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Now might be a good time to read Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here."
“It Can’t Happen Here” is a stand alone novel and was released in 1935. This novel, the only of Sinclair Lewis’ later books to match the power of his earlier work, is a cautionary story about the fragility of democracy, an eerily and alarmingly timeless examination of how fascism could take hold in America.
If you like to view an allegory analogous to what's happening now in America,
I suggest the Matt Damon movie Elysium
The robot police look very much like ICE gestapo.
Elysium (film) | Wikipedia
Trump's anti-DEI purge is erasing these military legends | Axios
These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
Article by John Ismay | The New York Times
List of Books Removed from the Navy library | PDF (19 pages)
Trumpism | Wikipedia
Kleptocracy | Wikipedia
Music Video: Otis Taylor - 'Nasty Letter' ::: Second Story Garage
How Social Security cuts could put millions of older Americans at risk - PBS
Erasing History
How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Hardcover - by Jason Stanley | Simon & Schuster
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Hardcover - by Jason Stanley | Barnes & Noble
Author Jason Stanley on 'Erasing History':How Fascicts Rewrite The Past To Control The Future
Video (1:16:24) - YouTube
Bernie Sanders Delivers Ferocious Diatribe Against Trump, Musk
Accuses Them Of Creating 'Oligarchy'
Behind Donald Trump’s Palace Walls | Article by George Garnett
The vagaries of palace politics are notoriously difficult to record.
Historians should pay attention to rumour.
The Presidents and the People: by Corey Brettschneider | Barnes & Noble
Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
The Presidents and the People: by Corey Brettschneider - Hardcover | Amazon
Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution;
this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back.
The Presidents and the People: by Corey Brettschneider | Kirkus Review
Corey Brettschneider is a professor at Brown University,
where he teaches constitutional law and politics.
[PDF] [EPUB] The Presidents and the People:
PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.
Firing of Coast Guard commandant serves a regressive social agenda
Commentary by Joan Johnson-Freese
USAID: Where We Work
What is USAID, the foreign assistance agency the Trump administration wants to shut down?
Project 2025 | PEN America
On The Brink Of Extinction: The Cambrian Contingency
Short Story Collection
The World of Captain Coary and the Space Rangers
Surreal Science Reports
The Adventures of Jethro, the Frog
Where the Tree Line Meets the Snow:
Part I
Where the Tree Line Meets the Snow
Part II
Eviction Lab
The Eviction Lab is a team of researchers, students, and website architects who believe that a stable, affordable home is central to human flourishing and economic mobility. Accordingly, understanding the sudden, traumatic loss of home through eviction is foundational to understanding poverty in America.
UPDATES
State and Local Rental AssistanceNational Low Income Housing Coalition
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much;
it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
Animal Cruelty - Animal Testing || The Emotional Lives of Animals
Essay on Animal Cruelty
Truth Hounds: a Ukrainian organization documenting war crimes.
"Center Stage" -- The Meta Library || A Global Digest for the 21st Century
Native American Resources || Veterans ResourcesMust-See Documentaries || Water Documentaries
Keystone XL Pipeline || Plastics -- The Bottled Water Industry'Fracking' - Hydraulic Fracturing
NASA Television
Vaccines || Climate Change ||
Women's Health || Prescription Drug Sources & InfoAffordable Care Act ||
Extinction Events || Holocene Extinction -- Sixth ExtinctionEnvironment|Conservation|Endangered SpeciesOnline Schooling/Home Schooling ||
Three Superdomains of Living Organisms
The Blackboard Series || Notebook || The Adrian Dorn Blog
Poetry | Essays | Math Papers
Resume/Background
Proof and Outline of Fermat's Last Theorem
I have a huge selection of pictures of cats I've collected over the years.
Randomly, I'll show them off:
Here's one. | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine
Beautiful Cats - Pinterest
Clouded Leopard
Washington State Department of Health
Animals Asia -- End Bear Bile Farming
Our Work ||
Bear Bile Farming
Contains a video that's tough to watch but informative.
The Best and Worst Countries for Animal Rights | Sentient Media
Deanna, Tank, Me.
Dee's Garden
A Day in the Life of...
