Always Do Right

Here are some ways, as I see it, to do right: Seek out good people. They will treat you well and you will respond. It will not hurt to tolerate others. Keep an open mind. Understand where you are among others, in the midst of nature, in the universe.

Market Info

I heard a radio report, as I recollect its gist, of a study which found that customers prefer NOT to be asked, “can I help you?” in a marketplace.  That squares with my feelings as well.  I prefer to see everything that is available, at my own pace, and then make my own reasoned choice. 

Continuity

I have encountered two very interesting concepts recently.  They are both implied by this observation from Henri-Louis Bergson: “The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”  So there is, according to Bergson, a continuity in the connectivity among past, present, and future.

Encourage Ideas

First of all, encourage yourself to have ideas.  If you have 1 idea a day, at the end of a year you will have had 365 ideas.  What are the probabilities that none of those ideas are worthwhile?  What are the probabilities that self-ordering will not restrict those bad ideas from happening. 

Endings, Not in Sight

Time flies when you’re having fun, but some things seem never to change. Wars lead to wars.  Government leads to more government.  Taxes lead to greater taxes.  Modes of taxation lead to more and novel modes of taxation.  Organized crime leads to organization, crime, and more organized crime.

Endings

All things must come to an end, but it seems the frequency has been on an uptick this past week. Members of POTUS’s cabinet have seen the end of their service (Tillerson), or at least the beginning of the end (McMaster, DeVos).

Implosion

Yesterday, I was an eyewitness, along with tens of thousands others, to the controlled implosion of the 48 year old Capital Plaza Tower, in Frankfort KY, a 24-story state office building, the former home of many government agencies, including the Department of Education.