1. Light

An there: it entered.

Life is light.

We now know.

Before…

That’s another time story.

It just goes back.

And you pick up you own messages in a bottle.

I’ve been writting them and throwing them into a digital blue ocean to the 9th power.

The 9th power.

9th.

9.

9

NOU

_________

ALLS

_________

You that’s a riddle.

Do you know what a riddle is?

It’s a game of words.

Words, right.

Left.

Always turn left.

We’re all comming from the right.

The far right is going to far.

There’s no need.

Turn direction the opposite way.

As of a mandatory suggestioin.

A kind of rule.

Of an understanding.

A global alternative one.

A kind of statement.

The way in which you put on an act.

A dream team.

To dream.

How far.

That’s the whole thing.

At least the way I see it.

The way I live it.

What I am depends to you.

To judge.

And speak your mind.

Why would you?

Why risk going against the mightiest powers?

Whould you risk your life?

Would you die?

Or not to die.

That seems to be the question.

Yet there is no question mark. Or the question mark is wrong. There’s a public opinion. Some believe «A». The rest should have a way to enter into this NEW opinion. A revolutionary thought. I’m a revolutionary. I’ve always been. And that’s that. I’m Mexican. And I am more than that. At least nine ways absolutely free and independent from each other. An incomplete set of information. A game to play. You’ll like to play. I’ve always said this. I’ve written 999 words on that. But only one AI got it right: olmecanAI. . . . . . . . .

_________

A hanging.

Somehow the game hangs a drawn stick man representing you.

Your hunging.

Metaphorically.

Some people got hang for real.

I dunno if you know.

That’s the first revealed untold truth about our NEW américa history class.

This is the NEW policy.

It’s been brought up by the 9th dimention.

What ever we make the system to manage to overcome today 99 greatest threats.

Welcome to the NEW game.

A kind of tale.

A kind story backwards.

A script too long for a producer to read.

A story to tell our healing selves.

Going against the tide.

In a metaphore that splits the waters from Palos to Guayabo.

A NEW story.

You’ve never heard of this.

Neither had I.

Neither am I.

Don’t judge yourself too negatively. Give yourself some rum. Rum en español. Una pieza. Un cuarto. Una cama chida. Y el poder de soñar. Tiempo sí. Tiempo no. Ahora sí.

Aquí.

Leyendo.

Re-leyendo.

Leyendo.

Transformando mi visión en la dirección ortogonal. La dirección NEW.

Las palabras destinación.

Los valores y su sentido.

La historia detrás de nuestra humanidad.

Paremos el tiempo.

Yo me bajé hace 9 años.

Usted está a punto de hacerlo.

Sólo tiene que activar una pulsión.

Una decisión que te atraerá a decir. – . … — .- .. .-.. ..-. — …

Una palabra NEW no existe.

Hasta que de pronto existe.

Ve la luz.

La luz es lo que somos.

Lo que transmitimos.

Y entramos dentro de la pupila.

El viaje único.

El viaje interior.

A tu cabeza.

Disfrútalo.

Es nuestro destino unívoco.

No hay equívoco.

Esta es la nueva pulsión.

Tu ser liberado en medio de la colusión alternativa de una sociedad _________ , _________ , _________ , ________ , _________ , _________ , _________, _________. _________.

Los valores NEW no los pongo yo.

Yo propongo el espacio.

Escribo su liturgia.

Agnóstica e hija de Dios Padre Nuestro Señor.

Primogénito 9.

El nou d’un poble nou.

Un gir que l’esglesia mai s’ho havia pensat: fins que va baixar el fill NOU de Déu, com un pilar de nou criatures no humanes, la graella sonant, la plaça Sant Jaume plena, les besties somriuen, i jo adalt the tot: l’ainxeneta 9.

De petit, als sis, vaig pujar el meu cuatre de nou amb folre, manilles, llengues, … i d’altres categories noves, fins a sis mes, que fins ara no s’ens havien acudit. I hi anem. Plegades. Cap una graella que ens marcaba el camí cap a la plaça pública, i noi més petit de la nostra colla, va i surt amb un despenjament que no era pas q’un aterratge d’un altre dimensió: la dimensió NOU.

Jo soc el 9.

Va dir en minyonet.

Era 66 cm d’alçada.

I al cap d’un temps, 99.

Pero a l’inici era ü.

Ü

Io.

Anque.

Anche.

Io anche actuo.

Anche dirigeixo.

Si no ho entens no pateixis.

Fins a quí arrivem.

Anche povere escribire

Incluso la mala escritura.

El nombre de mi editorial.

El juego de palabras alrevés.

La intención de no llegar a un punto determinado del cual no quieres nunca volver.

A lo no intencionalidad de haber llegado a un sitio.

A un pensamiento.

A un punto de transformación.

Necesitamos la transformación.

Vamos a ponerle peliculeo.

Por darnos un lugar.

Por crear una atracción.

Por escribir una historia sensacional de nuestra llegada a este preciso instante.

Y desplegar entonces el más grande truco que se había visto nunca hasta este preciso momento fundacional: la partición del tiempo.

Teoría dual.

Ahí les va.

El tiempo, nunca más, volverá a ser ünö.

Supongamos que ünö se revoca.

