May 6th is Orson Welles' birthday.   His life is one of the great and insightful case studies in the psychology of God. To this Blogger, God is the original inspiration for the film, the INVISIBLE MAN. God is the invisible entity; we cannot see him in our lives, but just like the people in the film, we can see God’s tracks in the snow, in the lives of men. The trick is to discern which tracks are manmade and which are His. The key to our understanding of the universe is that He does leave tracks. The following case study helps us define the nomenclature of the Invisible God leaving visible tracks in the snow: the fall of Orson Welles. ORSON WELLES. This Blogger suggests one read the Orson Welles biography written by Simon Callow (the actor who was the subject of the Funeral in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL). It seems Welles was unbelievably lucky until a certain point in his life, almost anointed. His upbeat fate included the stage success of the Mercury Theater, the ra...

Demography is a strange mistress; the numbers are immutable, yet somehow miss the point. In 1945, the United States defeated Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan with 139 million people. In 1992, the United States defeated the Soviet Union with a population of 236 million. In 2015, the United States has a population of 316 million people, both legal and illegal, and it cannot defeat anyone. Historically, the United States has picked a bad time to have an inept, burgeoning population, for 2015 is at the cusp of dystopia. Scientist agree that the world is living in the Anthropocene Era, an era marked by the Earth being forced into deterioration by the activities of Mankind, including over population. “T he beginning of the so-called “anthropocene” or human epoch is a hotly debated topic in geology, with suggestions varying widely from the start of farming about 10,000 years ago to the explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1945. However, two scientists have made a ca...