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ceridwen

Firewalker wrote: »

With this at the back of my mind, I had a Skype session with a friend who kindly set me couple of exercises – these will help me identify (please note that I did not say figure out or understand – the process is much more intuitive and sensing than that) what I will become in fourteen months. Once this has been done, using the techniques my friend told me about, I could ‘paint a line of feelings and actions’ connecting what I will become in fourteen months with what I am today. This is how the plan that will get me there will emerge.

Quite a bit of today was devoted to doing the exercises – hard, it is still hard. The hardest bit is to free myself from today (well, from my perceptions of today). Have you noticed that whenever you think about the future and plan about the future the underlying assumption is that the future is a linear extension of today? With this technique it doesn’t have to be – you in the future is whatever you feel you want to be; complete break with the existing trajectory is the aim. I am still working on this bit and immediately after posting am going back to it – who wants to end up simply with continuation of today when there is so much more to be aspired to? Not me!

Firewalker

With a quick wave here to MSE's intellectual thread - from the Old Style "Times are tough" thread:wave: (currently called "In the Workhouse") and you might like to visit the Old Style Board sometime in pursuit of recipes...

....anyways...just dropping in to say - do you have a link to these exercises you could forward (either here on this thread or sent to me as a PM) please?:)

Firewalker

Dear friends, I may not be able to post later so a quick one. I am cooking dinner for eight people - we are having a dinner party tonight. Most of it is already done but first about the menu. And it is:

Starters

Home made hummus, tabbouleh and different wonderful and healthy breads (home made of course)

Main course

Pork Orange with mash potatos

Dessert

Ice-cream

In true MSE spirit (and in the Money Principle, of course) I did cost the starters and the main course and guess what? It works out at £1.16 per person. I have arranged others to get dessert, by the way. One advantage of being from overseas is that I can be as rude as I wish to be and people assume that is just because I don't know any better. So I told my friends that I don't do desserts and if they want some they should bring them. OK, not really - but you know I can't resist a funny story.

Let's hope that the conversation and the wine flow freely.

Firewalker

gilligansyle

Have a lovely evening, if there's any left, you can send a food parcel over to Liverpool!

Memory_Girl

Knock knock?

Who's there?

Memorygirl and Clan - bearing dessert of course:D


Sounds lovely FW - fabulous, tasty and frugal - Gold Star to the Professor in the corner.

MG

MrsMoo2U

Firewalker wrote: »

Hi guys, the answer is no - in this case it is not about a 'dictatorship' as such. But it is about establishing wide intellectual influence (through developing a theory that is useful to others and allows them to see the 'social' world differently).

Probably the whole thing will be clearer if I put it like that: professorship is an organisational title; 'intellectual hegemony' reflects the way in which one's knowledge community regrads them. These are the members who are often at the centre (they are highly cited, highly invited, shape developments in research fields and, when American, monetise intellectula success by writing best sellers).

Firewalker

Ok, I was also trying to work this out. (I do love your thread because it makes my brain hurt in a good way) Does this "intellectual hegemony" mean that you would be kind of like Noam Chomsky (for example)? He was recently in Cardiff ( I was working the event) and I was inspired by him he can be seen here.

Am I on the right lines here? If so I do think that you are already on the right path for this.

thriftyscotslass

Firewalker wrote: »

One advantage of being from overseas is that I can be as rude as I wish to be and people assume that is just because I don't know any better.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Isn't that wicked part of you tempted to see how far you could take this. Just imagine what you could get away with. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Have a lovely evening FW

Firewalker

cherisong wrote: »

Ok, I was also trying to work this out. (I do love your thread because it makes my brain hurt in a good way) Does this "intellectual hegemony" mean that you would be kind of like Noam Chomsky (for example)? He was recently in Cardiff ( I was working the event) and I was inspired by him he can be seen here.

Am I on the right lines here? If so I do think that you are already on the right path for this.

Yep! Exactly, Cheri, you are on the right lines. Sounds 'big headed' but this is what I have always wanted. And thanks for saying that I am on the right path for this one - shall give it a jolly good go.

FW

Firewalker

Last night was lovely and the food much appreciated. The conversation and wine flowed like calm and lazy river, and it was lovely to see three of my oldest friends together again (with their other halves). Apart from a miner slip on my side - callings the current partner of a friend the name of his ex-wife which was mortifying - all was well.

Today will be a day of running and writing.

Firewalker

MrsMoo2U

Ah so I am not as thick as I thought I was. Seriously though you have a way of making me think and see things differently and so you are definitely on the right path. I guess to get to the Noam Chomsky heights you just need to start networking with the right people to start being noticed in the right circles if you want to be part of a wider knowledge circle than this small group of "intellectuals" (and I put that in quotations as I am honoured to be part of such an intellectual discussion thread)

thriftyscotslass

He he, I'm no intellectual Cheri but I do so love being challenged to think differently and learn, which is why I love it here.