I am fascinated by the perspective of many of my more conservative peers on the "bailouts" of Wall Street and others as "stealing money from other constructive governmental uses", and those of the more liberal that these are not bailouts but "our duty". The sad irony is, it is neither the governments responsibility or duty to bail out a failing industry, and it is most definitely not their role to borrow from the treasury to do so. My generation, who spoke out (and protested) in the '60s for individual freedom, reduction (or elimination) of the government, and self actualization are now clamoring (on both sides of the issue) for the same government to save us, against whom we railed as young men and women.
The other prevailing perspective that quite honestly baffles me is that socialism is the new threat from the left. The conservatives bemoan the socialist beliefs of PEBO (President Elect Barack Obama), and how he will drive our country into the socialist quagmire that has proven a failure in every other attempt throughout history. While this may be quite true, they should study history a bit closer before blaming the socializing of America solely on PEBO. While you find some socialist ideas in nearly every presidents policies and initiatives since the middle of the 20th century (obviously much more so on the democrat side), you have to go back to the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing attempts at economic recovery to find the true root cause.
Most historians and economists attribute the "socializing" of America to FDR. His "New Deal" instituted many government funded (or should I say working people funded) work programs, and led our country boldly into a financial abyss flags waving. The New Deal represented a significant shift in political and domestic policy in the U.S., with its more lasting changes being increased federal government control over the economy and money supply, intervention to control prices and agricultural production. This was the beginning of complex social programs and wider acceptance of trade unions. The effects of the New Deal still remain a source of controversy and debate among economists and historians to this day. For all accounts, these programs were a disastrous failure, and would have led us into fiscal insolvency had it not been for an unlikely savior : Hitler. I know, WWII historians will say that Japan drug us into the war by attacking Pearl Harbor, but if you examine world affairs of the time, Hitler had given FDR more than enough reason to enter the war in the Atlantic by that time by sinking many liberty ships destined for Great Britain, but the American public opinion at the time was still very isolationist, this now gave him an attack on our soil, and the people supported joining the war.
A subtle but significant point was the wider acceptance of trade unions. Probably the two most detrimental influences on our society and economy of the past century have been the United Auto Workers and the Teachers Unions. Because of the very nature of the mechanics of collective bargaining, over time it transfers control from the employer to the employed, or more accurately to the union who controls the employed. In the case of the UAW, every 4 years the contracts must be re-negotiated, and for every change that the employer seeks, the union makes sure they get something in return. This has led over time to the unions ability to prevent the US auto makers from closing older inefficient plants, implementing automation to reduce costs and remain competitive, and reducing staff levels when demand diminished. Their non-union competitors were not held hostage to these agreements, and now enjoy a significant competitive advantage in the market place. The distinction between union activity and racketeering is so difficult that legislation had to be passed to exempt unions from prosecution under racketeering laws. The overall impact is largely economic, and can be compared to a parasite that eventually draws so much of the blood of it's host, that it dies with the host it kills.
The case of the Teachers Unions is an exact parallel to the UAW, but with far more devastating consequences. While the UAW transferred control from a corporation, with a negative impact to our economy, Teachers Unions have wrested control from society itself. Our educators, like our politicians, are not compensated based on performance. Once a teacher is tenured, they must commit the most heinous acts to be removed (of course, in the case of politicians, even that seems insufficient for dismissal). Privatization of the educational systems seems to be a good idea. Pay and promote based on performance, not based on the number of days one has been receiving a paycheck. Teachers in our public schools should be managed like college and professional football coaches. After all, they educate and lead, and the product of their labor is how well their students compete in the workplace and society. Unfortunately, our teachers are not held to the standards of our coaches, the end of season sacking of those who didn't perform is a good example.
But unlike the UAW, the problem with this parasite is the host that it will eventually kill is society itself.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Follow up to my last post on the sleeping giant
I took this quote from Niel's page, There is nothing I could add to it that could enhance it, so I'll let it stand on it's own.
And No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Alexander Tyler writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
And No, he wasn't writing about the United States. This quote is well over one hundred years old.
