Jadah woke you up and you went through the
chores – take the paper to the neighbor next door, fresh water and food (canned
and dry) for the cats, clean their cat litter, sweep the kitchen floor,
breakfast, clean up, make the bed and give Jadah a belly rub (currently Spooky
is downstairs in a south window and Jadah is sitting in her box next to the
east window. Carol called as they were on the way to Logan and on down to the
Hocking County hills and other natural wonders. – Amorella
0940 hours. Jadah is sitting in full sun with eyes shut and a hint
of purring. I am taking a short nap then I’ll be ready to meet the day.
Mid-afternoon. Two car magazines arrived
today and the first one you picked up to read over a lunch of half a peanut
butter and raisin sandwich on wheat and a cup of wheat cereal with skim milk
was this August issue of Motor Trend. The article that brings pure
delight down deep is titled, “Real MPG” which begins on page ninety-four. The
definition standards are set out for measuring the mileage in one hundred cars.
This is followed by ten sets of statistics in graph format. The eight are: 1,
City Mileage; 2, Highway Mileage; 3, Fuel Consumption by Car Brand; 4,
Propulsion Type [Electric, Hybrid, Gas, Diesel]; 5, Road Mix [Highway/City]; 6,
Effect of AC; 7, Engine Size; 8, Aggression Effect [Behavior]; 9, Congestion
Effect; and 10, Driving Circumstances. These are compared in the graphs with
the EPA MPG Ratings. To you this article is scientifically valid if the
statistics are printed correctly. – Amorella
1515 hours. I love the article in that it sets out to show some
validity in miles per gallon statistics and it doing so, one can see that
measuring a car’s miles per gallon is rather complicated rather than following
a simple formula. Lots of variables have to be considered and even then the
car’s miles per gallon are always an estimate (some closer than others).
Why
then, I wonder, why we feel we can accurately measure the amount of knowledge a
human being absorbs and adapts for use throughout her or his public and/or
private education from the ages 5 through 18. If one sets ten variables for miles
per gallon what are the variables to be set in the life and growth of a human
life for fourteen years? What about the setting of life and growth before the
age of 5 – from day 1 through the fifth birthday?
This was not where you were expecting to go,
is it boy? – Amorella
1531 hours. No. The focus was on measuring automobile miles per
gallon. I moved this to measuring human beings educational growth. And in the
process I think about the variables of heart, soul, and mind. How do we Homo
sapiens measure these? If we want a report card, then we should be more
accurate. Our report cards are not so accurate at all. Next I suppose, we
should measure individual human worth. I have little doubt that as the
centuries move on, people will work on this. What will be the ‘standard’ –
freedom and dignity? What would be the standard definitions of freedom and
dignity to begin with? Hmm. Life is complicated enough, life lived in full
consciousness is even more so. Now, from this, I jump to our marsupial
humanoids who have lived 20,000 more years of social, cultural and scientific
advancement.
You are curious about these fictional
marsupial humanoids and want to have taken into account a growth human beings
have not had. From your perspective human beings still live in ‘city states’ as
did the Greeks – large groups and smaller groups. We cover this. Small groups
are private family settings; large groups are run by models of efficiency that
allow for branches of freedom and dignity from a trunk of health and safety, legal
and social rules of norm, theoretical and practical education, social and
scientific technology and ever creative adaptive procedures to allow for
further branching in the fields of freedom and dignity of the human individual
and the group. The model is based on roots, a tree trunk, branches and leaves.
Freedom and dignity is in the leaf structure. How’s that? – Amorella
Health and safety; legal and social; education; technology; and
creative adaptation are the five aspects of the trunk. The branching would be
production and labor and the leaf would be the semi-structural family unit. (1606)
This is the basic structure that these
Merlyn books will follow. The idea is that the ‘tree’ as it will, can grow as
well as trimmed. It is as a living dynamic, a plant living in an existential
circumstance. That’s how the marsupial humanoids understand and use this – as a
living plant, not a hypothetical model of how a government should be run.
– Amorella
1612 hours. How I got to this place is interesting. I am happy it is
written down as it ‘happened’ its way out of my head.
You
had baked beans and wieners for supper and an apple presently. You watched ABC
and NBC News and figured out how to re-establish yourself on the Internet via
the TV but now you forget how to turn the sound off as well as the TV other
than from the set. It is a ‘remotes’ problem – too many of them. - Amorella
2219 hours. I stayed away from the TV today until news time. I
watched a couple of new programs we had copied but have not seen. I don’t think
Carol will like either one. I know I don’t. I tried watching a free film on an
Internet channel but there were commercials and the wireless transmission is too
slow. I thought it would be; now I know it to be a fact. This will make life
simpler – no Netflix or other such Internet film resources on the TV. I’ll read
more about running the remotes. I have four with the cable remote. I’m ready
for bed.
Carol will be heading home in the morning.
Post. – Amorella
2227 hours. I really want to finish up this chapter two so I can get
back to completing the first book.
Let’s work on it. – Amorella
2235 hours. That was quick. It has been cut down to some 570 words
but most of it is from Soki – this will have to be really modified.
We can use the material from today’s blog –
the focus can be on a discussion between Hartolite and Friendly focusing on Blake
in a discussion on how they govern. First, Blake listens and the reader sees
his thoughts as the women speak. How will that be? – Amorella
It is something to consider. The topic sounds pretty dry though. It
would be better as a lively discussion.
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