Fire Upon the Deep

#note.//A book I read in graduate school, or was it earlier? One of my favorite within the Zones of Thought series. I highly recommend reading them. The books introduce the Tines. I don't want to ruin it for you, but Vernon uses this literary device to explore some pretty cool ideas about highly cooperative groups of interlaced individuals.

We should read it, if we want to be part of JoJoBrand3!

#author.//
Vernon Vinge

#published.//
1992

Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) 2006

#note.//
20111113.This movie seeped into my stream again. I make the association because I've been think about the recent election and time of Chaos and it was recently Veterans day.

There is a reason why different military.state.brands don't allow their units to fraternize. It defeats the whole purpose of the game.war.

After WWI, the tribes and the brands still existed, and they still disagreed. Therefore, they had to play war games again. After WWII, the tribes and brands still existed; however, this time all tribes had exhausted themselves. Deep down, maybe they came to the realization that all the competition and fighting was to settle differences in policy.brand.ritual.traditions that are suppose to make the lives of not just their tribe, but of the one tribe, Homo sapien, better. The tribes and the brands all still exist today (Nazism still exist as a Brand, however disconnected it is from its 1920 roots).

Extant extremophile Achaea are not exactly the same as the primordial ones that gave rise to us, but they survive in small, restrictive niches. And they have the capability to repopulate the Earth Stack if a catastrophe resets the Stack to an earlier state that resembles their current niche.

As a cooperating, multi-unit organism, we have an innate perception fairness. Look at how the captive monkey rejects food because the other monkey is getting "better" more sugary food from the experimenter.

In the end, all the games and experiments are for the benefit of the People. The games are how different tribes of the Community make sure they are relevant and contributing and sharing properly within the entirety of humanity, an increasingly more complex multi-unit organism.


#actor.//
can't remember one.
me
you

(defense.guantanamo.sotoudeh)

<S. 3254: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013> using GovTrack.us

<Guantanamo> and <Evin Prison> where <Nasrin Sotoudeh> is held using social monitoring networks

3X3
authorization Evin Fiscal
security Sotoudeh Guantanamo
defense prison networks

(Hussman.banking.erotica)

Hussman Funds
http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc121112.htm
//market return/risk persistently low or lowest//

Asian Development Bank
http://www.adb.org/about/main

Pinterest
http://pinterest.com/pin/229824387205418229/
//if you want erotica, best to hired professionals data miners. turquoise. cyan//

(election.hurting.self)

The elections are coming.
Why have we framed the debate as Sesame Street vs. Big Oil Tax subsidies?
Because it is easy to understand.
Why have I framed the 8M vs 4B dollars in spending cuts as an investment choice?
Because it frames it in terms my Right Hand can understand, and induce sympathy.
Value vs. Growth investing. What do you do in a secular bear market?

Why do we invest so much emotional content into a person/team/country?
We put so much of ourselves into them, whether they want us with them or not.
And we suffer when they/we lose.

I have stopped doing this.
Why?
It hurts too much when they lose. When they become too weak and disappear with age.
It is just a game, yet not a game of survival anymore. 
I've stopped following sport teams.
I've stopped assimilating my political leaders into me, making their success my own.
I have only so much emotional content.
I'd rather invest it in something else.

(rustling.whine.ruby)

 The Writer's Almanac.Cezanne.oscillation.inside/outside
+sync.
(1)Lord of the Flies.Golding.dormant virus.virulent.Nobel prize.
(2)Witold_Pilecki.polish.Auschwitz.executed.suppressed.1989
(3) Bruno Hauptman.Lindbergh.kidnapping.
(4) Scott Fahlman;)
http://writersalmanac.org

+NPR.Obama.himself.notUsSelf
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/12/161003362/michael-lewis-studies-obamas-way