[Post Change Note:

After meditating on this for a while now I felt obliged to make the following change:

1: In the last paragraph below, the, in paranthenese, aside making mention of the magic of the placebo effect, there is now also a further aside reference regarding the concept of savant, as in total Body Meaning space information transfer.

2: Added two new "See Also" references:

a:Federal report says climate change will wallop U.S. economy

b:What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?

J.V.]

It is another way of thinking about an experience, similar to what it used to feel like in the old days of what made news papers so involving, of perceiving linked mosaics of related facets of our lives. Only now it is something we must all learn to do, at least the the best extent possible. That is, assuming you still have the desire for truly informed choices, not to mention a willingness to take responsibility for yourself, as well as for preserving what living among still loving, and rational, people, brings you.

In the old days, of course, via the telegraph (which spawned the world's first transatlantic pipeline; in the form of a multi stranded copper), which really made this possible, and not that much later by the telegraph of the electromagnetic, radio spectrum, wireless morse code, did an individual of the early 1900's, and on, have the, then unbelievable, almost godly, ability to bath in some new sense of what was going on, in other, connected now (by our many new, competing interests), parts of our social/economic world at the time. And not so long after that came the teletype machine, because electricity, and repeatable type were meant to work together; and with that the black and white, dot matrix, wire photo (and so on).

So not only the words of the events could come from afar, but actual depictions. And all of it collected on a broad pallet opened up by the viewer, to display relatively (for the times) simultaneous shards of momentous occurrence (for why else would someone risk being there to report in the first place). And thus objectification, of the rest of the world, took on a new vantage point, and andybody, suddenly, could make the meaningful connections; elevating things juxtaposed to each other, graphically, and with words, so that the new nature of gap could be revealed... Well, at least to guys like Marshall McLuhan anyway.

And because of this new appreciation of gap, and graphic iconography, did the glossy magazines of the late forties, and early fifties come about, and with that the equally new, hyper mentality of ever more subtle messaging, for not only marketers to advertise with, but advocates of all stripes to do ever more mischievous things with everything now that can convey information. The speeded up presentation of singular snapshots, that are movies, with enough medium on the side of each frame for the analog of sound to be synched in, soon took over of course, but for a time there, the newspapers, and the glossies ruled. Radio intervened too, but the die was set.

As you might imagine, overview now has gotten quite a bit more complicated. and it has taken me nearly 40 years of intellectual life to finally come to realize this. And that is mainly because, in my opinion, the viewpoint has to be just as balanced as everything else one does when one walks the path of balance; only in this instance we have to think of balance a good deal more broadly than presenting supposedly unbiased reporting (a think to aspire to, I suppose, but seldom ever truly achieved). No, when I refer to balance here I mean balance across all major means of receiving information; which of course gets you in trouble because now you have to talk about receiving bit streams from non traditional sources; introducing the notion that the Body Meaning space side of our total cognitive makeup, can receive things we only thought were merely mystical, in days gone by. It is mystical mostly because of our fear of it, and not because there is only superstitious nonsense there (though superstitious nonsense is also a possibility as well).

The thing is, it's not just my oddities that allows me to do this. Everybody, I think, is capable of achieving what I have been able to do. And with a little research we could maybe figure out how to do it so it doesn't take 40 years of total effort (or being born, perhaps, with something at least like autism, that may have given me a starting advantage -- at least in that aspect of things). Whatever the case may be, though, surely my success in utilizing what I have been talking about here, as well as in my success in the world of data processing, ought to suggest a good deal more here than something that is just a part of "well... anything's possible, you know, because we exist inside of infinite potential" (and not only do you do have to take the magic of the "Placebo" effect into serious account, you also have to take a vastly extended idea of Savant into serious account as well)

The linked articles quick list:

1:Top 20 Marshall McLuhan Quotes -- The Canadian philosopher of communication theory

2:Understanding McLuhan (In Part)

3:Development of Communications From Telegraph To TV Second Edition 31340 HD

4:Prescription for Poverty

5:Federal report says climate change will wallop U.S. economy