12-14-05

Every technological evolution is brought about so we can better cope with what lies ahead. So I guess e-mail, following the facsimile, is one of those tools that keep increasingly distant people in scattered cultures in touch with each other. This is the natural evolution of growing populations. As they (we) grow and become increasingly dysfunctional, just by the mere fact that such an excessive, disparate growth is dysfunctional within the balance of nature, then the artificial means have to be devised to maintain such numbers. In that process sacrifices are made which change our societies and the way we live in them. This is called evolution. If evolution fails in evolving, then it devolves, or collapses. Both results of degeneration. Sort of what we are witnessing today at increasingly various levels. Be they international, national, cultural. For what ever subtle harmony remained of this country is disappearing in that last bastion of old culture. Whether it was a good one or not it just gets replaced by more of the same with decreasing flair. So again is the adaptation of evolution for the larger mass. Every generation says these things and feels increasingly out of touch, but the reasons to be out of touch are increasingly becoming less tolerable as again the numbers grow. We can create as much chaos as we desire just as long as the hermetic bowl we live in is intact. Once it starts to crack then the old illusions no longer apply. The only rational conclusions, have always been outer space colonization, or calamity to decrease numbers. One explosion, the other implosion.

4-7-05

The Pope's funeral has been a gathering without precedent for people throughout the world in general and world leaders in particular. If these leaders really want to honor John Paul's wishes of a more unified world then they should make every effort to transcend mere protocol and have a productive dialogue with friend and foe alike. This is a unique opportunity in a world spinning out of control.

Definitely wishful thinking.

3-19-05

Let's take the ultimate radical view since no one seems to listen. If this U.S. administration's followers are right then they should at least be protecting us. This they proved unable to do. Too much bravado and firepower abroad and not enough substance at home is a real danger we will have to deal with in the near future and for a long time to come. Fine. Even if other nations are to be considered as colonies, then at least rational rules should be in place to protect this nation. And that does not mean by taking away our constitutional rights.

3-20-05

The Schiavo case and the hijacking of that case by Congress while only a minority of Democrats voting against it, clearly shows that this nation cannot be saved by either political party and that any serious attempt at doing so can only be made by an alternate new party. There is no other way. This case again further shows that our politicians act independently of their constituent's wishes. Sixty percent of the public is against this case and politicians claim that they are acting in accordance with the wishes of their constituents. This trend of separation between politicians and public opinion is steadily getting worse and will eventually lead to revolution unless corrected soon.

12-17-04

We can delude ourselves all we want with theories of superior intellect, religion, and being created in God's image. The bottom line is that a few thousand years of recorded civilization, or lack of, does not the survival of the species make. At the present rate we shall soon be on our way out, and all that will remain will be a couple of stray hubcaps lost by JPL for future species, here or elsewhere, to remember us by. After all we were so eager to be discovered by another species without really thinking that they could very well be at least as disruptive as us. Good thing we did our own disappearing act before they did it for us!

9.16.04

Al Alawi is to address Congress. But can he safely get out of Baghdad?

09.02.2004

Republican Convention

If only the Republicans diverted most of the sophisticated energy used in evading relevant issues, and instead concentrated on the problems, they might well do it in six days and use the last as a rest day from tax breaks.

But then again does it really matter, if their next four years are reserved for a higher purpose.

McCain had his sneakers on.

2001 ushers in a new era where we will go beyond Jupiter to the Almighty

10.01.2002

Open Letter to the Congress of the United States

It is my firm belief that we must support and allow the United Nations to resume their inspections programs with Iraq, including the presidential palaces. If this fails then I am certain that it will not be a large problem for the international community to back a U.S. military action against Iraq.

One of the fundamental problems, which is rarely addressed, in the U.S. not backing the U.N. to implement this program, would be that it would ruin the latter's credibility as well as ours and reduce it to the powerless status of the League of Nations. And that would be a disaster.

Finally, a hasty war against Iraq by the United States would have further disastrous consequences for the economy.

It is also crucial to remember what occurred in Weimar Germany when the majority of Social Democrats and other parties in the parliament voted for Hitler against the actual mandate and wishes of their constituents, and essentially voted themselves out of power.