Department of (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) typographical errors and textual misreadings

"An intelligent person's error beats a dolt['s] fact every day." (BMcC[18-11-46-503]; Marshall McLuhan is the message.)

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I must make more typographical errors on the Internet than anybody else in the whole world. I was driving in my what? cat. No, obviously: car. And so it goes....

• "A wise old owl once sat in an oak. The more he saw the less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can't we all be like that old bird." From my early childhood, a little plaque on my maternal grandparents' dining room wall. Maybe age 6 years? At the time I read "Brad" instead of "bird"; alas not what was intended by them. If they had intened it that way, they would have treated me like Mary and Joseph treated The Son of God, not like a farmer treats a goose for foie gras. (here)

• "The American space agency has rolled out its new giant Moon rocket for the first time.The vehicle, known as the Space Launch System (SLS), was taken to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to conduct a dummy countdown.If that goes well, the rocket will be declared ready for a mission in which it will send an uncrewed test capsule around the Moon." I read "unscrewed" instead of "uncrewed"; I hypothesized that vehicle acceleration would keep the capsule pressed against its booster?

• "My Reader Comment to The New York Times anent Amber Heard Johnny Depp trial verdict, and, as usual, the computer has lost what I wrote so I can't find it now but it included "Leave the dead to burn – typo: bury the dead....

• "Somehow I completely forgot that I had typed instead of "Activist": "ActiFist. A great typo for a digusting person and their ilk!

• "Critical racist theory" Obviously the political correctnesss word is: "race".

• "Boys who will be boys go on to play on their school's varsity football team and then as adults become suburban lawn mowers". Come Monday morning, do they commute to an office or stay in the garage?

• "People like Julian Assange who "leak" classified information are traitors who should be prosecuted to the foulest extent of the law." Obviously the word is: "fullest".

• "Legal must have got wind of this and things started to happen. My company was enormously wealthy but for whatever reason they decided not to do the obvious thing and just buy out that startup. Instead we had to stu to ue (try to use...) some freeware sh*tware instead of the starup' relatively sensible product. I simply could not understand the sh*tware. It was a waking nightmare for me. It may have been "Django" or maybe not, but the word sould familiar — and frightening — to me." How better to describe being beset by an utterly, hopelessly inescapable incubus than with an apposite typo: stu to ue yourself, folks!

• Alex: "You are resorting to a miss use of semantics in order to answer the question.... This would suggest you know you are wrong but it hurts your ego to accept that [/] Perhaps it is a good idea for you to try being vulnerable. Sacrificing yourself for someone else, putting your trust in another human, letting yourself feel love to the fullest"

  Bradford McCormick: "I love your comment. Can you kindly introduce me to Miss Use? Is she a good lay?"

  (Somebody replying to something I posted on Quora that offended them. Their Quora bio says they are a female crypto trader who lives in the Alps. A crypto "cunt"?^[1])

• "All social customs are shared happinoses aka social psychoses". (Wlifred Bion) ~ Their "shared hallucinoses" do make them happy, don't they?

• "I meant to write: "The more arms we give to Mr. Zelensky, the longer this brutal and unnecessary war will go on. He needs to be motivated to negotiate. And the word "negotiate" does not mean to discuss how the other side will effect unconditional surrender...." When proofreading what I had written I found that instead of "surrender", I had written "suicide". America's current (+2023.01.21) President Biden dearly would love💗 Dr. Putin's regime in Russia to self-destruct.

• +2023.07.24. How many typos can I make in just two sentences? «So I wonder how much ot the "repression" in these countries where I w told it was worde than being dead to be, was people who over here would be arrested or at least be tracked by the FBI, and not serious scholars seeking disinterested truth? nd tofay, of coures, instead of Joe McCarth's witch hunts, we have people being "cancelled".»

• +2023.08.26. «Better dead than read». The American people have been ignoranced by their government's propaganda against "The Red Menace" ("communists") to be thankful for the pathetic lives they have been stuck with, by conjuring up a bogeyman: "You don't know how good it is until you eat some place else" (Ponderosa Steak House ad slogan). If the people read liberally and thereby learned about better possibilities, they might no longer buy this spiel, so, to keep them in line, better they be dead than [well] read.^[2] (Otherwise stated: "The American people's ignorance is the bedrock of American goverment's strength.)

• +2023.08.30. "All social customs are shared hallucinoses aka social psychoses." (Wilfred Bion – I originaly mistyed that: "happinoses" don't these delusions make them happy?).

• +2024.01.02. Not worth quoting where I did it. I wrote "historiography" when I meant: "hagiography", referring to the propaganda kids are indoctrinated with about America's past in school to help make them be flag-wavers (or BLMs or whatevers du jour). It used to be George Washington and now it's probably "1619"?

• +2024.03.23. I can see no way to consider this typo to be a "Freudian slip", just felicitous or funny: "I am so old that I went thru college (and over a decade afterwords(sic)...) doing my work on a typewriter, an Olympia SG-3 office manual that cost $400 in 1966."

