tzor wrote:Hari Seldon is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. In his capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on Trantor, Seldon develops psychohistory, allowing him to predict the future in probabilistic terms.
The Mule is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. One of the greatest conquerors the galaxy has ever seen, he is a mentalic who has the ability to reach into the minds of others and "adjust" their emotions, individually or en masse, using this capability to conscript individuals to his cause. Not direct mind-control per se, it is a subtle influence of the subconscious; individuals under the Mule's influence behave otherwise normally - logic, memories, and personality intact. This gives the Mule the capacity to disrupt Seldon's plan by invalidating Seldon's assumption that no single individual could have a measurable effect on galactic socio-historical trends on their own, due to the plan relying on the predictability of the actions of very large numbers of people.
The basic notion is that Hari Sheldon creates a long view of the universe which is considered so infallible that some 300 years later people would rather believe his predictions than the actual facts before their eyes.
And with that, we go to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who apparently still worships a modern day Hari Sheldon, also know as Al Gore."[Climate change] is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face as a nation and world," Clinton said at the National Clean Energy Summit 7.0 in Nevada on Thursday. "The data is unforgiving no matter what the deniers try to assert."
"Sea levels are rising, ice caps are melting, storms and wildfires are wreaking havoc…but if we come together to make the hard choices America can be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century," she added to applause.
Seriously, Mrs. Clinton, I think the current spreading Ebola epidemic, the growing ISIS Caliphate, and perhaps the Russian invasion into the Ukraine might be slightly more challenging than the myth of global warming, especially since the ice caps are not metling Sea level rises have been going on far longer than the industrial revolution and even rose during the “little ice age.” And for wildfires ... yes they are man made “As many as 90 percent of wildland fires in the United States are caused by humans. Some human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, negligently discarded cigarettes and intentional acts of arson.”
Oh and how much global warming are you causing Mrs. Clinton by your constant jetting from one end of the planet to the other complaining about people using fossil fuels? Stop thinking the models of your current Hari Sheldon are infallible gospel and start using your eyes to see what is going on around you. There are far more important stuff going on right now that really have a major threat to destroy the environment and to actually kill lots of people in nasty horrible ways.
Except all of the above are tied in to Global warming, seriously.
The bit about air travel I real, but goes to show why and how we are failing at controlling Global climate change. No one wants to face the reality.
In truth Global warming is not the Shelby paradigm.
The Shelby paradigm is that we are individuals and therefore have the right to tend to our individuals desires and wants over any universal global need. The global is too big, so its ignorable.
