A Model of Mother Nature

 If I sit down to post in this blog, it is because I have something on my mind.  Sometimes writing is necessary, because it allows you to verbalize your thoughts without talking.  Recognizing, listening to, and understanding your thoughts and feelings can be a daunting process.  Why is this?  Flip on the television.  What is thrust at you is a hyper-accelerated, contrived, poorly produced stream of consciousness created where?  Who is producing what is on television, and what is its merit?  Television has taken a major hit with the rise of streaming services.  What's the difference?  When I cut the cord and began to explore alternate media sources via the internet, it was clear this wire was no different from the other.  Two wires, two vehicles to deliver your media and entertainment.  The question is in their taxation and regulation.  President Obama signed a "Net Neutrality" law.  What does it do?  I am not sure, but if he passed it it was for a reason.  The reasons behind most legislation passed in the last twenty years have nothing to do with the well being of American consumers.  Only do they benefit corporate America offering us our products.  Consequently one to two percent of Americans hold the wealth.  The rest of us are spiraling downward into oblivion.  I cannot recall in my lifetime more difficult times, and I knew they were coming.  It is as if we are at war without being at war.  Covid was no different from the Holocaust, it just was covert.  We didn't know it was a full frontal assault.  Knowing that people are trying to kill us is disconcerting.  Knowing your enemy is key to victory, but also when you know not what you do neither does your enemy.  It is a state of stasis, and that is not acceptable.  Limbo.  What does "Net Neutrality" provide?  I think in a nutshell it allowed corporate America or telecommunications to monetize the internet.  Largely before Obama passed this law, the internet was an underground academic counterculture.  Things were groovy and cheap, and no one paid state sales tax for item purchased on eBay.  Mitch and his crew changed that, and Jeff Bezos for a time became the richest man in the world.  Covid made that happen.  The population was shopping online prior to the Covid outbreak, but Covid sealed the deal for Amazon's wealth.  Is this coincidental, or was it created?  When I went shopping for an internet-based television-like experience, nothing was different.  It was X amount of dollars for so many channels.  The vehicle of distribution didn't matter, except that streaming taxes your devices graphics processor and uses a lot of electricity.  If I stream just a short Youtube video, I can feel the heat of my laptop processor on my thighs.  Computer processors can run hot, but it makes me wonder of streaming is the right choice.  It's not for technical reasons.  If we think back to its inception when audio streaming still was new, its delivery was erratic.  They had to design better modems to handle more speed of delivery.  Evidently they have solved that problem, and herein we have the G5 network.  I don't know how much faster it is, but what I do know is its transmitting equipment is much more powerful than traditional cell networks.  They use "phased array" transmitters, which are many transmitters in a grid which can be modulated electronically to steer their beam without moving the hardware.  It is much more powerful microwave energy, and it is the same equipment on Elon Musk's Starlink satellites.  When they flipped this on, the Earth got hotter.  Why would this wireless transmission be better than a big thick cable wire with insulation?  It's not, but because airborne radio frequency energy manifests itself on existing wiring our previous electrical grid has taken a hit.  Cable now exhibits transmission interference that was not there before.  Likewise traditional radio has become a sacrificial lamb for wireless telecom.  It is politics.  Who wants what.  I feel what we have ended up with is inferior to America's virgin offerings in technology.  Look at any "vintage" electronic product from America's hey day, and you will see quality hand-made components that are built to last.  Today products are built to fail.  The engineers know exactly how to build products that will fail shortly out of warranty.  It is shallow capitalism.  I was offered sixty dollars a month as an introduction to online streaming TV, but I have no interest in sacrificing my devices for this labor.  That is what a TV is for.  In a comparison of cable television to satellite TV, satellite was better.  How is this possible?  The reason is cable has run amuck.  There are too many channels, too many networks, and not enough quality programming.  It should be every individual show should have their own channel, and in certain cases this is true.  They run marathons of episodes called "binge watching."  I miss traditional television where three major networks competed at a high level for America's attention.  Now we are a diluted, disparate, infighting population with no available solidarity.  Television once provided this.  Lack of regulation is a major cause of this maelstrom.  Corporate America has proven they are incapable of policing themselves.  DuPont is still murdering citizens sixty years later, and our elected officials are allowing this to happen.  They are "on the take."  No one is looking out for the little guy.  This is not really what was on my mind tonight when I sat down to write in this blog.  What is on my mind is how our lack of solidarity has lessened America and made us weak and vulnerable.  When the Supreme Court of the United States begins to exhibit extreme opinion, unity of our nation has been lost.  It is replaced with warring polar opposite opinions of tribal brutality.  We have lost the ability to reason, mediate, and negotiate.  We no longer seek to love but to brutalize and conquer.  These behaviors have been predicted in the Bible, and they are irrefutable.  They are happening now mostly as a result of Donald Trump.  If we were to seek solidarity, it would be difficult.  Why?  The answer that no one seems to want to hear is that radicalized factions of Americans have skewed reality.  First and foremost the identity of gender has been defamed.  Lesbian women want to be men, and consequently they hate their enemy to becoming men.  Men.  It is rampant, and it is disturbing.  I don't think gay men have changed much, but feminism fueled by angry homosexuality in women has created something that before was fringe.  On television today on the Kelly Clarkson show, I heard a woman openly say she tells her husband  what to do.  She sleeps with other women, and he does as he is told like a subservient child.  The definition of gender and their roles has become so skewed, love between the sexes has become disguised and difficult.  Traditional depictions of male female relationships have become almost criminal, because a handful of deceiving, depraved, manipulative men have exploited many women.  We are experiencing a counter reaction to white male dominance, and it has exceeded its boundaries.  If certain cross sections of American population are adopting radical ideology, it is because they feel threatened by this movement.  Believe me it is not Communism that offers relief from this straying.   We have become so simple minded, it would seem only an authoritarian dictatorship can keep us in line.  It is not Republicans in the swamp.  The cast of candidates on the upcoming election is like a roster of cartoon characters drawn and supported by corporate interests through lobbying.  Bo Hines?  Ted Budd?  Please.  The undermining of the male/female dynamic will be the demise of the human race as we know it.  Even the animal kingdom understands this concept.  Perhaps we approach Mother Nature empirically and learn from her model.  We as human beings have lost our way.