2009.07.26 19:00 - Global Culture

 

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Vajra Radikal and I were together for the meeting tonight talking about culture, architecture and spirituality.

stevenaia Michinaga: hello

Vajra Radikal: hi there steve

stevenaia Michinaga: thank for joining me, Sunday nights (for me here) can be rather quiet

Vajra Radikal: same here except that in rl they are not that quiet

Vajra Radikal: trying to get the girls 2 sleep :)

stevenaia Michinaga: you have 2 daughters?

Vajra Radikal: yep 4 and 8

Vajra Radikal: and they can be a handful sometimes

stevenaia Michinaga: my 18 yr old is finally old enough to ignore me

stevenaia Michinaga: ignore

Vajra Radikal: around here they still listen but i know adolescence is not far away

Vajra Radikal: the good thing is that with daughters at least here u never lose them

Vajra Radikal: they stay in the family

stevenaia Michinaga: where is here (I forget)

Vajra Radikal: mexico

stevenaia Michinaga: right, I did write it down, forgot to look

Vajra Radikal: this is still a family oriented society

Vajra Radikal: not much of a ME culture

Vajra Radikal: however it is changing rapidly

Vajra Radikal: you r from the states right?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, eastern Pennsylvania

Vajra Radikal: its weird when you are from another culture, you probably can't notice it as much but we are reaching some sort of single global culture

Vajra Radikal: mass media and the net generating a single world view

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: unfortunately yes

stevenaia Michinaga: similarly with food

stevenaia Michinaga: part of that corporate uniformity

stevenaia Michinaga: a new colonialism of sorts

Vajra Radikal: not really doesn't feel as imposed

Vajra Radikal: i find it dangerous though

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, they are good

Vajra Radikal: sort of the cultural equivalent of losing+

Vajra Radikal: bio diversity

stevenaia Michinaga: you don't even know it

Vajra Radikal: that the worrisome part people buy into it

Vajra Radikal: the prob is the world wont be able to stand it

Vajra Radikal: there are problems in large numbers

stevenaia Michinaga: they count on it, advertising doesn;t sell if you if many don;t believe it

Vajra Radikal: 4 example can u imagine what would happen if china bought into the american dream?

Vajra Radikal: there are probably not enough natural resources to withstand it

stevenaia Michinaga: well there is the "Blade Runner" view of the future, a mixture of everything

Vajra Radikal: yep, big fan of Phillip k Dick myself

Vajra Radikal: is it usually this slow on sundays?

stevenaia Michinaga: this summer it has been, unless you are from down under, then it;s this winter, isn;t it

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Vajra Radikal: how long have u been a guardian

stevenaia Michinaga: it;s strange enough that time is now different everywhere, but season's as well

stevenaia Michinaga: I think over a year now

stevenaia Michinaga: I rely on the my scribe interview to remember even my history here

Vajra Radikal: hehe

stevenaia Michinaga: chronicles, rather

Vajra Radikal: pardon my asking, you are a buddhist? your profile is filled with dharma and buddhism

stevenaia Michinaga: Dharma is actually a friend's name who introduced me to Pema

stevenaia Michinaga: I knew little of Buddhism before second life

stevenaia Michinaga: I am learning more and more abut many beliefs ere

stevenaia Michinaga: especially my own

Vajra Radikal: and are you an architect?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes

stevenaia Michinaga: :)

Vajra Radikal: have you translated your new found spirituality into your work

Vajra Radikal: ?

stevenaia Michinaga: I;m not sure I can say that, but what I have found is that certain philosophies seem to be more in alignment with how I view my work and life

stevenaia Michinaga: so I am understanding my self more, in that sense

Vajra Radikal: the thing is that i have always perceived architecture as an art

Vajra Radikal: thus it can help you express a whole cosmo vision

stevenaia Michinaga: a large part of it is

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, it can reflect much of the universe

stevenaia Michinaga: and ideally it does

stevenaia Michinaga: it's the nature of the process

Vajra Radikal: like 4 example albert schpeer(sp?) used to love to reflect how small the individual was vs the power of the group

Vajra Radikal: probably was that that made the nazi love him

Vajra Radikal: him

stevenaia Michinaga: interesting choice

Vajra Radikal: i was the obvious

Vajra Radikal: it was architecture as statement

stevenaia Michinaga: as Hitler was an artist in his own mind

Vajra Radikal: religious architecture on the other hand especially in the west had to do with showing the power and mystery of god

Vajra Radikal: yet it was still an architectural statement

Vajra Radikal: one thing i never have seen is a true buddhist architecture

stevenaia Michinaga: what religion in the east or west hasn't, have you seen Adam's exhibit on Sacred Architecture?

Vajra Radikal: nope

Vajra Radikal: a rl exhibit

Vajra Radikal: or a sl one

stevenaia Michinaga: Sl, comparing all religion's architectures in SL and RL

stevenaia Michinaga: let me see if I have the link, it may still be up

I gave Vajra a ,ink to the Hall of Appearances where the exhibit was

Vajra Radikal: i do love architecture it is a human way of conforming reality to our expectations of it

stevenaia Michinaga: if it is up, is should be at that landmark

stevenaia Michinaga: I see Adams just signed off too

Vajra Radikal: ty will check it out later today

Vajra Radikal: i don't believe i have met her yet is he a part of PaB?

stevenaia Michinaga: yes, she was part of those who did the guardian Chronicles

stevenaia Michinaga: http://playasbeing.wik.is/PaB_Chroni...n/D._Stevenaia

Vajra Radikal: ok definitely a must read then :)

stevenaia Michinaga: http://playasbeing.wik.is/PaB_Chronicles

stevenaia Michinaga: on moment Adams just logged on

Vajra Radikal: it would be great if she could join us to deepen the discussion

Vajra Radikal: or to at least tell us if his exhibit is still on

Vajra Radikal: :)

stevenaia Michinaga: it;s late for her and she is not answering my IM

Vajra Radikal: 2bad

Vajra Radikal: in any case i will go have a look l8r

stevenaia Michinaga: no, signed she off, try the landmark

stevenaia Michinaga: brb for a moment

Vajra Radikal: no prob

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: my spouse broke her ankle today and is a bit inconvenienced

Vajra Radikal: sorry 2 hear that

stevenaia Michinaga: so is she

Vajra Radikal: do you wish to go with her

Vajra Radikal: i can keep guard here

stevenaia Michinaga: I just tended to her

stevenaia Michinaga: I;m fine

Vajra Radikal: ok then. I will drop you here in order to look 4 the exhibit

Vajra Radikal: c u l8r

Vajra Radikal: :)

stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy

stevenaia Michinaga: see you soon

Vajra Radikal: namaste