Q3 Blog 3

Dear Chewy,
       I wish this letter would just be me asking you about your day, or about how you feel about certain flowers, but unfortunately this is not that kind of letter. To begin I want to start off by telling you that the time we've spent together has been awesome. The carnival together, to the zoo, and to see Muse. All of it was amazing, even the moment in the crazy Ferris Wheel when you smashed me up against the railing. I loved those moments. I will always cherish those things like the precious times they were. Today is still happy day, its a good year, but its not quite diamonds and pearls.
       I don't think that I've ever cared so much about a single person other my family, the same amiability that radiates out from our fingertips meets parallel to the same way as the hot cocoa given to me by my grandma. If you really know me, then you know how special that makes you, you would also understand where you are in my heart. I truly care about you, and that is why I have to tell you that we should not see each other with the eyes that we look at each other now. With those looks, as placed so foolishly as the fox on the false hare, we will do nothing, but succumb to each other. I'm asking you now, with full admonishing remorse, to just let me go silently into the dark. If you hold me close then you will only hurt me more, and it will make the transition all the more painful. This isn't the first time this has happened, I know full well what causes me to rot in the center, and my love to bubble and denature. The thought of someone caring so much for me for so long goes against so much that I stand for, I have, and may always be a nihilist. You should not look unto me, nor do I deserve grace for such, but alas my friend, it only be such, as friends. To comfort me as well as you, I do not think the friction caused by the collision of emotion would be easy, hence the letter, but to stay would be to foreshadow a worse tide. One that will not relent and drown us into no reprieve. I do not ask for forgiveness, I only ask that when time has separated us, as I now suspect it will, you ask to see how I'm doing once in a while. The next phase is a bright one, and to dwell here would be counter intuitive to your happiness.
      So tomorrow is a bright new day, and I hope I can carry you into it, as a favor and not as you might suspect, as a symbol of dominance. I want to see the sunrise with you, but only as kindred spirits separate, but whole nonetheless. You have all of the opportunity in the world laying upon you and you must embrace that, and I must let you go into the aether, to part in equal serendipity as the same that brought us together, must now separate us at the helm.
      Chewy, I went to the carnival, and I met a girl there who was equal parts sad to sunshine. I did not kiss her, nor did I try anything you would consider tactless, but she woke me up Chewy. We aren't as in love as we thought, and I couldn't let her go, so I pray that you have the strength that I didn't. Let me go whole and piece as one, lest I be rendered broken. To deprive me of that which I have strived so hard to allow you would be cruel, as I am to you now. Let me stand here alone now, looking hard for another who I may not grow to fight against as I have you, we all deserve that happiness. And tomorrow I hope we both find what's on the other side of that, to be loved eternally without the flames of inner resentment to tear down the hems of this cloth. I cross this divide alone, and hope to emerge, like you, free from burns and saved from myself.
                                                   



                                                                                                                             See you on the other side,
                                                                                                                                                      Matthew

Q3 Blog 4

The entire year is sat in eager frustration for the end, or so it seems. The outside observer, if they were to sit in on the life would see a cruel tale of the constantly put off endeavor. The eager soul which claims only the peace of life is in fact the problem. There are, undeniably 365 days in a year. Each day is marked off with supple ease, each hour tolls not with sublime reverence, but with minimized resentment. Each of the wary are placed in static rapper from the day the new year begins. It surrounds with an air of insipid distress. It postulates into a sublime state of being. That static is the devil. Make no mistake about it, the stupor of imperfection is demanding to remain. If betterment is the answer would be another story; however, now when the clouds of vigor begin to rain upon our disenchanted hearts, let us maintain clear sight. The tell-tale static wants nothing more than for you to remain under its grasp. It'll take from you, and rend you clean of bone and sinew. Stare into tomorrow not with the burden of another day beyond, but each day as a supple ideal in itself. As good writing does not end on the last page, good goals do not end at success. They strive to move through our tomorrows and we must help them. The only way it seems is a reminder that resolutions do not need to come at the end, but whenever we need them. Ground breaking, I'm sure, but do not forget this is the product of all of the hopes the reader holds for the year. The "for want of more" have deemed their lives so inoperable they wish to improve, but to what end. Do they seek to further broaden the insights of knowledge that shield them from truth, then let them walk into the path of sustained vigor, not the type that comes from temporary foresight when the static ceases to prevail. It should not be at midnight that we are our brightest, but on the days most high that we should illuminate our way. Any choice other than would be in spite of New Year, and further more caustic to our effervescence. We cursed and weary few who struggle each day to hold our heads high need now more than ever a strive for tomorrow. Let us strive well. Let us strive in a manor both perfunctory and rudimentary to our spirit. Such is the first step on the road to subtle enlightenment. In spite of the dangers of temporary vigor let it be noted that a start may need to explode, the need of potential energy perhaps. Just let us not dwell on producing this energy late, and instead learn to steadfast ourselves for tomorrow, by resisting New Years and the tell-tale static, in the only manor possible. By earning our goal through due diligence, versus the waning spirit of the fast escape.

