Pluto's skin has various shades of color. While these colors have been enhanced and altered to highlight subtle differences in the landscape, these variations in shades of color help demonstrate Pluto's diversity, complexity and beauty. We see grays, browns, reds, yellows and whites. Our planet too, has multiple shades of colors as do its inhabitants. These variations of colors tell various stories with differing backgrounds and histories. Its these variations that help paint a colorful history of diversity yet also one of simple singularity. A while back I was pondering a concept and mentioned to some coworkers that I had been working on a thought for a couple weeks. They all started laughing and joking about anyone taking days or weeks to develop a thought which demonstrates to me just how little they apply themselves to the process of thinking. |
In the room there were three white Anglo Saxon type (EuroAmerican) people, one yellow/brown skinned Cambodian, one black African American and me with my confused freckled skin so it seemed like a good time to posit my idea.
I explained, I haven't fully worked it out in my mind but here's the general idea. Noticing the change of mood, I stopped and asked, should I continue, does this seem like something to talk about? No, go ahead, one person responded. I had placed the bait, set the hook, time to reel them in. |
Between zero and 20° latitude (equator) is where the greatest intensity of sunlight is experienced on Earth. The melanin in our skin protects us from sunlight UV radiation damage. The more we are exposed to sunlight, the more melanin required to protect us, else we die from skin cancer as evolution naturally weeds out those whose skin can't take the heat and we are left with those who can.
The more melanin, the darker the skin. Hence black people are more abundant and naturally exist at zero to 20° latitude. Within this zone is where we find Africa's Great Rift Valley (mankind's birth place). People in this zone have dark to black skin, dark eyes and thick black nappy hair. |
Between 20° to 40° latitude the sun strikes Earth at a slight angle glancing off a little more than the zero to 20° zone. Within this zone we find what we refer to as brown skinned people in places like Spain, Italy and Mexico with little tree cover. These people mostly have brown skin, brown eyes and thick brown straight or sometimes curly hair. |
Also contained within this zone between 30° to 40° is another zone where the Native American people thrived which are sometimes called red skinned.
Native Americans had plenty of sunlight and tree cover providing them with conditions of intense sunlight intermixed with shade. They typically have reddish brown skin, brown eyes and straight black hair.
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Between 40° to 50° latitude we encounter Asian people. The angle of the sun hitting the Earth is more obtuse in this zone and human skin requires less protection so the melanin is reduced giving this group lighter skin. People in this zone are sometimes referred to as yellow skinned and have brown straight hair with brown eyes. From 45 to 50 degrees in Mongolia the people are typically light to brown skinned with dark straight hair and dark eyes. |
Between 50° to 60° latitude we find Europeans in places like Britain, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. There is little sunlight to damage the skin so the melanin is practically non existent and these people are often referred to as white with blue eyes and blond thin straight hair but they also may have black and red curly hair along with some green and brown eyes. |
People with red hair typically have freckles and their hair is often curly suggesting somewhere in their lineage there was some merging of the brown and white skinned people.
People with freckles have skin that is confused. The skin's melanin is not evenly distributed so tanning occurs in spots called freckles their hair is often curly and somewhere between brown and blond i.e. red, their eyes are more often than not blue. Melanin affects skin, eye and hair color. In large part these are the factors used to distinguish one race from another. Race is a debatable subject as we are all of the Homo Sapien species but race is loosely defined by variations between groups which have shared physical and cultural traits. Melanin is the primary component in our bodies that create variations in physical traits. |
Latitude Attitude
What is it that separates one race from another? Sunlight and the degree of our exposure to it. This can also separate a single race into classes and cause wars between races or even classes within a race. Why do people with light skin look down on people with dark skin? Typically those who work in the field harvesting food are exposed to more sunlight and are consequently darker. Farmers are considered peasants, uneducated, red necks (whites with sunburned necks from working in the sun), a lower class of society. |
This attitude of derision toward farmers extends to working (class) people as well. Four to five thousand years ago in a place like ancient Egypt it would have been easy to delineate between farmer and upper class because of skin tone. As more and more people performed working jobs indoors, the skin tone became less of a tell and the financial status exhibited by cloths and jewelry became the message of class status and separation or one persons perceived superiority over another. |
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I speak from first hand experience about managers since I once was one. Sixty employees, 5 supervisors and 2 secretaries reported to me.
