It's crazy, these days. Hope you all had a merry good Christmas and not just 'another holiday season'. You may guess what I mean. Times are moving, changing, and that is, of course, the way it should be. Just where to it's changing, is another thing.
More or less while I wrote the last post on 'getting rid of our shit', my son's brandnew iPod, birthday present from our cousin, perished. To be honest, it did because it stole my son's ability to act on other things but the siren call of that 'i'-thing. I love technology, I love machines (preferrably big ones - real big ones which produce a lot of power), I have always been pushing forward new ideas and, yes, technologies, especially communication technologies (and am shocked by what was made out of them). But to me it is always clear that the human is to master the machine and not the other way around. And anything that is invented for good, people are able to misuse for bad. Must be an unwritten law or something like that.
My son was mastered by Steve Jobs' - may God be merciful to his ashes & soul - team's gorgeous invention which is beautiful, fascinating, gorgeous in design and technology but desastrous and destructive to the social, emotional, brain and nerval development of our children.
It's all about the 'i', isn't it (but not meant is the 'eye' that sees - more the 'ego' that sees nothing but 'i'tself).
A bad aftertaste of last century's 90s. Our kids didn't experience any of the developments consciously and didn't grow awarely into what happened. That makes them easy victims. Adults, too, when they are steered by wanting to be wannabes, and have not started yet to use their brains. Mac was cool when it started up. It was for unique and special people, creative people, people that were out for more quality and more user-orientation, people that needed the advanced features and applications in a special, the creative field - and people who fall for design, of course. Design in a sense that you receive the beauty of something that is created with dedication and some kind of love for what you do, inside and outside.
My son cried real tears when that thing had to go, and I understand him perfectly, from his point of view. I would just like to know if S. Jobs might also have cried some tears (or not) for what has happened to and with his idea(ls).
Apple just became uncool when it started to be all about 'i' - when it started to bet on making the not so special people feel as if they were special. A simple marketing offense, of course, appealing to the 4th level if you look at Maslow's pyramid.
Wanna play a little with the essence of word?
Translate the 'pod' literally and combine with the 'i' (which is then 'you'). So we talk about the hull of someone, the shell for him, for you which is this little designed music thing. And there is where the dilemma starts: the technology is great and fine, but here, out of the sudden. it starts to claim being the mantle, the shell, the jacket of the 'i', of what you are, a shell for the 'I am'. Think plastically: the kid's self ('i') then must be inside the 'pod' - if it is an 'I' 'Pod'.
Take away the 'i', then it becomes what it is meant to be - a fun thing (though terribly overprized) to listen to some music you like. Unless it separates you from the world. This is your, my, everyones's own responsibility. Wanna be a pea in a pod? Go ahead. A mollusk in its shell? Please, feel free.
(Beautiful pic, by the way. Just not if that shell is to contain me or you, at least according to my point of view.)
Or choose.
Oh dear. You know, they never lie. They do not need to lie because anyway, the set-up triggers work so perfectly that no one could stop the victims to happily enslave themselves. The Matrix is certainly very clear in its metaphors.
My second 'Job's tears' came in with a brand named 'Rituals'.
My dearest wanted to do me something really good, and knew my affinity with the mental ways of cleaning (out) and also knows how much I need a time-out these days. So he in best intention stumbled over a promise that's completely misleading. A clever concept to sell people what they inside are searching for. Just create some chemical mix that got nothing, really nothing to do with the promise on the nicely designed plastic.
Starting with a pseudo-celtic-asian fused symbol creation, they sell 'T'ai Chi' (an inner martial art people practice and learn for ages) or 'Wu Wei' (the art of not acting in a very special sense) and other inner and mental arts for just some €s in bottles and tubes. Also my short descriptions here are very 'short' in that sense, as to understand the terms and meaning behind, it takes processes to really get the meaning and incorporate those. A foot balm of theirs is for instance named 'Lao Tze'. Some might know that we are talking about a high-end philosopher whose insights are still quoted all over the world. So now, that guy is to end up as a foot balm for spoilt and superfluous luxury ladies with a bad common education. Otherwise they would refuse to degrade the wise for using them for their feet. But many do and are captured by the consumption call.
The product line is called 'Tao' - The Way. Others are not better, named 'Zen' (get Zen in bottles - gorgeous) or 'Sakura'. For the last one, though people might misinterpret in a different way, may they all receive what they call for when asking for transience without knowing what they do.
Good luck, ladies!
Yeah, that was deeply sarcastical, of course. Carpe diem b(u)y consumption. Dears, like it or not, it does not work that way.
Some of that stuff contains an ingredient named 'Job's tears' where there is nothing wrong with, of course. It's just my link to the earlier event these days. Other ingredients actually make me much more worry and wonder.
