Fool
With A Tool
Right
away I am being pulled off course, as if a magnet hovers over my head and I am
powerless to change what is occurring.
Thought I had a good idea. Write
a blog about the world around me and not once mention what was my main
concern. Seems certain things are or
should be off limits when writing a blog.
In this case, I was hoping to write this, without mentioning America’s
new president, Donald Trump, but like I said am being pulled away from my
original intent or promise to make this blog generic and not specific to the
events occurring since November 8th 2016 election. Came up with a blog title and thought I could
pull it off. Fool With A Tool, and was
hoping to talk about diverse things that come to mind following that path and
topical line. But then I made a mistake
and am like a spaceship with little chance of regaining earth orbit and forces
without burning up. Off course and this
of course, spells disaster or a blog that just won’t live up to all he thought
it would be.
Problem: I liked the title. Fool with a Tool. Thought it held promise as
a lead-in to an entertaining session of discussion. Now I am not so sure. See that Urban Dictionary defines Tool:
One who lacks the mental capacity to know he is being used. A fool.
A cretin. Characterized by low
intelligence and/or self-esteem.
Turns
out I made one more check to see what others have written on the subject of Tool
and Fool. And found a quote by Grady
Booch, who said: “ A fool with a tool is
still a fool.” And that left me
pondering if I should abandon this blog and come back another day. And do better.
Bending
things around a bit, and want to add a little tension. Will say without trying to be controversial,
I have heard women, usually young women about college age, refer to men that
they don’t like too much as “Tools.” Mr.
It’s-All-About Me.
Seems
I can’t really follow my thoughts to a logical conclusion. Fool With A
Tool, and can’t be serious with the topic at hand. Maybe I should just discard my original
outline for this blog, and start over, but then I will not feel good about
abandoning this challenge I have made for myself. Write about a fool with a tool and come up
with an upside and a positive spin, allowing myself to settle, come back to
earth, and behave as I wish to be, quite logical.
But
find myself with problems, as I have been driven off course and still feel like
there is a magnet pulling me around. Off
course, of course. But maybe with a
little deliberation I can get back to where I want to, without setting fire to
myself.
Playing
with fire, and will say, “…intellectual pursuits are not of any interest to a
tool…”
So
now I am looking things over with a view from the top and revisionist
orientation.
Ask
myself: “ Can a person act foolishly, but not be
labeled as a fool? “
For
the moment this seems to be the case.
Unconventional and not orthodox, but one goes his own way, and separates
from the maddening crowd, long enough to come up with an approach that is novel
and goes in the opposite direction of those who have earned the title of
Expert-In-Their-Field. But then, with
hindsight we see, it works. Man has gone
to the moon. Man has gone to
Disneyland. Extra-ordinary things,
people have done, just in my lifetime.
To say we are living a foolish existence and a fool with a tool should
be banished from the tribe, and it is true now.
After what I have seen in the last few months: I am thinking. Seemed foolish at the time, that Mr. and Mrs.
X said this. But then we gave it some
time, and let the world as we know, sort it out.
Tool
and it is a computer. Has allowed us to
do things never before possible. And
this has happened in a very short time period.
And now we have somebody, often labeled:
“Foolish “ and “A fool “, who is
soon to be next president of The United States.
Interesting to me. Is as if just
by writing this, I feel better. New
Tools. A Computer and something
novel: Social Media. And then add-ons. Twitter and it has gotten my attention. In fact it has gotten the attention of
millions. Fool no more, and tool no
more, and I will veer away from the implanted quote I carry in mind. Will let it go. Served its purpose and now, will discard
it. A Fool With A Tool Is Still A
Fool. And now I am redirecting my
thoughts.
Give
it a chance. Discard the gender
bias. Realize we all have our
faults. Just see the dream and hang on
to it, as we must. Got to get back to
the surface, and ground myself. Back to
Earth and does that mean, act sensible and not expand the envelope? Not sure I am made to live that way. So will take chances. Might even say foolish things. But in the end, am willing to tell
myself. “What was done here was pure
genius.” He won when it was said by the
polls and experts, “This will never happen.”
So
moving on into a new year. 2017 and it
might turn out to be long slog, with lots of change and difficulty waiting for
me. But then again if I have learned
anything from past experience, maybe the results that wait up ahead won’t be as
bad as I think, or thought, just two months ago. Give it a chance. Social Media.
Fool with a computer and now he write a blog and people notice. What happens next, and that is for me the
challenge. How can we use these same
tools to help the fool-with-a-tool smarten up and benefit the greater good, if
indeed we can agree, what the greater good might be.
New
tools and new ways in the hands of others, and a new generation with thinking
quite different than my own and it will be a challenge for me, but I have
decided. I was a fool or foolish,
once. Okay maybe more than once, but not
sure I could have lived this long without learning from my mistakes. We voted.
The deed is done. We have a
process to live with and go by.
Corrections will be made, when necessary. Have seen it with my own eyes. Men in Space and now plotting a trip to Mars
and this is a story that could go on and on.
How far are we willing to take it? Am willing to wait and see. Promise and Hope and the add-on: “Give it a Chance.” Many bad things happen. Saw the cold war vanish in my lifetime. Two Super Powers: Russia and USA. Saw man go into orbit and off planet. Saw nuclear threat and destruction. But have lived though it. Fools with Tools and had many arguments with
my spouse. “No radiation in our
house.” “Damn the nuclear and the
microwave, and while we are at it, forget about owning a color TV.” So that was then, and look at us now.
New
Tools and New Ways, and that is what I am planning to take to the grave with
me. A form of acceptance that even bad
things can have beneficial outcomes and make life better. Not just for the few, with money, but for the
Masses. For the people we never heard of
or from, before computers and social media and all that is with us in
2016. Looking forward to another year
with you and on the planet. Need to
foster a bit more discipline and acceptance of the things beyond my individual
control Will work on that as I am
putting together a list of New Year’s Resolutions that sound good to me. Acceptance is high on my list. For 2017. Live with.
Improve on it. And that is where
this blog will end. Hope and Promise and
it sounds good. But like the fool with
the tool, perhaps a Porsche he just got for Christmas, going the wrong way on a one-way street, this
could have a lot of turns and change of direction, before its over. Just one night and one year and we hope it
ends the way we thought it would.
Without a DUI.
New
Year’s Celebration coming up next. Be
careful, one and all. Fools with a Tool,
and a computer-driven car and drugs and alcohol. And he says once more for emphasis: “ Be
careful. One and All. “
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