Infrequently, within the mind of a manager, there is an unspoken tune that creeps into the mind and it sounds something like this. I sit at a desk, I tell people what to do, I have arrived, I am above them, I am better than them, I am superior to them because they work and I don't. This attitude has no color boundary, its called arrogance and it exists in all skin tone shades. |
What a shame it is that we elevate those who do little above those who provide for us all, what a shame.
Trash men, chefs, farmers, auto mechanics, technicians, plumbers, landscapers, where would we be without them? I come from a mixed family of preachers, teachers, politicians, shady salesmen, pilot, farmers, nurse, welder, pipe fitter, department store manager, slum lord, car rental agent, mechanic and technician, |
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There is a phrase you've likely heard.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Yet those who can't, act like they are superior to those who can. Working class people tend to envy the non worker while the non worker tends to look down on the worker as if the sole distinction between groups is "I'm better than you". This delusion leads to separation, separation leads to strife, strife can lead to all out war. I found management to be an intolerable occupation. After five years I began saying no, and was fired. Actually, I quit when I started saying no, I quit letting other's turn me into a psychopath. To be an effective manager you must be a liar without a conscience these are the primary traits of a psychopath and are a necessity for management in America.
The most successful managers in our society need to have the ability to screw people over without any concern for their actions and they must lie to people as easily as breathing this is why the worst of society are promoted into positions of power where they make decisions that not only destroy lives but the planet. To better understand this psychopathic behavior study Kenneth Lay or Jeffrey Skilling of Enron, or the former NASDAQ Chairman Bernard Madoff or Halliburton Oil president and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. |
Dick Cheney shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face with a shotgun, Harry survived and apologized to Dick for being shot.
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Alex Jones conducts an experiment with the spread pattern from a shotgun blast from various distances.
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Another American psychopath manager is Ajit Pai FCC Chairman and former Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications Inc who has recently succeeded at ending net neutrality. Need I mention Donald Trump? These are trained psychopathic managers backed by corporate wealth to migrate into politics so they can then dictate American domestic and foreign policy which in turn serves corporate interests. Is it any wonder the US is so fucked up? |
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Dick Cheney ex-president of Halliburton Oil and VP of the US wanted Iraqi oil for Halliburton Oil so false information was distributed suggesting Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
This allowed the US to initiate an illegal war implanting through no bid contract's Halliburton into Iraq. This lead to them generating profit by supplying food and services at 1.8 billion dollars in unsupported cost for services like doing one bag of laundry for a hundred dollars by Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) a Halliburton subsidiary which over charged the US government and tax payers for services not rendered. |
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This US imposed war fostered by Dick Cheney and the lie of weapons of mass destruction was initiated more to steel resources and money from American's than it was initiated to steel from the Iraqis.
This Iraq war cost the US more than a trillion dollars. Most wars take place for control of resources like land, access to waterways, food, money, theft or metals (copper, iron, silver or gold) but there is something else behind the driving force of war. |
Contempt
Philanthropist billionaires look down on millionaires as playboys, millionaire's look down on middle class thousandaires as not having arrived, thousandaire's look down on poverty stricken hundredaires as being lazy with an attitude of "Work harder, I did", hundredaire's look down on the homeless tenaires saying "Get a job". Each step up the financial class ladder the less empathy we tend to possess for those in pain and suffering to the point of all out contempt. Contempt of others leads to justification of their destruction and control. |
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Anyone reading this, has a computer and, doesn't truly understand real poverty.
If you are able to dig around in a trash can (bin) and find something to eat you don't know real poverty. My class mates in Mexico lived in adobe homes with no glass windows or front door, they cooked in fire pits outside the house, the floor was dirt. It was a cultural shock for me as a child to see what I saw in Mexico. I thought they were poor because they were lazy. I thought they were lazy because everything stopped mid day every day for siesta. |
Siesta (rest)
Another misconception by most is the concept of siesta.
In America siesta is basically considered an afternoon nap or time to rest. In Mexico everything shuts down and closes at siesta. I had to walk home from school at noon and return at 3 pm for siesta. Buses stopped. Businesses closed. Schools closed. Everything stops because its so frickin hot. People from northern latitudes don't understand this because they don't experience this oppressive heat. The Sun literally drains your energy and sucks the life out of you. Migrating northward toward higher global latitudes out of the extreme heat (sunlight) zone, culturally and historically, people did not have a need to siesta instead choosing to work through the day. This extended work period, allowed for more productivity, more creativity, more energy, more time to make money, more time to innovate. |
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Life is a competition for survival. As predators develop advantages, prey respond by developing defenses commensurate with the need to survive.
