Posted March 22, 2024
So a pile of snow today. I’m not looking forward to it.
Just remember that the UN advocacy is a campaign. It takes forever. I mentioned to Michael it’s been twenty years since I started this with the taping of the Fortress TV Show. Twenty years - if you are young realize what that means. It means that if your dream man is doing what I am doing and he is young like you, he is a fake and fronting for some old guy. You can’t cheat time, have dreams and ambitions and start from scratch and you are lucky - lucky - to become an old fart still doing it and moving forward.
Life is a cheat as well as time. I have lived it so hear my words. I had everything go my way and didn’t have to do it with a lot of baggage. My timeline is about as good as it gets and yet things are still wanting.
Life is a cheat - no other way to say it. But I’m still in the game and still a player…..
Goodnight…..
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A Social Club of One
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Posted March 23, 2024
So Saturday…..
Shoveled my driveway after a major dump on
Friday. Then to my dad’s place which was shovelled! I hit luck this time!
I got a Covid shot today. This time it was Novavax. the whole clan go vaccinated it looks like Ontario is going once a year now. Anyway, I had them all:
Covidshield
AstraZeneca
Phizer
Moderna
Novavax
Then I hung around my dad’s place for three hours just to make sure nothing weird happened. Then I went home and put those locking tuners on that Gibson SG guitar I got last weekend.
While I was at it - I restrung my 7 string Ibanez and my original Fender Stratocaster. So now all the guitars are restrung and all I have to do now is play them.
I could whine about life but will do that tommorow.
Goodnight…..
So Saturday…..
Shoveled my driveway after a major dump on
Friday. Then to my dad’s place which was shovelled! I hit luck this time!
I got a Covid shot today. This time it was Novavax. the whole clan go vaccinated it looks like Ontario is going once a year now. Anyway, I had them all:
Covidshield
AstraZeneca
Phizer
Moderna
Novavax
Then I hung around my dad’s place for three hours just to make sure nothing weird happened. Then I went home and put those locking tuners on that Gibson SG guitar I got last weekend.
While I was at it - I restrung my 7 string Ibanez and my original Fender Stratocaster. So now all the guitars are restrung and all I have to do now is play them.
I could whine about life but will do that tommorow.
Goodnight…..
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Re: A Social Club of One
Posted March 24, 2024
I start the UN four year report by listing everything I did since the last report. You have to be meticulous about location, dates and events - but you only need a few. I have lots but because of Covid, others may find it difficult to come up with events.
No issues with Novavax as our government thinks about shutting down lab production of the vaccine here in Canada. I believe that’s federal jurisdiction while my human rights case is provincial. No matter I may be one of the few - and possibly the only one left - suing the government about vaccine deployment. The suit legal basics are solid even though they tried everything to quash it - the Novavax injection yesterday just reinforces my claims and mindset!
As for the lab and domestic Novavax production: Did they not forget how vulnerable we were not to have this capability during Covid? Are we going to have the same issue next time around with N95 masks that were never replaced when Sars hit again? Even I thought that was a once in a life time thing - now it’s every decade or two.
The Summit of the Future announcement should appear by Monday. After the initial excitement of seeing my philosophy there as part of it - reality came back and it’s just further movement of the advocacy and nothing else. Still I’m in there and I’m still a player. The angst I mention is simply a guy in his sixties who should be at peace with his fate and life and is not - but I’m still charging ahead and the future is still open to me with possibilities. That’s a rare thing at my age - it also make you anxious…..
Guitar corner and the music world:
I shift from collecting guitars to plying them and I already noticed something other players notice but may not have thought about the reasons why?
My SG Standard has the body cuts way lower than the Les Paul.
Take that Gibson SG I bought last week. The actual playable part of the guitar is virtually the same as my Gibson Les Paul Studio - but many used to the Les Paul will find the SG unplayable - why?
.
Check out the body cut near the neck of my Les Paul.
I can tell you why! Check out where the comfort cut in the body is of the two guitars. The comfort cut is that pinch in the wood on the right side of the guitar. When you sit down to play the guitar you rest the guitar body on uour right thigh and it naturally fits in that comfort cut. But the Les Paul’s is higher up the guitar while the SG has it way lower. So people used to a Les Paul will find everything shifted to the left when they try out the SG.
