No morirá la flor de la palabra.
Podrá morir el rostro oculto de quien la nombra hoy, pero la palabra que vino desde el fondo de la historia y de la tierra ya no podrá ser arrancada por la soberbia del poder.
Nosotros nacimos de la noche. En ella vivimos. Moriremos en ella. Pero la luz será mañana para los demás, para todos aquellos que hoy lloran la noche. Para todos la luz. Para todos todo.
Para nosotros la alegre rebeldía. Para nosotros nada. Aquí estamos. Somos la dignidad rebelde. El corazón olvidado de la patria.
– EZLN, 1994
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¡Cuántas cosas eternas! El patio que se llena
de lenta y leve luna que nadie ve, la ajada
violeta entre las páginas de Nájera olvidada,
el golpe de la ola que regresa a la arena.
El hombre que en su lecho último se acomoda
para esperar la muerte. Quiere tenerla, toda.
– méxico (borges, la moneda de hierro · 1976)
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works under writing are original, my notes a mix of thoughts with quotes from the artwork subject of the note. about · contact
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speech lets them travel in time
we use paintings to decorate space
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find the way by moonlight
see the dawn before
the rest of the world
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unconscious time, no peace of mind,
falling in space but still alive.
sketching the future in a single line,
everything's spinning, cannot sit down.
moments in space, places in time,
thoughts penciled in, now come to life.
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As of today, no one knows how to translate paintings, flowers or music into language. Their beauty is implicit and exclusive to their form, which is why it's so hard to explain how a particular piece of art makes us feel.
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this is a collection of notes that i've written over time, mostly for myself. in the spirit of working with garage doors open, i've published them and open sourced this website.
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History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses.
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Most people are happy to acknowledge that ancient Greek gods exist only in the imagination. Yet we don’t want to accept that our God, our nation or our values are mere fictions, because these are the things that give meaning to our lives.
Catholic Church was responsible for important economic/technological innovations
In the 18th century, humanism sidelined God by shifting from a deo-centric to a homo-centric world view. In the 21st century, Dataism may sideline humans by shifting from a homo-centric to a data-centric world view (idea that 'organisms are algorithms').
science needs religious assistance to create viable human institutions: it describes facts but lacks ethical guidance.
El hombre moderno tiene la pretensión de pensar despierto. Pero este despierto pensamiento nos ha llevado por los corredores de una sinuosa pesadilla, en donde los espejos de la razón multiplican las cámaras de tortura. Al salir, acaso, descubriremos que habíamos soñado con los ojos abiertos y que los sueños de la razón son atroces. Quizá, entonces, empezaremos a soñar otra vez con los ojos cerrados.
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La Chingada es la Madre abierta, violada o burlada por la fuerza. El «hijo de la Chingada» es el engendro de la violación, del rapto o de la burla. Si se compara esta expresión con la española, «hijo de puta», se advierte inmediatamente la diferencia. Para el español la deshonra consiste en ser hijo de una mujer que voluntariamente se entrega, una prostituta; para el mexicano, en ser fruto de una violación.
Porfirio Díaz
Post-?
Mexico vs EEUU
el mexicano y la muerte
El hombre moderno tiene la pretensión de pensar despierto. Pero este despierto pensamiento nos ha llevado por los corredores de una sinuosa pesadilla, en donde los espejos de la razón multiplican las cámaras de tortura. Al salir, acaso, descubriremos que habíamos soñado con los ojos abiertos y que los sueños de la razón son atroces. Quizá, entonces, empezaremos a soñar otra vez con los ojos cerrados.

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autobiografía de roberto gómez bolaños (1929-2014), creador de chespirito, el chapulín colorado y el chavo del 8. en total, completó 1239 episodios en 25 años y 31 temporadas. son quizá mis series de televisión favoritas.
