An Honest Living ?

Sunday, October 6, 2013 9:08:00 AM

An Honest Living

What would be a Reasonable Manner by which someone could make an Honest Living,

As Opposed to someone engaged in some Criminal Activity,

Or A Disabled Person on The Dole

Or A Hobo.

Let’s start with a Hobo first; & let us further define The Hobo as someone that is Not a Criminal Hobo, but A Hermitic Hobo that lives in A Box or Barrel near The Town Dump, Wanders The Alleys at night, Fishing through Garbage Cans to find something to Eat, & when Sick, Suffers through it without seeking help & Dies without anyone holding his hand.

Is such a Person making an Honest Living ?

There are Two Considerations :

Is The Hobo a Burden on Society ?

Is The Hobo Contributing to Society ?

Is your Cat a Burden to Society, or Does your Cat Contribute to Society with sufficient Vitality to ‘Pay their Way’ ?

That last Question is The Real Measure of How we might Define an Honest Living.

The Criminal may be Economically Active; But The Thinking is that The Criminal Causes more Harm to Society than they Contribute.

The Victim suffers More than The Criminal & The Criminal’s Customers Benefit.

Of Course; There are many occasions when The Victim’s Suffering & Loss are Less than The Benefits that The Criminal & The Criminal’s Customers Accrue. In these Cases; Is The Criminal Making an ‘Honest’ Living According The Measurement Index of The Society ?

Certainly; There are many entirely Legal Occupations which result in The Suffering & Loss of Life of Its Workers & Customers, Which Further Enriches only The Business Owners & Investors, With little or No Benefit to The Society ( ! )

The Hobo ( Classes of : )

The UnProductive Hobo that Panhandles is A Burden On Society & Does Not make an Honest Living.

What about a Street Juggler ?

But there may be ‘Productive’ Hobo’s that are A Community’s ‘Character’ that most Citizens themselves Enjoy Watching or On other days, Hearing about their MisAdventures, & this May, Under Ideal Circumstance, Result in A Greater Value for The Society than The Costs or Burden of The Hobo’s Sustenance.

Such as A Village ‘Idiot’ ? Which everyone in The Community Finds Amusing & often refer to when considering any given Social Commentary ?

So that The Two Remaining Categories ( We’re Now Considering )

Are :

The Worker

The Freeloader on The Dole.

In each case: What are they Contributing to Society & Is That Contribution ‘Enough’.

Obviously; The Freeloader on The Dole will almost Certainly fall below that Threshold, but Alternatively; The Freeloader may be Contributing Any Number of Various Services which they are Not being Paid to Perform, But which Are A Benefit to The Community or Society or World Culture.

The Last & Truly Defining Question is :

How many Honest Workers that receive A Paycheck that keeps them & their Families Housed & Fed, Are somehow Not Contributing ‘Enough’.

One Example would be The Office Worker that is simply Very Unproductive, but has been lost in The Bureaucracy & has escaped being fired.

But another that occurred to me is someone that is providing a ‘KeyStone’ Critical Service to a Very Limited Number of Recipients, But without this Service; Other Peripheral Services or Production Lines would Collapse or Suffer from its Absence.

The Way that this Service Provider Survives is by OverCharging their Few Recipients, which are too dumb to realize they’re being ripped off, or perhaps, The Recipients are Addicted to The Service in A Psychopathological Manner, which prevents them from Severing their Ties to this Superfluous Service.

Examples of this :

Prostitution which acts as a poor man’s Therapist to keep them happy enough to continue grinding away at their soul charring job on an assembly line.

Repair Services for Obsolete Machines which their users continues to service because they can’t afford, Financially or Psychologically to Replace.

Software Producers which have Monopolized A Critical Sector of Computer Functionality.

Fashion Designers that Manipulate Their Consumers to Covet A Label over Their Product’s Quality.

The Entire Gallery Art Racket.

Any Given ‘Bubble’ Market.

Padro’s Principle states that for any (x;

80% of The Value of (x is Produced by 20% of The Service Providers.

This Idea Applies to Many Venues & Genrés.

Does this Account for How a Society can Function with So Few Productive Workers ?

It seems to me that there is a Second Threshold that allows The ‘UnProductive’ Freeloaders to Squeeze by as Viable Honest Laborers if they Produce Genuinely Unique Products & Services that Contribute to The World’s Culture. Such that Future Generations may ‘Pay Backwards in Time’ for The Services that They Generated during their Lives.

An Author of A Book that sold poorly during The Writer’s Life, but is now a ‘Classic’ of Literature would qualify under this Category.

The Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.

Good Musicians that aren’t ‘Popular’.

