The fact is beyond irony; it
rolls over into amusement. I should look to Erasmus’ treatise ‘In Praise of
Folly’ for guidance perhaps, yet there is enough inspiration with the novel
corona-virus and the warm water found beneath a large Antarctic glacier
recently.
Of course there are too many environmental insults to
mention individually. The atmosphere is warming, the oceans are rising, species
are undergoing human-caused mass extinctions and the oceanic cradle of life is
becoming acidic and wreaking damage to shellfish.
Numerous unnecessary conflicts such as that of Ukraine
are a consequence of political leaders chasing after money instead of peace and
prosperity for a world made to work together cooperatively. Democrats have supported war there instead of peace with Russia yet have also said they will put forward a green infrastructure plan costing 760 billion dollars U.S., probably because the impeachment of President Trump failed. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/infrastructure-house-budget-climate-108396
Humanity with an introverted macro-worldview cannot
usually see the woods for the individual trees that seem such objects made for
profit. As humanity burns the planks of its ecosphere for more financial velocity
it also invents technology that accelerates dangers of democide with biological
weapons and once again increases nuclear weapons proliferation.
Thankfully the human race may create a sustainable and
independent Moon colony soon and after that, a Martian colony so a tiny
fraction of the human race could theoretically survive the planets’
destruction. I am confident that human political leadership will discover some
way to nip though survivors in the bud and assure the extinction of the entire
human race- at the very moment when it is most burgeoning in numbers with
global overpopulation.
It is somewhat funny that humanity can invent so many
tools and technology and have no capacity to use it reasonably with ecospheric
zoning criteria that keep the world’s ecosphere safely healthy and intact. The
simplest way is to restore large wilderness areas amidst metropolitan
population centers with new technology prevent harm to humans from wildlife. I shouldn’t mention all of the optimistic and
excellent prospects that exist for the human future if they can solve the
world-view problems they have endemically.
A need to synergize free enterprise
with ecospheric restoration need be made with economic and political economy
reform and that sort of thing though simple paradigmatically is probably beyond
the world-view paucity found in at least most U.S. politicians.
I received my second e-mail with a constituent survey from Alaska Representative Don Young recently. For the second time taking the blind-to-the-result-when-taking the-survey poll I scored first place with the majority of Alaskans that after looking at the lengthy roster of issues the Congressman asked most concerned the constituency, took the last option; 'other' (aka none of the above). The poll results highlight what most Americans suspect about the Congress- that it is out of touch with social reality. I looked at the numerous options including increasing military spending and making America energy independent (we already are the world's largest producer of oil). Many Americans actually would like to be independent of fossil fuels for energy. I found nothing mentioning global atmospheric heating or ecosphere decay. Ocean acidification is another element of the whole destroy the ecosphere coordination of industrialized and post-industrialized nations. One might wonder if U.S. dentists sending impressions to Chinese dental labs have risk of receiving novel coronoviruses contaminated dental constructions in return- perhaps in saliva or germs upon dentures, crowns etc. What does President Trump know about that, and when did he know it? The Congressman provided no opportunity to mark those as concerns they would like President Trump to address. In fact there is no space for a suggestion for better questions on the Congressman's next poll. An amusing Congress. At least Democrats are working to bump out U.S. workers and keep down wages with illegal aliens when they aren't cutting taxes on the rich. Right; restoring a progressive tax rate that reduces the concentration of wealth and pays down the national public debt might have been useful question concern options for the Congressman to ask. With Rep. Young one has a Hobson's choice of supporting his policies of destroying the forests, oceans, waterways and increasing atmospheric heating or voting for godless atheist policies of Democrats. It is better to abstain in some cases from voting for either party and its lackeys.
Reading a recent book on Quantum Mechanics- ‘What is Real’
precipitated an idea concerning the wave-particle duality that I Have thought
about recently. The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics suggests
that Q.M. describes simply sampled elements of particle-waves without saying
anything about a ‘real world’ quantum realm or ocean underlying the physical
world of the Universe that I will refer to forthwith as the entangled world.
The entangled world comprising the physical, observable
Universe is that in which quantum particles have become entangled with other
particles and formed steady state clumps. The clumps are called energy and
matter. The Universe and the perceived empty spaces or voids sentient human
beings experience observably, objectively is also one of which they are part.
