Coordinates: on this rare cloudy day in Oaxaca I’m sitting at my Japanese low table with a nearly empty second mug of the “slightly woody” Nilgiri Blue from the Tao of Tea
[past geniuses] The following link will either really do it for you or super not do do dee do it for you. I don’t take it personally which ever side of the bread you butter on. Rupert Sheldrake, Terrence McKenna, and Ralph Abraham speak about entities, fractals, chaos, and the unconscious in The Trilogues.
[more past geniuses] Erik Hoel writes an extensively-researched essay about the modern dearth of geniuses such as Einstein and what that might point in right the direction for the education of future generations. “Think about the advent of the internet long enough and it seems impossible to not start throwing away preconceptions about how genius is produced. If genius were just a matter of genetic ability, then in the past century, as the world’s population increased dramatically, and as mass education skyrocketed, and as racial and gender barriers came thundering down across the globe, and particularly in the last few decades as free information saturated our society, we should have seen a genius boom—an efflorescence of the best mathematicians, the greatest scientists, the most awe-inspiring artists.”
[living genius] Oh how easy it would be for this post to be all about men. Yaoyi Kusama may be one of my favorite women, and yes… she was ignored at first by the art world. Her genius is fortunately unignorable now. This short film by the Tate Modern blazes her polka dot pumpkins wide and far with 2.4MM views.
[Miyazaki genius] Awarding Japanese filmmaker, Hayao Miyazaki his own category of genius really overdoes it, but I love overdoing things. Indeed his juxtaposition of exuberance and melancholy reminds me of a jewel box of rocks. It returns me to my childlike wonder which is capable of seeing a humble stone as worthy of such splendor.
[present genius] The Artist is Present is a retrospective of a seminal piece by Marina Abramovich where she spent eight hours each day for three months at MOMA seated as a queen. She faced her audience one by one. Of course, magic unfolded. How could it not in the face of such a singular vision?
[sanity] RESOURCE: The best list I’ve ever seen if you or a friend is struggling – Crisis Text Line
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