9/30/23

One Good Turn (poem)


A beautiful turn
for the mermaid
near the end of the pool
flipping the face of spacetime

  Blue ripples carved in the mind
cream rising for the topping
gathered world appearences
phenomenalities compresent

  A world ocean farther for great notions
to think the chance to dream
arisen from darkest depths
that draw one to return

  Aesthetic's moments suggest answers
glimpses into beginnings and endings
ubknown yet familiar
surfaces crumbling like instants.

9/29/23

Shadow Waves (poem)

 

Waves are gravity’s shadows
moving faster than thought
endless, relentless, surging, overcoming
senses, sensations and substance
formless forms filling space with voids
chord tumbling angles breaking up froth

Emptiness has volume
depth and scansion
feel the beginning of the end
for power driving gales
need clash with countercurrent echoes
peaks and troughs
tumbling field phenomenon
water weight of the world
oar worlds across time
sines in brine
life and death
a breath.

Free at Last (a poem)

 

 Slaves to the world
genuflect on capital
temples of wealth and terror
clusters of critical creation

  Pillars rise like shadows
casting reality where nothingness would
jackrabbits gaze around rocky corners
when silence, searing stood

  Royal clumps of ant like bumps
still hills that filled with leaven
arisen to the skies
while everyone tries
to find the niche that's heaven
on surface breaking stumps

What can be done
when peace is profound
and wars echo ideas
emanations of censured sounds

  Original sin
rolled like gravity’s marrow
bone crunches dinner for vultures of sorrow

  Good leaves thought
when philosophy is bare
dust settles empty shelves
mankind  becomes collective tares

Lord Jesus freed the slaves
bound to the temporal
hope did cost
winning over confusion ephemeral
for spirit filled eternity.

9/28/23

Rising Dreams (Haiku written with sli lead)

 So it must be right-
lifting dreams through silent nights
in the choirs’ first light.

Special Leader Biden Covers Quilts of War

 As cold tendrils and dark nights oove into the no-oath one’s thought may turn toward warm blankets that won’t fall onto the floor when one sleeps. Maybe blankets should have magnets that attach them to 24” wide plywood bed where one dreams counting sheep jumping over a fence.

Maybe not. It could be that warm winter quilts should be upgraded to de frappe temperatures of minus zero better. What if quality space blankets were sewn into a quilt sandwiched between layers of polar guard insulation. In contemporary America one’s though easily drifts into other applications for the body heat reflecting and trapping blanket; like its possible utility in concealing one’s location from infrared imaging infrared sensing drones.

Today NPR related that the Ukraine government said its ‘special forces’ had killed a Russian Black Sea fleet naval commander and 35 of his or her senior staff. That made me think of the Al Baghdadi hit coordinated with surveillance drones. Predators and hellfire missiles might well cluster on a heavily defended Russian naval HQ. better than ground troops advancing through lines of perimeter defenders. Can the Pentagon be regarded as a Ukrainian special force?

The Ukraine-Russia conflict reminds me a little of the American civil war battle on the western front and especially the battle of Chickamauga where Sherman’s troops were nearly routed in battle because of a confederate breakthrough union lines that sent union troops pell mel into retreat and a disaster saved only by General Walton’s stand in the middle of the surge of confederate forces that provided enough rear guard defense to let union forces slip away. I suppose Ukraine and the Pentagon are hoping for a breakthrough that would send Russian forces into retreat or otherwise have them overwhelmed and suppressed in order to allow an eventual N.A.T.O. build up on far eastern Ukraine borders with Russia.

That N.A.T.O./Biden fantasy aside, the interesting point meaningful to Americans is Russia’s ineffective missile attacks on Kiev and other salient Ukrainian position that recur about every week. It is as if Russia is field testing modern technology against American air defense systems. Providing Russia with the opportunity to innovate and upgrade ways to sort out missile defenses isn’t too helpful for the prospect of reducing defense spending and paying down U.S. public debt. One might want to sleep soundly at night free of concern of a muscle twitch sending a swarm of hypersonic missiles to vaporize the neighborhood if an A.I. millisecond speed launch decision system gets hit by a cosmic ray on the quantum circuit host. It might have been better to invest in systems to let rural African farmers grow drought and terror-resistant crops.

Traditionally missile designers regard point targets and how to send missiles accurately there. Anti-missile designers consider ways to identify and intercept incoming missiles. Offensive missiles usually are blind to anti-missiles on intercept courses attacking them. With so many ineffective Russian drone and missile attacks it is obvious that people are thinking about how to change the relationships in order to make drone and missile attacks more effectively overcome air defenses.

Even missiles designed to attack air defense missiles are dedicated single purpose systems. In the future missiles launched at point targets probably will have artificial intelligence and or limited capability virtual intelligence guidance that will have anti-missile batteries as their primary target and other targets as secondary targets in case no anti missiles are launched upon them. As American designers invented MIRV and MARV capability for ICBMs during the late stages of the Cold War multiple independent re-targeting vehicles may brake off from primary missiles to seek multiple different targets each with A.I. guidance to select from multiple targets. Some MIRV units can be used as decoy or release spoofing and chaff to disorder or distract anti-missiles such as Patriots from finding a primary target. Other MIRV vehicles could be purposed to detonate the Patriot for-themselves.

One of the problems with anti-missile systems is that even hypersonic missiles and gliders released from MIG-31s flying up high could find multiple targets with different purposes released from the primary hyper-sonic package. Some of those MIRV packages might be adapted to hunting Patriot batteries themselves after the Patriot batteries have given have identified their location by launching on incoming primary missile delivery packages. Hypersonic missiles can deliver force packages to a region and release them for distribution to local enemy hubs inclusive of attacking patriot batteries. Apparently speed is involved in punching, step hook counter-punching and an ability to circle an opponent to deliver jabs and even knock out strikes on opposition force command sites.

If one is a simple soldier trying to stay warm in the trench or an unemployed homeless American on the plains in cold continental winter winds the heat-reflecting and polar guard heat-absorbing quilt may have another value when the sky is filled with surveillance seeking prey.

