Theistic evolution is a synthetic presentation of scientific and Biblical beliefs on the origin of everything in the beginning. How can one meaningfully encapsulate either the Biblical book of Genesis' ideas on the subject or those of scientific cosmology in a simple way when the representations are not the things in-themselves? Evolution isn't creationism. Orwellian obfuscation of meanings such as in 'freedom is not free' and 'evolution is creationism' result from mass confusion.
"Psalm 75:4 "and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns. 5 Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak with outstretched neck.'"
I had written this article with the title 'Theistic Evolution' in the beginning, yet it somehow ended up in this maladroit 'Evolution is creationism' title that implicitly decategorizes evolution and creationism. Each of those terms are well defined even if incomprehensively in some respects. I will amend my article a little now to reflect the erroneous categorization, or as philosophers say, categorical error that lumped together two wrong or inaccurate titles that provide incomplete cosmological ideas about the ontology of the Universe.
For some time I have realized that scientific evolution presents at least 10 or 20 excellent cosmological origin theories of the Universe. John Barrow's recent book of 2007 considers an approach that examines several of the theories as aspects of a deeper, underlying theory. I enjoy the Enneads of Plotinus and his concepts about the material universe as a parallel approach to deliberate upon a chaotic macro-field promulgating Universes. God Made the representational language of the book of Genesis simple in order to put 'the little gods' back in the bottle of limited knowledge after eating of the tree of knowledge.
An evolution is a change or tensor. When that applies to the physical universe instead of an opposition force bomber group ingressing an evolution to the target it means that from a beginning things have changed and in the process of change life sprung from the material of the universe, or mankind was made from mud as theistic evolutionists might say drawing upon ancient Biblical terminology. Creationists unfortunately have a more prestidigitator's cosmological interpretation of the Biblical verses pertaining to cosmology, based on anachronistic time and space literals. So, in order not to allow yet one more obfuscation of the terminological categories of evolution and creation to pass unchallenged I will reiterate my initial post on theistic evolution with just one more comment first; both evolutionists and creationists have a vested hierarchical trophic order of a 'priestly' caste that has arrogated their own particular slice of truth unto themselves for proprietary, financial purposes, as well as the compounding factor of historical confusion...neither side wants to allow the smallest increment of new synthetic analysis to enter the fray, and such a truth is Theistic Evolution.
Scientific and Christian cosmological paradigms may be inclusive rather than exclusive...logical categorical errors and indeterminacy of translation may be the source of confusion. This is a survey by the author of progressive creation and cosmology in what can be thought of as a theistic evolution of the Universe. For some large number of people living in the post-Scopes trial era the Bible's interpreted message of eternal life and salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ has seemed to be in contradiction to the more worldly and fungible evolution theory befitting a marketplace with less than ideal ethics as a rule. Is the issue really one of evolution from apes (crudely put) and blue-green algae vs. instant creation of mankind as Adam (Adams means brown dirt in Arabic)or one of Intelligent Design versus Dumb Random Design?
Scoffers at a Theistic Evolution of the Universe by God exist on both sides of the great divide of faith with atheists and commercial Christians unable to comprehend that the bow of the space-time ark of a Universe in which people find themselves alive was evolved by God with a past including forecastle, midships, poopdeck and stern.
Some would deny God's creative power to make a Universe with reversible mechanics held together by the complexity of reversibility, laws of thermodynamics and improbability of the reversibility of entropy. Others cannot believe that a point particle singularity could have been set in place from nothing by God or that a zero-dimensional brane could have existed from a beginning without time and suddenly received the impetus of time and motion-yet why should they if ancient Babylonian concepts and cosmological paradigms are available for the interpretation of Biblical concepts. After all, some might speculate, wasn't God intellectual as advanced in 1000 B.C. as he would ever be and wouldn't he disclose every physical mechanical aspect of the construction and history of the Universe to fallen humanity of that era? Didn't God want humanity to swiftly recover their omniscience from the tree of knowledge and create their own Universes and substances immediately perhaps like a super-powerful joker from the original Batman the movie?
Jesus Christ usually provided intelligence to his disciples in parables. Parables like allegories provide data without exact technical information. One might reasonably believe the same situation prevailed with Biblical references to cosmology, and that the fuzzy logic of physical paradigms described for ancient peoples served collateral purposes of withholding of dangerous technical information from primitives as well as not binding the cosmology of God to erroneous physical cosmological paradigms throughout future history-humanity could err in its discoveries of cosmology as it clanked along the millennia , while God could provide several cosmological paradigms consistent with observable mechanics and reason to far as it goes yet unbound to particular definite cosmology paradigms, for especially today it is the case that science has numerous alternate cosmological models of the Universe none of which are yet complete.
God has the theistic power to evolve the physical universe yet to alter it at his will. The miraculous and wonderfully beautiful nature of quantum uncertainty means that all possible worldlines for each individual particle in space-time exists simultaneously for every particle through the Universe, and perhaps through the future and past universe as well, and they must exist in a meta-field inclusive of space-time as virtual particles. There is an evident progression of the physical cosmos in a particular direction with definite change, and the Bible supports that premise of growth in many places, yet some would stick to the interpretive paradigms for Biblical literals given unto the dark ages, or deny the role of God altogether rather than to try to comprehend the wonderful nature of the albeit fallen Universe in which mankind exists as it was set into motion by God.
Inflation has passed the Big Bang as a likely cosmological origin in the present era I believe. Space-time is believed to have coexistentially expanded analogous famously to a balloon.
Many people make invalid disjunctive propositions conclusive for themselves regarding Christian cosmology and scientific cosmology. It is like saying the dumpster at McDonald's or Burger King, when there was a third choice of eats perhaps without a dumpster at all.
The Biblical chaos preceding the spoken word to begin order is considered by some equivalent to the pre - Higgs field inflationary chaos of high entropy.
The Higgs field expansion of course accelerated space and time, and the gravitational force eventually brought some of the field to contract and form into galaxies etc eventually. After 6 billion years that period was over, the Universe resumed expanding with renewed acceleration at 7 billion years-God rested on the 7th day, and cosmologists speculate that the present expansion toward high chaos/entropy (all the hills made low, the sun going red giant, more signs and shaking in the heavens) will continue until a state of highest possible entropy resumes.
2nd Peter 3:8 "8But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."
I think Peter was generalizing as best he could; the special theory was a bit beyond him at that date. The cosmological constant, another Higgs field possibly, is thought to be the element pushing space-time outward as a sort of anti-gravity. The Higgs field may be what gives all the other mass-like particles a seemingness of mass...that is it is relation to how they interact with the Higgs particles. Light quanta have no mass traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light time does not exist at all. Time exists proportionally, maybe in ratio to the Lorenz transformation, to speed in any object. The faster one goes the lower the value of time one-object experiences within the special theory of relativity. God of course isn't subject to the time dimensional effects Himself unless he chooses to, because He is a spirit and certainly not interacting with a primordial Higgs field to experience time or speed necessarily within a contingent cosmos of His creation...
Brian Greene phrased the way people experience sight in an interesting way in the 2004 book 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'; he said (paraphrased) that certain waveforms (I interpolate of the M-Theory matrices strings or branes assortment) stimulate certain chemicals in the eye to give the experience of seeming to 'see' in the brain. That interesting point should stimulate some theological and philosophical cells perhaps asleep to consider the phenomenality of the cosmos as a for-itself, as what seems to be, even within an 'evolved' paradigm, and even how 'things' seem to have 'weight' within a Higgs field and within one's own senses within the Higgs Field and space-time possible 3 brane . Some cosmological theorists point out that the entire universe could have been created from 20 pounds of 'mass' that was hyper inflated in a Higgs Field. 20 pounds and all this exists...not exactly illusory, yet relative and very temporal. In physics theories even time is reversible or isotropic. The problem is entropy...it is a statistically modeled exemplar chaotic distribution of everything toward disorder. Time can't improbably assemble particles or mass from disorder to order.
At the beginning, somehow from extreme chaos and entropy, the Universe and space-time immediately came into being with the most concentrated possible order. The spoken word to begin, the order for the right strings and branes to vibrate or resonate, whatever God choose to will to be, and eventually human life too. God's intervention in social reality, in order to give the sentient elements of His creation an opportunity to become reconciled unto his will, does occur within the context, for human beings, of the cosmos which he created.
Of course there is prophetic material in the Bible, and I would not stipulate that 'theology' is the purpose of all scripture, or even most of it.
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However it is certain that God has 'superior knowledge of the cosmos and physics to humanity. It is humanity that sees through a glass darkly and is continually revising its cosmological opinions often for the better. The Bible is truthful and even its cosmological ideas will be consistent with what ultimately is.
I believe the prophets and apostles were often right about cosmological concepts even though they would have needed to be ignorant about it from a worldly basis. If one reads the pre -Socratics and other aboriginal traditions about creation the Bible is remarkable for what it does not say in error on the subject, and what is does have to say. Obviously it will have ideas that were simple and appropriate for the time written, yet will not become inconsistent with an increased understanding of the truth. Plainly the Bible could not alter its content periodically to coincide with the Ptolemaic, Copernican, Newtonian, Einsteinian and M-Theory versions of understanding what the Universe is.
5/2/08
Demo Party Wants Change; to Vote on Sending 'Bomb to White House
Nobel Laureate Al Gore invented the internet and has a plan for a better model when the present internet ends. Gravitons have been hard wired into the background unified field of quantum uncertainty and provide eleastic interactive computational Shannon entropy infoprmation feedback when stressed. Utilizing those gravitons will save a lot on land fill waste sink overuse from all those used notebook batteries.
The Democratic Party desired change in 2008 and voted on sending a 'Bomb to the White House. When it became evident that the diapers of democracy were over full and change was urgently needed just Hillary and Obama were thought capable, and they could be the light at the end of the tunnel of internet termination-which may not occur until 2012 incendentally in time for the next Presidential election.
When the end of the internet occurs, oil will still be the fuel of choice for Americans. A post modern cro-magnon restoration will bring back smoke signaling to accompany better internal combustion engines, and the promise of light at the end of the tunnel will mean that the nation building of Iraq will happen soon.
Senator Obama expressed a plan for America's energy future based on coal. Clean bathed coal without the stench of over-full fossil fuel technology was deemed the ticket. Coal worked well for England in the 19th century with just a little pollution, and will work well for Chicago too the Senator conjectured. It is believed that American ingentuity will invent new, cleaner home coal burning furnaces for every Chicago dwelling, and with the thousands of jobs created for people delivering coal loads of lumps will be leftover for Christmas stockings achieving the campaign motto of 'a lump of coal for every home'. Hamster cage loop driven internet power supply provider technology is being researched presently by Howard Dean's special Vermont Institue of Political Research, and a surge protector is ready to field test to prevent Hillary Clinton from taking office and developing a rival alternative energy based domestic jobs policy for the U.S.A. that could prevent the necessary phasing out of the internet by 2012.
For the end of the Internet as we know it, this comment goes out to those still able to decipher data bits in crystal lattices that aren't taxed...Small worlds network modeling of the Internet finds remarkable associate cluster conformity and neuronal transmission pathway congruence with other small worlds networks outside the universe of computing. Perhaps the Braham Institute of Cambridge U.K. has discovered some sort of electronic arterial sclerosis that isn't subject to pharmaceutical remediation yet it seems unlikely, since the origin of the Internet was in an U.S. Air Force project to make nuclear war survivable communications with redundant and independent routes of communication. September 2008 seems somewhat early for a conventional over-use gridlock of Internet bit sharing to occur, yet demyelination paradigms of data guide-paths precipitated into catastrophic transformation could develop consequent to concatenated information piracy creating an extreme Shannon entropy concurrence. Possibly a lot of global electromagnetic detonations producing (emp) pulses could shut down the global telecommunications network before an alternative system of flagging could be improvised. Space aliens could take over the Federal Government at any moment too, yet it seems improbably because of the inability of any intelligent life in the Universe to comprehend the rational for federal economic management policy that takeover by hostile aliens is improbably before October or November 2008.
