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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
The vernacular term “woke”comes from the Black civil rights movement in the US and is about being aware of social injustice. But there’s also a battle between those who want to say there never was any injustice in America, it’s overblown, and those who call themselves woke without understanding the issues, and those who distract from the real injustices by getting severely hung up on and angry with every single well intended poor choice of words their grandmother uses.
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People feel like everyday language is getting politicized in ways that make normal conversation more complicated. To most people, "woke" primarily meant the past tense of "wake up. The thing is, when a word develops a specific cultural or political meaning, especially one tied to serious social issues, as Luce was suggesting in his op. It can become a point of sensitivity or misunderstanding when used in it true context.
When My brother years ago. Being ever so serious first used the word to me and said "I'm Woke. " I laughed smiled and said "So am I! Else I'd be lying down there snoring." Which put him in a huff. lol. I had no idea what he was suggesting.
 
The Black community in North America adopted the word woke and gave it political meaning, in the US, back in the 60s. Actually dates back a few decades earlier regarding black peoples’ struggles as well - I just read that. White people weren’t aware of it in those days. As a metaphor it makes sense.

The populations were segregated and that was both why they were using it to mean what it did, and how they were able to make it their own. So today there’s both annoyance at the casual misappropriation of the use of it, and, upset at total disregard for it - I suppose, the latter by English teachers, and the former by civil rights teachers.

Gay used to mean happy. People rarely use it to mean that today. Language changes over time and with population and languages mixing, and migration, and we don’t always notice unless looking back. It’s always been that way.

Sometimes vernacular or slang is deliberately used among a group, exclusively, with a purpose that matters to that group - has inside meaning as a cultural code for a reason that might be more important than linguistic purity?
 
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The study of classic languages is so critical to the context and composition of this abstract thing we call mind ((among other labels) yet learning is so much of a chore (vocation) that it tends to get discarded as not required.

However when proper discourse, communication, or whatever you wish to call it are disconnected does the social composure degrade into something disastrous? It is a sad state when we start to feed on one another in the spirit of Christian winning ... but sadly it makes some of the best of us spin off into the unknown, or unconscious domains.

Question is what is the recovery and recall rate of all the knowledge and caring that is lost because it is blown ...
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Is that a Kohl as a nuclear winter that we've been encouraged to support? Button down folks ... we're mad some really bad social mistakes ...
 
Gil had a masters degree in creative writing. I’m sure that involved some study of classic literature - more than most people do.

Then there’s classic literature written in other languages that only gets studied by people who speak those native languages, too.

I just looked up classic literature from Portugal - for example - and found “The Anarchist Banker”. Have you read it, Luce? (translated) Looks interesting.

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The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa

The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa (1922) French title: Le banquier anarchiste. Translated from the Portuguese by Françoise Laye. The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa is a novella in which …
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Gil had a masters degree in creative writing. I’m sure that involved some study of classic literature - more than most people do.

Then there’s classic literature written in other languages that only gets studied by people who speak those native languages, too.

I just looked up classic literature from Portugal - for example - and found “The Anarchist Banker”. Have you read it, Luce? (translated) Looks interesting.

bookaroundthecorner.com

The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa

The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa (1922) French title: Le banquier anarchiste. Translated from the Portuguese by Françoise Laye. The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa is a novella in which …
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Imagine a disturbed banker ... especially the executive level that are questionable! Haven't read it but sounds like a sure curiosity ...

Then there was the one about the stockholder barber ... who'd clean you bald ... the metaphors are unending to cloud the way. Read the first command again in deep understanding of clarity and Clair ... a light hole? Imagine if in a beam there is a hollow to carry mysteries about light folly!

The implications are severe ... extreme and exceptional is the night sky exploding from the disturbances under the Sun alias Sun Tzu/Sues?

I is said because of tight packing of ions that the inner parts of the sun are black and hot ... but not as hot as the surface which is odd given when gas expands it normally cools. Reverse effect in extreme conditions? Imagine that there are stranger things under the midnight sun ...

Protocol would argue ... maybe accounting for the reversal ... reciprocation and upsetting of classic texts! Change occur ... be prepared ...
 
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Luce NDs said:
Imagine a disturbed banker ... especially the executive level that are questionable! Haven't read it but sounds like a sure curiosity ...

Then there was the one about the stockholder barber ... who'd clean you bald ... the metaphors are unending to cloud the way. Read the first command again in deep understanding of clarity and Clair ... a light hole? Imagine if in a beam there is a hollow to carry mysteries about light folly!

