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    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 3
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 3
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 3
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    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 3

    By Allan R. Wallace

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    If it is for yourself, why not try your best?

    A third month of daily thought provokers. LTTN #3 features quick quotes, deeper thoughts, and imperfect poetry crafted to challenge your mind. LTTN is a few hundred well chosen words that each day will bring pleasure, anger, relief, and/or laughter. You will develop critical mental skills if you compare learned world views before deciding to enjoy, ignore, or unlearn a lifetime of indoctrination.

    She dances like heat waves beyond edges of my charted road
    Her mirage may have substance when the full truth be known
    She never approaches close enough or invites discourse so to see
    Starting an aggressive trek toward teasing vapors, it's not in me
    Depths of interaction that, if she is real, might set us both free
    Have been purposely hidden by her and I'm offered no key

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllan R. Wallace
    Release dateOct 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301844616
    Long Trips To Nowhere: Month 3
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    Allan R. Wallace

    "If you view change as a problem rather than an opportunity you'll always be too late. Visionaries and crackpots are always too soon and pay a high price for their insight.We can accept that." ~ Allan R. Wallace

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      Long Trips To Nowhere - Allan R. Wallace

      DAY 1

      A Quick Quote:

      Gutenberg's printing press and Jacquard's computerized loom started revolutions. We're living in a dynamic mixture of both. Dispersal of knowledge and ease of manufacturing are advancing at warp speed.

      A Deeper Thought:

      There will be unsettling disruptions and inequities for decades. There are in any revolution. Greater rewards will be available than in prior epic changes. Advancing past hubris of self serving leaders will still require determination. Lies will be spun. Progress will be fought.

      Book burnings and Luddite destructions will have modern analogs. Dying micro managing giants of banking and governance will fall on the unwary and unlucky. Plan ahead.

      Individualist empowering technologies will eventually win. The flood tide is upon us. Hives will disperse and individual humans can once again emerge.

      It's scary yet invigorating.

      You can beat the rush by acting as an individual immediately. Discover by investigation where your interests lie. Consider how technology enhancements will effect that field. Lay aside all fears of action and master forms of relevant technology.

      and Some Imperfect Poetry:

      We have felt perfect storms when nasty weather systems collide

      On this world we'll never find a perfect peace that men provide

      Power assumes others are stupid so usurpations they do contrive

      But for your own life it's really possible to live outside the hive

      This book is dedicated to:

      Politicians say we shouldn't worry about intrusive monitoring if we aren't guilty. They were revealed as guilty hypocrites who rant murderous when exposed. Whistle-blowers revealing banal government data are to be thanked.

      Thank You!

      Privacy is more than just another high ideal that might be sacrificed during a security-religion performance. Psychological profiles can be developed once intimate interactions and reactions are know -- providing tools for coercion, extortion, and enslavement. Privacy is a foundational human right.

      You are fully known to any with access to government data (everyone who wishes): where you shop, what you eat, who your friends are, and where you are every Thursday at 8:30 PM. They know your taste in clothes, the car you drive and where it is, and where you are at all times. They know what you said. Some information you gave to them freely. It was your choice even if poorly informed. Much of this information was stolen through constant surveillance, then blended into those data streams your digital life implies.

      Data begets errors. Depending on the outcome, the fact your files are full of errors may be good or bad. This is the reality of a conjured digital-you.

      When the politically connected do evil it's hidden, ignored, or lied around. A sensationalist leak before bad news breaks can bury the important. At best supposedly independent media is restrained. Unbiased investigative journalists aren't invited to presidential or congressional news briefings.

      And so it is occasional heroes, risking their futures and lives, who reveal truth that has been against revelation buried. Some email, maybe a video, perhaps a transcript from a smoke filled room. These bits of unparsed truth can balance the massive submission of lies that daily fall upon us.

      What he revealed embarrassed us, kill him.

      His nose is not yours to touch,

      Wrongs are not made right by wholesome homeland declarations,

      To write laws for enforcers to bash unliked noses is way too much.

      DAY 2

      Earning A Living

      A tendency is to live our lives close to where we were suckled and work jobs on whatever career path we first tread. Knowing nothing else because it's human to see but not analyze, most won't seek better choices unprompted.

      I was at a seminar listening to an unremembered speaker. He gestured outside the window. "See how some ducks are sitting placidly in groups,

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