Reading the back of the 1040 Instruction booklet this year I again encountered the face of a missing girl with another photo of what she would look like at age 21. I wondered what the statistics are on children missing more than a year or two in the United States-how many are there? Is the total thousands?" Are there hundreds of buried missing children out there in drive through America?
With such thoughts I considered remedies of a uniform and effective nature. Of course civil liberities and curtailing pollution, global warming and the importation of fossil fuels to the United States are also concerns. The problems of children being snagged from locations where they congregate by adults in automobiles requires a little analysis to develop acceptable remedies that would increase security.
So the obvious innovation at present would be to have all automobiles broadcast short range wifi signals identifying the vehicle owner and possibly the driver too. Any cars approaching a school, park or mall where children might school up and potentially be snagged could also have motion sensors and receivers identifying each vehicle that approaches sensitive locations.
Obviously there are myriad variations including password encrypted and gated school entrances and so forth as forms of transmit and receive to identify or admit vehicles to or through sensitive locations. This is probably an underutilized technological remedy with innumerable application not only with the protection of minors but also with the protection of sensitive urban areas potentially targeted by foreign and domestic terrorists.
Some of these could be voluntary systems such as at private schools for pick up and drop off vehicle identification. Another use could be in scheduling and in the future controling private electric vehicle traffic in suburban-urban commute lanes and one day for recharging electric vehicles from in-highway public power lines.
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11/2/10
Multiverse Theory and A Prioricity
This comment on a few aspects of multiverse theory and its epistemological criterion as a priori thought isn’t intended to seem technically rigorous. It is a few ideas I post here as notes.
Considering Kripke’s ‘Naming and Necessity written in 1973 and its salient comments upon a prioricity and necessary truths in reference to modal logical representations and all possible worlds paradigms of testing for validity one has the opportunity to plug in some of Kripke’s ideas and those of Quine to the paradigm of constructions of super-string theory, M-Theory and of all possible universes.
‘Naming and Necessity’ continued the analytic philosophical consideration of the meaning of names phenomenally. Kripke of course also considers various mathematical examples shedding light upon the problem of Kantian philosophical epistemology in regard to analytic and necessary truths. Quine also worked in the philosophical area of exposition of the phenomenal meaning of names within a language and for-themselves. Kripke points out a paper by Searle on names as a family of references. I think that might be regarding names as an address reference of meaning within a given lexicon.
Names and the meaning of a particular name are/is a kind of address or lexical location or description that differs for oneself and for-others. While there may be several people named Gary Gibson, there is only one other known to me who is a writer of science fiction, so Gary Gibson as a reference to find me with an Internet search turns up the other Gary Gibson as he is a more prolific writer, and of a more literary disposition. I thus differentiate myself on Internet and other reference categories with the use of middle initial ‘C.’ to provide additional clarification of the proper address reference. There are dozens of Gary Gibson provided with Internet searches, and more specific address criteria might be needed to provided reference individuation.
Names may be taken as descriptions of reference objects in space-time with temporal variability and relativity. For some reason mathematical and geometrical thought-objects and processes of a temporal character with change and series or progressions as aspects of their status as objects named that can be regarded as a priori truths, or constructions of an imaginary character existing at least once that have internal construction characteristics that are compressible and repeatable or extendible, in theory, in a postulated manner necessarily on each occasion per iteration ad infinitum, are given a status of a prioricity truth of a different nature than a posteriori truths. Analytic truths seem to be of a more tautological construction given that the terms are defined within a lexicon relevant to one world. All possible worlds paradigms for testing the necessity of truths seem to be improbable if a theory of names is founded as a description of a kind.
Names as descriptions would seem logically to have validity with synthetic a priori judgments or the a posteriori rather than in extending a priori truths into the realm of the empirical world. We are interested in the topic because of the pursuit of truth in cosmological physical theory.
A posteriori truths might be useful references to the motions of the planets around the sun within Newtonian, Einsteinean or MOG theory criteria. A priori truths or mathematical motion and quantum models of hypothetical space-time, Hilbert space or Tegmarkian all possible universes derivatives etc. are phenomenal descriptions regarded as true so much as they effectively coincide in various ways with testing and predictions. If we were ancient mariners sailing with a navigator relying on dead reckoning of tides and judgment of colors of the sea and sky for course corrections we would not expect perfect accuracy in prediction of current flows and weather, neither do we expect our theory of the construction of the universe or of all possible universe to be flawless. Instead we recognize that the names and constructions of models and facts are something like the most reliable descriptions we can provide of experience and mechanics regarding a given phenomena that might be improved with deeper and different analysis.
What of the relationship of a priori truths constructed or revealed to the mind, and all possible universes of math or logical theory regarding necessity, and the [potential reality of an infinite number of universes?
Kripke point out that an infinite mind might be able to test and prove or disprove the truth of particular mathematical conjectures; we would expect that an infinite mind could as well prove or disprove the existence of an infinite number of universes.
