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Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Last Chance Democracy Cafe

I love it.

I love the honesty, decency and respect for reality, this ability to see beyond wishes and fears, to accept the world, as it is – question of age, combined with intelligence, creating wisdom out of knowledge out of experience.

But, alas...

exactly that seems to be signaling the near end of this blog. I hope, i’m wrong, but i fear, i’m right. Lesser and lesser replies must lead to resignation...

actually, it’s easy to understand: Because truth doesn’t sell...

people hate the truth, they always prefer the sugar-coated world of fairy tales – they want to be lied to, they want to hear, that all is fine, all is nice and wonderful and...

that especially THEY don’t have to worry and don’t have TO DO anything, that they can enjoy what they have and don’t have to bother about other humans, how their negligence and laziness and carelessness harms them by playing the tree monkeys: not to see, not to hear and not to speak about the evil done in their name, so that they can continue to steal and rob and rape or allow all that without bad conscience...

it’s said, that children behave like their parents: “like father, like son” – but it is also true, that the underlings behave like their bosses: “the fish rots from the head” or clearly spoken: “People get the government they deserve”.

Global Warming? Don’t be annoying! THEY will care about that, THEY will find a way to protect us, WE better go watching Faux...

Rising nuke alarm because of the stupid war-mongering, megalomania and disrespect for the Earth of the American Powerful? Just pay more taxes to pay the Pentagon – THEY will buy more weapons and weapons will protect us...

Rising poverty, explosion of population and wars? Just pay more taxes to pay the Pentagon...

BUT NEVER, EVER TALK ABOUT THAT!

Don’t bother us with the truth – no one wants to hear that.

That’s the lesson of the dying blogs – and the surviving ones. The survivors don’t care about the future, they sell, what people want: superficial nothing without any meaning even for their own life, but a so wonderful distraction from daily life...

Panes et circenses..

and Justitia got a blinder...

don’t care about the future, America, don’t care about the future, World. Just play and eat and kill and enjoy your life...

at least, as long as you can.

That’s how animals live...

but intelligence is the conquest of the future: To see the chances and the risks, to understand the possibilities and dangers, to accept that reality trumps everything and has to be respected to be helpful.

Sleep well, you "WhatMeWorry?"-species...

About Me

Name: Again

physicist, born in the land of the poets and thinkers, knowing how information coins information processing systems and how information processing systems coin information - i had to become a philosopher. Because me and you, our bodies, our souls, our families and nations, our cultures and our companies are nothing else than information processing systems.

The Story Not Told

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.

Openness

The definition of information as set of repeatable behavior of a given object is not only valuable for explaining existing knowledge, but doesn't exclude future knowledge.
If a witch would come and would be able to show, that witchcraft works, it would be "information" as Newtons law are.
Why? Because if something works, it works every time, you use it. If witchcraft would work, the witch would be able to get the same result whenever she would use her tricks.

So never say: "that can't be true, that is impossible."
Say: "Show me...
again."

Furor Mathematica

A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.

"Al-gebra is a problem for us," Gonzales said. "They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'."

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld backed up the Attorney General's words. "Al-gebra is really a problem for us. One of the worst beliefs of this group is that they want their women to greatly multiply."

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, He would have given us more fingers and toes."

Florida Governor and the president's brother Jeb Bush, no stranger counts and recounts himself had no comment.

White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the president...

ever.

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