When I was a young man

I mouth the words “no regrets”

There is a joy

We ran through the fields together

It is interesting how words evolve into having different meanings according to the culture. Equality is one of them. When a person studies math, it is easy to see it. Once the variables have been added, an equation is either true or false. How do you tell the difference? A true equation ends up equal on both sides of the equal sign. A false one ends with an imbalance. But you don’t know the answer until the variables such as x or y are filled in. The equal sign points to both sides.

When people are talking about equality, there is the impression that it means in a communist sense that everyone should have the same amount. This is only one side of the equation. But true equality means we have opportunity to access both sides of the equation. Justice is when both sides of a transaction are balanced, in the same way a true equation means both sides are equal. How do you find this out? By filling in the variables.

It is natural and right to want a good product for our money. When we hire someone, in order for the transaction to be just, the wages received and the work produced should be equal. Some of the variables in this are skills, competency and region. A drifter is worth less than a doctor. If there are too many doctors in an area, the value of the service may be less due to competition in the area. We can move, get an education and use good character to receive more compensation. A person who gets compensation for doing less is creating an injustice. It doesn’t matter how wealthy his neighbors are. Every person, in order to create equality, must put their skills and effort into the equation in order for any compensation to be just. Someone who doesn’t do this is creating an injustice since on one side there is compensation and the other there is little effort.

Some people just run into hard times; but hard times aren’t unjust unless a person is putting every effort into getting out. Tough times should motivate us to do better; improve character, education or location. If the lesson is ignored, it would follow that hard times will rightfully come. If we recognize this, it doesn’t mean we lack compassion but we are realistic enough to see what is at issue. To compensate poor performance, anywhere it is applied, will result in poor performance. If we encourage it, we become a part of the problem by ignoring the injustice. This causes resentment in both parties; the giver due to a lack of reward and the receiver who loses the ability to see his part in making the transaction just.

Listening to the talking heads

As the sun closes the night

I have been moving poems around a bit lately. The purpose is for publishing. It takes work to transfer and edit and I will keep you posted on the progress. It has been fun learning the process and I hope to have a digital copy completed to my satisfaction so hard copies are easier. Presently I have one completed but want to improve on it. The hardest part is organizing them so it remains interesting. There may be a few that don’t make it and some that should be first. I have enlisted friends to help and any input on this site will be appreciated. It is all for enjoyment of expression and not for buisiness purposes. It will also help as prep for the bigger things I would like to get out. 

It used to be an insult to be called an animal. And to say that a race is closer to apes was a despicable statement. Savages were looked upon as needing to learn how to be civil rather than living as head hunters or warrior nations. We showed pity to those who digressed in their rational ability and the only thing left was their instincts to survive. But that has all changed.

Since our media industry has made movies that glorify animals as being close to nature, the lines have been blurred between human and animal. It is now a shame to be a resourceful human and we should look at the virtues of nature for help on how to act. The only trouble is that nature is violent and unforgiving. But talking dogs, apes and half human races are always full of virtue on the big screen and therefore it is so.

Rational thought, music, poetry, science, literature and industry are things to be proud of that are human. It is time for human beings to come out of the closet and have pride for who they are. I take offense at humophobes who say we are ruining the planet and should be more like animals while they enjoy the every benefit given them from their fellow humans. Human pride! I can’t wait for the next advances. There will always be those who manufacture shame to make themselves appear as virtuous. But virtue depends on two things, the human ability to recognize it and a firm grasp of realty.

After forming a hypothesis a person wants to make sure there are no variables that can skew the results of the experiments used to prove it out. The hypothesis is subjective; meaning the opinion came from a person’s mind. We want objective results; where the objects speak for themselves. The more the objects speak for themselves without human influence, the more we can trust that the results will be reliable.

Statistical Analysis uses data, models and predictions. The word science is used loosely for this. It is handy for marketing and politics, but with the understanding that there is a high risk of getting poor results. Nothing is a slam dunk to sell and no one is a slam dunk in politics. We will look at the reasons why it is so prone to error.

When someone comes up with an idea concerning random events; such as weather, politics and economics, a human has to set up numerous parameters to form conclusions. They can’t be considered “results” because objects aren’t speaking; there are too many subjective inputs. The results can only be checked after the event happens but probably won’t be repeated the next time. A human has to set parameters on how much data, the duration, what qualifies, the accuracy of collection, and how it will be processed. It doesn’t matter if the human puts it into a computer to help with the work, the parameters are a human production and therefore subject to opinions and errors along the way. It certainly has a high error factor and doesn’t follow scientific method.

Concerning weather, it is interesting to study patterns but we see from day to day the weatherman misses it. On a scale that is of a longer duration there are climatologists. When they collect data, the variables are: location of the points, accuracy of the data, how it is collected, if the duration of collection (has it been long enough to form opinions?), how it will be modeled, who sets the parameters and the list goes on and on. There are so many areas that are subjective, error prone and random that it is absurd to call it a scientific process.

On top of this, the climatologist who sets the parameters are not expert in the areas they collect data. Since GPS has become more precise, it is easier to see that the surface of the earth has areas that rise and sink over time. Michigan was under a glacier and is rising since the weight has left. There are Pacific islands that are sinking but there are numerous variables involved such as the tectonic plates and volcanic activity, erosion and the location of coral reefs along with normal glacial changes that affect ocean levels. They acknowledged this fact in some articles yet still claim that climate change will make it worse. The objective fact is that Pacific islands that sink are a normal process of nature; but determining what is normal is outside any climatologists expertise. The examples of variables like this that aren’t accounted for in their models are unending. We won’t take time to get into the impossibility of the physics that adding a carbon atom to two existing oxygen has any affect on weather.  It takes blind faith in so many areas to believe climate change that it approaches the realm of a religion rather than a science. Just try to reason with a believer and you will see what I mean.