I am guessing we have all seen on our socials, headlines like "how science is about to open a portal" or "the 5th dimension will change everything."
Conspiracy theorists abound have already begun crafting narratives about how experiments in quantum and/or particle physics will lead us right into higher or parallel dimensions.
For some people out there, we have already crossed timelines with our sibling dimensions because of the particle busting happening deep under the Swiss alps. And, with a growing population having these experiences named "the Mandela Effect," it seems there is a good reason to believe something enigmatic is happening right before our eyes. Are the Masters of the Universe, Penn and Teller?
Probably not, but that would be ironically funny.
Before we jump into this infinite dumpster fire, I think we should clarify what all these things are for our readers who might not be so familiar with these slightly esoteric concepts.
So, basically what is going on is that a lot of people around the world are remembering a different shared history than the rest of us. Being as Skeptical as I am though, upon hearing about this phenomena, I barley gave it one cent of my attention.
But the details go as followed, a paranormal researcher by the name of Fionna Broom in 2010 began reporting that she believed Nelson Mandela died in the 80's, so when Mandela actually died in 2013, many people who shared this same false memory begin to spread what we know as the Mandela Effect on the internet.
As most stories do over time, they evolve, change, and add to their legend, the Mandela Effect began to produce more and more examples of large groups of people sharing the same "False Memories."
This is easily explainable though due to the fact that humans are venerably social and superstitious creatures. Humans spread and get infected with social contagions that can make us believe things that are just fundamental nonsense, simply so that we might get to be a part of a group whom of which we perceive as cool to us.
But let's imagine for a second that the Mandela Effect is real, have a real thought experiment in the very least. If people are really remembering a past from another dimension, it seems to not really get itself started until around 2010, give or take.
Disregarding the fact, that the first account is from a person who swims in supernatural hypothesis for a living, and let just assume her experience is real as it can consequently be, then that means something had to cause dimensions to intermix, that is of course, if dimensions even exist in the first place.
Higher, Parallel, or Extra dimensions, depending on what you mean, are believed to exist because of several scientific conclusions that are made because of black holes, big bang, and quantum mechanics, particularly string theory, M-theory, eternal inflation, and the many worlds interpretation.
Without pulling out the heavy guns to go deeper into these concepts, let's just accept that other dimensional physical and maybe temporal states can and probably do exist.
From here, we only now have to simply ask: Where are the labs that conduct experiments related to these fields of physics?
The most popular, well-known one is CERN. At Cern, they are smashing elementary particles together at higher and higher speeds in hopes to eventually peak behind nature's curtain.
CERN was founded in 1954, but the most significant moment was when the Higgs Boson was seen in 2012. In 2009, though, is when they first begin to have particle collisions.
In Feb of 2010, the collider started up again with the highest energy achieved yet.
The very next month, March 2010, the reached 3 and half times higher energies.
By the end of the year, they observed a huge imbalance of energy and the construction of Top Quark Pairs.
Now, of course, the Mandela Effect didn't grow over night. From 2010 through the present, 2022, in 12 years, we have seen in grow into a cultural global phenomena. Through those years, however, there were many more runs at the LHC, including the one that proved the existence of the Higgs Boson in 2012.
Conspiracy theorist, will look at all these energy collusions as they cause of dimensions getting crossed.
Jokingly, we could even say that's how we got Trump in 2016, our reality got entangled into the Simpsons dimension, but seriously if something this extraordinary was taking place, I don't think we would stop doing what we are doing, which is probing reality until we can craft a place we could all call home, a little place called Utopia.
Today is Veteran's day in the year 2022 and I am here at the office writing this article, but you know who else is also at work today?
Our company's veterans.
I echoed this question through the halls of cubicles: Veterans don't get off of work today? The answer, of course, was No!
Really?
How is that not a thing?
The one day of the year that Veterans get for their service and they are forced to go into work? I am not for sure how that even gets to work out. Now, surely there are some companies that might offer that option to their fellow veteran employees, but for it not to be a standard practice in a country that loves to show its support for the troops, surely, melts my patriotic brain.
In all my days working in various position for various companies, I have barely even heard a whisper of this day in November, not a pizza party or anything. At the very least we could get a pizza party, don't ya think? But, No, there is no pizza party, no veteran's cake, not even a wave of the flag and a-thank- you-for-your-service card.