On the Soul-Sustaining Necessity of Resisting Self-Comparison and Fighting Cynicism:
A Commencement AddressBy Maria Popova
Bloom: The Evolution of Life on Earth and the Birth of Ecology
Bloom by Emily Dickinson
Bloom — is Result — to meet a Flower
And casually glance
Would cause one scarcely to suspect
The minor Circumstance
Assisting in the Bright Affair
So intricately done
Then offered as a Butterfly
To the Meridian —
To pack the Bud — oppose the Worm —
Obtain its right of Dew —
Adjust the Heat — elude the Wind —
Escape the prowling Bee
Great Nature not to disappoint
Awaiting Her that Day —
To be a Flower, is profound
Responsibility —
Against Aloneness in the Web of Life:
Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin, and the Art of Turning Personal Tragedy into a Portal to Transcendence
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Fiction from novelette to novel size by type.
The Blackboard Series
A cornucopia of insightful thoughts and ideas
OR,
A Diary & Journal of a man whose grasp on reality tends to waver
Blackboard I | Blackboard II | Blackboard III | Blackboard IV | Blackboard V
The Adrian Dorn Blog
View From The Street
Everything on this site can be accessed through this short general listing.
Check out this one-minute video: Friends Furever
"Don't look at him, Cathy; he'll just keep following us."
TIME
there is a dynamic to the Present
set in motion
by
infinitesimally tiny disequilibrium perturbations
nonlinearly orchestrating the Time-field
Light-Time is stratified
forcibly stretched
repelled elastically
along continuous spokes
emanating
from
No-Time
Time-field is made manifest through this mutual
INTERPLAY
and
TENSION
The Summer Solstice, June 20. Daylight! Long periods of daylight.
We who live on the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca have been waiting for this.
The Size of the Solar System
The Cosmic Distance Scale | Imagine the Universe - NASA
How Big is the Solar System?
One Astronomical Unit (AU) is the distance from Earth to Sun, now defined specifically, for the sake of calculation and no longer as an approximate average only, as 93 million miles. Pluto is said to vary from 2.7 to 4.6 billion miles from Earth. The Kuiper Belt lies between 30 and 50 AUs. Thirty AUs equals two billion seven hundred ninety million miles: 2,790,000,000 miles. Sounds really far. But, nevertheless, the Kuiper Belt is practically a neighbor compared to the Oort Cloud.
Beyond the Kuiper Belt at 50 AUs, we enter an area where the sun's gravitational and magnetic influence falls precipitously as it confronts the interstellar medium--gas, in all its forms, dust, and cosmic rays--producing a turbulent bow wake as we cruise through space, circumnavigating the galaxy. If we consider the extent of the solar system to end on the outskirts of the Belt, then the diameter of the sun's reach is about one trillion miles. However, we need to travel another 950 AUs through this vast emptiness in order to enter the realm of the inner disk of the theoretical Oort Cloud.
Estimated to begin at about 1,000 AUs, it appears as a disk or torus at first, then gradually curves to a sphere of comets, tiny asteroids, and other space flotsam and jetsam. Now, 1,000 AUs is 93 billion miles: 93,000,000,000. But this is only the inner boundary of the Oort. Where it begins to curve, wraping the solar system in a cocoon, is 5,000 AUs or 465 billion miles. Purportedly, it extends to about 100,000 AUs. [These numbers vary in the astronomy community. I've also read that the average distance to the Oort is 50,000 AUs or close to one light year, without a lower or upper bound estimate, but, that amounts to the same thing.] Rounding off the AU for convenience sake to 100 million, the outer surface or boundary of the Oort is 10 trillion miles from where I'm sitting, give or take an AU. That's trillion.
[It's traditional to go with 'the average distance from Earth to sun' for the Astronomical Unit. Very romantic. A sentimental affectation, like holding on to inches, feet, and yards in light of the metric system. However, if a constant like '100 million' was chosen instead, everything would still make sense--it's just a gauge--and would make the world simpler for calculations.]
(1x105) X (1x108) = 1x1013
equals
10,000,000,000,000
Diagram of theoretical distance of Oort Cloud from sun.