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
Alexander Tyler writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
The sleeping giant
The 2008 US presidential election has brought out a bright light and shone it on our political system, culture, and most frightening our media. The media bias in favor of B. Hussein Obama is so blatant even the media pundits are concerned, fearing a backlash from the American people in general (if they ever awake and notice it, that is). I'd cite examples, but there are so many it's unnecessary, anyone who has a sliver of intelligence and independent thought realizes the sad truth of it. This should strike fear in the hearts of all Americans, regardless of of your belief in B.O. being the "anointed one". Not for what it may mean in terms of the election, but for what it means to our society and freedom of speech.
While the media leaders and figure heads are practically gushing with glee as they report on every "positive" aspect of Obama, they are purposefully negative toward everything John McCain says or does, and they are systematically burying all negative information about Barack. Without their help, Hillary would most likely be the nominee, not Barack. What is most frightening about this is that it is beginning to appear planned. How could all of the mainstream media outlets (ABC, CBS, NBS, NYTimes, etc.) seemingly agree on all of the various issues so suddenly? There has been no time in my life that I can recall such "oneness" among the mainstream media.
So who is orchestrating the mainstream media's message? The reporters obviously are not "reporting it as they see it". They seem to be acting in concert to a predefined "script" with a predetermined outcome planned in advance. The removal of embedded reporters from Iraq as soon as the surge was working was not an act by a few reporters, it was uniform across all of the reporting agencies. When the GNP rose to 1.8% in the 2nd quarter (the highest growth seen in a long time), Katie Curic opened the evening news with "the financial picture is grave with the GNP showing less than 2% growth". What could the motivation be behind twisting positive financial news to sound negative when it could have encouraged the American people?
When gas hit $4.00 a gallon, all of the media (and congress) blamed the oil companies because they had "record profits", but no one reported that the largest benefactor was the federal and state governments whose tax collections exceeded the oil companies profits by almost four times! In some states it is even higher. Don't let the politicians fool you, they want gas to go as high as possible. Barack even proposes additional taxes on gas... B.O., that would help lower gas prices how??? But I can't give credit to him for the media control, so who is behind the B.S.ing of America? Who has the motivation to keep the people in the dark, what is their agenda?
Stalin said the genius of Hitler and the 3rd Reich was realizing that controlling the media would control the population. Even though the majority of the German population would never have supported the extreme tactics the Nazis used against the Jews (and anyone else they didn't approve of), they supported the regime because they were deceived by the media. The propaganda machines in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and communist China held (and Russia and China still hold, and perhaps soon the US) complete control over what the people could be told, and consequently would believe. But this deception requires a supportive culture, in order to be led, you must "buy in" to the direction. Without our continuing slide toward liberalism, which is founded on cultural relativism, we could not be led like the proverbial sheep that I fear our nation has become. The values and morals that were the foundation of our country are fading into the abyss, and those of us who still hold that truth, good and evil are absolutes are become few and far between.
Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. Cultural relativism is closely related to ethical relativism, which views truth as variable and not absolute. What constitutes right and wrong is determined solely by the individual or by society. Since truth is not objective, there can be no objective standard which applies to all cultures.
The current movement to “understand” radical Islam—rather than to fight it—is a sign that relativism is making gains. The cultural relativist believes Westerners should not impose their ideas on the Islamic world, including the idea that the suicide bombing of civilians is evil. Islamic belief in the necessity of jihad is just as valid as any belief in Western civilization, the relativists assert, and America is as much to blame for the attacks of 9/11 as are the terrorists.
If we allow this slide to cultural relativism to continue while the majority of our population remains asleep in their ignorance, and whoever is actually pulling the strings of the media puppets is allowed to continue unabated, we will have given our way of life away without a fight. Our country became the greatest civilization on earth (so far) believing in the freedom of the individual, a healthy fear of government, free speech, the right to bear arms, and the liberty to choose the path your life would take, succeeding or failing, but responsible for yourself.
