I've not seen Baxter or his slightly smaller associate, the prickly Ivan Ivanovitch, who I think is most definitely a beaky cap aneurysm with the personality of a Saltwater Crocodile who wears his beaky cap backwards. Baxter, a congenial Hippo of an aneurysm, wears a pork pie hat and he's proud of it. The question: what's Ivan trying to hide.
Beaky Hats and The Authentic
Grant for a moment that experience precedes essence. Go ahead, risk your eternal soul and embrace the word poesy, it meant let it be, from the Greek for Creative which morphed into the English for Posey, which are hospital bed restraints, and the word Posy, a rural flower arrangement as well as an early version for the modern word Poetry. The secret is to permit the idea to become manifest by Being in the World, a Dasein. The Beaky Cap, like the piccadill, could follow a long tradition. In the same way that a piccadill collar gave it's name to Piccadilly Circus in London England. Beaky Cap could one day be the name of a prophylactic in Down Town Washington DC.
The Beaky Cap Nightmare
I've never trusted them. For the fortunate few who might not know what they are, I see them as statements for the mildly retarded. Time to stand up against them
Promethean Gap
Prometheus pissed off Zeus because Prometheus liked us people in the same way that some people like dogs or kittens. He gave us fire and a lot of encouragement. Zeus, like so many godlike entities, wasn't that fond of us. He had a basic belief that we were dangerous, best not to encourage us, better to beat the crap out of us occasionally. The Promethean Gap was an idea explored in a book by Gunther Anders, Hannah Arendt's first husband, called The Outdatedness of Human Beings, or the Antiqueness of Human Beings. It was an understanding of how dwarfed and insufficient, how inadequate we'd become by the gap between us and technology.
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