The relationship between a prior constructions that represent algorithms or mathematical compressibility of mathematical descriptions of a universe and its history, present and future evolutions, and the actual universe must seemingly be a necessary relationship of subjective epistemology and a priori thought that is in practice converted through association with observation into the synthetic a priori. Perhaps when speculative ideas are tested with real world observations the kind of truth constructed is that of analytic judgments and description-meaning sets combined with experience to render a posteriori truths.
It is notable that all of these a priori truths combined in some way with experience yield truths contingent upon no further and transforming physical observations that would conflict with the criterion of application. Ongoing cosmological theories with a large portion of a priori theory such as a multiverse or infinite number of universes in time, space, sequence and so forth are descriptions with a meaning perhaps existentially a priori falsifiable through a posteriori judgments.
Well, this perhaps thoroughly muddies up the clarity of the relationship of a prioricity, infinite series and universes of model logic to that of cosmological theory models of the multiverse from an epistemological perspective, as well as that of the actual existence or non-existence of a multiverse; I did say though, that it is just a note on the subject.
Considering Kripke’s ‘Naming and Necessity written in 1973 and its salient comments upon a prioricity and necessary truths in reference to modal logical representations and all possible worlds paradigms of testing for validity one has the opportunity to plug in some of Kripke’s ideas and those of Quine to the paradigm of constructions of super-string theory, M-Theory and of all possible universes.
‘Naming and Necessity’ continued the analytic philosophical consideration of the meaning of names phenomenally. Kripke of course also considers various mathematical examples shedding light upon the problem of Kantian philosophical epistemology in regard to analytic and necessary truths. Quine also worked in the philosophical area of exposition of the phenomenal meaning of names within a language and for-themselves. Kripke points out a paper by Searle on names as a family of references. I think that might be regarding names as an address reference of meaning within a given lexicon.
Names and the meaning of a particular name are/is a kind of address or lexical location or description that differs for oneself and for-others. While there may be several people named Gary Gibson, there is only one other known to me who is a writer of science fiction, so Gary Gibson as a reference to find me with an Internet search turns up the other Gary Gibson as he is a more prolific writer, and of a more literary disposition. I thus differentiate myself on Internet and other reference categories with the use of middle initial ‘C.’ to provide additional clarification of the proper address reference. There are dozens of Gary Gibson provided with Internet searches, and more specific address criteria might be needed to provided reference individuation.
Names may be taken as descriptions of reference objects in space-time with temporal variability and relativity. For some reason mathematical and geometrical thought-objects and processes of a temporal character with change and series or progressions as aspects of their status as objects named that can be regarded as a priori truths, or constructions of an imaginary character existing at least once that have internal construction characteristics that are compressible and repeatable or extendible, in theory, in a postulated manner necessarily on each occasion per iteration ad infinitum, are given a status of a prioricity truth of a different nature than a posteriori truths. Analytic truths seem to be of a more tautological construction given that the terms are defined within a lexicon relevant to one world. All possible worlds paradigms for testing the necessity of truths seem to be improbable if a theory of names is founded as a description of a kind.
Names as descriptions would seem logically to have validity with synthetic a priori judgments or the a posteriori rather than in extending a priori truths into the realm of the empirical world. We are interested in the topic because of the pursuit of truth in cosmological physical theory.
A posteriori truths might be useful references to the motions of the planets around the sun within Newtonian, Einsteinean or MOG theory criteria. A priori truths or mathematical motion and quantum models of hypothetical space-time, Hilbert space or Tegmarkian all possible universes derivatives etc. are phenomenal descriptions regarded as true so much as they effectively coincide in various ways with testing and predictions. If we were ancient mariners sailing with a navigator relying on dead reckoning of tides and judgment of colors of the sea and sky for course corrections we would not expect perfect accuracy in prediction of current flows and weather, neither do we expect our theory of the construction of the universe or of all possible universe to be flawless. Instead we recognize that the names and constructions of models and facts are something like the most reliable descriptions we can provide of experience and mechanics regarding a given phenomena that might be improved with deeper and different analysis.
What of the relationship of a priori truths constructed or revealed to the mind, and all possible universes of math or logical theory regarding necessity, and the [potential reality of an infinite number of universes?
Kripke point out that an infinite mind might be able to test and prove or disprove the truth of particular mathematical conjectures; we would expect that an infinite mind could as well prove or disprove the existence of an infinite number of universes.
The relationship between a prior constructions that represent algorithms or mathematical compressibility of mathematical descriptions of a universe and its history, present and future evolutions, and the actual universe must seemingly be a necessary relationship of subjective epistemology and a priori thought that is in practice converted through association with observation into the synthetic a priori. Perhaps when speculative ideas are tested with real world observations the kind of truth constructed is that of analytic judgments and description-meaning sets combined with experience to render a posteriori truths.
It is notable that all of these a priori truths combined in some way with experience yield truths contingent upon no further and transforming physical observations that would conflict with the criterion of application. Ongoing cosmological theories with a large portion of a priori theory such as a multiverse or infinite number of universes in time, space, sequence and so forth are descriptions with a meaning perhaps existentially a priori falsifiable through a posteriori judgments.
Well, this perhaps thoroughly muddies up the clarity of the relationship of a prioricity, infinite series and universes of model logic to that of cosmological theory models of the multiverse from an epistemological perspective, as well as that of the actual existence or non-existence of a multiverse; I did say though, that it is just a note on the subject.
