Ineffective Palestinian Civilian Food Relief

 The lack of delivery of adequate food for Palestinian refugees within the Gaza is notable and a paradox since there has been so much international outcry about it. Could it be that bureaucrats decide to deliver food supplies that are less than efficient in comparison to other foodstuffs? Unfamiliarity with effective real world innovative delivery modes may be as harmful as terrorists willing to starve their own people for political capital.

There is quite a difference between foot that is cheap and full of carbohydrates and well balanced meals. It is easier to deliver large quantities of junk food and low weight food however, and fast and light food may work well enough to keep people from starving to death over a couple of months. One might not want to make a long-term diet of cold corn tortillas, potted meat product or Vienna sausages, dehydrated beans, crackers and moon pies yet they can keep one alive for quite a while longer than absolute starvation

Well balanced meals are costly, heavy and often packaged inefficiently. The U.S.A. for instance has sent M.R.E.s that are bulky, large and costly. Even opening them creates a lot of junk strewn about. In the space of a pallet with 500 M.R.E.s one might place several thousand of the lighter items to relieve hunger. Sure sending millions of little packages of chewable multi-vitamins is a good idea yet is that even on the radar screen of refugee relief planners?

Water is probably the most necessary item for survival in a hot environment. Water bags and desalinization plants may be the way to accomplish that. Certain naval vessels do have desalinization equipment on board and pipes can be laid from those to a safe distance for masses with potential terrorists among them to draw water.

Obviously cooked meals from field kitchens is preferable to dry, air dropped supplies perhaps accomplished with flocks of flying drones and large aircraft. Yet field kitchens to prepare beans and rice with bread can be dangerous for relief workers when adults around them need to conduct the business of war to slaughter one another, take or rescue hostages and so forth.

I suppose one might make a substantial homeless shelter for refugees from old automobiles and trucks brought together as if they were in a drive-in theater. Solar power electric fans might help with fans for cooling. It would be better to have a regular building, yet in an area of war mobile homeless shelters could be a more efficient plan.

Derrida, Marx and Venture Capital-essay

Post modernism generated many ideas about ideas, language, certainty and even physics. Many of those ideas were incorrect or based upon premises that were incomplete. Those ideas influenced academics and policy makers. Derrida’s ideas about language, certainty and the relationship of social organizations to language heavily influenced American educators and the American left and continue to do so. Communism influenced the world, as it was presented roughly by Karl Marx and it too was usually misunderstood.

Perhaps there are three basic threads that went into forming post-modern concepts regarding skepticism and the inability ti have certainty concerning objective events and even reality. One is the rise of linguistic philosophy and developments in the philosophy of language, and the other is quantum mechanics, the Schrodinger wave-function/collapse and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The final thread is that of epistemology- the theory of knowledge, Philosophers like W.V.O. Quine and P.F. Strawson combined the fields of epistemology, logic and language within their work. Sartre observed the organizing principle and forms of society subjectively in Being and Nothingness and The Critique of Dialectical Reason- taking the structures at face value without historical analysis. Derrida followed these philosophers in time and formulated an excellent abstract of the way language forms in society. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work on explaining on how language meanings arise preceded that of Derrida by nearly a half century (i.e. The Blue and Brown Books). Derrida  seemed to make some of the same mistakes as Aristotle in over-estimating the reliability of words, additionally over-estimating their strength in forming social structures.

Karl Marx was the greatest historical social analyst writer of his time. Witnessing poverty and the oppression of concentrated wealth with royalty first hand he sought a political remedy for it. Rather than to advocate a tax increase on the wealthy he sought complete revolution to end social inequality. With the England of his time being something like post-communist revolution Shanghai in the pathos of civilian deaths among the poor, and having fathered several children, his desire to improve social conditions for the poor was personal as well as compassionate. In some respects his ideas were ahead of their time as well as partly incorrect. Marx’s work prescriptively were his best theories for how to reform society to a more just extent. Plainly he made numerous errors in that regard.

