Saturday
Nov022024

Nietzsche Time

                                                            NIETZSCHE TIME 

                                                                       FOR

                                                               OZARK DUDES

 

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 STFU

 

    

 “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 their historically rigid and power 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 implemented “micro-supervision net” with robust government positive and negative incentives for all, 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 fuck 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 am offering up some “Nietzsche Quotes” to help clear bad memes from brains. 

 

                    Good Luck! 

Friday
Sep202024

Cards.....a big mistake!

   Today Republic Trash Company delivered our new Trash Containers.  We can now try to contact the Cards Trash Company and suggest that they pick up their containers.  Probably they wont accomplish the pickup.  Indeed, this Trash Service, which is relatively new to Branson is amazing.....in a bad way.  It must require significant capital to run a Trash Company, and we imagined that, when we signed up for a modest monthly savings, they would do what all Trash Companies do....namely pick up the trash and ratationally account for their customer's payments. Cards did neither, at the most astounding fail rate of any Service Provider we can remember.  At least Republic was kind enough to allow us "bargin hunters" to come back.

    During this election season when we are all focused on leadership, we're divided as to red or blue, but everyone in Branson must now now that.....IT'S NOT IN THE CARDS!

Sunday
Sep082024

....all with broad public support!

   "The President's popularity has come in spite—or perhaps because—of his defiance of constitutional, political, and legal constraints. Since 2022, he has ruled under emergency powers that suspend key civil liberties, including due process. His security regime can make arrests without warrants, including of minors as young as 12, and hauls hundreds of suspects into mass trials. One in every 57 Salvadorans is now incarcerated—triple the rate of the U.S. and the highest in the world. Bukele’s allies have fired top judges and packed the courts with loyalists, allowing him to dodge a constitutional prohibition to run successfully for a second term—all with broad public support."

     President Nayib Bukele’, that is; El Salvador's way cool leader, code named "mano dura", aka "iron Fist".  Seemingly for 6.6 million "normies" living in El Salvador it has been a salvation experience. For the 200,000 "non-normies" reading about the "land of surf, volcanoes, and coffee" from their jail cells, well, not so much.

     Hey world, step right up and take your chance. A .0125% risk seems like a "no-brainer". 

 

 

Saturday
Aug242024

Convergence.....at least in my imagination

What is common about Stephen Wolfram's "Ruliad", Computational Irreducibility, Peter Singer's evolving views regarding Philosophical Objectivism and Moral Source, and the Current Best Guesses at WTF is happening inside LLMs.

 

Saturday
Aug242024

A Quickie for the... smfs

Meritocracy is the Vanguard for Domination