Be Nice to Those Who Possess

Atomic Weaponry III

This essay is dedicated to my beloved Sarah who has been an unfailing inspiration in the creation of it...

Well, if Donald Trump has not been enough for you to surmise that the
Americans are not too bright—even the Italians have an average IQ higher
than that of the DisUnited States' (DUS) citizens—you are going to need
some help. Just because Americans throw balls through hoops the best in
the world, or make French fries that might clog your arteries, or fry
chickens better than anyone else, you are not obliged to bow before them
in awe and grant them some supernatural status belonging to another
realm. And, particularly, remember this: no one can claim that the social
media and telephonic marvels that they have invented, will result in
bringing 7,500,000,000 people into some sort of universal harmony. (Are
smartphones sterilizing the human race? What is Mark Zuckerberg up to? Is
he the only one truly beneftting from FACEBOOK? Are there any other
individuals who have become “billionaires” using FACEBOOK? Is
FACEBOOK some sophisticated Ponzi scheme? Christianity offered
believers Faith, Hope & Charity. FACEBOOK offers Fame, Fortune &
Friends. What is going to happen when FACEBOOK users realize they
have not become famous, they have not become rich, and their followers
are not even acquaintances? Is this puny punk, this Harvard University
dropout, heralding in The Age of Suicide—still another way, in cooperation
with social engineers, to quell the rabbit-like, geometrically-like splurging
reproductive habits of the world's population?)

Mark Zuckerberg, with his 1.86 billion monthly active FaceBook users, has
a problem somewhat similar to the Roman pope's. What to do with this
monumental population of adherents that grows and grows. Should FB be
a religion or a political infuence. The pope in Rome belongs to an
organization that has held sway for centuries. FB has been in existence
since 2004! Is it possible FB's Mark Zuckerberg will stand over the human
race as its supreme leader brandishing some political and/or religious
agenda? Mark Zuckerberg must be suffering some enormous identity crisis!

In ascertaining whether or not FaceBook is a religion, we may observe that

it has many elements in common with a religion, including a large number
of faithful followers, sets of rules, procedures to follow, protocols, and a
dominant leader—Pope Mark! But, in reality Pope Mark is a klutz at
forming a religion, and the fact that FB possesses many ingredients that
might confusingly distinguish it as a bona fde religion, it might be these
that one day will be the ruin of FB itself. There are two factors that
demonstrate Pope Mark's negligence in forming a religion—assuming he
actually had in mind this grandiose mission. Anything to wash away his
identity crisis!

The frst is Pope Mark's indifference to how multi-century religions were

shaped. The Roman Catholic religion cleverly set up a vernacular for its
fock to follow and live by. For example, Faith, Hope and Charity are
Catholic sound bites known throughout the Roman Catholic world. Of
course, Pope Mark instituted the three Fs—Friendship, Fame and Fortune.
Nevertheless, a vast difference between the two can be observed. Faith,
Hope and Charity are abstract, abstruse concepts. Friendship, Fame and
Fortune are real, material conceptions. Faith, Hope and Charity enjoy a
centuries-old longevity. Will Friendship, Fame and Fortune last even
twenty years after their 2004 inception?

What will happen to FB and its disciples when hundreds of millions of

them come to the devastating realization that they possess very few genuine
friends, that they are as lonely and alienated as are hoards of other FB
members, and most of all, they have not tripped over some hoped-for
fortune? The Age of Suicide? Already many FB users are griping about FB's
crowded marketplace. Worse, while many users are still registered with FB,
many of them just don't utilize FB any longer—bored or tired of it but not
willing to unfollow it. It's still the fashion! Pope Mark is racking in billions
and billions for himself, but who can he or she say is equally enjoying his
luck and success? Not one FB user! Will FaceBook be remembered as the
Universe's most gargantuan confdence game?

