Chomsky was hired in a military lab at M.I.T. funded 90% by the pentagon. he was a culture producer for the state, a liberal providing cover for empire building and manufacturing consent, and his tenured shadow obscured Michael Parenti, who actually had integrity and steadfastly maintained his integrity without the auspices of the institutions of empire. I'm  gradually learning about the deceptions of the ruling classes and about the critical thinkers who are mostly pushed aside into the shadows. That's where I want to look. 

 When intelligence is applied to the development of intelligence, the feedback loop accelerates beyond human control.

Daniel Pinchbeck

 I'm reading a piece on artificial intelligence by Daniel Pinchbeck and trying to think and I can't I just don't get artificial intelligence and I feel dumb because we're all soaking in it like Palmolive. Now some are saying AI will replace us and it's funny that's what the white supremacists say about immigrants while AI is actually doing it and the regime is terrorizing and killing immigrants and citizens because the regime doesn't need people only CEO's, thugs, drones and AI.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. 

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Frederic Bastiat

 This valentine, for Palestine, love over zionism.

 i read that i thought that this work is not conceptual and it lives in the body, and it's spirit, working with us, through us. it's earth work, heaven sought, working through us.

 Here's Olive with Trudy's maple pastry board looking at me as I write in the kitchen nook and I forgot what else I was going to say, which happens often and I'm softening toward the lapses and feeling it's ok to forget, perhaps it's a way of taking a breath and letting go of one thing for another that may be arising, or simply the mind pausing to look into the eyes of the household buddha, Olive Palestine. Oh yes, I wanted yesterday to say hi to Karen and Sarah who are left but still in mind.