« Show me your scars. »
This is the question asked when you arrive in heaven.
If you don’t have any, you must return to earth.
Make a list of your scars.
Own them; they are you.
How they transformed you is what matters.
The Wisdom of Scars
Born in 1715
I was born in 1715 when Louis XIV died at the beginning of the 18th century. That makes me 309 years old.
I still have all my head. My body follows but complains once in a while.
In the past, we had armor. Now, we have exoskeleton avatars and artificial intelligence.
I can’t wait to enter the next century/world of Quantum.
To be anywhere, everywhere, all the time, all at once.
It looks as if our old scientific reality is an illusion.
I love people who look for the truth; I am very suspicious of people who say they found it.
An Imaginary Future
Each generation has an imaginary future
- The war to end all wars: 1914
- The United Nations
- The year 01: equality
- Napoleon’s Europe
- The New World
- Hitler’s Reich
- Communism
- The USSR
- 18th century France
- The Ottoman Empire
What is our today?
- The end of capitalism as we know it
- Victims vs oppressors
- Racism against anyone who disagrees with you
- Men vs women
- China dominates the world
- Health politics
- Global viruses/ vaccines
- Local answers
- Sharing economy
- Green Fascism
- The disappearance of the middle class
- The U curve
- Younging
- Robots
- Electric cars
- Mars
- No gender
- Universal salary at birth
- Useful idiots democracy
- Woke
- Cancel culture
- Victims
Intelligent people are not dangerous, but an army of anonymous irresponsible selfy kids who can only see the world through their cell phones, who want to impose their simplistic ideas and are ready to bully you into submission, represent the real danger our civilization is facing.
What you cannot say controls you. Political correctness? (Who decides what is correct?). No dialogue means no opening up to other people or ideas.
Their ideas are in a tin can: we don’t want to eat the same processed food from tin cans. They replaced class struggle with racial struggle. It is the same can with a different label and the same taste. Isomorphism.
But we also have an imaginary past. We invent it and recreate it again and again.
The past?
The future?
But even the present is a matter of imagination. The Quantum law rules that perception is reality. Anticipation creates emotions and even permanently transforms, making our present fit our mental state. Satisfaction depends on expectations.
Suppose I wanted to go to Boston College and was accepted to OXFORD. I would be thrilled. But I would be unhappy if I tried to go to OXFORD and was admitted to Boston College. This has nothing to do with Boston College but with my expectations.
Neurosis is the distance between your ideal self and your present self as perceived by you. If your ideal self is very close to your present self, you might be ok. But you are miserable if your ideal self is far from your present self. If you are a footman and become a butler, you are happy, but if you are a footman and want to become the Lord, you are very unhappy.
The problem is not who you are or what level you are in, but the distance between your ideal self and your perceived self.
The French live in heaven but think they are in hell because they know what is supposed to be perfect and cannot get it, so they end up in St. Helena.
Choose Life
I don’t want a long, healthy, boring life.
No Gluten
No Fat
No Meat
No Sugar
The above all means No Taste
No Cigars
No Whiskey
No Sex Please, We’re British (a play written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, which premiered at the Strand in London)
It all means NO LIFE!
Some people are dead; we just forgot to tell them.
Why do you want to live longer if your life is boring, with no fun, pleasure, sugar, gluten…, or taste?
When your life is exciting, you cannot die.
When your life is boring, you are already dead.
Death is an attitude. Happy is a choice.
A friend of mine was enjoying a great life. Three girlfriends, whiskey and cigars, a lot of food, a lot of sex, but he was overweight. So he went to see his doctor.
Jim, you cannot keep living this way. You are going to die. You have to change your lifestyle; you must exercise, follow a diet, no alcohol, no cigars, lose weight, go down to one girlfriend, don’t stay up all night dancing and drinking, and go to bed at nine.
Okay, Doc. I will.
He followed all the rules imposed by his doctor.
He became skinny, healthy, and sober.
He had a beautiful waistline and beautiful skin.
A few days later, he was hit by a truck and died.
The doctor was right when he said, «You are going to die.»
