Corporate America

I think, people aren't meant to do this kind of stuff. We're meant to grow things in soil, and build things, and dig, and hunt, and gather. Mostly, I think that's the major issue here. It's just unnatural. Which, with AI, we're going to actually have to be forced back into that kind of craft economy, where most work is the creation of objects, or gardening and farming. Economies will have to be local again, and not large corporations. Instead of Nike, you'll have a local cobbler, or instead of Abercrombie and Fitch, you'll have a local tailor. What's different, is that we have very advanced logistics, that can bring someone's product from California to Ethiopia if we wanted to in under a week, and that will only get faster. That's where the real money would come from, and whoever had the logistics or warehouses would be on top. Which, those would be automated. But most people need to feel a part of their company, and the Corporate mindset turned it into a cult, but generally, the local business should be more like a community: that's what people need.

It's weird, but I just don't believe Corporate America is what makes people happy. Just the commute alone, of driving 45 minutes or more a day, and then being regimented every second and not allowed to make autonomous decisions, or really have any ownership or onus over the products. That's kind of why this is happening.

On Goodness and God

I believe in goodness without God. Although, it's impossible to prove good without Him. It's kind of a conundrum Nietzsche trapped the whole atheist community in, and also Hume. But, generally, they force the argument, that if you prove there's good, there ha to be a God. Because if there's good without God, then it remains subjective, and determined by human opinion, which then it can't be called good, can it? But, I think good is so self evident, that we can move up to God's existence.

But, generally, I think atheists can indeed understand it. I would be doubtful to say that they can't. We all do, that's written in the Bible. And Christ aligns with that natural conscience better than anyone else. But the danger here... and here is the true danger... is saying good is not self evident. And that's a trap both Atheists and Christians fall into. When, I'm aware that both good and evil are self evident, and necessarily proves God exists. Because it relies on superior judgment, existing outside of human consciousness. It's a Law of Nature, not a Law of Human Choice. And since nature proves what's ethical and moral, based on what will create the most beneficial society for all, and naturally create patterns of healthy attachments and material prosperity,  which God's grace will achieve, and has achieved, we move to Christ Jesus.

After Having Written Over 10,000 Essays, I’ve Found My Essay is Weak and Whiny. But, Some Important Ideas Are Gleaned From It, So Please Excuse the Bad Diction, and Try to Find What I’m Saying. Also, My Average Poem’s Language is Austere, but the Metaphor is Beautiful.

Developing Healthy Reading Habits

You know a chapter a day, a poem a day, an essay a day, a short story a day, it does wonders. Most of them are about 5 pages, or 2,000 words or less. I think people are going to start consuming shorter works, like Short Stories and Personal Essays and Poetry. Because when I read, I can't really get through a whole lot, but I take it in chunks, you read 1 chapter or essay or poem or short story a day, that's 365 chapters, essays, poems, or short stories, and that's about 360,000 words a year. Which is about 5 books a year.

To give you another example, I will read a chapter from a book, and might read that book over 10 years. My memory gets refreshed as I pick it up again, and I can start from that basis. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, or The Prince and the Pauper--two of my favorites now--have been read by me for about 10 years now. Brother's Karamazov, also. Sometimes, like the Wizard of Oz, I just read the whole novel in a few days. Or Animal Farm I read in one sitting. Boethius, I read a chapter a day, and left the last chapter till now. I started him in December last year. Descartes, also, the Discourse on the Method, have been reading a little bit here and there. I might read a story from Egyptian Mythology, or read over Ptahhotep again; might read a dozen chapters of the Bible--that I fly through because I'm very familiar with it. Might read a poem, and do a deep analysis of it.

Another thing, I don't particularly like reading. I just read for wisdom. It's not my favorite activity. I'd rather listen to a video essay for 20 minutes, and break it into two segments, than read a novel. Unless I go into the flow.

Where It All Went Wrong

I talked with three professional mathematicians who didn't know Math is real. There's English Majors--which that's all they do--who can't read Charles Dickens. There's people graduating High School with 4.0s and have taken calculus who can't do simple 1st grade math. 54% of Americans read below a fourth grade level. There are experts on Husserl who work at McDonald's and men who barely passed college tenured at Yale.

A perfect example of what's wrong with our world, is we have CAD and Dynamometers, but physicists don't use them. Instead, they erase data points, and use basic calculus and well behaved curves to do their math. That and people with College Majors in Math believe Math is subjective, and people who are explicitly studying to read English, cannot read Dickens. That's what's wrong. And people in the leading edges of science are actually pontificating on whether a whale is a fish. They really don't know what a fish is. It's that bad.

There's also students who get perfect SAT scores, 4.0 GPAs, juggle three tasks at a time for 12 hours a day, have glowing recommendations from teachers and professionals, but because their college admissions paper doesn't sound like a blog post, they get denied at every school. Despite the essay being written lucidly, with perfect structure, no purple passages, good grammar and spelling, in simple and plain enough language, as they talk about something like a Non Profit that they started and how they're leaps ahead of other students their age.

