Introducing 3rdMilleniumblog.blogspot.com

I have developed another blog. It seems like a good idea to use a different blog for some posts in order to present less of a target to political opposition that feel its useful to slow down writers. That trend if successful would tend to negate the point of free speech and a free society, free enterprise and democracy obviously.

It may be that  Plutocracy and the post-cold war era transformation of  the U.S. economy into an in-the-bag globalized backstop for the ultra-rich has gone so far as to make politics in America something of a Potemkin village, I can't  be sure. When the vast majority of Americans-230 million have just 15% of the national income the political issues that people encounter tend to be irrelevant to their economic well being. Democracy works best with something of an egalitarian income distribution without which the rich just pull the strings on everything through networking and dissent is marginalized.

A politician in the nation today that would change things would need to let the rich take care of themselves and their global interests and dedicate the government to the end of creating a new green, renewable full economy in theory and practice that would be ready to phase in with full employment after the rich flee abroad when their taxes are progressively raised to 90%.

Private enterprise can provide all of the thing that citizens need for a good life in a more egalitarian and downsized enterprise context in the presence of a comprehensive social welfare safety net within a realist social environment motivated to regreen the ecosphere.

Life and living things; nature, is the basic content of human thought and development of inventions and manufactures. To reduce ecospheric diversity is to reduce the general human intellectual quotient. The artificial indoor environment is a poor and muttly thing for humanity to  be content with if the real ecosphere is dismissed as auxiliary and only to be tolerated. The mind and its place in nature is full of the abstracts of existence compound and synthetically integrated into a cornucopia of products. Mass conformed social existence tends to diminish the complexity and usefulness of nature. Remember that a human brain and body is the most complex biological fact in existence and is a product of the most rich and complex environment in the solar system-one that the up-from-the-mud humanity is degrading rapidly in order to make their planetary pen more creature comfortable.

The beauty of life is the simplicity of its complexity fully put together. God is like that maybe-One Being in Three Persons letting plurality arise from monism in some mysterious way.

Mexican Youth Reportedly Used as Drug Mules-Rep Boehner Disagrees

Congressional Speaker Boehner has slammed Rep. Steve King rather soundly for King's statements to the effect that Mexican youth are used as drug smugglers a.k.a. mules. Quick fact checking confirms Congressman King's premise though, at least on the left-leaning Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/mexico-children-mules-drugs_n_1344009.html

There were other reports on the topic of young Mexican drug mules. Evidently they are very cheap and readily exploitable. It is also surprising to discover that Mexican youth have numerous methamphetamine users among them. It isn't just marijuana that the nimble legs of illegal alien youth sprint over the border with.

Homeland Security said that San Diego's South Bay youth have been recruited as drug mules in rising numbers since 2009. Some of those youth are probably Mexican citizens or dual citizenship entrepreneurs.

http://imperialbeach.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/smugglers-target-south-san-diego-youth-to-act-as-drug-mules

C.N.N. reported that as many as 30,000 Mexican youth may be members of organized crime. The Zeta drug gang employs youth in its drug business, even a look out was paid 800 dollars a month, and the look out was a 13 year old girl.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/world/americas/mexico-children-crime

NPR did a story on youthful Mexican drug mules too in the wave of stories in spring 2012. NPR cited a U.S. Customs official as saying that in the past three years the young MExican drug mule numbers had increased tenfold.

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/27/166027034/mexicos-drug-war-is-changing-childhood

One wonders about the insular ideas of Congresspersons and Senators that view the world through cash colored glasses and politically correct calculations. Maybe Congressman King didn't formulate his statements about youthful illegal alien drug smugglers with sugar coating  or failed to use logical language to accurately quantify who and how many illegal alien mules exist as a percent of illegal alien Mexicans in the U.S.A. yet Speaker Boehner probably owes Steve King an apology for being so wrong himself in seeming to discount the facts of reality altogether in order to get some additional Hispanic votes in 2014.

