Making other plans

hebinekohime @ 2012-04-18T13:44:00

2012-04-18T21:03:13Z

I'd like to seriously consider the possibility that money is obsolete. With all of the real scarcities that exist in the world -- human time, human energy, biohabitat, natural resources -- it seems like a cruel joke that we would make up another one, and force everyone to go along with it.

If you take out money from the equation, people are still interested in getting things done; and while it's true that money is an effective communications shorthand, the end of money as we know it would mean that instead of one monolithic currency, private circles can use their own currency. Meanwhile, food, housing, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, public works, ect. would be provided as a common good and administered by interested parties. I have nothing against providing one's art for free, either, if all other goods are free as well. Maybe certain boutique goods would require money (or something like it) as a representation of their value; like a luxury car, or the vintage monosynth I own. But to give a counterexample to that, look at the software synthesizer and its endless reproduceability. I think it's the case that without an external pressure to conform to market interests, people are kinder, more imaginative, more productive where it counts, less productive where it doesn't count.

Of course there are problems with essentializing. One thing I want to avoid is the assumption of gregariousness; shared housing, for example, isn't everyone's ideal. There have to be allowances made for people who don't fit in to society's default mode. Similarly, there need to be ways of getting high-quality food and other goods to people who would be disadvantaged by a "first-come, first-served" model.

The question is who's going to go first. Perhaps if one country switches to a moneyless, zero-compulsory-work system, treaties and special trade agreements could be signed with the other nation-states, and over time, if the model proves workable and attractive, those other states would voluntarily adopt it as a means of attracting new citizens/keeping their old ones. However, the part I'm stumbling on is how to convince market economies to aid a competing model...

...Which leads me to think that the sovereign nation-state isn't the best model for a post-market society, at least not at the beginning. The Cold War, North Korea's dictatorship, China's one-party capitalist state, and the demonization of Castro and Gaddafi for even attempting to do something different paint a pretty big "DO NOT ENTER" sign for anyone dreaming of a Communist state.

And I'm not even sure that what I'm talking about is Communism. A certain strain of anarcho-communism, maybe. I've never believed in "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs", for many reasons (see previous statement about essentializing).

Perhaps as an alternative to an entire country or countries switching to a moneyless system and then having to deal with the rest of the world, existing countries could establish projects where a certain part of that country experiments with such a system. These could be state-sanctioned experimental communities, with the goal of finding out what works and, if it does work, hopefully radiating out from there. If it's true that money is an outdated, frequently counterproductive, concept, then such accomplishments could be a point of pride, like the space race.

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Jean 'Moebius' Giraud has died.

2012-03-16T12:36:24Z

I just learned about it today. He was one of my favorite artists.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/11/local/la-me-moebius-20120311

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/network-awesome/jean-moebius-giraud-1938-2012_b_1340426.html

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hebinekohime @ 2012-03-14T21:35:00

2012-03-15T04:44:54Z

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/kony_2012_white_saviors.html

The best article I've read so far on this topic.

As usual, I'm frustrated at our unwillingness to think systemically and our eagerness to latch onto a single personification of evil.

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Seizon Senryaku!

2012-03-09T07:51:30Z

I like iyashikei anime, at least in principle (see my longer post on the subject). But it's weird... whenever a new highly-praised "relaxing" or "healing" anime comes along, I just get the urge to rewatch Mawaru Penguindrum.

Which I should do at some point, anyway! :) But my point here is that Penguindrum addresses in text what I've come to feel is the subtext of iyashikei shows, and maybe the subtext of most anime, period. It's obviously a commentary on alienation; beyond that, however, I found the show a very apt depiction of the affiliations that take the place of traditional social bonds in an alienated society, and both their positive and negative consequences. I don't know if this was Ikuhara's intent, but it's something that resonated very strongly with me.

It's a rare privilege, I think, to be allowed a peek at someone else's subconscious, and Ikuhara succeeded here. I'm saying this to address some criticisms of the show. Yes, at times Penguindrum was over-the-top, extremely nonsensical, or very disturbing. However, I never had the sense that this was done with the intent of 'trolling' or freaking out the audience. Rather, I saw it as a legitimate attempt at addressing emotional issues in a stream-of-consciousness manner. For the length of the show, I truly felt that I was in Ikuhara's dream; it's not exactly the dream I'd have, and sometimes I found it a frighteningly alien place, but nonetheless it was a fascinating dream to inhabit. To ascribe cynicism to this is to be overly cynical.

