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 Lundoxia Presents (1 of 10): A video about stoicism A 5-minute video about the ancient Greek philosophy of stoicism, which also bears similarities with ancient Chinese taoism. |
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Lundoxia Presents (2 of 10) : Facial recognition and the future of nanotechnology A fascinating 6,5-minute report by The Economist about facial recognition. Eventually, nanotechnology will become so advanced, combined with x-ray camera technology and powerful telescopes in outer space, literally each and every single living person on the planet (even humans living deep in caves) will be identified, on one single database, all 7 billion or more people. People are obsessed with privacy. You can draw a diametrical analogy with the Dutch Calvinist psyche centuries ago that if one had curtains in the window then he or she was obviously trying to hide something. Recently I tried explaining this to some young English women in their 20s. They responded saying: "that sounds suspicious". In their mindsets, you would only NOT have curtains if you were an exhibitionist. But what if the ones looking are Peeping Toms? Aren't the lookers the ones causing someone to be called an exhibitionist? Eventually it is nanotechnology that will erase terrorism. The technology will become so advanced that it will detect such people long before they can commit their misdeeds, similar to the Hollywood film MINORITY REPORT (2002) starring Tom Cruise. But they won't even need psychics, massive amounts of data and x-ray pictures, right down to the nanometer of any object on Earth (including caves and the bottom of an ocean floor) captured from as far away as a telescope in space, will be sufficient evidence. And the state? Even centuries before today's technology, this was a subject of continued debate. Yes it can be a slippery slope to an Orwellian totalitarian nightmare, or a benign one foretold by H.G. Wells in his prophetic satire THE TIME MACHINE (1895) in which humans in future societies are profoundly apathetic, have no opinions nor intellect as everything is done for them by super-advanced technology. Eventually technology will become molecular and indifferentiable from organic life so this prediction is a possible future reality. As the Dutch axiom goes: "wij zijn niet zo ver vandaan" (we are halfway there already.) |
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Lundoxia Presents (3 of 10) : Interesting audio files: The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek recounts the death of his vocalist Jim Morrison (defining the rarefied art of appraising) In 11 minutes, keyboardist for The Doors Ray Manzarek (1939-2013) recounts the death of his vocalist Jim Morrison. It's a miracle when anyone succeeds in capturing a paying following for his or her art; you never hear about the other hundred million who failed. I visited Morrison's Paris grave on my 18th birthday in 1990, returning again two years later. It's at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and is such an iconic cemetery it makes you want to die in Paris and be buried there! In 1991 Oliver Stone released a biopic about The Doors, called "The Doors". I enjoyed this film, though it has a somewhat narrow stereotypical portrayal of Morrison as totally reckless (distortion through compression.) Another good audio/video file to watch/listen to about Morrison which humanizes him is on YouTube entitled: "Interview with Jim Morrison's father and sister" (duration: 8:55.) Morrison was a poetic genius: he was able to create an instantly recognizable sound as a vocalist with The Doors from 1965 to his sudden death aged 27. A good listener (or someone with a "good ear") can identify quality in any genre (as in film genres or visual art genres.) You know it when you see it (or read it, hear it, smell it, touch it or taste it for that matter.) It is called appraisal and few master this rarefied art. Manzarek's audio piece is interesting listening. Jim Morrison's last vocal recording was the song RIDERS ON THE STORM for the album LA WOMAN, released in April 1971; Morrison flew to Paris as the album was being mixed and he died on July 3rd, 1971. In Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 masterpiece APOCALYPSE NOW, Morrison's song THE END was famously featured. A longer version of this film was released in 2001 entitled APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, garnering fresh audiences for Morrison's haunting vocals. For diehards, see the 21-minute mini-doc of keyboardsist Ray Manzarek on YouTube called "Ray Manzarek in Venice" in which Manzarek goes back to the exact spot where he met Jim Morrison on Venice Beach (Los Angeles) in July 1965 and Morrison sang his poetry to him; then, they formed The Doors; within a year they had already recorded BREAK ON THROUGH (released half a year later, in January 1967.) That moment was immortalized in Oliver Stone's biopic THE DOORS |