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-13 800 000 000 Big Bang ⠀
-10 000 000 000 Stars and Galaxies ⠀
-4 600 000 000 Solar System is formed -4 570 000 000 Sun main-sequence star. -4 500 000 000 Formation of Jupiter. -4 450 000 000 Formation of Saturn. -4 400 000 000 Formation of Uranus. -4 350 000 000 Formation of Neptune. -4 540 000 000 Formation of Earth. -4 530 000 000 Formation of Venus. -4 510 000 000 Formation of Mars. -4 500 000 000 Formation of Mercury. -4 500 000 000 Formation of the Moon ⠀
-4 000 000 000 life (single-cell organisms) -3 500 000 000 fossils of bacteria, algae -2 400 000 000 oxygenation of earth -1 800 000 000 eukaryotic cells (nucleus) -1 500 000 000 multicellular organisms -1 200 000 000 sexual reproduction, evolution ⠀
-850 000 000 animals oceans (sponges, jelly) -500 000 000 First plants, fungi and animals in land (arthropods, vertebrates) -450 000 000 Ice Age, -60% of marine life -420 000 000 first forrests -400 000 000 insects+amphibians on land -360 000 000 extinction2-300 000 000 Permian period, Amphibians -250 000 000 extinction3-230 000 000 First dinosaurs on earth -200 000 000 Pangea splits. birds, flowers -150 000 000 Jurassic period, dinosaurs -100 000 000 cretaceous (t-rex), bees, ants and butterflies. ⠀
-66 000 000 Asteroid (Mexico → 75% all species gone -65 000 000 mammals, whales and horses -50 000 000 mammals, bats, rats, elephants -25 000 000 Apes, human-like primates -15 000 000 Age of Hominis -10 000 000 Ice Age ⠀
-3 000 000 Homo habilis (stone tools) -2 000 000 Homo erectus-500 000 Homo Neanderthal -300 000 Homo Sapiens-200 000 Stone Age, Neanderthals+Sapiens -100 000 Sapiens age -50 000 Anthropocene epoch ⠀
-8000 End of Ice Age-3000 Bronze Age-3500 wheel (mesopotamia) -3300 writing (Mesopotamia -3100 calendar (Egypt) -3000 plow (Mesopotamia -3000 silk (China) -2737 tea (China) -2000 Common Era, Anno Domini ⠀
-1000 - -600 Iron Age-1050 alphabet (Phoenicia) -900 - -600 Olmec civilization -800s - -700s Homer -776 1st Olympic Games (Greece) -624 - -546 Thales of Miletus -600 philosophy (Greece) -600 coinage (Lydia) -570 - -495 Pythagoras -550 postal system (Persia) -509 Founding of the Roman Republic -508 democracy (Greece) -500 road system (Rome) -500 decimal system (India) -449 law system (Rome) -427 - -347 Plato -384 - -322 Aristotle -312 aqueduct (Rome) -221 Unification of China (Qin Dynasty) -105 paper (China) -100 - -44 Julius Caesar -70 - -19 Virgil -69 - -30 Cleopatra -27 Founding of Rome -6 - 65 Horace ⠀
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121 - 180 Marcus Aurelius 180 antonine plague, pandemic (5m people) ⠀
212 roman citizenship to all free men ⠀
313 religious tolerance to Christians in the Roman Empire354 - 430 St. Augustine ⠀
400 Hindu-Arabic numerals (India) 410 The Visigoths, Alaric I, sack Rome (first in 800 years) ⠀
527 Justinian I emperor of the Byzantine Empire ⠀
600 chess (India) 622 Migration (Hijra) of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina 628 zero (India) 632 Muhammad dies, succeeded by Abu Bakr as first caliph ⠀
793-1066 Viking Age ⠀
800 charlemagne, first holy roman emperor 843 The Treaty of Verdun divides Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms (Louis the Pious) 868 Printing of Diamond Sutra, oldest dated printed book (China) ⠀
