2016: The Year The Music Died
Let's see now: The latest casualties are Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell.
I SWEAR:
I'm figuring even Paul McCartney might have but less than two months to live.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Automation (and its mindset)
It's not bad enough they lay people off (contributing to the downfall of the economy), replacing them with machines and computer programs.
It's also that, in order for automation to work, the programming has to be set up in the most perfunctory and formulaic manner.
Which means reliance on algorithm patterns as a sort of make-shift panacea for making self-sufficient operations efficient.
The thing is, reality isn't linear. It cannot be predetermined or manipulated by simply figuring out the "set patterns" of personal life rituals of individuals or of economic trends or of consumer spending habits or of demands for specific products or of progress in certain areas of medical science---and the like.
Reality is fluid, and regimented algorithm patterns can't anticipate or catch the nuances, unexpected happenstances, or capricious decisions and changes made by any one person or party (either willingly or out of necessity).
They would have any individual person going through their entire life with the same personality, the same interests, the same propensity for engaging in the same behaviors repeatedly. No "life-changing" situations or revelations resulting in enlightenment, no "change-of-heart" for wrongdoers. If one has done wrong it automatically means they must be a "deviant" or a "scumbag" of some kind. Scrub any influences that come down the pike that may make an individual decide to "change course". Their character and personality has already be "determined" so any said changes would never be "recognized" by the system.
It's like: If you move the system will take forever to catch up with you. It's like you're expected to live at the same address and have the same phone number indefinitely. If you try to inform the system of your new address (or new phone number) it'll just "get confused". It's like "everyone lives in the same place all their life". You're "the first person in the history of mankind to ever move and change their address".
So, if tragedy befalls you---say a tornado or fire or earthquake or flood devastates your home or place of residence---you may find your mail in the future being delivered to two addresses: your current one and your previous one which no longer even exists.
It's not bad enough they lay people off (contributing to the downfall of the economy), replacing them with machines and computer programs.
It's also that, in order for automation to work, the programming has to be set up in the most perfunctory and formulaic manner.
Which means reliance on algorithm patterns as a sort of make-shift panacea for making self-sufficient operations efficient.
The thing is, reality isn't linear. It cannot be predetermined or manipulated by simply figuring out the "set patterns" of personal life rituals of individuals or of economic trends or of consumer spending habits or of demands for specific products or of progress in certain areas of medical science---and the like.
Reality is fluid, and regimented algorithm patterns can't anticipate or catch the nuances, unexpected happenstances, or capricious decisions and changes made by any one person or party (either willingly or out of necessity).
They would have any individual person going through their entire life with the same personality, the same interests, the same propensity for engaging in the same behaviors repeatedly. No "life-changing" situations or revelations resulting in enlightenment, no "change-of-heart" for wrongdoers. If one has done wrong it automatically means they must be a "deviant" or a "scumbag" of some kind. Scrub any influences that come down the pike that may make an individual decide to "change course". Their character and personality has already be "determined" so any said changes would never be "recognized" by the system.
It's like: If you move the system will take forever to catch up with you. It's like you're expected to live at the same address and have the same phone number indefinitely. If you try to inform the system of your new address (or new phone number) it'll just "get confused". It's like "everyone lives in the same place all their life". You're "the first person in the history of mankind to ever move and change their address".
So, if tragedy befalls you---say a tornado or fire or earthquake or flood devastates your home or place of residence---you may find your mail in the future being delivered to two addresses: your current one and your previous one which no longer even exists.
Song Analysis/CeleBirthdates
Joni Mitchell turned 73 on Monday.
Among the songs she penned: BOTH SIDES NOW. A single hit for folk/pop singer Judy Collins in 1968, the song is a commentary on how a lot of the things we're familiar with in life we still don't really fully understand intimately. How what we do know about anything and anyone is based solely on how they affect us and on the impressions they make on us. We never bother looking into what the things around us are really all about.
Gordon Lightfoot turns 78 a week from now (the 17th).
Among the songs she penned: BOTH SIDES NOW. A single hit for folk/pop singer Judy Collins in 1968, the song is a commentary on how a lot of the things we're familiar with in life we still don't really fully understand intimately. How what we do know about anything and anyone is based solely on how they affect us and on the impressions they make on us. We never bother looking into what the things around us are really all about.
Gordon Lightfoot turns 78 a week from now (the 17th).
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
English: The Universal Language
"Schadenfreude". A word I always have to look up in the dictionary every time I want to use it.
It's a German word that means "taking pleasure in witnessing Karma at work".
The English language is the most plagiaristic one in the history of mankind. About 90% of the English words are modified versions of words originated by other tongues (mostly European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern).
And yet it still has to share certain words (and terms) with other languages. Like (for example) "carte blanche", a French word meaning "unlimited choice, entitlement and liberty"
...and there are plenty more examples in our illustrious English language where those come from.
Come November
Here's to Hillary Clinton winning in November.
Don't get me wrong now: I think she's just as much a demagog and "three dollar bill" as Donald Trump.
But the United States is long overdue for its own "female leader". This "embodiment of how governments should be run" has been sorely lagging behind not only Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) but also a few of the "lesser" countries as well: Israel (Golda Meir), The Philippines (Corazon Aquino). And let's not forget Germany (Angela Merkel).
Regardless of who gets into office next it's not going to affect the course of things to come as those who are REALLY in charge have already mapped out their agenda.
Here's to Hillary Clinton winning in November.
Don't get me wrong now: I think she's just as much a demagog and "three dollar bill" as Donald Trump.
But the United States is long overdue for its own "female leader". This "embodiment of how governments should be run" has been sorely lagging behind not only Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) but also a few of the "lesser" countries as well: Israel (Golda Meir), The Philippines (Corazon Aquino). And let's not forget Germany (Angela Merkel).
Regardless of who gets into office next it's not going to affect the course of things to come as those who are REALLY in charge have already mapped out their agenda.
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