I wrote this post a little factiously because I do not perceive the U.S. Congress as an island of high moral standards in a nation of low-life fans of legislators. For many years the Congress has enriched the rich and increased the ranks of those dispossessed of opportunity. The Congress has some of the better and many of the worst sorts of people interested in governing.
Like righteous students complaining that they can’t concentrate on their homework because of the noise, many congress persons complain that Wienergate is a distraction preventing completion of homework on the federal budget and debt ceiling, Afghan and Iraq troop deployment levels, use of steroids in pro sports and the price of oil.
A portrait of Congressman Wiener as a kind of exceptional immoral loony failing congress’s usual aretaic ethics conversing through hot twittering below impeccable standards of an august society of supporters of abortion, legislators that believe in same sex ‘marriage’, protracted foreign wars, 14 to 20 trillion dollars of public debt and increasing concentration of wealth and disempropertyment of ordinary Americans is an unpersuasive portrait.
I would bet that many congresspersons are serial adulterers, pork barrel thieves and/or have sex as warmer weather moves them with congressional pages or assistants, parking lot attendants, secretaries, car wash attendants or visiting constituents. If one compares the net worth of members of congress before and after being in office the average increase is probably not on average consistent with their salary. The seven deadly sins perhaps descend like a mantle of wickedness upon the spirit of those politicians sojourning through life via the U.S. Congress. One must hope they could in some way become better men and women; more pragmatic, more realistic, fair, creative and with a better public spirit.
The broadcast media reported that ‘new, explicit photos’ of the Congressman in a Capitol Hill gymnasium (in Greek the word meant, I believe, a place where men are naked because everyone went naked in the gymnasium) were published at an Internet site. I personally believe congresspersons generally should keep their clothes on in public places and not seek to get extra earnings with subscription only Internet office web cams even if their legislation is not of better quality than that produced by a million orangutans typing randomly for several sessions.
Remember the woman set free from stoning by the Lord, or the congressperson with the lampshade on and nothing else juggling oranges amidst a pile of small whiskey bottles at the reflecting pool and consider the principle of; ‘go forth and sin no more’ as a disposition on this matter if Wiener’s incorrigible twits can be limited to appropriate venues or eliminated altogether. If Weiner does not soon go altogether limp and give up he might experience congressionally sanctioned methods of torture such as Pavlovian waterboarding in the sort of stimulus-response loops congress regards as ethical when applied covertly and with plausible deniability, when ordinary political leadership excoriation fails to intimidate.
Livy wrote in his history of Rome of a Senator testifying who felt compelled to defend his loyalty to the Republic. He disrobed in front of the Senate and pointed out each of the numerous scars that he had received in battle as a Roman soldier explaining the origin of each and every one. Times are different today. Perhaps few Congresspersons and Senators would have scars to show before the membership.
In former times members of congress at least would haves scars of political battles to show. Happy warriors fought to accomplish worthwhile goals that improved the standard of living of all Americans without excluding the poor.
All Americans want to have the benefits of a good job, or to own a home, land or even a humble hut. The present congress has allowed foreign corporations and nations to purchase their acquiescence in globalism, fossil fuels and monetary policy. Because congress is mostly satiated, wealthy and without understanding of the issues creating poverty they have insufficient interest in solving them.
Several congress persons have said that Weinergate is a distraction that should be put behind them, and have called for Queen’s Congressman Weiner to quit, resign, ‘step down’ or become a political transvestite and run as a Massachusetts Republican.
If Congressman Wiener quits instead of being fired he may be ineligible for unemployment benefits. Extended unemployment benefits would be available at least through 2013 though, and many high paying jobs for the private sector may be created through congressional genius in the next two years so he shouldn’t worry about being one of more than 400,000 first time unemployment insurance applicants next week. Getting rid of the dead wood is an important principle of corporate management. The Congress has everything all planned out in advance for their 410 k’s, condo investments, mutual funds and etc. With quality job skill retraining the former congressman could be a computer guided sanitation engineer without insurance and a productive member of society without danger of congressional election recidivism.
Congress can only function effectively when not distracted by boom boxes, tapping of pencils, snapping of knuckles, numerous flies buzzing and/or Congresspersons in the news for putting too much of themselves in the news.
