Something to Love - a response
This post has been adapted from a response I made to Inua Ellams’ thought provoking blog post, Something to Love. The basic premise was that someone had suggested that happiness requires 3 things: Something to do, Something to love AND Something to hope for. Readers were invited to give their responses to what these things might be, here are mine:
I think the first question we have to ask is What is happiness? Otherwise we may well find that we are leaning our ladder against the wrong wall. Today’s definition of happiness is “pleasurable satisfaction”, however Aristotle, Moses, Jesus and other wise ancients held to a different definition: “Happiness is a life of wisdom, virtue and character”*. Once we’ve established that, only then can we approach the three rungs, or any for that matter, that are suggested… I’ll try not to babble or be weird but here’s what I think: Read more
Facebook notification or ‘clamourfication’?
In the real world people get together and have no need of telling each other “what they are doing right now!” something facebook is designed to elicit. A face-to-face encounter always makes that question self evident . If they are organised friends and sometimes even if they are not, this same information has been ‘diarised’ a few days before and is, well… unremarkable and rarely revisited. “Meeting Jane for coffee” used to be confined to the pages of a filofax, now it is fodder for the facebooker.
Culture has taught us that advertisting need not be meaningful, it must just be pervasive and incessant,
and we have bought it. Bought what? Bought the air they sold to us, and after re-polluting it, resold it to whoever will believe our social networking proclamations. Read more
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A type of word + a sound, in a noun? a lyricist; a name, a style, a purpose, a privilege
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[verb]swish is a lyricist originally from South London delivering his unique style of spoken soul and neo-poetry. Often seen leading a vocal ensemble, with his band or delivering straight accapella spoken word. His debut book, Selected Swishes is re-released in Feb 2008 with a debut album also due out this year on TRANSTATIC records
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