One wonders what field or force enables the entire steady state of material, energy
clumpiness.
Einstein and Bohm disputed the simplistic view of the Copenhagen
interpretation. Einstein believed there should be some underlying force or
field that allows quantum particles to exist and enter into material
entanglement. What that quantum substructure could be like is interesting to
consider. It could account for gravity, dark energy and dark matter. https://www.space.com/quantum-entanglement-photo.html
The wave function postulates the probability of a particle
at every possible location in the Universe. Its probability will of course be
greatest at the point where it is observed. If the field is Parmenidean monism
in character, particles that arise from it to become part of the entangled
Universe are likely not of a unique character; they are simple elements of
force structure of entanglement at a given location that is charged by the
entire field. There are no individual particles in the unentangled field; the
force entangled becomes particles or waves, as the case may be, when they
become entangled. Scientific experimenters are themselves part of the entangled
field.
Gravity seems to lend support to the inference that
entangled clumps are attracted to other entangled clumps; that phenomenon is
observed in the Universe and called gravity. Quantum entangled clumps in the
Unentangled field draw in other entangled clumps in a way that could be
described with Einstein general relativity illustration of warping space like
weights on a rubber sheet. The mechanics of how entangled clumps draw together
within the meta-Unentangled field is a question I need leave to the experts. The unentangled field characteristics might be
able to account for dark energy and matter too I suppose, depending upon the
geometry and dimensionality of the unentangled quantum field, or better, unentangled
monistic field. Whenever researchers consider new particle-waves or force carriers of the entangled Universe they need determine and observe the presence of quantum wave particles in the entangled state. That realm may not be able to explain why entangled clumps afloat in unentangled monism draw together, for the unentangled monism may not be directly measurable or quantifiable from the contingent, entangled Universe or Universes.
With the signing into law the U.S.M.C.A. today President Trump brought his second major foreign policy initiative to the nation in two days. The Trump Middle East Peace Plan announced yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Middle East leaders in attendance was the single most realistic Peace initiative approaching a final settlement, ever (since the Balfour Agreement). The terrorist gang leadership of the Palestinians (i.e. Hamas) of course summarily dismissed the plan because they would lose terrorism employment if peace and a two-state solution became actualized. A foreign policy loss arrived as a present from Britain when the Brits decided to accept Huawei 5G Internet wiring of their nation. American intelligence officials have discouraged its use because of the threat of providing Chinese spooks with a view to Western intelligence rather easily. Britain liked the cheaper cost of Huawei as an alternative to European products that cost more without superior performance. That is a very old story in the rise of China as a nation with cheap labor costs receiving Western investment and sales. Karl Marx did say that the capitalists would sell them the rope communists hang them with; apparently that follows the law of supply and demand. President Trump has rectified the problems inherent in the previous N.A.F.T.A. agreement and built portions of border wall to prevent illicit trans-border migrant workers from undermining the consequences of the agreement. If large capitalists can undermine national and international trade agreements (or communists) by relocating cheap labor illegally the end result would be the concentration of wealth and impoverishment, comparatively, of the majority. To continue to generate good foreign policy works while the House Democrat impeachment managers continue to try to convict the President of partisan imaginary crimes with the conviction of believers in Nessie trying to prove the Loch Ness monster is real and a threat to Scotland's national security is remarkable. Even with a public hearing that finds no evidence that is persuasive enough partisans never stop bring in new,material, and never would.
