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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 stand in line 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 or at least exchange phone numbers or friend-add each other; it is more the exception than the rule - sterker nog, it is rather rare. It's a wonder humanity has survived this long but one thing is sure: the human population will peak as 11 billion later this century, then it will peter out. Men scoring sex with women is like playing ping pong on a trampoline while bouncing up and down, and it's easy to miss the ball, in more ways than one. The men who claim it is easy are only partially correct; it is easy only after the motion to perform sex has received the "green light", a matter of just dumb luck and correct timing. In no other book is this complex human labyrinthe of sexual behavior better exemplified than in SPERM WARS (1996, by Robin Baker.) |
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Lundoxia Presents (7 of 10): Nostalgic playlist / Bravo Breakdance Sensation (defining difference between Hip Hop Gangsta and B-Boy culture) A vintage piece of nostalgia for B-boy culture aficionados: Bravo Breakdance Sensation 1984 (YouTube Playlist), compiled by the Munich-based pop magazine BRAVO in 1984. What is the difference between Hip Hop Gangsta or Gs and Break Dancers or B-Boys? The two are fundamentally opposites. Hip Hop Gangsters (post-old school Hip Hop) or Gs is very ego-driven: gold chains, clothes, boastful way of being, often accompanied by violence and misogyny or homophobia as themes which may deal a negative impact to observing civilians. On the other hand, true B-Boy culture is egoless because it centers on attaining a cool vibe shared by all. Dancing is Jedi-like in that one must release the ego in order to become one with the movement, or in unison with the Tao as Toists would say, otherwise it comes across as fake. It is like Porno-acting; any authentic theatre acting school would insist all actors perform pornographic acting scenes because it is the most honest form of acting as the man cannot fake an erection. It is the most ecstatic truth known to humanity and the reason for its existence. You can hear it in the B-Boy music; it is sonically joyful. Sometimes it can get goofy or silly, but this is not antithetical to B-boys (or girls), who are often esoteric, alternative and even eccentric people. B-boy culture is fundamentally non-judgmental and non-ageist because it was and is oriented towards capturing a metaphysical sensation pulsating a subtle sense or inner euphoria or existential awareness. People who look into it are even surprised to find bisexuality, homosexuality and so on; such as some of the greatest B-boy legends as Crazy Legs, who featured in the cult film BEAT STREET (1984.) This album was put out in 1984 by the Munich-based magazine BRAVO. To look through this magazine's 1980s (or 1970s) issues now would stun the teens of today: the German magazine was aimed at a teenage and early 20s audience and beside popular music and film also featured nudity and erotica, but back then nobody thought it was unusual. It is the same for Europe in general too. Today the youth is essentially asexual, neutered. What a weird world it is becoming, with the negative paranoid and obsessional movements of "MeToo", "Time's Up" in which anyone and everyone is a potential pedophile or serial rapist! |
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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): How many more countries will join the European Union (nudity in art as a European cultural commonality)? Playlist Part I + II A 5,5-minute video of mine with text predicting how many more European countries will join the European Union (EU.) On its western and southern sides, the Atlantic ocean and Mediterranean sea form natural frontiers for Europe respectively. On its eastern face, Europe's geophysical limits are unfixed and arbitrary. Hence Europe is a culture club, not a continent. A personal commentary by me Thomas Lundy using the adopted hymn for Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven's ODE TO JOY (1824.) Part II (threaded playlist): focus on Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia. A video with music by The Beloved (Sweet Harmony, 1993) of under 5 minutes. |
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Lundoxia Presents (10 of 10): Great interviews (Mel Gibson waxes lyrical) How rare it is to find an interviewee who can really wax lyrical and be a true raconteur. But even more rare is to find one who loads metaphor upon metaphor upon metaphor within his or her story-telling to the point where the metaphors take over the story, to hilarious effect. I love this 10-minute piece - and this same interviewer has also done other excellent interviews such as one with Mickey Rourke when he worked in a car garage* - but it starts to get particularly hilarious at 6:18 "I've sat there, and I've felt the knife firmly slip in between my shoulder blades". From there onward Gibson dives deep into an ocean of metaphors. Cockroach resilience, fresh off the farm, shit on your shoes, salmon swimming up stream or downstream, cascading on you, licking you, you are going to be diverted, you had a lot of weird paranoid suspicions, weird town, once you understand it you can just walk around it and through it...a must for any wordsmith or linguistics and phonetics or prose enthusiasts. *Mike Figgis in conversation with Mickey Rourke (1998), HOLLYWOOD CONVERSATIONS |
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Lundoxia Presents (addendum/elf): Naakt in het openbaar petitite NaaktopStraat.nl nieuwe video 1,5 minuut Nieuwe toelichting video in het Nederlands (English subtitles, click "CC" bottom right inside black screen) met muziek van van Halen (Eruption, 1978.) Teken de petitie NaaktopStraat.nl Dit is een experiment om democratie te toetsen. Deze petitie is al een jaar oud. De meeste mensen die over deze petitie horen lezen het niet en hebben verkeerde ideeën erover; dit is een apathisch, cynisch en lui reflex. De democratie zit in een zwakke staat! Laten we zo snel mogelijk alles verbieden: prostitutie, coffeeshops, homohuwelijk, euthanasie...een fascistisch systeem is het resultaat van moderne apathie. Een democratisch denker ondersteund ook een idee juist omdat hij of zij niet per se mee eens is. Dit is de organisch alchimie van democratie. |
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Lundoxia Presents (The Dirty Dozen): Lundy vs Amsterdam Trilogy A summary of the case called Lundy vs Amsterdam concerning my revoked rickshaw licence for Solar Rickshaw, in 3 parts, looped into a playlist thread on YouTube. |
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