Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Extraordinary Discourse 076 Special: Unmasking Modern "Medicine" 2: Are You Nuts? "Who am I, what power have I...?  I do my duty, I do what my boss tells me, and I do not meddle in high politics." And when you drag thousands of men, women and children to the gas chambers, you also do just what you are told to do, is that it, little man?  ...You have locked up the crazy people, and the normal people manage this world. Who, then, is to blame for all the misery?  Not you, of course, you only do your duty, and who are you to have an opinion of your own? Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man Each kind of madness is a distortion of privacy at its boundary with the social world. J. Bronowski, William Blake And The Age Of Revolution There is a madness which is a divine gift - the greatest of blessings have come to us through madness. Socrates We want a few mad people - see where the sane ones have landed us? G.B. Shaw Yippee!!! I am crazy!!!...

Extraordinary Discourse 075 Special: Unmasking Modern "Medicine" This Extraordinary Discourse Special is in memory of Deborah J. Millar (August 1957-June 2012). Valley of Decision The War of Armageddon, I'm given to understand, is fought in the Valley of Decision. Have you received a "terminal" diagnosis?  Have the revered medical experts plotted your upcoming death on their graphs? Do your doctors know anything about your life? Your loves, your socioeconomic situation, your gifts, your family, your history? Have they seen your home, your living conditions? No, unless they're a family friend. But they tell you to go home and die - while offering you a pleasant array of torturous "treatments" and all the "pain killers" anyone could wish for, and more super-expensive chemicals for the side-effects, and more for the side-effects of those. Some will turn to Google and look for "alternatives." But who will look ...

Head Torque Almost every one of these clips applied torque to my head to turn it a little. In these times, I don't think I'm alone in thinking that my head (or neck) needs some WD-40 to  let it turn around easier - or perhaps the tightness is necessary so our heads don't continually spin. Why is it that, even when there is next to no other constituency for revolutionary politics in a capitalist society, the one group most likely to be sympathetic to its project consists of artists, musicians, writers, and others involved in some form of non-alienated production? Surely there must be a link between the actual experience of first imagining things and then bringing them into being, individually  or collectively, and the ability to envision social alternatives - particularly, the possibility of a society itself premised on less alienated forms of creativity? Graeber, 'The new anarchists', New Left Review quoted by Pat Kane The Play Ethic

Quester's Kit Extraordinary Discourse is a continuous text, in which you can jump in anywhere, and jump anywhere. This is the 73rd segment but could be 1st, 50th, or 200th. The narrative is not linear, but radiating, like spokes in a wheel. It dips into different depths of time. The quality of the global conversation has to improve urgently. Pat Kane The Play Ethic Jim Andrews

From The Vestibule Of Emancipations A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame. Ray Bradbury song clip: Charlie Major - I'm Somebody

Heady and Hearty Snack Banquet The Devil's Advice to Story-Tellers Robert Graves Lest men [sic] suspect your tale to be untrue, Keep probability—some say—in view. But my advice to story-tellers is: Weigh out no gross of probabilities, Nor yet make diligent transcriptions of Known instances of virtue, crime or love. To forge a picture that will pass for true, Do conscientiously what liars do— Born liars, not the lesser sort that raid The mouths of others for their stock-in-trade: Assemble, first, all casual bits and scraps That may shake down into a world perhaps; People this world, by chance created so, With random persons whom you do not know— The teashop sort, or travelers in a train   Seen once, guessed idly at, not seen again; Let the erratic course they steer surprise Their own and your own and your readers' eyes; Sigh then, or frown, but leave (as in despair) Motive and end and moral in the air; Nice contradiction between fact and fact W...

Extraordinary Discourse 070 Special: The World Owes You A Living 6 59.38 minutes Today's Extraordinary Discourse Special is Episode 6, the final episode of The World Owes You A Living suite, a 6-part Millennial Associational Documentary. Finale. Here we employ our leisure to step out from the Hades of today's work world to survey the broad prospect. What news from the islands? We hear overarching philosophical and deep poetical views, we harken back to Athens and consider the freedom from livelihood they considered a self-evident requirement for citizenship. We recall the great drama of the soul, responding to the Sufi Khidr (guide), "man of bright prospects, leave your work and meet me at the riverside." Hey-- We're People! 16 Seminal Quotations 3rd And Last Stage Of Emancipation Veridical Visions Liberal Arts Radiant Aliveness The Joy Of Not Working What Are You Living For? Lao Tzu: "Heaven prefers no-one, but the sensibl...