A.I. and Screenplay Futurism

 Hollywood films, like early television were something of a quasi-monopoly product that required special human technical skills and capital to produce. No one needed to add a ‘Don’t try making a movie like this’ at home warning at the start of a feature movie. A.I. has changed that. In the fairly near future virtually anyone with quality A.I. software running on a home computer with enough processing power will be able to order a feature length movie generated for-themselves.

Modern computer technology and software have brought democratic changes to end the exclusivity of writing movie or film scripts that was limited to specialists with degrees in English not uncommonly. Guilds and unions won’t be the primary providers of content design for verbal communication transpiring in films. Artificial intelligence will be able to create complete artificial worlds and dialogues of interest to local individuals with such ease and quantity that every town in the U.S.A. might have countless citizens creating feature films on their home computer in every genre and local backgrounds. Artificial intelligence given image samples can create realistic landscapes compatible with local scenery, culture and dress.

Recent labor union strikes in the film and acting trades have brought up the pathos of human struggle against computers and artificial intelligence that has gone on since typing and office secretary became largely obsolete occupations with the arrival of Windows and MSWORD. Unions understandably don’t want competition from new technology. Like Luddites, unions seeking to arrest the profusion of A.I. created products in order to preserve their occupations will hardly slow the advancing tide of technology. In a better human social environment humans could adapt A.I. safely to augment social ventures. Yet even if an A.I. wrote a modern Utopia of ecological economics that would work better than any existing political system it wouldn’t be given an political interest at all.

Humans will be able to create their own feature films to such an extent that over-the-transom proliferation will stimulate people to find something else to do eventually. Free speech in A.I. generated products with unlimited voice samples and person images artificially generated will enable the rise of an endless variety of actors and actresses working on limitless vistas. At least live humans on Broadway should have job security. A.I. can create new voices and faces with the vast database for synthesizing new already in the public domain.

An endless supply of Oscar winning quality movies created with the help of A.I. may arise under the pressure of international competition in addition to the phenomenon of basement movie studios on-a-chip. Because the cost of creating a movie on a chip will be nearly zero in comparison to the cost of making a film with human actors, directors, screen writers and so forth, independent film creators may experience a substantial quality and quantity production advantage over traditional studios or even those with PIXAR graphics.

I have written a few science fiction novels myself; usually improved first drafts composed in an unheated location in Alaska. It was the pilosophical content that was valuable to me rather than the entertainment value in-itself. A.I. may make the writing of purely entertainment novels competetively obsolete as well as movies. After experiencing the value of A.I. art that is still a very young technology, and asking ChatGPT to write a philosophical sonnet I am persuaded that the appearance of quality novels written by A.I. isn’t too far down the road.

Plainly artificial intelligence as a highly mobile expert system will find applications in virtually every trade from those of being an electrician or plumber to medicine. Bad lawyers with hangovers may take an A.I. companion to court to listen to the opposition and prompt them to enter an objection when relevant simply to create a point of reference for a future appeal. The swamping and bumping of trades from the appearance of A.I. expert systems goes along with the appearance of new human capabilities in so many occupations. It is challenging to believe that congress in a free democratic society with capitalism will find it possible to ban A.I. applications too much. If there are tens of thousands of novels published every day on-line that are free to read it may be difficult for aspiring authors to find a market to sell their own product in since the books usually go for free with top quality.

A.I. will bring large, discomforting changes to society as well good ones. If Elon Musk had installed high quality cameras on his thousands of Starlink satellites around the planet in low Earth orbit A.I. could have used them to gather all kinds of data about the world. A.I. from home computers might have used one or more of the cameras for business purposes including creation of movies. Home dial-in access to live satellite imagery for a few minutes at low cost may be around the corder,

There is a dark side to A.I. as well as good. Without question A.I. imagery might notice fine details in live pollution, deforestation and wildfire events that some may not want observed. Skynet terminator/Forbin Project, HAL, The Cell events could be scripted by programmers and filter in as easily as fragrance on an evening breeze intentionally r unintentionally. For certain the Congress hasn’t the intellect or will to know what to do with A.I., pay down the public debt, end poverty globally or restore the vital health of the world ecosphere.

For the interim the rise of A.I. art in film may make a a few thousand interesting productions for Neflix style outlets for those interested, to watch. Writing screenplays for A.I. production will be something of a new field for-itself. Providing prompts and directions/suggestions for scene constructions and dialogue with a fuzzy logic letting free reign for the A.I. that has every novel, play and movie ever published in its database to draw upon differs from creating action scenes with comparatively sparse on-camera dialogue. It will be interesting to view the adventures of Dorothee and her little dog tow-tow taking their supra-dimensional Kansas farmhouse to a different planet; a different galaxy each week to make landfall on their five-year mission to find new subscribers where none have existed before.

Newer Laptops Don't Charge Well in Cold Weather

I spent  a winter in an unheated building in rural Alaska with temperatures generally below 40F and often below freezing.  I discovered that recharging laptops withe modern 10 and 7 nanometer wires were very slow to charge, while older laptops with 14 nanometer architecture charged normally.

 My suggestion for chip manufacturers and laptop makers is that they continue to make a line of cold weather models with the older 14 nanometer design that charges in less than an hour instead of several hours. Charging 10 and 7 nm laptops one must first use body heat to prewarm them and then watch a video or other material that will bring the computer to heat up when it activates turbo threads.

Perhaps chip makers seeking better battery life don’t use computers in cold weather themselves. I suppose that older, thicker wires simply allow more electricity to flow creating more heat internally-phenomena new chips seek to avoid. Over-heating is usually a problem for computer chips rather than over-cooling; so I suppose manufacturers don’t consider the issue much-especially since comparatively few people live or work in cold weather without access to a thermostat-controlled indoor environment.

Autostrikes in Bidenomics

 The Detroit auto producer union strikes present an interesting opportunity to consider the impact of Biden economics on Americans generally. Labor unions point to vast compensation piles for CEOs and seek large pay increases and items such as profit sharing. The President traveled to Michigan to provide support for the strikers. Since President Trump also went to Detroit one must wonder if the strike isn’t somewhat meaningless as labor unions are rather insipid since so much labor entered the world market since the 1990s and unions faded. Democrat leadership seem to concentrate their own wealth and throw corn to mollify their constituents. Maybe the Detroit phenomenon is like that as the percent of wealth going to workers is just a tiny fraction of that going to the 1 per centers and the tope 30% of earners in the U.S.A. It’s necessary to toss the pork, stir up racial unrest and etc. if the voters are to believe the economy is becoming better, voting is meaningful and plutocracy is a myth. Hate speech and insurrections could just a word or two away for political opponents..