The company 'sells' that stuff with pseudo-responsibility labels and nevertheless, if you look deeper, you are just 'fooled by facades'.
Check out yourself how much is inside those 'philosophies' when you read on lists like some of these:
Polyethylene, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceril Stearate Citrate, Parfum/Fragrance, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate, Polyacrylamide, Benzyl Salicylate, Citric Acid, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), FD&C Blue No.1 (CI 42090), Citric Acid, Limonene ....
So now, what got Titanium Dioxide got to do in a body scrub? Neither is the scrub supposed to protect from sun, nor does it make it more pleasant to look at if it is Tipp-Ex white, no? But look at how else Titanium Dioxide is discussed, e.g.
Well,as a child I knew to use orange peels to clean off the tar clumps that you automatically got sticking to your feet walking down a beach at the mediterranean east coast (guess where they came from).
Limonene and Citric Acid are now both ingredients in a a 'Rituals' cream bath named 'Wu Wei'. Citric Acid actually, I prefer to use to decalcify very stubborn residues on hot water or coffee machines, and I certainly have no problem using lemon juice also for my skin. Just bathing in the chemical version of it? I bet it softens the skin ... and longterm certainly not the way I want it. Or, as from Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetics database:
The question is, do such things factually need to be in something we smear on and in our bodies? Our skin is permeable and same as our lungs and intestinal walls absorbing and transporting various stuff into the organism.
Now, what I seriously have a problem about is Benzyl Salicylate.
Again, from EWGs Skin Deep Cosmetic data base:
'Rituals.com' uses symbolisms like 'Tao' (and Zen, and others) and the value of purifying mind and soul, and at the same time is doing the absolute opposite for people who especially look for and are in search of that. This is ab-use. And that is what makes me so very, very angry. My first professional education is in sales, communication and marketing, and that does not automatically include lying. Just some people who see this as 'opportunities' are making that from it.
Not tested on animals as a sales argument?
Just looking above you will find that the ingredients have been tested, of course, even if not directly for a certain product but nevertheless more than to exhaustion in the past. Check out the EU wide ban on animal testing of 11 September 2004, including the plan for fading out those tests. Overdue. But the company founded in 2000 has quite likely not done much towards this development as such takes ages of time. Surely it is always nice to decorate oneself with something one has done not much for to happen.
Do we really believe that we can pursue inner and mental e-volution in the bathtub with certain products while renowned philosophers are soothening our feet and respected philosophies have to stand in for scrubbing our backs? For the Asian culture this is mostly considerable as an absolute insult by complete disrespectfulness.
It's up to everyone to feel free, and fall for misleading symbolisms that sell you 'wellness' with appealing to a wish for higher levels.
You can ease your mind and don't think about it, as that is what you are supposed to. Or you can do. It's up to you.
Another little thing I just tracked, just look and sense yourself how interestingly it matches:
2011 was called out the International Year of Chemistry (with the slogan 'celebrate chemistry') and lots of public money was spent for the community to celebrate themselves and the illusions made up for (us?) stupids to believe. Check out the sponsors, check out the backgrounds to their statements, the ethics of today and what they are built on by ethics of the past (going back just 70 years is very sufficient for some of the big players), entanglements and influences on what we have to swallow (or smear on our bodies) .
Check out what works they really do, what fruit they really bear, here and now and in reality and not in their PR campaigns. And make up your own mind, free from dogmata or what you are made to believe. I am more than happy it will soon be over with the turn of the calendar, this celebrating. There are many sciences that have their own little problems, but the chemical industry is a problem in itself.
Except those future and future-minded chemists that will be needed desperately one day, namely to clean up the mess chemistry has committed on this planet.
With my sincerest apologies to Lǎozǐ for marketing-misguided co-inhabitants down here and to give that wisdom a better place than on some Titan dioxide containing tubes, herewith found from BrainyQuotes TM - Lao Tzu Quotes:
Enjoy a gorgeous good time,
Lyn
PS With many thanks for the gorgeous photographies by Michael Dunne. Check out more if you like so on (mick)'s photostream
More or less while I wrote the last post on 'getting rid of our shit', my son's brandnew iPod, birthday present from our cousin, perished. To be honest, it did because it stole my son's ability to act on other things but the siren call of that 'i'-thing. I love technology, I love machines (preferrably big ones - real big ones which produce a lot of power), I have always been pushing forward new ideas and, yes, technologies, especially communication technologies (and am shocked by what was made out of them). But to me it is always clear that the human is to master the machine and not the other way around. And anything that is invented for good, people are able to misuse for bad. Must be an unwritten law or something like that.
