Short and Sweet

Vote for the Benefit of the HIVE

Well, hope y’all registered to vote, wherever you live and have made plans to take the time to vote. Remember this:

Voting is like immunizations. WE create a HIVE democracy that protects those who may not be able to vote (young people, our future voters). If you do NOT vote, that is, if you do NOT contribute to the democratic pool of those who practice a just society in the best democracy we can individually effect, then everyone becomes susceptible to disease and the contamination of the freedoms and protections that democracy provides.

We have already seen the effects of contamination and a diseased democracy. We reverse that disease by participating in a way that protects the HIVE.

Those of you who think a protest vote helps, you know, one that supports an outlier philosophy and its party, you are diminishing the strength of the HIVE and helping disease flourish! You want your minority party to be stronger and that is a noble desire. Don’t indulge your individual desires at the expense of everyone else: Independent choices have ZERO power in our two-party democracy. Instead, build your party from the ground up, strengthen from the local levels and Be Successful before you support an independent candidate at the state or national level. Participate for the benefit of the HIVE.

Lastly, anyone who is insulted by the HIVE or says “I should have individuality, express my desires, and blah, blah, blah…” yeah, that’s all BS. Even if the only choice is a vote between two evils, don’t run away from the choice and then claim you needed to express yourself.

Teachers, Strike ON!

Teachers work a 10-hr day – AT School! = 50-hr work week. Add grading papers and endless lesson plans for another 10-hrs AT HOME = 60-hr work week.  That ALONE comes to 2160 hours! That is over a year’s work in 9 months. But yo! Teachers work 10 months out of the year. Summer has been cut short. So, teachers are working 2400-hrs a year! In addition, teachers have mandatory training on their off hours, UNPAID.

Key point #1: Teachers prepare EVERYONE to become our doctors, pilots, executives, and everyone else that is necessary for a healthy society. The Teacher is the First Responder to education and the future of our nation:  Worth more than a doctor.

Key point #2: Teachers are also striking for the STUDENTS and the SCHOOL CONDITIONS! Not just themselves. That’s right! It was never all about teacher salaries. School buildings, supplies, services, opportunities have been taking a back seat for so long that the entire system is crumbling. If our educational SYSTEM does not get the upgrades it requires, then a fundamental component of our NATION’s infrastructure is at risk of failing.

Teachers CHOOSE this job. Yay! Thank goodness, they WANT to teach. Many people hate their jobs and look at the service you get for THAT!

Fermi’s Fallacy

I have been thinking about the many responses to Fermi’s Paradox. This lunchtime statement from 1950 has endured as a continued discussion of great interest. I decided to write my own lengthy response and ran into format technical difficulties. So, below is my ending summary. Check the link for the full monologue.

Summary: There are probably billions of reasons why aliens have not visited Earth as there are billions of possibilities in endless galaxies of our universe. To propose we are alone is based on a woeful lack of evidence. To propose that aliens exist, but Earthlings hold some unique status that keeps aliens away has the same evidentiary support as our solitude scenarios. Instead, observing the fantastic diversities of life and civilizations and their evolutions on Earth gives us the best clues of why intelligent, technologically advanced aliens could exist without our knowledge.