Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Insatiableth
Still pointlessly pondering the innate and total division of Insatiables and Deplorables.
Even if I had been aware of the permanent partition when I was young enough to choose a life path, it still would have been hard to test my own position. When I tried to sound contemptuous, and Insatiables chuckled indulgently at my weak attempts, I might have figured out that I didn't belong there. Instead I just tried harder. I finally hit the wall at age 35, finally realized that I'd been wasting effort and time on an impossible task.
There were plenty of markers and shibboleths for D vs I available in the '50s and '60s, but most were in the world of investments and big business. I wasn't living in those worlds and had no contact with them.
There was ONE firm and objective Insatiableth available within my cohort in the '50s and '60s.
Spaceflight. Going to the moon. It's the PERFECT expression of exponential thinking, the perfect marker for Insatiability. Spaceflight has ABSOLUTELY NO PURPOSE except to say I WANT MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE. I WANT IT ALL AND I WANT INFINITY AND I WANT INFINITY TIMES INFINITY AND I WANT INFINITY TO THE INFINITY'TH POWER. And after I get MORE MORE MORE, it will only count as one tiny baby step .... one small step for man ....
It was all perfectly visible within the scientific and academic world I inhabited.
I never understood the point of spaceflight. It's like football or gambling. Why would you EVER want to do or think about such things?
If the concept of permanent caste distinction had been available and accessible in those years, my total lack of interest in space would have been an objective 'aptitude test' for Insatiability.
Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Leth
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