I was informed recently by a friend who is a professor of the philosophy of economic comedy about developments in the field of the dialectical progression of money to self-awareness through history. Evidently the Reagan administration realized for-itself that with a free-floating dollar the Federal Reserve could simply issue low or no interest loans to big banks and with the federal requirement that banks keep 10% marginal reserves on obligations such as cash deposits, the rich that own the banks could in effect electronically mint 9 times the loans to their friends and compatriot rich people. The custom of enabling the Federal Government to in effect give trillions of free dollars to the rich did not really get started in a large way until the financial crisis of 208-9 wherafter it has issued through the marginal reserve multiplication nine-fold of zero and low interest ‘quantitative easing’ dollars, about 200 trillion dollars. I should ask Dr. Mojoke, my professor friend about it, however I believe the world income annual is about 99 trillion dollars, so 200 trillion over a dozen years is a fair amount of easing.
In the process of unbalancing traditional economic relationships with quantitative easing the federal government accelerated the concentration of wealth since they were not issuing trillions of dollars of free money to the poor and middle class who in any event had now facilities for multiplying zero-interest federal loans nine-fold. A different approach to restoring economic slumps that was fair and balanced with equal measures of free money going to citizens equally was required and that would have overstretched the meager economic intellectual resources of classical economic theorists. It was with that realization by Dr. Mojoke seated in a lotus position under an apple tree had his great insight about not only the invention of new cash multiplying structures in federal social security accounts that would manage and loan money to qualified, stable borrowers with professional class investment fund managers, the doctor also foresaw the rise of Bic-coin as a self-aware monad evolving to realize itself through monetary policy over history.
Dr. Mojoke foresaw that electronic currency trading would evolve to self-aware monad of Bic-coin that would as self-aware units be non-counterfeitable and useful in-themselves as well as in electronic trading. Bic-coin in larger clusters would have an increased capacity for artificial intelligence and intelligent thought. A billion units of Bic-coin thinking together would be very clever and in fact able to optimize structural designs for human biological living such as waterless microwave sewage processing in deserts ( I asked the doctor how he found that example and he informed me that he saw the value of propane or electric powered Incinolet toilets used for off the grid structures). Cluster of Bic-coin would become standard units of exchange able for-themselves to organize assembly of planetary materials for print-on-demand lunar and Martian structures or form transport vehicles able to rise from dust and transport Americans along electronic in-line highway grids made of solar photon absorbing and storing materials with a high albedo.
Mojoke said that he didn’t mind the rich loaning out money they’ve worked for, that it was just the Federal Reserve dumping trillions of interest free electronic cash in quantitative easing that was a fowl kettle of fish. Apparently Mojoke believes that the U.S. Government and Federal Reserve should not serve a tiny minority of the public and render everyone else peons of globallists.
I suggested to Dr. Mojoke that the new Biten administration might invest in the development of Bic-coin and innovate better and more egalitarian methods for stimulating the U.S. economy diverging from the evolving history of offering up free trillions to a global plutocracy wishing they would trickle down to Americans and not just runt the government with so much compiled capital. The doctor said; “That’s a laugher”.
Fried
Chicken, Stimulus Checks and the Marginal Reserve with Quantitative
Easing...
(Quantitative
Easing gave trillions and trillions to the Uber Rich)
It seems that Republicans don’t understand how the political economy has changed since the 2008–9 financial crisis so they have a preponderance of people that still believe in anachronistic ideas concerning money supply and the rich. President Nixon took the U.S.A. off the gold standard and President Reagan first realized the potential of using easy money to promote economic growth without causing inflation- the rich get the easy money and buy everything on the planet with it or hold on to it as leverage over the government.
During
the 2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop
the bleeding on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and
continuing support with trillions and trillions of zero and very low
interest loans to wealthy financial institutions. Big banks are free
to issue in electronic loans nine dollars more or less (I am not a
banker-the marginal reserve requisite is 10% perhaps) for every
dollar they have on deposit so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion)
allowed big banks to produce from thin air 90 trillion dollars. The
total amount of free money to plutocrats enabled by the Federal
Reserve could be as much as 200 trillion dollars. Fortunately
Senators like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct
payments going to Americans in the present financial stimulus
observing that ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ (as if it were the
Tongass National Forest the administration would like to strip log
with clear cuts). Preventing ordinary Americans from getting fewer
than a half of one percent of what goes to the rich from the Federal
Reserve incentives vigilant Republicans; the poor or their proplits
cannot be allowed to increase.
