https://www.the-reframe.com/the-rot-goes-to-the-core/
"Word is we've got a 2nd moon for a few months. It's a rock the size of a city
bus that's going to hang out in our gravity well for a half-spin before heading
off into the void to do whatever asteroids do. So the big brains tell me. I
don't know what to do with that information. The asteroid isn't big enough to
hold all the people that I'd like to see put on it, and even if it was, we'd
still have the logistics of getting them there before it departs in November.
Another opportunity missed, I guess. The lesson I'll take on this is you never
know when the gravity you exert might have an effect, or on what.
Also departing in November, perhaps: whatever remains of democracy in the
United States. It's on the table.
Democracy is a way of doing government, which involves a number of things, but
which perhaps most prominently involves elections. Elections are a way of
choosing leaders where the most popular choice gets to be the leader, or that's
the idea anyway. This will lead the leaders to promise popular things to win
and then actually deliver those things if they hope to win again, is supposed
to be the idea.
We have an election in November, the same month that our planetary gravity will
finish its work on our 2nd moon. In this country, elections happen every year,
though in odd-numbered years the ballots tend to be a bit thin. However, on
even years we choose leaders by the bunches, and then on every leap year we
choose a president, who has power by the bunches and gets to be the main
character of reality on all our screens, so everyone tends to sit up and pay
attention, or at least become momentarily and vaguely aware of it, as if the
democratic process were an occasional and temporary 2nd moon."
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
