Is the ocean one thing or a word describing countless (though finite in number) molecules of H2O? The question of monism and pluralism is fundamental concerning everything that exists, and of events and processes, therefore it was a common concern of pre-Socratic philosophers not simply because they might have shared the issue once it was thought of by a single individual. Parmenides and Heraclitus approached the problem of monism and pluralism from different yet not antipathetic points of view. In that regard they share a concern that hasn't been terminated as worthy of inquiry from fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, Multiverse theory and perception. Compound objects composed of numerous parts in solid objects and sub-atomic particles entangled in three dimensions with the Higgs field reflect the one and the issue as do organic beings.
One might wonder what logic is and how it exists in relation to epistemology. It is also possible to ask if logic is static or if it is subject to relativity (as reshaped by spatial deformation vis Einstein's General Theory for example). If logic is recognition of relationships among objects or ideas as objects then it could be that logic is a kind of pattern recognition with which one may process information and make extrapolations from a given position concerning a series as in math theory or mathematical metaphysics.- If one is looking for a consistence in logic, that would be a necessary consistence of relations and patterns, shapes and occurrences that would comprise a system of logic. It is therefor challenging to say that logic is inflexible or must be regarding certain relations that must transcend particular logical systems and need be present in every logic system.-Because the issue becomes a little obtuse I shall leave it here for the present with the observation or agreement with a point made above concerning the utility of valid logic within a given system of logic rather than considering a Universal logic, though the Universe itself materially as particles embedded in a Higgs Field apparently seems to have a logical structure for everything in it at the quantum level.
One may have classical logic-Aristotelian logic and move through history to Leibnitz's mathematical logic, Frege and modern symbolic logic and onward to deontic , modal and other new logic systems. Maybe the proliferation of systems of logic supports the concept of logic as a formal system for representing abstract relations of fact and fiction useful for inductive as well as deductive reasoning.
When the Nobel Committee gave the Peace Prize to Barrack Obama people were surprised since he hadn't done anything yet besides being black and elected. It turned out during his terms of office that he would have better deserved a Nobel War Prize that even his speech acknowledged. Donald Trump actually deserves a Peace Prize for his excellence at bringing four Arab nations to sign off with diplomatic relations with Israel. What is inexplicable is how someone able to bring off a diplomatic coup that wasn't accomplished since Egypt did in return for the Sinai acts like a spoilt punky billionaire following his re-election defeat. To this time he is still in denial claiming he was cheated.
President-elect Biden is a threat to turn back salutary Middle East developments and that should be a concern for national politics. He may also return to stepped up hostility with Russia in order to make Hunter Biden's Ukrainian pay-masters happy and persuaded that their real estate interests are swelling. president Trump should be awarded a Nobel for his Middle East work next year even if the Biden administration is more to Sweden's liking politically.
The Republican Party may have a problem former President trying to be in the spotlight for a few years more as a kind of never-goes-away Clintonesque figure. He is the best chance the Biden administration has for winning re-election in 2024. If Sect. Pompeo or some other fellow with capability is the party nominee Republicans might actually retake the White House.
Special interests have taken over the U.S.A. and
government of the nation. A special interest in regard to the founding
parameters of the United States could be regarded as an interest or organization limited to just some of the citizens
all of the time. Today virtually any corporation, church denomination, civic
and social organization, fort profit and non-profit business could rightly be
considered to be a special interest in regard to federal legislation. The
federal stimulus conundrum that cannot get passed because of partisan wrangling
about special interests rather than those of all U.S. citizens this year drew
my attention.
Free federal dollars flow to special interest citizens and aliens rather than to all citizens equally- that helps establish corporatism and its socialist junior partner.