One of Marx’s famous and misunderstood expressions that might be used to highlight the uncertainty of language is; “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. That could be a remark from classical economics concerning the ‘allocation of resources’ to attain maximum economic productivity. Each individual would produce according to his ability, perhaps with social support in education and training ‘to be the best that he or she can be’, and venture capital would provide funds to inventors and developers according to his or her needs. In Marx’s England perhaps the ordinary citizen that desired to be an entrepreneur or to develop an invention could not find the capital to do so. Marx’s expression has been interpreted in other ways to mean quite different things. That is an example of the incompleteness of language for defining meanings for objects and relationships. That occurs words are different from the objects and relationships they describe. Words have practical communication value that arise from use and application rather than from the things-in-themselves. The entity that produces red fruit of a certain shape that is, does not also grow its name ‘apple’ upon its branches as it would need to if there were a direct relationship between word/name and object.

  Derrida assumed that numerous mass social issues of his time; such as decolonization, racism, nationalism and wars originated because of cohesive language structures inherent in mass organizations, social structures and classes. Deconstructing social iniquity could be achieved achieved through language. Deconstruction as a tool for Biblical criticism was especially popular because of the rise of Darwinian evolution theory and the changes that drove through  popularization of scientific thought in the field of education and popular concepts of genesis cosmology. Marxist were especially anti-theistic and atheist; the left became militant for social evolution/revolutions based on a wave of post-modernist, atheistic ideology that regarded itself as post-ideological after the end of the Cold War (that Joe Biden has renewed perhaps because of memory-cognitive issues and a preference that the first cold war never really ended).

  Derrida was understandably accused by sone of being an anarchist for trying to dissolve existing social institutions and establishments through the deconstruction of language in order to create something better without having a clear idea of wat that was. Yet Derrida simply extrapolated too far from the basis of his rather sound language structure ideas to the reason why social organizations arise to start with and to the role they play in societies.

Adam in the garden named objects brought before him; his words didn’t create the objects. Derrida’s followers believed that by changing the words and deconstructing the languages and history they would change the objects. Derrida’s over-belief in the power of language and in the uncertainty and malleability of its meanings were developed in post-world War II Europe where a chaos of languages, manifest destruction of social order and problems of nationalism and colonialism were evident first hand. Within the post-war cauldron of a Babel of languages that Nimrod would have had difficulty making sense of so far as social organization goes, a new way for the left to view social reality developed. It was in effect a popular epistemological system based in misunderstanding the philosophy of language, quantum physics and history.

The German physicist Werner Heisenberg found that one could find the position of a quantum particle like the photon or its speed yet not both. Quanta exist in a wave theoretically at all possible positions traveling at a certain speed. When one collapse the wave in making a measurement at a particular point that does determine the position of a quanta though not the speed since it should be a wave in motion. That was the Uncertainty principle and eventually in the popular conception that developed a meaning that reality could not be understood or knowledge trustworthy. Coupled with Derrida’s deconstruction of language for reliability and certainty, the left had powerful tools for skepticism, truth and logic.

Simultaneous criticisms of Descartes' dualist spirit-matter epistemology in preference for the materialism and atheism of Karl Marx and Feurbach coupled with Biblical criticism that regard the Word of God scripture as literature could be credited without a preponderance of error as the main rationale for the present social state of affairs of the left. Deconstruction elevated somewhat superficial philosophers like Frederick Nietzsche while the public were generally not reading analytic philosophers and the subtle epistemology of Quine’s Word and Object’ or P.F. Strawson’s ‘Individuals’.

Human social organizations like those of penguins and the wild kingdom generally evolve with adaptations to the environment. If humans were without language capacity they would still organize in some way. Human organization evolved to address common biological and existential challenges. What is lacking is reform and adaptability in social organization.

