"Why Don't They Just Swim? Globalism and Current Affairs: Sustainability"
Friends, I have struggled enormously with the subtleties of how to bifurcate this blog, so that I am discussing more than chess. This will principly remain a "chess improvment blog" but fyi, you will see other things start to be mixed in, in the weeks ahead. I love chess, or rather chess study, but my concerns are far large. It's just a question of "having time for it all".
Also, quantitative investing is something that I know very well, very technically-- if not literally having mastered it--and I notice that I do NOT want to write about it, or rather feel no need to. So the idea of making my blog very, very broad gives me a pause or gave me a pause due to that.
Most professional investors (and for sure there are exceptions) spend their time figuring out what to do and "making money" (my fellow left wingers, forgive me, but you know by now that I think that the stock market is the Shimmering Buddha Dharma, all 10,000 arms of good and evil, dancing the dance of birth and death), they are NOT worrying about what to say. For as Lao Tsu said 2400 years ago: "Those who say do not know. Those who know do not say". Think about that one! If a person knows how, they often don't stop to discuss it. At least in big money management.
And so the next thing. I just want you all to know that the American government has it all under control. "We the Mobils, by the Exxons, for the Duponts". There is no global warming--what, with record temperatures worldwide? This is just statistical noise. The melting Hymalyan glacers, source of most of the water for the worlds most populous civilizations (China and India) has no marginal impact on world public health.
And the polar bears, of what need of they for ice? "Why don't they just swim?" said Marie Antoinette-Transformation. The current administration has it all under control, and all we need do is elevate manufacturing, increase profits, build more cars, house, and missiles, and squeeze the workers to rest less, and make greater effort, as we pocket the difference to sequester the money off shore to invest in new Chinese manufacturing facilities or European luxury mountanin spas for Haliburton executives entertaining offshore in marketing and sales efforts.
Also, quantitative investing is something that I know very well, very technically-- if not literally having mastered it--and I notice that I do NOT want to write about it, or rather feel no need to. So the idea of making my blog very, very broad gives me a pause or gave me a pause due to that.
Most professional investors (and for sure there are exceptions) spend their time figuring out what to do and "making money" (my fellow left wingers, forgive me, but you know by now that I think that the stock market is the Shimmering Buddha Dharma, all 10,000 arms of good and evil, dancing the dance of birth and death), they are NOT worrying about what to say. For as Lao Tsu said 2400 years ago: "Those who say do not know. Those who know do not say". Think about that one! If a person knows how, they often don't stop to discuss it. At least in big money management.And so the next thing. I just want you all to know that the American government has it all under control. "We the Mobils, by the Exxons, for the Duponts". There is no global warming--what, with record temperatures worldwide? This is just statistical noise. The melting Hymalyan glacers, source of most of the water for the worlds most populous civilizations (China and India) has no marginal impact on world public health.
And the polar bears, of what need of they for ice? "Why don't they just swim?" said Marie Antoinette-Transformation. The current administration has it all under control, and all we need do is elevate manufacturing, increase profits, build more cars, house, and missiles, and squeeze the workers to rest less, and make greater effort, as we pocket the difference to sequester the money off shore to invest in new Chinese manufacturing facilities or European luxury mountanin spas for Haliburton executives entertaining offshore in marketing and sales efforts.
posted by transformation at 6:44 PM
2 Comments:
posted by generalkaia, and migrated to my new blog:
are you being sarcastic? i can't tell if you are being serious or not. also, if you want to make a separate blog, that might be easier for the other chess bloggers who appreciate your chess posts. but it's your choice obviously. thanks for the good commentary, btw, on my CTS performance. my success rate is on the rise!
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Posted by generalkaia to chess improvement at 7/25/2006 05:58:08 PM
i understand. thank you. in life, i hate sarcasism in person, or in interaction. but when it comes to politics, or sustainability, i strongly feel that our entire society is way off course.
i had assumed--wrongly since those who already know me would know that i was kidding--that this was clear. the last thing i feel we need is more stuff. i eat organic vegetables, recycle. even as a broker, i was NOT part of the consuming side. i traded it the way a grandmaster plays chess--anticipating moves, laying plans, preparation, the works. $40,000,000 managed WHILE studying with a guru who lived for eight years with Maharishi in India. a powerfull, brutally severe teacher, but a teacher of love and regard for others. a truly magnficient being.
i appreciate a few nice things like anyone--fast pc, alclad stainless gormet cookware, 150' library of classics, a clean bathtub and sheets, but outside that to me dressing up is a clean t-shirt with no holes or stains or wear.
please appreciate that i appreciate all you say. but i accessed that the disadvantage of short term confusion or dissonance by finally getting my other stuff out there is an experiment, AND is not outweighed--i thought--by the advantage of NOT waiting to finally start writing MY OTHER STUFF.
BUT IN my heart of heart, heuristical side of opinion, learning, relationships, global affairs and environment, and capital markets are all one. none dualism in zen its called. or what co-inventer of The Calculus Leibnitz called windowless Monads, whatever those were, but back then there were profound thinkers free of the distractions of television, email, instant communication and profliferation of information. descartes, spinoza, newton, and those guys spend hours in deep thinks such as Alekhein or Botvinnik ever dreamed...
in time i will bifurcate this, and create seperate blogs for Global, Complex Systems, Capital Markets, Relationships, Working in America, but all this takes time, i hope no one minds????? please. thank you again.
lastly, without getting into rich detail, Temposchlucker references gurdjieff in his interests; i reference the forth way and mr. Gurdjieff, but my many interests fall out of view, not sure if there are quantity of words limitations. many of us here have MANY things in common outside chess that feed and inform this chess passion. then bluedevil knight, he studied philosophy, and we exchanged emails touching buddhism he has allowed me to copy when i get a chance leaving politics out.
if the users at large dont like this, i will hasten to change it fast, but lets see, please, but your question is one ive meditated and delibeated on for weeks.
i have a second blog hidden i started for one of those outside subjects, but the prospect of incorrectly laying faulty ground on some eight or nine blogs, smaller but serious all the same, is most daunting. for whatever starts has a tendancy to continue.
how can it be that both temposchlucker and i both are gurdjieff fourth way students or formers studends and be here in a way that relates?
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Posted by transformation to chess improvement at 7/25/2006 06:33:35 PM
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