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02/14/2004 Entry: "Valentine's day"
I need to exert more power with the things I buy. I need my purchases to reflect my political views. There is an interesting articleabout Gold and chocolate. I don't really buy gold. I haven't liked it since I was a teenager. I associated it with conquistadors and death.
There is a conspiracy theory that says that civilizations on earth have liked gold for millenia not because of its shine or the fact it doesn't tarnish but because in Pre-history Aliens came to earth and forced people to mine gold for them. Their planet had somehow lost its atmospheric radiation shield, equivalent to our Ozone layer, and they used the gold to deflect radiation. I'm not making a call on its validity but it is very coincidental that the substance revered by most of the world's ancient civilizations is also a fantastic conductor of electricity, is used on NASA helmets as radiation shields, coats the skin of stealth fighters because it absorbs radar, and is not rejected as a foreign substance by the human body. It's a similar story with diamonds which are used in so many industrial applications. Why would ancient civilizations almost universally treasure things that had no purpose, other than beauty, in their time, but would then become important materials for an industrialized age.
But I digress. I am not buying gold anymore, am going to try to only buy free trade chocolate, and I am also going to keep a look out for strange lights in the sky. Happy Valentine's Day!!!
The song for today is "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis. It's from a 1958 recording where John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly and Bill Evans are in on the recording. The players on this recording would later go on to be in Miles' sextet.
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