Show Your Worth....Show Some Love

BigUp to Zion Rebel for the following video. Lyrics and music by Lauryn Hill.





"If they only owned love, shown love, grown love, like this before
If they only knew love, true love, to love, like this before
If they only gave love, saved love, brave love, like this before
If they only called love, love love, called love, like this before
If they'd only showed love, they owed love,
owed love, like this before
If they only showed love, they owed love,
owed love, like this before
If they only knew love, true love, to love, like this before
If they only gave love, saved love, brave love, like this before
If they only showed love, they owed love,
they owed love, like this before..." 

- Lauryn Hill

-MixMasterE

Watch "The Corporation Movie Part 1" on Google Video

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Dystopic Reality

"It's better to be a dissatisfied human in a flawed reality than a satisfied pig in hog heaven". John Mill





Technology is making us into its' Fools.

I say this with a degree of sadness and long-suppressed fear, but I now realize that the more we saturate our lives with the signposts of 'civilization', that is, technology, the less we feel. The less we think ( for ourselves). The less we conversate and seek understanding. The less we empathize. The less we know. The more we overwhelm Nature with our dumb-asses...er...I mean, short-sightedness.

Being in the tech field for some time, I see first-hand the creeping rigamortis. The blank stares and automated gestures. The self-referential, tiresome hubris of 'go-getters' more than willing to lose their souls in their sad treks to oblivion (i.e the culturally-defined 'good life'). Then there are those on the opposite end--the burnt out and disgruntled. The restless and the bored--the dreamers of other roads, perhaps. It can be argued that the latter group should not be in the tech field if their dreams and talents are better suited for other endeavors. I submit that although this argument is indeed a valid one, it misses the critical point of my argument: how technological culture disembodies the individual whether or not he/she is a worker or consumer of its' products and processes. Aldous Huxley's, "Brave New World" truly embodies this human cost of technological society.

Technology in itself is not the problem: It is Man's relation to technology that is problematic to me. Personally, I find the field fascinating and impossible to keep up with as changes seem to occur at a unbelievable pace. Yet, over the years I have seen a number of my fellow techies fly around halls with a vaunted sense of self (ridiculously amusing!) as if anointed by the Technological Gods to spread the Irrefutable Word according to Teknos. This seems like some type of displacement to me--a means of avoidance ( of what, I don't know). A critical question arises with regards to this notion of displacement ( or alienation which is a more popular term): What does it mean to be human caught in the present socio-historical period where technology insinuates itself (most notably in highly industrialized societies) in the many things that we do from watching TV, listening to our iPODS, working on our computers to banking, tele-conferencing and reading the daily news (online)?

From my vantage point, we are becoming ( have become) the tools of our tools. The philosopher Foucault expanded upon this point of the dominance of technology exerted on Man and the resultant powerlessness and displacement felt. For those of us in the IT field, the monetary rewards can blunt the pain somewhat as a comfortable way of life is afforded, but left unexamined and undigested, this chosen path to earn a living can turn one into castaway from what is truly of value in this life.

To speak of the wreck that technology has made of Mother Earth is yet another sad tale that has been smothered/diluted by the coopted media as they, as expected, gush over the latest device. Let's take cell phones and computers.Where do you think they end up? In mountains of toxic waste from India to Africa ( the waste travels from the richer to poorer nations). How can one sing the praises of technology when this same technology chokes and strips this Earth of its beauty?

So what the fuck, right? Try telling that to your children or grand-children as they will reap what has been sown today. When individuals and societies are not forced to confront the consequences of their choices, a dystopic reality takes root and down, down, down we will surely go.


by MixMasterE

Malcolm X In Color

Malcolm Little. Malcolm X. El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. A study of self-transformation, critical engagement and transcendence. Nuff said.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes :

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

"My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

"In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. "

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it"

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. "


Speeches and Interviews (the Oxford University speech is simply brilliant):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmzaaf-9aHQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENHP89mLWOY

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=37588DDE4424F7EE



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The Wonder Of Creation

A view of our Milky Way 10 million light-years away--quite awe-inspiring. The presentation speaks for itself...Click Here:

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