When
money was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a
currency was tied to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many
dollars each would become worth less if the quantity of gold remained
the same. When President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard
the dollar had nothing besides its value to none in particular to
determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that isn’t too
unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic
exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.
Still,
the idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep
their Wall Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult
for many Americans including myself to understand very well. The
treasury prints out paper dollars and the Federal Reserve loans out
electronic dollars. Most financial transactions are done
electronically these days and there actually isn’t too much cash as
a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t
inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to
keep banks and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments
to Americans that earn fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t
Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a cup yet one wonders. The
answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street got from the
Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The original
loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just
the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they
could buy up Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation
occurred in the indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that
the DOW is now over 30,000.
Just
because the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it
doesn’t mean that Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries
although they might anyway. There is a difference between real goods,
physical corporations and such capital and dollars. A brick is still
a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long as Wall Street
average share prices rise more or less together there need not be too
much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and
corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an
average worker (just guessing).
The
tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred
not because Hitler had too many Reichmarks printed; it happened
because there wasn’t enough gold to back up the Reichmarks value
proportionately. The dollar though is on an economic relativity
foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism kickback loop it
is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A Guaranteed
minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something
Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator
of Darth Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money
doesn’t grow on trees.”
In
the free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not
be as important as the real material and intellectual properties that
can be counted as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the
flow of trade and commerce and tight money could be a problem itself.
It is possible that avarice in the owner class could prompt corporate
to raise retail prices to consumers if consumers have any money to
spend in order to have all of the money they possibly can. Political
economy managers need to be concerned with such matters as well as
for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental
parameters.
One
of the problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the
tendency to develop a particular economic model until it crashes from
over-use. The physical infrastructure of a civilization may grow to
be inappropriate and destroy the human spirit of workers and
designers in addition to building mass species extinction and
environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most invested
in the present economic system would be the last to know and most
resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic
continuum.
The
2008-9 financial crisis and decade of ensuing issue of free money to
the rich was the wrong way to keep the economy of the U.S.A.
Functioning. It was an opportunity to direct coalitions of the
willing businesses to participate in ecological economic reform and
sustainability. The daft policy of throwing zero interest federal
reserve loans to the rich rendered democracy somewhat defunct and put
plutocratic global corporatism into ascendance. Intelligence was
required in governing and idiot technocrats dumping cash to the rich
was what followed. NPR has often called the Covid 19 pandemic the
'pendemic'. Repression of free speech and democratic free expression
is quite normal during the rise of dictatorships and oligarchy's of
sundry sorts. Some of the broadcast media believe economic exogamy
is the be and end-all for existence; self reliance and independence
however are not necessarily economically endogamous and strong
nationalism can lead in new directions such as ecological economic
reform. Coupled with Darwinist inspired atheism and Nietzchian
philosophic inspiration an existential abandonment of moral norms and
nationalism seems necessary for a brave new world order wherein for
Americans the sole economic survivors are plutocratic supermen. The
hubris and deceit inherent in the view that enables irrationality to
overcome reason and fake populism to alternate with corrupt elites to
manage the 'herd' of citizens ought to give some a realization that
the death of democracy won't end well for ordinary people.
Plutocrats
of the modern era are far more sophisticated and subtle in defeating
in detail democracy, potential rival political economic trends and
independent innovations of individuals. So long as the populace is
stupid, drunk, doped, deceived or misled into unintelligent political
economy there are no political issues to trouble the rising minority
powers of plutocrats.
I wanted to wish readers a Merry Christmas 2020 and a Happy New Year for 2021, though my blog seems to be completely censored for the past few days with zero readers except for a subscriber. The days before I had between 50 and 100 each day.
Since the Obama administration when I criticized N.S.A. surveillance of Americans I lost 90% of the views. Formerly more than a 1000 each day was easy. I haven't got a penny of increase from blogging here the past decade or so when the $67 in the account froze and there it remains in spite of everything I have tried to fix it.
