Pradip Malde » memory http://pradipmalde.com photographs Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:55:00 +0000 en hourly 1 the plebs, the priests and the very large hadron collider http://pradipmalde.com/2008/09/the-plebs-the-priests-and-the-very-large-hadron-collider/ http://pradipmalde.com/2008/09/the-plebs-the-priests-and-the-very-large-hadron-collider/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:33:17 +0000 Pradip Malde http://malde.sewanee.edu/the-plebs-the-priests-and-the-very-large-hadron-collider/

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Floating Stone (from series, Memory Balance Love)
1989
platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in
The same mental types as those who broke into hives and weeping fits at the onset of solar eclipses centuries ago, and as those who crowed disaster with the arrival of 2000 are now approaching thrombo red-zones with the powering up of the Large Hadron Collider. And things have changed – the high priests, the technicians of what may well turn out to be sacred, are stepping into the uncertain, sure – but they now want to share their knowledge, not use it to wield power over the plebs! So ease up folks. This is an exciting event, and one that is better characterized as a sliding, zonal adventure than a singularity triggered by a Big Red Switch. We are not all going to meld into one tiny speck of density on Wednesday, September 10. (And if we do, no one will be around to say, I told you so.)
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a place for god
1989
platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in
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A Place for God
1989
platinum-palladium print, 8×10 in.
The greater the intelligence,
the smarter the God.
Intelligence is the spawn of Mind,
and Mind itself a construct.
There is another nothing. Simple.
It is the 4th of July today.
Time to celebrate, right?
Perhaps we would be better off by having
a day of silence,
no TV, no travel,
water and bread,
alone.
“It is time, it is long past time, to put patriotism back on the shelf—out of the reach of children and madmen.” Matthew Rothschild, July 2, 2008.
There is another nothing.
And everything.
How many nations have been founded on, by, for God?
And how many claim the right to kill, swallow, pulverize, in the name of divine purpose?
Patriotism, nationhood, citizenship, religion, belief.
The mind needs these structures
the way that a screw driver needs a screw.
No Mind, no Gain.
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