Einstein's Birthday: Ideas worth celebrating...and legislating on.

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics.

But it was his application of his insights to sustaining civilization on earth that remains most vital to maximizing human freedom and security in our irreversibly interdependent world.  

"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner security."   -Albert Einstein.  As quoted in Quantum Reality, Beyond the New Physics, p. 250.

Our ‘grand illusion’ is that we are independent and separate from one another and nature.  This will be our inevitable undoing -- unless we come to a consensus that the “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” as expressed by our nation’s founding fathers (in the Declaration of Independence) are codified into all laws engineered by human minds in every nation.

FYI:  The US Constitution and the UN system of international law…are both based on the fundamentally flawed concept of ‘independence’.   Do the math.  These ‘systems’ of government and governance are simply unsustainable as long as states’ rights and the rights of government and corporations are protected above the protection of human rights.

Democracy has nothing to do with it as long as a majority of people believe humanity can survive under human laws that are simply delusional, unjust, and unenforceable.  Reality is simply and ultimately impervious to majority rule or opinion.