Senator Edward Kennedy split the Democratic Party nominating primaries in 1980 when he ran against the incumbent Democratic President James Earl Carter. That was before the Internet era and before the creation of scheduled technological disasters. Ted Kennedy was the last candidate that sought to release committed delegates in order to change their vote allegiance. Hillary Clinton seeks to release the bound delegates forced to work for the Obama campaign (a candidate that claims to be able to unite the nation following the split after the civil war of 1860-1865). An Internet collapse will transplace U.S. time to the pre-electric era when slave importation had been forbidden just 20 years after the end of the articles of confederation era and federal sailing ships patrolled the coast to arrest slave running illegal alien ships. Senator Kennedy loathed Jimmy (The Peanut) Carter perhaps because of his southern, British ancestry (something similar to the Bill Clintons incidentally). Senator Edward Kennedy has again engineered support for a major split in the Democratic Party once again setting up a Republican victory by his declared support for Obama. In theory a racial bomb will go off if Obama isn't elected to 'heal' the racial divide and end the war in Iraq that ended in 2003 followed by an incompetent era of nation rebuilding efforts unassisted by Senator Obama the last three years still seeking to 'end the war'.
The interesting question to consider here before the Internet era ends possibly in September thus halting Internet campaign contributions to Democratic candidates is; 'How much is Obama really like J.F.K.'? We will briefly review President Kennedy's history from the intercepted alien historical rave communique of the time period before he ran for the Presidency, coincidentally in the year of Obama's birth (watch this for space alien juxtapositions)...
The young John F. Kennedy was raised in a cross binned hurricane. He was drowned and left for dead and raised by a toothless dispirited hag when his cigarette boat was cut in two offshore by a fast Japanese tourist cruise ship passing one night. John Kennedy and his crew of coke-heads with adolescent adjustment problems had engine troubles and were adrift before suddenly discovering their fast boat cut in twain and themselves plunged into the shark infested waters. With Senator Kennedy's leadership the ship was pieced together with super-glue and motored slowly to Kevins Bar in Molokai Bay where they survived on for a month on coconuts and pina coladas in a reality television show before rescue and education in an Indonesian madrasa where they ignored fellow students bowing to Mecca and became followers of Rhinehold Neibuhr. So did Barrack Obama.
The Democratic Party desired change in 2008 and voted on sending a 'Bomb to the White House. When it became evident that the diapers of democracy were over full and change was urgently needed just Hillary and Obama were thought capable, and they could be the light at the end of the tunnel of internet termination-which may not occur until 2012 incendentally in time for the next Presidential election.
When the end of the internet occurs, oil will still be the fuel of choice for Americans. A post modern cro-magnon restoration will bring back smoke signaling to accompany better internal combustion engines, and the promise of light at the end of the tunnel will mean that the nation building of Iraq will happen soon.
Senator Obama expressed a plan for America's energy future based on coal. Clean bathed coal without the stench of over-full fossil fuel technology was deemed the ticket. Coal worked well for England in the 19th century with just a little pollution, and will work well for Chicago too the Senator conjectured. It is believed that American ingentuity will invent new, cleaner home coal burning furnaces for every Chicago dwelling, and with the thousands of jobs created for people delivering coal loads of lumps will be leftover for Christmas stockings achieving the campaign motto of 'a lump of coal for every home'. Hamster cage loop driven internet power supply provider technology is being researched presently by Howard Dean's special Vermont Institue of Political Research, and a surge protector is ready to field test to prevent Hillary Clinton from taking office and developing a rival alternative energy based domestic jobs policy for the U.S.A. that could prevent the necessary phasing out of the internet by 2012.
For the end of the Internet as we know it, this comment goes out to those still able to decipher data bits in crystal lattices that aren't taxed...Small worlds network modeling of the Internet finds remarkable associate cluster conformity and neuronal transmission pathway congruence with other small worlds networks outside the universe of computing. Perhaps the Braham Institute of Cambridge U.K. has discovered some sort of electronic arterial sclerosis that isn't subject to pharmaceutical remediation yet it seems unlikely, since the origin of the Internet was in an U.S. Air Force project to make nuclear war survivable communications with redundant and independent routes of communication. September 2008 seems somewhat early for a conventional over-use gridlock of Internet bit sharing to occur, yet demyelination paradigms of data guide-paths precipitated into catastrophic transformation could develop consequent to concatenated information piracy creating an extreme Shannon entropy concurrence. Possibly a lot of global electromagnetic detonations producing (emp) pulses could shut down the global telecommunications network before an alternative system of flagging could be improvised. Space aliens could take over the Federal Government at any moment too, yet it seems improbably because of the inability of any intelligent life in the Universe to comprehend the rational for federal economic management policy that takeover by hostile aliens is improbably before October or November 2008.
Senator Edward Kennedy split the Democratic Party nominating primaries in 1980 when he ran against the incumbent Democratic President James Earl Carter. That was before the Internet era and before the creation of scheduled technological disasters. Ted Kennedy was the last candidate that sought to release committed delegates in order to change their vote allegiance. Hillary Clinton seeks to release the bound delegates forced to work for the Obama campaign (a candidate that claims to be able to unite the nation following the split after the civil war of 1860-1865). An Internet collapse will transplace U.S. time to the pre-electric era when slave importation had been forbidden just 20 years after the end of the articles of confederation era and federal sailing ships patrolled the coast to arrest slave running illegal alien ships. Senator Kennedy loathed Jimmy (The Peanut) Carter perhaps because of his southern, British ancestry (something similar to the Bill Clintons incidentally). Senator Edward Kennedy has again engineered support for a major split in the Democratic Party once again setting up a Republican victory by his declared support for Obama. In theory a racial bomb will go off if Obama isn't elected to 'heal' the racial divide and end the war in Iraq that ended in 2003 followed by an incompetent era of nation rebuilding efforts unassisted by Senator Obama the last three years still seeking to 'end the war'.
The interesting question to consider here before the Internet era ends possibly in September thus halting Internet campaign contributions to Democratic candidates is; 'How much is Obama really like J.F.K.'? We will briefly review President Kennedy's history from the intercepted alien historical rave communique of the time period before he ran for the Presidency, coincidentally in the year of Obama's birth (watch this for space alien juxtapositions)...
The young John F. Kennedy was raised in a cross binned hurricane. He was drowned and left for dead and raised by a toothless dispirited hag when his cigarette boat was cut in two offshore by a fast Japanese tourist cruise ship passing one night. John Kennedy and his crew of coke-heads with adolescent adjustment problems had engine troubles and were adrift before suddenly discovering their fast boat cut in twain and themselves plunged into the shark infested waters. With Senator Kennedy's leadership the ship was pieced together with super-glue and motored slowly to Kevins Bar in Molokai Bay where they survived on for a month on coconuts and pina coladas in a reality television show before rescue and education in an Indonesian madrasa where they ignored fellow students bowing to Mecca and became followers of Rhinehold Neibuhr. So did Barrack Obama.
4/28/08
About high food prices
Starvation management is a result of globalist corporatism and allocation of resources prioritization that regards entitlement options for food purchases of contingent importance compared to corporate profits and neo-classical economic paradigms that disregard externalities such as the planet's environment and eating as unimportant non sequiters if not within global corporate loop iteration requirements. Globalism provides numerous deleterious impacts upon national interests and local political autonomy. Globalist economics disdains national borders as hindrances to a global market-and that global market with absolute advantage globally for corporate producers means that production of local foodstuffs may be eliminated because of required importation of cheaper globally produced food that can be purchased unfortunately oftimes just by those with good jobs.
Farming is a business with roller coaster like output variables depending upon growing conditions; paradoxically in high output years food prices drop and farmers may lose money at the margins-that's why the United States has had food price supports historically for farmers in order to ensure an even food supply. With globally dominated food production eliminating farm subsidies may be required of the people because of W.T.O. that forbid letting governments support small local businesses such as family farms that compete with global farm corporations. Paradoxically if national governments do subsidize farms and many of them are globally owned corporate farms then the people of the nation are actually paying taxes to the globally owned corporate farms too as discrimination is verbotten.
In effect globalism wars upon ecological economics and rational comparative advantage criteria policies of nations that allow rational border control, food production for survival and development of vital new industries such as alternate power and alternate transportation modalities that permit ecologically rational technological progress and output to sale units that might compete with global economic control. Because global corporations control the broadcast media through ownership and propagandize the public as malodorous sycophants of evil irrational aggression the prospects for a right return to conservative ecological nationalism aren't good presently.
Higher food prices are managed by global corporate collectives along with higher fuel prices. The most powerful profit and broadcast incremental ideas to the masses as if they were being served.
Venturing into the difficult subject of food prices and hunger, starvation and political power isn't the usual subject for a philosopher. Philosophers may perhaps prefer to be more cautious and technical in their approaches to various macro-social issues. Such caution is requisite it seems for a meaningful attempt at accuracy in understanding and describing the etiology and status of macro-social, empirical circumstances of concern. Yet I will write anyway without the customary conservative deliberation and study preferred; it may be that such an approach works better in circumstances where the consequences aren't so immediate and dire. Hunger is a traditional tool of political power, and with the world moving off a more natural and locally controlled agrarian foundation for producing foodstuffs onto an industrial and post-industrial basis that even second and third world peoples aspire to join global political power more readily may influence the course of events, equipment, personnel and allocation of food and food production related resources in accord with their personal, proprietary collective management philosophy.
Following Robert Malthus' theories based on work for the British East Indian Company the economist Ricardo devised the infamous 'iron law of wages'. That hypothesis stated that the unlearned masses of peasant humanity would reproduce as fast and as numerously as available food allowed. A further corollary of economists of that era was that it would be cruel to allow the reproduction of vast numbers of ignorant people that would subsequently starve to death because population had exceeded temporarily food production and food cost. That was a rational to pay the lowest possible wages to workers and to impoverish them in accord with compassionate conservatism; the compassion lay in starving parents or potential parents far enough to prevent their birthing of large families doomed to suffering. Compassionate conservatism today updated to the global control era would perhaps logically allocate billions and billions or even trillions to the top 1% of income earners and starve the masses globally with high food costs in order to control global overpopulation.
Global overpopulation is obvious and well known as a pressure factor socially with a plethora of laws such as the Kyoto protocols adumbrated to control the effluence of six billion human beings over-stressing the global environment. Quality farmland is over-built with sprawling housing subdivisions to reduce food production, the green revolution has failed to produce higher and higher quantities of food on fewer possible acres, water resources are being over used and polluted-the desire for first world life-styles makes everything more expensive in many respects, including food that must be flown globally to satisfy the lustful appetites of the 'deserving' masses desiring quality lives formally reserved to royalty. The question is what can be done to keep down food costs, keep corn for human food instead of for automobile fuel and so forth.
Nationalism is the sole sober political formation capable of keeping democracy alive and under local control. Secure national borders without illegal alien immigration or large scale legal immigration for economic purposes are requisites for a non-corrupt form of capitalism. Capitalism that is allowed to corrupt rational boundaries for immediate profit is corruptitalism that rots reason, political rationality and a sustainable free enterprise driven economy with stable prices.
A corrupted capitalism that breaks all boundaries as is customary today destabilizes implicitly micro-economic structures including food. A stable economy is reprehensible to corrupted capitalists that seeks only abstract profits instead of a stable quality of life. Capitalism becomes equated with a radical concept of evolution theory and change for the sake of change is deemed politically good, and a survival of the fittest is deemed best, with the qualitative evaluation of the best reduced to a non-rational opinion that the survivor or remnant is the best de facto. One lame duck in a tarred nuclear world burning plutonium fires would be the best pinnacle for capitalist, corrupted evolution in such a theoretical framework. The frenzy of trade for itself having replaced the reason for trade, borders, stability and nations-even food becomes a commodity few have a right to posses, and even fewer to profit from as corrupted political and economic union in corporatism has eclipsed reason.
Farming is a business with roller coaster like output variables depending upon growing conditions; paradoxically in high output years food prices drop and farmers may lose money at the margins-that's why the United States has had food price supports historically for farmers in order to ensure an even food supply. With globally dominated food production eliminating farm subsidies may be required of the people because of W.T.O. that forbid letting governments support small local businesses such as family farms that compete with global farm corporations. Paradoxically if national governments do subsidize farms and many of them are globally owned corporate farms then the people of the nation are actually paying taxes to the globally owned corporate farms too as discrimination is verbotten.
In effect globalism wars upon ecological economics and rational comparative advantage criteria policies of nations that allow rational border control, food production for survival and development of vital new industries such as alternate power and alternate transportation modalities that permit ecologically rational technological progress and output to sale units that might compete with global economic control. Because global corporations control the broadcast media through ownership and propagandize the public as malodorous sycophants of evil irrational aggression the prospects for a right return to conservative ecological nationalism aren't good presently.
Higher food prices are managed by global corporate collectives along with higher fuel prices. The most powerful profit and broadcast incremental ideas to the masses as if they were being served.
