My new project is about a mind alteration and intellectual reorientation. The subject is me, and by extension, you. It is what I had in mind, generally, when I changed the blog. And it has been sneaking up on me for about two years now.
It turns out that I am not particularly interested in becoming Lucifer Jones, or if I am, it is that Lucifer Jones is not particularly interested in theology. The reason for this is relatively simple for me to explain now that I've transitioned further out of political bloviation as a hobby. I'm not interested in things that need explanation - those things that are mediated through rhetoric. Instead I am much more interested in the physical world and mastery of the undeniable. This is of deep comfort to me personally. It reinscribes my original orientation towards the sciences having convinced myself that I could and do communicate with God without further assistance from you.
What I am to do with my philosophical curiosity remains unclear, but it is most likely to go slowly out of the window. I am satisfied that I have lived an ethical life above and beyond the call of duty, so in further pursuit of an actual understanding of God's creation I will remove myself even further from the rhetorical ambit of scribes and pharisees. I am sick to death of the semiotic swamp. I have spent too much time in thrall to it. Eggs is eggs. I revert to a Randian clarity with little patience for those who don't get it.
T50 itself is an arbitrary figure, but close enough, I imagine to all the rest I need to heed. It stands for 50 thinkers. I am pursuing the top fifty thinkers that I should mind for the rest of my life. The list stands at around 7 at the moment. So I'm thinking what I ought to do is find out these people and never buy any more books from anyone but them, and not concern myself with whatever else is going on. In other words, I'm working my way out of the world wide web and the surprises, outrages, analogies and derivative babblings of people like me.
Currently on the list are {Craig Venter, Nassim Taleb, Niall Ferguson, Steven Berlin Johnson, Michael Pollan, Om Malik, Tyler Cohen, Iain Banks, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Davis Hanson, Larry Kolb, Richard Fernandez}. I haven't reduced my RSS feeder to those individuals, partially because not all of them post regularly. But it's coming around to that.
Concurrently, I'm looking for a long-term puttering project. My guess is that it is likely to be packet radio or something of that sort. Something which is tangential to computing but allows me to build hardware. But I should also mention that because of Craig Venter, I am beginning to believe that Dyson's Utopia might actually become a possibility. If that is the case, then the city-state may re-emerge as the primary geopolitical entity. This bodes well for a retirement for me somewhere relatively geographically remote, and yet completely connected. I'd be doing a lot of gardening.
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