Thursday, 24 April 2014

Trainology, Timeology, Sociogology

Trainology is the science of sitting in a train, and even sometimes standing and is an interdisciplinary endeavor. It is partly anthropology and partly sociology. And science and technology studies because the train is moving.
Case study: Why do people not grasp the concept of silent coaches?

Timeology is more of an art form between physics, sociology and time management. I have stolen the term from Douglas Adams of course.
Case study: Why is it that we cannot own time and why that is a pity for capitalism?

Sociogology is not a misspelling of sociology. No. It is the sociology of sociogols, who are a subgroup of sociologists who call themselves sociogols.
Case study: The history of sociolé.

Of course we can invent many names for sciences. Some are more accurate or important some are less entertaining. There are as many sciences as band names.
Still the guys, two rows away, keep ranting on about bullshit, as loud as possible, using the cell phone too, sitting in the silent coach.
Still I wonder, where the saying "time is money" comes from. Please don't tell me. Sure it was not Buddha who said that.
Still I miss my sociogolic friends sometimes. Discussions in the dark. Social sociology, not desktop sociology. Lively, interactive, multi-facetted.

I'm not far from home, still on the train, still listening to the silent coach barbarians, still considering:

Trainology, Timeology, Sociogology

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Regenesis


This makes me wonder a lot about people’s intentions, although it seems to be about science.
I am on a train in a tunnel on the way from Vienna back to Linz and the train has stopped.
That gives me time again to consider the question: Can we simply stop?
Stop? Sit and watch?
Watch the flowers grow, the water flow by, the clouds pass?
Or do we have to be faster, ever faster to escape doom, to run to the hills, to act as quickly as possible? Be quick or be dead?
The real Regenesis would not be a material one; it would be one of our minds.
I am a preacher of slowness, of solitude, emptiness and nothing.
Not even that. I am a passenger in a quiet world, I don’t move, I sit still even at high speeds. Yes
Regenesis: Why would we want to change something that is recreated every instant.
Why, I wonder?