Comfortably Stretched Across The Tie Rack

Working through the issues requires patience beyond understanding.

By the use of these words, understanding is limited.

My friends and colleagues wait for me to get from one stage of getting the local instance of the universe to one stage to another stage and then ...

Have you ever removed all the wires and chips from a breadboard and rewired a more efficient system from your memories?

Sure you have.  Just like have you reverse-engineered the present moment from the future moments you know are going to happen?

Going on instinct.  Is that instinctive?

The repetition is killing me, rearranging the same material over and over and over and ... well, maybe I should make the point more obvious ...over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ... is that better?

I remember the happy days reading the Book of the Future and excitedly turning the page to read more important discoveries by our species and the creation of new species and the interaction of material that doesn't know it's called material or species.

And then I saw my future and everything changed.

The future is not set, though, right?  Right.  I guess I should say I've seen every one of my possible futures.

How can I have fun reinventing myself if I already know how I'm going to reinvent myself and what I will become next?

Having access to the happenings of the universe gives me some privileges but not many.  Like knowing when the authorities plan to push a button and all the cartel leaders are taken care of.  Or what will happen to a certain fossil fuel company to set an example for the rest of the world.  Finality in the moment in the neverending cycle of moments.

Of course, you know the Book of the Future does not exist.  Some see it as my reporting what the group that runs the world has decided to do next.  Let them see what they want.  I see it as my playtoy, with an instruction book that clearly states the seriousness of using the toy's special features.

Do I like what "we" do with the population of my species?  Not always.  Often, yes.  I remind myself that I am a person, too, to avoid the easy trappings of absolute power (it sure is painful to be human - I sympathise with your species' everyday existence).  I'm just glad that money and power are practically meaningless to me.  Otherwise, places like DRK/North Korea would become the next Thailand and I could amuse myself with chaotic mass movements to make my friends in the defense and entertainment industries happy.

Hmm...that's an idea worth pursuing.  China, let me have this one and I'll owe you a favour.  How about you get shared/equal defense of the water around Formosa and I get North Korea this time?  Give me a call at the regular number or leave me a message at the movie theatre tonight.  I'll post my response obviously hidden in tomorrow's blog entry, as usual.  India and the U.S. will want a piece of the action, of course, so keep the nuclear option open - remember, we alert the populace to the possibility of unstable regimes with nuclear weapons, not scare them about imminent launches.  I'll let you contact Russia about follow-on contracts for the cleanup of North Korea's infrastructure - assure them appearances are deceiving.