The Icon & the Axe, The Cross & the Switchblade, The Queers & The Rich- The Toynbee Cycle of Contemporary History

 The historian James Billington once served as the Librarian of Congress. Billington also wrote a book named The Icon and The Axe. The work of  history of the Rus from the arrival of Vikings to lead as royals at Kiev continuing through the arrival of orthodox Christianity and icons of the faithful is a portrait of the evolution of a civilization. Of course we know that Ivan the Terrible began a centuries long battle to recover land and political power lost to the Mongol invaders after Genghis Khan. Americans often lack a sense of history and fail to learn lessons of history, yet we have great world historians such as the late Brit Arnold Toynbee to help us understand the way of the world and its recurrent political cycles of evolution.

The United States experienced a manifest destiny on a lightly populated North American continent and a vigorous, healthful, rising culture of immigrants and new American-born sons and daughters of the frontiers of ingenuity, free holding pioneering, faith and invention. Democracy was a natural fit for people without an oppressive ruling class located in Europe. The American Revolution to cut away that cancer was an example for the world to follow. France and Russia would accomplish the same revolts against corrupt powers of concentrated wealth with different results.

The Russian revolution did not occur in a vacuum. Russia was faced with continental powers and even American military resistance yet overcame only to be co-opted by corrupt an oppressive ruling class leadership and bad political philosophy leading to the termination of individual free enterprise in the Soviet society. Today Russia as an emergent democratic society faces the challenge of an ad hoc global ruling class of concentrated wealth that would buy everything in Russia and repress the locals if they could. The ordinary people of the United States have already experienced their own post cold war reduction under the deregulated power of Wall Street banks, corporations outsourcing production, large scale immigration of cheap labor and bad political leadership that has failed to show any interest in ecological reform of economics or full employment for all U.S. citizens. Wealth and power is increasingly concentrated in the U.S.A. and globalism through a hoc Wall Street networking has progressively reduced individualism in economics in preference for ad hoc corporate and government collectivism.

 The Cross and the Switchblade was the title of a film with the actor Pat Boone highlighting the difficult moral choices of a New York gang member. We see that the weapon of choice had moved downscale from the war axe to the switchblade; a smaller, more concealable weapon selected for a modern urban culture. The sort of individualism that might have made Erik the Red a good Viking explorer and outlaw of Iceland had been suppressed by the N.Y.P.D.  Individualism in New York and America still flourished in the 1950s- an era before the rise of the World Wide Web and instant global stock trading.

While personal weapons have downsized, in the collective era social weapons have vastly increased in scale. Nuclear weapons, microwave cookers of mass destruction, designer biological society terminators and innumerable others have made the future of humanity dubious. As individualism has been drowned out by collective social environments and as the ecosystem has declined in health with a vast repository of insults by economic activity social irresponsibility has increased. Personal egoism developed as a Wall Street philosophy and the capitalist philosophy of Adam Smith was transformed into a Frankenstein monster running roughshod over the moderate purpose of democracy and its ability to adapt to the dense population era. The poor increased in the United States as wealth was concentrated consistent with party political theory.

 Contemporary U.S. political leadership has made this an era aptly titled The Queers and The Rich. The Obama administration made homosexual service in the military and homosexual marriage it's basic political goals along with creating a corporatist national health care infrastructure. It has failed to close Guantanamo Bay incarceration centers or prosecute 2008 Wall Street collapse actors sufficiently to put a single principle in prison. The administration has supported Federal Reserve printing of 90 billion dollars per month of free no interest loans to banks too-big-to-fail and supported development of war in Syria. These are the actions of a nation in Toynbean decline piling of vast national debt and moving into a Universal economic phase of civilization.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_of_History

 Before the modern trends of decline in the U.S.A. Arnold Toynbee wrote his 'Study of History' detailing more than 20 civilizations that had arisen and fallen and considered the reason why. America seems to have little interest in not proceeding to it's own fall. That fall may not coincide with the apocalypse at the end of the world foretold by three or more different religious faiths. Instead the failure of U.S. political leadership may simple place the U.S.A. in receivership or get its population decimated by global warming, mass epidemic or collapse of political institutions and infrastructure.

 The major political parties essentially serve the queers and the rich. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are mutually exclusive of ends or means. Democrats are the shop stewards to the global corporatists. With the Obama administration the apostles of global homosexual marriage propping of Wall Street the Democrat Party has no leadership cognizant of ecological economic reform or an interest in full employment. It has not even built trans-continental express bicycle lanes for the unlazy or those with electric engines for their bike.

