The Roman Republic Two-Thousand Years Ahead of its Time

In some respects the Roman Republic was two thousand years ahead of its time. When the Republic was brought to an end by the first charismatic general able to command the allegiance of the masses (Julius Caesar during the civil war) a new political concept for humanity started by Plato and Greek inspiration came to an end. Humanity for most of its history civilizations had imperial rule Athens and other Hellenic Greek states were not like that. What followed the civil war was nearly 1800 years of imperialism across the globe except where tribes were too primitive and small for empire.

 Looking at history this way creates a new window for the analysis of the past. Christianity served after the end of the Roman Republic as the model for democracy. The election of a pope instead of family inheritance or pure force to rule was the norm even after the rise of the Roman Empire. 

 During war the Republic that often had twin Consuls in a shared-Presidential kind of role were placed under the power of a Dictator who ruled the nation for one-year terms until the war was concluded. The role of Dictator for war is obsolete in the modern age for the United States at least, although China has a president for life who has power somewhat like a dictator.

 A pope had the power to rule after election something akin to that of a Roman Republican dictator who served for a year during time of war. The Pope’s power of dictatorship in a Holy War against the realm of Satan continued until the Protestant Reformation when Christian leadership from the generally democratic Catholic Church splintered into a constellation of non-imperial political self-determination as well as spiritual self-determination under the Lord Jesus Christ and God. Christian leaders became founders of democracies and imperialism was rolled back over the course of centuries.

 In the modern era the success of capitalism is a renewed threat to democracy. Concentrated wealth brings political power and laws of advantage to the richest citizens as they form a global neo-imperial empire wherein all except the one percent and their ten percent professional class of insulators have little political power and a fraction of national income.

 The correction of the trend toward a proletariat ruled by an elite may be difficult to reverse because of demographics of the planet, limits to material productivity increase and the fact that capital increases at 4 to 5% annually while growth of productivity increasing at a half-percent as is necessary to conserve non-renewable resources means that concentration of wealth is self compounding at a much faster pace than productivity. Capital increases and high-level wages benefit 10% and less of the people while world ecological health decreases and people have little real power to do anything about it. Maybe the ancient Roman Republic could provide examples and ideas for how to reform U.S. politics in time to save national sovereignty, democracy and environmental viability.

Economic Philosophy for Government Supercomputer

 Economic Philosophy for Government Supercomputer 

Mood slate ‘verberations
obsidian windows
life and death

Waves over triplicates
driplicates under waves
duplicate reverberations

Economic engine margins
ballooned scalar structures
field beyond the edge.

  The political philosophy of the economic system of the modern world is about two - three centuries old. The modern economic philosophy was designed for a human economy largely before industrialization and entirely before the rise of computers. It was largely an evolved village life system with caste systems of rulers repressing or alternatively defending the masses, peons, proles, people and so on. That system continues today and it is maladapted to the modern machine-computer,  inhuman technology of the era.

 Defenders of the modern economic philosophy primarily argue for capitalism or Marxism's varieties. Neither system is actually in effect in any pure since the rise of machines and computers. Instead, an ad hoc patchwork of economics grew to bring society along where required. An upper class of elites remained. A thousandth of the U.S. population owns 20% of the wealth. Ten percent of the people own approximately 70% of national income; it is a very inefficient system almost comical in its works throwing trillions of dollars here and there in ‘emergencies’ and running up 26 trillion dollars of public debt to plumb the depths of the super-computer guided machine like deep sea explorers of the Calypso.

 One must wonder what an efficient new software install of economic philosophy would do for the super-machine. Perhaps Bill Gates and windows was the patchwork D.O.S. install the wealth managers of the village system put in to exploit the modern global economic potential of the machine, yet that was still founded in the village system and wasn’t cognizant of the environment or people and human loss of potential that it brought.

 The U.S. government built the first electronic computers in the quest to construct an atomic bomb. The elite classes used the technology for their own uses in harnessing modern technology to serve them. It would be good to liberate the potential of modern technology for the maximum benefit of humanity with an upgrade in political economy software.

