This here's a show.

I'm doing a show with a young man.

a young man I haven't seen the likes of since I was a young man myself.

We all become old men eventually.

its all about....

job creation

Kant’s Universal Law and Freedom

Freedom today is a term that many take for granted, and the implications that this has go far beyond our ability to gauge our own actions' validity in relation to greater society. We have a freedom to want (desire), a freedom to do, a freedom pursue our own goals, but how we realize these freedoms and conceive of them in the first place is dictated by forces outside of ourselves. Primarily we think of laws that put into action a supposed limit on these freedoms, but they have come to be expected and our conception of freedom is structured around them. This is a changing process that is altered by the passage of time, by new social relations among humans and our interpretation of these social relations, at least the ones that we are able to see, as undoubtedly there will always be relations that go by undetected or misconstrued by dominating mindsets of the moment.
When looking at this view of freedom, it is important to consider all the factors that may affect our view and analysis of it. If look at the will of the individual itself, it is what the individual wants that seems to dictate what his freedom should inherently be, but it is impossible to look at individuals isolated, as individuals are social beings. We can also examine the will of the State that the individuals exist within, and how this will and freedom of will serves the purposes and freedoms of the individuals residing within. It is individuals within society that we must examine in order to get towards an idea of freedom that is to serve any purpose, as it is ultimately the society that dictates what individuals' movement within the society will be. These are all things that have been considered by Immanuel Kant. Kant's investigations of the individual within society bring up the issues of universal law, morality, and equality all of which are inherently linked to freedom.
Firstly, when looking at the will of the individual in relation to freedom, it is necessary to examine his impulses and his capriciousness and how they relate to his supposed freedom. Would it not be reasonable for freedom to be defined as doing most anything that you want, any whim or fleeting desire? Even going so far as to say that you have the freedom to any activity that is of detriment to yourself? This idea of freedom has its shortcomings when the implications of the actions are examined more closely, however. The individual who wishes to follow through on every whim and desire undoubtedly looks back at himself in past events, and on particular occasions, wishes there had a second chance in order to truly redeem himself and go against the immediate impulses, as the consequences of the actions have come back in a form of regret; the consumer becoming dissatisfied with a purchase and experiencing "buyer's remorse." The true path of "good" is certainly recognized universally, but it is an individual's ability to differentiate between the immediate benefits of going against this true "good", and the projected advantages of doing what they would hope all others would do, that truly muddles the idea of a freedom. According to Kant, "There is no one... who, when presented with examples of honesty of purpose, of steadfastness in following good maxims, and of sympathy and general benevolence... does not wish that he might also possess these qualities. Yet he cannot attain these in himself only because of his inclinations and impulses; but at the same time he wishes to be free from such inclinations which are a burden to him." (55) So freedom no longer becomes an ability to go off any whim and fancy, but to recognize the truly moral strings of decisions, and to strive towards a lifestyle that may benefit him in the long run, as well as those others benefiting from his decisions. Freedom is not simply an ability to decide between choices, but it is an ability to become an individual whose decisions are already made for him (through internal means), the deliberations between right and wrong are non-existent. Truly it is not a static process, but a linear one, encompassing time and space.
Now, how does a society make this a universally understood task, not just the undertaking of a few like-minded "noble" individuals? First, there must be an elimination of the belief that it is a noble cause to pursue; rather it is a necessary task, pursuable by everyone, a common pursuit. The understanding of the golden rule is really the most basic understanding of this idea, "treat others as you would have them treat yourself." The metaphysics of this equation, however, must be investigated in order for the understanding to go beyond that of simple kindergarten direction. Kant specifically targets this concept in outlining a "universal law". Many consider the laws that we legislate and the standards that we form and practice are what eventually form our consciousness and moral compass, when it is the reverse process that should be true; it should be our understanding of what is right and beneficial for us and others that should be the cause for legislation through our governing bodies. It is then that only universal will can be formed into law.
In the modern society with its relations to universal law, I think of the idea of competition, stemming from that competition between manufacturers all the way down to the workers and every other avenue of life, and its contradictions to the concept of universal will. In a society of competition, those competing are looking out for what is best for their own self, and in fact, actually look to be better than those with whom they are competing. When this mindset is willed universally, it runs into its own contradictions - if you will your own company, your own self to be better than all others, you also must be able to wish all others to be better than yourself. It becomes a game of a cat chasing its own tale, and it is much the same as the example Kant outlines, in that willing a lie to become universal law it becomes impossible to differentiate between what is true and a lie, and your lying loses its original intention. You can no longer temporarily benefit from the lie just the same as no one else can benefit from you, and promises can no longer be made, thus the maxim to will a lie into universal law destroys itself. (Kant, 15) It is this contradiction, I believe, that is the most graspable for the modern mind to realize all the contradictions that underlie our modern society.
This particular conception of competition must be abandoned in order to overcome these contradictions, and freedom must take on the meaning of betterment of the self, not in comparison to those surrounding individuals. For when the advancement of a man's qualities becomes for his own being, and is thus in turn willed universally, its benefits become immediately apparent. The individual can say to those around him, "I will work on improving my own being if you are to do the same." It will also become universally apparent to help one another in attaining this betterment, for when asked for help, the universal law would be to help this other person, just as this would be what one would want for himself, assistance in improving. The betterment of society is then a cohesive communal undertaking, rather than bursts of improvements made when one breakthrough overreaches another.
This also helps to form cohesion between the will of the individual and the will of the State. When the universal will becomes that of the betterment of people, a State’s will that follows the same agenda will intrinsically foster individuals that work towards an improvement of their selves and their state. People will obtain equality in the State’s eyes and in the eyes of their peers.


