Karmic acts of everyday kindness

Week of Friendship Kindness

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Greet one of your friends with a big hug tomorrow.

One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) by Miloš Forman

 

“Antarctica was so beautiful I stopped taking pictures.”

The only reason why I was so aggressive is because I want us to finish in time…

“…the paradox stages the relation of the subject to the object-cause of its desire, which can never be attained. The object cause is always missed; all we can do is encircle it.” – Salvoj Zizek (From Reality to the Real)

the more we fight against it, the more its power over us grow.

nonexistence of movement and multitude

through fantasy, we learn how to desire.

nothing can beget something

The ‘black house’ was forbidden to the men because it functioned as an empty space wherein they could project their nostalgic desires, their distorted memories…

metaphor of anamorphosis

“looking awry”

“Our human universe is just one of the existing universes; the real masters of all worlds are mysterious beings, unknown to us, who create different worlds, different universes as works of art. Our universe was created by one of these universal artists. To control the artistic perfection of their productions, these artists from time to time send into their creations one of their own kind, disguised as an inhabitant of the created universe.” – Robert Heinlein (The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)

Outside the open window was no sunlight, no cops, no kids — nothing. Nothing but a grey and formless mist, pulsing slowly as if with inchoate life.

Fantasy space

…avoid ensnarement by fatal brunettes

“Truth is structured like fiction.” – Lacan

Birds function as the embodiment of a cruel and obscene superegoic agency.

“We have erased ourselves in the process of denaturalizing the epistemic and political regimes that have constructed us” -Leo Barsami (Homos)



One response to “Karmic acts of everyday kindness”

  1. “Antarctica was so beautiful I stopped taking pictures.”

    Wonderful line! Nothing like irony to teach a powerful lesson.

    “…avoid ensnarement by fatal brunettes…”

    Excellent advice! I’ll do my best… : )

    “… an empty space wherein they could project their nostalgic desires, their distorted memories…”

    Sounds familiar. Clearly I’ve been spending way too much time in The Black House… : (

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