Tedium… Tedious conversation… Boring repeats, heard it all before: Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. The same look in the eyes, the same scripted replies: “I’m better than, I’m more than” – comparison of facades. Seeking, needing the outrage; fanning the flames, finding someone to blame. Taught behaviour, taught script: “Look at me! Aren’t I special. Give me a biscuit!” “My happy versus your happy;” “Aren’t I special because I conform.” (Spoon fed some rules.) Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. “Everybody must have the same opinion” - Nobody knows everything, even about one thing: The more I see the less I know; the more I see the more I feel. Explanations unfold, change colour and disappear into space - The enormity and hugeness of limitless space… Blah de blah, boring blah blah, “How dare you, what about me?” Blah blah, blah de blah blah, boring, blah blah blah. No need to be imprisoned by a side, by a tribe - Each day is different, rules are for machines. Exceptions are for you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Journal 2022-07-17
(Writer, songwriter), (actor, singer), (art, innovation).
I have done, am doing, and will do, all this.
Writer is the first and current focus.
Acting and innovation are broad categories, comprising different activities.
Keep moving, wibble wobble rhubarb etc.
Random Thoughts
The goal with current gaps and an action plan. Has anyone done this analysis for humanity? (I mean one that is based on universal flourishing and kindness, not written by useful idiots and implemented by empowered psychopaths.)
Energy builds up internally through relentless thinking and wants to be released.
Working is more fulfilling than chilling.
Reduce work by doing it.
I am a writer. I perform for necessity or fun.
Summarise rather than simplify.
Right now, everything is probably fine. There will be challenges, and preparation for them is a good idea – but whatever they may be, this exact moment is probably fine.
Maybe a school exam question in the future: To what extent was the series of US imbecilic Presidents and broken political system responsible for the reaffirmation of totalitarianism in non-Western countries? Was this causally connected to the emergence of the Internet and social media?
Marcus Aurelius was succeeded by Commodus. As a metaphor, even philosopher kings beget tyranny.
In the totalitarian mindset, facts are attacked and suppressed if they do not conform to belief stories.
Journal 2022-07-12
Either use apps or read books of jokes, facts, quotes and vocabulary. Collated paragraphs of knowledge primers would be beneficial to learning as well.
Random Thoughts:
The past can offer lessons and warnings, but should not determine the quality of today nor the direction of the future.
These words are words. Your thoughts determine the effect on you, good or bad.
Anything great is always achieved outside of society’s expectations.
It is compassionate to be happy.
Be someone’s smile.
Journal 2022-07-09
I’m absolutely happy with the reservoirs of knowledge and culture that my phone makes available to me, including:
- Monthly subscriptions to Kindle, Audible, Spotify/Apple Music.
- Follows of blogs, micro-blogs, video playlists and podcasts (with an option to support).
The one missing is a platform that provides the availability of any course of learning to everyone.
Random Thoughts:
Certainty is limited. Uncertainty is unbounded infinite possibility.
There was a brief interlude in the 1950s to 1990s when delusion and unfairness started to diminish. The desire for fairness has continued in this century, but people have become far more delusional and crazed, making fair outcomes less likely and opening the door to the truly vile forces that have wreaked misery through so much of history.
Are you a societal meme?
I am impossible to offend. “You’re a blancmange!” they say. Ok, well you have your opinions, and I’ll have mine.
Everyone you meet and everyone who is affected by you needs you not to be a twat.
JBK
I’m not interested in your hair, eye or skin colour. I don’t care what type of person you fancy. I don’t care what you identify as or belief system you follow. Just be kind.
Random Thoughts
There have been plenty of middle management monsters running countries in history – they are psychotic narcissists who copy from a playbook given to them and repeat the past.
Can creativity thrive under authoritarian conditions, aided by artificial intelligence? Can slaves be compelled and threatened to create? Can they create if they are constantly lied to and manipulated, rather than inspired? The correlation to date has been with freedom.
If consciousness can be programmed to live in a heavenly state of bliss, why bother creating simulations? If reality can be anything, then why this one?
People who put percentage probabilities on the origins and nature of existence have a myopic view of the probability tree.
Exploring was great, but I am now about to focus. I probably won’t be updating my word count here, for a while.
Random Thoughts
On a hot day, humans can outrun horses over long distances.
Thoughts determine your wellbeing. Fluffy thoughts are lovely; however if they are based on some personal deceit, they will turn sour. Negative thoughts destroy you and everything you experience. Positive thoughts based on what is true is the optimal state of being.
I enjoy sentences where different interpretations are all true. The sentence is the fact, but the meaning is multiple. The ultimate sentence is when, on some higher level, all the seemingly contradictory explanations harmonise as one great beauty.
Does the universe exist if your consciousness is not perceiving it? This question will usually be met with “of course”, eye rolls and the like, instantly dismissing logic which suggests: the only irreducible certainty is that an experience is being perceived in the current moment. I am not solipsistic by inclination; it’s just interesting to me how quickly the idea is dismissed as obviously false and egocentric. But people are often irritated when an axiom is touched, and advances in knowledge are usually counter-intuitive. So what if all assumptions are false?
Gamer: We’re living in a simulation. I have proof.
Religioner: That’s ok. God created the world that made the simulation and put the Holy ghost in the machine.
God: By the way, something created me.
Jack (in HW: HIBPM)
You don’t play the ball. You kick the bastard in the balls. Or better still, get someone else to do it.
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I’m off to fart my way around a golf course with fat balding men.
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Walks past pictures of PMs … “Bitch, bitch, bitch – see you later, bitches.”
Random Thoughts
Never quite here and not quite there, words are understood depending on you.
Further from reality, from warmth and humanity, bliss will fester in your lap. Love and be loved; don’t judge and be judged. Anger sees anger; the foolish see a fool.
Economic necessity hinders countless people from fulfilling their potential. Having some chance is better than nothing; however a situation where you are hostage to the manipulations and barbarities of some murderous thug is a forcible attempt to suppress your humanity.
Music is a mystery. Nothing inspires and moves people as music.
Writing is focused thinking.
It’s rare to meet an adult non-dog who is full of joy in most circumstances.
Blah blah etc.:
- Sell me this pen.
- What type of pen do you need?
- I’m not really looking right now.
- I find it useful to have my own pen handy if I need to write something down. Do you have one?
- No, not on me.
- Would you like to try this?
Rob Walker 