Tag: Rise of the Evil Ones

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Un-titled” Road signs

“Un-titled” Road signs

End of Days? A little stocktaking might be appropriate. It’s tough to quibble your way out of death. And complaints about bed bugs and mold will certainly fall on deaf ears — no matter what kind of afterlife we get.

We’re in for Big Changes. BIG CHANGES. Why aren’t you being told this? Get Real. It would cause problems. And there are responsibilities. And they’ll justify those actions in their memoirs – from the space colony.

We are living in a point of history where there is no “everybody” – just “everybody else” — and everybody is someone else’s “everybody else.”

Maybe I should start smoking again? I can give it up when I give everything up. Or everything else.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Environmental Merchandising” Road signs

“Environmental Merchandising” Road signs

Environmental Merchandising serves a need – the need to sell products. Most people are happy just to have the stigma removed [or at least the appearance of it] and will buy without looking too hard for the unvarnished truth. A Ramen Noodle cup with “35% Less Sodium!” still has more salt than the Dead Sea – and slowing down the destabilizing increase means less than little in our runaway environmental system.

How good is our corporate environmental stewardship these days? In a word: Pathetic, Minimal, or in a word I prefer: Disastrous.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “I’d like a second opinion” Bumper sticker

“I’d like a second opinion” Bumper sticker

“You have to remove my heart to save my life? I’d like a second opinion.”

Not only are today’s social policies radical; they’re radically irrational – and it would be smart to get a second opinion from some trusted sources:

Abraham Lincoln:

“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”

Frederick Douglass:

“Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color”

I think I’ll go with them.

What about the “Greater Good”?

“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Scientists are from Pluto” Bumper sticker

“Scientists are from Pluto” Bumper sticker

“Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Scientists are from Pluto. Is it even a planet?” These days: people they don’t ask; “What is your sign?” – They ask: “What is your category?” And those who create the categories have great power — the new alchemists who will reconstitute the perfect society from base metals of discrimination and oppression.

The power of Doctrine to put people in their place . . . from now on.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “The tale does wag the dog” Bumper sticker

“The tale does wag the dog” Bumper sticker

Stories, stories, stories – it’s the stories that hold sway today; and reality is cut to fit the narrative. But where do these stories come from?

One way to find out is to search the “target,” instead of the story. A story is repeated widely; but the originators have a more substantial agenda than mere maliciousness: They like to include a support structure for their tale – and are usually high in the search engine rankings.

And sometimes you can tell the maker’s label by just the cut of the cloth.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “Permanent tattoos and wash-off ethics” Bumper sticker

“Permanent tattoos and wash-off ethics” Bumper sticker

It’s all in the packaging. You can always sell the appearances – if the contents don’t matter.

When people are famous for being famous – does being famous for your achievements mean you’re successful?

2022: The year when people are willing to do anything – for not all that much.

The ethics? They come off with the wrapper.

“All Roads Lead to Cornithaca” – “What’s cool about natural disasters?” Bumper sticker

“What’s cool about natural disasters?” Bumper sticker

“It depends on how you see the world.” There used to be a morality question: “If you could press a button; and kill a million people on the other side of the world; and get a million dollars – would you do it?”

This simple “yes/no” scenario would be met today with equivocation: “It’s only about 1/8000th of the world’s population – 0.013%.” or “There are too many people anyway” or [maybe even more dismissive] “A million dollars isn’t worth that much today.”

It seems that the only objection to making a deal with the Devil: is not getting the best deal possible.

If in the setting of Science; People don’t have much importance – why are we letting Science decide our future?

Science and politics are what people do; Art is what people are — maybe we should remember that.