When I dropped the sentence "as if google has never trimmed bloggers" in a post that must have triggered the complete censorship status as present. Well, no problem, then the sound stopped on my Thinkpad so now the sound device manager reads "dummy output" or no device present. So my blogging for the next year will likely be minimal at least for a while with tech issues.
Recently I realized that the most rich were in effect given 64 trillion dollars via quantitative easing. Perhaps corporatism has gone so far as to merge into a kind of imperialism globally with any dissent deleted one way or another. Still, things could be worse, and there is the great hope and faith in the works of the Lord Jesus Christ.
During the
2008-2009 financial crises the U.S. Government stepped in to stop the bleeding
on Wall Street. It provided a vast loan package and continuing support with
trillions and trillions of zero and very low interest loans to wealthy
financial institutions. Big banks are free to issue in electronic loans five
dollars more or less (I am not a banker) for every dollar they have on deposit
so those trillions (maybe 16 trillion) allowedbig banks to produce from thin air 80 trillion dollars. Fortunately Senators
like Rand Paul are concerned about the $600 dollar direct payments going to
Americans in the present financial stimulus observing that ‘money doesn’t grow
on trees’ (as if it were the Tongass National Forest the administration seeking to strip log with clear cuts and a spaghetti plate of roads).
When money
was based on some valuable commodity like gold the value of a currency was tied
to its relative scarcity. If one printed out many dollars each would become
worth less if the quantity of gold remained the same. When President Nixon took
the dollar off the gold standard the dollar had nothing besides its value to
none in particular to determine its worth. In an age of general relativity that
isn’t too unreasonable; the dollar is a commodity used as a tool for economic
exchanges after all instead of something valuable in itself.
Still, the
idea of giving the super rich trillions of free dollars to keep their Wall
Street index value from crashing below 10,000 is difficult for many Americans
including myself to understand very well. The treasury prints out paper dollars
and the Federal Reserve loans out electronic dollars. Most financial
transactions are done electronically these days and there actually isn’t too
much cash as a percentage of all of the dollars in circulation. Why doesn’t
inflation occur so dollars buy less when so many are being made to keep banks
and big business afloat and to send $600 direct payments to Americans that earn
fewer than $75,000 annually? Why haven’t Starbucks coffees reach $100 dollars a
cup yet one wonders. The answer may be that all of the cash that Wall Street
got from the Federal Reserve wasn’t put directly in to circulation. The
original loan amount goes back to the Federal Reserve so the Street had just
the paltry sum of 64 trillion dollars to play with. With that they could buy up
Wall Street- or the one percent could, and the inflation occurred in the
indexed rise of Wall Street shares to the point that the DOW is now over
30,000.
Just because
the rich are much richer and Wall Street much more costly it doesn’t mean that
Wal-mart needs to charge more for groceries although they might anyway. There
is a difference between real goods, physical corporations and such capital and
dollars. A brick is still a brick if is priced at $1 or $100 dollars. So long
as Wall Street average share prices rise more or less together there need not
be too much of an effect on the over-all relationships toward production and
corporate welfare. CEOs can still get 5000 times the salary of an average
worker (just guessing).
I.M.O. a guaranteed minimum income is requisite to assure that no citizen is excluded from substantial economic participation. Business sadists and networks can have hidden semi-overt and covert agendas and policies that render work impossible. With a totalized national economy under the power of network financial elites any citizen can be deleted from real income.
The
tremendous hyper-inflation of Nazi Germany before the war occurred not because
Hitler had too many reichmarks printed; it happened because there wasn’t enough
gold to back up the reichmarks value proportionately. The dollar though is on
an economic relativity foundation. With so many ought in to the corporatism
kickback loop it is wrong to leave anyone who is poor out of the benefit. A
Guaranteed minimum income and free health care for the poor should be something
Senator Paul should think about the next time a Pat Paulsen imitator of Darth
Vader says to him; “Rand, Rand- I’m your father; money doesn’t grow on trees.”
In the
free-floating currency of the dollar context money supply may not be as
important as the real material and intellectual properties that can be counted
as capital. Money supply need be adequate to allow the flow of trade and
commerce and tight money could be a problem itself. It is possible that avarice
in the owner class could prompt corporate to raise retail prices to consumers
if consumers have any money to spend in order to have all of the money they
possibly can. Political economy managers need to be concerned with such matters
as well as for keeping the real capital based on sustainable environmental
parameters.
