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January 04, 2007

New Years Greeting 2007 in fragments: from Mike Mills

1. From the Wikipedia heading "ANIMAL RIGHTS"
Animal rights is the movement to protect animals from being used or regarded as property by human beings. It is a radical social movement insofar as it aims not only to attain more humane treatment for animals, but also to include species other than human beings within the moral community by giving their basic interests - for example, the interest in avoiding suffering - the same consideration as those of human beings. The claim is that animals should no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated as resources for human purposes, but should instead be regarded as persons.

2. From Guy Debord " On The Passage of A Few Persons Through A Rather Brief Unity of Time"
"The only interesting venture is the liberation of everyday life, not only in a historical perspective, but for us, right now. This project implies the withering away of all the alienated forms of communication."

3. From Allen Ginsberg on the writing of his poem "Howl"
"I sat idly at my desk by the first-floor window facing Montgomery Street . I had a second hand typewriter, some cheap scratch paper. I began typing, not with the idea of writing a formal poem, but stating my imaginative sympathies, whatever they were worth. As my loves were impractical and my thoughts relatively unworldly, I had nothing to gain, only the pleasure of enjoying on paper those sympathies most intimate to myself and most awkward in the great world of family, formal education, business and current literature."

4. From Pema Chodron, "The Places That Scare You"
"At the beginning joy is just a feeling that our own situation is workable. We stop looking for a more suitable place to be. We've discovered that the continual search for something better does not work out. This doesn't mean that there are suddenly flowers growing where before there were only rocks. It means we have confidence that something will grow here."

Happy New year,
Mike

Posted by Humans at January 4, 2007 12:32 AM