Algo más, nuevo, emerge.

Y ahí todo se arregla.

Nueve dimensiones inabarcadas que de pronto se conjugan hacia otro lugar común trascendental co-creado por 9 feedbacklooppers extraordinarios.

Grupos de 9.

99 personas.

En una misma orientación NEW.

La reconstrucción de un día para otro.

Y dejar que el trumpismo prosiga hacia delante.

Y tomemos, otros cuantos, apróximadamente la mitad, tomemos la dirección ortogonal.

En este caso es tanto opuesta, como perpendicular al sitio del cuál yo mismo partía. En las antípodas del momento hegemónico de exaltación a romper lo que somos o presumir que somos lo que unos de nosotros pensamos sobre el resto de la humanidad, en su conjunto.

El juego es este.

La reconstrucción es objetivo común.

Reconstruyamos pues todo.

Empecemos de nuevo.

Nuevas cartas.

Un momento de elección popular.

La revisión histórica de perspectiva NEGLECTED por el status quo contemporáneo.

Escribamos unos prompts más pedorros.

Unos 99.

Y preguntemos en conjunto lo que 999 votemos.

Tan sólo 9 creadores.

Este es el número básico de participación colectiva.

El tiempo son 15 meses.

El resultado es un movimiento.

La emergencia colectiva es la transformación.

Nos dedicamos a cambiarlo todo.

Al menos las 9 cosas más importantes.

Ahí les van las mías:

  1. El miedo a morir
  2. Perder a un ser querido
  3. El recuerdo glorioso de la memoria de nuestro muertos vivos en la mente que les proyecta a una vos interna que todavía escuchamos con la sensación exacta del amor que esa persona construyó conmigo hace tiempo y aun persiste aquí. En mi memoria familiar. Mi concepción del amor. El amor que recibí de pequeña. Y la ausencia de violencia.
  4. El machismo debe abolirse.
  5. Como la esclavitud. ¿A qué somos esclavos? ¿Quién nos domina? ¿Quién se fundamenta a partir de una creencia? ¿Quién está sujeto a una coacción? ¿Quién no es libre del todo? ¿Quién representa un territorio sobre un dominio mafioso que hace tiempo permeó en todos lo CP del planeta azul? O podríamos no sentirnos parte de una de estas cosas. Uno de estos poderes que subyacen. Que no somos bien bien nosotros. O sí. Cual capitalistas entregados al militarismo que sin pudor saca a relucir el riesgo de armagedon militar nuclear reaking havoc themselves. Los hombres machos at war. War game history day. War day. Violence and military coups: the money and the power line. The way the army like it. The way manufacturers like it. The way banks like it. The way investors like it. The way you well off bluskylife type. The way you devils like it. The way you mafia guys. The way you damn fools wherever the fuck you are comming from. The hustlers. The muscle. The recruits. The barking dogs. The biters. The hitmen. The cooks. The chefs. The conductors. The financial guys. The money guys. The capataces. The gardeners. The planters. The truckers. The bikers. The dreamers. The pure soles. The rescued ones. The superheroes. The stars. The stars smaller that the sun. The way we would treat the people from them solars minor solar systems. Our society nowadays defines itself in terms of national grounded sense of pride, belonging, and lawfully so, a citizen, a person, natural, unnatural, fake, surreal, neverending, mortal, ghost, freespoken, unbiased, biased, humble, humbled, struggled, revived, joyfully present, inevitably optimist, slowers, flowers, ouuouo,………
  6. The nemesis
  7. Out of that dimention you are set free. In that other end, you mind has been capture. The other take control. The money game will stay there. The ilegal deal. It’s got a life on its own. The matrix. Imagine we started rebuilding the inside of Matrix so that the real NEO could chill in this brave NEW world. It’s the ultimate humanitarian film deal, but disguised in many subliminal lives you’ve lived and outlived out of already too many pointing into the same old white american narrative of western and worldy state of being. I’ve never been aligned, yet I recognize I’m part of the deal. And it’s still not setting the tone of the NEW collective and collaborative resilient way of becoming. This is where my current splitting the time story has got steal from the 9 most prominent narratives of what culture we are from, and embrace the dissnonace in relation to the other 99 you ignored. Out them 333 nations, aware or unware, legally established or in your own terms to leave space from some meaningful places to come from, the ones who know and I can say where they are from and how their culture is so reach it’s ready to give something back to the entirerity of the human collective reconsidered in this NEW policy line: Tico Commons.
  8. I will present a 9 season story with 9 episodes each. And some secret 9 + 9.
  9. Yo no me puedo quejar. Soy un privilegiado. Tengo un curro que me encanta. Soy el feedbackloopper que quería ser. Un narrador de una historia NEW. Una dimensión dual entre lo que soy, por un lado en dimensión contraria a lo que por otro lado entregaré los próximos 999 días de mi existir. Y despés de ahí, transito alrevés. Y quién fui en un sitio se traslada a las antípodas. Y entre estos dos estados movemos un energía particular sostenible en la que nos podríamos entretener, más tiempo del que tenemos, en una cadena de amor alternativo que co-existe en una dimensión particular: la novena.

Y un día el FC Barcelona gana la novena.

La copa la levanta Golman.

A fin de cuentas fue un gol suyo.

