Glacialality

Glacialality, originally uploaded by Jason A. Samfield.

An abstract fractaline photo-digital art that I created for fun.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Vortices of Perspective Totality: Absurdity, Nihilism and Hope

I just read a quite interesting short article discussing recent psychological studies conducted with the conclusions that most normal people view things in life such as people, events, and even themselves in a rosier light than individuals exhibiting abnormal psychology such as depressed, obsessive-compulsive, and other similar types of disorders.

Here is the original article:

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-total-perspective-vortex

I find this very interesting and quite sobering if you consider the topics of absurdity, nihilism, and other deep existential concepts.

What is a life? What is certainty? What is something? What is nothingness? What gets you through the day and through your life on a daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, or annual basis? Do you have more despair or more hope at any one moment in time? Do you think that your perceptions are distorted in such a way that presupposes a rosey picture in front of your mind to avoid the nagging absurdity of this life and existence? Is it possible that you create and manifest angels and saviors to prevent your intuition from completely giving up in the face of meaninglessness much like that of Sisyphus from The Myth of Sisyphus and originally greek mythology? Do you project hope upon yourself and onto others for your mutual survival as an evolutionary tool even though your mind is strong enough to understand the nothingness and absolution of reality?

All I have today are questions. I have recently read many answers, but I have none to postulate today towards a potential reader, even if that includes my future self! I am however full of questions and hypothetical thought experiments that should suffice in the absence of answers. Good luck with the philosoophic dialogue!

Antarctica Time lapse: A Year on Ice

This is quite a stunning visual journey of Antarctica through amazing time-lapse imagery.

It's breathtaking to see the natural wax and wan of the seasonal cycles from a cosmic perspective that we do not ordinarily witness in such great contrast because as humans we are bound to our mammalian timeframes, but by placing the scope of a year's time under a microscope and shrinking it into 5 minutes the details emerge and surface in our imagination.

HOME (English with subtitles)

You owe this 1 hour 33 minutes of your time to the planet Earth. Watch it and learn about your place in the cosmos and how your individual decisions are so important and impact the Earth so profoundly.

Liquid Metal

Slowly we are beginning to control every facet of the universe.

World War 3

The Definition Of World War

The definition of war is not disputed much until non-traditional wars became prevalent in the news such as recent culture clashes combined with the infamous guerilla tactics, terrible terrorism or within sub-state organized crime syndication against civilized societies. However, what constitues "World War" could be disputed on a philosophical and terminological level. Is it war that reaches around the globe? Is it war that includes all major nations be involved on some level? At what point of conflict does a battle become a "world battle" such as war amongst the world?

The specific word that is very vague or grey in the usage is the "world" in World War. Why was Napoleon's conquests or other such expansions of power using brute military force and strategy such as Genghis Khan's empire considered to be "world" events worthy of a title of World War? Is it the technological advances in warfar? Is it the speed at which information is disseminated to the masses through the news wires? Was it the sheer world impact of the first World War had upon the global status quo or was it the fact that a globalized world finally existed at the time that the first battle began during this so-called Great War, the War To End All Wars? Or is it just a mere creation of the concept of what a World War is that caused the term to come forth into our nomenclature of conflicts?

I do not know the preclusions of the etymology of the usage of "World War," but I do know that the future global conflicts may evolve into a new type of conflict encompassing our previous meaning of World War much like the Cold War and the aftermath of the Cold War did in bringing ideological warfar and culture clashes to the forefront. So, will World War 3 even be called World War 3? Doubtful, but if such a succession of events were ever to arrive at nearly the same micro-timeframe synchronization in human events that would push us to label it as a World War, then it would be labeled as such and be very deadly as such. World War 3 will involve terrorism, guerilla, biological, and chemical warfare and will most certainly involve a nuclear blast. World War 4 or 5 would be much more likely to be fought against or with artificially intelligent machines capable of near psuedo-sentient behavior, but World War 3 will definitely happen much too soon for AI to play a major role in the warfare. Nonetheless, WW3 will be devastating, real, and severe if it were to happen. The question lies not when or if World War 3 will happen, but whether or not humankind has overcome the inevitability of human tribal nature through the use of organized conflicts for power. Are we at a point where the laws of MAD will always force us into a Cold War, or will we actually press the fire button this time and thusly eliminate the mind, body, and soul of another person armed with the ability to also press that button?

The Premoniton Of The Premises For World War 3

This is a premonition and a possible prediction, but I hope that it does not come true. This is merely a way of expressing my thoughts and opinions on current political conflicts from around the world. In my opinion, all of these conflicts are at their near breaking points for becoming full blown military engagements that will destaballize the world even more.

Most of these conflicts are already in flux and have reached certain boiling points. Others are reaching these boiling points day by day. Many of them are under the radar of western news other than a quick story here or there, but these conflicts have been brewing for many years.

Alliances

Allied Western Powers:

EU, USA, Japan, South Korea, Israel, India, Australasia (AU and NZ), Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Canada

Allied Anti-Western Powers:

North Korea, Iran, Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pakistan's new regime when the current one falls apart, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, possibly China, Vietnam, and Mexico

Conflicts of Interest

Conflict #1:

North Korea, Russia, China vs. South Korea, Japan, USA (Nuclear)

North Korea lauches attack on South Korea, Japan, and possibly HI, or AK, or CA. The USA responds vigorously and Japan/SK move their military into positions for a full blown offensive. China remains stagnant on the issue, but is arming its border with North Korea ready to either fight on NK or the allies sides. With internal pressure within the CCP to resist the west, China could go against the grain and take sides with North Korea as an ally in a passive aggressive move against the west and mostly the USA in an attempt to grab more power away from the USA, this time mostly politically instead of economically.

