When, in a society, you have developed the methods to turn a profit when the market goes up, and you have developed the methods to earn a profit when the market goes down, then you can fully expect that the market will not remain stable for long. Eventually someone will pluck the string. Then, in …
Category Archives: Philosophy
PPaanniicc
Sometimes, I think social media is a global psy-op to make me feel terror and fear of the future in order to short circuit my executive functions and buy things to temporarily alleviate the horrors. I mean, sure, I want to be informed on what’s happening at the moment so I can try to have …
F.U.M.
In Neal Stephenson’s epic sci-fi novel “Cryptonomicon”, we read of a character in one of the modern timelines who is a techie and a new business owner. This guy has a running gag where he has an app he wrote that sits in his PC’s toolbar that checks his bank accounts and his investments and …
Der Dummkopf – The Fool
This first week of German class has not gone easily. I’ve never done distance learning, so I’m climbing uphill to figure out these learning management systems. The first assignment found me misreading the actual task, and I kept getting the answers wrong; I got distracted with learning the laptop’s Alt-Gr keys (so I can do …
Pluck
If a vengeful God exists, then he will take my eyesight first. Only he and I will know why.