Discreet closure and Speculative Arts

                                
                    Discreet Closure is the means by which we are able to dispense information in it's most compressed and harmless state. ("Obscurity is not a virtue." Benoit Mandelbrot, "FRACTALS IN NATURE")

                    Offering a scientific overview of my work, I'm continuing to write this blog. It's mood and style changes. Focusing on the less academic aspects of reading and diagnostics may be very cathartic for me, but it may not have the appeal that purely technological data has. I do believe that in the long run this literary exercise is going to have varied audiences with very different needs. (This has very much come true.) Ideally I'm going to be able to re collate everything into much more readable formats. I'm amending already posted pages with corresponding graphics and diagrams. I'm providing histories of shifting and evolving opinions on science and beliefs. This way with further editing and corrections we can provide a much more comprehensive document. As improvements flesh out this highly speculative work, people who have already read a certain page will be able to have their questions answered simply by me responding to the obvious holes in my assertions. "Obscurity is not a virtue." Benoit Mandelbrot, "FRACTALS IN NATURE"

                     Discreet Closure is the means by which we are able to dispense information in it's most compressed and harmless state. When the governments of the world observed the lose of intelligence workers to the stress of spying, a great deal of energy has been invested in the allocation and extreme compartmentalization of "information." The only way to provide any level of deniability is to partition everything in a way that gives only limited access to any one sensitive agent. Were we to know everything that our governments do, have done or intend to do in the future, it would dis incentivize spying altogether. My mom said, "Snoopy people are the bane of the world." "Peoples concerns are for themselves alone."

                    "As they should be," I said. "The best of intentions should be motivated an enlightened selfishness." I was a precocious child. She softened her assertion by adding that, "If you are snooping, be discreet and don't advertise." "It's the polite thing to do."

                     I must confess for myself, that as the guy looking through the microscope at you, I want to be able to always mind my own business. I live with a kind of protective evasiveness, namely, right or wrong I don't want, need or pretend to know anything about you, that you don't share with me directly. Discretion is the better part of valor. I'm not looking for validation. I prefer working in the dark. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. If I'm right I don't need to know. Let my work speak for itself. There are no objective observers. I enjoy and respect critical thought and if and when my work generates support I suppose that is a kind of validation. But I don't get caught up in the conformational biases of people telling me what they want to hear. Nor do I want to be telling people only what gets me paid. I'm already a very kind empathic person and being vulnerable to other peoples needs and feelings, puts me at a gross disadvantage. I have to be clinical, detached and dispassionate. When you want to waste my time turning the microscope on me, I know you aren't going to know anymore about me than I do. (Surprise! Sorry.) Saturation is not without it's functional utility. "Discreet closure is the opt out clause in all contract relations." You don't have to listen to me, but if you do, you should make an appointment just like everyone else.

                     Were I able to suddenly put all my academic specifics for reading technologies in blog form, with all the diagnostics and statistics, I would have to be a genius. I would also be resisting the narrative. We humans are not designed to absorb or process data without emotions, no matter what misinformed people tell you. This is one of the most pernicious problems of government intelligence. Denying people's feelings leads to burnout. All surveillance is speculative, until it is verified. And even then it is subject to review. If we consider the diplomatic needs of a healthy "complementarity" in human relations, we must accept limits the on how much any person can know, witness or understand. Perspective in topology is thought of as fiber bundle space, with moving lines of view, motion is continuity. There is this paradox of relative objectivity, whenever we come to observing or studying people. And again, Mom says, "If you are snooping, be discreet and don't advertise." "It's the polite thing to do."