Passing Thoughts

אובדן

Posted by Lee Elenbaas Sep 28, 2016

כשסבי נפטר חשתי צער עמוק

על מה שאיבדתי

על מה שהיה

על הקשר ביננו

על האנשים הקרובים

על המשפחה

היום כשפרס נפטר

הצער היה על מה שאיבדנו

על מה שיהיה

על הארץ והעם שלי

על ילדי

communication

Posted by Lee Elenbaas Sep 28, 2016

we started civilization in a very local way

no immediate communication past what we could walk, long distance communication was rumors and stories passing from person to person, changing each time.

Then we developed writing. Now long distance communication can be letters and books and later newspapers and print. Communication became more stable, open to interpretation based mostly on cultural differences of geography or time.

Transportation also improved, now local communication became what a horse can ride in a day, and later what a train can reach.

Electronics introduced radio, and then television. As tools to update, educate and brainwash the masses fast. This came with the rise of larger groups of people joined together around common things.

Then came the digital age, that we are in the middle of, where communication can be instant, world wide. Local news can be that an old and respected elder died in one corner of the world, while we live in a different part of the world. Communication is instant, cross all boundaries, one world, one local village.

What will happen next?

Cryogenics?

That will allow a person to freeze his life to be able to participate in his great-great-grand-children’s first birth? That you can go to sleep until a cure for your illness has been found and then continue on as usual? Can a marriage be maintained is one partner decided to freeze itself for 10 years? or 5? or even just one year? What if the other partner choose not to join the freeze?

Space exploration?

The vast distances where the fastest communication we can conceive today, will take hours inside our solar system, and years outside of it. How we will split up back into separate villages once we spread out to space, just from the sheer size of it.

What if we join the two together?

Space ships that travel distances with groups of frozen people on board, destined to wake up on their distant target. With delegations from one culture in Cryogenics traveling for years to some distant planet, only to reach it and discover that by the time they arrive, a different delegation from another culture traveled faster and established a settlement with different rules and beliefs?

לקרוא את עצמי לדעת

Posted by Lee Elenbaas Sep 18, 2016

נהגתי לקרוא את עצמי לדעת

לשקוע בעולמות אחרים

רחוקים, זרים, יפים, מזוויעים… הכל הולך

לברוח מכאן, להתחבא שם

עם השנים החכמתי

והיום אני קורא את עצמי לדעת

מבקר במקומות אחרים

להביא כלים ותובנות לעולם הזה

חיים מרובדים

Posted by Lee Elenbaas Sep 18, 2016

כשהמציאות חולפת מול פני

חולפת מציאות נוספת בתוך ראשי

רבדים של פנטזיה, אכזבות, חרטות ותקוות

מתערבלים בערבוביה מול עיני

כשאני פוסע במציאות

אני פוסע גם בתוך חלום

הנגלל עם כל צעד מול עיני הפנימית

משקף מציאות שיכלה, או לא, להיות

כל מילה המתנגנת מפי

מתלווה למילה הנאמרת בתוך ראשי

נארגות לשיחות נפרדות, בפנים ובחוץ

המשתלבות זו עם זו

כך אני חי חיים מרובדים

שלא תמיד אני יודע

עד כמה הם אמיתיים

כל רובד מציאותי לי בזכרוני

proper procedure

Posted by Lee Elenbaas Sep 13, 2016

There is a certain order things have to be done.

Not due to real constraints, but due to legal thinking.

You have an agreement. Agreement naturally means both sides have to do something for the other side.

And when the other side does not uphold his end of the bargain you basically have several options:

Blow the whole agreement
Ignore it and stay quiet
Do it yourself and demand compensation

The last option is the trickiest one, it is based on three steps.

The first step, do it yourself, is easy, just do it.
The second step, getting the compensation is usually easy as well, you can always do less from your side of the agreement.
The last part is the hard part, making the other side to accept the compensation.

If the other side does not accept the compensation it can lead to him starting the cycle again, but from the other side, leading to a blow up. It can lead to legal arguments.

On some occasions the other side sees your argument, but on others - you have to make him see it.

The first crucial step is to make the issue visible.

Communicate what the other sided should do and didn’t do. Set time-frame for fixing it, and notify that you will do it, and what the compensation will be if you do beforehand.

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