1.5.24 - Maydaying

Effects of too much May Pole...

Tá athas orm... Which means Happiness is upon me, ie I am happy in Irish. I told Ghin this yesterday and he said, that sounds like the Game of Thrones language. It is interesting that in Irish, feelings are seen as transient.

If you have a feeling, it is upon you - you are not the feeling. The sadness is upon me, you, them whatever. And when you 'have' something, it is 'at you', at me, at them. So Tá leabhar agam - the book is at me. Which makes more sense, because at some stage, later the book will be at someone else.

In the past weekend, I attended a seminar about the Threefold Economy - a Steiner thing. The triskillen is often used to illustrate it. As far as i'm concerned it looked a lot like a cooperative although the man who was leading it kept on saying that it was not - associative economics in not a co-operative. OK, whatever dude.

But he did say that this Celtic-Germanic (I don't know how Germanic has anything to do with it) is what the associative economy is.

It is interesting to note that hardwired into the Irish language is the idea of a shared life. We are not our things and feelings. These things come and go. We remain who we are. Which is the paradox...

It i also interesting that the idea of 'mindfulness' is already part of the Irish language. Just by shifting the register of language, we can shift how we relate to the world.

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I love learning Irish. It is sooo cool. It is such a meditative language. I have already benefited from the

construction of sentences and words. PLUS it is much much cooler now I can understand very basic signs and Irish words. I also now recognise aroun 15% of the words spoken on Raidio Failte, which can only be good since the BBC have managed to infuriate me to no end. Also is I do find English to be very very annoying recently given the idiotic shenanigans of the neocolonialists. These people are complete idiots. The way they have constructed the world somehow does not allow for them to take responsibility for their behaviour nor be able to anticipate a likely consequence. The only language they have is one of possession and then abandonment. I wonder what that is about. To say you possess but then have no responsibility for? It's mental. It is about compartmentalisation. That's what it is about. There is didacticism in the way in which they think and believe because of the language. All complexity has been leached from it. English today is very different from the English of Shakespeare for instance which was still grasping and wrestling with it. After that, the English of Pope with its meter and register, like so much about the neo classics played with the idea of order from chaos and then after that, we have the Romanticism, the last hurrah of revolution, before the mechanistic tarmacking of the World Wars arrived and complete flattened everything.

We are living in the straightjacket of the worst timeline. It is ugly and brutal and it is the most inefficient and unjust and unstable timeline ever.

Anyway... what was I going to write about? It was... yes about Maypole dancing. But I can't do May Pole dancing cos I need to write a lesson plan...