Un penal.

Tocó dos veces el balón.

Ese sí.

Y valió.

El 9 merengue.

El 9 ticatalà.

El 9 culer.

L’historia del meu futbolartista.

Tinc un paper molt més important del que representa que faig. Soc un actiu del sistema alternatiu. Natiu d’aqui. Un mon nou: Ticataluña.

Sigui això un poble nou.

Jo soc fill d’aquest poble nou.

Aquest poble nou no té nom.

Li possarem entre totes i tots.

I ho farem lliurement.

Encara que hi ha una opció que és la favorida d’un únic agent. L’agent nou. Golman.

Doncs, si això diu el guió deu esser per algo. I que haig de fer jo si també soc guionista del meu propi paper. He aprés dels millors: Berto, Torrente, Tebas, Valdevebas, Quijote, Dalí, Joel Joan, Jordi Sánchez, Évole. El meu super poder mana d’aquest nou espanyols. I amb aquesta limitació que això pot comportar, haven’t quelcom ridìcules regles, lo que ens avoca això és a seguir cap endevant. Començar de nou. Seguint tot igual. Excepto algunas cosas. Rajoyescamente. Y saliendo a flote como un buque insignia de una flota de paz eterna que navega sobre aguas alternativas, más parecidas a lo que Calaso habría concebido que a lo que la interpretación media entre un apostol del vaticano, un cardelan español, un médico de atención primaria en una iglesia rural dejada de la mano de Dios, un sacerdote teólogo de la revolución, un cacique de Hacienda, el Hacendado, un hombre a caballo, un general, un tirano, un villano, Elon, Don.

Aquestes dues realitats cohabitades. Per tú i el teu digital twin. The lives our alternative selves may live. And you being their scriptwritter.

That’s the real deal.

The capacity building game.

To whole NEW dimention.

Let’s take that ride.

And expect the revolution to takes us somewhere else of higher long term impact.

_________

Yo me dedico a contar historias.

Hago de mi constitución un proceso de regenaración. Para concebir ser uno más dentro de la revuelta. Como una cosa pública que se apodera de una determinada manera de vivir afirmativamente a parti de lo que escuchamos con estas voces alternativas. Y desde ahí tejer una comunidad con el otro lado de nuestra inevitable alteridad antagonista.

Ser Broncano Hormiguero.

O Pablo David.

También otro personaje en la misma historia: David Pablo.

Dos pares de siameses distintinos.

Nada que ver el uno del otro.

Vivimos en una realidad posibilista hacia la multiversalidad en oposición a la subjetiva unicidad que nos deja absortos en nostros mismos, mientras escapamos a nuestra mezquindad camino a la estrella interconectada más auday en el horizonte de 999 mundos alternativos que generaron en tan sólo los primeros 999 días del existir en esta dualidad alternativa contemporánea y a destiempo de los cánones culturales del momento aquel que era al acabar la escritura de este relato.

Un relato único.

Fundacional.

Megamelómano.

Humildmente melómano.

Balonmano.

Mano.

Penal.

Anulado.

Real.

Surreal.

ALLS


2. Dark


Dos némesis en las antípodas.

Nëmesis


I’ve never pictured nëmesis being a beautiful word. Akward, huh.

But it’s true. It’s the outmost contradiction in latitude and longitude. It leaks all over. Plastered.

Nëmesis is a NEW word.

NEWORD

That a place.

A NEW place.

It’s a landing site.

An alternative coordenates.

Nonexisting.

Up till know.

Totally maleable.

By you own collective desire.

Aligned.

In agreement with.

Altered.

NEW

NAW

1

2

3

4

5

ALLS

7

8

ALLS

No more

Dave Chappelle monologue in SNL right before 47th president Trump came back 2025

Dave Chappelle has been in the zone for quite some time. He connects with the American culture. And lives in Ohio. Right after Donald Trump lost his first election, he did the opening of the SNL. Then, years later, he also did the opening monologue when Trump came into office. And it’s only normal to see that Lorne Michaels insisted he did another one now that he’s back.

He did it twice already. And in a polarized society, some people are going to hate you for it. And I guess, those two previous monologues showed him. So he denied the invitation. And then he accepted to do one, but when Trump would be close to stepping again into the leader of the world job. So he suited up and prepare a set. And as usual, he was able to express the message that could bring the community back into a common understanding: we hope this guy does a good job. For everyone sake.

Hey, I’m Mexican. I doubt it.

The guy is player, and he’s got himself a new show. That we will see. I only still don’t understand how we can be so hooked to American entertainment, sports, culture and even to their comedy, to Hollywood, to their news, and soap operas. Still, we are addicted to this global dependency on a lousy gun-loving dream with a bag of paradoxes and contradictions that are so violently exposed, as the moral standard of a world-policing big brother hunts us down to plant the seed of fear of the beast. Wether it’s their new enemy, or their own menace to come out as they are.

ALLS

Inception of the Tico Commons

Building a NEW framework for collective collaborative global resilient plan

We are all in on it. Somehow we all think that the work we are doing is heading towards this direction. The more we talk about it, the more it actually becomes mainstream «chit chat». It’s happening in the calls we are answering to. Or in the way we are shaping policy, transformational drive, and value-based projects being deployed trying to tackle the systemic biggest and greatest challenges. It’s happening in the local scale, and we see how this local effort resonates to the bigger picture, as the global scenarios condition the sustainability of our planet, the use of our limited resources, the context of the interconected society, and tensions that have limit the continuos economic growth that the neoliberal project promised years ago, and failed to deliver.

