>Marsha >I was surprised that there was such thing as neuromarketing, but not >really surprised that science is a handmaiden to commerce. > >I am terribly sad. > >[Krimel] >Perhaps you could list for me the aspect of the modern world that are not >handmaidens of commerce because I am having a hard time coming up with any >at all.
Marsha I don't get into a 'the modern world sucks!' mood very often, but I'm in one now, and it is times like these when it's best to work out in the garden, count my breaths, and try to spare everyone my moaning that a world-wide depression and a flu pandemic might just bring everybody to their senses. There, I've confessed what a monster I am. [Case] When I get into a 'the modern world sucks!' I try to think about two things that usually help. First, I remember that the good old days sucked more. Second, I hope that the world of my grandchildren will suck less. I imagine that I exist suspended on a membrane Whose surfaces tension divides remembrance and hope; Indra's net of NOW. On that membrane the flotsam and jetsam Of "'this' and 'that'" Are scattered "'here' and 'there' about me. I surf the waves of Newton Rings; Interference patterns of past and future. "I" become a reflection; The world in a glass, darkly. In that frothy slur of time I am pulled by strange attractors of Habit Around me, illusions coalesce. I pick at them like jelly beans Or piles of M&Ms With all the browns removed... If we are to snack on Indra's jewels Must we always suck the liquorish? Can't we toss out out the brown ones ourselves? Why must everyone always Be brought to their senses By famine and disease? Can't hope and love change the world? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
