might be more useful than a nightstick, although
not as much fun. To politicians, it might be more useful than lies.
To governments, it might be more useful than legislation. To feminists,
it might be more useful than complaining and, at home, they could make
their husbands want to wash the dishes.
In
the final scene of Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith sat alone at his
dusty table, in his usual corner of the Chestnut Tree Café.
On the table were his chessboard, his current issue of the Times,
and his ever-present glass of Victory Gin, containing cloves flavored with
saccharine. As he half-listened to the telescreen, his thoughts meandering,
his memories fading in and out of reality, he realized without warning
that, just at that very moment, he had won his battle. He understood,
suddenly, that it had never been a battle against O'Brien, or even against
the Ministry of Love. It had been, it had always been, a battle against
himself. Tears of joy rolled down his cheeks. All that he had
ever needed was a victory over his own mind. At last, he had won
the victory. Orwell told us that power is in tearing human minds
to pieces and putting them back together again, in new shapes of our own
choosing. In that instant of Winston's victory, he realized that
it had never been just a matter of obeying Big Brother. It was more
than that. He wanted to obey Big Brother. He loved
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Sam,
In
reading the April '20 Frontiersman, I saw a few places in my
submission that need explained, corrected and updated. First,
the comment I made about having up to 3 pounds of parasitic life on our
skins. I don't know if it's true or not. I saw a show on "Discovery"
about microscopic killers and the host made that comment. What a
creepy thought if it is true. And next, I said "thirty two million
people caught the flu last year". Dr. Fauci, Trump's infectious disease
guru said that on a news briefing. I meant to say thirty thousand
died, not million. I recently heard a new lackey Dr. on Trump's freak
show briefing say it's actually 18,000 who died last year due to the flu.
Who's right, who knows? But at 32 million affected, that makes it
about 0.1 to 0.2 people dying for every 1000, or 1 to 2 per 10 to 20 thousand.
Now, let's take your 4% world wide average death rate for the Corona.
At 40 people per 10,000 infected, that makes the Corona 20 to 40 times
more deadly. Since I wrote you last, an 18 month old has died, and
a 15 year old has died too. My source is ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, and
BBC News. So what, 2 kids out of 800,000 known Corona Virus cases
world wide. Mostly old people, some 20 to 60 year olds, but not proportionate
to the elderly group.
I
also never knew the grim reaper image was attributed back to times during
the black plague.
I
see your point of the virus having a better effect of "fear" on people.
Could this be Trump's piss poor attempt of a re-election campaign?
He's such a piss poor excuse for a human being, a worthless narcissist.
Anyway,
I enjoyed your Frontiersman. I wanted to correct an error and update
a few things....
I
was re-reading your April 2020 Frontiersman and wanted to throw a quick
response to Howie
in the Max's letter and your response to it. Howie says space
must have a point of origin, (its center), and cannot go on forever.
You respond in your belief that space has no beginning, nor does it have
an end or edge or boundary. My belief, I can see pros and cons to
both your hypotheses. Like Howie, it's hard for me to wrap my noodle
around the concept of an infinite space. A natural response to this
is to believe that every coin has two sides, a heads and a tails, so how
is it possible for something to never have a final destination?
Hey
Howie, here's a thought for you if Sam is right then the center of the
universe is where you are right now, for you! I'm also at the center.
So is Sam. I say this because, point anywhere in the sky, if Sam
is right, then it is the same distance to the end of the universe, infinite,
in every direction. [See Cosmology
and the Law of Parsimony, in Pharos. —editor]
I've
always believed that everything in the universe is held together because
of an opposing force. If there is God, then there will always be
a Satan, with good comes evil. Gravity can be overcome by speed,
etc. [See Tommy's
Poem, in my personal website —editor]
When
it comes to the universe being infinite in distance, I have to think about
it like Schrödinger's Cat. Uncertain circumstances make an external
observer unable to deem the cat dead or alive. Especially if the
possibilities of survival of the cat are expected to be analyzed from the
point of view of quantum mechanics. So, space is kind of like that,
we have a cat inside a box being the victim of a danger that may or may
not kill it. Does the universe end? It's impossible to see
which among two contrary propositions is correct. Dead cat, alive
cat. Infinite space or a finite space. Ultimately, it's a paradox.
Here's another view,
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