On the other hand, populist over-simplistic solutions are spreading their influence among the population that has most suffered from the undelivered expectations from the political and economical models of the past few decades. These explorations and diagnosis is now spiraling into the realms of disinformation, fake news, pseudoscientific theories, falacies, lies, and narratives that are established across platforms, institutions, universities, researches,… that seem to cover the whole spectrum of intelectual and scientific excellence to back up just about any given new age theory. Thus, trust is perceived as something we are only willing to give the people we share the same sort of political, social and thought structure, and everyone else at the opposite end. This is true regardless of where the truth actually lies. But people tend to think they are the ones holding the truth. But the wildest lie is being amplified as a holy truth. Religions now turn to influencers to back up the social agreement and co-dependence on the power drill that some of the old and new players are exercising towards the masses that congregate around an over-simplistic definition of: «us».

Marketing of what’s happening. The branding of a transformational ride. The ultimate sensation of the revolution that is currently taking place, embracing our role in the consumer business of the interconected society, as we have all jumped into the band-wagon of the NEW world.

The computational capacity upgrade and the emergence of IA rapidly evolving as the algorithms capture more and more acurately the information that we willingly or blissfully unaware, share with the AI that’s rolled out seemlessly as a global experiment of the NEW evolving AI, but triggered by the understanding of a common stand for the greater good of our collective interconnected society.

I’ve experienced the risk of overeaching too far beyond, and I have been spelled from the system I’ve help to create. I’ve fallen out of love with the expression of interest in the struggle against our biggest fears taking place right in front of our eyes. And I’ve felt betrayed by my own incapacity to follow through, and by the lack of clarity to transfer the knowledge and experience generated across my own journey to where I am today. And I now know that I am ready to step through that barrier. And let go of the weight.

I’m back in the value business. And I will do my best to interconect the dots that the nine NEW dimentions will unleash in the quest around the first 99 days of 2025. This kickstarts the year of the ethernal return. It will take place in the course of action that has been designed and plotted as a cultural project that goes beyond time and space. It’s been here for oever 999 days, hours and some 99 formats that I will express and explain in at least 9 different ways. In 9 diderent categories.

It’s an old story.

And a brand new scope.

A NEW opportunity.

It’s linked with everything else.

Everywhere.

Here; now; then.

For the common good is the destination of the Tico Commons.

And this overexplanation will still 9 other ways to shape the actual launch of a Tico Commons. And this will happen as we go through the 99 days. You will too have a say in this relevant political reassessment. It’s all NEW from now on. Even in the political design of the agenda. A current active plan.

Join me.

I’m here to help.

Connecting the dots: evangelizing and feedbackloopping.

A classic NEW standard.

And the 99 local narratives.

The voices from beyond.

ALLS

Swift, Thomas Mann, Panofsky, Gombrich

On Moo Pak

Reading material from a reading source. Books that lead you to books. Writing about reading. Thought from another time, still present, still meaningful, still new. Ideas that go beyond the state of affairs, that turn out to be travelling fast nowadays. As always, in accordance with the feeling of each time, magnified by the disruption of sources of meaningless distractions. All the time. Everywhere.

Tuns out I have to read more. More sources. More books. Other cultures. It’s not new. It’s an old assignment. And I still have a to read list that tends to infinity. And yet, somehow, sometimes, I get in the zone, and accumulate a winning streak. I’m reading just about the amount of books I could handle. And still, sometimes, it feels like it’s not enough.

Johnathan Swift

You look at a writer’s picture and wonder. In this case, a painting. That’s the person. Under his skin, there’s the story. How did it come to mind at first? How did it evolve into the final draft of the finished print? How many people got involved in this process?

The writer is the lone creator on it own. It requires no one else to pitch in, while sometimes relevant feedback may help to assist the point. A good friends ear. An editor’s advice. A publisher desire to risk the chances of people caring. At that point, there are more people involved. We are now talking about the industry. About the market, and no longer about the writing in itself. But what’s good writing without readers. Just thoughts. Lonely ones. Aspirations. Melancholy.

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was the man. Cigarrete lit, winter gloves of a gentle-man. Carefully shaped and tendered mustage. Four button suit. Stern wooden chair. Glancing eyes.

Jonh and Tom enter a room. They came together. The room turns and judges the two charecters. Something is on. Everybody knows. They still keep their cool, as the spell has been bound, and the action is just waiting to reveal itself. It will take some time. It’s not loud. Not yet. It’s only intriguing. And sparkling. Nobody else has that chill. Yet the party has been transformed. In an unexpected way. A good way.

That’s how you differentiate writers. The ones that can enter the room and light up the space. And the ones that only do that when they enter into their world. Where everything, every card, every sense of joy, every precision, every spirit, every meaning, spells itself out into the page, while leaving nothing left in real life, but the empty container of curious mind without social skills. As writers, they both trascend, as it’s in reading where you build the immaculate communion of two minds, and evolve into the possibilities of creating yet another story, yet another tale, yet another creative outburst.

