From Ralph Nader’s suggestion for eliminating athletic scholarships to those who consider initiating an unprovoked attack on Libya is full cause for impeachment proceedings, the 1,000-year view will give you what you want, as always.
Herding cattle or herding our species, the Committee takes nothing personal.
Should the organisation of a government (which, remember, is little more than another form of business) be heavily weighted toward one branch or another?
Some of the next few decisions are not easy for me to make because they do affect me personally.
Leadership can be fun but changing the lives of others drastically against their wishes is not the part I consider to be fun.
Just like they told me, “We wish a third party candidate would win control to prove the system is greater than ideology.”
Seven billion views that differ except for the fact they belong to beings that all lived, no matter how their definition of normality can or can’t compare…
A personal journey I asked for and a personal journey I got, where I often don’t get what I wish for but always get what I basically need…
Tree leaves grow bigger every day as the ambient temperature generally increases.
Waves of denser air push water droplets to the ground gravitationally, flooding big creases and low-lying areas in the landscape.
14,286 days – where does the time go?
Oh well, just stay focused on saving the species and/or the ecosystem to which it belongs.
Having grown up in one dominant subculture and used to responding to the habits of those within that subculture is a curious phenomenon to observe while knowing that subculture nor any other is the best one for nurturing children.
Yet, it shares features with other successful childrearing subcultures that are worth preserving.
Features that are shared across species and with all living things, too.
Not to forget its relationship to states of energy.
Will we see our planet is a relay beacon before it’s too late?
I used to ask about how we keep theists, atheists, extraterrestrialists and everyone else happy in their beliefs while putting them to work on a big project that is neutral about human-based belief systems.
Then they put me in charge of the Committee so I would set aside conjecture and get busy with the task the Committee members saw was the most important of all the tasks assigned to us.
It’s really up to me how much I want to get involved in the local/regional a/political activities of my species now that I know how much/little those activities in/directly impact the task at hand.
The simple fact is the easiest to explain – every individual must be given a feeling of being involved in its life, which can include the feelings of being in control or out of control of one’s life.
We can force people’s beliefs in one direction or another or we can lead by example.
Some subcultures use thought police and some use peer pressure.
Some celebrate every ability to excel, regardless of gender, and some separate skill/talent development by gender.
I am 100% a member of my species, at least as much as we understand the composition that states of energy constitute.
I defend all our actions as the ways in which we define living, regardless of how little I can justify what many of us do.
In 2011, I am learning to identify the worldview that I built to justify my actions on a daily basis as well as learning that a universal view can include an absence of not only my species but life as we know it on this planet (it can also include a reconfiguration of what I think is a universe).
In 1,000 years, how will this 1-acre tract of land I call my own have changed?
It is no longer a part of undeveloped country or land on the edge of farm fields. It is an established portion of the suburbanised landscape, evidence of increased population density by my species.
We build and rebuild and rebuild urban population centers, finding many ways to justify their existence – increased efficiency, the interconnected sets of idea generation, glorious architecture, etc.
We hypnotise and mesmerise ourselves with our cleverness.
As we attempt to find the next superbrain construction means that is sustainable, many parts (e.g., urban centers) have failed and more parts will fail.
Do we step out of this moment and into the future by admitting nothing is permanent and our structures should be put together on the assumption we’ll need to take them apart and recycle the components for the next round of temporary construction?
How can we convince all seven billion of us that life is sustainable engineering?
If my regional government, the state of Alabama, is too backward to recognise the need to set aside undeveloped land for the future of its citizens, should I care if its existence is temporary, and its leaders, no matter how filled with self-importance they may be while they pursue lucrative business relationships in their brief lifetimes, are quickly forgotten and their fortunes quickly dissolved because of their short-sightedness?
Whether we came from the cosmos, lightning striking ocean goo, or melding volcanic spew, we are here together.
Together, we make a difference.
The power of suggestion is a tool few use wisely.
That’s why I’m returning to my task of turning the planet into a relay beacon, letting the Committee, the programmers/scientists on retainer and other members of my team keep our species and our daily lives running on automatic, repeating cycles that intersect spirals they don’t remember seeing generations ago.
If I don’t keep us on schedule, who will?
If the FCC and regulators won’t put the consumer’s interest in the forefront of the at&t/T-mobile profit-making business megamerger, who will?
treetrunkdings 