 In the age of fracture with existentialist atheism supporting an ethics of social irresponsibility well serving to concentrate wealth and power ad hoc collectivism has repressed the American ideal of individualism. De facto collectivism in the ad hoc corporatist state has little interest in rebuilding or reforming public works. It seeks tax cuts for the rich-perhaps a flat tax-and is happy to pile up vast public debt to support Defense contractors for superfluous foreign military activities.

 Contemporary collectivism with an evolutionary stamp of godless approval finds no reason to believe in meaning or ethics. Nationalism and pursuit of national interest, the conservation of the environment or restoration of democracy through reallocation of the broadcast media wavelengths to citizen podcast broadcasts locally to take away the power of concentrated wealth to concentrate mass communications power a little.

 Then there are more elections in 2014 and 2016, yet there are few capable candidates with any visions of national change.

General Relativity and the Problem of The Infinite Curvature of Space at Time=0

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity treats space-time as a unified field. Space for much of the course of the physics was regarded as a real substance albeit thin rather than nothing at all. At time = zero in a big bang paradigm with general relativity spaces necessarily is infinitely curved to a singular point of effective non-existence. Mass and energy are requisite for the curvature of space-time with gravity in G.R.

 Physical processes can be modeled with time-space reversibility. If gravity did not exist in the early universe then the curvature of space-time shouldn't equal zero--the inference is that the beginning of the Universe would not be at time = zero but a little later instead. The tardy universe context can be overcome with hyperinflation theory evidently.

 Immediately after Time equaled zero (along with infinitely curved space) decayed or released its grip, or the word to begin was issued, an inflation of mass-energy and space-time developed for a small fraction of a second and in the absence of gravity (that didn't come into existence until a little later) the Universe increased its size remarkably. Space-time unpacked or decompressed quite a bit-it was the proverbial size of a grapefruit now- and the energy of the universe eventually converted substantially into mass. Apparently, when infinitely compacted, mass is entirely converted to energy-mass unification. Infinitely compacted space has no time or motion and has tremendous potential energy and mass.

 What is wrong with this excellent picture of space conceptually? In effect general relativity describes the relationship of mass and energy along with steady-state quantum spacing instead of space itself. Space itself is a volume of nothing. Mass and energy are the something described by general relativity, and the quantification of space-time curvature is the convention used to describe steady-state mass-energy relationships.

 Spatial volume itself is nothing at all. It is a remarkable philosophical point for me at least that every sort of infinity exists in space at every point. Space is infinite simultaneous with being nothing at all and not existing anywhere. Sartre called space non-being, however non-being can apply to absence as a condition instead of the physical fact of spatial volume.

 The quantification of mass-energy relationships with general relativity is fine enough and effective yet I think the implications for error in treating the quantum field of mass-energy of the Universe is substantial. Vacuum energy for one thing, or virtual particle energy is considered as arising from nothing rather than from a subtler quantum configuration of mass and energy.

 Like the force-carrying particles of the sub-atomic realm the macro physical universe as gaps and spacing configured by physical protocols of spin, momentum, quantum mass and so forth. The discrete nature of a quantum field is at once pluralistic and a continuum of monism. The mass-energy field initial endowment of the Universe may expand and smooth itself out through entropy yet it does logically seem to be something like a complex entanglement of knots that eventually unravel transforming into a sheet or membrane. That membrane may be at the opposite end of infinite initial compactness, yet it exists in the absolute nothingness of space.

 Perhaps each Universe membrane replete with its configuration of dimensions has an initial quantum value of energy. One must wonder if there is variability in the quantity of mass-energy that can be initially bound at a singularity such that the scale of potential expansion varies. If black holes are a comparable measure then Universe-singularities too might have different initial quantum value for possible scalar field increase.

 Transforming Einstein's General Relativity to a paradigm treating space curvature as macro-quantum mass-energy relationships might be a way to renormalize the philosophical criterion of space logically. What is missing is a theory of quantum gravity explaining the metric of general relativity as a subtler microcosmic event-process relationship without invoking space-time.

 A Universe regarded as quantum mass-energy embedded in the nothingness of space, finite in contrast to the infinity of nothingness of space-in-itself could take a variety of forms. The spherical universe arising from a singularity seems most logically satisfactory-especially as gravity seems to draw mass into 3 dimensional spheres such as planets. General Relativity allows gravity to reduce Universal mass to a singularity at Time = zero yet if the mass energy of the Universe is compacted to a size smaller than a graviton maybe the power of gravity no longer exists letting the inherent energy of the Universe expand. General relativity does not evidently treat the force-carrying quantum of gravity different from space-time.

