Soundbites 13

How are you asleep? Mentally, emotionally or physically? Mental vacationers all around. Get down the psych-gym!

We all have the same illness, it is just how it affects us that furnishes a diagnosis or not.

People like money because it looks like if they have it they will have to work less, but is that really true?

Life is full of highs and lows, natural or induced. In life, then, if the highs are high enough and the lows low enough, then it can have a pretty bad affect on you. I suppose it's a choice. Do you want to go through life plateaued or do you want to have the high? You might learn more in one 'full on' high than you will learn in a lifetime of middling.

Love is the answer to all the questions. Really?

Most people are greedy?, they think they are entitled to more than they have got. You'd be surprised, the guy with billions still wants more of it. But is it really greed, maybe it is hunger. There is a song by The Cure called 'Never Enough' and so it seems to be, however much a human being has, somehow, in some weird way it is 'never enough'. Every man has an inbuilt insatiable hunger which cannot be overcome and it is that hunger that pushes life forward - the hunger games. It is the hunger that makes us strive. A billionaire is still somehow starving just like the rest of us, so seeing him/her as objectively richer, I am not sure. Money can get you what you want, mostly, but it can't always get you what you need. The truth about money is that it gives you a little 'high' when you get some of it and quickly you are addicted. Like all addictions, though, you build up a tolerance and importantly, dependency and so, you need more and more of it to get the same effect. So, that is why people want more and more of what they have already got. People with lots of money need to, if they want to, seek treatment for their addiction.

I think the agenda is to replace 'wild' nature with 'cultivated' nature. There is a project to resurrect the mammoth. It is a real project, you can find details about it on Singularity Hub. In the future, then, will it be possible, as long as there is some usable material from a species to resurrect and even genetically modify it to engineer out aggression or whatever. Nature, energy itself, isn't like that, it is dualistic. There is the other face to everything. The cost of an angel is a demon. If the dream is true, then, we will see the 'wild' rain-forests replaced by cultivated and managed equivalents.

There's a lot of mental and emotional assault that people go thorough, but the thing is, you do grow a tougher skin because of it.

The freedom of poverty is another good one. I have tried to live as many different lifestyles as I can in pursuit of the privilege of genuinely being able to see what each lifestyle is like. The prison of wealth is that you have to keep what you've got which isn't necessarily that easy and is a stress in itself. The freedom of poverty is that you don't have as much to lose. Every lifestyle has pluses and minuses to it. I wouldn't necessarily say that one lifestyle is better than another.

Life is constantly re-configuring itself, so that something you once peaked at you may later trough at. In the name of varied experience, it should be like that. Any school is a configuration of peaks and troughs, distributed amongst the students to give them their abilities, what they find easy, and their disabilities, what they find difficult. For sure, we all have abilities and disabilities and you can't really objectively say that one person has a worse learning disability than another. It's the peak and trough system. You can't have one without the other, so they had better learn to get on.

The Pale Blue Dot.