The Redwoods
What about their minds Will they be intact When the cure is found Will their brains be resurrected As disease has unconnected Memories that were once there What about their lives That were taken so quickly Because science did not act Because prayers did not exact The miracle we so desire This temple of human ...
Words for the Turning
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau. March 11, 1856)
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Father Mapple Moab Adzu III presents the intake nurse A Short Play, in segments Setting: Sometime in the distant future or past. Characters: I and Ø. In the vicinity of present-day earth. [1] I: I got the feeling that it wasn’t going to happen. Ø: Let it go. I: No, because you were saying that ...
String Theory
String Theory What we know as our reality is purely a function of our consciousness as human inhabitants of earth. Beginning and end, birth and death, linear time and distance- these are all necessities to survival in this incarnation, -we are de-tuned- in order to pursue the activities necessary for sustenance in the confines of ...
Akbar’s Aphorisms #2
Only when one is free from a nostalgic or regressive view of history and also free from a utopian or apocalyptic vision of the future can one concentrate on being. And only in concentrating on being can one both participate in the great tradition of human culture and explore the innovation needed for future human ...
Reflection on Fascism: An Exercise in Empathy
The lot of us, even the smart ones, are mostly echo-birds, seeing what we want to see in the environment, dismissing that which does not register; commenting obliquely in public and derisively in private, once we’ve found our clan, our sense of grouping, on the oddities and variances in others, those things which make them ...
Derrida’s “animals”
Jacques Derrida is one of the hardest people to read. But occasionally he came out with something comprehensible–such as when he went on and on about animals. I thought of him recently, driving along the farm roads of Missouri, where I’d spent some time as a youngster. I thought of the animals that I saw on ...
Vallario’s latest work. Atomic Kings and Towering Teachers.
Atomic Kings and Towering Teachers – a study in grey matters, a study of differing vanishing points.
The War of Art
Selections from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War: Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know ...
I fought the law and the law won.
Once again my conscience is tugging away at me, like a splinter in my mind. I am still baffled by the idea that we spoke to some issues, and they were provacative to be sure, but we got a load of irrational emotional responses, and more than that we were threatened with the use of ...
Akbar’s Apology
Dear Globatron and its readers, I am writing to end this project. I must first apologize to Byron because I am doing this without speaking to him and I hope he will forgive me. I honestly had no idea how seriously this project would be taken. If I honestly felt it would harm someone I ...
Extremes.
Well, here at Globatron, we’ve gone from one extreme to the other. On one hand you have nonsensical, playful, avoidant artists. And on the other you have threatening, violent, out of control single-minded ones. (some of which are wolves in sheep’s clothing) though it is frightening, it is common to our time, exreme polarities that ...
Love Letter to Valuistics #1
Dear Valuistics, Once again you have broken up with us. But I fear this time you mean to stay away. I had grown used to your proclamations of disgust, your slamming the door, and how shortly after you would come back, I had come to believe that it was your way of loving us. But ...
Akbar’s Facts #3 – A Moral Position Will be Inescapable.
Akbar’s Facts #3 – A moral position is inescapable. After listening to Maude Barlow’s talk on the Big Ideas Podcast, on the escalating water crisis, it became obvious to me that all of us, artists included, were going to have to come to terms with their daily actions and how those relate to our interconnected ...
Akbar’s Bucket List
Things I want to accomplish before I die (feel free to share your own list): 1. A great artistic masterpiece that is equal to all others. 2. A great artistic work of masculine beauty. 3. An album of music, written and performed by myself. 4. A great novel. 5. A great work of philosophy. 6. ...