-Work Cited-
Kant, Immanuel. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Third Edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1993. Print.

the marvels of modern day technology....................................................

I write this to you whilst I take a seat on a bus, looking out on the highway, from a second story window. Its a cool thing, but I suppose I should be used to it by now. It really isn't anything new, this "wi-fi" that I'm using, but it seems that communication has come full circle. You can now write to anyone, instantly, from almost anywhere in the world. Remoteness is obsolete. Isolation is completely futile.

a dawning of a new age...

I am sitting with my evergreen garlands tucked behind my ears and I wonder, when will this revolution begin?

I've told my friend this, I've asked him where the revolution is, and I said it will never begin because people like him and me are involved.

This revolution is not ours. It never was to begin with.

We have burned up in convincing ourselves that salvation is in our own hands. Devastating blows.
Mostly to the ego, but also to the infrastructure of our institutions.

We must rebuild, or bust.

weekend of disaster...

-put that down. yeah on the floor
-softly.
-no fuck be careful
-not like that. no no

-jesus christ. fucking crumpled mess
-fix it. now
-you can't fix. find it.
-sleepless

-use it still works
-interchangeable part.
-ly broken. look for more
-bid it.buyit

-biditbidit
-bought elsewhere
-drop it.
-don't break it.

-fumbling fingers. bumb.
-ling quivers eyes.
-lost it. spring. tiny
-tiny spring.

-snowing. melting
-spring. lose it.
-retract bid.
-buy fast



in fact, the worst ever. y time

yago

As vanquished as your actions may have become and as depleted your reserves may have become, and as abused as your ego may have become, and as fruitless as your words spoken may have become and early your mornings have become, however many, howeber many sleep, however dark, dungeoned, dirtied and confused, the first light beams become, resurrecting upon entering, and pale as that light may be through the hole in the wall, and as claustrophobic the ride downtown may have become, and relentless the stranger and kin become alike in their stares have become to you, because across the aisle, the strangeness of the situation will rub off to all of those around you, they won't take it and neither should you, because relentlessness has it's place in every situation, so do proceed to give them a good stare-down, all the while increasing your visual vocabulary to the persons, places, and pedagouges that give their life to you. If you go to where you've started, there is a moment of self-doubt, yes that is okay, who has been fully confident of anything in their life, possibly I speak for myself, in all likelihood I do, and at times I've exhibited over-confidence in what I am doing, such as this, such as right now, with you , with me, with the clearing caverns behind my eyes, and discovering that there is more there than I had ever known, and exponentially it can begin to get out of hand, without having the experience of confidence that those encountering this for the first time will nothave the determination or interest to get this far because determintaion or interest to get this far, because frankly, one-liners were typically more closely aligned with my own thought process. I tried them out for a week, became disinterested and simply dropped the ball, laniding it on my toe, leaden with fear and puss a week later, I decided to pull the nail back and perform surgery myself. Fourteen years, scratch that, seven years later, I'm still working on perfrecting the technique that has yet to be discovered, especially on hair removal, gangrene disenfectant, and self-help sessions that, to me,seem to dig the hole a little bet dee[per. But if it warn't for the small Q&A's with me, where would my audience be, but except inside of myself. Twenty people can fit length-wise across my ribcage, all having their own fair share on what the priorities for the day should be. Never giving straight answers, always with their tongue in another's cheek, and speaking only in metaphor, the counciel has bebated for a good two weeks and what the corporate goal/outline should be, and buy debating tyhis should the longterm outcomes of our busniss plan? As a mirror for those living outside the closed circle, I must give self-direction a chance of playing the cards right. Don't give up on the love of others because poetically those words roll off the pancreas just fine, howeer damaged by the ills of the old it may have become, and whether or not it is hereditary, your problems may have just multiplied. Does it tie in to what I was saying before, about the vestigial nature of what these actions have become? Honestly, we could care less about what she thinks, but it's still not out of your mind, and because of that, heated showers have become somewhat of a luxury.