The 20th century had innumerable interesting queries into the foundations of knowledge and language. Chomsky and Everett developed different viewpoints on the question of grammar being innate in the human brain or learned (or both?). Perhaps it was Nam Chomsky’s career as a linguist who regarded language phenomenally  that made his political criticisms so appealing to the left since deconstruction of establishment politics was an important method of the era.  I use the left within this essay in distinction to the right that generally is economically and socially more conservative (or was in the era) and doesn’t seek to deconstruct anything. That fact has been in conflict in some times to general improvements and upgrades to select doctrines when new information becomes available or is developed through further research and insights. Biblical hermeneutics is one such field; there is no reason at all to think tat God is not capable of using quantum mechanics paradigms although none are mentioned in the Bible explicitly (as if people of the 2nd millennium B.C. would have understood such references)

Language has accreted lexicons and word groupings with meaning values understood by users. Languages arose m when human cultures were rather isolated from other cultures. To speak one language shares meanings throughout a culture without much confusion or ambiguity about meanings. The meanings are those used by convention and historical inclusion. Over time words tend to lose their root, original values; they are comparable to algebraic variables that evolve different values over the course of the programs written by history and change.

A culture of many languages greatly multiplies the uncertainty of the meaning of words. Derrida’s post-war Europe and the aftermath of defeating the German National Socialist Worker’s Party-aka the NAZI party was one fraught with uncertainty of an historical and linguistic character.

Language, like algebraic formulas can have meaning and refer to real objects, although philosophers are aware of the phenomenal nature these days of what and how objects are presented within the quantum fields that supports the existence of a Universe. Valid language use is pragmatic and meanings as fine tuned for accuracy as possible and practical. In using the word apple for instance, one needn’t describe every possible configuration or appearance and circumstance of any apple that has ever, or will ever exist.  It does not negate the value of language in communication to abbreviate that constellation of possible value to the one present and necessary. This is common sense and the value of intelligence. Humans exist in a bottomless, unbounded experience yet they wish to share communication about it with others though uncertainty is an aspect of the unknown. Though uncertainty abounds in temporal exstasis of past, present and future human experience existentially is certain on the pragmatic scale.

God’s word, in the beginning generated waveforms shaping quantum fields that formed reality; human words do not shape reality from nothing. Though human words can reflect intentions to reshape mass and energy, human language did not create the human race itself. Humans may shape existing matter and energy and form new organizations yet human language is a way of expressing ideas and will comparable to algebraic formula. God’s word is omni-powerful in this Universe; human language isn’t.

Continua (a poem)

 

As greening leaves
store memory
in gravity
one might believe

  That hope conceives
the seasons’ keys
growing to be
new life to see

  Those practical
spirals of Earth
construct forms worth
all things natural

  Ideas for all
share more than mirth
God beat the dirth
mind hears the call

  Universe rolls
waves in nothing
fields spark something
new to behold

  Implicit goals
arise with wings
although time stings
because it's cold.

Allegory of the Cookie verse (video)

The author reads from his novel 'A Thought of Infinite Being'.

Trump and Navalny; Dissident Targets of Majority Parties

 Current events are interesting to consider. In politics they occur on a foundation of the past. Democrats have sought to eliminate opposition with as much legal force as possible; bending, folding and mutilating the concept of objective legal justice, especially within legislative parameters so far as possible. For them, law is a malleable taffy super-ball that bounces in reaction to its shape and quantum force applied to compress it.

In some ways Joe Biden is the mirror image of Vladimir Putin although Putin is a patriot and Russian nationalist while Biden is a globalist and moral relativist with nominal allegiance to the religious leader in Rome. Perhaps Rome and Mecca share similar positions in drawing a select crowd of the global faithful toward the relative centers.

Like the Russia United Party the Democrat Party seeks to be the sole party of the nation democratically. Joe Biden built up the inevitability of war with Russia via Ukraine through endless increase of sanctions, military support and efforts to bring Ukraine’s western dependent government further into the embrace of the EU and N.A.T.O. instead of recognizing Russia’s reconquista of the Crimea and seeking to settle the east bank of the Dnepr problem peacefully through sharing and positive reinforcement of economic agreements to make the area a tax-free zone.

