Cost
“- I was not asking you if it was difficult, but rather if it was worth doing.”
{}
A problem resolves itself in proportion to the quality of its description.
The Person I Saw From Afar
I have seen a person from afar. Or rather didn’t ‘see’, as it often is these days.
All these great leaders of nations you see on TV – you will never see her be.
She is in the realm of magic, but since magic went out of fashion, she exists in no realm.
I have seen a person from afar. Or was she near? It’s hard to tell these days.
All the songs that sing of beautiful things, they didn’t sing of her.
Once there were ten millionaires – inexpensively, she gave something to expensive for money to buy.
I have seen a person from afar – when people spoke of technology, science and new things – their minds were to small to gasp her into view.
A person who can’t be seen.
A person who can’t be heard.
Would you believe me when I told you I once saw a person from afar?
Da Vinchi’s Art
0. Warning, confusing post ahead.
1. The artwork of Da Vinchi is not his pretty pictures.
The genious of Da Vinchi is an idea that there are things to be understood from nature that can be applied to other things.
For example:
We take a black box, which contains one amazing characteristic, which can be found in nature, e.g. the flight of birds, or shortly, flight.
Then we take an object, for example something easy to make (like a wooden stick) and apply the black-box characteristic to the object.
Hence, a flying machine is developed.
Here, we took a characteristic of a bird and applied this characteristic to wood.
It is the generalization that any characteristic of a natural object can be applied so that it becomes a characteristic of another natural object.
2. Examples of this have already been know in mathematics for a long time. For example:
What do we need to add to 1, so that that the result will have characteristics of the number 8.
Possible routes to solve this would be would be:
So, 1+x = even number
1+x = a number that can be evenly divisible by 4
And possible solutions would be: 7, in the first case; 15, in the second case.
In the same way, Da Vinchi came up with many possibilities of how the machine would be constructed.
Mud
1. It is very natural for humans to play with the mud. Most people have such an experience. Depending on where you live, this may be sand or stones, instead of mud.
2. Education is learning to pretend that paper (or a screen) has three dimensions. A sheet of paper does have a certain advantage over mud. That is, it is more portable. It is easier to access in all weather. Also, this way a person can play with the mud all his life (without people noticing).
3. Every person needs a sandbox. A place where built castles are allowed to fall. This way, the world (humanity) will advance through common issues faster.
Impossibility
The impossible is the possible that is hidden in the veil of fear.
The Rich and the Poor
1. All people have needs, and they are quite consistent across different people. We need about 2000 calories of food, some clothes, shelter and water. We have a spectrum of medical needs.
2. I knew a person who would immensely despise anyone that would have an unfulfilled need and ask for help. She would also despise people who would have, or seem to have, little money. She would have and extensive mental list of jobs which, according to her, made a person unworthy of respect. Examples of it were being a cleaning lady, elementary school teacher, or being a representative for a company or political group. She found certain jobs – cleaning, for example, so despicable, that not only would she never take such a job, but would actually prefer to live in a filthy place and eat off dirty dishes when she couldn’t make other people do it for her. It seems she felt like doing something like that would damage her somehow.
3. When you think of it, if you acquire anything you want or need in a way that is in accordance with your own morals, everything else really shouldn’t matter.
4. The person i wrote about came to value only money. She found it worthwhile to hang out with those who had enough, and avoided anyone who she didn’t consider ‘rich’ enough.
5. Greed for money seems to be based on the belief that – if you acquire something indirectly, you are therefore a more valuable person.
6. Money has become a culturally accepted way to clean your hands of blood. Compare the following scenarios:
a) A person walks down the road, shoots a stranger, takes his money, and walks off.
b) A person, knowing the consequences of smoking, works in a cigarette factory.
Another person buys the cigarettes they make. He and his daughter die of smoke-related illness.
Except for some numbers being calculated, the scenario is the same.
7. People who are greedy for money believe that when they will acquire enough money, it will make them faultless and divine – after all, they will not have those desperate, human, carnal needs anymore.
But humans are of the same human nature from life to death.
A Lovely Afternoon
Walking up a hill for the view is such a nuisance.
I saw a lady drive up the same hill last time. She seemed fat and sick.
We try to buy ourselves freedom and convenience, but often, what we get is just plain illness.
zacione 