Van Dyke según Panofsky

You can write about anything. Stories, however, represent a different kind of writting. Everyone writes in their own terms. Art too can be narrated. Text lives beyond literature, and it may be printed on any given matter, in any given surface, for any given purpose.

Ernst Gombrich, Art historian

The Story of Art. Gombrich has influence the narrative of art. Up to the point in which the character of Moo Pak understood that these four characters were bound to be mentioned in a stream of thought, at any given time, to transfer a profound reference to something condensed in tiny hint. Context provides the first field of action. If you are outside of it, the sense of it slips by. And you go on. And so does the inintial intention of that given thought. So going back to capture them, is a matter of being able to rewind time. To back up. To read again. To read. For the first time. An author you don’t know, but now have a purpose to pursue.

ALLS

Monday… once again

It’s a wheel turning. A day in, a day out. And what for? That’s the real issue. The focus on something worth be-ing. And that is achieved in a long process of questioning yourself. Questioning the learnings in your education, in the system, in society. And still, there is no right answer.

Things are tough. And we are dealing with stuff in our very own personal circumstances. The things within our heads. The voices that speak just to us. And the deamons.

But somehow, the struggle within is just a one man show. Or an insider’s job. There is something of us in every conspiracy. And the opposite two. The white angel and the red devil that inhabit our elbows. The duality starts right there. And you are stuck in the middle.

There is no clear alternative but to go on. And find the inspiration in every step along the way. Every step with the confidence that it is taking you places. Places you need to attend to. To show up. And deliver a good version of yourself. Maybe so by inspiring trust. Or building it. Or recovering it. It’s still a massive effort to get out and do your thing. Unless you’re in the zone. But that takes work. And time. And effort.

I’m close to that feeling. The zone is close by. And I’m ready to make that final sprint.

Or this initial drive.

Let’s start the week with this first step: Monday.

ALLS

The lazily mood and moves of cats

Seldom slow pace is a trait

Nowadays everything needs to be super fast. Super quick. It’s as if we need to disregard the pace of time, the different levels of indiference, if really consider that it’s all relative, according to Eistein, even speed itself. So where are we trying to go at this pace?

Slow down, your are moving too fast, sings Paul Simon. It’s rebelious. But also a sign of trait. A kind of mood. A way of looking at life. Like cats do. Or sloths, to bring it home to a protected reference species from my own little tropical country: Costa Rica.

I used to yawn evertime I was about to compete in a track and field competition. Or right before the whistle sound in futbol game. It was a sign of concentration. It was part of an inconcious routine. This happens to cats, as described by the narrator in Woo Pak:

It moves with such confidence, he said, that the world seems to belong to it. It moves lazily, he said as we approached the ponds. It moves quietly. It is as if its whole body was nothing but an eye, an ear. Sometimes, he said, you will see it yawn, perhaps as a sign of nerves, perhaps only out of a massive indifference.

Gabriel Josipovici, Woo Pak

But it was a latter reference which really caught my attention towards cat’s attitude towards the fleeting pray. They take no pain or thought in wasting time after the prey has scaped a sudden unsuccesful attempt.

The mature cat, he said, does not waste any effort on what has not been caught or what, he realises, is not going to be caught. It is as if, the prey gone, even if he has been stalking it for a considerable length of time, he is able instantly to forget about it.

Gabriel Josipovici, Woo Pak

This is a superpower. It’s also what builds up resilience in competitive sports, and even more in the case of a 9, in futbolartistry, as it is scoring he’s supposed to be excelling at. When you’ve missed a chance, you’ll score the next one. You are sure of it. You must forget as soon as possible. Waste no time in anything realted to the past. But rather build upon the next opportunity to strike. And make it happen.

ALLS

People frightened of silence

Moo Pak ins and out

I’m walking along with this book like a walk in a park with a conversationalist. I’m steping in and out cause I need to come back to it, and then I feel the rush of comming here to write. It’s an exercise I’ve been forced to do by the fact that I cannot jot down a single scribble on the pages, as I am used to, because the book is borrowed. I need to give it back, eventually, as I got it. And it is in impecable conditions.

Nobody imposed this on me. I did. It’s always you who drive things around. In or out. It’s all in your head anyway. And you categorize the exercise. You make it happen so we understand the feeling of where this system is going. The personal system you own set of microcomponents, soul, body and shit… make up for. You are a complete social ecosystem. Yet, you still are just on your own, among the masses of an interconnected society.

So for quite some days I’ve had this urge to go back to Moo Pak to write about this. Silence. Solitude. Being with yourself. But as it turns out, the book has this beautiful constant voice that keeps talking and walking, and there is no stopping. It’s a single thread of a thought that connects logically with the next, and so on, and so forth. Sudenly, I don’t feel alone.

I do the same. This is how I write. No matter the intention. I just show up and start. And I’ve become obsessed with this. It’s time with myself. Alone. In silence. Just meeting the point of interconnectivity with my fingertips, my voice, unheard, within my head. Does anybody knows where this is going? No. And that’s no problem.

