Spirals

Spirals and sacred geometries and all sorts of mind boggling concepts are boggling my mind today - so rambling on in blog format may help me make some key decisions on personal events that are rapidly moving beyond my control. Spirals are constructs that function up and down simultaneously and require a lot of effort to get you to essentially the same place as where you would get to as if you put in no effort at all. When you mix tangible reality with unrealistic goals, you create spirals where further information contradicts past information. The choice is left to the individual, but the pressure to go along with the flow makes for a lot of work for the upstream rowers. Especially when you find yourself at the top of the waterfall, going down.

What is important now is not what used to be important before. The information gathered by scientific consensus differs from the measured understood norm. I am not certain that i agree with the argument that ubercontrol and genocide are the targets of the global warming game - but Arthur Robinson - at LRC today - fires back some serious social salvos. His science is some of the best, he accepts no government or 'grant' money and he does some very imaginative things in science education. He is right on the government thing - if you take their money and don't buy the party line, you find yourself excluded from the opportunity to work the program that they pay you to develop. I hate wasting resources - and if they have me spinning my wheels and cooling my jets - they are paying for me to waste my own resources. Not effective - i'll finish my current obligations and bow out of the rat-race once more. But you can't, y'know.

divide and conquer, divide and conquer, and we allow ourselves to be divided. Only prime numbers cannot be subdivided, so basing thing on small roots and individual groups can create living systems that are beyond the ubercontrol - self actuation by learning a skill and developing the concept makes sense - but it has to be done in a commercial environment. Public school administrations have a serious disincentive to actually educate - you have to wish to learn to learn. You can't coerce somebody into learning something based on fundamentals they are not willing to accept. So we attempt to coerce learning from children and they naturally resist, creating an adversarial society. Ah, Bartlebey.

so on to the next spiral - a fun one, DNA. Cyrus has already figured out how to shape a chromosome. Our Woolley wildlife class measured this albino burmese python to be about 11 feet long and 34 lbs heavy. Cyrus appears to be female - if anybody has a technique for estimating the age of a snake - let me know. I can pluck a scale, if necessary.