fashionRIP: adbusters

Monday, March 5, 2012

I am offended

This ad was posted to fashionRIP and is a construct of the false beliefs that influence rational, emotional and spiritual mind fields.

Overturn Roe vs Wade? Like what dinosaur is behind this despicable violation of women's rights over their own bodies?

We are not here to procreate like rabbits! We are here for more purposeful attention to our genius and to the genius in others.We are here to give love, to understand light and to align with LIFE. Real pro life is about respecting the breath in all of us, to value the full lifecycle as it relates to the whole of a vast living universe.

The right to bear or not bear children is best left to the individuals who elect to cherish, love, nurture, respect and guide them. This ad is not about that, this ad is about control, control for a world vision that is not just antiquated but is logically absurd.

We need to focus on the true potential of the children already here. We must care now for the living if we are to ever fully comprehend who we truly are.

Our species rising population is breaking down natural cycles at an accelerated,obscene rate. This is insane as we are more dependent upon the natural cycles than the stuff of corporations. The stuff that is causing the problem is for the most part unnecessary and will be obsolete at the blink of an eye. How does this make sense?

We need to act in wisdom, now. We have no more time for creepy games in abstracted reality..

So R vsW campaigners- practice with the living now, create safe havens, an education system run by teachers that get it, more creative diversity, more meaningful, relevant options for work etc. Take those marketing funds and build a future full of possibilities for the poster baby, that would be beautiful.

You see without a coherent lifecycle understanding, i must suspect this ad is about raising human crops to insure a good supply of younguns to march into battle.

As resources dwindle, wars will continue, worsen. I understand your business model. However, i have spent years researching, following paths and stories and we humans have far better, do-able, healthier options.

Please stop this game and go into you, find you and i believe you will redirect. Choose light!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Peoples Media Arts Uprising 2012

Target Love Need
Aim at Insecurities
Hide it in "fashion"

PMAU 2012 will be meeting at the Greenwood Library this Sunday the 11th at 2:00 pm. Please show up if you are even remotely interested.

FYI:"Occupy Wall Street" was coined by the man behind the magazine Adbusters.

"On July 13th, Kalle Lasn, and colleagues created a twitter tag #occupywallstreet."

They made a poster showing a ballerina on top of the bull sculpture near Wall Street.

"For some they were just words and images, For Lasn they were tools to begin remodeling the "mental environment" to create a new "meme," ( transcendent cultural message coined by Richard Dawkins)

"There's a number of ways to wage a "meme" war, Lasn said, "I believe the most powerful thing of all is aesthetics." (William Yardley, The New York Times via Seattle Times Dec 4, 2011))

Peoples Media Arts Uprising 2012 is not a war -it is a means of enlightenment. When the untrue beliefs and false premises of the old industrial, business model are exposed, they whither. They shrink in the light of today's knowledge.

However, the power of aesthetics is amazing either way. If Occupy is the battle, then PMAU (Peeps- Me And U ?) is the lamp. We want to shine light on the information that marketers avoid and governments ignore. Our health and the health of the whole is at stake and that is something too precious to leave to the memes of war.

The tools that made the problem need to be put into the hands of healers. Money is one of those tools and Occupiers are demanding a reevaluation of its use. And in asking for economic justice the whole of the system is being confronted for its unsustainable , callous and narrow viewpoint that promoted an American lifestyle of mass consumption. We have come to this and it is time to wise up the whole and heal. And so it is!

Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.