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Lundoxia Presents (4 of 10): British TV show NAKED ATTRACTION (the normalization of nudity) Again, more proof that nudity is normalizing. I've said it many times: there is no scientific proof that supports the bogus idea that just the sight of a nude human causes criminality or psychological damage. In fact, forbidding or criminalizing mere non-sexual nudity is akin to racist discrimination. If you are a body-hater or body-shamer, then don't look at it! Claiming to be disturbed or offended by the mere presence or sight of a nude person by a clothed person is in fact the same as a white person claiming to be offended by the presence or sight of a black person. Body-phobia or body-negativity or body-hatred is the result of indoctrination in early childhood. Notice how the only people who take a strong vocal dislike to nudity are negative, angry people trying to poison others with their body-hatred? You can also be nudity-neutral or body-neutral. The body-negative tend to be like atomic bombs timed to the next explosion; they walk through life looking for the next available opportunity to get angry. The United KIngdom has the most punitive anti-nudity laws in Europe (public nudists in Britain have been jailed in solitary confinement), so a show like this called NAKED ATTRACTION (Channel 4 in UK, RTL 5 in NL) is of therapeutic or thought-provoking value as an antidote to the standard, unconscious, irrational, unscientific and largely indefensible nudity-negativity. This is an interesting show to watch, because they show the genitalia up close. I would highly recommend to any heterosexual man to go to Gay venues. Only then will you understand what women are subjected to by heterosexual men: as a man at a gay venue you are approached by naked men and there are penises everywhere, rubbing themselves up against you and actively coming on to you. You experience the male sexual energy directly in front of you: his male breath and smell, his male body frame and harder skin with more hair on it than a woman's. Such a radically different sensation as compared with being close up to a woman, with her comparatively softer skin, curvaceous silhouette, her feminine smell or her lips and voice, and a less sex-centric mindset as compared with a man's. Due to evolutionary science, a man as the prehistoric hunter/hunted is wired to make fast eye-hand coordination judgment calls. As a result, a man will spot a woman and in the space of about 3 seconds is able to zero in on her candidacy as a sex mate; his visual faculty is supreme. A woman on the other hand has more to lose so her biological algorithm is infinitely more complex. One example: an uninfected penis can have sex with an infected vagina and the condomless penis will not necessarily become infected; this demonstrates how naturally well protected the penis is. But the reverse is not true; an infected penis has a higher chance of infecting a uninfected vagina. Many people know this, but it is important to reiterate it. Of course, this is a simplified synthesis. There are many subsets and outliers. For example the super-sexual woman, who elevates her sexual prowess to that of an olympic athlete (hence the porno star.) A woman places a high value on the man's social position and personality; instinctively due to her biological wiring, she troubleshoots ten steps ahead by dint of the vagina being a far more susceptible organ as compared with the well-protected penis. As a heterosexual man, would you readily receive anal sex? This is approximately a similar alarm signal that beams into the brains of women when confronted by eager heterosexual males; it's quite a bigger deal to be the penetrated, as compared to the penetrator. Most penises are ugly or very average looking, sausage-like, but it is important to evaluate a penis when erect instead of non-erect; erect penises are more uniform than non-erect penises and provide the most accurate picture of the organ. On the other hand I would also urge any heterosexual woman to go to a lesbian locale; most women don't even know what their vaginas smell like because they are never up close to one. Many women have smelly vaginas without knowing it because its smell is confined to the immediate area. Finally, most vaginas are pretty ordinary. There is a new trend that started in California: surgical vagina design (specifically the labia), including labia skin dyeing. It is good to see more nudity normalization happening. Who knows, perhaps my Naakt Op Straat idea could work out, eventually. DailyMotion link |
