Today is 04/12/2022, Post #3

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Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 11:45 AM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Today is Tuesday, 03/29/2022, Post #1

What this makes me think about again is the storyline so far that I'm reading (slowly) in James Corey's "Cibola Burn"

EVERYTHING that I read and watch just becomes more work for me here day to day at this same stupid desk, a set of fantastic circumstances that none of you monkeys infesting this planet Earth can ever relate to.

"In Cibola Burn" a small group of humans, non-Earther's, part of a class of people exploited for centuries by corporate interests on the distant planet Earth, have made a break for it

With the Ring System (a.k.a. Stargate) active, they risk all to challenge the military forces of the established governments of Earth and Mars and head for the new frontier, a planet somewhere distant in the galaxy that can now be accessed in mere moments of space-travel

They strike it rich there and plan to return with their mined lithium ore and sell it and become wealthy, probably to become tyrants themselves to their domestic-workers

In the meantime though, United Nations - the ruling government of the entire Earth - has decided that "might makes right" and is declaring the planet as their own and those first people there, that group of people from the class known as Belters, are merely squatters and the valuable ore the Belters group has already mined is actually the property of the corporation sent there by UN charter

UN Earth and Mars conspired to block any possible sales of the ore the Belters mined and thus will never profit from

I find this especially intriquing and while a political-science major could easily relate, I think more than 99% of USA people could never grasp the notion on their own

The government establishes and regulates the markets

Those Belters are free - or *were* free - to discover and take anything valuable from their discovery but the governments decide who is free or not to utilize the markets

I think about this in the context of the fantastic discoveries I can only guess that I am predicted to encounter in the future

Only thing that makes sense.

*You* cannot understand my point because *you* cannot truly grasp the fantastic.

I don't know who - if anyone reads my posts here - as someone who spends more than 23 hours per day in this same tiny apartment, I think this is mostly just me talking out loud to myself.









"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

II. THE GOLDEN AGE

Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition. All that is required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal—and power. These things the Overlords possessed. Though their goal was hidden, their knowledge was obvious—and so was their power.

That power took many forms, few of them realized by the peoples whose destinies the Overlords now ruled. The might enshrined in their great ships had been clear enough for every eye to see. But behind that display of sleeping force were other and much subtler weapons.

“All political problems,” Karellen had once told Stormgren, “can be solved by the correct application of power.”

“That sounds a rather cynical remark,” Stormgren had replied doubtfully.

“It's a little too much like 'Might is Right'. In our own past, the use of power has been notably unsuccessful in solving anything.”









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Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 10:22 PM

Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home

I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.

Saturday, April 09, 2022

Today is 04/09/2022, Post #3

Makes sense I would be forced to deliver this message.









"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

II. THE GOLDEN AGE

“I see,” said Stormgren; “and there would be no place to hide?”

“No place where I could not send my—ah—devices if I felt sufficiently strongly about it. And that is why I shall never have to use really drastic methods to maintain my position.”

The great ships, then, had never been more than symbols, and now the world knew that all save one had been phantoms.

Yet, by their mere presence, they had changed the history of Earth. Now their task was done, and their achievement lingered behind them to go echoing down the centuries.









"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

I. EARTH AND THE OVERLORDS

“During the next fifty years there will be many crises, but they will pass. The pattern of the future is clear enough, and one day all these difficulties will be forgotten—even to a race with memories as long as yours.”

The last words were spoken with such peculiar emphasis that Stormgren immediately froze in his seat. Karellen, he was sure, never made accidental slips; even his indiscretions were calculated to many decimal places. But there was no time to ask questions—which certainly would not be answered—before the Supervisor had changed the subject again.

“You have often asked me about our long-term plans,” he continued. “The foundation of the World State is, of course, only the first step. You will live to see its completion—but the change will be so imperceptible that few will notice it when it comes. After that there will be a period of slow consolidation while your race becomes prepared for us. And then will come the day which we have promised. I am sorry you will not be there.”

Stormgren's eyes were open, but his gaze was fixed far beyond the dark barrier of the screen. He was looking into the future, imagining the day that he would never see, when the great ships of the Overlords came down at last to Earth and were thrown open to the waiting world.









"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.

II. THE GOLDEN AGE









by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: 8:06 AM Mar 29, 2021

03/15/1998.

One of the few remaining mysteries from the legacy of my decades of blog postings

I've made a few notes attempting to explain it, but yet, still seems to be more there to it

Today, a new idea formed in my conscious mind about it









by me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:

by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: H.V.O.M at 12:18 PM Tuesday, May 01, 2007

March 15, 1998 ?

Was 3/15/1998 the last day I spent with my wife as her husband, Thomas Ray?









From 3/15/1998 ( ) To 12/15/2015 ( ) is 6484 days

6484 = 3242 + 3242

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/18/1974 ( premiere US TV movie "The Day the Earth Moved" ) is 3242 days



From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 4/14/2009 ( premiere US film "17 Again" ) is 18305 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/15/2015 ( ) is 18305 days



From 8/13/1994 ( Bill Clinton: Statement on the Death of NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner ) To 12/15/2015 ( ) is 7794 days

7794 = 3897 + 3897

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) is 3897 days



https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4311790/

IMDb

Childhood's End

The Deceivers

Episode aired Dec 15, 2015

S1 E2

Now living in a golden age of peace, some humans begin to notice changes in their children that lead them to question the aliens' motivations.

Top cast

Mike Vogel as Ricky Stormgren









"Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke

II. THE GOLDEN AGE

“It's a little too much like 'Might is Right'. In our own past, the use of power has been notably unsuccessful in solving anything.”

“The operative word is correct. You have never possessed real power, or the knowledge necessary to apply it. As in all problems, there are efficient and inefficient approaches. Suppose, for example, that one of your nations, led by some fanatical ruler, tried to revolt against me. The highly inefficient answer to such a threat would be some billions of horsepower in the shape of atomic bombs. If I used enough bombs, the solution would be complete and final. It would also, as I remarked, be inefficient—even if it possessed no other defects.”

“And the efficient solution?”

“That requires about as much power as a small radio transmitter—and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if' a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.”

“I see,” said Stormgren; “and there would be no place to hide?”

“No place where I could not send my—ah—devices if I felt sufficiently strongly about it. And that is why I shall never have to use really drastic methods to maintain my position.”



- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 07:28 AM Pacific-time USA Tuesday 04/12/2022