This I find cool and you start to see how the designers went about their craft. Also with the SG it has two inside cuts near the base of the neck to get you easier access to the frets near the body, but the comfort cut also moves those hard to reach frets to the left making it easier to play them - cool if the player isn’t turned off by the whole shift in muscle memory.
I took a look at my Fenders and the telecaster and stratocaster have the comfort cut in the same place so a player can switch between the two no problem. Things get even more interesting when you play a hollowbody as the cut is way closer to the neck! The Ibanez is even stranger with more frets and the fretboard going lower down the body maybe three to four inches lower the Gibsons, In fact 7 and 8 string guitars have their payable dimensions lengthened as you add more strings - but for me I can keep the usual scale length.
Carlos Santana played an SG for Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock if you are interested, and it’s aggressive and just cuts through the mix. Plus he played the 61 SG with the heavy Grover tuners and then plays a cow bell during the song with the SG not diving to the ground! Check it out!
God man….. Watching that make me wish we could pull off FOFSTOCK 2 on Canada Day - but the Gods of Music say otherwise…..
My current Line 6 pedalboard!
So this is how i start playing the guitar - by examining the playing geometry between the typical electric guitars out there. The way to try out things learning to play when you pick up an SG may be to simply play standing up for the SG, and for the Ibanez, the PRS Hollowbody and so on. I’ll start playing the telecaster and go from there.
Since I’m staying with an electric pedal board, I’ll
try to find my own personal tone and save it as a file/patch. Then I can tweak it to the various guitars I have so everyone will know it’s me. No more lugging around large tube amps to keep your personal tone.
Fun times ahead!
https://youtu.be/JaaT_HRb4GU?si=JhA1J72w2YB6TmOT
I start the UN four year report by listing everything I did since the last report. You have to be meticulous about location, dates and events - but you only need a few. I have lots but because of Covid, others may find it difficult to come up with events.
No issues with Novavax as our government thinks about shutting down lab production of the vaccine here in Canada. I believe that’s federal jurisdiction while my human rights case is provincial. No matter I may be one of the few - and possibly the only one left - suing the government about vaccine deployment. The suit legal basics are solid even though they tried everything to quash it - the Novavax injection yesterday just reinforces my claims and mindset!
As for the lab and domestic Novavax production: Did they not forget how vulnerable we were not to have this capability during Covid? Are we going to have the same issue next time around with N95 masks that were never replaced when Sars hit again? Even I thought that was a once in a life time thing - now it’s every decade or two.
The Summit of the Future announcement should appear by Monday. After the initial excitement of seeing my philosophy there as part of it - reality came back and it’s just further movement of the advocacy and nothing else. Still I’m in there and I’m still a player. The angst I mention is simply a guy in his sixties who should be at peace with his fate and life and is not - but I’m still charging ahead and the future is still open to me with possibilities. That’s a rare thing at my age - it also make you anxious…..
Guitar corner and the music world:
I shift from collecting guitars to plying them and I already noticed something other players notice but may not have thought about the reasons why?
My SG Standard has the body cuts way lower than the Les Paul.
Take that Gibson SG I bought last week. The actual playable part of the guitar is virtually the same as my Gibson Les Paul Studio - but many used to the Les Paul will find the SG unplayable - why?
. Check out the body cut near the neck of my Les Paul.
I can tell you why! Check out where the comfort cut in the body is of the two guitars. The comfort cut is that pinch in the wood on the right side of the guitar. When you sit down to play the guitar you rest the guitar body on uour right thigh and it naturally fits in that comfort cut. But the Les Paul’s is higher up the guitar while the SG has it way lower. So people used to a Les Paul will find everything shifted to the left when they try out the SG.
This I find cool and you start to see how the designers went about their craft. Also with the SG it has two inside cuts near the base of the neck to get you easier access to the frets near the body, but the comfort cut also moves those hard to reach frets to the left making it easier to play them - cool if the player isn’t turned off by the whole shift in muscle memory.