Youth crime is on the rise in Mexico and the United States of America helps fuel that by buying so many illegal drugs in its decadent and irresponsible phase of unconcern about the poor in America and Mexico. An economy should be made healthy from the bottom up with those out of work longest employed first. When government serves primarily the prosperous and its members are all millionaires a warped idea about reality exists and chronic, long term unemployment is the new normal. Government should instead support first those that need support because the rich already have enough. 

In the 2009 -11 economic recovery 90% of the income went to 10% of the people of the United States. That is no recovery, it is continuing consolidation of wealth. The top 25 hedge Fund managers still earn an average of a billion dollars a year. When Chairman Bernanke replaces Fed Reserve Chief Bernanke this fall I hope he doesn't select Larry Summers to replace him, and picks instead Robert Reich.

Rage Against the Meatheads v. 2.0

Rage against the meatheads

do not go gently into a godless chasm of doom

pushed by those declaring mind an illusion

and the body of meat a reality for whom

the world is a singing bell pride

Godless sophists of immoral despair

forcing descent into existential pits of oblivion where

full of clutched sharp shadows of false hopes tethered

for flight of mind from body as spoilt meat weathered

Nietzche and Schopenhauer's dualist dreams of subjective negations

metaphysics finding world morals illusions on vacations

Brahma kama sutured over Zoroaster's ideas treasured

transcending even so pungent meaninglessness of meatheads mysteries

Rage against the meatheads

commandeering politics in programmatic self-futility

where works extract self from eternal salvation

recommending failure as pragmatic utility

Rage against the phenomenalism of oblivion

minds existing for a moment transcending nothingness

the for-itself and others contradicting the meaningless of non-sentience

seeking the eternal Spirit of God.

Anthony's Weiner, The N.S.A, Gun Control, Green Weenies and Red Herrings

The sext messages of former U.S. Representative Anthony (Carlos Danger) Weiner have become a national news item again in the race for Mayor of New York. Anthony's Weiner has taken a dimension larger than that of porn stars and is somewhat legendary now, regardless of the facts of Vienna sausage or foot-long and other red herrings. Hot dogs of technology, the N.S.A. probably intercepted and recorded the sext messages of Anthony Weiner like those of the more discrete officials presently in the U.S. Government.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anthony-weiner-carlos-danger-become-focus-of-new-york-mayoral-race/2013/07/25/a130cd92-f535-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html

A majority in the U.S. house of Representatives voted recently to extend the right of the N.S.A. to record the phone calls of everyone in America and the rest of the world so far as possible. That will enable Big Brother to pan for the gold of all the hidden conspiracies of the world and keep Americans safe. Cynics compare the policy unfavorably to the national issue of gun control. The N.R.A. did not defend the right of Americans to have private phone calls free from federal surveillance, and so the effort to repeal the power of the N.S.A. to make a record of every phone call possible failed.

Two hundred seventeen congresspersons against ending the N.S.A.'s phone record making power. Without the N.R.A. probably the same congresspersons would vote to end the right of Americans to keep and bare arms. The arguments for and against keeping the second amendment unrestricted and the N.R.A. phone record program restricted are virtually the same. The price of civil liberty is a little violence and risk of violence.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/congress-nearly-shuts-down-nsa-phone-dragnet-in-sudden-217-205-vote/

The power of a government to know whom its citizens talk to every moment of their lives is extreme. Sure Al Qaeda would find it easier to organize the deaths of some rich people in lofty Wall Street towers where dark pools trade under the radar with cash at zero interest provided by the federal government, yet some Americans are willing to risk the danger to the rich in order to have private phone calls to people without the government knowing about it.

At least the N.S.A. should share its data in the abstract with the people of the United States so they can learn the quantity information on what countries people from blue states are calling most in order to find out what states are the most globalist and un-American. How many Californians are on the phone to Mexico every day and how many Bostonians are hanging on the phone to London? It would be useful to learn what rich people are calling Zurich a lot in order to better calculate appropriate tax policy. One of the main problems with the N.S.A. phone record policy is that it is of benefit primarily to the rich and to government contractors and of little practical value to telemarketers wanting to better design products to sell to Anglophile, Mexicophiles and Islamo-chatists.

