One World

I do not think native americans were all that different than europeans at their first meeting. 

A clan larger than 50 individuals requires social constructs to keep it together - god, money, prestige, nation, etc - intimacy and blood relations no longer sufficient with larger groups. Two strangers would fight side by side for the first time for nation, for god, for money, as examples.  

And so Natives invented their gods, had their money, defined prestige and success, had their nations and inevitable wars all as social glue for their societies - all of it human construct - none of it real. 

Europeans had advanced technologically - especially in devising new and more deadly ways to kill each other - which served to elevate and pervert their social constructs to psychopathy. Unhappily for the natives they had not yet reached those levels and were systematically destroyed - either by disease or murder.

But I think they would have had they been given the time. 

Self-inflicted Wounds

2977 people died on 9/11. We will exceed 3000 deaths in one day today from the coronavirus. Unlike 9/11, many of our covid deaths were avoidable. From an incompetent, anemic government response, to a group of Americans who find it inconvenient or just don't care - “It only kills the elderly or weak, Ill be fine” and who refuse to wear masks or social distance, we do this to ourselves. These deaths were avoidable, save for our weakness, ignorance, and inhumanity. What have we become? Please, social distance, wear a mask - care. 

Possibilities

Close your eyes

Lift your head to the sky

Raise open arms

Smile and

Embrace the possibilities

A Billion Years

The enemy of creationism is time. What is possible in a billion years negates all need for instantaneous conscious creation or even faith. 

Best Government Money Can Buy

 As long as there is money in politics, it will rule.

Next!

The beautiful actress talking to the camera, her thick, auburn hair, flowing over perfect shoulders, her breasts, the gentle curves of her back. Calm, eyes shining, full of life, kindness, and inner truth as she speaks to centering ones energy, opening ones mind to a universe that will care for you if only you allow it too. Give yourself to this universe, opens ones mind, ones heart, find the courage in order to find your inner calm, your peace, success, happiness, and true meaning. 

Look at her, magnificent, so beautiful, centered, calm - utterly intoxicating. Clearly she has THE answers. 

splat

An asteroid slams down sterilizing the surface of the earth. 

Next! 

The End of Economists

Economists have been arguing about whether mechanization and automation will completely displace human work pretty much forever.

The answer? There will always be work. The nature of that work will change - mostly for the good. But there will always be work. If not, we will cease to exist in very short order. 

Humans may need to augment their intelligence, even evolve past ‘human’ to continue, but there will always be work to do. 

But economists being economists have yet to even fathom the main near term impact of automation and AI on humans - the end of money. Easy to imagine machines providing all the necessities of high quality life -  food, shelter, transportation, clothing, etc independently of human supervision. From energy production, to raw material procurement, to processing and refinement, to manufacturing, and distribution, machines are not that far from doing this completely autonomously and thus, for free. What need money then? 

No money, no economy, no economists. Oops.