A day at the track
inkblots
Hermann Rorschach died on April 1, 1922, of peritonitis, probably resulting from a ruptured appendix.
That he died on April Fools Day could have been taken as a warning that his inkblot test should not have become the modus operandi for much of today’s internet traffic.
We now possess the technology for every human being to globally publish their instant interpretation of every event they observe. Now we’re awash in ready reductive digestions of millions of essential symbolic regurgitations about every little thing. The internet gave us an endless supply of inkblots and psychiatry gave us the license to interpret them all.
The 1st Am. guaranteed that America would keep writers free to write, but it didn’t guarantee they would learn the skill of self editing. So here’s to the self editors of the internet. May they blaze a finely crafted content-rich trail for posterity to follow.
Help me stay rich Colorado
a response to the Aug red-diaper times
“It’s unclear what “unnecessary economic growth” might look like to someone who’s unemployed. It’s also unclear what “energy overuse” looks like to a family living without electricity. What is clear is this: the Sierra Club’s opposition to economic growth-and therefore, energy consumption, employment, and human development-stands in stark contrast to what the people of the planet need right now.
Economic growth is essential if we are to have enough tax dollars to fund our schools and universities, which have long been incubators of innovation. Economic growth allows governments to have more revenue, which can be used to support research in health care, energy, and other sectors. Economic growth means more employment, which leads to more optimism about the future. That optimism, in turn, encourages investment in new technologies.
The alternative is pessimism. Believing in degrowth means believing in poverty. Believing in degrowth means rejecting technology. It’s time to move past Ehrlich, the Sierra Club, McKibben, Klein, Greenpeace, and the rest of the neo-Malthusians.”
Robert Bryce, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper, 2014.
For someone with such an intense need to be liked you'd think I would have figured out how to be less of an asshole.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) September 2, 2013
Me too, except without the intense need to be liked part – that ship has sailed. 😉
res ipsa loquitur
open Texas border
technological singularity
this ain’t yo mama’s ditchweed
Post by Brooks Imperial.
water master plan meeting #2
Today, representatives from Elbert County water providers, districts and planning agencies met for the second time to advance development of an Elbert County Water Master Plan.
What I hoped to observe:
- A room full of engineers discussing mechanics of connecting their water systems into an integrated matrix of water and sewage pipelines spanning Elbert County and joined to various renewable non-groundwater sources from outside of Elbert County.
What I observed:
- Too much thinking about Elbert County’s special quality of life, not a single word about renewable water sources, and no anticipation of commercial or industrial water usage except out by Limon.
What I hope to observe at future meetings:
- An unconstrained approach to water infrastructure that does not presume a smart-no-growth perspective, a plan that does not foreclose industrial and commercial growth, and a plan that allows for conservation but does not buy into the green myth of conservation as a basis for growth.
The Known Universe
Disneyfied economic fallacies
Classic Rivers
