The Glass Ceiling

   Perhaps it is authentic when Hillary offers her.... "yes, I see cracks in the glass ceiling".... metaphor to crescendo her plea to liberate the oppressed. This somewhat subtle, but damn appealing metaphor, has no doubt advanced the cause of countless women, blacks, gays, etc along the never ending road to imagined human equality.  Without inference, it should be noted that this metaphor also has had the, no doubt, consequence of gathering lots of votes for party politicians of record.

     Metaphors sell, and some, like "glass ceiling", just knock it out of the park. Yes, I am constrained, such that my upward movement is blocked by a constructed ceiling/barrier, and to enhance the cruelty of my oppression, the barrier is made transparent so that I will always know what I cannot reach.  Except, of course, that glass "will break", but when it is a ceiling, probably not without heroic effort.  Gotcha, now vote!

    Personally, I believe that the Hillarys who use this "meme device" are  honest in their conviction and truly believe  that there has always been a ceiling, that it is transparent, that it both can and should be vanquished, preparatory to a John Lennon's Imagine scenario where equity reigns for 10,000 years, but..... 

    and it pains me to say it, again but, my sense is that it's either impossible or at least it's evolutionarily too early to "break the glass".  My cynical "non-Lennon" scenario is that sadly we would all die trying to "right a cosmic preference".  Maybe in the future when humanities AI turbo-charged technology and our then hopefully much expanded wisdom addresses this seemingly "moral feature/bug riddle", we can rethink, but I hope not soon.  

     In Quantum Mechanics, we now just don't know what happens when we "collapse the wave function". We findl "unmeasurable uncertainty".  My caution:  let Elon get to Mars, lets control our atmosphere and lets put a droid in every house before we ""collapse the human uniqueness spectrum".  Perhaps then,  we can live in a galaxy where, indeed, "all men are created equal"

WTF…..where’s the fish

For too many years, I have each morning sat on my patio and watched the "good, bad, and ugly" anglers at the deep shoot at the mouth of Short Creek on Taneycomo. My sad observation is that Each year the average boat catches an average of fewer fish that on average are smaller than the year before. The only average that is increasing is the cost to put a line in the water.  How hard can it be to keep our pristine river filled with "nice catch" trout. Perhaps,  like has been the case for other "Government Agencies ", we should turn the trout management over to Elon!

Jack & Jean Spratt

Was it broadband or pandora?  Regardless, diversity is not just center stage. It has enveloped the whole stage. At my "personal perspective" it plays out hourly.  Among the most charming example is physics/metaphysics spectrum. Every day Shirley and I explore incompatibility as she chooses to hear nothing of the "four known forces" and I fail to grasp "cosmic synchronicity". I continually wonder....is this leading us forward or backward. 

Elon's Mantra

Elon often mentionson on podcasrs, when talking engineering, that he has to keep reminding himself to think through problem solutions in "first principle" mode, accepting no previously derived relationships.  Most of us are not trying to optimize Mars rockets or implant Neuralinks, but our daily navigating through time, space, and culture is pretty goddamn complicated.  We might likely fare better if we relied less on the dead men's codified strategies, and used our own bio-neuralnet for some "first principle" life trajectory engineering.

Bang, bang!

Nature oppression diminishes with societal cooperation

societal cooperation leads to societal maturity 

societal maturity leads to individual freedom

individual freedom leads to societal polarization, i.e. 

Polarization between performers and exestentials 

which leads to authoritarianism and altruism 

which leads to "force governance"

which leads, cycliicly, to nature oppression