GALILEO MIDNIGHT SUN AMMONIA
Once upon a time, I crossed the pathway of an emergency response operator who worked up North surrounded by waters. His grandparents are native from Europe and he speaks Dutch. He drew a parallelism between wildfire in the Western World and human suffering in the Arabian Peninsula. We live in a city that hosts an international fireworks competition every summer.
He asked: «Have you watched fireworks this summer?»
I answered: «No, but I can hear the fireworks and sometimes catch a glimpse of fireworks up in the sky from downtown.»
He asked: «Did your interest fade for the event?»
I answered: «The event only lasts 30 minutes which is great to entertain the crowd. Personally, the sound sometimes reminds me of bombs. Imagine people who live in battle zones and need to run away from these weapons while their ears suffer injuries. Airplane ear and swimmer ear are nothing compared to the trauma left from bombs. A soldier acquaintance of mine once told me that he was instructed to play heavy metal music in war zones attempting to scare people who might be hidden in rubbles. But, he abhorred the idea knowing that these frightened people had nowhere to go and hammering their existence with heavy metal music is an insult to an injury.»
He answered: «I understand what you mean. I no longer enjoy outdoor campfire because it reminds me of the damage I had witnessed from wildfires at youth that prompted my family to relocate. When I became an emergency response operator, I also had flashbacks of the smell of burned flesh. It is fascinating how the brain stores memory and how flashbacks come back.»
He added: «It is extremely difficult to contain wildfires caused by climate change and mother nature. My Dutch grandparents look at a new country located in the Arabian Peninsula and yet notice striking resemblance to a Dutch country that experimented on them: the wall, the army and the treatment of a sieged population trapped in their walls. Yet, the Dutch country can still pull off the Oktoberfest gathering tourists all over the globe as if their wrongdoing on human experiment had been erased from history books for a pint of beer! I am not sure why the new country cannot get along with a culture that prohibits alcohol.»
I asked: «Do you get agitated when people redirect the problem to sell off the solution that border countries ought to play superheroes?»
He answered: «Emerging countries and developed countries are not equipped to deal with the current migrant crisis, scaled as an inflow of thousands of people, around the globe. Countries are bound to first protect their people are deal with internal problems just like they have done during the Covid epidemic. It sounds like people are sleeping on gas assuming that bordering countries can greet a couple of million people. As an emergency response operator, we are trained to contain the erupted zone not spread it left and right. Requesting other countries to simply open borders will likely create contagion and spillover effects. Can a continent afford a domino effect? Never! The latter could lead to cunning & deceitful military intelligence tactics to then accuse neighboring countries, already on the verge of collapse, of facilitating terror attacks. Besides, stripping civilians off their land is like burning the passport of a refugee and a catalyst for a total blackout.»
I asked: «Do you think there will be an end?»
He answered: «For having delt with navigators, I am inclined to think like them. The past is a good indicator of future outcome. If the new country was unhappy with its land in its first century of existence and cannot stand the smell of Caca Chanel in the Arabian Peninsula then it will likely remain unhappy during its second century. As as North-American Dutchman, I sometimes wonder if the citizens of the new country prefer to be referred as Dutchmen or North-American citizens but they are geographically not located in those continents. I doubt occupying other Arabian Peninsula countries will resolve the matter because they were never willing to blend with them in the first place.»
I asked: «How about lobbying?»
He answered: «Once again, I am inclined to agree with navigators. In a 100 years, when Baby Brother milked out lobbying from Big Brother, many possibilities occur in human experiments: 1) Will black gold and strategic alliance be worth the same in 100 years when new world dominance emerges, 2) Will Big Brother audit books and will he doubt of a hidden agenda, 3) will Big Brother tolerate insubordination from Baby Brother, 4) Will Baby Brother emerge as a Goliath to turn his back against Big Brother 5) Will Big Brother colonize Baby Brother as new world dominance emerges, 6) Will the new country's population in a 100 years mirror civilizations from many centuries ago where the moral compass of youth shifts from military defense to global exploration, 7) Will the population of Big Brother in a 100 years mirror its current population composition and will Baby Brother remain a priority at the expense of tax payers. If Big Brother has explored in the past, then it is possible that he will shift to new babies for human exploration. One thing is sure: The world turns and nothing is stationary.»
He added: «When you bled to death on white snow and no man could kiss you back to life, what did you ask me for?»
I answered: «A night in the moon!»
He objected: «I am not God and could not offer you the cosmos. So, I instructed to have you washed back on shore. I asked you to ponder the following adage to survive: Keep your friends close and enemies closer!
Touché!»
I asked: «Do you find it appropriate when people use past & recent constitutions as well as religious books to object humanitarian aid in a disputed land?»
He answered: «There is nothing wrong about constitutions and religions but are not protocols for humanitarian aid. As an emergency response operator, time is my worst enemy. A living flesh in distress shall be treated the same way as a person inflamed in wildfire. Asking an emergency response operator to rewind Earth for a couple hundred or a couple thousand years to play policymaker is not my mandate. History books depict narratives of Earth at a static point in time. Besides, no rational person would advance being beyond the fundamental principle of Earth rotation and climate change.»
I asked: «In a century, do you think there will be an Oktoberfest up North?»
He answered: «When I am up North, I am surrounded by waters and white scenery but no nation is white as snow. Although Galileo's Theorem keeps particle distances at bay, I am inclined to believe that human pee will smell like midnight sun ammonia so I prefer to keep the new passage up North to myself like navigators.»
I responded: «Thanks for the wonderful lesson as an emergency response operator.»