randomWalks

I’m often surprised that people aren’t talking about these issues all the time. But the reason seems clear enough. Our brains have evolved to deal with issues at our own scales: mates, rivers, apples, rabbits, and so on. Our brains simply weren’t built to understand the fabric of reality at the very small scales (quantum mechnics) or the very large (the cosmos). As Blaise Pascal put it, “Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one’s environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way.

Anyway, last night, the conversation turned to replicator-generated human meat, as it will do.

For those who are not aware, these “feather extensions” are actually fly fishing lures that women have been buying up from fishing stores all across the country, causing a shortage. And fly fishermen are pissed.

With a rising number of Hispanic and black voters pushing into the electorate — putting Republicans at a bigger disadvantage every day — the GOP has unleashed a brazen, ugly effort to discourage these new voters from ever getting near the voting booth. They are turning back the clock on voting rights in America.

Ronan has given us a terrible freedom from expectations, a magical world where there are no goals, no prizes to win, no outcomes to monitor, discuss, compare.

I guess he thought that was funny. I don’t. I think the vote is sacred.

It’s easy: you just imagine you have a few friends sitting around your living room and you’re telling them what’s new.