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What do we lose in ignoring the coordinator class? How can we avoid or resist creating a coordinator class as we develop anti-capitalist work environments?

By ignoring that doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers and others who have a monopoly on empowering labor are a class above workers who do overwhelmingly disempowering labor, we obscure and indeed we literally hide from perception, the existence of this class and its relations. We obscure and literally hide the reality that one can be anti-capitalist sincerely and militantly, yet at least in the implications of one's actions and allegiances, not pro-classlessness, but instead pro the coordinator class. We ignore that we can have, and typically have had, anti-capitalist movements that embody values, assumptions, language, styles, and habits that stem from coordinator class experiences, interests, and aspirations, not from those of working class people - and that, for that reason, are uncongenial, disempowering, and alienating to working people. We ignore, in other words, these and other centrally critical insights about what we are doing, why, and with what prospects for success, and what implications.

For the second part of your question, when people seeking a better world set up experiments in new economy, if we aren't going to fall prey to reproducing old class divisions, we of course have to eliminate having someone own the new project and others merely be employees. That much is obvious, though often not dealt with fully. But even more than that, and rarely dealt with at all, we also have to avoid the other relationships that produce class division, the ones that produce the coordinator/worker hierarchy. This has many implications but mostly it means we shouldn't incorporate in our projects the typical way of defining and apportioning work tasks that we see all around us, which we can usefully call the corporate division of labor. Instead of having about 20% of the folks in a workplace doing all the empowering tasks while 80% do only rote and obedient tasks, with the former folks thereby made, by their position in the economy, dominant over the latter folks, we should incorporate what parecon calls balanced job complexes. The idea is that each actor should do a mix of tasks in their job, such that the overall tasks and responsibilities of each is comparably empowering to the overall tasks and responsibilities of others.

Imagine that someone pointed to a workplace in a distant society and said, "Hey, look, 20% have all the chocolate, 80% have none. The former folks get more income and dominate decisions. They rule. The latter folks are exhausted, alienated, subordinate. They get less income and obey. Look, here is how disparity in their possession of the chocolate causes that result. The possession of all the chocolate gives the former folks confidence, knowledge of the overall conditions of work, social skills, energy, and so on. The absence of chocolate in their workdays relegates the latter folks to exhaustion, depression, a condition of less confidence, diminishing social skills, ignorance of the overall conditions of work, and so on." What can we do to remove this hierarchy in our new experimental workplace, in this odd distant society, or, for that matter, in the existing class divided workplaces it harbors? Well, in this fanciful case, the answer would be obvious. We would have to redistribute the chocolate in our new project so everyone has a fair share. The point is, parecon says this is roughly the condition for the coordinator/worker class hierarchy, but it isn't chocolate the coordinators hoard, it is empowering work. Thus, the task for eliminating the hierarchy is redefining the division of labor into jobs so that the monopoly over empowering work is broken, the chocolate (whoops, the empowering tasks) are dispersed equitably. This goal parecon calls balanced job complexes.

The mandala is a drawn representation of the points in the body where energy is transmitted or received. These points create 3 or 4 dimensional mandalas that are constantly changing. Mandalas then are created by every thought form energy, by every emotional energy, by every energy sent out or received on any level of the universe!

When drawn, the circle is the principal element since it lies at the heart of the creative principle. It is the representation of cosmic life, from the smallest atom to the largest planet. All things are divided from within itself so, paradoxically, all things are contained within it. It is therefore the symbol of the unknowable, of spirit and of heaven.

The word "Mandala," is rooted in Sanskrit and literally means "Circle," which is the first enclosed archetype of Sacred Geometry. The single point at the center of the circle is called the "Bindu."

It is thought that meditational Mandalas were brought to Tibet by the Guru Padma Sambava in the 8th century A.D. The building and use of spiritual Mandalas is an important aspect of Buddhism and Hinduism. Mandalas are to be found all over the orient and always used as a tool to facilitate contemplation and meditation. This process of experiencing Mandala, has the potential to move the contemplative into awareness of his or her spiritual body . The contemplation of Sacred Geometry by of studying or creating Mandalas (open-eyed meditation) can bring the student to spiritual enlightenment.

Long before that great teacher (Guru Padma Sambava) traveled to Tibet with the healing and centering concepts of Mandala, Native American Shamans had already discovered that same healing power within the circle. Much of the symbolic geometry of Native American art and ritual is rooted in the balance of the circle and its natural division.... the four directions; North, South, East, and West. The famous Lakota Shaman "Black Elk," called the circle the "Sacred Hoop" (see "Black Elk Speaks" by John G. Neihardt - published by University of Nebraska Press).

This is important enough that I don't wanna fly through it during my work hours...I will attend to it when I get home this afternoon....thanks for the post...

