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What
Dreams Will Come!
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by:
Seamus Dolly
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As
the pioneers of aviation took to the air (not skies), in their human
powered mechanical contraptions, what must have been said and thought?
Complicated pulleys and chain systems enclosing a lunatic, perhaps!
Or overly optimistic cyclists with designs above their head, even.
Yet they left us with the beginnings of international and
inter-planetary travel, its’ destinations, physical and figurative.
What of the scientists and chemists, self-sent to the grave through
misadventure and experiment?
And their journals, which were and are hard copy legacies unbound by
the limiting confines of the grave? Something was learned, in the big
picture!
A spark of madness, as it seemed, was the ignition source for
technological explosions.
Original computer models had lighting sequences, which was something,
but couldn’t have evolved without enthusiasm, imagination, finance and
time, into what it is today. At that point in history, it couldn’t have
happened elsewhere on the planet, in the same way and speed. The
formula for advancement would have been incomplete. Indeed, it couldn’t
have happened at that rate, without mass optimism and lots of people
pulling in the same direction.
You see, something hypothetical or seemingly ridiculous can be some
thing brilliant. The first aviators understood that a bird held no
magical power, whatever about altitude. If these men couldn’t fly, well
then they would have learned new engineering techniques, along the way.
What dreams will come for the generations of today’s’ prosperous
societies where children can access resources to overcome relatively
minor learning disabilities, opposed to the aggressive and ignorant
resources that successfully placed previous generations in the back of
the schoolroom? The visual vantage point that it offered hardly
compensated for hearing loss or impairment perceived as indifference.
What of the premature or “early” babies now breathing air where it
always was, but previously too young to attain it? Or the thousands of
people whose real lives were initiated “IN VITRO” (in glass)? New
people that wouldn’t have been, is the result.
Likewise with those having hearts incapable of the pumping cycles
expected for life, some thirty years ago. Not new people with more
life, is the result.
The “borrowed time” cliché is now redundant, somewhat ridiculous and a
primitive view.
Modern medical procedures have made time it seems, with the clock of
yesterday being wound with the hand of today.
Blindness and its’ confederates have been “blind-sided” by cutting and
therapeutic tooling and processes, initially designed to produce
coherent light. The laser is lighting the way with eyesight improved
beyond its’ so called natural state of efficiency, with respect to age.
Glasses and contact lenses are dispensed to the recycle bin, and rarely
missed, where the finance exists.
Bone marrow and the life liquid that it generates is not necessarily
confined to its’ original “coil”, in life, and has helped many to
further appreciate their terrestrial experience.
Organs, once seemingly, having sole ownership, are transferable to no
little extent. It is the thought of life that is really yours and is
less transferable, though not completely.
Non-life threatening cosmetic conditions such as simple “over-bites” or
incisor/molar misalignment must be a thing of the recent past. Look
around and count them up. This corrective procedure helped many
overcome their personal and previously stigmatised, physical
appearances.
Botulinum toxin or botox is commonplace as a signal blocker.
Apparently, all muscular control is no longer essential, not that it
ever was, but where specific muscles are paralysed, more favourable
effects can occur. A “frown”, whether the result of intense and
prolonged concentration, or simply, “the way it is”, can essentially,
be neutralised.
Incidentally, botox was first used to treat “lazy eye” in 1980.
These two things alone, dental and facial configuration and
re-configuration, dramatically change the outward appearance and is
life-changing to those involved, whether it should be or not. That
supermodel you know, for example, may not be in their present position
without some intervention.
Democracies (whatever their downside), are increasing (Europe),
bringing security and hope to generations of war-weary and impoverished
countries. Belonging to something bigger must help in forgetting
internal or local squabbles. Someone said that there was never a war
between democracies, presumably, because deals can always be done where
commerce is the key.
Once an idea has been “set”, these days by groups and earlier by
somewhat isolated individuals, it is inevitable that they will come to
fruition in the same or similar form. Those “rough” men in their
contraptions didn’t or couldn’t envisage more modern contraptions,
leaving the confines of EARTH for they had some of what it takes, but
not all.
It is to decide and deliver the idea that is the most difficult thing
these days, for if it is accepted by just a handful of people, then
commitment is made, and conviction remains. Genetic engineering will
drive on, whether we all like it or not. Behind closed doors or openly
in the cities’ plazas, the idea is set.
Isn’t it this flexibility that makes us a unique and successful species
and isn’t it exactly what removed us from the caves and the clutches of
carnivores?
The plains of the Serengeti have been replaced by the pleasures of
palaces (relatively). The vastness of the imagination becomes the
legends of history the possibilities of people, and the clutches of
carnivores are substituted with the comfort of couches.
Retractors are the obstacle and protractors, the removers!
About the Author
Seamus is at www.CountControl.com
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