Using Metaphor of Physicality (Cliff, Avalanche) to make Fantasy look Real

Dear friend,
Look here.

In one hand there is
nothing but hot air.

In the other,
warm and fuzzy fantasy.

The mouth is, however
faster than the mind's eye.

Hocus Pocus and Behold.
Hands' holdings are clapped together to form tangible substance.
Fiscal Cliff.

Here, for your consumption my friend, are images
of cliffs, of avalanches and
of going over the "edge".

Here also for your intellectual intake is
the adjective "FISCAL".

Ask NOT what that modifier might mean.
For if you do, you might look foolish
and disloyal to our faith.

You wouldn't want that to happen, would you?

Someone who creates your "job" for you might suspect the truth (that you really don't know what "fiscal" means) and then "THEY" might take away that "job", take away your way of life, take away your freedoms from you.

Observe that "FISCAL" has a Freakin' F in it.
How eFF'in cool is that?

"cliFF" has a lot of Freakin' F's in it two.
Put 'em together and ... magic happens.

The freaked-out fear center in your brain is already abuzz
worrying itself to death about
the implications of going "over"
the Fiscal cliFF.

Lions, tigers and Bears.
Oh my!

But now comes the eFF'in Freakin'

AVALANCHE

Fiscal Avalanche.
How good and scary
is that?

Don't even think about it.
Don't even think about anything.

Infinity is Fantasy

Infinity is a Fantasy

Reality 'Rithmatic Requires Real
(Finite & Discrete)
Numbers

Money is Fantasy & Hence Can Grow to Infinity and Beyond

Imagine a Giant (but finite) computer with a storage capacity of G bits (where G< infinity).
That computer could store one Giant number that is G bits long.
Or that computer could store a Giant number, G of one bit values.
Neither distribution comports with that of Gaussian distribution found in Nature.

Instead, in a finite and bound Universe,
the number line holds only a finite set of number points,
with vast voids in between,
not an infinite set with no voids as we were taught in math class.

Our Visions of Infinity are an Illusion
Mirrors are made of finite numbers of atoms

Right Means Never Having to say You Might be Wrong

There is absolutely only one possible way to think.
My way or the highway.

Isn't that how some people approach any conversation?
But why?

Maybe they are looking to determine if you are part of their flock?
Birds of a feather flock together.
We avoid conversation with "the stranger".

You might be a Republican tool if ...

You Might Just Be A Republican (Hawaiian Style)

Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax Hoax

You might be a Liberal If ....

Contact of the Disconnected Type with a Climate Denier

Their eyes glaze over.
Their ears clog full of wax.
Why even bother?

We've all been there,
trying to talk sanity to a stuck-in-the-cement climate denier.

Here are some recent links,
Not that they will help.
Deniers have picked their story and they are going to stick with it no matter what. Any of dozens of denialist talking points will do.

James Hansen's TED talk

Turncoat Skeptic Richard Muller

Deniers are human too:

Another Climate Skeptic Turned Into a Believer

Bonus Video (Now I'm a Believer)

More on Talk'n to Deny Baby Deny kinds
Finding Points of Commonality
Love (/Hate) of Warming, American Style

Thugs of the Think Kind

In days of old,

When knights were bold

And violence was respected.

Nobles hired some thugs

Beat up some pugs,

And revolutions were prevented.

We live of course, in more sophisticated times. Raw violence is no longer acceptable as a means of keeping the lower classes in their places.

What is a nobleman to do then?

Why but of course. Hire Thugs of the Think Tank type.
If you can't beat them physically into submission,
then brow beat them into a catatonic state with all means of mental thuggery.

Who are the Thugs of Think in our modern times?

Winning for Winning's Sake

There are many ways to tackle the title topic.

Maybe, just maybe, it could be directed to performance enhancing drugging or other cheats?

Example: Tampering with the skates of a fellow speed skate competitor.

But no.

Today's thought bomb is directed to the subtopics of:
(1) The habit of winning
(2) Evolutionary pressures to keep on winning

Why do politicians (for example) want to keep on winning?

Even if it means constantly flip flopping on one's position?

Republicans and Democrats want to win for winning's sake.

Even if it means taking the country down in the process.

What formed habits or evolutionary processes drive these leadership class lemmings to leading their flock toward cliff's edge?

He plans to kill Big Bird

He's got no love lost for Jim Leherer or the rest of PBS either

His 5 sons constantly lie to him ... or as they say, the acorns don't fall far from the daddy tree

One of these is different ... Can you tell which one?