Dwapara Yuga - Alan Turing

The real story of WWII is not that of brilliant generals and brave troops, although there were undoubtably some of both. Rather, an obscure British mathematician broke the supposedly impenetrable German Enigma military codes meaning that the Allied Command knew every step and plan ahead of time, making victory near inevitable.

Alan Turing was that mathematician. During the war, his homosexuality was ignored, being typical of the Oxford and Cambridge/Boarding school of the era, away from families and women for long periods. His wartime research lead to the development of the first modern computers. His American counterparts were feted and rewarded, founding today's multi trillion dollar industry. Turing's reward by the British Government was to be hounded to death in obscurity. With wartime concerns behind them, he was treated as a security liability even though there was no evidence against him. It later turned out that many of the establishment figures of the time were both traitors and homosexuals but they had not been pursued despite

mounting evidence since their aristocratic backgrounds it was felt left them beyond reproach.

This week the British Prime Minister formally apologized for the mistreatment of a man that should have been a national hero.

Such double standards then as now fuel the conspiracy theorists of the world with the grain of truth that there is one law and standard of ethics for ordinary people and a much lower one for the religious, political, celebrity, sports figures. This is especially true if it serves the ends of one of the myriad of security agencies (always with short, menacing acronyms, Las Letras in Spanish, NSA, FSB, DINA, IDF, MIB, NWO, GSA - Girl Scouts of America!).

The Turing episode underlines the dangers of the Kali Yuga stereotypical thinking that those with the 'right' races, religions, wealthy backgrounds and lifestyles monopolize loyalty, inventiveness, patriotism and other positive qualities. Similar thinking in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia forced the atom scientists to America. In America itself, it lead to the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII and today leads to Muslim, Arab and Persian Americans being treated as potential terrorists, failing to learn the lessons of history and playing into the kinds of negative conspiracy theorizing that undermine the legitimacy of government institutions.

The spirit of Dwapara Yuga is to look beyond outer differences and ask what qualities does this person have? It is noticeable that in meritocracies like the dot coms or Wall Street trading, many foreigners, minority races and religions are to be found yet in the most stagnant of industries, poorly performing areas of management and security services, fast track applicants are consistently drawn from tiny Blue Blood or Good Ol Boy networks, at best over-representing very limited and constrictive world views, out of line with the realities and future of the world.