On Celebritys and Your Vote

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Abraham Lincoln. So there was this quote by Bono of U2. which i shall paraphrase “Sure, rock stars can’t change anything, but their audience is the one that can, because they elect the politicians that can.” That is a profound statement, to […]

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On the Co-opting of Symbols

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.” –Abraham Lincoln Symbols are our life. The cross, battle fields, flames, religious figures. All carry meanings and in some places, treating them incorrectly can get you killed, if not worse, just wishing to die. One […]

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On Overcomming the Reptilian Brain

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln While reading the economist i ran across an article in which the reporter pointed out that how the differences in countries defined how he felt about a particular incident. In this case, it was an Ism. He arrived at […]

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On the Bloodless Revolution of China

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln Rare is the revolution that is bloodless. They are messy, messy things where people get killed and those advocating revolution should realize without the honor of the old days (barely honorable old days). Conversely, I don’t always agree that every 2 […]

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On the Loss of the Light

The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. – Abraham Lincoln   The Olympic torch was extinguished three times on it’s procession in Paris.(april 6-7) This does not bode well for the games. It was extinguished willingly so it could pass on it’s own […]

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On Cruel and Continuing Punishment

Blubs of Verbs, Commentary Comments (4)

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence. -Abraham Lincoln

Back, not so long ago, there was a time when a man did a crime, he did his time, and went on with life. What he did, depending on the severity, was a mistake which he paid for, and so, the state and the people having made it clear he was wrong, then gave allowed him back into society.

That is no longer the case.

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OceansOfThought @ April 16, 2008

On the Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology aka Fighting the Curse of Babel

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“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln

We’ve decided to try a different tac, and to do one of these things i am rather good at, link things which seem unlinkable at first glance, and I have chosen the Curse of Babel, and Disruptive Technologies.

Ahh, the Curse of Babel. First, for those who don’t know, it is the curse placed upon man by God, to speak forever different languages and to be divided. It was placed on man after they thought themselves above God, and took to building a tower to heaven. People of one race, speaking one language, suddenly couldn’t understand each other and no longer working as one.”

The curse of babel was disruptive, but man was far from finished. The very curiosity (and arrogance) which led to the creation of the tower of babel drives us today to overcome it. First language was newly invented, then it was stored (written down) and then, translated. But what does this have to do with Disruptive technology? More on page 60

OceansOfThought @ April 15, 2008

On The Dark Ages Being Dark

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” -Abraham Lincoln
The Dark Ages(476 -1000AD), which I like to say was 500 years of moving backwards, was a terrible time in our history, that saved us from the rule of pure science and rational thinking. As horrific as those times were, and I think we can agree none of us presently would like to live in those times, some interesting things can be said about them.

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OceansOfThought @ April 14, 2008