Mind Control

The battle has been joined and I have been taken by surprise. My opponent which is my own mind has taken the upper hand and I am reeling from the ferocity of its attack. It has struck me where I was most vulnerable and I got hit hard. I will be leaving tomorrow and this will give me some respite from the terrible battles that I have been waging with a surrogate which is very powerful. I will at least have a few days rest while I try to recuperate and gather strength and momentum for that which I am planning to do. On the other hand, I have been able to make some money through mylot.com and that is a good thing. When my earnings reach $10 they are going to pay me through my paypal account and that is another good thing. As I said before, the proof of my success in my experiment to change my life is in the amount of money that I am able to make.

Mylot is one way of making money while having fun posting on things you care about.

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Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway. Jai Alexander rocks!

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Some SEO Succcess

I found something very gratifying that caused me to have the enthusiasm to make new posts to my blogs. One of my sites, Cagayan de Oro City recently found itself on page 4 of the Google search machine. I had been trying hard to get it out of oblivion for many, many years and when it seemed to me that I would never succeed in doing this, voila! there is was on page 4.

You might think that page 4 is not too big a deal well, you should try caring enough for a website to want it to be found on the higher pages and you will know what I mean by this. I have tried doing this for Dumaguete and I have had a measure of success there too, another page 4 entry but it has gone back to a dark hole and I don't know if it is ever coming back to light.

One surprise was Cebu which suddenly got a pr1 when all my other sites remained at przero-nada-nothing. One of the things I did was to do some checking with a tool that came my way and I was surprised to find Cagayan de Oro on its pages. Good show!!

Driven by Demon

Sometimes when I think of those times when my mind was constantly troubled by adolescent angst, I think that I was mostly driven by demons I did not understand. There was a lot I know I needed to do but I did not know how to go about doing them. I needed to be part of the mainstream of life, to straddle the dual teams of wild horses running where they wanted. I was bound to fall and fall I did. I never knew how and why but I was shunted aside by the desire for peace that oblivion brings.

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There was a fleeting flirtation with activism but deep inside I knew that I did not identify with the masses that I so loudly protested for. Somehow, I believed that the very masses that I professed to speak for would kill me in an instant of blind ignorance. Such is the power of a mob and the masses could very easily turn into a blind, raging mob for little or no reason at all.

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Activism, A Virus?

It can be observed that Activism exhibits the traits of a virus in its ability to be transmitted from one host to another. I guess this characteristic is not really exclusively native to activism but is more the domain of ideas. Activism is the result of an idea taking root in a person's mind and pushing that person to feel unhappy unless he or she is doing something about that idea. Thus, activists might be construed as being the hosts of an idea and the vessel for creating action on that idea. Is this a fair assessment of this thing called activism? If the person is nothing more than a vessel for an infectious idea, then killing the infected person would not really stop the idea which spreads like wildfire through the population.

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Where does this virus come from? Does one man generate an original idea and spread it around? Or does the phenomenon have a more common origin like pain and despair at prevailing conditions?

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Idealism

It is all very well to be idealistic when you are young and without real responsibilities, it is completely another matter when you have mouths to feed and bodies to keep warm and shelter. The great modern composer Charles Ives made his living as an insurance executive even though he wrote some really fine music. When asked once why he chose to earn his living that way and not through his music he answered, "When you have a nice wife and nice kids, you wouldn't want them to starve on your dissonances".

In life, there are always compromises to be made. When Charles Ives died, his attic was filled with unpublished music of unparalleled beauty and inventiveness. He was true to his responsibilities as a husband and a father while quietly being true to his music and his art. He could have easily have found fame and fortune as a musician but he succeeded in keeping a fine balance between business and art.

Does Activism Stop At All?

When one is young and unbelievably fresh and impressionable, the unbearable feeling of setting the world right, of doing something to change the world and make it better, gnaws at one's brain and soul and gives one no rest. Couple that with the romanticism of youth, raging and unexpressed hormones and you have a combination which creates fodder for any revolution that may be foisted at the time. This mixture creates revolutionaries and martyrs and it is sheer luck that many survive, for the bullets that hunt them down are all too real and the pain is no longer just located in the mind or in the heart but tear at the skin and penetrate the flesh, drawing real blood and not just the metaphor of endless rhetoric.

Does activism indicate a death wish? Is one's life so untenable, so inexorably hopeless that the only way to suirvive is to mimic the primordial chaos in the hope that what remains when all has been unpended is acceptable to the tortured soul? The contradictions that raged within the soul of Che Guevarra propelled him to transplant the revolution which he and Fidel Castro waged in Cuba even after the old establishment had been toppled. Obviously, he had no taste for administration and cohesion. His soul needed to destroy arterio-sclerotic systems that prevented the flow of fresh ideas into the bloodstream of human society and his very restlessness found peace in his unheralded death in the jungles of Bolivia.

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Third Quarter Storm

I never learned the meaning of the term, "3rd Quarter Storm". It was many, many years after the period described had passed when I first heard the term mentioned in reference to my participation in certain events of the time and somehow, it stuck in my mind as a kind of cool catch-phrase which is now obscure. Maybe some historian will write about it and explain the meaning of the term and how it came to be coined, Or maybe it does not really matter anymore.

I do remember a time of intense activism where people were polarized and the divide could be described much like the generation gap, for you had the old ones on one side and the young ones on the other. The old ones who were wiser and knew of things which we, young and naive then, could never even dream about. They had the 2nd World War to make them realize how precarious and fragile life is and how precious, and how brutal and inhumane human beings can be in times of strife and war. We on the other hand, were young and had little knowledge except the one that nudged at our brains and prodded our consciences regarding the insidious threat which the Marcos dictatorship represented and the nagging feeling we had that Marcos represented something which was all wrong. And for this hint of an idea, we were willing to risk life and limb and dive into the storm with the fatalistic bravado which only the young and inexperienced can have.

It was very easy to draw a line between opposing ideas and call each side Right and Left; much easier to have two instead of three or four or even ten and label everything as Rightist or Leftist eventually leading to the adoption of Capitalism and Communism as the main protagonists in the Human Drama. One had to favor one and oppose the other. It was at this time when I first read George Orwell's 1984 which was a powerful indictment of the Big Brother mentality which Government tended to have. If you were young and outside the System, your life had no meaning if you did not oppose it, never mind that you did not have to work for your living and depended on your parents whose ideas you so vehemently oppose as cock-eyed and reactionary (a term which you did not really understand but it made you sound important when you uttered it).

Things were confusing and the whole world was in turmoil and the thing to do was to take a side and stick with it. This was a dangerous way to live and fence-sitting was somehow vilified as timid and boring and lacking in sex-appeal.

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