The Congress should direct the N.S.A. director to prepare a monthly abstract statistical study of who and where Americans are talking to overseas state by state and nation by nation and post it on a government web site. It would be good to have hard data to show who the most un-American globalists are and where they live to pin responsibility on some politicians for failing to create jobs in the U.S.A. for everyone that wants one.

Anthony Weiner's sext messages like that of others with personal pornographic content should be called something else that isn't deprecatory to texting. It wasn't sex-texting that is at issue in the personal porn pics of Mayoral Candidate Weiner.

Evolving Dualism and Dialectics of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

A few words about the philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Fredrick Nietzsche. Each was a philosophical pessimist of a sort. Their pessimism resulted not only from the tough social times of the late 19th century-an era for individuals quite a lot more painful than first world living today, it was a consequence of the lack of faith of a time with the rise of evolution as a populist theory and liberation movements that required a revolt against the power of a property owning church hierarchy over-associated internationally with royalty and royal land grants. That history from Imperial Russia to Maryland of the American colonies prompted even Immanuel Kant toward the concept of sapere aude-'dare to know (to be wise). He wrote an essay criticizing social reliance upon authorities for their thinking such that people were in never ending tutelage.

Many avenues of ingress to wisdom and egress from folly can be developed by any individual or social elite obviously. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche choose philosophical-religious dualism of different varieties in order to develop a personal worldview explaining reality physically and socially. Each philosopher combined ideas from ancient Persian religions such as Zoroastrianism and the sky religions of the Vedas of India that initially arose in Afghanistan/Iran/Arya. The synthesis of old and newer ideas aloud a metaphysics and morality to exist in one wrong dualistic belief system for each.

Schopenhauer believed something like Buddhists that the existence of the Universe is basically wrong, or an error of some sort. One might think that it is an emanation from God perhaps that emerged through error. I tend too think that God doesn't make metaphysical errors though and would not credit the idea much. 

With the belief that the Universe is a mistake it is easy to find the concept that humanity is fundamentally wicked. Schopenhauer was readily able to derive some kind of idea of a misogynist character of course and thought like many of the ancients that the X chromosome half of the human organic system is an inferior or wicked evolution as a punishment for prior sin perhaps. There are a variety of reasons why the ancients believed that women needed to be regarded as a problem. Perhaps the Muslim ideas about women are derived from that ancient concept.

Original sin might have inspired Schopenhauer too. I believe with Augustine about original sin, yet place the context not only as manifest because of the divine insight of the Bible. Original sin may be the context of organic existence in a Higgs Field with entropy in the solid-state phase with a time arrow. People naturally consume instead of living forever in the Garden of non-temporal existence without any need to eat apples or anything else. In a realm of forms the tree of knowledge and the tree of life are not necessary. Time also is an element of temporality and solid-state changes.

Nietzsche was a dualist too. With a Christian heritage he lost faith when his father died at an early age. The eternal recurrence of the Universe was his idea, and he named his philosopher alter ego in his books Zarathustra. In 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' a philosopher living as a hermit on a hill looking down on a village chews a philosophical cud about the meaningless morals of the people living there that aren't aware that everything in the Universe recurs exactly as it is infinitely. There is a good science fiction book with that kind of experience being an extra-dimensional account of hell. Everyone is wicked in that place though it starts out nice, and it becomes an amoral killing field of criminals that gets run down and eventually burned down and then it starts all over again new.

Nietzsche obviously had a little of Kant's sapere aude spirit about him, and Schopenhauer's 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason' is about as good of a follow up to Kant's 'Prolegumena to Any Future Metaphysics' as might have been written. Schopenhauer though is such an egoist, and ultimately a pessimist because of his ideas about the nature of the world-Universe that the analysis about reason seems meaningless. Both philosophers were 19th century Germans in a tradition of great German philosophers such as Hegel and Kant. It wasn't easy to produce works of equal gravity as those of Kant and Hegel, and neither did though each made quite an effort.

