Quiet days in Dystalgia...

This old grey mare definitely ain't what she used to be. And I am not referring to myself... Where is everybody?

Quantum Psychology and Nonlinear Time

Terence McKenna wrote,

"Imagination being the deepening involvement of the species with things beheld but not actually existing in the present at hand."


If you search The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension for quantum time you will find Irreversibility, Time Reversal and Generalized Entropy.

If you search for quantum memory you find the essay "Time and its Discontents" By John Zerzan.

Can quantum mechanics explain the enigma of consciousness and time?

In quantum physics, observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it. Is the act of conscious observation and re-visitation creating Time itself?

Time exists because we are aware of it.


I don't know if this makes any sense. Richard Feynman once said, "Anyone who claims they understand quantum physics, does not understand quantum physics."

Maybe it was just something I smoked

nostalgia: 1770, "severe homesickness" (considered as a disease); the main modern sense of "wistful yearning for the past" first recorded in 1920.

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

Márgarét, are you gríeving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leáves, líke the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! ás the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you wíll weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sórrow's spríngs áre the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It ís the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

negative feedback loop

Googling things like "nonlinear time" and "negative feedback loop" in an effort to bring quantum physics into the discussion somehow (not that I know shit about it), I came across this. Somewhere in my scrambled brain, I see this as akin to a nostalgia-machine, perfecting the imperfect just-past. But is the making (and patenting) of the machine itself dystalgic, or perverse, or just practical?

Utopie

From our friend Channing:
This should go to the dystalgia blog. It's what the french thought the
year 2000 would be like in 1910 -

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/feuill/index.htm

This link also showed up through another friend on a discussion group I am part of, and it makes me wonder about the attraction to things like this. I think it may be dystalgic, indeed, perhaps because there seems to be so much hope and expectation inscribed in expressions and ideas such as these. It's not that they are naive; quite the opposite. Maybe we don't see ourselves as having that kind of hope or imagination for the future. I myself have become increasingly afraid of the future, envisioning it mostly as a bleak wasteland populated by sociopaths. But this is not a platform for discussing the future, so I will leave it at that.

Madmen for Dystalgia

Style screams, defining relationships acted out between the sexes. Style does not illustrate an idealized moment set in a 1960 Manhattan ad agency, but reprimands the desire to live in that moment. In this scene watch Pete and Peggy as he tells his dystalgic story:



We are bodies and TV is TV. Looking at Magritte’s Not To Be Reproduced (La Reproduction interdite), which is a painting, we are not part of the moment being depicted, but can watch and reflect on what we see and say based on style and space. Both Madmen and the Magritte put us in our physical and emotional present.

You could really be a Beau Brummell, baby, if you just give it half a chance.