Review of News Today 7-24-15
I will start
out on a positive note and give us all some hope, apparently our new satellite
telescope has found another planet in a distant galaxy supposedly older and
capable of sustaining life. Now you may ask how this news is going to affect you.
Probably never, but it may affect your kids in their lifetime. It seems humans
could if possible devote all their energy to a project from its infancy and be
able to produce the likes of an atom bomb. But it seems like we move at a much
slower pace when it comes to saving mankind.
Why even search
for another world? Well we are killing the life processes of this one hastening
extinction of species as opposed to creating species as undoubtedly our planet
did at one time. I can name a handful of animals officially extinct in my
lifetime at the hands of man, yet even when I dig deep can find none that has been
created in our lifetime. And on top of that we are killing mankind also, wars
are being raged, terror is at everyone’s door step and now we all need a gun to
protect what we have as it is necessary because the other 7 billion of you don’t
know how to behave and get along with others.
With terror comes
fear and global doom, as the population increases and technology allows, fear
comes at a quicker response. Where were you on 9-11, is a prime example. Within minutes everyone knew what had happened.
I was working running a push Cat d-9 dozer loading pans on a construction site
south of the Conesville plant in central Ohio, virtually in the middle of nowhere
leveling a huge hilltop while working for Beaver Excavating. Within an hour and
half after the first plane hit the tower in New York City, out in the middle of
nowhere I heard about what happened when others eating lunch started spreading
rumors we were at war. And where has
that lead us to since then, more security , more loss of personal freedom ,
more of our income to support fear, while at the same time creating
environmental nightmares as we bomb oilfields, and continue searching for WMD’s in the name of security. This
is why we need another planet,
A sarcastic but
very true poster I saw on Facebook from lady y or something like that which
said the USA has went 0 days without a mass shooting, sad but true. We the
people are screwing this one up, real bad at times. Last night we had another mass shooting in Louisiana
where a gunman sat in the audience for 20 minutes before standing up and
opening fire on the audience. Now if everyone had a gun that was sitting in the
audience, would this have stopped the idiot from standing up and starting shooting?
Wouldn’t it make you a little nervous if your daughter Sarah a whole 11 years
old whips out her Glock and empties it into the fool as soon as he stood up in
a menacing way. How would you feel after she finished unloading the clip into
him being careful to centralize the bullets around the heart , the head , and a
few into his privates for the fun of it, and afterwards blowing the smoke off
the barrel of her gun and smiling that sweet Sarah smile you thought you knew
so well, wouldn’t this upset you a little or would you be proud of the fact she
eliminated the fear for everyone else in the theatre as you all can sit down and finish watching the movie before
calling 911.
Fear is what
sells guns as people are intimidated by the fact that terror is at their
doorstep. It is kind of like Donald Trump going to Laredo, Texas, and talking
about the threat of Mexican illegals coming across the border. Well they say
that Laredo, Texas has a lower crime rate than New York City where Donald Trump
is from, give us a break Donald. So what has shown us? But what fear can do. At
first it makes you think Laredo must be a bad ass place to be. Laredo isn’t the
problem, our image of fear is, because we believe everything we are told and
this is why we need another world. We are in fear of screwing this one up so
bad that we need another to make it right from the beginning. A place where we
what have no guns, no religion , no wars, no profit, where peace and prosperity
follows all and we all get along with each other , and we have respect for
nature. I am an idealistic person and believe that would be the perfect model,
but in reality would be dependent on man to populate and start anew.
But wait, if this
civilization is older, could it not be more evolved than us. What if a species
had developed itself as much as we have or even more, and had known about earth
years ago and had even visited our blue marble and decided that although it is pretty,
it has a species that could virtually kill their planet as they know it and had
so far avoided detection till now? Fear had never been part of their daily regimen,
but now it has to be, as it seems the people of the planet Earth have tired of
killing their own and now has set their sight on their world. It may take us
100 years to develop the technology, but assuredly we are going to go, it is in
our nature to wonder, we have to. And it
will take a lot less time if something tragic happens here on our planet, then
we will soon be heading there as soon as we can develop the technology to do it,
whether they want us to or not.
Now then who is
going to determine what the rules are concerning the new planet, we as humans? We
aren’t capable, look at us we cannot go a day without violence and how do you
expect everyone to be in agreement to say we have a chance for a do-over there. Personally I think we should send everyone
with over 20000 dollars to their name to the new planet and maybe this one won’t
be so bad. But sadly as soon as you send those Wall Street brokers to a distant
planet, others would climb up from the bowels of humanity to take their place. How
about if we eliminated greed? Anyone who
is suspected of greed for things more than money is the first to go. Now that
could be greedy for intelligence, wanting to be the smartest person ever. Or say
for instance greedy for stuff. You know everyone has it stuff in the closet things
you don’t use but keep forever, constantly spending effort to make sure your
stuff is the best and you have a lot of it. Well that is greed and you need to
go. Oh yeah, don’t forget your stuff.
Maybe you like
guns and maybe you need an arsenal although you can only fire one at a time you
still want to have all the guns in the world and then you won’t live in fear
anymore, you definitely need to go and take the guns with you. That is greed. Of
course wanting money and never having to worry because you have so much that
even if someone tried to take it away you would still have enough. You would
never have to worry. Of course that is the greed we are most familiar with, where
you can buy freedom, guns, security, and surround yourself with others that
think because of their association with you, they too are never going to be in
fear, an umbrella of safety to cover all your associates and shield them from
fear helping to protect you in the process. Of course these are the people who
are going to profit from such an adventure as starting life on a distant
planet. Maybe they deserve to go first; after all they are paying for it.
Well nothing is
going to happen overnight and if there is intelligent world out there,
hopefully the new planet is a cardboard cutout the real intelligent
civilization left there to purposely avoid our gaze of their real world. And since we will expend all our energy
getting there to view the fake world, it will be that much longer before they
are ever detected. I hope so for their sake. It is just that I am disappointed
in man. We as humans can do amazing things, and at the same time do some of the
most unimaginable things ever thought of. Build bombs to kill millions, allow starvation,
and war to profit someone’s pocket, but at times can barely get along. I think
we need to clean up our own house and act civilized before we go visiting
someone else. If nothing else for fear they may be worse and looking for a
world like ours to call home. At least if we have conquered our fears and learn
to get along with what we have and everyone is happy, and the environment is at
equilibrium with all species and is healthy. Then maybe we don’t really don’t need
anyone else or another planet. I know dream on.
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