Today is Sunday so I will write something
concerning church structure as an upgradable special interest (that doesn’t
require federal bail-outs). When the U.S.A. was founded there were no
corporations in the nation and far fewer special interests seeking to benefit
from preferred federal legislation transferring money to them. The Hudson Bay
Company and East India Company were the two entities that most closely
resembled corporations in North America and India respectively. The Catholic
Church in the U.S.A. might be thought of as the largest corporate structure in the
U.S.A. of that era. Church structures might be thought of as having ossified in
forms created during or before the reformation era circa 1500-1600 with church
pastors of Protestant churches shepherding ecclesiastic formations adapted to
village life of illiterate peasants. In the United States presently there
actually are few places like that. Another reform to place Christians on a
level ground sharing liturgical tasks in small groups within a Priesthood of
Believers would be more appropriate. A national work-credit and job bank with
attendance and participation records, referrals and sharing could keep all
Christians active, evangelical and free of certain emergency medical and
financial troubles.
Special
interest legislation and/or end-times theology along with anachronistic
clerical forms can take Christians fairly from meaningful participation in
Democracy and accurate Biblical hermeneutics. A wrong understanding of the
constitution of the U.S.A. and founding democratic principles can lead
politicians to seek legislation that benefits corporations and busy-ness as a
special interest prioritized above that of common citizens of the United
States. Legislators wrangle over how to benefit people that own corporations
and other busy-ness activity instead of all of the people of the United States
during the pandemic. Real shareholders own corporations hence the U.S.
Government has no legitimate right to transfer wealth to them instead of every
citizen of the United States equally if it chooses to give away money normally
or during an emergency for relief. Competition in a free enterprise environment
isn’t supposed to end when it becomes tough for the established whereat the
government will bail out the prosperous and/or filthy rich. Corporations are
special interests that politically incompetent legislators have learned to
worship. Actually citizen busyness and free enterprise could develop in
innumerable other forms; it wasn’t necessary to evolve Wall Street monopoly of
busyness and over government.
In Washington D.C. politicians and pundits
generally have forgotten that the people of the nation who own the nation
politically in a manner of speaking are everyone rather than special interests
named corporations. To send federal money as grants or loans to special
collectives of people; to favor select persons as special interests of congress
above that of the people of the United States is to support and ossify a
particular non-democratic approach to governance that does in effect changes
democracy into corporatism, oligarchy or plutonomy. Some socialist like the
corporate approach because it does annihilate the principle of individual
sovereignty and free enterprise in favor of corporate enterprise and other
forms of mass collective business that readily morphs into socialism through a
number of means. There is a false dialectic emitted from each side that has
corporatism vs. socialism rather than corporatism and socialism as collective
entities versus democracy, individualism and national sovereignty with secure
borders. Corporatists and socialists are globalists that run roughshod over national
boundaries.
In the
Internet era corporate hegemony allows self-tightening consolidation of wealth
and power to plutocrat-led corporations. Every written communication can be
scanned by insiders and a percent or all financial value harvested/skimmed from
the work of everyone utilizing the ubiquitous corporate internet sites. With
the U.S. Government ordinarily transferring wealth to large banks with zero or
very low interest loans that lets those banks owned by Plutocrats
electronically mint five times the amount loaned to loan out or invest
themselves ordinary citizen free enterprise become as laughably non-competitive
as laborers are to international dope traffickers who can afford to buy the
business they labor for. The sole advantage of under-the-table illegal alien
labor is that they can at least find work outside direct corporate employment
yet. Corporate networks can ban any individual inconvenient from their optimal
profit narratives they choose to.
Corporations
as special interests and their CEO’s attract a common kind of individual
worker-tool seeking money and power. Like herbivores attracted by thirst to a
water-hole along their own route, corporate leadership share the same goals and
exploit similar methods to subjugate and harvest profit from every empirical
facticity within their power- hence they expand their power and wealth with
insatiable drive. That has a very dampening effect upon individual citizen free
enterprise and liberty to express dissenting personal opinions on-line without
reprisal.
The U.S. Senate is letting
the 2nd Covid emergency relief bill die for partisan reasons. The
Senate leaders seek partisan advantages and cannot agree to let that go and
simply pass a plain cash stimulus check to Americans to use presently.
Senator McConnell wants to
give blanket immunity too corporations from Covid 19 lawsuits. Instead of concern
for cash-strapped citizens that need cash today he cares about corporations and
corporate profits next year.
Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi care more
for funding their vast left-wing state governments and funding deficits than for
ordinary citizens of the U.S.A. even in their own states. The best simple
compromise is to pass immediate $2400 cash relief stimulus checks for all
Americans let Senate and House leaders clash over their special interests with
mace, swords and shields of rhetoric after Christmas. A third Wilder-Fury fight
or a Joshua-Fury or Wilder-Fury battle have been put off; what should not be
put off is immediate cash relief for the poor and middle class that need pay
rent, pay for classes or fund tooth extractions. I recently heard an elder
gentleman trying to get a loan to pay for an elder brother’s covid 19
hospitalization; apparently he lacked free Bethesda hospitalization.
What should matter now are
the people of the United States. It’s their federal government; special
interests can wait. New York can freeze rent payments for police and firemen.
California can ditto that. State employees then can work for half-pay.
Corporations can suck an egg on immunity from criminal action during the Covid
19 crisis...
Basically there are two kinds
of people in the world; those that want power over others and those that don’t.
Politicians tend to want power and reform is an issue that puts them in the
spotlight for a term or two without actually needing to get anything meaningfully
done. Police reform to protect the public from police as well as criminalsis growingin popularity since the tradition of urban riots by blacks whose lives
matter have discovered the police seem to serve the non-blackpopulation moreso than themselves. Defunding police has been
held to be an effective way to halt police interference with black sin cities,
some of who are alleged to perpetrate crimes.
I believe there are numerous ways to regard and interpret history. Historical analysis that is accurate and useful as well as comprehensive is requisite for determining how to correctly address an issue and act upon it to bring it toward a desirable state of affairs. There is a fundamentally correct comprehensive analysis and several proprietary and fragmented and possible true perspectives that are insufficiently comprehensive for basic application to correct an issue. Police it should be noted
worked with some harshness in some cities before the era of large scale black
neo-integration in schools and so forth. In somewhat segregated areas crimes
did apparently exist that stimulated the non-black public desire for effective
police. Police corruption in those circumstances tended to revolve around
insider economic crimes when they occurred.
It does seem that there is a
conflation of race identity politics and economic concerns with police acting
for-themselves inappropriately. Police force is regarded by some apparently as
a de facto segregation mechanism and by others as a defense line of protection
from young savage hordes. Obviously police have a civil function that has
awkwardly discovered itself in the midst of historically evolving racial
demographics and economics politics on the front line as it were. What can be
done to allow traditional civil police functions to continue in cities where
contentious political restiveness makes them appear as a political antagonist?
Traditionally analysts have
espoused racial integration of police as a remedy to racial enmity.
Realistically though with the breakdown in trust in police and politics and
rise of communication I would guess that technology and privatization
augmenting police law enforcement as well as integration of internet broadband
communication and public participation is likely to develop slowly. That is,
drones, robots and public participatory oversight of police work will grow to
enhancement and follow police tracking of criminal and suspected criminal
activity.
I am not saying that
contracts to the Interrogation and Death Corporation robotic division will
clear the streets with Robocop; simply that Sally’s On-Line Security service
will field insect drones to buzz around police cars and hives and follow
criminals about dark city streets and into dens of iniquity when the lawful
need arises. Something like that will comprise police reform as public
participation in police work and evidence gathering in non-traditional
technological ways arises.
Some will be concerned about corporate
takeover of law enforcement and the nation, and that is well taken. If the
Department of Dense has a Four-star General who can upgrade to Dictator for a
Year should need arise as did Roman Empire Consuls during time of war, who is
able to return fire for fire and Sarin-dippitze foe nerve agent communicators,
that would be keeping in line with the trend toward national corporatist
governance aided and abetted by communist collectivist leadership and 1%
plutocrats in the U.S.A. and ironically, in China. Godless atheist leadership
in crowded demographics leads to certain forms of social interaction that are
more or less problematic when people are unintellectual worker sex-tools and drones
bereft of nuclear families developmentally speaking. Scientists at some point
tend to find the one degree of elimination of surplus undesirable population
for scientific reasons so the world may be saved. Less than a cuddly scenario
of course, so Democrats may seek some other Draconian and repressive way to
bring utopia to the world during the Anthropocene mass extinction phenomenon.