Another thing, an actual school faculty told one of the best and most professional teachers in their school, that Reading and Writing are not a Twenty-First Century skill.

Why Prisoners Learn Faster than College Students, BetterU Response

I actually relate to this. I was in Jail, I read To Kill a Mockingbird, War and Peace and the Bible. I read War and Peace twice. Loved every minute of it. To Kill a Mockingbird I read three times. The Bible I read along with a Radio Ministry called Through the Bible with Jay Vernon McGee.

But, even now, I'm the same. I just learn obsessively. Something I want cracked, I think about it--I'm a little slower than other people, but can focus like a laser--and I don't stop until I understand it. I listen to teachers--YouTube videos--read books, take notes in the form of poems and stories. And I have a very accurate metacognition that will scan my work for faults.

A Novel Idea

I had a similar idea to this, but it was much different. Kind of an alien invasion, where a super race of Extra Terrestrial Terrans--who are smarter, stronger, and more beautiful--come to Earth, and take it over. And I would have one of their families who shipwrecked on Earth, but they never told their children, and the child grew up among us, and was super beautiful. And she had to stop them. Kind of like a Superman sort of deal, you know? But, they're just smarter, better looking, and stronger. Like, they can grow muscle fast, they have a mean IQ of 150--that's the middle of their bell curve--and they're super beautiful, and also very coordinated as is what happens in upper echelons of intelligence. But, they hate our earth because our people aren't smart enough to understand the objectivity of mathematics, or understand the objectivity of ethics. It'd be a cleansing of them because they're too stupid to understand morality, science, aesthetics or law. And they sent sages to the Earth, to test them to see if we were advanced enough. And we failed. But, she has to prove to them that humanity has intrinsic value, even if they're too dumb to understand morality, aesthetics and truth. The whole conflict would be around habitable worlds, that it's a lot of resources to make a world habitable for humanity, and if we advance too far, we could destroy an entire planet, and that would be the Terran's reason for doing it. There'd be all the races in the Terran forces, as they advanced beyond racism, but they'd just be more beautiful, and the racism would be against ugly people as there'd be a way to determine intelligence based on facial features and muscle and bone density, which are metrics for beauty. And the protagonist is only 172IQ. About one standard deviation above the norm for her race, so equivalent to a 120 IQ.

“Mathematics Are Made Up”

That's not true. We didn't make up mathematics. Mathematics are a language, that describe the way the world works. Yes, the language is made up, but the things they describe aren't. Like any language, it requires context to fully understand, and through context we describe the real world. Math is also a form of logic, and like language, there's true and false statements and valid and invalid methods of reasoning to further principles. A math problem, that relates to no context, is like a novel, that it's fictitious, but still the logic works, and is proven to work.

A Little Bit of Set Theory

So, if I have a pair of glasses, I have one frame, two lenses, two earplacers, four screws, and two nose rests, and two arms.

All together, that would be like this:

1(x)=1+2+2+4+2+2

If I'm talking about the the number of individual sets of components it's:

1(x)=1+1/2(2)+1/2(2)+1/4(4)+1/2(2)+1/2(2)

If I want to take the screws as two sets it's:

1(x)=1+1/2(2)+1/2(2)+1/2(4)+1/2(2)+1/2(2)

So forth. That's how set theory ought to work.

If multiplying it by two pairs of glasses, you just do this

2(x)=(1+2+2+4+2+2)2

If you want to combine sets it's just:

1(x)=1+1/2(2)+[(2+4)/(2+4)]+1/2(2)+1/2(2)

Little Reigns

“Some bold adventurers disdain

The limits of their little reign,

And unknown regions dare descry:” – Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Please, mathematics makes sense. You're just not smart enough to understand it. Please... know your limits. The derivatives are finding the limit to the area underneath a curve, and averaging out the total slope. So, when you download a file, it could create an X/Y graph, through the curve based on bytes and time, and the total file will relate directly to the area. That's how calculus works, and a derivative is a shortcut to build a similar curve, to get an approximation--or it just takes the actual raw data of the curve itself, and gets its area, or the curve. It's an exact science, and makes perfect sense. And it takes geometric series and infinite sums using secants to do this. And this is important, because in things like energy waves on a stove, or even a car driving on a dyno machine, it gets us measurements we can actually use to understand our world.

Please... don't say this kind of thing.

Yeah, you can't lawyer math. I mean, you could, it'd actually make better understanding of how evidence relates to things in a courtroom, but definitely, this is just stupid. We need a little faith, and a little bit of a leap to the conclusion. That's how division works. Without it, we can't have math. Division is the most important operation, because it kind of guesses the right answer, based on the obvious pattern.