Good Artists that are Competing with a Saturated Market of Trash Art.

Anyone that Keeps an Active Blog or Extensive Flickr Album Collection or Some Other Web Presence will continue to ‘Serve The World Culture’ long after they’re Dead, would be The Best Example, because it applies to so many ‘Ordinary’ Folk.

An Honest Living ?

Sunday, October 6, 2013 9:08:00 AM

An Honest Living

What would be a Reasonable Manner by which someone could make an Honest Living,

As Opposed to someone engaged in some Criminal Activity,

Or A Disabled Person on The Dole

Or A Hobo.

Let’s start with a Hobo first; & let us further define The Hobo as someone that is Not a Criminal Hobo, but A Hermitic Hobo that lives in A Box or Barrel near The Town Dump, Wanders The Alleys at night, Fishing through Garbage Cans to find something to Eat, & when Sick, Suffers through it without seeking help & Dies without anyone holding his hand.

Is such a Person making an Honest Living ?

There are Two Considerations :

Is The Hobo a Burden on Society ?

Is The Hobo Contributing to Society ?

Is your Cat a Burden to Society, or Does your Cat Contribute to Society with sufficient Vitality to ‘Pay their Way’ ?

That last Question is The Real Measure of How we might Define an Honest Living.

The Criminal may be Economically Active; But The Thinking is that The Criminal Causes more Harm to Society than they Contribute.

The Victim suffers More than The Criminal & The Criminal’s Customers Benefit.

Of Course; There are many occasions when The Victim’s Suffering & Loss are Less than The Benefits that The Criminal & The Criminal’s Customers Accrue. In these Cases; Is The Criminal Making an ‘Honest’ Living According The Measurement Index of The Society ?

Certainly; There are many entirely Legal Occupations which result in The Suffering & Loss of Life of Its Workers & Customers, Which Further Enriches only The Business Owners & Investors, With little or No Benefit to The Society ( ! )

The Hobo ( Classes of : )

The UnProductive Hobo that Panhandles is A Burden On Society & Does Not make an Honest Living.

What about a Street Juggler ?

But there may be ‘Productive’ Hobo’s that are A Community’s ‘Character’ that most Citizens themselves Enjoy Watching or On other days, Hearing about their MisAdventures, & this May, Under Ideal Circumstance, Result in A Greater Value for The Society than The Costs or Burden of The Hobo’s Sustenance.

Such as A Village ‘Idiot’ ? Which everyone in The Community Finds Amusing & often refer to when considering any given Social Commentary ?

So that The Two Remaining Categories ( We’re Now Considering )

Are :

The Worker

The Freeloader on The Dole.

In each case: What are they Contributing to Society & Is That Contribution ‘Enough’.

Obviously; The Freeloader on The Dole will almost Certainly fall below that Threshold, but Alternatively; The Freeloader may be Contributing Any Number of Various Services which they are Not being Paid to Perform, But which Are A Benefit to The Community or Society or World Culture.

The Last & Truly Defining Question is :

How many Honest Workers that receive A Paycheck that keeps them & their Families Housed & Fed, Are somehow Not Contributing ‘Enough’.

One Example would be The Office Worker that is simply Very Unproductive, but has been lost in The Bureaucracy & has escaped being fired.

But another that occurred to me is someone that is providing a ‘KeyStone’ Critical Service to a Very Limited Number of Recipients, But without this Service; Other Peripheral Services or Production Lines would Collapse or Suffer from its Absence.

The Way that this Service Provider Survives is by OverCharging their Few Recipients, which are too dumb to realize they’re being ripped off, or perhaps, The Recipients are Addicted to The Service in A Psychopathological Manner, which prevents them from Severing their Ties to this Superfluous Service.

Examples of this :

Prostitution which acts as a poor man’s Therapist to keep them happy enough to continue grinding away at their soul charring job on an assembly line.

Repair Services for Obsolete Machines which their users continues to service because they can’t afford, Financially or Psychologically to Replace.

Software Producers which have Monopolized A Critical Sector of Computer Functionality.

Fashion Designers that Manipulate Their Consumers to Covet A Label over Their Product’s Quality.

The Entire Gallery Art Racket.

Any Given ‘Bubble’ Market.

Padro’s Principle states that for any (x;

80% of The Value of (x is Produced by 20% of The Service Providers.

This Idea Applies to Many Venues & Genrés.

Does this Account for How a Society can Function with So Few Productive Workers ?

It seems to me that there is a Second Threshold that allows The ‘UnProductive’ Freeloaders to Squeeze by as Viable Honest Laborers if they Produce Genuinely Unique Products & Services that Contribute to The World’s Culture. Such that Future Generations may ‘Pay Backwards in Time’ for The Services that They Generated during their Lives.

