Oregonians were in the mood to celebrate today, in Portland especially, as Prohibition notched back a bit.
I made a symbolic purchase, snapping pictures, then came home to the tragic news on the radio, about the mass killing in Roseburg, one of Oregon's towns.
There's a connecting theme: substance control, interpreting "substance" rather generally. Guns are a substance, but then in a way, so are states of mind.
We're instituting different substance control protocols around cannabis, will we around guns as well?
A civilization is somewhat defined by how it controls access to such and such. That would include to information, news sources etc.
Another duh moment: I'd been scouring the Internet for a computer monitor also able to show HDTV. I finally realized any monitor with HDMI-in would do, and I already have one of those, so no new purchase necessary to use the CenturyLink Prism service.
I made a symbolic purchase, snapping pictures, then came home to the tragic news on the radio, about the mass killing in Roseburg, one of Oregon's towns.
There's a connecting theme: substance control, interpreting "substance" rather generally. Guns are a substance, but then in a way, so are states of mind.
We're instituting different substance control protocols around cannabis, will we around guns as well?
A civilization is somewhat defined by how it controls access to such and such. That would include to information, news sources etc.
Another duh moment: I'd been scouring the Internet for a computer monitor also able to show HDTV. I finally realized any monitor with HDMI-in would do, and I already have one of those, so no new purchase necessary to use the CenturyLink Prism service.
Glenn talked of General Semantics and "substance control" in another sense: maintaining mindfulness, not falling victim to one's own body chemistry, i.e. not becoming only a complex of knee-jerk responses. Korzybski segues to Bucky at St. Quentin [ the Youtube is gone -- the warden is introducing Bucky to the prisoners, mentioning they've been studying Korzybski most lately].
Of course way more people in Syria are getting mass killed every day. Same issue: it's so easy to get weapons, all you need is a "just cause" and some money, or a patron with an agenda. But then try crossing a border for the same "just cause" reason.