Venturing into the difficult subject of food prices and hunger, starvation and political power isn't the usual subject for a philosopher. Philosophers may perhaps prefer to be more cautious and technical in their approaches to various macro-social issues. Such caution is requisite it seems for a meaningful attempt at accuracy in understanding and describing the etiology and status of macro-social, empirical circumstances of concern. Yet I will write anyway without the customary conservative deliberation and study preferred; it may be that such an approach works better in circumstances where the consequences aren't so immediate and dire. Hunger is a traditional tool of political power, and with the world moving off a more natural and locally controlled agrarian foundation for producing foodstuffs onto an industrial and post-industrial basis that even second and third world peoples aspire to join global political power more readily may influence the course of events, equipment, personnel and allocation of food and food production related resources in accord with their personal, proprietary collective management philosophy.
Following Robert Malthus' theories based on work for the British East Indian Company the economist Ricardo devised the infamous 'iron law of wages'. That hypothesis stated that the unlearned masses of peasant humanity would reproduce as fast and as numerously as available food allowed. A further corollary of economists of that era was that it would be cruel to allow the reproduction of vast numbers of ignorant people that would subsequently starve to death because population had exceeded temporarily food production and food cost. That was a rational to pay the lowest possible wages to workers and to impoverish them in accord with compassionate conservatism; the compassion lay in starving parents or potential parents far enough to prevent their birthing of large families doomed to suffering. Compassionate conservatism today updated to the global control era would perhaps logically allocate billions and billions or even trillions to the top 1% of income earners and starve the masses globally with high food costs in order to control global overpopulation.
Global overpopulation is obvious and well known as a pressure factor socially with a plethora of laws such as the Kyoto protocols adumbrated to control the effluence of six billion human beings over-stressing the global environment. Quality farmland is over-built with sprawling housing subdivisions to reduce food production, the green revolution has failed to produce higher and higher quantities of food on fewer possible acres, water resources are being over used and polluted-the desire for first world life-styles makes everything more expensive in many respects, including food that must be flown globally to satisfy the lustful appetites of the 'deserving' masses desiring quality lives formally reserved to royalty. The question is what can be done to keep down food costs, keep corn for human food instead of for automobile fuel and so forth.
Nationalism is the sole sober political formation capable of keeping democracy alive and under local control. Secure national borders without illegal alien immigration or large scale legal immigration for economic purposes are requisites for a non-corrupt form of capitalism. Capitalism that is allowed to corrupt rational boundaries for immediate profit is corruptitalism that rots reason, political rationality and a sustainable free enterprise driven economy with stable prices.
A corrupted capitalism that breaks all boundaries as is customary today destabilizes implicitly micro-economic structures including food. A stable economy is reprehensible to corrupted capitalists that seeks only abstract profits instead of a stable quality of life. Capitalism becomes equated with a radical concept of evolution theory and change for the sake of change is deemed politically good, and a survival of the fittest is deemed best, with the qualitative evaluation of the best reduced to a non-rational opinion that the survivor or remnant is the best de facto. One lame duck in a tarred nuclear world burning plutonium fires would be the best pinnacle for capitalist, corrupted evolution in such a theoretical framework. The frenzy of trade for itself having replaced the reason for trade, borders, stability and nations-even food becomes a commodity few have a right to posses, and even fewer to profit from as corrupted political and economic union in corporatism has eclipsed reason.
4/25/08
Carbon Dioxide Cap and Gown Collateral Laterals
Historically in the United States the association of cheap labor and working class neighborhoods as camp followers of old industrial start up in by-gone eras created the prospect for future slums following up after the end of the industrial era. Sometimes the industries left before environmental controls and concepts were adumbrated to delimit how far in exploiting humanity and the environment a business might go. There are yet other concerns about the 'externality' of pollution afoot today which we might consider...
Globalism has replaced the internationalism of the post world war two Breton Woods conferees with a takeover of the World Bank and International monetary fund driving support into the absolute advantage of global corporations trading in a fast-ouch so of way where no conscionable businesses would; moving so fast and far as business considerations allow to produce the most inefficient environmental products in the poorest nations with the cheapest labor thus avoiding the hindrance of environmental responsibility. The race to the bottom of ecological stewardship is an obvious consequence of globalist supremacy over national and international comparative advantage. Perhaps the carbon dioxide emissions cap and gown over the pollution reality is an example.
In the United States today, as well as elsewhere on the globe an emissions allowance of atmospheric composition altering gas-co2 based in part on national accountability in a global era with hippie- gypsy global corporations essentially without borders able to move their polluting businesses offshore when accountability in any one nation becomes too much means that the hapless national taxpayers will pay the real cost for co2 emitting businesses wither through taxes or by the hidden tax of runaway corporations moving to the Congo or wherever. It has been noted that a hidden cost of protecting (rather inefficiently too) the ecology of first world nations is the unintended effect of those ecological assailants in logging, mining, fishing, automobile production and so forth moving to ecologically defenseless poor nations without environmental or labor laws. In that regard the worst polluters move to dump the industrial waste from Europe or elsewhere via tramp shippers to African villages or their 'outback' in the jungle with a bribe or two to the local and regional Chief who isn't a chemical eco -engineer with a medical degree.
It is useful to remember that today's ecologically prosperous areas such as Montana become tomorrow's poor area. In Montana global warming has decreased annual snowfall to just 24 inches on average down quite a lot. Forest fires and the costs of extinguishing them have increased. In time the sort of tree that can survive the altered environment of Montana will need to change, and to avoid a poor environment in the future today arboreal planners should experiment and plant some forests after fires with trees better able to withstand drought , warmer temperatures and fire. Local areas should receive via their public universities funding to study and develop superconductor electricity storage loops submerged in liquid hydrogen created by solar electrolysis from water that could store solar and wind created power and avoid excess transportation costs that pollute a lot, are very inefficient and add much to global warming. Patent costs should be brought down by half and the time of a patent should be reduced to just ten years in order to expedite human technological proliferation of more efficient technologies. While it would be fine to innovate in a first world nation something like a Stradivarius loss prevention wireless device that would signal if the instrument became more than 20 feet distant from the owner, it's use in more generally applicable social and ecological conservation efforts would obviously be quite limited. As the 21st century progresses not only must Haiti receive lots of birth control and hydroponics gardening assistance, inventions must become available for generic application faster than twenty or 50 years if the foundations of poverty are to be erased and an ecological continuum of health developed.
Globalism has replaced the internationalism of the post world war two Breton Woods conferees with a takeover of the World Bank and International monetary fund driving support into the absolute advantage of global corporations trading in a fast-ouch so of way where no conscionable businesses would; moving so fast and far as business considerations allow to produce the most inefficient environmental products in the poorest nations with the cheapest labor thus avoiding the hindrance of environmental responsibility. The race to the bottom of ecological stewardship is an obvious consequence of globalist supremacy over national and international comparative advantage. Perhaps the carbon dioxide emissions cap and gown over the pollution reality is an example.
In the United States today, as well as elsewhere on the globe an emissions allowance of atmospheric composition altering gas-co2 based in part on national accountability in a global era with hippie- gypsy global corporations essentially without borders able to move their polluting businesses offshore when accountability in any one nation becomes too much means that the hapless national taxpayers will pay the real cost for co2 emitting businesses wither through taxes or by the hidden tax of runaway corporations moving to the Congo or wherever. It has been noted that a hidden cost of protecting (rather inefficiently too) the ecology of first world nations is the unintended effect of those ecological assailants in logging, mining, fishing, automobile production and so forth moving to ecologically defenseless poor nations without environmental or labor laws. In that regard the worst polluters move to dump the industrial waste from Europe or elsewhere via tramp shippers to African villages or their 'outback' in the jungle with a bribe or two to the local and regional Chief who isn't a chemical eco -engineer with a medical degree.
It is useful to remember that today's ecologically prosperous areas such as Montana become tomorrow's poor area. In Montana global warming has decreased annual snowfall to just 24 inches on average down quite a lot. Forest fires and the costs of extinguishing them have increased. In time the sort of tree that can survive the altered environment of Montana will need to change, and to avoid a poor environment in the future today arboreal planners should experiment and plant some forests after fires with trees better able to withstand drought , warmer temperatures and fire. Local areas should receive via their public universities funding to study and develop superconductor electricity storage loops submerged in liquid hydrogen created by solar electrolysis from water that could store solar and wind created power and avoid excess transportation costs that pollute a lot, are very inefficient and add much to global warming. Patent costs should be brought down by half and the time of a patent should be reduced to just ten years in order to expedite human technological proliferation of more efficient technologies. While it would be fine to innovate in a first world nation something like a Stradivarius loss prevention wireless device that would signal if the instrument became more than 20 feet distant from the owner, it's use in more generally applicable social and ecological conservation efforts would obviously be quite limited. As the 21st century progresses not only must Haiti receive lots of birth control and hydroponics gardening assistance, inventions must become available for generic application faster than twenty or 50 years if the foundations of poverty are to be erased and an ecological continuum of health developed.
4/22/08
Jesus Christ; Friend of Mankind
I think it is possible that Jesus Christ (aka 'God') can become the best friend of a living human being. One should be cautious about making such a proposition in a social context in which the hierarchical priesthood displaces the right priesthood of believers that should have followed the crucifixion and Pentecost. For practical organizational reasons elders in the pre-electric, chaotic social era in a Christian Church structure of meeting had more responsibility that just anyone to understand and carry on the ideas of the disciples and the Lord. Paul did his missionary work until beheaded in Rome writing letters and visiting city churches, and evangelization of Jesus Christ the the pre-eminent purpose of his life since meeting the Lord through a epiphany on the road to Damascus. In a social context when the concept of Jesus Christ is sold to anyone in order to create a revenue stream capable of supporting a myriad of proselytizers can the real Jesus Christ be found?
Just yesterday I heard one of a gaggle of broadcast preachers talk about people lacking 'an intimate and personal relationship' with Jesus Christ. That is it seems that though one has faith and believes that Jesus Christ was God in the form of a man and was resurrected there is still the obvious lacking of finding him lounging along the waterfront or river-walk some place today. The Lord should be a specific guy that maybe appears differently to different people and he would be in an 'intimate' relationship not unlike a non-sexed Mariah Carey who is a hovering miniature 'good conscience' figure and spiritual adviser who disappears out of the atmosphere conveniently whenever others might show up with crass ideas-so what does it mean to have Jesus Christ as one's best friend, really?
God created the entire universe, and that mystery of origin from One that became a plurality is rather eternally inexplicable to us humans I think. Cosmological theories at some point must always posit an eternally existing universe in some form or other that forms and perishes, reforms and changes, or another that came into existence from nothing hypothetically always existing materially as a part of a past or present universe-this form of thought leads to a belief in God that created the Universe.
The philosopher Plotinus developed Plato's cosmological ideas in a neo-Platonist work of essays called 'The Enneads'. That book endeavors to explain how 'The One' emanated everything else. Jesus Christ in such a context could be considered God or The One in such an appearance that intelligent beings created by The One could comprehend him, or meet with him through faith. Wouldn't it be a good idea then to have God-creator of one's self and everything else, as one's 'best friend'? How does one go about developing a relationship with Jesus Christ such that he is one's 'best friend'?.
Practically one should have a new testament Bible like a little Gideon's Bible with one for a lifetime and often read a chapter or two and learn well what the word of God is really about for oneself. As God is a transcendent being and Jesus Christ is the lawful way to have a relationship with the absolute perfect being one should have the laws of God written on the heart and mind. Jesus Christ was the perfect example of the laws of the old testament lived in a spiritual context. The old laws were designed to lead people to a right relationship with God through external observances, while Jesus Christ exemplified what one would be like if they could be acceptable to God because of the way they were without need of the external laws that permitted superficial following of God while the hearts were far from Him. Learning about Jesus Christ and seeking to follow His will will conform one over time unto the will of God that is knowable to humanity. God as Jesus Christ will become one's actual best friend-though he is transcendent and not quite like an Earth friend presently.
The concept of the Universe has several philosophical appearances about which a human make consider. I like to consider some of the physics cosmological aspects of quantum uncertainty such as is expressed by experts in the field. Like more classical philosophical expressions of perception and dimension quantum mechanical uncertainty implies that dimensionality and reality are intelligible interpretations of some sort of sense data a mind configures for-itself. Quantum mechanical super-positioning means that space and time may be arbitrary constructs of phenomenal experience. Jesus Christ might then interact with humans that have faith from a super-positioned quantum cosmological field. I don't mean to imply hocus pocus mysticism here such that the laws of physics might be altered now and then. It is likely that determinism of the unified field was conformed a priori to the teleology of God.
