you’re part of a force, cultural evolution, you’ve got a ten year plan

the ten years above doesn’t mean much, the number’s not to be taken too literally, it’s a nice number. A poofter number if I can say that. No offense to gays, they’re okay.

apparently a lot is going to be different in ten years.

so, this OP’s about looking ahead, where you are going to be, or where you’d like to be, down the track, it’s about ambition, goals, objectives, those individual, and of groups, and the influence both ways of the various scales.

it’s about the ideological devices that help you forget you may not be here in ten years, or even two years, you may not even be here in the morning. Instead you could be in a state of organic decay, and those nearest you will be faced with organizing a funeral. The terror of your body getting smelly will excite them to action, motivate them, but largely the shock of it will have them forget what it’s all about.

how fortunate culture outlives individual humans, that it’s there to bury you nice. It (ideology) anticipates your departure, just as it did you coming into existence (before you were conceived), though it is less, apparently, enthusiastic about your departure.

imagine confusing the longevity of culture with your own longevity. I’m sure it never happens. Would the forces of culture benefit from anyone confusing the two? What was the last notable nasty big fuck up when a lot of people confused the two, WW2 maybe.

that was over half a century ago.

i’m wondering if culture evolves, truly evolves, that it has plans of way into the future, a vision, is it really evolution, or something more fucked up. Biological evolution didn’t get you an eyeball or liver in ten years. Somehow it did it with no hurry, and by accident.

ideology seems to be in a hurry, culture does, and it seems to be about persisting beyond the life of any single human. A grand thing. A force.

apparently the world is being transformed, you may not even recognize it in ten years. Shit’s going to stop being brown and smelly, organic reality is going to be so different.

anyway, for those that missed it, this OP’s about the consequences of being convinced the future is going to be so different, transformed,
your imagination being hijacked by progress.

into the army of longevity soldiers, the unspoken war the we are recruited into.

I’m going to die. But brother John will go first. The piper will play the flowers of the forest.

My sister says she would hate to go through what brother john is going through. She wants somebody to give her clean sheets everyday. When my mother was dying my sister did a triff job at looking after Mum. Mum still made her life shit.

I said there is no one who will look after me like that. She said she would. I said she might be gone. But she has all the private health and such. It will probably be me first. I am planning a heroin addiction.

Aside from death and family and culture…this country runs a three year plan. When the other bastards get in they throw the other plans out the window. Which is a good thing because most plans fuck someone up. The three year plan to do something about climate change didn’t last three years. i might want a better planet for my grandkid but Rupert needs something more.

The soviets used to run 7 year plans. 7 year plans made some sense. It was long enough to get something done.

Apart from that I don’t understand the question.

>Apart from that I don’t understand the question.

impression I get is you are understanding the idea.

prompted I was by listening to a chap talk about the ABC’s ten year plan, going digital.

I wondered for a moment if you froze Kerry O’Brien today for example, thawed him out in twenty years, resurrected free-to-air, would a good reporter be the same thing, and be recognizable.

I don’t have a 10 year plan.

party_pants said:

I don’t have a 10 year plan.

Start with something aspirational: Like ‘in 10 years I will still have at least 1 big toe’.

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

I don’t have a 10 year plan.

Start with something aspirational: Like ‘in 10 years I will still have at least 1 big toe’.

that’s not very witty.

party_pants said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

I don’t have a 10 year plan.

Start with something aspirational: Like ‘in 10 years I will still have at least 1 big toe’.

that’s not very witty.

Too soon?

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Start with something aspirational: Like ‘in 10 years I will still have at least 1 big toe’.

that’s not very witty.

Too soon?

It is kind of an everyday thing, not a 10 year plan. It kind of dominates everything right now.

transition said:

it’s a nice number. A poofter number if I can say that. No offense to gays, they’re okay.

I’ll still be a poofter, if that’s what you’re asking. Not sure what the number 10 or 10 years has to do with poofters, though. Perhaps you could explain?

