Enroute to Market by Daryl Seldon

En route to Market by Daryl Seldon

for Silke

A butterfly flew fast through my view and as it shooed issued ‘coo-coo’!

Dazed, amazed, I stayed the way a visit to pay the fairest maid.

Few steps elapsed before a black, magnificent cat did cross my path.

It started to bark!  The cat did bark!  Or has my heart and brain infarc’d?

Onward I jogged through densest fog till prod the paw of the oddest dog,

In chase of fowl but ceased his prowl to bow and proudly vowed ‘meow’!

Scandalized, I wiped my eyes but met the same surprising cry!

Yet pushed aside my mind’s demise pursuing the apple of my eye.

Beautiful eyes, delicious pies, for she I did this morning rise.

I sent a text to my friend, my best, that he might check my mind’s arrest:

the cat barked loud the dog meowed

the butterFly coo-cooed on by

what could make my mind so crazed

as to the market I make my way???

He peered inside his learned mind, versed in cure of every kind:

you’re but in love with this lovely maid

with the beautiful eyes and tasty cakes

so be at ease and make your way to the market and say,

Happy Valentines Day!

Profiles of the Mundane, Page 1

You have to have either deep inner pain or deep psychological carelessness to continue to be a drug addict after your friends have died, you have suffered great pain, and nearly all has been ruined, but for those hardy enough, it can be a lifestyle and an identity.

Meet the Old Hellraisers.  These are my neighbors, all black, in their late 50s early 60s, alcoholics, and drug abusers.  I don't know that any of them have a physical addiction except to alcohol, which is the worse one to have besides cigarettes but is yet a known quantity.  One knows what alcohol will do to you, and even though the withdrawal is deadly, any alcoholic past the age of 25 knows, you either go for treatment or just draw it down slowly to prevent your brain from full hallucination and your heart from exploding.  Alot of people don't know of the full delirium tremens, which carries a complete hallucination with no recognition of the real world, and up to a 35% mortality, meaning you will likely die and there's nothing you can do about it because everything you are seeing is a hallucination.  Treatment reduces mortality to 15%, still not very good.  They will give you benzos, but the best thing to reverse it, the same thing you were addicted to in the first place, then stretch it out till it is at least becomes possible to not go into the DTs.  Addictive personalities, self-included, know this.  Sometimes you go into withdrawals simply because it becomes impossible to stuff more drugs into yourself as you need.  You're drinking Everclear with clonazepam and you can't legally make stronger alcohol or drink it without burning a whole in your throat.  You can't take more pills without becoming comatose.  You're waking up in withdrawal because you slept more than 6 hours and you need to take drugs every 4 hours.  You have now got a problem which demands treatment.

Some people however, are of a hearty type.  Some of these people are sociopaths.  Neither the drugs nor the withdrawal are they terribly sensitive to.  They are also not sensitive to murder which is why a few of them kill people, not a lot of them however, just more under unnecessary circumstances.  They would kill a spouse rather than get a divorce which could make them look bad.  They do care about something, their own gain, just not other people, like their wife and children.  Or rather, they are not personally sensitive to the fate of others, they can sometimes demonstrate loyalty.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Information Resolution and Certainty

A scientific finding is only as good and as certain as the resolution of it's concepts. High information concepts come from physics, and low information concepts come from the social sciences (which are not science but journalism in a scientific format). A concept such as E=MC2 makes a claim and testable prediction about much of the universe, incredible amounts of information. A concept like 'public trust' is a journalistic concept and no amount of studies increase the certainty of such a journalistic concept far beyond the certainty of politics and gossip.

As an example, compare two conceptual constructs, one used by grown-ups and one used by children. A scientist may study and E=MC2 and try to test it. A child may study the concept "I am a stupid face," to find out if he is a stupid face as some have claimed. E=MC2 has a high information resolution. It can be made more certain through studies directly tied to it and study and observation indirectly related and theoretically linked to it. However, you can do thousands of studies on "I am a stupid face," and certainty will never greatly increase because it was conceptualized on a low-resolution, low-information, childish level. Social science, and sometimes psychological, and psychometric (IQ) are similar. The compounding of data gives a false sense of increasing certainty when the terms used are of too low a resolution and too childish a construction to rise above the level of gossip, and of polling, and questionnaire, which are not science.