This is a little music video I produced for my good friends The Sultans.
Edmonton, Ab — Love Police (my training video)
aaron moritz, June 29th 2010when I saw that people in Edmonton were shopping and not smiling, I got on whyte ave and (remember when I said “I Refuse To Be Terrified”…. bullshit) had some fun. This is literally all the footage I took before running back home scared.
visit the OG love police at http://cvietch.org.
visit my youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/saydaysago2008
people are feeling it everywhere
aaron moritz, May 2nd 2010I saw this stapled to a pole in the alleys behind the Mac’s on 107th and 82nd ave, Edmonton, Alberta, a block or so from my house.
Walking along the alley I saw more.
I had to splice that one together from two pictures to make it readable, it wrapped around the post. When I see something like this, feel someone expressing themselves so openly, it makes me feel amazing. I wish the writer didn’t want to remain anonymous.
I considered posting something up, but that’s kind of what I do here. This guy has a really neat idea, but I see the internet as a far more fertile ground for creativity to flourish. I wish I had some way to tell him that. But I have to admit if I see anyone else posting things up, or even more from this guy, it’ll give me a nice high.
This next one’s my favorite, because I feel the exact same way.
and the last one is more encouragement for others to join in.
Maybe I should tack something up. Is it bad if I put my website up on there? Is that advertising? Would this mystery paper-tacker approve?
Well maybe I’ll see. I’ll keep everyone updated.
telescoping evolution
aaron moritz, April 15th 2010Keeping in the same vein as my last couple posts about accelerating technology, here’s a clip from an excellent movie called ‘waking life’, where accelerating change is talked about not only as a technological phenomenon, but an all-pervasive one.
It took billions of years for life to turn from single-celled to multi-celled organisms, some millions of years for mammals to evolve, some hundreds of thousands of years for humans, 10 000 years for agriculture (the end of nomadic hunter-gatherers and the establishment of cities), a few hundred years for science to get started, a hundred years for the industrial revolution, four or five decades for the computer revolution.
The next revolutions will be biotechnology (us messing with out own genetics, cloning, etc), and nanotechnology, which has so many incredible possible applications that I can’t even pick a couple to list.
And these revolutions will take maybe a decade or two. They are happening now.
In the video he talks about ‘neo-humans’. This is what I was talking about in my last post when I said we’d merge with machines, become information in the cloud, choosing our bodies at will using swarms of nano-bots. That’s not what HE says, but he definitely talks about man merging with machine, and something else that I love:
SELF-DIRECTED EVOLUTION. Evolution traditionally happens through natural selection. Survival of the fittest. Once we have the ability to control and transcend our biology, we can evolve in whatever ways we want. PERSONALLY, not together as a species, but as we, as individuals see fit. Self-directed evolution. That’s a term I’m definitely gonna yank and use as much as possible.
I want this all to happen. I think it’s exciting. I know lots of people don’t want it to happen. They think it’s scary. But if we want it or not is irrelevant regarding whether it will actually happen. It may, it may not, but people, lot’s of very very smart people are working on it. Right now. And they’re constantly getting closer. It’s in the news every fucking day if you’re up on the right blogs and websites. http://www.kurzweilai.net/ is a good one to start.
If it does happen, we’re all going to have to find a way to deal with it. Or you could kill yourself, I guess, but I don’t recommend anyone kill themselves. I actually value ALL human life, not just my friends and family and people who are from my country or my church. I don’t value the ‘life’ of a non-thinking embryo over the hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers we waste fighting wars, you fucking religious whackjobs (Ok, sorry, cheap shot, I say this all in fun and only in love, feel free to call me whatever kind of whackjob you want… just look at the crazy neo-technocratic bullshit I post on here) (oh and for a big long speal about my views on abortion, which go a little further than just ‘pro-choice’, click here).
So anyway, if we’re creating a universal compu-biological consciousness, it’s pretty safe to say that God doesn’t exist. Yet. But we’re on our way to inventing one.
haven’t been too many updates recently. (NEW INFINIT YES COMING SOON)
aaron moritz, April 7th 2010Been working on a whole new site design, will be updated daily (if I can), more professional looking and easier to navigate. Very exiting for everyone I know. I get sometimes 8 or 10 people a day (looking to expand..) on this site and you all must be very very exited. I know. It’s coming soon. Don’t worry. The infinite yes is growing and soon you won’t be able to say no. Soon you’ll be so full of love that it hurts and you won’t have any choice but to share that love with your fellow human persons.
Remember that fear is only an illusion, dark is just the absence of light and we are all always travelling at the speed of light through spacetime. Einstein figured it out. The faster we go through space, the slower we go through time. Relativity. Combine the two, and you are always moving at the speed of light. Everything is. We are light creatures.
PEACE.
if Bill Hicks had lived longer he might’ve been more amazing than geroge carlin
aaron moritz, April 5th 2010(he still might be, I just have a tough time deciding)
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
aaron moritz, February 16th 2010link – (from the onion, no, sadly it’s not real)
and a few choice quotes.
