In India, the local communities suddenly discover that medical practices and materials they have been using for centuries are now owned by American companies, so they should be bought from the latter; with the biogenetic companies patenting genes, we are all discovering that part of ourselves, our genetic components, are already copyrighted, own by others…
In Defense of Lost Causes. Slavoj Zizek. Unbehagen in der Natur. Pag.420.

What Is Poetry Now producer Joe Ivory Mattingly presents Chilean poet Hector Ahumada reading his poem The Princess at Poetry in the Garden August 28, 2010 at Traces in Salt Lake City, Utah

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Give Women, Wine, and Snuff
Until I cry out, ‘Hold, enough!’
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection;
For, bless my beard, they eye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

© John Keats

John Keats original preface and dedication met with strong objections from J. H. Reynolds, and his publisher, Taylor and Hessey.
The original dedication read: “with every feeling of pride and regret
and with a bowed mind, to the memory of the most English of poets
except Shakespeare, Thomas Chatterton.” 19 of March 1818.

The classical notion of a working class of a society by Gerald A. Cohen: 1) it constitute the majority of a society; 2) it produce the wealth of society; 3) it consists of the exploited member of society; 4) its members are the needy people in society; 5) the working class has nothing to lose from revolution;
6) it can and will engage in a revolutionary transformation of society.
According to Slavoj Sizek none of the first four features applies to the contemporary working class, that is why features 5) and 6) can not be generated.
Does contemporary global capitalism contain antagonisms which are sufficiently strong to prevent its indefinite reproduction?
Sizek discussed four in his book “In Defense of Lost Causes:”
1) Ecology; 2) The inadequacy of private property for the so-called
“intellectual property.” 3) The socio-ethical implications of the new techno-scientific developments (Biogenetics) 4) New forms of apartheid, new walls and slums.

During the naval skirmish between American destroyer and a Soviet B-59 submarine off Cuba on October 27, 1962. The destroyer dropped depth charges near the submarine to try to force it to the surface, not knowing it had a nuclear tipped torpedo. Vadim Orlov, a member of the submarine crew, told the conference in Havana that the submarine has been authorized to fire it if three officer agreed. The offices began a fierce shouting match over whether to sink the ship. Two of them said yes and the other said no. “A guy named Arkhipov saved the world,” was the bitter comment of a historian on this incident. David Rennie, “How Soviet Sub officer Saved World from Nuclear Conflict,” Daily Telegraph, October 14, 2002.
9 Unbehagen in der Natur, In Defense of Lost Causes, Slavoj Zizek.

“Sandcastle.Buddhism and Global Finance” a documentary by
Alexander Oey, a puzzling cinematographic work.
The basic premise of Buddhist thought is that there is no objective reality.
An economist, a sociologist, and a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, examine and consider the socioeconomic effects of the global finance of capital markets estimated $83 trillion.
Perhaps a unique view of the Buddhist thought and the capitalism’s domain. And on the nature of human perception, illusion, and enlightenment.
Appealing material for writers.

Government is instituted for the common good; for protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
– John Adams –

Poetry is rebellion. The poet is not offended if he is called subversive. Life is more important than social structures and no one has the right to create regulations for the human soul.
Poets with consciousness hate hatred and make war on war.
I have been blessed by Nature to have Chile as my homeland, and USA as my residency.
Come and joint SLC local artists at Alchemy Coffee at 1700 South 400 West, Tuesday at 6:30 PM, and at
Mestizo Coffee House & Art Gallery at North Temple & 600 West, Wed. at 7:00 PM. Hector Ahumada.