It seems most people can't see the Future or stopped looking toward it so much that it's become anathema because, as psychologists like to call it, this is 'magical thinking.'
The implication is something is inherently wrong with 'magical thinking' but nothing would ever happen without it because someone has to believe an impossible thing before anyone ever tries to build it.
Cadillac Man and I were speaking earlier and it was implicitly in the context of 'magical thinking' in which there's the suspension of disbelief for the period of an election in which people start thinking the politicians will do something different from that which they have been doing since the fifties or, more accurately, post-WWII, during which time nothing much has changed at all except the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
Where it comes to 'magical thinking' in politics is the idea there's a difference between Trump and Clinton when both will lick the asses of the white elite like they're ice cream cones and everything else is just cotton candy to amuse the groundlings during this fetid festival of felicitous frivolity.
Nothing from the election will alter my lot as I'm seriously fucked and Cadillac Man wishes the best for a good outcome and so do I but both know the probability is low as it is with many others since, as we also covered, the state needs about twenty-five percent of the population at or below the poverty line to motivate the others to stay productive. Don't make any 'bad choices' or you will end up down there with them, the poors, the Untouchables.
The aspect of 'bad choices' is needed by family because the natural reaction is to save the drowning sib but that means you will go down together but now you will take your family with you to do it so that can't happen. There must be some distance or their heads would explode and I understand and accept that. Where I get resentful is if it comes to supporting policy which means the state won't do anything and then we will likely have a disagreement.
So I'm screwed which is all the more reason to look to the science because it's one of the few things I see which brings Truth other than Lewis Black, the Liberal Redneck, Jim Jefferies, or George Carlin.
(Ed: or the jazz, man. Truth is in Jazz!)
So long as that includes prog rock, fair enough.
The science is the Now and the Future only they're not making promises, they're doing the work and getting the background so they can say it with confidence. It is logical that knowing this means we can move to that. Given an adequate case, we accept that and it yields a viable and coherent path into that Future.
That I will not be on it is irrelevant to the purpose and I said to Cadillac Man, "I want your grand-kid to grow up to be an astronaut."
That was in the context of neither Russia nor America do much of a job of taking care of the ones most in trouble and it's only a question of degree as to which place it's worst. From the standpoint of someone on the bottom, it makes no difference whatever which is worse and particularly when nothing substantive is being done about it. This problem is for you to fix.
My purpose is to show what you may well be missing and credibly if you fail to fix it and what I see is extremely damn good. In one example we saw today, it's become much easier to split hydrogen from water which is to say you can turn a glass of water into energy. You've got to be loving that more than a big bang nuclear reactor except, well, hydrogen explodes too ... but it's a much more environmentally-friendly explosion (larfs). (Ithaka: Finding Better Ways to Liberate Hydrogen for Clean Energy)
For me, this is the hope and the biggest hope is you see it too.
The implication is something is inherently wrong with 'magical thinking' but nothing would ever happen without it because someone has to believe an impossible thing before anyone ever tries to build it.
Cadillac Man and I were speaking earlier and it was implicitly in the context of 'magical thinking' in which there's the suspension of disbelief for the period of an election in which people start thinking the politicians will do something different from that which they have been doing since the fifties or, more accurately, post-WWII, during which time nothing much has changed at all except the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.
Where it comes to 'magical thinking' in politics is the idea there's a difference between Trump and Clinton when both will lick the asses of the white elite like they're ice cream cones and everything else is just cotton candy to amuse the groundlings during this fetid festival of felicitous frivolity.
Nothing from the election will alter my lot as I'm seriously fucked and Cadillac Man wishes the best for a good outcome and so do I but both know the probability is low as it is with many others since, as we also covered, the state needs about twenty-five percent of the population at or below the poverty line to motivate the others to stay productive. Don't make any 'bad choices' or you will end up down there with them, the poors, the Untouchables.
The aspect of 'bad choices' is needed by family because the natural reaction is to save the drowning sib but that means you will go down together but now you will take your family with you to do it so that can't happen. There must be some distance or their heads would explode and I understand and accept that. Where I get resentful is if it comes to supporting policy which means the state won't do anything and then we will likely have a disagreement.
So I'm screwed which is all the more reason to look to the science because it's one of the few things I see which brings Truth other than Lewis Black, the Liberal Redneck, Jim Jefferies, or George Carlin.
(Ed: or the jazz, man. Truth is in Jazz!)
So long as that includes prog rock, fair enough.
The science is the Now and the Future only they're not making promises, they're doing the work and getting the background so they can say it with confidence. It is logical that knowing this means we can move to that. Given an adequate case, we accept that and it yields a viable and coherent path into that Future.
That I will not be on it is irrelevant to the purpose and I said to Cadillac Man, "I want your grand-kid to grow up to be an astronaut."
That was in the context of neither Russia nor America do much of a job of taking care of the ones most in trouble and it's only a question of degree as to which place it's worst. From the standpoint of someone on the bottom, it makes no difference whatever which is worse and particularly when nothing substantive is being done about it. This problem is for you to fix.
My purpose is to show what you may well be missing and credibly if you fail to fix it and what I see is extremely damn good. In one example we saw today, it's become much easier to split hydrogen from water which is to say you can turn a glass of water into energy. You've got to be loving that more than a big bang nuclear reactor except, well, hydrogen explodes too ... but it's a much more environmentally-friendly explosion (larfs). (Ithaka: Finding Better Ways to Liberate Hydrogen for Clean Energy)
For me, this is the hope and the biggest hope is you see it too.
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