After watching Penguindrum, I've found it hard to watch most other anime. That isn't just hyperbolic praise; while I do think it's a great show, the reason it makes other anime hard to watch is that it strips the emotions of anime naked. I'm not saying that Penguindrum was a metafictional show or a show about anime, but I do feel that it got to the point of what most anime dances around: the need to belong to a group, to reach out to other people, and to develop a stable emotional center. These are crucial survival skills (survival strategies, even ;), yet undertaught. And often, we look for them through media. Otaku look for connection in magical girls, bishoujo, bishounen, slice of life anime, idol songs. WHY shows like Idolm@ster are made is, I feel, central to the point of Penguindrum.

(as an aside, I've always felt that harem shows like Tenchi Muyo were more about the wish for a strong extended family than they were about sex)

And this is the reason for all the "who's related to who" melodrama, soap-operatic plot twists, and Schrodinger's Incest between the characters. I don't want to go too deeply into spoilers here, but I think Ikuhara is posing the question of how much, in the end, do our socially-assigned roles really matter. Whether it's a good or bad person, a functional or dysfunctional relationship, a blood relative or a chance encounter with a stranger, we're looking for someone to share the fruit of fate with. We take what we can get, and we make of it what we can, whatever it may or may not originally have been, because as social animals, we can't not connect to each other. And even when these connections are damaged, what we think a person's damage is may only be a veneer concealing their real needs. Does this remind you of anything?

Is it possible to change one's fate? One interpretation of changing fate could be changing society; from one particularly fatalistic point of view, society sets the conditions that determine our fates. So overthrow it, perhaps? Sanetoshi, the principal antagonist, could stand for many things, but one thing he is for sure is an embodiment of the pain of alienation. Disillusioned, he wants to force people out of their own subjectivities: the "boxes" that they have trapped themselves in, and in so doing, locked him out of. He wants to wring empathy from a destructive and indifferent society, and he's willing to kill to make it happen. However, I don't see him as inherently worse than the "good guys" of the show. They, too, want to kill what he represents, to reject him and "blast him out of this world". What they haven't accounted for, and why he hangs around for so long, is that shadows make excellent villains.

Penguindrum was a heady cocktail of sex and surrealism, the mundane and the phantasmatic, social commentary and subjective longings, religious parable, high fashion and, er, food. :) Its reputation as a flawed gem of anime will only grow over time.

BTW, though it's not quite as heavy with symbolism, I also want to point out an aspect of Star Driver that's somewhat along the same lines. When I got to the Mizuno/Marino arc, I was struck by the show's deconstruction of the "genki girl", presenting her as an embodiment of human (and, by extension, the audience's) idealization and wishes. It's a simple commentary on escapism, but I have to give Yoji Enokido props for it: archetypal characters show up in most anime, but very few actually delve into why these archetypes exist in the first place...

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Scattered political thoughts

2012-02-08T00:31:57Z

"The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed" - from William Gibson's twitter

I think the Internet should change politics. Not just how existing politics are done, but the nature of the politics we have. We didn't have a decentralized, densely interconnected mass culture before now. Maybe we're trying to shoehorn old ideas into a new society. Maybe there are ways to defang oppressive power structures that address both libertarian and socialist concerns, and maybe they're byproducts of a platform that's based on people networking.

People can't be isolated, misinformed without recourse, or told "that's never been done" when it has. That's big. That has people scared about 'low quality information', when they mean 'information that we/those we trust can't control'. Books denounce Wikipedia, while Wikipedia has their own backlash in the form of deletionism and heavy-handed editorial policies; meanwhile, blogs and informal networks make sure the signal gets out. Sure, we're in a young, awkward phase, and the playground tribalism can get out of hand. But I'll take all the tribalism in the world if it defrocks the informational priesthood. And I'm wary of my inner Apollo saying "you can't play around, everything you do has to make perfect sense right this instant".

Right now, I trust open access academic journals more than I do JSTOR. I trust fansubs over licensing. I trust the web as my first source of health advice. I trust bloggers over print journalists, and I trust people speaking truth to power on Tumblr. I like the extent to which the web has made life "do it yourself". And I'm interested in the extent to which it can make life "do it ourselves", which I think we haven't totally learned yet, because we're still getting used to the ways in which these communities are formed and how they interact with each other and with their own physical counterparts.

