Hello, it's "The Husband". Dutifully carrying out my assignment to post
something on the Cake Eater Chronicles today. I've been thinking of
what to write about for the past day or so, and have come up with any
number of possibilities. Every time I see something on the news that
seems interesting, it fades quickly from my attention. I just don't
take all the news that seriously anymore. The issue has to have a
little more impact on my life than the Kobe Bryant case to
make me care.
So I just thought I'd get on, and in true blogger fashion, write
whatever comes to the top of mind. Sort of a stream of consciousness
post. Well, that got me going already. There's Stream of Consciousness like this...

...or like this...

...or like this. (Warning, don't go get this one on a dial up connection...unless you need to go make a pot of coffee and can wait for it.)
And probably many more.
"But!" you say, "It's not really a stream of consciousness if you keep
pausing to put these links in the blog, is it!" Not so. Everyone's
consciousness has developed to function differently with different
skill sets. Mine happens to be tuned to manipulating the Internet for
knowledge and entertainment. The interface on the Blogger post window
makes it easy to drop links like that in anyway. There is a difference,
however, between the development of an individual's consciousness and
the evolution of consciousness for a population as a whole. Kathy and I
are forever having an argument about this. Her being Catholic kind of
makes it difficult to accept my position that some people are more
evolved than others at this very moment here on Earth. This page might explain it better
than I can alone. It's very difficult for some people to grasp that
concept, as we each only have the perspective of our own experience at
any given moment. But if you can get past some of that, you can see how
those at the green level look down on those at the orange level. Or,
this can explain the difference in mind-set between the eco-freaks and
the capitalist pigs. You have to be careful when looking at that overly
simplified model, however. Those levels of development are gross
generalizations, and each individual will progress through similar
stages of development, and while the society they live in may be
centered around one level or another, personally they may be far
advanced or far behind in their own worldview. I read a fascinating
example of this somewhere, it may have been in one of Ken Wilber's books.
The demonstration was to give a child of about 3 a book. The cover of
the book is Blue on one side and Orange on the other. When you hold the
book up to the child so that they only see the orange side, and ask
them what color you are looking at, they will say orange. They can't
yet distinguish from their own perspective and that of another. A few
years later, the same child will understand that if she's looking at
the blue side, then you must see the orange side. Concrete examples
like this continue on up until we are able to demonstrate some
functioning at a very high level. Some people we run into on a regular
basis, never achieve this level.
What is usually the bone of contention between Kathy and myself on this
point, is that I say there will never be peace in the Middle-east until
parties on both sides evolve past their current combination of
red-warlike power structures and blue mytho-authoritarian leadership.
They may not even be capable of peace as they can't see it's benefits.
The rest of the world is not helping them progress either. We're
constantly trying to appease each side in the spirit of "peace" thus
preventing them from working through their problems and LEARNING FROM
THE EXPERIENCE so that they can evolve to the next level (orange) and
start becoming capitalist pigs with the rest of us. *evil grin*
Actually, even the capitalist pigs aren't that anymore. Those types of
business people are mainly in foreign countries now. More and more
people in America realise that to do good business is to combine with
others toward a common positive goal. It's not healthy to burn bridges,
the words of war are no longer so acceptable in the conference room. We
now speak of synergy instead of hostile takeovers. (Although the latter
still happens - no change is ever complete and instantaneous, we've got
a ways to go.) Ok, I've gone on long enough. I could continue, but I
doubt you've read my nonsense even this far. You should at least now
have an understanding of my My Bride is so special...she chooses to
live with me with drivel like this escaping my lips day in and day out.
So be nice to Kathy when she comes back...perhaps take her shoe
shopping. :-)

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