10/29/10
Fox News Tech Report on '100 Year Starship'
America's personed space program is in a solipsistic yin entanglement not getting anywhere solid such as the moon or Mars. Fox News has a story on the secret D.A.R.P.A.-N.A.S.A. program to send and maroon astronauts on a 100 year mission to Mars--also known as the 'fire and forget strategy'.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/29/nasa-cover-up-hundred-year-starship/print
The wright way to go about solar system colonization would be to create an ecological economic low entropy economy in the U.S.A. for a good example to other nations, build a moon research colony and electromagnetic mass driver for launching things from the moon, send a fleet off automatic spaceship cycling between Earth and Mars (as Buzz Aldrin suggested), and keep fabbing things on the moon to launch at low cost to mars for automatic caching of materials to work with.
Martian colonization would be a research base rather than a political entity like a colony, and zero population growth on Earth and elsewhere should keep the entire solar system population to just 9 billion intelligent, well educated and high tech, spiritual souls that respect liberty. The moon needs only a few thousand to build machines and super-conducting electrical facilities around the lunar surface, and mars should just be a terraforming project above and below ground with people working on that a long time. Humanity needs to learn to become ecotopia engineers occupationally as much as being warriors, blowing things up and waging economic war with senseless abandon.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/29/nasa-cover-up-hundred-year-starship/print
The wright way to go about solar system colonization would be to create an ecological economic low entropy economy in the U.S.A. for a good example to other nations, build a moon research colony and electromagnetic mass driver for launching things from the moon, send a fleet off automatic spaceship cycling between Earth and Mars (as Buzz Aldrin suggested), and keep fabbing things on the moon to launch at low cost to mars for automatic caching of materials to work with.
Martian colonization would be a research base rather than a political entity like a colony, and zero population growth on Earth and elsewhere should keep the entire solar system population to just 9 billion intelligent, well educated and high tech, spiritual souls that respect liberty. The moon needs only a few thousand to build machines and super-conducting electrical facilities around the lunar surface, and mars should just be a terraforming project above and below ground with people working on that a long time. Humanity needs to learn to become ecotopia engineers occupationally as much as being warriors, blowing things up and waging economic war with senseless abandon.
Social Determinism Because of The Intellectual Laziness of the Wealthy and Middle Class
Reading further in Van Creeveld's 'The Culture of War' I have found interesting concepts about the sociology of societies and their war cultures in regard to 'men without chests' and feminism. These are concepts that fit rather well with Toybean analysis of the evolution of societies and civilizations through various stages. It is not a subject that provides much optimism as humanity moves through deterministic social configurations and relationships rather like the seasonal leaves upon trees.
The economic aspects of war were not especially a subject of Van Creeveld's cultural research. I regard the evolution of contemporary economics from the classical foundation as something like that of the evolution of the culture of war as it attacks natural resources, consumes and depletes them looking abroad for more to input. The culture of war is largely a gender motivated phenomenon, and in its collapse such that no culture of war functions effectively the social environment is overrun by those that do.
The challenges to whatever elements of society are interested in creating a stable, zero-population growth with full employment and high quality of life lay within very a deep social complex of gender relationships, greed, generational hubris and ignorance and economic reasoning of no more sophistication than that of war and the joy of making a killing while survivingng the direct threat to one's own existence.
The United States could have just sealed the Mexican border to illegal immigration and help reconstruct Mexico simultaneously in order that they should ave no reason to send migrants north to the drug addled land of '4-Loco' where they can take over gradually from those with a weak grip on nationhood. The greed of globalists and resistance to ecological economics will in time collapse the United States into a warpath interregnum zone of contention perhaps suitable to a cultre of war in recovery from an era of 'men without chests' and feminism that has transformed the wine into vinegar. Cheap labor and fecundity to expand dumb economic growth of resource consumption is the devil in the details retarding intelligent economic redesign.
The plain biological facts of sociological existence does not confer person-hood upon soldiers or civilians as abstract units of pure equality, and neither does it provide a benificient and wise government,corporate leadership or hierarchical priesthood fundamentally interested in more than their own narrow economic self-interest. In order to create a strongly renewable, high-quality social environment with social equality for all citizens the solutions to the many political challenges would require that all understand the objective environmental facts of being and seek the well being of thy brother and sister as well as thyself. The Lord Jesus could accomplish such a mission, one has little reason to expect much from the animals of economics and war that flourish in the prosperous societies as well as the poor.
Gender aspects of biological alteration have even speculated on removing and freezing ovaries in young women for re-implantation later so they are are more fertile in older age after piling up money and career power. Reading 'The Culture of War' by Van Creeveld a chapter on feminism and the biological gender facts about war and population relates several facts such as why men are comparatively disposable and women so highly valued. An ovary freezing program could change that enabling women after freezing ovaries to be disposable warriors too. Van Creeveld noted that women have thinner skulls, less bone mass, less muscle and body size and are otherwise unsuitable compared to men for being clubbed and beaten in combat. Maybe Dr. Frankenstein could give steroids and genetic re-engineering to enhance female workforce survivability outside the financial and government services sectors.