Conflict #2:

Iran vs. Israel (Nuclear)

Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Syria (Terrorism)

Lebanon vs. Hezbollah (Regime Collapse, Terrorism)

Iran takes the opportunity to attack Israel to further it's power increase amongst Arab states and to take advantage of the nuclear chaos in the Pacific to make it's nuclear move. Israel responds with a nuclear retaliation. The Arab states surrounding Israel such as Syria and possibly Egypt coupled with Hezbollah and Al Qaeda make moves on Jerusalem, West Bank and other Israel settlements. A war between Israel and Arab allies against Arab enemies rages on in terrible bloodshed across the central areas of the Middle East region. Lebanon falls to Hezbollah terrorists and because of the USA's stretched military forces, the Iraqi border with Syria and Saudi Arabia become less stabilized and terrorist forces migrate towards the conflicts in Israel.

Conflict #3:

Pakistan, Afghanistan, USA vs. Taliban, Al Qaeda (Regime Collapse, Terrorism)

Pakistan vs. India (Nuclear)

Afghanistan, USA vs. Al Qaeda, Taliban (Regime Collapse, Terrorism)

Pakistan falls victim to the Taliban and the Taliban uses the nuclear chaos on two hemispheres to decide to launch a nuke at Pakistan's longtime nuclear neighbor India who makes a nuclear retaliation. Various terrorism occurs within India's borders and a nuclear arsenal has fallen into the hands of terrorists that are outspoken friends with Al Qaeda looking to assist them in an effort to attack other western interests in a future clandestine act of terrorism. Many nuclear weapons disappear among the chaos.

Conflict #4:

Honduras vs. Venezuela (Regime Collapse)

Honduras, USA, EU vs. Venezuela, Cuba, Russia (Cold War)

Venezuela makes a military action into Honduras looking to steal more power away from the USA from the historically strong alliance between Honduras and the US. Other nearby Central American powers are now weaker because of this bold move by Venezuela. Cuba quickly asserts its decidedly vocal alliance with Venezuela. Cuba also simultaneously asserts its position against the US as a sole western communist power. In concordance with its sudden vocal polarization against the US, Russia sees an opportunity to rekindle its Cuban amigos.

Conflict #5:

Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, China vs. USA, Poland, EU (Cold War)

Russia makes blatant chess moves against western interests attempting to bring more Kremlin control into Moldova, Cuba, Kazakhstan and Georgia. Russia asserts its continuation of communism advocacy and allies with Iran, North Korea and even Venezuela as strong oil powers with a superpower backing. Russia's recent economic rise has led itself to form a stronger force than during the Cold War. This time, Russia is for real, not quite as much as a show that it was during CCCP days. In its realization of a great opportunity with China and China's realization of a great opportunity to make waves in the world and emerge as the strongest of the strong, China and Russia become allies and China makes its decision against the western powers in North Korea for multiple reasons including angst against the Japanese from the second World War surfacing amidst the tensions.

Conflict #6:

Mexico, Drug Cartel vs. USA, Mexico (Drug War, Terrorism, Regime Collapse)

Amidst all of the world chaos, the gangs and violence within Mexico destabillizes the internal mechanisms of the corrupt government. The drug cartel takes a strong voice in border politics influencing even upper echelons of politics by forcing the Mexican president to declare the US as an enemy of the state because of it being a vast supplier of the arms that are causing bloodshed within its borders. Mexico decides to care less and less about border security and let's whoever cross whenever they like to cross. The USA tries to police its borders, but because of numerous political and government failures to keep the border safe, the military is called in to back up the border patrol. With a building military presence, the drug cartels feels pressured by the US and decides react with more violence & bold tactics instigating a war of terrorism and street-gang-guerrilla warfare against the US by striking everyone from civilians to law enforcement and the US military.

Conflict #1 and Conflict #2 independently occuring could easily trigger any of the other conflicts including whichever of #1 and #2 that does not occur first. Conflict #3 would grease the wheels of the machine of World War and would easily act as a great catalyst for #1 and or #2, but in itself would not necessarily lead to the World conflict. The only other conflict of interest that is sufficiently high-profile enough to set forth events and place chess pieces on the chessboard in a checkmate position would be Conflict #5 which might turn for the worse or smolder and simmer for a long time in a second Cold War. All of the other conflicts are containable and slightly preventable through many different means such as diplomacy, secret operations, and wielding of global power from the UN, USA, or a meeting of the G(x) minds to bring about a resolution averting a serious engagement. So, in summary, #1, #2, and #5 are the most significant and volatile situations that are not just flammable, but moreso explosive for forming the foundation of a World War to put into the great book of history of the first Holocene epoch.

Again

I remember the days,
Actually mostly the nights,
And the mornings,
Of dawn's early precipice light,
Tinged with the illegal,
Trespassing away from my youth.

The dark and mysterious nights,
Leading me astray,
It was all so alluring,
I could not resist.

It was as if not the beautiful,
But the beautiful being disgraced by the ugly,
That was intoxicatingly so,
That I could not turn away.

The manufactured 3,4-MethyleneDioxyMethAmphetamine,
Coupled with a glittering dust of heroic diacetylmorphine,
That laced the crystalline,
So-called hydrogen H-bomb,
The female heroine heroin of chemical salvation.

