What literature tells about society?

What literature tells about society?

Litterature or so-called official writings is a very good tool for deciding the attitudes in society. If some publishings are prohibited or censored, that means that something is embarrassing about those texts or writings. There are two ways to make censorship. Another is the official censorship, which is made by authorities, and the other way is that the publishers just refuse the co-operation with writers, whose texts are not pleasing them or the people, who are behind those firms.

But the opposite or mirror-version of the censorship is the books and writings, what are marketed by strong volume. Strong or high-level marketing is telling that somebody, who has money wants that everybody should read those texts. And if the government shares some texts to its officials or quests, that means that in those texts is the agenda, what the government wants to represent for everybody.

That text might be the book, what is written by the leader of the state, what means that the book is offering the window to the mind of national leader, and how the top man wants to see things. And how that person arguments things like how that person became the candidate for the elections, and other cases that would bring the light to decision for staying in power over a couple of elections.

Those things are important when other governments are planning the strategies for that nation and the policy for other nations. If the writer has a strong influence on the internal politics of that nation the profile of that person is very important.

The literature, what is brought to markets by so-called official publishers is the window to the society. And the reason for that is that the writers who are selected by publishers are so-called leading persons in the cultural society and those people want always to be people, who have attitudes and opinions about many things like the environment and social problems. That kind of persons is really good examples, what the people think about some things.

If the books are telling stories about heroism and other important things like wars, that thing tells about growing national spirit. But when we are thinking about cases, where books are telling some kind of wild west hero or old-timer social influential person, that thing would tell that those publications have been changed for some reasons. When we are analyzing the attitudes of the person they are forming in the younghood.

The way how teachers are explaining things are forming the way, how people see things, and of course, people are always against war. When we are looking at things like movements against the Vietnam war, we must realize that there is a couple of things what we must remember. There is a small difference if people are against war, or if people are against the war or campaigns what are made by the USA, and other wars have no mean. This kind of things might be seen, how people are writing about things, what have been happened in the past.

The thing is that the writers, whose texts are published are representing people, who are being young at a certain time, and that means that their attitudes are forming in the certain time in the past. That's why literature is a good window in the things, what government wants people to see. Politicians must know what people are thinking about things like oversees relationships because this kind of things is becoming more and more important.

The published text is showing somehow the attitudes about people, who are leading the cultural things. And culture is one of the best ways to influence to so-called normal people opinions.  When we are thinking about the text, it can transfer feelings, what the living picture cannot transmit. By using text the feelings can transmit precisely. And when we are thinking the text itself, we must remember that the text itself is independent of the platform, where it is published. That's why we should separate Gutenberg from the text what is published.

How much is much?

How much is much?

Sometimes we all see the news about nursery services, which has not enough workers. Sometimes I have thought, that how those nursery companies even dare to take patients because there are only two or three nurses for maybe tens of patients, and that number of staff is enough? So what if something happens during those shifts?

And in the cases that there is so little personnel on work, that it's dangerous for patients, that thing brings my mind the question, should there be some nurses or doctors, who have not come to work? If the thing is like that, why that thing has not mentioned in reports? Or why those people have not called to authorities, that nurses have not come to work?

One thing, what is interesting is, why that thing satisfies patients and their families? Why the small number of personnel is not caused reclamations, and why people who are living in that kind of institutes are not telling a thing to their families?

The things, what satisfies us might be different to someone else, and the things what are dare to us might be meaningless to other people. If a person repeats some words, they are important to that inmate and gives satisfaction. The satisfaction is very well seen in the writings and speeches, what a person makes. When we are thinking about things, what seems meaningless for us, we almost ever think, that for someone else those things are very important.

So what this means? When we will go to the city, we might want to drink a cup of coffee, and then we just go to the cafeteria and take that cup, it doesn't cost very much and that's it. But have you ever thought about an underage person, who wants that cup of coffee? Buying that thing is not so easy thing to them. 

They must find the place, where is no age limit, and then they must have money for buying that cup of coffee. This kind of things is what we must realize when we are making something. Things that are easy to get might be hard for somebody else. So when we are thinking about the way, how people write about things what they have written or spoken? Have you ever thought about cases, where people have written or spoken something that is not tolerated about some other person?