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Lundoxia Presents (5 of 10): NaaktopStraat.nl pamflet video Het 5e Element De nieuwste video voor mijn petitie (naakt in het openbaar) gericht naar de tweede kamer.2 minuten. Ga na www.NaaktopStraat.nl en teken de petitie als u mee eens bent dat andere mensen mogen zelf bepalen of ze gekleed of ongekleed op straat gaan! |
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Lundoxia Presents (6 of 10): BBC report about a British Brothel An excellent 15-minute report by the BBC about life as a sex worker in a British brothel dated 17 April 2018. Sex worker Louise dispels the false information and outlines the true nature of her noble work. We also learn about what type of punters she receives which is indicative of modern times: regular handsome healthy men. Because of the mass paranoia triggered by the "Metoo" and "Time's Up" movements in which any man is liable for a slanderous accusation (no proof needed) by con artists trying to get free money by strategically framing their innocent victims, regular healthy men paying for sex will ultimately become the norm. There is no reliable rule book for the fine art of walking across the long bridge from a platonic scenario into a sexual scenario. It is always a risky business; Dutch men coin this proverbial perilous bridge as "bijna verkrachting" (almost rape.) If you don't poke and be pushy, no pussy. She might approve or veto your advance; if she vetoes you, then you worry about a possible ruinous harassment claim. It's easy for the heterosexual women: they just do nothing and wait for the next man to make his advance. As Jack Nicholson once said when asked why he preferred to stay single: "I don't want to line up anymore." How true, how pithy. And it's a long line-up: in any given calendar month the average woman might receive a dozen or more such advances by risk-taking men; most will be rejected. Want to join the reject society? Also, heterosexual women are wired to make it next to impossible for heterosexual men to elevate platonic social engagement into the domain of sexual action. This statement is easy to prove: put hidden cameras in a thousand different locations inside a city of a million or more inhabitants for a calendar year: public parks, squares, cafes, pubs, fitness studios, bars, discotheques and schools for evening classes and so on. Then check all the footage to see when male/female couples form by leaving that spot together; it is more the exception than the rule - sterker nog, it is rather rare. |
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Lundoxia Presents (7 of 10): Grandmaster Melle Mel on the state of hip hop in 2013 One of my favourite videos, of Grandmaster Melle Mel (from the 1970s/1980s rap group GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE) talking on a roof in The Bronx (where Rap started as block parties in the 1970s) about the state of hip hop. Everyone my age recalls the magical rap songs such as THE MESSAGE (1982) or WHITE LINES (1984.) I used Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five albums for my own rap compositions, employing the scratching technique, recording my demos at an army radio station that existed on Jammstrasse 9 in Lahr Germany. The rap, hip hop, Breakdance or b-boy culture of that era had a magical impact and resonated on the mind, containing meaningful social messages; other times, it was just sheer fun and innovative. But for me that music really ended by 1991, the year of Tupac Shakur's first album. By 1991 you could no longer do the "old school" anymore, a new wave had swept away its predecessors. Acts who survived this dramatic transition such as LL Cool J adapted and their sound was not anything as before. But you could argue it morphed gradually. RUN DMC's RAISING HELL (1986) was already a signal of this shift. Speaking for myself, I recorded my last rap song in 1991; I could not attune myself, nor relate to the rap scene from then onward (I still can't; I guess I will forever remain an "old school" loyalist!) For a lark, a quarter century later I recorded two more of my own rap songs: TURKISH DERVISH and DICKLESS CHICKS. Always a post scriptum! |
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Lundoxia Presents (8 of 10): The emergence of electric cars in 2018 A 6-minute video about the emergence of electric cars in 2018, with some cities such as Paris, Athens, Madrid and Mexico partially only allowing electric cars into their city centers by the year 2025 (The Economist.) The end of fossil fuel cars by the year 2040? |
