I haven't tried to bend a spoon with my mind but I have seen a spoon's shadow bent around the curve of the inside of a paper bowl.
This morning, I arrived at a familiar crossroads - do I create my own light or follow the light of others?
Growing up in the shadow of a chemical plant, many of my friends and their parents discussed chemical compound possibilities in everyday conversation.
JETS may still be around. I don't know.
So I guess that's why my philosophy (again, a word I use loosely) is centered on the simple phrase, "states of energy."
And why I don't trust a theory if the squirrels in the yard don't see its poignancy.
A clever brain is not the universe, only part of it.
If the truth has no impact on the states of energy that I see and call living things and their tendency toward narcissistic self-replication, then why reveal it?
If the truth has as much meaning to my species as the formula for plastic in a three-litre bottle does to the spider in the foyer, why attempt to translate it?
"Truth." Another combination of loosely held-together characters characterising characterisations like strings of a marionette holding up a puppet's body joints that we interpret as representations of people, animals and other everyday objects.
Members of the Committee of 7.5 want me on their team because they assume it means they'll have exclusive access to the truth.
But the truth doesn't work that way, does it?
That's why I'm a member of another group that collects secrets from all groups/societies/clubs and openly shares them with whomever. The more secrets you assemble and connect, the clearer the jigsaw puzzle of our species' habits materialises.
Who knows what tomorrow may bring? Lots of snow and slippery weather, the forecasters sing!
Never believe what you read, including these words. We're fooling ourselves in one giant agreed-upon, closed-off fantasy.
As you know, humour is the key to unlock the door to get out.
When one bad apple spoils a whole bunch of sideline reporters, do you toss out the whole barrel or reassign the lot to cover news stories that'll go into the morgue and start all over?
Which is more important: your bottom line or your people?
After we've trained the whole species to divert their food/shelter seeking habits toward participation in the world of commercialisation, how do we, from a global standpoint, manage the resources so that unique products can "naturally" rise and fall in popularity (via adverts, word-of-mouth, etc.) without depleting resources available for the next round of unique must-have goodies?
Tariffs and bans are one form of centralised planning used by decentralised capitalist societies, not to mention communist ones, to control the processing and flow of raw resources.
My programmers ran a scenario for me last night where China's increased control of exotic materials was met by a ban of and/or tariff on the import of products made with Chinese-based exotic materials.
One result was the forced consumption of domestic production in China.
Another result was the increase in innovation in the rest of the world in creating useful products that advanced society without the need for exotic materials.
A result I hesitate to report was a degradation into famine and food wars due to increased currency exchange problems and high-sea battles/raids.
I've asked my programmers to change the parameters and run a full-length 1000-year projection for analysis over the weekend.
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