Bulletin: 5ts War of the Worlds;

TTTTT - Urgent 5t update. Recent developments in the field of comprehension industry have shown Science Fiction connections in the observations of H.G. Wells in his envelope-pushing radio broadcast. See also Footnoted material.

First to address so-called "Reality."

Comprehension is the newest drug of choice in the agriculture of Understanding. AI as an acronym has been worn out in the process. It is variously a Bible Cityname, Artificial Insemination and Artificial Intelligence; these are just the most common flavors found in a ten-class disambiguation on Wiki. The commonality seems to be 'seminality of somethingness.' The new way to refer to the computer variety is to allude to Neural Nets. Differing in the abstract from basketball nets, they are understood through the same analogy as the Internet; the spider web. [Note: Basketball playing Spiders have yet to be observed in nature, and they still observe the natural law of gravity.] Neural Nets are mission critical in modeling intelligence in computing, but computers seem to be completely unable to appreciate comprehension. My first experience of a pusher pushing comprehension was earlier than Society wishes to acknowledge - Elementary School. The teacher was hot, and I had no idea of why she had such an effect on me, but English Comprehension was her specialty, and I sought her approval like a slave - I won her favor by turning up the air conditioning. English Comprehension was my gateway to masturbation, and from there I even took a different view of FOOD. Using Money as a drug was a natural progression, and I am told that others ape the concept with economic participation in a black-market drug pharm. From a rational view point, there is nothing normative to be said about this EXCEPT the same advice as all Economists who control their weight through diet and exercise might give ANYONE, and that without charge: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!

To return to a discussion of my comprehension abuse, I may be said to have exhibited a genetic pre-disposition, and my own descent into precociousness is only one facet of what is charitably referred to as "a checkered past."

Addiction is a hard term to define for purposes of holding intellect accountable - the best one I know for the rigors of logic is


"Needing more and more of [X] to obtain the same effect."


In this regard, comprehension is more like a stupidity re-uptake inhibitor, and has no nervous metabolites.

This definition IS, however, adequate to branch out and cover such things as sex addiction (in it's various orientations,) although a good sex binge is still popular to immunize (jade) people against spring fever. Spring Break is the last chance before bird migrations occur and the birds that carry the relevant viruses arrive.

With regard to genetic predispositions they may be observed, not only in comprehension, but also in homosexual orientation and alcoholism. This last is very observable in society at large, pointing out that, absent genetic predisposition, addiction is achieved only by egregious stupidity... those without the gene can come to NEED the drug as part of their metabolism, but only after consuming mass quantities in violation of good sense. Tobacco serves to show that the metabolism is not subservient to DNA alone, and drug pharms are to be avoided unless money is no object. If you NEED to experiment with addictive behavior, masturbation is free and porn is cheap - this should not be confused with an informed discussion on jading; in pornography jading occurs before satisfaction, differing significantly with actual sex. In the masturbation ecosystem, Advertisers model Pushers, and Models model Dealers, who are otherwise harmless by comparison... they facilitate demand with supply. Add economics to the ecosystem, and sex becomes the first currency; after this is exhausted treasure is induced, and the blood and treasure discussion of War is relevant to the War on Drugs in the same way. Prostitution mixes sex and economics, with the blood and treasure discussion being satisfied by the old observation: The right to contract is NOT absolute.

OFFICIALLY turning to SCIENCE FICTION:

H.G. Wells observations on this subject practically beggar the imagination... his prescience in regard to Venus and Mars so far preceded the Cultural Phenomenon "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus." Having finally understood that the God's of War have been invoked and that the conservationist principle of "catch and release," has been violated at a viral level (this being nearly integral to DNA by that point,) it is kind on his part to have used 'Little Green Men,' as his vehicle, rather than the more difficult to observe "Martian Blood," such as Huck Finn was led to believe his slave friend Jim possessed. The fact that Martians have green blood has been exploited by everyone who disapproves of Governments on Mother Earth martialing her own forces against him. While anyone, red and yellow, black and white can have their blood tested (for needle borne agents like Hepatitis-C,) preparatory to marriage, pacifist refugees from that war torn planet have been helplessly sheltering their war-like dopple-gangers, as Mars' interplanetary espionage runs ahead of Earths own efforts by decades. Although she is internally a crucible of discord, Venus has remained icily aloof to Earth's diplomatic failures toward Mars, apparently relying on preferential treatment from the Sun in the event of interplanetary conflict. The Politics of Rah (who seems to favor Egypt over other Earth jurisdictions,) are left for another day.

Finally, ADMITTING that 5ts can be subject to needle driven DISEASES and DRUG ADDICTION themselves;

Having made a tour of the Interplanetary War Paradigm, we can now see BOTH an Economic AND a Health and Human Services germanity to the discussion of Drug addiction. If Aids AND Money are a concern at the same time, as test for Tuberculosis will work in an emergency - the two conditions propagate under very similar conditions. If you think you actually have the Aids precursor HIV, you are possibly better off moving to the African Continent. People there can benefit educationally from almost any other country's intellectual largess, and the UN participates shamelessly in subsidizing the medications relevant for long term survival, until a way to cure the common cold can be made widely available and cheap; Quarantine is the payoff to humanity.

Footnotes:

In a departure from acknowledging intellectual contributions to the 5t Archives, the premier Teller of The Tale (in both capacities of crier and treasurer) would like to acknowledge the work of Quentin Tarentino in "Pulp Fiction."

The phrase "Pushing the envelope" is not only a practice of the USPS, but also a Journalistic goal. Aviators hate them, and fight for their Freedom of Speech accordingly, because the official definition of an "envelope" is the parameters of air-speed and lift within which a plane can maintain negative gravity. Outside the magic envelope, all treaties with Naturalists fail, and the Law of Gravity is re-invoked. The authoritative Science Fiction on the subject is by Douglas Adams, and relies on "falling so as to miss the ground." See also his Improbability Drive.

In the world of Medicine, we spoke above about viruses. In the field of Contagion, the two classes of contagious agents are Viruses and Bacteria. [Bacterias exist, but simply in a class with lichens, sheeps, fishes; etc.] Medications are typically useful ONLY against Bacteria, Viruses are left to nature's immunity. Syndromes and Conditions are a separate discussion - Biology is hard to study. If you think I am joking, just ask yourself what YOU would have done back in the day when Germ (bacteria) Theory was not well investigated, such that you didn't know the difference between a contagious disease and a non-contagious one, viruses and bacterias competed like pyramid schemes, and the ONE CORRECT pasteurizer, giving you the pills in good faith, couldn't stop everyone around you from getting sick anyway. If his research had been hindered by good hand washing, no one might EVER have KNOWN! As such, please don't hold old Louis' religious superstitions against him.