I am still such a sucker, for Nissan Figaro and Pao Cars for seiko designer watches and other rubbish I don’t really need. Why is it the appearance of things is so beguiling, why in all my psychology and spirituality can I not see through to the soul, the essence of things, and be clear about who i am and what i want.

In my road to repoliticise myself, I read some critiques about the post marxist philospher ADORNO at the weekend, most of it I couldn’t get my head around, where once i would have lapped it up, but this but took my fancy…

The difference between essence and appearance entails the [url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?db=*&q=ideological]ideological[/url] effect of [url=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?db=*&q=reification]reification[/url]. For behind the reified appearance, lies the truth of the phantasmagoria of commodity production. This truth is that human beings, despite what they might think, are unfree; they live in an open air prison which the world is becoming, and people adapt to these conditions rather than oppose them.

Adorno says:

” In a state of unfreedom no one has a liberated consciousness”

So I am not free to make choices, I am part of a world which expects me to buy and design is reified, an abstract concept which is made material by the fact I/we are willing to pay for it, although its essence is meaningless.

We are daily being conned but we adapt to it by wearing the con with pride.

I apologise for this writing, whose appearance could seem very negative, after so much of what I write is overtly positive, however, it has a positive ooutlook, because if one person reads this and begins to think alittle more instead of just blandly accepting, then I am onto something

I have some caligrqaphy from Khalil Gibran on my wall it says:

“They say if you find a slave asleep, do not wake him, for he may be dreaming of freedom; but I say if you find a slave asleep, wake him and talk to him about freedom!

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