Trackday two

The great thing about time is that it carries on going forward, at least within our perception of temporal mechanics. That means we get to look back at things, failed relationships for instance. And blog posts.

I realised that I forgot to mention the colour of the cars in the previous post. The Ferrari was obviously red in the same way that the sky is obviously blue, except at night when its black, or there’s cloud cover. Or at sunrise and sunset for that matter. The Porsche was grey, like the sky. Only less obviously so.

On the subject of sunrise and sunset, it shows how readily we accept illusion. If we don’t have a better explanation then common sense prevails. I’m not a big fan of common sense, its an invention of the flat earth society, a kind of deliberate ignorance of the evidence, replacing curvature with spin. An all of the people all of the time advertising.

Nobody believes the earth is flat any more, except Dave. He even has his own channel devoted to that belief. And the Flat Earth Society, which admittedly is a little bit weak since the death of Charles Johnson. (I wanted to write Charles Bronson but only one of him is dead.) Which is curious because the fact that nobody believes in a flat earth doesn’t stop us from behaving as if we still did. What shall we do with the planet this week. Blow it up. Nah, that’s too violent. Slowly and all too perceptibly destroy all of its primary ecosystems and the equilibrium that’s sustained multi-celled life for millions of years. Yeah, that’s it, that’s what we’ll do. After all, the sun still spins round the earth.