The United States has experienced concentration of wealth in recent decades that equaled Mexico. For the present average wages are still quite above the world average yet as was well known and anticipated wages in the United States stagnated as the workforce diversified and jobs became increasingly outsourced especially after the end of the Cold War version 1.0 circa 1990. Technology was transferred as well as jobs and today China is a great auto and ship manufacturer in addition to making aircraft etc,

Biden economics eschewed tax increases on the rich and upper middle class in preference for deficit spending. Biden economics floods the nation with illegal labor to bolster future Democrat voting and provide cheap labor for middle class Democrat voters while increasing government spending with borrowed cash from the Federal Reserve building up more than 30 trillion dollars of public debt so far.

In some respects the national economy seems somewhat puffed up and living beyond its means. Some economists have though said that the public debt doesn’t really matter. Of course if the public dent exceeds the value of national assets in land ownership (such as national forests and parks) substantial pressure might be applied some day to lever extraction of natural resources from those lands and monuments.

American economic classes aren’t like they used to be during the 20th century. Taxes on the rich began to increase globally to pay for the great wars- FDR said he wanted to tax the most rich at a 100% rate rather than 90%. Beginning with President Carter taxation on the rich was scaled back. Since wages don’t keep up with capital increase the concetration of wealth was inevitable after the Reagan-Bush-Obama-Trump tax cuts.

Maybe is no longer a real middle class. There is the rich and everyone else. I suppose there are three classes of rich people too; those earning a 100,000 dollars annually to 500,000 and with assets of more than 5 million, those earning from $500,000 to 3 million dollars annually and/or with assets from 5 million to a billion dollars, and billionaires.

The middle class today also has three classes. The upper middle class earn from $100,000 to 60,000 annually, 60,000 to 30,000 and 30,000 to 21,000. Americans earning fewer than 21,000 annually are the poor, also with three classes, upper middle and lower poor divided with roughly 7,000 for the lowest annually, 7 to 14 thousand for the middle poor and 14 to 21,000 thousand dollars annually for the upper poor.

One might wonder about unions locking in much higher average wages than those of the rest of the world based on the profit of selling automobiles that are very expensive to Americans and other first worlders with enough earnings to spend $50,000 on a car or truck; will Detroit manufacturers find a global market, or even a national market down the road for expensive electric automobiles when electric transport platforms can be made for a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the weight of fossil fuel vehicles?

While President Biden and the Democrat party would shut down the U.S. government and throw a wrench into the U.S. economy if the don’t get enough billions more to continue the war tunneling to Russia without a possible light at the end except perhaps for nuclear conflict the world nations seems to be vaguely drifting toward support for an Asian alternative to U.S.-Europe economic management. That Asian leadership with a maturing China joined fortuitously through Biden economics and war ventures toward much closer ties with Russia also includes South American and African trade partners. Most people of the poorer developing nations probably will be happy with far lower priced electric vehicles that are much lighter in weight yet still reach 200-300 miles per charge (MPC).

It is possible that electric transportation platforms may reach numerous infrastructure paradigms radically different than those of the United States. Just as developing nations may flourish with internet access through Starlink hubs in remote villages and solar power technology manufactured in China, India and elsewhere in Asia it is not unlikely that some nations will build transport power grids made just to provide in-line power for electric transport platforms guided by chip and A.I, to let seamless, frictionless movement of millions of vehicles in congested and chaotic urban areas with the maximum possible efficiency, packing and use of power with no noise or pollution. One wonders if American labor unions in Detroit manufacturing very large and costly platforms will find much profit to share with an over-mature transport grid hosting their product designed more for the rich than the world’s poor.

It may be that Detroit auto producers will mover production abroad even more than today in order to manufacture small, fast, cheap platforms that cannot be sold in the United States. If Americans could actually build homes for $40,000 with better use of materials instead of $400,000 for the average cost of a new home could that even be tolerated by economic leaders in the U.S.A. There are numerous fascinating economic developments to watch in the world ahead now that the Biden international relations revolution building on that of Clinton and Obama has overthrown a century of developing peace, ending wars and enmity wit communists and restored fully hostility with out World War Two allies Russia and China and built a team for war with our world war two enemies Germany and Japan.

Advice for Presidential Candidates- Write Poetry

It could be useful for Presidential candidates to organize their language-package it as it were, in iambic hexameter or pentameter with a dozen stanzas for each of ten salient issues they believe important for the nation. So much language is disorganized and spectators don’t really know what to expect of political rhetoric except that it might be tiresome and not actually to the point.

The public might benefit from candidates finding their own ten points and memorizing the poetry of each point with a limit of twenty lines per point. It is true that some candidates might not be able to remember twenty lines of verse for each of ten points yet that is what Teleprompters are for.

What is impressive about modern Presidential politics is how little quality content actually arises during a Presidential campaign. One candidate in a Presidential primary debate  said that she got dumber every time she listened to a rival talk. That kind of exchange might be suitable for realty TV yet it isn’t to the point of a substantive issue. Ten actual, real, solid ideas that would improve the nation from each candidate; ideas that could be actualized with support from Congress, would be a vast left and right wing improvement over the way things are.

Four Points for Avoiding Government Shutdown

 I thought to write a few reasonable guidelines to avoid government shutdown when bi-partisan negotiations are at loggerheads. Here are a few principles

1) The borders need to be secured against illegal entry. That is equivalent to locking the doors of a home. The homeowners may then be able to choose who may enter the dwelling rather than home invasion specialists.

2) If a divided congress wants to decrease and increase spending the federal budget should remain unchanged. The right time to alter budget levels is when broad bipartisan support for a change in one direction is present or when a single party in control of both houses of congress was elected to do so. Democrats had the opportunity to raise taxes on the rich to fund budget increases or pay down debt if they chose to do so during the first two years of the Biden administration and did not act on the matter.