Hell wasn’t built in a day, so effectively stupid governance takes many
generations of politicians and broadcast slut-media-sewers to fructify hell on
Earth before survivors can flee to Mars and elsewhere.
There are innumerable
political viewpoints in the U.S.A. today without comprehensiveness that are
often in contradiction or conflict with others. Maybe 3% of political
world-views are valid and would be effective if promoted, and the rest are
simply varying degrees of incorrectness. Luckily for Americans political
grading is done on the curve so even failing ideas and work can rise to the top
as major party content platforms as they have with bi-partisan success. Police
reform ineffectiveness is just one of many planks of contemporary political
platforms with a good rate of disfunction.
Two models and goals for
police structure seem to exist in the present context of reformed structure and
traditional structure. ‘The Art of War’, I believe it was if I recall the book
I read decades ago, mentions interior and exterior lines for attackers and
defenders. ‘The Art of Reasoning’ informs us about classical and symbolic
logic. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ might have suggested, if the modern political
environment and broadcast media had existed in his day, of the logical value of
fast transition of exterior and exterior lines reversing roles of attackers and
defenders, The reformed model of the Democrat Party and non-white ideal would
end the perceived defense of white people as a majority party by police
departments. Policing could be flip-flopped to change their role from one
defending white controllers on interior lines to one of attacking dwindling
whites from exterior lines of black and minority based community policing.
A new reformed law enforcement agency would be
community-based while the existing police departments would be defunded and
eliminated largely. A similar paradigm for reform existed in pre-war nazifying
Germany when under Hitler’s leadership the brown shirts of the national
socialist party took over society. Local police department constables at some
stage needed to stand aside to let the new political and social facticty of
change take charge. Brown shirts or storm troopers could enforce the political
will and decide in a fresh paradigm who the real public enemies are. The
broadcast media would easily inform the public of what worked and what did not.
The broadcast media has great offensive and defensive political power and
returns periodically or partially to its role of enforcing political will to
power.
Eliminating police
departments in the United States so a more Democrat Party led law enforcement
structure can take control would not exactly duplicate Hitler’s model although
there are obvious similarities. Community based police models could include
mafiosa enforcement agents and mass public disarmament to render political
opponents easier to subjugate. As in the former Soviet Union criminal activity
by non-state actors would be very low. The public internal security forces
strengthen to such an extreme that dissent becomes unfeasible.
If two models for police
structure exist in the United States today- traditional and Nazi, they would
require a segregated civil structure if each were to exist simultaneously with
traditionalists in white communities and tribal mafiosa-goon Democrat thugs
under bosses innon-white communities.
Unfortunately, or luckily as one may regard it, the economy of the United
States is not designed to be racially segregated. It is somewhat amusing to
consider the impracticalities of segregating products and services along racial
lines in America with Wal-mart using different personnel to deliver black soap
to black neighborhoods and white soap to white neighborhood etc. Amazon could
use drones to deliver to all areas of course since machines are racial only in
a nuts and bolts sort of way, and it might be possible to stop taxing products
purchased from the internet so local manufacture of high-tech products in rural
Alaska for example won’t face unfair competition from products made in China or
white neighborhood colleges like M.I.T. Basketball and football would require
separate leagues and audiences only of appropriate race with television
commercials directed to appropriate viewers. Federal oversight of Wall- Street
would require special black and white law enforcement with community police
mafia on one side and traditional law enforcement structure on the other with
each working only to secure corporate behavior of the apposite race. It seems
rather expensive and corrupt actually.
President Lincoln didn't include Maryland and other border states in his Emancipation proclamation. It took a third Maryland constitution years later to free the slaves. That interesting fact is useful here because it is part of the problem of displaced former slaves after the war thrown into homelessness en mass usually without a legal right to inhabit their former plantations. As a northerner during school before college long ago learning technical details of mass black homelessness after the civil war didn't occur. There were few blacks in the Pacific Northwest until the Second World War. School kids learned generalities of U.S. history and state history (Washington state for my experience). I took a world civilization course too. Three history course at a high school level is pretty shallow actually.
