More excerpts from the same forum thread I dumped into progeny. The bloodline stuff is in that other post; this one is the rest — the analogies and asides that have stuck with me.

The Bus

So your favorite sports team boards an autobus with the objective of traveling cross-country to a sporting match. Everyone on the bus agrees they want to get to the game where they can have a “shot” at fame and glory.

Let’s further imagine that there is not a hired driver but that each sports participant will get a turn at the steering wheel.

You can imagine with the variety of personalities on the bus that some will be diligent and drive directly at top speed. Others may get distracted. Some may stop excessively to eat and satisfy some psychological craving they have. Others are drunks and wish to stop at every pub along the way and drink to excess. Not only do these people delay the progress of the team in reaching their destination, but their dissolute living puts the entire team at risk of accident and death. The selfish ones care little as long as their needs are met.

Some drivers might stop to assist their stranded fellow traveler. What a good guy. However, in doing so they delay the progress of their fellow team mates. Certainly, the one providing the service looks the hero and collects accolades, but he has done a disservice to the others on the bus to satisfy the ego. From the viewpoint of the teammates, it is a selfish act.

The bus is of course the bloodline. Ancestors and those yet to come are all helpless passengers as each bloodline member gets their turn at the wheel. You are free to do as you want — free will and all that — but everyone on your team will pay a price for your choices, such as they are.

What will you do with YOUR TURN?

NOW. Let’s say that the other team knows your bus is full of lower form primates who respond to their base instincts. So the opposition team, being the black-hearts they are, erect a billboard advertising young women who will dance and writhe for your pleasure. And serve alcohol until you are stupid. Hooray!

Who is responsible for the team bus now parked in that parking lot? The team, or proprietor?

The Painting

You are doubtlessly familiar with Seurat’s famous painting, no?

Consider each data point, things which you know to be true, or absolutes, as a color point on a great canvas. If the color points are true and vibrant, if the artist is diligent and has the requisite talent, if great care is taken — a masterpiece might be born.

The masterpiece resonates from the true-ness and correct-ness of its authenticity. It was not created in “one sunday afternoon in the park” nor was it slap-dash in its construction. Seurat spent much time in its composition, the selection of colors and hues, the medium — and everything else relating to the work at hand. No doubt during the time of his work, he focused his passion and attention on his work, likely at the expense of social interactions, family and other outside interests.

Now, let’s say that you are attempting to create a Seurat of your own. You have the blank canvas of an open mind and have carefully selected your colors and oils, which would be, metaphorically, the data and information you have collected, your “dots” or “threads” to create your great work.

You begin, carefully and are making some progress.

Now, the door flies open and a small child rambunctiously runs into your studio. As he runs about leaving a trail of chaos and destruction in his wake, other children enter the room and begin to “dot” your painting without regard to your efforts, strategy or global color scheme. Undifferentiated paint placement. Dots of all shapes and sizes randomly placed.

Your canvas painting, following the edicts of art nature and your conventions, are doomed.

YOU CANNOT SEE THE GLOBAL PICTURE BY FIXATING ON THE DOTS OR THREADS of individual data points or observations.

Further, your most sincere effort to understand the “truth” will be for naught if you allow young children to run amok in your “gallery”. And for the dim-witted among you, the children running amok is, of course, the INTERNET. Many children with data dots spewing freely all over your canvas.

If one were cynical, one might conclude, correctly, that the entire internet is the perfect disinformation machine because the inmates themselves are creating the disinformation.

The Honeybee

honey is such a pedestrian concept… but PERFECTLY relevant to our little discussion.

No adult thinks twice about letting the honeybee toil and labor all summer, collecting the pollen, and in the autumn, the hooded beekeeper comes and takes the whole fucking honeycomb. Which of you mourns for the honeybee? Which of you thinks twice of the theft of labor which has occurred?

Zoom out, google earth style and look at the macro picture. You are the drone bees and you are harvested of your energy and labor at regular intervals, just like our friend the honeybee. Is there a difference morality-wise? Is our theft greater than yours? Because you have an intermediary and buy your honey from a middleman, is there any difference? You american drones — has your life not been made easier by harvesting the sweat and tears of your chinese brothers?

And whenever there are inequities, we are there, getting our “cut”.

