tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8541121618504989692024-03-19T03:06:04.410-07:00OutToPasture EnterprisesLenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-82072891417482976692022-05-17T09:54:00.006-07:002022-05-17T11:12:49.083-07:00Wordpress.<p>I've decided to blog. Who cares you ask? Who knows I answer, in my reality, I myself am the most likely audience, but that is one for whom I am happy to write. Facebook makes that difficult to achieve without self-monetization. </p><p></p><p>If you read below, my first question, to which I invite response is whether this itself, is an early (?) sign of madness, and if so, does that make it more or less interesting.</p><p>Later.<br></p><h2 class="wp-container-12 wp-block-post-title" style="font-size: 64px; line-height: 1.2;"><a href="https://darwinmarx415541664.wordpress.com/2022/05/17/self-definition/" rel="" target="_self">Self definition</a></h2>
<p>My first wordpress.com post. </p>
<p>What will it be? A window, I hope into my thoughts on the Seldon
graph and the ideas embodied. It will be, I hope a window into the
conversations and thoughts I have with myself.</p>
<p>You are invited in. </p>
<p>The topic, as far as I set it, will be the Econosphere. An idea,
which has been festering since the onset of COVID and which I hope will
soon leave the world of thought for the world of words. I hope to share
and hone the words and content here as a full description emerges. </p>
<p>The econosphere refers to investigations undertaken during COVID
starting from Schrodinger’s What Is Life? It provides a novel,
mathematical model with which to discuss that and many other interesting
questions.</p>
<p>This blog is also about making the thoughts, which are so strange, perhaps tinged with madness, public.</p>
<p>The model, the Seldon Graph, uses ideas from ow analysis to connect<br>Darwin and Marx discretely to provide a framework for multi-level sim-<br>ulation
of economic processes. The theoretical treatment exposes questions such
as what is consciousness or what is a sense, how many are there and how
do they evolve?</p>
<p>Please let me <a href="http://www.outToPastureEnterprises.com">know</a> if it sounds fun, after all, I’m retired – fun is money,</p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-80470943265402294372022-05-14T14:39:00.002-07:002022-05-14T14:39:30.814-07:00Biden must declare war!<p> War against the oil industry. We must make ourselves perto-immune and petro-sufficient . We need a total commitment, let us have it for war on energy not on people.<br /></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-1534020193582663172022-05-12T14:39:00.001-07:002022-05-12T14:45:55.751-07:00 Capitalism is the limit of free exchange as the world shrinks.When the world was large, exchanges were rare and not based entirely on specie. Effects from religious or cultural obligation to a desire to curry favor helped to find a room or a meal in a strange town.<p>As the world shrank exchanges multiplied, commerce and specie spread. <br /></p><p>Two hundred years ago fifty species shared the capitalist world, then a handful sufficed, until one; and then, there was one money and no specie behind. A piece of a dream. </p><p>War has returned and money will fracture and become a basket if not a thing, as Marx predicted. <br /></p><br />Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-15215513670457122332022-05-08T08:45:00.004-07:002022-05-08T08:45:59.557-07:00 Happy Mother's Day<p> <span>Only by removing capital's 'freedom of speech' can humanity recover control. The 14th amendment has made all OF US slaves to capital. No corporate spending on politics . Capital lives forever, humans do not. It will dominate if not resisted politically. We will be farmed by eternal masses of capital, generations getting smaller as capital survives in a burning world, ruling through a workforce of intelligent machines and a few survivors.</span></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-49363278290926302872022-04-28T12:38:00.000-07:002022-04-28T12:38:38.538-07:00Student debt might be only the beginning<p>I'm beginning to think there may be a solution to MS(E&M). <a href="https://youtu.be/TYwGjzmugos">Krystal and Saagar</a> could become a force congealing from below funded by users not by capital. It might interrupt the smooth flow of advertising that is the <b>Main Stream Media</b> and their<b> Elite</b> rulers ( Chomsky <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl1trFr7f3AhVCpIkEHWt3AQAQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FManufacturing_Consent&usg=AOvVaw272XExNxbhodVpNUZRvPGa" target="_blank">et al</a>). Will people pay to hear the <a href="https://www.levernews.com/the-gops-new-war-on-divestment/" target="_blank">truth</a> from sources they can trust. Today seemed filled with hope. At least, enough to push Ukraine out of my mind.</p><p>Today seemed cheerful - with Ukraine gone from the world, if only.</p><p>It begin with a segment highlighting Elon Musk, the <a href="https://youtu.be/TYwGjzmugos?t=290" target="_blank"><i>iconic billionaire</i>,</a> and moving on to family wealth and it's influence. We see the billionaire class not as an evil enemy, but as a conglomerate constructed to shield its most nefarious members from the scrutiny they require. It is thus the monetized value of profits <b><i>not</i></b> reinvested in the commons from which they were extracted. price paid by earnings on <b><i>stored </i></b>capital inherited, rather than returned to the commons through legal shenanigans. </p><p>The billionaire class - if we measure it by total wealth, is not Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. They are the poster boys. They have done things we admire. They are vastly under-represented in the world of wealth.