Quick notes

When it comes to ‘it oughta be a law’, logic and reason are a waste of effort.

Making things ‘mandatory ‘ falls under ‘it oughta be a law’.

I’m not going to waste what little time I have left on this earth pursuing a solution to an issue where logic and reason are not available for comment.

Next.

There are places within CONUS that are spiritual and financial dead ends. I am coming to grips with the fact that I may reside in one of them. What I plan on doing about it is another matter for another post altogether. And right now that plan is aetheral at best: I am working on it though. (Long story about how I came to this observation.)

A side note to that, I am starting to believe that our future is not going to be as all TEOTWAWKI as has been preached about; even by me, here on this blog. Will it be turbulent? Yup! The early part of the 1900’s was turbulent too, but the world didn’t stop moving, we didn’t turn the surface into a glass ashtray, and people would still get up and ‘do it again’ every morning. But revolution? I’m having my doubts. Oh, it’ll be revolutionary, but not in the sense of infighting, more like a bloody wake-up call that we were left at the bus stop because we didnt re-set our clocks ahead one hour.

As you probably guessed, I’m avoiding (though trying to stay astride it so I am not blindsided.) the political kabuki theater and watching the tech world again. 10 years ago, what we are seeing now was just scribbles on starbucks napkins. And it isn’t slowing one bit. The ‘memory wall’ hasn’t happened, even though we are pretty much stalemated at 7nanometer tech. (Kinda hard to go smaller than an atom at this stage, but there are more scribbles on napkins addressing that too.)

As an example, think back to 2001. The Net was really starting to hit wide open throttle at that point, but wasn’t in every home, cell phones weren’t smart, and HBO was still kinda cool. Now, we have smartphones with 100 times the computing power of my original 386 running DOS, the net is available to me through that phone wherever I am, and Netflix buried HBO several times over the last few years (and HBO isnt even kinda cool anymore.) This train is moving, fast, and were it takes us is going to be pretty interesting, and completely unexpected for the strap hangers.

Honestly, I see our future, in far more venues than I can describe, being reshaped even further by technology, similar to the way the Industrial revolution reshaped the entire planet back in the mid to late 1800’s. People were preaching then along the same sermons and where did we get to? NOT chasing rats down holes while our significant other scraped rat hides for her bridal gown. We are so far from the stone-age, people practice those skills as hobbies! (Even me.😋. Ya just ne’er know if ya might need it. Kind of like car insurance.)

On that note, the worst thing that can happen to this country is to ignore the Chinese. They are at the cutting edge of many of these techs, and with as high of an education their people are getting (they turn out about 10 engineers to our 1 now), they are poised for some serious breakthroughs. Communist the political machine may be, but the Country as a whole is very much Capitalist.

One good thing (a strength that can also be a weakness at times) of being an INTJ is being able to admit I was wrong. It may take a jaw-breaking whack across the face to show me the error, but once shown, I bounce back quick.

(Warning: some are going to get ticked when they read the rest of this.)

I’m starting to think that there was a lot wrong with what I bought into. Some great premises, but skewed logic based on misinformation does not carry through to valid results. And there are many fallacies spinning around the globe that are foundation to several ideologies: Conservative and Liberal are both running on fallacies.

Delving into things, I am starting to see the Fallacies for what they are, and my thinking is getting clearer. I see both sides of the political arena as culpable, and people buy into it all. I still catch myself “buying it” at times.

The biggest fallacy: money. Both sides get it wrong. (And I sometimes feel this is intentional. )

Ask people what MONEY is and you will get as many different answers. 1:1! Ask 100 people and you’ll get 100 different answers.

Who’s right? May be a few, but most will be empty answers parroted from some article or dictionary.

The answer is: what we are willing to accept in an exchange of mutual benefit. In otherwords, pretty much anything can be ‘money’. But it has to represent, if even in a sideways form, something that is of value; TIME. Time is the one thing that is an infinite resource, but is only available to the individual in an unknown and quite finite amount. The only way to ‘get more time’ is to buy someone elses time. (An interesting movie deals with this in a sideways aspect. “In Time“. Check it out.) Thats ‘business’.

The problem arises that most people do not see ‘money’ that way. They see it as an ends to a mean, not the means to an end. They also see it as a win-lose situation so will go to great lengths to “win”, most always at the expense of others. Politicians and criminals (but I repeat myself) come to mind. That win-lose mentality is part and parcel to why we have superstitions holding sway: in point the superstition of Government and that some have more rights than others. (Say it ain’t so!) How does someone ‘gain’ a right to tell others how they should live, when no one else has that right individually? How can we ‘grant’ what isn’t ours to begin with?

I’m going to stop there for now. I’m still learning things, and the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know, and the more I realize that our education has been compromised. If you doubt, crack open some books and start reading again. Heck, just jump in to this website; make sure to pack a lunch, you’ll be there awhile.

I don’t know it all. I know that I don’t know it all. I know there are things that are still hidden from me and I haven’t a clue what. But I do know I feel cheated by an incompetent education system,,,