3) Federal funding should never depend on funding a foreign government. Foreign government funding such as the twenty billion dollars Democrats want for Ukraine should not be included in budget negotiations unless there is broad bi-partisan support, and even then it is questionable that any amount at all should be included in basic federal budgeting since a foreign government is not the U.S. Government. If war mongers insist some sort of special appropriations vote in Congress on a special one-time disbursements to an alien nation that has in the past employed the President’s son might be held at a later time unrelated to legislation that could shut down the U.S. Government.

4) All federal food assistance programs including school lunch programs and WIC should be funded during an emergency government shutdown. If half of the children of the U.S.A. are poor and with food funded by WIC the poverty is enough of a disadvantage without adding malnutrition to their life opportunity vectors.




9/15/23

Clogs Ode Lit (the poem)

 

Singularity world and will
ideal phenomena mill
bubble blown membrane
time snapping through drains
rising dreams though panes
spacing plains fulfill

  Being and time needs tick quickly
short, sharp, existent and prickly
republics of thought
with castled quantum plots
rise dreams sought
-accompli

Fated verse
unknown nights
vibrating strings tight
shocka field blooms star lights
power gravity fighting worse
quantum super-position, terse.

If the Assumption is Wrong (the poem)

 

Around red dwarf stars shining
inputting energy strength
double Dyson spheres were built
bringing to the hilt a myth

Zillion worlds with private suns
darkest matter, unsung stars
gravity set right for spheres
good Earths loamy, near like Mars

Dark energy infusion
where upwelling currents fly
mysterious profusion
across the darkened sky

Missing matter past the prime
is a sign to empty space
dark energy excess flew
Dyson worlds new-built in place.

Upstream (the poem)

 

Down the river builds
rapids sand falls
  atmospheric heating wills
rapids sand falls

  Upstream time fills
crashes and sprawls
atmospheric heating builds
rapids sand falls

Time upstream chills
nothings land morgues
  upstream time fills
silent bogged chords

  Through darkness fogs log
enjambments downstream
works from the past
make a future climate scream

Upstream time calls
inexorable arithmetic
downstream time flows
sedentary broadcasts thick.

Radius of a Membrane Universe (poem)

 

  Chords sharply rise and spring
filling in with trillions strings
the membrane drawn tight
an arrow in flight
lighting night
mass for bling

  Templates wait
when time starts
comparing good parts
those of righteous hearts
with those of worldly sin and hate
one may discover when too late

  Emergent mass with gravity
from massless quanta just set free
anti-matter too
a universe new
dark energy grew
balance key

  What is right when wrong is so strong
politics leads to sing such songs
kill the enemy
and be truly free
each will see
the final gong.

9/14/23

Space-Time Expansion and Hubble Tension

 A vector space is a mathematical paradigm. A more complex vector space is that of Hilbert Space, yet of course they are math metrics rather than space-time in-itself. Time is a meansurement locally of the rate of change of some sort of physical continuum, and obviously with relativity that changes. Scalar fields are a way of assigning a mathematical value- ‘a single number to every point in space’ and thus useful in applied physics. One cannot assign a single value to time with relativity making time values local rather than universal. 

I suppose its possible that in a black hole time may experience running in reverse at some point if space-time warps inward upon itself. It is theoretically possible that time runs in different directions at and within an event horizon’s opposing surface directions. Math fields, tensors etc may describe space without in any way explain what the forces are within it. Why it is that galaxies are expanding apparently with space may be reduced or refined with explanations tat are more complete with measurements of particular particles or fields that are increasing spacing externally and if they are not, why it is that just larger clumps of mass have increased spacing. There are new results for the Hubble tension that demonstrate that theoretical astrophysicists aren’t in harmoney even with the rate of expansion. Much to learn obviously.

 https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-tension-universe-expansion

Dialectical Reason and Conservative Rationalism

When President Biden visited Vietnam recently and extolled his vision of a twenty-five year partnership in security and trade that reminded me of the history of Soviet and Russian relations with Vietnam during the Cold War. I wondered if the President’s outlook wasn’t somewhat one-sided and overly optimistic. Vietnam needs naval help in securing its offshore oil and fishing grounds against Chinese incursion such as the Spratly Islands. It would also like to increase domestic production to expand exports to nations besides China and India that are saturated with production as it is for domestic and foreign export (India less so presently though that may change). The U.S.A. is an obvious sales sump. Being a purchaser of products doesn’t imply any kind of allegiance from the seller when you have killed more than a million and a half citizens of the seller five decades before.

Vietnam and China are two communist countries sharing a history of border conflicts. China and India also have a history of border disputes. Russia has had very positive relations with Vietnam, China and India. They are something of a coordinator and enabler of an Eastern Eurasia economic and political synergetic surge of developing nations to the front of the first world economic stage. The west has a Pope trying flanking maneuvers in Mongolia, President Biden trying to put a wedgie in from the S.E. and President Zelenski appointing a Muslim to lead the Ukraine military that could in theory catalyze more Muslim terror in Russia from the South (though fate replied swiftly with an earthquake killing 2000 Muslims in Morocco; one of three traditional Muslim invasion routes to Europe. I am not confident that the Bidentate. method of expanding western market control over Eurasia will be effective in spite of the President’s optimism.

Jean Paul Sartre wrote Being and Nothingness after being released from capture and p.o.w. incarceration by Germany as a French conscript in the Second World War. The great philosophical tome of the 20th century was an remains quite influential in popular psychology. Most don’t develop and in-depth understanding of what its about; French rationalism following the footsteps of Rene Descartes. Sartre elaborates in a practical way on self-reliant epistemology wherein all one trust is one’s own awareness of perceptions and thought about them. Existentialism is a large word philosophy on the epistemology of existent experience of the world; considering existent perceptions and thoughts about them as well as thoughts about thoughts. The book is one-sided. It regards epistemology from the perspective on a sole individual and the content he experiences.

From Sartre’s point of view in Being and Nothingness there could be no other people in the world that are real. That is they could be regarded equally with material objects that aren’t animated as phenomena. He does describes the experience of being observed by others and how one reacts to that (e.g. ‘the look’), and his terminology is replete with terms like being-in-itself, being-for-oneself and being-for-others that describe the way an individual psychological reacts or presents himself while existing yet those descriptions all return or renormalize to the individual point of view as an existing, sentient individual. It is Sartre’s second great philosophical tome named ‘The Critique of Dialectical Reason’ that explains the way a few, or a society or civilization of individuals interact epistemologically from the ground of each phenomenally experiencing the existence of others in their own perception and cognitive field. Sartre’s Critique may have changed the world far more than Being and Nothingness, and today it is almost entirely forgotten.