The thrilling episodes of the Trump impeachment trial continuing through the election year brings viewers new drama watching Rep. Adam Schiff discourse to the public on the President's misdeeds in bullying the Ukraine while NBC's The Blacklist is off the air and isn't expected to resume until July or August 2020 if I recall. The Impeachment Show could be renewed for the 2021 season with a few more viewers if too many booriché outlaw assos don't drive them off. It is possible that witnesses enabled by a few Senators on the Republican side such as Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Mitt Romney will bring more excitement to the drama with stories of Hunter Biden dashing through the mud-filled front lines in the battle of Ukraine vs Russia on the Eastern front to bring relief to war-bedraggled Democrat Party forces. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/27/romney-trial-impeachment-senate-trump-107171 Witnesses might include the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Russia Vladimir Putin, as well as the British Royal family, MI-5 and 6 and French President Macaroon to clarify the role President had in asking for an investigation into Democrat Party elite machinations in the former Soviet Union state of Ukraine. The author of the Steele dossier and sundry former KGB members and former Ukraine Soviet intelligence officials may have the true dope enfilading the effect an investigation of the Biden conundrum would have on the 2020 U.S. Presidential election directly. Plainly foreign investigations sway U.S. voters quite a bit and would change the minds of millions and millions of Democrats to vote for President Trump-as he well knew it would. If the investigation into the Biden board membership and trench war had gone ahead the leftist media such as C.N.N. and the Washington Post, New York Times et al would have flip flopped to all in behind the election of Donald Trump. It is lucky that the matter was caught with deep insider informants to Rep. Adam Schiff or the public would have never known.
I am surprised that the topic of collusion between Democrats and foreign media to influence elections in the United States hasn't been raised. Even British tabloids often give unfavorable coverage to President Trump. Democrats were all over the Ukraine looking for things to benefit themselves and their election interests one would think, at least with foreign policy victories for propaganda purposes. With the Internet being entirely international one encounters lunatic leftist that hate President Trump in chatrooms and foreign media alike. many of the left view the United States as an obstacle to world dominion by whatever variety of lunatic, ineffective and ecologically destructive policy they have. On the other hand, many foreigners hate global warming deniers so much that they seek to influence the 2020 election to get rid of president Trump and convert the United States into a socialist ecotopia like that of the former Soviet Union and Ukraine. I personally believe that all of the political parties are incompetent at ecological economics and reforming economic infrastructure with directed evolution of free enterprise to a synergistic relationship between mankind and the ecosphere. Americans should be able to be politically self-determining and hear American opinions amidst the cacophony of global opinions.
Some accounts have President Hoover deporting one million Mexicans during the great depression. That might have followed Mexican nationalization of oil fields with U.S. oil company assets. That is a little like the situation in Iran in the 1950's that led to the coup and restoration of the Shah. I wasn’t familiar with it. Apparently President Hoover authorized the deportation of Mexicans that were believed to be illegals during the depression. Economic panic stimulated state and local governments to enact an ethnic cleansing policy of Mexican foreign nationals. However a large percentage were birthright U.S. citizens. Fortunately that could not recur because everyone now has good I.D. and on-line birth records. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation The issue underscores the need to have secure borders and citizenship accounts so people may know who is and isn’t a U.S. citizen. The spaced out way benefits drug traffickers and Democrats that value corruption as a normal, desirable condition. The Mexican Government did not declare war on Nazi Germany until very late in the war. * They seemed to be recalcitrant, and might have hoped that a German victory would give them a new deal for retaking land from the United States that formerly belonged to Spain. Clear citizenship would help to disambiguate issues of where people have a lawful right to live, and serve to avoid hurt feelings that can exacerbate international conflict relations. *A reader had another account of the time of entry of Mexico into the war that is substantially different, and apparently factual. Mexico entered the war in 1942 with a declaration and material and economic aid, though not military participation. The Bracero program supplied labor during the war to the United States. Apparently the course of the war brought U.S. and Mexican policy a little closer together, for during the 1930s Mexico had nationalized oil fields owned by U.S. oil companies, and of course that created a rift. Mexico provided material and economic assistance, though did not participate militarily until 1944. Mexican President Ávila Camacho felt Mexican military participation could get Mexico a better international political position after the war, so in 1944 he sent Mexicans to pilot combat training in the United States. Mexican Squadron 201 a.k.a. The Aztec Eagles flew 739 missions out of Manila Bay in 1945. President Camacho also allowed Mexicans to enlist in the U.S. military and appx. 15,000 did. About 1,492 of those were lost in the war. https://www.history.com/news/mexico-world-war-ii-surprising-involvement
If the
Universe exists, something exists. Everything has a source or an origin.
Scientific
studies, researches, observations and inferences have found much of the physics
and structure of the Universe. There may be infinite Universes. Those Universes
had an origin; a first cause of being and becoming.
Some
physicists speculate that nothing gave rise to everything.