Some have said that since Congressman Weiner’s wife is pregnant he should act responsibly and quit his job. Others find potential new political issues and violations of the second and fourteenth amendments juxtaposed with litigation over school textbook revision regulations in support of demonstrating that the civil war was fought to end gay apartheid in Massachusetts, private property rights and free speech in dissent.
President Obama slipped down to visit Puerto Rico this week…the first President in a half century to visit the territory. We anticipate that he may investigate Alaska’s Brooks Range for Arctic Char fishing for a few days during the heat of the WeenieGate scandal.
I don’t usually watch television intentionally so I haven’t seen any salacious congressional pictures distracting the congressional ethics (an oxymoron I know) committee. I have no substantive information about what the Congressman’s relationship with the women permitted to view the congressional weenie was.
Did the congressman receive emails from fans asking him to show them more of himself? He should have had an I.Q. sufficient to realize that sending constituent weenie-vista twits isn’t a good idea. Yet with an I.Q. sufficiently high a Congressperson could swiftly balance the federal budget. The federal budget and economy have been imbalanced a very long time.
Some might wish to cast millions of barrels of oily balm upon troubled congressional waters-yet they’ve had enough of that already. Instead, maybe Rush Limbaugh could be called before a congressional committee to act like Hal Holbrook playing Mark Twain-to portray President Bill Clinton offering advice on lying to Congress and the painful process of recovery from the rare political illness of ‘lying addiction’.
Limbaugh’s imitation of Bill Clinton is simply the best available. Maybe the Weinergate scandal is comparable to the Lewinsky scandal a little-there were initially lies to protect a family in each instance, and Congressman Weiner’s wife now works for Bill Clinton’s wife in the U.S. State Department. Big Sister may be able to console ‘little sister’.
Congress might be less distracted if Limbaugh were to say “Monica, bring in a fat, juicy Havana”? They might be rolling in the aisles with laughter before going on vacation to some foreign islands for research at public expense. The Nobel Prize committee probably won’t be sympathetic and offer Oscar Meyer a peace prize for feeding the 5000 at the Illinois State fair to relocate the distraction.
Usually the Congress hums along at a peak efficiency rating getting a lot done. This is not a 4 m.p.g. congress but a 100 m.p.g. class of political theorists. Extending tax cuts for the rich last December only took the entire lame duck session, and the prior Obama health plan was also a model of efficient bi-partisan economic planning.
Though many of the nation’s poor will die or get dumped debt before finding free health care, litigation on the Obama Health bill constitutionality is expected to be completed as fast as that of remaining Exxon Valdez litigation issues.
The controversy over Congressman Wiener’s hot twits is the hot topic on the political grill and may remain so. Already opportunistic politicians have found the right side of the us vs. them to be on or agin.
As an 800 pound gorilla jumping upon desks in Congress, Mr. Wiener’s distracting has prevented the usual fast, competent processing of the nation’s political legislating work
The congressman has already sought professional help for his Internet sexting addiction. He has taken leave of presence from Congress for counseling at Madam Boofant’s Custom Psychiatric Advising Therapeutic Retreat of the Hills. These burgeoning businesses of the psychiatric-industrial complex may be in line for a couple trillion dollars of congressionally budgeted contracts for future counseling for veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some Congresspersons passing around photos pertaining of Weiner have decided that violating the American Civil Liberties Act to fire retardant on Weinergate distractions may not be necessary. The Congress may instead create an Internet amnesty box named ‘CongressTwits’ where any congressperson sending inappropriate twits, attachments or other uploads may send a copy for public viewing and be off the hook.
Secret Congressional protocols and Patriot Act blue-ribbon panel approved warrantless wireless taps have promulgated special digital photo dossiers of the Congressman’s ethical violations kept hidden from viewing by the general public previously in concern of creating foreign policy repercussions harmful to the security of global concentrations of wealth.
We learn that Congressman Wiener may resign after enlisting in the Army Intelligence Corps for two years of service in Afghanistan before discharge to return to run for the U.S. Senate in New York. The Congressman may also apply for admission to a class of 60% of the national population qualifying for congressionally approved psychiatric disorders and matching revenue sharing block grants (i.e. Internet exhibitionist syndrome).
Wiener may duke it out with the powerful minority leader Nancy Pelosi and allied feminine anti-chauvinists. Civil liberty issues of equal rights, jejune weenie roasts, birth control pips and freedom from discrimination may arise.