My son was mastered by Steve Jobs' - may God be merciful to his ashes & soul - team's gorgeous invention which is beautiful, fascinating, gorgeous in design and technology but desastrous and destructive to the social, emotional, brain and nerval development of our children.
It's all about the 'i', isn't it (but not meant is the 'eye' that sees - more the 'ego' that sees nothing but 'i'tself).
A bad aftertaste of last century's 90s. Our kids didn't experience any of the developments consciously and didn't grow awarely into what happened. That makes them easy victims. Adults, too, when they are steered by wanting to be wannabes, and have not started yet to use their brains. Mac was cool when it started up. It was for unique and special people, creative people, people that were out for more quality and more user-orientation, people that needed the advanced features and applications in a special, the creative field - and people who fall for design, of course. Design in a sense that you receive the beauty of something that is created with dedication and some kind of love for what you do, inside and outside.
My son cried real tears when that thing had to go, and I understand him perfectly, from his point of view. I would just like to know if S. Jobs might also have cried some tears (or not) for what has happened to and with his idea(ls).
Apple just became uncool when it started to be all about 'i' - when it started to bet on making the not so special people feel as if they were special. A simple marketing offense, of course, appealing to the 4th level if you look at Maslow's pyramid.
Take away the 'i', then it becomes what it is meant to be - a fun thing (though terribly overprized) to listen to some music you like. Unless it separates you from the world. This is your, my, everyones's own responsibility. Wanna be a pea in a pod? Go ahead. A mollusk in its shell? Please, feel free.
(Beautiful pic, by the way. Just not if that shell is to contain me or you, at least according to my point of view.)
Or choose.
Oh dear. You know, they never lie. They do not need to lie because anyway, the set-up triggers work so perfectly that no one could stop the victims to happily enslave themselves. The Matrix is certainly very clear in its metaphors.
My second 'Job's tears' came in with a brand named 'Rituals'.
My dearest wanted to do me something really good, and knew my affinity with the mental ways of cleaning (out) and also knows how much I need a time-out these days. So he in best intention stumbled over a promise that's completely misleading. A clever concept to sell people what they inside are searching for. Just create some chemical mix that got nothing, really nothing to do with the promise on the nicely designed plastic.
Starting with a pseudo-celtic-asian fused symbol creation, they sell 'T'ai Chi' (an inner martial art people practice and learn for ages) or 'Wu Wei' (the art of not acting in a very special sense) and other inner and mental arts for just some €s in bottles and tubes. Also my short descriptions here are very 'short' in that sense, as to understand the terms and meaning behind, it takes processes to really get the meaning and incorporate those. A foot balm of theirs is for instance named 'Lao Tze'. Some might know that we are talking about a high-end philosopher whose insights are still quoted all over the world. So now, that guy is to end up as a foot balm for spoilt and superfluous luxury ladies with a bad common education. Otherwise they would refuse to degrade the wise for using them for their feet. But many do and are captured by the consumption call.
Good luck, ladies!
Yeah, that was deeply sarcastical, of course. Carpe diem b(u)y consumption. Dears, like it or not, it does not work that way.
Some of that stuff contains an ingredient named 'Job's tears' where there is nothing wrong with, of course. It's just my link to the earlier event these days. Other ingredients actually make me much more worry and wonder.
The company 'sells' that stuff with pseudo-responsibility labels and nevertheless, if you look deeper, you are just 'fooled by facades'.
Check out yourself how much is inside those 'philosophies' when you read on lists like some of these:
Polyethylene, Glycerin, Ethylhexyl Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Glyceril Stearate Citrate, Parfum/Fragrance, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Cetearyl Sulfate, Polyacrylamide, Benzyl Salicylate, Citric Acid, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), FD&C Blue No.1 (CI 42090), Citric Acid, Limonene ....
So now, what got Titanium Dioxide got to do in a body scrub? Neither is the scrub supposed to protect from sun, nor does it make it more pleasant to look at if it is Tipp-Ex white, no? But look at how else Titanium Dioxide is discussed, e.g.
According to the Cosmetics Database, Titanium Dioxide is considered a low to moderate hazard ingredient, depending on use. The EWG notes concerns regarding cancer, allergic reactions, biochemical and cellular changes, organ system toxicity and irritation. Titanium Dioxide can produce "excess reactive oxygen species that can interfere with cellular signaling, cause mutations, lead to cell death and may be implicated in cardiovascular disease." Animal studies showed that very low doses were able to cause respiratory and cardiovascular effects, and this ingredient has been classified as "expected to be toxic or harmful" and as a medium health priority.Limonene, Citric Acid?
Well,as a child I knew to use orange peels to clean off the tar clumps that you automatically got sticking to your feet walking down a beach at the mediterranean east coast (guess where they came from).
