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100 years ago the working class dreamed of LIBERATING the world, now it dreams of CIRCLING it.
I learned that nearly 30 years after Tupac's death, the trial over his murder would finally begin and immediately saw the Street smarts paradox #2:
Why do they call them street-smart when they so often die or get injured in stupid accidents on the streets? In the modern capitalist societies, people take pride in their freedoms:
Have you ever thought about the fact that these two freedoms are asymmetrical:
If freedom of speech were as unlimited as economic freedom, then lying would not be punishable. Let the listener suffer the consequences of their decision to believe. "If there was a God, the astronauts would have discovered him," a boy told his grandmother. He must have been an intelligent child, but his minimal life experience had hindered his thinking: have you ever heard of an astronaut discovering anything?
Problems are omnipresent. Seeing them as opportunities is an additional problem.
I've already written about how Americans jokingly add the phrase "in bed" to the end of the fortunes found in the Chinese fortune cookies. Why not innovate and:
The following is an example made by yours truly:
The following are modifications of other people's thoughts:
It is one thing to know how to breathe, but quite another to know how you should breathe. This latter type of knowledge is mainly available to yogis, singers, athletes and trumpet players.
It is the same thing with life. It is one thing to know how to live and quite another to know how you should live. Express a false thought clearly and it will refute itself, Marquis de Vauvenargues thought. Let's apply his insight to the belief that a person cannot step into the same river twice.
We hear the word "cannot" every day from our parents, teachers, bosses, lawyers, spouses, relatives and friends. So, Heraclitus was wrong: each of us regularly enters the river named "cannot". Some people think the Art of Living is to be liked by everyone. Can't they see where the things everyone likes, such as:
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it," Edith Wharton used to say. I'd like to throw light on her words:
While Wharton's words are true, the importance of the two ways is different. If one wants to produce light, then lighting a candle is sufficient, but uncovering a mirror is not. They say this year is especially good for observing the Northern Lights. This is what I say:
If you observe a broken washing machine, you may discover how to fix it. If you observe triangles, you may discover some new theorem. If you observe a beautiful woman, you may discover the mother of your future children. What can you discover if you observe the Northern Lights? There are no streets named after street-smart people.
To those with executive power in hand every problem seems solvable by imposing tariffs and declaring states of emergency.
Tanya Khovanova found several ways to represent the number 6 using three 8s and some operations. I found a way (or two) too:
6 = 22 - 16 = P(8) - 8 - 8 , where P is the partition function 6 = -2 + 8 = -(8/Pi(8)) + 8 , where Pi(n) is the number of primes <= n I also have this: 6 = binomial(2X2, 2) , where X stands for one of the operations {+, *, ^} 6 = 6*binomial(6, 6) 6 = -Log[2,Log[2,Sqrt[Sqrt[Sqrt[Sqrt[Sqrt[Sqrt[2]]]]]]]] (after Paul Dirac) 6 = (!3 + !3)/3 , where !n is the left factorial of n (see OEIS A007489) 6 = (9+9)/Sqrt(9) (same as the one above) Machado gave Trump her Nobel prize and received nothing.
Fact 1. You can't step into the same river twice, but
Fact 2. You can step into the same lecture hall multiple times in order to read the same old lecture on Fact 1. Bright red is the sun
on the waves of Loch Sheelin, which angers the bull. P.S. How do I know the bull is Irish? Elementary, my dear Watson, the first 5+7 syllables are from The flower of Finae and the last 5 are ludicrous (i.e. so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing). If the only tool you have is a guitar, it is tempting to treat every text as if it were a poetry.
P.S. If you don't get it, I'll help. "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it," Pierre Beaumarchais observed three centuries earlier. Carl Friedrich Gauss went to the theater. He was told that Goethe was in one of the theater boxes. "Goethe? Wasn't that the asshole who imagined he could correct Newton's theory of light?" Gauss asked.
A friend of mine tells me that Plato and Aristotle laid the foundations of European culture. I imagine what Gauss would have said, "Aristotle? Wasn't that the asshole who insisted that women had fewer teeth than men? European culture? Wasn't that the culture that for 18 centuries took Aristotle's 'truth' for granted?" While Elon Musk is struggling to find a way to reach Mars, the mosquitoes found a way to reach Iceland.
We spend too much energy for energy saving.
We are consistent in our propensity to think inconsistently.
Praise the Ford, for he was born in Dearborn, but Model T was cheap.
In show business one seeks popularity among the public in order to make enough money to hide from them (popularity and public).
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