One of the
problems of civilizations that bring them to fall is the tendency to develop a
particular economic model until it crashes from over-use. The physical
infrastructure of a civilization may grow to be inappropriate and destroy the
human spirit of workers and designers in addition to building mass species
extinction and environmental collapse. It may be the case that those most
invested in the present economic system would be the last to know and most
resistant to rational realistic transition to a new economic continuum.
A government may rightly help citizens in time of emergency- that is good behavior. yet it should be impartial and stay with the principle of equal justice. When the government simply serves the rich that is bad conduct for a democracy. Providing perhaps 130 trillion dollars of free cash to the rich via the 5 to 1 electronic mint root based on quantitative easing deposits was wrong yet should not be held as a reason to further victimize the poor. The revolution of the rich in a decade long financial coup need be corrected somewhat presently.
Maybe one should ask what 'saving the world' means in a given context. If the wicked want to victimize others, and the saved have no interest in victimizing anyone then it is plain that the meek need go to heaven and the wicked someplace else such as eternal hell. The people in hell would victimize each other in hell and may hate those in heaven yearning to victimize them. Further, the 'world' someplace in the Universe far from the exact center may be depleted of life because of mass extinctions and global warming and is empty, while some capitalists in hell want to spend the world ransoming it to get themselves bailed out of hell. Maybe some communists believe saving the world would mean enslaving everyone or like the Khymer Rouge deleting intellectuals. and that it is necessary that everyone must get stoned.
I like Hegel quite a lot. The 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' if I recall correctly is a kind of summary of the 'Phenomenology of Mind'. Some might like the idea of the Spirit coming to evolve itself to realization in history, yet the notion of a two-part dialectical evolution seems rather quaint today with quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. I.M.O. God or Spirit is eternal rather than temporal. He issues the Higgs Field rather than becoming created himself within it.
Wave-particle duality hasn't much to do with Hegel I think. It is possible to regard Spirit as the Author of the Higgs Field of course. GWF Hegel is somewhat removed from that context however. The Higgs Field has two-dimensional energy that can be phenomenally entangled so it appears to slow down to sub-light speed and have mass. One might consider Hegel's paradigm with Plotinus and the Intelligence though (from the Enneads or 54 Tractates) in that neo-Platonist paradigm.
There are many interesting historical researches going on
today in addition to cosmology that provide much
information to consider for Christian philosophers and the thoughtful. I think
it is the case that some established church authorities have sought to freeze
various structures in place because the contemporary dogmatics support the
economic positions of the authorities and that can lead to schisms and reform
such as that Protestants established in the 1500s.
There is repression of Christians in China.It may be possible that Chinese authorities may be concerned with pre-trib eschatology as well as social and economic power. Pre-tribbers believe the world is approaching doom and they will be raptured out of it, while post-tribbers such as myself tend to believe the apocalypse of the New Testament occurred in the first century A.D. culminating in the fall of Jerusalem and the Temple and that this is an era to build up the Kingdom of God.
Secular authorities including communists always want to build up their own power about as far as they can. One need be inventive to liberate oneself and society generally from repressive ruling power when it is not useful for social progress. I believe a Priesthood of Believers reform is necessary to maximize evangelical and ecclesiastical benefit from the New Testament. During the pre-literate, feudal era a more commercial or pro-priestly class of superior Christians was perhaps necessary to let the peasants learn the gospel, yet that is quite ineffective and almost counterproductive today with mass literacy and mass communication. Commercial priests tend to resemble small business guys primarily interested in their own economic situation receiving tithes. I think a Priesthood of Believers church structure were all share small-group liturgical roles would benefit western Christians and be non-threatening to communist authorities too.