When somebody has mentioned, that some other person has mental problems or that person is somehow incompetent in public writing, and the knowledge is wrong, that could cost very much because of the juridical payments. In those cases, a person must believe, that the thing, what has been written is right. Or actually, the writer must hope that the thing, what has been spread is true. And sometimes this hope causes the phenomenon, that the writer just uses or fixes some term, what supports the last thing, what that person has been spread.

Here I must ask one little question, what is "is it right to leave a customer without service, even that person is incompetent"? This is a very interesting question. Incompetence is not a thing, what justifies to act how people want to act, and that kind of things are not meant for justifying criminal activities and other kinds of things like unnecessary removings from the area.

When we are talking about things like sending faked job applications, I have thought that maybe those people, who are making practical jokes, like sending job applications for other people would like to do those jobs themselves, because they are asking them to others? If somebody thinks that it's a very good improvement to social skills, that person washes some stairways, that person should make those jobs one summer. This kind of thing could be very teaching lesson, how that kind of jobs is improving social skills.

The paradox of poor people is that in the wealthiest states lives poorest people

The paradox of poor people is that in the wealthiest states lives poorest people

1. The natural resource-based economics would not need a highly educated labor force

When people are talking about the wealthy states and people, they are facing a paradox, that in the richest countries lives poorest people. This is a very interesting point of view when we are looking at the segmentation of material and capital in the world. The difference between the poorest and richest people in some nations is very huge, and this advantage is seen also in western countries.

This is the thing, what is somehow interesting because when we are looking at the gross national product, nations are very wealthy. But that money would not benefit individuals, and of course, there is a possibility to get social benefits, but those benefits are coming only if the person is filling the papers, and knows how to seek them. And this is a really interesting thing.

If the person is living in the country, which is really well-known about its natural resources is a higher probability to born poor than the wealthy person, and this is one of the greatest paradoxes on Earth. The thing is that in those nations, who have the greatest natural resources, have the poorest education in the world is something really prominent. The reason for that is that drilling the oil is no need to educated people and because the wealth of those nations is coming from natural resources, there is no need for higher education.

When entire production is made with people, who don't have education, the worker is easy to replace. That thing is a suitable model in some oil fields, but if the nation would not have great natural resources, it must find another source for its incomes. The high-tech industry needs trained people, and that is the reason, why the western world has the superior against those nations, what the main production consists only things like oil and minerals.

If the product of the high-tech industry is immaterial things like computer programs and other things like marketing pages, that means that there is a need for the people, who are working in multiple areas. That means that if we would want to market those programs and other things to a foreign country, we have two possibilities. Of course, we can teach other people to talk our own language or make the homepages by using those people own language. If somebody wants to buy things like screwdrivers from the Internet, that person needs to read, what kind of tools is wanted.

2. Everybody makes mistakes

In this case, there are differences in tools, and if the ordered tools are metered in inches, they are not suitable for tools, what are made for metric systems. If the buyer would not know the difference of inches and centimeters, that would cause very bad problems in the working place. The thing is that if the person makes work, where the most important thing is to be sharp and make complicated codes or write texts, where are complicated things like customs orders or legal things, there must be realized, that in this kind of things is possible to make mistakes.

And people must live with that thing. Nobody is perfect and in some cases, even the best are making mistakes. Of course, is embarrassing, if the person would have to pay more about the merchandise because the customer forgets to mention something, or put some number in the form, and that might cause extra prices.

Some of those extra prices are caused because in the shipment forms are forgotten to mention, that the information about the order is taken from some certain homepages, and if the stuff is ordered by using that information the customer would get it at a lower price.  Those things cause sometimes reclamation because somebody had to pay more, but the maker of the text must live with that thing.

How to handle feelings on the Internet?

How to handle feelings on the Internet?

Internet and own home are a very good place to handle things like feelings, and in that combination is sometimes very devastating. When we are tired, or somehow in very sensitive feelings, we might make mistakes, what we will shame in the next morning.

And this is the thing, why we should not write when we are tired, but as you know, when the inspiration strikes, you cannot resist emotion. Inspiration is the most important thing if the person is working in the creative area. And here we must say, that creative persons are sometimes somehow different than other people.

