Tag: philosophy

friday: figs and chords

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[A cord is a long flexible string or rope, often made of thinner pieces woven together. A chord is “three or more musical tones played together.”

how multiple meanings can multiply intent . 

The fig tree is about choices of paths .. Sylvia Plath […I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just becaus I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one they plopped to the ground at my feet….]

and, taking a break from my fig tree thinking I returned to a question about musical chords ..arriving at :

nick drake… success after death.. finding the commercial in the commercial . The time for memory selling the past .. The acoustic over automobile speakers … mechanized memory .

https://youtu.be/fBdbRoSrWr4?si=-S9K02k4Qc3OPSir

Even successful artists carry doubts. Success is never fully sustaining. Success never reduces doubt among the most creative artists.

[ often grouped with existentialist thinkers, Camus consistently rejected the existentialist label, insisting that his philosophy of the absurd was distinct from both Kierkegaard’s leap of faith and Heidegger’s ontology of Being. Instead, Camus argued that the confrontation between humanity’s “appetite for meaning” and the universe’s “unreasonable silence” constituted the absurd, which must be lived with clarity rather than resolved by appeal to transcendence ]

— https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyphus.pdf

Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus, Translated by Justin O’Brien, Penguin Books, London (1955) ISBN 978-0-14-102399-1

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everyone wants to be relevant none more so than the amateur  who has never been relevant never noticed in their field never noticed in their craft … they fight over the small opinions, the scraps. Where does the fight in the scrapyard arrive?

The know it all’s that do little make the biggest mistakes.

Your first action reveals your past ability.

not even an imaginative mea culpa 

Chuck: “THEN all we’ll hear is about the horrors of “the man”, “greed” and all the rest of it so popular these days from people with no skin in the game.” “I’ve done my share of consulting in large (or even very large) businesses. You see this all the time. When something gets really big, people lose sight of whom they serve and what their larger mission is. The preservation of the status quo becomes more important and leadership hunkers down in “protect” mode. That was true at Kodak, but it is equally true of many large institutions including big business, big church, big government, big charity, big entertainment …”

[ wonder who he skins; (until another time)]

Spirit of Honesty. Behind the report is the person. SEC reporting. Kodak reports critically, but with dropping share price makes clarification. Seems that owner culture tied to stock comp means we explain beyond the rules. We engage in optimism sales talk.

FujiFilm doesn’t do that. They are prepared for the persistent ocular-secular perception of being “inscrutable” — they file and say to all the same thing. Without so much as a Chatham rule.

NBR link to stock Kodak vs. Fuji and publication of financial data to be used by investors. What they are buying, including elements of hazard the company knows. The open hand of the west, but only the east accepts in letter and deed .

When you bought your house, you didn’t move it. It isn’t a couch. Same with buying a business. The sign changes. Perhaps as easy as adding: “A Division of ..[your name here]” — No bull dozer. No bullshit. Perhaps this is something only those in the “ology” fields perceive. The demi-quantz miss most of the actual questions. Must be biology, or such — so much for degrees of meritocracy.

“… They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization, but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.”

Kodak’s response to their skinned knee: https://www.kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regarding-misleading-media-reports/