Joe Biden is the re-election specialist who will shape every issue to his personal political advantage in order to garner votes. Even the border crisis flooding the nation with foreign migrants developed because he refused to continue the Trump border wall development. Though a wall is an inferior remedy to halt illegal migrants in comparison to saltwater filled canals with locks, used to desalinate, evaporate and capture fresh water condensation under a roof spanning the border (with saltwater piped to the continental divide with solar powered pumps), the president was completely ineffective at stopping illegal aliens at the border. Presently he puts himself as the remedy to the problem though his Border Tsar was impeached.

Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Rep Madler and Rep. Adam Schifler would have hung Trump if they could have got away with it in order to secure the party’s grasp on power. In a real way Donald Trump is comparable to the late Alexei Navalny in being the object of wrath of the majority political party. Navalny’s recent death wasn’t too surprising because, like Trump, he is domestically regarded as treasonous and coordinator of insurrections (meaning in this case opposition to the political will of the majority). Such labels are convenient methods for eliminating the legal right of opposition party candidates to run for elected office or to be sentenced to death ,in camera.

The United States isn’t a well balanced political place these days. Democrats and many college students feel the party candidate is the sole way to help the people through economic breaks. They support illegal immigrations and mass refugee status for migrants as well. They fail to understand that the refugees are allowed in through criminal means because they are valued as cheap labor. Keeping wage labor values down is a perennial value of the rich. Capital increases faster than wages; far faster, and Democrats don’t really comprehend that today. Popular support for illegal cheap labor primarily benefits the rich. There is no substitute for legal order and only legal workers within a polity. Democracy must have sovereignty to be more than token, and sovereignty includes total control over immigration. In it’s absence wealth concentrates, public debt deepens, the environment decays and many American lives become marginalized. Alternatively, with sovereign control and an electorate that supports adequate taxation on the wealthy, the environment may be repaired, public debt reduced, the federal budget balanced, peace and prosperity with Russia and the rest of the world attained and poverty really eliminated in the United States. If the United States can actually become the good example of a political system that works it can help other nations in practical ways to emulate that success.

In the 1970s the average CEO compensation might be 50 times greater than that of factory workers. Now it is more than 300 times greater and party followers don’t really comprehend the difference. They tend to be satisfied with Democrat party legislative slop while wealth is concentrated. The United States is now on equal footi In a few years social security for the old and poor may be jeopardized because the structure returns money to the well off. Social welfare programs need to benefit those that need the assistance if they are to be practical and affordable. Everyone need pay into the system yet just the needy should use them. Safety nets are intended for those that fall; not those that have ascended economically and are living well.

Democrats could have let the Bush two tax cuts expire while Barrack Obama was President yet he twisted everyone’s arm to renew them. Democrats should just elect Trump to one term and let the Biden-party leadership expire. A new Democrat Party that supports a guaranteed basic income for all Americans paid for by raising the taxes on the rich should arise. It should also have an ecological economic platform that diligently works to reduce global warming, habitat loss and mass species extinction.

If everyone that is poor in the United States has a basic livable income yet are encouraged to find ecologically sustainable jobs- even into old age, the economic support could fade out as people received better earned compensation. At that point of more political refugees need to be allowed in to provide extra legal labor , poorer Americans would suffer less displacement.

President Biden has been focused on apologetics for letting in so much cheap, illegal labor and in some way reversing the blame and pretending to be seeking to control the problem in order to be re-elected as illegal migrations by the millions is regarded badly even by most Democrats in addition to Republicans. He wants billions and billions of new dollars for weapons and financial aid for the Ukraine in order to try to make it exclusively a western puppet. That is an obsolete paradigm for prosperity with winning wars through mass land conquest. Real prosperity grows with technological sophistication rather than real estate. Even agriculture can be grossly improved one day through zero gravity, or rather microgravity farming within solar powered space enclosures.

