Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
November 11, 2005
Low Hanging Fruit

Low Hanging Fruit
by beq
3"x3", acrylic on board
uncompressed

Recently, scrabbling beneath the ivy which now covers the orchards, he found a fruit he had never seen before. It was a Baumann’s Reinette: the horticultural equivalent of a Faberge egg. “But I had no idea which bloody tree it had fallen off”. Somewhere in the nursery there should be two varieties – King Harry and St Augustine’s Orange – which even the national fruit collection doesn’t possess, but he hasn’t been able to find them yet.
George Monbiot:  Low Hanging Fruit

Comments

beq
merci
we really need these friday ‘art events’ curated by b

Posted by: r’giap | Nov 11 2005 21:20 utc | 1

Thanks beq & b.
It’s a kind of instant intensity relief valve
that reduces the pressure in left brain,
whenever I click onto the Moon
and find another of your ‘art events’.

Posted by: Juannie | Nov 11 2005 23:36 utc | 2

I’m agreed with R’Giap. Maybe Bernhard could host a “gallery” section on the site for curation’s sake?

Posted by: Monolycus | Nov 12 2005 0:52 utc | 3

is this part of the make up sex annamissed and annie were talking about?

Posted by: fauxreal | Nov 12 2005 3:22 utc | 4

@fauxreal – yes 🙂

Posted by: b | Nov 12 2005 6:16 utc | 5

Yeh … the Serpent’s low hanging fruit.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GK04Aa01.html
Magically, mysteriously, a new, highly contagious form of avian flu appears on the world scene, in the very same countries which are feeding their livestock on US GMO-grains, now being dumped on the world’s markets at below producer prices, illegally, but who cares, it’s cheap birdfeed.
So how come nobody’s released the H5N1 DNA code?
?Because it has a BT-GMO gene sequence in it?!
Now comes Roche-Gilead, white knight to the rescue, to brew up a batch of Tamiflu rev. 2.06,
without concomittent liability for its efficacy or safety to humans, bettering the bottom line of Donald Rumsfeld, of DoD fame, both now and under Reagan as his Middle East envoy to Saddam, and George Schulz, Reagan’s SoS at the same time.
Also at that same time, AIDS(!) first made its appearance in the world, under Reagan, when the US was still secretly involved in bio-weapons.
Reagan + DoD + Rumsfeld + Gilead => AIDS ca 1985
Bush Jr + DoD + Rumsfeld + Gilead => AFLU ca 2005
In between those two earth-shattering events was a global effort to market genetically modified organisms, one that largely failed outside US,
although EU and ASEAN are beginning to cave in.
Consequently, China, Viet Nam and ASEAN are
GMO’s dumping grounds, and GMO’s largest test
lab on livestock generational genetic drift,
and inter-order genetic swapping.
Wait, it gets better!
Now comes the UK research scientists, promising another GMO solution, by genetically modifying chickens to resist all forms of the avian flu.
And when they do, they will hold world patents on a livestock form, the largest meat source to the planet: CHICKEN2006 rev. 1.123.01., only $29.95!
(scientifically-determined highest price you
can ask, that everyone (US) is willing to pay.)
Can you imagine it? GMO monoculture livestock. Globally? Patent right overship over all meat? Third-world people will be reduced to *worm farming* for their protein source, until DoD
comes up with some worm disease, I suppose,
or all the spent DU weapons bio-accumulate.
A billion doses ought to be worth ten billion, but a billion patented GMO chickens ought to
be worth ten billion, then another ten, then
another, ad infinitum. Think … and grow rich.
Google how much money has been made off of AIDS.
Now multiple that number by ad infinitum.
Capiche?
Wait, it gets better! Save this offline:
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.d.htm
Yeh, seek G-d!

Posted by: fahr*451 | Nov 12 2005 7:13 utc | 6

……yes

Posted by: annie | Nov 12 2005 7:20 utc | 7

test

Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 13 2005 16:25 utc | 8

b
i don’t know if this is a good idea or not but in my work indeed a large part of my works is collecting citations – i guess in the benjaminian tradition
tho i use it in my workshops as a means of demystifying knowledge & allowing for people to see there are many doors with which to enter her
the citation is sometimes a good key to other learning
& i was thinking with our friday art events – we could also collect amongst ourselves citations from all areas -(in my work i use gnostic work fro before the middle ages, german scientific work, continental philosophical work, chinese & arab poetry etc etc)
it is a kind of art for me
but more importantly it opens areas of learning that would apparently otherwise be closed
it’s just a thought
& i’ll offer this from d h lawrence as a form of apology :
why don’t people leave off being lovable
or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable
& be a bit elemental instead…
i wish men would get back their balance among the elements
and be a bit more fiery, as incapable of telling lies, as fire is
‘elemental’

Posted by: r’giap | Nov 13 2005 18:40 utc | 9

r’g…
I woke up today overcome with this exact thought:
why don’t people leave off being lovable
or thinking they are lovable, or wanting to be lovable
& be a bit elemental instead…

I completely, without hesitation, agree with you about the fire element. It’s genuineness, it’s fearlessness and need to reach up and out to find full expression no matter what the cost, it’s talent for transformation, it’s heat and light (though excessive it can be and dangerous), and it’s spirit.
The quest for love from others is bound to disappoint, although it is a part of the mix. But only a part. What we can find in other people is a mirror in which to see our reflections in all kinds of variations, as we continue on the lifelong journey in search of ourselves.
We need the fire.

Posted by: jm | Nov 13 2005 23:44 utc | 10