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Notes and comments on FB and Twitter. Part 52

I want to accompany Elon Musk on his daily work “randonnés”: I like to be first to observe the onset of his Insanity

If a massive solar gamma ray charge does Not ravage earth in the next 50 years, it is inevitable that data cloud will crash completely before then.

We will have to restart saving our lousy knowledge accumulation

If a meteorite fails to crash on earth within a century, it is still  inevitable that a massive wild fire will burn the land.

Our crazy species survived near extinction several times, but it was due to Natural calamities. This time around, we will Not survive extinction from man-made chain reactions of catastrophes.

The moment we try to “Control” one chain reaction, we ignite another one.

Instead of giving me a lift, they wave to mean: “No one in his right head walks in this hot weather”

“Ton rêve est une Egypte, mais toi une momie avec son masque d’or”

L’étique de la quantité? Le nombre limite (red line) óu la quantité des experience équivalentes déborde le sens de l’étique des régles du jeu d’une société.

Priver les gens des illusions (terre promise…) et la nuit toute noire les ensevelie

On appelle un homme “absurd” s’il fixe la mort avec une attention passionée, sans illusion et sans espoir

Le malheur naturel de notre condition de mortel que rien ne peut nous consoler, sauf le divertissement et les coutumes

L’équilibre de l’évidence et du lyrisme est nécessaire pour accede a la clarté de l’émotion? Peut-etre que nos generations modernes qui entende la musique en boucle ont cessé de réflechir aux evidences proposes par le lyrism

Netherlands’ refugee integration: 10,000 Euro to learn the language within 3 years, otherwise you have got to pay back this sum. Question: If those who learned the language cannot secure a job, how can the failed refugee pay back?

Incarcerate the refugee in a camp until the political situation is stabilized back home for repatriation? Does this mean that Syria should Not expect any normalcy within these 3 years condition by the Netherlands?

I’ll be happy to spend 6 months in the Netherlands to learn their awkward language if paid 10,000 Euro

Hassan Kamel el Sabba7 Lebanese electrical genius found dead in his car on March 31, 1935 at the age of 41. He was about to return to Lebanon from the USA in order to transform arid regions in the Arab World in Green Sahara after he discovered solar cell in 1930. He received 11 Prizes for Excellence and registered 52 scientific patents. Among his achievements are alternative currents, photovoltaic pannels, Hertzien transmission and synchronous motors

Quand l’economie decline et le souverain et sa class de noblesse recourent a la force come seul moyen: “Le peuple prend peur, devient deprime, cherche protection contre le souverain en recourant au mensonge, le ruse, la fraude. Cela influe sur le caractere des sujets qui se gate…” (Ibn Khladoun). Saudi Kingdom fits this description.

Nothing changed in the Arab World in the last 600 years. Les etats rentiers sont caracterises par une forte concentration du pouvoir. Le veritable noblesse de base n’appartient qu’a ceux qui ont l’esprit de clan. les revenus des butins sont difficiles a distinguer parmi le souverain et la classe de nobles. (Ibn Khaldoun)

La puissance politique du souverain depend du niveau des richesses produites par le travail de l’homme et des conditions de la repartition de la richesse generee. The Assabiyya (loyalty to the tribe) deteriorate with the decline of the economy (Ibn Khladoun)

“Les Francais font des revolutions: Ils ne savent pas faire des réformes” Alexis de Toqueville in 1848. Les Libanais ne savent faire aucune de ces 2 alternatives


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