Here in the USA, we pretend that the Stock Market reflects how well the nation is. That’s the message pushed by mainstream media and capitalists. It doesn’t. There are many people in America who are suffering without work, without livable wages, without health care, without safe food and water, without good living conditions. In the…
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Crazy ass thoughts while awake after getting up at 2:30am to see Geminid meteor shower
2018-12-14 3:52 am I’ve been thinking about spacetime and the idea of a warp drive. If you replace the Sun with a one solar mass black hole, then the orbits of the planets do not change. The gravitational field is the same, right? No big deal. Doesn’t help with propulsion across the Galaxy. Even the…
WWN: Like the Animals
In this edition of What We Need I want to address what all life needs. We humans have that in common with other animal life. Naturalists describe that as: food, water, space, shelter. It’s telling how we’ve abstracted this. The need for food used to be satisfied with hunting and gathering. Then agriculture was developed,…
Living with the Stupid Ones
Across the great span of human history, the stupid people have dominated. They take what they want. They kill others. The cannot see the beauty of life. They see only the pleasure of their own profit. They spoil the world, write stories about their value and make movies about it. In this world, that outlook…
The Continuity of Life
When I think back on my long life, I realize the great span of life that I am a part of. My parents were alive when I was conceived, their parents where alive when they were conceived. There were no breaks. No one spontaneously came out of nothingness. There is a continuous span of life,…