That was a valid question for Shakespear. but not for today.. The most traveled path now is to follow our advertisers. We buy what they want us to buy, and believe what they want us to believe.
The other path is more up-to-date, we become Computers.
If you go this route, you get in bed with Microsoft or Google. If you have a young mind. If you are old. like me, you are out of luck.
I got this insight from my brother Steve, who have to have brain surgery after he fell and hit his head. His brain bounced around inside the brain cavity inside his skull. His doctor did a scan on his head and decided he had to be operated on.
We had a cousin, John Ourth, who had the same injury a few years ago but died from it. If you hurt your little brain, take care of it now!
I could write my own psych-ward book, about Beth's time in one in Santa Barbara, California. Beth was beautiful but crazy and could attract crazies wherever she went.
Beth our donkey (and me) used to go backpacking. The further away we got from other people, the better we felt. We had our own life, but it was not working
This book has nothing about that. It's about Psych-wards only, with their own assortment of crazies. I have ordered the book, to be downloaded to my Fire tablet.
And this has a profound effect on his behavior, and on the behavior of others toward him.
For example, we were pulled over by the police, who were doing some kind of security check. We sat there for the longest time, while other vehicles were waved by. Why?
The officer thought we were suspicious. He had his antennas out, and they detected something suspicious (homosexual behavior).
You have heard the news, a new version of what Hannah Arendt wrote about in 1964 when she formed the phrase we never forgot "The Banality of Evil".
It might be useful to summarize that situation again. Eichmann had been found and taken to Isreal to stand trial amid sensational publicity, this was going to be the Trial of the Century. It was a Show Trial instead, one we have completely forgotten.
In the same way, we will soon forget yesterday's incident.
We gave ourselves a workout this Wednesday morning.
Ray's car has been in a garage Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. But today, a Wednesday, he put himself, and his car ar my service.
The first thing we did was to go to our bank (in Paraiso). and use my debit card to get a bunch of cash, in Colonies (for rent), then we did my shopping, in Cartago.
I frequently cook Pasta with Pesto, and he knows a store, in the backcountry, that imports Pesto. I got two bottles of that.
Aeroposr was nexr, that flies my packages from Miami, Florida to Cartago, Costa Rica. I got a box of Hershey Chocolate bars, They charged me an arm and a leg for that. My cash was running low.
Next PIzza Hur. where I got a whole box of Pizza, Which went into the freezer. There was a was a huge traffic jam on the way.
I got home dead tired.
Is the Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet with all the accessories, which gives you everything under the sun.
I bought it, everything included, and then let it explain what all these extra things are, and whether I want them or not (most of them I don't).
Everything wants a place in my mind, and I will have to keep saying "No!".