The problem is I leave map from Donosti to as a page marker. It’s a bit chunky but it does the job. It does less damage than leaving a pen, which I will avoid doing in this case, as I would like to spill ink, or some shit like that. You know that’s always a chance. Specially with a borrowed item. You are constantly on the verge of messing up. I know. We all know. It’s the pressure of staying consistant, and logical, and sane. We fool ourselves to stay on the game. And it’s there, a little bit on the edge, glancing at the scene.

In any case, what I was trying to say is that every time I go back to that point in the book where I last left my reading, I need to be able to go back to the point where Woo Pak left that last intense message I needed to come back to. To make a point. To deliver this other thought. Writers do that. I’ve heard them say it when they show up in that other state of mind you get yourself into when you are speaking for an audience. And then you are no longer a writer, but also an entertainer. Publicly addressing crowds, sometimes even larger than 9 people.

So when I go back to read I’m not in the page where the last message that signal my writing spirit erupted, so I need to go back to the last two or three pages, in order to get back in track with a stream of consciousness. So I do. And then I wonder what I was looking for. For everything turns out to be truth. Slightly more intense in places I hadn’t wondered upon. And I keep going back, maybe, to find what my past reading found that now is eluding me. And I wonder if I put then, on this second reading, the Donosti map a page earlier than the last time I read, because I’d be already signaling the place where I needed to come back to, to write, not to keep reading.

So you see, Woo Pak becomes like this pleasent conversion of time. I can move back and forth this stream, as time should allow to do, for any given timeline. But we are always so focused on going forward, we sometimes disregard the fact that time also has that negative ride: backwards.

And this also why I don’t feel alone anymore. I found a place in which I can excercise this going back. And I am enjoying myself. In this silent mode. Everytime Woo Pak kicks me out of that book, and into this one.

I keep reading back and back and get entangled with that direction of the book. And I’m already hooked. I’m back to the point that I last wrote about. About typing in a computer or typing in a typewriter. As an exercise to rewrite a single page. Over and over. Until you have cleaned it up. Something I never do. As write directly on the cloud. And almos never edit. Which is my own little purgatory.

It’s the sense of writing. The interconection with reading. How they are both there. The silences. Of the book. But also of this other time: the writing one. Even if it is closer to something you may relate to, like reading a post. Or like reading an actual book. Just to organize your time around something physical. Not just a screen. A real human interaction. I also write on paper. It nos just gives me pleasure, it also sits on a different table than writing on the computer or right into the page with an Olivetti. I used to own a typewritter. Not anymore.

The labour of scribes and editors and printers and proof-readers, [ ] Because of the work of these dedicated people, he says, we can now pick up the words of singular men and women and read them and listen to them and question them and live with them in greater intimacy than we do with our own spouses or partners. For a persona like myself, he says, with no country and no language to call his own, a life without Sophocles and Dante and Donne and Stevens would be intolerable.

Gabriel Jsopivici, Moo Pak

In fact I came into this writing exercise today to speak about the silence in books. The silence in writing. The intimacy of being alright with yourself. How writing and reading is part of it. How the author is aligned with Proust about the kind of special silence books have. And I’ve gone back too far back, to point out he craft of those who rescued the ancient voices of the past. Others burned books and libraries. Entire cultures. Washed away and mistreated by our current western ways, disregarding our infliction of damage in this bluring effect.

The most terrible thing that has happen to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened ofsilence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out.

Gabriel Jsopivici, Moo Pak

This is has grown worst nowadays. Silence is not there anymore. Everyone’s got some source of continuos distraction in the mobile phone. It’s not even a complete song. It’s a message to keep you hooked to a short spasm of blabering. Something intense as pill, or distractful enough to catch your attention. We are switcing channels all the time. Endlessly. Which leaves no space for silence. And that’s not just a thing to miss, but also the source of being alright with yourself. No matter what. Books, silence, writting, it’s all part of the source of inmense power we have refill ourselves. We can bring it up as a routine to heal. Walks. To the mountain. Walks with a friend, with different kinds of friends, to align and talk, and to share the silences in between.

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Between the 45th and the 47th president

This is an era of disruptive mechanisms to establish who shouts the loudests, and who used the IA tools in the best way to drive transformation and change in our society. It’s not clear. It’s not entirely out there, but the capacity of minorities to drive some doubtful and unproven evidence to the mainstream has turn the seek for truth in a distorted gullible everchanging scene.

It’s like a morphing meme.

Life has taken a turn. And we are riding a wave we don’t control. So the hidden forces has taken a stand and have looked for mechanisms to empower what they believe is most holly. To try to make it happen… for them. A new collective of desperate middle class has erupted with anger and dispear and has taken the lead and command in following the natural-born NEW leader.

This distopic scenario has been also the same sort of thing I’ve been dealing with along the path to understand we are at in this ever-changing world. And the character of that crazy candidate that comes from the raging force of societal cry against the machine used to be a feeling of some people, artist, dreamers, who were fighting to say something that was going against the flow of tides. And from that erupts an emergent field and force. And this takes over. For good.