<br></p><p>Student Debt - Bernie must run. He is our hope.<br></p><p>Financial Fraud uncovered - sigh -<br></p><p>Some is too funny. <br></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk65_EO6JllOaWqVEm6ENdL11HknJ3yejKYoZTOM8PQNRjc-UoK6rebG-nDuOrL9xtodcCKXpQ1VHqGeW5Ez7TuV7cpa80KRgbpUYWBzixivgyFCK-RmSAmdGpjYvWjxVWS5meh3x3Ieky7_82uLauXLJ3y-JBLuc-LJdm68H2MBc7Hu4-NgZftJppw/s487/BadRichKid.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="487" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxk65_EO6JllOaWqVEm6ENdL11HknJ3yejKYoZTOM8PQNRjc-UoK6rebG-nDuOrL9xtodcCKXpQ1VHqGeW5Ez7TuV7cpa80KRgbpUYWBzixivgyFCK-RmSAmdGpjYvWjxVWS5meh3x3Ieky7_82uLauXLJ3y-JBLuc-LJdm68H2MBc7Hu4-NgZftJppw/s320/BadRichKid.png" width="320"></a></div><br><p>and at first first, you want to think how nasty the world that spawned his is, that he can be ignored in it.<br></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-46419373323440227532022-04-28T10:08:00.001-07:002022-04-28T10:08:16.628-07:00Thing I think that make me wonder.<p>Today, in the basement laundry of the building where I live, I met a nameless woman who has done wash there since 1978. We bemoaned the state of the machines. and as the elevator rose shared a brief ride together. </p><p>In Edinburgh the public drying rooms were a source for social improvement. </p><p>Today the poor wash their close together, the rich apart. <br /></p><p> Capital opens with<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production
prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”<sup class="enote"><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#1">[1]</a></sup> its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Which is a rather amazing sentence.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-21885226328874866172022-03-26T17:44:00.000-07:002022-03-26T17:44:03.837-07:00Reading Marx<p>
</p><div class="subsection_" id="magicparlabel-38369" style="text-align: left;">I was not surprised to learn that<br /></div><h3 class="subsection_" id="magicparlabel-38369">Karl Marx gets a bad rap.</h3>
<ul class="itemize" id="magicparlabel-38370"><li class="itemize_item">Marx understood capitalism. </li><li class="itemize_item">He was impressed by its vigor: total wealth produced </li><li class="itemize_item">He was distressed by distribution of the excess profit.</li><li class="itemize_item">He assumed this could not be modified and justified revolution.</li></ul>
<div class="standard" id="magicparlabel-38374">He was cancelled: his ideas declared heresy.</div><div class="standard" id="magicparlabel-38374">His cancellation cost us greatly since Marx' Capital is as fundamental to capitalism as Darwin's Origin is to biology. For more than a hundred years, the scientific capitalist west has ignored Capital and tools it contains which might improve governance. Ideas <i>verboten</i> <i>because of Marx' cancellation</i>. Truth cannot be cancelled.<br /></div><div class="standard" id="magicparlabel-38374">We are now entering a time, where we can no longer afford to endure the effects of unbridled capitalism. Chomsky explained Marx' cancellation as a consequence of the Manufacturing Consent. We must overcome this process and apply the tools of Marx, if we are to save our planet while addressing problems that drove Marx' followers to revolution. <br /></div>
<div class="standard" id="magicparlabel-38375"> </div><br />Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-6466576637295979012021-08-24T05:28:00.000-07:002021-08-24T05:28:58.359-07:00 It is a problem in any organization<p>when a subgroup uses the power of the organization rather than the power of persuasion to control the members of the organization, i.e. to demand unwilling assent.</p><p>I feel a bit of the archaeologist here, observing (and joining) the tribe which has ruled my building. They have grown close over years of feasting and I, (sadly for me) was the first to sign up and be stuck with the bill. So I follow the rules and am admitted to the tribe of rulers. We rulers, of course, are sworn to follow only the interest of the group of shareholders.</p><p>What follows...</p><p>is the next meeting of the rulers, in which the wicked queen lashes out to </p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-54925567815474995632021-08-24T05:27:00.002-07:002021-08-24T08:55:56.249-07:00America's Christian rulers once again starve children.<p> <span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our governments vilest strategy, denying food and medicine to those ruled by those declared to be our enemy, e.g. Cuba, Afghanistan(Taliban), and Iran. </span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">America, thy name is Hypocrisy.