Veiled pulse of time

 It is a book, I've mentioned it I think, specifically in relation to the 7 year cycles.

I'm reading that chapter, woke up, made coffee, checked notifications on the phone, the medias and then what? no games to play since i quit them, don't want to start back up, so I actually grabbed the reading glasses (it is early and i'm older than I was and my eyes are fading) and started reading the chapter again. 

Made it through one short section. 

Too much thought stimulation from the reading i think. And I grabbed the tablet and plunking away instead of reading more. With the reading glasses my hands look ridiculously huge trying to dance around this smaller keyboard. W/o the reading glasses they don't look that out of proportion. Weird.

The idea that got me to get up and want to get to this point was about how this all feels like it comes down to one man and that doesn't feel right.

To step back, i guess I've been in science so long or science felt like it was good because it wasn't just one person, individuals certainly make huge impressions and some are far bigger contributors to the next new understanding but they aren't ever referenced in the same light. Maybe other than Einstein. Specifically there's a massive huge movement based on one person's lectures and writing... the Waldorf stuff. It is good, it seems to work and elements of it are in adjacent educational  systems, but even this book is all super focused on people following one person. 

I guess more like religion, border line cult perhaps. It does go hand in hand with homeopathy, which is different than naturopathy (aka chinese medicine aka native healers with generations of knowledge passed down, distilled and learned). 

Yeah I'm skeptical, more than some, cynical, more than others, and in some ways from the outside and as a whole, science is more of a communal shared system... on the inside the grad student, post doc, and all that tenure stuff is a typical human power trip of exploitation and struggle. Some survive, some of the best don't want any part of it once they see it.

That's the other thing people don't really get, both about science and the say native healers, there's generations and somewhat unfathomable depth to the foundation of the presentation of the solution, either an herbal medicine or a vaccine. The vaccine may have seemed to be spontaneously derived but it is build upon the work of thousands over years and years. It is a hard concept to grasp for most capitalistic barely educated americans.

In the 80s there was talk of an education gap, so the bean counters and people thought testing would help, lets focus on evaluating as a way to improve, rather than focus on the education side and not worry about the evaluation. Testing is easy, the other part not so much, and right now we're suffering from that as a country, or so it seems to me.

Smart people are blinding themselves and heading to a self motivated view, listening to podcasts w/o a good educational framework, because while they are smart their science education was lacking, particularly the pace and scope of biological understanding. That horse worm stuff for example. 

Something's going to have to change. Sooner than later. Maybe we can start with universal healthcare, take that burden away first. 

But before that we have to get through this pandemic. Perhaps as more insurance companies say, we're not waving covid treatments anymore that the impact of remaining unvaccinated will sink in. I hope. But i think not.

I want to circle back, a second and suggest that it is also okay that one person has a unique vision and understanding and is able to synthesize something in a way no one else has and put it together successfully ala RS (not the bike guy in this case) he drew the ideas from across cultural and geographic barriers and has dne some amazing connective work. But yeah - my initial gut reaction when everything about this stuff goes back to the one dude. Good ol' G being skeptical and shit.

I guess i should shut up and either read, but now it is later, i've done dishes and packed lunch (doing that made me want to circle back) and now I really should just head in and get to work so I'm prepared and not rushing around like crazy. I think I may have forgotten a few things for today's morning session. oops.

I'll bring the book and maybe try to read today. I don't think there's any World Cup coverage to try and follow, but it was cool watching the XCC and the USA world champ. Short track is cool. MTBs are, yeah yeah, cool.

But singlespeed is still also good. have to come back to the Salsa thing with Matt A. It is a short video but a good one.

Also figured out Premier Rush (from Adobe) and might have put a lap of Great Glen together into one long video.

now onward and into the heat and humidity

Amor Fati Motherfuckers
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