"It is the first step..."

 glad to see the foxes and the kangaroo rats still live here...no antelope squirrel yet

i am living the dream that  wernher von braun had when he saw the first satellite hurled into space on his rockets...he said that the entire globe would be able to access information in the future... i sit in the desert/forest/swamp/etc and and able to see what is posted online...such as "Alan Watts on Carl Jung and the Philosophy of Good and Evil"...a must see posting...also "Face your Dark side" Carl Jung and the Shadow...also saw B. Obama in a 45 min. dialogue on AI...glad to know he is still in there making reason popular again...

i see where China has taken back their inbred pandas...when i was in the national zoo thee was a baby elephant across the sidewalk from the panda which i much preferred to watch...i view more than intellectual stuff however and would recommend Jason Salmon "Bisquits and Gravy" and Mark Normand "out to Lunch"......i crunch my big toe as i got out of the truck this morning and for a while had the "Byronic Limp"...but all better now....i did view "The Expendable" 1-2-3 and was entertained...one seldom hears a action hero like stallone say " i just go my ass kicked"...i heard the best line i have yet heard on "The Sopranos" last night when tony tells his son that he needs to "kiss gods as for the rest of your life"...great stuff....

"It is the first step in sociological wisdom to recognize that major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur; like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly, in the fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with Freedom of revision must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled buy useless shadows, "  Alfred North Whitehead..."Symbolism. Its meaning and Effect."