Wild Geese Flying, The Grand Mausoleum
Apr. 4th, 2021 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipI enjoyed a lengthy lunch and dinner with Anthony L., and Robyn M. on Friday. This provided for, apart from great food and excellent conversation, further developments in the quasi-secret world-changing environmental program that I have working on. Because life moves at pace, there have been very recent developments in the technology that have led me to make contacts with some Queensland-based professors (along now with University of Melbourne, CSIRO, a couple of politicians, and "special contacts"). I feel that there has been sufficient development that I can publically reveal that (a) it involves the People's Republic of China and (b) it involves construction. I've decided to call the project "Wild Geese Flying", partially because it is a common metaphor in Chinese literature and song, partially because of Kaname Akamatsu's flying geese paradigm in developmental economics, which takes a good world systems approach, and partially because the metaphor of flying geese being a bird that likes to soar. I really do understand those who prefer a quieter life and have more modest goals. But that is not me; I want to do something really substantial in my time on earth, and as such I dream big. To date it hasn't been such a disaster taking that approach; as long as I keep my feet on the ground and my head in the clouds, giant achievements are possible. If this one works, I think adding one year's additional life expectancy to a billion people is a pretty reasonable life goal, right?
On the matter of temporal limitations, last week was quite impossible for me to do much about the move from The Asylum to The Grand Mausoleum. Far too many classes on successive days and, of course, a few other matters on my mind (which I found quite natural to put completely aside when conducting live teaching). With the aid of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caseopaya, I made the first moves into the grand inner-city apartment, and have started recycling furnishings back into the Willsmere community. Over the next few weeks, I plan to have complete the move and make the place the sort of home that will be worthy of a few stories; there will be epic dinner parties, there will be sparkling conversation with extremely bright people, and the most amazing plans and plots will be constructed for the light of day. Of course, there are going to be some limits; Dunbar's Number applies, and I really need to concentrate on those social relationships with are practical as well as enjoyable and at the same time. And of course, I do have degrees, books, chapters, and papers to complete. Apologies in advance to my beautiful friends who live that glorious lifestyle like the 24-hour party people; maybe there will be time for one or two wild and spectacular nights where we can dance carefree under the light of the moon as well. But it is some thoroughly purposeful living that I need to concentrate on now, at least for some time. There is a world to change, and apparently, I have sufficient intelligence and gregariousness to harness the disparate and disconnected brilliance of others. Nemo vir est qui mundum non reddat meliorem.
On the matter of temporal limitations, last week was quite impossible for me to do much about the move from The Asylum to The Grand Mausoleum. Far too many classes on successive days and, of course, a few other matters on my mind (which I found quite natural to put completely aside when conducting live teaching). With the aid of
caseopaya, I made the first moves into the grand inner-city apartment, and have started recycling furnishings back into the Willsmere community. Over the next few weeks, I plan to have complete the move and make the place the sort of home that will be worthy of a few stories; there will be epic dinner parties, there will be sparkling conversation with extremely bright people, and the most amazing plans and plots will be constructed for the light of day. Of course, there are going to be some limits; Dunbar's Number applies, and I really need to concentrate on those social relationships with are practical as well as enjoyable and at the same time. And of course, I do have degrees, books, chapters, and papers to complete. Apologies in advance to my beautiful friends who live that glorious lifestyle like the 24-hour party people; maybe there will be time for one or two wild and spectacular nights where we can dance carefree under the light of the moon as well. But it is some thoroughly purposeful living that I need to concentrate on now, at least for some time. There is a world to change, and apparently, I have sufficient intelligence and gregariousness to harness the disparate and disconnected brilliance of others. Nemo vir est qui mundum non reddat meliorem.