jan 9 in idea barrages

The holiday season is so extended these days, it feels like they’re putting up Happy Hondadays decorations the day after Hondaween.

Observation alters outcome. Subatomic particles in experimentation. Missing by the concert trying to record it. Documentary subjects becoming ad-lib actors when the camera turns on. As in the quantum, as in “reality”.

Translating Shakespeare to modern English is one thing but let’s one-up that and make Shakespeare blunt and to the point. Hamlet’s “Should I kill myself or not?” speech. Juliet’s “I don’t care what his last name is, dude’s fine as hell” speech. Et cetera.

A board game that is like an anti-Risk maybe called Discretion, where you grow your nation’s influence through diplomacy, trade, cultural exchange and espionage, treating war as a last resort option.

On average, America is center left electorally but is more afraid of the far left than the far right. So the far left peaces out instead of compromising and the hard right wins through dirty tricks and default.

The past and future are illusions evolution provided to keep us biologically fruitful, ideals, the tinker toys of minds lucky enough to be idle. There is only now and the most realistically humane things we can do for each other now.

Intellectual aptitude, in and of itself, isn’t worth a fart in a hailstorm. If everything you learn is wrong or daft or cruel, we’re all worse off than if you were a dullard guided by basic truths.

Zelda: “Why won’t you move? Why do you just sit there, singing terrible nu-metal?” Link: “Link in park.”