Essay on choices

[Plane]

http://www.iboxpublishing.com/index_mark-at-the-movies-MadMax_and_Tomorrowland_Reality-Splitting.php#top_of_news


I don't totally agree with this guys advice, but I like how thought provoking it is.

[Xavier_Onassis]

He is all over the place. Both movies and the videogame are escapism. The Universe does not give a hoot what anyone does. We make ou=r own destinies, within the restrictions of our physical abilities and our senses and intellect, which are many.

[Plane]

He is complex and philosophical , and not inconsistent.

But I have already admitted that I don't agree with him entirely.

Neither do you apparently, but your disagreement is different than mine , that is interesting.

Do you feel as if your decisions in day to day life affect the world around you , and the decisions of the rest of the people in your environment also ripple your pond?

I think that the news people hear from the main media and from the local gossip have a profound and immediate effect on how much people choose to trust each other and respond to trust, this would be one example of a general principal.

A person can be understood as a gestalt of his parts, so can a large group of individuals, when considered together.

http://www.iboxpublishing.com/index_stardrop.php#

[Xavier_Onassis]

Do you feel as if your decisions in day to day life affect the world around you , and the decisions of the rest of the people in your environment also ripple your pond?

I think they do, but only in minuscule ways, most of the time.  I wish my neighbor with the two yappy dogs were more sensitive to their incessant barking.  I can shut them up for about half an hour with a vinegar solution and a water pistol, but they never seem to just STFU when they see me coming, even when I am packing.

I drive defensively. When I see the light is red, I slow way down. Usually I can scoot right through, since the light changes before I can get to it. I always look in the rearview mirror. On a couple of occasions, I have seen some clown barreling up behind me, so I have changed lanes to get out of his way. Once the guy sailed through a red light and surely got a ticket from the goddamn camera. On another, the other guy T boned a van. The light was green, so I slipped on through. I don't think anyone was hurt. Had I not dodged him, he would have rear ended me.

So what I did changed my life and that of the guy that T boned the van and whomever was driving the van.

It is amazing the number of people who think they will get there sooner if they speed up to the light, slam on the brakes and burn rubber when the light changes.

[Plane]

When I see the light is red, I slow way down. Usually I can scoot right through, since the light changes before I can get to it.

  I do that when the traffic is light. Heavy traffic is ordinary here and I hate that stuff.

   If everyone in a community is interacting all the time the net effect of the swarm of small decisions drives bigger events and affects bigger decisions.

    Not that all agree, but that the effect is akin to voting, whether conscious or not.