Following A Slender Cotton...

I know, I know - it's going to be tough going, holding onto any single piece of thread in some of these recent pages...

But nevertheless, let's briefly re-cap before going off to the tangential once more:

There are several key 'features' to the internal human being, and three of the most basic ones are as follows - 

1. Truth versus deliberate decision to indulge in lies;

2. Knowledge versus the discarding of any necessity for knowledge, aka permitting ignorance;

3. Choosing to do Good, versus deliberately deciding to disadvantage others for your own selfish ends alone.

And we will consider what the consequences are, presently.

This was last year, at Davos. This year,
the Swiss government committed 10 million US Dollars,
to provide security to the attendees at Davos.
But luckily, the whole thing was cancelled.
Although no doubt there has probably
been a 'Zoom meeting' Davos.

The 1949 movie 'The Third Man' from a story by Graham Greene, was about a criminal master mind who sold diluted penicillin he stole from military hospitals.

Penicillin, as you know was not really developed as a useful and widely-available medicine even though it had been discovered in 1928 - until 1940, and only used in quantities first by the American Army, but with such success though that it quickly became a vital product globally.

The real drama of the move 'The Third Man' proceeds from the moral exposition of the motivations of the character 'Harry Lime' (played by Orson Welles).

The movie is set in Vienna, Austria. And I have been there a couple of times at least. 

I must admit, personally I am not the world's greatest fan of chocolate cake, but I am a sucker for whipped cream and so, it was no great effort to drink Vienna coffees and down some Sachertorte.

Vienna is the only city that I have been to right across Europe, in which you will regularly see women of a variety of ages wearing real fur coats in the street.

Spiced Vienna Coffee!

Sure you can see people in furs in Russia but that is entirely different - when it is thirty degrees below zero, you'd better be wearing fur! Or something that actually works.

People in Vienna don't wear fur because it is cold, they wear it because the place is old fashioned.

...So, back to that slender thread. Joseph Cotten, by the way, plays 'Holly Martins.' That's 'Cotten,' not 'cotton.'

If we go back to those 'three aspects' mentioned above, if a person continually uses one certain composition of them only, then the other aspects calcify and quickly disappear -, they turn into powder and are blown away completely; they are not able to be accessed anymore.

The chances of a totally advanced superior intelligent species of being talking 'equitably' to anyone with limited internal systems actually available and functioning - is nil.

The idea though, that any vastly superior intelligent species will tolerate simply anything at all, because of some glib belief that 'nice people' always behave 'nicely' no matter what - is truly insane.

And you are about to live through a time in which you will see before you own eyes what a mistaken thing that attitude has been.