Time's Fool

Conscious thoughts. Clear thoughts. Precise thoughts. Sloppy thinking. Unconscious thoughts, and wishes. Muddled thoughts. Half-baked ideas. True thoughts. Incomplete thoughts. Imprecise thoughts. Simple thoughts. Complex thoughts. Thoughts like a shuffle-step-shuffle. Thoughts like a tango, or flamenco, wild, abandoned, and passionate. Thoughts like a waltz, precise and flowing. Inarticulate thoughts, disordered, meandering. Thoughts of beauty, thoughts of pain, prohibited thoughts, required thoughts, thoughts of the heart's desire and of the punishments of the devil. Logical thoughts, thoughts like a treasure hunt, or like a maze. Thinking through a long proof of a mathematical theorem, slowly, carefuly, each step selected carefully to make the following step possible. Thinking through an unproven mathematical theorem, puzzling, selecting, sifting, rejecting, accepting, creating. Thinking dangerously. Thinking differently. Thinking exactly like you're supposed to, exactly wha...

The Economist, Mar 3rd 2011: India’s Supreme Court ordered the head of the country’s anti-corruption commission to resign, because he faces corruption charges. The recently retired head of Bolivia’s drug police was arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges of trafficking cocaine.

"The symbolism of logic can be rightly construed as a determination to reproduce as mechanically as possible the deductive thinking that takes place in our brains in a split second without our knowing how. . . . Accordingly, it is with form that logic is concerned. The content of any argument is nothing more than an inconsequential vehicle of its form. And symbolism is the device for distilling the essence." Gerald B. Standley, New Methods in Symbolic Logic, p.3, 1971 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/offer-listing/039505429X//104-9891999-2979931?condition=all "In trying to place (the syllogism) in a deeper mathematical foundation, we come across (or up against) the inconsequential relation, apparent in ordinary speech, between a form and its content, occasioned by the partly accidental fact that the existence of a particular content can serve to negate a general form." LOF, p.129, 1969 The Essential Tractatus 1. The world is everything that is the...

" If the duration of the current rally were to take the same portion of its ruling cycle that the 1929-1930 rally did, when would it end? The 1929-1930 rally lasted 155 days out of 968 in the cycle (1932 was a leap year), for a ratio of 0.1601. The 16.6-16.9-year span ends between February 19 and June 9, 2016. Applying the 0.1601 ratio to this period of 2541-2652 days from the March 6, 2009 low would give rally durations of 406.81-424.59 days, suggesting a peak in the current rally between April 16 and May 5. Using intraday turning dates projects exactly the same range. As Beautiful Pictures shows, time targeting usually works out to within 3 days. With April 14 already behind us and May 8 a Saturday, we can project a top on this basis between April 15 and may 7, 2010. April 16, by the way, marks the anniversary of the 1930 rally peak. These dates pertain only if the current rally matches its predecessor in percent-of-cycle terms, which is conjecture, but given all the other evid...

Credit cards have been only one piece of the historically massive shift in the organization of our economy, and thus of our society, from industrial capitalism to financial capitalism . Nixon's ending of the gold standard in 1971 was another indicator of that shift. (Conservatives today rant about the shift from "real" money to "fiat" money, instead of focussing on the perversion of capitalism that widespread credit and over-expanded financial markets constitute. Socialists rant about the loss of connection between money and its real basis, labor, but only sometimes concern themselves with the social compact at the root of all social order and its necessary concommitants, interpersonal trust and the interpersonal infrastructure that is social capital. These are matters of economic philosophy that are really worth getting your heads around because they are at the root of the crisis of Western civilization. But as with all crisis-cores, they are heavily masked by...

Interrogating The Peninsular Individual: A Rumination on The Dialectical Relationship Constituting Individual Minds and Group Mind • Rubinoff: Art is the map of the human soul; each original piece is proof of the journey. As the artist navigates the unknown, the art adds to the collective memory. Art has been liberated to address the internal, intuitive reality of the collective human memory. Art is truth by metaphor. Call for Papers - Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park • John Donne: No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), No. XVII • George Lakoff & Mark ...