The Visionary

Seeing is one thing, having an idea is quite another. Vision is the result of direct contact with the physical environment. Idea is an intellectual construct. The difficulty inevitable between visionaries and ideologues is that to the ideologue the visionary is merely in possession of different ideas.

We can not connect dots that are invisible to us. The sky is falling; it just falls, in human terms, very slowly. And by the time the obvious becomes apparent to the hopelessly occluded things will be totally FUBAR.

Flotsam and Jetsam on the Point and the Line

Flotsam and Jetsam

In their drift upon the sea of life discoursed and pondered

many a weighty and provocative imponderable

such as

might there exist a vertical dimension

to illustrate his object Jetsam recounted a tale about Mr. Point

conversing with

Mr. Line

Mr. Point found Line to be an interesting fellow

though something of an egotist

for though Mr Line was quite like any other point taken straight on

he alluded to possession of dimensions not shared by points around

Line boldly spoke about his intimations of the plane

at which the scoffing Point declared that

"even if there were such a thing as a plane it would be inconceivable

and therefore all talk of planes was

idle speculation"

to which Line replied that

if Point would stretch a bit he would gain perspective

well, Flotsam was not entertained by reasoning in this line

for thinly veiled in Jetsam's anecdote was his tired old point

concerning rectilinear space

which

not merely contrary to experience

blasphemed the sanctity of the plane