Chinese rulers are probably mindful of the Taiping Rebellion led by a Christian who believed he literally was Christ's brother. Ten million were killed in the Taiping Rebellion. Poor theological understanding can lead to conflict. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19977188
I took a philosophy course or two from a fellow who had a degree in anthropology too. His desk for years had a copy of Barret's book 'Irrational Man' on it. There are other contexts for rationality than the standard apparently at least in regard to social structure. If one reads Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason' one may discover that it is possible to view social behavior something like ant hive behavior. Then the question arises do the ants think about what they are doing as a species applying mass production where it ought to be limited and selected more carefully, really (e.g. mass species extinction, global warming, mobile wheelchair fossil fuel engine society)? https://www.secondsale.com/i/irrational-man-a-study-in-existential-philosophy/9780385031387?gclid=CjwKCAiArIH_BRB2EiwALfbH1DS3ExaMd9xuyqazDYXhEp3lXZK_VvgXvyn3MEZ_sP0W8ql6jGzEUhoCUKEQAvD_BwE
I have learned more about the history of the first
civilization over time in Summer (southern Mesopotamia). Abraham was from the
city of Ur. Summer was established circa 5400 b.c. so it was an old
civilization by the time he got the call from God to exodus about 2100 b.c.
That was a period when Summer-Akkad was in the final throes of its span and a
good time for Abraham to leave.
Abraham and family journeyed northwest Syria and over to Israel or Canaan. That region was between the two great early
civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Learning that some of the information
Abraham brought to Israel with him from Ur where he probably worked as a scribe
has similar paradigmatic concurrence with ancient Sumerian data such as the
flood during the end of the Wisconsin ice age should not be troubling to
Christians. Instead they should be thankful that Abraham brought the truth with
him.
Maybe the new vaccine will
defeat the new strain of the Covid 19 virus. One hopes so. The new British
version of Covid 19 (is it Covid 20) that is easier to catch has appeared with
a terrorists timing just after the start of vaccines against Covid 19. Like a
terrorist that bombs someplace saving a second device to use when first
responders arrive, the new version of Covid 19 has appeared after a year
developing a vaccine for the virus that has killed about 320 million Americans. If new lethal versions of the bat shit virus appear as commonly as common colds it may require so sort of new protocol to adapt human life and economic procedures.
The Trump administration set
a precedent for dealing with the virus that should not be followed by future
administrations. It fundamentally let the virus rage and citizens die while
waiting for a vaccine to develop. What was needed was an effort to let the
economy work and people stay alive together while vaccines were developed
though innovation. At the least some sort of infection preventing head gear
should have been invented and distributed.
A policy to just let people
die while waiting for a vaccine to develop isn’t something to emulate
politically. If a more lethal disease ever arrives the lack of capacity for the
nation to survive seems substantial. In an era with vast biological and
computational research that would support production of criminal synthesis of
designer weaponized viruses political players should have more realistic plans
for national defense to viral vectors of biological death.
Since the
discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and confirmation of the existence of the
Higgs field a lot of work has gone into producing popular explanations of what
the Higgs Field is and how it supports the existence of the mass. Metaphysics
could be said to be the physics that one doesn’t know. For me the Higgs Field
and the way it supports the apparent existence of mass was and remains mostly
metaphysics while for some physicists it is less so. There is a video a couple
minutes in length that summarizes how the Higgs Field works to produce the
appearance that mass exists.
Photons and
other particles of a class called bosons are massless. Photons are the force
carrying particles of the electro-magnetic field. There is a duality of
articles as waves. A particle might be said to be like the peak of a wave where
strength is greatest when observed. Sub-atomic particles acquire mass and
existence simply through bouncing around or being slowed down in the Higgs Field
from a massless speed of light condition to a slower than light condition with
mass created with the acquisition of a third dimension from relativistic
effects instead of thetwo-dimensional
condition of massless particle-waves.
Mass is an
apparent state of massless particleslocked into a steady state of slower-than light being observed by
sentient beings like humans embedded in the somewhat illusory or virtual mass
of the Higgs Field. I have wondered why gravity also travels at the speed of
light- it is the standard speed or normal condition of massless particles, and
the answer may be that gravity attracting mass is also an illusory or secondary
characteristic of mass existing as a secondary or contingent element within the
Higgs Field and that also raises the question of the curvature of space with
mass as in the general theory of relativity.
It is likely
that several very complex cosmology issues have very simple explanations when
they understood.One might ask what
came first; the Higgs Field or the Universe? Since the Universe is simply mass
that seems to exist in the Higgs Field and the Higgs Field encompasses all of
known space the Higgs Field seems primary with all of its contingent and
secondary apparent qualities of mass, space and time occurring within it.
