VR (Virtual Reality) is expensive

You use a complicated headset to do this, with all kinds of wires sticking out of it. 

This puts a screen in front of your eyes, then as you move your head, it moves the image on the screen to make it seem to not move. Got that? 

It also claims to move the image 360 degrees, but I have not seen that yet. Learning how to use it will be a challenge.

Doing all this is difficult and requires exotic and expensive hardware and software. And is used mainly for gaiming (nothing useful). 

The Oculus Rift S Headset I use costs $399. But needs a high-end laptop that costs $599! It only runs on Windows.

They Know know Nothing, but Destroy Everything

This is extreme, but I think an extreme view is necessary now. All we have to is look around us, and see what is going on 

It's easy enough to see people who are doing something useful, but we also have to see the vast number who are not. 

At this point, we have to do something ourselves. Maybe not a lot, but something. 

What goes on in a Psych Ward

I hope you never have to see this for yourself. It is not a pretty sight. 

I was married to a beautiful, but crazy young woman for five years in the Sixties. Her craziness kept gettng worse, and she was locked up in a psych ward in the County hospital for Santa Barbara, California. 

Their operating procedure was simple: they gave an incoming patient a shot of an antipsychotic drug that knocked them out. They went to sleep for a day or two - and when they woke up they were a different person! 

When Beth woke up, she was no longer the loving wife. She informed me, quite calmly, tht she wanted a divorce.

I left her, and wenr to a new job in Denver. Two years later, Beth killed herself. 

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Why am I interested in this. Something so advanced, I can hardly understand it? 

Because it makes me a spectator to an enormous group interaction. I can sit in front of my laptop, with a fast Internet connection, and watch the guts of the world create a new reality. That may or may not be a better one. 

Where someone like me, who only knows a little, can rub shoulders with the extremely bright. 

Most Relationships are not Working

I hesitate to say this because most people are saying "everything is working, as good as can be expected, under the circumstances, and we should not try to make it better."

I am pessimistic, they are optimistic. 

That first phrase "most people" is a tough one, It includes a lot of people and a lot of relationships. 

I first wrote "many" instead of "most" but that didn't sound realistic. 

Consider the phrase "not working". This seems clear enough, until you look at it carefully, when all of a sudden, it reverses itself! 

You begin to wonder about your sanity. 

Too much Information is Depressing

I have been suffering from depression lately and have been wondering why. 

I have always assumed the more information the better. But I have realized there is a limit to how much information I can use. Going beyond this limit has serious consequences. 

As a practical matter, I had purchased the Oculus Rift S (for $399), was reading its description on Wikipedia, and feeling overwhelmed. Oculus was riding the VR wave and making its products better and better. And more complicated and expensive. 

I had sprung a trap, without realizing it. One that  Oculus (and the company who bought it, Facebook) had cleverly designed. 

The Ultimate Coffee Experience

I start with some Espresso Coffee, made in my Espresso machine. This is powerful stuff made with steam at high pressure. 

Then I add some Splenda to sweeten it. 

Then I add some Baileey's Irish Cream. 

Not bad!