JULY 2013
* scarface
cartography (n) A representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area for the purpose of mapping. Linear and four directional.
"What makes a pirate is what he sets his sights on, what he seeks to change, what he proposes as an opponent of a particular society.
"The Way has no trace of its coming,
Our research has revealed a number of essential traits shared by all pirates. First, pirates are not solitary heroes who challenge authority out of fury or despair. Rather they organize themselves into groups, which in some cases grow to several thousand strong. These groups are built to reach specific goals, forge alliances, negotiate with enemies and engage in conflict - thus our focus on the pirate organization."
(Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism, Harvard Business Review)
no limit to its going.
Gateless, roomless, it is airy and open
as the highways of the four directions.
He who follows along with it
will be strong in his four limbs,
keen and penetrating in intellect,
sharp-eared, bright-eyed, wielding
his mind without wearying it,
responding to things without prejudice.
Heaven cannot help but be high,
earth cannot help but be broad,
the sun and moon cannot help but revolve,
the ten thousand things cannot help but flourish.
Is this not the Way?"
(Chuang Tzu)
"A state of negation. Negation is the most positive action, not positive assertion. This is a very important thing to understand. Most of us so easily accept positive dogma, a positive creed, because we want to be secure, to belong, to be attached, to depend. The positive attitude divides and brings about duality. The conflict then begins between this attitude and others. But the negation of all values, of all morality, of all beliefs, having no frontiers, cannot be in opposition to anything. A positive statement in its very definition separates, and separation is resistance. To this we are accustomed, this is our conditioning. To deny all this is not immoral; on the contrary to deny all division and resistance is the highest morality. To negate everything that man has invented, to negate all his values, ethics and gods, is to be in a state of mind in which there is no duality, therefore no resistance or conflict between opposites. In this state there are no opposites, and this state is not the opposite of something else.
To deny good and evil is to deny oneself, and oneself is the conditioned entity who continually pursues a conditioned good. To most of us negation appears as a vacuum because we know activity only in the prison of our conditioning, fear and misery. From that we look at negation and imagine it to be some terrible state of oblivion or emptiness. To the man who has negated all the assertions of society, religion, culture and morality, the man who is still in the prison of social conformity is a man of sorrow.
Negation is the state of enlightenment which functions in all the activities of a man who is free of the past. It is the past, with its tradition and its authority, that has to be negated. Negation is freedom, and it is the free man who lives, loves, and knows what it means to die."
(Jiddu Krishnamurti)
"What is good?
All that heightens the
feeling of power in man,
the will to power, power itself.
What is bad?
All that is born of weakness.
What is happiness?
The feeling that
power is growing,
that resistance is overcome."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Listen to the cry of
a woman in labor at the
hour of giving birth
look at the dying man's
struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether
something that begins and ends
thus could be intended for enjoyment."
(Soren Kierkegaard)