This is the thing, what we must understand when we are making texts or something else on the net. On the Internet is many people, who like to say, that hackers or somebody else would see everything, what we are writing in here. And why should we care about that thing? Why we must hide things, what we feel or what we like? Like in many other stories, there is a background in this column.

I just read some feedback, what I got in some blog, what have written, but as you know I have not updated that blog recently, and there was some hacker or something like that, who told that this person has been reading that text. And I was impressed because that blog or text is free to read on the Internet.

So that thing that somebody has read those texts doesn't mean that this person is somehow good hacker. So what must I afraid? That somebody would notice about writings about some Russian modern art? So if somebody says that the person is hacker, we must remember, that we must act in the same way, when somebody is telling to be a burglar.

What we should notice when we are looking at the writings?

There are many times told, that if people should not tell or share a thing on the Internet, and the reason is that their privacy has been a danger. But is this the truth and only truth? When we are looking as so-called qualified books and writings in the newspapers, we are facing the thing, that there are many times published information, what is somehow irrelevant or harmful.

One of the saddest examples about this thing is that the medical diagnosis of the scientists are published, and the only thing that means something is that diagnosis. The thing is that medical staff, who are handling that kind of information has professional secrecy about the diagnosis of people.

When we are thinking about things like psychic disorders, we must see that it's same, what kind of movies about that kind of things are made in Hollywood. There are no people, who are telling that movies like "Hannibal" are harmful to the social life of mental patients.

There is no patient association, which would even say a thing against those movies, but when somebody would make a little joke of the Parkinson patients, that causes very big media protests, that this kind of jokes is tasteless. But no media has been protested against movies, where serial killers are hunting people. Of course, those people are the most brutal and notorious people in the world, but only a couple of psychiatric patients are really that kind of people

The world of social media and algorithms

The world of social media and algorithms

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We are living in a world with social media, do we want that or not

When I'm writing about Facebook in this text, I mean about social media. The problems with Facebook and data security is that when artificial intelligence is profiling the user for marketing it can also be used to create another kind of profiles. Data solutions that are used today are created for slower networks and in the begin of Facebook and other social media, the bandwidth of the networks have been less than 500 kilobytes, what made almost impossible to share images. The thing is that nobody even thought that someday almost every person has got the device, which allows sending the photographs and even movies to the Internet and what goes on the pocket.

That means this kind of things have not predicted when Facebook and another kind of social media solutions have been made. And another thing is that the algorithms, what are used for sorting data in the social media have been created for slower computers.

Modern supercomputers can sort billions of bytes more per second than some supercomputer in early 21 century. And the thing, what is new is that the data is transferring in the network. We are making more things on the Internet than before. When we are creating all our papers and memos on the net, we are in danger of hacking. But otherwise, we cannot lose those documents, while we are dropping our USB sticks. And we can continue to make those documents in every place, where we want.

The ability to filter data makes NSA so effective

The thing, what makes NSA so effective is that it has the capacity to filter information. That thing means that the computer can choose the data, what would send to operators by using multiple algorithms. One of the algorithms is the simultaneous calls to the telephone, which is owned by the known criminal. That means that the system can collect telephone calls and E-mails, which are interested in law enforcement. One of them is the E-mails between well known criminal and police chief.

Or the lawyer, whose spouses cleaning company would get millions of euros by cleaning offices, what are owned by Mafia. In the modern time, those officials must not listen to every tape and the computer would also use the "speech to text" solution for creating documents of those records. And the thing is that this kind of solutions is working as some kind of karaoke, which means that the judge can follow the tape like in some kind of karaoke happening.

In a couple of years ago, there were massive campaigns against social media. The attitude was that "companies have their own official channels, and the normal workers should concentrate on their work". But there is one thing, what made that campaign ineffective, and that is that it was made by the media, what has own cow in the ditch. The print media has problems with modern electronic media, and there was always one very big problem, and that is "what if the journalist writes racist or provocative writings?".

The second thing was that why people should be silent if they are harassed at the workplace? When we are thinking about social media, we can see things, what might feel very interesting. Almost every person, who is written in the social media are faced things, what is called "troll". Usually, that thing is like "fucking gay" type phrases, what are telling something about the way, how the harassed will think about things. Sometimes we are facing cases, that somebody has been used trolls for closing the social media.