“The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.”
“U.S. markets closed as traders left their jobs and resolved for once to do or make something, anything of real value.”
“As news of the nation’s collectively held delusion spread, the economy ground a halt, with dumbfounded citizens everywhere walking out on their jobs as they contemplated the little green drawings of buildings and dead white men they once used to measure their adequacy and importance as human beings.”
“Sources at the White House said President Obama was “still trying to get his head around all this” and was in seclusion with his coin collection, muttering “it’s just metal, it’s just metal” over and over again.”
‘“I don’t even know what we were thinking in the first place,” said former banker Nathan Collins of Brandon, MS, as he jimmyed open a door to allow a single mother and her five children to move back into their house. “A bunch of people sign a bunch of papers, and now this family has no place to live? That’s just plain ludicrous.”’
The only thing I didn’t like was the talk about bartering at the end of the article.
s’right bitch, that’s the way we likes it.
aaron moritz, February 13th 2010http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/nancy-elliott-anti-gay-ne_n_460544.html
poor angry woman doesn’t seem to understand there are ways to keep clean. i guess back in her wilder days a boyfriend must’ve pulled something out of her or something. it’s ok nancy.
11.30.2009
aaron moritz, November 30th 2009food. now i’m probably the last person who should be proselytizing about food but my own example is kind of my point. i’m utterly and hopelessly addicted to shitty food. well, not hopelessly. never hopelessly. since high school i’ve opened up my diet a little bit, but really, just to include more shitty food. and i never knew until recently what shitty food is. but i’ve been learning.
MEAT IS BAD FOR YOU. our bodies do not digest meat properly. i’m not bothering to look it up right now, but the way our intestinal tract has evolved suggests that humans didn’t start eating meat as a staple in their diet until recently (like say, 10,000 years ago when we invented farms). all other carnivores, like dogs, wolves, etc, have certain systems in their body for processing meat that we don’t have. meat has almost no nutrients, and even fewer that our body can process. the common wisdom is that meat provides you with protein, and that’s true, but we can get protein from certain vegetables and nuts that our body can more easily process.
corn. corn is in everything and it’s empty calories and it is BAD FOR YOU. chips, pop, cereals, noodles, pastries, cooking oil, cookies, ketchup, caramel, and soup all have corn in them. corn is cheap, government subsidized and easy to grow. it has no nutritional value and it’s main purpose is to fill you up and give you calories. also, corn is what we feed almost all of the animals we eat, making them unhealthy and sick and passing that shit along to us.
bread. it’s fattening and has almost no nutrients. it’s loaded with carbohydrates and gluten. whole wheat bread is a little better, just like light cigarettes are a little better (I’m not comparing bread to cigarettes, i’m just saying the difference between white and whole wheat is negligible). gluten (anything with wheat in it) especially has been linked to a shit load of mental and physical disorders, especially as we get older.
dairy. i’m not even gonna get scientific on this one. we’re drinking the milk of another animal and also processing it into cheese butter and fucking ice cream. figure out how that’s good for you. really the only thing good in milk is vitamin d, which we add in ourselves anyway, and we can get from the sun, or supplements.
so what is good for you? really the only thing that i’m 100% sure of is raw food. meaning fruits, vegetables, and seeds and nuts. raw seeds and nuts. if you roast them, you lose nutrients. if you cook vegetables, you lose nutrients. this is all you need to eat to be healthy.
but don’t listen to a word i say, because i ate at kfc today and then came home and made ichiban noodles and later had some shreddies and an apple. so according to my own health guide the only healthy thing i ate was an apple. and as much as i want to change, i am insanely addicted to shitty food. i’m just saying what i think i know about this stuff. you can look it up for yourself.
quick story to end it off. i was talking to this girl i met a few times today. she’s a raw food vegan (just to be clear, she isn’t where i got any of this information), she’s lived alone in the mountains for a couple years of her life, she has tattoos all over her neck and body and she’s a lesbian. really nice girl. really beautiful too, never seen her wear make-up. anyways, someone else brought up vegetarianism, and she says “have you ever been dumpster diving?” now since i was apparently the only person at the table who hadn’t heard of this (except in the case of homeless people) i sat back and took the conversation in. apparently it’s common practice to go to the dumpsters behind grocery stores and take the vegetables and fruit and tofu and things they throw away. a lot of it is still good, i have no doubt of that and it’s very expensive to eat raw food, so i understand the necessity for people with a lower income.
its fucked up though. i didn’t say anything because i’m sure she’s heard it all before, but it’s unsanitary (…). and i know that if she had the option of completely fresh fruits and vegetable every day at a reasonable price she would take it. and that infuriates me. governments could just as easily subsidize the growing of fruits and vegetable as they do for corn and meat, but they don’t. it makes the entire world sick and addicted to shitty food. i don’t know, hearing this dumpster diving thing from this girl just floored me. and the crazy part is that she is without a doubt eating much, much, much healthier food then i am. from a dumpster. because i eat at mcdonalds. ok, i’m done. i don’t know what i said but i’m done.