William Grose was the first black businessman in Seattle. Yet it wasn't until the federal government needed military support personnel in the war with Japan that many blacks moved to the Pacific Northwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grose_(black_Seattle_pioneer)
The two small cities I grew up in had no blacks not because of segregation-simply because none had moved in large numbers that far from the south, and race riots didn't exist even until after the Vietnam War by which time there was a substantial black population in large cities. Researching the black city migrations and rioting development as a topic would need to wait until opportunity arose for graduate research.
Since I am dead reckoning history here I will say that I am interested in the mass relocation of former slaves after the war. It is well known that many went on an exodus to northern cities creating the problem persisting to this time of mostly black urban ghettos and/or aka challenged neighborhoods and educational facilities, and in some a legacy of neo-apartheid with legally segregated housing such as in Baltimore that persisted for some time.
In my opinion the entire phenomenon could have been nipped in the bud immediately after the war if the vast plantations that formerly sheltered black slaves were cut up into chunks of a few acres and redistributed to the former slaves who certainly had a fair claim to own the land rather than their former masters- or at least equally. It is one of the sad missed opportunities of history that many slaves after the war were legally landless people. Homelessness can be very challenging to get out of.
Apparently some plantation owners did give some land to the former slaves. Some of that was sharecropping that wasn't too far removed from slavery. Yet much land did remain with the families of plantation slavers; and that stimulated movements such as the clan seeking to perpetuate race-based economic advantages across the south with logical inertia.
If all of the former slaves were given 5 acres of real estate to own at the in 1866 it is possible that development and race relations of the United States would have been quite different.
With so much money going to Republicans and Republican businesses
during the McConnell era domination of the U.S. Senate voters put down the
Trump re-election since many of their pockets were empty. Repeating that
mistake will likely result in the Republican loss of the Senate to Democrats in
the Georgia run-off election in January.
Senator McConnell could more convincingly play the Christmas scrooge
putting a lump of Kentucky coal into voter's stockings if he didn't give preponderantly
Republican owned small business free grant money by the hundreds of billions.
There is nothing constitutionally agreeable about giving free money to
preferred special interests instead of to all citizens individually and equally
more or less.
In a sense Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and Maine Senator Susan Collins are already neo-crats that vote blue on most feminine issues and numerous other Democrat agenda items that reach the Senate. Senator Murkowski does support the pirate team plunder of ANWR of course while Senator Collins may demure. The loss of the two Georgia Senate seats in the runoff election will seal the deal of U.S. Senate control by the Democrat party for the better part of a decade. Early voting starts December 14th. https://georgia.gov/vote-2020-runoff-elections
The actual election day is 5 January 2021.
The U.S. Government for several decades has turned toward giving
hundreds of billions and sometimes trillions of dollars to corporations and
small businesses asymmetrically regarding equal allocation of government
giveaways to all citizens. In a way it could be said that sucks. Voters may not need to wait until January to determine discern if Senators are pips or pugs.
I won’t delve into the critical
issue of whether or not the President denied the election result because he is suffering
from Covid 19 brain fog and hair loss; this post is instead about what gravity
really is. Occasionally I speculate and write something about it. I have no
idea about the extent of the Higgs Field yet it is popularly credited with
doing marvelous things to energy and for mass these days. Blame it for creating
the appearance of gravity too. So what is gravity? It could be an apparent
effect caused by the shape or reshaping of the Higgs Field interacting with
energy and mass. If the Higgs Field allows mass in three dimensions to be
created from two dimensional energy slowing down in the Higgs Field, the Higgs
itself might be morphed and reshaped making thereby the appearance of space
being curved in relation to gravity.
If the Higgs Field is more or
less than three dimensions, the field may allow quantum entanglement
information to be saved or relocated from three dimensions and disseminated
faster than light-itself an apparent phenomena in three dimensions- through the
non-three dimensional field and return to three dimensional locations with
something like a waveform collapse.