I find the size of our solar system impossible to grasp. The very idea of a trillion miles is incomprehensible to me. To try to wrap my head around not only its meaning but also its significance for space travel leaves me numb. If we were a space-going people, used to voyaging from star system to star system, a trillion might simply be a basic unit of measure. Although, we'd probably no longer use the word trillion. Jargon might just call it a click. How many clicks to the next star? And to imagine ten of them?
To get outside the solar system from planet Earth, all the way past the K. Belt and the outer boundary of the Great Oort, you have to travel one trillion miles in a direction away from the sun, and after that, nine trillion more. That's crazy.
[Incidentally, that makes the diameter of the solar system 20 trillion miles or 3.3 light years. The Oort Cloud per se, as a physical reality, a whole of many trillions of parts, has never been seen. It is purely theoretical and used to explain where comets come from.]
"The Superposed Self"
[Originally entitled: "The Geometry of Freedom"]
A Quantum Theory of Personal Interaction
[a factor group superposition of identity elementals]
In Three Essays:
1) The Surrealistic Confluence
2) Spontaneous Space
3) The Galactic Phase-Rectifier and Interface-Coupling Disintegrator
The boundary, or surface, of any figure of any dimension represents the limit of what may otherwise be considered unlimited [The two end-points of a one-dimensional line segment are its boundary, for instance.]. This limit acts to give definition to the unconditioned.
For example, the infinite 2-dimensional plane can have embedded in it a closed path of any imaginable design: a circle, a square, a pentagon, plus completely irregular shapes. When done, unlimited factored by limit [unlimited/limit] takes on a unique identity, in time and space.
A 3-dimensional solid ball or sphere is contained by its 2-dimensional curved surface or boundary. If we think of this ball as a collection of free-floating atoms or molecules, its surface, necessarily, is composed of these interior elements; nonetheless, it has an identity all its own by virtue of its special role as limiter, separating the inside from the out.
Increasing the dimension of the interior to the fourth, we can talk about, although not properly imagine, a 3-dimensional surface, a surface of a hypersphere of four dimensions. In this context, instead of free-floating molecules, we consider the homology group of all living things. We can define the individuality of these separate 3-D living objects by their boundaries, that which stands out from, or emerges from, the group of all possible cycles or waves of matter, their state of superposition. These cycles, or closed chains of vertices, give expression to the fourth dimension, wherein the elements of the class of all living things are essentially connected and undifferentiated.
A simplicial complex (to be defined later) may be thought of as the rational reflection of differentiated images perceived by the brain as it attempts to sort out its surroundings. This complex 'rests' on the surface of reality, mapping it, and this surface, or boundary, although of the underlying spacetime itself, nonetheless has a reality all its own, separating, as it does, interior from exterior.
Similarly, the boundary of all living things emerges transcendent and is itself, by nature, unbounded [as the 2-D surface of a 3-D ball is unbounded, being a boundary in its own right], part interior, without which it would have no being or manifestation, and part exterior, without which it would have no meaning or identity. It would thus seem to be a mixture, an alloy, a blending of immanence and transcendence and of being and non-being. A three-dimensional membrane of consciousness [the physical realm considered as the "densest medium"] 'enwrapping' a four-dimensional unconscious reality.
As grain in wood, the human being reflects or expresses this idea. We represent the same idealized pattern, the same archetype, indelibly etched into our cosmic genes. Our psyche functions through the tension effected by the interplay of the conscious/unconscious dichotomy. On the one hand, content fills the agent of order as raw material upwells from within. And on the other, Mind, enclosing and interpenetrating from without, filters through the interface separating individual conscious ego from universal unconscious reality, the great sea of creativity. By so doing, we consciousize the Unconscious as we identify with it.
The psyche comes from Deep Time, from the beginning--perhaps it originated with the Big Bang. It is an eidetic accumulator of impressions, stamped with the inner structure of the Void itself, bringing into manifestation the warp and woof of the cosmos.
It is my personal belief that all living things possess some degree or dimension of consciousness by virtue of being alive. It is woven into the fabric of the universe itself; in fact, the universe would not exist without it, and, therefore, all living things partake of it. It is fundamentally ingrained. At present, we really don't comprehend just what consciousness is. What has been written about it, though insightful, has been purely speculative. By way of comparison, we use what we know of life on Earth as the baseline and model to presume a priori that liquid water is an absolutely necessary ingredient for life. Justification of that assumption is based solely on very limited experience. Our definitions the terms and parameters of which we accept as dogma--like the Earth as the center of the solar system once was--need to be expanded.