There are millions of people, who have something to hide with their own backgrounds. And one of them is the unemployed person, who lives in Europe, but spends the winters in Hawaii. Those people would not want their friends to know about this kind of things. But there is another kind of cases, what might be very embarrassing, if they are uncovered. One of them is the priest or head of some charity campaign, who has been the head of the harassing in the school period.

Sometimes there have been suicides in that kind of cases and after that, the person has been changed the name and lived in the foreign land that everybody would forget that kind of things. But social media is a powerful tool for politicians, who are marketing their own ideas on how to improve society. But social media needs an active attitude, and that means that if a person would not have own thoughts, that kind of things is also uncovering in social media.

The social media account might be kept by somebody else

There are services, what are selling the social media writings, which means that the account is handled by professionals. And sometimes is claimed that some ice-hockey players have been burned about this kind of things. In those cases, the player has been written texts for social media, while that man has been on ice. I don't know if this true or false, but if this happens to the politician, that thing would be a little bit more embarrassing than in the case of the ice-hockey player.

In the social media have been uncovered things like that the person, who seems very emphatic and have been marketed very nice guy is something else. And there is also uncovered that some very nice looking kind person is total racists, who believe to be over everybody else. This is the problem with psychopaths and narcissist. They are looking like nice guys, but those persons have no social conscience. Those people are normally nicely dressed and polite, but they think always their own benefit.

One good mark to uncover that kind of person is that the psychopath wants to maximize own benefit. This means that this inmate always chooses the stronger side, and those persons are changing their opinion always to the side of the majority. Or actually, psychopaths are choosing the side, what gives that person the best benefit. And if some person offers the ice-hockey tickets for the psychopath, that person can be the side of the minorities, if that allows getting in the circles of the rich people, whose pictures they can show in the Facebook, what is suddenly filled with the selfies, what the psychopath portrays with the well known ice-hockey players . So this is the sermon for this morning.

One little thing about Stendhal-syndrome

One little thing about Stendhal-syndrome

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Stendhal-syndrome or fascination in the front of art

When we are waiting for something we would be like adjusting to the mental condition, that the something, what we would be dreamed is coming in the front of us. And when we at least see something, we would face the situation, that there would be raised only the thought and worlds, what we are thinking as the most wonderful things, what we can ever create.

When that painting in front of the person, who has the Stendhal-syndrome, that adjusting would erupting as the trance, when the person is looking at the painting. Then that person starts to find out the hidden meanings from that painting, what is so impressive. In that situation, that person could repeat things like nobody ever created those wonderful paintings without reason.

Fascination in front of the painting. 

And in front of the wonderful paintings, we can let the "Pegasos fly" as we sometimes might think. When we are thinking about that situation, that we are facing some extraordinary thing, like wonderful paintings, we might release all our skills to make text. When we are facing the "grey man", who would want to write something, what would make an impression, that thing would cause because of those paintings.

They just release the will to write something extraordinary, and in the real world the people, who are "grey" are the most interesting persons. The reason is that those people would not need to make an impression because of their clothes or merchandise. Those clothes you can buy anywhere. They want to make an impression of something, what other people would not able to buy, and that thing is the writing or making something unique.

Writing is the way to introduce own ideas

Writing is the way to show something to other people. It's the way to introduce their own ideas and show people, how that writer sees things. And maybe those things would not ever interest other people, but there are always people, who are interested in the things, like what kind of creatures the werewolves might be. The thing is that sometimes the writers are only a little bit shy, and that means they are quite silent people, and the writing is their way to introduce the things, what they want to tell other people.

There are always people, who say that bad critique and feedback can terminate the will of writing. But at this point, I must say the thing that who cares about feedback what is given in the kilometers away. Nobody ever knows about that feedback, what is given to another person in the bar, and this thing is a really good thing. That would save us to listen to the feedback about the things, that our writings would not please some person, who would not tolerate that somebody will write something, without asking that inmates permission.

