I have a Dream

Dear Friends,

In these turbulent days I am thinking a lot about how stories from the ancient past connect with the amazing technological achievements and societal dysfunction that we observe today.

The Tower of Babel story, found in the Bible's Book of Genesis, tells of how, after the Great Flood, people speaking a single language gathered in the land of Shinar and decided to build a massive tower reaching to the heavens, aiming to make a name for themselves; however, God, seeing their pride, confused their languages so they could no longer understand each other, causing them to disperse across the earth and leaving the tower unfinished; the name "Babel" itself is derived from the Hebrew word for "confusion.". (Source Google Search)

What would a person from the days of Genesis think if they could time-travel into our world today? They would surely be amazed by the unbelievable recovery from God’s spell and the achievements that humans have been able to create as a group, collaborating over the global dispersion and language and cultural barriers that God created to limit us in our strive for the heavens. It only took a few thousand years to get to this point. A mere blip on the timescale of Earth that is measured in millions of years.

The history of technological innovation is short on that scale. It has been accelerating at an unbelievable pace by the collaboration of an exponentially growing number of people with valuable educations that compete fairly to create better systems and technologies.?

Just looking at my lifetime we went from a transatlantic phone call that cost many $$ per minute to a nominal charge of one cent, which is essentially free. We can communicate 24x7 with our flat-rate broadband connections all over the world with all our friends.?

We have satellite networks like Starlink that extend connectivity all over the world. Diseases that used to be deadly for many have been almost eliminated by vaccinations. I am not even going to try to write down a comprehensive list of all the amazing technologies and innovations that we use every day without even an inkling of awareness. I think most of us are taking these technologies as God-given and don’t even appreciate any of this any longer. Until they fail. Think about what you did during your last power outage...

How are we using these amazing capabilities? Soldiers from Russia are ordered by a despotic leader to attack their former fellow citizens with missiles, planes, drones and artillery. Ukrainian soldiers are fighting back courageously with support of Starlink and intelligence from the heavens. Hundreds of $Billions are wasted on wars that would be better spend to accelerate Humanity on a path to sustainability to prevent the climate catastrophe.?

Our unbelievable communication resources are wasted on spreading lies and propaganda to sow discord that separates families and ends friendships. Amazing computer capacity is created to run a global-scale Crypto scam that is looking for ever more suckers who are made to believe that they too can all get rich quick like the creators and true investors of this Crypto casino.

I fear that we are now approaching the Tower of Babel cataclysm 2.0.?

Elon Musk, who has been an amazingly creative technological innovation warrior, is taking the chain saw to the Federal Government in a reform attempt where a scalpel would be the appropriate tool to cut out the small nodules of cancer that should be removed. It is a truly tragic story of epic proportions that reminds me of the cautionary tale of Icarus.

Godspeed Elon! You have many golden parashoots. Unfortunately, the many people who you are disrespecting in the DOGE circus joke-show, while the feverish and delusional crowd cheers you forward with your chain saw, do not have the financial freedom that would allow them to glide to safety as easily as you will when your wings finally melt. In our oligarchic society, where tax cuts for the filthy-rich weigh down the country with debt, it appears that only rescue parachutes have upward mobility. Let that sink in!

It is time for all of us to ask: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”??

For how many of us does this line from congressional television in 1954 still ring a bell? I was not around but learned it from history. People forget their history and the important lessons that it holds at their own peril.

Divided we fall. Be afraid of the people who make a wonderful living by splitting us up and who love the poorly educated who become easy marks for their organized scams.

Humanity could be on an amazing, accelerating path of gaining knowledge if we follow the principles of science and truth in a world in peace that is guided by the Golden Rule.

And this does not mean that the One with the Gold rules!

Interestingly, the US Constitution does not explicitly guarantee us the Freedom of Thought! Was that an oversight? Do we need an afterthought here? The Founding Fathers probably thought that it is obvious that this Freedom cannot be taken from them. But it appears that many of us today, both on the left and right, have given up the Freedom of Thought, and outsourcing our own executive function to the groupthink that is manipulated by poor leaders who are filthy and rich and want to become even richer. Their greed has no limits and respects no borders. Any small country without its own nukes is a fair target for unfair shakedowns. MIGHT makes RIGHT. A veto trumps accountability for the powerful Nations with cushy permanent seats on the UN security Council. Laws and rules are for the small and weak.

I believe we need the Constitution 2.0 where the Founding Mothers can include Freedom of Thought in the foundation of a reformed Republic. A healthy place free of toxicity where One Voter has One Vote! Isn’t it amazing that such a simple concept of “One Voter=One Vote” can be revolutionary? What world are we accepting to live in?

Why should a modern country waste $Billions on stupid election advertisements and significant civic courage and effort to count votes, if its citizens do not even care to have each vote count??

The Constitution 1.0 promised to establish domestic Tranquility in its preamble. Constitution 2.0 should preserve this desirable goal and extend it to the global village.?

I would love to have Freedom from Fear included. For school children there should not be a need to go through combat training of how to attack a deranged shooter with an AR15 that can shoot 20 rounds in 15 seconds who might appear at a moment’s notice in their classroom.?

I would love to live in an advanced society where I can exercise the Freedom to not wear arms because there is a well-trained militia that does, the Police.

US small arms manufactures are making obscene profits by manufacturing unethical, dumb guns that kill 40,000 people a year in the US. That is equivalent to two 747 planes of precious human beings falling out of the sky every week. I am sure we would have more than “Thoughts and Prayers” for a technology problem where Boing sells 747s and two of them fall out of the sky every week to kill 40,000 of our loved ones every year. If we can have self-driving cars, we surely can ask for smart guns that end the American Carnage. The dumb guns are smuggled to Mexico to arm cartels with powerful rifles, even armor piercing sniper rifles, where Mexican police officers are simply outgunned in their battle to maintain tranquility for our friends in Mexico. Mexican politicians who want to work against cartels are simply executed on their streets. In return for the deadly guns the cartels smuggle deadly fentanyl and other drugs back to the US and make good money by selling bad drugs to our children. Soon they will be able to feed the illicit proceeds into Crypto ATMs in our local grocery store and then withdraw them cleanly laundered anywhere in the world. The paradise for the criminals who love Crypto is being created as we speak.

How about including Freedom from Crooks in Constitution 2.0? There could be a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that ensures that mainstream media do not describe purchasing of value-free Crypto coins as “investing” and instead refers to it properly as "gambling". Such an agency could also prevent value-free Crypto meme coins to be hawked on Crypto exchanges, or more appropriate Casinos, to make filthy rich Crooks even richer.

Constitution 2.0 should ensure Freedom from?Fear Of Missing Out. For that it should take away the Freedom of Crooks to create FOMO and scare people who are busy with their lives to send them their life savings. People deserve real protection in return for the taxes they pay.

How about including the Freedom from Crooks in Government? Transparency in Government is more than having a King who has no clothes.

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I have a Dream!

Dream with me!?

The World’s children deserve a future FULL of HOPE and FREE from FEAR.

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Please share this dream with your loved ones.

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