 If there were four spatial dimensions perhaps gravity would compact mass into hyper-cubes. String theorists have developed the idea of membranes in an 11 dimensional Universe and given thought to a meta-Universal 'Bulk' mother-of-all-Universes field with 3-dimensional membrane universes drifting about in the greater dimensional Bulk Meta-verse-what Dr. Mario Gasperini in 'Before the Big Bang' described as a perturbative field with virtual energy from which matter might coalesce and form into an equal yet opposite Universe before the big bang and medial singularity between Universes (something like the narrow point of an hourglass).

 Steinhardt and Turok developed the concept of membrane Universes that collide acting somewhat like a Big Bang without a singularity. I think it's possible to develop the idea of a membrane Universe without so many extra-dimensions as String Theory.

 Strings on a membrane surface may be a basic invariant form of texture flux in the energy-mass of the Universal field. Gravity could be a subtler flux relation of the basic Universe-membrane that arises in the history of the Universe, and perhaps will fade out one day too when unknown quantum phase changes occur.

 Cyclical membrane Universes in a Bulk Mother-of-all-Universes field without space-time locality (or would there be space-time locality and general relativity in a Bulk hyper-dimensional field of all-possible Universes arising?) are interesting things to consider. Seemingly overlooked is the idea of a single membrane Universe with strings embedded in absolute nothingness without a perturbative vacuum providing an unlimited electrical supply for free.

 A Universe membrane field continuum of energy and mass without the space-time as a substance parameter of general relativity ought to be considered within the headlong rush to extrapolate greater and more complex recursive causal explanations for the mechanics of the physical cosmos. Perhaps a single membrane 3-D Universe field could account for phenomena such as dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the Universe. Could the field itself have subtle form changes in relation to the configuration of solid-state forms? Might the spacing of one-dimensional strings change in the field over time in a quantifiable way, or could a non-quantum continuum of expansion occur with entropy invoking something like Boyle's law of gases to draw mass-energy of the membrane into the oblivion of nothingness at a quickening, competitive rate?

 Whatever the original field of Being is, variegation in the form of its attributes described with quantification within a monistic Universe of mass and energy might reduce to the classic philosophical problems of being and nothingness existing since Parmenides. That mass could be reduced to infinitely small size as if scale and quantified attributes were stages of temporality on the way presents innumerable additional points to consider.

On the Marginalization of Philosophy

Pragmatic concerns are infused in contemporary philosophical method. That is one need earn a living, and control of Internet Communications for profit are quite real. If one writes philosophical analysis of society from a minority (intellectual) point of view it is inevitable that the managerial class will close that down eventually. As an independent writer in the U.S.A. I have experienced being banned from Helium.com and presently gather.com is frozen down after acquisition by Health Guru Media. There aren’t too many places to write philosophy for pay. Ghost Bloggers said my first post on the ‘Incoherence of Evolution Theory in Politics’ was incoherent.

If one tries to explain that lies do not inevitably harm people, but it is the lack of knowledge of the receiver of false data that is potentially harmful, the difference is too complex for the managerial class that thrives on populism and the need to reinforce cliche. If an individual hears a lie yet recognizes the lie having knowledge of the truth how has the individual been harmed? While putting out false data is wrong generally, analytic philosophers at least ought to have an opinion cognizant of Quine’s work in Ontological Relativity and keep a social epistemology theory that allows somewhat more existentialist subjectivism to individual responsibility regarding language meaning.

I believe that the problem of modern corporatism and networking will tend to marginalize philosophical thought. The managerial class is politically castrated a priori in order to advance in the business world wherein a happy peaceful repose in evolution theory applied to politics exists-mankind is meat without a soul and thought is meaningless goes the post-modern screed. In that paradigm philosophy is meaningless, yet of course for business phenomenally input of energy and power to politically empower meat is given priority. Such value theories generate innumerable ethics consequents inimical to democracy, free speech and meaning.

I appreciate Warburton’s work yet am skeptical about the potential for slowing the concentration of wealth and power in the United States at least as well as global warming, mass extinction of species or even cosmological speculation infused with metaphysics and theology to consider parameters of classical philosophy (e.g. Plotinus) with pre-inflation theory. Mass economic power taking over higher education tends to marginalize independent thought.

Letters & Photos- of Moose and Men/Women

Letters from the past and more recent photos- flotsam and jetsam in the stream of time that I find interesting to post to the cloud.

