324 — This week on Cargo

[Open in browser]( cargo.site [M a y 28 ’24]() They’ll tell you, you need to be kind and forthright and aggressive and meditative and a free spirit and dependable and cautious and not be pushed around and live free or die and be helpful and put your own gas mask on first and be spiritual and religious and empirical and scientific and hate this and vault that and play to your talents and always be learning and get enough sleep and know that the essence of life is pain and know that there is no essence to life and be strong and self aware and adaptive and skeptical and live for pleasure and live with restraint and let go of the past and know your roots and know that things are out of balance and accept change and know your place and respect this and defile that and be vulnerable and be confident and pay attention and use common sense and break down constructs and love your country and hate your country and take psychedelics and treat your body as a temple and be understanding and happy and outraged and collected and emotionless and chill and study hard and fuck the system and not give a fuck and give a fuck and be fabulous and permissive and fed up and live without any steady beliefs and be casual and do it but not too much and be proud of yourself and be violent and clean and communal and speak up for yourself and be healthy and believe in liberty and live without borders and have strong borders and perform your duty and be authentic and fluid and defined and well read and fake it ‘til you make it and live each day as it was your last and take care of yourself and enjoy yourself and listen to your body and not kill yourself and don’t let anyone stand in your way and know when to accept and when to reject — to know like they know — at any given time. Seems a lot to be for some sort of singular transcendentally complicated economy of adaptation or thought cloud atop a somewhat self contained rubbery machine made of particles that exists within some relatively infinite, faceted interconnectivity of causality. Sites in Use [Vilhelm Christensen]( Absence and removal have been fertile themes in art (McCollum, Whiteread, to name two of many). These notions clearly put other themes like the generative or permanence into question. With the work of artist [Vilhelm Christensen](, we feel the subjects of absence and removal are distilled so keenly that they transcend these subjects (particularly in the environment of a truly empty museum). Another way, how can one install, an absence? We feel like Christensen’s absence transcends beyond itself into the non-hierarchical sea, back into presence or occurrence. 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To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site [Seven of Wands]( [9. The Taming Power of the Small]( These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.) - When there is contention, work to maintain your courage and intellect — in equal measure, if possible. - Strive for “firm determination within and gentleness and adaptability in external relations.” * * * From “M.S.”: It seems the combination of boredom and overstimulation, though obvious, is still our strange/uncomfortable mounting societal situation. We certainly don’t believe in any sort authentic scenario of occupation — like there exists a dogmatic bedrock of behavioral ideal — but we are tired of being in a society performed by and bullied around by ever furthering corporate refinements and exaggerations of said boredom and overstimulation — for profit. The closest concept we have found to cling to, is trying to be nutritively-occupied/healthily-distracted in a project or what have you. Any advice to help get off of this corporately refining, noose-tightening, wholly shitty, merry-go-round? * * * The negative general forces you describe are indeed significant. Therefore it is unwise to try and overcome them with forceable gestures. You are simply going to have to maintain your nerve, as regards both your heart and head (courage and intellect). This will require “solitary self improvement.” But out of this self-aimed work, you will likely develop an ability to be “gentle and adaptable” — these qualities will aid in advancing against the dark forces. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the Seven of Wands. Here we have a card of contention and strife. However, though signs point to you being outnumbered in your conflict, you are more valorous and intelligent than your foes. Thus, if you keep at it, with courage and intellect, you have a good chance of triumph. There were no changes this week, therefore only one hexagram: 9, The Taming Power of the Small. It is a time when a weak and dark element keeps a strong positive (and usually dominant) element in check (immobility). The advice for changing the situation is thus: solitary self improvement, gently persuading the obstructing element to release and maintaining “firm determination within and gentleness and adaptability in external relations.” Also: “The wind can indeed drive the clouds together in the sky; yet, being nothing but air, without solid body, it does not produce great or lasting effects. So also an individual, in times when they can produce no great effect in the outer world, can do nothing except refine the expression of their nature in small ways.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]() [Instagram Â]( [Unsubscribe](