An Author of A Book that sold poorly during The Writer’s Life, but is now a ‘Classic’ of Literature would qualify under this Category.

The Paintings of Vincent Van Gogh.

Good Musicians that aren’t ‘Popular’.

Good Artists that are Competing with a Saturated Market of Trash Art.

Anyone that Keeps an Active Blog or Extensive Flickr Album Collection or Some Other Web Presence will continue to ‘Serve The World Culture’ long after they’re Dead, would be The Best Example, because it applies to so many ‘Ordinary’ Folk.

Torchwood / Miracle Day

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:57:14 PM

Torchwood / Miracle Day

If you’re not Familiar with The BBC Sciffy Series; Torchwood—

It’s kind of a Peculiar ‘Low Brow’ Science Fiction Series, On Par with that Series That Kevin Sorbo was in after he’d finished his Fabulous work in Hercules.

Torchwood is substantially dumber than StarGate SG1 or even 1999, if you remember that one.

It’s a spinoff from Doctor Who; And can you think of any Spinoff that wasn’t amazingly stupid ( ? )

Anyways; i don’t often find a Program or Film so annoying that i feel compelled to spend a few moments writing a blog on it, but this is one such case.

Ordinarily; i would just put it behind me & move on ( as they say ).

i’m not sure if ‘Miracle Day’ was just The Theme of a Season of Programs, or If it was a Special Series, but it consisted of about 9 or 10 Episodes, The Usual Number for British TV Series’.

The Theme of ( Major Spoilers Ahead !!! ) Miracle Day was that Everyone just stopped Dying. This theme is pretty old, but Torchwood decided to really flesh it out. They thoroughly considered all The Consequences of this Event & Drew it all Out.

i should also mention that The People ( Not Animals ) that were surviving were doing so by a clearly Magickal Process, Since there were survivors from being blow to bits or being decapitated.

Curiously; This aspect ( as it was Torchwood, which exists in an Alternative Reality where these sorts of things happen fairly routinely ) was not considered.

The Writing on Torchwood is Not Particularly Witty or Intellectual, So to criticize this Series along those lines would be unnecessarily cruel, But i do have a limit for redundancy which started to wear me down after The 3rd Episode.

The Other Thing which really broke me was a Plot Point that lead into Episode 4 ( or so ) which was supposed to have ‘Explained’ what role The Government ( US Government - Which is marginally odd, since this is a British Series, this Themed Series took place nearly exclusively in The United States ( ? ) ) turned out to be very feeble, And Entirely Reasonable to my way of thinking.

Another Aspect that took root before this was A Character played by Bill Pullman, that had murdered a 12 year old girl & survived an execution by lethal Injection. The Entire Plot keeps turning back to this Character which is made out to be somekind of Horrific Monster, but in this day & age; Who except The Girls Mother is going to be so disturbed over The Murder of Single 12 year old girl. ( ? )

He didn’t even eat her brains, Sexually mutilate her corpse, Film The Murder for Youtube or Make socks from her intestines.

( As i would have done, Check, check, check & check )

So anyways.

One of The Considerations that The World had to deal with, was all these People that were horrifically ‘Dead’, but Not Dead. One of The Aspects of this Flavor of being Undead was that they never lost consciousness, so that these ‘Really Dead’ Not Dead people would be entirely conscious of their Position. So that The US Government decided to just dope them up & Incinerate them.

The Torchwood Group thought that this was Awful, Just Awful & kept turning back, again & again & again to how Really Just Awful The US Government was for putting these lost souls out of their misery.

If they’d had an Alternative Solution; What was it ?

They spent a considerably amount of Screen Time making it absolutely clear that The Hospitals & all other resources were being gobbled up by these Incredibly UnDead People.

What was The Definitive Solution ?

i quit watching in The middle of The Next Episode after that was revealed, when i’d reached my limit for superfluously inane dialogue.

It seems to me that if you’re writing dialogue & you’re stumped for a clever witticism during a phone call, you might write in something like; ‘I don’t know, whatever…’ & then you’d come back to it later & fix it— But when that makes it to The Sound Stage & The Character reads that in front of The Camera, there is a serious breakdown of The Process.

But i was curious as to what ’The Explanation’ for this all was. So i looked it up on The Internet & Thankfully someone had The Tenacity to watch Miracle Day all The way to The End & Revealed Why The Dead Stopped Dying.

According to this Review; There is a Giant Slug in The Earth, Where The Molten Iron Core should be, That keeps The World ‘In Balance’ & The Giant Slug caught a Cold or somesuch, Throwing everything out of Kilter.

