4th July from the White House of USA
Dear Sir,
The stars in the flag of U.S.A. have risen to be a symbol of the nation of U.S.A. maybe more than anything else. Those small suns of the blue sky represent high ideals and dreams. Their shape is secondary, their idea the most important. From rock stars to celebrities of any other area of life, all are called stars. But how much is there still left of the old militaristic tradition? What used to ber a symbol of the army, is now a symbol of the whole nation. What was a traditional form of military emblem(?), is now a symbol for an idea that unifies the nation. Still, I cannot help but wonder, if the form of the stars is insignificant. Could the nation, if another form of stars turned out to be much better, change its traditional symbol to a newer more beneficial version of the same star idea?
People take the flag as a model for themselves of what some higly intelligent nationalistic have considered best for the whole nation, a best course of action for all. So what there is in the flag, gets copied into people's lives – with an enermous variation, yes, but with an enermous repetition too. So the flag has its effect on the national identity and on the workings of the nation. That was not for what the stars' original use was, the stars were a symbol of one militaristic part of the nation, not of the whole nation. Now that they symbolise in a way that is meaningful in a larger context, one must rethink their exact form so that they effect would be as beneficial as possible.
I come to think of at least five reason why round harmonical healthy and happy looking stars would be more beneficial to have in the flag than the old five-pointed stars:
1) They would make people happier by making health and happiness appear a more rational choise and even a part of the national identity.
2) They would support excellent moral by giving an example of healthy, happy and harmonical ways to live and to arrange things.
3) They would optimise the nation's forces toward best benefit and success on all areas of life by removing needless conflicts (unlike the broken line formed by adjagent five-pointed stars), by ensuring that all the parts of the society are kept healthy and by summing their effect harmonically together (see this as a vector sum).
4) They would give an easy model of the world for all to understand: cooperating parties on a same island, conflicting ones to different islands. Each type of benefit or other phenomenom in the world is created by some island(s). By taking into account all the islands that people form, one can see how we together make the world what it is. Justice and optimisation of the forces demand that those who create a benefit, are entitled to it and no-one else, except via common islands intended for the sharing of goods and services. For example farmers and parents of small children form islands of their own: food production and homes of small children.
5) More intelligence to all since a successful solution looks healthy and happy, like a round star and unlike an edgy star. Also the building blocks of any successful solution should preferably be healthy and used harmonically (read: effectively) instead of just parts and somewhat in conflict. More natural looking stars would also be closer to the nature which could increase the nation's capacity to holistic thinking by giving more practise in handling seen landscapes which in turn is good for pictorial thinking which is the most effective way to handle large amounts of information. There are also other reasons to think that round stars would be better for intelligence than edgy stars: the borders of concepts should be natural – that means airy and not edgy. Also social intelligence gets better if one aims toward health, happiness, harmony and naturality.
People are sensitive to atmospheres. They copy the atmosphere in the flag and via it the structures in the flag. So the flag should be chosen carefully so that it would have all the good sides that the structures can have: health, naturality, happiness, freedom, sovereignity and harmony. The flag's effect is even wider than the nation of U.S.A.: it is all who support U.S.A. and all who identify themsleves with that great nation and consequently with its flag too.
Even feelings are economically important: with each success in every task that we feel motivated toward, we feel happy, and with each failure we feel down. So our emotional memories, the road which we love, show us the best road to success. So it is good to trust one's insight about how to do things.
Humbly Yours,
Hannele Tervola
Espoo, Finland
comments@whitehouse.gov
4. July 2007 21:14
Vastaanottajat: hannele.tervola@gmail.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
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