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Write a short story that will have significant meaning for people 300 years from now.

:- Doug.

If people want to work, if they will have to repeatedly reinvent themselves, and if Betty Friedan is right that women have been reinventing themselves all their lives, does that portend that women will, in the centuries to come, be the favored ones?

:- Doug.

One major choice
to see to wait
to step back
to allow others
to feed to nurture
to sacrifice
another choice

:- Doug.

Tell us the life story of one of your 300-year grandchild elders.

:- Doug.

Dare we grow beyond
What we’re meant to be
To make our meaning?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1891

This fog envelops me
Why won’t you let me see?
Did you descend a cloud from sky?
Or rise from pond and saturated earth
And stillness in the wind?
Or from the breath of people round?
It matters not: my vision’s circumscribed!
I start to see the little things
Closer, larger, larger
My contending begins abating
Softness rolling in or out, down or up
It matters not: intimate now this mist
And I contented turn toward home

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You are invited to come live in the futures.

:- Doug.

Make choices bigger than to get you through the day. You will have choices. Choose consequential.

:- Doug.

Humanicity seems to be about choosing. If our choices are large—life-shattering—we live. If inconsequential, we bore ourselves, meaning is lost. So a useless class, all needs met, has no choices, no meaning, no reason to live. Don’t choose well, choose valiantly.

Meaning and choice emerge from one another; their significance is ever at the same amplitude.

:- Doug.

As we reflect we posit meanings of ourselves, adding just a shard for others to propose their directions.

:- Doug.

As we hunger for insight we conspire with our reader three centuries on.

:- Doug.

At risk
Sunday meeting—my soul
workday—meals and roof
friends—intimacy and meaning
ever risk

:- Doug.

To discover
sniff
in a new direction

:- Doug.

Conversing is the major inter-neural sport!

:- Doug.

Humanity is an outgrowth of humanicity. We are unlikely to improve the core humanicity; we have a chance to improve humanity. The chance might be in utilizing inter-neural nets and dreams: converse.

:- Doug.

The idea of a useless class and machines taking over leaves us cold. What is this “cold?” It is a clue to humanicity.

:- Doug.

Is it possible we don’t know what life is about until the very end?

:- Doug.

We seem biologically incapable of consuming all the information we are producing. Or is it that much of it is empty calories?

:- Doug.

What value is there in what people 300 years ago knew? Instead, is there more value in what they felt? Is the most in what they dreamed? Can we even tap in? Can we become intelligent about intelligence, about what humanicity brings, remembering our strength is our weakness, our weakness our strength?

:- Doug.

Hebb’s rule some say says “neurons which fire together wire together.” Neural nets might be metaphor for people coming together so their brains wire together, helping us understand things from becoming friends to mob psychology.

:- Doug.

Elder
Experienced, venerable
Grandfathering, conversing, inviting
He was a surprise to us all
Me

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1890

Maybe the most helpful thing we can do for the generations of humanity is to tell our stories with authenticity, so they can derive their own questions.

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Right now, my course seems a jungle (a tangled growth), and my task is to weave a path through, or overhead, so others can make their ways.

:- Doug.