Q3 Blog 2

     With recent uprisings across North Africa effects of having a large global economy are being felt everywhere. Here in the United States gas prices have risen to nearly 4 dollars a gallon in part of a direct relation with the events in Libya. A complex global economy tethers all areas of trade into one unified ecosystem. If one aspect of this system fails, then all other aspects suffer. Smaller systems of this can be seen on national scales. The United States economy follows many of the same tenets of the global economy. If one area of the Unites States economy fails then all other elements suffer from the failure. This is evidenced by the recent economic slump, brought about by spending too much money abroad, but primarily caused by the rise in foreclosures. The dangers of having an interlaced system of economics is ever prevalent, if one pillar fails then the entire tower slouches, the effects are magnified when placed on the global scale. If the economy alwasy runs in cycles, which history shows as a recurring theme, then the United States should embrace isolationist policies, if not for its own survival, but for the good of other nations.
       According to  www.google.com/publicdata the current US GDP is 14.26 trillion dollars. If we reduce global trade and rely on our own government to produce goods that number would drop considerably. The nations that hold onto the money that would normally be forced to spend it on trade will be able to retain their money. The obvious issue inside of this idea remains obvious, what to do about jobs and spending. Even with the largest GDP in the nation we remain in intense debt, debt that has been accumulated through trade and war. Businesses that deal in the United States make profit without creating jobs. They profit, the economy loses. The only way to remedy these problems remains, all nations must desist from global trade and rely on independent production and subsistance versus profit based trade.
     If all countries compromise and return to isolationist subsistance based principles then we can protect public interest and health. Money should be redistributed, not just globally, but nationally as well. Protection of the people must be the governments first ideal, this means removing the nation from diplomatic affairs abroad, and in exchange relying on natural supplies to exist. In exchange for goods, only other goods should be traded. By placing the entire world on one monetary system each nation depends on the other for success. Giving aid freely is different from trade in that nothing is owed back, the other country does not demand anything back from the country it is helping. So Japan can receive goods from China freely, and in exchange Japan can supply China with technological and manufactured goods. If the aim of this trade system is not profit then it is not colonialism, but mutual success by working as a unified system. In the United States becoming isolationist means pulling out of all affairs we are currently involved in. It means no longer pursuing the capitalist ideal of success. It means removing the nation from the equation, in order to benefit the people, pursue true peace among nations, and most of all it means a government for a unified people. People unified through division and the common need to exist.

Q3: Blog 1

  Years of abuse and cynicism have led to a great deal of mistrust in the sciences, some of it is due after some of the things that science has produced. Physics gave us the atom bomb, and biochemistry gave us nerve gas. It is to focus on the bad elements of what science has given us but in an age when we have access to cheap, clean water, and genetically modified food which is more accessible than ever, the benefits of well applied science are extraordinary. Scientific process is the crop of man, it should be reaped and grown, and all of it only requiring the cost of funding and manpower. The power of science, and the related dangers do not usually stem from the sciences themselves, but are derived from the governments or organizations that utilize them against fellow man. To totally discredit science as safe is also fallacious though, Marie Curie serving as the prime example; however, it is infinitely more the choice of the scientist to pursue these avenues. Scientists have a very dangerous job, especially when attempting to permeate into the outside of human knowledge. This should not call for government regulation, this should call for more funding. The sciences must be allowed to grow and continue unchallenged, what is produced from that then, must be regulated. It is the product, not the process.

  The Large Hadron Collider in Stockholm is essentially a huge network of pipes that sends the nuclei of atoms into each other. Essentially, it is a giant atom smasher. The resulting information can reproduce the effects of the big bang and shed some light on what we believe may have started the universe. It may also create a black hole, assuming scientists have miscalculated, the risk of this though is incredibly low. The general public is terrified of the machine, because the danger it represents, and what is worse is that the use of the LHC was debated in some circles. Of course if things go wrong it may only amount to a small fire, people quickly generalize the possible dangers down to the worst case scenario. Cloning for instance, is a huge question on the term of ethics, yet cloning occurs every day hundreds of times through mitosis. Generally the public forum has a way of misinterpreting the dangers of science, and jumping very quickly to the most shocking result. Ethics is a very debatable quality, and all variables should be considered. Unfortunately in science, the number of variables are tremendous. Criticism should be left to the professionals who have trained and crunched numbers to keep the world from being sucked into a black hole. After all that is their job.

  Another inherently dangerous quality of science is the way direction that it takes us. Progressiveness is a shockingly scary thing, just ask the anti-suffragists during the rallies for woman's suffrage. People need to move forward slowly and cautiously lest they wind up reveling success in the flames. Despite this possibility is perfunctory to the human spirit to explore the universe and the self no matter how complex. Part of this involves relishing in the dangers of research, and being destructive top some extent. The passion of human discovery outweighs the cost of human safety. If given the tools to learn and grow, then it would be seen as animosity towards the human spirit to deny man the right to explore, science gives us that capability, so do not limit its capabilities.