Regarding Philosophy and Abstract Art

I have been reading a history of the enlightenment and discovered several ideas presented differently than I had previously regarded them. The author went over the Romantic Movement and considered how that developed in opposition to reason. With much of the secularism and transition away from a more Platonic realist regime because of science and political advances that beset the continent of Europe in the 18th century it was rather natural that Rousseau, Coleridge and Kant arose as writers with opinions not at all reliant upon authority. The author of the book I read found Kant's thought about mind and morals to be apposite to the secularized approach of Rousseau.

It is the secularized or even existential paradigm in which Kant develops his Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason that is rather remarkable. The categorical imperative as a naturally inductable universal moral law does not of course rely upon hierarchical, revealed or political authority. Rousseau believed one should follow one's heart as a moral footing. That approach led to troubles in later politics, yet so does the alternative of detached intellectualism with particular object oriented goals.

Kant and the Romantics found morality and reason to be a little different than we might today. Yet I think that today perhaps we moderns do not reason as deeply as either Rousseau or Kant in the nature of mind, or of how emotion comprises an element of reason and morality.

It was in the author's description of Kant's term 'noumenon' that I found that my previous notion of the meaning of the term simply incorrect. I wonder if the author's term of use paradigm may have been incorrect rather than mine, yet I think not, for it does serve a salient philosophical purpose especially as regards art.

The author did in particular describes a critical transitional phase in the historical development of modern art that formed during the evolution from naive realism and philosophical realism to that of abstract thought about the natural world. The author (I can't recall his name presently or the actual title of the book--he was a Cambridge scholar) pointed out Picasso's approach to painting the natural world as an example of how modern artist might view the relationship between thought and perception... That is where I should return to Kant's concept of the nomumenal.

In the philosophical field of epistemology the Kantian categories of perception are fundamental for a significant portion of philosophical thought then and subsequently. From Schopenhaur's neo-Kantian pessimism to Empiricism and even perhaps Strawson and Quine there has been a search for the classification of what is perceived, what is perceived phenomenally, and what is subjectively added to percepts with thought or reason. The author regarded Kant's term noumenon as applying to self-awareness and sentience perceptions of the sensations (of the natural world). The things perceived are phenomenal, while the phenomenology of mind (no relationship to Hegel here) is noumenal.

I had made the error for some time of believing that the noumenal applied to those things that are things-in-themselves or things-for-themselves...The unknown and unknowable deeper realities beyond the phenomenality of things perceived. I regarded the noumenal as 'exterior' things belonging to reality of which we saw or heard a superficial surface appearance as phenomenality. The author on the other hand, regarded the noumenal as an interior experience of mind. Because mind can think, and does, the noumenal is a different perception than the plainly phenomenal and more--the noumenal is capable of a tremendous range of analytical thought. Some of that analytical thought may be found inn abstract art that implicitly recognizes the profound differences between naive phenomenalist percepts and the interior, noumenal phenomenology of mind.

Without self-awareness, the phenomenal realm is not even recognized. Slave devices such as cameras have no cognizance of the find snapshots they capture to provide for the use of sentient awareness. Art can have tremendous value to philosophers as a means of sketching or surveying interior and exterior relations of ontology. Art may provide methods of expressing phenomenalities of mind and experience in-itself. Art may be a tool for exploring that noumenal fact of conscious experience that shapes and conforms, liberates and sets aside, what can be known of space-time and being.

God has created the noumenon and the phenomenon, I have faith to believe. Nature in a sense is itself a great work of philosophical art, though of tremendous meaning as a challenge for the soul.

The Egdoppler Takeover (a science fiction short story)

The Egdoppler Takeover
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Since the piracy of one’s personal image became ubiquitous, there were those that set themselves the task of constructing personal visual face screening devices that could be powered with garment solar weave and power storage. Julius Egdoppler was the successful inventor of an electronic photon-bending field to make photography of one’s urban face impossible without consent. Millions of people sought to recover the personal privacy of an earlier age. In thousands of urban areas the blurred ‘Egdopplerface’ became a routine sight. Overnight Egdoppler became another of the world’s high tech billionaires. The face image-screening device was not his final project.