The virgin tongue tainting the ferrous blood,
With man-made plasticity,
What somnolence was fast approaching,
And oh how the anxiety was annulled by the anxiolytic affect,
Pushing the emotive euphoria forcefully into my world,
And into my stable mentality, my mental stability, that I call my mind.

The consciousness became fuzzy,
The conscience evilly cooperative,
As the yellow-orange sodium-vapor lights grew eerily distant.
And the constant darkness of the night,
Was met with the loud thunder,
Of the futuristic drums,
Beating the tribal human nature,
Back into my heart.

I felt my blood muscle react,
The pace became fast,
As I pondered,
How evolved humans have become,
Since the Ethiopian origins disappeared,
Across the volcanic sons of Hadean,
The original seven pieces of ancient Pangaea.

I am but one simply small,
And ubiquitous grain of sand,
In this ever falling hourglass,
Yet I feel more than just special,
I feel chosen.

I feel chosen to be enlightened,
The occult has selected me,
The Gnostics have summoned me,
The mystics have prophesized my coming.

I am entwined with this exact moment of history,
Where I simultaneously exist as mortal and divine.

I breathed the cool air from her lips,
The pleasantly poetic symmetry,
Of a mysterious girl's modal mouth,
And her feminine molecular formation,
That has the essence and aura of gold,
The aura of an aurora that glimmers and glows,
The borealis of a clear crisp cold northern night and light,
In colors that confuse and mystify,
The minds of all men that walketh so.

Why is the female the ultimate beauty perfected,
The pluperfect form, idyllic companion delight,
Why is it she that makes all your troubles disappear,
And life appear dividedly divinely so,
For all those who encompass her freewill and spirit know.

And whilst I bear the thoughts,
Of mankind all in one breath,
Towards the heavens I begin my ascension,
Yet I know I am but mere mortal.

As I witness my own sense of being and status quo,
A huge heavenly deluge of insight is given to me,
One that foretells all and eternally escapes time's persistent forward march,
Binding it all together into a single simple shape yet complex,
An elegant embodiment that has but one solitary side,
While collapsing compactly all into itself,
All of the motions, both past, present, and future,
Adorning the contours of this visually stunning illustrious semblance,
All encompassing the physical realm, a true cosmic metamorphosis,
Everything and all.

It is the cosmic spiral of undulations,
That weave existence from void,
Into an apparent cyclical fashion,
While eluding even the brightest being,
Of its true singularity form.

As time reveals herself to me,
The melodic crystals of sinusoidal synthesization,
Emanating deep from within the magnetic silicone,
Penetrate through my cochlea and into the cortex of the aural,
The pure sounds caressed my mind,
Chemical synaptic response, synapse by synapse,
Neurotic neural node, neuron by neuron.

My machinery, so very sophisticated and hyper-advanced,
Had met its evolutionary equal,
In the midst of a mist, an atmospheric trance,
The brown sugar ingredient in my freshly baked good,
Imperialized the collection of networks that constitute me,
And developed an impenetrable logical argument,
The evolutionary revelation within my mental revolution,
The revolution of mine, the mind, my mind,
Our mental revolution,
All 100 billion of us.

A single interference of a pristine molecule,
Never before seen, tasted, nor felt by my being,
Through direct chemoreception it was received,
Disinclined to the spiritual realm,
Synthetically known to this mother, Mother Gaea,
Challenging the Earth, challenging the universe,
Challenging hell and heaven alike,
A molecule that challenged the mind, body, and soul.
Chemistry had somehow given me a challenge,
A gift of the Gods maybe, a gift of science more likely,
And it showed me for a split second the true colors of the universe.

The colors by which you cannot see,
The sounds by which you cannot hear,
The somatosensory by which you cannot feel,
The introspect by which you cannot think,
The divine by which you cannot be.

I was swept off my foundations of rationale,
By feelings that went far beyond the edge,
If you can call it an edge,
My wildest dreams,
My extreme passions,
My empathetic apathy.

I saw them,
The oneiric prisms,
Of pure joy and content,
That were multidimensionally redefining my realm,
And how I view the simple word of bliss.

Ancient-modern,
Epiphanic enlightenment, kinetic knowledge,
Harmonious harmonic harmony,
Future-past in the present.

A strong calm dwindled,
Into my stream of consciousness it flowed,
Slowly, but surely decrescendoing into light, airy, faint comfort,
A calmly flowing pleasant feeling of pure comfortable contentment.

To this day,
I wish to return,
But regrettably regrettable,
I will never knowingly choose,
To walk so close to that dangerous edge,
The edge of the valley of the shadow of death,
Never again until that one day of judgment,
Is the day that is truly upon me by the divine G*d's will,
Or for some strange reason by the grace of mystique,
That I will find myself on that edge by the free will,
Of my own synergistic convergence upon a single thought,
That could propel my continuance of biologic senescence away,
Far, far away from this spaceship Earth,
This pale blue dot,
Circling around this one subatomic system of the solar.

I am in love,
Unrequited love,
Requited love that requires repartition,
Retrograde retribution to my noble mind,
All that I do not wish to endure to bring this love,
This romance of the chemical back to a spark.

I am full of sadness from desire,
I have seen and it has showed,
To me, myself, and I, the many more emotions and spectral spectrums of nuances galore,
That do definitely existentially exist in the knowledge of women, children, and men.

