My ex once posed the question to me “how much have you thought about how we get to true utopia?” It is an interesting thought experiment because it forces one to think not just about the basic elements of society but also all the aspects of humanity that can undermine that desired goal. This all came to mind recently at a concert. The performance was noise music performed by Warren Realrider & Mateo Galindo. In my opinion, as a person who regularly consumes noise music, it was amazing! Cloud Bundles EP by Warren Realrider x Mateo Galindo After I opened up and prepared the performance space, I found myself reading an anarchist article referencing the search for utopia and the issues that arise. As can be expected, a focus on the abandonment of currency, economy, and government were significantly present, but little was present regarding the actual human response to these changes. Cloud Bundles EP by Warren Realrider x Mateo Galindo This human reaction to unfamiliar thing
“Words are inherently ineffective and language is, at its deepest level, meaningless.” This is how my friend Bill greeted me when we met for lunch one day before he moved off to a much more interesting job. We dug into this concept with me taking the position that there is, to some societal degree, an objective understanding of language and verbiage while Bill held to his statement regarding the subjective nature of all communication. This debate went on for a few minutes before another individual, a student in their first philosophy class, decided they had to join us because of how interesting the conversation was. To say we disassembled every element of this poor interloping interlocutors ideas of existence need not be further described, but the look of surprise on their face as we acknowledged our non-faculty positions was near priceless! While I still enjoy a good debate on the objective/subjective aspect of language, I found myself pondering much more deeply the concept of where