* Clear Halloween face masks with eye coverings and small replacable nose and mouth filters would be popular with those seeking good protection from covid 19 in heavy people traffic, yet the government seems disinterested in mass producing the easy ppe that even people on buses could wear to and let bus the economy work a little better without the mass new infections.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/06/25/coronavirus-update-record-new-cases-florida-california-texas-trump/3254119001/

 

 

Quantum Field Theory and Immanuel Kant

 The 18^th century German philosopher contributed numerous important ideas to the advance of philosophy. Some of Immanuel Kant’s most well known concepts concern epistemology and logic regarding how people think about the world they experience. The world people experience cognitively, interactively, the world of sight and sound as Rod Sterling might have said, is phenomenal in Kant’s lexicon. One may consider it with a posteriori, a priori and synthetic a priori judgments. The phenomenal world exists in contrast to the noumenal. The noumenal is the world as it really is in-itself (to borrow Sartre’s terminology). There is quite a difference between the world and things of the world that are perceived by humans and the things or substance of the world as it actually is for-itself.

 Quantum field theory is a way of describing the fields in which quanta of energy occur. The electromagnetic field is one such field and the Higgs field is an example of another. The Higgs field is of especial interest these days because its description is mostly undefined and its existence allows particles of other fields to slow down enough to have a third dimension instead of just two dimensions as they are flattened travelling at a velocity near the speed of lights where Einstein’s special theory of relativity kicks in to affect mass and energy. To a certain extent Kant’s phenomenal world is comparable to the actual world of the mass of the Universe that has three dimensions because of the action of the Higgs field on all particles.

 It is said that mass is convertible to energy and vice versa and that mass is a secondary quality of energy. Like the phenomenal world of appearance that is present when humans observe it with select cognitive capabilities and with a particular molecular composition that allows certain kinds of interactions with non-self mass/energy, the world that physicists observe of the quantum realm in field theory descriptions of where packets of energy known as mass probably occur is a phenomenal world with somewhat deeper structural characteristics than the more general and topological phenomenal realm of experience. Maybe the boundary or frontier of the deepest intuited noumenal realm keeps moving back to deeper, unfathomable regions more remote from common sense.

 Kant’s noumenal realm today might be thought of as that of pure, unknowable energy for-itself that emits all of the energy and fields that appear as a phenomenal world and Universe. If the noumenal realm of pure energy is unknown, so is its nature. Pure energy for itself may be conscious and without spatial or temporal location; it could be without dimensions or any determinative quality that would reduce it to a finite status. If it were thought of as a string-cable of pure energy there could be an infinite number of Universe-phenomenalities-for-others that arise in an infinite number of spaces, perhaps like solar flares from a star- the topic is interesting to consider, and one of the challenges is that the possibilities lead readily to theological speculations in addition to the problem of considering a no-dimensional, non-space-time pure energy being in-itself as the basis for all fields that exists as they run through their thermodynamic quantity of original energy.

Black Deaths Matter; Improve Police Non-Lethal Arrest Methods

Black deaths from Police encounters matter. A Democracy that is more or less egalitarian except for great economic inequalities should not accept lethal arrest procedures as any sort of normal condition. While the statistics do not show much of a race factor in the killings considering that white people have a most common age 30 years older than blacks and also have a near zero population growth, killing people as a method of arrest is wrong unless it involves extreme circumstances such as hostages, armed robberies, terrorism and etc.

One gets the feeling that some police regard a gun and shootings as if it were a video game. A killing of a black man who ignored a female police officer in Oklahoma last year showed that shooting people because of frustration or incapability of making an arrest is not discouraged sufficiently. Any citizen should feel safe walking the streets of the nation, and of course that includes a police presence. Even so police should be able to use non-lethal methods to subdue offenders resisting arrest.

A choke hold or headlock is one of the most common roughhouse grappling holds that even children use in fights. If it is to be entirely replaced training police officers in M.M.A. skills for a year before hitting the streets will perhaps become necessary for the safety of policemen. In a fight police of course can use in the hold as may any citizen in self-defense.   Common sense however will inform anyone including police that the hold must be released before the individual on whom it is applied is killed. A possible circumstance would be if a policeman has already been shot and stabbed and to release the hold would afford the attacker an opportunity to finish the killing of the policemen too weak to otherwise defend.

The Original Political Sin

 The will to dominate and subjugate others including their interiority (e.g. thoughts) is the primary political sin.

 A secondary quality of the original sin is deceiving others about an other individual or individuals concerning what they think, do, their history, goals etc. Misrepresentation and dissimulation reinforce the primary political sin.

 In case one wonders about the relation of political sin to original sin the bridge (shared rem) is thermodynamics and the human trait of the need to consume energy including others.

 John chapter 6-“47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me

hath everlasting life.

48 I am that bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are

dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven,

that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven:

if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the

bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the

life of the world.

