Entries by An Unnamed Baldnobber (327)

Friday
Feb112022

Is the Ozarks in America?

     Yes and No.  Almost daily, I am reminded of knowledge that defuses into the general public via the "internet robustness".  My sense is that in cosmopolitan areas, new information is absorbed by "persons with special interest" and is then passed on to their influence group at some distilled level, wherein the transmission repeats, such that the information ultimately reaches a broad audience.  In the Ozarks all of the "persons with special interests", i.e. the J.D. Vances/the1400SAT kids.....well, they all run away.  

     No doubt our "community/state/nation/culture/species" will survive without updated general knowledge about particle physics. This is far less obvious when the knowledge involves psychology, sociology, medicine, economics, law, etc."  

     Today I noted information about anti-trust litigation regarding the rapidly emerging commerce in the "cancer blood testing" boom.  The point....virtually no one in the Ozarks, probably including our doctors, knows anything about this revolutionary diagnostic tool.  

     Maybe we Ozarkians are descendants of those early hominids who only got the hang of fire around the 15th century.

Monday
Jan102022

Too much freedom

     We humans talk alot, always looking for a reply. Many among us have fallen into the habit of always offering a negative reply, just to illicit a more complete  request/opinion/value judgment/etc..  This inclination is becoming endemic and the consequences are staggering. We are devolving into a "talk only" culture, action grid locked by "uncertainty".  Why?  Perhaps we didn't know how smart we were until Google boosted our egos to absurd levels.  There are no more experts, only divergent insights and strategies. Coming, a bazaar new world where we all live alone and isolated

Friday
Dec312021

Desperate without Meaning

     All of history's cultural identities are gone, drowned in a tide of freedom and mass communications. Religion, Nation, and Science have split into a thousand thousand expressions, few of which offer "meaning" for we who have watched and listened to countless conflicted pleadings for Christianity, America, DNA/Nuclear, etc..  Our only remaining aggregator is money, the access to which is presently so skewed that for the vast relatively poor, their summary state of being is "justified desperation".

     Almost certainly we will not recover the wellbeing of social/political unity, real or imagined, that kept us strong for so many treacherous days in our past.  Indeed, more likely, we will continue to unravel at an accelerating rate, toward an end that will be, well, ....not so much fun!

     There is an, almost obvious, better option.  We could all adopt, by sheer will, a primal  reverence for "diversity".

                                    OMG, your freaky....I like it!

Thursday
Dec232021

Branson ain't NewYork City....regrettably

     Much of the country is trying to cope with Omicron by masking, vaccinating, monoclonaling, Pfizer pilling, and freebing test kiting on street corners.  In Branson, we're using a different strategy. We ignore and trust in the -----.

 

pretend and trust in the ____.

Thursday
Dec232021

Some "Rich Dude" stole my "Paxlovid"

     Omicron is climbing the Covid Charts at lightning speed and the vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are not holding their own.  Only somewhat surprising, concurrently Pfizer has offered up a pill advertised to be a, well....life saver.  Paxlovid may be the "end all" or just what comes next, but, near term Paxlovid's defining characteristic is going to be it's scarcity.

      It is reported that there are only 65,000 doses available and with 1000+ dying daily, there is going to be an allocation problem.  Pending Pfizer ramp-up, several months away, the dilemma will likely be solved the American/Capitalist way, i.e. 64,500 to "the privileged" so they won't have to miss a committee meeting, a concert, or a family vacation, while the nominal remaining are allocated to "woke media" as production support supplies to embellish their fiction about how well the less privileged are being cared for.

                                               I just love Democracy