luddite

abstain

to hold off

but what about that hold part

what is kept, what are you keeping by not receiving 

how are you to ever learn what you like without trying

how are you to ever know the difference between habitual conditioning and choice making 

without refraining. 

one does not have to come at the total cost of the other you just cannot have them both at once 

the jupiter and saturn dance and discourse and discord :

you only live once so do whatever you want always to the tune of your song and the bent of your desire because that is how you know and how you grow and how you show what you are and who you can be coexisting with

you only live once if you do whatever you want always you leave a reverberation of repercussion in your wake that sends others spinning and leaves a careless structure for the next generations to try to build off of, atop of. 

this dilemma is tangled up in technology, threads coming from saturn and jupiter making cases for and against the changes that come, expansion and efficiency meet unknowable changes, a world that no longer fits within the world. context and access shifts. social and physical parameters, standards, expectations have to change.

but not always in the way that is a simple equation of we can do this so now we can do this, as in we can move faster so now we should move faster. or we can move faster so now we should move more. 

i choose move because underpinning all technology is an ideology about the use of energy. 

it makes me think about what little i know about the luddites and want to know more. there is a stance on them that they were afraid of the future, of change, that they wanted things to remain. but it seems that really they had foresight, an understanding that their kinetic wisdom and specialized skills might be capable of being replicated by textile machines, that perhaps even that is amazing though computers are based on looms which have been around for 

it is not legible but the energetic imprint is there : i just left this page to bounce around the internet looking at tapestry looms including scaffolding looms, how to make them - sparse resources on the internet so far - make sure i do know what a few weaving terms mean, look at my own recent post on social media while i eat a bunch of peanut butter filled pretzels and drink some water, all because i meant to see when the first loom is dated to which i never did end up remembering to look up. 

apparently it is 5000 bc but it seems like that is where recorded history begins going forward and ends going backwards and the braiding and thatching of grasses if they were tied to something for security i would argue, along with knotting netting for bags and satchels, i would argue is the burgeoning of the weaving and thus loom technology. but the loom is the apparatus. 

something about mechanization. something about handing over the effort and time of something. especially work that is labor yes but craft, technique, expression. they were like what are we supposed to do, for money, yes, surely, but with our time, our energy, our minds bent in understanding this way of being and knowing and making. just let a machine have it? so you do not have to pay us. you who cannot or will not spend your time learning, want to find an easy way to buy all the things everyone makes without having to lift a finger or struggle or stretch your mind to understand. 

they saw because they had reason to not use the technology, a reason to abstain. they knew that the changes would not come with social supports for jobs lost or new ideas about what humans rights are or what jobs are