It has placed me into a state of listlessness,
Complacent with the emotions of angels,
The angelic annhilation of my stability,
Complete with a side of torpor, acedia, melancholy and ennui.

I feel the deadliest of the deadly seven steeping my kettle of sin,
For I cannot resist it and I am but one submissive soul,
To this deceleration as if I was a fly in molasses.

Yet, while I have abandoned my morals,
And dipped my foot into the lake of fire,
Nearest the farthest circle of hell,
From which the gate I entered where I chose to abandon all hope,
I do feel a strange sense of helpless hope.

I feel an embrace,
A sour embrace,
Slowly telling me the truth,
The truth of my sole soul,
The truth of the world's soul,
And the soul of truth.

THERE is no religion higher than truth.
There IS no religion higher than truth.
There is NO religion higher than truth.
There is no RELIGION higher than truth.
There is no religion HIGHER than truth.
There is no religion higher THAN truth.
There is no religion higher than TRUTH.

As each song lightens the opulent sky,
With the red fiery hues,
Of the seventh-hundred nanometric range of heavenly zeal,
I open my eyes as pinpoint pupils,
Letting light into the shoebox of my head.

I see the clouds billowing upwards,
As the solar radiation melts the vapor into invisibility.

I meet the day with a song rhythmically filled,
A bounty of basslines galore,
Solidifying the breathing atmospheres,
Of sonic accompaniment to my delusional state.

I was delirious,
But now I am complacently content,
At peace with myself, others, and all.

The day goes on,
And a cool summer breeze hits my skin,
As I truly fall into the twilight of midday's sleep.

In and out,
Luxurious lackadaisical relaxation,
Amongst my home where I feel no pain,
And discover the breeze entering nearby though it is barely spring.

My synaesthetic revolutions,
That mimic the movements of the sun and the stars,
Geocentric, yet heliocentric,
All within my head,
Meet in contradiction over the smell of a tropical wind,
The wind pushing against my spring sweat,
As the recent vernal equinox has barely just passed,
Yet a cool summer breeze hits my body and teases me so.

Astronomically abstaining from the contradiction,
I spell the inner words for which write my future.

Still, I feel a passion for the chemical sapience,
That my blood vessels soaked up like a dry sponge,
And I yearn for that day,
The day when I can walk again,
Into the Gnostic light emanating and illuminating,
Not from somewhere nor from within, but throughout.

I will walk upon such a true and valiant bridge of light full of fervor,
One day again,
Truly one day again,
One day again,
one day,
one...

ONE DAY!

And on that one glorious day,
Time will stop, truth will ascend,
And I will lay at my creator's feet as a humble soul,
Watching the mortal die as I stand upon this bridge beyond time,
That stretches from Earth to the heavens,
Upon which no storm, no evil, no malice can affect,
Stronger than the force of anything imaginable.

I will not need to ask what lies below the bridge,
Nor what hinges are above that hold and suspend the bridge steadily so,
And I will surely not ask nor need to ask whether I am truly just standing,
On a regular spherical firmament amongst the heavens,
An orb amongst the stars,
In a fathomless void of infinite multitude,
A sea of deep black darkness with twinkling pointillism of shimmering distant brilliance,
In a form and shape of indescribable proportions.

Why, you might ask?

Because for I will know it throughout,
Throughout my eternal mind, immortal body, and effervescent soul,
Not from within, nor from somewhere, but absolutely, positively, throughout.

Stability will be a mere word,
That will have no meaning to my reborn self.

I will know that the bridge is secure,
The warmth not surreal,
And the contentment completely legitimate,
Because it will be a divine love,
That will permeate through my new blood,
And it will exist with me forever and always,
As I will have returned to the source,
The final destination,
The last stop,
Fully enlightened.

I will abandon optimism,
Unnecessary it will be to possess,
And I will preclude other human weaknesses,
I will not need hope,
I will discard desire,
I will exclude the emotions that I know so well,
Adoration and anger,
Despair and aspiration,
And I will trade them all,
For the full spectral reflections of the purest,
And simultaneously most heterogeneous forms that I know,
As a being only partially enlightened at present,
But a being that has seen a glimpse,
Of what can, what will, and what should be,
And that I surely hope and expect to find at the very, very, very end,
If there is really such a thing.

I hope that the warmth will welcome me,
As I saw that one day that I traded stable security for risk,
That I tread so close to the edge of the deep abyss,
As I tiptoed on the crest of the canyon,
And danced with the Devil against the LORD's will,
But whether the sinful nature of the dance was sanctioned by the righteousness of G*d,
The divine force, the Holy Spirit, Yeshua, Allah, Yahweh,
It is sanctioned by me because it gave me a glimpse of heaven,
A piece of the pie in the sky,
My own personal cloud for me to rest my gentle soul,
My feeble mind and my growing spirit.

I do believe that if it was not truly endorsed by the divine,
That there was an alternative path of endorsement,
By the sheer fact that I was given a shimmering and glittering glimpse,
And I saw what an eternity of bliss looks like,
It has renewed my faith and my religion,
It has shown to me that there is a light at the end of the tunnel,
That the heavenly river in the sky is not just an arbitrary anomaly,
That we are truly indeed a reflection of our creator,
And that we exist in a world that is bound by time,
But that is cradled by pillars of eternal joy,
And structurally designed far beyond our human capacity.

