Social Revaluation


Revaluation

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"Revaluation means a rise of a price of goods or products. This term is specially used as revaluation of a currency, where it means a rise of currency to the relation with a foreign currency in a fixed exchange rate. In floating exchange rate correct term would be appreciation. The antonym of revaluation is devaluation."

I

Social Revaluation is a Revelation
In culture and society
Look around the world
Look inside ourselves
Who and what is valued?
Social Revaluation means a rise
Of each Person's worth
Of the Good in All
A rise of currency
To the relation
With a foreign currency
In a fixed exchange rate
Who or what fixes the rate?
In a floating exchange rate
Who floats the rate?
Where is the appreciation?
And what is currency?
Originally currency
Was a form
A unit of account
Representing food
In the form of grain
Stored in temple granaries
A store of value
Four thousand years ago
Currency was a creation
A circulating medium of exchange

II

Now the global accounting mediums
Ask us again to trust them
With new units, markers, and derivatives
Representing we know not what
In forms few can explain or understand
Of dubious or even toxic value
Stored in forts and banks
Often traded or exchanged on line
Lines pushed by many global bankers and lawyers
By some accountants and most politicians
Snorted up their noses
Fat cats sitting in mansions
Made of promises they have not kept
Guarded by uniformed military police
Lifted up as heroes without earning the name
The weak and the poor too often seen without rights
Counted as collateral damage
When they are in the way
Devaluation spread like cancer
The earth and its resources
Viewed by huge corporations as pawns for the taking
Leaving the ground, the water, and the air
Damaged and polluted
For others to clean up
Debating climate change in blindness and arrogance
Giant conglomerates without a conscience
Poisoning paradise in a consuming wake.
The signs are everywhere
Their party is almost over
Environmental devaluation is being exposed
Shocks of economic crisis felt 'round the world
And endless war continues supported by both parties .........however

III

In the Cradles of Civilization
On Every Continent
The Places of Nature
Nurture quietly Rising Plant Nations
Sheltered in Earlier Stages
New ImagiNations Without Borders
Changing Under and On the Surface
A Myriad of Chrysalis-like Cradles Rocking in the Wind
In Grand Transformational Style
Marked by an Emerging Revaluation of Food, Goods, and Services
Showing True Appreciation for Work and Workers
Individuals and Communities
Making their Own Declarations of Independence
Moving Back to Basics
Sharing Food and Resources
Taking the Time to Love and Care for Others
With our Hands and From our Hearts
We the People Are Rising Up
To Protect the Earth
And Life Everywhere
Spreading our Wings with Wisdom and Words
Growing Food and Medicine Organically
Building Sound Sustainable and Ecofriendly Habitats
Raising Children with Respect and Nonviolence
Creating Art and Music and Dance and Theater
Surrounding Our Children
The Poor and the Oppressed
With Arms of Support and Healing
Giving Health Care and Freedom to All
We Can Do This
We Are Doing This
This Revaluation
This Revelation
This Revolution
This Time
2009.


1

February 8, 1909
The current push of nature that overbears our fine calculations for its own ends, though perfectly natural, is looked askance at and little studied or understood. A frank and honest discussion of the whole matter, with its varied, implications, would give it direction and control, largely insure against frightful dangers and make potently for the health, perpetuity and advancing strength of the race. What pretenses and subterfuges we scuttle under where things the most vital are concerned! Why not let in the light of truth, come out in the open and ride full-panoplied on the plain?


2


May 24, 1910
In and about the financial district this afternoon, I was imbued with some of its iron tonic and marveled at the battle of the exchanges, the members of which resembled in effect if not in character the howling dervishes. Minds that can carry on for any length of time in this manner and atmosphere have a certain repugnance or hardness and narrowness. They may be stimulated in some directions, but are dwarfed in all the saner and nobler aspects of existences. I had a stock transaction with the American Trustee Company in the Wall street Exchange building, and then sauntered down Broad street amidst the noisy curb brokers and found a haven of rest in Fraunces’s Tavern. How quietly and picturesquely it sits at the corner contemplating its grim surroundings and recalling its interesting and appealing memories!


3

April 7, 1910
The masses seem to be moving up, whilst the classes, their monitors and inspiration, are in a measure being sacrificed. Yet there is a wide perceptible gain, and there will always be light-bearers, certain choice spirits of culture to carry on the nobler traditions and best thoughts. Perhaps they are commonly not prized, but they have their secret recompense. They are the very salt of society and do indeed savor and retrieve the mass. Alas when one looks afield! Such a general level and aspect, such a rush for the necessary and obvious; so little appreciation of pause, envisagement and personal distinction! Yet these things are but phases and relative; the whole is divinely moved and needs but the sounding mood, the penetrating eye, to divine its high and sufficient purposes. The life is justified of its being.