Spheres With Ice Shields For Earth-Mars Orbiter?

Buzz Aldrin described a permanent Earth-Mars orbiter that astronauts would catch when it neared Earth and jump off close to Mars. Constructing such a module in space with ice from comets melted to water and put into a shield around a round module as a shield could be feasible.
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-aldrin-colonize-mars.html#inlRlv


I believe 15 feet of ice are needed to stop most GCR's and SEP's. Ice already in space would be the cheapest to get perhaps.Injection formed spheres by the thousands could be built in space and provided with modularized components built on Earth, the Moon or maybe asteroids. I would think the mass of solar system planets ought not be changed much.

Researchers are studying radiation from Galactic cosmic rays and solar emitted particles-the first are worse and  the second most common. The Curiosity Rover spacecraft measured radiation in space during the trip to Mars from Earth, arriving in 2012 on the red planet.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130530.html

 http://phys.org/news/2013-05-exposure-journey-mars.html#jCp

image credit N.A.S.A./Cal Tech/JSC

Rumors About Fate of Gather.com

It is said that 'the creative side' of Gather.com will be eliminated by Health Guru Media that took over Gather.com sometime in April 2013. Gatherers aren't sure of what is going on, except that little works at the site and uploading is mostly frozen. Hunting isn't as feasible as gathering in the modern economy, yet gatherers may need to hunt for the few places that allow intellectual writing liberty along with the potential for earning a little-even for creating videos and uploading photos.

Is Gather's problem Java's vulnerability announced Jab. 10, 2013? Or is it an executive Health Guru Media decision to cut down gather? Is there anyone at Health Guru Media who would put some kind of news update on the Gather front page?

It's hard to believe that gutting a web site with advertisers and such is a good business choice. Wouldn't most sell it off or something?

In 1980 I learned some computer programming and though I didn't stay with that, I still have a sense about it. A temporary remedy of taking out or disabling hyperlinks and java and letting posts continue ought to be simple. Maybe the creative side could be made to be a profit sharing place for writers-perhaps as a non-profit co-op?

Middle east Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV)- Kill Rate So Far (22 of 44)

Middle east Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS CoV) is a newly emerging respiratory virus that has killed about half of the people that have contracted it thus far (22). The occurrence of the corona virus has been found in about 44 people mostly in the Middle east. The director of the world Health Organization has called MERS a threat to the entire world.

People probably should remember to put a hand over their mouth if they cough in public.

MERS update 25 May 2013 http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_05_23_ncov/en/

MERS update 29 May 2013 http://www.who.int/csr/don/2013_05_29_ncov/en/

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2013/wha66/wha66_coronavirus_overview.pdf

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/261174.php

'Health Guru' Buys Gather.com- Gather Bloggers Face Uncertain Future

Health Guru Media of New York bought out Gather.com in April and the gather.com site has become mostly frozen since early in May. Thousands of users are interested in the future of their content; writing, photos, videos etc.

The Internet can be an unreliable place for bloggers with their content coming down or deleted without notice. 

Gather.com was another Boston-based company to post political content at. Of course venture capitalists and corporate managers can be bought and paid for and confiscate content or profit of users now and then (i.e. Helium.com) for the grave offense of using politically incorrect speech.  Modern Boston seems like a one-hint-about-antipathetic-free-speech, two-your-blog-is-censored corporate city not too revered by the deleted.

My work at Helium.com was essentially confiscated because I used the faggot word several times in the course of writing hundreds of peer-reviewed top 5% ranked essays. I did not support the effort by homosexuals to usurp the role-relationship of pregnant women to husbands through legal ingression. Helium deleted about every article I wrote in opposition to the homosexual political agenda and kept the rest (more than 700) creating a false impression for the public of my opinion through the absence of the articles.

Queers attack political opponents personally whenever they can it appears because they haven't got much reason to draw upon as an alternative to make valid political arguments. The Internet is a prime mode for leftist bullying through corporate power. One simply cuts off any small avenues for earning through work. Democrat Party petty perfidy is the new mill-town control group phenomenon of the era. Heck-it's probably Harvard alumni at the core of the wickedness.