In the midst of all the quantum uncertainty and improbability of the existence of anything at all the wonder of having a friend in Jesus is even more marvelous. He can rescue those that are willing from the extreme challenges of original sin and the imperfectness that leads people too turn away from the reason of God.
Just yesterday I heard one of a gaggle of broadcast preachers talk about people lacking 'an intimate and personal relationship' with Jesus Christ. That is it seems that though one has faith and believes that Jesus Christ was God in the form of a man and was resurrected there is still the obvious lacking of finding him lounging along the waterfront or river-walk some place today. The Lord should be a specific guy that maybe appears differently to different people and he would be in an 'intimate' relationship not unlike a non-sexed Mariah Carey who is a hovering miniature 'good conscience' figure and spiritual adviser who disappears out of the atmosphere conveniently whenever others might show up with crass ideas-so what does it mean to have Jesus Christ as one's best friend, really?
God created the entire universe, and that mystery of origin from One that became a plurality is rather eternally inexplicable to us humans I think. Cosmological theories at some point must always posit an eternally existing universe in some form or other that forms and perishes, reforms and changes, or another that came into existence from nothing hypothetically always existing materially as a part of a past or present universe-this form of thought leads to a belief in God that created the Universe.
The philosopher Plotinus developed Plato's cosmological ideas in a neo-Platonist work of essays called 'The Enneads'. That book endeavors to explain how 'The One' emanated everything else. Jesus Christ in such a context could be considered God or The One in such an appearance that intelligent beings created by The One could comprehend him, or meet with him through faith. Wouldn't it be a good idea then to have God-creator of one's self and everything else, as one's 'best friend'? How does one go about developing a relationship with Jesus Christ such that he is one's 'best friend'?.
Practically one should have a new testament Bible like a little Gideon's Bible with one for a lifetime and often read a chapter or two and learn well what the word of God is really about for oneself. As God is a transcendent being and Jesus Christ is the lawful way to have a relationship with the absolute perfect being one should have the laws of God written on the heart and mind. Jesus Christ was the perfect example of the laws of the old testament lived in a spiritual context. The old laws were designed to lead people to a right relationship with God through external observances, while Jesus Christ exemplified what one would be like if they could be acceptable to God because of the way they were without need of the external laws that permitted superficial following of God while the hearts were far from Him. Learning about Jesus Christ and seeking to follow His will will conform one over time unto the will of God that is knowable to humanity. God as Jesus Christ will become one's actual best friend-though he is transcendent and not quite like an Earth friend presently.
The concept of the Universe has several philosophical appearances about which a human make consider. I like to consider some of the physics cosmological aspects of quantum uncertainty such as is expressed by experts in the field. Like more classical philosophical expressions of perception and dimension quantum mechanical uncertainty implies that dimensionality and reality are intelligible interpretations of some sort of sense data a mind configures for-itself. Quantum mechanical super-positioning means that space and time may be arbitrary constructs of phenomenal experience. Jesus Christ might then interact with humans that have faith from a super-positioned quantum cosmological field. I don't mean to imply hocus pocus mysticism here such that the laws of physics might be altered now and then. It is likely that determinism of the unified field was conformed a priori to the teleology of God.
In the midst of all the quantum uncertainty and improbability of the existence of anything at all the wonder of having a friend in Jesus is even more marvelous. He can rescue those that are willing from the extreme challenges of original sin and the imperfectness that leads people too turn away from the reason of God.
4/21/08
Illegal Aliens Worm Through N.A.F.T.A. Borders
International trade hard wired into globalization developed with a theoretical framework of comparative advantage driving support for promotion of national output bilaterally with specialized production. In the basic paradigms of neo-classical economics labor and capital are presumptively indigenous remaining in a given nation. Calculations about comparative advantage derived from bilateral specialization of trade that allows each respective nation to produce goods that are less costly for itself and reciprocally export goods expensive for another nation to produce. The economist Ricardo developed the idea of comparative advantage is a part of the grail of neo-classical economics bring people together for N.A.F.T.A. talks in New Orleans today. N.A.F.T.A. has corrupted the domestic U.S. labor market simply because labor is not immobile, and foreign labor has arrived to displace U.S. jobs from northern seasonal workers in five key southern states.
Because capital and labor are not immobile Ricardo's calculations about the comparative advantages of international trade are incomplete and inaccurate. Anisotropic economic advantages may accrue to the people doing the trade and travelling to take jobs regardless of national borders. In the long run capitalism is pursued from a paradigm of creating the most minimal advantage for nations and people instead of the greatest advantage for nations and people. International trade and globalism have created a global class of corporatist-socialist elites that simply allocate global resources wherever they like to create wealth for themselves with the apologetics of capitalism used to justify a straw man argument that there is only one road to travel through the country of capitalism, and the low, swampy road the globalists have selected is supposed to be the only one.
In the United States millions of northerners from states such as Washington, Michigan. Maine, New York, Pennsylvania and South Dakota still worker out of doors occupationally. With the long range outsourcing of good paying industrial jobs hundreds of thousands or millions of these Americans may have no work available when the cold of winter sets in. House paining, lawn mowing and a number of the jobs dry up in winter leaving the worker the choice of collecting unemployment benefits, charity or starving homelessness or traveling to the warmer southern states such as California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and South Carolina where in theory he should be able to reenter full time the U.S. construction, laboring and other occupations that continue in winter. Instead the northern has found that an Army of illegal aliens from Mexico have swamped the U.S. job market in the south gutting wages and making seasonal employment much more difficult to find. Phoenix is the best example. While the city of Phoenix has built special drive through illegal alien worker pick up facilities the legal worker may find nothing at the lawful employment services that charge a higher wage. For some time I might ride a bike from Phoenix to Apache Junction from 3 a.m. to a Labor Ready in hope of finding work to no avail, at least that year I got to see a space shuttle pass overhead the morning as I stood in line at a Labor Finders at 4 a.m. before it burned up in re-entry.
Without comprehensive border security N.A.F.T.A. is a treaty of corruption that further guts the U.S. labor market and the security for a good job that any citizen should have. With the support of the global broadcast media the drive by government of the United States can wise-guy delete the property of rights and rights of property that all Americans should have. The U.S. Congress, the administration and all three presidential candidates are clueless about the corrupting effects of N.A.F.T.A. on the domestic U.S. job market, and they really don't give a damn because they are investors in the global stock market that builds up China and impoverishes Wrangell Alaska and San Angelo Texas.
A seasonal October to May bounty should be placed on illegal foreign workers such that unemployed northerners could collect 20 dollars a head for turning in illegal alien workers locations and identities to border patrol agents when they can find them-at least that part trime job would double the benefit of capturing rival foreign workers subverting the meaning of comparative advantage that should exist in N.A.F.T.A. If the border is zero illegal entry enforced then wages will rise in both nations, and ecological economic policy may have a chance to develop as well.
Because capital and labor are not immobile Ricardo's calculations about the comparative advantages of international trade are incomplete and inaccurate. Anisotropic economic advantages may accrue to the people doing the trade and travelling to take jobs regardless of national borders. In the long run capitalism is pursued from a paradigm of creating the most minimal advantage for nations and people instead of the greatest advantage for nations and people. International trade and globalism have created a global class of corporatist-socialist elites that simply allocate global resources wherever they like to create wealth for themselves with the apologetics of capitalism used to justify a straw man argument that there is only one road to travel through the country of capitalism, and the low, swampy road the globalists have selected is supposed to be the only one.
In the United States millions of northerners from states such as Washington, Michigan. Maine, New York, Pennsylvania and South Dakota still worker out of doors occupationally. With the long range outsourcing of good paying industrial jobs hundreds of thousands or millions of these Americans may have no work available when the cold of winter sets in. House paining, lawn mowing and a number of the jobs dry up in winter leaving the worker the choice of collecting unemployment benefits, charity or starving homelessness or traveling to the warmer southern states such as California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and South Carolina where in theory he should be able to reenter full time the U.S. construction, laboring and other occupations that continue in winter. Instead the northern has found that an Army of illegal aliens from Mexico have swamped the U.S. job market in the south gutting wages and making seasonal employment much more difficult to find. Phoenix is the best example. While the city of Phoenix has built special drive through illegal alien worker pick up facilities the legal worker may find nothing at the lawful employment services that charge a higher wage. For some time I might ride a bike from Phoenix to Apache Junction from 3 a.m. to a Labor Ready in hope of finding work to no avail, at least that year I got to see a space shuttle pass overhead the morning as I stood in line at a Labor Finders at 4 a.m. before it burned up in re-entry.
Without comprehensive border security N.A.F.T.A. is a treaty of corruption that further guts the U.S. labor market and the security for a good job that any citizen should have. With the support of the global broadcast media the drive by government of the United States can wise-guy delete the property of rights and rights of property that all Americans should have. The U.S. Congress, the administration and all three presidential candidates are clueless about the corrupting effects of N.A.F.T.A. on the domestic U.S. job market, and they really don't give a damn because they are investors in the global stock market that builds up China and impoverishes Wrangell Alaska and San Angelo Texas.
A seasonal October to May bounty should be placed on illegal foreign workers such that unemployed northerners could collect 20 dollars a head for turning in illegal alien workers locations and identities to border patrol agents when they can find them-at least that part trime job would double the benefit of capturing rival foreign workers subverting the meaning of comparative advantage that should exist in N.A.F.T.A. If the border is zero illegal entry enforced then wages will rise in both nations, and ecological economic policy may have a chance to develop as well.
4/15/08
Obama, Hillary and Ecological Economics
Obama, Reverend Wright and the brothers of inner city support believe they can change Washington D.C. politics in four years-they have solid white support too in many locals yet isn't that something like a Jimmy Carter approach to things? Are Obama and the Reverend Wright brothers a likely team to clean up the Bush administration train wreck-or would Billary have a better shot?
History is a broad concept; one might have a philosophy of history and speculate about the role either Obama or Hillary would have in it if either were to be elected President and somehow displace the qualified candidate Senator John McCain. Yet we shall play this game of speculating about which would be more important to Minerva the owl of history but first, an historical word about the incumbent President George W. Bush who is more appropriately situated for historical analysis. Just what has he done to set up the United States for the future?
The Bush administration train wreck could have been avoided by voters at least by the second term. The economy is now in recession, there is raging inflation, unemployment is up, oil is going for 112 dollars a barrel, the federal debt is trillions and trillions and the federal budget deficit is annually in the billions, the national trade deficit has set records, illegal alien immigration continues, the environment is in decline, fishing is bad, a war in Afghanistan is losing its victory a little at a time as the Taliban and sundry Muslim terrorists continue to attack government forces, the nation building of Iraq requires nearly a 130,000 garrison troops annually to proceed with national costs to the U.S.A. in the hundreds of billions of dollars each year with hundreds of annual U.S. casualties. With such a record the historical position of Billary or Obama (their gender or skin color) seems somewhat meaningless. History would judge either of them, if historians are sharp, on their response to the challenges facing the nation.
Americans may be a sort of people that values race or gender more than competence in its politicians. Quality is significant perhaps only to those not so well off. A people that would import foreign cars while its forefathers invented the production line, and that would import hundreds of billions of dollars worth of oil annually when it had pioneered world oil production beginning in the U.S.A. is a people that are transitioning from a creeative majority into a repressive minority reliant upon exploitation of global cheap labor to prop up its Wal-Marts-remember when Sam Walton had so many 'made-proudly-in-the U.S.A. labels in stores?
Bill Clinton demonstrated in his second term what a President can do without a majority of his party in Congress-just adjust certain executive agency regulations and use the Bully's pulpit to persuade Americans to pressure their congress people to vote his way-if he has a moral ability to make a public p.r. case. Obama hasn't an ability to change Washington D.C. (get rids of the elected officials?) as he seems to believe-the President can just execute the laws congress makes and the President signs into law. Neither is the President a dictator able to fire elected officials. John McCain had zero ear-marked pork barrel bills last year. Obama had 53 (still learning) while Hillary had 250 (practice shows its her second term).