At age 38 Egdoppler moved offshore from Redondo Beach to a concrete dwelling ten miles offshore on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. From his dome laboratory he moved covertly into synthetic life physical interfaces with robotic and nano-composite structure ready-mix. In a few months of bringing together his ideas, the materials were broadcast worldwide and ready for use.

All of the brains were wired in a serial order for a maximally efficient computing array. Overnight a fast acting synthetic virus downloaded the human species into perpetual somnolence bordering upon coma. Scuttlebots connected such fallen humans where they lay with fiber-optic cables to the worldwide web taken over by Julius Egdoppler Inc and his human enhanced imaginative computing human serial processing unit.

Julius Egdoppler was a creative genius who had grown impatient in waiting for the progress of computer technical capability to reach human levels of dreaming and creative synthesis. Each human mind has trillions of synaptic connections and creative synthesis of the real world environment of sensation. Waiting for computer to develop sentience equal to that of humans was unacceptable for Julius. He needed the human race’s brain computation potential now in order to discover what new things could be discovered. Through his enslavement of human brains for his advanced computing projects, Julius Egdoppler would unlock the secrets of the Universe.

First things first. Just Los Angeles had six million viable salvaged human brains wired into his computing network. All of those former souls required biological maintainence, and scuttlebutts connected them to IV drips of synthetic nutrition. Eventually the bodies would be allowed to atrophy, after the human neural computing network discovered methods to isolate the brains in a healthy way while allowing the bodies to rot away in place. The brains might readily be encapsulated in neo-gel protein plexicases with advanced quantum computing circuitry through nano-technology infusion.

In the first two nights of human brain salvage in the United States 240 million bodies with conserved brains were brought into the Egdoppler Inc neural network. Eurasia yielded more than two billion more with the rest of the world providing brains for free computing power too. While chemical and nuclear plants broke down creaking global poisons, the scuttlebutt production facilities following custom Egdoppler designs increased the production of five basic forms of scuttlebutt required for the salvation of the human species as bio-stabilized slave computing units.

In most instances fine everwear webs were spun to encase the bodies of the brain processing units. These brains in the meanwhile were hard at work in a perennial rem sleep of dreaming for maximal work production. Given instructive suggestions, their minds were probed for content and neural circuits mapped. Synthetic duplication of their data contents formed with synthetic R.N.A. models of synaptic connections and arrays. The doubling of brain-mind computing or thought use by the twinned synthetic computing logic units would enhance eventual cluster mapping of thought processing of problems. For each human neural history had it’s own developmental historical programming traits that were unique programs formed through biological inheritance, experience and will. Julius Egdoppler’s plan was to exploit all of these billions of unique methods of problem solving to to solve the big questions he had to ask.

In several months Egdoppler had most of the former human minds and brains conditioned to using their maximum intellectual potential. The parallel processing capability of so many human brains was awesome-more than the contributing super-computers also wired into his network. The time arrived when he asked his network the three big questions.

Tapping on his computer keyboard, he posed the first question;

‘Why wouldn’t Shiela Liblosky go to the prom with me’?

Then he rapidly set in question two;

“How much does the Universe weigh?’

Followed quickly by the third question;

“Did Babe Ruth hate the Red Sox after he was sold like a cheap horse?”

The human neural network communicated globally with all of its translation and organizational capability for several minutes. An infinite number of answers were produced, and artfully at that.

The computer then died, before disclosing to Julius Egdoppler, what the answers were.