904 gunpowder (China) 962 Otto I first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII ⠀
1024 paper money (China) 1041 printing press (China) 1088 compass (China) 1095 first crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslims (Pope Urban II) ⠀
1104 Crusaders Capture Acre 1122 Concordat of Worms resolves Controversy between papacy and Holy Roman Empire 1135 Maimonides’ "Mishneh Torah" 1150 Gothic Architecture Emerges 1187 Saladin Captures Jerusalem ⠀
1206 Genghis Khan Unites Mongols 1214 - 1294 Roger Bacon 1215 Magna Carta 1240 Mongols Defeat Kiev 1258 Mongols Capture Baghdad 1271 - 1295 Marco Polo’s Travels 1273 Thomas Aquinas "Summa Theologica" 1291 Fall of Acre, End of Crusades ⠀
1300 Dante Writes "The Divine Comedy" 1315 - 1317 Great Famine in Europe 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan 1337 - 1453 Hundred Years’ War 1347 - 1351 - Black Death, -30% europe, Sicily from Asia 1355 University of Oxford Established 1368 Ming Dynasty Begins 1376 - 1395 Acamapichtli* 1380 John Wycliffe's Bible Translation 1396 - 1417 Huitzilihuitl* ⠀
1400 - 1468 Johannes Gutenberg 1401 beginning of Renaissance 1402 - 1472 Nezahualcoyotl. 1412 - 1431 Joan of Arc. 1413 perspective in art by Filippo Brunelleschi 1417 - 1427 Chimalpopoca* 1428–1440 Izocoatl* 1439 Platonic Academy manuscripts by Cosimo de' Medici 1440–1469 Motecuhzoma I* 1440 Gutenberg's press 1443 - 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus 1452 - 1519 Da Vinci. 1453 end of Middle ages 1453 Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks 1460s - 1524 Vasco da Gama 1466 - 1520 Moctezuma II 1469–1481 Axayacatl* 1474 - 1521 Juan Ponce de León 1475 - 1564 Michelangelo 1481–1486 Tizoc* 1483 - 1520 Raphael 1483 - 1546 Martin Luther 1485 - 1547 Hernán Cortés ⠀
1509 - 1564 John Calvin 1517 Luther's 95 Theses 1543 Copernican Revolution 1547 - 1616 Cervantes. 1564 - 1642 Galileo. 1564 - 1616 Shakespeare. 1564 - 1642 Galileo Galilei 1571 - 1630 Johannes Kepler 1588 - 1679 Thomas Hobbes 1596 - 1650 René Descartes ⠀
1605 Don Quixote 1606 - 1669 Rembrandt 1610 Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons 1623 - 1662 Blaise Pascal 1632 - 1704 John Locke 1632 - 1677 Baruch Spinoza 1638 - 1715 Louis XIV 1642 - 1727 Newton. 1643 - 1715 - Reign of Louis XIV 1646 - 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1651 - 1695 Sor Juana. 1653 - 1706 Johann Pachelbel 1678 - 1741 Antonio Vivaldi 1685 - 1750 Johann Sebastian Bach 1687 Newton’s "Principia Mathematica" 1688 English Enlightenment 1694 - 1778 Voltaire. ⠀
1706 - 1790 Benjamin Franklin 1711 - 1776 David Hume 1712 - 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1723 - 1790 Adam Smith 1724 - 1804 Immanuel Kant 1743 - 1826 Thomas Jefferson 1755 - 1793 Marie Antoinette. 1756 - 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1763 - Seven Years’ War 1769 Watt’s Steam Engine Patented 1769 - 1821 Napoleon. 1770 - 1827 Beethoven. 1770 - 1831 Hegel 1775 - 1817 Jane Austen 1776 American Independence 1776 Adam Smith "The Wealth of Nations" 1789- 1799 - French Revolution 1796 Edward Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccine ⠀
