Proving A Negative

Impossible, right? In our current world view, we have pigeon-holed so much of what we "know" and accept as fact, that we can look right through reality, like a vague gauze. For instance, most hear the term "free energy" and they immediately think of nuclear power, possibly even fusion energy, but the potential of that becoming real requires decades of energy being used in mining, spent refining ores and transporting more and more concentrated elements, (using fossil energy at every step)as well as the waste stream from each phase in the process. I have said before that nuclear energy is more akin to stretching a rubber band for later release than you might casually expect. The old adage that nuclear energy would be "too cheap to meter" was arrived at when we needed the waste from nuclear power generating stations to make bombs. After you have the power to destroy the planet several times over, and you reduce federal money available to build, maintain and sequester the wastes from these facilities, the cost of production per Megawatt grows. The cost of nukes is now far more expensive than wind energy.

So many unenlightened people are getting hours and hours of media attention...some, seem to live in the spotlight, whilst spouting absurdities. I remember when they used to take raving lunatics to the county farm for a rest, now they put them in the nation's living rooms during prime time. Questioning the President and commander in chief's credentials as an American or his religious leanings seem to have become a sport amongst conservatives. Pish posh, I say and what sort of close-minded people do we allow on tee vee? The other thing about media coverage, that is suspicious, is that there seem to be experts on every single, outlandish thing, that happens. Really? There are "experts" in horse vehicle collisions? Or in which animals usually die first in barn fires? Or, whether your dog likes sweet or savory? It blows my mind that there are now professionals who can explain serial killers and serial rapists and other offensive personality types with precision, but none of them are employed at the gates of any factory or workplace. All the people studying outrageous things get the attention but in most places only 51% of people wash their hands when they leave the toilet. We really need to get it together people and evolve. I'm guilty of making mistakes as often as anyone, but at least I try to learn from them. I cannot prove that an asteroid won't hit my location, but that would be futile. All I can hope is that no matter what President Obama believes, or where he is from that he will decide in favor of life on the planet. I don't want a leader that embraces the idea of Armageddon as a final solution to the problems with the planet.

One cannot prove that a terrorist attack will not happen. Anywhere or any time. Oddly enough, that seems to be the message. however, when we study more carefully, what we are being told is scary and dangerous is ,in fact, less likely to occur today than yesterday and so on. Many more threats have been thwarted than ever were planned before only because agents provocateur are most often used, by authorities. They have gone undercover numerous times, but found buffoons and big-mouthed rabble, but often provided either means or opportunity to entrap guileless fools into following through on some hair brained stunt to get them into trouble.

The powers that have run the world for the past dozen or so hundred years have not done very well for us. They may have done well for themselves, but as we tire of their endless absorption of our wealth, we must also commit to spending as little as possible that could allow them any quarter. What the vacuous minority who guides public opinion believes is that their backs are against the wall and as victims, they are allowed to lash out at everything they feel has put them in that position. The fact that all manner of evil has already been perpetrated in their name age upon age, for over 500 years. These are easily proven by objective means. The air, the water, even soil health have been adversely impacted by the oppressors, the racists, the white devils who have brought their baggage to nearly every shore on the planet. The negative effects of Idiocracy, of the corporate-driven economy, of the colonizers have all conspired to tear at the souls of the native people, or vanquished them utterly. These negative effects are plain and what we do with the devaluation of all that is sacred and how we change our perspectives to achieve sustainability is perhaps the next big thing. The difference between this next big thing and all that have come before, is that it will be a billion small steps, not a massive change overnight, but incremental changes multiplied infinitely.

Those who try to distract our attention with using the fact that you can't prove a negative need to be tried on charges of either treason or standing in the way of social progress. As heinous as I feel about limiting any sort of speech, spouting lies on publicly owned air waves has to be illegal!