Good. You know, the coordinator class concept is an elaboration of the boss/worker one. Important to think about, see how it affects our lives, and so forth. We need to change processes throughout the culture.
**Lipstick Lesbian**

Sacred Geometry is defined as opening the heart and mind to conscious evolution through geometric models. It is the study of geometric forms and the metaphorical relationships to transitions of mind, emotions and spirit. The transition of the human spirit can be seen in the transition of one geometric form to another through its own evolvement moving into higher and higher patterns. This is the way of the heart as well. The spiral is the most obvious symbol of this evolution of consciousness.

Sacred geometric forms are not stagnant. They are in constant flux, evolving or devolving from one geometric form to another at their own speed or vibratory frequency. We can, through observing and studying sacred geometric form, tune our selves into that vibration and resonate with the frequency of the sacred geometry to cause insights and revelations within our own four body system in sacred harmony. That is why certain geometric forms call out to us from an indefinable place within our own being. We are resonating with that geometry and it is bringing balance, and upliftment as we harmonize with it.

Geomancers recognize that sacred geometry is the study of the way that spirit congeals into matter. By replicating the sacred geometry of nature and the universe one can help align the harmonics or resonance of body and spirit with the vibratory frequencies of the "above and below" or unmanifested energies of the universe. Buildings, constructions, medicine wheels that apply sacred geometries in their construction further the ability of the visitor to resonate or vibrate at the rate of phi which can bring a closer connection to the Source. There is a group of 5 mathematical ratios that are found all over the world from the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge. These ratios are:

* Pi - (¥ð) - 3.1416... : 1 - Pi is found in any circle. If the diameter is 1, the circumference is 3.1416 (C = p D).
* Square Root of Two - (¡î2) - 1.414
* Square Root of Three - (¡î3) - 1.732
* Square Root of Five - (¡î5) - 2.236
* Phi (¨ª) - 1.618 : 1 - phi is the "Golden Section" of the Greeks. It was said to be the first section in which the Source manifested the universe.

Homework..What Homework ?

One of my cats ate it.. ;)

Cool Picture. :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

Cool with Sunglasses ... ;)

3.14159 or

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939
937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482
534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058
2231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559
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30530548820466521384146951941511609...

How does this work?

By using the Pythagorean Theorem. If we plug the following values into the theorem (a=3, b=4, c=5), we find that the equation is true: three-squared (9) plus four-squared (16) is equal to five-squared (25).

The rule is this:

On one side of a corner, measure three inches from the corner and make a mark. On the opposite side of the corner, measure four inches from the corner and make a mark. Next, measure between the two marks. If the distance is five inches, your corner is square!

Land of the Himalayas, the Yeti, and some of the ass kickingest punk rock around.

This is also Nepal's first full vinyl release. While the legendary Luk Haas has released some splits from Nepal on his Tian An Men 89 Records this is the first sole release. This record was released in a first pressing of 500 copies with 150 on colored vinyl.

1 - Nepal Bandh - 2.76M

2 - Jaro Maina Ayo - 3.4M

3 - Safe Rebellion - 4.02M

4 - On the Bus In the U.K. - 3.49M

Ordinary Bastards - 1.92M

Snippet from the MaximumRockNRoll Radio Show! - 858K

Random Seth Quote

"Generally speaking, for example, if you are seriously worried about a physical condition, go to a doctor, because your own beliefs may overfrighten you otherwise. Begin with innocuous but annoying physical conditions, however, and try to work those out for yourself. Try to discover why you are bothered. When you have a headache or a simple stomach upset, or if you have a chronic, annoying but not serious condition, such as trouble with your sinuses, or if you have hay fever - in those situations, remind yourself that your body does indeed have the capacity to heal itself."

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
Session 870, Page 290

Greek Priestess and Teacher of Socrates
ca. 400 B.C.E.

Diotima, Socrates' great teacher from the Symposium, a work by Plato was one of the most influential women thinkers of all time, whether she was a real person or a literary fictional character. She related to Socrates the theory of love which he described to the partygoers at Agathon's banquet, a celebration of Agathon's victory at the competition of internal linkDionysis in Athens and of eros.

Diotima taught Socrates that love was the child of Poros and Penia, lack and plenty, a spirit of the between. Love was one of the daimon, the spirits that held the world together as a whole, the internal linkforce that relayed messages and prayers between the gods and man. Eros was also known best through wisdom. The love of wisdom is the love of eros.

As we progress in our lives, Diotima told Socrates, we grow in our conception of love. First we are stirred by the beauty of the young body. Then we begin to see the beauty in all bodies. At this point we look to the beauty of the soul. As man is able to identify the beauty in all souls, he soon appreciates the beauty in the laws, and the strucure of all things. Lastly we discover the beauty of the forms, the divine ideas. Love is important for it starts and continues us on our path.

Even as our conception of beauty changes, beauty, like a lay of nature stands. The things which are held sway by ideas shift, the law however is unchanging.