1804 - 1815 - Napoleonic Wars 1809 - 1865 Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1882 Charles Darwin 1810 Independencia de mexico 1813 - 1855 Søren Kierkegaard 1815 - 1852 Ada Lovelace. 1828 - 1910 Leo Tolstoy 1837 Telegraph Invented 1839 - 1842 - First Opium War 1840 - 1926 Claude Monet. 1844 - 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche. 1847 - 1922 Alexander Graham Bell 1847 - 1931 Edison. 1854 - 1900 Oscar Wilde. 1856 - 1943 Nikola Tesla 1859 - 1938 Edmund Husserl. 1859 - 1941 Henri Bergson. 1859 Darwin’s "On the Origin of Specie" 1863 Emancipation Proclamation in U.S. 1863 - 1947 Henry Ford 1866 - 1944 Kandinsky. 1867 - 1934 Marie Curie. 1869 - 1954 Henri Matisse 1872 - 1944 Piet Mondrian. 1872 - 1970 Bertrand Russell 1874 - 1965 Winston Churchill 1876 Bell’s Telephone Patent 1879 - 1919 Emiliano Zapata. 1879 - 1955 Einstein. 1882 - 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 Pasteurization Process Developed 1885 - 1962 Niels Bohr 1887 - 1961 Erwin Schrödinger 1888 - 1978 Le Corbusier 1889 - 1976 Martin Heidegger. 1889 - 1977 Chaplin. 1889 - 1951 Wittgenstein. 1895 X-rays Discovered 1890 - 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890 - 1970 Charles de Gaulle 1899 - 1961 Ernest Hemingway. 1899 - 1986 Jorge Luis Borges. 1899 - 1980 Hitchcock. ⠀
1901 - 1966 Walt Disney. 1901 - 1971 Louis Armstrong 1902 - 1994 Karl Popper. 1903 - 1950 George Orwell 1903 Wright Brothers’ First Flight 1904 - 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer 1905 Einstein’s Theory of Relativity 1906 - 1978 Kurt Gödel 1906 - 1997 Victor Vasarely. 1907 - 1954 Frida Kahlo. 1910 Revolución Mexicana 1912 - 1954 Alan Turing. 1912 - 1956 Jackson Pollock 1913 - 1960 Albert Camus. 1914 - 1918 - World War I 1915 - 1982 Ingrid Bergman 1917 - 1963 John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1986 Juan Rulfo. 1918 - 1988 Richard Feynman 1918 - 1958 André Bazin 1918 - 2013 Nelson Mandela. 1922 Insulin Discovered 1925 - 1995 Gilles Deleuze. 1925 - 2008 Paul Newman 1926 - 1962 Marilyn Monroe 1926 - 1984 Michel Foucault. 1928 - 2007 Sol LeWitt. 1928 - 2019 Agnès Varda. 1928 - 1987 Andy Warhol 1929 - 1993 Audrey Hepburn 1929 - 1982 Grace Kelly 1929 - 2014 Roberto Gómez Bolaños. 1929 Wall Street Crash, Great Depression 1930 - 2012 Neil Armstrong. 1932 - 1984 Truffaut. 1932 - 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky. 1936 Turing's theory of universal classical computers 1939 - 1945 - World War II 1940 - 1980 John Lennon. 1940 - 2023 Pelé 1942 - 2018 Stephen Hawking 1945 United Nations Established 1945 - 1981 Bob Marley. 1947 Transistor Invented 1950 - 1953 Korean War 1951 - 2014 Robin Williams 1952 - 2020 Bernard Stiegler. 1955 - 2011 Steve Jobs. 1954 Polio Vaccine 1969 Humans on the Moon 1970s Miniaturization of electronic technology 1971 ARPANET, Early Internet 1971 Intel Microprocessor 1980 Smallpox Eradicated 1983 HIV Identified 1986 - 2013 Aaron Swartz. 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall 1989 World Wide Web 1991 End of Soviet Union 1991 End of Apartheid 1999 ego ⠀
2001 Human Genome Mapped 2007 iPhone 2008 Global Financial Crisis 2011 Arab Spring 2019 Notre-Dame Fire 2020 COVID-19 2021 Mars Rover Landing 1810 Independencia de mexico 
