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10/July

On the Beat Generation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

On waves of feminism:

https://www.pacificu.edu/about-us/news-events/four-waves-feminism

On cultural appropriation:

https://www.thoughtco.com/g00/cultural-appropriation-and-why-iits-wrong-2834561?i10c.referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2F

09/July

British politics + elections

May election: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/9/15767522/uk-election-results-hung-parliament

Youthquake: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/13/15771640/bernie-corbyn-melenchon-uk-election-young-voters-youth-vote

Key point of election (BBC) http://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40190964

Brexit (BBC) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

UK parties and Brexit (BBC) http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39665835

Cameron Russell admits she won “a genetic lottery”: she's tall, pretty and an underwear model. But don't judge her by her looks. In this fearless talk, she takes a wry look at the industry that had her looking highly seductive at barely 16 years old.

I’d seen this TEDTalk several times scouring the Internet, but the title put me off. Only today, the 19 million views intrigued me enough to watch it, and I was surprised enough by Cameron Russel’s talk to feel a little ashamed.

It was refreshing to hear a young, yet seasoned model eloquently and deeply critique her industry and our society. It is rare to hear someone like Cameron, in such a position of privilege, recognise and speak profoundly about a ‘legacy of gender and racial oppression’ on which she cashed out on.

I think it was truly commendable of her to acknowledge the circumstances of her ‘perceived’ success, and those of others’ perceived failures; I only wish this was something less uncommon.

#tedtalk #model #cameronrussel

Gumbo (pt. 1 of Jazz) - Ken Burns

Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation.

Borne out of African American slavery; the only collective consciousness of being unfree in a free country

Congo Square: where slaves could congregate to sing and dance on a Sunday

Slaves from West Indies [Caribbean], slaves from American South [call & response, work songs, spirituals]

Creoles of colour: people of mixed African and European descent, free people of colour

New Orleans: a melting pot of history, religion, ethnicity, conflict + liveliness

Theatre: minstrel music [plantation songs] written by both white and black people; reinforced racial stereotypes; most popular form of American entertainment from the 1840s

produced pop songs, national humour, widespread across the USA

denigrated the relationship between blacks and white to grapple with the affront to humanity (slavery)

‘Daddy Rice’ and Jim Crow - first written minstrel song, heard from a black stablehand

1861: New Orleans in the American Civil War; Union seized New Orleans = freedom for the black population, creative burst

Union: North [Abraham Lincoln, abolishing slavery]

Confederacy: South - created when the southern states seceded from the Union [Jefferson Davis, advocating states’ rights to perpetual slavery + expansion]

Reconstruction [post civil war]; enforcement of civil rights

Compromise of 1877: Reconstruction ended

Withdrawal of federal troops, whites reclaimed control of Southern legislature, Jim Crow disenfranchisement + legal segregation began

KKK

1890s: Rag-time!

Blues

Refugees from Mississippi Delta came into New Orleans, fleeing Jim Crow laws; the docks promised a better life from the cotton farms etc.

Form: three chords in 12 bar sequences (choruses) with infinite variation

Stemmed from music of black Baptist church

Playing the blues was a matter of getting rid of the blues: lyrics = tragic, music = livening; it was a liberating experience to recognize the despair

Introduction of horns: military instrument, leftover from the civil war, imitating the sounds of the church with vibrato

1890: Louisinia segregation on trains, sport, competition; Creoles classified as blacks

Clarinets from Creole orchestras now joined black musicians

‘Big Noise’ Buddy Bolden (1877)

Louder, more innovative, bolder, surprising

Big 4 beat

Rise and fall (admitted into Louisiana State Asylum)

After midnight: blues + slow drags

Piano: Jelly Roll Morton

#jazz #gumbo #kenburns

Running List

Century of the Self (documentary)

Civilisation and its Discontents - Freud

The Anti-Capitalist Mentality - Ludwig van Moses

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The Responsibility of Intellectuals - Noam Chomsky

Immunity - Alfred I. Tauber

Century of the Self - Happiness Machines (part one)

Sigmund Freud: humans are irrational and driven by subconscious desires

Edward Bernays: propaganda = public relations; controlling the masses by manipulating the collective unconscious for big business (cigarettes, automobiles)

Women smoking ‘torches of fire’; eliciting a feeling of empowerment and liberty

Shifted America from a needs to a desire culture; turning citizen to consumer

Freud’s theories were published in the US

Humans are driven by irrational, animalistic, dangerous forces (Vienna, Austria, violence) led to a re-thinking of democracy; individual freedom is dangerous

Psychological science could be used as a means of social control to suppress the unconscious (dangerous?) feelings of the masses -> Cold War, Walter Lippmann

Wall Street Crash 1929 = pitfall of consumerism, public relations

Freud ‘Civilisation and its Discontents’: civilisation breeds discontent, but is necessary for survival (control)

