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What's Left?
03:04
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What will you do
When the world falls apart?
Will you go for a walk
And look for fungus
If you find food
Be thankful (for being there)
Knowing there is pleasure
To be discovered amongst the terror
Due to progress
Economy only grows crisis
This used to be
The fate of the less fortunate
Now it is what we all share
Find the promise
that fruits from the ruins
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Life assembles
rhythms interplay
we interact
in discernible ways
We are tended
Like crops contained
Shared species
but not domains
freedom is a space
Within each reside
Every axis has a point
that divides
Our precarity
Is a shared delusion
That creates ruin
And confusion
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After Progress
02:58
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Contemporary commerce
Works without constraint
Through alienation
assets are exchanged
The pioneers of progress
Transform empty space
Into industrial waste
Once their bubble of promise
Pops and fades away
it is followed by damage and decay
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The Problem with Scale
02:50
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We have
a problem
That’s easy
to understand
Our progress
And it’s assumptions
Of infinite supply
Must die
Interrupt
the Global
framework
Of exchange
Rearrange
the organization
To embrace the diversity
That lies in what is non-scalable
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Disturbed Beginnings
03:04
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From our isolation
everything now feels strange
A new Savage rhythm
Has changed our vision
Boundaries have formed
Common ground
once imagined
Is now in tatters
Our world
has been turned into an asset
From this alienation based on accumulation
We must disentangle ourselves
from this indifference
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Gaps and Patches
03:47
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What is survival?
When you are only saving yourself
What’s your value?
How much do you trade yourself
What’s your process?
Are you a raw material in the Supply chain?
Transformation only comes from collaboration
Make a difference in our condition
By making your gatherings happenings
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The Art of Noticing
03:07
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In the midst
Of being surrounded
By enclaves
of human shaped terrain
From my discomfort
I learn to see
And search
With eyes wide open
From my unease
I try to listen
Even if I don’t know
How to talk
In furtive moments
In the heart of alienation
When I encounter a Kindred spirit
I breathe with joy
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8. |
In Translation
03:54
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Now it is time To return to
the problem of alienation
Created by the logic
Of commodification
As things are torn
From their bodies
They become objects
of exchange
Either grist for the mill
Or Trophies of the hunt
Each alienated
By the pulse of progress
Now our wants and needs
are now empowered
By money, the market
and what we obtai
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9. |
Counter Argument #8
02:58
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The Uncivil Society Seattle, Washington
I do, because I love to do it. I understand that I am a hack musician, a terrible vocalist and a sloppy graphic artist. I don’t care about achieving perfection, because I am happiest while being engaged in the exalted messiness of my creative process. I don’t worry about capturing the perfect take. I am satisfied by the pure joy I derive from expressing myself without filter or restraint. ... more
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