Maybe we should have an American Network Party. Not American in the sense of "America first", but in the sense of "this is a localized part of something greater, insofar as we need to be represented as citizens of a particular country".

I like some of what Anonymous is doing. I think the next step will be not being anonymous, and presenting ourselves as visible groups, but without the old fashioned 'power to the people' rhetoric of OWS. I am the 99%, but I'm also the 1% of the 99%, and that is actually more important to me. More physical communities and support networks should form out of online political factions and identity groups. Maybe even a return to the commune in some form.

That said, progressive movements could do a better job of getting information out to people who aren't looking. Bringing politics into places where "politics shouldn't go" may be one tactic; fr'ex, it's kind of nice that so many bloggers don't think of their political views and their fandoms as discrete entities.

On a tangent: I think the game of capitalism could be played differently. Too much space is privatized today, but that could be leveraged in society's favor again: perhaps progressive, Green and socialist groups could pool resources, purchase storefronts and plots of land, and set their own 'private property' rules, but make those rules people-friendly. In that way, there'd always be somewhere nice to walk, somewhere to hang around even if you don't have money, and somewhere to camp out if you need to. Shopping centers aren't such bad things, but I really want a commons.

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omake

2012-01-31T05:36:08Z

Leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your username. Only one word please. Then repost so I can leave a word for you!

(lqc is to blame)

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hebinekohime @ 2012-01-13T22:45:00

2012-01-14T07:13:37Z

Day 13: Your favorite quote

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality" - Jules de Gaultier

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hebinekohime @ 2012-01-04T21:13:00

2012-01-05T05:40:32Z

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/03/nypd-arrests-operators-of-occupy-wall-street-livestream/

This is troubling. So is this year's National Defense Authorization Act. That they coincide may be coincidence, but it's troubling anyway.

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hebinekohime @ 2012-01-02T01:40:00

2012-01-02T09:55:53Z

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n22/hugh-roberts/who-said-gaddafi-had-to-go

There is no doubt that many Libyans consider Nato their saviour and that some of them genuinely aspire to a democratic future for their country. Even so I felt great alarm when intervention started to be suggested and remain opposed to it even now despite its apparent triumph, because I considered that the balance of democratic argument favoured an entirely different course of action.

Long, but an important read. Be sure to read the comments, too.

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Announcement

2011-12-29T23:31:57Z

befitting is now hebinekohime! Because it's more fun. Rewrote my bio, too.

And now back to your regularly scheduled nonsense...

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Fight Clubs Of The Heart

2011-12-25T07:22:45Z

Saw Carnage today. It's the best movie of 2011, IMHO.

It's a satire of yuppie mores, but it runs a little deeper than that. It seems to argue that the adult world has lost its ability to connect with each other, and that the only way they can regain it is through passionate conflict; fighting can be forgiven and forgotten, but politeness leaves scars. It reminded me of why I love heated group arguments and the carnival of free flowing emotion they bring... it'd be nice to have more contexts, positive as well as negative, in which that emotion could be brought out.

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hebinekohime @ 2011-11-22T09:04:00

2011-11-22T18:46:34Z

Who thought that the chance to be interrupted at any conceivable moment was a great thing to add to our lives? I don't know much about the history of the telephone, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of resistance when it was introduced.

Apparently, Kunihiko Ikuhara didn't own a cell or smart phone until recently. Between him and Hayao Miyazaki, I wonder how many other hold-outs there are in Japan. I'm not opposed to being plugged in on principle... having a wi-fi capable notebook has really helped me on occasion, and I'll probably cave someday and get a smart phone like Ikuni did. Right now there are some good environmental, social, and health reasons not to, though.

As many disagreements as I have with people here, I feel like Dreamwidth is (mostly) a model for healthy self-identification. It's the nature of the beast, I guess. When I'm not here or in spaces with similar rules and attitudes, I'm actually surprised at the level of closed-mindedness about such things as non-binary genders, polyamory, pan/bi/asexuality, kink, psychological multiplicity of some kind, and so on. I'm not shocked to see intolerance, but on some level I just fail to understand it. I guess that part of it is that, before the Internet, these things were less out in the open. Still, I think common courtesy would say that it's not my business what someone else identifies as; even if they're open about that identification, they're not doing it for my benefit. More people need to realize that 'public' doesn't necessarily mean 'put to a popular vote'.