Cords of Corti

December 1, 1909
"Schubert concert to-night: Marie and I submitted our cords of corti and sensoria to the beats and agitation of the voices and instruments; we accorded them a sensitive response of varying approval."......Edwin Manners

"Ordinary musical tones, the notes of the
voice, the violin, and the piano, for example,
simple as they sound, are, like ordinary white
light, rather complex compounds of many sim-
ple elements. There are in them seven or eight
constituent or " partial " tones, quite distinctly
audible to the trained ear or to the untrained
ear armed with suitable instruments ; and these
partial tones, produced by vibrations in the
sound-emitting body whose rates are regularly
related, bear a certain fixed relation to each
other, like the spectrum-colors that compose
white light.Not only this, but each partial tone arouses its own sensation in the ear by stimulating there one of the minute filaments called the cords of Corti, each of which vibrates sympathetically to a tone of given pitch and to no other. Now we are to imagine that
when an ordinary musical tone is sounded, seven
or eight of these little cords immediately
start a-tremble, and send to the brain their mes-
sages, which combine there into the composite
impression we name " a tone." If now another
tone is sounded, one which starts into motion
another set of filaments, and if furthermore
there is one filament now set in motion that was
also excited by the first compound tone if, in
other words, the two tones happen to have a
partial tone in common, which in both instances
excites the same filament in the ear, then we
shall have a sense of close relationship between
them ; they will make together a harmonic
group or form."

FROM GRIEG TO
BRAHMS
STUDIES OF SOME MODERN
COMPOSERS AND THEIR ART
BY
DANIEL GREGORY MASON
1902

Organ of Corti

From Wikipedia

The organ of Corti (or spiral organ) is the organ in the inner ear of mammals that contains auditory sensory cells, or "hair cells."

The organ of Corti has highly specialized structures that respond to fluid-borne vibrations in the cochlea with a shearing vector in the hairs of some cochlear hair cells. It contains between 15,000-20,000 auditory nerve receptors. Each receptor has its own hair cell. The shear on the hairs opens ion channels, leading to neural, electrical signaling to the auditory cortex. The pinna and middle ear act as mechanical transformers, so that by the time sound waves reach the Organ of Corti, their pressure amplitude is 20 times that of the air impinging on the pinna. The Organ of Corti can be damaged by excessive sound levels, leading to noise induced health effects. The organ of corti is the structure that transduces pressure waves to action potential.

The discoverer: Alfonso Corti

The organ was named after the Italian anatomist Marquis Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti (1822-1876), who conducted microscopic research of the mammalian auditory system.

Hearing impairment

The most common kind of hearing impairment, sensorineural hearing loss, includes as one major cause the reduction of function in the organ of Corti. Specifically, the active amplification function of the outer hair cells is very sensitive to damage from exposure to trauma from overly-loud sounds or to certain "ototoxic" drugs. Once outer hair cells are damaged, they do not regenerate, and the result is a loss of sensitivity and an abnormally large growth of loudness (known as recruitment) in the part of the spectrum that the damaged cells serve.

Authority......and writing

November 23, 1909
The only authority for great writing is the man who writes greatly.

Love, beautiful children, and life

November 4, 1909
Love

Love I saw in the desert,
Love I saw on the Nile,
Love I met with in Paris -
But I didn't know it at all!

At the sunset love I saw smiling,
In the Yosemite beckon and call,
At the fireside love sat musing -
But I didn't know it at all!

I sighed for a love peculiar,
I cried at the pity of fate,
I found rest and the peace of purpose -
But love -alas -'twas too late!


November 9, 1909
Ah, the beautiful children that seem newly alighted on this smudged earth, their clarity of eye and soul, how flower-like, how star-like! What color and transparency of light enbeams them, what grace and divinity of motion and look, when glory and mystery they bring from their fathomless birth, from their irised home in the assemblage of the past, the eternal and many islanded past!

November 12, 1909
He was a man who dared to go through life fearlessly himself, or fly the strong, free wing and imperiousness of an eagle. He was misunderstood -but what of that? -we are all misunderstood!

Buildings, Jersey City, investments, and Manners

October 29, 1909
Yesterday I invested some money for Marie, Blanche and myself in unit values of the building that is being erected by a Trustee Company, at the corner of Washington and Montgomery Streets, for the Union Trust Company of New-Jersey.
Few things are more interesting than the building of a building. Whether the builder is wise or otherwise, he has achieved something of consequence and unlimited possibilities. If it stands long enough, and you envisage it rightly, you may read therein the secrets of humanity, ay, the secrets of the universe.

Genius......considered

October 28, 1909
Of the normal man perhaps an approximate estimate will do: it may satisfy the normal mind, even should it be not very close or just; but of those rare natures or beings whom genius has touched or possessed, let only seasoned and subtle minds consider.

Philosophy, chestnuts, and time...

October 21, 1909
To be great, to be lonely, to be unguessed at -perhaps that is not such an enviable lot; perhaps the lot of the ordinary man who takes things as they are, who faces life as it is, who accepts surface values undisturbed by the soul or oversoul -perhaps it is he who gets the best of it, the best satisfactions, the happiness and well-being that this earth is calculated to yield. It may yield other things along with some bitterness to the seer. Yet while here don't throw your clubs too high, if you want to bring down chestnuts. Hereafter we shall have plenty of time to play at charades, visions and dreams.