</span></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-9146050341295470762021-05-13T11:09:00.001-07:002021-05-13T11:09:58.025-07:00Man Cave<p> One of the amazing things about being with Sarah</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPASzTmmduw1bD-KAu307SIiTQ5-exgQbe6tQw679O1kPVLevhrzlUQAkpeSLCTmc6mp3bCQOQ_iCyANBo5y_bRXTgLAWD0vMD7vzCRfUW9wha_PJp5wi0DferfasLib4HOiUqu3GhWpa0/s4032/PXL_20201120_153840237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPASzTmmduw1bD-KAu307SIiTQ5-exgQbe6tQw679O1kPVLevhrzlUQAkpeSLCTmc6mp3bCQOQ_iCyANBo5y_bRXTgLAWD0vMD7vzCRfUW9wha_PJp5wi0DferfasLib4HOiUqu3GhWpa0/s320/PXL_20201120_153840237.jpg"></a></div> is that for the first time in my life, I have a man cave. I grew up in the world of father knows best, where father passed his time in the living room surrounded by playful children and optionally, a wife or Uncle Charley. Thankfully, such was not to be my fate, in later life at least. <div><br></div>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-24300268032328096342021-03-12T17:07:00.000-08:002021-03-12T17:07:15.597-08:00What is life?<p>You should watch the video <i style="font-weight: bold;">What is Life </i>with Paul Nurse (<b><i>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92oMfkuOIlA). </i></b>('<i style="font-weight: bold;">What is Life?' </i>is hereafter known as the question). It is the perfect reductionist introduction to the <i>question</i>. I propose a more holistic yet mathematical (scientific) viewpoint. </p><p>As Nurse points out, the reductionist approach to the question relies on QM to understand the minutiae of the chemistry and computation upon which life relies. We now understand the hardware of life at the finest levels. The reductionist analysis supplies the base on which we build an enumerable model of life. </p><div><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We consider a discrete (enumerable) model whose elements (nodes) are the 4D subsets of spacetime, <i>living volumes,</i> that are <b>life.</b></span></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The elements are organized into a dag whose directed </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">edges reflect ancestry, containment and time. The dag induces a decomposition of 'spacetime contained in life'.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This <i>enumerable</i> model has a natural physical representation in 4D space and a rich natural geometry; it suggests a myriad of new inquiries into the <i>question:</i></span></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">What properties characterize living volumes. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">How are living volumes embedded within non-living volumes.</span></li></ol></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Containment and inheritance induce a partial order and metric on these subsets. These metrics, of course, originate in spacetime itself, but as has been the case many times, alternative coordinate systems can offer new understandings. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Natural modes of this model could naturally be interpreted as emergent properties .</div><div></div>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-76629447150719495742020-12-09T13:16:00.002-08:002020-12-09T13:16:59.534-08:00Words have no meaning only interpretations <p>The law is many things.</p><p>It is a digital probe into humanity. </p><p>... a discrete constraint on behavior in a continuous world. </p><p>... the way we settle disputes without extra-legal violence.</p><p>... a marker of our progress on the road to civilization. </p><p><br /></p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-88657072391609796792020-09-12T11:19:00.001-07:002020-09-12T11:19:58.566-07:00My god<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-8a7457c7-7fff-e840-719d-16fb7a113251">There are many solutions to the cosmic equation and God may be part of some but not of mine, other than as that which unifies us all with each other with other creatures and with the world . if this is God then I am a believer .</p>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-3615821125620283392020-09-06T23:45:00.002-07:002020-09-06T23:45:32.032-07:00Framed Bubble Sculptures From the wikipedia page on Calculus of Variations<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau%27s_problem" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Plateau's problem">Plateau's problem</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> requires finding a surface of minimal area that spans a given contour in space: a solution can often be found by dipping a frame in a solution of soap suds. Although such experiments are relatively easy to perform, their mathematical interpretation is far from simple: there may be more than one locally minimizing surface, and they may have non-trivial </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Topology">topology</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. </span></div></blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(Consider the many worlds interpretation of QM) In different worlds (or on different dips) we find a variety of framed bubble sculptures. (Engineering issues aside) Could the realized configuration be interpreted as a reflection of a path through the many worlds. The bubble sculptures themselves are an emergent phenomenon. Could the realized configuration be a function of inherently random quantum fluctuations. </span></div>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-37721376484581628162020-07-26T16:18:00.001-07:002020-07-26T16:18:39.838-07:00Can Trump do what Trump has done?