Overlords

Suppose the whole alien mystic is really describing something in an incomplete or incorrect manner.  

First there are the chronicles of aliens matting with humans. In biological terms that can only take place if the species are very close. Far closer than humans and chimpanzees which share a 98% match. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no successful intermingling.

There are archaeological anomalies that suggest there were very advanced civilizations far older than any currently recognized. There is some suggestion they had advances beyond today. It is cognitive dissonance that causes us to deny there was ancient flight.

  

In our search for earth like planets in the heavens we refer to the “Goldilocks point”. The Goldilocks point is a distance from a star that will allow a planet to have a climate conducive to our form of life [liquid water]. It would seem this point would move as a solar system evolves.  In the solar system's earlier history the point might be significantly further out from the star. The cooling of the matter of planets would first take place further out.  It might be that Mars in its early history was in the midst of the Goldilocks point while the earth was not. 

Suppose the early Martians colonized the earth. The colonies were then cut off from the home world. Over a millennium of isolation the colonies regressed and the biological stock diversified based on specific earth conditions. This would explain why the Aliens are biologically close enough to mate with humans.  Perhaps the modern alien sightings in the last 2000 years is a return of some Martian remnant.

The battles described in ancient writings of the gods might have been alien factions fighting among themselves here.  But let us go a step beyond imaging the Aliens were Martians. We are starting to see all sorts of strange things in the quantum world. Suppose the Aliens are really just another iteration of us from a different realm [think dimension]. This would be the perfect playground for all sorts of things. After all, we have turned the earth into a toxic waste zone. The Aliens could be testing drugs, biological weapons, terraforming, and genetic manipulations. It would be easy to do if we lack the scientific development to appreciate what is happening.

Do unto others…: we could be their research animals and our morality in regards to the chimpanzees and rats for research applied to us.

“the business be hanged”

In her own words, the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo said, “…I was fired”.  

The select cadre of American Chief executives have acquired their positions by promising the Board of Directors increased profits. They bring to the game a promise of profits though better efficiencies and reducing costs. Another caveat is expanding into growth industries (faster and higher profits).

Parades of executives have marched through American businesses making motions along these lines. But how often can each selective executive do the same thing? Too often today efficiencies mean immediate results that are disastrous for the longer term. It too often means massive layoffs and forcing the best employees out or marginalizing them. It too often means focusing on non traditional business enterprises and starving the core business. It too often means selling of the more profitable parts to secure bonuses for the year, even if there is needed synergy.

Circuit City was a successful electronics and appliance retail establishment a couple of decades ago. It was BestBuys biggest competitor in the area. Circuit City bought a non-traditional business named “Carmax”. Carmax sold reconditioned vehicles. It was successful because of the large scale of its enterprise and there was no haggling over the price of vehicles. Carmax is still viable today and Circuit City is gone. 

The Washington Post newspaper bought a non-traditional business in a growth market promising higher profits. The business is Kaplan, known for education. Kaplan competes in “the for profit” education market. Its major venue today is online degree education. The core newspaper business has been reduced in funding and scope. The resources were transferred to Kaplan. But this year the online degree companies have taken some severe financial hits. The Washington Post’s “cash cow” is not able to fulfill expectations. To keep the corporate profits as high as possible the newspaper will likely be further eviscerated and increased in price. 

The latest from American CEOs that are terminated is to solicit the support of a major financier and disparage the Board of Directors that instituted the firing. Hurd, former CEO of HP, enlisted Larry Ellison of Oracle to disparage the HP Board of Directors. Carol Bartz, fired CEO of Yahoo, has enlisted a dissident member of the Yahoo Board of Directors to disparage the other members. 

These executives never really lose even when fired. They have their platinum parachute and merely cool their heels for a while. Home Depot fired CEO Robert Nardelli in 2007. He almost immediately became the Chrysler CEO. He was fired as Chrysler CEO in 2009. Look for him to resurface again. These people are like the Energizer Bunny.

The corner office in Corporate America today is purely about immediate profits to placate Investors, “the business be hanged”.

And Then There was Darkness

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land ...  Ezekiel 32:8

There is an Absolute Point of Failure. It represents a circumstance that will obliterate an existing society, culture or nation. A climate change is believed to have caused the civilizations of Mesoamerica to disappear. The Russian Revolution bought the aristocracy and its system of things to an end, ushering in the Soviet Union. History is replete with the occurrence of absolute points of failure. 

It has been driven home that America has an absolute point of failure in the form of electric power. Everything is based on the ubiquitous availability of power. The recent hurricane made clear a significant long term power failure would bring an end to our way of life. There is no work around to the layers of our society built over a century relying on electric power. Imagine nothing computer based working. Imagine no cell phones because they have to be electrically charged. Imagine no television or movies. Imagine the nightmare with totally electric homes. Imagine a hospital without power. Imagine vehicles not running. The pumps and the delivery systems for gas depends on electricity. Remember the slogan, "trucks bring you your life"? Worst, imagine when the batteries run out. It would be a world of combustible heat and light. 

So much of our civilization is tied to technology. Technology must have electrical power. Even a 10% reduction in the availability of electricity would result in massive brown and blackouts. It would also mean a several hundred percent increase in the kilowatt rate and corresponding increases in the costs of products and services. Just think about everything costing at least 1/3 more. Some things would no longer be available.

America’s military and financial might is built on technology. Reduce or eliminate much of the power that services that technology and the America dominance multiplier effect is gone. More importantly service economies, like America, will be plunged into the third world. Countries in the second world today with local manufacturing and production based on labor will move to the new first world. Emerging countries like China that still has large numbers of people in a second world economy will dominate. 

What are we doing about the American Absolute Point of Failure? Nothing. I hope I do not have to say, “…told you so”.