Virtual particles
emanating from a vacuum entangle and remain steady like a cloud of nothing
precipitating raindrops. If the vacuum actually had a field that produced or emanated
virtual particles, that place or situation is considered the beginning of
everything, yet it already was, or always was. Something or someone may have
existed before, and the field could itself be a thought in the mind of God.
Even so, if
the field emanated myriad universes that at some stage inducted
content-energy/virtual particles from the vacuum field, in one of those
Universes it could have produced an intelligent being twenty times greater than
a human being of Einstein’s genius intellectually. It is not certain that a
human-like brain could not be made to appear in some Universe’s order of
assembly, call it evolution if you like. That super-human super-genius
understanding how a Universe is physical made could have created an infinite
number of Universes himself as a littler god or a big god depending upon one’s
point of view. Quantum cosmology is different than QM. It is a needed developing field. Evolution is a way of regarding temporal phases in thermodynamics. God ((QM x Evo)) = human present experience Evolution has no purpose, no teleology, in itself. Benefits are relational terms and problems or possibilities of the criterion. One must look to that and regard evolution as a tool of God if looking for purpose. Consciousness has no purpose for evolution although it has a function. Evolution without God is a great pile of nothing meaningful at all. It is a sand pile as high as a pyramid that fails and flattens out eventually. God ((QM x Evo)) = human present experience. QM-Quantum Mechanics
Science is made with extrapolations of structure and function based on observations. That approach has developed much knowledge, yet the knowledge is always contingent and temporal until a deeper explanation and basis is discovered. Newton's theory of gravity was true and functional and later surpassed by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. In time one expects a deeper explanation to surpass that though the theory itself will remain valid within a limited parameter. It is possible that massive gravity or even a deterministic holographic account of gravity could explain away the General Theory. Gravity itself could be just an appearance of a completely determined Multiverse possible made with the assembler language of mathematics. Uncertainty is virtually certain. Socrates said he knew that he knew nothing in the first well known expression of epistemological doubt.
Human beings
enamored with their own discoveries about the physical construction of the
Universe have with ample ego inferred that they are for-themselves the smartest
kids in the Universe (room) and that god could not exist. I have above shown
that He logically could exist and actually should exist if a Multiverse exists.
The 19th
century German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel believed that God was a process of
trying to realize Himself in history. Hegel’s concept of God is appropriate for
a God emanating from a vacuum and field evolving Himself into awareness through
history as a kind of Gaia for the Universe. If God so evolved in-himself and
for-others he might choose to send an authorized representative of Himself to
mankind and any other sentient beings; Jesus Christ.
There are
numerous ways that God may have arisen from a vacuum field. The fact that a vacuum
field exists at all at some point instead of really nothing is something to
consider. Another point to ponder is would a mind existing before
nothing-before a vacuum field, have a reason to want to think about anything
such as contents of Universes, as objects and what relationship would he have
to those that would be most efficient or useful for-himself. There is a horizon problem regarding what can be known about the Universe that implicitly coheres in its physical construction concerning space-time. With the present science what pre-existed this manifest Universe and what follows its end, if there is one, cannot be known by science. One may speculate about theoretical causes of this Universe and where the Universe itself is in regard to other possible Universes, yet one cannot directly observe or verify those speculations. If like some theoretical particles some day science allows a human mind to break the bonds of the speed of light and be everywhere in the Universe as a finite yet omniscient observer, it has challenging to speculate what the bounds would be for that mind...just this one Universe or every possible Universe that could exist? If the Universe is a Multiverse and there is an aMultiversal timeless neo-eternity of vacuum containing it, would our human mind-explore have the right stuff to be omnipresent in the eternal vacuum (that could really be just a phase-field of some sort that itself changes in an unknown way) of non-being and be in all times and places in each Universe of the Multiverse that ever was, is or will be? There are many tough questions and challenges for science to answer, and they aren't necessarily antipathetic to the story of the Bible; more perhaps, irrelevant to it except as supporting props for accurate interpretations of the book of God.
