Notebook 12 Pge 170

The notes

• When you're hanging on by your fingernails best not to wave your arms around
• Smallest complete ethical statement possible
• Unit of mind
• Flat Pack navy
• Like commemorating the life of James Joyce with a celebratory Monster Truck rally
• That's put a crack in your PlayStation
• Uncle Archy Archy Witchetty Grub 
• Geckos lick there own eyeballs
• 18,003 eyes

The commentary

When you're hanging on by your fingernails best not to wave your arms around
Sage advice 

Smallest complete ethical statement possible
In my current mixed state of knowing I would say that the smallest most complete ethical statement would be: The optimal guide for a good life would be one guided by wisdom and compassion where the definition of wisdom = you must strive to acknowledge your ignorance (admit you may be wrong) & the definition of compassion = you must strive to care without condition (no compassion-ometer). I know it ain't pithy and it ain't too pretty but it's the best I can do.

Unit of mind
Ah imagine if we could measure this? I'm not saying it could end up having the odd discriminatory aspect but on the plus side it could mean reducing the influence of these havoc creating nitwits currently beckoning us all to come squat in their intellectual tar pits.

Flat Pack navy 
I think this was in relation to the Punic wars  and how the Roman Navy suffered initial defeats but then stole a Carthaginian ship and copied it 100 times. Of course the best thing about remembering this time in history is that we tend to just think of it as just Greece and Rome, when really the Carthaginians were the third big player but due to repeatedly pissing off Rome their entire Empire and its achievements have been erased from history. You can almost hear George Orwell's slightly smug sigh.

Like commemorating the life of James Joyce with a celebratory Monster Truck rally
Monster Truck Rallys seem to have passed us by in Europe but I am fairly sure that one day we will all have the ability to go watch large vehicles roll over slightly smaller ones.


That's put a crack in your PlayStation
Ah this is me wandering off down that well IED'd road of trying to appeal to a younger audience.

Uncle Archy Archy Witchetty Grub 
Q. A song? A poem?  A. A load of rubbish.

Geckos lick there own eyeballs
This is true, as is the fact that there are no pictures of this happening available on the web that can be downloaded for less than $150. So if you insist on proof your choices are; 1) have a Google around,
2) take my word for it 3) send me $150 or 4) buy a gecko and wait.

18,003 eyes
I'm assuming something somewhere has 18,003 eyes, or maybe 9,001 people and a pirate.

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