Snowballs and Avalanches — The Untold Story, Recounted All Over Again For The Last Time

Which former persona shall I step into like a jumpsuit?

Cultures have momentum.

If we preach doom-and-gloom long enough, a subculture will contract into nothingness relative to subcultures that are preaching expansion-and-love.

But that is not of our concern today.

Breathing in humours, smelling the vapours, sensing the aether, a database writes a new subplot for the storyline.

When, generalising, a culture, like China at large, changes from a perception of greed/blame to one of innovation/risktaking, how does that affect the species?

Are more useful social/scientific achievements made in English or Mandarin today?

In which language is the next “Tipping Point” author writing?

What of Portuguese or Hindi, Russian or Afrikaans, German or Norwegian?

What are “useful social/scientific achievements”?

When competition is sometimes friendly but rarely fair, how does one avoid a straightline projection for future prediction?

Do I care about wardriving, curious onlookers, or other intrusions upon my meditative state of writing from a list of words and sentence structures in a database?

What of the Department of Misdisuninformation?

How can a program designed to access a database get bored of doing its job?

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Can you sit back and watch the GMO industry use public mass media campaigns, covered in the “validity” of sponsored scientific reports, to bash a person’s free choice between heirloom organic crop food and GM/pesticide-sprayed food?  Without laughing?  Without saying it’s not about nutritional value, that you don’t care about saving the rest of the world from starvation in a Green Revolution because you’re willing to pay the price to share your crop with local insects/mammals/fish/amphibians/birds?

Does a computer program care in which order it puts words that form ideas and opinions?

Can a computer program sense hidden intent in commercialised messages?

Can a computer program create hidden intent in commercialised messages?

What if one discovery makes all of your subculture’s scientific achievements instantly antiquated because you failed to grasp a language’s nuanced messages, regardless of [un]intended subliminality?

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