Joe Biden and the extremist Democrat party have placed perennial agricultural sanctions on Russia . Taking away it’s Ukraine lands when Russia was weak during the transition from Soviet Communism guaranteed and unbalanced future Europe with Russia trying to recover from the economic disaster by its loss of productive Ukrainian agricultural lands. Ukraine was historically a Russian possession until the 20^th century when Germany sought its conquest. Before that it had been battled over though since Catherine the Great it was Russian.

One may want to stop for moment here and consider the approaches of Derrida, Quine and P.F. Strawson- as well as Kripke, to assigning meanings of words to objects, or as Derrida wrote, between signs and signified in regard to the parameters of the war in Ukraine. If Derrida wanted to dissolve the Platonic realist description of words, as might even Neo-realists like Kripke, in his works in order to deconstruct institutions, establishments of repressive power and perhaps even nations (I am not confident that he wished that), he may have made the same error that Aristotle did with his logic of syllogisms in over-estimating the strength of the relation between signs and signified. Aristotle’s syllogistic logic did not correspond directly to objects so the logic had fallacies in regard to real relations among objects, and Derrida’s effort to change material reality by making words implicitly meaningless variables shared that flaw. Night and day are real things experienced regardless of what one names them.

N.A.T.O and its member nations may be the largest organization on Earth, or the greatest institution. It seeks to wrest historically Russian land from Russia through sanctions, war and other condign measures, while Russia- a smaller institution and organization, seeks to keep the land. During the Vietnam War the left called the war illegal although the U.N.-sanctioned South Vietnam and its defense. Today European the left of N.A.T.O. and the United States in power name Russia’s annexation of the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine illegal. Plainly it is nothing more than a tug of war between two great institutions over land ownership. The land is real, the people and history are actual and the conflict is evident regardless of what terms one gives it. One might wonder if deconstruction applies to more than political opposition and invariably coincides with an era of concentrating wealth and de facto death of democracy.

The best the western position can hope to accomplish is to build an Iron Curtain with Russia and load up the Ukraine-Russia boundary with N.A.T.O. forces primed for the final war of mankind (unless a Navalny like candidate takes power and flips the nation to western submission). Democrats will covertly support movements to develop insurrection in Russia even after the end of a successful Ukrainian victory over Russia. It is hard to predict how use of a flood of N.A.T.O. and primarily U.S. military and financial support will end. Today the brick nations including Russia, China and India are developing an alternative world economic order. It is possible of course that nuclear, chemical or biological war could follow a western victory. One would think that Europe will seek somewhat normalized relations as soon as possible with business leading the way and politicians dragging their feet.

At least President Biden has not eagerly sought the end of the Israeli military action in the Gaza. One would need to calculate how much time it would take for Hamas the terror organization to force its way back into power if it isn’t eliminated, and how long it would take for Iran and other Islamic nations to rearm Hamas with better, newer weapons to attack Israel with. It is sad that so many civilians were killed in hunting down Hamas, yet stopping short of finishing the job would simply guarantee a future Hamas attack on Israel as that mafia has no ethos for anything else. Not since the end of the first world war has it been more clear that finishing the job is necessary to prevent a second, future conflict.

Gangster dynamics drive members to commit crimes. Terror organizations that hate as their organizing principle Israel and seek to eliminate it, and have the ability with stockpiles of weapons, need attack Israel eventually or lose their grip on power. Younger terrorists with vigorous, energetic hatred replace older, complacent terrorists.

The vote of Michigan Muslims not to select Joe Biden as their candidate in the Democrat primary was the first big bite back of the party’s preference for immigrants as a way to build up their voting base. In the future they may discover that immigrants and children of illegal migrants chose to vote anti-pathetically to issues that the party’s traditional white liberal, feminist, homosexual, foreign and migrant, base of support support.

Fields Contrast (poem)

 

  The weather cold
just as you know
like alpin glow
seems forever

  Each spring unsold
planted life grows
watered peace flows
past hates lever

  Test one’s mettle
the space explore
to unknown shores
rhyme would settle

  Thoughts may shuttle
destiny more
reasoning for
places so subtle

  Scalar fields morph
embedded things
stretched time pings
beyond light’s wharf.

