Malaysian Flight 370, a Boeing 777, arguably the safest plane in the world,has disappeared along with over 230 souls. That was last week. Where is it? Did it crash en route from Malaysia to China? No debris has been found. Did it veer west, the pings from the plane to the satellite says yes. But no plane has been found. Has it been hijacked? No ransom demands have been made. Has it been diverted to an ageless High Lama in the Himalayas, for one of its passengers, like  CONWAY( Ronald Colman) in LOST HORIZON? Flight 370 has turned into the S.S. MINNOW from GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, off on a routine flight, and lost. One of the grating leitmotifs of President Obama is his raving praise for the 21 st Century; the 21 st Century with its NSA and its trademark  omniscience phone and email taps,  with its  CIA, FBI, GPS, satellites,and omnipresent cameras. The 21st Century with its  constant surveillance, its constant memorializing of every ac...

During the Middle Ages, King Canute sauntered down to the seashore, sat on a throne, and commanded the waves to stop coming in.  The waves did not stop. According to President Obama and his harem of Sublime Porte courtiers, King Canute's big mistake was not a mistake in geopolitics or in the geostrategic or in violating the Laws of Nature itself, but in his timing. According to  President Obama and his Sublime Porte courtiers, King Canute’s only mistake in not stopping the waves was not living in the 21 st Century. President Obama, unlike failed King Canute, does live in the 21 st Century; in the Century of FACEBOOK, TWITTER, and  Beyonce, therefore fantasies can become policy. As a Leader without any concept of a Faulknerian Past, President Obama believes his Modernity can overcome geopolitical facts, geostrategic facts, the Laws of Nature, Jungian irredentism, the Blood Memory of Boris and Gleb, 1500 years of Russian history and 5,000 years of Human History. ...