52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying,

How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto

you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink

his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath

eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink

indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,

dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the

Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven:

not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that

eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught

in Capernaum.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard

this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?”

 

Matthew chapter 26 : 26”¶ And as they were eating, Jesus    took bread, and

blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and

said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to

them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is

shed for many for the remission of sins.

29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this

fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with

you in my Father's kingdom.”

  Though faith in Jesus humans overcome the criterion of original sin. The Lord provides the atoning sacrifice replacing human nature with his own.

New Names for Old Forts, etc.

Some politicians seek to appease rioters by renaming U.S. Army Forts after the race that rioted most recently. Ft. Hood was named for the one-armed Confederate General who lost the battle of Atlanta and fled toward Charleston, S.C. with Sherman in hot pursuit. Hood was a tough guy though not a professional soldier at all- he had replaced the ineffective General Bragg who was relieved from those concluding defensive battles on the S.W. front. I have a few suggestions for more suitable names for those two forts.

The preferred alternative for Ft. Hood is Ft. Benavidez. The S.W. is becoming largely Hispanic and naming a fort for the excellent soldier awarded a medal of honor would be inspirational for many enlistees who would admire the former Green Beret with one of the more glorious records that is second to none. There are more possibilities for the tanker base such as Ft. George Patton, Ft. Crazy-Horse, Ft. Taxes and Fort Tubman.

Renaming a fort is tough business. It is like making a choice of running mate that former Vice President Joe Biden is facing. So let’s consider Ft. Bragg’s possible new names carefully.

Ft. Eisenhower works best in my opinion. Honorable mentions go to Ft. Bobby Fischer, Ft. Bowie, Ft. Fitness, Fort Armstrong and Fort Pac-man.

Keeping U.S. military facilities named for those white men of the confederacy defending human slavery is bad P.R. for white men. As a minority on the planet white men don’t need to shoot themselves in the foot voter speaking, associating themselves with symbols of oppression and inhumanity.

If white men are to have a good place in the future national and world societies amid a majority of non-whites on Earth they need to be the best examples themselves of the philosophy of the founders. That is, equal justice, equal rights, an egalitarian distribution of wealth, freedom from tyranny and today, a recovering world ecosphere should to be regarded by the people of the world as good works of white American men that benefit everyone. Strong national border security for a secure electorate can only exist with strong popular support from all of a nation’s citizens that recognize their own valuable personal interests and those of the ecosphere being reinforced by a stable population with secure borders.

If white men choose to be known as slick capitalist oppressors without true allegiance to national borders and ideals or respect for the citizens of the nation so much as viewing them as utilitarian objects for exploitable labor it is likely their interests will decline amid a restive populous. Since 10% of Americans will soon own 90% of the national income white men of the 90% would be rather daft chumps as well. White men instead should be known for personifying the best democrat ideals of all human beings (that does not mean the most libertine or decadent).  While all men and women should have the ideals of the founders in their hearts regardless of race, it is evident that the retardant failure of an advantaged class of white men with regressive social views are particularly harmful to their own race that aren’t in the 10% or 1%.

Changing the names of a couple of forts given confederate labels that have outlived their usefulness should be a trivial matter for President Trump. Democrat party opposition will attack the President with vague demands of allegiance on voters for support of marginally productive policies the President disdains such as environmentalism. President Trump doesn’t want to alienate select southern voters, yet the number of confederate racist cranks are far fewer than independents that support equal justice across the south.

  Not everyone in the world believes or wants an aristocracy of plutocrats, elite communists, aloof oppressive imperials and media that control and own most wealth while the 90% have just a minority of national or global income, making life bad for all, minimizing  efficiency of human potential, and leading periodically to economic disaster and/or war for various reasons not the least of which is the massive majority are regarded as trashy subjects of the rich that can be pacified with media, dope and occasional riots. So carefully choosing a populist name, one that supports the ideals of the 90% rather than the 10% could be useful. The 1% are globalists; their interests differ quite a bit from democratic, economically egalitarian, free enterprise oriented, limited capital concentration, ecologically responsible nationalists.

Actual Facts about Police Killings vs. Arrests in U.S.A.

There is a lot of loose talk and virtually urban myth about police killings in America. One often hears that two and a half times as many blacks are killed as whites, and twice as many Hispanics as whites in support of the idea that the cause is racism. There is more to it than that.

