So, I’ve been pondering the full implications of the measurable affects on groupthink, groupaction, and groupeverything that the sun has been proven to have.
Does this, for example, mean we actually have no free will?
If the sun ‘makes’ us behave one way when it’s going through a solar minimum and a different way when we are going through a solar maximum, then the ‘making us behave’ bit means we have no free will, surely?
We end up doing as we are told … by the sun.
Of course, it’s not as specific as that. The sun doesn’t suddenly tell us to all love dubstep or paint our faces blue. Neither does it individually tell me to make random beeping noises every 30 minutes (I’m sure I made that decision on my own), nor can it be used as a defence in court. “Yeah, Judge, I only stole the Porshe because the sun made me do it”, won’t get a ‘Not guilty’ verdict.
But, maybe the tendency to steal Porshes one decade compared to a previous decade might be up to the sun.
It seems that our ‘attitudes‘ are what come under the influence. So we are ‘more likely‘ to rebel during solar maximum. ‘More likely‘ to riot. ‘More likely‘ to steal that Porshe.
Or is it far more complex? Is the sun, spewing its cosmic rays and magnetic influences simply forcing us to grow and change in spurts? Just as direct sunlight forces the growth of the plants, is the direct magnetic and other influences of the sun forcing our minds to grow and change in spurts? Do we just get to where we were already going, but in spurts?
If we look at the ‘starts’ of each solar cycle, it is (sort of) mid-way between the start of the cycle and the start of the next cycle that we are at our most ‘motivated’, apparently.
Is that the case with events occurring in the UK?
Half-way between each of the cycles, half-way between each start date, did anything ‘important’ happen in our social history in the UK? Ok, it won’t be dead on the exact date that’s half-way between each start date, but, let’s say, plus or minus 2 or 3 years. Here’s the start dates:
1755 March, 1766 June, 1775 June, 1784 September, 1798 May, 1810 December, 1823 May, 1833 November, 1843 July, 1855 December, 1867 March, 1878 December, 1890 March, 1902 February, 1913 August, 1923 August, 1933 September, 1944 February, 1954 April, 1964 October, 1976 June, 1986 September, 1996 May, 2008 January.
I guess it’s a bit like reading a horoscope, or listening to the words of a ‘psychic’, the brain is a marvellous filter. It discards the bits that don’t resonate, and clings to those that do, whilst trying to stretch the dubious bits in the middle to make them fit. However, are there events mid-point(ish) between those dates that are important to us in the UK, not just the world as a whole?
As an example, 2002 is mid way between our invasions of Afghanistan and then Iraq, 1991 is around the time we ditched Margaret Thatcher and lurched to the ‘left’, whilst 1981 is roughly when social changes were happening as Margaret Thatcher took on the tyrany of the trade union movement. Or how about 1970 being the lurch towards Tory government, 1939 being the start of World War II, and so on.
But, is it just a game of finding something – anything – and making it fit? Try it.
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