Notes - thinking on Marsupials / Seldon Crisis? /

       Mid-morning. You are waiting for Carol at the community center. Jill is cleaning the house. Cloudy with a cool brisk wind today and showers coming this afternoon. You have the windows down why? – Amorella

       1044 hours. You surprise me with such a question. I put them up. It is more comfortable – I think the wind just kicked up a couple of notches. 

      You are more comfortable thinking of me resting in your superego. – Amorella

       1046 hours. I am. I began reading Freud in high school. I was interested in psychology. Freud and Jung have been my favorites (probably because I have read more of their books and tended to agree with their concepts). Wanted to be a better person has been a life objective, part of the learning experience – maturing although at this late date in life I can’t imagine ‘maturing’ meaning too much.

       You have trouble, from time to time defining ‘better’ in terms of personhood and as such lean to Plato and Aristotle. – Amorella

       1055 hours. Now that comment triggers a thought – what would the Dead think about ‘good, better and best’?

       How about keeping this in your present physics for the time being – how do the Marsupial humanoids differ from Homo sapiens in terms of the personal and social concepts of ‘good’?

       1101 hours. Good – ‘being morally right’ comes to mind. I need to drop in Plato’s definition.

       No, you do not. The question, more specifically, is the Marsupial working definition of ‘being morally right’, that is being good from both a personal and a social perspective. – Amorella

       1107 hours. I think I already have that someplace in the segments.

       Time to go pick up Carol. Later, dude. – Amorella

       You are outside Barnes and Noble at Streets of Westchester. It is raining; the temperature has dropped from the mid-sixties to the mid-fifties. Carol is taking a nap; tired from the pills she is taking for poison ivy – four a day for four days, then three a day, etc. She picked up the pills yesterday and is already seeing an improvement. You came here to take advantage of the free WiFi but it is too slow. – Amorella

       You are home and Carol is on her iMac. Trump is the lone nominee left for the Republicans as of this afternoon. Saunders has nothing to lose by continuing on as long as his funds hold out. Presently Clinton appears far out front. As I write you are thinking of Asimov’s trilogy, and the politics involved leading up to and after a Seldon Crisis. – Amorella

       1430 hours. We had lunch at Panera/Chipotle and one of the part time workers; a retired meat cutter for Kroger’s, Norb, comes over and chats with us when it is not busy. He was at the old Kroger’s on Tylersville Road back in the mid-seventies when we first moved into this area. He came up to us today to tap knuckles for Trump. I told him we usually voted Democratic. Democrats support education much more than Republicans from our perspective. I mentioned I lean European socialist. I then asked him if he would still talk with us and he said yes. This is the way it should be in my mind, we will still talk to one another even though our politics is different. Norb is a nice guy, friendly. He retired a year or two ago.

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