Nietzsche is more of a romantic and irrationalist by default because his work lacks interest in technical logic. Schopenhauer could have been a good logician, yet he writes as technically as did Sartre in 'Being and Nothingness' later with the difference that Schopenhauer appends his dualist metaphysics on to his analysis and of course Sartre didn't append anything on to his analysis of subjective experience.

I suppose there are several varieties of dualism possible. One can construct a two-part metaphysics or a two part temporal description of reality. If physical reality in solid-state entangled quanta is what is experienced one can always say that a different, deeper level underlies that. Even the Higgs field content could be said to be an idea developed from the will of God. Dualism in philosophy is possible in many explanations of why the world is the way it is.

Marxist dialectical material is a kind of dualism. The thesis and anti-thesis might be applied to Republican and Democrat politics in Congress today. Like Marxism we might think that leads to economic nihilism and vast public debt rather than utopia. It is easy to be pessimist within any dualist progression dialectically leading nowhere good.

If evolution is a proximal way of describing a particular indeterminist view of biological life rather than of the determinism of phase changes of quanta in a Higgs or other field following various inevitable patterns, it is within a select reduced range of regard for biological change within the greater Higgs field and its properties described with a field theory. Change occurs within determined, quantifiable order at a given level in a hierarchy of scale instead of within a unified system breaking from monism to pluralism and back again.

A monistic system tends to become pluralist because of change and entropy rather than vice versa. The reversibility in theory of the physical contents of time would seemingly require more energy to reorder in a reverse direction than in the naturally breaking down direction. Even biological life converting energy into order does so with a determined level of direction and inertial progress difficult to change. It is an interesting paradox that rational thought is the better tool for altering the physical determined content of a given physical system. That is also a danger environmentally speaking. 

Human thought and creativity have changed the natural evolution of the Earth ecosphere in order to provide a more comfortable existence. Disrupting the natural evolution requires rational response and correction if human life is to continue for long. That sort of creativity and applied physics through economic change needs a somewhat monistic outlook of education tolerant of individualism yet instructive in the effect of intelligent thought and artifice on an ecosphere of natural, deterministic evolution.

When God booted Adam and Eve out of the Garden toward a world where through a light switch would change night in to day the problems of changing the natural evolution with intelligent thought in pursuit of the tree of knowledge and the tree of life were bound to occur. Maybe it's an I.Q. and faith test simultaneously presented to determine if reason can be reasonable enough to overcome the natural destruction of the natural ecosphere. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer did the best they could at considering the deeper meaning of life. All they found though was the easy to arrive at position of pessimism.

What Happened to Lost Jamestown Colony? (They Were Eaten)

A skeleton from the lost Jamestown colony of 1609-10 was determined to have been subject to cannibalism. During the tough winter those first Brit arrivals chowed down on a 14-year old girl and whomever else in one of the colonies' first reality T.V. survivor island role models. Her skull had marks of forced entry. We wonder why those colonists could starve in game rich Virginia of that day with Chesapeake Bay full of fish, birds and crab even if it was a cold winter?  If the world ever starves and fails to grow food underground on the moon with solar light brought in with fiber optics they would show an equal lack of creative thought.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501191845.htm

Another piece of archaeology news from American history is the discovery of a Spanish fort in the Appalachian foothills from the late 16th century. It is the oldest known fort away from the coastal area of the future U.S.A. The Spaniards were wiped out except for one survivor, and if they had stayed American history would have changed for there was a lot of gold in the area discovered later. The Spaniards were looking for gold and didn't find the rich nuggets. If they had they might have invested more conquistadors earlier in the north instead of mostly below the border.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130723113756.htm

Select Trends in the U.S. Economy

There are several trends in then U.S. economy that would seem to support development of a hollowed-out middle class and sustained large number of poor and long-range unemployed citizens. Even more concerning is the trend toward production outsourcing with some 85% of large corporations already working those cheap laborers abroad. While a New Yorker averages 16 bucks for labor a Chinese and Indian worker get far less than one dollar an hour. As that trend matures the United States will have few good paying jobs beyond the professional core supporting a plutocracy. If foreign production imports collapse so will the hollowed U.S. economy of service workers.