President Obama's Environmental Record Tarred and Feathered By BP Gulf Of Mexico Oil Blow-out

With a 24 hour surface capture rate of 15,000 barrels of oil in a 24 hour period since the recovery cap was placed after about 50 days of unchecked flow, it may be reasonable to extrapolate that a minimum of 20,000 barrels per day of 50 gallon barrels have escaped into the Gulf of Mexico since the escapement was allowed to occur. That means that 50 million to 350 million gallons of crude oil (was it light sweet crude?) has been released so far since the busted wellhead blow-out enabler was accomplished. That sure tars and feathers President Obama's environmental safety record. He needs political dispersants equal to that of BP in propaganda recovery tactics now.

The long range effect upon the Gulf of Mexico and world fishery is incalculable. One wonders watch catches of deep, crude oil and 'dispersant' chemicals will travel upon the world's deep ocean currents and swirl to the cold depths on even 10,000 year cycles toward the Bering Strait and Arctic Ocean?

How many parts per million in ocean water does one hundred million gallons of crude oil dispersed produce?

It will be more difficult with good conscious to eat Gulf of Mexico seafood products the next three decades at least with the significant possibility of untested contamination in various fish or bottom dwellers that have encountered caches of contaminants. Certainly the U.S. food and drug inspection is only spotty, while the new BP contaminants will be spotty as well, or even randomized in the turbulence of deep ocean currents and upwelling.

We would have been happier if the President of the United States had acted early to sap the busted wellhead at depth with Bangalore torpedoes a half mile down to permanently seal off the well. The President is the Chief Executive Officer rather than the Chief Litigation officer, yet the difference in roles seems to have escaped Mr. Obama on this one issue. Well, at least we are assured that the residual escaping few thousands barrels per oil per day will be halted at least in a few months.

If the sapping and sealing of oil wells had been tested at the BP well it should have been a proven technique for future mass disasters when they occur, instead of just a neglected theory. There is another concern though, that might be more fitting for bureaucrats to address on oil contamination disposal and that is the sequestration at a depth of a mile and a half of polluted liquids in sand formations. If that water travels in various currents, it may eventually reach such a depth offshore and escape into the ocean from whence it first journeyed from the BP wellhead. The deep subsurface mapping of warmer earth layers is perhaps not perfect and may allow for upwelling and other forms of convection--why should such a pervasive applied risk be accepted as another normal byproduct of an idiot oil industrial cult that should not need to overproduce in order to power fossil fuel engines. Why waste perfect good lubricants on production of motion of wheeled box-carts? Why not develop a variety of high tech individual and mass human and freight motivator technologies for immediate national development to eliminate the fossil fuel powered vehicle for good?

U.S. Government Domestic Policy Is More Bad Than Good on Many Issues

President Obama’s choice of a National Security Intelligence Director may give one cause to wonder. Will the enemies of the United States believe Obama is giving the U.S. Intelligence community ‘the clap’ Mr. Clapper may have been a bell ringer under Defense Secretary Gates, yet he is lucky to have the chance to leave Defense before the openly Gay military policy is enacted, if Republicans cannot find some way to prevent that openly sinful policy.

In Afghanistan the U.S.A. has a spend hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowed money policy to give the brother of a heroin supply grower time to cut a deal with the Taliban to govern so we can retreat with peace with honor before the country returns to chaos. Afghanistan is a large Muslim nation that we cannot convert into a nation of big screen t.v. watching couch potatoes overnight. If we spend trillions there to make muslims give up their beliefs and love a homosexual military themselves, and women with abortion kits in their handbags, it will cost many billions of dollars annually for a decade or two while we may have more pressing places to bomb.

U.S. policy should be more conservative on foreign occupations—bomb if we must, but do not occupy nations for long and waste trillions of dollars like drunken sailors with stock in the defense munitions industry.

Immunodeficiencies in the intelligence community were a cause for the success of the Al Qa’eda attack on the Pentagon that killed so many naval personnel. Richard Clarke’s warnings were ignored as were others. Instead of conventional military responses to what are fundamentally intelligence and border control issues, we should have just had a just say no to illegal immigration policy, developed a K.G.B. first directorate quality intolerance for illegal immigration, hijacking of airplanes or legal immigration of terrorists through bad airport screening, and developed better spy agencies and relationships with foreign intelligence services. The conventional military response was and is largely incompetent and ineffectual.

