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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1886

That long arc, the one that bends towards justice: do you suppose we might shorten it?

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How do I know what’s good or not about what I write? How do I know whether it might be compost for another? I cannot. So let it find air and light.

:- Doug.

It’s not so much what you put into it as what you don’t put into it. Meditation/contemplation, at least.

:- Doug.

What is human?

:- Doug.

If there were a pill you could take that would remove from you all emotions, would you?

:- Doug.

In 300 years will people be more human or less?

:- Doug.

What projects are next for humanity? After those, will we think the same as we do now, value similar things?

:- Doug.

Every day, many ways, I ask myself what do I think?

:- Doug.

Kurzweil is about accelerating intelligence. Is intelligence what we most want? Acceleration? How about heart, spirit, humanity, humaneness, slowness, silence, depth?

:- Doug.

Do you have 2020 vision?

:- Doug.

You’ve got a thinker. Think it.

:- Doug.

As life speeds up, the things we do and make ephemeralize. Reminds me of Bucky. Do we too ephemeralize? Do we become brain and internet connection, and stop going to meet one another? Insights become ephemeral: at least for me they do not last.

:- Doug.

Are future people always deaf to us?

:- Doug.

What is the text and subtext of my course?

:- Doug.

What action will I take today to cross my decision threshold?

:- Doug.

What would be good leverage for you when you provide legal caring for your parent? If for each equivalent to a month of nursing home expense, it saved you two? Seven? Eleven?

:- Doug.

To influence generations set before them highest personal dilemma. Here movement begins. How can I emerge if I do not first immerse?

:- Doug.

Let’s move to larger stories.

:- Doug.

Is any future good for humanity? Can we make it good for the future to have a humanity?

:- Doug.

For us to love God, must God be the underdog? Certainly in life love seems underdog to greed.

:- Doug.

Write a vignette from the life of a particular one of your own 300-year grandchild elders. What genre will you choose? Setting? Is this person he, she, or other? How old? What project consumes this one? What dilemma arises?

:- Doug.

As long as there will be legislatures
there will be lawyers
what good are legislators?

:- Doug.

At age 120 how many generations will you know, will know you? At 150?

:- Doug.