Seriously though, I am skeptical about the political value of deferring reproduction through artificial means while importing illegal aliens to provide population increase. I think it is a sophistication that is disingenuous, although maybe freezing embryos could be an option to abortion as technology advances.
I will not make any jokes about freezing balls off in Alaska.
It is not enough to just mean well, posture toward pacifism or select paper instead of plastic in order to change society and enhance the prospects for species diversity and survival of pollution. To design an intelligent society in which all of humanity may dwell safely and prosperously for a time the real social dynamics of change biologically should be understood well enough to moderate the flow and direct it politically to an advantageous position. That is an extremely challenging venture most would be defeatists on if they even though about the challenges critically.
The economic aspects of war were not especially a subject of Van Creeveld's cultural research. I regard the evolution of contemporary economics from the classical foundation as something like that of the evolution of the culture of war as it attacks natural resources, consumes and depletes them looking abroad for more to input. The culture of war is largely a gender motivated phenomenon, and in its collapse such that no culture of war functions effectively the social environment is overrun by those that do.
The challenges to whatever elements of society are interested in creating a stable, zero-population growth with full employment and high quality of life lay within very a deep social complex of gender relationships, greed, generational hubris and ignorance and economic reasoning of no more sophistication than that of war and the joy of making a killing while survivingng the direct threat to one's own existence.
The United States could have just sealed the Mexican border to illegal immigration and help reconstruct Mexico simultaneously in order that they should ave no reason to send migrants north to the drug addled land of '4-Loco' where they can take over gradually from those with a weak grip on nationhood. The greed of globalists and resistance to ecological economics will in time collapse the United States into a warpath interregnum zone of contention perhaps suitable to a cultre of war in recovery from an era of 'men without chests' and feminism that has transformed the wine into vinegar. Cheap labor and fecundity to expand dumb economic growth of resource consumption is the devil in the details retarding intelligent economic redesign.
The plain biological facts of sociological existence does not confer person-hood upon soldiers or civilians as abstract units of pure equality, and neither does it provide a benificient and wise government,corporate leadership or hierarchical priesthood fundamentally interested in more than their own narrow economic self-interest. In order to create a strongly renewable, high-quality social environment with social equality for all citizens the solutions to the many political challenges would require that all understand the objective environmental facts of being and seek the well being of thy brother and sister as well as thyself. The Lord Jesus could accomplish such a mission, one has little reason to expect much from the animals of economics and war that flourish in the prosperous societies as well as the poor.
Gender aspects of biological alteration have even speculated on removing and freezing ovaries in young women for re-implantation later so they are are more fertile in older age after piling up money and career power. Reading 'The Culture of War' by Van Creeveld a chapter on feminism and the biological gender facts about war and population relates several facts such as why men are comparatively disposable and women so highly valued. An ovary freezing program could change that enabling women after freezing ovaries to be disposable warriors too. Van Creeveld noted that women have thinner skulls, less bone mass, less muscle and body size and are otherwise unsuitable compared to men for being clubbed and beaten in combat. Maybe Dr. Frankenstein could give steroids and genetic re-engineering to enhance female workforce survivability outside the financial and government services sectors.
Seriously though, I am skeptical about the political value of deferring reproduction through artificial means while importing illegal aliens to provide population increase. I think it is a sophistication that is disingenuous, although maybe freezing embryos could be an option to abortion as technology advances.
I will not make any jokes about freezing balls off in Alaska.
It is not enough to just mean well, posture toward pacifism or select paper instead of plastic in order to change society and enhance the prospects for species diversity and survival of pollution. To design an intelligent society in which all of humanity may dwell safely and prosperously for a time the real social dynamics of change biologically should be understood well enough to moderate the flow and direct it politically to an advantageous position. That is an extremely challenging venture most would be defeatists on if they even though about the challenges critically.
Some Reasons Why Globalism May Be Evil to National Interests
Globalization as a political phenomenon, wrote the historian Arnold Toynbee, is a universal phase of a civilization-it is the nova of a star at the end of its cycle of history. A wise national leadership would not over-extend its border security rationality, its economic resources and need for more consumption and power without much personal labor and just go global.
There are innumerable ways to view environmental and existential political expansion and absorption of smaller nations into larger glomming powers and principalities. Many of those are dystopian paradigms.
Ghengis Khan was a globalist as was Adolph Hitler, Imperialist powers of a global nature from Ancient Rome to the Assyrians and the British Empire would stop when they were stopped. That phenomenon exists with Wall-Street global financial powers as well. Sometimes imperialistic they have eliminated the protections of Glass-Steagle and made home mortgages tradable commodities for global rulers.
Concentrating wealth has a small worlds networks criteria of advantage of preferred locations enabling everyone to drop their dime in the Wall Street outlets instead of their won business or that of a neighbor. Globalists may unite with the state and become a corporatist entity such as Mussolini designed not much different from a global socialist totalitarian rein of repression of individualism. Certainly America will not retreat from modern global communications, yet neigther should it retreat from a stalwart nationalism conserving the proprietary interests of the citizens that already are Americans.