Hate speech is defined as partisan speech and any other words deemed not to blow smoke up the ass of the Democrat Party.

http://www.helium.com/users/105553

http://www.garycgibson.gather.com

Helium took the profit from my essays since Dec. 24th 2010 when I received notice that if I tried to log in again they would report that to the F.B.I. I was close to having enough essays to get a minimum 25 $ per month for just giving 5 ratings. To be candid Helium ought to post a 'banned' notice in red across my page so the readers aren't tricked into believing that I am a Helium writer. I had already copied the posts and published them later in a book at http://www.lulu.com/garycgibson

Now with Gather.com down; my alternative to Helium.com, my second primary website for political free speech seems at least temporarily decimated along with potential earnings. One puts three or four years developing a web page with excellent content and then poof! The left saps it in some way. I believe the poor are supposed to be not heard in corporate, Internet America,and that includes the U.S.A. For wealth to continue to be consolidated it is helpful I think to destabilize political speech for-profit on the Internet.

Free speech may exist fora while in America yet its better for the rich rather than for the poor; the new corporate owners can take it down. The rich can seem like skilled political bullies -and especially the Democrat Party. I suppose it's true that only the words of Jesus Christ and God can be counted upon to outlast the Universe and corporate Internet censorship by deletion post hoc.

Blogger.com is owned by Google so as the biggest fish it's more difficult for the petite bourgeois to take it down and de facto censor it without getting notice as censors. I suppose the administration or the Red Chinese will try to buy out Google too eventually since it's a place where free speech is still more or less allowed. Hopefully the government will create some sort of legal tax incentives for Internet web blog providers to provide stability to bloggers and content providers. The vicious Darwinist approach to corporate owned blogging pages isn't a very solid way of developing citizen assertion of political and creative opinion and content.

Following are urls with some information about Health Guru Media's takeover of Gather.com.

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981874006

http://www.bubblews.com/news/439075-gather

http://www.bubblews.com/news/564072-gathercom-and-healthguru

Red Chinese Bid to Take Top U.S. Pork Producer & Department of Defense Secrets!

How Americans can live with a Red Chinese take-over of the pride of the Hog farm is uncertain. American hogs controlled by the Chinese could lead to unknown and dangerous consequents. It hadn't occurred to me before that no Muslim oil country  would be a likely competitor in the field of pig production or barbeque'd pork and beans even with the secret sauce.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/chinese-mergers-acquisitions-us-

In the long-run the sale of U.S. infrastructure to the Chinese and other interested parties may increase. The Reds could buy all those highway bridges and fix-em when the states are broke. Someone will have to rebuild the roads so the SUV homes-on-wheels with someplace to go have a way to get there. The next two or three hundred years of U.S. highways need to be solid.

Diversification economically by owning American homes through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and farming animals while hacking free defense technology are necessary ways for the populous and upwardly mobile Chinese nation to buy into a nation with a printing press and e-mint creating a surplus of dollars. China as a wise investor must know that inflation may drive up prices in the future because of the Federal Reserves copious increase of money supply at zero interest to banks too big to fail.

Buying big now will help offset the devaluation of their foreign currency reserves of the dollar when inflation finally arises or if the dollar crashes. Swine probably have more really value than submarines in some respects, especially if the Chinese have copies of all the useful secret vepun stuff from D.O.D. and their codes too.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/28/18556787-chinese-hackers-steal-us-weapons-systems-designs-report-says?lite

The U.S. Government ought to diversify into more direction of the U.S. economy such that all Americans have a job while all the high-level h.s. is going on. Keeping creative Americans broke and puffing up Wall Street isn't really the better long-term, or short-run strategy for the U.S. leadership to wallow in. Time will prove that nationalism wasn't really obsolete or superfluous these years.

Red China does not allow American corporations to buy a majority interest in their corporations, and there isn't a valid reason why the U.S. should allow the Chinese to buy a controlling stake in any American corporation. Congress ought to pass legislation right away making it so. I would think that such a mirror law should pass international trade court review.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski on the Bill to Tax the Internet Marketplace

Recently I wrote to Sen. Murkowski on the unjust effort of the federal government to tax poor Internet entrepreneurs trying to eek out a few dollars. She replied...

"On May 6, 2013, I voted against S. 743 because I believe this legislation unfairly infringes upon state's sovereign rights, exposing online sellers to other states' sales tax requirements.  Additionally, I have heard from business owners across Alaska who explained to me the time-consuming expense of complying with sales tax laws for every jurisdiction in this country

For states like Alaska who have chosen not to have a statewide sales tax, this bill creates an unlevel playing field among other states with sales taxes. Now is the wrong time to create additional regulatory burdens and paperwork for our small businesses and entrepreneurs, but despite my vote against the bill, S. 743 passed the Senate by a vote of 69-27. The bill has now been sent to the House. "

image credit: official congressional phtotgraph