tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470944.post5586245357453644994..comments2024-03-28T11:57:32.990-07:00Comments on Timeless - thebookmann - Feinin: Zen & CheUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470944.post-75092646727981716512006-10-11T09:30:00.000-07:002006-10-11T09:30:00.000-07:00ummm, your eye for the aesthetic flavour of things...ummm, your eye for the aesthetic flavour of things is excellent, i have learned much from reading your posts on various things. This one on the zen, while apt and correct, also strikes me as missing the point. For me the place is about making money - your three classes/three floor alluding to that - however that is a local manifestation of a global phenomenon; a phenomenon some might call capitalism, others may describe as neoliberalism or petro-imperialism. My point being that how can you connect your valuable local aesthetic description to global flows of people, capital, images, media, discourse etc? To place what you say on a global canvas would makes your observations more presentable as calls to action. Ie people learn how the things they dont think about - dressing to look good, nepotism, class hierachies, the privitisation of carnival - as being connected to Euro-American capitalism and saying very little about Trinidadian creativity. dont know if i made sense there but hey...Dylanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09256388913594034925noreply@blogger.com