I think, therefore I remember,
And I remember all of this insight and introspect,
From when the 6-monoacetylmorphine flowed in my fluid,
And bound itself repeatedly to μ-opioid receptors throughout my mortal flesh,
And especially when the methylene touched the dioxymethamphetamine,
During those fleeting moments when time stood still,
However sincere or insincere the feelings felt,
The chemicals artificially produced,
Manufactured bliss,
But when that day cometh and I will stand on that bridge,
I will know that this time it will be sincere,
Beyond the tears felt when realizing that the son of G*d has risen,
The interface between divine and mortal bridged,
Where the sinless can touch the sinful,
And divine plucks a ripe fruit from the vine,
Which bears the gift for the living,
Which giveth the blood of Christ, our savior,
That we shall all once again arise and ascend into heaven.

Land of the Free

Being American means to live, breathe, and exalt freedom to the extent of the founding fathers' life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our government should

Our government should exist to protect us from instability and anarchy. It should wage war when it is just to do so, and it should be malleable to the point that whenever it becomes destructive to the means of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it can be abandoned and reconstructed anew just as stated in the declaration of independence.

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
I would put my life on the line to preserve it and plan to do so for the rest of my life. I plan to travel the world and change it for the better. I plan to spread the knowledge and exaltation of freedom to those who don't have it. I will stand for the United States of America for now and forever. I will not hesitate in any instance for the freedom that we have achieved in our nation or for the world. Our nation is just the beginning, our freedom is just the beginning. We have the entire world to free and it is our duty and honor to be the nation to spread the freedom since we have become the sole superpower.

Democracy is not the final form of government. It is merely an evolved form of the state of nature just like all of the other forms of government. The importance of democracy as a medium for government is more important than democracy as the government itself. Essentially, democracy is a tool that is put into practice in varying forms. The government of the USA is actually a republic much like the Roman republic of its day. A true democracy is the tyranny of the majority over the minority. It is a dictatorship of the majority. That is why true democracy does not work well and is why we do not use it in the USA. The importance of a government matters to the people, to ethics in general, and to the morals of everyone acting upon, within, or about the people to be governed. That is why our form of government should be constantly refined into a precise machine to fit the ethics and times of our society. I wrote an abstract essay about the abstract form of the republic called "The Elegant Republic" on my blog "The Syncretic Divine". In it the abstract, I wrote about how our republic is a just form of government, but is lacking in certain respects. In the near future and far future, we will need to reconstruct our government into a new beast and our society should look to all aspects of all forms of government for ideas on how to create the perfect government. A perfect government may not exist, but a near-perfect government can be achieved if it is designed well. I think the Utopian society will look to all forms of government including socialism for efforts in achieving this most perfect society that can solve all problems it encounters. Communism with the proper checks and balances would achieve success. The problem with communism is that certain people in government become the ruling authorities. If the proper checks and balances were to occur in republican methodology while wielding the effective communistic and socialistic values in a society, I think it could work to a certain extent. However, for true success, a hybrid of sorts would wield the best balance between all forms of government as directed by scholars, practitioners (of government), and the people in a way that would achieve economic, social, and peaceful stability. Currently our republic is doing quite well for its design. I would put the lifespan on our republic at another good 100 years at least before we even consider to disband the republic for a more improved system of government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States

America should never ignore anything. It should look in all directions and try to anticipate all problems and devise solutions to correct the problems. We are entering the global era where globalization is beginning rapid acceleration. America needs to bear witness to this globalization and act upon it by becoming a global member. It needs to root itself into the fabric of the global community so it can compete at all levels of globalization. This is something that our country's inflation, labor unions, and the combined outsourcing of jobs and subsequent lack of retraining for the manufacturing community has contributed to the national economic plateau. If we had anticipated the manufacturing outsourcing and fought the labor unions with proper legislation limiting their powers, we could have solved the problem and prevented the economic plateau. We should have provided abundant training for people losing their job. We should have devised plans to create jobs to replace the ones lost. We are at the mercy of the global capitalistic forces (survival of the fittest) and we became less fit because others in the world became more fit. We aren't lost and the economy isn't in a downturn. We are still rich and powerful and the possibilities are endless on what our country, economy, and people can do to change our plateau into a steep climb again.

The US originated from people in the "old world" looking for a new start. They colonized our country escaping the despotism in Europe. They came looking for opportunity. Unrest grew between England and the colonized land in present day America and we declared our independence from England in a bloody war. We fought the Spanish in a bloody war for our southern border. We let the french and English fight the northern border war for us. We gathered as much land as possible and with our grand foundations and policies in place we proceeded forward. Westward expansion occurred because of the need for more land and through government promotion to expand westward. Many people believed in "manifest destiny" and in many respects I think they were somewhat right in obtaining the land, however, I believe many of the human tragedies of the native Americans are overlooked as just. We stole their land and there isn't any other way to look at it. Generations upon generations of Indians lived in the USA before we took their land from them. Some of it was out of squatting on the land, some of it was taken in bloody war. War was inevitable since the driving westward expansion was unrelenting. After expanding our land conquests, we settled down into the 50 states that we know today. We had set up foreign policy such as the Monroe Doctrine establishing a discrete relationship with any European powers and began to expand our nation economically. Alexander Hamilton does not get much credit for being the guy who essentially laid the concrete for our nation's industrialization. He foresaw so many things accurately that one might be inclined to think that he had traveled to the future. He federalized our economy and brought it to the modern era. Our military was formed into the modern military later on during the world wars, but had been created and used since the very beginning. The civil war was a result of unethical treatment of humans and strong economic progress. Essentially the south was under economic attack by way of claims of unethical treatment of human beings. The north realized the ethics behind the southern economy and began to disband it since the north and south were part of the same nation. It tried to do so legally while many people were doing it illegally. Eventually, the southern states decided that they did not like being criticized for the ethics of their people on economics the north had benefited from, so they seceded and thus began the war. The battle was pretty evenly matched for the most part, but the north had G*d, ethical righteousness, and a strong organized military with more money which gave way to the outcome of the war. After the second world war, the USA gained an upper hand since it had not been bombed and had not been war-torn like Europe or other countries. With the new found elation from winning the war for a just cause and the economic powerhouse of a warring nation, we established our presence upon the world as a superpower. The only other nation also to do so was the USSR (CCCP in Russian). They had not suffered nearly as bad as Europe and had a larger amount of land (resources) and a numerous amount of people that were under the iron fist of communism wielded by dictators. Because the people were controlled in such manner, the government was able to bring about a curtain and shadow itself as a strong nation while only focusing on the military and giving a facade of strength. Instead of lasting, it collapsed under the improperly wielded form of communism. Greed is too powerful and needs to be checked and balanced. That is why republican forms of government work, but non-republican forms of government fail to last beyond the dictator's legacy.