Gravity occurs at light
speed, and that would be natural if light speed is the norm for massless
particle-waves or energy not slowed down to three dimensions. When energy
becomes entangled from two dimensions to three and becomes embedded in a steady
state in the Higgs Field, the aggregation of mass in the field reshapes the
field and draws other mass toward it in field curvature. The field itself may
act at the speed of light and create the appearance of gravity acting at the
speed of light. If the field is expanding or is something is acting upon the
field that isn’t of the three dimensional mass the Higgs Field could seem to be
causing space to expand. There is an obvious way to regard that condition
though; aggregation of mass that causes the Field to warp and attract mass may
reciprocally expand space of the field bereft of elements of the field drawn in
the Higgs Field and mass interactive aggregation situation.
Gravity is a marvelous thing.
If it is an appearance because people see through a glass darkly embedded in
the mass of particle-waves slowed down to sub-light speed in the Higgs Field,
humans at least have the promise of discovering how it arises some day. Like
the time when Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac by God, and Abraham
showed he had such faith in God existing so as to be regarded as worthy of the
promise, the appearance of gravity on this side of the cloud of unknowing may
someday be rewarded by the saving grace of truth appearing; as when God
sacrificed His Son Jesus Christ to save all of those of faith. The truth will
set gravity theorists free.
I.M.O. the U.S. has a history of bailing out the rich in recent years more so than the poor. The poor would benefit most from a second stimulus check thus it has a low priority to politicians that are millionaires and billionaires and entirely sold out to the Federal purpose of concentrating wealth.
For some reason I believe that the Federal Government should be fair and balanced in giving free money away to citizens and not just work to benefit the well to do and those that already have money, or had it over history. Trillions of zero interest loans have gone to rich banks, and corporations like Chrysler and GM and numerous other businesses have been bailed out by the government. I am more for letting troubled businesses bite it when they fall on hard times and instead support the process of getting basic jobs and income for all citizens from the bottom up. Those businesses that are failing should just crash and burn in the free market.
I feel that way about federal programs to build new homes for Americans that lose their homes to hurricanes and tornadoes, forest fires and so forth. There are homeless Americans the country doesn’t care about at all. Just because people have become accustomed to driving a nice car and living in a nice home I know of no just reason why the government should replace those after a natural disaster. What happened to the idea of risk? Why should the government always prop up the prosperous when they have hard times as if they were a royal class entitled to a certain standard of living while the poor and lower middle class can eat it?
I believe that the poor and middle class as well as other inventive individuals can create new businesses when the field is leveled by natural disaster and pandemics if the government does not leap in to restore them with grants as if the Bourbon restoration was the better example of political conduct and if the poor. lower middle class and unfinanced competitors to the established have equal amounts of free federal cash.
Photons are massless or nearly massless particle/waves (bosons) force carriers of an electromagnetic field. Their speed seems fairly certain. Relativity and the problem of simultaneity of measurements in different location present issues for calculating times apparently. Sub-atomic particle-waves are slowed down to less than light speed in the Higgs field and thus have a third dimension of mass. Without the Higgs field mass would not exist, and energy like photons I believe would be two-dimensional and flat like a communion wafer. It is all interesting stuff to learn about- especially as regards relativity and uncertainty. The books 'What is Real' by Adam Becker and 'Mass' by Jim Baggot are good easy to read works that go pretty deep into quantum topics. There is another book that I read a few years ago named 'Faster Than the Speed of Light' by Joao Magueijo that was an interesting speculation on variable speed of light theory. I liked that book and for a while thought it might be so. If space expands quickly it might be possible for a field to expand with it including an electromagnetic field or a Higgs Field or unified field and then if particle-waves existed in it they too might be travelling faster than light usually does. I guess though that speed is simply relative to other objects or particle-waves while in-themselves they are motionless.
Photons and other massless particles seem to have a basic speed of just being. That initial, basic speed of just existing-in-themselves is faster than particles with mass that are all slower than light and massless particles because they are all slowed by the Higgs Field to sub-light speed picking up that third dimension characteristic of mass that massless particles of two-dimensions may not have.
Plainly there appears to be faster than light sharing of information among entangled particle waves. That apparent phenomenon could be an endemic characteristic of waves and the Schrödinger equation or wave function. Maybe it is also related to dimensional shortcuts. Interestingly gravity also travels at the speed of light. Perhaps that is a property related to the fact of nothing traveling faster than massless particles like photons and neutrinos just being.