England may be able to have a service-oriented economy because it's a fairly small country. The United States has a large portion of a continent though and with a population of low skilled illegal immigrants increasing the demographic majority of those Americans numbering more than 230 million already that get only 15% of national income if production overseas in the BRIC nations stops because of war to unforeseeable climate related disaster the consumer supply chain will be cut off. A vast economy so reliant upon foreign production for life support is not only unnecessary it also comprises a national security threat.

With China increasing its economy at a 6% annual pace even during a global neo-recession and with a population of over a billion the United States would experience Chinese leverage on its political economy if the U.S. economy were actually good for the prospects of the majority instead of the global Plutocracy. Of course the U.S. economy is developing to benefit a planetary Plutocracy rather than the majority of the people of the United States today. It is improbable that some sort of substantive disruption of smooth global supply lines will not develop in the decade ahead. And equally bad is the fact that if it does not occur the economical outlook for the majority of American may continue to decline.

The U.S. Economy as I See It Today

The U.S. economy as I see it today is moving in the wrong direction. Yet for Wall Street and the top 20% of U.S. earners taking 85% of the national income every year the 230 million people sharing just 15% of the lemon pie of prosperity life is getting tougher. If Obama economic recovery meant just giving trillions of no interest loans and bail outs to the 1% and food stamps and extended unemployment benefits to the former middle class and present poor it would have been better simply to reform the economy and transition it to an ecological economic foundation.

I have been reading another book simply titled Plutocracy with contemporary data about the tale of two economies-one for the rich and one for the 230 million Americans not on the prospering side of concentrating wealth. One of the more remarkable yet in retrospect obvious points is that with just 15% of the national income the supply and demand of producers is more geared toward the minority with most of the income instead of the majority with only 15%. Producing stuff the rich will buy is a better way to get rich oneself, and of course the rich are increasingly the producers so they can to a certain extent have their cake and eat it too.

Numerous writers have pointed out that in 1944 the tax rate on the rich was 94%. The disparity between rich and poor wasn't very great and the middle class flourished until the Reagan tax cuts kicked in reducing the top tax rate from 70% down to 30 something %. The decline of the American middle class and problems for the poor in the modern era largely began in that time.

The Obama administration evidently feels that politics can't do anything to take back the economy for the majority of Americans and that is plainly wrong. Global economic forces make direct a more lassez faire approach to economics however political economy can also be influence by political reformers with intestinal fortitude in any era from that of the founders to F.D.R. and the new deal folks. Corporate networked power can be cut, taxes increased and ecospherically progressive business accentuated. America does not need to be a nation of progressive decay with 84% of corporations outsourcing.

Does President Obama really expect the Trayvon Martins of tomorrow to take out a $100,000 dollars in student loans and graduate from a college with little chance of a job thereafter? What is the alternative for the class of Americans getting 15% of the economic pie of prosperity who have also been given the demographic opportunity to start buying life insurance many don't need in order to pay for Obamacare? When the 230 million with 15% of the nation's income have to subsidize itself that is robbing Peter to Pay Paul and vice versa.

With the Plutonomy a nation for-itself and Wall Street a separate and unequal economy pumped up by the U.S. Government the national infrastructure and quality job creation prospects for improvement fade away. The comfortable middle class remnant may just not care yet the ecosphere and economic decline will erode their comfort zone in the years ahead too. Without taking back the nation's economy for the majority the corporate chains will continue to displace and expropriate American ingenuity, inventiveness and material production and after co-opting it and skimming savings relocate it abroad. That cycle is not being corrected by the Democrat Party, and who else is there?

