So I have only 158 views so far. Whatever. Most of them are probably mine.

And in that spirit, I think I'll share with the world my new toy:

Huzzah! It's the LU1508NH for all you Juki afictionados. Rad huh!

Background on Myself (and Humans too (Because I Am a Human))

My mind has created its own notion of time. In doing so, my life has devolved into "units". A unit is about an hour. I say “about” because units and hours aren't exactly the same thing, I'm just giving a frame of reference to communicate my concept of units. Units can change. Minutes don't exist. They're merely subdivisions of larger units.

I know that I'm referring to these measures of time as “units”, but they really don't have a name. Getting ready for the day typically takes a One. It's an annoying One because I end up doing it most days. If I need groceries, that entire errand typically takes a One as well. A One is the fastest I'm normally willing to do most things. If I meander up and down each isle looking at food label layouts, (like I usually do) it may take as much as a Two. There's an extra One spent looking at these things... So much to stare at at the grocery store!

Depending on what the unit (or Task) is, it may take a Half or even a One to work up my motivation to just start it. For example, convincing myself to get ready for the day typically takes a Half. That's just the mental convincing. The action of getting ready takes a One. So in total, waking up and getting ready takes a One and a Half, or a 'Naf (for ease of use). It's less than a One but more than a Half. During the Half when I lay in bed working myself up for the following One, I reason that I could get ready in a Half rather than a One. The reward for this breakthrough in thinking is that I get to turn the meditating Half into a meditating One. How? The whole process takes a 'Naf. No need to give that up.

Nothing I do is physically demanding, but the sustained focus required to finish most Tasks seems to require an unholy amount of mental to maintain constant progress throughout these menial Tasks that we humans have set up for ourselves. From time to time, this exertion for the menial can affect me in a physical manner which prompts me to nap.

Each of these Tasks represent a humanly perceived need. In my experience, most of the Tasks of my life have been mass-manufactured by my educational upbringing. Once I completed a graduation Task (the first of several), I moved on to other Tasks, such as those presented to me by my varied history of employers. The reward for completing Tasks is, (in addition to more Tasks) money units. A unit of money for my income bracket is about a hundred dollars. I may make Five or Six in a month. Four or Five of those will go to completing Tasks such as “the Regular” (also referred to as “bills”). Regular is singular because all bills really just add up to be one bill for my current quality of existence. That is the Regular.

Why does the Regular exist?

The regular represents humanly perceived need, or just Need. Need is what we have culturally evolved into expecting ourselves to have. Since all Needs are not created equal, some Needs are better than others. These Needs are often confused with what I call True Needs. True Needs are what I need for my existence. My existence doesn't need to be as fancy as I'm culturally expected to need it to be. However, for the sake of others and my own self respect, I go along with the Needs and Tasks system. I tend to think that cultures endeavor to operate on the upper brink of Need/Task sustainability. Although Task should logically come before Need, it is often reversed.

In the most basal of systems of existence, True Needs are fulfilled by doing Tasks directly related to the land. Cavemen hunted beasts for food. That was a Task. Their time units might have been measured in days or half-days rather than hours, as it was a time-consuming process to hunt. The average Task length was likely a lot longer than it is today. As True needs were satisfied in an ever increasingly efficient manner, quasi-needish things like Needs arose. These needs included but were not limited to: having an overly-large dwelling, riding horses rather than walking, building fortifications and weapons to war over ideologies, and creating market systems to exchange goods (goods are the fruits of Tasks). As the softening of mankind grew ever intenser, Wants were confused with Needs and Needs were confused with True Needs. Wants were even confused with True Needs, such as they are today.

Now the market economies of the scaling of a civilization are great. They allow a people to afford better Needs and Wants. The downside is that Tasks need to be intensely specialized. They are specialized to the point that there is a disconnect to the land on an individual level. When new Tasks are learned, old Tasks are forgotten. On an individual level, we bring meaning to co-dependence. This civilization is generally operated by a government of individual-based needs. Thus we are divided from direct access to True Needs by our Needs and Wants.

Which brings me to my current state. I feel disconnected to the land which is suppose to be nourishing me. In leu of this schism, I go along with the system. (ergo I ratify it?) But I'd rather reconnect with the Mother Earth. Is this how most people degrade into liberalism?

Er, perhaps I should clarify. I'm ok with the system of Task/Want/Need governance and with the people that take part in it. I'm just leery to depend on a system that uses individual-needs as the basis of governing mass-needs.

So I've found the guy that has the solution for the majority of the world's present problems. Housing, food, territorial, and waste management all in one island...

Kudos, by the way, to the interviewer. A diamond in the YouTube rough indeed.

In The Beginning...

And God said, "Let There Be Blogs" and it was so. For He had had enough of man's emotional neediness, and did eject him out from the Garden of Caring Responses.

"Just Tell Each Other How You Feel" He saidith.

"oh, okay" replied Man.

And thus sprang forth Man's blogs out of Satan's fertile creation, the internet.

I know that everyone uses this first entry to write some cute bio about themselves, like an exciting introductory paragraph to their english paper (to catch the reader's attention!). I'll do that later.

I will, however, say that I want this blog to be a platform for the airing/evolving of my politically, socially, and economically (SoPoEco?) oriented ideas. As well as my views on life in general. Because that's what people care about - other people's views on life. As H. P. Lovecraft's The Necronomicon analyzed all things weird, The Economicon will/may analyze everything else, sprinkled lightly with whatever I feel like. Over time, I want to solidify/formulate my own opinions as I openly "share" them here (is it sharing if no one else is reading?).