Science fiction writers love to fantasize about
another universe that's made – not with matter like ours – but with
anti-matter. This opens an entirely new vista as to the kind of properties that
the writers wish to ascribe to some of the things, or all the things in that
Universe.
One requisite that some writers might impose on
themselves, is that of making the properties of metaphysical things function
opposite to the way they do in our universe. For example, when: up-or-down;
left-or-right; front-or-back, are uttered in the anti-matter universe, they
mean the opposite of what they represent in our universe.
But you know what, my friend? You do not need the
imagination of a science fiction writer to help you visualize that kind of
universe because we have one right here on Earth. The beauty of it is that it
runs parallel to the one we know and whose rules we live by. In fact, this
fortuity comes as an added bonus to buffs of science fiction because the idea
of multiple universes running parallel to ours, is an important theme in
science fiction these days.
If we must thank someone for all this, it would be
someone that was not trained in science or even fiction, but one that was
trained to be a lawyer. He grew up to hate his profession so badly, he never
misses an opportunity to give it a bad name. His name is John Bolton who did
not bother practicing his trade in the way that most lawyers do, but chose to
practice it tangentially by immersing himself in politics.
In fact, politics was the discipline that offered
John Bolton the ways by which several aspects of metaphysics could be explored.
He loved the game because he discovered that metaphysics had a fungible
property he could play with; and play, he did. He played like a clown would
with three balls, tossing them up-and-down to mean down-and-up; left-and-right
to mean right-and-left; and back-and-forth to mean forth-and-back.
One of the projects that John Bolton pioneered,
was to take the money which the government of the United States paid him to do
work for the United States, and used it to work for Israel instead. The task he
gave himself was to twist the arm of weak governments, forcing them to vote on
repealing the UN decision that had recognized the Israeli system of governance
as being one of racist apartheid. Bolton's next project was to attack the idea
of justice itself by working to destroy the International Criminal Court (ICC).
All in all, Bolton's work in reversing our world
to make it look and function like the anti-world of other dimensions as
envisaged by science fiction writers, extends in several fields beyond law and
justice. You can see one such example in an article that came under the title:
“U.S. Warns Russia against Selling Missile Systems to Syria,” written by
Mairead McArdle and published on September 24, 2018 in National Review Online.
This story is about Russia supplying Syria with
missiles to defend against attacking warplanes. In fact, the missiles cannot be
used for any other purpose; least of all as offensive weapon to attack someone,
for example. When the news came out that Russia and Syria made that agreement,
John Bolton spoke on behalf of America as reported in the McArdle article:
“National-security adviser John Bolton argu[ed] that the move would mark a
significant escalation in already war-torn Syria”.
The situation in Syria being that a small local
disturbance grew to become a 7-year war with the advent and participation of
dozens of terror groups including Israel, the number one terrorist entity of
all-time –– Syria was forced to ask for help, and got it from its friends and
allies. One of those was Russia that helped in many ways.
And then, when it became clear that Israel will
stop at nothing in its attempt to destabilize Syria –– using American supplied
warplanes to attack it when it is busy dealing with lesser terrorists who
nonetheless are able to wreak havoc in the country –– Syria asked for a system
that could defend against Israel's kind of aggression, and Russia agreed to
supply it with the appropriate system of air defense.
You would think that America applauded the move,
if only because a country that's well defended adds to the stability of the
region, but that’s not the sentiment Bolton expressed on behalf of America. He
said that a Syria that's well defended escalates the war. That's because to him
up-and-down means down-and-up; left-and-right means right-and-left; and
back-and-forth means forth-and-back.