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I am so struggling with reality today. No better way to express it. Perhaps too many hours alone in the van down by the river. Or maybe not enough. Unsure. Planned for a whole weekend of snowy solitude, cooped up in the van down by the river, plotting revenge on the world...instead I got just a slim dusting of ice. Mother Nature, you unpredictable hussy!!! Maybe too many hours of listening to the news, hatching up schemes to save the world: 1) Convince car companies to go open source. Only way to save themselves, divide the big three into the little 7879. Lots of smaller companies recreating the auto industry, centered around the small companies' unique abilities to rapidly accept newer technologies and customize each and every automobile using shared knowledge base, shared specifications, and industry standards. I envision lots of companies, making lots of different parts, each competing with one another to perfect their little tiny bit of the auto world, then your local car dealer/mechanic assembles the package, snaps it all together like legos. A totally unique car at same price as regular....why not? If everything were standardized it would be quite easy....the way bicycles work best...the best values in the bicycle world comes when a new standard is accepted and then played with for a bit...perfected...there are always a few out there on the edges who play with the standards...but the standard allows a lot of people to play around and experiment and fine tune and bring costs down...and provides lots of feedback...cars can do the same thing... 2) Convince the US that socialsim really is viable. After all, 90% of my recreation time is spent on publicly owned property. Why can't I live on public owned property? Live in a govment owned house. I see the govment building big vans down by river, packing us in cozy like, with plenty of rooms for bicycles, and coop gardens in back where we all gather on warm sunday spring mornings and talk about whose tomatoes are going to ripen first. And we share our open source cars whenever we take big trips...and all my neighbors come to me with their bicycle dillemmas and I solve them in exchange for a beer and a poem. 3) Convince the US population that the govment is lying to us all about Israel. Really. When the rest of the world is telling you that Israel is f-ing up humanity with their attacks by passing a UN resolution calling for cease fire (which the US abstained from voting on) meanwhile back here in the US the congress votes to pass a non-binding resolution that approves of Israel's actions....bunch of BS...anyone with a nose can smell that stink...but only Kucinich got the cahones to call em out on it. Why isn't anyone protesting this farce? 4) Infrastructure. Convince congress to get that infrastructure money rolling out. Save the economy. Free internet for everyone. More bike lanes on the roads. And bigger museums...and people should read more and look at art more. 5) Convince the US population that reading is not only fundamental, it is a necessity. And I mean the hard stuff. Top shelf. None of this mamby-pamby reading. You want to save the world, you want to be sure you don't end up in messes like the current one?....you should have been reading... 6) Convince the world that it all began in 1793...Hamilton's Report on Manufactures...when our existence became a little more worthless...I've read several bios that paint Hamilton with the pretty brush...I should paint him with the brush of reality...a real snake in the grass...one of the bastards in our group of founding fathers...only out for himself...and clearly understood that the masses were easy to manipulate...and trample upon...a real smooth fellow in person, I'll bet...but a real prick in private, my guess. Helped to create a nation, but a nation of what? 7) Create a cell phone that gains power from body movements and heat....like a Rolex watch....never have to charge it...just move around. 8) Write a thesis about the possibility of an open source government. I am intrigued by this...open source is organic, the way democracy was supposed to be...not so damned rigid....to hell with all you Constitutional Originalists...Constitution was supposed to remain as fluid and organic as possible...any farmer could tell you that... 9) Do away with the computer mouse. Nobody uses a computer mouse in sci-fi movies...so why are we still stuck with them? we have a touch screen computer at work...that technology has to start creeping down into the consumer world, just for kicks. won't save the world, but will save me a lot of hassles. And things should talk to me more. In sci fi movies everything talks to you, the elevators, the doors, the oven, the telephone, the spaceship....hell, nothing talks to me in the van down by the river...what the hell am I doing paying all this rent when nothing is talking to me? 10) Open source architecture...already happening in some parts of the world (see the TED lecture)...but I want a snap together van down by the river...was reading Steinbeck's book about his traveling with his dog, Charlie, around the US...and Steinbeck is intrigued by mobile homes (of course, a pretty new thing back then) Steinbeck saw them as the wave of the future...cool things that could simplify us all, you could interchange walls, buy new pieces, snap it all together like legos (see #1)...and it makes sense...why hasn't the trailer become the modern perfection of "home" in America? Could be very organic...recyclable parts...no need to paint, just buy another kitchen, have it wheeled up and snapped in place, recycle or sel the old kitchen...modular homes, eat your hearts out, I want to have super-modularity... I see them being able to be stacked three high, I coudl craft my own govment housing project with vans, pull em into place, snap them together, all the bits and pieces like electricity and plumbing standardized so that each unit, each module, snaps to another with ease...ahhhh...yes...great big lego-houses....why not? Yeah, maybe too much time alone in van down by river. Crazily daydreaming out at an icy road...no snow.... Did get to go out for a nice ride on Sunday with the fellas. Average speed 5.5 mph...amazing what a little bit of ice does to your skillz. Could barely walk on some of the icy trails....but away we went....like bobsledding...closed our eyes and slowly sped down the trails... |
