Essay by Isaac Asimov

http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

Right and Wrong in Schroedinger's box and shaken.

excerpt:
"It is the mark of the marvelous toleration of the Athenians that they let this continue for decades and that it wasn't till Socrates turned seventy that they broke down and forced him to drink poison."

yesterday and tomorrow

Yesterday's philosophy is tomorrow's engineering and the day-after's out-sourced commodity.
Heraclitus didn't like the concept of the eternal.


"This... 'stuff'? Oh... ok. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don't know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you're trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean. You're also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar De La Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves St Laurent, wasn't it, who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of 8 different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and so it's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you're wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of stuff."
- Miranda Priestly,The Devil wears Prada

mandating fun

The economist article
says do not corporatize fun.

Book and quote, lewis thomas and Zorg

"I don't like warriors. Too narrow-minded, no subtlety. And worse, they fight for hopeless causes. Honor? Huh! Honor's killed millions of people, it hasn't saved a single one. Tell you what I do like though: a killer. A dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold-blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the ZF-1, would have immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun"
Zorg, The Fifth Element

I was craving biology today . So I found this at home. Interesting book. Was recommended in school by Rahul, but I didn't get with it. It now ties in with my cybernetics and emergent systems madness.

Got my hands on "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World". The clerk at the library said the book was not available in the centre we were in, whereas our research had pointed otherwise.When we found the book, I wondered if I could hit the guy across the face with it, because , you know, if it didn't exist in this particular centre, he wouldn't feel anything if we hit him with something that didn't exist ...

Did you know that in the movie "Empire of the Sun", the little boy who is the main character is actually Christian Bale !?! Talk about paying your dues ...

lowest first

digging deep the trenches of complexity
and ever widening circles of assault
the centre cannot hold

transcending abstractions

Alan Watts talk

-The double bind that is the deepest of all is, You must go on living. Living is a spontaneous process, and an art, and to say to life, "You must happen," is ...

- The basic form of the double bind which is imposed upon all children is the requirement to do that which will be acceptable only if you do it voluntarily. ...