Hot Air, Hopeful Heirs and Horrible Hotels

Reputable scientific predictions for the future have revealed a considerable amount of hot air and a considerable amount of paperwork, plus much ongoing, digital confusion.

If you are seeking to inherit at least a small part of the future, in what condition do you hope it will be, once you receive it?

When do you hope to claim ownership of your portion of the future, and from whom?

Perhaps you are expecting to inherit a hotel or chain of hotels or a magnificent hôtel particulier, or even a lucrative private hospital or two.

How are you preparing for the future?

How are you already learning about the responsibilities you may inherit in relation to it?

Perhaps your family has been in the paper manufacturing business for a considerable time.

Whether you are likely to inherit any sort of family business, or not, perhaps you are the inventive and disruptive one in your family or the methodical and reliable one.

Inventing can often be a messy business, especially when it is unprofitable.

Reliability is often associated with certainty, yet life can quickly descend into chaos, and flames, with or without a large supply of paper assets to protect.

Net worth often relates to hot air and hopefulness rather than reality.

What is your current net worth on paper, and how do you know?

In a world of horrible diseases and horrible responses to human needs, even the most expensive hotels and hôtels and hospitals can be horrible to experience, particularly when forced to inhabit a small part of one for more than a few hours.

What is your acquaintance with the art and science of good ventilation, whether architecturally or climatologically or politically?

What is your acquaintance with the art and science of good breathing, and difficulties in that regard?

A highly sophisticated understanding of ventilation is especially necessary whilst fighting fires and/or working in mines, of course.

What is your acquaintance with technologies for healthy indoor and vehicular environments, and the associated energy requirements?

What is your acquaintance with passive heating and cooling, including in relation to housing?

What have you discovered about various types of fans? 

Perhaps you enjoy making hand fans and other crafts with paper.

You may even enjoy making paper and/or papier-mâché objects.

Perhaps you have been learning creativity techniques through paper crafts.

You may even combine paper and textiles for various purposes.

Perhaps you collect historical cards and/or important works of decoupage.

You may even have an important collection of books.

Perhaps you have an interest in the history of gas balloons.

Perhaps you regard yourself as a relief worker of one sort or another or another. 

There are many uses of paper and inks and glue, and many ways of making them.

What do you know about the environmental effects of paper and other products and various activities?

How have you measured the environmental impact of your online experiences?

How have you sought an education in such matters?

What do you know about onionskin paper?

What is your acquaintance with the Montgolfier brothers?

What do you know about Canson paper?

What do you know about paper aeroplanes?

What do you know about sky lanterns?

What have been your experiences of emotional relief? 

Perhaps you associate relief with gratitude.

Perhaps you feel relief upon catching a flight or upon landing after one.

Whether in a balloon or another aeronautical object, or none at all, what do you know about hot-air balloons?

What do you know about weather balloons and other research balloons?

What do you know about poor relief and debt relief?

What do you know about topographical relief?

What do you know about the purpose of a relief valve?

What do you know about the physics of pressure and the measurement of pressure?

What do you know about the psychology of pressure?

What do you know about levity and gravity, in physical and psychological terms?

Perhaps you have attempted to turn a taffeta gown into a hot-air balloon.

What happened to the dresses of Madame de Pompadour when she was no longer around to wear them?

When, if ever, have you worn a robe à la française whilst ascending or descending a staircase on a hot day? 

How do you usually reflect upon the meaning of hot air?

What have you been learning about heat waves and heat domes over the past few years?

What do you know about the dangerous misinterpretation of well-meaning points of view? 

For example, you may be acquainted with the life and work of Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, the wallpaper manufacturer, and the disturbing, pre-Revolutionary Réveillon riots.

How have you been comparing the 1780s with recent times?

Perhaps you have experienced an exploration of history as a catharsis from time to time.

What do you know about the Freemason Lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris?

The Montgolfier brothers were members, as were many other distinguished personages.

What is your acquaintance with the nine Muses?

Perhaps you have been hoping to inherit something from them, whether on Mount Parnassus in Greece or Montparnasse in Paris or elsewhere.

What is your acquaintance with the history of inheritance?

What do you know about the Club de l'Entresol?

What do you know about the activities of Madame Helvétius and her husband?

What do you know about the history of hotels?

What do you know about the history of Parisian townhouses and French châteaux? 

What do you know about the history of the hôtel particulier, including particularly peculiar examples?

Maintaining hygiene and courtesy, in any situation, can be difficult, with or without the addition of distasteful pretensions in and through the hospitality industry, the presence of other people's bad habits, and even their annoying pets and/or offspring.

Yet preparing properly for COP26 through climate courtesy credentials is likely to make even the most reasonable person hot headed, particularly when assessing carbon budgets, covid intrusions, inadequate government policies and various environmentally unfriendly travel and accommodation options.

Will COP26 embrace Scottish common sense realism or Scottish Romanticism or merely hot air?

What is your acquaintance with Scottish baronial architecture and various Scottish castles? 

Perhaps you associate Scotland with noisy bagpipes, filled with hot air.

Perhaps you are interested in Scottish folk music.

Perhaps you are mostly interested in playing golf at St Andrews and/or hot air ballooning over Scottish lochs.

Perhaps you have little interest in contributing to the improvement of global politics.

If you have wealth and/or power and/or arrogant heirs, you are likely to have enemies.

If you critique wealth and/or power and/or arrogant heirs, you are likely to have enemies.

If you praise a person, organisation, product or location, you are likely to be regarded as uncritical or corrupt or greedy, especially if you are accused, with or without evidence, of behaving in that way for a reward of some sort.

Perhaps you have even been accused of self-promotion from time to time.

If you are critical of a person, organisation, product or location, you are likely to be accused, with or without evidence, of being funded by a competitor.  Or you may be accused of being malicious for your own reasons, even though you may merely be seeking to improve a situation, or at least warn people of possible unpleasantness.

How do you usually assess the quality of an experience?

How do you usually assess the ethics of an experience?

How do you respond when you have been promised a wonderful experience yet actually experience a horrible one?

Marketing is often no more than hot air, especially with deceptive sales techniques included.  There may even be an indifference to complaints, including complaints associated with health concerns.  Government departments rarely address such matters appropriately, if at all.  Governments often have conflicts of interest.

What do you know about environmentally-friendly accommodation, whether in hotels or houses or other options?

What do you know about morally-appropriate venues and services?