My life just keeps getting WEIRDER and WEIRDER.
Since my last entry, I found out about a couple of groups of evolutionary scientists who are trying to find ways to use evolution to solve problems facing humanity, and are trying to teach evolution to the public in order to win the public support they need for any solutions to work. I joined the Club of Budapest, an international group of scienitsts. So far they all seem to be wandering lost in the dark though, and keep coming up with all kinds of hare-brained schemes that will never interest ordinary people. "Using Alice in Wonderland to teach systems theory so that children can get a head start at learning the kinds of things they'll need to be able to understand evolution better" was my favorite. So I had to back up and write a scientific version of my own theories I lay in my book, which I wrongly assumed were so obvious that scienitsts everywhere must've known them already and just couldn't get through to the public because they were ivory tower intellectual dweebs who couldn't relate to real-life people. I submitted the first article to the Journal of General Evolution last week, THE scientific journal of evolutionary science. The guy that owns the journal is also the head of the Club of Budapest and also a member of the General Evolution Research Group, the original group of evolutionary scientists who began meeting (in Budapest) in 1987 to try to find ways to keep humanity from blowing itself to hell in the climactic years of the Cold War, and who now advise the UNITED NATIONS on all kinds of problems facing humanity. If they print the article, it'll be a lot of help to a lot of people.
Then I started going to the Counter Culture Cafe near here, on open mic night Wednesday nights, which is the REAL proving ground for my new Theory of Evolution. There are so many people wondering what the hell is going wrong with the world, and if I can get up among a bunch of poets and stand-up comics and teach evolutionary theory, and leave everyone feeling like I just reached into their brain and turned on a lightswitch, that's the real proof that it works. I'm just getting started at it, but so far, my audiences have loved it.
And then just yesterday I got my paperwork back from sending my manuscript to the Library of Congress. I didn't think this would actually work, but I seem to have pulled off the biggest prank in the history of the world. Back when I started this project I set out to find a way to use evolutionary science to write a better book than the Bible, which wasn't all that hard to do, because every gorup of people in the world has already figured out all the basic things it says in the Bible-- be nice to each other, don't kill each other, etc., etc.-- so all I had to do was to write a book about that on behalf of all the people in the world who keep getting stepped on by conservative Christians just because they word their cultural values differently and didn't think to write them down in a single book. Then just to make sure the fundamentalist Christians would understand that I'm not joking, I dubbed my book that was better than the Bible The Third Testament. I thought somebody probably already owned a copyright on that title and the Library of Congress would turn down my application, but I was mistaken. So here it is. The federal government of the United States, of which George W. Bush is president, now officially recognizes ME as the author of The Third Testament.
Since my last entry, I found out about a couple of groups of evolutionary scientists who are trying to find ways to use evolution to solve problems facing humanity, and are trying to teach evolution to the public in order to win the public support they need for any solutions to work. I joined the Club of Budapest, an international group of scienitsts. So far they all seem to be wandering lost in the dark though, and keep coming up with all kinds of hare-brained schemes that will never interest ordinary people. "Using Alice in Wonderland to teach systems theory so that children can get a head start at learning the kinds of things they'll need to be able to understand evolution better" was my favorite. So I had to back up and write a scientific version of my own theories I lay in my book, which I wrongly assumed were so obvious that scienitsts everywhere must've known them already and just couldn't get through to the public because they were ivory tower intellectual dweebs who couldn't relate to real-life people. I submitted the first article to the Journal of General Evolution last week, THE scientific journal of evolutionary science. The guy that owns the journal is also the head of the Club of Budapest and also a member of the General Evolution Research Group, the original group of evolutionary scientists who began meeting (in Budapest) in 1987 to try to find ways to keep humanity from blowing itself to hell in the climactic years of the Cold War, and who now advise the UNITED NATIONS on all kinds of problems facing humanity. If they print the article, it'll be a lot of help to a lot of people.
Then I started going to the Counter Culture Cafe near here, on open mic night Wednesday nights, which is the REAL proving ground for my new Theory of Evolution. There are so many people wondering what the hell is going wrong with the world, and if I can get up among a bunch of poets and stand-up comics and teach evolutionary theory, and leave everyone feeling like I just reached into their brain and turned on a lightswitch, that's the real proof that it works. I'm just getting started at it, but so far, my audiences have loved it.
And then just yesterday I got my paperwork back from sending my manuscript to the Library of Congress. I didn't think this would actually work, but I seem to have pulled off the biggest prank in the history of the world. Back when I started this project I set out to find a way to use evolutionary science to write a better book than the Bible, which wasn't all that hard to do, because every gorup of people in the world has already figured out all the basic things it says in the Bible-- be nice to each other, don't kill each other, etc., etc.-- so all I had to do was to write a book about that on behalf of all the people in the world who keep getting stepped on by conservative Christians just because they word their cultural values differently and didn't think to write them down in a single book. Then just to make sure the fundamentalist Christians would understand that I'm not joking, I dubbed my book that was better than the Bible The Third Testament. I thought somebody probably already owned a copyright on that title and the Library of Congress would turn down my application, but I was mistaken. So here it is. The federal government of the United States, of which George W. Bush is president, now officially recognizes ME as the author of The Third Testament.
[Edited on Dec 23, 2005 3:18AM]
often it is the only
thing
between you and
impossibility.
no drink,
no woman's love,
no wealth
can
match it.
Charles Bukowski