One need not be frightened of globalism and its political spin each day as megalomaniacs seek to buy up everything and put on the imperial purple or download human freedom into a totalitarian box with diminishing over-used natural resources as drone workers.
History has many lessons for Americans, yet the practical freedom and liberty of individuals in relation to government powers meant to serve rather than oppress is fundamental.
There are innumerable ways to view environmental and existential political expansion and absorption of smaller nations into larger glomming powers and principalities. Many of those are dystopian paradigms.
Ghengis Khan was a globalist as was Adolph Hitler, Imperialist powers of a global nature from Ancient Rome to the Assyrians and the British Empire would stop when they were stopped. That phenomenon exists with Wall-Street global financial powers as well. Sometimes imperialistic they have eliminated the protections of Glass-Steagle and made home mortgages tradable commodities for global rulers.
Concentrating wealth has a small worlds networks criteria of advantage of preferred locations enabling everyone to drop their dime in the Wall Street outlets instead of their won business or that of a neighbor. Globalists may unite with the state and become a corporatist entity such as Mussolini designed not much different from a global socialist totalitarian rein of repression of individualism. Certainly America will not retreat from modern global communications, yet neigther should it retreat from a stalwart nationalism conserving the proprietary interests of the citizens that already are Americans.
One need not be frightened of globalism and its political spin each day as megalomaniacs seek to buy up everything and put on the imperial purple or download human freedom into a totalitarian box with diminishing over-used natural resources as drone workers.
History has many lessons for Americans, yet the practical freedom and liberty of individuals in relation to government powers meant to serve rather than oppress is fundamental.
10/28/10
Charybdis & Scylla-The 2010 Election Choice for More Public Debt
The logic is somewhat mysterious to me. The President plans to add a trillion dollars of debt each year if he is reelected in 2012 from the present. That would make a total public debt of 20 trillion dollars. Why does such economic planning appeal to youth?
Eventually those trillions add up to become real money. If deflation were to occur for some reason that could seem like a zillion dollar debt (isn't that the next level up from trillion?).
Us classical liberals of the George Washington-Thomas Jefferson ilk got off the Democratic fag-n-feminism bandwagon some time ago, and jetisoned the usurpation of liberalism by socialism long before from the conestoga of progress. Well, that leaves what, Republicans to vote from?
Globalism versus perversion and socialism, Cherybdis and Scyllla--these are the American political parties against environmental reason, national security, full employment and no public debt for all Americans. While God is alive, politics is dead except for the corporate carrion buzzards picking over the garbage of classical economics.
Eventually those trillions add up to become real money. If deflation were to occur for some reason that could seem like a zillion dollar debt (isn't that the next level up from trillion?).
Us classical liberals of the George Washington-Thomas Jefferson ilk got off the Democratic fag-n-feminism bandwagon some time ago, and jetisoned the usurpation of liberalism by socialism long before from the conestoga of progress. Well, that leaves what, Republicans to vote from?
Globalism versus perversion and socialism, Cherybdis and Scyllla--these are the American political parties against environmental reason, national security, full employment and no public debt for all Americans. While God is alive, politics is dead except for the corporate carrion buzzards picking over the garbage of classical economics.
10/27/10
Post-Modern Philosopher of Pragmatism (Deflated) Obama/On Prof. Kloppenberg's Book
The New York Times has helpfully provided us an insight into the mind of the President, or at least his intellectual history as perceived by a Harvard historian Mr. James T. Kloppenberg. Professor Kloppenberg has invested a substantial amount of time in discovery of the philosophical influence that shaped the Mr. Obama's personal philosophical outlook although one might cringe at the idea of an historian extracting philosophical influences from the Jakarta to Cambridge via Hawaii history of the President. Kloppenberg believes Obama is a deflated philosopher of pragmatism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/books/28klopp.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
It is helpful to know that rare academic speculative intellectuals such as Max Weber and Fredrich Neitzsche shaped the ideas of the President as well as Chicago anarchists and Weather Underground bombers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced 'purse'), William James and the post modernist philosophical pragmatist linguistic wise-guy John Dewey are mentioned in the review of Kloppenberg's speech at The City University of New York's Graduate Center as influences in the intellectual portrait of the President as a young man.
We are not convinced that there is much intellectual content in the list of individuals cited as providing philosophical manure relevant for management of national interests today. The growth of the Presidential critical theory of pragmatic post-modernist anomie, chaos and detachment from historical insight for philosophical purposes appears a limited philosophical selection . If the President did not read Wolfe's Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers perhaps he read the works of Joseph Kenyatta and a life of Muhammad as well as the transcendentalists. Maybe he never watched television.
A simple Quinian post-modernist presentation of ontological relativity and philosophy of logic would suffice to persuade us that a President has a competence in language and logic, yet knowledge of human history and of real interests may not be as readily compressed to a theoretical formula and reduced to meaningless political subjectivity. That sort of pragmatism creates an ineffective bureaucratic net loss budgeting deleterious to the environment, sovereignty, social welfare and security lacking in reformative vigor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/books/28klopp.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
It is helpful to know that rare academic speculative intellectuals such as Max Weber and Fredrich Neitzsche shaped the ideas of the President as well as Chicago anarchists and Weather Underground bombers. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sanders Peirce (pronounced 'purse'), William James and the post modernist philosophical pragmatist linguistic wise-guy John Dewey are mentioned in the review of Kloppenberg's speech at The City University of New York's Graduate Center as influences in the intellectual portrait of the President as a young man.
