As I was going through the various websites, trying to figure out which one would let me use my Microsoft Word 2007 software, it would appear that none of them support it anymore. So, I opted to use my Google.com account, linking it with a Wordpress blog, and facebook, and myspace, all by way of MSN! That way I can kill all birds with one rock!
So, as you get to know me, you find out that I have a broad-sweeping and all-encompassing sense of humor that many times goes over people's heads, or gets misconstrued, and this can sometimes be the source of the drama I mentioned in my opening paragraph. I have a cynical sense of humor that has developed since I was growing up in a family of eccentric artist-types, and during the course of my ten-year-long naval career (not belly button--I'm not a dancer), and I have lived and traveled all over the United States, not to mention several countries I've visited.
This is not the first blog I have ever written, I have a very extensive blog on www.myspace.com/brianhess/blog that dates back to 2004. Unfortunately, myspace.com is a graveyard of sorts and they have screwed with the format of the blog page so much that even I would not want to surf back to the stone-aged version of myself. Funny thing is that I don't even like reading stuff that I wrote about my life seven years ago, because I am an ever-changing and growing human being. My views have changed quite a bit about personal issues and how I deal with people in general, and even some of my political blogs I find kind of "out of right field." I like to think that I have grown some wisdome about things, but there is a blog entry that I put in there that I really like, and it is about my theory on "Critical Mass." So I am going to attempt to cut and paste it here.
Critical Mass (dated April 5th, 2010)
Is the end of the world really going to take place on 12/21/2012? Is the cliché hourglass going to drop its last grain of sand that night as the Earth, Sun, and center of our Milky Way Galaxy in a rare cosmic alignment as it does every 60 thousand years? Are we going to witness the enslavement of mankind by aliens returning to Earth with an ambiguous agenda on how to prepare earthlings for dinner? Is the end of Barrack Obama’s first term as president and the 2012 election going to usher in a New World Order that will determine the destruction of our way of life? Is it the effects of global cooling vs. global warming that will spawn the next civil war between scientists that blindly follow political idiots over the lemmings’ cliff? Or possibly, is it going to be the total breakdown of our economy and the boiling point being reached between Neo-Christian faiths and Islamic extremists?
Strangely enough, it may be a combination of any of the events that brings about the end of the world, but I think we, as humans, are doing the job just fine without the help of extraterrestrials, asteroids, nature, or politicians. I want to point out a few things that I have observed lately, that may make you think about what our role is in this world we live in.
It is possible for humans to learn to move on and forgive one another beyond the horrible scope of self inflicted holocausts, and those inflicted on our neighbors. It begins with the ancient societies that believed in multiple gods and burning offerings to them to appease their appetites for human blood, even though archeologists and anthropologists have discovered that this obviously didn’t work for the people of ancient Pompeii, Greece, Egypt, Rome, and the rumored/fabled Atlantis. For as sophisticated our minds are, we as humans are actually the stupidest creatures on the planet!
Everyone believes that we humans are the most successful creatures on Earth because we can create things with our hands that are equipped with opposable thumbs, and that we have an understanding of the world around us and the potential to do some many incredible feats through art, language, and ingenuity. Actually, despite our great gifts that the human race as a whole has taken for granted, society is not much different from the very nature of the universe in which we all live.
Many scholars who have made that observation and have written poems, sonnets, quatrains, papers, thesis after thesis, and spent many hours on the couch of a rich psychologist, but for what purpose other than to just waste paper and time writing and typing away their life, or well wishing for something better? It is a natural order that when specific conditions reach critical mass in all levels of existence, that there is some kind of explosion, after which there is a calm that follows.
The Big Bang theory demonstrates that a particle that was so small but so heavy and full of all the known energy in all existence reached critical mass, exploded, and is ever expanding. Now physicists believe that once the universe expands to the point just before ripping itself apart, it will collapse upon itself and start a new cycle all over again.
Interestingly enough, civilization has done that numerous times, reaching back over the last 6 thousand years. The Persians, Hebrew, Egyptians, Romans, Toltec’s, Aztecs, Incans, Mayans, Iroquois, Seminole, Hopi, Apache, Sioux, France, England, Germany, Vikings: the list goes on and on. Each society reaches a critical mass then blows up. Sometimes it’s just about the fight over resources for the benefit of the stronger civilization, other times it’s about the belief in a world that is civilized a different way. But it all comes right back to the same basic function of the universe: Critical Mass.
