PHILANTHROPY & FRUSTRATION

Commentary #010

June 29, 2006

As many of you have heard in the news Warren Buffett, reportedly the second richest man in the world at this time, in his commendable philanthropic intent has decided to now start giving away a huge part of his immense fortune. He is apparently going to be eventually turning over in excess of $30 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established of course by the reportedly first richest man in the world Bill Gates. Also recently in the news is that Bill Gates reportedly intends to relinquish much of his control of Microsoft in order to concentrate on his own philanthropic work. These combined resources will of course amount to many many billions of dollars just from these two families alone.

The general goal of philanthropy is to productively place the power of such financial resources behind projects and ideals for the betterment of mankind. Ultimately some worthy and in need projects world wide will benefit from this financial trust. It's a very good thing with lofty goals. Sadly, the frustration aspect comes in with how this may be administered in who gets what and how much. As such giant foundations are inundated with appeals for support, many well educated very social types in nice dress suits will be making the decisions as to what goes up the line for a closer look and what gets blocked. Some degree of the decision making process will no doubt be influenced by people with inside track and contacts appealing to foundation personnel egos and mediocrity working against objectivity that will immediately start corrupting the charitable foundation's lofty goals.

I'm not being cynical here, just realistic about the prevalent Earth human condition. Commendably you can bet that solid needy issues such as for example those associated with the field of education, scholarships, libraries, etc. as well as world health will be and are already are well treated by this foundation. To a degree this may in part be because some of the very social foundation personnel will receive social rewards and positive feedback in such exchanges with these fields of endeavor. On the other hand, I fear that other equally worthy issues like those associated with animal rights, global deforestation, over population, etc. will receive only token or no attention because of the lack of such social recognition rewards in these fields for foundation people. For those involved in the support of these latter fields of endeavor watching foundation social types be less than objective in this way will I'm sure be frustrating.

However, for little old me, the most frustrating thing of all in this perhaps otherwise well intentioned philanthropic context is the complete lack of even token support for the promotion of truth for general populations in our global environment. Where is the support for creation and support of a "Truth In Information Foundation" with some real guts? Such a foundation backed by the reputation and tremendous financial resources of such powerful business moguls could do much to pry some truth out of the hands of those that would keep us all ignorant of so many things. What could be their reasoning for not supporting such a concept? Are they going to say to us, "you can't handle the truth" like Jack Nicholson's rough and tough military commander character in the 1992 movie "A Few Good Men?" More likely it would be the secrecy types addicted to control and acquisition issues who will not be able to handle the large populations they control being able to become more directly involved in our real greater environmental truths and adding their weight to the decision making processes!

Certainly I suspect you and I as citizens of our various countries can easily handle the clear benefits to us of technology that might for example enable our getting 100 mpg out of old-tech fossil fuels or for that matter the development of high-tech energy devices that may completely leave the need for fossil fuels behind and also may at the same time reduce or even eliminate the need for big business and/or governmental centralized control of such high-tech resources. It is only the minds of big business as well as leadership types addicted to a control and acquisition psychology that find such concepts disturbing as they see a chance of their respective financial intake and control of populations slipping away.

It is the same with the exploration of our greater planetary environments. Someone is unquestionably hiding some kind of important truth(s) from us in this regard. The growing visual anomalous evidence record (not necessarily my own narrative rhetoric) seen here at this website clearly demonstrates this to any reasonably independent thinking person. What ever it is, you and I need to know about it and banish our ignorance of this as well as their associated poor treatment of us in this regard.

Yet, like other worthy but small projects with the potential of tremendous world wide impact on mankind, this work and evidence record here at this website struggles year after year to come out only in a very restricted trickle in dribs and drabs because the person originating it and totally financially supporting it must do so without sufficient resources and part time on extremely limited time, money and energy resources as his need to otherwise make a living rules. Can you imagine what just a paltry few hundred thousand dollars infused into this work could do for this truth project out of the philanthropic many billions of dollars being poured into the Gates/Buffett Foundation. Think of it! Obviously I admittedly do and that is what I'm doing here to, expressing my own frustration and hence the title for this piece.

The problem is that support of some truth goal like this one would not be perceived as socially rewarding along and along to foundation personnel types. In fact, quite the opposite, support of controversial against the tide work like this would potentially involve a real messy conflict where things would not be good for a while before they may eventually get better. For example such a fight would almost certainly involve real social ridicule such as of course "crackpot" and other negative characterizations generated from deeply entrenched very real and very powerful opposition trying their best to maintain their status quo secrecy control as they perceived their own survival to be at stake. Likewise a mainstream public so long and thoroughly indoctrinated into the status quo for generations would be initially casting an incredulous eye on anyone trying to disturb their perception of their comfort zone. Can you imagine sophisticated well educated social suit foundation personnel types having the courage and commitment for such a initially unrewarding get down and get with it fight for what in some influential circles would be perceived as unwelcome truth?

So, sadly, grass roots efforts like this without sanction or support but with potentially something very real and positive to contribute to mankind in general stays well off the philanthropic radar and is thereby consigned to struggling along in a creeping slow fashion trying to eventually creep into more and more of the mainstream's awareness. It is the system we have and there is something seriously wrong with it. It generates ongoing blind ignorance and encourages eventual emotional reactiveness that potentially holds peril for us all, especially on issues like this one associated with our planetary environment and what may potentially be out there.

If we are surrounded by life other than our own and life more advanced than our own, the mainstream continuing to stick our collective head in the ground and pretending it doesn't exist isn't a viable strategy and is in fact fraught with far more peril than the truth. If we are surrounded by advanced life, we need to get on with the knowledge of it and start trying to deal with it from within and without on the mainstream level, not just on the elite insider chosen few level. Alternatively, if we really are alone, then we need to get on with the conclusive knowledge of that as well. Living in ignorance and denial on such matters is no answer at all.

Let's start with determining what that image tampering in the Navy/DOD Clementine imaging is hiding on the Moon right over our heads every night and proceed from there. Even better work than what you already see here at this website could perhaps help pioneer answers to such questions conclusively and help prepare the world for change if it was adequately supported by powerful philanthropic entities like the Gates/Buffett resource so that the non-tampered with true science data imaging and what information it really holds could be better uncovered and brought into the light of day. A comparatively very small amount philanthropic money could have a huge effective impact for mankind in this regard.

Sadly, too much of such philanthropic resources may eventually go in a similar direction as some of our tax dollars have done, such as buying $1,500 toilet seats and $500 hammers, etc. without correction. Yes, it is frustrating to watch and anticipate the potential for such foolishness attaching itself to such good intentions and such a huge resource when good work like this for mankind is ignored. Of course it's only my opinion but at least I have a place to share it. Hope you don't mind too much.