Lost in noise

Still so much noise around us, when all we need is just ....
who's entitled to know what you need ? marketeers? Opinion makers? political leaders?
Give me a break! whats the latest trend? "that's what you need"
The need is something raw and innate; There's the need for survival, as a basic starting point, then everything just seem superfluous. Our thoughts are just bombed with poison that mostly are  decoys for what one should be looking for (whatever that is!!!). There's that saying that goes like "the one that keep searching for something will probably loose itself.
Accepting life as the true gift, will probably lead to freedom and awareness; one can come out more focused and released from the smashing sounds all around. (silence can be unbearably noisy also)

The Pen

Everything is beeing written about this last debate between Mdm Le Pen and Mr Macron;
In fact this is the ultimate substancial, meaningful and influential happening to EUROPE .

The last debate was clarifying, as for the two candidate positions concerns about. Though existing lots of demagogic issues by both of the speeches, Mr Macron showed lot more preparation and confidence,wich was a surprise for me, given the age of the candidate 39 (if he's ellected makes him the youngest; younger than Napoleon 40). He fought hard, not that the expected positions of Mdm Le Pen were to dificult to argue, but because mostly they are empty ones (as her speech went essentialy to close boards and deal with terrorism actions), and also to really make a clear stand for what he deffeends. Metaphorically she was crawling, while he was running for power.
I believe Europe will be in better hands with a moderate President....and with a new inspirational profile.


So this next Sunday, unless there's an wildcard, no surprises expected.

2015, ARE YOU THERE?

it seems that a new year began ... there are some uncertainties on the way
such as oil and currencies balance, critic politic and diplomatic affairs and decisions are on schedule. USA has become independent from middle east oil, and is now exporting, also unfortunately to europe.... they still can't figure a way to safely drive EU... a bunch of countries that can't stick together as a sole institution/ nation.... will never have the strength to set their international agenda.... neither the resources....at least will take too much time and money.

So much more standardized ways of thinking are expected ....... hope this doesn't affect the innovators and entrepreneurs!

WELCOME 2015 - forecast for 2015 (see also 2014)

1st people are more aware-- social networks and new media support are spreaded ... more than ever.... spread of knowledge or stupidity.

2nd these same people for themselves realise more that 

can't rely and be so states/ government dependents -- new movements that can be citizens genuine representatives are on the way and be shaped by left and right wingers (.....?)

3rd New players are creating their agenda and with it societies will have to adapt to it, for instance "new" foreign languages teaching - my 14 year old niece asked my opinion if she should select mandarin or german as 2nd language... so this is a fact.

4th New tech advances in hardware (nanotech advances) and augmented reality will bring new breakthrough opportunities in how people relate with machines  and with each other. Increasing tailored made productive systems.

--- sure... we can 3d print almost everything ... thats an huge advance in product development.

5th There are also some uncertainties in what consumption concerns. --- Can't figure if BRICS can sustain world economic grow.... corruption undermine the path (for all present societies) and can easily change BRICS to brics

all in all .....i'm still pessimist .... bah..... to me :P

Bubble breaker

i just remember when bubbles only represented to me summer water soap cups and with it to make floating empty thoughts which could fly high and high..... though it has been a time since that has happened, the bubbles seem to perpetue under several shapes. Lets take Roubini "Doom" analyst bubble.... according his own predictions,  2016 will be the stock  market crash year... because of the public debt "thought" that flown so high that, as other bubbles, it explodes in stratosphere. Is difficult to accept, but the gears just rolled free, there's possibly no mechanism that can oppose to the path of a crash... (personally i thought that it would happen sooner).
So, how to grow GDP in such a way that you could sustainably spare, to pay debt, or how to create enough commodities as royalties that you don't need to increase production, but rather only recognized added value for what you've already have, in the short term? I really can't figure how, but the "wild card" named corruption (the lack of it, actually) would certainly produce strong results in the most severe foresights / scenarios.
At the end, all "PIGS" or not, like to play in their own mud....

Design

The question about design,  I may say, it's about its objectives... design of politics, strategy, process, methods, auto, furniture .....whatever; And one point that remains transversal to it all, is creativity, rather being towards functional or "look" purpose.
What happens is that nowadays there's, in my opinion for sure, much more looks purposes than functional ones. So i could simply conclude that the lack of creativity lead the reasonable thoughts towards the looks and not the functions, having actual politics as example , a lot of it are just fait divers, fireworks. But what has constrained creativity? Does environment issues influence the way to inpower creation hence design ? Sure it does. Surrounding factors do influence the way our thoughts flow rather being noisy or not. So the way a country is being directioned, can be strategically leaded regardless the amount of noisy, or foggy "stuff" ?  So do designers, should be and stay as much as possible independent from the "world"? Perhaps, if that conducts to inspiring thoughts.... and that should be treasured, as i see it, it doesn't occur so often... look at europe for instance....

searching for intelligence signs.....

