tell me...

If you stumbled on the secret to free clean energy would you make it known? To everyone? Would you trust people with that kind of power?
If it was made known there would undoubtedly be a time of rapid change and transition, which in human history is always bloody. New land or oil or gold always divides people before it unites them. Our petroleum based economy and foreign relations would come to a crashing halt. Millions of jobs would be lost and the angry masses would resort to the only real religion in this country, the flag. That kind of sick nationalism would only be encouraged by our nations leaders and the new errant class would be brought into a militant arm out of fear; Fear of what countries like China could to with limitless power and man-power.
People would inexorably redirect their energies from preserving material and monetary capital to developing intellectual capital. Whomever can adapt the new source to power its industry, transportation, and war machine quickly will get ahead and likely stay there. There is no shortage of groups of people that hate each other, and free energy, being the most significant development in human history, would be quickly adapted into the rhetoric of religious fanaticism and seen as a gift from god…to smite your enemies.

I’d still let it loose on us.

MMA

I think I should start MMA.  There are some venues in Iowa I could start out on.  I enjoy the training in and of itself, but I often wonder if it’s taking me anywhere, or how far.

Still being in school, in spite of my sisters advice to “get a haircut and a real job.” (well, I got the haircut at least…) is evidence of my need to test myself, and keep getting better.  To what end?  I have no idea but I’m sure I’ll die before I find anything truly magnanimous at which to apply myself.   However, that doesn’t bother me, as most people share the same fate and I don’t see myself as specially deserving…but I digress.

Thanks to the hawkeye bjj club I feel confident in playing the ‘break-you’ game, and if I remember, in Florida my striking style was “unorthodox, but effective”.  If I could just brush up a little, remember how to let my hands go and stay lucid after getting hit in the head, I see no reason I shouldn't give fighting a shot.

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The Godfather part III...

If one were to simultaneously drive down interest rates making America's most fundamental commodities (homes and vehicles) seemingly more accessible to the populous, then ones loans were taken out drive up the price of fuel, the blood of the nation-state, one could manufacture a recession.  With a newly weak dollar one could posit an idea that even just a few years earlier would seem ridiculous and unamerican, specifically a new transnational currency like the Euro, only for the western hemisphere.  The Amero!!!  Like the European union the NAU or North American Union will come with free boarder crossings and ultimately a loss of sovereignty of the United States. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T74VA3xU0EA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98&feature=related

This is of course being done behind closed doors by the 2% of people whom control 80% of the wealth in this country and will result in our standard of living becoming more like that of people in Mexico and vice versa.

And you know what....I'm still not sure it's a bad idea.

"Finance is a gun.  Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." 

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2009! FFS!!

New years has become just as bad as birthdays.  To celebrate the passing of time and getting older every turn wouldn't’t be so bad if one had something to show for it.  I guess I have plans but so what?  The best laid plans…etc. 

Just saw “Miracle”, one of my favorite films, which happens to be about the 1980 Olympic hockey team, the average age of which was 21.  Joan of Arc lead armies to victory at 19, Newton invented Calculus at 23…youth carries with it so much power.  If you have no reason to believe something is impossible you can just go ahead and fucking do it.  I feel stronger than I did at 19 but at the same time more powerless.  The forces that turn the world keep me fixed right where stand, firmly set in a path to nowhere.  What would my New Years resolution be?  Nothing I want comes wrapped in a box with a bow. I think of the next few months, living in room not much bigger than a jail cell, broke, with holes in all my clothes, living on a schedule and feeling pretty good about all of it.  I’m more fortunate than most.  I have hot water, hot food, decent and interesting friends, I’m learning the things I want (slowly) and sex, drugs and rock&roll supply the study breaks (in moderation of course…mostly)  But, with each turn the things I really desire become more clear to me, as does how far I am from them, and the more I have to lose by going for them.

The upcoming year….what will it see?  My YOUNGER brothers children starting school *sigh*.  I predict people will talk openly about the western equivalent to the Euro (currency) for Canada/US/Mexico as well as increased boarder crossings.  Economic recession will continue.  There’s a 50% chance I’ll go to China (fingers crossed).  The south will outrage as Barack Obama removes the 2^nd amendment from the constitution.  There will NOT be a flood in Iowa.  I’ll be shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

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Formulaic...

...is my new favorite word. I used it to ridicule some tv sitcom and by extension the entire concept thereof.  Not long afterward I realized it applies to everything; the composing of rock music, they way houses are laid out on a block, the rise and fall of the tide, even the waking, eating, walking and sleeping of every day of my life. 

I suppose I can see how someone could be intuitively drawn to creationism, when at certain times and in certain light, the world can seem pieced together so conveniently.  After all theirs is no accounting for exactly why our universe is just the way it is, why protons tear from neutrons under certain conditions or the exact strengh of gravity.  (Thank you Isaac Asimov whose awesome book "The Gods Themselves" I am currently reading)  Then you have people like Einstein go and say that it's all too perfect to be an accident....*sigh*

Also formulaic is the way in which people will manufacture an answer to certain of their queries even when there is none to be had.  (It just so happens that I'm looking out the window at the Catholic Archdiocese, and remebering that most of my countrymen are theists.) What's wrong with just saying we don't know something?  It's like people can't function until they have something to latch on to.  Why can't we latch on to the mystery?  For me, knowing how much I dont know is a good enough reason not to give up.  Life is worth living just for a chance to see what might happen.