The implications are severe ... extreme and exceptional is the night sky exploding from the disturbances under the Sun alias Sun Tzu/Sues?

I is said because of tight packing of ions that the inner parts of the sun are black and hot ... but not as hot as the surface which is odd given when gas expands it normally cools. Reverse effect in extreme conditions? Imagine that there are stranger things under the midnight sun ...

Protocol would argue ... maybe accounting for the reversal ... reciprocation and upsetting of classic texts! Change occur ... be prepared ...
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This is quite an essay. Wasn’t expecting to bump into this on a Tuesday morning. Lots of unfamiliar jargon in there but I got the gist of it. Somehow? Contextual osmosis?

 
Luce NDs said:
The study of classic languages is so critical to the context and composition of this abstract thing we call mind ((among other labels) yet learning is so much of a chore (vocation) that it tends to get discarded as not required.

However when proper discourse, communication, or whatever you wish to call it are disconnected does the social composure degrade into something disastrous? It is a sad state when we start to feed on one another in the spirit of Christian winning ... but sadly it makes some of the best of us spin off into the unknown, or unconscious domains.

Question is what is the recovery and recall rate of all the knowledge and caring that is lost because it is blown ...
Minuscule?

Is that a Kohl as a nuclear winter that we've been encouraged to support? Button down folks ... we're mad some really bad social mistakes ...
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Gil again.

 
On the term WOKE ... how does it fit in the expression: " if I should die before I wake"? @Pavlos Maros

Then the complexity of word does confuse the anima and animus of psyche ...

It gets me right outside the ordinary processing of such topics ... into realms that are ordinarily denied.

I wonder if it is good or bad for the greater soul that may be dark compared with its primary burning core?

Just passing thought in the arid highlands. There many animals go to die ... Masada Syndrome?
 
"From away" is an expression in another string ... but there some of us that appreciate and respect strange affection for fresh stories about limited processes ... but allowing lots of work about them ... occupies the eligible and gives intelligence a time out ... so they can return .

Maybe in a "brave new approach" to equity and equilibrium ... unheard of in our dark storm of humanity ... out of it and coming on too strong? A story is better than rants and rages of the rushing winds ... destroys all four freedoms as well as the censors of the collective ... a bite on the edge ... like a thorn is the side of a field of hidden light ...

All that we cannot see because of glare ... white out? As in "don't shoot" just yet ... you may sacrifice what was needed for balance ... thus the folly? Something to learn from ultimately goes on as there is no end to the ignorance regarding fey and flighty understanding in reality ... virtually unreal! Emotions are motive ... providing a stimulus that something went astray ...

Empty spots are rabid ... voracious ... in soul ... infinite! hard to swallow if you cannot comprehend something beyond you grasp ... leaves one a bit buzzy ... the sting of god's activity ...
 
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In the piece, Pity the Nation is there a warning to those that worship and follow an idealism of power and wealth accumulation ... just a little sliver or thorn off the side, and paranoia keeps sentient people from speaking of the travesty. Is it the sinking of empires ... like the mythical Judea and it's gentle Bedes and Monks of wisdom to be fed to tigers, lions and other brutes in the Roman Circus ...

Back to the theme of Sambo against the proud cats ... eur OZ? As Zero Sum ... what doesn't add up? ... Pure desire for wealth and power as the he-man,
Eh*mott! Evolution goes on as some of us search for truth in a pile of word and dirt ...

The Norwegians have this massive Fund .. to assist the world and yet ... what does it draw ... parasites ... the rush off the steppes ... a world of conflict consuming resources as it nothing else mattered ... rabbit hole or rabid ... a pit of course like the grief curve where something smolders ...god's advocate for a working kingdom of humility ... below the physicians horizon ... shade????
 
While Ferlinghetti said he was "an anarchist at heart", he conceded that the world would need to be populated by "saints" in order for pure anarchism to be lived practically. Hence he espoused what can be achieved by Scandinavian-style democratic socialism.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Wikipedia

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If you would be a poet, create works capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times,
even if this meaning sounds apocalyptic.

You are Whitman, you are Poe, you are Mark Twain, you are Emily Dickinson and Edna St. Vincent Millay, you are Neruda and Mayakovsky and Pasolini, you are an American or a non-American, you can conquer the conquerors with words....
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