[Vision2020] The Bible, Map or Territory

[david sarff]

Gary,
Tardy response? I’m so slow, a glacier would beat me in keyboard exorcise.
You’re more diamond than you usually let on. Laceration is a bit too strong 
of a descriptor, the sensation was more like akin to a loaded capacitor 
letting go of charge in the rump pocket.
While we’re rolling around in the tumbler with the rest of the pebbles, 
revealing our colors, characteristics and getting shinier. My honest opinion 
and best hope is that you consider something here. Though your own hide be 
impervious and useful to yourself in that regard. For a potentially greater 
shine, consider a stronger application of empathy in your approach to 
delaminating others silly to you positions. If personal shine be damned, try 
it as an outreach.
  There are several devote persons who brand themselves libertarians on my 
mothers side of the family. It seems to me that you may not be showing the 
whole story with regard to who you agree with and otherwise. I share many 
libertarian views, am strongly independent and fight off restraining BS as 
best as possible. Certainly don’t appreciate uncle sam under the hood of 
vehicles these days and the fact that one has to order trusses  and not 
build them yourself, these have complicated my life. We are part of 
something bigger though and are remiss when we stand fast alone in sharing 
our commons. This fight over the commons is going to rise rapidly in future 
years. No subject of piffle there.
Paint me liberal if you choose, it’s true that the Déjà vu album , Candles 
in the Rain and a health dose of true Funk push my heart beat. And, I think 
Dick Cheney is a despot…yet, so is Hillary, and there is an elitism thread 
in the higher education circles that are a bother.
If one plants left foot and walks with right or plants right and does the 
same, that is a path of only circles. I hope not to do that all the time.

As far as my original post goes, could some point about the effects of 
branding be considered? Edward Bernays would have gotten no place had he not 
fully understood branding and used it in market applications. Usefulness 
used to be looked for in the old markets. Now its love and your inner rebel 
for sale. Big money can pay psychoanalysts to help make sales. That sort of 
subliminal underpinning is hard for a discerning buyer to compete with. My 
bottom line with business is that we need corporate charter reform and will 
stop growing government controls as a result.
Also, related to that post, the subject of our ability to project plans for 
the future. To view a tomorrow or next year include our individual 
identities conspiring to live forever. Incalculable energies and resources 
have been wasted, societies come and gone, all steeped in schemes devised to 
cope with the inner angst 99 % of persons have about perceptual identity 
annihilation. Which is nothing to laugh at to be sure but seems a valuable 
direction to examine.
Thanks
Dave




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>My goodness, I'm sorry Dave. My intent was most definitely not to lacerate 
>your feelings. If it would make you feel any better to take a swipe at "my 
>person" by all means, give it your all. Opyr, Ford, hansen & Campell have 
>all had a whack at it with less than impressive results. Perhaps you can 
>seize the advantage of having actually met me to score a more telling blow. 
>I'm skeptical but who knows?
>
>As to your "misfitness" to play on this island, I am hardly the gatekeeper. 
>I think that you do a better job then some of the other broken toys who 
>play here and I hope that you continue to interact with us. Just realize 
>that occasionally responses might be slightly acerbic.
>
>Just to be clear, I consider myself to be just the tiniest bit conservative 
>and somewhat libertarian in outlook. Your posts come across to me as a bow 
>shot to the left of even your "lovely fellow" traveler, a political 
>position I find repugnant. As a result I am going to disagree with you on a 
>great many, if not most, issues and, as I'm sure you remember from times 
>past, I have a tendency to sometimes forget myself and become mildly 
>caustic and/or sarcastic. It's really nothing personnel. Again, I'm sorry 
>if you were hurt. My intent was to administer a hearty poke, not a beating. 
>I also apologize for the tardiness of this response.
>
>g
>
>

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