The curve of being techologically “with it”\u00a0 advances on many fronts, and while I sometimes feel ahead of the curve because I even have a\u00a0 blog AND a website—two websites, even!—then am humbled by learning that friends are using video-Skype, and Ipod for doing Power-Point presentations, and doing all sorts of fancy stuff that leave me something between astonished, greedy, jealous, admiring, wondering, interested, confused, intimidated, overwhelmed, and amused and letting-go.<\/p>\n
Still, I keep hearing in the back of my mind the lyrics and faint melody of the song, “Everythin’s Up To Date in Kansas City” (This is sung by the character Will in the early part of the early 1940s Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Musical, Oklahoma!<\/em> ): So I\u2019ve become more vividly aware of the accelerated advance of relevant technology, how friends are able to play in ways I never knew about. This differs from occasional news in Scientific American or other sources, about how \u201cthey\u201d are finding planets or black holes or other fancy stuff. But those guys aren\u2019t my reference group, and these pals who are exploring new frontiers are\u2014in the sense of \u201chey, maybe I should look into that.\u201d<\/p>\n Backing off and noticing the whole dynamic from a wider perspective, I realize that I can not keep up\u2014it\u2019s all happening too much and too fast. I don\u2019t have a television set and so miss out on much that is current eventful\u2014celebrity wise\u2014and don\u2019t recognize as a result many of the faces on the People Magazine and other spin-offs. I\u2019m am \u201cout of it\u201d in many social sub-groups, no doubt. Funny, I don\u2019t care, and rather find myself a little roll-my-eyes-ing at those who are more \u201cin.\u201d<\/p>\n Part of this is my unconscious \u201cshadow\u201d complex of shame and envy by a relative nerd to those who seem more popular, or at least interested in what popular kids do\u2014e.g., sports, travel, poker, etc. My more mature self is more self-accepting that we all have our place in this big world. But a third wacky-myth-making complex is suggesting that we do really (whatever really means) live in different worlds. Those funny cosmological theorists who are suggesting spin-off multiple (billions of) universes to explain certain conundrums in theory. At first I scorned them for violating the philosophical criterion of Occam\u2019s Razor in unnecessarily hypothesizing excessive entities; but then it occurred to me that in the realms of the mind the metaphor of different worlds really applies. Of course we overlap\u2014the boundaries in the mind-field are quite permeable\u2014but still from my perspective of trans-dimensional metaphysics (in which mind is a dimension as much as matter, time, space, or energy), of course there would seem to be a near-infinite number of dimensions.<\/p>\n Anyway, all that by way of laughing at the funny riddles of the cosmos, its mystery and (to me) invitation to wonder even as I theorize; to investigate even as I surrender any hope of ever really knowing the whole picture. It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The curve of being techologically “with it”\u00a0 advances on many fronts, and while I sometimes feel ahead of the curve because I even have a\u00a0 blog AND a website—two websites, even!—then am humbled by learning that friends are using video-Skype, and Ipod for doing Power-Point presentations, and doing all sorts of fancy stuff that leave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI got to Kansas City on a Frid’y \/ By Sattidy I larned a thing or two.
\n‘Coz up to then I didn’t have an idy \/ Of whut the modren world was comin’ to!
\nI counted twenty gas buggies goin’ by theirsel’s \/Almost ev’ry time I tuk a walk.
\n‘Nen I put my ear to a Bell Telephone \/ And a strange womern started in to talk!
\n. . .
\nEv’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City \/ They’ve gone about as fur as they c’n go!
\nThey went and built a skyscraper seven stories high,
\nAbout as high as a buildin’ orta grow.
\nEv’rythin’s like a dream in Kansas City, \/ It’s better than a magic lantern show!
\nY’ c’n turn the radiator on \/ Whenever you want some heat.
\nWith ev’ry kind o’ comfort \/ Ev’ry house is all complete.
\nYou c’n walk to privies in the rain \/ And never wet your feet!
\nThey’ve gone about as fur as they c’n go!<\/p>\n