It’s not about appearances. That’s what I can tell you. 

 

People do not flock to Northern California – technically the San Francisco Bay Area – for worldly appearances of looking best. 

 

Fashion shows and runways are for else.

 

This is the residual of the drop-out hippie, of the alt-rock, of the motivational unto a positive force for good on Earth. 

 

It’s the medley of seeking higher, better, which is not rooted in the contests that have plagued – and I don’t mean it rhetorically – the Earth since Civilization, or really, people, began recording what things they have to pass on to their children.

 

Because those things are better than not having things.

 

This ranking has caused a lot of upheaval. 

 

The South Bay is not about that. In principle.

 

What’s it about?

 

Moving the parts of Civilization better. 

 

Better?

 

In new ways otherwise inconceivable to others, who haven’t banked on the brain like the fortunate ones decided to determine their lives. 

 

Onto solving problems for others who can’t begin to solve them.

 

It’s not necessarily the benefits to advanced military defense to beat the Communists that affords so much commercial prosperity five+ decades in to the future. It’s the investing into calculators, and then in higher and higher orders, which makes it possible for humans to super-communicate.

 

Just imagine: even a two hundred years ago. The thought one can connect with someone in China in seconds would seem absurd.

 

That you can see a strange face on the other side of the world easily. Like, point-and-click. 

 

What’s a point-and-click? How would I explain that to Ben Franklin?

 

That it comes out of counting?

 

Actually, the merits of financial counting or accounting. 

 

That, yes, where on Earth does the inspiration of magical numbers – the experts will call them “complex” – begin? But in double accounting? Of negative quantities of motion?

 

And isn’t it great one doesn’t need to understand what I just said in order to adapt to these machines that govern everyone’s life?

 

Well, ok, not everyone. But everyone that is participating and enjoying them. Because they make things better.

 

There is a natural reward for improving other people’s worlds. Their experiences of finding new sushi. Better pizza. Cute hostels. A nice purse. One that would otherwise be unreachable in one’s local society because they – meaning the people you associate with locally, physically – don’t have the same style.

 

Not that there’s anything wrong with it. You happen to enjoy glitter-purple. Glitterpurp as a fashionista might comment on her blog. While she lives in Vancouver. Informing someone in Rio about a new choice. While she’s on Vacation in Bali. Where she meets her future husband at a Rave. By a DJ who got started in Barcelona. Who won his first major performance spinning in Abu Dhabi. Which got him the gig in Bali. Through his manager who found him through a Google Search on aspiring Spanish disc-jockeys. Because he needs to eat. 

 

They all do, in fact.

 

The choices of doing things for others to eat. Ahh! How far removed the physical struggle of life is from the intelligence contained in Silicon Valley. Because there is so miuch apprehensible power in beginning to learn, to add to the world. In ways which become secured. Through those financial planners in society which are private.

 

And speculative.

 

Greedy? 

 

Is winning at poker greedy?

 

It’s fun though right?

 

How disparaging a remark! To think that trading money leads to better things for humans to choose in life.

 

Like the World Wide Web becoming commercial. Separate from the electronic mail and messaging services of academic authorities, seeking…

 

…not the greed of attention which is vainglory.

 

Heavens no! They don’t have Nobel in their vocabulary.

 

So they would never conceive of such innovation of their telephonic addressing. Unto…

 

Greater access to the world’s literature than ever before. 

 

That’s better right?

 

The gnome is not anxious about his greed because he isn’t considerate of his deeds as serving, to be Aristotelian, another means…meaning moneys…because he sees the product of his labor. 

 

He sees its good.

 

Because he knows the difference before and after.

 

That’s all he is working on. Making the afterwards better than the beforehand.

 

The social entanglement of food with honor requires this much time for humans to remember themselves by, to hit upon the Mesopatamian explosion of technical power harnessed by a very small population of the World. 

 

We can estimate less than 10 million people have ever lived in Silicon Valley.

 

That, compared with the more than 7 billion who are alive today…is…miniscule…

 

But look at that moment arm delivered unto the human race. 

 

To improve it! 

 

In that naivete of the gnome, perfecting his tinkering, or hers sure, there is the blindness to the status striving. I’m not saying they are perfectly blind to it. I say their focus, if it is onto social promotion, is through doing good work that merits the return in favoritism in humanity.

 

That return is tangible. Or intangible, if we were to think of corporate securities, namely equities.  

 

Where is the greed in declaring #heh hey, that is a reasonable expectation. Because of the market comparables. From prior successes. At?

 

Risking the food to improve. 

 

It’s those stakes, which people are blinded by, particularly in their thirst and quest for more. 

 

More? Favoritism. 

 

By? Other humans.

 

Which causes many crashes out of the disproportionate successes of righting the ship to the island in Middle Earth. The one of eternal glory. Where men sing songs about you. Because you did it.

 

Did what?

 

Survived.

 

“I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim“.-Homer