Subject: Seeing into the Future and Shit

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: like.excess@sex.org
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2001 12:04 AM
Message-ID: <3BAEB0D4.3584@succeeds.com>

It must be hard as hell to see into the future.

1) Try seeing into the here and now.

I bet the first thing you think of is picking up a
newspaper, listening to the radio or watching teevee,
or checking up on the Internet to see what is going
down. But what if you don't have those sources?
Walk outside and describe the earth shaking things
happening there. Unless you live in a certain part
of New York City, you prolly aren't going to see much.

2) How about seeing into the past?

There is a charming little book called "Whatever
Happened on Lexington Green?", which is just a
collection of the various recollections of people
surrounding the event of "The Shot Heard 'Round The
World." Some were taken right after, some generations
later, many actual witnesses, etc. Almost every darn
one of more than fifty accounts disagreed on the major
elements of the event. Who fired first? How many men
were there? Where were they standing? etc.

3) What about seeing things from someone else's point
of view?

Typically, an individual has about 100 people with whom
they interact on a weekly basis. Two people who live
within a few miles of each other might have 5-10 people
in their lists that are the same. This does not mean
deep interaction, just casual recognition.
So, you're seeing somebody else's future. You have no
way of assigning any value at all to anyone they know.

4) WORST OF ALL: People are boring as shit.

95% of everyone's day is repetitious bullshit. Would
you be willing to psychicly sit through that for years
on the off-chance that something *interesting* might
take place? "You're going to do the same damn things
every day until you die. Three days after you die, you
will be totally forgotten by everyone, except around
the holidays for the first couple of years."

--
"Nature abhors a peasant. You will soon see
a violent demonstration of this fact."

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