I took a look at my Fenders and the telecaster and stratocaster have the comfort cut in the same place so a player can switch between the two no problem. Things get even more interesting when you play a hollowbody as the cut is way closer to the neck! The Ibanez is even stranger with more frets and the fretboard going lower down the body maybe three to four inches lower the Gibsons, In fact 7 and 8 string guitars have their payable dimensions lengthened as you add more strings - but for me I can keep the usual scale length.
Carlos Santana played an SG for Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock if you are interested, and it’s aggressive and just cuts through the mix. Plus he played the 61 SG with the heavy Grover tuners and then plays a cow bell during the song with the SG not diving to the ground! Check it out!
God man….. Watching that make me wish we could pull off FOFSTOCK 2 on Canada Day - but the Gods of Music say otherwise…..
My current Line 6 pedalboard!
So this is how i start playing the guitar - by examining the playing geometry between the typical electric guitars out there. The way to try out things learning to play when you pick up an SG may be to simply play standing up for the SG, and for the Ibanez, the PRS Hollowbody and so on. I’ll start playing the telecaster and go from there.
Since I’m staying with an electric pedal board, I’ll
try to find my own personal tone and save it as a file/patch. Then I can tweak it to the various guitars I have so everyone will know it’s me. No more lugging around large tube amps to keep your personal tone.
Fun times ahead!
https://youtu.be/JaaT_HRb4GU?si=JhA1J72w2YB6TmOT
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Re: A Social Club of One
Posted March 25, 2024,
And here you go - our announcement about our contribution to he United Nations Summit of the Future:
Specifically it is the “Zero Pact Draft for the Future”. In the end we did express ourselves here as we did at the Commission for Social Development. This much is huge right there but in the end, the final product it may be much less. However, nobody knows the future and anything can happen. We are still a part of the process even though some of our ideas are radical.
I am literally doing something that 99.9999999% percent of humanity are not doing and you could probably add some more nines to that percentage. I do have a real philosophy of living that points but does not define Humanity’s end goal. I am still doing things that matter as I slowly devolve into senility. All you can do is keep trying.
I am doing what I am good at as many have stated that I’m really good at this stuff. That gives you to basic tools. However, the people that matter are still those who have their positions of power by traditional ways. I somehow have to learn how to work that system to our advantage and advance that new Global Social Contract!
I’m well aware I’m getting older and this is where humans fail at getting things done - time just runs out on them. You clearly realize the fact that your mental faculties keep declining as you get older. All this conspires to keep humanity where they are as today’s technology runs amok to whatever ends that results. It may not be the idealistic end our Global Social Contract points to. All I can do is try and keep trying until I can’t anymore…..
Goodnight…..
https://youtu.be/ruBP1GkCJKE?si=v75Y3gO0Voksy4EH
And here you go - our announcement about our contribution to he United Nations Summit of the Future:
Maurice Ali wrote:IAIJ Submission to the Zero Draft Pact for the Future!
By Maurice Ali, International Association of Independent Journalists
Below is a contribution by IAIJ to the ongoing process of the United Nation’s “Summit of the Future” and specifically as input for the “Zero Draft Pact for the Future” part of the process. This process aims to update and define areas of our global culture that need to be addressed as humanity develops in this age of rapid technical advancement.
The link to our contribution can be found here:
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/fil ... future.pdf
IAIJ may be able to contribute further in these efforts in the future, as part of our mandate as a journalist association is to be good corporate citizens of the world! You have seen our motto over and over again in announcements, and that motto was made for a reason when we started IAIJ, we are in action around the world and this is just another example of that!
Local pdf capture of our submission:
https://fortressoffreedom.com/sof-iaij- ... future.pdf
IAIJ: JOURNALISTS IN ACTION AROUND THE WORLD!
Specifically it is the “Zero Pact Draft for the Future”. In the end we did express ourselves here as we did at the Commission for Social Development. This much is huge right there but in the end, the final product it may be much less. However, nobody knows the future and anything can happen. We are still a part of the process even though some of our ideas are radical.
I am literally doing something that 99.9999999% percent of humanity are not doing and you could probably add some more nines to that percentage. I do have a real philosophy of living that points but does not define Humanity’s end goal. I am still doing things that matter as I slowly devolve into senility. All you can do is keep trying.