The thoughts of the strange life forms, what might find someday in the universe

A famous image of the surface of Proxima B
by David Hardy

The thoughts of the strange life forms, what might find someday in the universe

Above this text is a famous image about the planet, what orbits the star Proxima Centauri, and that image has been drawn by David Hardy from 1970s. That picture is portrayed in many books, and it was published in the Top (Top, Koululaisen Tietokeskus in Finnish ), the dictionary book series for pupils, what was printed between 1979-1982, and that image shows, how great visionary that man was because he predicted that exoplanet in so early. This image is very nicely drawn, so-called photorealistic image, and sometimes I wonder, where that artist got his ideas for those fantastic drawings, and somebody has asked, how he could predict so many things in the Universe. 

When we are thinking about life in the Universe, we don't have actually single clear evidence of the life forms, what are advanced in the other planet. Until we can get the possible fossils from the planet Mars to the laboratories of Earth, and isolated the genomes from those possible cyanobacteria, we can be sure was there some kind of life on the planet Mars a long time ago. The thing in this kind of research is that there is a very small possibility that those expected bacteria are the dormancy form of that bacteria, what can be released to our planet. 

The thing that those fossils are looking like cyanobacteria doesn't mean that they are primitive life forms. And in the worst case, they are the genome packages, which will transform the life form to another one. There is one little-known theory about the alien life forms, and it is that those hypothetical intelligent life forms are created the artificial viruses or genome bags, which will transform another species to the another. The thing, how that scary hypothetical thing would operate would be simple. It can destroy the original DNA from the nucleus of the cell, and then it can pump the new genome in that cell. 

The nearest exoplanet Proxima Centauri be has been faced the superflare, what burned it's a hemisphere and this kind of phenomenon is the reason, why the planets of red dwarf might not the intelligent life forms in the mode, where we know that that thing. That kind of exoplanets might have primitive life forms like bacteria or some kind of insects, which can predict those superflares, and maybe those life forms can go under the surface to protect themselves against the heat, what flares would cause in the atmosphere of that planet. 

Or maybe those predicted life forms are carrying the water storage in their bag, what would protect them against the heat of flares. In this scenario, those organisms can live in the bag, what is filled by slime or water, and that thing makes them look like some kind of sea sausage. This kind of things are actually the hypothetical life forms, and before we can fly to that planet, we cannot be sure of is the life existed on that planet.  

There is a possibility that in the terminator, in the line between dark and dayside of that planet would live the organisms, what are similar to what we are seeing on Earth, but the, in that case, the number of those organisms is not very large, and the habitable zone on that locked planet is so narrow, that maybe there is living only the bacteria or tiny cells. The possibility, that intelligent life forms would exist in those planets, what are orbiting the red dwarfs might be extremely small. And even there would be the intelligent life forms, that life form could be so different, what we can expect, that it would not be a threat to us. 

If we think about the imaginational life forms, like thinking ponds, where the surface vegetables would form the thing, what is similar with our brain core, and the bottom is the layer, what is similar with the mirror neurons, we can say, that this alien would not even know about the space flights and another kind of technical  advantages or tools before it sees the spacecraft. The idea in this hypothesis is that the intelligence needs the spark to get innovations because if that strange life form would not know anything about technology, it would not make technical tools. 

And that kind of thoughts is a really interesting way to trying to model, what kind of life forms could be found in the universe, but in fact, we have not seen anything absolutely sure cases, where we have faced even the primitive life forms what are coming from another planet. As I have written at the beginning of this text, the existence of the ancient Martian life form, what would be in the level of cyanobacteria would be ensured, when the first parts of those expected fossils are taken to the laboratories, and the DNA or genomes are compiled to the bacteria, what are living on the planet Earth. 

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Nature is a good source of innovation.

Nature is a good source of innovation.

The idea or innovation doesn't mean that the idea would be in mass production in the next day. The innovation can be a theoretical investigation, research or developing the prototypes. In some scientific books is also material like drawings of interstellar spacecraft, what are existed in the distant future. Interplanetary and interstellar flight have been researching a long time ago. The thing is that those futuristic spacecraft concepts have existed on the desks of the theoretical researchers have been made them scientific thing. But if those spacecraft like interstellar ramjets, "Daedalus" and "Orion" would be on the desk of some child, that would be only the drawing. And this is the difference with Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos" and the notebook of some child.

