Much laughter.
Little happiness.
Laughter stems from stimulation,
happiness from satisfaction.
Satisfaction blossoms from accomplishment.
Sadness can be drugged with laughter.
Confused?
Laugh it off!
“Knowledge without humor commands, with humor it sings.”
Dartwill Aquila
“Many intelligent people lack knowledge
and many knowledgeable people lack intelligence.
If you don’t know the difference between knowledge and intelligence
you probably lack knowledge.
If you’re knowledgeable and don’t know the difference
you’re probably stupid.”
Dartwill Aquila
Short straw: The meek shall inherit the earth.
Tall straw: Yes, when the earth can no longer sustain human life.
“Don’t trust any answer to a question you haven’t asked!”
Dartwill Aquila
“The difference between pornography and elections (in a plutocracy)
is that prostitutes become clowns in pornography
whereas clowns become prostitutes in elections,
and where we watch people get fucked in the pornography show,
we get fucked by the election circus.”
Dartwill Aquila
His heart was in the right place, but the rest of him was all messed up.
“Many people neglect rich possibilities for happiness by chasing poor chances to be rich.”
Dartwill Aquila
We not on our way anywhere.
We’ve already arrived.
Your mind is reluctant to let us in.
Your heart can’t keep us outl.
We bear gifts of truth.
The chill is just the wrapping.
To help you find the faults, note what is not a fault.
The hair is not, it’s perfect. Start filming! No contemporary of Jesus had hair anything like this, but there’s nothing wrong with it.
The hand gesture is also perfect. It’s a blessing. During Jesus’ time the thumb would be closed and the gesture would say, ”Shut up, I’m speaking.”
Nothing wrong with the halo either. Or the virgin’s nightgown. The hair, nightgown and delicate hands may say something about the artist, but none of the faults can be found here.
The faults:
1. The top of the cross is bent. (This probably occurred after the sculpture was complete.)
2. The pennant or streamer in his left hand. WTF! What’s that all about? Perhaps it’s a suggestion that Swedes were God’s chosen people.
3. He has a goiter on the left side of his neck, a sign of thyroid cancer. This explains his OMG-look and might be a way to console us about his crucifixion. Even a painful death on the cross would have been better than what thyroid cancer would have done to him.
Note: This blog is satire about a sculpture, not about a person, God or holy force.
Be reasonable! is a favorite request of the unreasonable.
It would be impossible to explain electric lights to anyone 200 years ago. You would claim to produce 100 times more light than a single candle in an instant at a fraction of the cost. Simple people would have more light in their homes, than the wealthiest kings of the day.
Yet explaining today’s wonders 200 years ago would be relatively easy compared to explaining nanotechnological wonders 200 years in the future. Techno developments occur much quicker now than previously.
Think of a nano-computer implanted in a space smaller than a tiny piercing, yet so powerful that it could project light with such precision that water molecules in the air could function as the surface of a projected screen … which you could control with your mind … while the genetically modified chlorophyll molecules in your hair generate power directly from the sun … as you sit in your outdoor easy chair that you produced minutes earlier with artificial atoms.
One problem. In order to get to these wonders, we must get our social organization in order. Technology is the easy part. The human community is the difficulty. As long as we spend our time and resources on unproductive, junk and destructive technologies to maintain a system of vulgar inequality, the future of technology is irrelevant. No humans will be around in 200 years.
End of Technology Week
Perhaps you don’t have to worry about the future.
There might not be one.
All the wonders of modern technology result from machines with language abilities. Electronic machines capable of understanding digital language can calculate and remember. That’s it. Nothing more. They calculate so quickly (the speed of electricity) that they appear smart. But there’s no thinking going on. Merely calculations. Humans determine what calculations are to be made. The machines can no more calculate what they want than a plane can take off when it wants and fly to where it wants to go. Machines don’t have a Want. They can’t think or desire. Humans determine what the machines do. The machines can understand (calculate) complicated human commands expressed digitally and perform the tasks for which they are designed.
When you press the a-key on your device, the machine registers 1100001; 1100010 for a little b; 1000110 for a big F or 11100011 for π (pi = 3,14).
Simply put, there is a series of 1s and 0s that represent any key (including the alternatives with shift, command, etc) on the keyboard.
“I love you” is represented by 01001001001000000110110001101111011101100110010100100000011110010110111101110101.
The machine doesn’t care or think about it. It performs its task (digital electronic) mechanically. The difference between “I love you” and “I’d like to stick a knife in your eye.” (0100100100100111011001000010000001101100011010010110101101100101001000000111010001101111001000000111001101110
1000110100101100011011010110010000001100001001000000110101101101110011010010110011001100101001000000110100101
10111000100000011110010110111101110101011100100010000001100101011110010110010100101110)
is merely a matter of 1s and 0s. It couldn’t care less because it can’t care. Or think. There’s never been a single incidence of a machine becoming jealous because you push the buttons of another machine.
Our machines grow all the more marvelous because we find ever better ways to make them react to calculations of numbers, light waves, color spectrum, heat, motion, sound, molecular structures and more. But the machines themselves possess no intelligence and cannot think. Unfortunately, this can be said of many humans as well.
“The search for artificial intelligence will continue as long as the shortage of real intelligence continues.”
Dartwill Aquila
Because of the power of machine language, the elegance of the programs and the friendliness of the interfaces, we can reach a very high level of interactivity with our machines. So high in fact that we can engage in cybernetic intercourse (Look it up!) such as when we interact with an ATM.
You: Let me slip my stiff little card into your slot.
ATM: That’s a good one. Do you know which of my buttons to press?
You: This one, this one, this one and this one. Let’s get down to business.
ATM: OK! You’re good. I’m ready. How much do you want?
You: 400.
ATM: One moment, please. Rhaarr. Pull your card out.
You: Thank you.*
ATM: Zipzipzipzip. Here’s your cash.
You: Thank you.*
ATM: Don’t forget your receipt. I’ve noted your latest transactions and the balance of your account on it.
You: Thank you.*
ATM. Next customer, please.
*Your “Thank yous” are actions (pulling out the card, taking the money…) telling the machine that you’re doing your part in cybernetic intercourse. The ATM is more efficient than a biological teller and it doesn’t look down at you when it sees how little you have in your account. Intelligent? Would it help if it wore earrings?
“I told my computer that it would never think like a human.
My computer thanked me for the compliment.”
Dartwill Aquila
System Humanity 