<div>Armed thugs are in cities around the country. Trump has brought our Iron Boot home. He has made the need for choice clear. Can Trump do what Trump has done? He has sent armed goons into cities around the country. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Localities have complained and the courts have sided with Trump, so far. There will, of course be places where the courts disagree, perhaps in CA, perhaps in NY. Trump might choose to obey the court or not. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If Trump obeys that court, it goes to the Supremes.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>If the Supremes support Trump, I expect no election.</div><div><br /></div><div>If they don't support Trump, he will rail against the Supremes (who will bask in their 'independence'), continue vilifying democrats and widely denying access in the many Republican controlled states, might manage an electoral victory.</div><div><br /></div><div>If he looses, ask the military. <br /></div>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-19987557698638084302020-07-21T20:40:00.000-07:002020-07-21T20:40:24.458-07:00A night's discovery<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It is hot and humid here. My phone claims not, but my body is. Hot and humid. My cave is a garret and my water two floors down. I am old and thirsty and it is not close. I walk down the stairs, religiously holding banisters, one left and one right. One does not want to end a heap on the floor. As I return to the batfry, the hairs rise on my arms and I think not my lover's ex-husbands ghost returned but static electricity. As I drag my damp hands along the wooden banisters I accumulate quite a charge, realizing it gave me quite a charge as well.</span>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-38231821196724945452020-04-21T10:10:00.001-07:002020-04-21T12:26:23.251-07:00Coronavirus, Aptil 21Coronavirus is here. My life goes on: somewhere between dream and beyond. And what do I think of but Bernie as Biden's Director of Pandemic Response.<br />
I listen to <a href="https://youtu.be/d1XW01HK5C0?list=PLIHhu6JIlvVOWGmKy8l5Jy3gunjARf52Y">Harari's class</a> and think of the changes as if in a different dimension.<br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-20835772989809276572018-10-03T21:38:00.000-07:002018-10-03T21:38:29.048-07:00I'm back, at the start of a new life. The mCRC is gone & I am well. Halejulah! Or so they say, but who am I to doubt.<br />
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So how to lead this new life that is mine. As I led the last one, or better, or different at least. Perhaps less to survive and more to explore.<br />
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Life could not be more interesting. Whether curse or blessing remains to be seen.Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-70095762438574804282017-08-11T08:01:00.001-07:002017-11-22T21:31:33.257-08:00Mass transit<div dir="ltr">
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On heavily-used transit systems different routes may require a different amounts of standing as well as walking and travel time. In general we tend to ignore the cost of standing however there is a large and growing segment of the population, the elderly for whom standing in public transit is difficult if not dangerous. </div>
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-46065871030018384292017-05-28T08:38:00.002-07:002017-05-28T08:38:09.691-07:00How to behave<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Can we express a moral system by <i>a set of possessors</i> of rights and judge the morality of an act by the degree to which it interferes with each of these rights. Rights might include:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">A set of possessors is a group of corporeal objects (or collections of objects) whose members may possess rights. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Rights come in two varieties, those that can be assigned and those than cannot. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">A moral system involves choosing some from column </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Life</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> and some from column </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Autonomy </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">and deciding what sets of possessors you recognize.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Different societies and different cultures choose differently. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">For example, the EU tends to include more in Life & Autonomy, and less in possessors of right than the US.</span><br />
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Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-45929402018903898542017-05-28T08:36:00.000-07:002017-05-28T08:36:52.074-07:00Propioceptive Writing<div class="tr_bq">
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A- has introduced me to a <a href="http://www.pwriting.org/">process</a> which I find/found interesting. It involves timed stream of consciousness writing. 23 min follows:<br />
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Is it looking at a different life. </blockquote>
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To see others and their good choices. </blockquote>
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I learn of possibilities beyond my imagination. </blockquote>