"After  (....) years of searching the skies for signs of intelligence beyond Earth..." 
- ah ah ah- this is too presumptuous....try to find any in earth first .... that would be an hard challenge!
All of this media fanaticism and pseudo regulated markets.... there is hardly a way to escape from the so called modern society's web.

Citizens-Interest Groups,Lobbying - Politics - Laws - Citizens

this closed circuit trends to lead to few persons interests.... which might not be representative, but still somehow legitim. 
This circuit could be in did, a good thing if you considered that the intentions  of these groups were "pure", or at least far from egocentric needs and feels.

Its like taking our own medic prescription knowing that the side effects are no good. So, how to introduce true values at this well oiled gear machine? Are there so many blind sheeps, that simply prefer to accept their path as dogmatic with no alternative? ("please, cheat me 'cause i like it so badly"!) Or are citizens just so arrogant to the point to think that they own the truth and dominate all info already available.....

evolution is a strange way to cross by, but ignore it, is even stranger....

Engineering...

We've been watching interesting evolution throughout the years, but none, yet, have
been capable to answer the ultimate(s) human desires, which can typically possibly be....

who's the creator
where do we came from
where do we heading to
can we live forever
are we "alone" in the universe
... and much other

of course and although there are lots of multi level research, it all serves the purpose of cumulative experiences towards awareness (i think) and to keep us also distracted during our small but hopefully interesting journey.

We are so small regarding all universe events, that makes me feel annoyed watching everyday world news or mundane events. I understand that societies are complex and overlap these "tiny" pseudo philosophic questions.
We live in a engineered world as seen by Messer Leonard Da Vinci, but ready to be sold at any cost, with strength of the Marketing (well oiled up) machines;

I can effortly live by the rules in which our average societies so far conquered or evoluted to, but that doesn't mean i can't go on and keep question it, or even propose to modified it, although everyone has to realise that when it comes to it..... the basic laws stand i.e. we are just in raw state jungles, and no philosophy questions apply. Knowledge is everything as i've stated before...


at the end..... and surely mostly.... who gives a F$€$ ?

The True Scotch

What is better? Single (malted) or blended... is it a matter of taste?
Perhaps the inner tradition, the subjacent culture and history, the memory preservation.
Surely the facts are always supportive to understand the state... of art.
But rather than discussing a state of art or even trend, it would be much better to achieve an ideal...
Is it to risky to go for an ideal?

The True Scotch .... Only for the ideal.

:)

the EURO thing

There's something in the way that simply puzzles me;
For instance, this last sunday there has been elections for the european parliament, yet,
so few subjects have been discussed about europe.
As so many have wrote about it, these are mere local intermediate elections.
Lets see: there hasn't been public debate, the usual marketing flyers are composed by internal slogans, public appearances of the main candidates, are just fait divers ... its a mind game, which citizens don't approve at all. If you look at the results will notice that the winner with majority is : abstention.  With a mean participation of 43,09%  in the whole of the EU countries thats too low, facing the advance of some radical left and right wings movements. So what to do now? Do we want to take the (peace!!!)  destiny in our hands or maintain continuous distance between citizens and politics? Being european, means achieving consensus within a long term true strategic project, in order to keep the countries bonded..... so where's the glue that stick this together? has someone run out of glue????  The euro flag should mean something ..... otherwise is just some blue scarf....with random spreaded and alone (lost in the universe) stars or even "black dwarfs".....

an Euro vision...

I'm no one to judge .... but did you heard about the eurovision song contest?
Who has won that night?, did the singer won? Did his marketeer won? Who really own this winning?
Should this stage act, be so political as it is ... ? OK,  at the end, it can be what spectators, audience, media want, so should we be entitled to question what criteria could be placed to evaluate such contest.... because this is starting to look like everything else.... lots of rules, no effects .... all misunderstood... and big shots on the loose, lots of it...  this are just fire works...... let the circus continue.

FREEDOM

This is the time where citizens should be more aware than ever.

Are we forget that freedom implies a true responsibility? Have we been responsible enough

to deserve that "freedom" or are we just mere audience of "tv shows"?

A true change (revolution) should start in citizens minds, hence thoughts, then in anything else,
so I bow to the ones that are strong enough these days to leave their comfort zone, to achieve
something better.

as i said before o conhecimento é liberdade, knowledge is freedom, conocimiento es libertad, connaissance c'est liberté, Wissen ist Freiheit, знание это свобода,  知識是自由

(btw these sentences above have nothing to do with political ideology, since i can't recognize myself in any)

as in Tarantino, Django 2012  movie here's Anthony Hamilton - (Feat. Elayna Boynton) 

PATTERN

Sometimes (most of the times) we can get efficiency (as in energy for instance) if we can recognize a certain pattern; so we can define certain procedures which can be repeated/replicated through a several amount of tasks, that we can detail to the essence; than probably, if we try to eliminate the heavy weights (waste), our system can get that precious % of better results .... governments, municipalities should apply such efforts to do better, but at the end is just a complex bureaucratic tie and web that they get into...hence citizens suffer from it also; Is just a vicious cycle as if it were some kind of control (automation definition) but where in the feedback line you couldn't get a corrected sign only add noise.... lots of it.

