Lineage.
And by lineage, what do I mean?
Have you already invoked memories in relation to the word "lineage"?
Good.
Then I can change the subject, not knowing exactly what you were thinking/feeling a moment ago.
I don't care about lineage.
Either you care or you don't about the word or the meaning.
By living in the moment, the moment's all I have. I have a background, a [an auto]biography, but it does not determine what I do now, only who decided to reproduce themselves accidentally or on purpose.
I'm here for another reason unrelated to the previous subject but now seen through the dyed filter of the previous moment.
To be a magnifying crystal, a funhouse mirror, a person who writes about what passes in, around and through the writer, requires a lack of sanity, a disinterest in personal opinion, an invisible personage, if such is possible.
Formality is insufficient. One may eat with a righthanded salad fork or one may eat with one's hands - either sufficiently serves to feed the eater.
Thus, hand-to-hand cage fighting is just as entertaining as paper crafting or profit making.
There is no difference between diligently saving the species and enjoying a moment of doing nothing.
I understand vegan vs. vegetarian vs. meateating in many thought patterns, from natural resource management to personal health management to animal welfare management to business management to religious practice management.
How I manage my thought patterns in the moment is up to me.
In the realm of law formation, law abidement and law enforcement, do you understand the difference between amoral and immoral?
Should the ones who write the rules have to follow the rules they write?
Does the phrase "strontium aluminate" imply to you the substance illuminates?
If I am not serious about myself, who will be?
All of us manage the world's affairs, do we not? Some of us just seek more attention/power/money/influence in how we go about it.
Do you see yourself as separate from your formal/childhood education? How many of your achievements are the results of proving wrong someone(s) and/or others'/your disparaging comments from your past?
Which has more atoms/molecules/cells, the redbud tree outside the window or me?
If these words are not mine, created before I existed...
If I do not exist, this body/thought set an illusion...
If "if" is a matter of choices, leading to "then"...
Then who is what and what is who in this moment?
If it were up to me, I'd seize all of BP's assets in the US (as well as those of its subsidiaries/subcontractors) and form a naval/air blockade of the UK in proportion to the percentage pollution of the Gulf of Mexico caused by the fossil fuel "leak". What's a country for if it cannot defend itself against threats to national security (including food production and navigable waters) caused by the ineptitude of a single corporation and its subsidiaries/subcontractors?
Either we admit that countries no longer have any pure strength or countries prove that they have power they put to use in concrete terms when the power is needed (especially before emergencies have to be declared (you know, enforcing laws on the books instead of relying on comfy relationships)). Otherwise, it is truly the age of the corporation and we should abolish the antiquated notion of a political class of citizens who are elected by their peers to take care of them with laws and security forces.
Alas, the Book of the Future has already shown me the tepid response that the local organisations of our species will put together this time.
As a stockholder, I don't live a lavish lifestyle so I don't feel pressure to put pressure on corporations to squeeze every billionth of a penny of profit out of operations, thus allowing corporations to follow well-established, scientifically-proven industrial safety practices.
In this case, the past predicts the future: the age-old practice will hold true - put corporate profits before industrial safety until disaster occurs.
See why it does me no good to have any opinions? I already know what's going to happen next so I see what little effect my emotions carry into future moments. Why get carried away with my primate tendencies?
If I don't take my species seriously, who will?
We worry about using up the resources of other planetary systems as our species (essentially, life on Earth) expands outward. Do you not understand that is what life as we know it is all about? The construct of the logic of resource management is our species' competitive advantage in the cycle of life - use it or lose it.
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