Yesterday I
posted about the fusion breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. It is truly a breakthrough that could change
the future of the human race. The
problem is that I am old and I have seen too much of the human race; a façade of
civilization to cover up the most base instinct buried in our DNA.
We must step
back and realize that the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory is the government entity
responsible for all of our nuclear weapons. Almost all of the technology we enjoy today
came as spinoffs of weapon development.
Look at the
world. Women are publicly beaten by the morality
police and there are religious beheadings throughout the Moslim world; The Uighurs
in China are forced into labor camps; There are gulags in North Korea and
Russia; school girls are kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram and forced into
marriages; Untouchables still exist as an underclass in India; Russia is
bombing the civilian population of Ukraine; China has the largest navy in the
world and is threatening Taiwan; North Korea is developing long-range missiles
that could reach the United States carrying nuclear warheads; The United States,
one of the most warlike nations ever to exist, invaded Iraq to replace Saddam
Hussein and ended up destroying the country and killings thousands-of-times
more people than the despot replaced…
Look at our
history and look at the atrocities man commits in the name of politics,
religion, and ego. From the first mythical family when Cain
killed Able, mankind has shown itself the most violent and destructive animal
to ever inhabit the earth.
The invention
of a clean, eco-friendly, unlimited power source has the potential to change
the world for the better; but that would be disregarding who we are.
These are
the things the Ol’Buzzard thinks of when he can only sleep five or six hours a
night.
the Ol’Buzzard
The human race is conflicted and torn between good and evil alright. Don't lose sight of the good things though. They are important too.
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