These hackers say they are not affiliated with Wiki Leaks but hold the same principles.
That’s a breakthrough thought. All about “sex”. What an interesting take and it is as you say, at the heart of the matter. At the moment humanity is chained to a carnal agreement. Strained for resources we use politics as domination and surrender to get more because we are caught up in a cyclical way of being. It is liberating to imagine Assange as a vessel of change, the autonomous male that helps us to globally address an imbalance of power between males and females. Assange is a Cancer which makes him a perfect consort, to protect the Feminine Principle, and, Sweden is a country known for its feminist policies. We live in a world were so many women need to be validated by men and these women charging him of rape are two of a much larger population. We have sexual cripples in power. The issue as you said in an earlier piece, Libra being intercepted, is “a matter within a matter”. I don’t fancy myself to be an astrologer. I am of a Chthonian mind.
Kyla,
Yep, they cannot succeed in drowning the message despite their efforts. It reminds me of the so called exposure of MLK’s secret sex life some years back; that was supposed to somehow water down his purpose and message yet it didn’t. This is because people see themselves in that hero now; instead of him being bigger than we are, he is brought down to our level. While some people find that very satisfying, (because it denigrates the “great man”), others find it a call to action; if HE can have sexual skeletons in HIS closet and still change the world THAT MUCH, so can I.
Assange is a regular guy with all the humanity we all have; his secret closet is just as full of stuff as anyone so like him, any one of us can “do the right thing” too.
The Wiki Leaks message is still strong because it wasn’t about Assange really; it was about exposing the truth.
Yep, I get that, ultimately it is the same issue: the trivializing of living material, whether it be sexuality or the workings of exchange in the large institutions of the world…. trivializing rather than holding with heart and conscious integrity…. And too right, because so much of the instinctual workings of human beings, to do with sex, pleasure, arousal, power, survival — all that — so much of it is divorced from heart intelligence, the world and all of us are vulnerable to this kind of manipulation by “agendas of power and control.”
And, on reflection I’ve dropped my earlier concern. The can of worms that has been cracked wide open is too huge and too active to so easily be reduced to the trivial. They won’t succeed.
Well said, Eric. The sheen absurdity and transparent contrivance of the charges against Mr. Assange are an insult to every human being, male or female, anywhere on the face of the Earth. We may not be able to bust him out of L-7 but can at the very least see the farce for what it is and not be fooled again.
Clearly, that is the plan. For the moment, it is working.
And that is what radicals need to guard against. The risk of the story always was that Assange was the story. It would not have been possible otherwise and now we see one of the pitfalls.
However, there are more leaks coming. And the prosecution has to make its case with the eyes of the world on it. I suggest that one strategy in this situation, to further the cause of light, would be to make this a trial of sex trials. And if we want to further the cause of preventing actual rape, which is prevalent in the world to a stunning degree, we can probably all agree that this kind of scenario is not going to help that particular cause.
The past couple of years I’ve been corresponding with one of the celebrated, radical lesbian separatist feminists of the 1970s — the very one who came up with the phrase that has become something of a theme of Planet Waves, “The personal is political,” associated with the Aries Point. I suggested to her, as I wrote in Book of Blue in 2008, that “masturbation is the opposite of rape.” And this scholar and philosopher, who actually figured out and coined the phrase “the personal is political,” said: no, it’s not, you’re wrong. Maybe masturbation is just masturbation. And I said: I don’t think you understand your own theory.
And, as the world turns, we are seeing that very idea played out amidst everything happening at once on the Aries Point.
Meanwhile I would hate to think that something so positive as revealing injustice on this scale could be thwarted by a combination of someone’s slight indiscretion (magnified by his fame), some sick laws and someone with an agenda. Yes it is possible. For those who wonder why I invest so much time and energy on the topic of sexual consciousness and ethics, this is one of the reasons — that we need to keep this particular closet if not clear, then being cleared, in order to be fully effective. And, that said, there are so few opportunities for an exchange of information on this topic that it verges on impossible, but is just on this side of possible.
Now you have your answer to, “What has sex got to do with [whatever]?”