Ecological economics is an essential requirement for rectification of the U.S. morass globally that piecemeal dismantles the posterity of the nation. A nation that buys its energy from abroad cannot reasonably be expected to prosper-Americans are to complacent to produce their own energy at home or at least demand that political leaders work to that end. In 3000 years at present population growth the weight of humanity would be more than that of the planet Earth. I have been mining a brilliant text on ecological economics recently that provides data on the irrational growth driven policy of neoclassical economics-even John Stuart Mill realized that economic growth cannot be sustained at the cost of environmental harm. Politicians must be able to rationally evaluate environmental ends and comprehend prioritization of ecological continuity. For the slow learners in the business and political worlds everything that the market entails can be bought and sold in a universal perpetual motion economic machine that will recycle with complete efficiency its own waste products. That violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The Earth is finite and qualitative growth in a steady-state economic sphere that does not reduce the natural biosphere is necessary for sustainable human life on Earth and for a quality U.S.A. Neither Bomb or Billary have expressed positive plans to move into a steady-state ecological economic direction.
As a tool for globalist subversion of the Government and people of the United States the election of a Kenyan (African) citizen Barrack Hussein Obama, who also holds U.S. citizenship would be of historical significance. Barrack Obama as a citizen of Africa could have dual loyalties as well as unknown Kenyan brothers and sisters, some of whom could be affiliated with Al Qa'eda. The concept of electing sons or daughters of visiting sex tourists to the highest political office of a nation isn't a novel way of breeding foreign conquests. Historically royal dynasties have formed liaisons and alliances of powerful international houses through marriage or unmarried sexual relations (sex in this instance isn't defined as surfing in Hawaii). Barrack Obama's failure to comprehend the tone of American interests is perhaps a consequence of being raised far outside the heart of the nation-in Indonesia and Hawaii, each of which are farther east of Salina Kansas than Denver.
The Democratic Party's observers await the hidden Obama to go off during the primary season, when he reveals his true core beliefs and loyalties. It is evident that the candidate for the U.S. Presidency is an elitist and not a centrist, a tool of special interests from the extreme and not an ordinary American from St. Louis or Oklahoma City. What hidden beliefs really motivate the son of a Muslim and father of a Muslim, each of whom live outside the United States on two different continents?
While Senator McCain in all likelihood will be elected in November 2008, the rhetorical firestorm from the Democratic Party may be intense as the extreme Democratic Party leaders in Boston and San Francisco believe they have backed Americans into a virtually captive political condition without much choice and must vote for a radical. While the Democratic Party congressional leadership seems mealy mouthed it is hard to hear any sort of environmental economics policy reform from them (I am reading a text on the subject presently at it is genuinely radical). The United States not only has an ignorant neo-classical growth oriented economics pursuit, its leaders do not comprehend the inexorable wrong logic of reduction of the quality of the global environment while building up a population with finite resources on a policy of increasing consumption. The bad news is that the development of environmental economic policy in government will trail the destruction of the environment and degradation of the political and social environments too by at least a half century; I reckon it will take at least two generations for economics to move beyond its neo-classical quagmire.
The selection of Barrack Obama for President would foist a race qualified neo-foreign neophyte upon the American people to guarantee the further erosion of U.S. sovereignty with an open Mexican border bleeding away the labor wage rights of non financial service sector, non white collar or medical industry and government worker U.S. citizens. The election of Hillary Clinton would sap the concept of term limits, and thus John McCain with his independent fortitude able to resist encroaching alien and retarding forces is the sole viable candidate for the office in 2008.
The failure of moral political leadership in 2008 is significant; in California Arnold Swz. as Governor of that sorry state advocated support for the abomination of homosexual 'marriages' recently. His father was a Hitler S.A. military radical (the S.A. was initially a radical homosexual organization-the storm troopers-of Aryan supermen violating every moral law in the revolutionary state to create a way for Hitler's Nazi Party to take power). President Bush will attend the Beijing show piece Olympics while Tibetans are brutalized by corrupt police and military forces. Tibetans have a right to be rid of oppressive Chinese communist-fascist tyranny and exist as a confederated state. The brutal repression of Tibet should be a warning for Taiwan-and perhaps Taiwan should base more advanced weapons able to counter-strike a Chinese putch one day. At the minimum President Bush should wear the armband with the pre-invasion flag of Tibet if he kow tows to the Olympic opening ceremony in order to get post-presidential corporate contracts for special interests from the Red leadership. Barrack Obama isn't advocating total closure of the Mexican border and reinforcement of the terms of N.A.F.T.A. simultaneously with a renegotiating of N.A.F.T.A. to exclude Mexican trucks from entering the United States-that is a failure of moral leadership too, as is his support for abortion and notion that 'guns and religion' are the opium of bitter white masses in Pennsylvania.
If Americans are simply daft followers of whatever economic and political power is presented to them by the corporatist global powers and their broadcast media then they will acquiesces in these 'Deemocratic' party extremists that are not hardly solid, simple and democratic at all. Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel-at least every 20 years the Democratic Party runs some good candidates (1992)-yet the down side of that is that they picked the wrong one then anyway.
History is a broad concept; one might have a philosophy of history and speculate about the role either Obama or Hillary would have in it if either were to be elected President and somehow displace the qualified candidate Senator John McCain. Yet we shall play this game of speculating about which would be more important to Minerva the owl of history but first, an historical word about the incumbent President George W. Bush who is more appropriately situated for historical analysis. Just what has he done to set up the United States for the future?
The Bush administration train wreck could have been avoided by voters at least by the second term. The economy is now in recession, there is raging inflation, unemployment is up, oil is going for 112 dollars a barrel, the federal debt is trillions and trillions and the federal budget deficit is annually in the billions, the national trade deficit has set records, illegal alien immigration continues, the environment is in decline, fishing is bad, a war in Afghanistan is losing its victory a little at a time as the Taliban and sundry Muslim terrorists continue to attack government forces, the nation building of Iraq requires nearly a 130,000 garrison troops annually to proceed with national costs to the U.S.A. in the hundreds of billions of dollars each year with hundreds of annual U.S. casualties. With such a record the historical position of Billary or Obama (their gender or skin color) seems somewhat meaningless. History would judge either of them, if historians are sharp, on their response to the challenges facing the nation.
Americans may be a sort of people that values race or gender more than competence in its politicians. Quality is significant perhaps only to those not so well off. A people that would import foreign cars while its forefathers invented the production line, and that would import hundreds of billions of dollars worth of oil annually when it had pioneered world oil production beginning in the U.S.A. is a people that are transitioning from a creeative majority into a repressive minority reliant upon exploitation of global cheap labor to prop up its Wal-Marts-remember when Sam Walton had so many 'made-proudly-in-the U.S.A. labels in stores?
Bill Clinton demonstrated in his second term what a President can do without a majority of his party in Congress-just adjust certain executive agency regulations and use the Bully's pulpit to persuade Americans to pressure their congress people to vote his way-if he has a moral ability to make a public p.r. case. Obama hasn't an ability to change Washington D.C. (get rids of the elected officials?) as he seems to believe-the President can just execute the laws congress makes and the President signs into law. Neither is the President a dictator able to fire elected officials. John McCain had zero ear-marked pork barrel bills last year. Obama had 53 (still learning) while Hillary had 250 (practice shows its her second term).
Ecological economics is an essential requirement for rectification of the U.S. morass globally that piecemeal dismantles the posterity of the nation. A nation that buys its energy from abroad cannot reasonably be expected to prosper-Americans are to complacent to produce their own energy at home or at least demand that political leaders work to that end. In 3000 years at present population growth the weight of humanity would be more than that of the planet Earth. I have been mining a brilliant text on ecological economics recently that provides data on the irrational growth driven policy of neoclassical economics-even John Stuart Mill realized that economic growth cannot be sustained at the cost of environmental harm. Politicians must be able to rationally evaluate environmental ends and comprehend prioritization of ecological continuity. For the slow learners in the business and political worlds everything that the market entails can be bought and sold in a universal perpetual motion economic machine that will recycle with complete efficiency its own waste products. That violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The Earth is finite and qualitative growth in a steady-state economic sphere that does not reduce the natural biosphere is necessary for sustainable human life on Earth and for a quality U.S.A. Neither Bomb or Billary have expressed positive plans to move into a steady-state ecological economic direction.
As a tool for globalist subversion of the Government and people of the United States the election of a Kenyan (African) citizen Barrack Hussein Obama, who also holds U.S. citizenship would be of historical significance. Barrack Obama as a citizen of Africa could have dual loyalties as well as unknown Kenyan brothers and sisters, some of whom could be affiliated with Al Qa'eda. The concept of electing sons or daughters of visiting sex tourists to the highest political office of a nation isn't a novel way of breeding foreign conquests. Historically royal dynasties have formed liaisons and alliances of powerful international houses through marriage or unmarried sexual relations (sex in this instance isn't defined as surfing in Hawaii). Barrack Obama's failure to comprehend the tone of American interests is perhaps a consequence of being raised far outside the heart of the nation-in Indonesia and Hawaii, each of which are farther east of Salina Kansas than Denver.
The Democratic Party's observers await the hidden Obama to go off during the primary season, when he reveals his true core beliefs and loyalties. It is evident that the candidate for the U.S. Presidency is an elitist and not a centrist, a tool of special interests from the extreme and not an ordinary American from St. Louis or Oklahoma City. What hidden beliefs really motivate the son of a Muslim and father of a Muslim, each of whom live outside the United States on two different continents?
While Senator McCain in all likelihood will be elected in November 2008, the rhetorical firestorm from the Democratic Party may be intense as the extreme Democratic Party leaders in Boston and San Francisco believe they have backed Americans into a virtually captive political condition without much choice and must vote for a radical. While the Democratic Party congressional leadership seems mealy mouthed it is hard to hear any sort of environmental economics policy reform from them (I am reading a text on the subject presently at it is genuinely radical). The United States not only has an ignorant neo-classical growth oriented economics pursuit, its leaders do not comprehend the inexorable wrong logic of reduction of the quality of the global environment while building up a population with finite resources on a policy of increasing consumption. The bad news is that the development of environmental economic policy in government will trail the destruction of the environment and degradation of the political and social environments too by at least a half century; I reckon it will take at least two generations for economics to move beyond its neo-classical quagmire.
The selection of Barrack Obama for President would foist a race qualified neo-foreign neophyte upon the American people to guarantee the further erosion of U.S. sovereignty with an open Mexican border bleeding away the labor wage rights of non financial service sector, non white collar or medical industry and government worker U.S. citizens. The election of Hillary Clinton would sap the concept of term limits, and thus John McCain with his independent fortitude able to resist encroaching alien and retarding forces is the sole viable candidate for the office in 2008.
The failure of moral political leadership in 2008 is significant; in California Arnold Swz. as Governor of that sorry state advocated support for the abomination of homosexual 'marriages' recently. His father was a Hitler S.A. military radical (the S.A. was initially a radical homosexual organization-the storm troopers-of Aryan supermen violating every moral law in the revolutionary state to create a way for Hitler's Nazi Party to take power). President Bush will attend the Beijing show piece Olympics while Tibetans are brutalized by corrupt police and military forces. Tibetans have a right to be rid of oppressive Chinese communist-fascist tyranny and exist as a confederated state. The brutal repression of Tibet should be a warning for Taiwan-and perhaps Taiwan should base more advanced weapons able to counter-strike a Chinese putch one day. At the minimum President Bush should wear the armband with the pre-invasion flag of Tibet if he kow tows to the Olympic opening ceremony in order to get post-presidential corporate contracts for special interests from the Red leadership. Barrack Obama isn't advocating total closure of the Mexican border and reinforcement of the terms of N.A.F.T.A. simultaneously with a renegotiating of N.A.F.T.A. to exclude Mexican trucks from entering the United States-that is a failure of moral leadership too, as is his support for abortion and notion that 'guns and religion' are the opium of bitter white masses in Pennsylvania.
If Americans are simply daft followers of whatever economic and political power is presented to them by the corporatist global powers and their broadcast media then they will acquiesces in these 'Deemocratic' party extremists that are not hardly solid, simple and democratic at all. Yet there is light at the end of the tunnel-at least every 20 years the Democratic Party runs some good candidates (1992)-yet the down side of that is that they picked the wrong one then anyway.
4/11/08
Nationalism, Iraq & Environmental Economic Remedies
Nationalism is an important 21st century political concept, one upon which the future of political self-determination in the next century rests. For individualism to continue to exist as the goal of liberalism, and for the expression of individual development to find support from political entities of power that decree what any human soul may or may not do, to limit the powers of government to largely external, necessary regulatory pursuits that support individual liberties national primacy must remain the basic foundation of politics if the massified degradation of human life is to be avoided.