THE CLOUD

Much has been said and written about digital info and data content share and its use. Nowadays we are most closely to a big and worldwide reality show. Everyone is using major data, seeing his target profit. No naive thought about this issue, is just the way is all being addressed by the big players. Is general population nothing more than just mere sitting ducks? Is all taken to the point where the matter is how much you worth by your collected data? Of course information as a price, but what i am talking about is the way and means this same information is collected and finally used. Can you name now a step in your life where data collection isn't done? I can't.  Lets take a very small example. You go to work, take your car, stop in a gas station, and there you are in a screen controlled by someone (of course for security reasons); But the real doubts start precisely after the image being processed/recorded and archived. The image can collect your behaviour for a certain socio study easily transformed in the stats useful to be sold (of course without your permission) for any marketing company, gov etc. In  the way to work you have to pass in tolls (peáge) imagine that your car plate is being checked each time a car passes the toll, what represents the amount of info collected from the drivers: where they go, at each time of the day etc etc who would benefit with such info..... and goes on..... and i didn't mention yet anything about cellular phones, or computers, net..... So what to do ... well, our own info must be worth something for someone .... and i would like to collect my bucks ......!

WATER LINES

Indeed that water is our creation basis, it can be a reflection ( ) of our daily motion. It flows, sometimes floods, other just runs narrow or don't run at all.. A Jump into the water could mean that you get to your roots and finally become free for yourself. Our "leaders" seem to have taken an agenda for which they don't have the closest idea where did it came from and where will it lead us to, and sincerely i would dare to say that they care as much as the rest of the common mortals..... assumig that 90% of the persons make plans for a day, or as lot of maketeers like to put it "now"! So, maybe (just maybe) there are some considerations, examples, to recover from the dust that can point out a direction, in order to get the flow that so many aspire.

ABOUT NOBEL PRIZE

friday, october 9th 2009  -  wrote this some years ago to another blog.....

PAZ: Oba!

Muito se tem falado nas virtudes do Presidente Obama. De facto os holofotes estão-lhe tão direccionados que o podem ofuscar. Meio mundo olha para os EUA como uma espécie de guia económico quase como a aguardar o passo seguinte para que decisões estratégicas se tomem; Será um pouco de exagero deixar que uma só nação tome conta do mundo e aliás nestas alturas os EUA querem mesmo aliados (alguém tem de pagar as contas de exércitos privados e de créditos irracionais...) essa factura pesada está ancorar a actividade dos EUA e as pessoas começam a descrer e a ganhar anticorpos salvaguardando-se como podem (ou seja compram menos). Os lobbys sempre farão parte da actividade politica, mas o que o Obama sabia que iria encontrar era uma máquina infernal de lobbying quase impossivel de transpôr; As suas promessas poderão cair por terra sendo que as contas são tantas que talvez as externas, a serem prioritárias, podem-se sobrepor às afamadas healthcare measures e estas nunca passarem de uma miragem. Logicamente que a sua (de Obama) imagem internacional terá um peso decisivo no apoio às tomadas de decisão dificeis (como a gestão de guerras e armamento) e um prémio Nobel é sempre de salientar. Mas sinceramente há 1,5 ano atrás "ninguém" sabia quem era este presidente e o que atrás dessa altura foi feito em prol da dita PAZ. Paz tem um significado único.

Sinceramente espero que esse titulo atribuido seja acompanhado de actos que ultrapassem as expectativas...... do mundo!

PEACE: Oba!

Much has been said in the virtues of President Obama. In fact the spotlight is directed him so that can overshadow. Half the world looks to the U.S. as a kind of guide economic almost like waiting for the next step so that strategic decisions are taken, will be a bit of an exaggeration let one nation to take over the world and indeed in these times even the U.S. wants allies (someone has to pay the bills of private armies and credits irrational ...) this bill is heavy anchor U.S. activity and people start to disbelieve and make antibodies safeguarding as they can (ie buy less). The lobbies will always be part of political activity, but what Obama knew he would find was an infernal machine lobbying almost impossible to bridge; Their promises may fall down and the accounts are so many that perhaps external, to be priority may overlap the renowned healthcare Measures and these never pass a mirage. Logically that his (Obama's) international image will have a decisive weight in supporting decision making difficult (as managing wars and weaponry) and Nobel Prize is always noteworthy. But honestly there 1.5 years ago "no one" knew who was behind this president and what that time was made in favor of that PEACE. Peace has a unique meaning.