We are not convinced that there is much intellectual content in the list of individuals cited as providing philosophical manure relevant for management of national interests today. The growth of the Presidential critical theory of pragmatic post-modernist anomie, chaos and detachment from historical insight for philosophical purposes appears a limited philosophical selection . If the President did not read Wolfe's Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers perhaps he read the works of Joseph Kenyatta and a life of Muhammad as well as the transcendentalists. Maybe he never watched television.
A simple Quinian post-modernist presentation of ontological relativity and philosophy of logic would suffice to persuade us that a President has a competence in language and logic, yet knowledge of human history and of real interests may not be as readily compressed to a theoretical formula and reduced to meaningless political subjectivity. That sort of pragmatism creates an ineffective bureaucratic net loss budgeting deleterious to the environment, sovereignty, social welfare and security lacking in reformative vigor.
10/26/10
Eleventh Death of Homeless Person from Cold Weather of 2010 In Anchorage
The first person of the 2010-11 cold weather season, and 11th death of 2010 occurred in Anchorage a couple of nights ago. Alice Stewart passed away sleeping outside in a field off a busy street in Anchorage.
In the afternoons the temperature has tended to be a warm 40 degrees recently, while overnight the temperature may drop to the low 30's and even the 20's. If using alcohol it is easy not to awaken from the dangerous cold.
While one may cite individual problems for the exposure to cold weather death or injury, it is true that if the victims had their own housing they would have been unlikely to place themselves in a dangerous outdoor circumstance.
When I read of these matters I cannot help consider how the entire U.S. housing and economic structure isn't very well designed for sustainability or access to quality low cost housing. Neither would many homeless individuals have access to affordable transportation when necessary to travel the miles across the dangerously cold city of Anchorage to a free emergency weather shelter.
Concentrating the homeless is an especially bad idea because it dramatically increases the intra-social negative elements and exposure to crime, drugs and alcohol. In some alternative reality there may be an intelligent and efficient society concerned with including rather than excluding as well as defending individual human rights from government and social predators.
http://www.adn.com/2010/10/23/1515779/woman-found-dead-off-benson-blvd.html
In the afternoons the temperature has tended to be a warm 40 degrees recently, while overnight the temperature may drop to the low 30's and even the 20's. If using alcohol it is easy not to awaken from the dangerous cold.
While one may cite individual problems for the exposure to cold weather death or injury, it is true that if the victims had their own housing they would have been unlikely to place themselves in a dangerous outdoor circumstance.
When I read of these matters I cannot help consider how the entire U.S. housing and economic structure isn't very well designed for sustainability or access to quality low cost housing. Neither would many homeless individuals have access to affordable transportation when necessary to travel the miles across the dangerously cold city of Anchorage to a free emergency weather shelter.
Concentrating the homeless is an especially bad idea because it dramatically increases the intra-social negative elements and exposure to crime, drugs and alcohol. In some alternative reality there may be an intelligent and efficient society concerned with including rather than excluding as well as defending individual human rights from government and social predators.
http://www.adn.com/2010/10/23/1515779/woman-found-dead-off-benson-blvd.html
Will Lisa Murkowski Emasculate The Alaska Republican Party Nov. 2nd?
Lisa Murkowski formerly a Republican of Alaska is poised to snip the political effectiveness of the Alaska Republican Party in the bud at least for a while if she can accomplish an orchiotomy upon its ability to get a the legitimate Republican candidate-Joe Miller, elected.
Murkowski according to polls is drawing female voters away from both major parties to join her neo-independent campaign for the U.S. Senate. A Republican formerly since being appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father the Governor of Alaska former U.S.Senator Frank Murkowski, Lisa switched allegiance and became a rogue elephant following her loss in the Republican primary election to bronze star winner and Economics M.A. from the University of Alaska holder Joe Miller, Esq.(Yale Law School).
With a network of heavily financed special interests campaign contributors on her side, Lisa had little to lose and much to gain in running a rogue political campaign. The Democratic candidate-a fisherman and part-time mayor from Sitka Alaska is drawing just 25% of the vote in polls as his Democratic women have defected to the Murkowski camp. Patty Murray, a former Independent turned Democratic Party Senator from the state of Washington is another gender first candidate who recently received support from Secretary of State and Perennial Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
These are interesting times. While fewer Republican women are defecting to the Murkowski campaign so far, we must wait until next week to discover if the new Independent Gender Ad Hoc Party has cut the balls off of the Republican Party machine-even if it has a candidate endorsed by the Tea Party who is for cutting the cost of government himself. Alto may become the new singing voice of Alaskan Republicans for a while.
