On 4/18/19 8:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Going back to the original thread you split (subject line), I would > probably have more concern for parallax if I thought there were > different perspectives and some kind of nuance that was at risk. > Metaphorically speaking, we aren’t driving in the fog or snow, we are > driving on a cool, dry, summer evening, but with the lights off, well > over the legal blood alcohol limit, at about 130 mph. Open the door > and jump out while there is still time. Next time we’ll send the > Tesla on autopilot and it can escort them to the authorities for > processing. > > > The most apt part of this metaphorical image might be the "jumping out", but with an after-the-fact realization that "suicide doors" are back in fashion:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-shows/detroit-auto-show/a25602335/2019-lincoln-continental-suicide-doors/ I wouldn't say the thread was "split" so much as spun together from multiple, roughly colinear fibers of differing qualities. I am right now brushing out our Akita, saving this Spring Shed fur to (hand) spin into yarn, but have to mix in a modest portion of longer (sheep) fibers since Akita fur, as lush as it is, doesn't quite lock in the way the traditional (sheep, goat, yak, camelid) sources do. Homo WTF lives on the other side of an "event horizon" implied by the reach of our foresight... your H. WTF may be a small select few of smart of lucky or wealthy individuals who might put personal survival and thrival before that of a larger group, successfully leveraging uber-technology to facilitate that. Whether a Space Ark or a Terrestial Bobble, I'm not clear. I'm part of one of (many?) sub"threads" of humanity which is striving to to transcend our "blood in tooth and claw" origins *without* losing personal identity and agency such as implied by H. Hiveus. Developing good foresight (possibly via technology (nod to the headlight metaphor)) seems key to this. On the other hand, it feels as if what is needed is a secular form "Return to Grace" which might require no more (total understatement) than recalibrating our humility/hubris ratio. The bone I'm gnawing on (or stuck in my craw?) might be this humility/hubris ratio... - Steve
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