Einstein Was Right
I’m curious why we spend so many hundreds of billions of dollars on useless research, looking for answers to questions that probably never needed asking. Most of the money is being squandered on new toys for the military. They’re asking how can they kill in larger numbers and faster. No fuss, no muss, no country.
But there’s all that peace time waste of money and minds when we go off exploring why people fall in love. With all of the suffering on the planet, with people dying from preventable causes, you’d think there would be the impetus to find solutions once and for all to these should-be trifling matters of food, transportation, clean energy, restoration of the environment, and such, so that we can get on to the greater issues of human potential.
Why are we spending tons of money on the space program, for example, when we haven’t figured out what to do with nuclear waste, or how to prevent violence? Did you know that we blew $63-million sending a probe crashing into the surface of the moon? On purpose? Yep, NASA wanted to see if there is any water on the moon. Why? So if we wanted to colonize it, we wouldn’t have to bring our own water or oxygen.
Colonize the moon? Who are they planning to send, the elderly and drug-addict welfare mothers? Hey, then you don’t need water anyway, right?
I also think it is sheer lunacy to be plotting World War Four, as the Pentagon is actually doing, when most of our waterways are polluted, when the number one cause of infant death is parental abuse, when a third of our children aren’t graduating from high school, and of those who do, a third still can’t read.
And why are we pouring billions into so-called medical research, creating new definitions of old conditions, when a little more discipline and personal responsibility would eliminate the symptoms in a flash?
We seem to have stopped growing in a lot of areas. We appear to think that after 15 billions years of evolving we have reached our apex. That in every day terms, we will go on this way for eternity. That all we can do is tweak a little here and a little there to make slightly faster cars and planes and computers.
Einstein was right, when he said in 1946, The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
He was right then and now. We still focus on domination and control, and on taming nature rather than living lightly on the earth. But we’ll figure it out, sooner or later. Right?
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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