Having said that, I realize that 'common courtesy' is situated and dependent on context, and that race, class, culture, and upbringing are all Significant Factors. Still, I'm chauvinist enough to say that the laissez-faire social attitude of educated geeks is something that, if the rest of the world adopted, would be a great improvement.

I read a great post about virginity on DW; I forget who wrote it, but the gist of it was that intercourse =! sexuality, and that the OP didn't feel that one needed to have sex to feel sexually mature. I ~~can get behind that~~ wholeheartedly agree (god, the English language...) Along with marriage, 'virginity' is another concept that's overdue for a secular overhaul. I don't like its association with 'heterosexual males too timid to get what they want'; apart from the self-policing of, at the very least, said het-males that it encourages, it's shot through with patriarchal and sexist assumptions. There's a sense that one is entitled to the body of another in order to 'come of age' and feel secure with oneself, and I truly hate that. Even as a gender-neutral concept, conflating sex with intercourse and intercourse with being a mature human being is hugely problematic. You can't claim experience you don't have, and a 'virgin' is different from a sexually experienced person, but only in that sense, just as someone who's never driven a car or tripped on LSD or fucked on Taps is a virgin in that sense.

('you mean you've never been textually intimate with someone? Isn't that weird?')

One of the odd (and really disturbing) aspects of living in an Abrahamic culture of sexual honor is that, while rape is the worst crime in the world, it's shameful to not 'get any'. You have to play the game by the rules (and 'consent' is a pretty good rule, admittedly!), but at the same time, you have to win. It's less wrong not to win, but it's still wrong. If we lived in a more individualistic culture where other people weren't objects to be 'gotten', or encounters to be had to raise our XP, I think there would be more sexual respect.

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Save the bats!

2011-11-16T21:37:27Z

Boosting a link from pasithea.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/fund-fight-against-white-nose-syndrome-president%E2%80%99s-fiscal-year-2013-budget/jH8Z4Fsl?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

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late-night double feature: Sleep Dealer, Doomsday

2011-09-24T09:36:56Z

Sleep Dealer may be the most faithful depiction of cyberpunk ever put on screen. All of the genre's concerns are addressed: the blend of high technology and social stratification, the extension of the human phenotype through new technologies of the body, the blurred lines between corporate and national powers, and the existential uncertainty that accompanies shifting definitions of a person.

It's also an extremely well-made movie. It's the rare high-concept film where the ideas just click into place, working smoothly with the story and characters instead of one getting ahead of the other.

And I think it's an example of how to incorporate left-wing politics and satire into a science fiction film, without it coming off as forced or preachy (as it too often does: see Children Of Men or V For Vendetta). The ending might require you to give it a little poetic license, but it's far better than a lot of similar movies and it is extremely thought provoking, as is the entire film. Many ideas that get tossed off in minor scenes have enough philosophical meat to drive a whole story by themselves, showing the amount of time and thought that director Alex Rivera invested into the film's world.

It probably helped my assessment of Sleep Dealer that I watched Doomsday beforehand, which was exactly the dumb, fun ride that I expected and nothing more. Rhona Mitra as female British Snake Plisskin is the reason to watch that movie. I did like the urban-decay set design and the Scottish accents, and the car chase set to Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes" did my heart good; although the overzealous editing made it hard to follow what was going on long enough to get an adrenaline rush. Doomsday was a decent action flick, but it should've been prouder about being a 30 million dollar film, instead of cutting itself up to look like a 100-million one.

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hebinekohime @ 2011-08-16T16:04:00

2011-08-16T23:19:09Z

I'm really looking forward to the second run of Tokidoki Balloon. The show is an anime blogger's dream; it's as though the writer took the best parts of the ensemble comedy and psychological horror genres and fabricated a hybrid of the two, mixing and matching according to his fancy.

Most importantly, though, the people behind Tokidoki know that sometimes imagination can make for the scariest kind of horror. Just picturing Mimiko in that alley in episode 2... brrr. Some things are hard to unsee.

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hebinekohime @ 2011-08-02T18:16:00

2011-08-03T01:19:14Z

( Local politics. Alarming, if accurate. )

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hebinekohime @ 2011-08-01T00:22:00

2011-08-01T09:05:32Z

My synopsis of Another Earth:

Look at me, look at me looking serious, look at me looking more serious, look at me looking sad, look at me with the sun in my hair, look at me looking touched, look at me looking serious again, look at me looking at me.

