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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (31520)	1/4/2011 4:05:54 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Indeed: <there is a little sadness in that... from my perspective.. ain't nothing like the real thing baby... > Having enjoyed a couple of weeks of summer with streams, dogs, goat, turtle, and walking on roads with no footpaths and forest around and general buccolic bliss, it's a great reminder of how we are firstly physical entities like chimps, with similar limbic systems and our cognitive processes sit on top of that billion year history of DNA. But our cognitive drives are powerful too and they are abstract virtual entities with new reality imaginable and able to be created from the four forces of the apocalypse which we can twist to our will. Life as a chimp is enjoyable, but takes us only so far. Then it's back to the Cyberspace grindstone, shoulder to the wheel, ear to the ground, eye on the ball, back to the wall, feet on the ground, hand on the tiller, head in the clouds ... which requires considerable contortion to do that all at once. My plan is to get Google, Qualcomm, Yahoo!, Zenbu, and all those cyberspace companies to take over my mental processes for me, and carry out the tasks, so that I can be more chimp-like, which is my natural state. For example, remembering to do something is difficult. It's true I could write it down and keep checking my diary to see what to do next. But Google should be able to do it and even anticipate what to put in my diary, and remember it all and generally absolve me of responsibility. It could say "Beep beep ... turn left here Mq and then go into the shoe shop on the left. They have a nice pair of shoes you'll like in your size and the price is right. It's $2 more than we can get at the other end of the street but we need to keep going to meet up for lunch at Latteland at 2pm. I have prepaid the shoe shop for a discount and the shop assistant is ready now to put them on your feet. They have agreed to chuck out your old ones which have been annoying you with leaks..." That's shopping I can live with. "...By the way, I think the price of gold is going to da sky in 2011 so I've loaded up with 1000 x 1 ounce coins which the courier will deliver later today. You were so right about $1,400 on 31 December 2010 and bang on with the price 31 December 2009". What? Who told you to do that? I haven't said what gold is going to do this year, but it was strange that last night I dreamed about getting a gold coin, minted Shanghai 1923 with amazing and beautiful detail in relief on it ... and all the other things that went along with the dream, as dreams do. History used to sit lightly if at all in my mind. Now it seems to weigh heavier and play as though we are into the third movement of the 1812 Overture. [Which I have now put in the CD player to remind me of centuries gone by and to get in the mood for 2011] Unfortunately, [or fortunately depending on your point of view], history doesn't seem to have stopped but is gathering pace and a head of steam. The music after 1812 is Capriccio Italien and then Marche Slave... I guess I'd better listen to all three. It has been a year or two. It's by The Philadelphia Orchestra - Eugene Ormandy, Conductor. Music by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky 1840 to 1893 when history was also happening and had happened. Highly recommended. Happy New Year and good luck, we'll need it. Mqurice