Saturday, April 18, 2015

An Open Question...

Plato's Purgatory...
a diner doodle
It’s an old saying, an old challenge, and it goes like this:  “Are you willing to put that in writing?”   Methinks it, like so many other old sayings, now has a mutated meaning.

I’m beginning to wonder about something, specifically, I’m beginning to wonder if some folks’ preference for texting rather than talking is indicative of  more than just a fad of using the (relatively) new gizmo simply because it’s there to be used.  I’m beginning to wonder if the whole texting thing hasn’t evolved into a defacto new talisman of conformity.
 
The anomaly that trips my curiosity is this: I’ve observed those who prefer text over voice would seem to be the same set who tend to speak, when they do speak, in politically correct but incomplete euphemisms that buzz like an out of balance transformer, the same set most dedicated to texting those who to all visible evidence have surrendered personal freedom as a casualty of the covert cultural warfare being waged by the oriental influences of silence and conformity so critical to installing the slavery of caste and class into the American culture.  The prohibition is against speaking it, writing it in a little note isn’t taboo (just bad judgment allowing for the corporate sponsored government spying on all forms of electronic communication). 


Nothing nada zip by way of any confirming evidence of course, just a growing question and ongoing curiosity.  Oh well, time will tell if told it be.  Doubt I’ll be here to see the final on this one.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Gothic...a Diner Doodle



Pencil on paper, touched up lightly in PhotoPaint on it's way into the pixel forest.

Thursday, April 9, 2015

A Minor Matter of a Temporal Phase Mismatch…

About now all you Trekkies out there should be thinking ah, ok, yea, that’s what produces wormholes and wormholes are what turn starships into 42 shades of petunia flavored blubber.  You’re absolutely correct space cadet, but TPM can apply to more than just a warp field, it doesn’t do anything good for the realms of psychology or sociology either which is where this post is going, so stay sharp on station or we’ll be picking up Voyager’s trash all the way home.

In response to my last post my buddy Pip asked me a question that went sorta like this: “is there so much girl-girl partnering going on (and the young men noticing) that it's somehow making them more aggressive and predatory in reaction…  …same sex experimentation being much more natural for young female humans, leaving young males feeling totally left out ?”

A good question, a deep question, definitely requiring a multi-generation range kind of question because any answer that can even circumnavigate the edges is going to be traveling a long, long way across the human condition.  Putting “IN MY OPINION” in bold red type before every paragraph I’ll go ahead and take a swing at it subject to the understanding what I say can be little more than preliminary guesswork within my best understanding of an untested empirical model of the collective subconscious.  If I get two out of any three points anywhere close to correct compared to reality I’ll be amazed.