Though Wiener may be reassigned a small office far away from the Congressional chamber where he is ostracized and be prone to injury like a knee of Tiger Woods shooting from the rough, the Queens political bee’s knees search for political pollen may bear fruit in time leading to re-election. Voters sometimes like fighters more than quitters.
If the congress were to explain Internet sexting legal issues plainly, along with Internet taxation issues, Wienergate might have been a productive issue after all. Instead, as a vague ponderous clave of contract kickbacking legislators might prefer, the Congress wants to return to a chthonic mushroom factory torpor as soon as possible lest anyone notice they aren’t getting anything done to balance the federal budget, create full employment or free health care for the poor, restore the vitality of the ecosphere, structure a 50,000 man S.F. BOP military force for global rapid deployment, reduce the budget of D.O.D., stop all illegal entry to the U.S.A.
6/10/11
1864 Sect. of State William Henry Seward on Unionism/’The Union War’
Many Americans don’t know much about the political ideas of the time that made the civil war happen. More know about the flow of the battles than of the politics. I have encountered an interesting book published recently on the politics of northerners- the politics of the Confederacy were covered in a previous book by the author Gary W. Gallagher.
This book on U.S. Civil War history is named ‘The Union War’. I found a note fragment Gallagher provided from Sect. Seward to Lincoln on the topic of Unionism vs. secession. Taking an RS 2477 course at the Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1988 and sitting at a table with Joe Voegler-founder of the Alaska Independence Party later found murdered in the city landfill, I was interested on Seward’s ideas on unionism. Sect. Seward of course was instrumental in purchasing Alaska from Russia.
I decided to reprint it here. The state of Alaska is also releasing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s quotidian emails during her time in office as transcripts today. Sect. Seward’s note to Lincoln is of more historical interest for me at least. The book is something of an historian’s history book reviewing ideas of other historians as well as presenting the author’s own on the subject.
Perhaps Americans have become a little forgetful of the political question of unionism and what it meant in the first half of the 19th century before the civil war rendered the topic res judicata. Equally likely we have forgotten many of the subtleties of politics that Abraham Lincoln and others were required to use politically to get a northern population that was 99% white to fight to liberate the slaves of the south. Gallagher’s book advances a credible thesis that popular sentiment to keep the union together was the main reason northerners volunteered 1.2 million men to fight a civil war even before conscription. The idea that abolitionists wanted to let the south go its own way-perhaps to get rid of the beast-is curious. Still, it is challenging to imagine that Wisconsin with a black population just .15% had much concern about ending slavery in Louisiana.
I read a quote from Ulysses S. Grant on his first experience of encountering slaves in the south while with the Army of the West in another book. Slavery hadn’t made much of an impression on him until then as it was not part of his experience. Thereafter he became hardened in sentiment against it.
Some historians have written about those all-white unionists before the United States Colored Troops units formed in 1864 as racists, supremacists and chauvinists (really).
That 19 million white northerners would fight fewer (13 million?) southern whites to keep the union together is not so surprising. I assume first nations tribes are not included as Northern unionists in the tally-even though a full blooded Indian Union Colonel named Parker wrote the document of surrender Lee would sign at Appomattox after his Army was decimated, barefoot and starving. First nation’s tribes had not fully reconciled themselves yet to being citizens of the Union.
Gallagher mentions that Negro slaves were counted as 3/5ths citizens in the ante bellum south for the purpose of political apportionment. Southern elitists were happy enough to have the swollen congressional representation numbers yet wanted more- leading to war. The tacit recognition that Negro slaves are both humans and citizens even if not voting ones implied that the terms would eventually change.
In retrospect the south did seem to press its will to secede too far to perpetuate its way of life. There were moderate Northern offers to gradually phase out slavery the oligarchs disdained.
As an oligarchy the southern leadership presented a direct threat to unionism. Northern whites supported their own egalitarian liberty and right to advance to a property owning class, and on that basis readily enlisted to combat the secessionist south. As the possibility of a global elitism recovering portions of the United States even for potential imperial rule grew, free whites obviously would be willing to war to preserve a union and collaterally eliminate slave labor.
Seward-more famous for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia- wrote to Lincoln in 1864 ‘we must Change the question before the Public from one upon Slavery, or about Slavery for a question upon Union or Disunion”.
Lincoln ran in 1864 for the Presidency on a Union Party ticket rather than the Republican. Seward supported the Union Party and provides good political advice for the President’s re-election campaign.