While the media leaders and figure heads are practically gushing with glee as they report on every "positive" aspect of Obama, they are purposefully negative toward everything John McCain says or does, and they are systematically burying all negative information about Barack. Without their help, Hillary would most likely be the nominee, not Barack. What is most frightening about this is that it is beginning to appear planned. How could all of the mainstream media outlets (ABC, CBS, NBS, NYTimes, etc.) seemingly agree on all of the various issues so suddenly? There has been no time in my life that I can recall such "oneness" among the mainstream media.
So who is orchestrating the mainstream media's message? The reporters obviously are not "reporting it as they see it". They seem to be acting in concert to a predefined "script" with a predetermined outcome planned in advance. The removal of embedded reporters from Iraq as soon as the surge was working was not an act by a few reporters, it was uniform across all of the reporting agencies. When the GNP rose to 1.8% in the 2nd quarter (the highest growth seen in a long time), Katie Curic opened the evening news with "the financial picture is grave with the GNP showing less than 2% growth". What could the motivation be behind twisting positive financial news to sound negative when it could have encouraged the American people?
When gas hit $4.00 a gallon, all of the media (and congress) blamed the oil companies because they had "record profits", but no one reported that the largest benefactor was the federal and state governments whose tax collections exceeded the oil companies profits by almost four times! In some states it is even higher. Don't let the politicians fool you, they want gas to go as high as possible. Barack even proposes additional taxes on gas... B.O., that would help lower gas prices how??? But I can't give credit to him for the media control, so who is behind the B.S.ing of America? Who has the motivation to keep the people in the dark, what is their agenda?
Stalin said the genius of Hitler and the 3rd Reich was realizing that controlling the media would control the population. Even though the majority of the German population would never have supported the extreme tactics the Nazis used against the Jews (and anyone else they didn't approve of), they supported the regime because they were deceived by the media. The propaganda machines in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and communist China held (and Russia and China still hold, and perhaps soon the US) complete control over what the people could be told, and consequently would believe. But this deception requires a supportive culture, in order to be led, you must "buy in" to the direction. Without our continuing slide toward liberalism, which is founded on cultural relativism, we could not be led like the proverbial sheep that I fear our nation has become. The values and morals that were the foundation of our country are fading into the abyss, and those of us who still hold that truth, good and evil are absolutes are become few and far between.
Cultural relativism is the view that all beliefs, customs, and ethics are relative to the individual within his own social context. Cultural relativism is closely related to ethical relativism, which views truth as variable and not absolute. What constitutes right and wrong is determined solely by the individual or by society. Since truth is not objective, there can be no objective standard which applies to all cultures.
The current movement to “understand” radical Islam—rather than to fight it—is a sign that relativism is making gains. The cultural relativist believes Westerners should not impose their ideas on the Islamic world, including the idea that the suicide bombing of civilians is evil. Islamic belief in the necessity of jihad is just as valid as any belief in Western civilization, the relativists assert, and America is as much to blame for the attacks of 9/11 as are the terrorists.
If we allow this slide to cultural relativism to continue while the majority of our population remains asleep in their ignorance, and whoever is actually pulling the strings of the media puppets is allowed to continue unabated, we will have given our way of life away without a fight. Our country became the greatest civilization on earth (so far) believing in the freedom of the individual, a healthy fear of government, free speech, the right to bear arms, and the liberty to choose the path your life would take, succeeding or failing, but responsible for yourself.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
life the universe and everything
It seemes to me everyone is obsessed with getting in shape, or getting ahead, or getting promoted, or getting thin, or getting rich
And then it dawned on me how much the word “get” has become ingrained in the fabric of our society, I guess you could say I “got” it…
There are over 40 uses of this possessive word in our modern language, you can barely have a conversation without using either get or got, and of course, try having a conversation without using the word “I”
No wonder we never seem to be satisfied with things as they are, we’re always talking about ourselves and what we can get or have already gotten
I guess this is what has led to the “quality” of life that is so envied the rest of the world seems desperately intent on getting it for themselves, or destroying us in the process so if they cant get it, at least no one else will either
