I have to confess folks: I’m not Green at all, is even more; my blackness seems like a coal.

Its start with an intuition, a predisposition to distrust green organizations. Of course I have political correct discourse about it, but the main thing is an unconscious felling about “the green” and this generation.  We have grown assuming that the world is at the edge, that one false step can make all the nature collapse, we have assume that in our everyday life making some little sacrifice that  will restore the order in our minds, being respectful with some kind of macrocosms that don’t belong to us. Meanwhile we are becoming more respectful, more moral correct and more sacrificial, some people are already taking it all, our respect are leaving the free way to fully exploitation of nature, someone is getting profit on our everyday sacrifice and it’s not the nature.  I think that turnaround of advanced capitalism to a green capitalism it’s a clearly a clever way to externalize cost disguised of moral precepts.

I do ride bike, just because I like to be faster. I pick up the garbage in the “nature”, but just because its look more pretty like this. I recycle when it’s cheaper. I don’t want to learn some Christians practice about “preserving” nature, the idea of preserving is in too anthropocentric for me. If you like comeback to nature, maybe the best way to do that is the death.

SILK!

In this free topic I’m gonna talk about something that really got my attention this week:  The silk. It’s all start with a recent movie called “The upstream color” where two guys where boiling a worm to ingest some kind of drug that make them fully coordinated in movements. Independent of the movie argument (I don’t want to make spoilers to anyone, I fully recommend to watch this movie with a clear mind, trying to don’t get disgusted about the pretentious) the fact that they boiled the a worm really got my attention, I thought that this action was referred to something maybe symbolically or concrete and I was right. This Wednesday, in a party, some girl talks me about the process of silk manufacture: the silk is a textile obtained by certain  insect larvae to form cocoons, the process implies the boiled of the pupae in order to get individual long fibers… so I discover the meaning of the movie, of course I won’t tell you guys, but its easy.

 Anyways I became obsessed with the silk. There is something more badass that have a cloth made of this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Silk-from-Crickets-A-New-Twist-on-Spinning-pone.0030408.s003.ogv

Then I read a book of Allesandro barrico called “Silk” about a Nederland man that travel to Japan in order to get healthy larvae, to make Silk, in the process he  meet a rich and powerful Japanese and he fall in love with his wife. In conclusion that’s why I’m saving money to buy a Silk shirt. 

Why mass media were an aberration in human history

This article writed at the Guardian post, talks about a book writed by Tom Standage, called “Writing on the Wall”. The books talks about how the social media as always exist, since ancient times where the people tend to communicate each other’s by simple interactions or wall post like the Pompeii’s graffiti. The idea behind this book is that the mass media (in opposition to the social media) is an aberration in the human history, only possible by the industrial revolution, the capital and the the monopoly of means of production. We usually see the mass media as the norm, as the main structure of communication, and we fell like the social media is an alternative, a way to transgress the establishment. But the author wants to invest this logic by showing us the historical evidence of social media in ancient times.  

But I think that the author fails at the point where he thinks that we have a history line and in that history line we have aberrations or dark ages, it’s like thinking in a constant develop of the human race. The evidence that the Mass media as always exist don’t implies that the mass media is the path or the norm. In our recent experience, we have faced the “new ways” , because in our context it’s obviously a revelation , where the mass media is the norm and not an aberration.