 Violent crime is decreasing in the U.S.A. during the Trump administration. Still the F.B.I. estimated that in 2018 there were 1,206,836 violent crimes. Some sources report that police made ten and a half million arrests in 2019 and that four and a half million Americans went to jail. The Washington Post reported that about 1000 Americans are killed by police every year. That statistic seems reasonable considering how many arrests and violent crimes occur each year although of course it would be best if there were none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5GXbk58R0 Bad Company

 There are a couple of obvious reasons that blacks have a little more than twice as many people being killed as whites though blacks are a minority in comparison to whites;

1)    Blacks have a much higher birth rate than white and many more youth

2)    The most common age of whites is 58, of blacks 27 and of Hispanics 11.

 Older adults with just two children per family or less are more stable and don’t commit the kind of crimes that a younger, restive, uneducated urban black youth might-especially those in gangs, thus police interact with them more and some fatalities occur. Using racism as a coverall explanation for the higher percent of blacks being killed than whites seems intended to provoke racism in America at least among blacks.

If 50-60 something whites begin hanging out on street corners to form criminal gangs increasing muggings and drug trafficking it is certain that they will experience more adverse contact with police.

Incidentally there has been more than 60 million abortions in the U.S.A. since Roe v. Wade and most of those babies were white, though blacks were a close second; 49% for whites, 40% for blacks. As a minority blacks have a higher percentage of abortions these days. I would guess that is because whites have already achieved zpg and use more contraception.

https://nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf

https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/abortions-by-race/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-people-have-significantly-declined-experts-say/2018/05/03/d5eab374-4349-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html

 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-racial-ethnic-groups/

 https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2018-crime-statistics

 One might wonder why anyone should care about rationality when rioting and marching can perhaps help elect a Democrat to the White House and the answer is? (probably no Democrats).

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/good-policing-saves-black-lives

 

Anthem Anathemas, Riots, Ethics and Economics

 Recently the onerous issue of football players protesting during the national anthem returned to the public square under the category of all things blacks find wrong with America loosely affiliated with law enforcement brutality. With the D-Day commemoration just past it is worth considering the moral rightness or wrongness of holding the national anthem hostage to knee-taking millionaire protesters. Lebron James brought the subject up in a tweet regarding compliance with disrespecting the national anthem for partisan racial purposes as the sole morally correct choice in a right or wrong disjunctive paradigm. I wrote a post on moral norms last year that reviewed some of the philosophical ground from one approach concerning macro-social behavior that I will include following a couple of comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDiQhNO780 metal instrumental

 Colin Kapernik’s original organization of national anthem protests seemed like a kind of intifada against the anthem itself, or an interminable protest without an end in sight because of the lack of particular demands for releasing the anthem-hostage. Black Americans since the end of the civil war in 1865 have fared collectively worse than some other Americans economically speaking because of their racial, cultural and color clash with integrating normally with lighter-skinned people with better education and technically more proficient culture back in the day.  Slavery was an economic choice of avaricious ruling classes of prior centuries that made educating and integrating former slaves a problem for everyone else to the present day. Race as a political issue is easy to recognize and use for dividing the body politic helping to keep income inequality among abstract American masses going. Race as a motive to drive blacks to street protests and riots during the Covid 19 milieu may bring about the needless deaths of 10 to 20 thousand blacks that may contact the illness from marchers infected during marches.

 It is said that the Tsar when experiencing attacks on himself and the Russian aristocracy would prompt a program of Jews to keep the masses distracted; race politics serve much the same purposes in keeping the masses occupied with intractable problems without solutions arising to end problems that require a more egalitarian income equality for all non-rich American regardless of race.

Millionaires of pro sports taking a knee of protest during the national anthem are perhaps willing pawns of the most rich that pay them. Taking a knee during a half-time show in support of national income equality was an alternative possible time-slot that would have disambiguated the perceptible attack on the national anthem, nation and one race against another.

 2^nd Peter Chapter 2…

 “9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of

temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of

judgment to be punished:

10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust

of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous

are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of

dignities.

11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and

might, bring not railing accusation against them before

the Lord.

12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken

and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they

understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own

corruption;

13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as

they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots

they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their

own deceivings while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease

from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have

exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone

astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who

loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass

speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the

prophet.

17 These are wells without water, clouds that are

carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is

reserved for ever.

16418 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,

they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much

wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them

who live in error.

19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves

are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is

overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the

world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and

overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the

beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known

the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it,

to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them according to the true

proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and

the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace,

without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is

salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according

to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these

things; in which are some things hard to be understood,

which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as

they do also the other scriptures, unto their own

destruction.

