Original Sin Consolidating Wealth and Political Power

Nothing can positively be said of the Federal Court's forcing of homosexual marriage upon the people. It is an era of concentrating wealth and political power corrupting the polity, social moral norms and degrading the prospects and reason of the people. Hitler's S.A. of led by the homosexual Ernst Rohm had a comparable radicalism. The Catholic Church in Mussolini's fascist state had a certain perhaps necessary recalcitrance about expressing anti-fascist policy. A polity incapable of violent revolt because of the concentration of military power is inevitably doomed to experience the oppression and dictates of ruling elites. Americans are permitted to have democracy so long as they acquiesce in the will of the rich to inimically degrade and dehumanize them. This is not the first instance of systematic political corruption that is economically inefficient for the masses.

Human nature expressing itself in capitalism substantively co-opts the beneficial aspects of free enterprise negating the hypothetical inventions and individual allocations of opportunity and competition with proprietary exploitation of advantage. The advantaged purge the less advantaged from the field and import cheap labor not able to expect government benefits or a right to vote. Serialized social-economic purges of theoretical political peers permit concentration of wealth and power in elites. As the broadcast media is controlled by concentrated power a unofficial yet viable purge of antipathetic political opinion occurs. Propaganda in support of the new social order becomes normalized.

Human nature seeks to totalize advantage over all land. Concentrated wealth would own every possible place anyone might exist without paying tribute to the rich power of control. Monarchy and aristocracy had absolute power over people regarded as subjects. Subjects and those that cannot exist in freedom any place without paying rent for existing to the concentrated power are effectively slaves. Though the developing new planetary slavery may not form on a particularly racist basis with equal opportunity enslavement for all, may yet be a developing condition wherein no human might exist free of enslavement to the Plutonomy.

Karl Barth wrote of a prior era...quote-

 ”^{Only the clever English, perhaps one of the few nations really gifted politically foresaw in time the folly of this development, though they were just as penetrated by the spirit of absolutism as the rest, and introduced checks which spared them the catastrophe to which the system by its nature must lead.}

^{This political absolutism from above has, as is known, two variants. They have in fact crossed and mingled in many ways; their roots are one, but they may be clearly distinguished. The principle 'through power to power' had of course also a non-military aspect. This could consist in the princely display of splendour and pomp at which Louis XIV was so inventive, even creative, setting a baleful example which was widely followed. The name of Versailles has thrice had great historical significance resulting in grave consequences. The first time it was as the prototype and symbol of a princely attitude to life and form of life, based on unqualified power. From this life there flowed a brilliance, like the glory of a god, into architecture, the gardens and parks, the decoration in the houses, into comforts and enjoyments of every kind, but above all into the transitory but all the more intoxicating splendour of the festivities. Far beyond the boundaries of France there arose small and miniature imitations of Versailles whose princely and noble inhabitants attempted, with more or less luck and dignity and taste, to emulate Louis XIV.}

^{After his death the Regent Philip of Orleans, then Louis' grandson, Louis XV, in Germany Augustus the Strong of Saxony, Eberhard Ludwig, Karl Alexander, and Karl Eugen of Wurtemberg, Max Emanuel and Karl Theodor of Bavaria, Ludwig IX of Hesse, and many others, were absolute princes of this kind. The notorious immorality, even debauchery, the just as notorious financial transactions, and the scandalous arbitrariness of justice at all these courts, was perhaps not the necessary, but as has happened in all similar phenomena in history the practical, consequence of the representation which one thought to be owing and that not without some logic to the conception of the prince by divine right.”}

^{“The idea inevitably presupposed great demands upon the economy of the country, which were made with an astonishing unconcern not to speak of the sons of Hesse and Brunswick who were sold out of hand to America! And ironically enough the command was in fact often not in the hands of its true possessor, but largely and for all to see in those of a woman sometimes, admittedly, in those of a woman far from unfitted for such an office, but only in a derivative sense can her rule ever have been described as by the grace of God. But all these things cannot and must not blind us to the tremendous stimulus imparted to economic and artistic life by the fantastic burgeoning of absolutism.}

^{Neither must we forget that the luxury these potentates cultivated, though so dubious in many respects, acted in practice as a safety valve and corrective against the possibility of a universal state of war, which should really have been the logical consequence of the general principle 'through power to power' and of dynastic cabinet politics.}

