Locomotive Breath

All that we collectively create will land in the hands of a team like Elon Musk. Like in the hands of Darth Vader. Our collective prayers will be lead by Saudi Royals or Israel fighting over who can live near Holy Lands. The defense we will justify, nuclear weapons as defense, will end up with some aggressor in offense.

We won't have time to understand how war and starvation became familiar and just 'our job' to get done. And those who do have time won't be heard.

Somehow our popular voices of generally positive signals: our film stars, our sports stars, are music stars, our book authors - won't be able to speak to us that we could shift our funding of all sports games for a few years to have our athletes help build new vegetable farming. We could accept a few years of far less lavish film "production values" and allow some more risky plot and story- and free up a lot of film and TV crews. We could mobilize against war, we could join up - volunteer

we could agree we collectively went too far with the competitiveness and hate. We could accept that we let strangers fly our airplanes, drive our taxi, do medical procedures on our teeth and bodies... we could open up to strangers who we can book appointments to crash with, couch surfing, and talk to / share our movies and songs. And we can try to accommodate the maladjusted as a concern. We can try to solve housing and feeding everyone, it's better than another world war, and we can falter

in the same kind of way university projects can falter. We can still use ships and airplanes to send 1000 people to a city and try to house and feed and better organize the gaps, and maybe it won't work, and we can try again. That's pretty much how world war campaigns go anyway - except this won't be so bloody and deadly - and we won't be exploding things - we might have a few get kidnapped or injured during construction projects - but it won't be like a war, and people will be giving their life

trying to teach family planning, help organize a farm, help share films and music with the depressed and downtrodden, try to connect some live video friends with people who can match - and when our campaign has an airplane crash, we will at least know our heroes were fighting for our coming together and not some bombing buildings to rubble. We will have pot luck meals and holiday parties, and share Ubuntu philosophy on strangers in town. We will explain how we are all crew on spaceship earth

we will help organize who needs assistance with housekeeping, meals, parenting, family planning, upkeep on their house. And it won't be easy, but it will be better than carrying a gun and walking through strange lands like we did in previous world wars. And we will here news reports of our accomplishments and failures, just like the old world wars. And we will make friends like soldiers used to do, and we will hook up like dating apps, but for just friendships and films and TV and concerts

and we can tell stories of our ancestors and the wars the fought and the economic divisions they used to have. And what the early Internet was like when we didn't get along and follow Ubuntu philosophy.  And we will work real hard to make hitchhiking safe, and we will work to make sure there are spots for you to lay down and sleep, and some decent enough inexpensive food to share, and we will strive to understand many people might take 20 years to find their purpose and usefulness, and we will

hug them and share the plate of food, just the same. But we won't have to bomb buildings and hear of mass atrocities any more. Because we decided we had our fill of all that, and a simpler life was better. Well, it isn't so simple having to organize as groups to go where the help and essentials are needed, it is as hard as war used to be - but without all the deaths and guts and butchering. But it's still hard work.

And we will work hard to update a Super Wikipedia that is inclusive of information, doesn't try so hard to say small topics don't matter so much. And it will be free information that we strive hard not to fight over - but keep free of vandalism. And in that collective organized information we will have some teaching courses on how we used to think in terms of Capitalism vs. Communism - but really the problem in the long run was that Earth was running out of growth - we needed to shift our lives

and how it's OK. How could anyone in year 1848 really understood that humanity would be driven by technology and what technology would have looked like in year 2028? Back in those days of over-competitive "crush your competitors" thinking days - domination was ingrained in the education of Russia, China, USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, you name it. It was places like Japan that shared more trains and smaller housing per person, but still too uniform in race and long hours, it's always tricky giving examples, because so much bloodshed history and we used to glamorize revenge/payback stories of hate. Some wounds are like a nightmare that we carry for hundreds and hundreds of years in our minds. But with the rise and fall of big Internet social connections we started to see the patterns. Our old Clergy like Buddha and Jesus and Moses and Mohammad didn't have airports and didn't predict the smartphone, YouTube, and rockets to the moon and beyond. How could they? Can we predict 150 years ahead?

But we did all agree that the wars were not worth it. And we struggle with people wanting to go to popular spots, but we keep discussing a Super Ubuntu philosophy about how forming too large of crowds over desirable spots is itself a problem - and we try hard to be inclusive even for the maladjusted and spread the experiences and entertainment as best we can. There is a kind of joy in knowing everyone has all our backs. We really do behave like one big organism, and family planning and sharing helps us relax better, sleep at night, and the war and unseen serial killers and slave-drivers are almost entirely eliminated by minding just enough of the maladjusted to know they are taken care of. Prisons and shootings don't happen very often, they are rare, because we do try to include and take risk for trouble-makers - but we tend to view it more as perpetual education and learning instead of punishment. It seems we used to enjoy punishing and hating too much, and the airports and Internet

showed us that it was a common problem. that gangs, mafia, corruption could corp up almost anywhere on Earth - and our attitudes of warfare and hate were really not serving us. It was hard to admit that we thought explosions and war were cool and thrilling, it got out of hand with those world wars, and now we really have great education and simulations to show what it used to be like and to preserve our history - so we all better understand our mob mentality problems when it comes to hate

How can you really pick one song at this point, there are so many that come to mind - and it seems to people that you picked one because it was best. that's just not the case. For all I know, it's biological, some genetic thing or some girlfriend or wife I had my arms around, or just had a bad day and that song lodged in my mind. And I expect that there are thousands of others I haven't even heard yet or forgot.

Tuesday February 20, 2024  - 01:00 Arizona?California line