2340 Slab.

see if it’s on a floating track that pushes in then across. They would have noticed anything ceiling mounted at this point. if the slab is thick enough you wouldn’t notice the track or the rollers if they’re far enough away from the facing side.

I guess disagreement is one of the paths to growing less attached. As to the past, the facts abound, one can spin the argument either way, based on the points one wishes to highlight. Some will stress the technological advancements, like development of the Internet, others will put forward the political and military stances from pressuring for a single economic system and resource exploitation worldwide to development and deployment of weapons of mass destruction, whereas some will retort that keeping people in check through deterrence and mass surveillance is the only path to staying safe in the face of idiocy, though how safe exactly versus how enslaved really is the question – I think we can do better than that, but many kids in the administration have some growing up to do. Again others will stress the empire-like economic politics and domination structures built around the world into a dependency pyramid. Well, what matters most for today is the resource and biosphere overuse, for which the materially ‘developed’, but mentally still fledgling countries in the north are most responsible for and which will likely get us all killed in the short to mid run. … Others will stress the advancement of science and the high quality of discourse and social movements that shine as beacons, a sense of the meaning of equality, after having pushed it to the extremes of inequality. Europe is in as much as a horrible, as grand spot, on a recently slightly smaller scale. China is playing fast catchup. The entertainment and advertising industry has delivered both impressive psychological development as well as loads of bias, bullshit, and distraction. The financial system has evolved into a monster.
So, it just depends on which aspects you prefer to highlight to judge it and how much pain in others you are ready to take – either perspective can be justified with a selection of the facts. The point is, are the advancements possible while we also hedge against the downsides? I.e. with less monopolizing and a humbler lifestyle. I don’t know, but I’d hope so.
I guess the crucial lesson is to not accept hard feelings for the actions committed by others including in ones’ own community and past, while still acknowledging truths and encouraging and acting on and rewarding the best behaviors in people.
But allowing yourself to sense the good and the bad in its depth gives a way richer experience than simple pride. Patriotism here is a crutch, where one places one’s well-being on others’ actions or the coin toss of one’s own team winning – and there is a losing side as well. It’s an unreliable source of happiness, and if people screw up – what, am I supposed to feel bad just to stay loyal or should I then lapse into denial of common sense…I don’t know. So, I’ve decoupled my sense of self from the crowd and there it is, inner peace. Identifying with the entire folks around on the marble, one can observe more impartially what humans are up to: a lot of nonsense. Many idiots running around like lemmings trying to earn a Darwin award on a daily basis, while some succeed from time to time in creating an aesthetic masterpiece. It’s good comedy. Overall there is quite some improvement in the human experience, but significant deterioration in what’s left out of it. And that’s not great. Like dumping one’s trash in the kindergarten next door. So overall we are still failing miserably, but getting better and getting better at sensing what less ‘developed’ peoples have sensed, but not understood as well, way before. The scars that the unaware ones among us keep tearing need tending to and healing; this is why sanctuaries that provide a safe space are so important – like this site.