^{If it had not been for the Sun-king's notion of the unfolding of power and the relative enervation which was involved herein, Louis himself and all the other God-kings might well with the absolute power they had arrogated have reduced Europe to even greater disasters than those they did in fact cause. Lastly it should be added that anyone who failed to sense not only the pathos imparted by lavishness of ideas, space and materials, but the underlying, unending and truly insatiable yearning in the midst of sensual delight which emanates from every line and form of the art of the age would be guilty of badly misunderstanding those artistic and architectural monuments of that time which still hold a meaning for us. It is this eternal yearning which is the style's inmost beauty, a beauty peculiarly moving for all the horror which is sometimes apt to seize the beholder.}

^{Besides this kind of political absolutism there was another, going by the name of enlightened absolutism. It is possible for the 'through power to power' principle to manifest itself in depth rather than in extent, rationally rather than aesthetically. In that case it takes the form of experiments in social reform in the technical advance of civilization, in agriculture, industry and in the economic sphere in general, in health measures and policies designed to benefit the population as a whole. There are attempts to improve the state of the law, but also to advance the arts and sciences, to raise the general standard of education in short all sorts of measures tending to the so-called 'welfare' of the subjects of the state. In chastising a Jew, Frederick William I says: 'You should love me rather than fear me, love me, I say! ‘”}

^{“There is no blinking the fact, either, that Frederick's state had to be a welfare state a Frederick naturally sees farther than the usual run of despots in order to be precisely as welfare state a state worshipping power, an absolute state. The fact remains that the measure of wisdom and rectitude with which the king happened to be endowed, together with the limitations imposed upon these qualities by his highly individual character, his taste and his whims limitations common to every mortal had the significance of destiny for his people, his country and for every individual within his realms a destiny which like God could bless or punish, might cherish or destroy, and could do so without let of appeal to any higher law.”}

^{It is of course possible to question whether that other policy, pursued in the Middle Ages in the name of the imperial ideal, ever became a reality anywhere. But there was at least a chance that it might be realized while it was still at least an active point of reference (question-able in itself but at least fairly well-defined) within the framework of the imperial ideal. It was when this fell away that the realization of such a policy became impossible. For when the prince's power was made absolute, a step which brought with it the death of the imperial ideal, the prerequisite of such a policy, the very notion of a concrete responsibility, of a higher authority, was removed also, and in its place there arose the state without a master, or alternatively the state governed by an arbitrary master, beneath whose sway, even if he were the best of all possible monarchs, justice was a matter of pure chance.}

^{We have taken the one kind of political absolutist, the absolute prince, as the first for discussion. The second kind, his perfectly legitimate brother, his alter ego, following in his footsteps as inevitably as the darkness following the light, as the thunder following the lightning, is the absolute revolutionary or perhaps it would be better to say, since his predecessor was already a revolutionary the revolutionary from below, the representative of the lower class, who conceiving those above him to have injured him in his rights, and even to have deprived him of them, takes steps to defend himself by snatching the power lying in the hands of the governing princes in order that he might now determine without let of appeal what is right and just, because he in his turn has the power in his hands. The roles are reversed. Whereas before it had been the prince who had declared himself to be identical with the state, it was now the people, the 'nation', as it at this time began to be called, who assumed the title by means of a simple inversion of Louis XIV's dictum. This happened true to type in Paris on the 17th June, 1789. The representatives of the so-called third estate, who were, be it remembered, the delegates of that section of the population of France which was in the overwhelming majority, formed themselves into a 'National Assembly 9 and three days later declared with a collective oath, that they were determined in the teeth of all opposition never to disband until they had given the state a new constitution.}

^{Everything that happened afterwards, up to the execution of Louis XVI and beyond, was a direct result of this event. Its inner logic is, however, as follows. (We shall restrict ourselves in the following to the two classic revolutionary documents, the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America of June 1776 and the Statement of Human and Civil Rights ratified by the French National Assembly in August 1789). According to the revolutionary doctrine there exists a self-evident truth which can and must be recognized and announced en presence et sous les auspices de verre supreme:}

^{1. All men are equal, i.e. created with equal rights (Am.), or}

^{alternatively (as in the Fr.), born with equal rights.}

^{2. These equal rights are of nature, inalienable, sacred (Fr.), endowed by their creator (Am.).}

