devil is in the details

I've been reading The Lucifer Principle. It goes fast unless you look up each footnote. Or, I guess, if you've never read any Dawkins or Ridley. Anyway I'm finding the history bits a lot more interesting than the biology/meme bits. Bloom sure hates communists and Islamic fundamentalists. But then, who doesn't, right? Basically the idea is that while genes form organisms, memes form Superorganisms. These can be religions, political philosophies, countries - I guess you could call it "culture." And every single one of these, as they are made up of humans, will contain seeds of barbarism, or what he calls "the lucifer principle." So, there's no utopia, except for the leaders of the superorganism. FYI.

the clouds seal up your doom

I don't know what it is about you people with SAD, but I really want to bash your skulls in with a baseball bat. Edit: not because I don't believe it exists, or because I think it's easy to fix. I just get annoyed easily.

In other news, I got a haircut downstairs. It's a pretty swanky little place, but I was all nervous someone would notice I was gone so I didn't let her fix a couple things. She and the other woman were Russian, both just at the cusp where hotRussian becomes baboushka. She asked how old I was. She guessed 19. Almost ten years, well done, Daddy's genes. That, the small nose and the pale skin are winnars. Also, the ability to do math.