The Parking Lot Analogy: You live in Swelltown, with only one big supermarket. The parking lot holds five hundred cars. A parking space is normally seven feet – six inches (compact) to eight feet (average sized cars). One night the parking demon re-stripes the entire lot, making the spaces six feet – ten inches wide. [...]
Tagged Excerpt from The Bliss Engine - Jim Blake - 2010Two wrongs not only do not make a right but create a reality that is worse than the sum effect of two isolated wrongs. There is a synergy of dissolution, negatives are additive. Civilization is a great reciprocating engine whose mechanism is the storm of opposing synergies both positive and negative. An individual can easily [...]
Weenies are small negations, little affronts to which a response creates a larger annoyance than the weenie itself produces. Weenies are additive. Taken alone they do not typically warrant a response, but taken as a group they diminish the quality of our lives and must be resisted. Some additive weenies are killing us. An example [...]
Tagged Excerpt from The Bliss Engine - Jim Blake - 2010