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Various updates, including another about the 2nd gravlax, the letter I wrote to the president, etc. It’s been an informative few days. I want to declare publicly that while I am Hanne Blank’s partner, her words are hers and mine are mine. Any conflation of the two is solely the responsibility of the conflater. Otherwise, I need to take leave of the discussions about activism, race, racism, etc. These discussions are getting too [...] I liked it. I understand it did well in China, despite a boycott cum possible PR stunt by a Chinese designer. I didn’t find many of its tropes tired. If anything, the Kung Fu stuff, the Chinese stuff, I thought was definitely in keeping with the Kung Fu Movie traditions and also some of it was quite [...] I have at least four more Tao of… posts to write. I’d planned to write 8 and I’m sticking to that promise, both for symbolic and thematic reasons. I hope that it’s doing more folks than just me good, but it is doing me good to articulate myself and some of my beliefs about being an [...] If you haven’t the strength for the discipline or responsibility of warriorship, you shouldn’t be fighting. Otherwise known as, “If you can’t take the heat…” This one, the second principle, gets tied to Earth in the I Ching, which stands in part for infinite resources and capacity, and some interpret it also as a symbol for unconditional [...] Just to frame the discussion a bit more, let me tell you more about my aims and my plans. I plan to write at least 8 total essays/posts about this topic of being a warrior/activist, and about the ethical framework I find useful as a guiding principle when I fight for social change. What is anger to us? Does it drive us? Or do we drive anger? Where is the soul of the warrior in this [...] Don’t vote. Or do, I mean, if you, like, care about, well… anything. But if you don’t care, don’t vote. A very well done bit of reverse psychology, I think. |
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