Tyranny Truffles
Tuesday is a good day at gym. I usually get my ’stride’ back on Tuesday – 13 Yankee miles today, bicycle and ergometer – and I get to listen to science podcasts. Unfortunately today’s episodes were a bit flat except for the Sigma Xi contribution to “The World” science podcast. From that I learned not to let bees sting the inside of my nose and that dark matter changes the mass of gravitational singularities.
Now the former tidbit actually came from a vignette on elephants but I identify with them from my undergraduate days, from going to MalWart and observing the demographics of their customer base, and from not liking to run. But the latter was a bit of a palm on forehead moment in that I hadn’t thought about that aspect.
But the rest of that episode and the others were a bit lacking in attention bonding – more like antibonding in fact – so I cast a bit of that available attention towards the television in front of the bicycle I was on and got to witness that irish fascist O’Reilley having a set to with some midwestern print journalist of several opposites from him. As is usual in such televised situation, especially on the opinion uber alles, facts be damned networks, each was talking something different from the other. That seems the face of contemporary politics in the Yankee republic, and perhaps the world?
A bit of reflection on the nature of such led me to the hypothesis that the popularity, for they have to be popular to survive in the market environment of consumerist television, of such lies in the entertainment value. The discussion changes no one’s opinion; those who agree with each side listen to only that side and fell enlightened and elevated and those who are undecided are bemused by the ineptitude of the debate. So having thought on that I tried to consider the news in such a context. This led me to a set of observations and insights:
Observation: Iranian Elections
Insight: Organized religion is a sham as well as a tyranny.
Observation: Current Yankee government administration/politics
Insight: DIRO (democrats in, republicans out, both modern by inherency) administrations are more entertaining than RIDO administrations. In the former, the democrats are calm and confidently try to fix everything by exterminating taxpayers and the republicans’ insecurity explodes; in the latter the republicans’ insecurity emerges in repression of taxpayers and the democrats conduct musicals of their Coleridge nightmares of utopia
Lessons learned:
- Don’t use Windows
- Avoid fascist organizations
- We need a DORO administration.
[1] My apologies to people who actually know the language. Also for romanizing and dropping the diacriticals – my fonting skills are limited by the editor. And using inproper singular form. Anyway, in old confederacy Alibam – ‘drop window(s)’.
[2] FC = ‘free computer’
