Bell Curve Intelligence

All the races follow the Bell Curve natural distribution of intelligence.  There are smart and dumb people, both.

Technological Retrogression Unlikely

Technological retrogression is unlikely in the future, in my opinion.  As I believe there is intervention, a big war would not transpire that would incur such fate.

Japan's Guatemala Model

Japan's imperial ambitions are long gone.  A quarter of its population is now over 65 years old.  That proportion will only increase in the future.  The population will dip.  Japan is a paradox of the young and old.  I think it has the most fertile imagination amongst nations.  From some Japanese I've encountered in the Web, I surmise that Japan wants to be a quiet, small country, much like Guatemala.  Japanese have a different vision about their future.

The Olive Grove

My Ukrainian friend Yaroslav is studying English, so I recommended to him the well-written Lonely Planet travelogue The Olive Grove:  Travels in Greece by the Greek-Australian Katherine Kizilos.  She writes of wandering some Greek isles off-season.

Not Yet There

We may reach a point one day when we have appropriate space technologies, and space exploration may accelerate further.  That point may be in 2050, or even 2100.  We can say at the worst case, rich countries may run out of cash and pause for awhile, but resume later on.  Things do get complicated, sometimes.  But I agree with Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel R. Delany, and others that the future will be about the exploration and eventual colonization of the Solar System.  This scenario seems realistic to me and other experts.

Science fiction exists so that we can experience wonders that we may not encounter within our lifetimes.  Hard fact is heartbreaking.  The human lifetime is too short.  Any space project by NASA, JAXA, ESA, etc. takes 20 to 30 years to complete.

Religion a Fantasy

You should know religion is just fantasy, a product of creativity.  Some politicians in the past have said religion is poison to the minds of people.  Religions are human inventions.

Asian Slowdown

There's an economic slowdown in Mainland Asia.  Some people thought it would just keep on rising.  I saw it coming.  The Capitalist system is contrived, artificial.  We are at the whims of an artifice.

Funny English

I don't know about you, but I think English sounds funny, even ridiculous, as I compare it with other languages.

Enquiry on Tagalog

There should be, if there isn't already, a real scientific enquiry as to why everybody on Earth has at least an inkling of Tagalog.  I fear there may be some kind of inhibitor in human brains that disables curiosity on this theme.

Hive Mind

Maybe, humankind has some kind of Hive Mind, as do insects.  What kind of interconnections human minds may have is open to suggestion.

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