It wasn't the worst movie I've ever watched, but it might've been the most vain. Every other character but the star is a cipher, a stand-in for whatever, often multiple and contradictory, messages that the director and star (who wrote the movie together) wanted to send.

This is the kind of movie where philosophical young people routinely say things like "I'm not ready to bite the apple of cynicism"; where plaintive piano lingers over a family in a car, and yes, it's for the exact reason you think; where sage counsel is dispensed by the token brown man; and where every scene goes to a tremendous effort to let you know that these are Broken People, But They Just Might Have A Chance With Each Other. It almost goes without saying that if these characters had an ounce of sense, there wouldn't be a story; writer's convenience controls their actions at every turn, logic or even sympathy be damned.

Conceptually, the movie was kind of neat, though it tended not to take its concepts deeper than the "makes you wonder, doesn't it" level. And it had an interesting trip-hoppy electronic score. Still. Even my parents, huge fans of both sci-fi and indie flicks, thought it was a howler. It seemed to want to fall somewhere between the pulpy human drama of Winter's Bone and the grand cosmic ideas of 2001, but it ended up more like Beginners crossed with 'philosophical movies' like Mindwalk or What The Bleep Do We Know?... syrupy, twee attempts at quirkiness, along with faux-profound musings on the human condition.

Pass on this one. Unless you really like sad girls in snow.

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Hello, I exist. And my diet exists too, kthnx.

2011-07-06T12:43:45Z

In a recent paper I penned for my Transgender Studies seminar, which a leader in the political science field has recommended for publication, I made a very powerful argument for the inclusion of trans people’s blogs as credible sources of empirical data about transgender experience, reality, and engagement with widespread academic and political falsehoods:

“These words matter, they are more than anecdotes (a term often used to dismiss and devalue the empirical text of peoples’ spoken experiences), more than ‘merely subjective.’ They testify to a truth only trans people can know and that is eminently open to sociological Verstehen: how trans people interpreted and understood their own lives.

http://quinnae.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/the-revolution-will-not-be-puppetmastered/#more-609

I don’t supplement for micronutrients I’m supposed to fear deficiencies of (i.e. pressed oils or protein powders or B12 – haven’t knowingly had any vitamin or fortified source of that in my body for years and have never been anemic in my life, and haven’t been ill in any way in years).

http://africanvegans.com/2010/12/16/fruitarian-musculation-and-philosophy/

If you'll forgive the juxtaposition, I find that these two quotes together help articulate a lot of my frustration with how nutritionists talk about vegans and B12 levels. Quinnae's words about the term 'anecdote' ring true, for someone who's had their own experience and the experience of other individuals dismissed because it didn't fit the narrative.

Case in point. Tonight, I was reading this discussion thread, linked from a self-described 'vegan skeptic' blog. What I found alarming, beyond just the dismissal of different experiences, was the condemnation of empiricism and of finding knowledge through practice. We are, apparently, not to be trusted with our own bodies.

And where these doctors are presented with cases of healthy non-supplementing vegans, the people in question are never given the benefit of the doubt. Instead, the goalposts are moved to "wait another few years for deficiency to show up" -- even if the case in question has been going on for over twenty years! Meanwhile, the proponents of supplementation can say that "all the science isn't in" where their case is concerned, and always have the benefit of the doubt. Being in the camp that dominates the discussion, they can hold themselves to less stringent standards of proof.

I have less of an axe to grind against B12 supplementation as I do against this kind of thinking.

In happier news, I then read http://africanvegans.com/2010/12/04/ode-to-spinach-and-better-ethical-judgment/ and fell in love all over again. Science fact: spinach is a complete protein, by the definition of the word (every essential amino acid)! And so are many other low-fat plants!

Bodies are different, and no one model is a universal fit. However, I think that Konju is on to something. It's my hypothesis that if more vegans went easy on the high-fat plant foods (so called 'proteins') and favored fruits and greens, the load on their body would be lighter, and they would absorb more nutrition from the food they did eat.

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hebinekohime @ 2011-06-28T17:16:00

2011-06-29T00:21:48Z

One thing I don't understand about anime: the difference between a "Director" and a "Series Director". It's a distinction that I started noticing on SHAFT shows. There's already individual episode directors and directors of animation on all of these series, so it seems redundant to have two more... is it that the "Series Director" takes a more supervisory role, like a producer, and the person called "Director" is more hands-on?