The Screen Door

There was once a landlord who offered a flat for rent.

The flat was comfortable and very well maintained. The landlord told the renter he was welcome to stay in the accommodations in exchange for a set amount of monthly toil.

The renter consented to the arrangement.

After a month, the landlord noted that the renter, upon exiting the flat, used a knife to slash the screen in the screen door instead of simply OPENING the screen door. In the evening, the renter would tape the screen closed with tape.

Although the landlord was angry, he was also curious why the renter went to so much trouble to slit and repair the screen rather than simply open the door. He decided to observe rather than confront.

Of course, over time, the screen was “opened” and “closed” so many times that it was completely shredded and useless for its intended purpose.

The renter registered a complaint to the landlord and DEMANDED he fix the DEFECTIVE DOOR.

If you were the landlord, how would you answer the tenants complaint?

Consider this as an allegory to DRINKING ALCOHOL.

The LIVER is essentially a SCREEN.

ALCOHOL, over time, destroys the liver/screen.

When the LIVER is DESTROYED, the HUMAN DIES A PAINFUL DEATH.

The HUMAN, learning his FATE, cries to the LANDLORD for a NEW SCREEN. DEMANDS a new SCREEN.

In both cases, the need for a new screen could have easily been avoided by not ruining the first one.

Don’t waste the LANDLORDS time.

Don’t KILL YOURSELF.

Drinking alcohol is ONLY ONE EXAMPLE.

Look at what you eat. What you breathe. How you “invest” your energy. And on and on and on.

Humans create their own dilemmas and seek others for remedy.

The Lottery

My favorite SYSTEM involves LOTTERIES.

In the US there was a HUGE drawing a few drops back, something close to 600 million fiats to be given to the lucky “winner”.

Firstly, the lotteries generally award around 50% in prizes, so they already collected 1.2 billion fiats. 600 million on one drawing collected, freely given from most who could scarcely afford to pay. The true MEEK.

From the “winner” to “collect” they must forfeit about 40% to actually receive the payment in a lump sum rather than spread over 25 annual payments.

Another 50% or so will depart in taxes and associated fees. And joss help the “winner” who hires the expertise of solicitors and accountants to “manage” the “winners” “money”.

So, from the 1.2 BILLION collected, the winner MAY see 100 million. Still not a bad haul, you say.

Then the buzzards descend.

Now look at the OPERATION of the SYSTEM.

The LOTTERY COMMISSION controls the points of sale, the computers, the software, and in many cases is ASKED by the player to pick the number RANDOMLY for the player.

At the time of the drawing, the LOTTERY COMMISSION thus KNOWS, via the software, EVERY combination of numbers “picked” and, in up to 50% of the cases has also been ASKED to pick the number for the “player”.

The LOTTERY COMMISSION, thus, has PERFECT KNOWLEDGE of EVERY BET MADE, where the bet was made, the time, date amount of wager and anything else worth KNOWING.

THEN, BEST OF ALL, THE SAME LOTTERY COMMISSION DRAWS THE WINNING BALLS.

ALL THE POWER AND KNOWLEDGE RESIDES ON ONE SIDE OF THE WAGER.

The other side has NO POWER, NO KNOWLEDGE, and, statistically NO CHANCE.

It is the identical scenario in the stock market, the bond market, FOREX, commodities, futures, CDS’s, and everything else. At ANY GIVEN TIME, someone — not YOU — knows what trans-actional event will maximize profits for… wait for it… NOT YOU.

What is your remedy? Don’t play OR create your own casino/system.

The Two Domestics

There are terms in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: LAG and LASH.

You likely know LAG already. LASH can be defined as: the maximum distance through which one part of something can be moved without moving a connected part.

Think of it this way. You have two domestics in your employ.

Domestic A is willing to perform the household tasks, and is generally competent in doing so. However, one must provide specific instructions as to every action desired. For example, you return home and Domestic A greets you at the door. You have to tell it to take your coat and direct it to prepare dinner. Regardless of the fact that your routine seldom varies, the domestic requires direction. One deals with varying degrees of PASSIVE RESISTANCE. Now apply this RESISTANCE across vast numbers and CALCULATE the WASTE.

