and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

"At home" - my friends house, which is my current place of residence (for as long as the rent remains $0 per month, every month) the blogs I'm linked to, or rather signed up for, are in correct alphabetical order. That is, they make some sort of sense whether that be chronologically, alphabetically, or bloganetically. The thing is I'm only signed up for three so who knows if it's a coincidence that they work out in the correct order for all stated metrics or not.

Anywhere else, however, they make no sense. Truly. Chronologically it's all bassackwards. Alphabetically it's jumbled up.. and bloganectically - my way of saying which blog has the most posts - well, it almost makes sense but not quite.

This, I suspect, is an interface issue and an issue that we all encounter on a daily basis - computer or not - which basically sums up our inability to properly communicate. In fact, I'm pretty convinced that any aliens that end up on our doorstep, ala close encounters from of the 3rd kind, won't be disappointed with our technology - they'll be disappointed in our communication skills. We all should have taken that one extra conflict-resolution course in high school, maybe.

I fear interface issues are going to be "up there" in the list of important things to worry about but no one is really going to notice and before you know it we'll be extinct. Bummer. I was looking forward to a good run of things.

Solution -> Closer investigation? Careful consideration? Better understanding? These are all relative terms. Relativity, you'll notice, is something we've all been struggling with for a very long time. So much so that we just discovered it a few years ago.

In the mean time we'll do our best. Even if that means wading through the quagmire of guilt, disinterest, misunderstanding, and confusion. We'll wave at eachother and wonder if we recognize one another. We'll wonder why you think you know us. We'll pretend we didn't notice you and go about our merry way. We'll manufacture our own environment (loosely based on the real world around us). When it comes down to it, we're going to do exactly what we want - whatever makes us feel good at the time. If that means not knowing you, well, so be it. Get over yourself.

Nature as a system is economic. Things have worth and you can measure this worth, to some degree, if you have the correct sense of things. For better or worse we must accept the world as a place where human life is a commodity and it is bartered and sold on the open market on a daily basis.

Cruel. I know. This is not so much acceptance but awareness. Different, but mildly the same. Just the way it is. I'm okay with that. Are you?