Humans started off as nomads foraging for food and when they learned that hunting together in packs brought down a larger beast for the warmth of their furs and the nutrition and survival of their off spring from the meat--then the nomads began to settle in groups. The groups then formed towns and villages, which later brought about cities and culture. When a new civilization enters the picture, the two try to coexist, until one loses its patience for the other and decides to absorb or cancel it out. When you look upon a world of civilization, you see a great deal of order-through-chaos, but as you zoom in on the Petri dish of chaos, you begin to see individuals again. Each individual is like a mini environment or civilization. We as individuals must meet the same basic needs to survive. We as individuals continue to worry about our neighbors and if we will be in direct competition for resources with them, therefore, we may start our own little personal wars.
It’s about a war over percentages. If I am your neighbor and you are angry with me because I park my brand new exotic car across the street from your house, then you will call the police and have it towed. Since it bugs the hell out of you that I would have something so nice and that you are still stuck driving that old 1976 Datsun B210 around that barely starts on a cold winter morning, you become a neighbor scorned. It doesn’t matter that I make more money than you because you have 5 kids and I have none. You don’t care why I have it, but that I have it. Any reasoning as to why my lifestyle is different from yours is irrelevant.
It’s human nature to be worried about everyone else in a selfish sort of context. This happens all the time with great nations. Russia was on an ever-expansionist conquest for resources and landmass. But with great acreage come great infrastructure expenses and the collapse of the huge government spread too thin. China has enormous land area and resources, but too many people to properly educate and plan supportive infrastructure for. Great Britain conquered and colonized many nations, but could not maintain the infrastructure to control rebellions around the globe. The United States is finding out that being a superpower in the world is a very expensive role, and that geopolitics is not necessarily the greatest defense mechanism keeping terrorists off of our own soil.
Where there are unhappy citizens in the world, there is the building of critical mass. Countries with great populations that are held in contempt by their own governments and held back by brute force or by financial means are on the verge of total collapse, and many times the new governments are not any better than the previous ones. This is not just true for the third world, but also for the United States.
I hear from so many people that it was George W. Bush’s fault that our economy is in the mess it’s in, and then in the same breath, they are blaming Obama for making it worse. My observation is that many people in our country are being fooled by politicians into thinking that they have our best interests in mind that they are writing into law better health care reform that they won’t even put themselves on. My observation is that our scholastic system has failed to provide education that is meaningful. Just the other day, an 18 year old employee of mine stated that he never heard of Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Irving Berlin, or of the movie “White Christmas.” Then, while taking a Washington State literacy exam, he was asked the question “Whose face was on the gold coin medallion given to the Indians in a gesture of peace from explorers Louis and Clarke?” One of the multiple choice answers offered was Bing Crosby.
How can our young Americans make informed decisions about who to elect into the government come voting day, when they don’t even learn anything about our own culture: Americana? How can a person justify blaming George W. Bush for something that he only had a very small part of? How can these same young people rally or have even half the education to have an intelligible conversation about politics when our own schools can’t even teach the basics of life in American History?
The End of the World is being wrought by our own hands, and it starts in the home, continues into the schools, and it all overseen by the Federal Government. It is, and has been the agenda, of the Democratic Party, to destroy the common man’s ability to make intelligent and educated decisions, have money and capitalist gain to improve themselves, and be able to provide for their families without socialized EVERYTHING. Another way of putting it is simply to call it Marxism. Stalin had taken the Marxist ideals (through third-part interpretation through Lenin) and twisted it into his own kind of communist/socialist regime which has been called Stalinism. Now we have a really big problem in the United States.
The Democrats will have you believe that socializing everything so that the Federal Government owns it all is the best way to run the country. What they do is they create the illusion that the federal ownership is actually a “federally funded program.” This is not a conspiracy theory, it is conspiracy fact. It is well known in educated circles that F.D.R. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), was a “card carrying member of the communist/socialist party” in the 1920s and 1930s. But in those days, they were just considered to be “progressive democrats.” Strangely enough, these “progressives” began to gain more political power and eventually, over many decades, have not only been able to usurp the control of the legislative and executive branches of our federal government, but many of them have control of larger state governments that have great masses of resources.
