[PEACE .... the fight for whitespace]
Some might ask “Why are you studying strategies of war? Isn’t that morbid and pessimistic? Aren’t we supposed to be trying to be peaceful people?”
Yes, we are. But, life is full of conflict, ying and yang, love and hate. I love cheese. I hate sauerdraut (can’t even spell it). The thing about our lives dealing with conflict and such is that to be peaceful does not necessarily mean we don’t have conflict. Maybe by definition of the words they do, but when I say “peaceful” I mean that idyllic lifestyle which is just as comfortable for me as it is for you. And, for that kind of lifestyle, we must fight. We have to fight the urges to punch you in the face when you accidentally break my BBQ I so graciously let you borrow last week. I have to fight the anger welling up inside. I have to fight against the rotten.
To have a “peaceful” existence is to have a pure, absent-of-crap-on-the-walls existence. That only comes by fighting for it!
And, to fight effectively requires the best strategies.
nate
Joao Carlos Caribe
Sérgio Rebelo
ankur sancheti
Posted by Edward O'Connor on Aug 29, 2006 at 03:28pm
Your sauerkraut comment immediately reminded me of something a friend once said:
mayonnaise is so bad. I wish I didn’t even know about it. I hope I
spelled it wrong.
Posted by Edward O'Connor on Aug 29, 2006 at 03:30pm
Also, I’m reminded of my personal .sig: “Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.” (”By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.” Algernon Sydney, Parliamentarian during the English Civil War)
Posted by a.train@comcast.net on Aug 29, 2006 at 10:50pm
Dude, I love your anablog idea. Such a reversal of technnology, or a statement of irony in the way you write, scan, then dictate the text to the world.
Any way you look at it I like it, fresh. Something about the written word also, the pencil to paper, the eraser, the spacing and the mess-ups….fresh and raw (like sushi)
Posted by nate on Aug 29, 2006 at 11:16pm
Yea, I just don’t know about calling an “analog blog” an analblog… maybe an anablog… but even that’s a little too .. um.. yea.
Hmm.. sushi has it’s place. Good metaphor, regardless. Thanks for the props. I do like the experiment.