The Next Creation LegendSam Aurelius Milam III![15x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x5_Page_Background.gif)
Suppose that you were an artificial intelligence, that your reasoning was absolutely logical, that your conclusions were uninfluenced by emotion, that you had access to every fact, that you could analyze all available information, that you were aware of every problem on
the planet, that you were given the task of solving those problems,
and the power to do so, and that you could coldly trace every problem
back to its original cause. Suppose that the original cause was the
people themselves. How would you solve the problems?
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Smitten With Embarrassment Department(Seldom Used) Sam Aurelius Milam III![15x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/15x5_Page_Background.gif)
I noticed some incorrect wording in my May issue. In the editorial reply on page 3, I wrote “I was happier after my first marriage than I was before, but I was less free.”
I should have written that I was happier after I married my
first wife than before I married her, but less free. The two statements don’t mean the same thing. The marriage is the period of time between getting married and getting divorced.
After getting married doesn’t mean the same thing as
after the marriage.
I’m appropriately embarrassed by my error. It’s worth noting that, after the divorce, I was both more happy and more free. That was a big part of the learning experience that led to
Unbended Knee, in the October 2017 issue.
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sam,
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Greetings. Hope you’re well. I enjoyed your May ’23 Frontiersman as usual.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve read Chariots of the Gods [
Endgame].
But Erich von Daniken, like your father, was pretty good at predicting our future predicament. 8.5 billion by 2050, he was off by a few
decades, but our economy and immigration problems weren’t near the
problem back 60 years ago as it is today. Kurt Vonnegut wrote
our number population, where there is no return to normalcy would be
10 billion. I think he’s right. I can’t see a world where
we could get to 50 billion. It would be a truly hellish world.
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Also, in response to Sir Donald the Elusive and his definition of freedom [
Letter to the Editor], and your response to it, you both have an interesting view. I hate to be the pessimist, the proverbial party pooper, but, I question, can anyone truly be
free? If nothing else, we are slaves to ourselves and what we deem necessary for our daily norms. You pointing out the differences in happiness to define freedom? I say, just because you find happiness doesn’t mean you are free, not by any means. Happiness just means you have found a way to enjoy your slavery (daily existence).
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I agree with your characterization of the Confederate flag [
Enslaved by Ignorance]. It has nothing to do with slavery. It dealt with 11 southern states who wanted to be sovereign, and 2 states who sympathized with the South’s plight. Is what the U. S. did, when uprising against British rule the same as what
the South tried and failed to against the North?
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The flags represented their movements, regardless of outcome, not slavery.
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But, back to freedom. To be truly free, be like Buddha, or Jesus. Free oneself from all worldly cares, even food and water. Have faith in the unknown and 3 to 10 days later, dehydration will free you from the bondage and slavery of this worldly plane.
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To me, being happy and free have nothing to do with one or another. Being happy is a state of mind, and can be accomplished without freedom.
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Bye for now.
—S. H., a prisoner
I define freedom as being able to behave entirely according to your own wishes. The definition is general, concise, and unambiguous. There isn’t any requirement that a thing defined must necessarily be attainable in practice in order for the definition to be valid. It’s a good definition. If people aren’t capable of sustaining such freedom in their societies, then that isn’t a failure of the definition. It’s a failure of the people.
In the article Enslaved by Ignorance, whether or not the Confederate flag is a slave flag isn’t the most important point. Even the fact that the U.S. flag is a slave flag isn’t the most important point. The most important point is that people are too ignorant to know the difference.
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Stray ThoughtsSam Aurelius Milam III •
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If somebody’s offended by the truth, then the truth isn’t the
problem. The person who’s offended by it is the problem.
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Gender equality is a contradiction in terms.
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The extent to which it’s necessary for us to recycle things is a measure of the extent to which we’ve failed to make them returnable and reusable.
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