Cogitus Rex

Surveillance drones and cctv cameras now form the backbone of  American intelligence and warfare capabilities. They can be found worldwide. They are so invasive that the Iraqi vice president declared that the skies over Iraq belonged to Iraqi's not to Americans. Needless to say, this is an alarming state of affairs. Alarming in that no place is secure from the prying eyes of this new Big Brother wannabe. Perhaps it would help to understand where this tendency arose and why it has grown to the level of an industry. Just why are Americans obsessed with seeing all? Why does a nation of "democratic institutions" need to keep an eye on everything? The danger in this is obvious, but the motivation deserves exploration.

“…the magnetic field produced by co-moving electric charges produces a focusing that reduces the dispersion of the beam of particles. One can clearly observe particles all having the same velocity in a parallel beam attracting each other due to the magnetic field produced by the velocity of the neighboring charges”. ..(gravitational acceleration of masses  v. inertial acceleration of masses)                                             …….. 2 particles that are travelling on parallel paths can collide when they deviate in a gravitational field warp/distortion; ie, curvature. Theoretically, curvature takes 2 parallel beams and converges them to a point. Yet Einstein is playing with geometry by suggesting that the norm is valid even after being distorted. Par[all...

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 )"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Andre Gide: (1869-1951) "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." An old woman responding to a threat from terrorists in El Salvador, 1982 “You can kill me, you can kill my family, kill m...