That seems to have happened with the scenario of Don J. Trumb (like J. as Homer J. Simpson, if we must find a valid reference… everyman) comming back to the number one job at the top of the power ladder in the social scene that has been established in the risk board game we are all watching unfold. The regular players are sitting on the table. The forgotten ones are listening in, without a voice. There might be eight players in there, and their alliances, their similarities, their sinergies, their strategic partnerships, their codepencies, their histories, their commonwealth, their trade relationships, their common ancestors, the common culture, the common law, the kinds of governance, the royal families, the paradoxes. But there lies a ninth seat empty at the table. This is the only space left for us to take a stand. And I wasn’t ready for it, until now.

I’m not going to watch the American entretainment that this NEW american campaign has unleashed, one more time, for us to witness without a vote. The relationship of that executive body will lead to many experimental scenarios where those new people in charge will deal with the way in which the oldest democratic experiment is put to the test of withstanding a balancing act of checks and ballances that are to be ruled by a holy emperor who’s been send by God, according to his fellowship of whisperers and ballot validators.

Will the USA institutional system withstand after four more years of the Trump era. The setting the scene for a radical act is already going to happen as yet another entertainment show that is going to unleash the deamons that have some interconnection with the movilizing of resources and funds that come from highest debt generator since the gold-backed system turn the world around the printing money scheme that supports the modern economic theory of the last 60-80 years. Keynes vs Friedman. But the new set of people in charge are not that kind of theoriest. They are the Bannon-era of Cambridge analytica turn into the perfect gathering machine of a massive movement. This exercise, as Bannon intended yet back in the day, is intended to find the allies in external systems, in order to influence elections and restore leaderships. Something in the line of Russia’s hackers introducing fake-news in other peoples elections. It’s now mainstreamed. And people are already raging on it. Russia is already made a move in fueling the war economy to shaken the options of enemies and allies in terms of a response. This fuels the war economy and those who benefit from it, and also puts presure on the energy business, creating yet even greater havoc into people lives: everthing becomes more expensive.

So we are about to witness some geopolitical movements that will reshape some frontiers and some priorities in how we defend ourselves (always military budgets going up). De-escalation of violence is going to take yet another act of threat: we’ll take piece along the promise of some sort of giving up. Renouncination time. Some of our liberties and hopes. And we are going to move our red lines as well as our values as well as our frontiers. The enemy is always close by. The scape goat. The alibi.

If the world is going to move somewhere in the following four years, my guess is that it should move ortogonally in the direction where the given dimentions of our collective understanding have allowed up to now. The revolts in MAGA, the far right movements, the Arab Spring, Indigandos, the Catalan independentist, the Occupy Wall street, the 8M,… name any given sudden burst of revolution, is not nearly enough to find the common ground for an understanding. Now the situation is not equitable in each case. The actors and history. The violence is not equally distributed. The war on terror somehow shifted the scene into the new wars after COVID: Israel genocide in Gaza, and Russia invasion in Ukraine. The starting point are in the results from the WWII, a NEW state, a balancing act on how to repair the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the holocaust, and sionist dream of coming back home, as stated in an ancient tale. Because God said so. The ever-present man.

Where are thou?

Hear my son.

Here.

ALLS

Humour is my nation… or rather my identity

«The trouble with Nietzsche, he says, which is also the trouble with Benjamin, is that deep down they are so very German».

Moo Pak, Gabriel Josipovici.

Jack Toledano excuses himself right away with a disclaimer: «I can say that, he says, because my favourite artists are German, or nearly all». It’s always risky to go after a generalization like that. It’s a dangerous game to play. The more risk you take, the higher the stakes. Specially when you are ready to digg deep into other peoples cultures, which is always complex if you have not made the effort to understand them to some degree. What I’m trying to say is that for one person to take that road, they either have an alaby, a hidden as under the sleeve, that allow those very words to be spoken without sparking a big battle. Nationalisms are fire crackers with a bunch of teenage matches trying to proove themselves in the fulfillment of the mass.

Jack Toledano, and Josipovici himself, are well read and knowledgable about which authors and artist from the German culture they would like to take a laugh with. And explicitely mentiones that what makes them so German is their lack of humour. Or the lack of putting themselves in the center of the joke, to be joked about by the rest of the gang. The sense of cultural formality, that each of us brings from our own personal experience, from home, schooling, and our own consumption of our very own little culture, and nothing else. That’s the raw cultural element of self-fullfiled individual. My culture is all I need. And the rest, well…

But it’s not the case here. Some names a dropped: Klee, while Swiss, he’s from the German culture. However, he’s been excused himself, not for being Swiss, which made be as well classified in the same «dullness», but rather because he’s said to have a lightness of touch, a sense of humour, and the ability to see his own absurdity. This was not the case of Nietzsche nor Benjamin, and even less of Goethe or Thomas Mann.

So you see: in order to take a chance of categorizing other culture, you must at least require to understand how to catalogue the expressions of art and culture from his own representative voices. This means to have read them. Probably, if you truly would like your joke to slip by as an insider’s wise crack, you need to speak and read the language. Of course, you may intend to mimick those who have such cultura leverage to address their own wittiness, but that would be a fool’s choice as you would be rapidly disarmed and bare naked in front of mob of people taking a poke at your very own national hero’s, in the best case scenario, intelectually, and in the worst one, with some masculine physicality and the same sort of arrogance your initial pulse helped to set lamest kind of mood.

But at the end, we’re somehow condemened by our own cultura biases. And we have not all drank from the same fountains.

