You Call It Politics, We Call It Science Friction

Another word of the day - dietribe: bitter complaint about the specialty food you choose to eat.

The Committee of Seven-and-a-Half met late last night at an undisclosed location to verify that the election results aligned with what the committee wanted the American voters to make.

Have I told you about the committee?  I don't remember.

The Committee is composed of the seven people (and one young person, to get the fickle/inexperienced/idealistic view of youth) who report to the two people who know what's going on.

I have dreamed of being on the committee since I was too young to know better.

Far better to be the scribe who liaises between the 7.5 and the 2.

Of course you know why.

The scribe controls the conversation and thus...

Well, let's put that thought aside for a moment.  I'm a nobody, after all.  My name is common and not my own, created by my parental units, not by me.

Finished two books yesterday, the '72 campaign political junkie book by Dr. Thompson and the rocketeer book by Belfiore.

With those books running through my thoughts, I sat and recorded the general impressions that the committee gave last night (I let my electronic livescribe smartpen record the conversation but the committee is more interested in the impression they give than their actual words).

While drawing doodles, I noticed a series of musical notes emanating from the house place where we met.  Then it dawned on me that the owner of the place had installed special register vents that made the place sound as if we were listening to chants in an ancient cathedral, mosque or temple.  Every vent was tuned to "whistle" a different note.

You know, like a harmonica or an aeolian harp.

At the end of the meeting, the committee asked me to summarise my impression of their conversation which would become my report to the two-in-the-know.

I told the committee members that our species is maturing rapidly.  We are learning to separate lifestyle choices, genetic inheritances and bartering methodologies into smaller and smaller subcultural mixtures while recognizing bigger trends that flow through all of them.

As a species, we realise we have a limited set of resources to use on this planet and are gradually coalescing into a globally cooperative group in order to minimise waste and maximise efficiency.

This ultimately will lead us to more rapid changes for which we'll readily shed old trends to accommodate the species as a whole.

Selfishness will not disappear but instead become a major sin or taboo.  We will continue the process of training our youth to put species first, subculture second, and self last, redefining personal freedom as a public responsibility.  Everything we do, including taboo behaviour, goes online 24/7 for public praise and/or condemnation - no more privacy.  Groupthink is now the only way to live.  Crowdsourcing replaces the judicial system as instant judge-and-jury.

The committee was astonished that I got all that from their comparing results of search engines while looking for a good place to order delivery of a late-night snack in randomly selected towns found by throwing pieces of rice at a giant world map.

The two-in-the-know expect nothing less.