Freedom has enabled our progress and success. I don't understand why you would ask whether the US has made progress in spite of the freedom. It made the progress because of the freedom. The US can offer as much freedom as possible and still be the USA. Freedom is our foundation. Without freedom, we would not be the USA. The more the merrier. There is a limit in certain applicable areas on exactly how much freedom is usable, but the foundations gave good guidelines on the future of freedom. Times change, and freedom can change with it. What would be better than trying to restrict freedom, would be to educate everyone better about their freedoms and why they have those freedoms.

If I could change the USA, I would get rid of our debt and start a national savings. We need to change our economy and educate our citizens on how our country can achieve this. Letting the markets decide is not a perfect solution. Letting the markets decide is only part of the solution. Letting the markets decide is similar to natural selection in nature. We must make a push upon the people about realistic ideas that are thoroughly researched that will enable us to achieve an economic stronghold. We must be able to look past our own selfishness as individuals and as groups of similarly idealized people and zest for an economy based upon reason and strategy that is appropriate to meet the desires of our people as a whole and individually. It is a very, very, very difficult task at hand. Only if it is solved on a major scale and understood to be a correct solution to the masses of people will it become a policy of our national government and actually get solved. Until then, health care, social security, and everything related to economics (which is everything) will have used Alexander Hamilton's name in vain. I think we should get a national program called "living within your means" to help people actually live within their means and limit their spending and debt. I have forsaken my own policy because I fell victim to not being educated on the matter fully enough. It was too easy obtainable and was not mentioned to me much before I became indebted to my own desires to live outside of my means. The solution to debt is a troubled one, but starts with acting. I am slowly resolving the issues and moving forward as the country should do also.

I would put forth plans to align the USA to compete in the new global environment at the highest level and I would strategically align us with the unified global government that is going to eventually take shape. The United Nations is just merely version 1.0. We all live on this planet and we all must work together. There is no such thing as race. Race is only a social definition and is blurry at best. The nation-state is dying in this new worldwide region. Land is closer to everyone and more connections are being made. Economic trade knows no boundaries. The development will continue and our world will begin to evolve into one world instead of many nation states on multiple continents.

For example, I would solve the immigration issue by getting everyone illegally here in the USA to come forward and become accountable on a realistic plan to citizenship. They need to pay taxes. They need to be sheltered from neighborhoods they have gone to live in because they fear the police and government since they are illegal. They need to be taught the language and be properly educated. If they cannot make the grade, they will be deported. These people can be a better asset than they are by making them legal and finding out how many people are actually here. We can better account for their presence and actually charge them for being here. If they remain illegal, they don't pay taxes. Unless we actively go out and deport everyone that is illegal, then we are just contributing to the problem and not acting upon a solution. Deportation needs to be in strong enforcement. We need to control the new immigration and prevent any future illegal immigration. We should increase our immigration quotas to meet some of the demand. We need to invest in stimulating growth in Mexico, so that immigration is not a first option for most people living in other countries. There isn't a massive immigration from Canada to the USA for a reason. It is NOT race. It is the economic policies and industrialization that Canada has done to make it's country industrialized. Corruption and dictatorships have waged a battle upon the people south of us and have caused a distress that has enabled a massive immigration. Our grand success has also given allure to opportunity just like it was alluring for Europeans to make the trip to here. If we can help bring Mexico to our world, Mexican citizens won't be fleeing in large numbers to the north.

That is just one more detailed viewpoint I have on how to solve the many problems facing our country.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else besides the USA as a permanent residence. I would like to visit almost the entire world and I would like to live in a few areas for a limited amount of time such as France, China, the Caribbean, and maybe Dubai, but I would not want to live there permanently.

Dictatorship is not a good form of government. If a dictator is a decent leader and does not pick a good successor, then his nation will decline and his people will suffer. Also, if a decent leader is in power in a dictatorship, he or she is at risk of being vetted against by someone wishing to have the power. A dictatorship does however breed strong leadership. Aspects of a dictatorship are applied to the executive branch of a republic because of this need for leadership in a nation. If we truly went to a democracy, we would be at the mercy of the popular opinion which can easily be swayed. If we only went to the values of a republic democracy, we would be at the mercy of congress and no decisions would ever get made in a timely manner. Thus, the executive branch exists to steady the nation in mainly short-term decisions compared to long-term decisions held for the judicial and legislative branch. It eases the decision making process and makes it more decisive.