I believe that in fifty to a hundred years from now it will be common knowledge that, at root, all living creatures--flora and fauna--manifest as a non-differentiable synthesis of immanent consciousness--by which they are animated and interconnected [entangled] with the universe, with self-organized matter, and with each other. Which begs the question: What role does consciousness play in the self-organized complexity of living things?
Length: If printed out on 8.5-by-11-inch paper, it would be approximately 100 pages.
OUTLINE
Synopsis
"The Quantum Theory of Self" draws ideas and concepts from various mathematical fields, such as: Algebraic [or Combinatorial] Topology [Group Theory applied to the topology of polyhedra]; Linear Algebra [Transformations, represented by matrices, defining orientations on Vector Spaces]; and, acting as the overall frame, Modern Algebra [the study of Groups and other algebraic structures (ultimately the study of symmetry)].
The basic paradigm has to do with the recognition of a hierarchy of essential identities as being the result of a factoring process--whether of the physical realm or of the psychic--in the act of self-identity. Each factor --progressing as a geometric series towards increasing complexity--is stamped with a unique pattern--a kernel of identity--by its immediate parent structure in the act of factoring. The parent elements are thereby grouped together [essentially a re-grouping] according to the rule stipulated by the kernel. The effect is an identity-pattern that resonates through to the surface where it interfaces and interacts with its surroundings. However, the expression of this self/kernel is ultimately limited by what is possible.
The Composition Series
G = H0, H0/H1, H1/H2, H2/H3,..., Hn-1/Hn, Hn = {e} - the identity element;Hnis the maximal normal subgroup of Hn-1 for all n,and all factor groups are simple; that is, nondivisible and invariant.
Imagine a light shining through a window covered with a symmetrically organized collection of dots. The light maps these dots to a screen through a magical intervening filter (a linear transformation) that repositions the dots and places them into certain associations called equivalence classes--elements of the factor group. [Example]
Furthermore, as each identity (our filter from above) is a sub-symmetry contained within the pattern of the parent, an inheritance of form is transferred. Each kernel--identity element of the factor group--dictates how the dots are to associate, thereby reorchestrating the overall design of the parent in its own image, and in the process, establishing new initial conditions--a new parent--for the next phase transition.
Themes include: properties of pattern, relationship, and symmetry, with respect to perception, consciousness, and individual identity.
It is composed of three essays, each of which is a separate HTML document.
"The domain of species are invariant subsets and there are partitions of these sets that define genera, families, and so on, corresponding to hierarchically related invariant subsets."
From: How The Leopard Changed Its Spots, page 113, by Brian Goodwin.
"On The Brink Of Extinction: The Cambrian Contingency"
Six hundred million years ago, an entity from another universe materialized on Earth. Sensing malfunction, anchored in other dimensions, it withdrew into a quiescent state.
But now,..., thanks to Man's meddling, it's awakened.
And although neither good nor evil,
at the completion of its reason for being,all life in the Cosmos will end.
Creatures of the Cambrian Period
"Discovery of Alien Craft Rocks Science"
600 million years ago
Land masses clustered around the poles as the supercontinent Pannotia, one consequence of the rifting of Rodinia, was beginning to break up; ice covered the entire planet, a condition referred to as Snowball Earth; and beneath the frozen sea, all life was dying out.
At this time, a mysterious object of unimaginable power appeared. Its immediate effect reached beyond the limits of Earth-spacetime. Like a pebble thrown into a still pond, ripples of reorientation spread throughout the cosmos, altering life's identity by catalyzing the creation of metabolic pathways and morphogenetic fields previously nonexistent. As a result, life evolved and developed rapidly, all through the universe, increasing in complexity exponentially. In fact, had it not occurred, humans most likely would not have come into being.
But that was not its purpose.
The Cambrian Seafloor
"On The Brink Of Extinction: The Cambrian Contingency"
Synopsis
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