Limonene and Citric Acid are now both ingredients in a a 'Rituals' cream bath named 'Wu Wei'. Citric Acid actually, I prefer to use to decalcify very stubborn residues on hot water or coffee machines, and I certainly have no problem using lemon juice also for my skin. Just bathing in the chemical version of it? I bet it softens the skin ... and longterm certainly not the way I want it. Or, as from Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Cosmetics database:
Limonene is a scent ingredient and solvent naturally ocurring in the rind of citrus fruit. Upon storage and exposure to sunlight and air, limonene degrades to various oxidation products which act as skin and respiratory irritants and sensitizers.On Polyacrylamide some comment found via truthinaging.com:
Polyacrylamide is a polymer that is formed from units of acrylamide, a known neurotoxin. However, Polyacrylamide itself is not considered to be toxic, but is a controversial ingredient because of its potential ability to secrete Acrylamide, according to Wikipedia.[...]
The Cosmetic Database finds Polyacrylamide to be a moderate hazard ingredient and notes multiple concerns, including neurotoxicity, organ system toxicity and data gaps. The biggest warning regarding the use of Polyacrylamide is the contamination concern and the presence of Acrylamide, a known toxin.
Acrylamide is rated by the EWG as a high hazard ingredient, at a 10, the highest level possible, due to cancer, developmental and reproductive toxicity, allergic reactions, organ system toxicity, neurotoxicity, irritation of the skin and eyes, and endocrine disruption, as well as biohazardous effects.
The question is, do such things factually need to be in something we smear on and in our bodies? Our skin is permeable and same as our lungs and intestinal walls absorbing and transporting various stuff into the organism.
Now, what I seriously have a problem about is Benzyl Salicylate.
Again, from EWGs Skin Deep Cosmetic data base:
EU Banned and Restricted Fragrances
BENZYL SALICYLATE
Fragrance chemical, which, according to existing knowledge, is frequently reported as a well-recognised consumer allergen
'Rituals.com' uses symbolisms like 'Tao' (and Zen, and others) and the value of purifying mind and soul, and at the same time is doing the absolute opposite for people who especially look for and are in search of that. This is ab-use. And that is what makes me so very, very angry. My first professional education is in sales, communication and marketing, and that does not automatically include lying. Just some people who see this as 'opportunities' are making that from it.
Not tested on animals as a sales argument?
Just looking above you will find that the ingredients have been tested, of course, even if not directly for a certain product but nevertheless more than to exhaustion in the past. Check out the EU wide ban on animal testing of 11 September 2004, including the plan for fading out those tests. Overdue. But the company founded in 2000 has quite likely not done much towards this development as such takes ages of time. Surely it is always nice to decorate oneself with something one has done not much for to happen.
Do we really believe that we can pursue inner and mental e-volution in the bathtub with certain products while renowned philosophers are soothening our feet and respected philosophies have to stand in for scrubbing our backs? For the Asian culture this is mostly considerable as an absolute insult by complete disrespectfulness.
It's up to everyone to feel free, and fall for misleading symbolisms that sell you 'wellness' with appealing to a wish for higher levels.
You can ease your mind and don't think about it, as that is what you are supposed to. Or you can do. It's up to you.
Another little thing I just tracked, just look and sense yourself how interestingly it matches:
Your body. Your soul. Your rituals.
(rituals.com)
Chemistry – our life, our future.
(chemgeneration.com)
2011 was called out the International Year of Chemistry (with the slogan 'celebrate chemistry') and lots of public money was spent for the community to celebrate themselves and the illusions made up for (us?) stupids to believe. Check out the sponsors, check out the backgrounds to their statements, the ethics of today and what they are built on by ethics of the past (going back just 70 years is very sufficient for some of the big players), entanglements and influences on what we have to swallow (or smear on our bodies) .
Check out what works they really do, what fruit they really bear, here and now and in reality and not in their PR campaigns. And make up your own mind, free from dogmata or what you are made to believe. I am more than happy it will soon be over with the turn of the calendar, this celebrating. There are many sciences that have their own little problems, but the chemical industry is a problem in itself.
Except those future and future-minded chemists that will be needed desperately one day, namely to clean up the mess chemistry has committed on this planet.
With my sincerest apologies to Lǎozǐ for marketing-misguided co-inhabitants down here and to give that wisdom a better place than on some Titan dioxide containing tubes, herewith found from BrainyQuotes TM - Lao Tzu Quotes:
He who controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself
is mightier still.
Lao Tzu
Enjoy a gorgeous good time,
Lyn
PS With many thanks for the gorgeous photographies by Michael Dunne. Check out more if you like so on (mick)'s photostream