So what is the point of having a Veterans Day?
Should we be playing with Origami instead? Watching war movies drinking beers with our buds having a war-movie marathon party? After all, it is Friday.
The most humble thing that a person could do would be to honor their family members who are vets in some kind of way, but let's not be so humble that we can't all admit that a paid-day off of work, is a gift that would put a smile on most people's faces.
The best way to honor me is to offer me one more day of freedom, freedom from work, from danger, freedom of time, freedom from financial obligations, freedom to sit my ass down and do whatever the fuck I want within the bounds of the law, of course. Even if it is just for a day, it's a gracious gift.
The 2022 Mid-terms have crashed ashore but results are still coming in with both sets of voters clinching their teeth as a run-off in Georgia looms, the GOP hoping to increase their wave of influence and the Democrats hoping to resist a rather disappointing t'sunami. But, as of the present moment, the Republicans are holding the lead inching ever so closer to controlling congress with a
48-46 Senate and a 209-186 House.
These Mid-terms seem especially important for both teams this year due to issues such as the economy and abortion on many people's minds. Plus, with our country coming fresh off the heels of a global pandemic into a conflict with Russia, (not to mention the Capital Hill fiasco and the George Floyd tragedy that lead to riots and protests nearly all year long during the Summer of Covid), voters on all sides are more motivated and passionate than recent history has seen in decades, yet through intense showings of emotion, there appears to be no progress in this country for either opposition whereas both sides think they are playing "11D chess."
But what does progress look like, anymore, especially, when progress for one side looks just like regress for the other side? For now, right-wing progress would be taking control of congress and stopping what they call "woke culture" from infected the halls of the United States Government and society at large. Dems hoping, of course, to do the opposite which is continue the cultural changes that were originally planted, watered and grown in universities through the 2010's.
Without going into too much detail about the specifics of Woke culture and Anti-woke culture, the challenge moving forward for both gangs are trying to convince moderates, libertarians and the apoliticalists on why one philosophy is more dangerous than the other. However, for moderates the opposition is the extremism on both sides, for the libertarians, it's the authoritarians on both sides and for the apoliticalists, it's the corruption and hypocrisy on both sides that prevent them from giving a damn either way.
The social and political pressure to join either one or the other mob is enough to make most people wave their hand in a jerk off motion at those who are hell bent on defeating the other side. The you-are-either-with-us-or-against-us-Bush mentality is what has lead many people into fighting conflicts that they had no business fighting in the first place.
But, wait, this is our country! Of course, we have something to do with this conflict! How can we just sit here, aloof and indifferent about who shapes the culture of our homeland? People should care about the beliefs and values their fellow countryman holds regarding how humans should conduct themselves as a group of citizens. If we just sit here deadpanned and uninvolved, then the loudest and most extreme people will rise to power.
This kind of rhetoric is what those entrenched in warfare will try to convince you of. And, if you have a Swiss-state of mind, you may be demonized by both sides even more than if you had picked a side, because they need you to fight for their team; they need another outraged mob member to add to their numbers, another voice yelling out across the aisle to someone who looks just like yourself but is wearing a different color shirt.
I fight for Blue! I fight for Red! I fight for democracy! I fight for individual liberty! I fight for reproductive freedom! I fight for the protection of children! I fight for my family! I fight for free speech! I fight for safe spaces! I fight for my identity! I fight for minorities! I fight for equity! I fight for equality! I fight for Americans! I fight for humans!
Because when you put a word that sounds noble after the verb fight, it always makes you feel like the good guy, doesn't it? Fighting for a good cause makes conflict seem excusable. But the real question is who does conflict benefit? Fighting always benefits the mediating party, the more messier of a divorce, the more money for the lawyers. Here is the acceptance speech from Ron DeSantis speaking on Woke Culture.
Conflict creates cash. Fighting makes money seem absolutely necessary to be spent. If you have come to believe that your world is going to end unless you fight your pending opposition, you will enthusiastically spend your money on fighting. If I can convince a group of people that poisonous rain is coming and it will melt their skin, I would make a killing off of umbrellas.
So cheer if you want, that republicans are winning, but the rich will keep getting richer while the poor continuously get left behind by inflation and that's the real issue that neither side seems to be addressing.
