war and our world

I’ve today went to the Museo de la Nacion in Lima, Peru. (Have i forgotten telling you i’m in Peru? Well, i had the best reason ever!) Anyway, the visit is awesome, in my forthcoming post about how maths is silly there will be a photo of me there with a quipu. Lots of Precolombino things there, but what was completely breathtaking was the exhibit about Terrorism.

As it turns out, Terrorism in Peru is the word for civil war, or more precisely to a kind of civil war that developed here in the 80s and 90s. Two left-oriented groups, the Sendero Luminoso and the MRTA created a lot of unrest and violence. I do not know nearly enough about such events to comment about anything, but i have a few musings about violence, war, and our lives.

some of them

Some of them want to be abused, and i do not feel like abusing no one. Maybe that’s why i feel better travelling, as i am supposed to be in a fragile position, then people do not expect me to be abusive, to distribute my violence around, and this makes it more natural to me to just be relational instead of hierarchical. It is not that i don’t want to be the boss, i recognize how selfish and simplistic this is, it is just that i instinctively value exchanging more than taking. It is an heuristic, it is not a final truth, i want to point — but that is just how i roll, mothafuqua.

Anyways, travel news: found the Island, lost myself, finally learned to appreciate Chilean female beauty (and now all of them seem gorgeous), two Alexandras, lots and lots of coincidences still, some time to think but maybe not enough.

RFC: 3 solutions for our world: promiscuity, delinquency, piracy

Since this is the 300th post in my blog ever, at least that being what WordPress tells me, let’s be all cheery and hopeful and optimistic and go a little utopian and say what to do to make the world minimally decent.

As i am here, disposed to talk about “solutions”, it must be said that NO, the world does not resemble a maths test which should be “solved”, it does not need solutions and if none of that happens, nor other ameliorating things, similar or dissimilar, the world will be just a-OK, the world will not end of disintegrate or die. The world will just go on, keeping up the eternal so-so. And the world does not need any better than so-so, that’s the thing.

That said, if we hypothetically wanted to go anywhere better than so-so, we would need 3 remedies to our uncountable illnesses:

• promiscuity
• delinquency
• piracy

military thought

In war, either you do or you die. Either you kill the enemy or he kills you. There is not much middle ground — maybe absence of common ground would serve well as definition of war. This is all common sense, but… Where does it lead us? More to the point, i wonder if there is some influence of this kind of thought in design issues.