Pope Mark's benightedness is howling when we consider the fact that he

missed, by light years, the most important particular that has differentiated
those religions that have held up for centuries from those comet-like ones
that have rapidly burned out: the promise of an eternal afterlife of blissful
harmony. An existence after death, a later period in one's life. That is what
adorers of a supreme being starve for. To be in blessed harmoniousness
with their Maker who has promised them salvation after a life of suffering
and sacrifce on Earth. How could Pope Mark have been so obtuse? He
could have tweeted the Pope in Rome or the Archbishop of Canterbury in
London asking for a bit of professional courtesy, no? He just was not
thinking. Most people crave for a hereafter. If they cannot obtain it from
the “power-structures of the old society,” they will seek it by other means
and in other arenas. Mark Zuckerberg just did not get it.

What should we expect from a shallow, uneducated Harvard University

dropout?

So, let us talk seriously about nuclear weapons and the dumbbells in the
Pentagon who claim they own enough of them to blow up the world.
Because is that not the most vile, most unethical notion that the military
arm of a sovereign nation state can enunciate? Who do these punks of a
baby nation claim to be? Rabid dogs?

The threat of nuclear destruction has been hanging over the heads of all
people in the world for just too long, and I have the idea that the numbers
of these weapons are exaggerated whether their counts are estimated in the
DUS or any other country in possession of them. Chairman Mao said they
are “paper tigers,” to be talked about and talked about and talked
about...And have we not done precisely that? Everyone knows they cannot
be used! Especially our greedy and corrupt politicians. They, too, do not
want to be burnt to a crisp.

But I want to talk about my own experience with atomic weaponry. From
1966-1967, I served in a United States Army Rocket & Missile Training
Battalion at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. For a couple of weeks, I substituted my
battery commander as the project offcer for the Lance missile program. I
served as safety offcer at the launchings of Little John and Honest John
rockets that contained magnesium canisters that exploded on the rocket's
impact to give that “mushroom cloud” effect for visiting generals and
defense ministers from DUS-friendly nations come to purchase them. I
never once witnessed an atomic bomb that might have been placed into one
of the rocket's heads I was instructed to launch. One should think that our
launch teams would at least be instructed on the transport and installation
of these arms—as some sort of practice. No? We never were.

I'm willing to bet that there were no atomic weapons in the missiles
Khrushchev sent to Cuba. It was an enormous hoax played out to scare
people.

I have always believed that, since Yalta, the Americans and the Russians
have been working in tandem simply to help the Russian people get back
on their feet after losing 10% of their population fghting against the very
stupid Nazis. (One proof of this is California. Yes! California! One has to
take into consideration the enormous petroleum, gas, mineral and aquatic
reserves of the Russian Confederation. Some years ago the governor of
California went on TV to ask Californians to reduce their water
consumption by 25%. California has a water problem. A big one, at that. I
ask all Americans to measure the distance of California to Siberia. Will one
day California, the most populace DUS state, with a population of almost
40,000,000 citizens, need water resources from Russia so that Californians
are not burnt to a crisp—by Sun rays and not atomic weaponry? Of course,
the DUS wants to be on good terms with the Russian Confederation! Or,
are adolescent-minded Pentagon swivel-chair warriors planning to invade
Siberia to save California? Better dead than red?) The Russians are only
now resurrecting themselves from this very signifcant human tragedy, and
it is very important that they regenerate their race more so than it is now
because they are the largest nation in the world with infnite-like borders.
Cleverly, the Russians have used this scenario to bait stupid people like
Trump and his clique who fell victim to the Russians' disgust for their
subservience to the DUS during the “Cold War” years—something they
fnally tired of when the Americans (Jeffrey Sachs and other Harvard
imbeciles!) tried to control and infuence their economy and, you guessed
it, elections! Are Americans ever going to put on their thinking caps? Or,
do they believe being stupid is their best option?

There does exist one signifcant threat. Everyone wants to be loved and
appreciated. Americans and Russians. With their stores of arms and
nominal numbers of atomic weaponry, it would not be wise to tread on
their tails. They need to be cuddled and respected so that they feel as
productive members of the entire human race. As doltish as both might be,
we must encourage them to laugh together more and enjoy the potentials of
their coming futures. Voilà!

Authored by Anthony St. John

21 February MMXVIII
Calenzano, Italy
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