The Torchwood Group figured this out & took a kleenex down to The Slug & nursed it back to health, which allowed everyone to start dying again.

Thank gawd.

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Obvious Insights

Monday, September 30, 2013 7:15:02 PM
Obvious Insights

Isn’t it curious when you suddenly make an amazing insight about something, usually in The form of solving some problem, or also, just as frequently, almost, is an insight that allows you to suddenly see how something works or -Why- ?

A Very Curious Subset of Amazingly Insightful Insights are those that are Obvious.

These are insights that, after you’ve ‘Realized (x’, You are suddenly horrified that you haven’t ‘Seen’ this months or years earlier.
Why or How could you have been so Stupid ?

This provides some interesting fodder for my ‘Other’ theory that People are About as Smart as Fish.
( The PaAaSaF ; The ‘Passive’ Argument; Such as: The PaAaSaF Argument asserts Whatever. )

But that’s Not The Topic of Todays Rant.

i had an Obvious Insight just today that pertains to Gay Rights, which has Recently Undergone an Amazing Reversal in just The Last Year.

The Insight is this:
Why do Straight Men find Women Attractive ?

The Most Obvious Reply would be; Because their Pretty.
Pretty comes in a lot of different Flavors, & Pretty can be Ugly to some, & Pretty can be Beneath The Skin ( as they say ).
So let us Generalize this as : Because Sane Men are Attracted to The Platonic Purity of Beauty.

That should cover everything; So long as we acknowledge that this Platonic Purity of Beauty is something so Ethereal that applying it to The Shape of someones nose or their appreciation for Learning Klingon; Will remain ‘Undefined’ for The Foreseeable future, So that we have to bounce back to The Earlier Assertion that Men find Women Attractive, ‘Just Because’.

The Amorphous Quality of this Attribute is Irrelevant for The Time Being.
What we are More interested in; Is The Contrast between;
Why do Straight Men find Womyn Attractive ?
And
Why do Straight Men find Other Myn UnAttractive ?

Straight Men may find other Men Admirable, but i think you know what i mean.

This should remain a little fuzzy in another curious way though, In that Straight Men actually find The Company of Other Men Far More Preferable to The Company of Womyn. ( ? ) !

But The Real Point is : Is if we pull apart The Causal Forces at work here; Any ‘Reasonable’ Argument that may be applied to why Straight Men find Womyn Attractive, If applied to Other Men, Is Discovered to be Fallacious.

This is All Very Obvious.

Men find Womyn Attractive because there is a little Molecule in their Brains that tell them that womyn are attractive in a very special way. The ONLY Way that this criteria is met is when these special circumstances apply.

It’s Not because they’re Pretty or because they smell nice or because they’re pear Shaped, or because of The Clown Face that Western Civilization insists they put on every morning.

Nope.

It’s just The Molecule.

So The Big Obvious Insight is This;
If you’re a Myn whose ‘Womyn are attractive’ molecule is turned upside down, in The same way that some Men have blue eyes or Brown Eyes or A Vestigial Tail, or a Missing Heart Valve; These Myn are Gay. They think that Myn are attractive for Exactly The Same Reason that Straight Men think Women are Attractive;
Because of The Kooky Molecule.

Being Gay isn’t a Mortal or Venial Sin.
It’s no Sin at all, It’s not a choice that anyone makes.
It was infused into your ‘Autonomous Identity’ by Either The Eternal Esprit of Charles Darwin Or Stubby Fingered Blind Angels.

This is ( Now ) Obvious to just about everyone, but some people are still clinging to ideas that were pounded into them when they were 11 years old by Unshaven Adults that have brought these Antiquated ideas to The Modern Era by this Same Mechanism that keeps everyone from Realizing Obvious Insights.

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Do you eat a lot of Lettuce ?

Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:53:30 AM
Do you eat a lot of Lettuce ?

There’s something of a Folk Aphorism that claims or suggests that if you are craving Lettuce, & you’re a Womyn ( or not ), You ‘May’ have Breast Cancer. ( ! )

This is such a curious idea to my way of thinking.
We have ( You ) no doubt heard of many instances where a person or dog or cat or whatever, will crave a particular food substance that they need for their good health or to assist in a Medicinal Manner ( or Purpose ).

How does The Dog ( whatever ) know that this food ( or not a food ) will serve them in ‘some way’ ?

ESP ?

Even if you were to allow that The Dog ( Whatever ) were to somehow ‘Smell’ or otherwise ‘Sense’ The presence of The Vitamin, Mineral or Protein ( or whatever ) in a given item; How does their Brain or ‘Metabolism’ know that it will be to their benefit ?