17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things

before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error

of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord

and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for

ever. Amen.”

  The anthem attack, or anathema rap, could be construed as a support for globalism and basic anti-Americanism from millionaires of the hyper-meritocratic ilk that have made income inequality in the United States about the greatest on Earth. General racism can be a great diversionary issue to cover and conceal the deeper and objective problem of income inequality that is keeping the half of the populace living with just 4-5% of the national income.

 Correcting that problem is the greatest economic challenge facing the nation now along with the shared top-rank problem of ecological sustainability economic transition. Income inequality has occurred in every society under the old order of classical economics, yet it is mal-adapted today with the demographics of the people of the planet and the natural tendency to repress intellectual potential of the masses of the poor not just national, but globally. More egalitarian income allocations and opportunity will promote greater human efficiency in maximizing human potential for productivity, invention and learning.

 Racism that is subjective is psychological and personal and will always be present. Objective social structures and measurable, quantifiable income inequality can however be corrected by the will of competent congressional legislation and government such as may exist if competent individuals are elected and the broadcast media doesn’t always screw everything up because they are owned by the wealthiest Americans.

 Objectively speaking, organizational management is virtually a science. Correcting police management deficiencies through numerous means including legislative should be easy to accomplish. Correcting income inequality isn’t too easy because of the political and media power of concentrated wealth that may control American democracy as a kind of black-box.

 In brief the richest control maybe 20% of national capital and are few in number of less than 1% of the 1% of wealthiest Americans. A grossly over-paid hyper meritocratic class of elite managers are aristocrats loyal to the most rich and their existing structure of income inequality. The corporate management class is globalist as are the elite rich and keep American wages suppressed through numerous means including cheap foreign labor, illegal immigration and low minimum wages. One simple remedy to keep U.S. wages competitive with cheap foreign labor would be to pass a law requiring corporations to share profit-dividends with their workers who could build capital even while their wages are low. Another remedy would be free public education through graduate school; free education eliminates basic inability of the poor to afford education at higher levels easily affordable for the prosperous.

 The present structure of national income inequality is not the best one for meeting the demographic and environment challenges of the nation and world in the present- the existing structure is built on certain empirical assumptions of the past environmentally and educationally that are no longer valid. Free enterprise and capitalism can function within structure that is far more egalitarian and efficient at promoting human health, education and security in addition to ecospheric restoration to robust health.

 Contemporary democracy ought to evolve to a transparent state with a well-informed electorate living within egalitarian income equality criteria who understand the demographic and environmental limits and challenges facing themselves and the entire planet and working to solve those challenges. Everyone should have basic income security and with free enterprise and capitalism reformed to a more egalitarian and ecospherically configured condition.

 Hume- Is, Ought and What Not of Moral Norms

 "All prescriptive theory" is quite a large field that isn't even finished. Formal logic and the square of opposition has the A proposition being 'All are". One learns to be very careful with that. All are x or none are x can allow zero exceptions to be true. Hume wanted to disprove cause and effect relationships, so he necessarily would have pointed out the looseness of 'is' propositions to 'ought' or should propositions, quite reasonably.

 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/square/

 Prescriptive theories can be applied in fields beside moral philosophy, and in some case the formal logical tests would be applied equally and in others the tests fall outside of simple formal logic and within larger structures for analysis that might best be compared to dead reckoned sailing judgments. Rather than being logically rigorous propositions formally the use was analytical. One could say for instance that 1 + 3 equals 4 and the answer they provided is 5, and they ought to have written '4'. That kind of statement is reasonable.

  Moral propositions though, unlike Kant's categorical imperative that has some logical validity in a dead reckoning sort of way, are descriptive of actually existing human behavior and suggestions to improve that in some cases. In others it could be a simple observational use of the word 'ought' for a moral circumstance where variant behavior did not comply with the prevailing idea of the normal correct behavior.