One example is nearly all predators have eyes in the front of their head so they can focus on their chase of the prey. Nearly all prey animals have their eyes on the side of their head with nearly 360 degrees of visibility giving them a greater chance of seeing and escaping the predator. |
Most carnivores can eat some pretty nasty meats without adverse side effects.
Animals like Comodo dragons or alligators can digest just about anything. Things that would kill us become a pleasant snack for them. Sunlight released as fire from wood has caused our digestive processes along with our brain to radically alter. By cooking meat we kill bacteria that might kill us making our digestive system weak compared to other animals. |
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In the Ted Talk video Dr. Medler displays this image reflecting a rough time frame for some human trait developments.
The Hairlessness one is followed by a question mark as it should be. I have heard a couple theories as to how we went from hairy ape to hairless but they always left me feeling like they missed the mark. One theory suggests we spent a lot of time as monkeys swimming in lagoons or shallow oceans so we began to lose our hair similar to how dolphins or whales lost theirs. |
The female of all species decide what mate she will choose. The female decides what is or is not attractive and what type of genes will get passed along to subsequent generations. Surveys of women have been conducted and it holds true that women prefer men with hairy faces and smooth bodies. Amoungst groups of monkeys there is a pecking order and female's tend to be at the bottom of that pecking order. |
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Monkeys spend a lot of time grooming and picking insects off each other and the ones that do the most picking are the ones at the lower end of the pecking order.
If you were an early version of a bipedal female ape with a growing brain getting smarter and smarter and you saw a rising leader in the group that had less body hair requiring less bug picking you might be more attracted to that particular monkey. Less body hair means less time required for picking and eating bugs, onto bigger and better things. Less nit or gnat picking more together time. |
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Can't we all just get along?
Nope! Not as long as there are those who think they are better than someone else. Not as long as the wealthy few seek to impose their destructive will on the many. Get up stand up don't give up your rights Get up stand up don't give up the fight. |
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There is an experiment performed on frogs that goes something like this.
Set a pot of water to boiling and drop the frog in and it will immediately jump out saving its life. However, if you place a frog in a nice cool pot of water then slowly raise the heat until the water is boiling the frog will not jump out saving its life. Slowly increasing the amount of discomfort will cause the frog to become apathetic to the danger it faces. |
How do you fight for sunlight?
With your money. Money is what large corporate special interest groups understand Spend your money on things that support the Earth. Study to understand whose pulling the wool over your eyes. Find a farmers market that sells locally grown foods. Educate yourself, its free, it just takes time and effort. Reduce your consumption of electricity. Learn about vampire electronics. Replace your incandescent light bulbs with LED light bulbs. Turn off the lights in unused rooms. When you leave a room at work turn the lights off. Use ceiling fans more than air conditioners. |
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Turn off your computer monitor when not in use.
If you have an old refrigerator in your garage or basement, unplug it. Use a power strip to completely turn off multiple vampire electronic devices with one quick easy switch. Understand how your use of electricity converts directly into coal fired polluting power plants. Vote for Senators who fight for the climate and against those who don't (who's my senator?) Don't support companies like GM, Exxon, Halliburton, Monsanto, British Petroleum, Firestone Tire, ALCOA or Dupont. If you have a fireplace, buy a wood burning stove insert and save 30% on taxes. Support businesses like Elon's Tesla Car Company and Solar City. Read and compare the EnergyGuide electric usage on appliances before you buy. |
Buy Energy Star efficient devices.
Drive less. If you can afford it, buy solar panels. At Christmas gift LED light bulbs (it saves the recipient money for 25 years) All these ideas boil down to one thing. Care enough about our planet to take some personal action. Don't bury your head in the sand and act like your actions don't matter. We the people are many, small actions by many people add up to large results. |
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"Fight against climate change" = "Mission Impossible"
They also tend to mock the efforts I've suggested, as if taking these actions is meaningless or too meager to help in any way. Being a pessimists is easy, it requires no effort. Being an optimist, however, requires personal effort. |