Joe Biden's Ukraine; The Next Afghanistan or Vietnam?

The United States has developed a record for engaging in protracted wars to accomplish a few general tactical political or economic objectives before withdrawing. Having invested lots (billions and billions) of cash, military equipment and advice in propping up one of the most corrupt governments in the world the Ukraine may be destined to become the next fiasco the U.S. Democrat Party has accomplished.

The Ukraine is Joe Biden's war. He is the haute chef of death. Precursor events for starting the conflict established by Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, President Biden was an 800 pound monkey in government agitating, arm-twisting and redistributing pentagon products to keep the conflict going. Most Americans would like the misbegotten war to end. Sharing far eastern Ukraine with its traditional owner-Russia, and restoring normal relations on both sides of the Dnipr River with large reconstruction projects accentuating the positives of sustainable economics would be of great value to the world.

Instead of the OSD (obsessive compulsive disorder) approach to international relations that demands every military contrivance possible in disorder to militarily force Russia to lose all of its historical lands in the Ukraine, a righteous President would stop flooding Ukraine with weapons that some believe is the trigger event to Armageddon and a destined New World Order of pervasive Neo-Paleolithic social anomie.

The west can survive if Russia owns the Crimea and far eastern Ukraine and even prosper with some sort of restoration of post-Cold War cooperation and normal economic relations with Russia. That would be better than the OCD approach that will present a sudden chill with a Ukraine left in chaos and Europe hating America for not rebuilding the Cold War with a new Iron Curtain to separate dangerous Cossack Huns of Russia seeking to devour Holland, Lithuania, Britain, Poland and Germany.

Replace G. Washington's name for Capitol with that of a Prior President?

 Some people are offended by places named for slavers or that exploit American aboriginals. The Kansas City chiefs offended quite a few people. The 49ers had a politically correct name alternatively, and were crushed in defeat. So much for linguistic justice.

The capitol named for a slave owner and district named for a felon and Indian slaver and killer also trouble some. Who can forget the worst massacre of Indians-Shoshone in US history (of course it pales in comparison to Latin American slaughter of Indians sometimes accidentally with viruses).

A neutral name for each-like Trump or Rumplestilskin is what others seek. Since there were 14 presidents before George Washington it would be easy to select another President’s name to replace him for the nation’s capitol. Mifflin and Hancock are a pair of likely candidates… Choose one for yourself here...  

 https://mytpl.org/project/americas-secret-the-presidents-before-george-washington/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hall-of-presidents-before-washington#:~:text=A%20total%20of%2014%20me

Seahawks to Trade Smith and Draft Penix Jr?

 At age 34 Geno Smith isn’t the Seahawks QB of the future. They have the 16th draft choice in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft to select Michael Penix Jr for that.

Geno Smith could be traded to Minnesota or the Jets for a second round draft choice. Each team needs QB insurance; Smith is a good though not great QB and might take either team to the playoffs if their old Achilles repaired starters hobble to the sidelines

The Jets without Smith could be pathetic if Rogers is gone; a great defense is a terrible thing to waste.

  The Seahawks could resign and start Drew Lock for a year to see if he is a next level quarterback now. They could sign Jameis Winston for insurance while training Penix for a year. It is a shame to have the best receiving trio in football underutilized.  Winston has a rifle and it would be fun to see if three great receivers would cut his interceptions in half. Five-hundred yards passing in a game isn’t boring to watch.

The Question; Should One Fear Death

 If one has a new car with that new car smell and life is finally a bowl of chocolate covered cherries maybe one fears death since it might be cold and dirty. If one has toothache, hunger and pain in an amputated arm, is far in debt and can’t get a job perhaps death seems like a pleasure sometimes- especially if thinking about the quality of presidential candidates. Fear though is ineffective at preventing death, so why use it if one likes effective thought? I would guess that it can be used as a stimulus to remain alive when that isn’t easy.