They say that the impulse to hoard grows in a lot of people when they get old. I think those poor people are just trying to hold on to their life.
Archive for June 13th, 2019
Hoarding
13 June 2019You’re Special
13 June 2019Everyone thinks they’re special, but no one is special. Most people can’t think a thought that hasn’t been thought before, most people can’t write a sentence that hasn’t been written before.
On the other hand, everyone’s DNA is unique and everyone’s interplay of DNA and nurture is unique. So we are all special if you equate special with unique.
But it seems that the ways we think and the ways we express ourselves are so dominated by the culture in which we’re immersed that unique thought and unique expression of anything is exceedingly rare. So, always having been an outsider and never feeling myself to be accepted by my culture…maybe I have a better shot than most at expressing something unique.
Plateaued?
13 June 2019It’s easy to think that we’ve reached a plateau, that if you understand email, spreadsheets, word processing, file management, and passwords, you’ll at least be able to muddle your way through modern life. Whereas if you don’t understand those things, you’ll be left out.
But what about ten years from now? What will be the concepts and real-world applications of those concepts that separate the cognoscenti from the rest of us? What will old people be struggling to understand then?
Under the Moon
13 June 2019Everything is feeling ominous to me tonight. The moon is rising among some scattered clouds in an otherwise brilliant blue sky towards the end of a gorgeous day, yet it feels as if the world is ending. Even the catbirds and mourning doves sound odd and alien.
Part of this is from reading the news, which I know I should not do. Part of it is just being really tired (for no good reason). Part of it is being at my particular pre-retirement stage of life, and wanting to be done with everything IT and somehow transition to a simpler existence.
Oh well, watcha gonna do? I’ll keep acting as if everything is okay and see if I can make it through the next 24 hours without losing it.
Ending and Beginning 