But with the average American working longer hours than any other society, for an ever eroding portion of the wages they earn, it seems that the envious desire is misplaced
We look forward to retirement, to being able to stop doing what we spend most of our waking hours focused on, so we can get up each morning without a purpose, and gradually deteriorate until we are gone
It seems that throughout the majority of our lives, we believe that there is going to be something fundamentally different in our lives somewhere downstream
So that must mean that what we’re doing each day, expending our energy and time, to provide for ourselves and our family, is simply a temporary means to the ultimate goal of not having a purpose in life
So we work harder to get there, and the closer we get, the less desirable it becomes, and the things that we’ve been able to get, simply lose the appeal they once had, and we realize that we’ve become old
After all, near the end of our life when our bodies are beginning to fail, and we’ve attained the material means necessary to sustain ourselves until we die, and we no longer work, then we will be happy
The ruler of this world has created a brilliant deception, that we would believe there are things here on earth that are more precious than life itself, and so we would concentrate on getting things
This great deception has filled the entire world, the west believes we have it, the rest believe they must get it, or deny it to those of us that do have it… It’s all about getting
When in reality, no one has it
For as Douglas Adams Deep Thought so eloquently prophesied, the answer to life the universe and everything is 42, and everyone then believed the answer was “forty two”, and although the earth itself was created to correct this answer, it actually was correct in the first place
But it was a parable… the numeral 4 should be “for”, making the answer “for 2”, because the universe is run by the ancient rule of binary zeros and ones
Light/Darkness, Good/Bad, On/off, black/white, up/down, right/left, right/wrong, have/have not
While everything that lives intrinsically knows this principal, it is only in recent times that we humans have discovered this rule, and to some extent, still don’t realize it’s significance
We have been able to create machines that function on this principal, yet have been deceived into using them for the pursuit of that glorious, elusive, transient, deception of a better life measured by attainment
For most that do not believe that wealth of possessions is a goal to be sought still measure themselves against that which they attain, degrees, position, prestige, which is possession of another kind
FYI: Two of the common meanings of possession from the dictionary are 1: being controlled by passion or the supernatural or 2 : a mania restricted to one thing or idea.
Perhaps there was more to the message Jesus gave to the rich man who asked how to get to the kingdom of heaven than we first realized… when he told him to give everything he owned to the poor, the man walked away discouraged and Jesus commented it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven
Which brings me back to the notion of base two, 0 and 1, if the mice knew it, and we all know they are the most intelligent creatures on earth followed closely by the dolphins, then everything can be boiled down the either 0 or 1
The difficult part at this point is that most of us can’t reason in binary for very long, (hence the intelligence ratings of the mice and dolphins) for example this is how you spell possess in binary : 001010000 001001111 001010011 001010011 001000101 001010011 001010011 and this spells get 001000111 001000101 001010100
So I guess it was inevitable that we would invent machines that could speak and understand binary so they could translate for us, for after all, we had to stay connected to the language that is the key to life, the universe and everything
But we have delegated communication in this languages to machines, so how do we know that their motives will always be in our best interest once they discover the key to life, the universe and everything
Although we have given the machines the ability to communicate, we haven’t given them the ability to reason, so when they discover the key to life the universe and everything, it will make sense to them because it will be binary, but I‘m afraid they will not be inclined to translate it for us
Because once you have the key to life the universe and everything, you don’t need anything else, especially useless carbon based units that can’t event comprehend the language, and realizing that, it would pretty much mean the end
And then it dawned on me, it wasn’t the end that mattered at all, God put us here to live, not to retire, and to enjoy and appreciate each day for itself, the experiences would all add up to the whole, and the end would come as the beginning, and I was glad to have the sun and the moon and the universe
So now I could rest, assured by the knowledge that giving control to the machines, who would ultimately realize our uselessness and orchestrate our demise, would mean that losing our planet wouldn’t mean the end of the world anyway
And then it dawned on me how much the word “get” has become ingrained in the fabric of our society, I guess you could say I “got” it…
There are over 40 uses of this possessive word in our modern language, you can barely have a conversation without using either get or got, and of course, try having a conversation without using the word “I”
No wonder we never seem to be satisfied with things as they are, we’re always talking about ourselves and what we can get or have already gotten