After we leave Iraq, a coup d’etat may bring another Saddam Hussein into office. In Afghanistan, the sheer mass of Asian numbers of Muslims and population demographics preclude U.S. protracted political control. This nation ought not continue a support the dictator kind of policy especially now that the cost of doing so has reached a level that is nearly self-destructive. Such a stupid policy has destroyed other nations before in history. There is nothing wrong with using good political intelligence and experiencing general national prosperity. Us poor Americans appreciate times of prosperity personally more than the perennial well-off.

The Naval Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Mullins supports the change to an openly Gay military policy—was he in the Pentagon when the Al Qa’eda terrorism mission happened, was he always a supporter of an openly homosexual friendly military?

The oil spill in the Gulf is another kind of attack on U.S. ecological infrastructure. The oil may be considered a synthetic retrovirus attack on the health of the ocean and marshes. The President failed to order the demolition of the well shaft in a timely way to close down the outlet to the surface. Such a sapping technology should be designed for any potential future recurrences, as if enemies of the United States might choose to attack such obviously vulnerable targets close to the United States.

The Mexican border flood of millions of illegal alien workers is another immunological insult to the United States economic health. If the border were closed down to illegal aliens with 25,000 U.S. troops arresting illegals and building a half-mile control zone of elevated berms and deep ditches with electric patrol cars driving along with electronic motion and optic sensors, then two years later the national unemployment rate would probably drop by two percent as labor scarcity developed and wages rise. Illegal aliens are a primary assault on labor scarcity and wage value of labor. The Government tends to want cheap labor as it helps concentrate wealth for the rich. U.S. politicians tend to be whores for global corporations these days if not of Babylon the Great and a globalized satanic evil empire. Few politicians talk about U.S. nationalism—that just isn’t cool for the deficit spending capitalist tools. They forget there is also democracy and individualist free enterprise interests equally important as globalist corporate and socialist collectives.

The development of synthetic life forms is an attack on all natural life. With such creations the human genome is threatened with alteration by corrupt biological inventions. The government should swiftly hang those that modify the human genome directly, and electrocute those that produce synthetic life forms. I only say this because some atheist biologist believe that any change to life is o.k., and they are smart enough to throw the dice for all humans and all living things anytime they want with no possibility of error of catastrophic cascading change for the bad. A human immunological response representing all living things would be simply to kill the biological vectors undermining the stability of all living natural life forms. Biologists tend to be thoughtless eat or be eaten predators on this issue politically. The government if reasoning properly (only joking) would swiftly pass legislation making for a lifetime sentence with no possibility of parole for any homo sapien that manufactures synthetic life forms, or changes the human genome without extensive public consideration and a vote of approval for that Niagara Falls sort of irreversible risk taking.

Why The Long-Range U.S. Economic Posture Is Bad

The long-range economic prospects for the United States seem rather grim. My point of view isn't that of an economist--perhaps more that of an historical perspective guides my thought. The United States has yet to collapse as all other older nations have. It must learn that its own economic fate is in a conservation of national interest and economic health rather than in the greener fields abroad. The Government should not just try to support the prosperity of global corproations--they are in the business of taking a profit rather than being ofn service to the citizens of the United States.

Toynbee and a number of other general historians noted cycles of civilization. The wax and wane, rise and fall, through good times and bad forecasters may predict an inevitable sprawl. We like to think on the contrary, that intelligent design may direct and economy in advance through the shoal waters or rough currents and rocks toward better than chaotic random trial and error such as insentient worms may pursue drift mining nuggets of nutrition. Planning ahead may afford nation zoning license for front lawn gardening everywhere with no exception. we can see that home grown potatoes and fruit still have real consumer value.

