I have been told many times that my memory is exceptional.  I’m not saying this to brag; it’s just what I’ve been told.  I’ve described it in the past as a figurative landfill of information, but that gives the impression that it’s all useless.

Lately I’ve come up with a better analogy.  My memory is much like a vast collection of Lego bricks.  Individually, each piece may not necessarily form a particular shape that is immediately coherent, but given enough of them and arranged in the right ways, it starts to show detail and convey and idea.

Being multi-cultural and generally left-brained, there are some ideas that crystalize in my mind that may never cross most people’s minds.  Humans are social animals and there are standards by which we conduct ourselves; if we didn’t what we think of as civilized society would collapse.  “Thou shalt not kill” is generally one that we accept.  Naturally, there are others.  For the purposes of this discussion, I’m referring to the rules here in the United States, I don’t pretend to know the nuances in other countries.

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