So in a sense, the Democratic Party has reached critical mass. They now control the House of Representatives, The Senate, and the Oval Office. We’ve handed the country over to incumbent Communism.
This does not let the Republicans off the hook though. I personally believe they allowed this to happen, DELIBERATELY, in the hopes that by “throwing the last election” in 2008, allowing this abomination into the presidency will be political suicide for the arch nemeses for the Republicans. Allowing the Democrats to destroy the country and drive it into a deep depression, will allow for the Republican philanthropists—perhaps philanderers is a better term—to swoop in and declare the obvious choice for redeeming the United States back to its former glory—sounds much like a Fascism.
But that is not where the critical mass stops, because in the midst of all we are seeing here in our own borders, there is an even bigger problem coming to a frothy boil—Islam vs. Christians.
Something that everyone in the world must be made clear on—the Koran says nothing of killing anyone in the name of Allah for the non-conversion of non-Islamic or Muslim faiths. Like we have in the USA with the left wing and right wing Christians (that is ultra liberal vs. ultra conservative) Islam has these same extremes. All religions have this issue, and each have come to critical mass several times over thousands of years, often pitted not only against each other, but each having internal strife. The Reformation of Martin Luther, the struggle of Jewish leaders in the practice of the Cabal, Muslim vs. Islamic law/society (one is more progressive than the other), and the destruction of religions no longer practiced. What is it that brings about this critical mass within a religion: money and power?
Islamic extremist don’t seem to be as interested in money as they are just interested in invoking their power over others that are weaker, or unexpected victims of a more powerful or influential group of people. They don’t have a true “religious” agenda, although many of them “think” that they do. It’s mostly about having control over someone else and try to get a retaliation in a cause and effect role, just to support their own agenda. It is their way of getting vindication for what they view to be centuries of harassment from the Western World of Christian/Catholic nations trying to impart their way of life onto them. The only problem with war is that it creates war mongering.
Now we live in a world society where we have no ability to move about from one country to the next without worry and security measures being taken to just have basic tourism without the threat of terrorism. The main reason why the USA got involved in the Middle East is because we created a bigger mess of an already messy situation, but instituting and granting sovereignty to nations in former Persia that should never have happened in the first place. Iran and Iraq would be one large example of that, but most of all, our sympathy toward Israel has gotten us into hot water with the Arab world in ways that we could not have ever imagined.
However, this does not justify Palestinians behaving badly—since the Gaza strip and most of Israel was not even inhabited by Palestinians except for nomadic tribes that had no education, infrastructure, or government to take the barren wasteland and swamps and turn it into prime real-estate that—now—Palestinians must have! Funny how they were not opposed to the creation of the state of Israel until AFTER the new nation turned the land into something that was desirable.
But it still all comes down to one thing: Critical Mass. How do you avoid it? Can it even be avoided? Only time will be the judge of that. And hopefully, we will find that relief valve soon—for the sake of future generations.
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Okay, now my theory of Critical Mass goes deeper. Every system in the universe is born of the same physics. Critical Mass is inevitable. Mind, body and spirit are all part of this too. How we interact with our world demonstrates this. So the Universe was born from Critical Mass, and is expanding exponentially. Once it as reached the point just beyond the limit of expansion, it will implode. Another type of Critical Mass.
Our bodies are born of Critical Mass from moment of conception to the time of our deaths. And like the Universe, we live in cycles of various mass ejections (like the stars), intermingle with other people and situations (like galaxies colliding), change in our growth and understanding (like the three states of matter: solid liquid and gas), and a million more metaphoric relationships can be played in comparisons as vast and as numerous as the events in our universe. And everything is doing one thing simultaneously--spinning and growing older.
Being a human being with a cognitive mind and understanding of our universe and being able to see a broad-sweeping view of ALL THERE IS TO SEE is our own and greatest potential. It is what makes us like God. If you take the Christian view that God created man in His image, then we have the potential to break free of, or live in harmony with the very essence of the universe. There is order in chaos. What will you do to understand it?
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