I am doing what I am good at as many have stated that I’m really good at this stuff. That gives you to basic tools. However, the people that matter are still those who have their positions of power by traditional ways. I somehow have to learn how to work that system to our advantage and advance that new Global Social Contract!
I’m well aware I’m getting older and this is where humans fail at getting things done - time just runs out on them. You clearly realize the fact that your mental faculties keep declining as you get older. All this conspires to keep humanity where they are as today’s technology runs amok to whatever ends that results. It may not be the idealistic end our Global Social Contract points to. All I can do is try and keep trying until I can’t anymore…..
Goodnight…..
https://youtu.be/ruBP1GkCJKE?si=v75Y3gO0Voksy4EH
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Re: A Social Club of One
Posted March 26, 2024
I’ve finally got around to the UN quadrennial report. It’s just this workman like stuff to compile all your activities and list them for the NGO Committee to evaluate.
In other news:
I’m really starting to hate influencers. Influencers are hired guns for businesses to promote products. But much of that hinges on the trust the base has on what the influencer has to say about the product.
Here is one recent example - (I’ll try out the dash here instead of the : - sue me!)
When I bought the newer SG Standard, all these musician channels were saying how they would choose the 61 over the newer Standard and how it sounds better and is better made. Of course it’s more expensive - but “better made?” I never once heard one of them - no one - mention the design flaw of the 61 that was redesigned/fixed in the regular Standard. Hear me out even if you are not interested in guitars.
The original SG 61 had a thinner neck and a weaker joint between the neck and body. This was so flimsy that the guitar would flex so much during playing that it would go out of tune while playing - and then back in tune the when the neck sprang back into shape. This became noticeable when playing with other guitars at the same time or layering this guitar track with others. There were workarounds and professional players had to learn to have a light touch with this guitar. But this was a major handicap that was redesigned/fixed in the modern Standard.
Did any influencers mention this? Nope - not a one. One guy did mention the difference in the joint in his video but didn’t elaborate what that meant. So folk would just think the 61 was better and pay more for that. If they later found out about the design flaw Gibson would probably just say that this version was faithful to the design - warts and all…..
See how that works! Same as the piezo on that PRS Hollowbady II I bought. I just bought regular hollowbody, but all of YouTube said you had to get the Piezo version for 500 bucks more and get saddled with a battery and dual cable outlets nobody uses after a month. Same crap going on there. One guy was critical of that and called the Piezo version a “party trick” and got lambasted for that.
The worst part is that this happens everywhere as the YouTube algorithm only shows you the popular - and owned - influencers in your feed and you thus get the biased manufacturer’s version of a review.
That’s just my little influencer rant today. Happy I - lucked into - my regular Standard SG and didn’t get “influenced” into the more expensive guitar that goes in and out of tune on a whim…..
Goodnight…..
I’ve finally got around to the UN quadrennial report. It’s just this workman like stuff to compile all your activities and list them for the NGO Committee to evaluate.
In other news:
I’m really starting to hate influencers. Influencers are hired guns for businesses to promote products. But much of that hinges on the trust the base has on what the influencer has to say about the product.
Here is one recent example - (I’ll try out the dash here instead of the : - sue me!)
When I bought the newer SG Standard, all these musician channels were saying how they would choose the 61 over the newer Standard and how it sounds better and is better made. Of course it’s more expensive - but “better made?” I never once heard one of them - no one - mention the design flaw of the 61 that was redesigned/fixed in the regular Standard. Hear me out even if you are not interested in guitars.
The original SG 61 had a thinner neck and a weaker joint between the neck and body. This was so flimsy that the guitar would flex so much during playing that it would go out of tune while playing - and then back in tune the when the neck sprang back into shape. This became noticeable when playing with other guitars at the same time or layering this guitar track with others. There were workarounds and professional players had to learn to have a light touch with this guitar. But this was a major handicap that was redesigned/fixed in the modern Standard.
Did any influencers mention this? Nope - not a one. One guy did mention the difference in the joint in his video but didn’t elaborate what that meant. So folk would just think the 61 was better and pay more for that. If they later found out about the design flaw Gibson would probably just say that this version was faithful to the design - warts and all…..