French rationalism is quite conservative in its epistemology. One can rely solely on one’s own experience as being ‘real’. Descartes called the I think therefore I am (or exist) confirmation way of think a ‘first principle’. Bishop Berkeley developed his philosophy of idealism, originally called ideaism with the same founding principle. In the Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous Berkeley showed that content besides that of self-awareness could be created by God, an evil demi-urge, or in modern terms, a simulation by a quantum computer. It is possible that all that exists is the mind and that everything else is like a feely show from Orwell’s novel 1984 or an advanced artificial reality world-universe. The Critique of Dialectical Reason describes how individuals choose to interact, sometimes with social inertial behavior creating roles for them, in that common epistemological experience of existence.

Democrat Party ideology tends to be quite one-side in its outlook on the wold and politics. It is a very us vs. them party weltanshauung. Trump is them, Russia is them, political protesters bum-rushing an insecure capitol building are insurrectionists, Republican voters are ‘deplorables’. One is very common is the idea that some nations and organizations are ‘existential threats’. What is meant by that is either a threat to existence or an existing threat. President Biden’s Ukraine policy is an actual existential treat in that it may provoke global thermonuclear war, yet that is of course not talked about in the media. In the Democrat point of view the victory of everything they want is political inevitable. It an outlook something lie that describing kings with absolute power in his book ‘The Leviathan’.

If the epistemological criterion of Being and Nothingness is appropriate for an age of personal egoism and predatory capitalism rather than democracy, The Critique of Dialectical Reason is suitable for analysis or edification of a mass social environment. With the name and subject the Soviet Communists of Russia were interested. Since Karl Mark had adapted Hegel’s idea of an evolving world spirit coming to realize itself through history that Hegel wrote of in ‘The Phenomenology of Mind’ there had been no significant credible upgrade to the paradigm of evolving dialectical reason and dialectical materialism. Marxist philosophers were somewhat stranded standing upon the melting iceberg of Marxist dialectics that were fading in the science of the 20th century. Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason personalized and shrank epistemological dialectics to that of French rationalism socially concatenated and occurring for the masses simultaneously. With the implicit French rationalist skepticism about everything perceived besides one’s own experience guiding social dialectics it became easier for some Soviet philosophers to jettison the metaphysics of dialectical materialism and move toward a more pragmatic view of social organization, individual and collective epistemology. Like the insight provide by W.V.O. Quine’s “Methods of Logic’ that taught readers of logic how to build their own system of logic from the bottom up instead of simply instructing students in a particular system of logic and how it worked, Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason provided interested parties with the knowledge that collective social behavior is phenomenal, malleable and subject to change or improvement rather than necessarily being determined by evolving dialectical and material forces consistent with social Darwinism and a process of political class clash, synthesis and anti-synthesis evolution.

Sartre wrote part of The Critique of Dialectical Evolution in Moscow during several months of residence. It is entirely possible that Raisa Gorbachev- wife of President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, was familiar with the work as she was an academic philosopher. Sartre’s philosophical account of the phenomenality of social organization and the way praxis shaped it may have reinforced the paradigm for glasnost, perestroika and radical transformation of Soviet society from one of state socialism to one embracing free markets and democracy. The leap of faith into the new philosophical paradigm wherein social organization was believed to e within human power to improve rather than within the realm of dialectical material determinism was the greatest non-violent social change in mass politics that has occurred.

The late Soviets were pressured by a number of internal and external challenges to adapt, improve and move away from state socialism and the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ Sartre’s avante guard philosophical work would otherwise have likely been ignored by the powerful political insiders of the Soviet Union as they would have been elsewhere other than by readers of philosophy books. Leadership of the west generally ignored The Critique. The term ‘dialectical’ was after all unfashionable after the fall of the Soviet Union. Twenty years after the fall the term existential threat became common in the discourse of Pentagon and White House spokespersons. Philosophically nothing much had changed in D.C. political circles since the end of the Cold War. Politicians were unaware of the epistemology of French rationalism developed by Sartre and the way it viewed collective social organizations phenomenally with egalitarian and equal individual experience of life differentiating itself into different roles. President Biden and other party lawyer President still regard the world empirically, sometimes with a touch of Catholic amillenialism or Protestant pre-tribulationism thrown in.

Though the social epistemology is very old and the political dialectic equally dated in the leadership of the Democrat Party, the consequences of such anachronistic viewpoints fueled with the aggressive litigant methods of a lawyer-President lead to needless political conflict along worst-case lines bilaterally. The Democrat Party leadership way of international relations seems to be of a square peg in a round hole approach with the power and ego to try to force matters its way. It is a philosophical paradigm that is closer to the mark of personal egoism and solipsism rather than pragmatic with awareness of the compound social dialectic that is the phenomenon of social reason.

Classical and Environtal Economics; Seperate and Not Equal

Classical economics developed without concern for natural resource conservation or the value and preservation of intact ecosystems. In fact exploitation of natural resources; processing them as quickly and quantitatively as possible to cash them in for market products was normal. With seven billion plus souls on Earth and finite Earth resources that custom is counterproductive to human survival in the long term on this planet. Ecological economics is cognizant of those facts and develops understanding and methods for integrating classical and environmental elements positively.

Classical economics hasn’t a capacity to recognize values beyond those of supply and demand in the market. Capitalism is blind to the values of non-market-profitable environmental conservation set-asides by government and generally cannot value non-marketable environmental services values. The field of trying to market environmental services positively, at least to governments has gotten a small start.

Classical economics with capitalism would calculate values for the last healthy natural resources of a dying world if cashed out and sold for scrap in the market, Classical economics need be upgraded to a new version integrated synthetically with environmental vision to become ecological economics. In a sense there are no limits to the potential profit resulting from the synthesis of classical economics with environment to one of ecological economics. Minimizing adding entropy to economic procedures could become a coefficient for adding value to economic products.

