In hindsight I've been surprised at how many of my ideas have been passed around the establishment and executed. Sometimes in unwise ways. Sometime in the 1960s or 70s I just commented to a friend about those fire alarms in public buildings like schools. At exits there were those boxes on the wall to pull and set off the building alarm as someone was escaping the building. I said I wonder if someone would always pull that or whether sometimes it wouldn't be.
Voila next thing I know a few years later I see that exit doors are barred, no exit allowed. Only if there is a real fire, because opening the door will automatically set off the alrm.
So now most of the doors designed into buildings can't be used. I even see a hospital in my city where the front entrances are barred, because they have been designate "fire doors". Visitors have to figure out a way to find some obscure side door that can be used.
Now here's da test for ya. Can you see anything wrong with this?
Just because some neurotic government planners couldn't cope with the idea that maybe (don't know if it EVER has happened) an exiting crowd wouldn't pull the alarm. Building traffic has been destroyed. I doubt this could get thru to them. Just fire them all.
By the way I live in Canada. I assume it's this way in the US.
I could probably write a book of anecdotes about how my comments have influenced public policy, sometimes in ways I appreciated, sometimes in the most stupid ways.
I think while I'm here I'll add one more. In 1982 while temporarily living in Toronto I was trying to take some cityscape photographs. I walked into one apartment block to get the view from a hallway window.
Well what do ya think was the result. Now just about all blocks across Canada have their front doors locked.
Why? Nobody in that block noticed me or cared. But I mentionned this to a friend there who apparently worked in the media. Must have got very indignant about "trespassing", passed it around the establishment.
Apartment blocks with locked entrances and no buzzer intercom systems everywhere. How can you call on someone? Oh you should phone them first. Oh! Then they should wait for ya by the front door. Yeah. There couldn't possibly be any other needs for free entrance. Another test question for ya.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2007
How geography relates to liberal and conservative
Here is my observation about how geography relates with personality, particularly conservative and liberal. Basically conservatives end up on the west and south sides, while liberals tend to live on the east and north sides. This occurs in whatever physical area you want to choose - nation, city, province, even the globe.
In the USA it is clear that the northeast is the most liberal, and the southwest like Arizona and southern California are most conservative. I see it in my own city. I can identify a north-south street that is the divider. In the US I think the Mississippi is the divider.
As to the globe, northeast Asia is the most liberal. Look at how the orientals are so concerned about "face" rather than just "getting things done". The Japanese are so fixed on relating, that if you say you like their sweater they will quickly offer to give it to you as a gift. If you don't take it they will be offended.
The Americas would be the most conservative part of the globe.
In Europe Russians and eastern Europeans are more liberal and concerned with relationships than the western, who are more oriented to productivity. Northern Germans are more liberal than southern. Western Ukrainians are more conservative than eastern. Russians are more liberal than Ukrainians. (This is where leftists get irrational and call conservatives "fascists".)
In the Arab world Saudi Arabia is the most conservative, as witnessed by their alliance with the United States. Iraq and Syria would be the most liberal, as illustrated by their tendency to the Baath socialist party.
I find this within sections of the city. I just haven't found it within rooming houses.
I'm still considering how north and south fits in. I tend to think that those on the north of the west are liberal conservatives, while those on the south of the east are conservative liberals (still basically liberals).
I'm judging by the northern hemisphere. Is it the opposite in the southern?
Of course I don't mean that the location causes the orientation, but that the tendency will be for those types to gravitate to those areas.
Why should it be so? You need to be attuned to the realities of spiritual influences and rules. Like people's characters are affected by their birth date, there are many such influences we don't realize.
In the USA it is clear that the northeast is the most liberal, and the southwest like Arizona and southern California are most conservative. I see it in my own city. I can identify a north-south street that is the divider. In the US I think the Mississippi is the divider.
As to the globe, northeast Asia is the most liberal. Look at how the orientals are so concerned about "face" rather than just "getting things done". The Japanese are so fixed on relating, that if you say you like their sweater they will quickly offer to give it to you as a gift. If you don't take it they will be offended.
The Americas would be the most conservative part of the globe.
In Europe Russians and eastern Europeans are more liberal and concerned with relationships than the western, who are more oriented to productivity. Northern Germans are more liberal than southern. Western Ukrainians are more conservative than eastern. Russians are more liberal than Ukrainians. (This is where leftists get irrational and call conservatives "fascists".)
In the Arab world Saudi Arabia is the most conservative, as witnessed by their alliance with the United States. Iraq and Syria would be the most liberal, as illustrated by their tendency to the Baath socialist party.
I find this within sections of the city. I just haven't found it within rooming houses.
I'm still considering how north and south fits in. I tend to think that those on the north of the west are liberal conservatives, while those on the south of the east are conservative liberals (still basically liberals).
I'm judging by the northern hemisphere. Is it the opposite in the southern?
Of course I don't mean that the location causes the orientation, but that the tendency will be for those types to gravitate to those areas.
Why should it be so? You need to be attuned to the realities of spiritual influences and rules. Like people's characters are affected by their birth date, there are many such influences we don't realize.
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