Since Darwin’s
theory became popular many people have dismissed the idea of the existence of
God summarily; that is they repeatedly have made summary judgments regarding
the being of God having regarded the weight of the evidence of science and
evolution vs. the Bible’s creation material. They usually are unfamiliar with
the Bible in detail and have encountered a lifetime of science. They are
persuaded that the Bible is a Neolithic story that evolution science has
superseded; in short they are not philosophically minded enough to consider the
question of cosmology in relation to a Supreme Being at all. For various
reasons they prefer to regard themselves as virtual lizards evolving in the
tangled bank of environmental destruction on Earth underway in order to
over-produce goods and comforts for human beings most wastefully.
They regard
Evolution as a true belief that requires the falsification of God. That
paradigm is wrong on the logical scientific and philosophical axis as well as
on the Biblical axis; it is not at all uncommon for people to notice that the
basic order and parameters of the Bible book of Genesis concerning creation
bares structural similarities or parallels to evolution. They are not actually in
opposition logically; God may have evolved the Universe and for that matter,
Adam and Eve could have been not simply legendary representative beings; they
may have been Super-beings challenged by all of the philosophical, ethical and
moral challenges humans experience after the fall and set in to the mortal coil
of temporal thermodynamics.
I need leave off this essay here and will leave with a url for my free e-book with some
ideas on the topic. Sometime I hope to write a revision with updates on various
interesting matters.
The 2020 Presidential race is lacking a candidate that would choose to eliminate public debt. Democrats would like to add trillions and trillions to public debt as if they were nuts with no concern about busting the U.S. economy thereby. They don't mind risking Social Security, Medicare and all the rest of social infrastructure programs that could be eliminated if the Big Crash occurs.
President Reagan started the debt ball rolling with his use of permanent Keynesian economics relabeled supply side economics, to stimulate economic advance, grow the military and out-perform the late Soviet Union. Well, that program worked. Unfortunately not even the inventor of public spending that adds great public debt to stimulate the economy, John Maynard Keynes, regarded the policy as anything beside a temporary and phenomenal technique. Neither he nor most economists before the Arthur Laffer era thought the policy could be permanent. Over the course of history great public has been proven to be bad policy, I believe, with few exceptions. Debt has led to wars. Debt default usually harms the poor first as conservatives denounce the lazy or corrupt poor that won't work honest jobs as they have. Everyone it is held can advance socially to a better class if they try. Unrealistic as that is, the option of cutting spending on the poor that have poor political representation and economic leverage remotely equivalent to that of the rich is the first to go. There isn't anything wrong with balancing the federal budget and eliminating public debt. Public debt of immense scale such as the 23 trillion dollars of U.S. public debt could take generations to pay down. Virtually anything that is done with an imbalanced budget could be done better with a balanced budget if politicians had a clue for the trail of innovation, invention and resourcefulness and management. It is easier though to select more politicians with bad policies without a concern about eliminating U.S. public debt or reforming free enterprise with directed evolutionary selection for programs and policies that restore the national ecospheric vitality and promotes all citizens from the bottom up out of poverty, social or medical insecurity. As was said in the Wizard of Oz, and could be said of many politicians; "If I only had a brain."
God is great. People should not be too concerned with self-image instead of achievement. The United States is probably greater than it ever was, it is simply the case that the content has evolved and mass urbanization and demographics have increased tremendously from the beginning. The U.S.A. has an identity crisis- perhaps a perpetual crisis, and as it has lost its frontier character it has found so many different values and peoples thrown together and there is necessarily conflict with those values. The problem is compounded by the will to power by so many groups, and the failure of plain governing authorities with good ideas to lead and fuse national character in to something more than greed and ecological ignorance.
Even as the nation increases in education and technology it has decreased its environmental quality and certain traditional values as well. There is no question that in former times for example a century ago, ordinary Americans were of a more self-reliant and spiritual character. That was in part a result of the more sparse population and freedom of Americans from the intense socialization of the electronic media. The electronic media supplanted traditional agencies of socialization such as the Church. That does not mean that the nation is experiencing challenges today that are not capable of getting successful responses, though it may seem improbable.
One major political party- the Democrat Party, is failing to represent ordinary lower and middle class Americans at all well. Its constituents are quite differently socialized than the politics of the masses from the past. It is programmed by the electronic media and socialized to seek power for itself as special class interests. It is a very shallow representation of the interests of real Americans that serves it poorly, for it has no plain empirical comprehension of the real challenges to the nation or what responses should be to the challenges of which it is largely discognizant.
