Diogene Malamati

"This minimal unity of perceptual time, the basis of the cinematic image, underlies the advent of a new 'cinematic hypertrophy': lights, messages, scenes and actions, darkness and immobility, silence and uproar, are nothing but the fixation of a greed without end or purpose . . . just as today we commit ourselves not to a material product but to five-tenths of a second of a television image, so we shall come to 'know' a multitude of people, places and ideas, but solely as momentary flashes, with the transience of an apparition." Claudia Dona's essay in Invisible Design

So, acting in the world is a way of practising our discipline; the aim is to “acquire” discipline. Discipline then becomes our framework for action, and any “success in the world” a by-product of that aim. A sufficiency of worldly success, in this sense, is that we may continue to refine our practice. Also, reflection on negativity; the extent to which media life is driven by negativity; how this damages the culture & ourselves personally. What a struggle: to be within a field of negativity and not going with the current, particularly when there are so many “good reasons” for being negative. Robert Fripp's Diary August 31, 2007