Monday, February 6, 2012

The Language Barrier (Thursday, June 9, 2011)

          Diversity in general is always advertised as good, it depicts originality! However, there is a darker side to the story of diversity which is rarely analyzed. In the case of the world's languages it has been deeply rooting a setback since the beginning of language diversity that is documented. Today there is an estimate of 6, 909 known living languages (Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th ed., 2009; http://bit.ly/mxJkd5), and somewhere around 39.5k alternative languages/dialects. This alarming number of world languages hasn't only resulted in the hindering of communications in a regional geographic scale, but of course in the global scale as a whole.

In the near future the languages of the world will have to merge back into original languages (i.e. Latin, Greek) simply because we just can't effectively communicate fast enough across the board. Diversity is not always great; it's just holding the world back from coming together in this case. If everyone in the world would be on the "same page," government bodies, organizations, etc., the world's economy itself would be at a much safer level, not to forget mentioning technology and any important research program. Originality has its dues, and some are not desirable.
There might be a singular language to derive from Portuguese, Spanish (including subgroups; Catalán, Gállego, etc.), French, Italian, and Romanian (all Latin rooted languages) to compose an international language that represents that subgroup of world languages. In this case I would not favor Latin because it's too old and too rough for even Latin cultures to revisit this language. Although, a form of Spanish mixed with Italian I would think, might work and sound very good; merging the differences in word spellings and pronunciations into easy forms to represent both, and easy enough for the other Latin languages to easily understand the verbs and copy them. Also, there could be a form of English that can represent German, and all German-based languages from Scandinavia and all other European countries. English itself is a German rooted language of course. We can't afford to live as disparate kingdoms each with its own language like in the early feudal systems anymore.

Uniting the world is very important to overcome world economic struggles. Although, we have to make sure not to establish a world dictatorship, and neither a one single overseeing language, but rather everyone cooperating to benefit everyone, with a globally standardized small group of languages.

The 2012 Doomsday Prophecy: A Psychological Self-fulfillment (Thursday, June 2, 2011)

          A doomsday prophecy can greatly materialize just from the beliefs in the prophecy itself, becoming what is termed a 'self-fulfilling prophecy.' 

          If the fear of a "chain of events unleashing" on late December of 2012 is actually widespread in the great majority of the world’s population, it could ultimately result in a fear epidemic that changes peoples life’s at both mental and environmental levels. This would leave a void of vulnerabilities for actual physical events to manifest, like in the example of a deliberate organized waive of criminal acts taking place. Otherwise, I’m not a conspiracy plot theorists, but there have been instances that greater organizations or government bodies have actually dirtied themselves, or are currently dirtying themselves in this kinds of negative activities, another possibility that is always open and worthy to keep in mind. So, in a shorter explanation, people can actually self-initiate a worldwide doomsday scenario indirectly. This makes the belief in a self-initiated, well defined, and area(s) specific targeting (as advertised) doomsday scenario a big misconception, if not one on the list of the greatest misconceptions of all time.

The Mayans stopped their calendar at 2012 simply because it was the end of their time cycle. Why would any civilization calculate time so far as even more than 12 thousand years ahead of them not knowing if they’d even be alive? Yes, this end-of-cycle period was believed by the Mayans themselves to be accompanied by physical environmental changes to “initiate the stage for a new age” in the physical world, but these changes can range from simple weather patterns (i.e. El Niño) to the actual well feared end of the world. So, it’s definitely not certain to conclude that the world will actually end. The world can actually end from a dozen other universe triggered scenarios beyond our control at this very moment. So, the fear itself it’s just a great misplacement of thought in my opinion. Time on Earth ends when that time comes, not by our imaginations.