Retractions

• Masud Khan probably did some bad things.
• I have been too harsh in criticizing Mr. Andy Warhol. To the best of my knowledge, unlike Mr. Robert Venturi, he was not mean-spirited nor proactively try to destroy civilization; he merely made out on rich people's existing superficiality but didn't cause it or them. Whoever paid $145,000,000 USD for a Marilyn was not designing housing to mock the elderly. So The War Hole really is relatively innocuous; if the American people were better he might have been better?
• I often come across overly harshly about my parents. They cannot be held accountable for the harm they did to me; they probably mostly ideated they were doing the right things and in other part were frustrated with their lives and I was an available cat to kick. Long Story short: The Invisible Hand did it to them and thus transitively to me. Question: Where to draw the line? My parents? St. Paul's School, and especially one particularly destructive teacher there: Mr. Mike Rentko? Adolf Eichmann? The middle aged males who started World War I? Even if it is an infinite regress, the harm done to me is the same.
• Julian Assange. I should make a more nuanced asssessment of him. "Leaking" Wikileaks may have been a good thing to do and maybe he should not be punished. But granting the U.S. does want to prosecute him, he is a disgusting human being because he provocatively acts "entitled": When he found safety from extradition in the Ecuadoran London embassy, he should have gone out of his way to not cause them any annoyance, and lived out the rest of his life there in quiet obscurity. Instead he wanted ego gratification and got on the bleeding hearts'💗 persecuted martyrs list.

• Not exactly a retraction but a significant clarification: U.S. President Joseph (aka: "Joe") Robinette Biden, Jr. does indeed present as being gullible and stupid. He himself had said that while he had trouble with words as a young person (he attributs this to stuttering), he could always carry a football. I find that pathetic. But his mental condition in 2023 may not entirely be attributable to innate lack of intelligence. I recently read he had two brain aneurysms each of which wa expected to kill him but he survived. They likely took a toll of his mental condition. The question remains why does he not indicate that he understands he has cognitive limitations and accordingly not try to run a superpower nation with nuclear weapons himself instead call in guidance of more competent persons? But his problem(s) may not all be due to what he was born with (or without). He did get thru law school somehow before the aneurysms. How much of what he is today (including his occasional mini-psychotic episodes on camera) is innate mental limitations and how much is neurological ("brain) damage in adult life?
• Wikipedia says concerning Dr. Putin: "On 27 June 1997, at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute, guided by rector Vladimir Litvinenko, Putin defended his Candidate of Science dissertation in economics, titled Strategic Planning of the Reproduction of the Mineral Resource Base of a Region under Conditions of the Formation of Market Relations. This exemplified the custom in Russia whereby a young rising official would write a scholarly work in mid-career. Putin's thesis was plagiarized. Fellows at the Brookings Institution found that 15 pages were copied from an American textbook." So referring to him as "Dr. Putin" may be equivocal.
  But  this may place him in the same category as The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.: "A committee of scholars appointed by Boston University concluded today that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized passages in his dissertation for a doctoral degree at the university 36 years ago." (NYT, October 11, 1991, Section A, Page 15)
• Anent ancestor worship and vengeance. Refinement of my thoughts here needed: If my father or grandfather ha been an enormously wealthy jew in Germany who had a valuable art collection or other assets of which he had been robbed by the Nazis and himself murdered in a concentration camp (or not), I would want those assets back if I was stuck working at servile labor instead of having a leisured life of "that careful study and investigation which is the proper duty of man" (Rabelais). But not for vengeance, but to be able to myself have a better life going forward. So ancestry can be relevant for getting a free lunch or even a sqare meal. But vengeance? There would be nothing I could do for my great ansestor nor would anything good bad or other he did say anything about me as a person, so I remember Lot's wife in the Bible.

CLV

Stop here and go look at this picture: here. Click on the bee with the asterisk or the text which explains the asteriak, and you will come back here Click anywhere else in the picture, and you will caome back to the top of this page. I hadbeen trying to "win" the little game in the Ne York Times newspaper: See how many words you can make out of a given 7 different characters. Example: YOu can form the word "h-a-b-i-t-u-a-l" from the 7 letters in the center of the picture. As I played, I to=hought about the game. I decided th tone case where almos every word could be doubled by adding "i-n-g" seemed not worthy of claiming as a vistory. Ten I came across a case here I knew a word but had forgotten how to spell it. What ot do with this case? I decided to give the bee an asterisk and an explanation, and to write about it here, which involved some extra HTML coding work, too.

Often, instead of jus doing something, one can "make something more out of it"> Take it and do something your own with it. Then you are no tkjus being a consumer of consuer products but a [albeit very "small time"] creator yourself. I THINK it is ore satisfying to create than to consume.

Whatever you are doing, you can ask the question Professor Forsdale urged us to ask:

"Always ask: What is this [whetever it is] an instance of?" (Louis Forsdale)

Instead of just doing [whatever], THINK about what ou are doing in doing it: tease out the context. And even: what purpose can you make it serve that it wasn't intended for? Marcel Duchamp mos tfamously did this by exhi=bting a standard issue male urinal like you caold buy in your local plumbing supply store and sticking ita as is in a wor;d famous art exmibit, titled: "Fountain". He had mad ethe world "bigger"; nobody had ever thought of this before, had they? One way to keep from being easily bored? If you rae bored, study it. What led you to being bored? Write about it. Are you still so bored?

I THINK ther is a "gottcha" here: If you don't know anything, all you can write about is about not knowing anything, which is not nothing but not so much, is it? The more you have experienced, the ore you have read (and the more you hav ecreated), the "richer" the context you can bring to bear in studying a message's medium. Fundaentalist religious leaders and sexually repressive parents know his well:

Q: "How are you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after theny've ee Paree [the city of light, Paris]?"

A: Don't let them know about Psaris even if their amily is living off French welfare inside the city limits.

I do not just make an inordinate number of typographical errors, I also look to see if I can "do anything with" them.