(believe it or not, these two entries catch up my old notebook scribblings. I did get my weekday daytime shifts, so I have access to a computer at the new post and no supervisors.. and the laptop cometh soon. Be a fortnight or so as I adjust to the odd experience of a schedule syncronized to most of the mainstream... I will probably fill up with entries from what I've been reading for awhile.)

"Money is the bastard."
- Graffitti done in marker on the fiberglass art pony sculpture in front of my building


I've heard that history is defined by the battle for the control of symbols. Socialist theory postulates that all history is defined by the conflict between labor and management. I'm sure both are true. Yet, if the history of man matches the evolution of nature, how much deeper does it run? What is the importance of the response to change, as between those who advance forward inside their cultural millieu, and those who fight to hold back against the forces of historical transformation? If the force of history is unstoppable, is conflict as a theme neutralized? Then could man not be defined by the mythological crucible of conflict, but by the dynamic construction of continuity?
Posit: Free will is not just the will to go on, but the will to contribute to the greater totality of self-as-species.