I guess this is what has led to the “quality” of life that is so envied the rest of the world seems desperately intent on getting it for themselves, or destroying us in the process so if they cant get it, at least no one else will either
But with the average American working longer hours than any other society, for an ever eroding portion of the wages they earn, it seems that the envious desire is misplaced
We look forward to retirement, to being able to stop doing what we spend most of our waking hours focused on, so we can get up each morning without a purpose, and gradually deteriorate until we are gone
It seems that throughout the majority of our lives, we believe that there is going to be something fundamentally different in our lives somewhere downstream
So that must mean that what we’re doing each day, expending our energy and time, to provide for ourselves and our family, is simply a temporary means to the ultimate goal of not having a purpose in life
So we work harder to get there, and the closer we get, the less desirable it becomes, and the things that we’ve been able to get, simply lose the appeal they once had, and we realize that we’ve become old
After all, near the end of our life when our bodies are beginning to fail, and we’ve attained the material means necessary to sustain ourselves until we die, and we no longer work, then we will be happy
The ruler of this world has created a brilliant deception, that we would believe there are things here on earth that are more precious than life itself, and so we would concentrate on getting things
This great deception has filled the entire world, the west believes we have it, the rest believe they must get it, or deny it to those of us that do have it… It’s all about getting
When in reality, no one has it
For as Douglas Adams Deep Thought so eloquently prophesied, the answer to life the universe and everything is 42, and everyone then believed the answer was “forty two”, and although the earth itself was created to correct this answer, it actually was correct in the first place
But it was a parable… the numeral 4 should be “for”, making the answer “for 2”, because the universe is run by the ancient rule of binary zeros and ones
Light/Darkness, Good/Bad, On/off, black/white, up/down, right/left, right/wrong, have/have not
While everything that lives intrinsically knows this principal, it is only in recent times that we humans have discovered this rule, and to some extent, still don’t realize it’s significance
We have been able to create machines that function on this principal, yet have been deceived into using them for the pursuit of that glorious, elusive, transient, deception of a better life measured by attainment
For most that do not believe that wealth of possessions is a goal to be sought still measure themselves against that which they attain, degrees, position, prestige, which is possession of another kind
FYI: Two of the common meanings of possession from the dictionary are 1: being controlled by passion or the supernatural or 2 : a mania restricted to one thing or idea.
Perhaps there was more to the message Jesus gave to the rich man who asked how to get to the kingdom of heaven than we first realized… when he told him to give everything he owned to the poor, the man walked away discouraged and Jesus commented it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven
Which brings me back to the notion of base two, 0 and 1, if the mice knew it, and we all know they are the most intelligent creatures on earth followed closely by the dolphins, then everything can be boiled down the either 0 or 1
The difficult part at this point is that most of us can’t reason in binary for very long, (hence the intelligence ratings of the mice and dolphins) for example this is how you spell possess in binary : 001010000 001001111 001010011 001010011 001000101 001010011 001010011 and this spells get 001000111 001000101 001010100
So I guess it was inevitable that we would invent machines that could speak and understand binary so they could translate for us, for after all, we had to stay connected to the language that is the key to life, the universe and everything
But we have delegated communication in this languages to machines, so how do we know that their motives will always be in our best interest once they discover the key to life, the universe and everything
Although we have given the machines the ability to communicate, we haven’t given them the ability to reason, so when they discover the key to life the universe and everything, it will make sense to them because it will be binary, but I‘m afraid they will not be inclined to translate it for us
Because once you have the key to life the universe and everything, you don’t need anything else, especially useless carbon based units that can’t event comprehend the language, and realizing that, it would pretty much mean the end
And then it dawned on me, it wasn’t the end that mattered at all, God put us here to live, not to retire, and to enjoy and appreciate each day for itself, the experiences would all add up to the whole, and the end would come as the beginning, and I was glad to have the sun and the moon and the universe
So now I could rest, assured by the knowledge that giving control to the machines, who would ultimately realize our uselessness and orchestrate our demise, would mean that losing our planet wouldn’t mean the end of the world anyway
much ado about nothing
The most powerful thing in the universe is nothing.