The Opiate of the masses; entertainment in music, sports and Hollywood can keep the 230 million pre-occupied with things other than their political economic vital interests. It is possible to have free trade yet also develop a political ethos that lets the big corporations take care of themselves with government devoting itself to the well being of the people of the United States. While Asia, India and other BRIC nations have faster growing economies in the conventional non-sustainable style the U.S.A. could reform through taxation and a host of legislation the prioritization of limited size businesses independent from large corporations, and such would produce the majority of material infrastructure Americans require for living well.

An American defense industry ought to be as concerned about increasing the ecospheric health and economic and social well being as much as dropping napalm on terrorist clumps somewhere 'out there'. National defense of economic vital interests of the majority isn't well served when a global plutocracy makes the majority a kind of slum dwelling crowd pacified by entertainment.

Science Fiction Project Video (reading) Universal WIdget

I read a few minutes from science fiction prose I am writing.

http://youtu.be/_tF3MimLeOs

Renewal of N.S.A. Phone Surveillance, Panopticon, Plutonomy and Rev. Al Sharpton

Jeremy Bentham as founder of the utilitarian philosophy also developed the design of a panopticon. A panopticon was an institution where all of the inmates could be under the eyes of ubiquitous surbveillance. Ed Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's contributions to developing a global panopticon ruled by a manipulative Plutonomy were anticipated by a John Twelvehawk's trilogy ending in 2009 with The Golden City

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

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plutonomy.asp

http://www.iamjohntwelvehawks.com/

The .I.S.A. court renewed the N.S.A.'s authority to record phone records of U.S. citizens Saturday in spite of  the recent dust up after the Edward Snowden wikileaks.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/19/nsa-phone-surveillance-clapper-fisa-court/2570149/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-America/dp/0307279391

One wonders of Ed Snowden has found a Russian ebook publisher yet to provide the inside story on his exfiltration of classified information to the public in some sort of Pentagon Papers style. The Rev. Al Sharpton meanwhile is filling the news cycle with continuing street protest marches to get the Justice Department to charge the Florida neighborhood watch guy with hate crimes or other civil rights violation in the death of Trayvon Martin.

The plutonomy is concentrating national wealth. The real income of white males hasn't risen since 1973 in the U.S.A. The affirmative action classes of the past should upgrade from a 1960s paradigm and recognize that it is the rich and inside Wall Street networks that are the real socio-economic power in the U.S.A. these days. They are the key to populist economic fate rather than white males. The rich have no color for political purposes. They are an invisible empire of egoistic power pragmatically speaking.

The way to improve the standard of living for U.S. blacks isn't through creating a special and different class of race rights, reduction of self-defense right while avoiding demand for increased taxation of the rich and reforming capitalism through law for the benefit of democracy to reduce the gap between rich, poor and middle class. If black youth as well as others were fully employed or good students with a quality culture in a recovering ecosphere with full employment far fewer individuals would be shot in self-defense.

A global panopticon with few individual rights and a disarmed populace fully monitored by a zillion chips and surveillance modes in every aspect of their life might have been an ideal of B.F. Skinner as well as Jeremy Bentham for its greatest good for the greatest number as well as the intensity of happiness by the ruling elite. Yet a prison is still a prison even if its more of a planetary lunatic asylum of meatheads fulfilling their organic impulses benevolently dominated by a Plutonomy. 

Needless to say that is not the American dream. It might lead to mindless consumerism and a networked capitalism that is an economic gambling house redistributing wealth and political power to the 1%. The world ecosphere may continue to decline because none of the businesses can afford to go out of business because of environmental legislation. Neither can large corporations afford to let corporate size be capped at 5000 workers or the number of shares of any corporation an individual could own stock shares in at three. Downsizing capitalism so that it is more competitive, less networked, more human and with alpha local rather than global personality leadership would be anathema to the Plutonomy.