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Consultations for the Inertia of Present History

3:21:00 AM

note: originally posted to Facebook friend's feed who expressed a reversal of views toward capital punishment in lieu of the recently published news article in the the New York Post regarding ... yet another tragic mass murdering rampage.

He said, "I used to say that peoples' fates are in God's hands. I've spent the better part of my life favoring life imprisonment over death penalties because I've felt that no man, woman or government faction should play God and decide when someone dies. [...]

I say that the father of this victim should legally be allowed to extract vengeance and kill his daughter's murderer. [... ]

Maybe I've gone cold and dark in the heart, but I'm tired of seeing psychopaths get cheap justice. Laws need to change. Times certainly have. Let the father kill the killer."

TL;DR - don't confuse topics in Justice with topics in Law; clarification resolves issues with the practice of one's faith and empowers one to engage the issue at hand ... inherit and reclaim the Earth.

full explain:

the following video was published yesterday, so we'll both have to wait for part 2 before passing jusdgement on what justice - with a big "J" - is, but take advantage of checking out some other videos on this channel. It's actively teasing out vairous issues of it - Justice and virtue for us moderns in a Post-Trump; Post-9/11; Post-Internet; Post-Atomic age.

Ultimately, I don't think the final youtube playlist will make clear what is warrented to address what kind of legal system can handle the kind of evil we're all encountering choicelessly in this age of information (which also, btw, is built by and for the benifit of those in power cf. Noam Chomsky's views on news media ... i.e. Facebook's shareholders in the case of this, particular thread ... eg. this comment may or may not be filtered out on your feed at their discretion ...)

The video points out that, according to Foucault, Human Justice (ius civile - Roman civil rights, as opposed to ius gentium - Roman common / intetnational law and ius naturale, Roman natural / God-given law ... which all form the basis of Christian doctrine and subsequently our inherited conception of justice in this Western liberal ideal ... ) is by and for those who are in power no matter what dogma, class, race or nation We The People happen to look like.

Frankly, I'm with you in this specific case; as a father, I'd feel like taking that A-hole all French-style like the video describes.

But, when and if we (or you or, really, our generation as a whole) wakes up, taking on the rightful calling of doing The Lord's work of being authors of a Just and Fair society (which we plainly must; which is our duty to try -- as parents to our children, caretakers of our aging parents, and and as stewards of this Earth), hopefully we will have studied how impossibly ill-equipped we are to do anything but fail better than our forefathers; understand the world we inherited (as morally bankrupt and dying as all reasonable evidence points to at present time in history) and are entrusted to refine or redefine or at the very least, find a way to survive and endure based whatever lessons of the past we have managed to learn as an individual, a society, a species.

Hearten up brotha'. Be thankful that you are not the one who has to either pass judgement nor suffer such an unbearable loss. Rather, that burden lands ultimately on civilization as a whole and on God; and, the worst outcome of this news is that you and I are so disappointed that we no longer can see the mercy and love that is presently and pervasively in our midst and prevents us from being kind to one another in the here and now; with whomever we're with - on and away from our screens.

https://youtu.be/EFaxgB5TygE

Essay In Draft (Cont.): Origins of the Nationalist Right in The United States

8:43:00 AM

Further reflections on The Liminal Web 3.0

4:31:00 AM

I just re-read my own post. It struck me that the topics it addressed are only now starting to become a talking point in the mainstream some six years later via stuff like Minecraft, VR Headgear, Pokémon Go, and so on dominating the current discussion on trends in the mobile market.

Gawd! I must've sounded like a lunatic to anybody who read through it when it was written and published here.

I suppose what I'm currently spewing in idle conversations these days is no different. I likely still sound like a raving lunatic (I see you all looking back at me all glassy-eyed ... I notice all the cordial uh-huhs that say, "I have no f@$ing clue what you're talking about, but I do care about *you*," when I can't suppress the impulse to nerdjack the conversation).

For what it's worth, today it's all about stumbling upon the Fujitsu Film Wonder Photo Shop this afternoon near Madison Square Park and soaking in the coffeehouse-like "experience" of the brand:

One small corner in the very back hosting their current offerings of DSLR cameras. They were tucked behind an immaculate hardwood worktable with a cutting board and a "condiment bar" of scrapbooking materials ... chalkboard-styled menu-like writing on various facades of the place, none of which were in direct line of sight to each other ... evenly spaced monitors along the walls -- all showing the same screensaver, but not a single drop of coffee and hardly any variety of merchandise; like the extension of what was chartered by the post-First-Gen-iPod Apple Stores (loitering at the Genius Bar as if *being* at a nightclub without the intendant drugs and alcohol); to have a spacial and sensual engagement with the idea of a thing; the elan of Apple or Fujitsu or Lego bricks or M&Ms unfolded and laid bare as a place one inhabits casually for a short while.

Insidiously, there's nothing there one might be able to truly buy but once every other year (if at that); there's no expectation in you that you might be familiar with anybody one finds there, and, despite appearances, there's nothing to do in the place since, really, all the objects are there, first and foremost, as decorations which serve the purpose of communicating the essence, the soul of the commodified corporation.

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Kevin Kelly: The Internet, Cats, and the Future of AI from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv

Furthermore, !!IMPORTANT: that this type of retail store may someday, just over the horizon of the current zeitgeist, be re-created in a VR space with innumerable instances of the storefront arising and disappearing based on the number of currently logged in customers -- none of which requires any brick and mortar, rents and staff, and other mundane concerns of the prime material realm. Possibly, our presence and freely chosen use of any time spent in that VR world is not buy or be productive as Earth citizens, but to merely contribute at our whim the computational capacity of our human, electro-chemical cognition as a vital component to the overall operation of a self-aware technium (~.cf~) -- an AI whose consciousness operates on a much different order of being, much too sublime for any of us mere mortals to interact with it directly.

Perhaps, the answer to our specie's perplexed observations in reference to The Drake Equation and that we have, bafflingly, yet to encountering any signs of an other intelligence in universe is simply that, like any tree, if it's talking, is unrecognizable to mammals like us, any interstellar intelligence would be actively engaged with Gaia while both it and us would be mutually unaware of each other as something one might be able to say something to; it's like what we might think if someone suggested we hang out with Mike's liver rather than with Mike whom we can actually invite over for a beer and a slice of za.

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May I have a large, non-fat, $N=R^{\ast }\cdot f_{p}\cdot n_{e}\cdot f_{\ell }\cdot f_{i}\cdot f_{c}\cdot L$ , and leave some room in the cup for Milky Way.

At any rate, trust me when I say that I was completely unprepared for how potently visceral the experience would be when I finally got the means to plug my cell phone into a Gear VR headset. It's mad crazy!!

Edit 10/21/16: Cleaned up thumb keyboard grammar and rendering of links/images; added block quotes, art and embedded referrences; minor word choice and general style polishing

Consultations for the Inertia of Present History

Essay In Draft (Cont.): Origins of the Nationalist Right in The United States

Further reflections on The Liminal Web 3.0

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