Prickly Processes
How do you compare 21st century world leaders with 13th century world leaders?
How do you compare 21st century international agreements with 13th century international agreements?
How do you compare 21st century pseudosciences with 13th century beliefs?
How do you compare 21st century knowledge with 13th century knowledge?
How do you compare 21st century diplomacy with 13th century diplomacy?
How is the Liber Abaci of Fibonacci used during intergovernmental meetings, if at all?
What have you discovered about the history of political internationalism?
What have you discovered about cultural internationalism, as evidenced by the career of Michael Scot?
If you are not yet acquainted with the Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee, please make amends in that regard at your earliest convenience.
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You may already be acquainted with the concept of social revolution, particularly if you are currently part of a revolutionary process.
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What do you know about the Late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age?
What do you know about megaliths, particularly those in the form of stone circles?
What do you know about Scone in Scotland, Tara in Ireland and Westminster in England?
What do you know about Palermo, Rome, Mainz and Jerusalem in relation to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor?
Perhaps you have written a treatise on making such comparisons.
What do you know about the Magna Carta of 1215 and how do you compare it with the Treaty of York of 1237, the Treaty of Perth of 1266, the Paris Agreement of 2015, and the treatise On the Art of Hunting with Birds from the 1240s?
What do you know about wars of succession and wars of secession?
What do you know about anti-war movements?
The Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee always encourages peaceful processes. Whenever prickly ones arise, therefore, much additional effort is required by committee members to encourage and maintain civility.
What, then, must be done to counteract their influence?
Why is a circle of stone implied to be a coven of witches?
How do you compare Haakon IV Haakonsson of Norway with Alexander III of Scotland?
What do you know about the Battle of Largs of 1263?
How do you compare Largs in Scotland with Largs Bay in South Australia?
What is your acquaintance with the laws of thermodynamics, the work of Lord Kelvin and the history of thermodynamics?
What is your acquaintance with the history of nuclear power?
What is your acquaintance with the Flateyjarbók of late 14th century Iceland?
What do you know about interpretations of probability?
How do you imagine the future of expertise?
How have you imagined that future in terms of disease, conflict, crises, death and retirement?
Perhaps you have been learning about nuclear powered submarines and/or nuclear power plants and/or radioactive waste and/or nuclear weapons and/or nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents.
You may have been learning about thistles and the Order of the Thistle and the Thistle Chapel in the High Kirk in Edinburgh.
You may have been learning about Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders and artwork associated with it.
You may be acquainted with Melrose in South Australia.
You may be familiar with the motto of the Stuart dynasty.
What do you know about the Kingdom of Scotland?
What do you know about the earlier Kingdom of Norway, and the current one?
Perhaps you associate the 13th century with the Mamluks of the Muslim world and/or the magnates of the Christian world.
Perhaps you associate the 21st century with conflicts over armaments, and conflicts over trade, and conflicts over diseases, and conflicts over climate change, and conflicts associated with anti-intellectualism.
Perhaps you are mostly interested in the history of golf and/or HMNB Clyde.
Perhaps you are mostly interested in 13th century Christianity.
Perhaps you are not particularly interested in the future at all.
What do you know about the wheel of the year and the wheel of time?
Perhaps you have been assessing the relationship between guns, golf and elitism.
Humans usually regard introduced thistles as biosecurity problems. This especially applies to the scotch thistle.
What is your acquaintance with thorns, spines and prickles?
What do you know about teasles?
What is your acquaintance with Scotland's floral emblem?
Perhaps you are currently feeling a bit prickly yourself.
Everyone acquires expectations of people, nature, culture and the future upon the basis not only of past experiences of life but fantasies about themselves in the world in the past, present and future.
Encouraging people to distinguish between fact and fantasy is often a prickly process in itself, at any time of year, in any part of the world.
How do you compare one image with another?
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How do you compare one person with another?
How do you compare one place with another?
How do you compare golf with hockey and shinty and hurling and camogie and lacrosse and croquet and bando and bandy and cammag and pell-mell and political negotiations?
What, if anything, with COP26 have in common with various Scottish inventions and discoveries?
Perhaps you think golf in Scotland began as a consequence of the conquests of the Mongols.
Perhaps you would rather learn about the production of a book of hours or an international treaty than spend hours refuting fantastical beliefs and exasperating opinions.
How do you tell whether a belief is fantastical or reasonable?
How do you know when a statement or question is exasperating or worth examining?
How do you distinguish between quality questions and all the rest?
How do you distinguish between quality statements and all the rest?
How do you distinguish between quality agreements and all the rest?
How do you distinguish between quality actions and all the rest?
What do you know about gullibility and suggestibility?
Perhaps you need to rest now, to restore your equilibrium, both physically and mentally.
What do you know about the history of learning, working, resting, playing and praying?
What do you know about the history of earning, arguing, resisting, protesting and paying?
Perhaps you would rather learn more about a golf book of one sort or another.
Perhaps you would rather spend time in a virtual library other than the one you are currently experiencing.
How do you distinguish between facts and the interpretation of facts?
How do you distinguish between imaginings and the scientific study of imaginings?
How do you distinguish between elitism, elegant egalitarianism and mob rule?
How do you distinguish between factual and fictional depictions of a particular person or problem or practice or process or plant?
Perhaps you have been wondering whether unicorns eat thistles.
How do you compare The Introductory Book with History of Animals, and why?
How do you attempt to distinguish between beliefs about the supernatural, prejudiced opinions and facts about nature?
What do you know about mesmerism and other vitalist beliefs?
What do you know about the golf swing and the Gulf Stream?
How do you compare the 13th century Sicilian School of poetry with the sirventes?
How do you compare the Order of the Thistle today with its history?
How do you compare sport today with sport in the near future and a little later and sport in the past?
How do you compare one sort of game with another?
How do you compare one sort of trophy with another and another and another?
Perhaps you regard polo as hockey on horseback.
Perhaps you regard a level playing field as as a waste of physical space and/or a political impossibility.
Perhaps you regard the rough parts of a golf course as more important than the smooth.
Or perhaps you would prefer the world to be a putting green or bowling green or suburban lawn or a literal and/or figurative fairway.
How are golf links and water supplies and food supplies and housing supplies and medical services and educational services and expressions of artistry affected by ocean currents and political currents?
How do you assess the sustainability of an ecosystem or economy?
How do you assess the approach to sustainability of a particular organisation?
How have you been assessing the slowing of the Gulf Stream?
How do you currently view the world, and why?
Perhaps you are attempting to do so with an Onopordum acanthium in your hand, with or without a Physatocheila dumetorum or another member of the Tingidae family nearby.
If you are an independent scientist, what prickly processes have you been studying, and why?
If you are not an independent scientist, why not?
Perhaps you do not understand what is required of you.
If you are preparing to protest, what are you hoping to achieve by doing so?
How can you prove you are not afraid of needles and thistles?
How can you prove you are not afraid of history?
How can you prove you are not afraid of science?
What have you been learning through the history of Anglo-Scottish Wars?
What have you been learning about nuclear weapons and melting glaciers and buying up golf courses?
What have you been learning about the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves?
What have you been learning about the prison embroideries of Mary, Queen of Scots?
What have you been learning about friendship?
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