One of the most conventional versions to copy nature to the technology is making the rucksack, where is connecting wings. The difference between the regular hang glider and this new version would be that the winged rucksack would flap the wings like a bird, and that structure might work like the wing of the bat or bird. The thing, what makes this thing possible is that the new carbon fiber materials and kevlar- or my favorite mylar canvas are very strong and light materials.

The wings can follow the same tracks, what the wing of the bird makes when it flies, and the thing is that it can raise the man to the sky if the engine would be strong enough. This is the problem with this kind of systems. The system needs an electric engine, what very light and strong. But if the engine and power source would be strong enough, the real "Birdman" or "Batman" would rise to the wings. But the modern microchip technology would give many new kinds of ideas, and some of them are like some science fiction fantasies. The thing is that some of those ideas would not even create, or at least their creation might need the changes in the attitudes of the people, and maybe they become true after hundreds of years.

One of the most fascinating ideas, what the microchip have brought in our mind is the ability to connect living organisms and machines.  The ability to combinate the microchips to cells have brought in my mind the idea of the hybrid cells, where each cell would involve neurons.  This thing has given some scientists think about the alien or creature, what might be like some kind of mycoplasma.  Another idea is, that the artificial silicone cells could equip with living neurons, and that kind of thing is a creature, which is hard to imagine. The feeding of those neurons would be difficult, but it is not impossible.

That kind of alien or very advanced robot could be in the mind of some theorists. In this text, alien means the thing, what is coming from the laboratories and has the ability to think. And this makes them dangerous. When we are thinking about the case that the machine would combinate to the body of the organism, we might think that this kind of things is very hard to create. But there is a possibility, that the human muscle cells or bones would cover by using a network of the convoluted carbon fiber, what can go short and long, like the normal fibrine, what makes the muscle cells capable to move hands and legs.

This artificial fibrine can connect to the nervous system by using a microchip and the electric sources, which makes it operate as the extra fibrine of the muscle cells, and that would make the person stronger than the ordinary person. The thing what allows the fibrine change it forms is the electricity and this thing would operate also with the carbon fiber. The carbon fiber what covers the bones is actually for making them stronger, but this is the thing, what is still in a theoretical level.

The thing is that those carbon fibers can put inside a person by using a very small cut, and the nanotechnology could transfer that material in the right places. But this is one of the wildest visions of the nanotechnology. The tiny robots would take the material as the bites to the right places in the body of organisms, and those bites would connect together by using the combinations, what are similar to Legos or some worms, what are connecting together for their lifetime, And this kind of thing allows the carbon fibers to connect together. The nanorobots can take them in every place in the body and combine those structures together.

The book of curiosities (Islamic typography from medieval period)

The book of curiosities (Islamic typography from medieval period)

Picture I

Above the text is Islamic typography from the medieval period, and there is one very interesting thing about it. This figure is claimed to portray some harbors or something like that, but in fact, it seems like a bacillus. When we are thinking about the paintings and other kinds of art, there could be a difference between things, what artist claim to portray, and then the thing, what the painting or in this case, typography really portraits.

The thing is the microscope was invented by Robert Hooke in the 17th century is not true. Hooke published the orders on how to prepare the sample, but the microscope itself has been known for a long time ago. And the thing is that if this figure is actually the bacillus, it would be the plague bacillus, one of the most deadly organisms on earth. When we are thinking about the well-known inventions like microscopes there is the possibility, that some of them were actually the things, what are called as the top secret.

And maybe some Islamic leaders would keep this kind of information out of the eyes of the ordinary people.  The epidemics have been a good way to control people because the existence of those microbes was not probably commonly known thing. And the plague or some other epidemics would be explained as the hate of God, what caused that the people were not enough concerning the service of the god, and leave thoughts to the leaders. It was the spirit of the medieval period.

In medieval society, the purpose of the people was to serve the god, who was represented by the local leader. The things were not different in the Islamic and European side. And if there were too much free time in the area, people would start to ask, why somebody would not do a thing? And in those cases, the artificial epidemic was probably the best way to turn the eyes of the people in another turn from the palace of a local leader.

Picture I
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