Choose life!
We are all going to die … anyway!
So let’s have a beautiful, sexy, unhealthy Rye Manhattan and enjoy life.
Life is too good.
I don’t have time to die!
The New Quantum Generation
They are our children, but they are from another planet. They need an operating manual with new maps, rules, principles, and a new way of thinking because they are landing in a completely different world, The Quantum world. This is why I call them the QUANTUM GENERATION.
It is not just a classic rebellion against the former generation. It is a metamorphosis, the Chrysalid.
It becomes a butterfly and can fly, looking at us, still crawling on the ground.
They are in different universes, a world of multiple universes, parallel universes.
The old generation has two significant handicaps in the way they think. They are using old glasses to look at reality and everyday life.
The first is their BINARIAN perspective.
You are either a winner OR a loser
Rich OR poor, friend OR enemy.
This ancient philosophy comes from Mani, who invented Manichaeism in the 3rd century BC. Life became simple. You are good OR bad. The universe is made of opposite forces: good forces and evil forces. So, we have God Or the Devil.
Heaven OR Hell, Male OR female.
The dialectic never gives birth to the synthesis (sorry, Mr. Hegel).
This « Cosmogony » ruled the world for several thousands of years, leading us to two World Wars, millions of dead, and two atomic bombs.
« Science » (I mean binary science) gave us dumb computers. Einstein said they are dumb; they only give you answers. These dumb computers created artificial stupidity, giving us « scientific, » answers to wrong questions.
The second handicap is linear thinking.
Always look at causes before consequences, as the past creates the present in that order and laws that can predict the future. Descartes gave us the separation of mind and body, and Newton gave us the Laws of motion and Newton’s mechanics.
Of course, some « crazy » people started questioning this reasoning, but they were immediately labeled as crazy.
Time is relative, said Einstein, the twin experiment. The shortest way between two points is not a straight line?
And many mystics or poets were relegated to pre-scientific thinking, having smoked too much.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, a group of Crazy scientists have explored the Quantum world.
Today, Quantum computers can answer questions in 100 seconds, taking regular computers years.
It is time to stop looking at Mystics and poets as « crazy. » They might just have been ahead of their time.
The Quantum generation is bridging the gap between them and our future.
Soon, I will give you the first elements of the Quantum Generation Operating Manual.
Stay connected.
The Quantum Revolution
If there is a consensus, it’s that there is no consensus. It works, but we don’t know how it works. There is no certainty in Quantum.
How do we deal with « uncertainty? »
Well, maybe our « certainty » was an Illusion.
We never explore the REAL reality, only our overly simplistic mental reassuring binary and linear illusion.
The Quantum generation is the new pioneer. They have to navigate with no instruments, map, or certainty. This is what is exciting! To go where no one else has gone before, yes, this is risky, but not to go is more risky or riskier.
We cannot keep denying the REAL reality for too long. Even if we accept that this might be just a temporary REAL reality.
Infinitely small might be the new glasses we need to understand that the universe is expanding, that the sun will one day stop burning, that time goes in all directions, and that we might be in parallel universes simultaneously.
« Spooky, » said Einstein.
We need new minds, glasses, quests, and passion for this fascinating new universe.
One day, we might wonder what took us so long to get rid of the old chains.
India is going to beat China
Indicators:
In 2023, Indigo (an Indian company) purchased Five hundred (500) A32 Airbus planes, the largest single purchase agreement in the history of commercial aviation. But this is not all. In the same year, 2023, Air India ordered Two-hundred twenty (220) Boeing and Two-hundred fifty 250 Airbus planes. Together, this is close to 1000 aircrafts ordered! WOW!!!
The second indicator is that the Indian population is now bigger than China’s.
The third indicator is that this is the largest democracy in the world.
The last indicator is that they all speak three languages, including English.
But more than anything else, this is the Indian Culture that will make the difference. I will tell you more about why the Indian culture is Quantum. Quantum thinking is what will give them an advantage over other cultures.
Quantum India will beat Binary Linear China.
I will keep you posted.