Positive Misanthropist

Creepy Stalker? Innocent Web Voyeur?

The last few weeks i have been spending a good bit of time in a local coffee shop. i just have a QQ for everyone. There are some people who hang out in the same shop everyday, for much of the day, like myself. they are my age, go to my school, and seem interesting enough. Greg, Jolie, Mary, Erik and company, if you ever read this, i am talking about you. do i know the people i just mentioned, no not really. i know mary a little bit and i’ve shared words with erik. but we are all on facebook. so i looked these people up that i see everyday. and over time i feel like ive gotten to know them. although i have never spoken with most them. my question is…

if i do ever speak to them, should i pretend to not know anything about them or should i make no effort to hide what i already know about them? we are all on facebook, and else where on the web, they are free to do their research on me , (they may have for all i know). The internet is here and we are some of its main users. why is it weird that i know who their friends are, whose dating who, where they are from and their favorite books. shouldnt they have checked me out too, that way we can cut through the initial awkward conversation and just get to the meat of friendship. i think i have simply lubricated the act of socializing. one could say it is our responsibility to do this research. 

Ending World Hunger

Reading a little side article this morning in Wired there was a quote by J. Craig Venture. He is the leader of modern genomics. He basically said he doesnt think humans inherently want a “slave” class. In context what he meant was he doesnt feel people want a class of beings who wait on you, do the dirty work, wash clothes, cut the grass, pick seeds out of cotton and so on. basically ruling class, and a working class as i see it. 

i have always felt there is a curtain span of civilization. the people at the top and the people at the bottom. 250 years ago in the United States it was African American slaves who were owned, built the countries economy and did a large portion of the labor intensive work. In Rome it was POWs. Now time has past and we as the top class moves further the lower class moves up as well. Box and whisker plot? Who are todays “slave class” 3rd world country residents who make our Nikes and computers, grow our bananas and coffee. Do i think we always need to be working to bring up this “slave class” yes. as well as raise the highest class. In 100 years is the this working class is as it is today their is a major problem. maybe the “slave class” of 2108 will be what todays middle class is. who does all the work in 2108 that is being done by contemporary slaves today, well it would be automated, robots and things of the likes. Dr. Ventures has a different take on it. 

J. sees the robots of the future to be just as much if not more of a slave class as Chinese manufacturing masses today. If someone or something is working inventive jobs, long hours, with little or no pay there is still a slave class. Where do my coffee beans come from then? after all he thinks this slave class will be gone in the future. 

By designing better beings who don’t need these ancient amenities will eliminate our use of a slave class. Isn’t eating such a waste of time, money, man hours, resources, land and on and on. What if our grand children didn’t need to eat 2,500 calories a day. if our skin was soft, but tough. our bodies regulated temperature 1000x more efficiently. then we wouldn’t need those banana republics any longer, or that huge portion of people around the globe stitching jeans together. this girl wouldn’t be famous and. you get the idea. 

Check out J.’s work. He is brilliant and the foremost expert in the field and that is where he sees it going. watch his TED talks if you want to know him better. 

ARPANET no longer

The New York Times published an article today on Internet growth. John Markoff’s article focused on how a growing non(un?)american internet is a national security crisis for the US. 

The internet of today is a beautiful weaving of a DARPA project and CERN project. But it is no longer American, nor has it been since its inception. To encourage Americans, to see the internet as something that was “theirs” and now it has grown out of its parents control and is a security threat is pure hegemonic narcissism. 

The internet is a superorganism. growing more autonomous each day. It, like everyone and everything else can hurt you if you fight it and it can help you if you work with it. The internet is the free market of free market. The libertarians dream market place. Realize this. (Jakob Lobwick). It is decentralized. It is self governing. and yes, it is a threat but only if you treat it like one. 

Primitus

The past week or so i have felt i need to give myself some purpose. Bread from being alone, which is why i think solidarity is productivity, it forces one to fill there time with something other than unintelligible conversation.

The Chine Study, a book people should read, those who are hyper concerned about diet (what they eat not loosing weight form of the word) should read it as well. It is basically Dr. Campbell’s magnum opus thesis for 27 years (really a lifetime) of research. He basically says animal protein are evil and the root of most ‘western’ illness. his research shows if you do not consume protein from animals (milk, cheeseburgers, steak… etc) your likelihood of getting diabetes, cancer, heart disease, the list goes on and on, diminishes to almost zero, even when you are “genetically predisposed” to getting these ailments such as breast cancer. Even if you ingest all kind of carcinogens, they will not be metabolized by your body and in turn crate cancerous cells. If you have one of these diseases you can stop and sometimes even reverse the effects of it by simply going to a no animal product low plant protein diet. amazing right? his research, numbers, evidence, support and so on is pretty astounding. 

why do girls become woman (menarche) so early now-a-days? the steroids in our cattle, the fertilizers in our produce. ORGANICS ARE THE ANSWER!!! they shout. why is it more likely than not that i will get cancer? Because all the plastic i use leaches into my body, come one, we all saw that, right? none of this has sat right with me, which for those of you who know me may have notice although i am pretty aware of all these issues, i haven’t really taken action. Why, the explantations have not made sense to me. 

Yields per acre are up exponential from 100 years ago. Cattle can be produced in large enough quantities that we can afford to have meat be a 1/3 of our diet in America. plastics have let us build computers with names like “The Earth Simulator” (implications). All of our evolutionary progress could not be our weakness. according to this study it is not that our meat is pumped full of all kinds of chemicals, it is the ‘our meat’ part. stop eating so much damn meat! and dairy. 

Does this mean start smoking 2 packs a day, consume more than 2 drinks a day, and dust off those teflon pans, so long as you dont eat meat? obviously no. But must we return to an argo. life style to avoid (A) mass starvation, or (B) a western disease epidemic, no we do not have too. 

in the future i will most likely post about computer science theories, advertising, future implications of ‘our progress’, political ideals, and anything else that strikes my fancy for than a few hours. 

New Beginnings