SPARKY’S WEEKLY DRESS CHART AND PHILOSOPHICAL MIND SET.

It is probably safe to say that none of you have spent much time thinking about the correlation between the nature and color of the costume you choose to wear each day of the week and the appropriate philosophical orientation to go with that costume. My modest goal in this post is to alert you to the connection between what, at least on the surface, appears to be random events.

Let us begin on what; ostensibly, appears to be a foggy Monday. The only conceivable philosophical mindset for this condition is an Aristotelian appeal to empiricism. Aristotle, when asked to design the Constitution of Athens, accepted 200 drachma and told the committee to return in two years.

Aristotle thereupon proceeded to send horseback riders to every city on the Greek peninsula, collected their constitutions, and compiled a document bearing the points he wish to make from his collection. This represents a gathering of evidence directed toward a conclusion.

The only appropriate color combination to wear during this mindset is cobalt blue with interesting accessories. (A small pearl piece of jewelry for example)

You are able to catch a break on Tuesday when you have the solace of David Hume’s focus on the five senses. The appropriate progression is as follows:

1-Sensory input from all five senses at the periphery.

2-These are kicked upstairs to the limbic system where they become perceptions followed in turn by

3- Being sent upstairs to the cerebral cortex when words are attached to the sensations and thought is the output. The only possible costume that can be worn in such a state is a warm maroon, being very careful to avoid shading toward the pink.

Wednesday’s costume calls for a black-and-white ensemble of interesting design together with the dialectic mindset of Immanuel Kant, who said that Hume “woke him from his slumber.” Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis of both empiricism and rationality must inexorably follow you through the day until you can put your feet up and sip a crystal shot glass of Gran Marnier.

Thursday’s mindset consists of nothing less than Heisenberg's Principle of Indeterminacy which states that the observer influences every scientific measurement and, in fact, must be a part of the so-called impartial equation results. The implications of this Principle, to me, destroy pure empiricism. Cashmere, soft gray costume with maroon accessories carries the day.

Plaid (you can't go wrong with a Black Watch Tartan) or checks (quite subdued) for Friday. The mindset can only be a Stochastic Paradigm which allows for both fixed variables and random events. I guarantee you that this will add spice to your day.( Pay particular attention to random events; they may not be random at all but you have to be at least 50 years old to appreciate this since we live forward but understand backward.)

Saturday provides the heavy building blocks which gives conceptual structure to the entire week as they consist of:

1-Epistemology,

2-Ontogeny, (you must carefully learn to say, with perfect diction “Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, cha cha cha.”)

3-And my dear friend Eschatology

Please roll these words around in your mouth so that you can deliver them smoothly and proceed to ignore the perhaps unseemly reaction of those around you. The costume calls for black with honey colored gold as an important part of the package. Appropriate jewelry of gold design works well.

This exercise consists of my attempt to design a wraparound package for you to use as you move through the universe. It obviously needs a period of field testing so your feedback comments will be extremely useful in order to tweak the overview. Thank you for your forbearance.