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Ok, the noise at one level is high, and the signals are embedded, but I want to try to give you a short heads-up. There are very interesting things happening. There is a perfect storm brewing, but it’s not what you think..?

This storm has brought with it an asymmetry that will change so many things.

There are several events that have marked history…1901 and 1930, so they say, one of which I had some indirect benefit from…both of those were paradigm "fuelers" and they came as a result of oil discoveries … as you remember; the SPINDLETOP and the EAST TEXAS field (20 billion barrels), which is still pumping btw, albeit slower, and feeding my x-wife’s family…

The recent shale finds in LEVANT (maybe you never heard of it –>Off Israeli coast), BAKKEN, and EAGLE FORD, and a new one that is likely to contain 35 billion barrels, along with what people think are more than 20 fields that will have billions of barrels of newly discovered oil and gas.

This is clearly the energy miracle that I spoke about last march, as the light at the end of the tunnel.

It seems that along with all the problems that are going to emerge, the emergence of this set of discoveries is going to trigger everything from a new socialist movement*…to Obama becoming the greatest president in our history; make room mount Rushmore?

(I wish they wouldn’t call it that, but they do, because @F-L-O-W, this movement will be to recognize a converging set of factors that deal with a re-interpretation of what makes people human and a movement away from the ideas; that on one hand has created blank slate, and on the other hand, which will start to weaken it over time…and that will NOT be socialism, but a new -ism, which has not emerged yet, and I am labeling for now, as "contribution", mingled with some degree of contrition I suspect, not sure, but it won’t be an -ism, we recognize…)

This is the strangest, yet most counter-intuitive moment in history, and it is difficult to explain, but "perfect" for the times, as paradoxically enthralling as any movie I’ve seen.

My forecast, which I’m working on, will attempt (a new format) to place now, near, and far components within the context of best, probable, and worst scenarios, as the future has and always had a number of streams running….

This will be all I can say for now, but I don’t want people to think there is only bad news, because that is what you are going to hear as parts of the system, which can’t adapt as fast, suffer asymmetrically, and other parts of the system continue to promote the greatest accumulation of wealth, we have ever known…

We are entering a period of time that continues to draw wisdom from Alice in Wonderland…

Join me for my 2014 forecast call on January 3, 2012.  If you are a BOOK Owner @F-L-O-W, the event will be in your schedule of events.  If you are not yet a book owner, you’ll want to understand this FORECAST @F-L-O-W and why you, me, and we are in for a ride.

About ‘100 Years’ after the roaring 20s, we approach a period of time which will forever define us, and mark the tipping point @BS.  A real BLACK SWAN @F-L-O-W.

Black swan theory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that is a surprise (to the observer), has a major effect, and after the fact is often inappropriately rationalized with the benefit of hindsight. The theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain: The disproportionate role of high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science, finance, and technology The non-computability of the probability of the consequential rare events using scientific methods (owing to the very nature of small probabilities) The psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to uncertainty and unaware of the massive role of the rare event in historical affairs Unlike the earlier philosophical "black swan problem," the "black swan theory" refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences."

Down the rabbit hole a little further…and a summary remark

Here’s a quick example, they are everywhere:

Diet’s Role in Risk of Repeat Heart Attacks

People with heart disease or diabetes who consumed diets rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and fish were less likely to have another heart attack or stroke, according to a five-year study.

When I read part of this, I could not say whether or not the people eating the good food:

1) ate the food because they were motivated to eat well and diabetes and heart failure were part of their genetic inbornness

2) that people motivated to eat the food did so because they were scaffolded

4) that the food itself was actually the issues, or were there lifestyle changes in concert with the food regimen

This is why I think we are mostly mistaken about what causes what…?

I read a piece years ago that said we don’t die from heart attacks, that they are merely the objects of deeper subjects…all of which are complex.  So all the stuff that people say do, is really based on what people "want" you to do…

If we have been fooled by food companies, then why haven’t we been fooled by drug companies, and by "Car" companies, and by our doctors, lawyers, and everyone else who has themselves been fooled by the foolers who we now can’t tell apart anymore…

…and remember, we did all this fooling and being fooled by science, fyi…and of course our intuition as it is filtered through ego…

Now, the natural response I see, often from people when I raise this kind of conundrum, is this remark…"why do anything at all…"

As if, they had some choice hehe…

But I know reactions that people will have @F-L-O-W is that if everything is so complex, then what should we do…

…and that is why it took a decade to figure out the answer and that is…go back to the roots of happiness… Manage your existence in some way you can function, or dysfunction at the hierarchy of need aligned with what your inbornness + scaffolding can generate sustainably…and with that a eye towards the other fish bowlers in the area…

No matter how complex it gets, at least until gene therapy becomes operational…this may be an approach that works for more folks…and in that process, leave a little for others, and help when and where you can.


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The paradox of choice.

When we look at some of the ramifications of all of the choices we can make, if we are not clear on why we make those choices, or don’t, the how really doesn’t matter, as it becomes part of the problem.

ValuSYNC™ @F-L-O-W is a system of values engineering to help us understand how our values create a fishbowl which is important for us.  But we need to be clear on our ends values, and our means values, and what that means.

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