Germany, National Socialists: abandoned democracy to create what was believed to be an alternate democracy, not autocratic control (Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda: channeling the feelings of the masses)

Freud ‘Crowd Psychology’: frightening irrationality emerges in groups: libidinal forces towards a leader; aggression to all outsiders; Anschluss 1938

Roosevelt: uprising against corporation, big business; belief in the rational citizen -> scientific polling for an informed democracy

National Association of Manufacturers (representing big business): using PR to create an emotional connectedness between public and business; intertwining concepts of democracy with capitalism = a ‘FREE MARKET UTOPIA’

Discordance between passive consumer vs rational citizen

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/10/medicalscience.highereducation

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8339

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sacramento-street-psychiatry/201308/review-century-the-self-bbc-documentary

#centuryoftheself

Media consumption

02/July

Running 100 miles

https://qz.com/1019928/i-went-from-sedentary-academic-to-100-mile-marathon-runner-thanks-to-the-science-of-self-control/

A Doctor’s Touch

https://www.ted.com/talks/abraham_verghese_a_doctor_s_touch#t-1092954

What reality are you creating for yourself?

https://www.ted.com/talks/isaac_lidsky_what_reality_are_you_creating_for_yourself/discussion#t-694212

Grit: the power of passion and perseverance

https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_grit_the_power_of_passion_and_perseverance

How to speak so people want to listen

https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_how_to_speak_so_that_people_want_to_listen

The Responsibility of Individuals - Noam Chomsky

https://chomsky.info/19670223/

Halfway Point

February

melbourne: moved in to a new home

tasmania

penultimate semester

March

dandenong 1000 steps with ma

kurt vile

uaem: screened rise of the superbug

jobready + student rep

April

graduation w Geoff

NCDfree innovation incubator

wilson’s prom camping

tutoring

May

mid semester tests

June

interviews

exams

depression

recovery ~~

deeplifequotes

Sometimes life will test you but remember this: When you walk up a mountain, your legs get stronger.

Unknown (via deeplifequotes)

2017

write and reflect more - journal daily spend less time on social media run more - races be more positive - gratitude journal do more

2016

Internship at the Adventist Worked 60 hour weeks at Pizza Express Started writing for Farrago Cooked for refugees UAEM - met the cancer council, Dr Rimmer Global Ideas AUSWHO Sri Lanka food&desire future plans

Pre-Christmas

Sunday

Monday ~4.5km, Sharon arrives

Tuesday eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes walked to the plaza, japan home store etc. tamar park with friends: fries, strawberries, snacks stew with rice

Wednesday 21/12 ~2.1km, post jade market adventures kiribath with fish curry, lunu miris (onion, chili sambal) street food: sweet and sour noodle soup

Thursday 22/12 ~4.5km, post tung chung yoghurt with banana and granola barbecue pork bun red rice, murunga, leftover morning glory, dryfish, dahl

Friday 23/12 ~4.5km yoghurt with apple, banana, granola seaweed sushi samosa noodles with carrot, beans, chorizo

#run #food #log

abovearth

bvddhist

My Name Is Red - Orhan Pamuk

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/sep/15/highereducation.fiction

Orhan Pamuk's novel is a philosophical thriller constructed around the clash between these two views of artistic meaning, which is also a chasm between two world civilisations.

A tree with Ottoman roots relates the conversation and objects: "I don't want to be a tree, I want to be its meaning."

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/books/heresies-of-the-paintbrush.html

Quotes

“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room”

“Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity." (18)

#books #read

Log - back to Hong Kong

Saturday 10/12 2.1 km (easy) fried rice with chicken

Sunday 11/12 2.1 km (easy) nha trang - cold vermicelli with lemongrass beef avocado smash with broccoli and grape salad Monday 12/12 2.1 km (easy) breakfast bowl - apple, banana, yoghurt, muesli stir fry udon with bok choy Tuesday 13/12 2.1 km (easy) poached eggs, english muffin, tomatoes, bacon cheese and crackers fried rice Wednesday 14/12 2.1 km (have I got a pinched nerve in my arm??) avocado toast with nectarine 3 sausages (omg) rice, chicken curry, cabbage carrot salad

Thursday 15/12 2.1 km (easy - 6 days in a row!!) banana, papaya wholewheat bagel with smoked salmon and avocado pumpkin soup and ham tomato onion sandwich

Friday 16/12 rest day scrambled eggs and toast a massive bowl of pho

Saturday 17/12 4.8km ciabatta sandwich with ham and tomato rice with beef and ridge gourd chips (...)

*drink more water

#workout #run #food #log

About two-thirds of Australian medical students come from affluent backgrounds. Only one in ten from low socioeconomic status backgrounds.

#conversation #inequality #medicine

Thirty years after the nuclear disaster, local berry-pickers earn a good living. What’s the hidden cost of their wares?

#aeon #chernobyl

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