It might be best to consider particular nations, or even a particular nation first in quest of a comprehension of the meaning of a nation, yet the nations of the world vary so much in history and in meaning for the people of those nations. Nations do have set, specific boundaries which are made in declaration of the realm of political jurisdiction of the governing power.
Iraq has a history that may exceed that of any other on the Earth. If one wants to describe a nation by the characteristic of its geographic area, Iraq encompassed the first civilization at Summer and Akkad. It was conquered by numerous neighboring people yet retained a cultural identity as an ancient 'melting pot'. The Achemenid empire of Iranians or Persians followed upon the ancient civilizations of Ur and Babylon, and rule by Assyrians, Greeks and Romans. A Parthian and Sassanid Empire restored Persian rule for a time until the battle of Qadisiyya in 636 in which Arabs conquered the region of Iraq...their Abbasid power went in to decline by the 10th century.
Between the 10th century and 1638 when the Ottoman Empire was firmly established to last until the early 20th century when they were defeated by the British in the first world war and Iraq was formally created as a nation in 1920 by the British Government Iraq has a host of invasive ruling powers from a son of Genghis Khan to Tamarlane the Turk who bragged about piling up a mountain of skulls. Even amidst all of the horrors of war and repression of corrupt governments the Mesopotamian region by the rivers had an informal identity as a nation-it would impress itself upon those that lived and died in the region.
A nation today such as Iraq is in the midst of the perennial struggle for free individual self-actualization and security, and the United States of America is helping with that process. Life and time is fleeting however; determination and intelligence are reciprocal elements necessary to bring the politically possible into the realm of the politically actualized. So before we move on to more generally considerations about the nature of what a nation is, lets consider some of the 21st century requisites in macro-economics that might be recognized to stabilize the ongoing civil strife in Iraq created by governing power malfeasance...
U.S. Iraq policy implementation increasingly is inefficient. Macro-economic restructuring in Iraq is directed toward neo-classical policies of growth and consumption. Economic growth is considered a necessary fact for the improvement of the quality of life. The realm and range of economic growth and its effects upon th environment isn't considered sufficiently to coincide with an efficient application of economic policy.
Military power is used at substantial cost to the United States to restore or build toward a neo-classical economic structure in national Iraq. A better approach would be to use principles of developing environmental economics. Utilization of environmental biotic and abiotic elements can be done in such a way that the allocation of resources and employment of social effort increase social peace rather that conflict. The present Bush administration hasn't had much appreciation of real-world environmental economics since the end of the 2003 Gulf war perhaps because its neo-con political assumptions bet that neo-classical economic goals and structures would be applied for universal profit even with recalcitrant or unwilling Iraqis in the midst. The neo-classical assumptions were inefficient and presented paradigms of insolvable macro-social dilemmas that required sustenance by a largess of U.S. federal spending for inefficient military and civil contractor projects. The military can not inevitably be used to prop up with success inefficient macro-economic foreign policy.
The United States cannot simply withdraw and enable a further chapter of tragedy in Iraq, yet with a new administration and a host of environmental economists unconventional, adaptive economic policy might be set in Iraq to empower the people to peace through home-power production, canal building and wetlands restoration projects and through a survey of new interactive economic structures with existing free natural services such as the atmosphere and its free oxygen delivery for breathing work. The use of that atmosphere as a sewer for automobile, truck and industrial waste should be halted, and electric vehicle platforms accentuated to replace them a.s.a.p. Yet to return to the general subject of nations...
A nation is a noun in a genre of political terms describing formation and boundaries. While time presents tensors of perpetual change cohesion and coherence of various peoples within an electrical communications context or without offers opportunities challenging conceptualization of what makes the bonds holding an identity group together actual.
In considering the idea of what makes a political classification meaningful, and representative of the object it designates it is useful to consider the historical evolution of human social groups in order to understand how and why nationalism developed as a term.
Out of Africa perhaps 100,200 years before present just 2000 male ancestors became the forebears of all living human beings (along with their women). Dispersion of those individuals from a metaphorical 'ark' led across the globe to cultural and physiological differentiation. There are perhaps 50 specific genes found uniquely in various human sub groups as a consequence of the diaspora from ground zero. The differences are not at all bad nor do they constitute a vast gap for human understanding. Melanin for example allows utilization of radiation for ways unavailable for those without, and malarial preventing gene adaptation is useful.
Humanity forging local identities as peoples sometime coalescing and sometimes diverging. Like corporations and monopolies there are periods of diversification and consolidation toward monopolization. Language and culture have experienced the same characteristics of group association. Nations tend to be longer lasting, more substantial clumps of human social and political association, yet in the river of time they tend to disassociate and dissolve after universal phases or less than universal phases in even arrested developments.
Nations such as Israel began with the legendary entry of Abraham into the promised land following the call of God. Egypt began as a nation or as an empire in the fourth millennium B.C., while the Shang culture grew historically following the cult of the Yellow Emperor. Charlemagne, son of the illegitimate Charles Martel who defeated the Arab armies of the Umma at Tours in the 8th century was the founder of the Carolingian Empire, and eventually of the Holy Roman Empire. That entity encompassed France and Germany, which in turn occupied what had been a part of trans-alpine Gaul during the Roman tenancy. Nations that spun off over the following centuries comprised bargaining units sometime fighting through wars and joining through dynastic marriages lands with peoples moving toward a common language with common interests. The protestant reformation and the renaissance brought trans-national movement that also formed common bonds. Governments and nations have tended to develop along natural boundaries as well with social organizational phenomena sometimes of a trans-national nature.
The word nation may be used by Pee Wee Herman's Big Show Wunderbar Nation, if such were in demand on reality t.v., or in Fred Toughguy's used car nation, or even in the Nation of Crumpets-yet it is the political nation historically that we pursue the meaning of. Some would identify the origin of nations with democratic revolts against empires of Europe and that would be fair, yet it is unfair to discredit Vernagian Sweden as a nation before the 12th century just because they liked northern boating and giving lung water-wings with incisions to captives.
One might consider a republic to be for concept of a nation. The Republic of Plato, The Roman Republic, the U.S. Republic and others were republics sometime greater than city-state status. From language to language what makes a nation out of a people-be it the Cherokee nation, the Sioux nation, the Aztecs or the Parthians is fairly well understood. People may be free or captive, savages or sophisticates but their identity as either tribes or selected members of an exclusive political body with a territorial and power identity comprising Independence amidst the world's people is recognized. A nation does seem to have the most general set of qualifiers for inclusion of a people within a political unit. Many peoples historically have simply named themselves 'the people' in their own language, and the people have tended to have a turf of their own in which their 'nation' lived.
Florence of the Medici was a Republic in the 14th and 15th century at a time when the Ottoman Empire occupied the whole of the Balkan peninsula. The Medici and the Hapsburgs with their possession of Vienna juxtaposed various renaissance ideas of imperialism and populism alongside traditions of an Eastern and Western Roman Empire as well as the great empires from history south of the Mediterranean sea within a social maelstrom of general progress and change. At one time their were three popes simultaneously ruling from Avignon, Rome and with Pope John the Twenty-Third a fugitive until arrested and eventually ransomed free. Machiavelli developed political ideas of nationalism and how a prince should rule over corrupt people and corrupt human nature within the cunning of a fox and the strength of a lion, and Machiavelli's ideas supported a growing European polity seeking to express itself eventually through a free press, free assembly and a variety of civil liberties concepts designed to correct not only the corruption of a decadent Catholic Church hierarchical priesthood in which Bishop's miters were bought and sold and one pope was accused of seducing more than a hundred Italian women but to support the home-rule of people exploited by distant monarchs and threatened by a vast collection of oppressive government officials. Nationalism as a political concept matured as turmoil politically and wars disestablished political regimes and the people with an emergent in intellectual class were forced to fend for themselves.
Nationalism developed in England as a natural progression of competition by various different peoples such as Scotch, Irish, Brits, Normans, Welsh and Vikings striving under different political and family traditions to survive as free people. Even the Romans with Julius Caesar fought as a nation of Italians and with an expanded Republic turned into an Empire to control England, France or trans-Alpine Gaul, Spain and Carthage. Nations developed somewhat naturally as a political concept expressing popular interests from below, while empire's ruled from above and forced everyone into a common bondage and servility except for the nobility. In imperial Russia the table of ranks gave every noteworthy person a royal rank down to 200 levels, and the remainder were serfs or meaningless traders, yet the people still had a concept of a nation that would survive the end of the empire, the end of Stalinist communism and into the 21st century beyond two world wars. Nationalism bound Russian Slavs together both in race, language, history and land. History itself can make people a part of a nation.
In South Africa external pressures brought Afrikaners together to feel themselves a nation. Brits tended to think of themselves as part of an empire, while Zulu's with their fairly recent arrival in South Africa historically felt themselves as a nation even as they traveled along east Africa subjugating various Bantu peoples in the process. Zulu sailors making their way to ancient Iraq felt themselves in all likelihood part of an extended nation, as Saudis may today with their extreme oil wealth surpassing even Exxon-Mobils' U.S. record 40 billion dollar profit last fiscal year.
In Germany it was the failure of a nation and sense of nationalism to be fulfilled until the unification of east and west Germany in 1990 that had bedeviled that people with a congress of wars and government change since the Napoleonic invasion of the early 1800's. Not until 1917 did the German's get rid of it royalty, and democracy was aborted by the third Reich as the people pressured on the west by post war reparations and territorial demands and on the east by a huge Bolshevik menace succumbed to the militarism that was largely a continuum from the deposed nobility. The Werhmacht leadership sent the charismatic speaker Adolph Hitler to the German Workers Socialist Party to take over it's leadership and the rest is history. Germans with incredible civil financial chaos and hyperinflation were pushovers for militaristic voodoo economics that led to war. Germany had only become a nation in 1881 finally ridding itself of Austrian rulers (Hitler was also from Vienna).
Nationalism is a fundamental territorial definition for a democracy. Nationalism is a finite political bargaining unit. A nation is a way of drawing a line against the rest of the world in making a claim of political independence. A nation is a way to deny global predators the opportunity to plunder one with a plethora of taxes, disadvantages and vague corruptions that effectively deny one and other citizens the right of local political self-determination. A democratic nation is the bane of emperors and planetary proletarians seeking to redistribute servility to everyone.
It might be best to consider particular nations, or even a particular nation first in quest of a comprehension of the meaning of a nation, yet the nations of the world vary so much in history and in meaning for the people of those nations. Nations do have set, specific boundaries which are made in declaration of the realm of political jurisdiction of the governing power.
Iraq has a history that may exceed that of any other on the Earth. If one wants to describe a nation by the characteristic of its geographic area, Iraq encompassed the first civilization at Summer and Akkad. It was conquered by numerous neighboring people yet retained a cultural identity as an ancient 'melting pot'. The Achemenid empire of Iranians or Persians followed upon the ancient civilizations of Ur and Babylon, and rule by Assyrians, Greeks and Romans. A Parthian and Sassanid Empire restored Persian rule for a time until the battle of Qadisiyya in 636 in which Arabs conquered the region of Iraq...their Abbasid power went in to decline by the 10th century.
Between the 10th century and 1638 when the Ottoman Empire was firmly established to last until the early 20th century when they were defeated by the British in the first world war and Iraq was formally created as a nation in 1920 by the British Government Iraq has a host of invasive ruling powers from a son of Genghis Khan to Tamarlane the Turk who bragged about piling up a mountain of skulls. Even amidst all of the horrors of war and repression of corrupt governments the Mesopotamian region by the rivers had an informal identity as a nation-it would impress itself upon those that lived and died in the region.
A nation today such as Iraq is in the midst of the perennial struggle for free individual self-actualization and security, and the United States of America is helping with that process. Life and time is fleeting however; determination and intelligence are reciprocal elements necessary to bring the politically possible into the realm of the politically actualized. So before we move on to more generally considerations about the nature of what a nation is, lets consider some of the 21st century requisites in macro-economics that might be recognized to stabilize the ongoing civil strife in Iraq created by governing power malfeasance...
U.S. Iraq policy implementation increasingly is inefficient. Macro-economic restructuring in Iraq is directed toward neo-classical policies of growth and consumption. Economic growth is considered a necessary fact for the improvement of the quality of life. The realm and range of economic growth and its effects upon th environment isn't considered sufficiently to coincide with an efficient application of economic policy.