That said, the sex angle of this story is every bit as important as the government conduct angle, because it is part of the government angle: the realm of sexuality has become every bit as regulated as classified documents. (And some of these documents reveal sexual misconduct on the part of the government.) Yet sexual integrity, on the personal level, is an angle that neither political activists, nor spiritual activists, want to touch — and I think that’s for one reason: hardly anyone feels their personal closet is clean enough to do so, and that “unclean” feeling is nothing other than shame/guilt/shadow that is, itself, pre-programmed by just this kind of event.
When Wayland Young said that scandal is a form of sexual repression, consider it in this context: how inviting does this make sex? To what extent does this kind of event destroy any sense of trust, spontaneity, curiosity or other factors that facilitate the quest for pleasure and sharing? It’s absolutely a refrigerant, if you ask me.
So we are now, all of a sudden, standing at the intersection of sex and politics. This is what it feels like. And in this spot it is crucial to understand, to really feel, into the concept and the reality of integrity. And I’ll tell you, most people strive for sexual purity that they don’t think they have. But that is not a substitute for being internally integrated.
So, my question now is, will this reduction of the entire situation to the usual television bathos of personality melodrama (Rape! Sex! Manhunt! Arrest! No Bail! Defense and Accusations! Wah!) succeed in removing all attention from the actual content and potential impact of the material Wikileaks exists to publicize? Will the need to protect the functioning of the organization and its administration become so overloaded with this trumped up legal tangle of a situation that the operation clogs up and the flow of information dwindles? Or is mishandled?
I do notice most of the articles I run across now are about this drama and not about any content of the leaked material, so focus, for the time being, has successfully been diverted, whether intentionally or not, by this tendency of mass media to trivialize everything and reduce it to soap opera.
Please convince me I am wrong in this assessment. Or even premature. I sure as hell hope for one of those.
and another one:
http://sadydoyle.tumblr.com/post/2159277028/oy-assange
i hope people are reading these and not just laughing at the video…
and more in depth:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/blog/sandracuffe/5363
“Leaked Cable #r?a?p?e?: An Open Rant Against the Perpetuation of Rape Myths”
here’s a good response, appropriate re: the video
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/12/08/naomi-wolf-assange-captured-by-the-dating-police/
Assange and Wiki Leaks has helpers: Hackers attacking Mastercard shut it down as “payback” for shutting out Wiki Leaks:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40559236/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/
These hackers say they are not affiliated with Wiki Leaks but hold the same principles.
That’s a breakthrough thought. All about “sex”. What an interesting take and it is as you say, at the heart of the matter. At the moment humanity is chained to a carnal agreement. Strained for resources we use politics as domination and surrender to get more because we are caught up in a cyclical way of being. It is liberating to imagine Assange as a vessel of change, the autonomous male that helps us to globally address an imbalance of power between males and females. Assange is a Cancer which makes him a perfect consort, to protect the Feminine Principle, and, Sweden is a country known for its feminist policies. We live in a world were so many women need to be validated by men and these women charging him of rape are two of a much larger population. We have sexual cripples in power. The issue as you said in an earlier piece, Libra being intercepted, is “a matter within a matter”. I don’t fancy myself to be an astrologer. I am of a Chthonian mind.
Kyla,
Yep, they cannot succeed in drowning the message despite their efforts. It reminds me of the so called exposure of MLK’s secret sex life some years back; that was supposed to somehow water down his purpose and message yet it didn’t. This is because people see themselves in that hero now; instead of him being bigger than we are, he is brought down to our level. While some people find that very satisfying, (because it denigrates the “great man”), others find it a call to action; if HE can have sexual skeletons in HIS closet and still change the world THAT MUCH, so can I.
Assange is a regular guy with all the humanity we all have; his secret closet is just as full of stuff as anyone so like him, any one of us can “do the right thing” too.
The Wiki Leaks message is still strong because it wasn’t about Assange really; it was about exposing the truth.
Yep, I get that, ultimately it is the same issue: the trivializing of living material, whether it be sexuality or the workings of exchange in the large institutions of the world…. trivializing rather than holding with heart and conscious integrity…. And too right, because so much of the instinctual workings of human beings, to do with sex, pleasure, arousal, power, survival — all that — so much of it is divorced from heart intelligence, the world and all of us are vulnerable to this kind of manipulation by “agendas of power and control.”