Are these things programmed into our/their DNA ?

How about this Crazy Idea.

Whenever you eat anything, it makes you ‘Happy’ in a very particular way. All The Smells & Tastes & so on ( Whatever ) are combined within The Neural Memory Signatures of all these Items. So that -Essentially- Every Food Item that you’ve ever Eaten has a little Portfolio or Dossier on it, that details what it was, what it looked like, how it smelled & tasted ( Whatever ) & Also : How it made your Body ‘Happy’.

i’m obviously using The Word ‘Happy’ here in an odd sense.
The Person ( Monad / Ego / Whatever ) is not Usually Aware of this sense of Happiness beyound The Immediate Satisfaction of Eating something ‘Tasty’, But behind that curtain; There are other parts of you body that are made ‘Better’ & they experience this, in a Metabolical kind of way as ‘Happiness’.

Along with this information that is stored inside you, is The Anti-Thesis of Sadness which your Body Experiences when you are missing The Elements ( Whatever ) that these food Items contained.
So that : If you are ’Sad’ in a very subliminal kind of way, in that you’re ‘Missing’ some of these Elements; Your Body knows which Food Items ( or Not ( Based on ‘Similar’ Odors or Whatever ) ) it needs to find & eat to Refurbish The Elements ( Whatever ) that you need.

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If you liked this kind of Writing;
You should read some Terry Bisson. ( Whatever )

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Why Magick ?

Monday, September 23, 2013 7:29:26 PM

Why Magick ?

i’ve been thinking of a very small question lately;

Why do people that are involved in Wicca & other Magickal ‘Studies’ believe that Magick Exist ?

What is their Best Argument ?

Where is their Proof ?

Long ago; in The 1500s or so; When John Dee; Alchemist for The Queen, was practicing Magick— It might easily be excused because his Alchemical Studies were The Precursor to Modern Chemistry & Physics. What was keeping Dee & others from performing more critically considered experiments was their dearth of Chemicals & other very rare materials. They simply couldn’t perform The hundreds or thousands of experiments that modern pharmaceutical companies perform today in The course of discovering some curious, curative drug.

If John Dee performed one experiment with a small quantity of chemicals, minerals or organic substances that he had on hand, & The notes he kept took into consideration graphs that were drawn on The table, The phase of The moon, chants sung & extraneous substances such as virgin menstrual blood, toad’s eyes & The toenails of a dead pope; He simply didn’t have The Time or Resources to hone that Experiment down to The Critical pieces; He had to believe ( Scientifically ) that The Effect was Achieved as a result of everything that he did that evening.

So that The Occult Elements were just as important as The Chemical ones.

So that covers why John Dee & Sir Isaac Newton were Occult alchemists, but what about modern adherents with an IQ over 110 ?

The World is full of Magick.

But what i’m really looking for is some real Magickal Effect, Consequent or Result from a Given ’Spell’.

A lot of it is distraction & wishful thinking, but still—

The World ( According to _Fortean Times_ Magazine ) is full of Magick,

But few, if anyone, is able to control it.

No one yet has tamed a poltergeist or demonstrated a believable case of levitation.

Fire-walking is still pretty viable; & will remain so until physics teachers start performing The Effect in their classes.

Remote Viewing is supposed to be well proven; But it’s not in common usage to solve crimes or find lost kittens.

How real is Magick ?

How much Magick is there in The World ?

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Poor Spelling Disease ?

Monday, September 23, 2013 12:58:49 PM

Poor Spelling Disease ?

i am an atrociously poor speller.

Without The spell checker on my computer, my rants would be far more ( ? ) unreadable than they are already.

i can usually sort through confusing word selections; such The appropriate use of to or too, their or they’re, but not so much with who or whom, although i know The rule of thumb for their usage, which is to change The sentence a little to accommodate either he or him, & him means that you should use whom.

i am wondering however if Bad Spelling is, or should be somekind of very specific ‘Learning Disability’ as in my own case; My Inability to Spell even The Simplest Words strikes me as very curious. Even very common words that i use very often, don’t seem to be ‘Obviously’ misspelled when The computer flags them for me.

There’s all those ie & ei’s of course, that i have never learned or bothered to distinguish, & words that i very often use, but aren’t spelled anything like they are pronounced; Like Bureaucrat. No matter how often i use that word & no matter how carefully i examine it’s spelling after The computer corrects it, i will stumble over it upon its next usage. ( ! )

i already have one personality disorder & this one seems to me to be equally innate.

Perhaps associated with this somehow is how i often construct sentences in a very awkward or opposite manner, such as The very obvious habit of leaving out The word ‘Not’ when i mean to contradict something, leaving The sentence to suggest its affirmative clause.

