If It Feels good, it must Be Good

This is a common assumption. In it's expanded form it is "If it feels good, it must be good for me!"

This is why it never exits in its slightly expanded form. Anyone who is high on a drug will say the same thing. It is part of every advertisement you will see or hear. That wants you to buy, buy, buy!

But in its original form, it is as popular as ever.

Most Money Exists as Bank Balances

This where my money is: in an account in Wells Fargo bank in the States.

Once a month this account gets credited with more money from Social Security's account. And I can use my credit card, in Costa Rica, to get the cash I need for my rent. There is a small charge for changing Dollars into Colonies.

I am not in the drug business, but if I were, I would be getting a lot of cash, boxes of it. When what I needed was money in a bank balance. The process of moving this cash into a bank balance is known as money laundering.

This is illegal, but banks in Southern Florida are doing a lot of it, and this contributes to the booming economy there.

Facebook's Libra currency would do the same thing, without any banks being involved. Members of Congress are up in arms about this because this would cost them a lot of money, that they get from the banks.

The World as a TV Show

I have often said to myself that I would pay no attention to any more stories about Trump. But this was impossible.

In the Washington Post this morning, in the story about his visit to North Korea, I read "He often thinks of himself as a Director and Producer." It doesn't have to say "of his own TV show." And it doesn't have to say "And he is the most important actor in it!:"

We all know the importance of actors and actresses. We should be noticing the people who run the show. But instead, we notice the actors on the stage, who are just hired hands. Because they are the most visible. We are more interested in Appearances than Reality.

And the dominant Appearance now is the Magic Screen on which you are reading this. It is no longer a Movie screen or anything like it. But we do not notice the difference. It looks real, so it must be real.

And we must be like it. Entirely artificial.

It's Too Hard for me to Understand

As I continue to play around with Software Design (I am learning Angular and Blockchain) I find myself saying this frequently "I don't understand this!"

I do not worry that Computers will take over the world because they already have! And we have not died.

We are surrounded by smart machines, but they still need us, and always will.

If you are using your Smartphone, you are helping one of them.

She is Telling Us about Herself

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

She has a good feel for her life, this is what makes her writing so interesting.

But she does not have a good feel for most of her readers. She thinks they want to understand her when they do not.

If she understood this, she would not have tried to kill herself.

The Importance of the Actor in Politics

To be a successful Politician, one must be a successful Actor.

This something the Democrats (after FDR) have not understood. they do not know what roles they are playing on the Global stage.

The Republicans. by contrast, have their role already made for them. Which is simple: Destroy everything!

Mothers who want Their Mothers to Take Care of Their Children

I have mixed feelings about this, I have known families where this shared responsibility works fine, and everyone benefits from it, especially the children, who always have someone to take care of them.

In other families, the mother abandons her child to the care of others, and it doesn't matter who that other person, or persons, is. This has a devastating impact on the child.

Having a child is a big responsibility, that is why I do not have any. But many parents (including my own) did not realize this and were bad parents.