https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-01-08/kathleen-belew-on-the-turner-diaries A couple years ago on a break I disagreed with a coworker on some political issues and the question he asked keeps haunting me. I did not realize at that time he was actually inferring I was not really an “American.” I believed we were conversing in good faith as concerned citizens. But nowContinue reading “Do You Believe In America?”
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Carl Sagan’s Predictions
25 years from now historians may mark Citizens United as the death of America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC “-Stevens argued that the unique qualities of corporations and other artificial legal entities made them dangerous to democratic elections. These legal entities, he argued, have perpetual life, the ability to amass large sums of money, limited liability, no ability toContinue reading “Carl Sagan’s Predictions”
Independence Day
A fairly bad sci-fi movie…but this scene has much in it to, as the talking heads say, “unpack.” America is involved in an invisible civil war right now the rest of the world is very much aware of. Other nations are looking on and talking about it but here we cannot see the forest forContinue reading “Independence Day”
“I honestly believe it’s coming.”
We all seem to have forgotten about Oklahoma City. As Afghanistan is abandoned and about to plunge back into tribal warfare, the U.S. is now facing an army of McVeighs all considering a path to realizing their own destiny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh Trump supporter warns CNN reporter of ‘civil war’ if former president not reinstated ‘soon’ (msn.com)
Because It’s True
“Jesus Christ would have to come down and tell me that Biden won before I would ever believe it,” one Donald Trump supporter said at the former president’s first rally of 2021. Barr is not Christ…but he was Trump’s boy and I have to believe him I guess.
The Story So Far
Cycle of Empire
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327448828_Isaiah_5_A_prophetic_critique_of_economic_proportion/fulltext/5b90152c92851c6b7ec29775/Isaiah-5-A-prophetic-critique-of-economic-proportion.pdf?origin=publication_detail It has happened over and over again over the last eight thousand or so years…but this time might be the last. In the 21st century our species may not survive a descent into the chaos at the end of empire again.
Simple Marine
Trump thinks he will be overthrowing the government in August. Gaetz says we should exercise our 2nd Amendment rights and Flynn says we should have a military coup. “This has become an actual viable threat to our democracy-.” The Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, The Boogaloo Boys, Qanon, etc. etc. are ready to go toContinue reading “Simple Marine”
The Clean Bomb
But…enough about blogging, on to my futurist agenda. To dive right into that let us go back to a paper written in 1998: http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs07jones.pdfBoth of these approaches do away with the intermediary of lasers and particle accelerators, using instead very large electric current pulses generated bypulsed power sources to implode a fusion target. The currentContinue reading “The Clean Bomb”
AZ blogger vs Failed FL blogger
“It is much more than that-” Today was a big deal. Democracy continues to be in great danger. “The reason our party is growing with minorities and with working men and women is because president Trump appears to be on the side of people working really hard-” Lindsey Graham My coworkers are blue collar andContinue reading “AZ blogger vs Failed FL blogger”
Ice on the Moon 