Military power is used at substantial cost to the United States to restore or build toward a neo-classical economic structure in national Iraq. A better approach would be to use principles of developing environmental economics. Utilization of environmental biotic and abiotic elements can be done in such a way that the allocation of resources and employment of social effort increase social peace rather that conflict. The present Bush administration hasn't had much appreciation of real-world environmental economics since the end of the 2003 Gulf war perhaps because its neo-con political assumptions bet that neo-classical economic goals and structures would be applied for universal profit even with recalcitrant or unwilling Iraqis in the midst. The neo-classical assumptions were inefficient and presented paradigms of insolvable macro-social dilemmas that required sustenance by a largess of U.S. federal spending for inefficient military and civil contractor projects. The military can not inevitably be used to prop up with success inefficient macro-economic foreign policy.
The United States cannot simply withdraw and enable a further chapter of tragedy in Iraq, yet with a new administration and a host of environmental economists unconventional, adaptive economic policy might be set in Iraq to empower the people to peace through home-power production, canal building and wetlands restoration projects and through a survey of new interactive economic structures with existing free natural services such as the atmosphere and its free oxygen delivery for breathing work. The use of that atmosphere as a sewer for automobile, truck and industrial waste should be halted, and electric vehicle platforms accentuated to replace them a.s.a.p. Yet to return to the general subject of nations...
A nation is a noun in a genre of political terms describing formation and boundaries. While time presents tensors of perpetual change cohesion and coherence of various peoples within an electrical communications context or without offers opportunities challenging conceptualization of what makes the bonds holding an identity group together actual.
In considering the idea of what makes a political classification meaningful, and representative of the object it designates it is useful to consider the historical evolution of human social groups in order to understand how and why nationalism developed as a term.
Out of Africa perhaps 100,200 years before present just 2000 male ancestors became the forebears of all living human beings (along with their women). Dispersion of those individuals from a metaphorical 'ark' led across the globe to cultural and physiological differentiation. There are perhaps 50 specific genes found uniquely in various human sub groups as a consequence of the diaspora from ground zero. The differences are not at all bad nor do they constitute a vast gap for human understanding. Melanin for example allows utilization of radiation for ways unavailable for those without, and malarial preventing gene adaptation is useful.
Humanity forging local identities as peoples sometime coalescing and sometimes diverging. Like corporations and monopolies there are periods of diversification and consolidation toward monopolization. Language and culture have experienced the same characteristics of group association. Nations tend to be longer lasting, more substantial clumps of human social and political association, yet in the river of time they tend to disassociate and dissolve after universal phases or less than universal phases in even arrested developments.
Nations such as Israel began with the legendary entry of Abraham into the promised land following the call of God. Egypt began as a nation or as an empire in the fourth millennium B.C., while the Shang culture grew historically following the cult of the Yellow Emperor. Charlemagne, son of the illegitimate Charles Martel who defeated the Arab armies of the Umma at Tours in the 8th century was the founder of the Carolingian Empire, and eventually of the Holy Roman Empire. That entity encompassed France and Germany, which in turn occupied what had been a part of trans-alpine Gaul during the Roman tenancy. Nations that spun off over the following centuries comprised bargaining units sometime fighting through wars and joining through dynastic marriages lands with peoples moving toward a common language with common interests. The protestant reformation and the renaissance brought trans-national movement that also formed common bonds. Governments and nations have tended to develop along natural boundaries as well with social organizational phenomena sometimes of a trans-national nature.
The word nation may be used by Pee Wee Herman's Big Show Wunderbar Nation, if such were in demand on reality t.v., or in Fred Toughguy's used car nation, or even in the Nation of Crumpets-yet it is the political nation historically that we pursue the meaning of. Some would identify the origin of nations with democratic revolts against empires of Europe and that would be fair, yet it is unfair to discredit Vernagian Sweden as a nation before the 12th century just because they liked northern boating and giving lung water-wings with incisions to captives.
One might consider a republic to be for concept of a nation. The Republic of Plato, The Roman Republic, the U.S. Republic and others were republics sometime greater than city-state status. From language to language what makes a nation out of a people-be it the Cherokee nation, the Sioux nation, the Aztecs or the Parthians is fairly well understood. People may be free or captive, savages or sophisticates but their identity as either tribes or selected members of an exclusive political body with a territorial and power identity comprising Independence amidst the world's people is recognized. A nation does seem to have the most general set of qualifiers for inclusion of a people within a political unit. Many peoples historically have simply named themselves 'the people' in their own language, and the people have tended to have a turf of their own in which their 'nation' lived.
Florence of the Medici was a Republic in the 14th and 15th century at a time when the Ottoman Empire occupied the whole of the Balkan peninsula. The Medici and the Hapsburgs with their possession of Vienna juxtaposed various renaissance ideas of imperialism and populism alongside traditions of an Eastern and Western Roman Empire as well as the great empires from history south of the Mediterranean sea within a social maelstrom of general progress and change. At one time their were three popes simultaneously ruling from Avignon, Rome and with Pope John the Twenty-Third a fugitive until arrested and eventually ransomed free. Machiavelli developed political ideas of nationalism and how a prince should rule over corrupt people and corrupt human nature within the cunning of a fox and the strength of a lion, and Machiavelli's ideas supported a growing European polity seeking to express itself eventually through a free press, free assembly and a variety of civil liberties concepts designed to correct not only the corruption of a decadent Catholic Church hierarchical priesthood in which Bishop's miters were bought and sold and one pope was accused of seducing more than a hundred Italian women but to support the home-rule of people exploited by distant monarchs and threatened by a vast collection of oppressive government officials. Nationalism as a political concept matured as turmoil politically and wars disestablished political regimes and the people with an emergent in intellectual class were forced to fend for themselves.
Nationalism developed in England as a natural progression of competition by various different peoples such as Scotch, Irish, Brits, Normans, Welsh and Vikings striving under different political and family traditions to survive as free people. Even the Romans with Julius Caesar fought as a nation of Italians and with an expanded Republic turned into an Empire to control England, France or trans-Alpine Gaul, Spain and Carthage. Nations developed somewhat naturally as a political concept expressing popular interests from below, while empire's ruled from above and forced everyone into a common bondage and servility except for the nobility. In imperial Russia the table of ranks gave every noteworthy person a royal rank down to 200 levels, and the remainder were serfs or meaningless traders, yet the people still had a concept of a nation that would survive the end of the empire, the end of Stalinist communism and into the 21st century beyond two world wars. Nationalism bound Russian Slavs together both in race, language, history and land. History itself can make people a part of a nation.
In South Africa external pressures brought Afrikaners together to feel themselves a nation. Brits tended to think of themselves as part of an empire, while Zulu's with their fairly recent arrival in South Africa historically felt themselves as a nation even as they traveled along east Africa subjugating various Bantu peoples in the process. Zulu sailors making their way to ancient Iraq felt themselves in all likelihood part of an extended nation, as Saudis may today with their extreme oil wealth surpassing even Exxon-Mobils' U.S. record 40 billion dollar profit last fiscal year.
In Germany it was the failure of a nation and sense of nationalism to be fulfilled until the unification of east and west Germany in 1990 that had bedeviled that people with a congress of wars and government change since the Napoleonic invasion of the early 1800's. Not until 1917 did the German's get rid of it royalty, and democracy was aborted by the third Reich as the people pressured on the west by post war reparations and territorial demands and on the east by a huge Bolshevik menace succumbed to the militarism that was largely a continuum from the deposed nobility. The Werhmacht leadership sent the charismatic speaker Adolph Hitler to the German Workers Socialist Party to take over it's leadership and the rest is history. Germans with incredible civil financial chaos and hyperinflation were pushovers for militaristic voodoo economics that led to war. Germany had only become a nation in 1881 finally ridding itself of Austrian rulers (Hitler was also from Vienna).
Nationalism is a fundamental territorial definition for a democracy. Nationalism is a finite political bargaining unit. A nation is a way of drawing a line against the rest of the world in making a claim of political independence. A nation is a way to deny global predators the opportunity to plunder one with a plethora of taxes, disadvantages and vague corruptions that effectively deny one and other citizens the right of local political self-determination. A democratic nation is the bane of emperors and planetary proletarians seeking to redistribute servility to everyone.
4/2/08
On the end of the Internet as we know it, this one goes out to those still able to decipher data bits in crystal lattices...Small worlds network modeling of the Internet finds remarkable associate cluster conformity and neuronal transmission pathway congruence with other small worlds networks outside the universe of computing. Perhaps the Braham Institute of Cambridge U.K. has discovered some sort of electronic arterial sclerosis that isn't subject to pharmaceutical remediation yet it seems unlikely, since the origin of the Internet was in an U.S. Air Force project to make nuclear war survivable communications with redundant and independent routes of communication. September 2008 seems somewhat early for a conventional over-use gridlock of Internet bit sharing to occur, yet demyelination paradigms of data guide-paths precipitated into catastrophic transformation could develop consequent to concatenated information piracy creating an extreme Shannon entropy concurrence. Possibly a lot of global electromagnetic detonations producing (emp) pulses could shut down the global telecommunications network before an alternative system of flagging could be improvised. Space aliens could take over the Federal Government at any moment too, yet it seems improbably because of the inability of any intelligent life in the Universe to comprehend the rational for federal economic management policy that takeover by hostile aliens is improbably before October or November 2008.
Senator Edward Kennedy split the Democratic Party nominating primaries in 1980 when he ran against the incumbent Democratic President James Earl Carter. That was before the Internet era and before the creation of scheduled technological disasters. Ted Kennedy was the last candidate that sought to release committed delegates in order to change their vote allegiance. Hillary Clinton seeks to release the bound delegates forced to work for the Obama campaign (a candidate that claims to be able to unite the nation following the split after the civil war of 1860-1865). An Internet collapse will transplace U.S. time to the pre-electric era when slave importation had been forbidden just 20 years after the end of the articles of confederation era and federal sailing ships patrolled the coast to arrest slave running illegal alien ships. Senator Kennedy loathed Jimmy (The Peanut) Carter perhaps because of his southern, British ancestry (something similar to the Bill Clintons incidentally). Senator Edward Kennedy has again engineered support for a major split in the Democratic Party once again setting up a Republican victory by his declared support for Obama. In theory a racial bomb will go off if Obama isn't elected to 'heal' the racial divide and end the war in Iraq that ended in 2003 followed by an incompetent era of nation rebuilding efforts unassisted by Senator Obama the last three years still seeking to 'end the war'.
The interesting question to consider here before the Internet era ends possibly in September thus halting Internet campaign contributions to Democratic candidates is; 'How much is Obama really like J.F.K.'? We will briefly review President Kennedy's history from the intercepted alien historical rave communique of the time period before he ran for the Presidency, coincidentally in the year of Obama's birth (watch this for space alien juxtapositions)...
The young John F. Kennedy was raised in a cross binned hurricane. He was drowned and left for dead and raised by a toothless dispirited hag when his cigarette boat was cut in two offshore by a fast Japanese tourist cruise ship passing one night. John Kennedy and his crew of coke-heads with adolescent adjustment problems had engine troubles and were adrift before suddenly discovering their fast boat cut in twain and themselves plunged into the shark infested waters. With Senator Kennedy's leadership the ship was pieced together with super-glue and motored slowly to Kevins Bar in Molokai Bay where they survived on for a month on coconuts and pina coladas in a reality television show before rescue and education in an Indonesian madrasa where they ignored fellow students bowing to Mecca and became followers of Rhinehold Neibuhr. So did Barrack Obama.
Senator Edward Kennedy split the Democratic Party nominating primaries in 1980 when he ran against the incumbent Democratic President James Earl Carter. That was before the Internet era and before the creation of scheduled technological disasters. Ted Kennedy was the last candidate that sought to release committed delegates in order to change their vote allegiance. Hillary Clinton seeks to release the bound delegates forced to work for the Obama campaign (a candidate that claims to be able to unite the nation following the split after the civil war of 1860-1865). An Internet collapse will transplace U.S. time to the pre-electric era when slave importation had been forbidden just 20 years after the end of the articles of confederation era and federal sailing ships patrolled the coast to arrest slave running illegal alien ships. Senator Kennedy loathed Jimmy (The Peanut) Carter perhaps because of his southern, British ancestry (something similar to the Bill Clintons incidentally). Senator Edward Kennedy has again engineered support for a major split in the Democratic Party once again setting up a Republican victory by his declared support for Obama. In theory a racial bomb will go off if Obama isn't elected to 'heal' the racial divide and end the war in Iraq that ended in 2003 followed by an incompetent era of nation rebuilding efforts unassisted by Senator Obama the last three years still seeking to 'end the war'.