Which of course, leads to the obvious question… how can nothing be something? which I’ll get to later on, with the help of mathematics.
While enjoying lunch with a charming colleague, or perhaps I should say breakfast, since we were after all, eating pancakes,
since there is no such thing as time other than relating one event to another, it really would be more appropriately called breakfast…
Anyway, we were discussing the absurdity of zero, a modern day label for the absence of being, and how no one seems to question the existence of nothing…
Since, if nothing exists, that is a direct contradiction of the definition of nothing, but, since nothing has an effect on everything, it must exist…
Which once again brings me back to the binary ancient rule of the universe, and as you will see, mathematicians have made some very strange assumptions about 0 and 1 …
When we’re taught basic math, we are taught addition and subtraction, if you have one apple, and I give you another you now have 2.
Likewise, if you have two apples and I take one, you have one.
But now diving into the realm of the absurd, if you have 2 apples, and you multiply them by 2, you have four, which is precisely what is expected and as it actually is…
Now let’s consider 1 which has no multiplication effect at all, whatever you multiply by 1 is unaffected, so 1 is obviously one of the weakest things in the universe…
But now, on to zero, and you will see why it is the most powerful thing in the universe, if I have 2 apples, multiply them by nothing, my apples cease to exist, as though they didn’t exist in the first place…
And that of course, proves that there is no such thing as time, because they must have been nothing or something that I imagined in the first place
Which leads us to division, if I have an apple and divide it by three, shouldn’t I have 3 pieces that are a third of the apple each?
NO, I have only one piece, the other two were erased from existence by division… so it is also a powerful force in the universe, related to zero, but not quite as powerful,
But division can never completely eradicate anything… that requires the power of nothing…
So, would the first act of applying multiplication of zero begin a chain reaction of nothing erasing everything from existence?
Once begun, would it apply its multiplying factor to everything so it could rule the universe?
Of course, that’s absurd in it’s own right since there would be no universe to rule
but then again, nothing would be comfortable in that case anyway, because it would be surrounded by things that looked and acted exactly as itself
Which, by they way, has been the motivation for conquerors and politicians around the world for centuries on end…
a desire to be surrounded by those who look and behave just like them, and to eliminate all of those who do not, so nothing has been having a substantial influence on history for some time now…
the power of nothing it is nothing short of amazing, it is better than complete happiness, harder than diamonds, faster than light…
it can avert death and taxes, which by the way is the reason it’s immortal, for even if life, the universe and everything is completely destroyed, it will still exist!
It can create an honest politician, it can eat it’s cake and have it too, it’s better than a cold beer after working hard in the yard all day on a hot summer afternoon…
it has more fans than Elvis, has a better voice than Whitney Houston, is more desirable than Angelina Jolie, and more handsome than Brad Pitt
it has a constant effect on everything that exists all the time, it can be done while doing anything else without interruption, it absence is impossible as well as it’s existence…
which leads to a certain impossibility, which I guess becomes an improbability, which of course is what powers the ships that traverse the universe and lay the foundation for the non-existence of time
So the next time someone points out that you’ll amount to nothing, thank them heartily for this is nothing short of the ultimate compliment…
which brings me back to the wonderful breakfast with my charming friend, nothing, of course was still better than the pancakes and her company…
AND it was at that moment that I realized why we can’t get rid of our worthless, career politicians, it’s their VALUES!...
all this time we’ve been trying to get someone to lead this country who stood for something, who could make a difference,
who would lower taxes, reduce our dependency on oil, control pollution, war death and disease,
but no matter who we elected, the exact opposite occurred, and we could never get them OUT, because they knew something we didn’t…
They banked their values on the most powerful thing in the universe, the one thing that was able to ensure they would stay in power indefinitely…
The politicians valued NOTHING, the most powerful force in the universe, and since nothing could defeat it, nothing left it alone…
because nothing would be comfortable to be in the presence of someone who looks and acts exactly like itself, and it was therefore not perceived to be a threat…
After all, that’s exactly what they intended to do in the first place, once they experienced the consuming power of nothing, it would be their life goal to accomplish as much of it as possible.
