Dec. 8th, 2020 07:26 pm
Fear and boredom in the western world
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oakfarmThere's not much to write about. That’s what people say, there's nothing to talk about these days. You know why. I have even seen the phrase "de facto lockdown"* used, whatever that means. Words change meaning so fast these days I’m not even sure what “lockdown” means anymore.
Beside that I’m still the guy who in this entry will start with the subject nostalgia, and end up writing down a suggestion for genetic engineered pigeons. See I might be very bored, I might live a boring life and I might be a loser, who failed with following my dreams. All that said, you do not know anyone else that can write an entry there he/she tells you about their idea for art involving genetic engineered doves, do you?
First thing about nostalgia. I rewatched the first season of Hemlock grow. I might first have clicked on that show because hemlock happens to be one of not too many english plant names I know. I am quite sure that poisonous hemlock is what the Greek called "the cold way to hades". That said, the attraction for me to that show, at least the first season, is that I think I really should have appreciated the show when I was in my late teens. In other words, I watched it because of nostalgia, because the person I was a long time ago should have liked it. The person I was during the magic time called the 1990s, when I was young.
Second, there is a lot of talk about nostalgia today. That when we don’t believe in the future we get nostalgic. That includes political nostalgia. However the one who teached me that political nostalgia is dangerous was author Erich Maria Remarque in his novel The black obelisk. Well, to be brief, the book is about interwar Germany, a time then political nostalgia really led to catastrophe. Here I will do quite a great leap. In Erich Maria Remarques hometown, Osnabrück, Germany, there is an Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum, the last meaning “Peace center”. And the word “Peace center” makes me want to bioengineer “Peace doves”, that I can realize in Osnabrück, as an art project. I would simply in DNA encode the part of international law that prohibits wars of aggression (Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, no, I did not have it in my head, had to search online). Then take that DNA, with that coded message, and insert that in doves, and call them peace doves.
* Om the other hand, Scientific American still say we more or less follow Great Barrington Declaration
Beside that I’m still the guy who in this entry will start with the subject nostalgia, and end up writing down a suggestion for genetic engineered pigeons. See I might be very bored, I might live a boring life and I might be a loser, who failed with following my dreams. All that said, you do not know anyone else that can write an entry there he/she tells you about their idea for art involving genetic engineered doves, do you?
First thing about nostalgia. I rewatched the first season of Hemlock grow. I might first have clicked on that show because hemlock happens to be one of not too many english plant names I know. I am quite sure that poisonous hemlock is what the Greek called "the cold way to hades". That said, the attraction for me to that show, at least the first season, is that I think I really should have appreciated the show when I was in my late teens. In other words, I watched it because of nostalgia, because the person I was a long time ago should have liked it. The person I was during the magic time called the 1990s, when I was young.
Second, there is a lot of talk about nostalgia today. That when we don’t believe in the future we get nostalgic. That includes political nostalgia. However the one who teached me that political nostalgia is dangerous was author Erich Maria Remarque in his novel The black obelisk. Well, to be brief, the book is about interwar Germany, a time then political nostalgia really led to catastrophe. Here I will do quite a great leap. In Erich Maria Remarques hometown, Osnabrück, Germany, there is an Erich Maria Remarque-Friedenszentrum, the last meaning “Peace center”. And the word “Peace center” makes me want to bioengineer “Peace doves”, that I can realize in Osnabrück, as an art project. I would simply in DNA encode the part of international law that prohibits wars of aggression (Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, no, I did not have it in my head, had to search online). Then take that DNA, with that coded message, and insert that in doves, and call them peace doves.
* Om the other hand, Scientific American still say we more or less follow Great Barrington Declaration