Wednesday, November 08, 2006
JSH: Change is reality
So much changes but human nature is to look to the past to conclude what must be the future.
As my nation goes through changes I want to make the point to you that what you think is possible may simply be what you have seen before, and what is actually possible, may be what you cannot imagine.
I imagine.
My journey has been about going from hypothetical to reality, from dreams of success to accomplishments so great that they are difficult to grasp, even by me.
Moving forward there will be less of the brainstorming, casting about, and direct communication that has made the early part of this journey such a trial.
As time progresses I can escape this dungeon and move beyond postings, so I guess later I'll never make a direct posting like this, and even if something ends up on Usenet it will go past some committee first—people who will make sure the message is the "correct" one and that there is some message that I stay on, and that I don't stick my foot into some pile of dung.
The break that I took as I tried to absorb what I'd discovered, and tried to absorb the world's ability to ignore it is almost over, and going forward I'll turn back to those abilities that have made my life so extraordinary so that I can post a reply from Marvin Minsky, or from Jeff Lagarias, or from people I haven't talked to you yet about because I can contact them, and be heard.
As my country goes through changes where the ability of some people to claim one thing and do another fades, and the ability of some people to escape the truth, for a while, fades, so too will the ability of you people to do the same.
The Universe has sent a message and you can ignore that message, but you will face the consequences anyway.
Like the Democrats fighting here in the US to no avail, with so much failure against a seemingly indomitable Republican party, I have fought against a seemingly indomitable wall of denial from an incumbent mathematical party, which has learned how to use people to its advantage against mathematical proof.
Change is that which confounds the plans of mere mortals, and damns the designs of mice and men.
We are facing change.
The story here will just get bigger as Usenet people fight to make it small. Already the battles cross out of Usenet to the Wikipedia across Google and into countries around the world as I track.
The story gets ever sadder as mathematicians are nailed to the wall with no defense in their denial of simple mathematics and direct mathematical proof.
And in their contempt for humanity, their quest to stop progress, to end the movement forward of number theory, their attempts to stop—for the first time in human history—a discoverer.
Going forward you may not know where the next move will be. You may not know—until it's too late—what person I know who is on my side, or in my corner, and you will not know the consequences for your life, until those consequences are a reality.
Open information and open source were cornerstones of my philosophy—but no longer.
The math wars have convinced me that some ideals are meant to be lost, and that letting your opponents know too much about what is coming is just a bad idea.
You will not know nearly as much about what I'm doing as you have known before, except that it will be so much more than ever before with more players with more power than before as I've learned from the past.
I need the most powerful people on the planet on my side FIRST before anyone in the mathematical community has a clue what's coming or can react.
Your will to deny demands a stronger will to catch you at your weaknesses, take you from your blind spots, and remove your defenses before you even know that some senator or governor is breathing down your necks.
As my nation goes through changes I want to make the point to you that what you think is possible may simply be what you have seen before, and what is actually possible, may be what you cannot imagine.
I imagine.
My journey has been about going from hypothetical to reality, from dreams of success to accomplishments so great that they are difficult to grasp, even by me.
Moving forward there will be less of the brainstorming, casting about, and direct communication that has made the early part of this journey such a trial.
As time progresses I can escape this dungeon and move beyond postings, so I guess later I'll never make a direct posting like this, and even if something ends up on Usenet it will go past some committee first—people who will make sure the message is the "correct" one and that there is some message that I stay on, and that I don't stick my foot into some pile of dung.
The break that I took as I tried to absorb what I'd discovered, and tried to absorb the world's ability to ignore it is almost over, and going forward I'll turn back to those abilities that have made my life so extraordinary so that I can post a reply from Marvin Minsky, or from Jeff Lagarias, or from people I haven't talked to you yet about because I can contact them, and be heard.
As my country goes through changes where the ability of some people to claim one thing and do another fades, and the ability of some people to escape the truth, for a while, fades, so too will the ability of you people to do the same.
The Universe has sent a message and you can ignore that message, but you will face the consequences anyway.
Like the Democrats fighting here in the US to no avail, with so much failure against a seemingly indomitable Republican party, I have fought against a seemingly indomitable wall of denial from an incumbent mathematical party, which has learned how to use people to its advantage against mathematical proof.
Change is that which confounds the plans of mere mortals, and damns the designs of mice and men.
We are facing change.
The story here will just get bigger as Usenet people fight to make it small. Already the battles cross out of Usenet to the Wikipedia across Google and into countries around the world as I track.
The story gets ever sadder as mathematicians are nailed to the wall with no defense in their denial of simple mathematics and direct mathematical proof.
And in their contempt for humanity, their quest to stop progress, to end the movement forward of number theory, their attempts to stop—for the first time in human history—a discoverer.
Going forward you may not know where the next move will be. You may not know—until it's too late—what person I know who is on my side, or in my corner, and you will not know the consequences for your life, until those consequences are a reality.
Open information and open source were cornerstones of my philosophy—but no longer.
The math wars have convinced me that some ideals are meant to be lost, and that letting your opponents know too much about what is coming is just a bad idea.
You will not know nearly as much about what I'm doing as you have known before, except that it will be so much more than ever before with more players with more power than before as I've learned from the past.
I need the most powerful people on the planet on my side FIRST before anyone in the mathematical community has a clue what's coming or can react.
Your will to deny demands a stronger will to catch you at your weaknesses, take you from your blind spots, and remove your defenses before you even know that some senator or governor is breathing down your necks.
# posted by James Harris @ 01:17 