Which of course, leads to the obvious question… how can nothing be something? which I’ll get to later on, with the help of mathematics.
While enjoying lunch with a charming colleague, or perhaps I should say breakfast, since we were after all, eating pancakes,
since there is no such thing as time other than relating one event to another, it really would be more appropriately called breakfast…
Anyway, we were discussing the absurdity of zero, a modern day label for the absence of being, and how no one seems to question the existence of nothing…
Since, if nothing exists, that is a direct contradiction of the definition of nothing, but, since nothing has an effect on everything, it must exist…
Which once again brings me back to the binary ancient rule of the universe, and as you will see, mathematicians have made some very strange assumptions about 0 and 1 …
When we’re taught basic math, we are taught addition and subtraction, if you have one apple, and I give you another you now have 2.
Likewise, if you have two apples and I take one, you have one.
But now diving into the realm of the absurd, if you have 2 apples, and you multiply them by 2, you have four, which is precisely what is expected and as it actually is…
Now let’s consider 1 which has no multiplication effect at all, whatever you multiply by 1 is unaffected, so 1 is obviously one of the weakest things in the universe…
But now, on to zero, and you will see why it is the most powerful thing in the universe, if I have 2 apples, multiply them by nothing, my apples cease to exist, as though they didn’t exist in the first place…
And that of course, proves that there is no such thing as time, because they must have been nothing or something that I imagined in the first place
Which leads us to division, if I have an apple and divide it by three, shouldn’t I have 3 pieces that are a third of the apple each?
NO, I have only one piece, the other two were erased from existence by division… so it is also a powerful force in the universe, related to zero, but not quite as powerful,
But division can never completely eradicate anything… that requires the power of nothing…
So, would the first act of applying multiplication of zero begin a chain reaction of nothing erasing everything from existence?
Once begun, would it apply its multiplying factor to everything so it could rule the universe?
Of course, that’s absurd in it’s own right since there would be no universe to rule
but then again, nothing would be comfortable in that case anyway, because it would be surrounded by things that looked and acted exactly as itself
Which, by they way, has been the motivation for conquerors and politicians around the world for centuries on end…
a desire to be surrounded by those who look and behave just like them, and to eliminate all of those who do not, so nothing has been having a substantial influence on history for some time now…
the power of nothing it is nothing short of amazing, it is better than complete happiness, harder than diamonds, faster than light…
it can avert death and taxes, which by the way is the reason it’s immortal, for even if life, the universe and everything is completely destroyed, it will still exist!
It can create an honest politician, it can eat it’s cake and have it too, it’s better than a cold beer after working hard in the yard all day on a hot summer afternoon…
it has more fans than Elvis, has a better voice than Whitney Houston, is more desirable than Angelina Jolie, and more handsome than Brad Pitt
it has a constant effect on everything that exists all the time, it can be done while doing anything else without interruption, it absence is impossible as well as it’s existence…
which leads to a certain impossibility, which I guess becomes an improbability, which of course is what powers the ships that traverse the universe and lay the foundation for the non-existence of time
So the next time someone points out that you’ll amount to nothing, thank them heartily for this is nothing short of the ultimate compliment…
which brings me back to the wonderful breakfast with my charming friend, nothing, of course was still better than the pancakes and her company…
AND it was at that moment that I realized why we can’t get rid of our worthless, career politicians, it’s their VALUES!...
all this time we’ve been trying to get someone to lead this country who stood for something, who could make a difference,
who would lower taxes, reduce our dependency on oil, control pollution, war death and disease,
but no matter who we elected, the exact opposite occurred, and we could never get them OUT, because they knew something we didn’t…
They banked their values on the most powerful thing in the universe, the one thing that was able to ensure they would stay in power indefinitely…
The politicians valued NOTHING, the most powerful force in the universe, and since nothing could defeat it, nothing left it alone…
because nothing would be comfortable to be in the presence of someone who looks and acts exactly like itself, and it was therefore not perceived to be a threat…
After all, that’s exactly what they intended to do in the first place, once they experienced the consuming power of nothing, it would be their life goal to accomplish as much of it as possible.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)