The United States with brilliant ex-patriots and a mostly unpopulated continent had a couple hundred years of good luck of development. Its industrial development occurred at a time of grace with waterfalls, wood and electric power giving way to horseless carriages. Yet its destiny is not guaranteed by any means such that it cannot fail. It can and will fail economically and politically if it hasn't interest in conserving and defending its blessings as they are. That does not mean wasting trillions in foreign wars against ad hoc insurgents. Stupidity in foreign war spending doomed several nations in the past. The Obama administration continues the stupid Bush II policies in that regard, perhaps in order to achieve a Nixonesque 'peace with honor'. If one isn't going to annex a foreign nation, or it doesn't share the same basic values as one's own already before the war, it is improbable that the defeated nation will give up its religion and culture after one stops spending billions and billions there.

The United States has lost track of its national values of its tradition largely. Like the Roman Republic it has outgrown its territorial limits in a quest of greed or power. Unlike the ancient Italian Republic it has much room--more than enough, for its own prosperity. It simply chooses to pursue reckless and profligate business practice equally harmful to the ecosystem at home and abroad.

In Afghanistan the United States is protecting poppy growing for heroin (President Karzai's brother), defending Chinese communist copper mining ventures, encouraging negotiations with the Taliban, training an army in the best U.S. military methods so they can train terrorists better after we leave Afghanistan and stop the financial hemorrhage.

In the United States the Sect. of Defense and Chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff openly support and openly gay is o.k. military policy, the nation supports abortion, and the nation has accepted the creation of a half a million new federal jobs as 'economic recovery'. the Obama plan is to added ten trillion dollars more public debt before beginning a balanced budget--who is he kidding? The people of the United States cannot afford in some distant decade to pay interest on 20 trillion dollars to globalists who also own their mortgages. Instead the nation will become politically meaningless with flunkies loyal to global corporations that are no better than elitist collectives with totalitarian political control over the free speech and though of their employee-minions extorted by need for work into silence.

Europe has of course learned the hard lessons that political management of a good sort isn't superfluous and that manifest destiny does not often guide the political affairs of mankind. Without a care for restoration of a healthy environment, flooding the nation with cheap labor from Mexico and outsourcing jobs abroad, letting government retirees collect more than working people annually, being guided by a corrupt financial service sector that cannot readily restart its plundering of U.S. finance even with government guarantees because the accounts are already suffering from their predation--the United States faces many challenges ahead.

The Obama administration seeks to restart the Clinton cycle of plundering and outsourcing--yet that is the wrong course. It should instead turn to a national ecological economic refoundation of the U.S. economy and rectify the misguided social security system such that a means test is given and only those earning less than 2/3rds of the average income may receive benefits. The United States may have its mortgages owned by the Chinese,and destiny in 50 years decided by foreign mercenary military under global corporate rule if economy perfidy does not first destroy the present U.S.A.

Historical lessons are hard to learn from and even harder to correct in advance in order to keep the U.S.A. viable. Meaningful economic reform isn't a likely scenario given the sort of people in government and media. Neither socialism nor corporatism contains the remedy for American enterprise, individualism and a secure border and social safety net including health care for the poor. The federal government doesn't require a libertarian sort of archaist freedom for global collective of business to take over-nor even foreign corporations from Dubai or then Chinese Red Army, it needs a determination to prioritize and sort ecologically efficient U.S. businesses of less than 3000 employees, to limit the number of companies an individual may hold an interest in to three.

The government needs to reallocate the digital broadcast wavelength spectrum to citizen enterprise internet relayed broadcasts with local citizens prioritization for burst slots. The government has a need to cut the anticipated new federal debt to no more than 3 trillion dollars during the next decade, and in fact to start a major overhaul of governance something like that which F.D.R. undertook, yet without a socialist or corporatist collective drift. The United States needs much government defining of new ecologically economic parameters today rather than to try to plug the holes in a leaky globalist bucket that is a vampire upon the future sovereignty, prosperity and health of the citizens of the United States.