Lincoln’s political approach for eliciting political support for the war against southern Democrat secessionists followed the narrative of preserving the union. Some retrospectively may regard the entanglement of unionism and black emancipation as inseparable. As William James might have observed though, the Confederacy presented the Union with a forced option of fighting or yielding to oligarchic expropriation of the southern states.
It is interesting that some vague ideas about a union of free people continues today as an underlying basis for a logic of support for global revolutions-even paradoxically as networked global concentrations of wealth via corporatism exploit labor globally. Human society is often not founded upon purely rational pragmatic methods politically, but instead evolves as a circumstance with a lack of adequate public interests in structuring effective and adaptive social and economic governance.
This book on U.S. Civil War history is named ‘The Union War’. I found a note fragment Gallagher provided from Sect. Seward to Lincoln on the topic of Unionism vs. secession. Taking an RS 2477 course at the Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1988 and sitting at a table with Joe Voegler-founder of the Alaska Independence Party later found murdered in the city landfill, I was interested on Seward’s ideas on unionism. Sect. Seward of course was instrumental in purchasing Alaska from Russia.
I decided to reprint it here. The state of Alaska is also releasing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s quotidian emails during her time in office as transcripts today. Sect. Seward’s note to Lincoln is of more historical interest for me at least. The book is something of an historian’s history book reviewing ideas of other historians as well as presenting the author’s own on the subject.
Perhaps Americans have become a little forgetful of the political question of unionism and what it meant in the first half of the 19th century before the civil war rendered the topic res judicata. Equally likely we have forgotten many of the subtleties of politics that Abraham Lincoln and others were required to use politically to get a northern population that was 99% white to fight to liberate the slaves of the south. Gallagher’s book advances a credible thesis that popular sentiment to keep the union together was the main reason northerners volunteered 1.2 million men to fight a civil war even before conscription. The idea that abolitionists wanted to let the south go its own way-perhaps to get rid of the beast-is curious. Still, it is challenging to imagine that Wisconsin with a black population just .15% had much concern about ending slavery in Louisiana.
I read a quote from Ulysses S. Grant on his first experience of encountering slaves in the south while with the Army of the West in another book. Slavery hadn’t made much of an impression on him until then as it was not part of his experience. Thereafter he became hardened in sentiment against it.
Some historians have written about those all-white unionists before the United States Colored Troops units formed in 1864 as racists, supremacists and chauvinists (really).
That 19 million white northerners would fight fewer (13 million?) southern whites to keep the union together is not so surprising. I assume first nations tribes are not included as Northern unionists in the tally-even though a full blooded Indian Union Colonel named Parker wrote the document of surrender Lee would sign at Appomattox after his Army was decimated, barefoot and starving. First nation’s tribes had not fully reconciled themselves yet to being citizens of the Union.
Gallagher mentions that Negro slaves were counted as 3/5ths citizens in the ante bellum south for the purpose of political apportionment. Southern elitists were happy enough to have the swollen congressional representation numbers yet wanted more- leading to war. The tacit recognition that Negro slaves are both humans and citizens even if not voting ones implied that the terms would eventually change.
In retrospect the south did seem to press its will to secede too far to perpetuate its way of life. There were moderate Northern offers to gradually phase out slavery the oligarchs disdained.
As an oligarchy the southern leadership presented a direct threat to unionism. Northern whites supported their own egalitarian liberty and right to advance to a property owning class, and on that basis readily enlisted to combat the secessionist south. As the possibility of a global elitism recovering portions of the United States even for potential imperial rule grew, free whites obviously would be willing to war to preserve a union and collaterally eliminate slave labor.
Seward-more famous for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia- wrote to Lincoln in 1864 ‘we must Change the question before the Public from one upon Slavery, or about Slavery for a question upon Union or Disunion”.
Lincoln ran in 1864 for the Presidency on a Union Party ticket rather than the Republican. Seward supported the Union Party and provides good political advice for the President’s re-election campaign.
Lincoln’s political approach for eliciting political support for the war against southern Democrat secessionists followed the narrative of preserving the union. Some retrospectively may regard the entanglement of unionism and black emancipation as inseparable. As William James might have observed though, the Confederacy presented the Union with a forced option of fighting or yielding to oligarchic expropriation of the southern states.
