No more Pluto.

[Sparky Kronkite]

Being involved with museums and the like - actually, the technical gizmos that are in them - I often get to visit them and tour their inner workings. I recently got a tour of the new wing of the Museum of Natural History, here in Manhattan. It now has the most up to date planetarium (the Hayden Planetarium) in the world. It's a fairly awesome architectural and technical wonder.

Until the next one is built.

And guess what? No Pluto. It has become - not worthy of mention. A non-planet. Too little. Too dim.

It just goes to show me - to show us all.......

That we don't know shit about shine-o-la. We are all grasping at straws, finding one, holding on to it - and then "believing in them." And if you, as a person - need that - that's fine.

Me? I like, finding out that I'm wrong. I like it when my parents are wrong. I like it when scientists are wrong. I like it when politicians are wrong.

Why?

I just proves to me the instability, the frailty of our meager human existence - and blatantly focuses on the blustering, arrogance of our so-called intellectual community. It proves to me that we are nothing more than what we actually are - upright walking, mammals - who have some very minimal ability to reason and think - and to build upon that thinking - which has allowed us/them to form a loose societal structure - and who are currently trapped on a planet, they themselves call Earth.

Our US political system? A straw. Any political system on our planet? A straw. Religions? Straws. Virtually all humanly obtained knowledge? A straw.

Sure - eventually, some ultimate truths will be found in some accumulated human knowledge. Some.....

I love it when smart people are made out to be fools. And to me(?) "that is my hope" - it's a barometer of sorts, that points toward what one day, may be - actual, ultimate truths.

But...... not in my lifetime.

 

[Nobody Special's wife]

OK I get your point !!!!!

Now are you saying I'm a genius???

 

[Myrrdin]

No pluto?

Are we going to end up talking about Uranus, again Sparky?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Well. You can be if you want to......

(And that's a good relative point to my Pluto point above. "Anybody can claim to be a genius now days - and any group, seemingly can bestow that honor upon someone else.")

But to me - true genius is very, very rare - and then, limited to what, "we, as a race of thinking mammals have become."

Which is very, very limiting.

Actually, it's nearly nothing. A spec. A micron. It's the tip of an iceberg so fucking huge and the space we - (the human race as measured by intellect) - occupy at the tip is invisible.

And I don't think it takes a genius to understand that either.

So, if people understand this - Why? Why do they hold onto beliefs so archaic?

Yes, I know - they "have to."

So be it. I just find that, for me - if I choose to "hold something/anything," as a high-held belief - I would choose to believe in the future, in growth - than in beliefs based in the past.

But, basing ones believes in systems of the past is much easier to grasp - to hold onto - than those of the future. And people tend to take the easier route - the past of least resistance - which again - to me proves their weekness' and inferiority. An inferiority they refuse to see. Because it's too hard.

But - then again - most people are fools. Blissful fools.

Which ain't all that bad.

 

[Myrrdin]

. And guess what? No Pluto. It has become - not worthy of mention. A non-planet. Too little. Too dim.

No Pluto, no Kyoto.
An American conspiracy against anything ending with O ?

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

O my!

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