eh ya hey ya eh yo

thank goodness not

if humans were plants, guess which part of their bodies would be prominently displayed, coloured and perfumed.

rationality unbound

every time i go to a nicely prestigious conference, the speakers are from politics, from business and the hard sciences. where the speakers are social scientists, they are hardly the type to spend time on fieldwork. no, they spend their time in the library and in the office, far from the site of their research subjects.

why is it that we accord these people so much prestige but the moment one shows a hint of alliance with the common man, the villager and the peasant instead of with the abstract ideals of development, progress and big capital, one is struck off as irrational?

we marginalize the people who hold more precise knowledge and we refuse to listen to them, going so far as to suppress their work. we listen to and applaud instead the empty niceties and honeyed words of prominent personalities whose last time among the people they claim to serve was when they were children, if at all they had that opportunity.

if we really took the humanities and the social sciences seriously, if we really took the knowledge in things like tedtalks seriously, if we really aren’t hypocrites, the world wouldn’t be in the state it’s in today.

haiz

i used to think in text. now i think in images. sigh. it’s a problem.

past, present, future- tense

what is the present? it is the arena of war. it is where the past and the future collide, where the determinism of history battles with an infinite number of futures, destroying each one until only one singular image is left. it is where history absorbs the imagination and dreams, reducing probabilities to one reality, like an interdimensional monster devouring universes upon universes. the present is the plate upon which visions of the future are presented, to be picked at and picked apart by the bulldozer beast of the past.

phasaa thai is the very sanuk

i am reading thai art. thai is so mellifluous. i want to learn thai again. outside school so it doesn’t matter if i get a d for it again. kemudian, saya yaak ca pai thiaw ke negara thailand dan kin aahaan thailand yang sangat aroy.

our eyes see but very little indeed

smell is culture. sound is culture. texture is culture. emotion is culture. reaction is culture. close your eyes and let the non-visual world engulf you.

data everywhere

every object is a carrier of culture. every object is a container of information.

but without an appropriate pair of glasses, all of it remains invisible