Nature and living ecology elements evolved to create greatly complex structures within an integrated and wholistic environment. Specific biological adaptations occurred within the complex complex of ecosystem compresence; deleting through displacement or economic use to extinction affects every other element of the ecosystem. With enough entropy, or disorganization added to an ecosystem the complete ecosystem may break down with many of its elements unable to survive independently.

Economic practices are cultural means of processing articles for life. Like invention synthetic compounding of ideas to form a new idea economic methods, knowledge and applications evolve. The idea of interacting positively with the ecosphere to conserve or build it is new. New ideas may be challenging to introduce to human economic practice. Practical applications of theory, new ideas or inspiration need occur experimentally in testable circustance generally before spreading to broad, common sense use. With the human reluctance to change from presently profitable methods (if it ain’t broke don’t fix it), expanding the economic skill set to include getting more value from the ecosystem through using it better is challenging- especially since the science is new and requires ongoing improvement just as classical economics continues to improve its knowledge base through trial and error often in real world applications.

The cult of controlling inflation as a way to govern U.S. economic well-being is a case in point of the focus of classical economics on trendy ways of continuing the flow of money through the polity in traditional courses. With more than 31 trillion dollars of public debt and decade of Federal Reserve loans of trillions of dollars of zero or low interest loans to wealthy banks that in turn could electronically mint and loan four dollars for each loaned dollar from the Federal Reserve monetary policy as a method for adjusting the inflation rate and employment rate along a Phillips Curve or post-Phillips Curve tensor is like building public policy on an ice-covered lake during an era of global warming. Conserving the environmental health or even restoring it are not large blips on the radar screen of classical economic managers as things to be concerned about.

The rate of inflation and national employment rate are at any rate dubiously reactionary to monetary policy in an era where post-Cold War the global labor supply available for U.S. corporations to outsource jobs has risen 400% Complex offshore employment, transport, health and technology factors affect the cost of products and prices available for Americans. Supply and demand elements from illegal labor domestically to sanctions and belligerence on trade relations may alter domestic price balances. Monetary policy may alter international trade balances from positive to negative. Segregating Russia from the U.S. economy affected Americans as has and will U.S. Chinese business relations in several was as U.S. investors are banned or discouraged from further Chinese partnerships for production. The international economic relations are of course quite complex concerning China and India in regard to U.S. investment and production sites for exporting products to the world and the United States. It will make a difference of most Wal-Mart products sold in the U.S.A. are made in China or India; and it will make a difference if the brick nations become more prosperous and begin to view the U.S foreign policy as that of a rival rather than just a capitalist investor taking more than 50% off the top in return for direct investment.

Ecological economic methods developed and led by the United States would become a transcendent phenomena catalyzing positive U.S. and developing nations relationships. If the U.S. eliminate poverty and creates a minimum national income with free lifetime continuing education the leadership would demonstrate a positive example to the developing nations and create some trust that the U.S.A. is more than a capitalist entity seeking to exploit or devour underdeveloped national economies.

Political candidates that comprehend even the definition of ecological economics would be a positive improvement in U.S. Presidential races. Ecosystem services is a developing field within ecological economics yet does not entail more than a fraction of its potential. Ecosystem service approaches recognize the value that ecosystem have in cash terms to human societies such as in filtering water that are lost with human developments that degrade or destroy those services. Most citizens don’t think about ecosystem services except perhaps for aesthetic/recreational values of wilderness areas. Ecosystem services are renewable naturally. When entropy with its chaos disrupts or kills those services they may be irreplaceable. Aquifers may remain uncharged or polluted so long as rivers run. The potential profitability of ecological economics political and financially surpasses that of classical economics especially in the modern world laden with great new technology and vistas on Earth and beyond.

Does the President’s Discretionary Mass Murder Power Need Oversight?

Individual citizens aren’t free to orchestrate conflicts that cause mass death; a President is. The sole Presidential requirement is to contrive plausible reasons and narratives that will play well in the media for mass murder of war. Foreign citizen-soldiers drafted to fight in wars enabled by military support and encouragement from the U.S. President that become combat casualties are murder victims too, as of course are civilian casualties.

The Ukraine war is largely a product of President Biden’s pressure to keep Russian land from Russia that was lost to communism and the illegal, non-Democratic Clinton-Yeltsin land redistribution perpetrated during the aenomic breakup of the former Soviet Union. Western war promoters in built up weapons, cash transfers, pretexts and narratives for support before for more than a decade before engaging military conflict.

Opportunities for a peaceful resolution have abounded the past 30 years by revisiting the illegal land redistribution and having the citizens of the former Soviet Union vote on it themselves. Adjustments have been made regarding land allocations given to Alaska natives since the ANILCA settlements of the Nixon administration with federal and swaps. Substantial land in Holkam Bay was given to the Tlingit Tribe fairly recently through Senator Lisa Murkowski’s efforts in the Senate. Russia deserves at least that much consideration.

Elevated from citizen to President of the United States a citizen is free to liberally arrange the deaths of foreigners if they choose to as they often have the past half century. As defender of the nation people believe the President is obligated to de frappe foreign threats such as terrorism and top terminate foreign military attacks upon the United States. When a President decides to support conflict with military assistance in foreign ventures as policy actions; especially when not obligated in some kind of treaty, the President is not ethically covered by the self-defense aspect of exoneration for a commander-in-chief fulfilling the obligations of office. The President has entered the realm of being a mass murderer or at the very minimum an accessory to mass murder.

It is somewhat interesting that ordinary citizens elected to the power of the Presidential office find it so easy to configure the deaths of tens and hundreds of thousands of people in foreign military conflicts with and without direct U.S. military action. Sending HIMARS, cluster bombs, drones, smart bombs and sundry other lethal equipment to the Ukraine military along with intelligence and operations planning etc plainly resulted in tens of thousands of Russian deaths and indirectly, by protracting the conflict far beyond its natural expiration, Ukrainian deaths. President Biden has found it very natural to act in the realm of mass murderer; as easy as breathing, and nothing has been written about that so far. Those that study ethics issues for public affairs sometimes hired by the government and corporations to approve controversial procedures have remained silent thus far (to my awareness).

