WRONSKI WRANGLES

It’s a Level Thing ... If not Wronski, who? Wherein I will give the old college try to extricating humanity — Yes, all of it. Including all manner of your deviants, miscreants, deplorables; even, Republicans. — from the we're-gonna-go-to-hell-in-a-handbasket road we're on in the prevailing zeitgeist with what looks like half the folks seeing it as all good and, the other, as all bad; and, vice versa. The short form take is this. [Short by Wronski standards, that is.] We all see things according to our own lights. No? From our mental landscapes. Which, as you should know was not so much something that you were born with, but was constructed over time. A lot of it conditioned in by others and circumstances around us. Some we kept, some we rejected. Many of those choices were made with and when there was limited knowledge and experience. Yet, even after more learning and experiences we still cope with the often time tightly held outdated points of view. Prideful in them. Resisting...

It’s a level thing ... Let’s not argue about notions you and I may hold in our heads, and how one is better than the other. How about we step up a level and see the plain fact that there’s something being held there. The holding itself.  Now, may I further suggest we spend a little time putting that thing down. Giving it a rest. It can always get picked up again. Why? Well we might just discover that we aren’t our thoughts. Imagine that. Not to mention extricating ourselves from the unendingly pointless back and forth that passes for political dialogue these days. But, it just takes doing. Do it!

D  /  I  /  V /   O /  R  /  C  /  E It May Still Be Hurting . . . Somewhere A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbour. —  Carl Gustav Jung "The Philosophical Tree" (1945).  The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. — R. D. Laing I divorced. It was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me. And, perhaps, the best.  Up until then I was living the scripted dream. Be a good boy, study hard, get good grades, finish school, start a career, start a family, own a home, buy a car, see the kids off well ...

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Hursecursequerstic  Appetitive  Adaptation  Inclination:  An Imperative? Or, an Imperiative? Cursory Background From one Dr. Herman Hursecursequersic in his famous treatise in the journal Lingua Franca leapfrogging over the now well known groundbreaking and revelatory "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" published in the journal Social Text by Alan Sokal. What is it? In short and simple lay terms it’s a complete debunking of the commonly held notion on the acquired conditioned thrown disposition to adopt the prevailing attitudes and aspirations of those who — for lack of a kinder word — are idiots, but one does so to get along on account of they constitute your immediate milieu and to venture forth with common sense and a firm grasp of the obvious would jeopardize your role and rank living into the lack of which you don’t know what it would look like without the constraints of that that mutually self created narrati...

GATEKEEPER ... It's Coming The Beauty is That It's ... Up Yours! There is a piece I saw a while ago about the prediction that by year 2017 everyone in the US of A will have a microchip implant. Certainly sounds like it would solve the illegal immigrant concerns.  With the demonstrated willingness of large swaths of the electorate to fall into lockstep behind some pretty huge demagoguery, can the Brave New World be that far off?  Imagine all the other wonderful — and terrible — possibilities Depending on where you stand you will either see this as a boon for mankind, or fraught with dangerous possibilities. Some of both, we can be sure of that. We humans, even with the best of intentions, have a predictable way of screwing things up. Do I need to give examples? I was born and raised in the City of Detroit. Enough said. Okay. How about all the plastic in the oceans? Sony recently has filed for a patent for a camera device embedded in a contact lens. A brain ...

I've been having lively and sometimes intense politics centered conversations on the social media. To some it looks like I'm "on the fence". As in, not for one side or the other. With the clear implication that I am remiss for not jumping off, committing. There's the old put down: Are you on the ball? "Of course," you answer. "Then bounce off and kiss my ass!" And, while I'm at it, how about this one? "How many wrinkles in a bull's ass? Bend over and I'll count." Let's get back on track. Re: On the Fence. But, rather to be more accurate, it's I've been "put" on that fence. Politically I look at policies and people. Then I vote. I'm not so bonded to any one party or philosophy that I hold everybody who doesn't see it my way as wrong. Or that I have to vote my side like some stalwart, blind eyed true believer no matter what. Much less that the way I see it is the only way to see it; or, the corr...