The Democrat Party has proven an ability to divide rather than unify the nation. It has gone along with tax cuts that have concentrated wealth too far while it failed to assure that the most poor would find it easy to rejoin the workforce at any part of their lives. The party has become too urbanized and simultaneously globalized and imbued with post-modernist philosophy that is more important than empirical common sense for the body politic. Republicans of course simply pursue tax cuts and the enrichment of the rich while not doing enough to defend a more egalitarian free enterprise system economically.
Each party has failed to recognize the disastrous land use policies environmentally speaking that have brought the ecosphere into steep decline and brought a global mass extinction of species. Humanity depends upon the web of life of the ecosphere and need learn how to do economics without destroying it. It is very likely that if the web of life on earth is finally broken, humanity will become a casualty too.
I think Christians always were going to be on their own with a different ethic and view of life than the lost without faith. Christians are the salt of the Earth, yet they need to have right opinions about the Bible too, and not be too overconfident that they correctly understand everything in it.
There is a large disagreement about when the tribulation was for example. Some believe it already occurred in the first century A.D. and others think it ahead. Some believe that God evolved the Universe and life on Earth with his omnipotence, and others that it popped into being in six days without comprehending general relativity or the book of Genesis in its historical construction. Those failures of comprehension can make Christians lose their savor as the salt of the Earth (well, some at least), because in their error they make themselves pessimists and detached from concern about the well being of the ecosphere of Earth instead of being its stewards. Atheists are as bad or worse in misunderstanding the Bible and in making superfluous and rash inferences about the existence of God because of the Darwin paradigm of evolution. Christian error allows the schism socially and logically to go unchallenged; many are lost because they cannot believe that God could have evolved the world. Philosophically speaking the nature of human speculation and orthodox opinions are interesting. Humans have ideas and groups of ideas to form sets of ideas that are given structure and become orthodox with the ratios and relations are true. Yet every aspect of true opinions of sets lends themselves to speculation and theoretical sets in order in improve knowledge. Believe it or not that process can be applied to theology too. I was amused by the subject and wrote a brief poem about reason and ratios today.
Reasoned Sets, Ratios and Metaphysics
Reasons set the ratios of sets
relationships of elements known
and the unknown theoretical relations
forming metaphysics of sets'
speculations
Content of so many arguments
about elements and relations
inclusion and exclusion
categories
cats, eagles and dogs
Universe with Wordsworth
theoretical elements and field notations
discursively captured phenomena
before membranes, big bangs and other dimensions
sets of theoretical speculations
ossify in reasoned doctrine
dripping stalagmites all.
The entire planetary ecosphere likely was evolved by God in co-dependent directed evolution from the beginning. Directed evolution is consistent with Universe pre-determinism and pre-destination. One cannot remove an arm or a leg here or there and not affect the entire organism in which humanity coheres. Many don't realize the evolutionary history of ecological systems or those of the water with a semblance of competence. The faithless have always been a part of society. Tolerance of diverse opinions politically is the essence of the marketplace of ideas that enables natural production and selection of the best ideas socially. Those ideas actualized drive human progress forward. Society need advance in competence rather than simple decadence or comfort of an empirically myopic character.
Eventually some politicians will need to comprehend the principles of sustainable ecosphere with a sustainable environmental business economic plan. It is far more than remediation for global atmospheric heating that is needed. The ecosphere health issue is important enough to the well-being of mankind that is should be an issue for itself unencumbered by partisan riders for social issues that are completely divisive. In the Toynbean paradigm of challenge and response both parties are failing the challenge of sustaining a health ecosphere on Earth.
The United States has great potential as do the rest of the world’s nations. Building a reformed free enterprise economy that works within directed political economy parameters to restore the ecosphere and assure that all Americans have a good life quality with freedom is a great challenge that can be overcome someday, with work.
Politicians should attempt to accomplish important non-partisan issues legislation that sets aside divisive social issues to work the reform needed for the future and present. Many of the special interest groups pursuing their own agendas to benefit themselves will need to find remedies for that within an egalitarian economic reform that is task oriented to accomplish work that benefits all of society without destroying the ecosphere’s health.
