nothing; You can too!" - and encourages other feline folks in the humane society - " Stop whining! Get to 'work'!"
Be honest, I love Republicats more than the Democats or any other Politicats, because their Cute and Catego-centic reasoning is far more fascinating than anything else :P
Young is my favorite feline supreme being, just like my favoritism toward this million-dollar-detrimental-radio-talkshow super big mouth-piece (He was a luckily adopted child into a rich family a while ago :D!)
One more thing, Young watches her diet in an extremely finicky fashion. She only eats super fresh Raw chicken breasts, pork sirloin, fresh fish on weekends, (but no Cohiba Cigars). On weekdays, when her royal/loyal caregivers are busy in bringing in paychecks, she can tolerate fancy feast, i am (hard or soft) with a little bit treats... because, she is very cautious of not being perceived as a "Fat Cat"!
Friday, July 20, 2012
Socio-political Felineology #3 A confession of a free-riding Upward Social Mobility
Post-Modern Socio-political Felineology. Photo taken on July 19, 2012
A confession of a free-riding Upward Social Mobility:
I (Ying-Ying 英媖, a.k.a. Mummy or the Heroine Hero :3!) was adopted without being aware of my hidden pregnancy. If not this given life-chance via a miraculous adoption (like that million-dollar-detrimental-super-radio-talkshow-mouth-piece's) my innocent children and I might have been living in Inferno? (See I lost half of the right side of my ear in the northern frozen tundra, and struggled to survive from starvation before being adopted...)
I have never been an intentional welfare queen, nor want to be one, due to an opportunity being available to me for managing survival :3!
Who says that America is not a land of Feline opportunities; who says that American is not a land of the Feline brave, the Feline tough, and the Feline courageous?
From the C-at to the shining C-at: Long live the brave, Long live the tough, and Long live the courageous!!!! :3!
I am a great American Catizen (...though, un-shamelessly speaking, I don't pay feline-Income Taxes DIRECTLY). I transfers my private cost to the public fiscal domain, including the fresh water, clean air, feline SUV highway systems, feline National park visitation, utility/medication, my children's feline education, and feline homeland security fees...etc.
I am quite sure that now my children are much more ahead than other less luckier or unfortunate feline folks...
One more conspiracy - sometimes, my kids run into troubles (you can tell from the above rambunctiously sculpturing video, as well as the marauding of butterflies and grasshoppers), but don't worry, they always get bail-outs :3!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Crystal's Cross-Cultural Perspective, July 19, 2012 on Facebook
Seemingly, it is necessary for socio-economic accumulations via generational efforts to refine cultural constructions, such as Pyramids, the British Museum, the Modern Hanging Garden (e.g., Dubai), the Sistine Chapel... and the most important one - the LHC - shamelessly speaking, not my name initials, but Large Hadron Collider!
Seemingly, it is necessary for socio-economic accumulations via generational efforts to refine cultural constructions, such as Pyramids, the British Museum, the Modern Hanging Garden (e.g., Dubai), the Sistine Chapel... and the most important one - the LHC - shamelessly speaking, not my name initials, but Large Hadron Collider!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
absolute Amusements corrupt absolutely
Unfortunately, I am an amateur sociological football fan : (! I told my class how much I adored Donald Driver, regarding his social mobility not exactly via his wide receiving, but via beating the odds. And outside of the football field was more dramatic than the inside's- you know more than I do... :P! Yes, dancing… as well :P!
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Socio-political Felineology #2 Philosopher Catking - Sir GaGa
Posted on my Facebook on July 7th, 2012
Philosopher Catking - Sir GaGa in Meditation
His Majesty Sir GaGa counts his own UN-earned privileges during a Meditation
1. I don't earn my handsomeness (can do catwalk effortlessly as well);
2. I don't have to earn my American Catizenship (am not even required to
pass the feline naturalization test, but the "neuter"ization);
3. I don't choose/earn to be a popular Maine Coon
(Born That Way, though, not white);
4. I was an abandoned kitten and adopted into a feline worshiping family
(a big intra-generational upward social mobility);
5. My loyal care givers enrolled me via a Legacy Admissions Policy to the Feline
Ivy Leagues for a Felineology Ph.D. degree program
(without being accused of a "reversed" affirmative action);
6. I use all sort of public facilities without paying taxes (such as visiting the local
Phelan Park via our 0-carbon-footprint feline SUV);
7. In fact, I don't have to do much, just being beautifully handsome and
earn all sorts of admiration as many Polico-Econo-Hollowood celebrities do...
(- Modern Meritocracy);
8. I have never had to worry about when/where/how I get sick/ticks, due to my
health care plan (am probably a top 1 or 2%);
9. As an imaginative feline, though not really a "Fat Cat", if I want, I can
parasitically live off the expected Wall Street Windfall and still being worshiped;
10. Probably, if not by imagination, I might inherit a good fortune in the future to
be ahead of other less lucky feline folks.
and will keep on counting in the coming posts : P!
Who says that I am not a philosopher Catking?? :3!
Philosopher Catking - Sir GaGa in Meditation
His Majesty Sir GaGa counts his own UN-earned privileges during a Meditation
1. I don't earn my handsomeness (can do catwalk effortlessly as well);
2. I don't have to earn my American Catizenship (am not even required to
pass the feline naturalization test, but the "neuter"ization);
3. I don't choose/earn to be a popular Maine Coon
(Born That Way, though, not white);
4. I was an abandoned kitten and adopted into a feline worshiping family
(a big intra-generational upward social mobility);
5. My loyal care givers enrolled me via a Legacy Admissions Policy to the Feline
Ivy Leagues for a Felineology Ph.D. degree program
(without being accused of a "reversed" affirmative action);
6. I use all sort of public facilities without paying taxes (such as visiting the local
Phelan Park via our 0-carbon-footprint feline SUV);
7. In fact, I don't have to do much, just being beautifully handsome and
earn all sorts of admiration as many Polico-Econo-Hollowood celebrities do...
(- Modern Meritocracy);
8. I have never had to worry about when/where/how I get sick/ticks, due to my
health care plan (am probably a top 1 or 2%);
9. As an imaginative feline, though not really a "Fat Cat", if I want, I can
parasitically live off the expected Wall Street Windfall and still being worshiped;
10. Probably, if not by imagination, I might inherit a good fortune in the future to
be ahead of other less lucky feline folks.
and will keep on counting in the coming posts : P!
Who says that I am not a philosopher Catking?? :3!