 An example for that might be that a baby is crawling across a street amidst heavy traffic, the mother is lying on the sidewalk knocked out from a falling brick, and a passerby walks past the scene and allows the baby to be squished by a truck when he could have easily rescued the tyke from the road. While not legally responsible to rescue the infant, a police officer that saw the scene from a distance says to his partner the "the rogue ought to have saved that baby".  

 https://www.livescience.com/solution-to-worst-prediction-in-physics.html

 Experience of exigent circumstances are rather subjective and conditional, yet descriptive and normative (prescriptive) ethics describe situations in space-time, Situations that are recurrent can be emergent though not unique. Consider the Nurmagomedov vs. Porier UFC 242 fight- It was like a martial arts match where each knew various katas or forms. None were unique or original, and there are lots of prescriptive analysis about what ought to have been done to get outcome A, B. or C. Prescriptive ethics about what people think they should do probably never would be over regarding humans. Hume's Fork (good point) about empiricism and rationalism going separate paths, disregarded by Kant, might be a subject of more modern philosophical research in the developments of 20th century empiricism and Ayer's book 'Language, Truth and Logic' wherein only empirically based statements-more scientific ones, had validity and the remainder were psychological and subjective. W.V.O. Quine broke that paradigm in 'The Two Dogmas of Empiricism'. Epistemologically speaking the separability of the world and statements about it was renormalized or returned to something closer to a Kantian rather than Humean position. I think a lot of moderns like Dewey's paradigm of everything being subjective, and so they like Hume's ideas. He seemed to want to dismiss common ideas about the relation between words and objects-fair enough, yet he went too far in several ways, from a much later point of view in regard to subsequent developments.'

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative_ethics

 Normative ethics are also known as prescriptive ethics, they are usual contrasted to descriptive ethics. Hume created an epistemological battle taken up by Kant. The resolution of the epistemological war was settled by logic and logical analysis of the relation between words and objects. Ethics falls into valleys between the hilltops of epistemology and logic. Subjectivists like Hume later tended to justify moral paradigms with epistemology that broke the ties between rationality and the world itself experienced by individuals. Prescriptive theory is an ethics about what people think they should do in a particular circumstance, descriptive theory is about what people actually do.

Lebron James, nearing retirement, chastises Drew Breeze for Patriotism

N.B.A. star Lebron James an aging basketball star on the downward slope spared from playing ball, though collecting salary during the covid 19 era, criticized a football star; Drew Breeze of the Saints, for expressing an opinion that disrespecting the national anthem is wrong. Certainly it isn't a crime, yet it is wrong if one is an American rather than an African-American, European-American or Antarctic American.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2894659-lakers-lebron-james-rips-drew-brees-over-comments-about-kneeling-in-nfl

For some reason uneducated athletes sometimes choose to speak out as if they were knowledgeable about sociological constructions, macro-economics, cosmology, history or philosophy as if their insights were useful or accurate when they are not. No one expects Lebron James to know what Washington crossing the Delaware or marines placing a flag on Mount Suribachi meant, yet he should at least respect those who do. A generation of athletes that never served in the military during war with dumped vast wealth should have some reserve in determining what is right and wrong about patriotism. Independent opinion and the right to express it is good as are other rights such as those of dissent generally and peaceful protest. It is better to work intelligently with an idea about what specifically need be corrected rather than to emotionally riot and shout havoc, racism and etc. When the New Orleans Saints were robbed by Los Angeles based officials of going to the Super Bowl in 2019, where was James' protest about right, wrong and justice?

https://www.neworleanssaints.com/news/turning-point-of-the-game-in-new-orleans-saints-loss-to-rams#:~:text=No%20deliberation%20required%20to%20name,in%20the%20Mercedes%2DBenz%20Superdome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKMjTqdTYo The First Medal of Honor event recorded on video

The former best active N.B.A. player raises an interesting point about the nature of riots and other protests by the descendants of slaves that is touchy. Actually people have been fired for saying that black Americans were bred for athleticism as slaves, yet that may be true. It is just that people apparently haven't investigated the matter much and the facts of the slave owners breeding programs designed to enhance the value of their economic assets have been obscured.

 There is nothing shameful about being a member of a social group that was bred for athleticism, if that is what occurred. People have bred dogs for millennia and slavers may have wanted strong workers rather than 100 lb weakling, short intellectuals that might be smarter than the slave owners. Some athletes have participated in their own way breeding with 60,000 women for example, individually (Wilt Chamberlain) passing on athletic genes and height. Millions of young black men descended from humans bred for size and strength once upon a time in an era without many industrial jobs requiring athleticism may find social employment adaptation more challenging than comparatively, women at desk jobs have. The summer rioting season of blacks is becoming a usual event whenever even a single criminal activity by law enforcement people trying to arrest a black male occurs.

