{"id":9697,"date":"2014-07-02T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2015-01-06T08:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T06:43:11","slug":"mound-hacker-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/mound-hacker-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Mound Hacker in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/span> Colosseum<\/span> is<\/span> a<\/span> trap.<\/span><\/span>
\n While<\/span> circling it<\/span><\/span> one<\/span> early<\/span>\u00a0morning<\/span> in<\/span> June<\/span> 2014<\/span>,<\/span> I<\/span> could<\/span>\u00a0hear<\/span>\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0Roman<\/span> crowds<\/span> shouting<\/span> as<\/span> the<\/span> Caesar<\/span> enters.<\/span> I<\/span> could<\/span> hear<\/span> them<\/span> roaring<\/span>\u00a0when<\/span>\u00a0animals<\/span> or<\/span> men<\/span> were<\/span> bleeding.<\/span><\/span>
\n If<\/span> the Colosseum\u00a0were<\/span> a<\/span> person,<\/span> it<\/span> would have been\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0bewildering<\/span> one:<\/span> A<\/span> feminine<\/span> rounded<\/span> shaped mandala<\/span>\u00a0with<\/span> a <\/span>distinctively<\/span>\u00a0masculine<\/span> vicious atmosphere and <\/span>purpose.<\/span><\/span>
\n All <\/span>who<\/span>\u00a0entered<\/span>\u00a0this<\/span> building<\/span> are<\/span> trapped<\/span> in<\/span> their<\/span> undertaking<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0mission,<\/span> unable<\/span> to<\/span> free<\/span> themselves,<\/span> not<\/span> even<\/span> the<\/span> Caesar.<\/span><\/span>
\n Since I could not identify with the surroundings<\/span><\/span> – it<\/span> was<\/span>\u00a0even difficult<\/span> for<\/span> me<\/span> to<\/span> leave<\/span> a<\/span> ceramic<\/span> shard<\/span> behind<\/span> me<\/span>\u00a0 to the memory of Alexandria Library, which I see as an essence of human knowledge and spirituality we lost for stupidity.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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I recalled<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0elephant<\/span> story<\/span> we<\/span> studied<\/span> at<\/span> high<\/span> school:<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

“And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly. And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man’s dominion in the East. Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd \u2013 seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind. I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.”<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Shooting An Elephant, George Orwell<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Mound Hacker at Rome<\/a><\/p>\n

About the idea of Mound Hacker’s journies<\/a><\/p>\n

Mound Hacker’s Global Map<\/a><\/p>\n

Posts taged Mound Hacker<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Colosseum is a trap. While circling it one early\u00a0morning in June 2014, I could\u00a0hear\u00a0the\u00a0Roman crowds shouting as the Caesar enters. I could hear them roaring\u00a0when\u00a0animals or men were bleeding. If the Colosseum\u00a0were a person, it would have been\u00a0a\u00a0bewildering one: A feminine rounded shaped mandala\u00a0with a distinctively\u00a0masculine vicious atmosphere and purpose. All who\u00a0entered\u00a0this building are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,204,538,569,572,277],"tags":[647,645,649,539,177,573,714,549,648,646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}