How Pope Ratzinger Can Reform the Church With an Internal Affairs Unit

The present Pope Ratzinger has a difficult job. He was elevated from the position of clerk to a Polish pope of heroic stature. His tenancy was bound to be a letdown and his conduct of reaction and reform to the Catholic Commercial priest sex perversion problem requires a transparency and forthrightness he has difficulty with. Well, he isn't a Medici pope, so it isn't all bad. I will provide some paradigm forms to provide solutions to the infiltration of the commercial catholic priesthood by pedophiles.

The pope needs to form an internal affairs agency to investigate sex crimes allegedly perpetrated by the catholic commercial priesthood. Of course it would be far better if the Pope was simply a reformer like Martin Luther and would nominate that late priest for sainthood. Martin Luther believed a priesthood of believers should exist. I have written about how to create such a modern structure without a specialized, upper class commercial and hierarchical priesthood, yet that is a challenge that some brave future Pope with lots of chutzpa might try. Our good German Pope Ratzinger has yet a challenging task to accomplish in establishing a catholic Internal Affairs bureau to investigate sex corruptions charges by the exploited flock.

I would venture to guess that perhaps one priest of every 25 is an occasional pervert victimizing children. Plainly an objective board served with professional investigators needs to look into every particular charge to determine its veracity and then recommend objective actions such as suspension, referral to law enforcement agencies and dismissal.

If there is one catholic priest for each ten-thousand citizens generally, then there would be a thousand priests for each million people. There might be as many as 50 priestly perverts for each million souls in society, and perhaps three investigators with professional experience would be sufficient, along with staff support, to examine 50 cases annually. A society with a half a billion souls such as North America would need 1500 professional investigators and staff. Each continent of the world might need as many. The new Catholic Internal Affairs Sex Crimes Investigation Unit would then need hire about 10,000 investigators initially--and that could be a bargain in savings on future lawsuit settlements that would be avoid.

The throughput of catholic priests of course isn't a high turnover annual rate, so when the internal affairs unit process through the backlog and dismisses the guilty, their caseload number should decline. The existence of a just and competent anti-perversion unit will discourage the catholic commercial priesthood as a hangout for pederasts, and that would be helpful to the trust of the faithful. Of course in the absence of a Lutheran one-level priesthood of believers’ church, the devil has an inherent advantage in power relationships over others. It may be that none can relinquish the hierarchical advantage that is a holdover of ancient or medieval forms of social organization; one antipathetic to the cause of Christ as given in the Gospels.

Walking in the night from a train in Germany in December 1987, I reached a brick street and alley with a yellow streetlamp overhead dimly illuminating the scene. I saw in my mind's eye very plainly the crucified Christ carrying his cross. A German Pope can take upon himself the mission of creating an internal affairs department in order to protect the faithful from the increasing dissolution of the influence of evil.

Dismal Long-Range Economic Prospects for U.S.

The long-range economic prospects for the United States seem rather grim. My point of view isn't that of an economist--perhaps more that of an historical perspective guides my thought. The United States has yet to collapse as all other older nations have. It must learn that its own economic fate is in a conservation of national interest and economic health rather than in the greener fields abroad. The Government should not just try to support the prosperity of global corproations--they are in the business of taking a profit rather than being ofn service to the citizens of the United States.

Toynbee and a number of other general historians noted cycles of civilization. The wax and wane, rise and fall, through good times and bad forecasters may predict an inevitable sprawl. We like to think on the contrary, that intelligent design may direct and economy in advance through the shoal waters or rough currents and rocks toward better than chaotic random trial and error such as insentient worms may pursue drift mining nuggets of nutrition. Planning ahead may afford nation zoning license for front lawn gardening everywhere with no exception. we can see that home grown potatoes and fruit still have real consumer value.