See how that works! Same as the piezo on that PRS Hollowbady II I bought. I just bought regular hollowbody, but all of YouTube said you had to get the Piezo version for 500 bucks more and get saddled with a battery and dual cable outlets nobody uses after a month. Same crap going on there. One guy was critical of that and called the Piezo version a “party trick” and got lambasted for that.
The worst part is that this happens everywhere as the YouTube algorithm only shows you the popular - and owned - influencers in your feed and you thus get the biased manufacturer’s version of a review.
That’s just my little influencer rant today. Happy I - lucked into - my regular Standard SG and didn’t get “influenced” into the more expensive guitar that goes in and out of tune on a whim…..
Goodnight…..
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Posted March 27, 2024
Another long survey for the UN. They want information from NGOs and only one per NGO. Anyway, that is what I did in the early morning.
This is a short week with Friday off so all the family stuff gets crammed in the remaining days.
I will say I’m easing off all the guitar hoopla. I didn’t even go to the music stores on the weekend. I did have to re-solder the cheap Chinese original solder job on the Kramer guitar jack. Anyway it works again. If it fails I’ll put in the Fender unit and buy the extra hardware so the better components fit.
Life just keeps moving on…..
https://youtu.be/G7b-_YcACuQ?si=lxvz-snna4Mcn3nF
Another long survey for the UN. They want information from NGOs and only one per NGO. Anyway, that is what I did in the early morning.
This is a short week with Friday off so all the family stuff gets crammed in the remaining days.
I will say I’m easing off all the guitar hoopla. I didn’t even go to the music stores on the weekend. I did have to re-solder the cheap Chinese original solder job on the Kramer guitar jack. Anyway it works again. If it fails I’ll put in the Fender unit and buy the extra hardware so the better components fit.
Life just keeps moving on…..
https://youtu.be/G7b-_YcACuQ?si=lxvz-snna4Mcn3nF
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March 28, 2024
A late one today. Friday is a holiday so Thursday is rushing around to get things done.
These are just notes for me.
The four year update for the UN only needs one section to finish.
I have to contact the rental car company to get a rental car for when we drop our car off. It’s impossible to get them by phone but maybe Saturday.
I start playing the guitar this weekend as people usually do. I have entered the guitar universe backwards as most start with lessons and then - if they stuck with it - get into the gear and theory. I have passed my one year anniversary so I have beaten most by now. I did it my way and I’m still in the hobby!
I need more sleep so I am adjusting my timetable. It actually is doable so more sleep and a more effective me…..
Goodnight…..
A late one today. Friday is a holiday so Thursday is rushing around to get things done.
These are just notes for me.
The four year update for the UN only needs one section to finish.
I have to contact the rental car company to get a rental car for when we drop our car off. It’s impossible to get them by phone but maybe Saturday.
I start playing the guitar this weekend as people usually do. I have entered the guitar universe backwards as most start with lessons and then - if they stuck with it - get into the gear and theory. I have passed my one year anniversary so I have beaten most by now. I did it my way and I’m still in the hobby!
I need more sleep so I am adjusting my timetable. It actually is doable so more sleep and a more effective me…..
Goodnight…..
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March 29, 2024
Well now, seems to be more visitors here than usual and it didn’t drop off quickly - as usual.
So here is your welcome statement.
My name is Maurice Ali. A sad example of a human back in the day doing a nowhere job in a nowhere life. But I decided to perform an experiment. I called it “The Fortress Experiment” to find out the best way to live our lives and help humanity reach its goals. I still don’t know what that goal is as the experiment only shows the way to that goal but not the goal itself.
Long story short - In decided to commit my life to a moral imperative - and when I did my life changed forever. That moral imperative is that if people more talented than others don’t try to make the world a better place, they will be supplanted by others with more selfish goals that would lead the world to a worse place. I’m not the only one doing this of course, but people do tell me I’m good at this.
I almost live the life of a super hero, and by that I mean I live my life as the basically mundane individual I am - but I also have this alter-ego that tries to save the world. It’s not exactly what I thought it would be - but it does have its moments.