It is interesting that some vague ideas about a union of free people continues today as an underlying basis for a logic of support for global revolutions-even paradoxically as networked global concentrations of wealth via corporatism exploit labor globally. Human society is often not founded upon purely rational pragmatic methods politically, but instead evolves as a circumstance with a lack of adequate public interests in structuring effective and adaptive social and economic governance.
6/9/11
On Poetic Aesthetics
I believe it is important to discern changes in the world as well as to regard it aesthetically.
Reading about Elton's naturalistic investigation of Svalbard's ecosystem in the 1920's recently I was impressed by the time required to develop the planetary ecosystem, and of its fragility along with the coefficient of unawareness that most politicians embody.
The aesthetic perspective is also a consequence of the constant forces of physics-we humans are emergent characteristics in that unified field perhaps created by God initially even before the Q value was set to let the cosmic inflationary era cause galaxies eventually to form.
Meaning perhaps is in understanding of what nature is as well as in its appearance.
Reading about Elton's naturalistic investigation of Svalbard's ecosystem in the 1920's recently I was impressed by the time required to develop the planetary ecosystem, and of its fragility along with the coefficient of unawareness that most politicians embody.
The aesthetic perspective is also a consequence of the constant forces of physics-we humans are emergent characteristics in that unified field perhaps created by God initially even before the Q value was set to let the cosmic inflationary era cause galaxies eventually to form.
Meaning perhaps is in understanding of what nature is as well as in its appearance.
The Way Political Cookies Crumble (poem)
In the foe society cookies progressively crumble
legal sovereignty is apparent rather than real
harsh winds of flames soar
over stagnant floods of newspeak
employment is designed by rich
networks of non-workers leaving minimum
puny profit for the bottom ten percent
Nation X has the mirror of Internet ceilings
with trans-world optic fiber cables laid
better than a soviet organization of Afghanistan
in compliant communes before the next war's 3 piece suit role model
learns the Taliban formed as student loan default derivatives
better Swat enforcement might have stopped
returning the useless confederate college degree to the source
severing the association
to sweep up janitor's profits
to write of free space, liberal scrives run aground
searching beyond the tuppence of tomorrow
The assembly of computer percentages for the House
poor-rages for 1960
as if Nixon would have voided Vietnam
and time moved forward running backward.
legal sovereignty is apparent rather than real
harsh winds of flames soar
over stagnant floods of newspeak
employment is designed by rich
networks of non-workers leaving minimum
puny profit for the bottom ten percent
Nation X has the mirror of Internet ceilings
with trans-world optic fiber cables laid
better than a soviet organization of Afghanistan
in compliant communes before the next war's 3 piece suit role model
learns the Taliban formed as student loan default derivatives
better Swat enforcement might have stopped
returning the useless confederate college degree to the source
severing the association
to sweep up janitor's profits
to write of free space, liberal scrives run aground
searching beyond the tuppence of tomorrow
The assembly of computer percentages for the House
poor-rages for 1960
as if Nixon would have voided Vietnam
and time moved forward running backward.
Free Trade Good Yet Int. Free Trade Agreements May Reduce Free Enterprise
International free trade agreements set constants of uneven value to domestic free market players. Like the Q value that determined the distribution of matter in the inflationary era of the Universe free trade agreements favor a coalescence of the business mater of trade advantage to concentrated transnational corporate wealth comprising the dominate core of star formation and economic galaxies. Local markets are marginalized as a factor in state determination of trade constants letting concentrated wealth emerge as giant black holes of the mass of millions of solar masses around which all economic mass orbits to its eventual doom.
Adam Smith was not an American. One should not take his work as a sort of economic gospel. George Washington and the founders did not write that corporations had rights and citizens individually few. The constitution could have been structured such that every corporation is endowed with inalienable rights to have 500 employees nor more or less, and that all corporations (or communes) shall be regarded equally-we know that the Founders and even Adam Smith thought about social rights in terms of individuals as opposed to concentrated power and wealth in any form. Neither believed that an absolute, existential corporate competition of consolidating power-a financial progression toward global corporatist, communism or oligarchic power was a goal of democracy or of union of citizens or states.
The marketplace was intended to represent the free and equal access and opportunity for citizens to conduct free enterprise without the empirical disadvantage of dominating corporate, communal or royal power. Democracy with political equality was the heart of the American Revolution. Political equality is destroyed by concentrated corporate wealth and power-especially trans-national corporate power. One may call the U.S.A. a democratic society still, yet it has transitioned steadily toward co-option as a corporatist entity ruled far more by the interests of trans-national corporations than of individual citizen interests.
