I think I've figured it out

I went to the beautiful Santa Monica main library on Wednesday November 9 seeking some reading material that would take my mind off the previous day's event.  I was moving  toward the new fiction section with the intention of finding a mindless modern dribble focused on some crazy political thriller where everything and everybody in government is corrupt except for the single hero, either male or female, but usually ex-CIA or ex-FBI or ex-Navy Seal male, who miraculously avoids every pitfall known to mankind and somehow saves the day and lives to star in the next book, to be released in six months.

Before I reached that part of the library I noticed a temporary section that had a card heading which read...."SCIENCE....librarian's recommendation."  

There were approximately 40 books on top of a free standing bookcase, neatly leaning against easels, with perhaps another 100 books underneath on separate shelves.
Two titles literally dominated my vision.  The first one was called "Black Hole, How an idea abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved."  

Having just experienced the 2016 Presidential election results I could think of no better diversion than diving into a recent book regarding Black Holes, of which I have an extreme interest because of "My Other God Particles" art show in 2014.  The CERN project in Geneva is responsible for the art I've done over the last three years and since both Theoretical and Experimental Particle Physics are the bases of that endeavor it simply makes sense that I would want to know more about the most elusive "creature" that the Universe has to offer.....THE BLACK HOLE.  I had recently decided to do some paintings of black holes, utilizing my special Strontium Aluminate paint so that also probably is the main reason the title caught my eye.

Sitting next to the Black Hole (by Marcia Bartusiak) was
MAGNIFICENT
PRINCIPIA
Exploring
Isaac 
Newton's
Masterpiece
by
Colin Pask

I'm not about to tell you that I've always wanted to read Newton's Principia but I have always wondered what Isaac Newton might have been like and since the word exploring was in the title I figured this might be a good way to introduce myself to Professor Newton.  I also thought that since the events of the previous day were completely unreasonable and surreal that perhaps getting back to the basics {and what's more basic than gravity?} might help me figure out why things had gone so completely nuts and why 59 million Americans decided to put their faith and trust in a carnival barker, who changed his mind ABOUT EVERYTHING all the time and had no political experience on ANY LEVEL, and award him with the most important job on the planet.  

SO SINCE THE ELECTION......
I've read the Black Hole book, which turns out to have been written in 2013.  There are more recent events like the discovery of Gravitational Waves by the LIGO project which apparently solidifies the existence of those giant but not giant matter suckers that either do or don't do what particle physicists and relativists think they do or don't do.  

I'm still very confused but at least there's physical proof that they do exist....I think.

And that brings me to the book on Newton's Principia and how I've figured out what happened on November 8, 2016.

The problem is that I am mathematically challenged so equations, while extremely beautiful, mean nothing to me.  I need words and images....numbers, integers and symbols don't work for me even though I love looking at them....but while reading I stumbled upon something.

Giordano Bruno, a Dominican Friar, who was a mathematician, a poet, an astrologer and a philosopher decided to publicly reveal his opinions and findings.
He is remembered for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the Coperican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own planets and suggested that these planets could even foster life of their own.  He also said that the universe is infinite and might have no celestial body at it's "center."

HE WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE
BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN THE YEAR
1600

In case it slipped your mind this is 2016 (that's only 416 years ago)

So using Newton's style of problem solving one simply has to deduce that there hasn't been ample time for large portions of the human race to develop enough brain power to recognize when someone completely tricks them into making a decision that literally makes no sense on any logical level....and also possibly places their lives and the lives of their children in jeopardy.

WE NEED MORE TIME AND MORE SCHOOLING.  HAVING MORE FAITH IN OURSELVES WOULD ALSO BE HELPFUL.

Hopefully there will come a time in the near future where someone won't be able to verbalize hateful falsities and scare people into making a decision that is only based on name recognition and celebrity status.

BY THE WAY.....this was the ultimate CELEBRITY APPRENTICE mindf**k moment and he pulled it off because we aren't smart enough....yet.

We, as a species, will eventually get there and hopefully his time in the White House won't damage the system beyond repair.

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump.
FOREVER IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS

If that makes any sense....GOD HELP YOU and GOD HELP US ALL.

But like I said,  I think I figured it out.  We aren't stupid, we just aren't smart enough
YET.

We will get there!

Michael Timothy McAlevey