Anyway, you can rummage through almost 20 years of daily posts to figure out what’s going on here - or you can watch a movie with the highlights of it all here:
https://youtu.be/wUgkGUP4o9g?si=EVMY-cPQTNO-blsE
Want more? I made a TV series (yes, I made it on network TV twice (Global Television Network & CTV) and here you will find a deeper dive into it all:
https://youtu.be/7k5cEzDL0FM?si=EpKLqYAmCcla377n
Whatever interests you. I’ve been at this for almost twenty years. I did score on the ideas, concepts, and in the end a philosophy of life for humanity. I was a philosophy major in university as well as a business major, so this adventure put all my talents - if you can call it that - to work……
Welcome…..
Well now, seems to be more visitors here than usual and it didn’t drop off quickly - as usual.
So here is your welcome statement.
My name is Maurice Ali. A sad example of a human back in the day doing a nowhere job in a nowhere life. But I decided to perform an experiment. I called it “The Fortress Experiment” to find out the best way to live our lives and help humanity reach its goals. I still don’t know what that goal is as the experiment only shows the way to that goal but not the goal itself.
Long story short - In decided to commit my life to a moral imperative - and when I did my life changed forever. That moral imperative is that if people more talented than others don’t try to make the world a better place, they will be supplanted by others with more selfish goals that would lead the world to a worse place. I’m not the only one doing this of course, but people do tell me I’m good at this.
I almost live the life of a super hero, and by that I mean I live my life as the basically mundane individual I am - but I also have this alter-ego that tries to save the world. It’s not exactly what I thought it would be - but it does have its moments.
Anyway, you can rummage through almost 20 years of daily posts to figure out what’s going on here - or you can watch a movie with the highlights of it all here:
https://youtu.be/wUgkGUP4o9g?si=EVMY-cPQTNO-blsE
Want more? I made a TV series (yes, I made it on network TV twice (Global Television Network & CTV) and here you will find a deeper dive into it all:
https://youtu.be/7k5cEzDL0FM?si=EpKLqYAmCcla377n
Whatever interests you. I’ve been at this for almost twenty years. I did score on the ideas, concepts, and in the end a philosophy of life for humanity. I was a philosophy major in university as well as a business major, so this adventure put all my talents - if you can call it that - to work……
Welcome…..
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Re: A Social Club of One
Posted March 29, 2024
I welcomed the three hundred people at IAIJ AND FOF and they all left now - Hahaha…..
Pointing them to my videos always does the trick. I would have been exciting if it was people from the UN, but probably not as they stayed past work hours - oh well…..
Now for updates.
Remember me getting developer status at Apple for free? Well it’s not so free as I have to have a Mac to upload the iOS version of the voting app to the app store. Unless something has changed you need a Mac to download and use Xcode and within Xcode is the ability to upload the source code to Apple. If there is interest I will buy a new Mac and do it and then emulate Windows on the Mac and go from there.
The four year United Nations report is almost done.
My current Line 6 pedalboard!
I have relearned how to use the Line 6 pedal board and having fun with it. If that is the direction I’m going I’ll move up to a Helix - but only when I can see the need to upgrade.
That is it for now…..
Goodnight…..
I welcomed the three hundred people at IAIJ AND FOF and they all left now - Hahaha…..
Pointing them to my videos always does the trick. I would have been exciting if it was people from the UN, but probably not as they stayed past work hours - oh well…..
Now for updates.
Remember me getting developer status at Apple for free? Well it’s not so free as I have to have a Mac to upload the iOS version of the voting app to the app store. Unless something has changed you need a Mac to download and use Xcode and within Xcode is the ability to upload the source code to Apple. If there is interest I will buy a new Mac and do it and then emulate Windows on the Mac and go from there.
The four year United Nations report is almost done.
My current Line 6 pedalboard!
I have relearned how to use the Line 6 pedal board and having fun with it. If that is the direction I’m going I’ll move up to a Helix - but only when I can see the need to upgrade.
That is it for now…..
Goodnight…..
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Re: A Social Club of One
Posted March 31, 2024
I cheated and took Saturday off…..
There is no question now that my perspective on life has changed. Or maybe just rationalizing things as they are. At my age there is no lamenting your situation as there are no other options anymore. Your situation is your situation. A better perspective is that there is no starting over anymore, you are too old for that; therefore the path in front of you is the only path to take and deal with.