Her conception of eros gives us an interesting way to look at the forms in general. We cannot aproach the divine ideas of Socrates, the forms, just like man is not able to aproach love. Once we have an idea of it it slips by, the factual knowledge about it eludes us from its deeper meaning, a meaning which is out of reach of human knowledge.

Viewing the forms in this manner is helpful. Just as we could not very well conceive of justice as a form, we can only know its practice, we aproach the idea of love and all forms.

Diotima shows us that knowledge is found in many ways. We gain access to some through our internal linkperceptions, our senses. Some knowledge is reached through insight, the mind. And, Diotima explains, some is found between, like love.

Diotima, the Greek Priestess, was central to Socrates conception of love and of his idea of the forms.

fusion telex
"In her speech in Plato's Symposium, Diotima, the priestess of love, teaches a doctrine of the escalation spirituality of the erotic drive. She tracks the internal linkintensity of Eros continuously from bodily attraction all the way to the mental internal linkattention of mathematics and beyond. The outer reaches of the biological sex drive, she explains to Socrates, extend to the mental realm where we continually seek to expand our knowledge."

"As Platonists and Gnostics down through the ages have insisted: Eros guides us to internal linkLogos."

"The notion of ideal Forms in early Platonism has the allure of a perfect internal linkdream. But the ancient dream remained airy, a landscape of genera and generalities, until the hardware of internal linkinformation retrieval came to support the mind's quest for knowledge. Now, with the support of the electronic internal linkmatrix, the dream can incorporate the smallest details of here-and-now existence. With an electronic infrastructure, the dream of perfect FORMS becomes the dream of inFORMation." - Michael Heim in Cyberspace

I wouldn't be surprised if part of the trajectory of American politics since 2001 was shaped by, say, the inability to hear Coleen Rowley, the FBI woman who issued those early warnings about al-Qaeda, and it was certainly shaped by a Bush administration to which you couldn't tell anything, including that Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda and no WMDs, or that the war was not going to be a "cakewalk." (Even male experts couldn't penetrate the fortress of their smugness.)

Arrogance might have had something to do with the war, but this syndrome is a war that nearly every woman faces every day, a war within herself too, a belief in her superfluity, an invitation to silence, one from which a fairly nice career as a writer (with a lot of research and facts correctly deployed) has not entirely freed me. After all, there was a moment there when I was willing to let Mr. Important and his overweening confidence bowl over my more shaky certainty.

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~Slut Hero~
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Acceptance

There are three components to the Law of Least Effort
-- three things you can do to put this principle of
"do less and accomplish more" into action.

The first component is acceptance.

Acceptance simply means that you make a commitment:
"Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances,
and events as they occur." (Which is NOT the same as 'I will not take action')

This means I will know that this moment
is as it should be,
because the whole universe
is as it should be.
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Anti-Gravity Propulsion

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Erasure-Sometimes, mp3
Sometimes the truth is harder than the pain inside

Boys Don't Cry-I Wanna Be A Cowboy, mp3
Riding on the chuck wagon,
Following my man.
His name is Ted,
Can you believe that?
Camping on the prairie
Plays havoc with my hair.
Makes me feel quite dirty,
Though we all do sometimes

Mowe 15-California Dreaming, mp3
Well I got down on my knees And I pretend to pray.

The Bloodhound Gang-No Hard Feelings (It Aint My Job To Fuck You On You Birthday), mp3
When roughly translated even your naked truth means squat and what's more
I'm missing you like a hijacked flight on September 11th

What the Bleep Study Guide, pdf

TTFN!

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Yowzah!
Turn me on, Baby! Do me...
**Lipstick Lesbian**

Enjoy reading your stuff, Alice.

Deja vu, or have you posted all of this before on a prior thread?

On another note, I recently attended a child's funeral. I watched as her aunt attempted to remove her cold lifeless body from the casket, just to complain that it was so cold... She kept squeezing the girl's arms and legs as if to try and comfort her. It freaked my sister out, but being a mother who has lost her own child, I understood the sanity of the lady's reaction. The death of a child is not something that is easily fathomable. We expect warmth and softness, not cold hardness.

Since then, I've reflected on body warmth and how magical it all is. Life, that is. We have electrical currents that make us work. And chemical reactions. And neuropathic signals. And when you start thinking about it, the complexities are enormous and amazing. And humbling. Because when it's gone, there's nothing anyone can do to bring it back. You know? Nothing.

http://www.frogview.com/show1.php?file=4559

I hear ya...about the warm glow of life...My mother who is decidedly earth bound in her ways of thinking even GOT IT when my dad died...She seemed amazed and said, "I knew that body was empty"...it seemed profound to her to realize it, being raised hardcore catholic and all...