Corporate power pre-empts political liberty at a real employee level when citizen free speech must be in subjugation to corporate policy approval in order to have a job. Obviously Americans no longer give a damn about political freedom from corporate control since corporate employees have become who Americans are. The democratic revolution that the Democratic NPR-Arab Hurricane Season economic baby Arabian Twittheads seek to import in effect was replaced years ago by a synthetic corporate android network lurking like Dengue fever mosquitoes in a global free trade agreement.
A democratic society should limit the size of corporations arbitrarily in order to conserve citizen political liberty, economic opportunity, competition and social equality. Propaganda runs against that obviously.
If free trade and free enterprise are to exist outside of networked corporate control then an import-export market should be limited to 30% of g.n.p. except for special case nations such as Iceland. National democracies should be encouraged to have renewable, low entropy ecologically rational economies. Individuals should be limited t owning shares of 3 corporations to prevent crass social ownership networking and an eventually stagnant society. Patents should be limited to a non-renewable period of ten years with a 1% royalty to the inventor by other producers thereafter for 100 years. The maximum number of employees in any corporation should be 5000 (in the U.S.A.) in order to stimulate competition. Free trade work best when the most people are economically free, independent producers not light years removed from the top of the economic ladder, not controlled by aloof and powerful financial networks, not repressed by Wall Street first cousin C.E.O.s that own every business in every town except for a few dependent service companies.
Free trade agreements passed by the congress primarily benefits concentrated wealth in corporate form statistically most able to exploit cheap foreign labor and natural resources creating an unfair domestic advantage. Free trade agreements create very unfair trade for U.S. individuals that must compete against trans-nationally advantaged publicly listed prosperous corporations. How many small local businesses bit the dust as Wall Mart expanded in the U.S.A.?
The American democracy was a social union response to oppress concentrations of power and wealth. The Union victory over southern slave oligarchs in 1865 was an affirmation of national union power. Giving up political sovereignty except as corporate sycophancy is a response to the failure of U.S. political leadership to comprehend what democracy is in the United States historically, and of the economic parameters required to prevent concentrations of wealth and power through social organization that oppress individuals as basic economic equals, make equal legal rights nominal rather than actual, reduces legal sovereignty conditionally to ‘pragmatic’ elite review, and the need to limit the economic power of social and business organizations to preserve democracy.
Adam Smith was not an American. One should not take his work as a sort of economic gospel. George Washington and the founders did not write that corporations had rights and citizens individually few. The constitution could have been structured such that every corporation is endowed with inalienable rights to have 500 employees nor more or less, and that all corporations (or communes) shall be regarded equally-we know that the Founders and even Adam Smith thought about social rights in terms of individuals as opposed to concentrated power and wealth in any form. Neither believed that an absolute, existential corporate competition of consolidating power-a financial progression toward global corporatist, communism or oligarchic power was a goal of democracy or of union of citizens or states.
The marketplace was intended to represent the free and equal access and opportunity for citizens to conduct free enterprise without the empirical disadvantage of dominating corporate, communal or royal power. Democracy with political equality was the heart of the American Revolution. Political equality is destroyed by concentrated corporate wealth and power-especially trans-national corporate power. One may call the U.S.A. a democratic society still, yet it has transitioned steadily toward co-option as a corporatist entity ruled far more by the interests of trans-national corporations than of individual citizen interests.
Corporate power pre-empts political liberty at a real employee level when citizen free speech must be in subjugation to corporate policy approval in order to have a job. Obviously Americans no longer give a damn about political freedom from corporate control since corporate employees have become who Americans are. The democratic revolution that the Democratic NPR-Arab Hurricane Season economic baby Arabian Twittheads seek to import in effect was replaced years ago by a synthetic corporate android network lurking like Dengue fever mosquitoes in a global free trade agreement.
A democratic society should limit the size of corporations arbitrarily in order to conserve citizen political liberty, economic opportunity, competition and social equality. Propaganda runs against that obviously.