^{3. Their names are freedom, property, security and the right to protect oneself from violence (Fr.) or: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (Am.). The French statement goes on to make a special point of saying that freedom consists in being able to do anything which does not harm anybody and is not as such forbidden by law. And it also considers the right to property important enough to describe it in a special last article as inviolable et sacral}

^{4. It is in order to protect these rights that governments are instituted among men (Am.). Le but de toute association publique est la conservation des droits . . . de I'homme (Fr.).}

^{5. Governments derive their just authority from the consent of the}

^{governed. Le principe de toute souverainite' reside essentiellement dans la nation. All authority exercised by individuals or corporate bodies stems expressly from the people.}

^{6. The law is V expression de la volonte finale so all must have a part in making it, all are equal in its eyes and every office and honour for which it provides are as a matter of principle open to all.}

^{7. Whenever a form of government becomes injurious to the aims}

^{of the state, i.e. to the upholding of the rights aforementioned it is the people's right to remove it and replace it by a government more conducive to their safety and happiness. It will be advisable not to proceed too hastily in such an event, but once it has become plain that a government is seeking to establish absolute despotism it is not only the citizen's right but his duty to free himself of its yoke.”-end quote}

Free Science Fiction Novel (Temporal Cross Currents)

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An excerpt from Temporal Cross Currents

At the Plastic Alpha Tholoi the three descended to the Prajol line and were beset by an odd purple haze twilighting the horizon of Plastic Alpha at the shore of the Sea of Regulus. The haze was especially strange for Miami just released from inert confinement in the stone prison cube.

“This must be the work of Moflunk, bent servant of Renflume Universe. When I refused to surrender my workers for conversion here and after bribery and torture failed to gain my compliance to the will of Renflume I was downloaded into the Ugarit Prison Cube.”

Moflunk appeared emerging as a transcendent pattern in the Sea of Regulus before them. A luminescent green scum floating upon the waters with a variegated sheen like a hydrocarbon slick supported ideas, images, patterns and shapes that swirled like an infinite depth of four-dimensional images upon a three-dimensional surface.

The mind of Moflunk had a tonal quality that was dwarfed, muted and yet with an explosive desire to control. It was subtly nuanced, persuasive, arrogant and demanding increased energy throughput. His voice broke as the sound of ten thousand harmonized trashcan lids dropping into place...

”This world is now the property of Renflume Universe and is my personal responsibility. You will immediately surrender all sentient workers with materialbodies to Chief of Adaptation Inbar at the restuffing plants yonder within two days. All qualified will be uploaded to the Quantum Probability Ship within two days. Shirkers will be tortured and terminated without a semblance of pleasure!”

Evdolp Stella thought to Movin Saytrap and Stephen Miami; “Intelligent Destiny is a Dynatron sparsely populated in communities that permit continuity of naturally evolving ecosystems. Renflume Universe and Moflunk are separate from reality within Universe (1) so far as is possible without death, existing within it as shadows outside its natural physical parameters. Their works on Plastic Alpha must be the surface of a retrograde megalomania lusting for the Universe.”

Movin thought to Stella “How will we defend Evdolp?”

She replied, “We must wait to understand more. Nowhere the enemy is, is invulnerable to counterattack.”

When Moflunk upsurged his being into the Sea of Regulus he violated an

integral element of the Civilization. Moflunk annexed it with field enclosure to the Quantum Probability Ship’s compresent M-matrix. The Ship is the transcendent body of Renflume and Moflunk.”

Picking up an anti-matter explosive device from the construction site Movin said “You mean that the Sea of Regulus is now possessed by and one with the Quantum Probability Ship, Renflume Renflume and Moflunk?”

“Probably, Movin.”

Stephen Miami thought to Movin “Be careful with that little package, it might go off. Those anti-matter demolitions should be handled only by experts.”

“Sure, I know Stephen, yek a shock wave front to compact material in pure string balls that were then pitched to a space-time dimensional accelerator and swatted over a time-dimensional wall with force field impact could be worse. Someone like Renflume just might try it you know. The megalomaniac's will to reconfigure the Universe isn’t too much different than reconfiguring minds with particle beam thought shapers. I don’t prefer to be stuffed and uploaded to the Quantum Probability Ship two days hence.

