Tempus Fugit

 Tempus Fugit

       As we grow older we begin to notice that the passage of time seems to accelerate and holidays we once waited interminably for sneak up on us before we're really ready for them.   We put up a new calendar in January and before we know it twelve months have flown by and a new one must take it's place.

       Anniversaries come and go with regularity during our passage through time.   Some we remember easily while others have a tendency to elude us.  Various calendar dates we would like to remember somehow become bunched together like numbers in a hat that are pulled randomly.  Writing them down was one aid we used not so long ago.  However, the passage of time and advances of technology allow us to digitally store them in a variety of hand held devices that once only existed in science fiction media.

       In fact we have witnessed a rapid progression of technology in the past 50 years that have no match in any previous historical period.  In 1966 computers were still massive electronic devices that occupied air conditioned rooms that could well have held three or four large school classrooms.  Today a simple cellphone small enough to fit in a shirt pocket holds far more computing power (at least 12,000 times more powerful than ENIAC) than the mainframes of the 1950's and 1960's.

      In a landscape that was once filled with television antennas there are now satellite dishes, cell phone towers and miles and miles of coaxial cable all delivering entertainment, news, sports and personal communications the likes of which have never been seen before.  World events are just a mouse click or stylus touch away on the device of our choosing.   But, sadly, none of this has served to join the world in a universal unity but rather has served to separate and isolate us.  The personal touch; the face to face communication has rapidly deteriorated among many who demonstrate an overwhelming reliance on an electronic opiate.

      However, the progression of events has been quite tumultuous over those same 50 years rife with armed conflicts between nations and ideologies that never seem to come to an end.  Rather than making progress in international relations,  the world continues to be assaulted on many fronts by both religious and political philosophies that continually drive wedges in any contemplated world unity.   Far too many seek to keep others enslaved to their "one true philosophy" in order to maintain the political control with which they have waxed fat on the backs of those who toil in the fields, factories and shops.  

        What can any single individual do to combat such division and enslavement?   Currently there is a crisis among the elite and their allies everywhere over the choice made by the citizens of the UK to restore their nations sovereignty, and that is what lies at the heart of the referendum.  Many of the older generation have seen the control they've enjoyed for so long escaping their grip like a catfish that gets out of the hands of a fisherman who isn't careful enough to avoid it's dorsal fin and winds up being painfully stung.

       The citizens of the United States of America can well relearn that in unity there is strength.  Enough strength to send the liberals a message that they want to end their enslavement by entrenched liberal politicians, and world organizations that have dismal records of achievement; that they are not going to let their hopes and dreams be torn asunder any longer.  The choices faced by the electorate are not the optimal best but it's a choice between a further enslavement to socialism or a chance to forever destroy the corrupt foundation upon which the Washington establishment rests. 

       The vote is the power of the people, their sovereign franchise, to choose but it's up to them to choose wisely and not be swayed by political promises that everyone is entitled to a cornucopia of riches without having to pay for them.  There is no such thing as a free lunch and there never will be.  All one has to do is look South to the country of Venezuela to see that socialism (redistribution of wealth as some call it) does eventually collapse, depending on the greed and corruption of those who gain authority  The voters of the United States have an opportunity to remove all such individuals from public office.  It's up to them whether they take it, or not.