Wednesday, June 7, 2017 The map is not the territory. Alfred Korzybski Today was our regularly scheduled conference, and Larry and Steve and I conferred on our book, then went to lunch.

A very productive day. I think this will be our best interstellar colony book yet. It’s late, and this will be short. Comey has released most of his coming testimony to the Congress, but there has been little reaction by the main stream press, probably because no one can find and criminal activity or obstruction of justice in it. There remain the possible security violation charges due to negligence of Mrs. Clinton keeping classified information on an unsecured private server resulting in the revelation of that information to at least five foreign governments (presumably including the Russians), but I do not think there is anyone in authority from President Trump down who wants to see Mrs.

Clinton indicted on criminal charges, and it is unlikely that anything will come of that. Apparently after a year of investigation there is no evidence of collusion between Trump campaign officials – or relatives – with the Russians to commit any criminal act, which should mean the end of this rather costly investigation, but probably will not. There may be surprises tomorrow (Thursday), and of course I only have secondary accounts of what is in the Comey documents, but there appears to be nothing new and no hint of obstruction of justice.

As to the rumors about the Attorney General being out of favor with the President, the President has not said so directly, and he does not have the reputation about being obscure about such matters. Basic Income, Automation, Jobless People Maybe a solution for people who have a Basic Income but who are jobless due to automation was suggested by Tom Sawyer and his fence whitewashing project – rent jobs to people. Charles Brumbelow To be serious: a great deal of the traditional work that defined a great part of the population is going to be automated, leaving a lot of citizens – very likely a majority – with little sense of purpose. The schools do not seem to be addressing this. Judging by recent activities on collegiate campuses, what they teach in high school is political action as a purpose in life, and encouraging graduates to participate by any means necessary.

The theory of tax supported public education is that it is investment in the future; an investment that will benefit those who have no children in schools but nevertheless must pay school taxes as well as those with more personal reasons to see their children educated. There is little evidence that students are in general being taught any skills that any sane person would pay them money to do, although that is certainly an overly broad generalization, and of course one can always find exceptions; but teaching of actual habits and skills that justify the expenses of our school system are increasingly harder to find. One obvious step to take is to assume that local authorities are more likely to know what it would be valuable for youngsters to know than experts in Washington devising nationwide policies. This seems obvious, but of course is vigorously opposed by the education experts, particularly those who no longer have classrooms (if they ever were classroom teachers). It would seem reasonable to have the people in charge of our schools report on their perception of the value of what they teach; it might even make interesting reading. Of course it is unlikely that we will ever see such reports.

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I was in the Army at a time when there were still remnants of the old volunteer peacetime Army, and they universally had the view that they were in the Army for life; and that it was the Army’s job to find them things to do. “If all I get left is one arm and all I can do is answer the phone, it’s the Army’s job to put me to work answering the phone,” one long time buck sergeant told me in Basic Training.

He meant it, too. In other words, he expected to get fed, clothed, and housed, and be given a bit of pocket change (basic pay even for sergeants in 1950 was pretty low) pretty well for the rest of his life; but he also expected to be given work to do, even if it was only bringing coffee to the officers. There is the germ of an idea in that expectation; think on it.

I’ll come back to this issue, I promise. But I do think it reasonable to conclude that the schools must make some changes in what they teach, and the students must be given a different view of their obligations: that they are not entitled to be paid for mere existence. Bird-killers Jerry President Bush took flak from the liberal press when he pardoned a farmer who accidentally poisoned eagles who fed on the carcasses of the coyotes who were his real target. Moschnij dvuhpolyarnij stabilizator na lm317 i lm337 a m.