from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"The 'it' is a kind of force that gives rise to technology, something undefined, but inhuman, mechanical, lifeless, a blind monster, a death force... Somewhere there are people who understand it and run it, but those are technologists, and they speak an inhuman language when describing what they do. And their things, their monster keeps eating up land and polluting their air and lakes, and there is no way to strike back and it, and hardly any way to escape it.....All this technology has somehow made you a stranger in your own land. Its very shape and appearance and mysteriousness say, "Get out". You know there's an explanation for all this somewhere and what it's doing undoubtedly serves mankind in some indirect way but that isn't what you see...the natural feelings of very many people are similar on this matter; so that when you look at them collectively you get the illusion of a mass movement, an antitechnological left emerging, looming up from apparently nowhere, saying "Stop the techonolgy. Have it somewere else. Don't have it here."...It is against being a mass person that they seem to be revolting. And they feel that technology has got a lot to do with the forces that are trying to turn them into mass people and they don't like it."

Just another night with the Shwarmas

This one's courtesy of Anites 

Julia painted this one 

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Welcome to Teenage Rebellion #2

Hello friends, so I've been looking at all our blog postings, from this crowd of mostly mid-twenty somethings, all of us trying to dig out and intellectualize what's "important" in life. And what comes up? Evolution, Technology vs Nature, Where are we? What are we? Where did we come from? and Where are we going? (as a species). Why might we be so interested in these questions at this particular time in our lives? Well, for the most part, this is also a time in our lives when we think "Where am I going?" "What am I going to do with my life?" and "HOw did I get to be this person anyway?".

And thrown in everywhere are these anti-society comments about how "science" is taking over all good and creativity and how "technology" is bulldozing nature out of existence. Well, I suppose it's as good a cause to rebel against as any, but does anyone else see parallels to the classic teenage rebellion most of us went through a few short years back. Of course, back then everyone discovers that their lives have largely been shaped and controlled by their parents and in order to grow into an "individual" they have to behave in drastic and illogical ways. Now, we realize that, in fact, it was "society" that was controlling and shaping our beliefs on a bigger scale and now we turn against something or anything in society so we don't feel like we're just all fresh out of society's conforming cookie cutter punching out brainwashed consumers. And hey, maybe it's just another selfish need for individuality.

What Drew Drew

 

More Hinky Pinkies!

(This one's actually a Hink Pink)

Flying into a rage whilst cleaning yourself