A Warning Wake-Up Call - Ask and Learn Cursive!

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Those of you who know me in real life, know I'm not one to be fooled easily. Those of you who know me in real life, know I'm not one for illogical hear-say. And also, those of you who know me in real life, know I like classic American writers of the 20th Century such as Ray Bradbury, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Recently, I've been asking, and I've been receiving answers to those questions. When you ask questions, you learn, when you learn, you grow. Why are we fearful of "growing" ourselves to meet and exceed potential? Why do we fear that?

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I write this because not since 1985, has the Doomsday clock been at 3 (Three) Minuets to Midnight, for a second year in a row. It seems between fashion, musical trends, and the world at large, we are repeating the 1980's. Heck! Even the Delorean DMC-12's heading back in production, and still no "proper" hoverboards:

I won't go into depth about what I've learned, what I've asked, what I've concluded- at large. Many put forth, to inform, but many a time, we brush them off for heretics. However, I will propose you the following to chew on, as it's startling when you think about it, even for the briefest of seconds...

• If you've read, or seen "1984" by George Orwell, then you've heard of "New-Speak." The Goal of "New-Speak" was so that nobody would understand historical texts and documents, by the 2050's. Now think about this: Why isn't cursive being taught in schools? Why is the "digital signature" such an important thing now, over a "real-world signature"?

• If you've read or seen "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, you know of "The Family," an interactive television show, where viewers were called "Cousins." Now consider this: Why are so many people concerned with "Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/YouTube Fame"? Why are game-shows like "The Price is Right," having whole weeks devoted to "Social Media"? Why did the now defunct "Current TV" have a show called "Bar Karma," in 2011, in which a "community" dictated what happened in the episodes? Why do we obsess over the likes of people who do so little to contribute to the betterment of humanity? 

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

• Why is it, until recently, have the great geniuses, like Nikola Tesla, and his ideas, been hidden from humanity till recently? And why do we still call Marconi, when the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1943, declared Tesla, "The Father of Radio." Why is it Karl Benz, that is hailed as the "Father of the Automobile" when it was an Austrian named Siegfried Marcus, who in 1870, put a gasoline engine, on a four-wheeled cart, and drove it around town? 

• There are such things as "Known Unknowns," which is a status of where society knows something, but decides consciously "not acknowledge" the known fact/theory/idea, as if it were a bad penny. Ponder this: If there are so many things in this world, that add up to things we abhor as a society at large, why do we act as if they don't exist? Do we do it to preserve social norms and orders? And if so, who's responsible for the orders? 

If anything, I can provide a simple and correct answer to these. There are such things known as "Open Secrets," in the world. For example, Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors, and Space X, has been widely known in recent news articles, for saying that the alleged "Apple Car," is an "Open Secret." Now what is an "Open Secret." It's a secret that's known as fact by the masses; a theory that comes to fruition. Now, back to the ones who created the "Social Order" of the here and now, you can do a search online, and find out things for yourself, of far-fetched sounding theories, that have facts- hard, undeniable facts, backing them up, then why haven't the powers that are mentioned, not try and remove these posts, essays, and the people who post these things to the internet, like in movies, "The X-Files," et cetera? They most likely used to, but now, these powers, have most likely found it easier, to stay in the shadows where we consciously don't look, and let those who try and expose them, just end up looking foolish like Chicken Little, until the moment the Fox or Wolf, decides to make a "Turducken." It's that foolishness, that discredits the person exposing, and we just continue on our merry way, forgetting all about the shadows, as we always have. 

We are afraid to look in the dark, and for good reason- the dark holds too many atrocities, horrors, and worst of all, monsters- some of which, can get all the heart transplants they want, even if they were born, before we even went after Pancho Villa! It is up to us though, to fear only fear itself, and refute in the light, all that is done in the dark. 

There's a reason that "The Allegory of the Cave" is more relevant than ever now; it's just a matter of not getting blinded by the rage, fear, and rhetoric around us. I don't plan anytime soon, caving into the dangers of single stories, like Chimamanda Adiche said in her famous Oxford, England TEDTalk in 2009. Even she was guilty of it, but she recognized it, and overcame it:

TEDTalk - Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story

I leave you with a few important thoughts: 

One) Ask. Trust your gut instinct and ask. If it doesn't feel right, trust your gut and ask. 

Two) Read. Read things with structure, ideas, hope, and if fiction, a descent idea of what's right and wrong. Read all you can, and make good use of it in your lives. 

Three) "Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you're going to drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories." - Ray Bradbury 

Four) For the love of all creation, teach yourself, people in your life who can't, your kids, and encourage those with kids, to learn how to write in cursive. Handwriting is an ever important skill to have; it has been, it is still, and always shall be, the most important way we'll communicate. Don't let handwriting, especially cursive, go the way of the Stagecoach, the Steam Locomotive, and face-to-face communication is right now! Heck, stop the death of human interaction in the real world while you're at it too.

That's my soapbox for now. Here's a little alarm clock (below the awesome cartoon of two of my favorite characters!) in closing- I ask you really, really don't hit the snooze button on this one; you may accidentally hit the football instead! 

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 Please, I implore you, be the change you want to see in the world, and please, be a change for the better. - Good night, and God bless.