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The clock ticks, music plays, and I am very hea-r/e. Still, I spell. If only I knew what was reasonable or is that the rule imposed by language on our joy. </blockquote>
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A victim of reduction-ism. Reducing experience to words on a page - or colors on a canvas, or -. But then in normal times, we do not experience as they do and so we borrow their vision.</blockquote>
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And now, I am here again with the timer - an unexpectedly important feature - and Tony. <br />
Eight minutes - perfect music, a magical moment. Posture matters, the view matters, music matters, taste and touch and balance. Senses matter. All we have is the memory of awareness if we are not NOW, and here. Distraction as I light the PAX but soon returning. It may be that with experience, I will write more.<br />
But, it is hard to continue without <i>A-</i>s support. Perhaps I can develop it.<br />
So now, I will go again and speak from my mind. Record thoughts as words. What is the result. I do not know but it is an adventure. Perhaps a fixed point attractor with which to connect to an inner self or other person that might remain hidden. <br />
I think the paper matters as well. Perhaps I deserve more than, better than copier quality? How will I know.<br />
I try to escape, while the lock ticks. I catch my self and sit, returning to here: a beautiful place.</blockquote>
Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-78989440662059420022017-05-28T07:39:00.001-07:002017-05-28T07:39:17.690-07:00A walk in NYNew York is a treasure trove in many ways. <br />
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Of Art and art, of rare books, of fashion, of variety in all things. An unending concatenation: urban park leads to fashionable neighborhood strangely pierced by traffic which honks its complaints of overflowing tubes. On this Spring afternoon, sun pierces clouds, shining its light of waves of effervescent youth. Somehow, a fitting first Memorial Day for Bill De Blasio. For hope and promise as my medicare approaches.<br />
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A new wine shop joins <i>Toys&FuzzyThings</i> where, not so so long ago, a house of questionable repute did business. "Free Tasting" yells the signboard; I enter and, after sampling their freely proffered goods, find a display devoid of information. No countries, no varietals, no <i>appelation controllee</i>. I leave, feeling better (after 5 sips of wine) and a bit confused. Chambers Street Wines is a few blocks away and very well known. <br />
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<br />Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-64466313473578224392017-05-28T07:36:00.000-07:002017-05-28T07:36:30.247-07:00On the porchIt is a city that begs to be memorialized, and loves monuments. It cherishes <i>la gente</i> and distrusts the corporation. It's existence marks an all too rare moment in the history of man. Will it spread, be crushed by a religio-corporate state, or allowed to prosper. Here we have no answer, only tales of now.<br />
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Last night in <i>Gracia</i>. Can the world be hotter. It is already hotter than last. Arriving at the bar, it has changed. Bar maid<u>s</u> now dressed to 9s. I buy a beer and think about conversating. What is this world like? Like ours was: driven by sex, .... Maybe next time so I leave 1euro, and it's off to <i>el intercambio</i> (back & down) where I am the old timer. I ask Sergio about Fatima and practice with Andrea & a beautiful young woman with a difficult name.<br />
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The sun sets and I sit: watching the light play on the clouds. The full moon shines white on top, above a grey swath, and beneath, yet still above, the fires of the city are as embers in the sky.<br />
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Walking, looking for the perfect place, the spot for J to paint.Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-61632898393755119312017-05-28T07:30:00.000-07:002017-05-28T07:30:19.383-07:00Are nations like people? <span id="docs-internal-guid-7404845a-93b0-37b5-2f30-4f5321d4a5fd"></span><br />
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</span>Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-854112161850498969.post-44838482301922874122017-05-28T07:27:00.000-07:002017-05-28T07:27:19.684-07:00Life AmazingRead an article in the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier">New Yorker about horseshoe crabs</a> and another, elsewhere about <a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140409-the-remarkable-self-organization-of-ants/">ants</a>. Thinking about evolution. One might say that ants have become a creature which transcends our notion of physicality. An ant colony is not a single creature but something more. It behaves and reproduces and survives. Smart money's on the ants.<br />
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And what about man. Man is more than man. Do we declare that which we do not understand to be magic. Do we respect others, and ourselves. Rarely, I say.Lenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992378877275226771noreply@blogger.com0