” He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”... Nietzsche

     A recent X cartoon illustrates America’s anxiety about 2025. There is general consensus that lots of things are going to change.  Whether the course will promote the common good, or will push us off a cliff, well, almost no consensus. Some believe the election rhetoric forecasts the most likely. Many suspect that actual policy will have little resemblance to the vote netting bravado.  Ironically it will be the 80+ million voters along with their 80+ million children who enabled this “sociological 180” who may have the toughest time adapting.  Yes, we all would like to see America great again , but for damn certain, any future greatness will bear virtually no resemblance to our remembrances of our self constructed past greatness.  

Time, consciousness and entropy assure us that it won’t be the familiar same old same old.  For sure,  as the planet speeds headlong into an AI tomorrow, we’re all faced with an imminent crisis of meaning.  Nietzsche remarked during a earlier similar time of “mega change” ,  that,,,, ” He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”  Hmmm, so what’s the “why” in this new world order that we just commissioned and await delivery.  It certainly doesn’t look like it’s going to chanel the Sermon on the Mount, or the Beatitudes, or Isaiah 51.  Probably some serious re-education in store when substituting  GPT, Claude, Gemini, and XAI.  Hope the dudes have on their Jordans….it’s gonna be a hard pivot.    

Ignorance Composes Our Reality

Meanwhile, quantum information theorists have taken a different approach to handling subjectivity. They are treating information as a resource that observers can use to interact with a system that’s increasingly blending together with its environment. For a supercomputer with unlimited power that could track the exact state of every particle in the universe, entropy would always remain constant — since no information would be lost — and time would cease to flow. But observers with finite computational resources such as ourselves always have to contend with a coarse-grained picture of reality. We can’t keep track of the motion of all the air molecules in a room, so we take averages in the form of temperature and pressure. We progressively lose track of microscopic details as systems evolve into more probable states, and this relentless trend materializes as the flow of time. “The time of physics is, ultimately, the expression of our ignorance of the world,” Rovelli wrote. Ignorance composes our reality.

Roxanol Place.....a new "aging" option

Yes, at $17,000 per month, the Monthly Service Fee at Roxanol Place is above the national average for specialized senior residences, but for those discriminating seniors who have lived thoughtful and sensitive lives here in God's Country, Roxanol Place is the only enlightened choice.  It's pristine, it's elegant, it's discretionary, it's ecumenical, it's inclusive, and above all.....it's pragmatic.  Indeed, for those post-family/career persons experiencing nihilistic thoughts, you may find transcendental meaning in making your own personal contribution to "species evolution".  

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New Corp

 The century rolled over and here we came, the grad-schoolers and post-docs and the over achieving bachelors. We brought you Power Pointing and Slacking and Zoom Meeting, all at frantic pace. We were hard charging and ruthless in pursuit of a  $4000 monthly “starter home” mortgage.  

     Choose a hustle, any hustle, we demanded…“it’s not our capital”…. just get us on the Zoom with some “higher-ups”.  We will throw down some cyber glitter, collect our promotion, and LinkedIn Defect  before the hustle sees light.

     PS: We are way too busy playing this “Corporate Squid Game” to be bothered by the phenomenal world.  Text us if there’s a nuclear holocaust!    

Nietzsche Time

                                                            NIETZSCHE TIME 

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BELOW IS A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO A SERIES OFfERING FRiEDRICH NIETZSCHE QUOTES WITH COMMENTS DIRECTED SPECIFICALLY TO OZARK MEN.  IF YOU CAN’T BRING THE FOCUS TO READ THIS FIRST, THEN JUST CLICK OUT AND BREATHE DEEP 

 “European Immigrants” first wandered into the Ozark Mountains around 300 years ago.  For the first 200 years their lives were pretty much defined by species survival instincts tempered by fundamentalist Christian Culturing carried from their European origins.  Only small bits of the modernization then transforming coastal urban cities penetrated their sanctuary homeland.  This was both a good thing and a bad thing.  They commonly knew more of fear and less of anxiety., and learned to keep their heads down,  their emotions in check, and their attention on the immediate.  With little personal time for imagination and inquire, enlightenment came slowly, resulting in family and community life retaining rigid hierarchical structures.  

     But then, shit happened!  Cars, and telephones, and radios, and televisions, and cell phones, and computers, and AI, all drifted South and then “Shazam”, the Ozarks’ experienced  “cerebral overload”, giving way to a regional “psychotic break” that has now morphed into a living and breathing “sitcom”, wherein millions of totally confused souls are  mass hallucinating that “by miracle” next  year will be the year of our lord…. 1925 AD

     Clearly, along with Tehran, Mogadishu, and Caracas, the Ozarks desperately need a new “operating system”. Next year is not gong to be 1925 in the Ozarks and the Jacobs and Seths are not going to be out plowing the fields and the Saras and Rebeccas are not going to be at home frying chicken for the Church Pot-Luck Supper.  They are all going to be scanning their FS Cards at Walmart  on their way to whichever Dispensary has the best review on TikTok.  Need for change would seem to be existential, but from where?  Surly not from  NYT, Fox, Facebook or ABC, they’re just selling Insurance and cosmetics, and not from Public Schools, who are but strange attractors for smartphones.  So from where? 

      Perhaps an “all sectors/all persons AI monitored “micro-surveillance net” with robust government inforced negative incentives or……..UBI/Soma for the three low quadrants and MasterClass/Power for skimmed elites.  Either path, it’s gonna be a harsh adapt for the “what the hell is happening” Ozark Dudes who have become increasingly out-of-touch for a 100 years.  Time will tell, but for certain,,,,,,,

     They are gonna need more than a six-pack and a few “carpenter/fisherman parables” to make it intact.  Hopefully there will be help along the way but, for starters I offer up some “Nietzsche Quotes” to help clear bad memes from atrophied  brains. 

                    Good Luck!