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New & Improved
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Everything is new and improved. I'm not really a new and improved kinda guy, it's not my market, I buy what I have to, what inspires me, and that's it.
But there's a market for it. It's been created, the stage set with 50 years of laundry detergent and dish soap getting better and better, until finally you would think it would wash the sins from the world, yet somehow still it's only laundry detergent...
The laundry detergent was only the marketing research. Then came technology, with obvious and noticeable improvements. The kind that demanded you replace things every couple of years. They caught on to this, the technology people, exploited it by building their products to fail should you ignore the cultural imperative to upgrade. More Memory, more RAM, flat screen TV's, flatter screened TV's, richer streaming content, games and media. Most people have more technology on their desktop than NASA had when they sent people to the moon. It is used in over 90% of instances as a diversion, recreation, an escape. This is the world of New and Improved.
Jealousy
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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Jealousy. I've wondered about this, wondered where it came from. I've had girlfriends who'd been jealous, some more than others. And I'd been jealous myself. And of what value was it?
And I had an Epiphany.
Jealousy is the imagining of what we would do were we in our partners position.
It's the projection of our worst selves upon others. And, if we've made a bad match, maybe we're right.
And then there is lack of jealousy. In which we project our best selves upon others, imagine that they would do what we would in similar circumstance, by "we" I mean the best of "we", the "we" possessed of those noblest of qualities: love, loyalty, fidelity and honor.
And if we've again made a bad match, maybe we're wrong.
But I understand it now.
To boil it down, make it quotable, try this: "jealousy is the presumption that others are doing as we would do in their position."
Birds on a wire
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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There's something zen about this. Not just the music (the Asian Influences are obvious), but in the recognition of the sublime in the ordinary...
Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.
Old Blog, New Style
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And with the change in season I've set myself the goal of refreshing my blog. The migration went off seamlessly, (whew!) and so all content is now in the new format. Nonetheless there remain some bugs to be worked out - styles from the old blog overflow some of the pages (I'll have to fix this..), images need to be resized, some of the functionality of the old blog has disappeared, but will be replaced and improved upon.
Everything takes time.
Until then, thank you for your patience, and if you should see something that needs fixing please don't hesitate to let me know.
Cheers.
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