I’ll be dead in ten years if I don’t get off my arse soon.

Witty Rejoinder said:

party_pants said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Start with something aspirational: Like ‘in 10 years I will still have at least 1 big toe’.

that’s not very witty.

Too soon?

LOL

I prefer a rolling 10 year plan but I might cut it back to a rolling 5 year plan.
So next years 5 year plan will replace this years 5 year plan and so it goes rolling along.
You never ever actually get to that 5 year mark and so you can’t actually fail.
In five years time I hope to have sold enough 5 year rolling plans to be quite wealthy.

Peak Warming Man said:

I prefer a rolling 10 year plan but I might cut it back to a rolling 5 year plan.
So next years 5 year plan will replace this years 5 year plan and so it goes rolling along.
You never ever actually get to that 5 year mark and so you can’t actually fail.
In five years time I hope to have sold enough 5 year rolling plans to be quite wealthy.

Can I join your movement?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I prefer a rolling 10 year plan but I might cut it back to a rolling 5 year plan.
So next years 5 year plan will replace this years 5 year plan and so it goes rolling along.
You never ever actually get to that 5 year mark and so you can’t actually fail.
In five years time I hope to have sold enough 5 year rolling plans to be quite wealthy.

Can I join your movement?

there’s a 5 year waiting list.

transition said:

you’re part of a force, cultural evolution, you’ve got a ten year plan

the ten years above doesn’t mean much, the number’s not to be taken too literally, it’s a nice number. A poofter number if I can say that. No offense to gays, they’re okay.

apparently a lot is going to be different in ten years.

so, this OP’s about looking ahead, where you are going to be, or where you’d like to be, down the track, it’s about ambition, goals, objectives, those individual, and of groups, and the influence both ways of the various scales.

it’s about the ideological devices that help you forget you may not be here in ten years, or even two years, you may not even be here in the morning. Instead you could be in a state of organic decay, and those nearest you will be faced with organizing a funeral. The terror of your body getting smelly will excite them to action, motivate them, but largely the shock of it will have them forget what it’s all about.

how fortunate culture outlives individual humans, that it’s there to bury you nice. It (ideology) anticipates your departure, just as it did you coming into existence (before you were conceived), though it is less, apparently, enthusiastic about your departure.

imagine confusing the longevity of culture with your own longevity. I’m sure it never happens. Would the forces of culture benefit from anyone confusing the two? What was the last notable nasty big fuck up when a lot of people confused the two, WW2 maybe.

that was over half a century ago.

i’m wondering if culture evolves, truly evolves, that it has plans of way into the future, a vision, is it really evolution, or something more fucked up. Biological evolution didn’t get you an eyeball or liver in ten years. Somehow it did it with no hurry, and by accident.

ideology seems to be in a hurry, culture does, and it seems to be about persisting beyond the life of any single human. A grand thing. A force.

apparently the world is being transformed, you may not even recognize it in ten years. Shit’s going to stop being brown and smelly, organic reality is going to be so different.

anyway, for those that missed it, this OP’s about the consequences of being convinced the future is going to be so different, transformed,
your imagination being hijacked by progress.

into the army of longevity soldiers, the unspoken war the we are recruited into.

> imagine confusing the longevity of culture with your own longevity. What was the last notable nasty big fuck up when a lot of people confused the two, WW2 maybe.

Not sure when the last was, but Christ confused longevity of culture with this own longevity.

> how fortunate culture outlives individual humans, that it’s there to bury you nice

It doesn’t always. In China for instance. But these days it either improves rapidly or degenerates slowly.

> wondering if culture evolves, truly evolves, that it has plans of way into the future, a vision, is it really evolution

Extended lifespan through altruism seems to be a major force for good. A person’s legacy lives on in culture even when they themselves do not. Some people have ten year plans. I used to but not any more. My plans now are more selfish – like getting healthy again.