Friday, July 11, 2014
8:15:05 AM
Recent Complaints
i think ( ? ) that it’s becoming more common for people to take
credit for achievements, insights, ideas or novel performances which are Not.
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This morning on Good Morning America ( July 11 2014 ) there was a very fat woman that posted a picture of herself
on a social media outlet, wearing a Bikini; & it was her assertion that she
was breaking The Bikini Barrier by showing that overweight women can wear
Bikinis. i don’t know how often she visits The beach, or which beaches she
visits, but every beach that i’ve ever been to, is filled with very fat, very
ugly women laying around on The beach in very skimpy 2 piece bikinis !
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M$ used to
do this fairly regularly; asserting that their new Operating System was
pioneering some feature that Apple’s Macintosh had been using for The pervious
ten or more years !
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i have for a long time been confused by The idea of certain
kinds of art being considered ‘High Art’ or ‘Gallery Art’ which usually takes
The Form of Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism, or Simple Portraiture. For my
two cents worth, i find ( Well Done & Imaginative ) Graphic Novels to Be
Amazing Examples of High Art. Not only does each of these books contain
hundreds of well crafted compositions & interesting plot-lines, but they’re
filled with original ideas.
The Real problem that i have with Minimalist Paintings is that
when they were originally introduced, they were answering The question; ‘What
is Art?’ or ‘How much Paint on a Canvas is Required to make a Painting?’ or ‘Is
it Art if the Artist Says it is?’
All of those Questions i think were satisfactorily answered back
in The 50’s, if Not
before then, So that there’s no need to keep rehashing this, or if your Dentist
wants to put up a nice, completely Non-Confrontational Painting ( that Western
Viewers have now gotten ‘used’ to ), Then fine. But for them to regularly
appear in Contemporary Art Magazines which are Ostensibly supposed to be
revealing to me what The Art World is Currently up to, This is just Wrong.
It has been suggested that The Science of Physics has been Dead
for The Last 60 years,
making no new Discoveries or innovating any new theories in that time period.
Is Art The Same?
When was The last time a really new Kind of Art was Introduced ?
Excluding ‘Rap’ ( which is Bluntly DeEvolutionary ) when was The
Last time a new kind of Music appeared ?
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The idea of ‘Holographic’ Projections comes up fairly often;
& they are routinely discovered to be a theatrical trick that was used, or
popularized, ( as a magic trick ) in The 1800s (
a hundred years ago. ( ! )
There are a couple of methods that you can genuinely present a
True 3 Dimensional Projection, But these methods have Not yet been ‘Up-Scaled’
from table top devices to Stage Presentations.
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Is Evolution Dead ?
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It was recently brought up that people are mutating at a
ferocious rate nowadays, but our ‘Bad-Genes’ are being selected out, as we very
rarely allow ‘Poor-Examples’ of Humanimals to die off at The Rates that they
should.
We joke about people that manage to kill themselves off in
stupid accidents or Crazy Stunts; Having joined The Darwinian Club, But there
are far more feeble humanimals that are cared for & even encouraged to
reproduce when they should Not be.
It is readily observed that dumb people spawn more tadpoles than
smart people; which would suggest that The world is getting dumber.
Is The World Getting Dumber ?
It’s actually hard to say; While Technology is making
incremental advances, On The Whole; The World is behaving just as foolishly as
it has since The First City States in North Africa.
There is also The Observation that Smart Parents routinely
generate Dumb children; & Dumb Parents occasionally produce an inventive
child. The Bell Curve remains surprising constant for Brightness. While The
Ordinary Children of Today may be able to run circles around The General
Education & Problem Solving Abilities of The Bright Children of Decades
Past; Are they really ‘Brighter’, or are they just being exposed to a lot more
Educational Venues & ‘Methods’ for solving Familiar Problems & Puzzles
?
When you take a Bell Curve Middling Child of Today & put
them in a genuinely novel situation; Will they perform more intelligently than
The Bell Curve Middling Child of 100 years ago.
No. i don’t think so.
Another measure of this is to engage in simple conversation with
a Bell Curve Middling Child, & while their speech may seem more animated
than The Bell Curve Middling Child of 100 years ago; i suspect that their speech is merely derived from
The Television Cliches & ComicBook Dialogues that they’re Over Exposed to.
Teacher’s & Parents often believe that The Children that
they care for come up with The Most Imaginative Ideas, but far more often than
naught, The Children are merely plagiarizing ideas that their Teachers &
Parents are Not familiar with.
Children occasionally ‘Invent’ a clever phrase or Contrive a
Truly Original Idea, but in these cases, it is because they have stated
something that they intended to be ‘Accurate’ in an ‘InAccurate’ manner. Is
this really being creative ?
The Trick of being genuinely Inventive is to Recognize a Good
Idea when a Box of Random & Chaotic Ideas are presented to you.
Are The Bell Curve Middling Children able to do this ?
No. They are Not.
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The More Interesting Question then is :
Is there an ‘Optimum’ Quantification of Smart to Dumb people in
The World ?
That is; If The Bell Curve of Brightness is remaining relatively
constant throughout history; It is apparent that as more smart people appeared
as more people as a totality appeared; It allowed Civilizations to prosper
& Technologies to Develop—
But will there be a point ( have we passed it already ) when
there are far too many dumb people that will overwhelm The achievements of The
Smart People.
One Other Constant in this Mix is The UnderUtilized Smart
People, that don’t contribute to The Advancements of Civilization. Are these
UnderUtilized Smart People Growing or Shrinking in Proportionality to The
Whole.
If they are Growing due to ( ? ); Then The Percentage of
Functional Smart People will be Shrinking; & What will this mean for The
Future of The World.
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i have also considered that Evolution created people to be Smart
or Bright at A Bell Curve Middling Level, & that The Smart People are
Disrupting The Natural Intentions of Darwinian Evolution.
Maybe Evolution never intended us to leave The open savannas,
invent sharpened sticks or take to wearing animal skins.
It’s The Smart People that are mucking everything up.
Evolution will eventually win, & return us to our natural
balance of Mostly Dumb people to very few anomalous smart trouble makers &
Boat Rockers.
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