If propping up the Ukrainian war is not in self defense (the President won’t even secure the southern border of the U.S. against illegal entry of potential terrorists) or an act made in a treaty obligation such as George Washington warned about, but is made in disregard of Russia’s legitimate historical claim to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine and to actualize a vision of a reduced Russia with Western hegemony that could flank China and make the world a playground for Wall Street can that exonerate the President from using mass murder to accomplish his goal that might instead have been accomplished through peaceful evolution and mutual economic cooperation?

Does the United States need to legislate controls on a President’s opportunity to act as a mass murderer after ascending to office? Should there be some sort of measure of the number of deaths a President can bring about through direct and indirect means without a declaration of war? Does the United States have any moral capacity or interest in evaluating the ethics of a President perpetrating death upon foreigners outside of wars of self-defense of the United States and cap the number permitted to be killed by Presidential discretionary, willful mass-murder?

An Essay on the Fascist

 In my opinion Joe Biden is the most fascist of all U.S. Presidents. A democracy allows much leeway for Presidential behavior concerning foreign policy. An elected President may opt to support or orchestrate conflicts that copiously kill foreigners. The lives of foreigners may have less value to U.S. citizens after taking on the job of President.

Some American Presidents- Jimmy Carter for example were the opposite of fascist. Democrat Presidents following Bill Clinton’s lead in stealing Ukraine from Russia during the interregnum of leadership between Soviet and Russian eras developed a fascist quality land grab approach of land plainly belonging to Russia. Since Joe Biden is the smoothest deflector of responsibility and accountability for U.S. foreign policy that has ever held the office of President little criticism of his policy in Ukraine has been heard. If he is re-elected he may be able to end global warming by getting a day care for democrats bill passed, yet that won’t terminate his mission to fund the Ukraine war.

Some would argue that racial fascism occurred during the settlement of the west when aboriginal Americans were forced off their land and onto reservations though their population was fewer than eight million in the entire are of the present U.S. states. I would say that politics abhors a vacuum of leadership over land and that competition between Spain, England, France and the United States to control American spaces was the equivalent of competition of auto-towing company trucks to reach the scene of a highway accident. If the U.S. government didn’t take the west England, France or Spain would have.

The preponderantly adversarial American aboriginal did not share the characteristics or social structures of those of Europeans or U.S. citizens and were thus necessarily antagonists. In the era of colonization associations like the Masons, religious affiliations and citizenship mattered. Human societies settled differences with war before the rise of Nintendo, Twitter, telephones and jet aircraft.

Joe Biden’s is a story like that of Hannah Arandt’s ‘The Banality of Evil’ where bureaucrat can lead prosecution of policy resulting in mass death; he is basically alone among U.S. Presidents in driving a war to occur against a modern civilized people acting in self-defense to retrieve their ancestral land against a team of Democrat Party lawyers seeking to devour. I believe Joe Biden is too daft to even understand what he has done as a leader.

I think it not a coincidence that Joe Biden claims to be the most union supporting President in U.S. history and acts as a fascist. Adolph Hitler was leader of the German Socialist Workers Party and implicitly pro-union, anti-gun gun ownership and of course fascist. Continuing war on Russia via Ukrainian proxies is fascist. In fact the officers of Ukraine’s army may include the great grandchildren of fascists in Ukraine that fought with the Nazis against Russia during World War Two. The bloody and entirely unnecessary conflict that could be settled any time the Biden administration choose to recognize Russia’s historical ownership of Ukraine and select regions of eastern Ukraine claimed by Russia. To fail to immediately stop the war and build peace on god terms for all parties is virtual insanity so far as U.S. interests are concerned.

The Biden administration is driving a wedge between the west and east economically and encouraging the Eastern block to develop its own center of effort between Russia, China, Iran, Vietnam, North Korea, India etc. Developing nations looks increasingly to the United States as an hypocritical Neo-fascist power interested mostly in expanded the power of Wall Street and the rich over the entire Earth. The United States is dividing the world at a time with economic unity is required in order to slow the increasingly dangerous pace of global warming and habitat loss stimulating mass species extinction. Rather than uniting the world and evolving directed political evolution to ecological economics the President has brought to life like a Woolly Mammoth from a carcass excavated from Siberian ice a cold then hot war with what he sees as a recrudescent Soviet political power attempting to attack Europe. That outlook is insane. Russia in the Putin era was not any kind of potential attacker of any nations of the west that formerly were not part of Russia before 1917. President Biden would believe that all of the eastern European nations held by Russia after world war two that had been occupied by the Nazis Russia defeated were apples in the eye of President Putin and that is simply not true. Russia returned the East European nations to freedom and independence after a half-century of custodial care until history moved on and they were no longer a fascist threat. The political circumstances since Bill Clinton was President show that was an incorrect judgment and that with the advantage of post-war economic development globally the United States and European nations are a threat to a stable world order and seek through the use of power and apologetics of the broadcast media not to live peacefully with the world without complete hegemony if not legal possession of the planet.

Adolph Hitler didn’t invent fascism; the Italian leader Mussolini did. Hitler simply applied it quite well before the war and lost everything during it with the U.S. and allies fighting from the west and Russia from the east. Joe Biden has forgotten that history and has made the U.S.A. and enabling accomplice in an insane war at great cost in lives, wealth and opportunity. Taking land forcibly, aggressively unless it is a repo of stolen land, is an obsolete political paradigm for increasing wealth. In actual fact it mattered little who owned Eastern Ukraine if there were good relations and low, low taxes if any on business done their. Joe Biden and other recent Democrats have insisted on complete ownership of all of what historically was Russian before the arrival of communism. Combing the worst effects on Russia of Communism and Fascism President Biden is easily the most fascist of all U.S. Presidents on foreign policy.

Apocalyptic themes are quite old in Hollywood. One 1960s movie told the story of survivors of a nuclear war living in Australia spending their last 60 days of life before the radiation and nuclear winter that had already taken the rest of the world population reached them. During the cold war era for decades Americans and Europeans strove to end the danger of nuclear annihilation. Joe Biden has resurrected the threat and I am not grateful for that.

