Re-accessing uncertainty

Upon my personal observation since I become aware of human behaviors and their habits when it comes to readership, readers now likes unpredictability for whatever reasons they don’t know themselves. But ever so often it’s because it’s for surprises that ignite either their natural senses to approve or decline for kinship with this fictious homeplace in this “global village” that the Inter-net, as how media critic Marshall McLuhan called it, as opposed to factious place that which is the real world out-side.

Early this Spring, when Stacia went to the San Francisco Chronicle building to clarify an idea she had, with little storms swirling about her mind during that time, she asked Steve Proctor, the newspaper’s Managing Deputy Editor, on the city’s behavior set against the backdrop of the news.

She told him this: “I recently read the March 2010 issue of The Atlantic magazine, where under the words that are most searched by readers include big words like Christianity, God, prosperity, (and other words that may spurt controversial arguments among people, both for educated ones and especially the uneducated) and so on. I wonder, do you think that the prosperity of the city is affected by the news they read from the city’s paper?" Given that he used to work for The Baltimore Sun in the East, where it’s known for high criminal rates, and that he moved to the West here in the safer Bay Area, she thought he might have a good say about the news.

Proctor reversed her order of words in his reply, saying that the paper reflects the people of the city instead of the other way around as she wondered. Having a background in History, she trusted him on informing her about the nature of readership.

From this perspective she chose to consult, she could see that History is a wide scope of old traditions cut down into summaries, that is, the gist of eventful stories, giving only factual accounts, while its significance is only justified according to different individuals and their background information.

She learned to see from that standpoint, and applied that to how modern people are behaving themselves, and their causes they may or may not have been impacted by their daily feeds from news stories.

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THE
FUTURE:
IS NOW!

The above word art is my little side-note on my notebook

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Entrepreneur magazine released their last issue in the previous year, telling readers that this Recession is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to venture their own fictious homelands, with the use of technology in order to access all of our global, virtual village. At least, that’s what I get from reading the issue and using it as my guide to lead my heart's wishes, Ai's own directions, to enliven my spirits.

As all entrepreneurs are social people, they see unpredictability as shining, white light. Middle-class men, or women for that matter, see it as gray areas, much like the shapes and sizes of their gray matter inside their brains, which, by the way, is constantly processing information. White matter is also always nervous. But white matter always control how nervous it is. (See White matter)

When I led myself to this article on how unpredictable it is this year’s La Nina’s impacts on San Francisco, along with its informative reports for my spatial awareness by reminding me about the nature of the Bay Area’s geographical location, I had a momentary flashback of how it used to be – in Stacia’s history – the setting of her Geography classroom back in high school, when she wasn’t listening to class lecturer Mr. Peh, and was doodling him at the back of the classroom and writing down notes back and forth to her best friend, Cattalina Tantri. “You giggly girls back there! Tell the class what is El Nino.”

It’s simply an ocean pattern, a phenomenon. Yes, it’s simply nature’s phenomenon that human beings have taken for granted as they bred themselves to read patterns, up to the point where the thought of artful and therefore meaning-full literature has been dismissed in their minds, when the word “phenomenon” is reduced to nothing. George Orwell had a good say about trying to sound scientific through bad writing and using un-meaningful words like “phenomenon”. Read his essay on Bad Writing, available in the Arts & Letters issue of Lapham’s Quarterly that was published early this Spring.

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Mother Nature has her own ways to tell us where to go next. We can perceive it either as a positive say, or in a negative way, which breaks us down into meaningless stones on the path we’re walking, beating about our own bushes without any awareness, taking no consideration for things surrounding us.

Funny how we study too much about the human nature, as opposed to appreciating it, then accept things that come from it, and then appreciating each of those little moments. We live for our own reasons, am I right? But what is living without leaving our footprints on the crossroads in this global village we are living in? We meet others through the paths we’re walking, yet we are not saying more “Hello”s, are we?

Are we corresponding to nature’s phenomena, or are we expecting nature to respond to us, which is impossible?
What if impossible is spelled as I’m possible?

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A PLACE CALLED HOME

There is a reason why ancient writers refer cities as female, writing about her volatility as of beautiful waters that shapes its citizens, making history every moment passed into timely events. Read up the latest issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, featuring issues circulating about The City.