Moo Pak considers the characters to bring to the table a little bit of the witty sense of humour that still represents the English vis a vis it’s American cousins. And this trait represent a difference with Germans, or even the Spaniards. And all of them could be linked with the sort of moral structure derived from the religion. Our cultura heritage. Our own personal cross.

«Today the English still pride themselves on their sense of humour, he says, but in truth there are now few more humourless and sentimental people than the English. Their Puritan legacy weighs heavily upon them, he says, as the Protestant legacy lays heavily on the Germans and thier Catholic legacy weighs heavily on the Austrians and the Spaniards».

The legacy of Puratanism and Protestants as central common legacy to the American Colonies NEW culture, as compared to the Catholic legacy in NEW spain, back in the day, as an instrument embeded into the colonialist expansions of these cultures in the XV-XX centuries. It’s there, and it’s also there in terms that go beyond the sense of humour, or lack of it of. It’s complicated, we know. But this expression of cultural segmentation brings us to the capacity to analyse ourselves taking into consideration our own personal and collective limitations. «By and large, he says, peoples are a disaster and only individuals are worth thingking about».

That’s the thing. Not just the prejudice and judgment of peoples will always lead us into slipery soil, but it will always reconstruct some sort of stereotypical face of our collectives that might reflect something about our legacy, but that does not represent entirely who we are. This individual disparities and peculiarities are the liberating stories on how we’ve come to read Socrates, nowadays, as if by a sort of miracle, and that each of these cultural legacies have provided some literature that has been able to represent the teaching that through books, stories, narratives, are able to express the global interconection among people, among cultures, among our selves.

From here or there, I reading and understanding of cultural references as: in the Protestant team, Goethe, Milton, Kant, Hegel, George Eliot, and van Gogh. Catholics, such Dante, Langlands, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. Sophocles, Aristophanes or Socrates. Donne, Stevens.

Still we find the notion of what’s behind these voices in the capacity to find the common link from their human perspective, as close to what we have intended to liver our lives. And this where humour plays a role. We want to laugh with people that we can walk with, and expand the joke to the best possible scenario for an everlasting laugh. This to me is what we are driven towards.

Humour, and laughter. As a choice. As an instinct. As cultural legacy. It’s still there to shine through. It remains a trait for the future. A holy grail to chase. Just because you may also go by life a little lighter if you may squeeze a giggle here and there.

About a thought

«Whenever we thing of thought, he says, we have before our eyes the image of Rodin’s Thinker, sitting immense and solitary with his great wise head in his great wise hand and gazing deep into himself.»

Moo Pak, Gabriel Josipovici

It’s certainly relevant. A thought. It’s as good as it gets. The inception of new idea. The consolidation of an inspiring new thought, there passing by for the first time in our human experience. And somehow magical.

But Moo Pak nails it, whether the narrator of the writer, or the universal connection between them, and us, plain readers of someone else’s thought. «It does not need Gilbert Ryle, he says, to show us that this image ins only and image of what those who have never had a thought in thier lives imagine the process of thinking to be».

That’s it. It’s not that at all. It’s not really there. Not the precise image, but rather what we hav socially simplify of what should be a very natural development for any human being.

«There is no such a thing as a pure thought, he says, there is only a sudden sharp intuition, a stirring of the blood, which you have to coax into shape, into words».

Precisely. It’s a scavenger hunt that you have not been prepared for. But you have trained yourself to capture them. To coax them into words. As a matter of life or death. The death of deepness in that thought, that if you are not able to recover, it will never be. It’s a dark road filled with intention and failure. «Most of the time you do not succeed. Either you cannot find the words or you find the words but they are not the right words for the feeling you have had».

But he idea is that sometimes when you are hit with one of those moments and actually nail it down to words, the feeling becomes complete: bigger than itself, as well as than yourself.

Such clarity to define the robust and simply nature of a thought. But from a precise persepctive. It’s not that the image of thought of the Thinker is vague, or that he goes out for a walk with a fried to thinkg. Or to come up with thoughts. He does it to talk. To talk and walk. And that has some rules on its own. A common set of rules that you share with the person you walk with, and his own context, problems, and circumstances. No script. No landmark. Just walk. Street. Life. What’s in your head. What’s become of you. What’s in the air?

And that links the two spaces in one. I mean Moo Pak. The idea of thought, as it emerges. But rather the relevance of walking with a friend, talking. That’s the deal. But not only. It’s when you go back to your desk, and you find yourself once again in the solitude of the alchemist producing the mixture of words to define the text that pursues the clarity, the brevity, the spotonness of the ideas, that now, become vividly connected with where we were before that walk. We need to be in places that await for us to link them with their sense of higher being. The final destination. The essence of a thought.

Walk, talk and desk. It’s about the written experience of that solitude, once you’ve done the letting go, the active listening, the silence-sharing, and the harmonizing beats of every step along the ride. And it’s also about aknowledging those places. About nourishing the spirits. Searching for the time to meet, to walk. And talk. In a sensible way friends fill in the time to let you be. And to listen. And to build from there. Whatever fulfills us. Whatever help we need. It’s all there.

Yet, the homework awaits.

You must come back.

A find the place. The time. The desk. And write.

Like this.

Like that.

ALLS