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It helps me to think in terms of particles and waves.

A person is a particle and their influence is a wave.

I’m not so sure light is both, but our cognition enables seeing it as both.

Mirror neurons fire when we engage a behavior or see it performed.

Our culture is built upon a meme repeating protectionist like chants for the rich, deflation for the middle class, and stagnation of the poor.

Repeat, fire mirror neurons.

It’s not perfect mind control though cause once you know how the sausage is made, why give that particle (rich person) reverence?

GM’s reputation is trash with anyone but patriotic “GM/Chevy” Americans already.

So long as the public are willing to believe they’re essential, they’ll remain too big to fail and don’t need to worry about their reputation.

Financial markets are not coupled to real economics anymore.

They’re coupled to speculative gamesmanship. Whoever can generate statistics to captivate the masses who do not understand them, via press releases, and media blitzes.

That sounds cynical, but I “hob nob” with people invited to Davos, and run depts at Ivy League schools.

Behind closed doors these are the conversations I’ve been privy too. How to captivate the “market” which is a euphemism created years ago to replace the religious concept of “flock”.

Mirror neurons really challenge the correctness of any wisdom to come from business leaders. It’s a pantomime, ingratiate ourselves before the socially rich

People see taxation as theft of property. I see it as reminding people there are no Gods or kings.

I read an article, over a year ago now, that said the GM deal was nothing but upside for GM

They got cash from Nikola whether they ended up manufacturing anything for them or not, and had to put up nothing up front.

Exactly.

Dig around in C land and you’ll find 100s of opinions, even more libs and toolkits that came and went out of fashion.

Web stacks are “computing” to industry right now. In the 80s and 90s it was OS and database.

If low-level had the old economic attention, we’d see the same activity and mess as we did in the 80s and 90s. Everyone has a compiler to tell you about, and a build system DSL that’s just right for your problem!

But big corp largely controls that and so a new layer of abstraction was added via web, and we’re seeing a shift now to less UI, and machine driven decision making that just gives us the next step in the recipe.

Frankly I don’t mind technology for navigating human society; buying stuff and literal navigation.

I still unplug with musical instruments and the forest.

The addictive applications we’ve built in technology; games, social and multimedia, got really banal for me a long time ago. If I hear things like “Itsa me, Mario” or something about Halo I recoil at the cringe.

I guess I don’t want my psychedelic noise wrapped up in branding and consumerism.