And, on reflection I’ve dropped my earlier concern. The can of worms that has been cracked wide open is too huge and too active to so easily be reduced to the trivial. They won’t succeed.
Well said, Eric. The sheen absurdity and transparent contrivance of the charges against Mr. Assange are an insult to every human being, male or female, anywhere on the face of the Earth. We may not be able to bust him out of L-7 but can at the very least see the farce for what it is and not be fooled again.
Clearly, that is the plan. For the moment, it is working.
And that is what radicals need to guard against. The risk of the story always was that Assange was the story. It would not have been possible otherwise and now we see one of the pitfalls.
However, there are more leaks coming. And the prosecution has to make its case with the eyes of the world on it. I suggest that one strategy in this situation, to further the cause of light, would be to make this a trial of sex trials. And if we want to further the cause of preventing actual rape, which is prevalent in the world to a stunning degree, we can probably all agree that this kind of scenario is not going to help that particular cause.
The past couple of years I’ve been corresponding with one of the celebrated, radical lesbian separatist feminists of the 1970s — the very one who came up with the phrase that has become something of a theme of Planet Waves, “The personal is political,” associated with the Aries Point. I suggested to her, as I wrote in Book of Blue in 2008, that “masturbation is the opposite of rape.” And this scholar and philosopher, who actually figured out and coined the phrase “the personal is political,” said: no, it’s not, you’re wrong. Maybe masturbation is just masturbation. And I said: I don’t think you understand your own theory.
And, as the world turns, we are seeing that very idea played out amidst everything happening at once on the Aries Point.
Meanwhile I would hate to think that something so positive as revealing injustice on this scale could be thwarted by a combination of someone’s slight indiscretion (magnified by his fame), some sick laws and someone with an agenda. Yes it is possible. For those who wonder why I invest so much time and energy on the topic of sexual consciousness and ethics, this is one of the reasons — that we need to keep this particular closet if not clear, then being cleared, in order to be fully effective. And, that said, there are so few opportunities for an exchange of information on this topic that it verges on impossible, but is just on this side of possible.
Now you have your answer to, “What has sex got to do with [whatever]?”
That said, the sex angle of this story is every bit as important as the government conduct angle, because it is part of the government angle: the realm of sexuality has become every bit as regulated as classified documents. (And some of these documents reveal sexual misconduct on the part of the government.) Yet sexual integrity, on the personal level, is an angle that neither political activists, nor spiritual activists, want to touch — and I think that’s for one reason: hardly anyone feels their personal closet is clean enough to do so, and that “unclean” feeling is nothing other than shame/guilt/shadow that is, itself, pre-programmed by just this kind of event.
When Wayland Young said that scandal is a form of sexual repression, consider it in this context: how inviting does this make sex? To what extent does this kind of event destroy any sense of trust, spontaneity, curiosity or other factors that facilitate the quest for pleasure and sharing? It’s absolutely a refrigerant, if you ask me.
So we are now, all of a sudden, standing at the intersection of sex and politics. This is what it feels like. And in this spot it is crucial to understand, to really feel, into the concept and the reality of integrity. And I’ll tell you, most people strive for sexual purity that they don’t think they have. But that is not a substitute for being internally integrated.
So, my question now is, will this reduction of the entire situation to the usual television bathos of personality melodrama (Rape! Sex! Manhunt! Arrest! No Bail! Defense and Accusations! Wah!) succeed in removing all attention from the actual content and potential impact of the material Wikileaks exists to publicize? Will the need to protect the functioning of the organization and its administration become so overloaded with this trumped up legal tangle of a situation that the operation clogs up and the flow of information dwindles? Or is mishandled?
I do notice most of the articles I run across now are about this drama and not about any content of the leaked material, so focus, for the time being, has successfully been diverted, whether intentionally or not, by this tendency of mass media to trivialize everything and reduce it to soap opera.
Please convince me I am wrong in this assessment. Or even premature. I sure as hell hope for one of those.
It all makes perfect sense LOL