I would flip out too if someone tried to move a body in a casket, how old is your sister?

doesn't make me want to have a child still...that is reserved for others... :)

Overture, curtains, lights, this is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part we know every part by heart

Overture, curtains, lights this is it, you’ll hit the heights
And oh what heights we’ll hit on with the show this is it

Tonight what heights we’ll hit on with the show this is it.

I used to sing along. Never knew the words--UNTIL NOW!

Oh vature. Odd delights. This is it, the hot delight.
No more pursing and nursing a lot. We know every part by heart.

Blah blah blah...

**Lipstick Lesbian**

That was good..thanks TLL...!

L
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the Drummer!

The Rolling Stones is the debut album by The Rolling Stones, released in the UK in April 1964. The US edition of the LP, with a slightly different track list, came out the following month, under the title England's Newest Hit Makers.
Recorded at Regent Sound Studios in London over the course of five days in January and February 1964, The Rolling Stones was produced by then-managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton. The Rolling Stones was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, while the US England's Newest Hitmakers appeared on the London Records label, with the track "Not Fade Away" (the a-side of the band's third UK single) replacing "Mona (I Need You Baby)".
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (whose professional name until 1978 omitted the s in his surname) were very much fledging songwriters during early 1964, contributing only one original composition to the album. Two numbers are credited to "Nanker Phelge" - a pseudonym the band used for group compositions from 1963 to 1965. The majority of the tracks reflect the band's love for authentic R&B material.
The album cover photo was taken by David Bailey. The cover of the UK edition bears no title or identifying information other than the photo and the Decca logo - an "unheard of" design concept originated by manager Andrew Oldham.
Upon its release, The Rolling Stones became one of 1964's biggest sellers in the UK, staying at #1 for 12 weeks, while England's Newest Hitmakers reached #11 in the US, going gold in the process.
In August 2002, England's Newest Hitmakers was reissued as a new remastered CD and SACD digipak by ABKCO.**Lipstick Lesbian**

Track Listing
1 Around And Around
2 Confessin' The Blues
3 Empty Heart
4 Time Is On My Side
5 Good Times, Bad Times
6 It's All Over Now
7 2120 South Michigan Avenue
8 Under The Boardwalk
9 Congratulations
10 Grown Up Wrong
11 If You Need Me
12 Suzie Q

Comment
The title "12X5" means that 5 members performed 12 songs on this album. The cover photo is by David Bailey.

7 of 12 songs were recorded at Chess Studios where was an adoring sanctuary for the Stones then and its address "2120 South Michigan Avenue" was used for the title of one song. The engineer was Ron Malo. He worked with the musicians such as Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry who were Stones idols.

The organ intro / fade out version of "Time Is On My Side" is featured on this album. On CDs of "Hot Rocks 1964-1971"(except early version) or "Singles Collection - The London Years", we can listen a guitar intro / not fade out version of "Time Is On My Side" recorded at Chess Studios.

**Lipstick Lesbian**(Little Steven says that 12X5--a compilation created by London Records [not the band]--is his favorite Rolling Stones album. And he is probably the biggest Rolling Stones fan in the world.)

**Lipstick Lesbian**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNw8WF4quZw

*TLL*

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=uoCNcKLzM_sC&dq=%22jeremy+brecher...

Jeremy Brecher, "Strike!"

It's been checked out 5 times...

I checked it out to give it some play..maybe I can get it on the front desk for some attention...skimming it it looks interesting already...

Deterring Democracy
Noam Chomsky
Vintage 1992
A book review by Danny Yee © 1992 http://dannyreviews.com/
Deterring Democracy is a searing indictment of American imperialism by its foremost critic.
Bush made a big fuss about Iraq's violation of international law in invading Kuwait — but the US has more violations of international law to its name than any other nation on the planet. American leaders regularly claim to be fighting for democracy — but they back regimes that don't even pretend to be democratic (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait), they have directly overthrown democratically elected governments (Chile, Guatemala), and they regularly subvert the natural course of democracy (France and Italy after World War II, Nicaragua).

US presidents rail against minor acts of terrorism by arab nations — but the US spent millions of dollars arming terrorists to attack hospitals and schools in Nicaragua, attempted to assassinate Ghaddafi, and continues to turn a blind eye to Israeli and South African aggression in Mozambique and Lebanon. The US claims to be the leader of "the international community" — but the US has vetoed more UN security council resolutions than any other member and has several times been the only dissenting member in UN general assembly resolutions.

And so forth.

And the US media studiously refrains from giving these things more than fleeting mention. Those of us who can read between the lines in the media reports (and who live outside the US and get less biased reports anyway) probably knew most of this already, but having it all laid out in detail is enough to make one feel ill. Anyone who takes anything president Bush or his officials say on the subject of foreign policy at face value should read Chomsky's book.

11 June 1992

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Belated Birthday, Alice in Wonderland.

*TLL*

Alice reveals that the date is May 4 ...