I have had this idea before but never written it down, but its struck me today in several ways so I just had to put this out here. Since the 90's I have been follow sites that have some edge to them, mostly UFO and Cryptozoology type sites, a kind of X- Files moment that sort of lead me to the alt. news sites I'm sure you know some of the larger ones. Well being a news hound in my way (in the 70's for a brief moment I got to work as an un-payed volunteer at an independent radio station), so I got a taste of the reported wire story and what was later reported. So where I'm going with this is that in the run up to 2000, some of us may remember Y2K and everything that didn't happen. There was a theme that that ran underneight (sp.) all the web reporting at lest in the US and I at the time I said; yes well that makes good political fiction but highly unlikely to happen. Well slowly some of it did, or at lest seems to have but not in the way it was predicted in the 90's, no computers crashing, no wild eyed panic in the streets.

So here I sit surfing the web watching sites report the restriction of so much, the wars and rumors of wars or worse, but not from the far edge of things, but more mainstream from the people that still scoff and UFOs or strange beasties. I just had to wonder what was it that signaled to some a big change was afoot , were these ideas always out there in some form, with history and human nature some how expressing these themes? Sorry it may be too much politics in the air, The last eight years of curious George. I really don't know, but I can't shake the bad feeling thats similar to the one I felt in the wonderful year of 1999. But maybe its just the meal not settling right, taken my neighbor to the emergency room tonight.

I guess I just have to focus more on non-politic pursuits again, sometime next week I will get some stuff on the Spanish exploration of the Pacific coast of north America (but see here politics is a player) and next month I have a little adventure to research the Mound Builders, a series of advanced cultures that rose and faded for unclear reasons (environment and political collapse), but those ceremonies must have looked like looking up at the temple at the summit of the mound and surrounding that temple tall poles wrapped in copper, the invocation during a thunderstorm and lightening striking all around the temple. Must have been a sight to see I know I would have been impressed by the sight.

Well just had to wonder it any one else had thinking about the political stuff, not many people would care about a long ship sailing along an unknown coastline, and how that almost brought two empires into conflict. Or the mystery of the mound builders and why did north America have this florescence of complex culture along a similar timeline, but more of that later.