This may be thought to be attributable to too fast typing, but i am actually a very slow & timid typist, often deleting whole lines with The back key because i’m too lazy to use The mouse to reposition The Character Insert to where i want to make a small change. ( ! )

To be a successful typist, you have to ‘Let Go’ & i’ve never been able to Let Go, except for very short durations, usually when i’m transcribing something from a book, & even so, i often find myself very consciously considering where each key is, under which finger & so on. i can type with all my fingers, but only for those keys immediately under them, or very nearly so.

Another Facet of this syndrome is that i can not remember word spellings. Such as when i am looking right at a word or name in a book, that is comparatively short, & i want to type it into my computer or write it down in a notebook, i will have to be looking right at it while i type or write, i can not remember The Letter Sequence for even a few moments !

Which is particularly odd, because i feel that have a very good, nearly eidetic memory for things or scenes that i have only glanced at yesterday or The day before.

i am also troubled by my disconnected thoughts, which often lead me along a path of some Rant, but then peter out before some necessary conclusion is reached, resulting in a rant such as this, suddenly ending without any proper conclusion, except for The requisite quixotic punctuation that i enjoy so much.

( ? ]

)) !

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Gawd ! i hate computers !

I've been having a lot of trouble with computers lately;
Most recently;
I write these rants at home and then transfer them to this Google Blog via a Flash Drive,
But when I load them onto the MS Computers here at the library and then transfer from the Document Reader that these computer have and then move that to Google,
At each itineration; The Document Reader & Google completely reformat them !!!

ugh.

Why can't they just leave them alone.

Plus; this stupid Google blog thinger doesn't allow you to set tabs or rearrange margins, so that if those are changed, I can't change them back !!!

I was also recently having 'Problems' with the Computer at The Chase Bank,
which I would think, should represent the highest imaginable quality of computer interface with its costumers, but it is astonishingly stupid !
I was just trying to get their 'QuickPay' dealie to work, and after 5 days and consulting 3 different Bank employees to get this to work, it would Not !
I eventually had to choose to pay my rent using another method which drives me crazy, because with this other method; the money is sent from Chase to Washington Mutual by Snail Mail and I can't tell it when I want it to be sent, I can only tell it when I want Washington Mutual to Receive it !
Which is Crazy !!!

Do they do this on purpose, or are computers really this stupid when they're at their best ?

A New Genré of Fiction / Literature

Sunday, September 22, 2013 1:40:13 PM

A New Genré of Fiction / Literature

 

i’ve been thinking ‘lately’ about how remarkable it is that certain Genrés of Fiction are thought to be entirely new; Such as Science Fiction & even more remarkably; Detective Fiction, which was supposedly invented only a few short years ago by Edgar Allen Poe.

It seems equally remarkable that Civilization is so brand new. Even if you count those years before The Age of Electricity which started only a generation ago.

Civilization was essentially stagnant for thousands of years prior to that, & then; Only no more than 20 thousand years old, unless you count those years before The last Catastrophic Destruction of The World—

e.g.; Prior to Atlantis or The World Flood, in which case there may have been dozens of Millennia lasting ‘ages’ of myn that existed & collapsed, scratched themselves back up, flourished, collapsed & started all over again, & again & again.

( ? )

i believe that there is a very small but entirely reasonable possibility of such ancient, antediluvian, completely buried civilizations that had existed & since then been utterly forgotten, before The Assyrians or The Pyramid Building Egyptians.

But again; This is not The topic of todays rant.

The Question that i am wondering about today is:

Are there any new kinds of Fiction ?

Certainly; i suppose.

But One might easily suggest that aren’t;

That writers have certainly explored every imaginable topic, subject matter, First, Second & Third Person Narrative, Every Theme, every conceivable angle of discourse.

But of course; That’s exactly it.

Every ‘Imaginable’ kind of Literature has been examined.

Before Detective Fiction, there must have been stories which considered Criminal investigations, but yet, failed to fully embrace The idea of a Criminal Investigator.

Before Science Fiction; There was Fantasy, even when The Writer or Reader thought that it was History.

The Romans & Others often wrote Speculative Fiction, With Creatures every bit as Mechanical as todays Robots; But they just didn’t quite call them that.

What was a Golem, but a mud robot ?

i have long thought that watching Sports on TV is essentially The same as watching Pornography, in that The Characters are engaging in activities which may well be The Occupation of Characters in any category of Story Telling, But without The Story Telling.

