Notes - 'my' dream (dead to humans)

       Mid-afternoon with full sun. You are at Pine Hill Lakes Park, far north lot. Carol is beginning her reading of Steve Berry’s The Patriot Threat with the Prologue. You are slowly recovering from a pulled muscle in the lower back, unfortunately too close the lower spine. You took the first pain pill this year and although there is less lightning within there is plenty of sore, not so dull thunder on your lower left side.  – Amorella

       1503 hours. I was going crazy lying in bed all morning, and I was angry that I couldn’t do my exercises as usual; maybe later this afternoon. I suggested a Subway picnic just to get out of the house, pain or no. About two, shortly after the mail arrived, we headed uptown to the closest Subway rather than the one we usually go to near Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery. The road to the Little Miami is closed while they build a four-lane bridge across I-71 so we have to come back up to Western Row to cross the Interstate. Such is life in our surrounds. I am feeling a bit better. I drove the Avalon because the seats are more comfortable and the heating element comes further up the back of the seat. I have the second draft of Dead 11 to work on and finish today, at least that is my objective. (1513)

       First thing to do here is to reset in a regular sentence-paragraph style, then make changes as you feel them. – Amorella

       1514 hours. Ha. You sound like Obi-wan coaching Luke in his first session with the ‘Force’.

       Why would you think that, boy? – Amorella

       1547 hours. Home. You said, “make changes as you feel them,” not as I think of them. That sounds like Luke learning how to “let go” into the Force.

       Do you think of yourself as a Joseph Campbell ‘hero’ as depicted in the original Star Wars trilogy? – Amorella

       1551 hours. No. I do not think of myself as a hero. Merlyn (in my stories) is not a hero either – he is a dead dreamer.

       Do you see yourself as a dead dreamer? – Amorella

       1553 hours. Actually (I hadn’t thought this before that I can remember, at least not in this context) yes, I suppose I do. This question is pretty blunt and straight forward, Amorella.- rho

       And in your ancient vernacular I was ‘right on’ don’t you think? – Amorella

       1557 hours. This can certainly explain a lot of my creative thoughts and recent endeavors – making Merlyn the dead dreamer rather than that which I appear to be.

       What was your dream? – Amorella

       1600 hours. Taking into account that I am a private person and would just as soon be left alone living, as well as when dead, the dream was to help create a direction for building a better world for humankind. Basically, that better world is living more closely to the Marsupial Humanoid Model of ‘the greater family’-civilization rather than to our own, particularly as the United States. Being independent should have its limits because human behavior has its limits. No man is an island. Homo-sapiens are by-in-large have a group-oriented nature. Politics and religion have distorted what are species is. I think we can live righteously, so to speak, within our nature. We can live according to the goodness in our nature. Several general rules, not laws, come to mind. “Be moderate in all things”; Do unto others what you would have them do unto you”; “Attempt to be fair and just in dealing with one’s self as well as with others”; and “Share accountability”.

       My marsupial humanoids are given two pills when sixteen. One will kill them instantly (without pain) and the other will make them deathly ill before they become well again. The two pills work with the individual’s DNA only. The two pills look and weigh, etc. exactly the same. This is not a pie in the sky philosophy. People look out for their friends; that’s what the pills do. No one wants to see a friend leave, no one wants to see a friend in a great distressing illness, even knowing sheorhe will eventually recover. This is a sample of my dream – it’s no utopia, that’s for sure.

       Economically, everyone is given a yearly allowance (graduated by years of life) to survive decently, one works for the Greater Family, elected leaders who can serve only once in their lifetime, a decade, let’s say. These elected people are essentially ‘parents in charge of the rules and work assignments, education, public safety and welfare. Today, I suppose the minimum yearly salary at 18 would be $50,000 and the maximum at 80 and above would be $150,000 each person. This would be very difficult for many people, to be judged by age for money earned no matter what the job assigned (which would be a job for which one was suited at the time). At 16, college/universities and graduate schools would be paid for by having it taken out of one’s salary. Nothing is free. Yearly taxes are a straight ten percent for everyone 18 and older. The governments forgive their itemized debt yearly. Anyone thinking forgiving a dept yearly does not cost the individual is not thinking. Why, because it is not right economically even if it is for the greater good. Most would want the debt to be as small as possible, but even then there would be a great debt. This would be the worth of ever individual surviving. Seeing that debt pile up every year and then forgiven would take some getting used to. But then, it is not a perfect world is it? That’s the general gist of how it goes in my dream. In here, it works for the Marsupial Humanoids partly because they have three planets and are twenty thousand years advanced in living by their rules. Biologically, it is easier for marsupial humanoids to adapt – for one reason – birth control is naturally understood, besides they live mostly in small groups of four to six (human-wise). It takes a small group to raise a child. (1656)

       The above is what comes to mind, off the cuff, so to speak. – Amorella

       1657 hours. The shock of such a thriving civilization would be too much for humans to get a grasp of, let alone handle. That’s my thinking, my dark humor. Marsupial humanoids living a better life than Earth humanoids. It is all rather funny. The idea came from how the Native Americans might have felt after being contacted by the Europeans or how the Amazonians felt after being contacted by modern Brazilians and other foreigners. Tit for tat, so to speak – a humor that I think the long dead would understand – the nature of the universe is to grow and adapt or die. This is no different. 

       You’re arrogance is showing, boy. – Amorella

       1703 hours. I don’t give a damn, Amorella. It’s my dream, and has been since 1988, not Merlyn’s.

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