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Friday, August 13, 2021

27 days/-10; 20 Traveling alone 2500 years ago and today-Greek government and China's weaponized economy Part 20

Where to start?   I rowed for 30 minutes yesterday.  That was hard, but if I had not done it everything else would have been much harder to deal with.   I finished dripping with sweat and despite the lack of other exercise, I was exhausted.  All I ate for dinner was a banana; but it was surprisingly enough and I had a terrible cup of coffee and a take out breakfast earlier which was terrible.   being an optimist, I started out early, wondering what I should do and hoping for a better result than yesterday suggested.
I am not very happy with my location this morning or my software application.  We should be working out our problems; and the app, well It is forcing me to work in a sort of reverse Chinese mode.
You can see the view (picture) as I write this, there are crows making the majority of the noise which is nice considering how crowded this city can be.  I have to keep moving lest the sun break through and become fierce.
I am in the partial shade, but this early in the morning it is neither too hot nor too sunny.  Of course, I am not where I has hoping to be this morning; but it perhaps less complex.  Of I am to get where I want to be it requires a personal journey of the type which I am taking in what is now a mere 27 days, less than 4 weeks.
It will be very different from this for I will be alone in a way that is in many ways exponentially greater than even the isolation of covid, for i will be isolated both by the new surge in covid and by the unique geography of the voyage; and perhaps more than that by the inexplicable emotional barriers between us.  You would say that I built that all by myself and I would tend to agree, a testament to my ability to construction impossible barriers even as I tear others down.
I have this new idea about the makeup of leaders, what they have in them, what drives them forward and back at the quantum level.  It is a whim, with a whif of science; i wonder if your moods which mean so much to me are driven by the same things.
I have a list of things to bring, which should include a mountain bike which will add substantially to the potential danger, a pump and a spare tube will go a long way towards ameliorating that, but how much.
It does not look like my attempts to secure a position there will go well, but that is not necessarily a bad thing and I could complete the process from my end and I have chosen not to do that.
There are strange and often scary people around me, but I am protected from the street my a fence and to some extent from those within the gates by covid which excuses one from otherwise ubiquitous interactions that I don't want or need.  The sideways keyboard and the weird location of the apostrophe key plague my writing, but it is going surprisingly well.

 It is time to go back to 2014, you said something about 11 years, perhaps that is further back than this; but let us go back there anyway.  The post dissolves into random thoughts which i could fix today, but why bother.  If I could not even fix this morning, why would i care to fix the past?
Well, this post from 2014 is certainly appropriate again.

2/19/14
Traveling can be a haphazard affair when it is forced on you or can involve obsessive planning even for a short trip.
In my case, it seems like everything planned became haphazard.  Perhaps it has been so since things didn't go the way they should have 30 years ago.  Imagine if everything that is done is supposed to happen along a single line and you were to get off of that line.  What would it take to get back on the line after 30 years of going in the wrong direction?
The humanists envisioned learning as of observation and reason.  The skeptics took this concept (dating back to Zeno) a little further and said how can you know anything.
The religions brought quantum mechanics into this with the question of how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
Sane people wish to avoid death as long as possible.
When someone sees things for the first time, everything he knows could have thought dissolves and vanishes and he is left with feelings of surprise and wonder.

a planned trip, this one being in parts, first relatively short and the second very long indeed.  So with a few days to prepare, the first thing on the agenda is to step up the mileage swimming to make up the difference when the exercises might be more aerobic in nature.
Next is lining up the massive amounts of work that have to finished, China, a new government system of control including the past.
At least 3 separate governments and constant change seem to be indicated.  Let's talk about a purely theoretical model:
Government 1: Poor countries; 2 Rich over populated countries; 3: Rich balanced countries.  Technological development would be equated with wealth.  I'm going to assume that somehow religions have to work out their differences outside of the world government.
These governments would then be broken up further to ensure that we don't have the problems that the USA has experienced.
Lottery systems
Republics
Term limits

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