What is the
Higgs Field in-itself? Field theories account for things like the
electro-magnetic field, what empowers the Higgs? The Higgs could exist like a
dendrite with information in it between two neurons of God; it really is metaphysics
to me. Creating a virtual Universe with
virtual space, virtual gravity, virtual mass and virtual time (itself within
relativistic criteria) within a Higgs Field possibly of two dimensional energy
seems greater than just adding water to a packet of instanverse. The Higgs
energy and energy for-itself are just about imponderable. One may discern the
effects yet not the energy-as-itself. That may be the prime mover as it were.
In human
history there is a story of Sargon being found as an infant floating in a reed
basket and taken to the Akkadian court where he was raised andbecame the greatest warrior and king of the
bronze age debatably.He unified the
Summerian-Akkadian civilization under the rule of the Akkadians for a change.
Moses arrived in a similar way and nearly ruled Egypt as a prince before
leading the Israelis from captivity in a similar fashion. The boy in a basket
story may be something like the stork method of accounting for arrival for
superior warrior-political leaders in ancient history- a simple yet effective
lead-in to the salient facts. The apparent characteristics of mass, gravity and
space-time observed from within may eventually have simple explanations when
another Einstein rolls down the river of time.
The U.S. Government doesn't 'hack' into telephonic communications anywhere without a good reason, and the American broadcast media never listens in to cell phone communications. Neither has Facebook or Google ever rigged or hacked emails or chatrooms nor have their employees ever rigged search results or skimmed earnings from bloggers. Unlike the Russian Government the U.S.A. only does defensive hacking for self-defense purposes; never anything offensive or splicing like in to trans-Atlantic broadband cables under the oceans or elsewhere. Apparently the U.S. DOD Cyber Warfare team may have planted malware in the Russia electrical grid yet if they did that was probably a charitable effort to increase its efficiency and was misunderstood by nandering naybobs of negativism.
Dick Durbin has expressed a broad Wall- Street sentiment to marginalize Russia even before the new, honest Biden administration takes office. The President elect has explained convincingly that his brilliant son Hunter is a victim of political opponents trying to get to him. There obviously was no chance that Ukrainian entrepreneurs were trying to get to him for influence and military supplies to war eastward on traditional Russian lands. The $400,000 of undeclared income from Burisma in Ukraine for expert advice from someone without any experience might have put President's Trump 2016 campaign designer Paul Manafort in jail perhaps, yet Manafort was guilty of packaging Mr. Trump properly to win, unlike 2020 when he was finally nabbed by the Mueller Investigation.
Plainly Republicans may seek their own Jerry Nadler to nail President Biden with high crimes and misdemeanors if they can win the House in 2022. In my opinion what is obvious- even more than a Pompeo win over President Biden in 2024, is the problem of Americans seeking antipathetic relations with Russia for short-term Wall Street proplits presenting great long-term externalities of lost opportunities to the United States. Seeking amicable relations requires intellect Democrats lack. With a strong Russian integration into western economies defense costs and threats to the United States will be far less than with Russia forced to ally itself more with China and various anti-American global alternative actors. China requires U.S. investors to surrender to Chinese owners 51% of the stock of any corporation doing business there. Russians may offer a better deal for U.S. investors. Its good to get in on the ground floor sometimes.
There are some that feel Capitalism unto enslavement of the masses for their own good is the only alternative to socialism and communist dystopia. Actually there is democracy and egalitarian free enterprise with intelligent ecological economic political economics as a middle ground that is more feasible for human survival on Earth- if that is a concern to some.
Someone wrote that U.S. politics has become dominated by emotion instead of reason and that plainly seems true i.m.o. Best one can hope for is a Pompeo vs Biden 2024 race and Biden loses, then in 2028 it will be Pompeo vs. Harris and the latter may win. I would like a candidate with a degree in Ecological Economics with a semblance of classical political pragmatism regarding a democracy, yet that is as unlikely to happen as a million dollar per citizen stimulus check. I ran across a good quote in a book I read recently; "The truth is treason in an empire of lies".
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.