Wouldn’t it be Horrifically Interesting if there existed a kind of story which consisted of Nothing but what one sees at a Baseball Game. The Closest Approximation is A Radio Broadcast of Baseball Game, but because The Chronological Constraints of The Broadcast that must remain at a one to one correlative proportion to The Actual Game, The Sportscaster must fill in The Gaps of Inactivity with Minutia & Trivia, as well as Advertising— But this Imagined new Form of Reality Fiction would have none of that; If A baseball Game is in fact at all entertaining, then a story which contains only a lively & well constructed narrative of that game should be entirely viable.

( ? )

But such Stories don’t exist— Do they ?

The Damp Masses aren’t ever Aware of Anything— Until they are Made Aware of them.

This is most easily allowed for when one considers a genuinely novel form of Street-Ware; Electronic Gadget, Type of Music or Art, A Recently Discovered Insect, geological anomaly or A New Catch Phrase.

Until you are made aware of these things;

They are genuinely UnImaginable.

One might easily -Forecast- A Kind of Fiction by simply examining a listing of all The Familiar forms of Literature; & Observe what is Missing from it.

As we have already determined; A Story about Detectives is Not Detective Fiction. For it to be Detective Fiction— It must somehow ( ? ) Embrace a New Perspective from The Vantage Point of the Detective, Rather than that of A Lay Person writing about The Detective.

Once you have a ‘Super-Category’ of this ‘Kind’ however; Would we not reasonable consider that a Physician Fiction Story or A Plumber Fiction Story or A Knitting Bee Fiction Story be Essentially The Same thing ( ? )

So What we are really looking for; Are New Super-Categories.

It might well be argued that Science Fiction is a Sub-Category of Fantasy, which was one of The Very Original Forms.

What are The Well Established & Distinct Super-Categories ?

When considering The Idea of A Super-Category,

One might use as A Model; The Zoological Classifications of Phylum.

These are The Roughest Categories of All Animal Life & are thought to be The Real & Genuine Distinctions between this & that.

There are something like 35 such Categories, & they were all created around 650 million years ago during The Precambrian Explosion of Life.

Since then; There have been NO New Phylum created since then. That would seem to argue against evolution, but what can you do ( ? )

According to these Categories; Birds, Lizards, Fish & People are all in The Same Category; Chordata !

So you must be able to garner some sense that The other 34 Categories must be VERY Different from one another.

But It’s not as Crazy you might fear though; Millipedes, Spiders & Ants are all in Separate Phylum.

That’s the Rigor that we want to Use on our Classification of Super-Categories for Literature.

i am reluctant to include a separated Super-Category for Humor, as this may seem to exclude any hint of humor from any other Category. Any Category may include Humor as a Relish or Spice of The Genré.

Likewise; A Period Piece, Such as Gothic Literature, might provide a Template for An Proper Super-Category.

While Fiction & Non-Fiction are thought to be The Super-Super Categories of Literature; i very much suspect of course that there are No Pure Example of Either. The Most Diligent Historical Transcript or Newspaper Story is going to severely Flavored by The Writers Indigenous Culture, Religious Assumptions & Personal Bias. Likewise; Any Fictional or Fantasy Story is going to contain innumerable True & Factual Observations of The Real World.

 

Historical

AutoBiographical / Biographical / Diary /

Journal / SketchBook

Criticism / Commentary / Travel Brochures

Pure Narrative / Stream of Consciousness

Exposé / Tabloid Journalism

Journalism / NewsPaper writing / TV News

Ad Copy / Ingredients

Legal Notice

Mythological / Folktales

Urban Legend

Fantasy

Pornography / Sports Journalism

Poetry / Ballads

Prose ( Poems )

The Novel

Jiggery Pokery / Alt. Logic & Nonsense

Essay

Sermon

Correspondence / Business or Personal

The Pointless Anecdote

Joke / Pun /

Riddle

Figure (x / Note under An Illustration or Photograph in a Book

The FootNote

The Blurb

Factoid

Proverb

Koan

Fable

Catch Phrase / Idiom / Quote / FolkWisdom / Rule of Thumb

Class Note / Classroom Gossip or Love Missive

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New Super-Categories

The Akashic Library / Everything Considered. Like Stream of Consciousness Writing, only without The Self Editing.

The Mind of Gawd / Omniscient Fiction in which All The Characters know everything, There’s No Mystery, No Conflict to be Resolved

Inverted Chronology / Conclusion to First Principle

Character Translation / The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin approaches this; Where Characters freely shift from one to another.

Mobius Strip / Where The End of The Story loops around to The Beginning, but because all of The Character have evolved after Each itineration, The Story is Entirely Different The Next Time you Read it. All The Him’s, Her’s, It’s & ‘Them’ Refer to different people or Groups each time. When you think Communists mean one thing The First time you read through it, Communists mean something else The Second time, & something different again The Next Time.

