with them. For all of the subsequent decades,
I've been trying to not agree with him. People, by their behavior,
are making it difficult. They mail their DNA identification information
to national databases. They buy code controlled cars that have internet
access. They bug their own houses, at their own expense, with both
audio and video surveillance devices. It all seems pretty stupid
to me.
Some
Observations Sometime during the 1970s, I overheard a conversation
between my first wife and some friend of hers. They didn't know that
I was listening. I'm always listening. She told her friend
that I'm always anywhere from six months to five years ahead of everybody
else in figuring out what's going to happen. I didn't foresee the
divorce, but nobody's perfect. Later, I overheard another such conversation.
My wife commented, "Sam's always right." The friend sneered, "Oh,
one of those, huh?" The wife said, "No. I mean, he's always
right." Subsequently, I was criticized by some girlfriends for always
being right. I refused to apologize to them. If I'm wrong,
then I'll correct my error. That's how someone comes to be right,
by correcting his errors. If I'm right, then I won't apologize for
it.
As
of the December 2016 issue of this newsletter, I've completed 23 years
of continuous publication. Events suggest that I've been right all
along, that my concerns have been credible and that my warnings have been
legitimate. Even so, things are immeasurably worse, now, than they
were when I started. I refuse to apologize for either circumstance.
If I'm right, and if people are too damned stupid to understand their own
complicity in what's happening, then that doesn't discredit either me or
my warnings. It discredits the people.
Poppa's
Warning Revisited The alleged superiority of so-called democracy
rests on the notion that the people, en masse, can do a better job
of running a country than can be done by an individual ruler. The
long-term deterioration of the country suggests otherwise. Maybe
we should reconsider the importance of mob mentality and the lowest common
denominator of human behavior. Maybe such things trump (a coincidence?)
human intelligence, such as it is. Maybe Poppa was right. Maybe
it's a lack of intelligence.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Yesterday's Performers
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Does
anybody remember the Surveillance Camera Players? I didn't
find a website for them but I did find a YouTube video,
Surveillance
Camera Players: 1984. Here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILTl8mxEnE
I
don't know how active they are nowadays. With surveillance cameras
being so prevalent, maybe nobody cares anymore.
Thinking
about the Surveillance Camera Players gave me an idea. Somebody
could start an acting troupe of vocal performers. They could present
scripted conversations in the presence of the new voice-operated TV remote
controls, to test the system, to see if anybody's listening, maybe Echelon.
Here's another link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Of
course, for such a test to be effective, the topic of the scripted conversation
would need to be highly provocative, something like abducting little girls
for sale or smuggling nuclear devices into the White House, something of
that sort, something that would really stimulate the cops.
What
would be a good name for such a troupe? Oh, maybe Tomorrow's Prisoners.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Letters to the Editor
Hi there!
I
just had the pleasure of reading the 12/16 issue and every word was very
interesting to me. It wasn't hard to see that, as a species, we are
not very evolved. The same lessons remain available to learn, yet
most are content to judge others, hang on to destructive patterns of thinking
and acting, and to avoid looking in the mirror to see the origins of their
behaviors.
Of
course, I stand beside these people, because I, too, am on the road to
self-improvement and am nowhere near the goal of bliss and happiness.
No way do I pretend to be able to judge others!
Please
add my name to your subscription list. Enclosed are some (4) postage
stamps to help out.
a prisoner
Hi Sam,
Thank
you for latest Frontiersman....
a prisoner
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Because
of the principle of religious freedom, people in this country can practice
any religion of their choice, without restriction, just so long as they
don't annoy the Christians.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
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