Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

The World Owes You A Living : Happiness This is the first of a series of islands off the shore of The World Owes You A Living series. Many of the speakers in this associational documentary are not named. Among others are Ronald Wright, Susan Sontag, Robert Thurman, Douglas Rushkoff, Jean Vanier, Thomas Berry, Robert Anton Wilson.  Song clip:  Leonard Cohen, Villanelle For Our Time, lyrics by F. R. Scott  Song: Dick Gaughan, Your Daughters And Your Sons , by Tommy Sands Dalit Freedom drumming

Learn, Unlearn, Learn It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Chanowski         Chance         Civilian         Contraband Convertible          Cryptozoic Detour           Deviant           Digression           Dilettante           Discretionary Dissident            Dividends            Doodles          Elliptical          El modo lirico Epi...

Radical Utterance Lab All knowledge, all discoveries belong to everybody. ... All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you. William S. Burroughs, The Job Words are animals, alive with a will of their own. C.G. Jung Acte Gratuit                                              Ad hoc            Ad lib        Alias        Amateur           Amphibian         Anarchic                            ...

Come Outside And Play There are still many sparks of life in art, music, writing and comedy that break through the immobilizing gloom. C L'Hirondelle We can 'play up a little', meaning that we can try to 'spritefully' (as well as spiritually) 'breathe new life into old texts… Pat Kane The Play Ethic The real danger to the elite comes from déclassé intellectuals, those educated middle-class men and women who are barred by a calcified system from advancement. Artists without studios or theaters, teachers without classrooms, lawyers without clients, doctors without patients and journalists without newspapers descend economically. They become, as they mingle with the underclass, a bridge between the worlds of the elite and the oppressed. And they are the dynamite that triggers revolt. Chris Hedges Colonized by Corporations

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