Domestic B greets you at the door and wordlessly takes your coat, and leads you to a sumptuous banquet, carefully prepared and flawless in execution and plating. You finish the meal and find the fire prepared and your favorite drink ready. Later, the bedsheets are carefully turned down and your nightwear laid out carefully. All without the need to issue commands.

The first system has excessive LAG and LASH. System two provides FLOW and CONTINUITY with no wasted effort. The holy grail of engineering — ABOVE UNITY.

FIAT has done its job. The NEXT system implements a level of control with an inescapable feedback mechanism which encourages seamless and utter COMPLIANCE.

The Football Team

You will develop the greatest football team in history if it is your destiny to do so, with or without external financial support. Realize also that any support you receive from those who do not share your vision is “external” and will come at a great price. That price will leave your dreams in ruin, for that is the nature of things.

If you have passion, and that passion is great, others with similar passion will take up your cause. And you will prevail.

Be forewarned, however, that ultimately your passion will destroy you and your dreams.

Dream rather that your progeny will have the type of team you desire and begin to lay the foundation for them.

This applies to everything, not just football.

The Chicken

You elect to form a relationship with a CHICKEN. Or maybe TWO CHICKENS.

You find that the chickens greedily eat the fibrous grinding remains along with bugs and anything else they can find, and, in exchange, give you a small nutrient bomb of proteins, high quality fats, organic minerals and other good stuff. They, in essence, extract the rest of the nutrition from the vegetables and produce it in a highly assimilatable form — complete amino acid profile, proportioned correctly.

Because the egg is UNFERTILIZED, there are no karmic issues with its consumption. Because you are providing a safe and healthy environment to the chicken; supplying it with healthy vegetables grown from the sweat of YOUR BROW, your toil, it is a perfectly symbiotic relationship.

Quid pro quo.

Now, the chicken ages and stops laying.

What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO?

Why, you continue to care for the chicken, to feed it and respect it during its “life” as you did while it was producing eggs. RESPECT.

YOU DO NOT EAT THE CHICKEN. It lives out its life according to its NATURE and GENETIC PROGRAMMING. You are living according to the NATURAL LAW OF BOTH.

Why? Because you are living in the NOW. There being no timeline, there is only NOW. The killing of the chicken affects the Eggs, ALL the eggs concurrently. Betray the chicken NOW and poison the eggs NOW.

And you don’t want to eat poisoned eggs, do you?

Don’t Apologize

Lesson ONE.

Do not apologize. Ever.

I understand it is a social convention, a conversational expedient, and may be used as such.

However, the act of contrite apology is analogous to exposing your neck to a feral beast.

And it serves no useful purpose for the giver OR the recipient.

If your head is to fall into the basket for whatever crimes you may have committed, meet your fate with dignity and resolve. THAT is the way of KINGS.

Property

Property ownership is a primitive concept, rooted in history, but not a universal one. Native Americans conceptually lacked understanding of property ownership that Europeans and Americans take for granted. However, if an intruder were to encroach on the space which they occupied at any particular point, they would likely fight to the death, would they not? They would not, however, define the land as theirs, as that was absurd to them on its face.

They didn’t own the land, but on the land which they chose to occupy, they would fight to the death to defend it.

Those Native Americans had a more evolved understanding of property rights than westerners. One does not truly own land, but one DOES control what land one can, while one can.

A young man might, in this scenario, stake a claim on a small patch of land somewhere and not allow others to pass. If the young man were able to ENFORCE his claim, he would indeed control that parcel. Does he own it? In a sense it is supposed. He can do with it as he chooses.

As an old man, others may challenge his ownership. If he prevails, he continues ownership. If not, ownership/control passes to the other.

If You Do What You Did

If you do what you did, you get what you got.

The Slow Burn

The slow burn continues.

What is burning, you may ask?

The middle class american life. Middle class standard of living. The thing which differentiated america from other countries.

50 years hence, the poor will continue to be poor. There will just be — say for simplicity — another BILLION of them.

The rich will also be just fine. If you are rich, and connected, you have no worries. A group of very, very greedy banksters are trying to secure their future because they know this. However, and sadly, they lack the true component, which is knowledge.

Some of the banksters will become crushingly poor and others, well, they will not be in our midst. Sadly. Because their egos are or will become so closely intertwined with the paper gods, death will be a preferable state for them.