Today's Tids Issue 6,190
It is the others:
Microsoft's shenanigans of yesterday makes you realize how vulnerable you can be when under the control of somebody or something else. That’s one reason why I resist diving into all connectivity technology that comes along. I’d rather just be myself.
I was thinking as I ventured into Today’s Tids that confusion seems to be the underlying foundation of the current society. I wondered, if the etymology of Confusion a somehow was out of that Chinese philosopher of 550 BC Confucius. It is just the opposite. His basic principle was “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.” Yeah, he was ahead of his times. Politically he believed that leaders must exercise self-discipline, to remain humble, to treat followers with compassion. They would be able to lead by positive example. That leaders could help subjects follow the law by teaching them virtue. Confusion comes from contradiction and hypocrisy. Confucius was more than a script writer for fortune cookies.
Simple ideals can be the basis for mitigatng the complexities of confusion.
“I wrote a song. But I can’t read music. So I don’t know what it is.” --Stephen Wright.
Now, Stephen was great philosopher at least I think that is what he was doing.
The Questions:
Name five great philosophers throughout history
The Headlines:
--Markets In Neverland Until NVidia Mess Gets Sorted Out’
--Treasury’s Bessent Says Commerce Secretary Lutnick Caused NVidia Mess; Repubs Pile on.
--SpaceX Faces Critical Launch Tonight
--Microsoft Apologizes for Nearly Two-Day Outage.
--Putin Ups Demands In Peace Talks.
--SC to Consider Trump Order Suspending Asylum Requests at Border.
I remember well the excitement over the SS United States arrival on the oceanliner scene to compete with the Queens, and then it breaking the speed record across the Atlantic, It was a very big deal back then. And now it is a home for fish. How the mighty can fall.
Do you thimk that NK, China, Iran or Russia are now thinking how easy would it be to stop America by taking down Microsoft. Or maybe they have already done it though MS says there was no hanky-Panky. Yeah, a Technician just left a PB&J sandwich on the mother board.
Last year, I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
There are more interesting NCAA football games this week. I like the Duke Miami game. Duke has been real good and Miami was knocked out of #1 in the country last week. It could be a close game a possible upset. I like Ohio State-Northwestern for a similar reason. OS is the big talented team but NW has been a pleasant surprise and will make the Buckeyes work harder than tey think they should. Even though they call it a Big Ten game I call USC–Indiana a good intersectional game and it intrigues me. USC could win it. I’m not that interested in LSU-Texas but it is the big Power game of the week with two of the highest salaried rosters. An interesting game around here is Boston College-Notre Dame, ND could romp, but everybody still remembers a great upset win in Chestnut Hill or he day Doug Flute won the MVP in the Liberty bowl while losing to ND 19-18. Even though BC is always the underdog, it is a game Catholics love.
Stephen Wright picked up a student hitchhiker who said he his major was Journalism, Steven told him of his journalist friend who went insane trying to get a close-up photo of the horizon.
If Bessent followed Confucius and several other notable’s Golden Rule he wouldn’t have thrown Lutnick under the proverbial bus. See, it works it you pay attention to it. The Treasury Secretary looks like a smaller man today.
Actually, there would be no crime if everybody paid attention to the Golden Rule. Unless some groups of people liked being robbed or stabbed or shot. I guess you got to figure all the angles.
The Answer:
There are many, some before and many beyond Confucius. Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Locke, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, John Dewey, August Comte, Aristotle, Socrates, Rene Decartes and yes, Ayn Rand. Simone de Beauvoir is another along with Adam Smithand WEB Dubois. And Don't forget Karl Marx. You don't have to agree with them.
Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
Don't over-philosophize, but sometimes beautiful music inspires great thought.
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