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being vegan: from the personal to the political.

2011-06-19T23:20:57Z

First, a little about my situation as a special snowflake. :P Then, I want to elaborate a little on what being vegan means, and doesn't mean, to me politically. This will make a good introductory post on these issues in the future.

Though I'm closer to holistic than allopathic in practice, I'm not an exclusive adherent of either. What I do practice is a natural foods diet. For more than six years, I have avoided B-12 fortified foods, partly to prove the point that vegan diets have no inherent deficiences (because they... really don't. I could tell you more about cobalamin absorption and where I think popular nutrition screws up, but that's another topic) and partly because processed, fortified foods don't taste very good. I have never taken a supplement or multivitamin pill, and I never intend to. I'm an empiricist, and I take nothing on faith; however, I trust my own experience in my body of thirty years. I eat produce, preferably greenhouse grown or veganic (grown with green mulch and no animal input) when I can get it, along with good French bread or other forms of starch.

I do nothing in particular to get protein; contrary to what many people believe, it's actually difficult not to eat sufficient quantities of every essential amino acid, provided there is a starch and/or greens in the diet. Rice is a complete protein; so is spinach. I do eat high-raw and low-fat as a matter of habit; raw food is intuitively appealing, wholesome, and makes up the bulk of my diet. I'm not strictly raw, though, and I follow nobody's doctrine.

At the same time, I can't separate my health as an individual from the health of others. Life isn't a zero-sum game, we are not atoms, and what affects those around us will have an effect on our own lives. I don't practice veganism for purely nutritional reasons, but as a non-competitive, non-exploitative, and just way of living that does not turn a fellow subject into a consumable object. Nor do I recognize a radical break between humans and any other form of animal; such a break is socially constructed by a culture that wants to privilege the status of human beings. While I am a transhumanist -- in some ways endorsing a 'privileged status' -- at the present time human privilege serves to justify harm done to others, and not good done for ourselves. In any case, other animals share with the human (or the trans-human) a basic desire not to be harmed or exploited.

There are solid environmental reasons for going vegan -- the threat to fish 'stocks' (though this is an objectifying term to apply to sentient beings) and the unsustainability of raising land animals. However, it's worth looking beyond the current 'our threatened environment' mentality to the possibility of liberating animals from social and political domination. Other animals are not cogs in an environmental machine, any more than we are.

None of what I believe is my personal or private morality only; such categorizing removes the possibility of social change. We have to arrive at a consensus for any vegan ethos to make an impact. The use of cell cultures, for example, rather than animal subjects in laboratories shows the way forward. As long as there is agreement within the scientific community that "how can we not exploit animals?" is a part of the question "how can we conduct good science and good medicine?", any form of drug and any research can be made non-animal-based. It's embarassing that we still use the mouse model. You will hear the expression "reduce, refine, and replace" used by people who are wary of abolishing animal experimentation; be wary of anyone offering to refine a bad state of affairs.

Where it's possible, I want to give vegan businesses more of my money, and meat/dairy-using businesses less of it. As a way of non-endorsement and non-participation, I am not commensal around animal products; it's the least I can do, and my conscience feels a lot better without social events where I'm, by my presence, tacitly endorsing exploitation.

As always, I link to http://veganideal.org as my first choice of reading.

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answers to the game

2011-06-19T07:29:07Z

Oh, all right. :P Only look if you're really stumped.

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no one is an island.

2011-06-18T01:25:00Z

(name), you probably won't see this, but I don't know how else to reach you. I may barely know you, but I know enough to know that you're worth defending. And you should know that there's someone who's thinking about you, and who will lend you their ear for as long as you want.

If you read this, please drop me a line, either here (comments are screened) or at my email address, walkabout33 at gmail dot com.

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Rerun time

2011-06-11T02:34:39Z

Here's the "better than it sounds" game again. You know these, you just don't know that you know. ^_~

( Read more... )

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hebinekohime @ 2011-06-10T15:36:00

2011-06-10T23:03:56Z

( political venting )

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hebinekohime @ 2011-05-06T01:56:00

2011-05-06T08:59:01Z

There's one way though
That you'll never convince people
And that's when you try
To be someone
Who's not telling
And who's trying to compel
Who's trying to tell you
What you ought to be
Convinced of

So there's several ways
And there's several days
To convince your people
And you are the people
Convincing people
Convincing people

- Throbbing Gristle

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