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Turning to head for sleep..
Nov. 22nd, 2005 03:39 amTired. I was ready to fall asleep when I got home tonight, but it didn't end up working out that way. The shift was really crazy busy, as anticipated. Went smoothly, and we had lots of helpful member workers and extra staff on hand.. but we've got a lot of people coming through the store, and a lot to keep track of, and it's definitely more exhausting than any regular shift.
Watched a little bit of Lone Wolf and Cub with Shannon and Josh, then got some emailing done before Henri called unexpectedly. Good conversation with him makes me all mushy inside. It's awesome, and several other similar adjectives that are wholly inadequate to describe just how nifty I think he is.
Nevermind that the other byproduct of our discourse seems to be the energy I've ended up with this past hour and a half, which is why I'm typing now and not sleeping. *shrug*
I won't argue with it, might as well rant while the ranting's good.
Just read through the most recent issue of David Mack's Kabuki: The Alchemy.. really excellent work. I'm inspired by it, prodded by seeing work like this as well as by my beloveds to get in gear on some of my own projects. There are some wonderful comments in there on the propagandic nature of television and the media, their manufacturing of consent. Makes me want to read Noam Chomsky and broadcast more and more of Ward Churchill's work, especially being within November.
As I've written in years past, please take a moment in all your Thanksgiving festivities to investigate the Native American movement, to lend support to indigenous peoples throughout the world. The Zapatistas in Chiapas are just one very visible example of native groups struggling through resistance to achieve autonomy and true freedom from the corporate greed that seeks to plunder the entire world.
Buy Nothing Day activities also help to remind this culture that greed is played out in our lives every day, and the purchases we make speak volumes. We give our energy to the things we buy. Why spend time toiling at work only to use the payment you recieve to buy something that a child in China spent time in a sweatshop to make? Why fill your body with genetically modified or pesticide-laden food? Why ingest the suffering of an animal born into the factory farming industry?
I realise, all too well, that most people do not want to think about these things or the role their choices directly play in perpetuating the cycles of greed and destruction. Most people just want to go hang out with their families, eat a ton of food, drink some wine and fall asleep, then go to work again the next day. Thinking about these things isn't fun, and doesn't make us feel good about ourselves. But it is important if we actually want to effect change. Instead of getting depressed about how much the world sucks and how helpless we are to change it, make a decision to do something concrete. Take the power back into yourself and try to make positive choices every day, with your purchases, the food you eat, your outlook, the way you treat people around you. Every little bit helps. We can create the world we seek.
On that note, it's time for me to sleep so I can get up in the morning and go ring out people's groceries for 8 hours. :P
Later.
-Me.
Watched a little bit of Lone Wolf and Cub with Shannon and Josh, then got some emailing done before Henri called unexpectedly. Good conversation with him makes me all mushy inside. It's awesome, and several other similar adjectives that are wholly inadequate to describe just how nifty I think he is.
Nevermind that the other byproduct of our discourse seems to be the energy I've ended up with this past hour and a half, which is why I'm typing now and not sleeping. *shrug*
I won't argue with it, might as well rant while the ranting's good.
Just read through the most recent issue of David Mack's Kabuki: The Alchemy.. really excellent work. I'm inspired by it, prodded by seeing work like this as well as by my beloveds to get in gear on some of my own projects. There are some wonderful comments in there on the propagandic nature of television and the media, their manufacturing of consent. Makes me want to read Noam Chomsky and broadcast more and more of Ward Churchill's work, especially being within November.
As I've written in years past, please take a moment in all your Thanksgiving festivities to investigate the Native American movement, to lend support to indigenous peoples throughout the world. The Zapatistas in Chiapas are just one very visible example of native groups struggling through resistance to achieve autonomy and true freedom from the corporate greed that seeks to plunder the entire world.
Buy Nothing Day activities also help to remind this culture that greed is played out in our lives every day, and the purchases we make speak volumes. We give our energy to the things we buy. Why spend time toiling at work only to use the payment you recieve to buy something that a child in China spent time in a sweatshop to make? Why fill your body with genetically modified or pesticide-laden food? Why ingest the suffering of an animal born into the factory farming industry?
I realise, all too well, that most people do not want to think about these things or the role their choices directly play in perpetuating the cycles of greed and destruction. Most people just want to go hang out with their families, eat a ton of food, drink some wine and fall asleep, then go to work again the next day. Thinking about these things isn't fun, and doesn't make us feel good about ourselves. But it is important if we actually want to effect change. Instead of getting depressed about how much the world sucks and how helpless we are to change it, make a decision to do something concrete. Take the power back into yourself and try to make positive choices every day, with your purchases, the food you eat, your outlook, the way you treat people around you. Every little bit helps. We can create the world we seek.
On that note, it's time for me to sleep so I can get up in the morning and go ring out people's groceries for 8 hours. :P
Later.
-Me.