 It seems that an industry of ambulance chasers exists promoting racism whenever a black is caught on video being victimized in such a way that an obvious gross violation of civil rights occurred. Rioting and mass protests that effect business and provide new criminal records for law-breakers aren’t the way to address the problem. As the sometimes ineffective and inaccurate Southern Poverty Law Center has done for decades tracking groups that violate civil rights in an organized way (aka hate groups), there should be some plainly recognized on-line organization coordinating evidence of gross violation of the civil rights of Americans regardless of race; race should be a statistically compiled analytical finding the organization could provide. Plain legal responses by a sober organization is a much better way to bring about corrections to the Universe of law enforcement existing in thousands of departments with varying degrees of autonomy across the nation than ad hoc rioting and anti-American, anti-patriotic tweets by disgruntled aging athletes trying to seem relevant when they are not winning championships because they haven't invented a vaccine that would let them play safely without infecting others.

Culture matters concerning employment. An intellectual culture generates an increasing percent of national income while athletic laborers aren't. Human health and amateur athletics are great things provided everyone also is maximizing their intellectual development at the same time. With 9 billion people on a planet with a carrying capacity for two billion a lot of brain work and invention will be required to keep wild animals alive in a healthy ecosphere and human animals too.

Consider the human tradition of destroying the ecosphere whenever they build a new structure; that has to stop. It is a natural process that with so many billions participating in a thoughtless way endanger all life on Earth. A one-story building destroys as much ecosphere as a 100 story building on the ground. make structure resemble mountain ranges maybe and have ecosphere on the exterior? Sterile cities and vanishing ecosphere need new social thought and regulation that riots about race won't fix. James should at least invest time in ecospheric conservation; maybe join the Sierra club, as he does in attacking white quarterbacks holding the NFL career passing record.

Black Democrats Riot Across Nation Opening Prime Biden Campaign

Of note this month as Summer Solstice draws near is the rise of seasonal rioting in many American cities by mostly black Democratic voters. A white policeman apparently murdered a black man by kneeling on his throat for seven minutes that stopped the victim from breathing. Someone filmed the incident and riots immediately began with looting and burning in lieu of equal protection of the law. In this era of ubiquitous cameras and social media uploads the need for riots to serve instead of regular legal procedures isn’t too credible. In the U.S.A. each year about 250 black men are killed by policemen and about 50 policemen are killed- almost all of them are white. In a nation of 320 million citizens and a zillion gangs those numbers are not so high.

 A little more than 2.5 million Americans own more than 35% of the U.S.A.’s wealth so go ahead and blame policemen and white people generally for keeping ‘Black America down’; it was President Obama that twisted Congress’s arm to make the vast Bush tax cuts permanent accelerating the concentration of wealth.  Policemen aren’t economists- they are just people trying to keep the peace amidst tens of millions of poor Americans living collectively with less than 1% of the nation’s wealth many of whom are white people, fighting for scraps from the tables of the rich. Only Senator Bernie Sanders voted against the tax cuts- about every Democrat Primary Presidential candidate ganged up against Sanders and endorsed Joe Biden to prevent any chance of anyone being elected that would work to make America more financially egalitarian.  Ninety five percent of blacks voted for Obama; who is more racist than that?

Criminal events such as murders are not soon going to be entirely stopped, thus a mad rush to riot when a single crime occurs without any particular change in the law as an object for protesting or looting, burning and rioting is not easily justifiable. Unfortunately social media can generate emotions that can cause mass social irrational choices such as rioting to be made. Crimes occur in every occupation of society including law. If a policeman commits a crime that is recorded for social media that cannot be a justification for retribution with several million crimes through rioting.

The riots caused many to be arrested and harmed their employment prospects needlessly in the future after the economy starts to recover from Covid 19 recession. Also noteworthy is the fact that the failure of social distancing by rioters will perhaps cause hundreds of blacks to lose their lives to Covid 19. Former rioters aren’t likely to cooperate with contact-tracing work either.

There is an American tradition of public demonstrations and protest marches with deep roots i.e. the Army Vet Bonus demonstrations in D.C., those led by Dr. King and anti Vietnam War rallies. Demonstrations that are effective have actual legal or political measures they want specifically changed. Politicians in the U.S.A. aren’t inevitably the brightest bulbs and have a need to know what legislation protestors actually want done if they are to work to that end; it is not enough to say that ‘the system’ is at fault and trust that some ethereal insights will appear to politicians whom will then fix it. If the protests are about economics then particular economic remedies need be advanced if change or reform is to occur.

