Genius Hairstyles

Genius has consequences. It is often regarded as heretical. Genius is thinking outside the box: If someone can think it, it usually can be done. It just needs lots of people to work out the details. Drones. The trick is coming up with the idea in the first place.

When talking about genius, Einstein immediately comes to mind. He taught us to see ourselves in a completely new way. There was nothing sinister or controversial about Einstein. He was not known for making overt political statements. Yet the politics of his day drove him to seek more fertile ground. Princeton, where he theorized and taught till his death in 1955, provided a fitting bucolic backdrop to his ever engaging harmless hairstyles.

Einstein’s research also led to the development of nuclear weapons. There is no reason to assume that this alone spurred his intellect. In fact, had he known, he would probably have aborted his research.

Facebook was born out of an infantile impulse. It quickly turned into a legitimate tool for social networking. Of late, it has been accused it of being responsible for toppling governments.

Skype is said to serve millions, including many who have relatives living abroad. It is a way to communicate over the net. Initially, the ability to see the person you were talking to was novel enough to download the program. Now, I dare say, most people using the service leave the camera turned off. A more tangible lure is that the service is free, bypassing post office queues and telephone charges. Governments are stymied. They are forever threatening to tax such services. But how is it possible to tax something that’s free?

Perhaps therein lies the ultimate solution that Utopian new worlders have in mind: everything free. With the collapse of economies it almost seems like a given: Free services for all. Success or failure would then hinge solely on the number of subscribers; rate of activity; polls; readers; watchers; bell curves, etc. Governments, wedded to old-school money and regulation for fuel, would collapse.
Amen to that.

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In a Failed State Nothing Works

Pakistan is a failed state. Afghanistan is a failed state. Nothing works in a failed state. We worry about Pakistan because it is said to have nuclear weapons. We know this because we have seen the intelligence. We have seen how the nuclear weapons got there. ...and we did nothing about it.

Increasingly, we face the same dilemma, but seem unwilling to act. We know Iran is in the process of acquiring nuclear weapons, but are unwilling to act. We know about North Korea, but do nothing. We know that many of the countries intent on joining the 'nuclear (country) club' consistently call for our death.

Why are we quaking in our boots? We're scared that the truth be known. We worry about how our own populations would react if the truth were to come out. The lying started long ago; too late to go back now and confess. Confessions will no longer undo the web into which we ourselves have fallen.

Significantly, already there are calls to vote everybody out - Republicans and Democrats alike. A revolution is brewing.

The political elites clutch and moan. The people's oracle (Beck) has already fingered the guilty. They are neither the rich nor the poor (as the elites would have us believe); neither are they black, white, red or yellow (as the racists would have us believe); they are not those who believe in Allah; they are not the Jews; Christians; Hindus; Buddhists, etc. – they are the corrupt.

The corrupt live in our own houses. They spread lies and rumors. They dress the same as us so we can’t tell them apart from us. Yet we must find them and weed them out.

Their virtual control of the media makes it seem that there are many more of them than there are of us. This is a lie. It has always been within our power to crush them. As soon as we can get over our fear of them, or stop lusting over their empty promises, we stand empowered.

There’s just us. There’s nothing more… Our faith (in ourselves, perhaps) is enough to defeat them. We already know who they are.

Then there’s the matter of the Pakistani bomb; the soon-to-be Iranian bomb; the North Korean bomb. These all are failed states. I just finished saying that in a failed state nothing works.