Obama

Change... hmm, north american union anyone?

No Sense of Direction

I do not know where I am going or where I am coming from. I am not really sure why I am here, to gain knowledge supposedly, but everything I learn seems so trivial. The world is falling apart and all I can do is sit here, and read. What will theory do to advance action? Nothing. I am now living proof of Hume's theory.

So I sit here and write about this predicament.

I try, barely, to get by in school... the diploma is nothing but a licence to speak and be heard... although I am not doing as well as I could be doing. A modest B- is all that I have been able to manage. At this rate, I will wind up in teaching I suppose... hopefully I will be able to move on to higher education though.

Now, its time to get back to my theories... maybe something will be worth it.

Theory 1: Man Made Machine

Evolution is evolving. Looking at the history of evolution, it is evident that evolution has increased its speed and efficiency. However, biology cannot keep up. Soon, the fastest man in the world will have no biological legs; only robotic ones. The speed at which evolution advances has increased so much that sooner or later, our brains will be the only biological entities within us. Outside of that, a metallic shield and a maze of machinery will separate us from nature. Efficiency will be the answer to everything. The only problem is, there is a chance that the efficiency of our machines will exceed that of our brains. One day, we will ask ourselves whether we can still call ourselves human beings and the answer will be clear to us then.


Man Made Machine by Contemplations © is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License.

Excerpt 1: The Tale of the Slave by Robert Nozick

"The Tale of the Slave"
from Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, pp. 290-292.


Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.

1. There is a slave completely at the mercy of his brutal master's whims. He often is cruelly beaten, called out in the middle of the night, and so on.
2. The master is kindlier and beats the slave only for stated infractions of his rules (not fulfilling the work quota, and so on). He gives the slave some free time.
3. The master has a group of slaves, and he decides how things are to be allocated among them on nice grounds, taking into account their needs, merit, and so on.
4. The master allows his slaves four days on their own and requires them to work only three days a week on his land. The rest of the time is their own.
5. The master allows his slaves to go off and work in the city (or anywhere they wish) for wages. He requires only that they send back to him three-sevenths of their wages. He also retains the power to recall them to the plantation if some emergency threatens his land; and to raise or lower the three-sevenths amount required to be turned over to him. He further retains the right to restrict the slaves from participating in certain dangerous activities that threaten his financial return, for example, mountain climbing, cigarette smoking.
6. The master allows all of his 10,000 slaves, except you, to vote, and the joint decision is made by all of them. There is open discussion, and so forth, among them, and they have the power to determine to what uses to put whatever percentage of your (and their) earnings they decide to take; what activities legitimately may be forbidden to you, and so on.

Let us pause in this sequence of cases to take stock. If the master contracts this transfer of power so that he cannot withdraw it, you have a change of master. You now have 10,000 masters instead of just one; rather you have one 10,000-headed master. Perhaps the 10,000 even will be kindlier than the benevolent master in case 2. Still, they are your master. However, still more can be done. A kindly single master (as in case 2) might allow his slave(s) to speak up and try to persuade him to make a certain decision. The 10,000-headed monster can do this also.

7. Though still not having the vote, you are at liberty (and are given the right) to enter into the discussions of the 10,000, to try to persuade them to adopt various policies and to treat you and themselves in a certain way. They then go off to vote to decide upon policies covering the vast range of their powers.
8. In appreciation of your useful contributions to discussion, the 10,000 allow you to vote if they are deadlocked; they commit themselves to this procedure. After the discussion you mark your vote on a slip of paper, and they go off and vote. In the eventuality that they divide evenly on some issue, 5,000 for and 5,000 against, they look at your ballot and count it in. This has never yet happened; they have never yet had occasion to open your ballot. (A single master also might commit himself to letting his slave decide any issue concerning him about which he, the master, was absolutely indifferent.)
9. They throw your vote in with theirs. If they are exactly tied your vote carries the issue. Otherwise it makes no difference to the electoral outcome.

The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave?

Ramblings: 2

Resistence to Civil Government, a great essay.
I should be able live my life the way i want to live it.

I had freedom of speech before they gave it to me..

Ramblings: 1

I feel empty, like a great sea of emptiness flows through my brain, growing within my body; not a feeling of love or loneliness, but a feeling of intense, ignorance? I think thats what it is. Maybe.
Theres no time to fix the world anymore... Hopefully the human species can make it to mars before I die... that would be sweet... maybe 2060? I dont think I will live that long... I can only hope.
If only more people knew how to live life... maybe they could teach me.
If only more people knew about freedom.

A Series of Events 2: The Other Robbery.

Sitting at my table, with my attention elsewhere and my trusty cellphone snuggled in its 'scream' painted cover at my side, i looked into space.

little did i know my cellphone had been abducted.

now, im not one to give up on such a thing... looking around the table, rounding up friends to help me and, most trippily, watching a replay of everything i did on the camera.

unfortunately, we could hardly see anything... .

retracing my footsteps was my best option, but after a long mission, i was not able to reach my destination, my phone. 

hours later i sit here, reminiscing. how life is cruel.

running out of money, and now i lost my cellphone; my ONLY mode of communication.

the house phone is risky, i dont want some to know whats up.
i only used msn when i was younger.. now everyone has moved on to 'facebook' and im the only one left fighting the tide...

its my only option tho... if, of course, i want to stay in touch.

my other option would be just to go with the flow.. talking on the cell too much is bad for the brain anyway... right?

the final option? work.
work = money = new cell...
but its just not the same, ive gone through so much with that thing.

i have sent it a text message saying 'if you find this phone, please call back and we will make a deal; im not sure if thats exactly what it was but it sounds right.

hopefully, a message will return.

until then, I will be hard to reach... but maybe its the start of something new?

PN:

I have decided to carry on an art project i had in mind involving radiohead;
If i carry through with it, i will update this page.

Definition: Feelings and Human Emotions

An emotion is an involuntary and subjective reaction towards a given object or situation.

Reality?

Reality: A state of existence? A state of being real?

hmm..

When dreaming.. or tripping... you can have experiences that seem so real, but are not actually happening in reality. So, Can it be possible for dreams to be shared?

The mind can make anything real. If so, then when can we know that we are in reality?

What if, everything, including the dreams, is real? Or, what if nothing is real?

Are dreams dependent on the events within reality or are they totally independent of each other?

A new series of events has led me to come up with some conclusions... 
...I will post it at a later date... For now, sleep is a necessity.