W.R. Baker Reads "Lazarus Wigley" (2011)

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

2011



This current America is like the silliest excuse for a culture I’ve ever seen or heard of.  You might think the reign of Louis XVI would qualify or Nicholas II, the final Czar of Russia.  How a society grows its people, how it takes care of her poor and most importantly its enduring aim determines its fate.

Our lives held in common hope by our communication devices, our particular genetic branches and the condition of our familial connections causes us to repeat certain behaviors ad nauseam.  Our lives are just like in the movie Groundhog Day without the redemptive quality.

These are two key elements to this kind of life.  The first is the glorious dream of our evolution.  We have been born and will continue to evolve till death do us part (contrary to the evidence).  The second key is found in our belief that that there are codes hidden everywhere in existence which enable us to control reality or, at least, to simulate say a universe so we can investigate it.  This gives us the power of prediction.

Given the data, we might know what will happen – the outcome of a horse race, a coming tsunami, a Presidential election, or how a friend feels.  Locked within the codes are tickers or inspirations, if you like, which give us the answer:  Our victories and our failures vanish.  What matters is our fortitude.

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