Angels and Infinite Dimensions

I believe it was while considering the outlook of angels that I regarded their trans-dimensional propensity or not readily morphing to a consideration of dimension and their number. Why not an infinite number of dimensions as an infinite series? One already has the example of Cantor's trans-finite sets and perhaps trans-finite dimension sets too, if the string and membrane theory concept that some dimensions may be larger or smaller, embedded to transcendent and interacting with others. Perhaps multiple dimensions interacting produce a different sort of compound dimension in effect creating qualitative as well as quantitative distinctions.

In the Revelation angels are referred to quite a lot. They seem almost to be a referent-term for a sector or nexus of sentience within the spiritual realm with the possibility that human sentience in some way is a sub-category of particular angels (perhaps with a higher dimensional protocol). John takes letters to the angels of churches such as that of Smyrna. Considering how natural philosophy describing the natural world intersects the spiritual plane of metaphysical, theological and philosophical interest is interesting. Consideration of the metaphysics of dimensions is fascinating yet less important except as it informs one of inferences and possibilities about God's way of being.

God probably is the issuer of dimensions as non-contingent being. There may be a rational mechanics of relations amidst dimensions from divine design rather than slots in empty space into which dimensions place mass and energy. Paul Erhenfrest saw the necessity of four dimensions for matter to fully cohere, yet there may be more templates and courses for the interaction of mass and energy in other forms with more or fewer dimensions.

One must wonder if dimensions cohere in empty space as qualities pre-existing mass and energy or if mass and energy naturally arrange into three dimensional configurations with one more of time. That is the simplistic way to view the matter perhaps however there is no necessity that it is so. It is somewhat more challenging to imagine membranes with endowments of mass colliding that appear to be of four dimensions at intersections of collisions (something like when the Andromeda Galaxy intersects with the Milky Way in a few billion years). In some way one would want to speculate that membranes are a natural form for dimensions to take and for mass and energy to arrange themselves in-yet that shape of flatness perhaps as a one-dimension brane seems to be inconsistent with Occam's razor. Dimensions would need to become membranes of finite area and yet appear simultaneously with an initial endowment of mass (unless God placed it there) and/or energy, or mass and /or energy would need to arise without dimensions and slip into membranes (plural) that would later intersect, or mass and/ or energy might naturally evolve membranes that would collide or rebound as developed artifacts of a primary, evolved form. The evolution of membranes or dimensions probably shouldn't be regarded as a trivial feature ancillary to the existence of mass and or energy.

I still like Leibniz's spiritual monad theory of divine interaction with energy/mass. It is easy to take that as a general paradigm for God's spiritual issuance of forms that appear as energy-mass. Basic partitioned fields seem to need to set apart energy-mass from infinities anyway. Quantum valence shells and quantum uncertainty within a field or fields with constructions that have ordinal and finite set matrices of force seems a practical way of supporting a steady-state of mass entangled Universe.

U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy SNAFU

The foreign and domestic policies of the U.S. Government seem to be in a normal situation of confusion and flux. In the midst of the smoke and mirrors there is a vacuum in policy with inertial drift  just to reinforce the god of Wall Street from whence all prosperity flows so long as the Federal Reserve gives it trillions of zero interest cash. Washington D.C. can always count on China and cheap labor from Mexico to give American investors a lift. One wonders where it will all lead-perhaps to Chief Justice Robert's stock market investments that must have gone up with the rest of the investor rich the past several years.

America's Middle East policy is no more than incompetent. A good policy leader could square away that dry as dust region in 3 to 6 months rather easily. Expanding Kurdistan as a Northern state of Iraq and diving Syria in three part with a quarter for Israel would keep the joint hopping. As Honda or Sony once said lead or get out of the way-the U.S.A. does neither.

Assad needs a Shi'a-Christian third. Kurdistan needs a third and The Muslim Brotherhood need a third and that should be joined with the Palestinian West Bank entity and renamed The New Terrorist Entity. Israel needs a security enclave fat enough to make it stronger rather than weak looking. A strong and fat Israel is not so much a target as a weak 120 pound weakling Israel with terrorist Muslims close to Jerusalem. Israel should expand beyond the Golan Heights and on the West Bank about 10 miles. Israel's security buffer will be deducted from the overall land grant of all partners.

