Tales from the rain

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  • eulusso
    eulusso Posts: 50
    sorry, actually Asimo means Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility ...but also "something that stands" or "something with legs". Anybody has a japanese friend?
    E
    (but he does read Isaac Asimov, for sure)
  • burtschips
    burtschips Posts: 734
    no, you're right.. Asimo is a tribute to Isaac Asimov... disguised behind a post-rationalized slogan. This makes sense.

    Asimo in japanese... ? babelfish japanese:

    日本語

    Asimo does sound like a Japanese name to my ears. So it is a well intended mistake if an abbreviated English slogan sounds like a Japanese name to this human's ears.
    Salut baloo
  • eulusso
    eulusso Posts: 50
    A BETTER WORLD
    In the end, rivalry corruption alliances and war always won. Tough Thomas Mann, Prudhom, Bakounine and Rousseau, they all came to help, they inspired him his ideal cities. But they would have ended hanged by their feet like Mussolini if he had let it happen.

    He did not, never. All he had to do is clic on “erase”, and a storm of free electrons would rain hard on the public gardens, the buildings, and all that lived, (including the vanilla ice cream vendor) washing them away, cleaning and purifying the world from it's ugliness.
    My son creates cities, he breeds worlds. I just inspire him with some old utopists. And he always ends up telling me “they are worth nothing, it never works...” Yeah I can see that.

    Then yesterday he came up saying “ Dad, I think I've got it. Look at my civilisation now, it spread all over the planet, this world is already 5647 years old, and nothing, no wars, no crisis, absolute cool, it works! I'll explain to you: the problem is too much organisation, you will see. People talk too much, they complicate things, look. This time I did not erase everything like in the deluge...instead I did it like Babel, only worst...There are no two people speaking the same language, classic, but I pushed it beyond that. Every newborn child speaks a diferent language and only one language forever! Surprised old hippie dad? Easy: no speeches, no writings, no philosophy, no religion, so no governement, no army, no chiefs. Instead, painting, sculpture, music, and people judged by their acts, not by their saying...look!!

    I took a fly over the cities, I landed here and there, and I saw towns, not so high tech but...without frontiers, without nations, just individuals, cooperating on basic needs, with nothing to live, die or kill for...and 5647 years of continual peace. You can't imagine what it does.

    Though they still talked, not much, sometimes, here and there. To me it sounded like birdsongs.
    E.

    inspired by “Imagine” and “The Division Bell”
  • burtschips
    burtschips Posts: 734
    so this is Alamout. I think I gave myself away when I posted before, but hmmm... a better world? Boy, there's lots to think about there. But it's created by the visionary son... and he is talking to his Dad and experimenting with his own philosophy. The filthy utopist!

    The vanilla ice cream vender can only be a good thing.

    Not Jack Sparrow, but BT would say: 'It's good to talk'
    Salut baloo

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