World Blog by humble servant.If you want to understand something, you have to reduce it to its seed. How do we even have the idea of future without grasping the existence of a present and past?

If you want to understand something, you have to reduce it to its seed. How do we even have the idea of future without grasping the existence of a present and past? There are two critical components to intelligence – (1) the realization of TIME, and (2) the observation of PATTERNS. If we have no concept of TIME than we do not understand a future and therefore we plan for nothing and just live from one step to the next as government employees who assume the state is there to take care of them forever. Grasping the idea of TIME enabled man to plant crops realizing he will have something at the end for his labor and effort. This is essential to the development of intelligence. The second mandatory requirement is PATTERN RECOGNITION. Johnnie Ellington II The old say – Ah. To be young again, but to retain what I now know today. Therein lies the truth. We grow wiser with experience (not all) for that is the pattern recognition process of been there – done that. This process bonds and establishes a personal knowledge-base that we try desperately to pass on to our children, but in reality, everyone still has to stick their finger into a flame of the candle to make sure it is true – fire hurts. We live and then we die and what vanishes for most of us is that precious knowledge-base. A few of us write down our discoveries and in the world of real science (physics) we build upon the knowledge passed down from those before us and hence we advance. Johnnie Ellington II In social science, we do nothing of the sort. Personal bias plagues politics and analysis as people pound their chests and say they are right and the other guy is wrong. Johnnie Ellington II This sort of bias plagues everything in social science and dooms civilization condemning us to repeat the same mistakes over and over again Johnnie Ellington II There is no collective process of passing on the knowledge from one generation to the next. Johnnie Ellington II Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire noted how the Rule of Law collapsed. Once the law only protects government, the end is near for not merely do your human and civil rights vanish, you cannot protect your property of anything else for that matter. Capital hoards and investment declines. This is happening right now with the enactment of FATCA. Everything around us from LIBERTY to PROPERTY is subject to the arbitrary whims of government agents. Gibbon noted that appointing judges who were dependent upon the state was the end of times for the rule of law. We simply cannot have judges appointed by government for then they are dependent upon the favor of those in power to rule against the people. Edward Gibbon wrote: “Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favor, will have no attachment, except to the person of their benefactor.” Johnnie Ellington II Edward Gibbon wrote of him: Each “distinction of every kind soon became criminal. The possession of wealth stimulated the diligence of the informers; rigid virtue implied a tacit censure of the irregularities of Commodus; important services implied a dangerous superiority of merit; and the friendship of the father always insured the aversion of the son. Suspicion was equivalent to proof; trial to condemnation. The execution of a considerable senator was attended with the death of all who might lament or revenge his fate; and when Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse” Johnnie Ellington II when Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse” Johnnie Ellington II The defense lawyer James Otis in Boston during February, 1761, pronounced that the writs of assistance of the king were “the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.” These writs of assistance allowed government employees to do whatever they wanted as we have going on right now. It is our burden to prove we have any rights – not their’s to restrain themselves. This has placed “the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.” Future President John Adams was there listening to Otis arguing in court, which of course he lost with the judge only ruling for the king. “Then and there,” said John Adams, “then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there, the child Independence was born.” Johnnie Ellington II We have no collective accumulative knowledge-base. We repeat history over and over again BECAUSE we lack the component of intelligence on a collective basis – pattern recognition. Chimps are capable of learning only a limited set of sign language symbols. They are limited with complexity of knowledge structures for they can only express a simple noun-verb sequences. A dog learns to associate a human word with an object. We cannot say get the ball, run upstairs get my shoes, and then bring them both to me now. Collectively, we seem to be stuck in this same rudimentary level of limited association of a single event at one time unable to grasp complexity. Perhaps as society we cannot move forward and are condemned to repeat the past over and over again without the capability to even see the patterns repeat. R Johnnie Ellington II Chimps are capable of learning only a limited set of sign language symbols. They are limited with complexity of knowledge structures for they can only express a simple noun-verb sequences. A dog learns to associate a human word with an object. Johnnie Ellington II We cannot say get the ball, run upstairs get my shoes, and then bring them both to me now. Johnnie Ellington II Perhaps as society we cannot move forward and are condemned to repeat the past over and over again without the capability to even see the patterns repeat. Johnnie Ellington II Machine knowledge can advance only through pattern recognition. It is the way intelligence is formed. Unfortunately, collective society may be condemned to constantly repeat the past as the rest of us are condemned to sit on the side-lines and watch the morons repeat the same thing time and again. Johnnie Ellington II After the fall of Rome, monks fled to a small island off the coast of Ireland known as Skellig Michael (also known as Sceilig Mhichíl).What you may not be aware of is that we actually owe a great deal to these monks. Why? They took with them books that did not survive elsewhere except among the Arab scholars. The reignitment of knowledge that began during the 12th century was only possible because some people fled and took the core of civilization’s knowledge with them. The monks founded a Christian monastery on the island at some point during the 6th century following the fall of Rome in 476 AD. The monastery remained continuously occupied until its abandonment during the late 12th century. The remains of the monastery became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. So sometimes looking for a place to hide in the middle of political turmoil pays-off. Johnnie Ellington II The Christians were persecuted BECAUSE they refused to respect the beliefs of others. When Rome started to fall, they were persecuted because the Romans thought they offended the gods by refusing to show any respect for other religions. From a historical perspective, this LGBTQ movement is no longer about inclusion and equal rights. This becomes a movement that has no respect for other people’s religious beliefs and is promoting their beliefs and forcing them upon everyone else. This is clearly offending the First Amendment and is courting our own demise. Johnnie Ellington II I fear when the History of the Decline & Fall of Western Civilization is written, as our computer is projecting, there will be an equal parallel to the religious divisions that also tore Rome apart. We are becoming so divided, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to stand together as one nation or society. During the 1840s, gun battles were taking place even on the streets of Philadelphia between Catholics and Protestants. We are messing around with a tinder box. This is feeding into the cycle of our demise for 2032. Johnnie Ellington II March 1,2014 Johnnie Ellington II Obama has spoken harsh words threatening there will be “costs” to a Russian invasion of Ukraine, but these “costs” will simply be economic sanctions that will further the new Cold War. Putin asked the Russian upper house legislature for “permission” to invade and of course they granted that hands down. Johnnie Ellington II but these “costs” will simply be economic sanctions that will further the new Cold War. Johnnie Ellington II The barbarians tried for decades to invade the Roman Empire. Marcus Aurelius fought them back in Germany before he died in 180AD. Eventually, as the fiscal mismanagement of Rome unfolded and pensions promised to the military eroded, the defenses declined with the spirit of the people and then the barbarians were able to enter the Roman Empire. Johnnie Ellington II Eventually, as the fiscal mismanagement of Rome unfolded Johnnie Ellington II Johnnie Ellington II It is always economics that dictates the trend. Russia would never dare invade Ukraine unless it knew the USA and Europe can do nothing about it – they are impudent. The barbarians were able to sack Rome itself several times because the empire has squandered its resources. The USA and Europe are so desperate to hunt down money to pay their own pensions, that they have destroyed the security of the world for they have crumbled just as the Roman Empire. It was defeated from within – taxes and corruption.

Johnnie Ellington II Russia would never dare invade Ukraine unless it knew the USA and Europe can do nothing about it – they are impudent.