An Eye For An Eye

An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. This has been declared your system of justice, but the abuse of even this harsh precept is apparently taking place. So how much damage has been inflicted on you? Are you not restricted to like amounts? The example was given twice, so as to not confuse the academic among you.

Punish and punish and soon you have a cycle of death, a blood feud flaring with an enemy underestimated and ultimately goaded to be very smart and powerful. Our people do not want war as evidenced by the recent election. More pre-emptive wars are not in the offing. The killing of innocents must cease, lest more resistance be necessary. Creating a problem through ineffective policy could be discontinued. Vengeance births vengeance. Nobody is going to make the world safe for anybody.

Forcing resistance through economic strangulation and physical destruction is a worn philosophy that is producing more strife. I make the assumption that less strife is wanted but this may startle the econo-military junta that runs your nation, if their main mission in life is fighting and strategy. Let your strategy makers concentrate on economic salvation and the eventual end of aid money so easy to sign for. Work for the betterment of both communities and control the militarists among you.

Call for elections and civil discourse. Walk the path to peace.

VOTE! VOTE OR LOSE YOUR VOICE!

Persia Or That Fair Land Beyond The River Valleys

Persia or that land beyond the river valleys
We meet again.

The last deep meeting of disparate cultures produced Damascus steel,
Hybrid technology derived from African iron
Eastern Mediterranean bronze,
Indian brass.
All brought together as a trade route in ancient times.

What hath we wrought with this steel
But used it to find more resources
That would shape this steel in more ways
As we use fossil fuels to further refine our toolkit
Until one person cannot hope to know it all
So each owns bits and pieces of the whole
O the written word will save it all
Computers will store and roughly sort
But the human mind must be applied
To this task
For that life spark of an idea
Brings a new future
Without fossil fuel rule
Beneficial to all in availability

Peace be to all
In the sea
And upon the land.

Exponential Population Growth

Oh Goody! We hit 300,000,000 in population and celebratory and congratulatory talking heads blatt for business expansion and a growing economy.

Let us look at the facts.

The world is a finite space.
All resources are finite.
Land to support sustainability is finite
The human population is growing.
When the growing population meets the finite, changes occur.
These changes are:
The population must use less of resources to survive.
The population decreases.
The population finds other resources only available through the space effort.
War decreases the population and thus the demand for resources.
Poverty increases.
Disease increases.
Regionalism appears.
Or we can continue rampant breeding
End up dividing the world’s resources by each individual
Or creating teeming poverty and mega rich
A portent for war
Why not fight when there’s nothing left to lose?
Empire building falls short of survival
When energy becomes scarce
Technology must bloom once again
Or we are all doomed.
Stabilize populations according to present percentages
In order to manage the problem
Of dwindling resource share.