The United States with brilliant ex-patriots and a mostly unpopulated continent had a couple hundred years of good luck of development. Its industrial development occurred at a time of grace with waterfalls, wood and electric power giving way to horseless carriages. Yet its destiny is not guaranteed by any means such that it cannot fail. It can and will fail economically and politically if it hasn't interest in conserving and defending its blessings as they are. That does not mean wasting trillions in foreign wars against ad hoc insurgents. Stupidity in foreign war spending doomed several nations in the past. The Obama administration continues the stupid Bush II policies in that regard, perhaps in order to achieve a Nixonesque 'peace with honor'. If one isn't going to annex a foreign nation, or it doesn't share the same basic values as one's own already before the war, it is improbable that the defeated nation will give up its religion and culture after one stops spending billions and billions there.

The United States has lost track of its national values of its tradition largely. Like the Roman Republic it has outgrown its territorial limits in a quest of greed or power. Unlike the ancient Italian Republic it has much room--more than enough, for its own prosperity. It simply chooses to pursue reckless and profligate business practice equally harmful to the ecosystem at home and abroad.

In Afghanistan the United States is protecting poppy growing for heroin (President Karzai's brother), defending Chinese communist copper mining ventures, encouraging negotiations with the Taliban, training an army in the best U.S. military methods so they can train terrorists better after we leave Afghanistan and stop the financial hemorrhage.

In the United States the Sect. of Defense and Chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff openly support and openly gay is o.k. military policy, the nation supports abortion, and the nation has accepted the creation of a half a million new federal jobs as 'economic recovery'. the Obama plan is to added ten trillion dollars more public debt before beginning a balanced budget--who is he kidding? The people of the United States cannot afford in some distant decade to pay interest on 20 trillion dollars to globalists who also own their mortgages. Instead the nation will become politically meaningless with flunkies loyal to global corporations that are no better than elitist collectives with totalitarian political control over the free speech and though of their employee-minions extorted by need for work into silence.

Europe has of course learned the hard lessons that political management of a good sort isn't superfluous and that manifest destiny does not often guide the political affairs of mankind. Without a care for restoration of a healthy environment, flooding the nation with cheap labor from Mexico and outsourcing jobs abroad, letting government retirees collect more than working people annually, being guided by a corrupt financial service sector that cannot readily restart its plundering of U.S. finance even with government guarantees because the accounts are already suffering from their predation--the United States faces many challenges ahead.

The Obama administration seeks to restart the Clinton cycle of plundering and outsourcing--yet that is the wrong course. It should instead turn to a national ecological economic refoundation of the U.S. economy and rectify the misguided social security system such that a means test is given and only those earning less than 2/3rds of the average income may receive benefits. The United States may have its mortgages owned by the Chinese,and destiny in 50 years decided by foreign mercenary military under global corporate rule if economy perfidy does not first destroy the present U.S.A.

Historical lessons are hard to learn from and even harder to correct in advance in order to keep the U.S.A. viable. Meaningful economic reform isn't a likely scenario given the sort of people in government and media. Neither socialism nor corporatism contains the remedy for American enterprise, individualism and a secure border and social safety net including health care for the poor. The federal government doesn't require a libertarian sort of archaist freedom for global collective of business to take over-nor even foreign corporations from Dubai or then Chinese Red Army, it needs a determination to prioritize and sort ecologically efficient U.S. businesses of less than 3000 employees, to limit the number of companies an individual may hold an interest in to three.

The government needs to reallocate the digital broadcast wavelength spectrum to citizen enterprise internet relayed broadcasts with local citizens prioritization for burst slots. The government has a need to cut the anticipated new federal debt to no more than 3 trillion dollars during the next decade, and in fact to start a major overhaul of governance something like that which F.D.R. undertook, yet without a socialist or corporatist collective drift. The United States needs much government defining of new ecologically economic parameters today rather than to try to plug the holes in a leaky globalist bucket that is a vampire upon the future sovereignty, prosperity and health of the citizens of the United States.