Communism is an extension of utilitarianism thought into government. At its purist form, it is ideal only if the human consequences do not outweigh the benefits. Because humans are so dynamic and are held just above animals, but just below G*d and angels, we are considered to be sentient and unable to actively suffer indoctrinated communism, so we must elaborate upon pure communistic ideals to bring about any success with it. Since the only forms of communism have been executed in poorly managed forms of government that used tyranny to wield the power rather than setting up a republican form of communism, nothing has ever become of it. China is only successful because of its strong economic might. The communism will fall when India takes China's back burner on manufacturing the world's products in the next 10 to 20 years. China has proven that communism is at least minimally successful within certain restraints. The only problem is that freedom was withheld from the foundations of the government and therefore has suffered so.

Pure democracy does not work. The majority of the people will always win and the minority will be ruled by the majority unjustly. Representation of the minority must exist to justify democratic principles on a diverse and vast group of people such as a nation in the form of republicanism.

Socialism is communism with less economic communism and more social responsibility for the government to bear. I think it could be successful if managed correctly and is more what China is because China wields capitalism very strongly as their economic policy while underlining social policies in a communal form. It fails when the social responsibility is a greater burden than the government can handle. Because the problems to social responsibility involve everyone in society from economics to the military, socialism is not a broad enough form of government to handle its own claims of strength nor handle any other forms of problems that would plight a nation-state.

Anarchy is where we came from and existed in the "state of nature" as quoted and understood very thoroughly by Thomas Hobbes, one of my most favorite philosophers and political scientists. It only worked for humans as animals and does not apply to humans as people with unalienable rights. Nothing can be provided in the way of security or stability that is necessary for large society, especially when other societies with greater abilities begin to evolve around them and exist. Survival of the fittest and so anarchy is killed off by communal contracts, then dictatorships, then oligarchies, then democracies, then republics. However, anarchy is exactly where humans are taken if the moral and ethical spirit of humans are taken away. Humans become animals when we lose civilization. We were animals and still are under our fleshy skin. We only exist above animals because of the creation of civilization and the desire for stability beyond anarchy.

From the Cynical to the Optimistic

Perceived End-of-Oil

I have a very cynical outlook on the future concerning "peak oil". I believe that it has already begun to affect us. I think that essentially any society or any person who relies on oil, which is everyone except for the country of Brazil, will be in deep demise because of the rising price of oil. However, that concept is nothing new, but what I don't think anyone has considered is the "perceived end-of-oil" by the markets. The price for crude oil per barrel is already predicted at over $150 per barrel in a little under just one year! To think that onlyl a mere year ago it was half that price! So, if gasoline is directly related to the price of crude oil, it will have doubled in price by next year. Doubling in two years time is a sharp increase for any economy. If the future prediction is correct, and that prediction is by market analysts not doomsday predictors or someone selling a book, then we are in for a ride of a lifetime!


The Domino Effect

Inflation among many other dire events will contribute to an economic crash of any oil economy. The United States of America will have trouble for sure and then the rest of the world will follow since all of our economies are interlinked in this new world of globalization and the global economy. If any of this sounds familiar, then it is because it is already happening as you read this. It will be like dominos beginning to fall and everyone will feel it whether they use oil or not.


Bioethanol Riots

I doubt the issues concerning bioethanol production and people rioting because of food prices rising will end up happening as a few have mentioned. It sounds viable at this moment since the recent rise in food prices worldwide, but I don't think that we are going to have a problem with any riots towards the use of food for bioethanol in the mid-term. First of all, food prices are rising because of transportation costs because of oil prices and also because of many droughts possibly caused by climate change. They are not directly rising because of bioethanol production and that thinking is counterintuitive because the production of bioethanol will lower the price of food transportation, thus reducing the price of food.


Algae, The Savior

Beyond the next year or two, there will be no concern towards the use of corn as the main ingredient for bioethanol fuel production. Scientists have already figured out a solution for not using any type of food as fuel. They have come up with a very easy way to use algae to produce bioethanol instead of corn. Making fuel from corn in the first place wasn't a wise idea since food is already scarce amongst the world. I wonder what Malthus would say today since he was "proven" wrong in the past, but might be "proven" correct in the near future. I think the few who came up with the idea to use corn for fuel were basically looking at Brazil and modeling their bioethanol production after the sugarcane method. I wouldn't want the air smelling like popcorn anyway!


Forced to Conserve, Finally!

I also think that this rise in oil price will push people to conserve although doubtful for some people because they could care less. Through that conservation, which is already happening because of the price of gasoline, people will look at new ways to save money on their gasoline consumption which actually helps the Earth and helps avoid a total collapse because of oil addiction. I've seen news specials about people driving less, planning their trips better, and even trying to maximize their gas mileage in many strange and extreme ways such as finding paths that avoid steep inclines, avoiding accelerating and deccelerating, and parking purposely on inclines to allow an easy drive away from their parking spot. It is extreme, but it is working for those people and the number of people doing these methods is on the rise. Unfortunately their conservation does not counteract the lack of conservation by the majority of people.