Murkowski according to polls is drawing female voters away from both major parties to join her neo-independent campaign for the U.S. Senate. A Republican formerly since being appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father the Governor of Alaska former U.S.Senator Frank Murkowski, Lisa switched allegiance and became a rogue elephant following her loss in the Republican primary election to bronze star winner and Economics M.A. from the University of Alaska holder Joe Miller, Esq.(Yale Law School).
With a network of heavily financed special interests campaign contributors on her side, Lisa had little to lose and much to gain in running a rogue political campaign. The Democratic candidate-a fisherman and part-time mayor from Sitka Alaska is drawing just 25% of the vote in polls as his Democratic women have defected to the Murkowski camp. Patty Murray, a former Independent turned Democratic Party Senator from the state of Washington is another gender first candidate who recently received support from Secretary of State and Perennial Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
These are interesting times. While fewer Republican women are defecting to the Murkowski campaign so far, we must wait until next week to discover if the new Independent Gender Ad Hoc Party has cut the balls off of the Republican Party machine-even if it has a candidate endorsed by the Tea Party who is for cutting the cost of government himself. Alto may become the new singing voice of Alaskan Republicans for a while.
Iran, Nuclear Bombs for Peace and 'The Culture of War'/Conventional, Guerrilla/Terrorism
In reading Van Creeveld’s excellent book ‘The Culture of War’ I found several chapters with ideas reviewing not only news events/reports of the last few decades of international conflicts but sociological analysis of the human culture of war and how it affects societies fundamentally. This book isn’t really written with a mind toward political correctness today, instead one discovers a fairly objective analysis of human character and social structures that consistently reveal humanity as addicted to war as an implicit aspect of culture.
So in considering this wonderful investigation of human historical methods and structures of war and why pacifism is so little effective I necessarily considered numerous current events and situations. Van Creeveld has written a few chapters on the subject for the prospects for peace around the global and provided the well-known observation that nuclear weapons developments were largely accountable for the end of war between substantial, established nations since 1945.
Van Creeveld reviews the history of wars since 1945 and of the way nations that are developed have fundamentally given up wars amongst themselves as unthinkable and persuasively provided an observation that guerrilla wars and terrorist movements have not been so constricted by possession of nuclear weapons and threats of mutually assured destruction as to give up war themselves. While the developed nations have sometimes deluded themselves into believing the new democratic party millennium of godless atheist perverse utopia is around the bend and bullying, hate crimes of college students with sheep in their dorms, meth labs on every floor and 4-loco extra in fully stickled refrigerators as natural rights will be stopped soon through anisotropic legal rights amidst social behavorialism based medical expert politico guidance, the undeveloped world has learned that war through terrorism and guerrilla fighting against the first world is getting easier.
While Iran may wish to develop nuclear bombs as a way to assure that the United States or other established states will not invade, it can do little to prevent the kind of anarchic terror that the United States has helped support in Afghanistan since the foundation of Pakistan and subversion of the Iranian government reestablishing the Pahlavi Dynasty.
Iran may wish to join the ranks of nations with nuclear weapons for whom invasion is unthinkable because of the prospects of nuclear war. While Iran cannot launch missiles upon the United States today from Teheran, it could build a cruise missile with a jet engine in a garage (as Van Creeveld pointed out), yet that would not be their essential deterrent--instead that would be Israel...attack Iran and Iran can vaporize Israel. Van Creeveld pointed out that Egypt did not develop nuclear weapons for that very reason--in order that they might keep their options for a conventional war open against the Israelis who would feel no need to vaporize Cairo in reply.
American elites may believe that a world without borders is just ahead, yet a world without borders is a world of lawless guerrilla and terrorist groups that have become the prevailing method of human war activity today. Unless the deterrent of assured nuclear death forces peace to exist, human being inevitably find some method to bring about war. It is through an evolved and effective balance of social powers that anisotropic destruction of the interests of others through war or other lesser means can be reduced.
It is ironic that the neo-liberal Democratic Party elites have forced the invasion of illegal aliens pervasively into the United States that in the long run destabilizes the acquisition of capital by the poor and working class in the U.S.A. while simultaneously reinforcing and external proletariat for the prosecution of future wars of guerrilla and terrorist methodologies upon a soft, more prosperous and preponderantly -white neo-Christian establishment. When the security of national borders has been eliminated then the intifaddah of protracted terrorist conflict may ensue.
The Obama administration just two days ago announced that the electronic high tech fence set by Congress for Construction along the U.S. Mexico border would not be built. That the decision to scuttle the congressional bill from the Bush II years occurs just before an election in order to bring in Latino votes does not go unnoticed.
U.S. policy in many ways is simply of a short-term nature with both major parties being completely out of touch with the longer-range interests of the nation including the environment.
The prospects for peace generally are interesting today. U.S. and first world interests that exploit third world resources in order to continue a high entropy economic growth often support the kind of second and third world policies that support terrorist developments.
Most of the traditional societies of the undeveloped world had warrior occupations for most males that end when colonial authorities arrive. When the colonial authorities are overthrown more anarchic gangs without a culture of war follow to perpetrate atrocities. Van Creeveld points out several facts too obvious to miss besides.
