Struggles of Mind

How does the big picture manage to include all the little pictures and yet keep chugging along? If every interaction is a node of complication - why should we bother sorting through the spaghetti of connections, when both the beginning and the end seem destined - plain as day? Life is the journey, but are we wandering aimlessly or are we constructively moving in a direction? Two steps forward, one step back? Are we really at the epitome of progress?

Me-thinks, therefore me-am. Somehow i don't think so. If the human brain is to the computer, as the computer is to the abacus, the original calculator, then my guess is that humanity has been to this synthesis of knowledge level before and journeyed backward in evolution to correct significant mistakes that might be expressed later. Knowledge of genetics apparently predates the Crick and Watson aha - but it makes one wonder on paradises lost in the name of protecting a failed status quo from paradigm change.

Reading is the means of gathering thoughts from different ages and tracking the progression of ideas. Authors that survive time tend not to parrot their own contemporary thought manifestations - writing is a tool for people that can independently take responsibility for their words and see the purpose in violating the norm. The system of reward and punishment conforms to how well we group-think and not being connected to the borg gives us the advantage of not knowing. The current accountability system is completely bogus - cost accounting is not easy and is done recklessly. But connections mean more than relays and switches are common in the business as usual corporate world.

I feel there is a need for basic how it works discussion in many areas - but this would necessitate a new economic interaction model because intellectual property rights is an unsustainable construct for a progressive society. Hiding knowledge for personal profit is now the accepted norm. Why corporations have people rights as the law says they can - yet people responsibility for the race belongs to all of us. Individually and collectively at all scales. And rights and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. So on to visit another day, while waiting for the cosmic surfboard on the wave of descent.