empathy/experience/expression

what is the relationship between empathy and expressiveness? is it expression we empathize with in the first place, and not experience? children, for example, are concentrated in their expression -- they openly sob, pout, and laugh. we empathize with them most directly, perhaps not because they are 'helpless' as is often taken as folk wisdom, but because they (must) demonstrate (thanks to this helplessness) their emotional experience with the most clarity and overtness. the autistic experience may have something to do with this -- if expression is fractured from experience we lose empathy in losing any way to predict that experience. we feel guilt when animals are hurt or killed because we can see what they express and relate that to our experience of that expression. whether they have nerve and physical experiences in that same vein that we do is irrelevant to what they communicate to us and the responsibility we feel to it. plants, for example, seem to make willfull choices which suggests a sense of experience, yet they can express nothing in what that is empathetic to human beings. we, rightfully and thankfully, feel no sense of empathy and responsibility to a plant. if empathy is completely dependent on expression we will continue to empathize only with those who can express their experiences in a way that we can process.

horomal health

it's easy to find information on the correct hormonal balance for men. around 30 testosterone levels start to drop so a healthy man should find ways to maintain them. depression, sugar (which incites cortisol production), lack of exercise, and diet issues can all negatively affect hormone levels and should be avoided. there are ways to naturally raise levels, down to what foods stimulate testosterone production. look up female hormone health and all you find is articles about waning libidos after menopause or birth and explanations that without fail lean to the psychological.

"A woman's desire for sex is based on a complex interaction of many components affecting intimacy, including physical well-being, emotional well-being, experiences, beliefs, lifestyle and current relationship."

the mayo clinic. banning the word intimacy from the vocabulary on the system of the female body and how to maintain its health.

energy

if the cost of energy - when the cost of energy - plummets, all commerce will be directly affected. the only limiting principle applied to production right now is energy - human and otherwise, but mainly otherwise. if the sun creates enough energy to power the earth's energy needs for a year in about an hour, and if the history of human innovation foreshadows as well as it has a habit of doing, the energy of the sun will be harnessing and will usher in a new age. however involuntary, however unconsidered, it will change the structure of all things - business, family, what does it say about me personally that those are the pillars of existence i can think of? all masculine ideal - all production of any kind - may be virtually free, comparatively speaking. what markers of social darwinism and economic values will be able to survive that? rare materials? do rare materials have value if they have no necessity? if you don't need gold to buy oil, does it retain its value? or is this a fabled time of the value of efficiency and consumer-grade value, i.e. whoever does what we need done best, most innovatively, and most quickly, is on top?

http://www.forbes.com/energy/2008/07/30/nocera-solar-power-biz-energy-cz_jf_0731solar.html?feed=rss_popstories

And a whole continent full of rare materials and crude oil sits confused and a little dusty

The generalized continent of Africa has been robbed of its family figureheads, literally, and later its resources. Its social set-up is dependent on an exported economy. Materials out, money out, money trickled back in much later, handwashed a couple of times. What it needs is a source of validation for individual leaders. Universities, respected and sought after universities, so that graduates can start business to manage resources and finances, buy back some colonial land, become a viable world market. It's one of the few remaining through and through third worlds, but it contains the resources, manpower and history to become a leader on a global scale -- lacking only internal leadership on a global stage. That's where they should be getting rid of the politics of old and focusing on new-minded leadership, preferably inexperienced in the corrupt (really) system.

ways of speaking

writing something down, as in thinking in a literary tradition that allows a timeline of connections to discover themselves on a page/screen as a second ego, and writing that defines itself as literary communication (especially social communication) are remarkably different disciplines. my interest veers (here), generally, away from the journalistic so i may be satisfied on a somewhat continuous basis by the sensation of continuous innovation or something like new territory. the secondary thought path before it's translated back to the first -- that's the exciting foreign land. selfish preference, not exclusive. i like talking to you, too.

composing to the stage

In what way can individual artistic choices feel lifelike, if they are reactionary only in an internal sense? The situations addressed must be empathetic and uncanny to the intended audience. They must be conversations everyone has had, images commonly seen, sounds that are familiar. There is an artistic language in every discipline already in place that may be referred to ad naseum, that may be self-referential but is not emotionally affecting. If not familiar there must be a reaction to space, time, a conversation with medium and presentation.

the concrete audience is public

To be valid a story (here, as in a lifetime or a personhood) must be from a firmly realized individualized perspective -- pluralism is contemplated alone, silently, nearly secretly. This is related to our idea of linear lifetimes and selves -- where Sontag says that prose must address a concrete audience (where poetry is free to wander and wonder) a lifetime must be addressed similarly. Relationships are effected here -- we may fantasize about another lifetime but it may not coexist with our reality, so affairs are most seductive when they are secrets. They are private fantasies of a parallel existence that are not even, really, ever intended to come to fruition (fruition in the sense of commitment, or lifestyle - physical reality is an afterthought here). An exploration of the pluralistic nature of an individual.