Jacques de Beaufort

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

6 comments:

New York City said...: Which community is this?; 12:57 PM
Jacques de Beaufort said...: all of 'em; 11:45 PM
New York City said...: hmmm... I wonder, there doesn't seem to be any room for "I don't know". Everyone is either an optimist or a pessimist? Gets back to your point on dichotomous thinking.

I'm generally optimistic, but on the economy, I think I would respond "I don't know". There are too many factors: China, India, the EU, UK, our own stupid actions....; 1:31 PM
Jacques de Beaufort said...: exactly
which is why all graphs like this are silly..
I'm more interested in the way it doesn't really have an end point or a beginning. More like a loop.

we never really get to the future, yet our estimation of it's quality is always seeming to vary...; 1:49 PM
New York City said...: Contrary to experience, most people seem to view the future as a point of stability, as if everything will stop changing once we accomplish this, or bomb them, or stop doing that.

"When I get that great job, I'll be set. Not a care in the world."

"When we find a cure for cancer, it's all uphill from there."

Perhaps this stems from a desire to return to childhood, when (at least in my recollection) everything seemed to be stable and mostly unchanging. But maybe it just looks that way in hind sight.
I seem to recall the past as moments in a state of being - not for what they were: a volatile and infinite tree of potential outcomes shaking in the wind of time.

Sorry to wax Freudian and poetic in the same paragraph. I'll keep that to a minimum in future posts.; 2:09 PM
Helquin said...: "Heaven is a place
Where nothing ever happens"
~ Talking Heads; 9:42 PM

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