explore-exploit is rampant in nature, like, centrally

for eg, flowers have both male and female parts - the pistil and the stamen

why would the flower need 2 ? quite simply, nature prefers the flower to scatter the male seed across 

it's not a one-shot thing but a two-step process - variety is built in, and some of the various survive. without variety, lines might end

the pistil does the exploit, of the ground beneath - roots tapping the earth and the xylem and phloem taking care of the logistics, and the stamen, and the pollen taking care of the seeding, as well as the exploring

and while mcLuhan talked about centers and margins, and while he did refer to '...women as beasts of burden as men needed to be free to run interference' , I can't help draw the parallel that women are the first center and men as the first margin

to me, the parallel to women=exploit and men =explore seems obvious at this point. extending to humans, the women only has the X chromosomes, while the male has the XY chromosomes

this also explains why women age fast once their birthing years are over while men don't, and can create viable 'seed' well into their old age (not all, but enough)

looks like nature wants men to scatter their seed all around...

 everytime i open up to you

something big and meaningful 

dies within me

from ranprieur (the man is a treasure)

 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/oscar-wilde-the-soul-of-man-under-socialism

"The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody."

( here 'presses so hardly' means 'presses so hard' )

this is a line we've never departed from, all discussions about individuality happen in the context of the current econo-political scene, and is a reaction and adjustment to it, rather than a separate existence

sora made these

 

be realistic, plan for a miracle !

 religion, or rather, spirituality is that irrationality that forms the centre of our being

rationally there is no reason for existing

irrationally, there are many, varying from "you're here, might as well go on to the next one " all the way to "God put me here with purpose and ability and there's His work to be done, and tax rebates to be collected"

"i like it here" is somewhere in the middle

that irrationality is the  root from which many shoots of being stem ( yes, i know)

art, skill, will, achievements, arete, rationality .....

turtle trader approach sounds like the 'dhandho' mindset - limited downside, unlimited upside

also , it claims to be teachable, and also encode-able

 losses have physiological impact also

the book starts with hero worship and paenery for richard dennis. effusive praise disguised behind a matter-of-fact tone

 nobody cheated like parents of children 

past the cute stage

moments of life-defining joy

nature takes away a drop a day

until only in flashes the happy days

come visit you

and the husk is left

for the dust

 [spoiler alert] the manchurian candidate is not about what I expected..... don't watch it