Friday, September 29, 2006

Calvitie

Dans cette société fasciste qui aspire à achever l'évolution et aboutir à la "forme finale" de l'Etre Humain, la calvitie est un symptôme de défaillance, de défaut de fabrication. Et la laisser paraître est non seulement une offense sérieuse portée à l'entourage, mais aussi la manifestation d'un mépris total et prononcé vis-à-vis de la "forme finale", de l'aboutissement à l'archétype, de la réalisation de l'image de Dieu (puisque Dieu, adimensionnel, a bien créé l'Homme à son image, mais sa création, elle, est soumise aux effets du temps..).

C'est pour ça que je me suis rasé la tête ce matin.

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SFO Airport (San Francisco), Sep.27.2006

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Parodie

"Contre l'angoisse révolutionnaire des Européens, la Californie impose son long cortège de faux-semblants: parodie du savoir sur les campus sans rites, parodie de la ville et de l'urbanité dans l'amas de Los Angeles, parodie de la technique à Silicon Valley, parodie de l'oenologie avec les vin tiédasses de Sacramento, parodie de la religion avec les gourous et les sectes, parodie de l'érotisme avec les beach-boys, parodie de la drogue avec les acides (?), parodie de la sociabilité avec les communities..."
Jean Baudrillard, Amérique (1986)
L'extrait est une citation de G. Faye

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006


Runyon Canyon (Hollywood), Sep.25.2006

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Vitamins and stuff

- "And like, when you take vitamins, it has like, a lot of shit with it.
- Yeah and like, cholesterol only comes in like, fries and stuff.
- Yeah and also like, i didn't know that there was starch in like, noodles.
- Uh-uh.
- Like, I knew there was starch, but like, and didn't know that there was like, so much. Like, you know if you boil it in like, water, and you like, throw the water away, like, you take away like, most of the starch.
- Yeah and like, the more like, you have colors in your plate, like, the more you're likely to get like, different types of like, vitamins."

Excerpts of a very like, interesting conversation between two chicks on the bus.
MTA 33 Venice/Vermont - Venice Beach

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Monday, September 25, 2006


Hollywood, 24.Sep.2006

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

yehudi?

For all the middle-eastern-looking guys and gals out there, I'm launching a new idea for a t-shirt and need your support. The collection will eventually develop to include other products such as caps, key chains, and condoms.



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Los Angeles, 23.Sep.2006

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L'Homme et la fourmi /reaction

Excerpts from Pi's reaction to L'Homme et la fourmi:

  • The reason for the overpopulation of boys to girls can be explained in many different ways: more boys so they can grow up and die young and then the equilibrium is restored, more boys because girls are a b*tch to deal with growing up, more boys because nature is misogynist, but the truth, in my opinion, is that...[censored]. -- While the equilibrium reason could be true (and satisfies my theory of nature's probabilistic way of insuring survival of the species), the other theories do sound much more interesting..

  • Man does not have a choice to live in a society or not. He is born and is conditioned to live in society; he has the choice to keep going or to change. The fundamental difference between man and ants is not the choice, defined by probabilities, but by the possibility for change. You can have choice without change but not the other way around. Thus the critical instant is not the choice, for it could lead to no change, but the change itself, for it was preceded by a choice. -- Yes. Freedom is the ability to choose change.

  • You described quantum physics as the existence of probabilities and being governed by them. But isn’t that freedom? The minimal probability that one kid with chronic asthma from Rosario who was a brilliant medical student chose to drop a life destined to be great in Argentina to radically change his life and the life of millions of people worldwide in millions of different ways. Freedom is not from the outside in; it’s getting rid of those mental, psychological and other controllable limitations to understand that we have the freedom to change.
    Animals have the choice to move within their limitations.
    Man has the choice to change his limitations.
    -- Yes. Now that I'm getting to think about it more, I realize that an individual has some margin for change (to some extent predetermined by probabilities). Now think of the human species at the level of Society, as an entity fighting for its survival, just like any other ADN-coded species. But even more complex, more organic, more layered, and subject to more internal variables (societal, cultural, economical, etc). At this level, ability to change (at the level of individuals) is just one more probabilistic factor. It is actually similar to relatively rare occurences of mutations and crossovers in genetics, which (probabilistically) add some randomness to ADN evolution.

  • Fuc* the bird... be free.
  • Friday, September 22, 2006

    Thursday, September 21, 2006

    L'Homme et la fourmi

  • La méditation sous une douche chaude a des vertus infinies. Essentiellement physiques.

  • A-t-on jamais pu expliquer pourquoi 105 garçons naissent pour chaque 100 filles?

  • Proposition: La différence fondamentale entre les fourmis et les Hommes, c'est le choix. La fourmi ne choisit pas de vivre en société. Elle naît soldat, mâle, ouvrière, reine. Sa fonction est (pré)déterminée à sa naissance. L'Homme, par contre, fait le choix de vivre en société et renouvelle son choix chaque jour.

  • Pour les plus avisés, pour les fans de Matrix et de Waking Life, et pour ceux qui réussissaient à rester lucides durant les cours de Philo du Bacc, le dilemme qui se pose là est celui de la Liberté. L'Homme, étant formé des mêmes particules qui forment l'univers et qui sont gouvernées par des lois physiques, est lui-même confiné à obéir à ces mêmes lois, ce qui contredit la notion de Liberté aussi bien que celle du choix.

  • Et la physique quantique dans tout ça? OK, elle rapproche un peu plus la physique à la Liberté, mais pas assez. Les particules qui nous forment sont bien soumises à des lois probabilistiques, ce qui leur donne une marge de "liberté" mais aussi des limites.

  • Conclusion: L'Homme n'a pas plus de Liberté que Pol Pot avait de pitié. La proposition avancée ci-haut ne tient donc pas. Les fourmis et les Hommes sont aussi esclaves les uns que les autres.

  • Appendix: Partant du fait que l'Homme ne choisit pas de vivre en société mais y est contraint, les lois probabilistiques seraient une façon (subtile) de départager, entre autres, les tâches sociales. Tels pourcentages seraient prédestinés à être soldats, mâles, ouvrières, ou reines.
  • Wednesday, September 20, 2006