Natural Philosophy

Reading Rousseau and talking about natural man I wish I could escape for few days where I could feel air against my bare skin

Tango me Right and Left

Just received news from friends back at home, mostly revolving around local politics and upcoming elections in UB. How amusing it is to observe current buzz around presidential election in the US and sort of be presented at the same time with miniature version of election drama from somewhere in Central Asia. Apparently Democrats (back home) are in lead in the process of disintegrating their party system into newly established independent parties, though never completely understood the term "independent", as if to suggest that representative politics anyway about estabiushed two party system (don't the free and fair democratic elections allow equal acknowledgement of all political parties, thus ensuring their equal participation?...naaah) If the newly established party is actually formed by former members of the same old parties, what difference does it make to us? Recycled X-mas cards with just visibly crossed over old content of wishes? I mean what moron on earth would vote for new party if the leader of it was a former member of a party where he suffered total knock out by his colleagues and therefore proved to be blindly unskilled statesman? What they were thinking? Plz...need some fresh air!

Never mind, on other hand seems like rightist are proving far more capable of moving their party through this confusion of equally divided vote. At least people are able to see clear determined issues and resolutions there instead of internal intrigue and havoc trashed out in open air of media war. Speaking of right and left moves, thinking about joining some tango establishment, will have something to mutter when folks ask me "what sport do you do?".

-I don't jog

-I don't play tennis

-I don't go to gym

-I don't workout and run like a rat

But

-I dance (good enough for me to sustain my booty in shape

CPR on Animals

I found this while surfing arund websites, found it mad cute. It is an excerpt from wikipedia about CPR on animals.


"It is entirely feasible to perform CPR on animals like cats and dogs. The principles and practices are virtually identical to CPR for humans. One is cautioned to only perform CPR on unconscious animals to avoid the risk of being bitten" from wikipedia

Хөгжмийн талаар

It can be regarded that listening to music is a privilege given to those who have ears to hear it and that rhythm is a matter of techne. In other words composition and the final musical element can be understood as just a human-made technique to render harmonious melodies and sounds. Thus one could argue that without excellent ear for music one cannot feel the depth of music. By saying this we can resolve only the mechanical process of producing final sound whereas music might exist all on its own, independently long before it was translated through human ear and performed through musical instruments. When we question famous composers often they say it was from divine inspiration, that is revelation of something that just exists in nature and which was always there waiting to be discovered. The proof of the fact that music lives in our soul rather than in our ears is this curious video of Chinese deaf dancer.

Эмэгтэй хүн

"A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. ""

Impotentia Coeundi

Theories and researches on post-colonialism and nationalism have long discussed the embodiment of female body into the land and nation. It is often supposed that the imagined boundaries of one's community and borders are tightly administered through masculine fantasy over the female and desirous body, the body that is penetrated by phallus which in its order protected and propertied. Assia Djebar once mentioned in her novel Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, that women of Arab berber tribes became more cloistered and more veiled under the invasion of French, than prior the colonization. In this case the invaded Algerian territory becomes tantaumont to pentrated female body, the "motherland", the direct consequence of which becomes placebo effect a.k.a. psychological impotence influence by shame, loss of masculine integrity.
The reason I invoked Assia Djebar's work is that, in lieu of my observations in recent years an active cultivation of masculinity in Mongolian society, there emerged almost blatant chauvinism, sometimes even taking form of blind misogyny directed towards women.
Along with cult-like following of Chinggis Khan, the ultimate patriarch to the nation, and endorsing of such masculine activities such as wild animal hunting which are traditionally considered masculine, here it can be observed that my nation has developed almost fetishistic obsession with phallus. The example of once shunned but resumed hunt for misplaced phallic symbol can best be depicted through much talked about exploration for ancient patriarch's remains. It was done as if invoking violent history of Mongol empire could restore the nation its virgin state previously invaded by Soviet ideology or Manjchurian oppression. Thus there is need among Mongolians to look for not recent, invaded by Manjchus, Russians, history, but to look somewhere in pre-history when the myth of the nation woven out of pure Mongol mother's womb, Maral Goo exists. It becomes the ultimate male fantasma to possess the female body and motherland.
If the nation is unable to establish its phallic ideals, the society develops external symptoms of underlying psychological impotence manifested through male frustration and hereto raised alertness towards female population. Perhaps I should recall here one of the early works by Chinese film-maker Zhang Yimou, Judo, where impotent husband is portrayed also as abusive partner who likes to invoke sadistic rituals on his wife played by young Gong Li. In the film we see feudalistic social order as the ultimate abusive but impotent factor that affects the social immobility and frustration all carried out on Gong Li's body. Whereas in our case it can be identified through shifting economic borders, where female bosy is represented as shiftable global commodity and thus male paranoia about Mongolian woman whoring herself to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or to whoever from West.
Our contemporary world dictates certain looked at ness in women as such exhbitionism is encouraged through popularity of traditional model of femininity where women are ultimate beautiful images to cast gaze upon. Social websites with aspiring model girls, modeling agencies, and cultivation of appreciation of feminine beauty is an attempt to control national asset such as the female body and naive female attempt to gain her subjectivity through instant exposure to male gaze. In this instance Lacan was right when he said that image is pornographic. By starring in his film Gong Li, the Chinese screen goddess with Western curves, Zhang Yimou explores delicate matter of male voyeuristic tendency over female flesh, that is casting audience as collective male gaze over exposed and tortured flesh. Thus the female body becomes and object to be penetrated by male gaze and discourse.

Whenever the female body tries to gain subjectivity and tries to return critical gaze, hitherto reserved for male subjects, it threatens to undermine the patriarchial order and create male frustration. The double ended adoration of female beauty on one hand admiration, but on the other end misogyny and chauvinism, is a symptom of our social problematic that threatens our nation's progress upward.