The United States isn’t a dictatorship that can have a single individual change everything the way he wants- or if she is a benevolent dictator (an oxymoron usually) adapt the economy to conform to the wishes of protestors. With 50 states governments and a federal government that made permanent tax cuts to low levels during the Obama era with a Democrat-controlled congress the ability to reshape the national economy is very difficult. Protestors that want to change the economy should have an idea of what and how they want economics or political economy to change and let the public know instead of breaking out unintelligent tantrum-rioting.

Many Americans besides black Democrat rioter-voters would like the economy to change too. Realistically they don’t even know what they want to change in the economic structure or if the change would get them what they want. Bringing private business to riot prone, poor black urban communities might not be simple; it isn’t like getting the government to open new free bread and fruit smoothie storefronts or provide free rent in new free public housing projects.

It is possible that business likes peaceful stable neighborhoods more than those with rampant crime, dope, whoring and poverty and homeless people living in tents defecating on sidewalks. Police too may shy away from abusing prosperous citizens able to afford personal witness on-line storage body cams and good lawyers for lawsuits, especially if the prosperous don’t have illegal guns, don’t work human smuggling, smuggle drugs or coordinate community organized crime ventures. Police also have more trouble arresting white color criminals or broadcasters violating human rights-they aren’t legal theorists- than simple, plain vanilla or chocolate burglars, muggers and other simple material felons easy to spot.

A move toward ecological economics would be good, and that could have a guaranteed minimum income, free tuition through graduate school and a free walk-in national health service for the poor. Capitalism could be reformed so no-one could invest in more than three corporations at a time or have more than 300 times the income of an average worker. If human life productivity efficiency is to be maximized everyone needs adequate capital and good health to not fall into deep, dark whirlpools and undertows of social economic evils the comfortable and aloof are often unaware of (including well-off technicians that fawn over the ideals of the rich).

Rioters of average or below average intellect with little to do with their lives that could be regarded hopefully or productively encounter average policemen that interact all day with criminals that are controlled by politicians of average intellect without a lot of good ideas for reforming capitalism or to ecological economics. Expecting miracles in economics from uncomprehending average people without the ability to reform global corporate power and the concentration of wealth in 1% of national citizens is daft. Electing neo-liberals would produce more rich neo-liberal politicians that would probably not do much for poor Democrat rioters to make meaningful economic reform inclusive of ecological sustainability and a healthy wilderness portions of flora and fauna. Wealth is built up slowly, annually; rioting is the antinomy of that. One of the greatest economic injuries the poor can experience is simply termination of work and discontinuity in the process of slowly building up their own capital. With the recent covid 19 problems perhaps millions of people may experience home mortgage problems as they did a little more than a decade ago during the housing crisis. It seems that every decade or so some crisis appears that trims home buyers to subvert their slow acquisition of capital. It is the one percenters that profit from national crisis well as Wall Street in regard to political power- racism misses the point entirely when so many white people live paycheck to paycheck themselves.

The economy in the U.S.A. today is quite complex, and millions of people of all races experience a log-rolling contest of trying to stay meaningfully employed. Balzac’s published a book in 1835 named Pere’ Goriot concerning the issue of inherited capital versus labor as a better way of building wealth. Balzac found that the advantages of inherited wealth were so great that the work of labor was comparatively inefficient. The U.S.A. today concentrates wealth because of the shape of the economy that accentuated consumerism rather than saving, and illegal immigration laborers to help expand the economy and increase of capital. I wonder if black rioters have a clue about the way economics work or of the relationships between capital, labor, national income and ecological health.

Black culture in the United States has a much higher birth rate than that of the white population that is about zero population growth. There usually is a higher savings rate when demographic growth is stable. Disparities between different cultures and the sort of economic activity they pursue are interwoven with demographic and cultural facts, labor supply and demand and the kind of quality growth versus quantity growth economics that benefit from intellectual versus physical labor. Stable societies have better situations for educating fewer children than rapidly growing and poorer cultures. It is ironic that black democrats support illegal alien immigration that directly soaks up wages and work opportunities for physical labor such as were more common for American men in the 1950s.

I think there is no simple remedy for the challenges facing American black societies yet I am fairly sure that rioting exacerbates the problems as does racism. If blacks have good scientific education and support good scholarship values then they likely would find more work opportunities with the global corporations that employ so much of the work force today. If there were 10 million Americans of the 320 million citizens who actually make or invent new materials for qualitative improvements to the economy isn’t it better to be one of the ten million rather than one of the rest that fabricate or distributes product, finance or serve the people using new material product? A culture that reinforces qualitative materials science and quiet scholarship, even at home or independently, is of greater social merit concerning economics than those experiencing social instability and chaos socially.