Rough Beast

Rough Beast
Grifo Mecanico - Diego Mazzeo

Sunday, October 16, 2011

What the mould Penicillium camemberti Wants

what Camembert cheese wants more than anything is more Camembert cheese. The existential is how we put our time in. In those rare moments in the past when meat was satiated, we would sing to each other of the events of the day and the dream of tomorrow and yesterday. The Dream Now exists as an emergent quality of human consciousness. A superstructure of vastly many robots, large and small supported a brain with a mind that could watch itself thinking about itself. The subjective mind examines itself while it's self, being a particular ensemble of dispositions, was supported by an army of robots intent on our survival.

We could bring our game when we had to guess what happens next. Bill Hicks says it best; it's just a ride. We make the ride the way we need to and sometimes the way we want to. I've got to try it to miss it. That is, the possible consequences both good and bad form a landscape based on many variables.

At the level of fermions and bosons there is a bounding box around the meat. The system 'outside' the bounding box defines me, my meat, it's cells, their forebears down to algae. Then the strange yearning for a coming together as an ensemble of dispositions.

Cheese me!
First a particular bacteria works on the milk as it has always worked on the milk. The good bacteria make deals with us constantly. We both agree to work together; I work on having strong babies and because I am a mammal and I need milk, or I am a bacteria that wants more people raising more ungulates (who also benefit by having more ungulate genes) by making a anti-bacterial poison that kills loathsome bad bacterial while nourishing the mammalian babies. This is the barter and exchange of Natural Selection. We constantly look for allies. We want more people for us than against us. We check our status constantly to see who has our back. The more the  better.

Preserving face is an expensive and time consuming activity. A man with much status has much face to loose. The loss of a good name is worse still. A persons status can be measured objectively and subjectively. Currently there is a level set or calibration point at $65,000 in the USA. This amount in real term varies across the heirarchy of local economies and highly networked international wealth accounting. Rough Beast knows my worth in real terms. Lacking patience, she tells me bluntly in independent credit scores from three competing agencies. I am triangulated precisely if I care to look it up.

So in this sense we could say that the global economy wants me in dept but does not especially care if I pay it back. If too many people are not paying it back, the not paying back becomes the dominatant conditioned behavior. The young people are paying it back. If they possibly can.

But think about a dept that can never be discharged. Why pay it back? Just get used to owing it and not paying it. There are consequences but there are consequences for not doing this anyway. Think about the proposition that instead of millions of unemployed English and Fine Arts majors we would have millions of high school graduates that didn't know the score. The rage has a voice - it is the voice of St. Mark

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