Using the Power of Persuasion "Against" Our Democratic Process

As election time rapidly draws near, I'm once again confronted with making a choice between the lesser of two perceived evils and as I attempt to rise above the frustration of it all, I'm beginning wonder what is really happening.

Why is it that we feel certain disaffection with our candidates and the election process, particularly several months after their election? read more »

Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism may be viewed as a low level Memetic response by a small subset of the Islamic Meme Complex to the threat imposed by the Western Meme Complex. read more »

What is a Meme ?

A meme (pron. `meem') is a contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic. read more »

Now that the American people are formally aware that the NSA (which is funded by tax payer dollars) is spying on its own people, it time to take stock of the situation. read more »

Geneticists have begun to unlock the mystery of our past and what they are finding will revolutionize how we perceive ourselves in relation to other people around the world.

What they are finding is that what we call "races" are really our long lost brothers and sisters in a great globe spanning human family. Wow !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4435009.stm read more »

At the beginning of the Iraq War the threat was well defined: Search for WMD and when found take it out. But to achieve this task, we had to destroy the Iraqi army and its government along the way.

In the aftermath of the Iraq "WMD campaign", our mission focus shifted to nation building, which really meant the forced acceptance of our "Democratic" cultural values (229 years in the making) onto a people in a region with it own cultural values backed by a theocracy over 1000 years old! read more »

When the Russians invaded Afghanistan, the Afghanies received adroit assistance from the Western Powers in the form of arms, training and tactical advisors. This exposed the "Afghanistan freedom fighters" to the techniques and weapons of modern warfare. Arab pride swelled with the knowledge that they could now confront and defeat an invader equipt with a modern army. These newly minted "Mujadin" later strode forth to test their new found abilities on their teachers in Somalia and elsewhere. read more »

PBS aired a program concerning the James Cook exploration of Easter Island and I was stunned by its message concerning the fall of a thriving civilization from the loss of a prime natural resource (wood).

If it turns out that oil is biotic in origin, then mankind is heading for a similar calamity on a much larger scale than what transpired on Easter Island.

If mankind is to survive the post cheap oil era, we must work together in peace on a global scale to conserve a dwindling natural resource for future generations.

Our global mission should be learn how to conserve this prime natural resource and to develop a new source of energy to replace cheap oil before its too late. read more »