That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck
Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your sun bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
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Songwriters: John Michael Stipe / Michael E. Mills / Peter Lawrence Buck / William Thomas Berry
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” — Sir Winston Churchill
C.: d.c., why did you put, perhaps the most famous quote of the twentieth century, by the person that you regard is the greatest orator of that century at the beginning of the blog?
d.: Because I have it on good authority that Meow Z. Tongue is going to send in an army of robot cats to overthrow the earth and commandeer all of our resources.
C.: Then, can’t we use our A.I. to combat these robot cats?
d.: No, Cal.E., that won’t work.
C.: Why not?
d.: Because our version of artificial intelligence hasn’t been perfected yet. Drones are useful, but they still must be piloted remotely. Other forms of A.I. are also inconsistent.
C.: Explain, please.
d.: Well, there was a story on television and in the newspaper not too long ago about the faults of A.I. An author was trying to use A.I. to do research with. To experiment, he typed in the names of books with the author’s names. The A.I. did a remarkable job of summarizing the books in less than ten minutes, even books that contained over 100,000 words. This author even gave the A.I. a plot for a book, gave the names and tendancies of the characters and asked the A.I. to write a 10,000-word short story.
Since the A.I. did an adequate job of writing the short story, he asked the A.I. to summarize a book that didn’t exist, along with the name of an author who wasn’t published.
The A.I. at first said that it couldn’t find the book. When the man pressed the A. I., it made up a plot and summary. Our form of A. I. can and has been fooled.
If we let A. I., or a small group of people or animals make all our decisions, that will end badly especially if it's a bunch of
C.: Especially if it’s someone like Meow Z. Tongue, but who would be better at running the world?
d.: Cal.E., at the end of World War Two, George Orwell wrote the book ANIMAL FARM. The book was supposedly a comment on the Soviet Union’s politics, but it could have well fit Germany’s political infrastructure before the “War to End All Wars.”
About twenty-five years ago, a sitcom did a take off on Orwell’s book. One of the less powerful characters of a group of aliens who had come to earth decided that he was unhappy with the way the person in charge was running their organization, so he staged a coup. He ended up being in charge, and decided that a better way to run the organization was to make all of the decisions for the organization himself. He also ordered everyone to wear the same clothes so they were indistinguishable from each other.
C.: What happened?
d.: Another coup was staged, and everything went back to the way it was before. Order was restored and all was well. Of course, that’s fiction, and we must deal with reality.
C.: I thought that this was fiction.
d.: It is, but, think about what happened to this blog recently (twice).
C.: That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.E.’s Korner (I hope).
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