Recursive Fiction / Where Various Chapters are read over & over until some principle or criteria made by The reader is met, which allows them to proceed to The Next Chapter.

Drunken Slot Fiction / Story written while in a Drunken Stupor

Schizophrenic Fiction / Story written by a Schizophrenic / This sort of writing is actually quite common, but apparently not widely recognized as such.

Symbolic or Hieroglyphical Writing / Written in a Universal Language that anyone in The World can Read, with a little attentive interpretation required.

Minimal Vocabulary / Very Long Stories written with a Very small number or Words. Less than 20. May require considerable interpretation.

UnKnown Pidgin Fiction / A Story written in an Unknown Pidgin derived from several different languages, Includes illustrations with Hand Signs.

Lost Point Fiction / Story in which none of The characters ever finish a sentence, conclude an argument, make a point, wind up a conversation, settle on a decision, state an opinion or deduce some obvious inductive explanation.

Non-Anthropomorphic Animal Fiction / Stories written by actual animals, using their Vocabularies which include numerous words to describe sensations that human’s don’t have any sense of.

Neologism Fiction / In which every noun & verb is a Neologism. ( like a Clockwork Orange, only much worse )

Grunting Fiction / Stories in which all The expressions used are Grunts, Screams, Minimal Guttural rasp, Husky growls, Croaks, Low Sigh, Pathetic Whimper, Weeping, Inconsolable Wailing or Dying Moans.

Yellow Blood Fiction / In which all of The Descriptions don’t make any sense. Filled with Incomprehensible Idioms, Pointless Riddles, Inscrutable Puns, Bewildering Insults or Delphic Predictions that go unheeded.

 

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More Strange Sensations

Jim from downstairs ( Spofford Building ) was telling me today ( Thursday, September 19, 2013 ) that he frequently experiences genuine pain upon hearing a truck pass by The building. The Sound of The Grinding Gears & such ( ? ) It is like someone punching him in The Stomach, so he reports.

This is entirely reasonable because i have experienced similar effects & been told of similar things by other people, notably my mother, that related a story in which a woman at church would cause her severe torment ( ? ) by merely listening to her voice.

i have experienced this effect myself & attributed it, Not to some psychic influence, but simply The Resonance of The Auditory Frequency which is ‘Tuned’ to my Skeletal or Internal Organs, which they absorb instead of dissipating them as they would with any ‘Ordinary’ White Noise that i’m exposed to all The Time.

On The other End of This Spectrum; i have often heard The Voice of someone that is so Calming that i am placed into a state of Local Nirvana.

The Stages of Culture Shock / Extended by Tiny Wanda

Kalervo Oberg / Canadian Anthropologist

Culture Shock

Extended Version by Tiny Wanda

Stage One / Honeymoon Phase / The Alien Culture is experience as enchantingly novel & endlessly fascinating.

 

Stage Two / Reaction / The Visitor Reacts Angrily against The cultures incomprehensible customs, uneatable foods, disagreeable fashion or grooming habits, thus intensely disliking it & romanticizing their home cultures superior & correct ways of doing things.

Stage Three / Resignation / The Visitor develops various coping strategies, such as drinking imported canned soft drinks, averting their eyes from revolting native conventions & shouting poorly pronounced foreign phrases.

Stage Four / Adjustment / Resigns themselves to accept The Foreign culture as merely different, inferior in many ways, but not as evil as they’d believed a few days or weeks before that.

Stage Five / Upon returning home; The Visitor experiences Reverse Culture Shock in which they see their own culture anew, become far more critical of Taboos & Customs which are meant to Constrain & Crush their Individuality.

Stage Six / The Citizen becomes compelled to actively resist The Oppression of their own Society & become Freedom Fighters.

Stage Seven / The Citizen is Killed in a Hail of Gunfire by Regional Police, ATF, FBI or Silent Assassins. Where upon The Citizen becomes a Martyr for a New Generation of Disenfranchised Teenagers which overthrow their Cultures previous Religious & Traditional Values with Ill Conceived self-destructive Fads & Fashions.

Stage Eight / These avant-garde Vogues then slowly evolve into a Multicultural Amalgamation of Milk-Toast Mores, Praxis & Folklore that are as shallow as spilled bourbon on a hot day.

Stage Nine / Suicide Rates explode & The Culture eventually collapses, forcing everyone to flee The Major Metropolitan Areas, forming up into small villages that evolve their own languages & entirely new Origin Myths, Fables, Children’s Parables & ‘Ancient’ Legends that form a rock solid moral & Ethical foundation for then next few hundred generations.