There are reasons for human behavior and political decisions. Some religious end times theology teach that an apocalypse is pre-destined. Some followers of those doctrines believe it good that an apocaplypse occur for they will be taken to heaven then. Christians tend to have tow or three interpretations of what the Bible has to say about end times. One may believe that it occurred already in the first century AD. with the destruction of Jerusalem by the world power of the day, others give it a different meaning and believe the apocalypse is in the future. An industry of writing books about the approach of the end times apocalypse have flourished. Muslims share that end times apocalypse point of view with pre-tribulationist Christians. Needless to say competent political management does not support conditions that would hasten the apocalypse even if one believed it would inevitably occur. It is challenging to say what Joe Biden’s end times viewpoint is as a Catholic. The pope recently made a flanking maneuver of China by visiting Mongolia. That was a provocative journey perhaps made with wrong beliefs that the west and himself are emulating the papacy of liberation of John Paul II. In that regard such assumptions would be wrong; misunderstanding the nature of the ending of the cold war as well as the role of John Paul II in ending the Cold War. John Paul II was charismatic and liked, and experienced increased prestige with survival of an assassin’s bullet, like President Reagan. The pair worked together charismatically and effectively, drawn with the Spirit, to end the Cold War helping President Gorbachev with his policy of glasnost and perestroika to merge monolithic communism into Svaboda (freedom capitalism). None of those elements are present today.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the most liberating doctrine that mankind has ever received. Brought with milliary force to subject peoples I believe it less effective in winning hearts and minds. For hundreds of years some people have associated Christian evangelism with military power and state religion. While that has actually occurred in some places Christianity did very well at winning hearts and minds when it was a minority religion and even during persecutions and trials. Corrupt worldly political power begets more corruption rather than liberation although it can be a stimulus to revolution.

I wonder, theologically speaking, if some men believe that if they are responsible for killing a great number of people, or of they can enable others to kill a great number of people as in the Ukraine-Russia war, if they believe they may have a greater place in hell for eternity in the role of chief sadistic devils. Does Joe Biden believe the Pope absolves him of his responsibility for throwing so much fuel onto the Ukraine war?

Maybe the U.S.A. elects to the highest office only those that have sold their soul to the devil (after Ronald Reagan). Perhaps some like Joe Biden have a fizzled brain and cloudy awareness of the concept of God and eternal life and don’t want to publicly say so. Maybe they pretend Christianity and really believe in oblivion after death and don’t want to say that either believing their murderous acts will be as meaningless as cherry blossoms falling from a tree on a cliff into the ocean.

Rather than the west using pressure and intimidation with military power to bring Russia and China into compliance with the social agenda of the Democrat party and the economic power of the world’s one-percenters (in wealth) a cooperative, stable economic and political relationship developed with new ideas and directed capitalism was the preferred alternative and it still issue.

President Clinton’s policy, probably based on ignorance and pressure from England, aborted the conception of a stable Russia with secure borders and long range build up of strong economic ties with the United States and Europe. Democrats have methodically isolated Russia to actual the Clinton-Yeltsin paradigm of Russia as a rump state to be intimidated and co-opted while developing the back door to flank China and pressure it into subject-hood to the west, the Pope and the King of England and other European elites. That sort of approach worked in the 17th century yet today it is a century obsolete.

Russia will become the express land route between West and Eastern Eurasia eventually either with original friendly U.S. ties or adverse ones. The friendly way has far better economic and military stability prospects for the United States. President Zelinsky recently appointed a Crimean Muslim-possible a Tatar from Crimea, to lead his military. Relying on territorial Muslims that want to retake land that the descendants of Genghis Khan took before Russia rolled them back and out of the Crimea more than a quarter of a thousand years ago shows the extreme depths of the lunacy of President Biden in his choice to prop up the Ukrainian government in its proxy war for President Biden and European elites and paranoids against Russia. Maybe Joe Biden expects Mongolians to capture of all Russia since Genghis Khan did make it to within thirty miles of Novgorod during his invasion and occupation of Russia long ago. One can’t be sure of anything about the President’s policy expect that he remembers to keep sending billions and billions to Ukraine because as the Sect. Of State said (a paraphrase); “The implications are great if we don’t”. One may imply anything it might be remembered and it is often meaningless. Reality and the complete complex of compresence is of more importance.

Before ending this essay I will take the opportunity to comment on another theological point that concerns the Pope, his minion President Biden and the European Ukraine conflict with Russia. I stipulate that I am not anti-Catholic. I believe in the separation of church and state though. There are even Protestants that share the Catholic ideal of theocracy however. The theological point of relevance I am addressing is that of the Biblical hermenutic differences (hermenutics means interpretation of scripture) on the millennium. In brief there are three positions concerning the milenium (pre,post an amillennialism). Catholics are amillennialists with the viewpoint that the Universal Church led by the Pope on Earth is the developing kingdom of God and the millennium is a non-sequitur. The Pope’s assignment as the holder of the keys of St. Peter is to evangelize the world and make it the kingdom of God. Eventually Christ will return and directly rule the kingdom the Pope as shepherded on Earth. It will be remembered though that after receiving the keys Peter three times denied being a follower of Christ, as Christ told him he would. Peter and Popes make mistakes. One of them is in my opinion becoming too secular in evangelizing the world.

The Pope seemed to coordinate his visit to Mongolia to speak to a nation of mostly Buddhists in coordination with the Zelenski promotion of a descendant of the Mongol world ruler Genghis and the Crimean Horde to lead the Army of Ukraine. It presents a curious vision of two would be world rulers 750 years apart planting a flag in Mongolia; one to ride west in conquest and the other drawing catholic faithful east through the obstacle of Russia to Mongolia and overlook China. The affair reeks of politics and promotion of religious conflict in support of a war with Russia to take former Russian land from that Orthodox Christian nation. You may recall that Christians of the east and west; of Byzantium and Rome had a schism lasting far longer than that of the period of dueling Popes of Avignon and Rome.

I believe that every religion has a right to exercise freely their faith and to evangelize should they wish. When religious leaders stimulate religious or racial conflicts in support of secular wars for power and land; even if they believe in an amillenialist theology that it may be there right and duty to do so in a way similar to the Muslim division of the world in to two camps of the Dar al harb and the Dar al Islam, that they have gone too far. It may be the right of God to orchestrate wars if he wishes with divine power yet it is not the right of mankind to do so should they believe they have divine sanction, dispensation or whatever excuse for war they may conceive.

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