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Lundoxia Presents (9 of 10): 50th anniversary of the greatest film of all time, 2001 : A Space Odyssey Alec Baldwin as a talk show host or interviewer is rare in that he is both sincerely interested and interesting. Here he talks with the two chief actors in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea, about their experiences working with Stanley Kubrick in that film. The irony is, most people will never get 2001; these are the people that erroneously believe in normality. There is no "normal"; Earth and all life is nothing short of a hysterical and mysterious miracle. Where do we come from, who are we, where are we going as a species? Perhaps it is unknowable; this is what 2001: A Space Odyssey is all about. Baldwin cleverly injects scenes of the film and is crucially generous with his interviewees, giving them liberty to speak without cutting them off, and adding interesting anecdotes of his own rich career. Interesting stuff. |
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Lundoxia Presents (10 of 10): Riders on the Storm (Lundy vs Amsterdam, Part I) A summary of the case called Lundy vs Amsterdam concerning my revoked rickshaw licence for Solar Rickshaw. This case was heard at The Hague on 21 December 2017 and a ruling was published on 21 February 2018, yielding a win for Lundy. Is 2018 the last full calendar year of rickshaws in Amsterdam? The current fietstaxi licence is granted each 3 years from the city department APV (Alternatief Personen Vervoer, literally meaning "Alternative Person Transport") and will expire on 31 March 2019. The next licence application from 1 April 2019 onward has been removed from APV's website. It is indeed within the realm of possibility that no new licence for rickshaws will be granted from 1 April 2019 onward. I call this the "Zurichification" of Amsterdam (Zurich is the city with the most millionaires per capita at 27%, after the city state of Monaco, 29%*); the name "Zurich" is very apt because the word "Zu" in German means "too" and "to", combined with the rest of the letters in that name you have "Zu-rich", meaning "Too rich" or "to rich". How rich in meaning this is. People often mistake financial wealth with intelligence or art. Vincent van Gogh was poor all his life but produced great art. Albert Einstein was super intelligent and innovative (even though he flunked out of high school) but uninterested in financial wealth, giving the sum of money won from a Nobel prize in Physics to his ex-wife. In the club for super intelligent people MENSA, it includes members from all walks of life from garbage collectors to barmen. I will always remember the Frenchman who told me: "L'art se fait en dehors de l’école" (art is made outside of school.) How true, how deep. Since arriving in Amsterdam in 2002 I have noted a major shift in municipal policies and the art of governance, often called Globalisation. The visible consequences of which are: more "big money" flowing in from big multinational corporations and eliminating tiny companies, a severe reduction in alternative demographics and venues, resulting in a noticeable shift in the collective psyche, going from liberal, progressive or tolerant to conservative or prudish and even intolerant. I still have to remind people that The Netherlands is not North Korea; as soon as a person voices what is perceived as a different idea or radical proposal (which it often isn't when more closely looked at, such as my Naakt op Straat initiative, which bears many sociological transposable similarities with coffee shops), people react as if we were living in North Korea. This is why one often hears Dutch people aged 40+ exclaim: "Ik herken mijn eigen land niet meer" ("I don't recognize my own country anymore".) People are losing their ability to think dialectically or generally, philosophically; it's as if their minds have been put inside little narrow boxes. Pluralism is what produces the richest tastes in a soup; is the soup getting too bland? *Source: http://www.wealthinsight.com/pressrelease/over-one-in-every-30-a-millionaire-in-london-4328148 |
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Lundoxia Presents (Addendum/Elf): Lundy vs. Amsterdam Part II: Winning as The Omega Man The 2-year legal saga for a rickshaw licence called "Lundy/Solar Rickshaw vs Amsterdam" yielded a decision on 21 February 2018 with a win for me Lundy; 6-minute music video with summary concerning The Hague's court ruling of 21 February 2018. |
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Lundoxia Presents (The Dirty Dozen): Lundy vs Amsterdam Part III : Coping in Quagmires Part III of the trilogy summarizing the case called Lundy / Solar Rickshaw vs Amsterdam, finishing with the final approval of Solar Rickshaw by Amsterdam on 3 April 2018 |
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