He said that every democracy eventually decays into "a government of violence and the strong hand,"

leading to "tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishment's"

Polybius (circa 200-118 BC) Greek historian (Wikipedia)

...Google Images...

Donald Trump's turn to repeat history?

Modern Art?

    

American Politics 2016 (Updated)

Some PRO-LIFE information was from ICL (Illinois Citizens for Life) Lifeline Vol. 43 No. 2 (Winter 2016).  Please go to http://www.icl-life.com to view and download updates

     As I see things...myself being PRO-LIFE...

Donald Trump...I believe he is now PRO-LIFE with Exceptions...
Michael Pence...Fully PRO-LIFE...

Hillary Clinton...Totally opposed to PRO-LIFE issues...
Timothy Kaine...Will not support most PRO-LIFE issues...




 

Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

...Umberto Eco, one of my favorite writers, has passed away.  I remember feeling drawn to the above-pictured cover and book at a beautiful Barnes and Noble bookstore in Oak Brook, Illinois, eventually to buy it.  To me (and maybe even to him) "Foucault's Pendulum" (1988) was his best novel.  As this cover presages, his work, was and is, filled with mystical, mysterious musings on the arcane and esoteric.  Predating Dan Brown's popular book "The DaVinci Code" (2003), Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" anticipates and expounds on similar themes in an even more spectacular way...Rest In Peace Umberto Eco

Is Donald Trump the Antichrist? (Wink, wink, tongue-in-cheek)

 

(Original picture, without ARTISTIC numerical embellishment,
 found on Google Images)

...If Donald Trump wins the Presidency later this year, would this be a case of bored people needing ENTERTAINMENT?  It seems that certain Christian Bible "Scholars" (I use that term lightly) have proclaimed that we are living at the end of time or "End Times".  They say we are to expect an intelligent, charming, powerful man of destiny who will lead the nations with his magnificence!  And this man will turn out to be the Antichrist.  Hmm...I wonder who fits the bill? (Evidently, not Bill or Hillary Clinton)...

entropy

  ...Simply put, entropy (disorder) increases as time goes by. This SCIENTIFIC concept comes from the Second LAW of Thermodynamics. So the arrow of time goes from Order to disorder (like Cosmic Plasma from the Big Bang to current man-made elements).
     Entropy can also be seen as a cultural phenomena. Just watch the news. The ancients probably had their own descriptions of it. For example, Hindu's call our time the "Kaliyuga Age", while there is still goodness, it is an age of conflict, decay, destruction and evil, an "evil generation".  They say it started about 3,000 B.C. (I say with the rise of human culture) and will end after about 432,000 years, perhaps bringing our Universe to a fiery end. In "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov the answer to the problem of entropy was "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" indicating that our Universe is cyclic and will be born again. In Jeremy Rifkins' book on entropy he writes about entropy "watersheds" or times when entropy levels off. This could be akin to cultural "Golden Ages" like those of ancient Greece and, I believe, the recent or present United (Unified) States of America.
     Entropy appears to be how the game plays out...

(ROUGH DRAFT) Diversity?

...Wouldn't TRUE diversity in Hollywood (Center of the movie business WORLD-wide) and the media include more ISLAMIC representation? (Where have all the Sinbad movies gone? I always loved them).  For example, where is the Islamic news anchor or member of WORLD News Tonight on ABC?  With an estimated 2 BILLION Moslems world-wide you would think the Islamic world would be better represented in media.  Al Jazeera, and media news about terrorists are NOT enough!  And let's not forget Bollywood and the Orient...Holy Peace!