Green Momentum

I also must say that this "green" movement has caught on very strong since Al Gore's 7.7.07 Live Earth event. Everywhere that I look corporations are talking "green" or advertising "green". Of course some of the advertising really has no merit, but a lot of it does have merit and is truely "green". I am impressed and a little surprised with this movement and the momentum that it gained.


Drowning Altruism

In the long run, if we don't switch to bioethanol produced from algae and then eventually move to hydrogen fuel, we are up a creek without a paddle. I think it will happen, but it will happen just about 5 to 10 years too late as far as preventing some of the disasters that are possible such as an economic depression, severe climate change, and many political wars over food and oil. Humans will survive though, but hard times are ahead before the "idiots in charge" actually shift us into the future instead of profiting from the past. I don't mean oil companies or the president either. By "idiots in charge", I mean the general populace and the legislature. People are selfish by default and don't care about the Earth. Even the so called liberals and environmentalists don't seem to care about the Earth. I say this because I was the only one who rode my bike to vote in the Democratic Primary in Texas and I consider myself more Republican! If that doesn't explain the problem of lazy people and their self-interests overwhelming their altruistic concerns, then I don't know how to do it any better.


Do It Now

People are a lot of talk, but very little action. Not until they are forced to act, which is essentially what I think will happen, do people actually take their words and act upon them. This myopic viewpoint on action applies to energy conservation and even bigger problems such as the possibility of climate change. How can you solve a problem if you are unwilling to make significant sacrifices to solve these seemingly impossible problems when you can't see past the next month or year or even 10 years in regards to your actions. Small actions don't seem to make a difference so people don't even do those. Small actions over a period of time adds up to a very significant amount. One must think as big as seven generations or bigger. Humans have been here a long time and will be here for a very long time even if chaos breaks out in the near future because of the crisis of "peak oil". We adapt and survive very well. Only events such as an all out nuclear war or a serious asteroid collision could eliminate us from the planet. Even then, a few might survive and begin anew much like the story of Noah. Then a couple thousand years later there will be a human society once again.


Lullaby for Gaia

The one thing that makes me feel at peace at night and when I look upon nature in it's raw form is if humans live or die, nature will prevail. If we die from this planet, nature will regain control of the planet and equalize everything back to how it was before our impact. Similar to how Planet of the Apes shows the future with the Statue de la Liberté burried deep below the sand minus the talking apes on horses. If we don't die, we will have solved most if not all of the problems concerning this Earth and we will hopefully become the protectors of this planet that we were supposed to be.

The Inner Warmth

The Love I Seek

All I seek is for a girl to want me and love me for who I am and who I will become by experiencing life with me.

I want someone who can handle deep thought and penetrate my soul with ideas that will stimulate me to new avenues of contemplation.

I want someone who has a great sense of humor and can make me laugh and enjoy her company.

I want someone who is creative and ambitious with dreams of her own to fulfill. I want a girl to tell me that she loves me and mean it 1000%.

I won't be truly absolutely happy in this world until I hear those meaningful words and feel the inner warmth of the sincerity behind them equally reciprocated. That's what love is about.

Tantric Energy

Sex is just a method of harnessing the energy that surrounds humans in love. It's the mystical practice of reproduction. It's the natural program that drives us to reproduce, divinely created, that nature has put forth to help ensure the survival of our species. It's the reason we are here today.

Respecting sexual desire, yet embracing it, and somehow delivering upon the animal instinct will ensure that nature continues with it's unfolding mystery, but focusing your energy upon love will allow for your spirit to rise above the animal kingdom and revel in the glory of what it means to be human.

We, as humans, are aware that we aren't Gods, but that we aren't just animals either. We are the evolutionary step between the past and the future. We are the great living division between the animal kingdom and the heavenly kingdom, the missing link between angels and apes.

Champs-Élysées

One day, one day, one day the heavenly kingdom will fall upon our existence in one of three ways.

The first, most told story of heavenly revelation is that it will be divinely bestowed upon the world by the supreme being of this universe.

The second method of heavenly revelation concerns the elapsing of so much time that there isn't enough great minds in the world to comprehend the number of years that would pass that would lead to the greatest tranquil gesture of the universe, ceasing to exist like dust blown into the wind, forever gone.

The last great chance of capturing blissful euphoria that our human passion wishes upon our species is creating the great reward. If we reward our species or trans-humanistic species of the future for our wisdom acquired over the millennia by creating the heavenly body ourselves. Coming to our senses about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and love. Once we realize our power over nature, our philosophical position amongst the divine, our ethical challenges swept under the welcome mat of the past, we will begin to embrace the sunshine and fade into the westerly sunset of the future. Infinite joy, infinite warm sadness of liquid tears that will sorrow the souls who could toiled so hard to help our beings gain power over our domain.

We will become the future, we will save the past, we will alter the beginning and make sure to contain all life in positive form free at last from the mortality that binds us all. We will become the divinity that we hope for. We will make all dreams a reality and will persist forever after in utopia, in bliss, in euphoria, in ever increasing narcotic serotonin swells of pure pleasure amongst which the foundations of love will be the purest form of angelic behavior that will redeem the soul. The fields of light. Champs-Élysées. Heaven.

The Odds of Love

I've decided that leaving love to chance is not a worthy strategy. I will try my best not to leave any stone unturned. I am currently systematically approaching this problem from the realistic aspect and actually in doing so helping my consciousness and subconsciousness consider the select few that I have encountered thus far in life. I have decided that I don't wish to waste any more time on trivial relationships that don't nurture love and beyond. I need to pursue my inner thoughts and look forward to the future.