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What’s wrong with this picture
When I was a boy I was taught that policemen were your friends?
OK… Get Ready To Connect Some Dots!
So What Gives With The Giant Jellyfish?
I remember walking on the Texas beaches and seeing jellyfish washed up on the shore. Less pleasant are memories of being stung by a Portuguese Man of War. Both of these little 6 inch in diameter critters are no match for their 6 foot in diameter cousins that are invading the coast of Japan… and when I say invading, I mean that the fishing industry, particularly in small Japanese villages is collapsing. People who make their livings catching fish are now literally putting their fishing boats into dry dock because there are no fish to be fished. It’s so bad that some Japanese researchers are trying to figure out how to get people in Japan to start eating jellyfish. Yuk!
So what’s causing these jellyfish to thrive?
It turns out that the jellyfish really like warmer waters and even waters that have a bit of toxic acidity. Fish don’t. I don’t either. But those big giant bubbly masses of protoplasm think that warm acidic waters are like going on a vacation in the Bahamas. They love it. Hmmm….
So where do the acidic warm waters come from. The best theory is that the acidity comes from industrial pollution and the warm waters come from (you guessed it) global warming. The fantasy that is being perpetuated is that pollution and global warming is no big deal. The cold scientific facts just don’t support that fantasy.
But What’s That Got To Do With OWS?
Check out this video
The message here is the increasing gap in the United States between the rich and everyone else. The fantasies being perpetuated here are that giving money to the wealthy will make everyone else wealthy and that you can be wealthy too if only you work hard enough. The cold economic facts just don’t support those fantasies.
… but there is a common thread here that tell us we’ve got to turn around our thinking if we want a better world
Calling All Robin Hoods
So, when you were a kid did you like The Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John, or did you like Robin Hood, Maid Marian, and Richard the Lionheart? Personally, I don’t know one person who liked the Sheriff of Notthingham.
These are archetypal characters in the American consciousness.Here is the cast of characters.
Prince John the evil usurper of power who made the power grab while his brother John went off to fight in the crusades. He was all about getting more money and power.
The Sheriff of Nottingham was the evil henchman of Prince John. He was the direct contact with the people who actually made the money grab possible.
Robin Hood was the character that represented good and opposed the forces of evil by taking the money that the evil doers took from the people and gave it back to the people.
Maid Marian was the force inside the evil doers empire that gave Robin Hood the inside track and facilitated his efforts on behalf of the people.
Richard The Lionheart was the good King… the king that loved the people instead of his own power.
These five types of characters appear throughout literature, drama, radio, TV, and movies. You’ve seen them over and over and over again. And now we are seeing them play out in the national political scene.