This simplifies life for most. For most it’s just getting your house in order for retirement. The problem with me is that I’m old enough but not there yet! Sometimes you like it that you still have things to do - but other times it’s like: “Just let me grow old and die!” - it’s humorous when you think about it. But those in your past are dying off and you are constantly reminded of your mortality.
Then there is the advocacy. That is still going on and that is your life’s work and important for humanity to have as one of many options. But you are now community property till things fully flesh themselves out. The UN stuff is not over yet. But I think somewhere my ideas will get their chance and it happens and gets somewhere or rejected and forgotten. And that can happen in an instant. Just like your life, it is all just a series of clear minded moments when your important parts of your life gets played out.
Right now it’s the Positive Mandate for Humanity, the Worldwide Vote, and altogether as the new Global Social Contract. The AI stuff is the side event even if it’s a threat to humanity. Resolve the fate of those concepts /philosophy and then I’m a free man. Maybe I will spend a few years legitimizing the ideas and concepts as a legacy if they go nowhere - but that will be my official life.
By that time I will be all worn out. With the exception of maybe six years, my life seems to have been purpose built for what I am doing now. There is a purpose in that if you don’t do the family thing. But life is shorter than you think. Actually, another way to look at it is that only those who lucked into their life being purpose built for a task, get to try it out as life is too short for the others to get somewhere. So start a family and that is it, you will never do anything else. Life is too short for multi-tasking.
So this was my mood for Saturday. I went to the music stores to cheer me up. I only bought some strings. I have all the guitars I need. I am working that electronic pedal board again. So the guitar business is a pleasant distraction.
Sunday is a make up day for a Saturday. It will not be fun.
Goodnight…..
https://youtu.be/EFDZKaIT7ro?si=4P8LL_fmcTp4ysl6
https://youtu.be/opbi7d42s8E?si=NxcPzpPfVYF_epOF
I cheated and took Saturday off…..
There is no question now that my perspective on life has changed. Or maybe just rationalizing things as they are. At my age there is no lamenting your situation as there are no other options anymore. Your situation is your situation. A better perspective is that there is no starting over anymore, you are too old for that; therefore the path in front of you is the only path to take and deal with.
This simplifies life for most. For most it’s just getting your house in order for retirement. The problem with me is that I’m old enough but not there yet! Sometimes you like it that you still have things to do - but other times it’s like: “Just let me grow old and die!” - it’s humorous when you think about it. But those in your past are dying off and you are constantly reminded of your mortality.
Then there is the advocacy. That is still going on and that is your life’s work and important for humanity to have as one of many options. But you are now community property till things fully flesh themselves out. The UN stuff is not over yet. But I think somewhere my ideas will get their chance and it happens and gets somewhere or rejected and forgotten. And that can happen in an instant. Just like your life, it is all just a series of clear minded moments when your important parts of your life gets played out.
Right now it’s the Positive Mandate for Humanity, the Worldwide Vote, and altogether as the new Global Social Contract. The AI stuff is the side event even if it’s a threat to humanity. Resolve the fate of those concepts /philosophy and then I’m a free man. Maybe I will spend a few years legitimizing the ideas and concepts as a legacy if they go nowhere - but that will be my official life.
By that time I will be all worn out. With the exception of maybe six years, my life seems to have been purpose built for what I am doing now. There is a purpose in that if you don’t do the family thing. But life is shorter than you think. Actually, another way to look at it is that only those who lucked into their life being purpose built for a task, get to try it out as life is too short for the others to get somewhere. So start a family and that is it, you will never do anything else. Life is too short for multi-tasking.
So this was my mood for Saturday. I went to the music stores to cheer me up. I only bought some strings. I have all the guitars I need. I am working that electronic pedal board again. So the guitar business is a pleasant distraction.
Sunday is a make up day for a Saturday. It will not be fun.
Goodnight…..
https://youtu.be/EFDZKaIT7ro?si=4P8LL_fmcTp4ysl6
https://youtu.be/opbi7d42s8E?si=NxcPzpPfVYF_epOF
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