The interesting question to consider here before the Internet era ends possibly in September thus halting Internet campaign contributions to Democratic candidates is; 'How much is Obama really like J.F.K.'? We will briefly review President Kennedy's history from the intercepted alien historical rave communique of the time period before he ran for the Presidency, coincidentally in the year of Obama's birth (watch this for space alien juxtapositions)...
The young John F. Kennedy was raised in a cross binned hurricane. He was drowned and left for dead and raised by a toothless dispirited hag when his cigarette boat was cut in two offshore by a fast Japanese tourist cruise ship passing one night. John Kennedy and his crew of coke-heads with adolescent adjustment problems had engine troubles and were adrift before suddenly discovering their fast boat cut in twain and themselves plunged into the shark infested waters. With Senator Kennedy's leadership the ship was pieced together with super-glue and motored slowly to Kevins Bar in Molokai Bay where they survived on for a month on coconuts and pina coladas in a reality television show before rescue and education in an Indonesian madrasa where they ignored fellow students bowing to Mecca and became followers of Rhinehold Neibuhr. So did Barrack Obama.
3/29/08
Obama's Hillary Bashing Butches
Supply and demand facts set gas prices. The role of government taxation on the price of gas is far more complex. One might gas taxes by world governments to those of the United States to determine if the difference is enough to create a national advantage or disadvantage in world trade and domestic economic efficiency. The primary phenomenality about the cost of fuel within the whole U.S. economy is the reliance of the nation upon it, and what tax money on fuel is done to discover a way to eliminate fossil fuel from use a the essential energy for domestic transportation because of the high external costs needed to secure supply from dangerous world locations such as Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Nigeria. The present presidential candidates for the democratic party seem to have failed to comprehend the facts about oil supply, or at least B. Hussein Obama has failed to comprehend the relationship of American involvement in Iraq to oil supply, and how the war tax is in effect a necessary tax upon gasoline to secure supply. Thus I will write more about the problem of Senator Obama and the immediate candidacy against Hillary Clinton, because the outcome of that race will determine the price of gasoline for years to come. Obama is the way to high gas prices, national economic disaster and high gasoline taxes, while Senator Clinton is more competent regarding the realities of oil.
Bomber's Butches are beating Hillary's April primary campaign with a vengeance, and a purpose. Obama's non-sense about U.S. Iraq and oil policy doesn't get through to his step up to the urinal supporters from Vermont and Massachusetts that simply prefer to suck up to Obama instead of Hillary in the White House, so I will clarify some of the disingenuous facts about U.S. oil policy and Iraq.
First; democratic policy regarding Iraq since the sanctions were set upon it following the first Gulf War were cowardly. The Democrats never had the guts to face up to the real oil and political facts of life. When their narcissistic naked butts are in the field they are sure the kindness of strangers will bring Utopia rather than a bullet in the head; they can block out the undesirable realities of the democide that enabled during the sanctions by Saddam Hussein on innocent women and children. So long as democrats could drive SUV's and buy oil for a buck and a quarter a gallon dead women and children in Iraq caused by U.N. sanctions was hunkie dorrie. Obama has the same sort of false consciousness in his deleteriously inane ideas about Iraq policy potential the next couple of years.
Cold, naked facts are that people will take what you have even when you are homeless and without hope. B. Hussein Obama's planks do not offer hope-they deny hope of real progress on alternate energy policy. Energy independence for the United States must occur before reliance upon global oil is broken. Rational political plans to accomplish that need to develop before a new President takes office. Maybe McCain could get such legislation through congress if he choose, yet that's doubtful as the most powerful corporations in the world are largely run by board members with oil company board connections.
Americans have allowed themselves to become totally dependent upon oil and gas for transportation and have sold out their inheritance in the process. Life is easier going downhill until one hits the bottom. The Persian and Iranian Gulf States produce much of the world's oil and have been strategic U.S. interests since the Carter administration-in all that time nothing has changed and it will not in the next five years. Dhahran and Bahrain are still vital oil sources. Sea Island Terminal at Ras Tannurah and Ra's al Ju'aymah (LPG) are still Arabian fossil fuel points, and Iraq has underground potentials capable of keep fossil fuel production costs and sales quantities within reason the next decade or two, until global corporations have thoroughly conquered the U.S. political scene and subverted every aspect of U.S. national energy independence.
Most Americans aren't that bright, in some ways people are like ignorant neanderthals simply seeking to ride the wave of whatever social-economic facts exists without inventing for themselves. I have no problem with everyone having a right to exist without being a genius, yet the naked brutes have no reluctance to make slaves out of everyone-they are checked simply by a balance of forces that may be subtly shifted by corrupt power. I mention this fact simply to reiterate the point that U.S. politics isn't dominated by careful political reasoning but instead by choices of concatenated personal selfishness without political philosophy at all. A majority will support anything amorally that would advantage themselves and their family interests.
Iraq cannot be abandoned within 18 months. Anarchy or terrorism cannot be allowed to return to murder women and children, disrupt Iraqi oil production and create instability in the middle east greater than it presently is. The Iraqi government and it's oil fields must be defended until they are safe. The Persian Gulf is a strategic U.S. national interest and simultaneously a costly involvement that can be keep at arms length only through a progressive movement toward national personal energy independence with as much electricity generated at homes and businesses as possible. Obama's notion that the Iranians. al Qa'eda, the Saudi royal family and its army, the Syrians, Turks and others will spontaneously help Iraq to govern itself peaceably if the U.S. unilaterally withdraws is the most substantial idiocy imaginable in the realm of likely political resolutions of a policy scenario. Chaos would be likely to follow a unilateral U.S. withdrawal and fueld prices might increase to 1000 dollara a barrel of oil if the Saudi fields are set aflame. Al Qa'eda might like to cut off oil supplies from the middle east to the U.S.A. and Europe in order to strengthen Muslim fundamentalist revolution against western Vermontian depravity.
Some people believe the Democratic Party sucks yet still believe that Barrack's butches from the North Eastern United States seek to paradoxically repudiate the last democratic administration to rule the White House and that brought the Lewinsky infamy and the concept of volunteer female student intern mouthpiece training under lawyers to the public attention. A repudiation of the last Clinton administration by democratic supporters and voters for Obama is difficult for Obama to articulate in the Pennsylvania primary. After all why, when the nation ran an incredible budget surplus by the end of the second term of the Clinton's should the unfortunate efforts to gay up the military, socialize national health care and war upon Serbians be renounced as well-when they are probably all Obama planks this time too. Perhaps the only thing the Obama could accomplish as well as Bill Clinton in the oval office would be to review the female (or male perhaps with the Gerry Studds/Tedd Kennedy/Howard Dean democratic plank in his corner) student interns for training below a lawyer.
There may be 20 billion Internet websites and this is just one of them. All people have a right to express their own opinion for others to read if they choose. This isn't a corporate broadcast forced by one of a few channels to millions of ears and minds of illiterate or comic book level literate followers. I think it would be a good idea, even if I only have a few readers and sell just a rare book now and then, for ballots in the future to have a 'none of the above' square for voters to mark in case there just isn't a reasonable choice for President in some particular election. U.S. voters shouldn't be compelled to appear to agree that their is a real choice when there isn't-dissent should be tallied too, so the public can now that those globalist seeking to starve them out of cabin and cut off their electricity and dis-empower their notebook computer, enslave them with a hag or feminize them with a zillion regulations don't really represent public interests, and one's own.
Bomber's Butches are beating Hillary's April primary campaign with a vengeance, and a purpose. Obama's non-sense about U.S. Iraq and oil policy doesn't get through to his step up to the urinal supporters from Vermont and Massachusetts that simply prefer to suck up to Obama instead of Hillary in the White House, so I will clarify some of the disingenuous facts about U.S. oil policy and Iraq.
First; democratic policy regarding Iraq since the sanctions were set upon it following the first Gulf War were cowardly. The Democrats never had the guts to face up to the real oil and political facts of life. When their narcissistic naked butts are in the field they are sure the kindness of strangers will bring Utopia rather than a bullet in the head; they can block out the undesirable realities of the democide that enabled during the sanctions by Saddam Hussein on innocent women and children. So long as democrats could drive SUV's and buy oil for a buck and a quarter a gallon dead women and children in Iraq caused by U.N. sanctions was hunkie dorrie. Obama has the same sort of false consciousness in his deleteriously inane ideas about Iraq policy potential the next couple of years.
Cold, naked facts are that people will take what you have even when you are homeless and without hope. B. Hussein Obama's planks do not offer hope-they deny hope of real progress on alternate energy policy. Energy independence for the United States must occur before reliance upon global oil is broken. Rational political plans to accomplish that need to develop before a new President takes office. Maybe McCain could get such legislation through congress if he choose, yet that's doubtful as the most powerful corporations in the world are largely run by board members with oil company board connections.
Americans have allowed themselves to become totally dependent upon oil and gas for transportation and have sold out their inheritance in the process. Life is easier going downhill until one hits the bottom. The Persian and Iranian Gulf States produce much of the world's oil and have been strategic U.S. interests since the Carter administration-in all that time nothing has changed and it will not in the next five years. Dhahran and Bahrain are still vital oil sources. Sea Island Terminal at Ras Tannurah and Ra's al Ju'aymah (LPG) are still Arabian fossil fuel points, and Iraq has underground potentials capable of keep fossil fuel production costs and sales quantities within reason the next decade or two, until global corporations have thoroughly conquered the U.S. political scene and subverted every aspect of U.S. national energy independence.
Most Americans aren't that bright, in some ways people are like ignorant neanderthals simply seeking to ride the wave of whatever social-economic facts exists without inventing for themselves. I have no problem with everyone having a right to exist without being a genius, yet the naked brutes have no reluctance to make slaves out of everyone-they are checked simply by a balance of forces that may be subtly shifted by corrupt power. I mention this fact simply to reiterate the point that U.S. politics isn't dominated by careful political reasoning but instead by choices of concatenated personal selfishness without political philosophy at all. A majority will support anything amorally that would advantage themselves and their family interests.
Iraq cannot be abandoned within 18 months. Anarchy or terrorism cannot be allowed to return to murder women and children, disrupt Iraqi oil production and create instability in the middle east greater than it presently is. The Iraqi government and it's oil fields must be defended until they are safe. The Persian Gulf is a strategic U.S. national interest and simultaneously a costly involvement that can be keep at arms length only through a progressive movement toward national personal energy independence with as much electricity generated at homes and businesses as possible. Obama's notion that the Iranians. al Qa'eda, the Saudi royal family and its army, the Syrians, Turks and others will spontaneously help Iraq to govern itself peaceably if the U.S. unilaterally withdraws is the most substantial idiocy imaginable in the realm of likely political resolutions of a policy scenario. Chaos would be likely to follow a unilateral U.S. withdrawal and fueld prices might increase to 1000 dollara a barrel of oil if the Saudi fields are set aflame. Al Qa'eda might like to cut off oil supplies from the middle east to the U.S.A. and Europe in order to strengthen Muslim fundamentalist revolution against western Vermontian depravity.
Some people believe the Democratic Party sucks yet still believe that Barrack's butches from the North Eastern United States seek to paradoxically repudiate the last democratic administration to rule the White House and that brought the Lewinsky infamy and the concept of volunteer female student intern mouthpiece training under lawyers to the public attention. A repudiation of the last Clinton administration by democratic supporters and voters for Obama is difficult for Obama to articulate in the Pennsylvania primary. After all why, when the nation ran an incredible budget surplus by the end of the second term of the Clinton's should the unfortunate efforts to gay up the military, socialize national health care and war upon Serbians be renounced as well-when they are probably all Obama planks this time too. Perhaps the only thing the Obama could accomplish as well as Bill Clinton in the oval office would be to review the female (or male perhaps with the Gerry Studds/Tedd Kennedy/Howard Dean democratic plank in his corner) student interns for training below a lawyer.
There may be 20 billion Internet websites and this is just one of them. All people have a right to express their own opinion for others to read if they choose. This isn't a corporate broadcast forced by one of a few channels to millions of ears and minds of illiterate or comic book level literate followers. I think it would be a good idea, even if I only have a few readers and sell just a rare book now and then, for ballots in the future to have a 'none of the above' square for voters to mark in case there just isn't a reasonable choice for President in some particular election. U.S. voters shouldn't be compelled to appear to agree that their is a real choice when there isn't-dissent should be tallied too, so the public can now that those globalist seeking to starve them out of cabin and cut off their electricity and dis-empower their notebook computer, enslave them with a hag or feminize them with a zillion regulations don't really represent public interests, and one's own.
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