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14 Solid Thoughts - To Do My Grandpa Proud

*Note to Reader: This is a repost from my Facebook Page!*

Alright, so I've been doing a lot of heavy thinking. That wretched show, "Wizards of Waverly Place" was right, "Everything is not what it seems." It's an "open secret" (like Apple's Electric Car) that there are people in the shadows pulling strings, for their own nefarious doings, and it's no secret that for the most part, we are blind to so much, because we hear more about so-called "celebrities" and get all wrapped up in them, rather than our own problems at home, and abroad. You can't pull the slivers out of your neighbor’s thumb, until you get the blasted plank out or your own eye though. So let me put some food for thought, to remove the planks and horse-blinders:

1. Tools are just objects. It’s what Human-kind does with them, that make them into instruments of Good or Evil.
2. We all too often, are like sheep. We follow blindly, without a second thought, and eventually, you’ll all end up like the birds in “Chicken Little.” Wake up, and use your brains! They’re there for a reason.
3. Ray Bradbury is right: “Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
4. We aren’t promised tomorrow. So take No. 3, and make the most of your day. You woke up right? That’s half the battle right there.
5. Until we can achieve “Nuclear Fusion” then have a closed system of Fusion and Fission, using the same material, going in a Figure Eight, for perpetual-motion energy (somebody correct me, because this sounds like a great dream though), Nuclear energy, is the only thing Man’s ever created for his toolbox, that had no good side (either weapon against his neighbor, or fuel source that’s highly toxic!). Until Fusion’s artificially replicated, all I can ask is, “...Whatever happened to using lasers to speed up the decay process?”
6. You’ve got to be foolish, to think that the Universe itself, started spontaneously, without some intelligent force behind the pushing down of the Detonator Plunger to trigger what’s now known as “The Big Bang.” There’s a “great intelligence” out there, and I’m darn sure that in the end, we’re answering to that great “I am that I am.” I don’t want to be on the wrong side of that; any being that creates a creature, that’s known for being generally vicious, only to be caught on film (yes, actual 8 or 16 mm, home movie film), playing in the snow (rolling and tumbling down a hill), must have a sense of humor (See the documentary “Alone in the Wilderness,” for the proof- a Wolverine, none the less!).
7. You’ve also got to be foolish, that there are forces act against the great “I am that I am.” You see it everywhere too. The PBS show “Cyberchase,” is a great example, for the central villain for most of the show, was a cyborg, built by Dr. Marbles, out to take over the whole of Cyberspace! I know it sounds crazy, but the biggest “wool-over-eyes” ever attempted, is to not only dispel the idea of their being intelligence behind creation, but also that there’s no such opposite force.
8. Let us hear the names of the soldiers who die in combat again. Ever since Obama came to power, we haven’t heard a single name. For all his good, he didn’t renew the exemption for the Delta Queen, and has had to deal with more indecisive, divided idiots, that WE put there, for no good reasons, because they’re mostly in the pockets of the few, instead of serving the many. You may not agree with war (for the most part, I don’t either), but we should, and must, respect our soldiers, no matter what.
9. I will say, that Dogs are respectable animals. They’re loyal, kind, aware, and faithful, if you give them the chance. Anybody who would commit such cruelties, such as poisoning them, killing them, or worst of all, Eating them, needs to be marched to the nearest tree, to cut their switch, and beaten with it nine ways to Sunday! As Will Rogers said, “I love a dog. They do nothing for political reasons.”
10. Never lose yourself. All too often, we let ourselves go, to fit into what society wants to be. Be what that previously mentioned “Great Intelligence” wants you to be instead. Achieving the best you, that you can be, that you were meant to be, is better, than keeping up with trends and those “Krashdumbians” any day. Go ahead, be a little crazy, it’s actually good for you.
11. Love your family. We don’t get to choose them, but a family that loves you, is worth more than a Royal Palace. I’d trade a Royal Palace where I’m all alone, for a shack on Puget Sound, with my family around me. Too often, we try to be everything on our own. We can’t be everything. Think for a second “...Will this (XYZ), shame not only me, but my family as well?” If the answer’s unclear or “Yes,” then scrub it like Boeing and its Super-Sonic Jet program forty-plus years ago! Family, if it is strong, is worth more than all the riches in the world. You can’t eat with money across from you at a table, but you can eat with family across from you at a table, because sharing a meal with family, is better than eating alone.
12. Listen to your Gut-Instincts! If something doesn’t seem right, check it out. If something doesn’t quite add-up, check the math. Too many a time, we don’t look before we leap, and you can end up with an improperly kept bungee-cord, and go plummeting to meeting the great “I am that I am.” Before, you should have really.
13. Don’t just play your birthday, or do “Quick Picks” in Lotteries! Not only do you cut your chances in half, but everybody else does those too. Pick a nice spread of numbers, and you’re a heck of a lot better off.
14. Make your own kind of music. Sing your own special song. Even if Nobody Else sings along. Cass Elliot was right. Look up her song, because it’s worth it. Her song was some of the most sound advice I had ever heard in my life. I advise you all listen to it, and make sense of its meaning, as I have.

In closing, carve your own path, to your own dream of life, your own “manifest destiny.” What ever you create, will be better than any idea that “Society” tries to sell you. I for one, will most definitely do so, in defiance of “new age,” “uncouth,” “reckless,” and “disgusting” so-called “Modern” views. I’m an old-fashioned soul, with a heck of a lot of “horse-sense” than Ninety-per-cent of my generation. My Grandfather told me that he knew my ideas were “right.” Coming from a man who was born at the beginning of the Great Depression, who has been one of the four instrumental people in my upbringing, and has more wisdom in his smiling eyes, than knowledge on Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica combined... That means more to me than anything this world can try (and epically fail) and offer me.

I need my sleep now. That’s the end of this soap-box. Aloha, and God bless.