The interest of American women in establishing women's equality in Afghanistan would require as much policing as exists in the U.S.A. so women could safely walk down the street and not be 'fair game'. Poor countries cannot afford that kind of law enforcement and instead men protect the women personally and do not want them to present temptation to the predators-that is a conservative society. Others have pointed out that in several rural Muslim societies where tribal peace exists women may go without covering their heads in black bags for security.
The United States business leaders also stimulate the rise of terrorism and guerrilla war in developing countries through reinforcement of corrupt political leadership that will cooperate with resource extraction for profit leaving environmental mess and thug rule in the wake. I am not much of an optimist on the long-range success of foreign or domestic policies of the United States on economics. None are at all close on real political needs, and none have the capacity or competence to reform and limit the power of concentration of wealth in corporation, networks or individuals. It should be an exciting balance of the century ahead.
So in considering this wonderful investigation of human historical methods and structures of war and why pacifism is so little effective I necessarily considered numerous current events and situations. Van Creeveld has written a few chapters on the subject for the prospects for peace around the global and provided the well-known observation that nuclear weapons developments were largely accountable for the end of war between substantial, established nations since 1945.
Van Creeveld reviews the history of wars since 1945 and of the way nations that are developed have fundamentally given up wars amongst themselves as unthinkable and persuasively provided an observation that guerrilla wars and terrorist movements have not been so constricted by possession of nuclear weapons and threats of mutually assured destruction as to give up war themselves. While the developed nations have sometimes deluded themselves into believing the new democratic party millennium of godless atheist perverse utopia is around the bend and bullying, hate crimes of college students with sheep in their dorms, meth labs on every floor and 4-loco extra in fully stickled refrigerators as natural rights will be stopped soon through anisotropic legal rights amidst social behavorialism based medical expert politico guidance, the undeveloped world has learned that war through terrorism and guerrilla fighting against the first world is getting easier.
While Iran may wish to develop nuclear bombs as a way to assure that the United States or other established states will not invade, it can do little to prevent the kind of anarchic terror that the United States has helped support in Afghanistan since the foundation of Pakistan and subversion of the Iranian government reestablishing the Pahlavi Dynasty.
Iran may wish to join the ranks of nations with nuclear weapons for whom invasion is unthinkable because of the prospects of nuclear war. While Iran cannot launch missiles upon the United States today from Teheran, it could build a cruise missile with a jet engine in a garage (as Van Creeveld pointed out), yet that would not be their essential deterrent--instead that would be Israel...attack Iran and Iran can vaporize Israel. Van Creeveld pointed out that Egypt did not develop nuclear weapons for that very reason--in order that they might keep their options for a conventional war open against the Israelis who would feel no need to vaporize Cairo in reply.
American elites may believe that a world without borders is just ahead, yet a world without borders is a world of lawless guerrilla and terrorist groups that have become the prevailing method of human war activity today. Unless the deterrent of assured nuclear death forces peace to exist, human being inevitably find some method to bring about war. It is through an evolved and effective balance of social powers that anisotropic destruction of the interests of others through war or other lesser means can be reduced.
It is ironic that the neo-liberal Democratic Party elites have forced the invasion of illegal aliens pervasively into the United States that in the long run destabilizes the acquisition of capital by the poor and working class in the U.S.A. while simultaneously reinforcing and external proletariat for the prosecution of future wars of guerrilla and terrorist methodologies upon a soft, more prosperous and preponderantly -white neo-Christian establishment. When the security of national borders has been eliminated then the intifaddah of protracted terrorist conflict may ensue.
The Obama administration just two days ago announced that the electronic high tech fence set by Congress for Construction along the U.S. Mexico border would not be built. That the decision to scuttle the congressional bill from the Bush II years occurs just before an election in order to bring in Latino votes does not go unnoticed.
U.S. policy in many ways is simply of a short-term nature with both major parties being completely out of touch with the longer-range interests of the nation including the environment.
The prospects for peace generally are interesting today. U.S. and first world interests that exploit third world resources in order to continue a high entropy economic growth often support the kind of second and third world policies that support terrorist developments.
Most of the traditional societies of the undeveloped world had warrior occupations for most males that end when colonial authorities arrive. When the colonial authorities are overthrown more anarchic gangs without a culture of war follow to perpetrate atrocities. Van Creeveld points out several facts too obvious to miss besides.
The interest of American women in establishing women's equality in Afghanistan would require as much policing as exists in the U.S.A. so women could safely walk down the street and not be 'fair game'. Poor countries cannot afford that kind of law enforcement and instead men protect the women personally and do not want them to present temptation to the predators-that is a conservative society. Others have pointed out that in several rural Muslim societies where tribal peace exists women may go without covering their heads in black bags for security.
The United States business leaders also stimulate the rise of terrorism and guerrilla war in developing countries through reinforcement of corrupt political leadership that will cooperate with resource extraction for profit leaving environmental mess and thug rule in the wake. I am not much of an optimist on the long-range success of foreign or domestic policies of the United States on economics. None are at all close on real political needs, and none have the capacity or competence to reform and limit the power of concentration of wealth in corporation, networks or individuals. It should be an exciting balance of the century ahead.
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