Gnus of the Dei

First - Oregon State Beavers defeat North Carolina 3-2 to win the college World Series. As a Beaver alum and a baseball fan - having the Orange and Black hoist a national championship banner is enough to encourage a budding left-handed pitcher. At eleven, i thinks he's more Phil Mikkelson type, but sports will not be an avenue to wealth and fame by the time he grows up. Not that wealth and fame are terribly important in a world where we need peace, love and harmony.

Second - Oliphant hits a nail on the irrellevance of debate in a world without freedom of speech and diversity of thought. We can still say the unpopular, but it has become an identifiable risk to speak your thoughts honestly. Wisdom and compassion both need truth to provide a cornerstone - but how much of what we know can we take at face value? As we investigate approximation, we learn that most any statistic can be placed out of context - especially since the conditions of assumption are never really discussed. And that's the news.

In science, the ability to discuss work has been sidelined by profit motives - you never wish to spill the beans on somethings that you can patent and profit from. Yet that patent gets purchased by a multinational company and set on the shelf until the system is milked to dryness, then we the heifers are rendered, to become feed for another different living system. Independence is thinking something other than what the telly tells you to think. The stories that make the movies have to be entertaining, but they don't have to be moral, because they are fiction. But the way we think is cultured by that fiction.

Irrellevance has always been an interesting entertainment forte. From the subtle insanity of Monte Python (not), to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, George Carlin as the priest in Dogma, the ensemble in Hudson Hawk, some movies hit subtle truths about the hypocracy and perpetuation of the current system, which nobody seems to like, but never seems to change. Some of the futuristic fantasy that has been replayed retells ancient stories - reading mythology of the ancients or in depth religious verse tells the same stories from different frames of reference. As Lennon said - Let It Be. Try to change the pace, slow down, ya move too fast, we've got to make the morning last, just kicking round the cobblestones... What is a cobblestone to a kid that has everything and yet understands nothing?

Oops - too wierd - that musta been lemme talking. Big smile. Enjoy the day.