Sincerely hope that this title is attributed accompanied by acts that exceed expectations ......of the whole world!

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No comments for me now after about 4 years.... 

CREATION

People should be more creative,
creativness is one of our human main core characteristics,
so why not to use it? (at least make things diferent or with different approaches)
Sure if one have no bread at the table to eat,
how creativity would help, in economic point of view?

Lets start from the begining where as we should get proper education,
and context conditions (this means that the environment that surround us
will surelly influence during our lives).

Having that said, i think that should be governments responsibility
to promote society through educational programs...of course that all
implies money (resources).
Education will open consciousness and than after critical espirit....hence
people will question themselves, and from that questioning will result
more society intervention and also awareness for problems and other;

For instance ancient Greece has returned more open thinking with its favourable environment conditions (they had power/ strong army) and through power got knowledge
and through knowledge and stability.... arts, leisure,
new democracy basis (still addopted nowdays).

My end question (perhaps) would be like this:
since politicians can change the world (with all parallel questions of course!!) and are a privileged class (i.e. they have stability and a proper environment), why don't they use their
favourable context to be more creative and really do what they should... which in my opinion is taking care of their citizens and at present with a global view???


Gallardo

 

The right thing - (update)

Some days ago I gave for me thinking what would be the right thing to do in a crisis time if i was a politician.

It is very true that our society values are based on economy. (is there another way to "make the world go round"?)

Another issue is the question who commands/rules who?

 

The first thing I would do, would be analysing the causes and take preventive measures so i could stop or at least slow down the spreading speed of an usual crisis. So my efforts would be directioned into the cause;

(imagine that cause is economy, 

why? 

because lack of foreing investment and poor company liquidity,

why? 

because countrys are getting or actually are uneficient and unproductive and we have taugt citizens to live over their finantial capacities and bancks havent analysed risc as they should,

why?

because theres lack of knowledge and strategy, and systems national and international regulation dont act as they supposed to

why?

because prioritys are deviated and the big bucks speack louder and in general there are no penaltys.

why?

because society evolution)

so what would be my actions? would i have the nerve to change society evolution?

-better education could be a part of the solution (how many years would it take....???)

-how to change people values? is it possible to change people values in the same society?

would it be needed to change all world societys?

Who commands who?- well, our society commanders live with frauds, conspiracys and take advantages of everythings with higher ROI.

So please bring back my sweet uthopic society based on love, justice/fairness, work, teamwork, merit etc etc

So to my billions of readers.... dream on...!

Hands full of nothing

So this is it.
Perhaps we've have seen it all. But there's a lot to come, when we think that everithing's has already happen... no sir/madam... there's a lot to come. I wonder if we could create an imaginary world where peace rules, politics are honest, values were the core of the citizens. Would it be so boring as it seems?!? I think that all that we are into is due to our lack of commitement with overall society. As evultionary beings, we simply (at this stage) don't want to commit with nothing. There should be some citizen responsabilitys much behound the right to vote, that would compel us to get to some other kind of balance. As i look at it, i cant see any trend to balance. So we trust our politicians since they aquire the right of everything from the time we gave them that power. So let them fool us, we don't care, ....is this a joke or prank?! What do we care after all....hope at least about the next generations

(dont let them fool you....oh no!)

the time

"i don't have the time"
"my time has gone"
"as time goes by"
"time after time"
....
these are like pursuiters of our life; this measure, this clock just doesn't stop;
And why in world would we like to stop the clock, " stop the world from spinning round".
there are lots of moments that we would like preserve for ever, or to visit it once in a while,
or even to remake it;
But somehow we have to hang in on, and simply remember, accept, prospect... to live!
such a surprise, today is complete financial crises, banks and companys bankrupcy, tomorrow everything will return to the same.... everyone is proclamed saint... politics, CEOs etc.
So there's always someone wining, in every possible time, that will rule soon or later.
But we know the behaviour is cyclic. With a bit of time we can go on history, to understand why
the power distribution is cyclic based and knowledge based;

At the end: time means nothing and everything, should we understand the true meaning during our lives.....if we ever get it...

My way

Our usual selfish evolution....thats my message;

We keep all of our best to ourselves (does this makes any sense?)

Is it reasonable to think that we can't live together?

What is the point of having great and globalized comunities, if

we generaly live with our backs turned?

Can we ignore the fact, for instance, of poor african countrys being

used to deliver and consume cocain, in order to maintain untouchable

producers and indiferent european citizens???

If being a citizen is to be also part of a comunity in a global cenary,

our responsabilitys should global;

Can we give each other diferent reasons to encourage and motivate

our own global relationships.