zazen's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:01:59 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:01:59 you're right about context--some of us see context of sexual violence more than others We all supply context. That's how the human mind works--not how our Buddha-nature, Christ-within, or larger consciousness--whatever you call it--works--but how engaged cognition works.

The post card analogy you raise would be culturally meaningless to an illiterate Thai peasant. It's not to us. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/16 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:06:47 what if the black male were trussed up like an experimental monkey--would that be okay? No. Because we know that comparing black men to apes is a HORRIFIC stereotype historically used to justify enslavement and racism.

We also know that showing naked women bloodied, tortured, and/or dead--there for the purpose of someone else's sadistic sexual gratification--is an awful stereotype ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/17 Mon, 17 May 2010 09:32:09 transgression is the kick--users need more and more of it, which is the essence of Gonzo But I think the deliberate cruelty to animals is horrible enough on its own and presumably illegal in most states. The SCOTUS decision is bizarre to me, and I hope the new legislation recently introduced in Congress is passed.

Maybe I develop a fetish, to, I don't know, watch cars get set on fir... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/15 Sat, 08 May 2010 00:02:35 a silver lining? the SCOTUS over-reaching today has remobilized the Left within 10 hours and is dominating the airwaves. The rage that took eight years, from denial to fury, to mobilize the Left and a lot of the Center during Bush, just got triggered only three days after many were focused on Obama's weakness and the renewal of the right wing.

This decision is horrible.

But I ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/14 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:00:06 historical analogue: reaction of 15th-17th c power to social consequences of printing press A specific, odious decision was handed down today by five human beings on the SCOTUS.

But they are part of a larger resistance on the part of the centers of 21st century power to the unprecedented emerging capacities for citizens to self-organize and communicate on a global scale.

The emerge... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/13 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:11:25 Why "neighborhood schools" may trump widely praised diversity policy in Wake Co School Board upset A potential runoff is the only step between changing the composition of the Wake County School Board (whose leadership encompasses Raleigh, NC) to majority Republican for the first time in several years. Wake County's diversity policy, and its educational outcomes, were recently praised in a Gerald ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/12 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:22:38 I get it: maybe we need to start describing pornography as . . . "almost pornographic" and people will finally start to listen.

Pornography is defended by much of the Left through arcane, tortuous logic worthy of Pat Robertson explaining how Jesus was a free-market capitalist, but then it's held up as the ultimate evil when men are treated the same way trafficked women and childre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/10 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:48:32 my letter to Sen Hagan re helping self-employed in Stimulus package; k&r if you agree Her Raleigh office asked me to lay it all out in detail and send it up to their Washington office, and so I did, hoping someone might read it.

And if you agree with either of my concerns, please consider writing your own Senator(s) about them. Thanks!


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1. Lack of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/9 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:28:29 I'm NC voter since 1984 and just learned my name, registered two weeks ago, is purged Heads up for everyone to check and re-check.

I had changed my address and submitted all of the correct forms a few weeks ago. However, no information about me shows up on the database, which I do check in advance of every election (and had checked last month before I mailed in my change of addre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/8 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:05:40 so we should just ignore racist attacks on Obama because we can choose not to pay attention? 95% of the discussions at DU assume that the right-wing media through multiple methods has propagated outrageous lies over the past 25 years that prop up our corporatocracy and have led to the mess we're in today. Media matters, whether or not we directly choose to consume it. I've never intentional... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/11 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:28:56 "most people will chuckle"? perhaps if you want humor aimed at 14-year-old boys This is attacking her AS A WOMAN. By doing this, Flynt admits (though I doubt he cares) that pornography is in fact a weapon against a woman. Why isn't he making a porn flick about nasty ol John McCain and his notorious womanizing through the years? I bet for the women he later used, it was hard to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/7 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:13:03 yeah, well they don't extend that POV to damaging photos of sex-trafficking victims unless they're clearly 10 or under. Get caught up in the mafia run sex-trafficking trade, have your regular rapes and torture filmed as "hot Russian teen sluts," and you've just become someone else's free speech. That crap's globally damaging to males who regularly use this stuff, who develop condit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/6 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:39:47 Tolle's referring to the end of psychological time-about profoundly living in the present He does imply that egoic consciousness may ultimately lead humankind to off itself unless there is this culture-wide "end of time," so to speak, where enough people see through the affliction of our fear-based human conditioning to somehow make a quantum leap out of a constant need for power and con... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/5 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:25:07 Would McCain be acting this bizarre if he were certain they'd steal it for him? I've believed these elections were stolen by Republicans since 2000, but as demonstrated in 2006 and in their state by state pastiche of suppression, computer tampering, absentee-vote tossing, etc., it's not like there's one switch that controls the outcome. I absolutely believe they're doing whatev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/4 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:52:10 Gender and the Romanticization of Peak Oil's New Frontier (The discussion we're having here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... reminded me of an e-mail I sent a friend at Feral Scholar a few years back, in response to some rather Jungian articles about the "fun" of Peak Oil. I'm sure Mr. Bliss is a very nice man and I have enormous ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/3 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:08:06 Cary--a surprisingly internationally diverse community, if you get past the mandatory extra "e" A friend of mine said Cary ought to levy an "e" tax for all of the extra town_e_'s and other faux anglo-saxon garbage.

But my kids go to school with Chinese, Pakistanis, Iranians, Indians, Russians, Japanese, Jordanians, East Africans, Vietnamese, and Koreans, among others. Maybe this is a trend... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/2 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:10:01 GMA at Carolina this morning: kicks Obama supporters out of spaces to make it look like McCain equal I just got this e-mail from a good friend of mine over in Chapel Hill, who said I could distribute it.

[div class="excerpt"]I just wanted to share a little about my experience at the ABC Good Morning America visit to the campus of UNC-CH early this morning.

Of the thousand or so people assem... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/zazen/1 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:55:13