Plainly the U.S.A. needs to lead reinforcement of Assad's Syrian security and compel the Palestinians to move into co-fraternal territoriality with the Muslim Brotherhood in The New Terrorist Entity. President Obama nearly succeeded in establishing a lasting Muslim Brotherhood state dictatorship in Egypt-the Morsi government was just rash in trashing the constitution and drawing a military response. The lesson learned will be that in the next round where populism returns the Brotherhood to power they must slowly erode the constitution and infiltrate the military making it impossible for liberals to kick them out with a coup. One wonders if the President is a closet Muslim having grown up in a Sunni nation.

American white women have been the decisive driving force in moving the nation toward the homosexual agenda the past two decades by voting consistently against the Republican Party. That direction continues with little chance of change. The Supreme Court has refused to hear a case on state's banns on homosexual marriages this term-bans that have been overturned in about half the states by Federal Judges whom have become the most effective recruiters for Muslim fundamentalist terrorists in the global war between straits and queers. The U.S. Government under the Obama administration has moved toward the wild queer side of the street in the battle between homo-sex and hetero-sex votaries. One wonders if the President is a Sunni Muslim.

With the nation's economy edging toward a catastrophe theory flip-flop anytime with the vast public debt and continuing degradation of the work force's compensation (Wal-mart just cut health benefits to employees with less than full time jobs), the environment in decay and the border ineffectively defended it seems that the policy is toward making the U.S.A. a second world nation run by sycophants of global plutocrats. The President can ask his friend Warren Buffet about that.

Build Center for West African Virus Control With F.B.I. Field Office

Ebola probably won't be the final deadly virus originating in West Africa. Ad hoc responses that arrive piecemeal will be added to react and slow contagion from the international community, so why not build a Center for Disease Control and Study of Deadly Viruses in West Africa with an F.B.I. field office-hardened and bomb resistant, on the campus nearby to help with field investigations security and look for the odd bomber developing weapons delivery packages for D.C.?

A level 3 viral research and treatment center staffed by international researchers and doctors perhaps with a thousand beds for patients might react quicker and more effectively to the next deadly disease. With the accelerated transmission of contagion in the global era on site research of likely locations for disease development could be helpful. China can take care of itself. It is Africa that is lacking substantive facilities for disease prevention. The international community should put such a package together and keep and eye out for Albert Shabop, whom might dissent with violence.

Oil Platform Haul-outs for Walruses?

Sea lions like to use marina docks as substitute haul outs where natural land or ice features aren’t available. One might think that walrus also would use man-made platforms for haul outs where available such as specially adapted offshore oil platforms in Alaska. perhaps legislation could be made to require oil corporations to attach haul-outs for walrus and polar bear on their offshore facilities. Human compensation for global warming melting of the Arctic ice pack ought to go ahead in an affordable way.

As an alternative remedy the federal government could design special electric engine powered haul out barges that would follow the ice pack recession seasonally to moor in locations where walrus and polar bear formerly had ice to rest on. Permanent moorings could be made so the barges could hook on to anchored tethers with floats that sink beneath the waves in advance of the return of seasonal ice and reappear seasonally when signaled or boat-hooked. The barges could return to the beach of the North Slope in autumn as the ice returns.

Questions About Ebola as a Sexually Transmitted Disease

The obvious unanswered question is ‘Can Ebola be contracted sexually?’ Will sex tourist of Africa take Ebola to the melting flesh-pots of the world? Alternatively, if Ebola is just a viral pool of blood, vomit etc. that expands as people dip into it or are splashed by it, Americans with better sanitation are better off. They might be able to avoid getting into the planetary Ebola pool. With insular housing and metal transportation boxes Americans can stay away from the two or three week time period required for Ebola to burn itself out in new victims, comparable in some respects to forest fires that last two or three weeks and then die, unless the virus if frozen I would guess in a body or blood during a cold winter freeze. Yet if sexual transmission works those with the atheist mind set may become leaders at disseminating Ebola globally.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/04/ebola-might-be-sexually-transmitted.html

The sex tourism route though might be an advantaged course for prosperous American tourists to get the disease. Wilt Chamberlain’s 50,000 conquests might have included some Africans too. If he were alive in the H.I.V. era he might have been one of the early victims. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a giant stamp to honor one of America’s highest scoring sportsmen (he is also the N.B.A.’s all time scoring champ). Sex tourism of Africa as well as Thailand could be dangers if the Ebola pool flows that way. Thank goodness West Nile virus (is that the Blue Nile?) seems not to be a sexually transmitted disease, or it would be pandemic.