thom space

I am in San Francisco right now at the apple store. word. My interview is tomorrow, I am nervous.

My Friend David Scanavino recently put together a rather curious show in the NYC entitled “neocon” I wonder if it was with a wink. It is interesting to think about the implications of applying modern neo-conservative values based in the writing and work of early 20th century Russians like Trotsky, to the contemporary world, Scanavino characterized the association as a belief in idealism, and I suppose that in the modern political world the Bush team is operating with a very strong belief in idealism as well.

A quick look at what the Columbia encyclopedia refers to as “idealism”:

“the attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the senses. In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a view of life in which the predominant forces are spiritual and the aim is perfection. In philosophy the term refers to efforts to account for all objects in nature and experience as representations of the mind and sometimes to assign to such representations a higher order of existence.”

I think that this brief examination of the word idealism reveals the basic connection in neo-con thinking, be it artistic or political, and that is the desire to discover perfection, and the failure of perfection as to yet to be discovered is not evidence, to them, that it does not exist, but rather is only evidence of our own failing discover it, a failing that they believe we can overcome if we are smart enough to get our intellects around it.

I should go on with more content, but I have to pack my bag for a trip to San Fran tomorrow where I will be interviewing for a job that I really hope I get.
Wish me luck.

hmm, interesting.

I was hired today to be a ski instructor in Germany next year at the Zugspitze. I am excited about it. As of this point I will begin in November and be there until April 2006, however I might begin earlier and leave later if I can work it out. word.

The powder8s were a very good time, but not as good a time as the day after when I ripped up the mountain with all of the skiers who kicked my butt, and then took this picture. rule.