Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   I told you so! Date:   10/12/2022 3:47:30 PM

I regret that I will not get to say, “I told you so.”

The laws of physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics waste no consideration on politics and emotion (as if those laws had the capacity). The universe progresses regardless of how we arrogant humans feel about it.

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The Milankovic cycles repeat themselves.

The Solar cycles repeat themselves.

The Third law of Thermodynamics directs that the energy state of the earth (and sun) will decay (i.e. not get warmer).

There is always the pull of gravity… no, it sucks (geophysicist joke).

Plants, through photosynthesis, use CO2 to create the substance at the bottom of the food chain.

Ice and Water will never surrender their molecular and density differences.

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Despite politics and emotion, these are established processes of the physical/chemical/thermal progress of planet earth.   The history of the earth… though only vaguely understood… is fairly documented.

Media and politics be damned… There IS TRUTH to the universe. We, as an arrogant and naïve species cannot know all the complexities and interactions.

Where do we find truth?

We absolutely can be wrong. BUT… if you ignore history, you destroy half of the answers you need to amend your thesis. Our current political and social hierarchy see no value in history. (If I had no history, I could not understand who I am.)

 There was once a discipline which valued the ability of Homo sapiens to think, ponder, and reason. It was entitled “Liberal Arts.” That discipline required one to consider history, philosophy, observation, and critical thinking. It made the outcome of one’s pondering the responsibility of one’s self. Our Bible is a veritable bibliography of the descent of man by his own self deceit.

 In this day and age we are deceiving ourselves. We abdicate the responsibility of reasoning for ourselves. WE do not require of our children that they do so (indeed we rob them). It is SO much easier to let others think for us… even if the 30 second conclusion is obviously wrong.

We are dust in the wind. When we descend to the sediment of human history, our accomplishments and foibles are set. “I told You SO,” will not be remembered. In the context of geologic time we will be a part of some coastal plain. You and I will be a platelet in a bed of shale… maybe on our way to becoming fossil fuel!

The truth will have already been discerned. But, we won’t be here to say…

- - LMF Curmudgeon