Love or cosmic imbalance?

“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the universe? It’s a very dark one. The first one, the first thesis would have been: a kind of total vanity. There is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literally. Like, ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things, if you look at the universe it’s one big void. But then how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics. Where, you know, the idea there is that the universe is kind of a void, but a positively charged void. But then particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed, and I like this idea spontaneously very much. The fact that it’s not just nothing, things are out there, it means something went terribly wrong. That what we call creation is a kind of a cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe. That things exist by mistake. And I’m even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract it is to assume the mistake and go to the end, and we have a name for this; it’s called love. Isn’t love precisely this kind of a cosmic imbalance? I was always amused with this notion of “I love the world”, “universal love”. I don’t like the world, I don’t know how I—uh—I’m basically somewhere in between “I hate the world” and “I’m indifferent towards it”. But the whole of reality, it’s just it, it is stupid, it’s out there, I don’t care about it. Love for me is an extremely violent act. Love is not “I love you all”. Love means, I pick out something and—it’s again this structure of imbalance. Even if this something is just a small detail, a fragile individual person, I say, “I love you more than anything else.” In this quite formal sense, love is evil.”

Slavoj Zizek (Senior researcher, Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Professor at European Graduate School.)

-werewolf

My sister’s first piano lesson

The teacher asked her to play the song I said I taught her. Then she said, never play it again, not until our next lesson. It is hard to change a bad habit! Better start afresh!

The human race has been going through countless revolutions, and we still are left with the same sense of powerless as we grow up from childhoods.

We go through massive education, and we think all the textbook answers are right, though rarely discovered aor proven by ourselves. Then we go off the world trying to solve problems proclaiming we have learned more.

The day I realized I learned something for the first time in my life -was the day that i found out history are always written by “winners” (or the current oppressor).

Who write those textbooks?

Confucius and Lao Zi (Taosim) were contemporaries, most successive emperors of China chose Confucius because he supported submission to authority. Whereas Lao Zi, whose theory was speaking for the people, were dusted to the bin and left alone for thousands of years.

It is my wish that the climate movement does not turn into another revolution - where the oppressed overthrow the oppressive and become a new oppressor -and life, goes into this endless circle of oppression.

Dil Toh Pagal Hai(The heart is, but mad)

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This is a facebook note posted by a friend of mine by the name of Zain Ashfaq, studying at McGill.

“Tell me, how do you know you are mad? No seriously, is it not just a relative-to-self measure? One of the fundamental reasons why nobody thinks they are mad, is because it is almost in all cases certainly their own self they take as the center-line. Mein pagal naheen hoon, Me Lord, mein pagal naheen hoon! (I am not mad, Me Lord, I am not mad) What if, one day, you did realize by logical conclusion, which we are hoping is a faculty that will stay with you if you are mad, that since everyone else is mad by your standard, there is a slight possibility that you yourself are, mad. At that point, my personal favorite, would be to hide in a closet and cry and proceed to my second favorite, of pretending that the assumption of being logical that you made was flawed. The paradox is, ladies and gentlemen, that if you aren’t logical anymore, you are infact mad, and if you are logical, you still are, mad. The third option, which like in the movies, makes happy endings, is to believe that you are, at the end of the day, the center-line, and everyone else is mad. Happily ever afters, nirvana, euphoria and what not, however, come with the prefix of ‘almost’, and the lurking doubt, annoying as a drop of condensed water on your windshield that scurries around and wont go away, will definitely make you mad, if you are not already. I for once, can say from experience.

Are we really made out of plastic, because I don’t feel a thing. Pakistan won 20 twenty, woohooo. Oh-kayyy. You are going to Montreal this weekend , All-riight. You just got new clothes that you always wanted That sounds nice, so I probably should be happy. Pragmatism I think has knocked out the feeling part. Furthermore, the different and separated worlds that I am a part of sometime overlap, making it all the more unreal. These things, these life-styles, these places, these people, they change so rapidly, predictably, unrealistically.

I have sort of a confession to make. As a kid, I used to think that all life around me was a set-up, and at any minute, everyone would turn around and start laughing. It was funny when I read Shakespear’s quote about all the world being a stage. I still feel that this all is indeed a setup.

Bleh.”

an ordinary sharing. ordinary. creative.

Stephanie

the list of actions that you can help save the earth is unlimited.

you can never imagine how creative, yet how ordinary it can be.

yesterday when i went to PCC and had a walk with my friend (who gave very precious comments on our branding thing), she was a real fan of “no waste”.

when we went to PCC, she asked for metal forks and knives instead of the plastic ones. and she asked for a paper cup for containing our cold drinks even though the sales lady said it’s gonna melt the cup haha.

ok i know you may have already known that. that’s ordinary. yea and that happens everyday.

but take a moment to think, is it because it’s THAT ordinary that you overlooked it? don’t say “chur i know how to do that too~” when people does that. step back and ask yourself, have i really acted that out ever?

ordinary can be creative.

that reminds me about change management that i learnt in last semester (haha you know what, we have to APPLY what we learnt so that knowledge in our mind becomes useful) - change is all about changing our MENTALITY. things may not have changed afterall. but our perceptions and views do have to.

that’s also why we are called - climate chanCe. :)

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