If free trade and free enterprise are to exist outside of networked corporate control then an import-export market should be limited to 30% of g.n.p. except for special case nations such as Iceland. National democracies should be encouraged to have renewable, low entropy ecologically rational economies. Individuals should be limited t owning shares of 3 corporations to prevent crass social ownership networking and an eventually stagnant society. Patents should be limited to a non-renewable period of ten years with a 1% royalty to the inventor by other producers thereafter for 100 years. The maximum number of employees in any corporation should be 5000 (in the U.S.A.) in order to stimulate competition. Free trade work best when the most people are economically free, independent producers not light years removed from the top of the economic ladder, not controlled by aloof and powerful financial networks, not repressed by Wall Street first cousin C.E.O.s that own every business in every town except for a few dependent service companies.
Free trade agreements passed by the congress primarily benefits concentrated wealth in corporate form statistically most able to exploit cheap foreign labor and natural resources creating an unfair domestic advantage. Free trade agreements create very unfair trade for U.S. individuals that must compete against trans-nationally advantaged publicly listed prosperous corporations. How many small local businesses bit the dust as Wall Mart expanded in the U.S.A.?
The American democracy was a social union response to oppress concentrations of power and wealth. The Union victory over southern slave oligarchs in 1865 was an affirmation of national union power. Giving up political sovereignty except as corporate sycophancy is a response to the failure of U.S. political leadership to comprehend what democracy is in the United States historically, and of the economic parameters required to prevent concentrations of wealth and power through social organization that oppress individuals as basic economic equals, make equal legal rights nominal rather than actual, reduces legal sovereignty conditionally to ‘pragmatic’ elite review, and the need to limit the economic power of social and business organizations to preserve democracy.
6/8/11
Waveforms Upon Nothing (poem)
Slaves cross over the Rappahannock to freedom
mists in the blue sky over green
fading with cooler morn
the war moved on to Petersburg
there are no cliffs in cities
simply abrupt social edges
discontinuities of media incorrectness
continents ending while waves surge
ever rolling away like connestoga wagons into time
Ambrose Bierce following on to Vicksburg
the civilization of war excavating continents
the dead littering forests
stomachs dry in low hanging branches
armistice again takes refuge from reason
that reason that led to millions ending
personal experience and private interests
when public force was an insensible herd
balancing bullets of opposition
for whom the lone tree was a lovely treason told
An existential light in the darkness
shines brighter than atomic midnight
recycling ideas in concentrate form
whileover ten thousand delicate cuts
poison an environment with righter right
the journey to the breaking ice
models stone falling from the world
one that resembled a more poignant collection
elusively gone beyond a round horizon
a desert storm casting brown dust aloft
stirring motions of shadows in wind
written words of waveforms upon nothing.
mists in the blue sky over green
fading with cooler morn
the war moved on to Petersburg
there are no cliffs in cities
simply abrupt social edges
discontinuities of media incorrectness
continents ending while waves surge
ever rolling away like connestoga wagons into time
Ambrose Bierce following on to Vicksburg
the civilization of war excavating continents
the dead littering forests
stomachs dry in low hanging branches
armistice again takes refuge from reason
that reason that led to millions ending
personal experience and private interests
when public force was an insensible herd
balancing bullets of opposition
for whom the lone tree was a lovely treason told
An existential light in the darkness
shines brighter than atomic midnight
recycling ideas in concentrate form
whileover ten thousand delicate cuts
poison an environment with righter right
the journey to the breaking ice
models stone falling from the world
one that resembled a more poignant collection
elusively gone beyond a round horizon
a desert storm casting brown dust aloft
stirring motions of shadows in wind
written words of waveforms upon nothing.
"Just Six Numbers" That are Constant Physical Value Parameters of the Universe
“Just Six Numbers” That are Constant Physical Value Parameters of the Universe
Martin Ree’s book ‘Just Six Numbers’ published in 1999 is still a fine, brief introduction to six important physical constants of the Universe that shape its content making fit for life instead of extended unemployment. I was fortunate to find this book that is a yardstick by which to measure the progress of cosmology in the first decade of the 21st century (i.e. in comparison to the 2011 ‘The Book of Universes’ by Barrow. Barrow also wrote a book on constants of the Universe).
It was just in 1998 that discovery of the apparent acceleration of the Universe was announced- changing the way people think about the omega value that is used to calculate if gravity will make the universe eventually contract to a big crunch.
Since the discovery of lambda-the vacuum energy expanding space (well, it might be Einstein’s cosmological constant or something else perhaps)-the investigation of alleged missing dark matter has also changed-perhaps there is not so much missing matter if the Universe is actually expanding instead of remaining a static size in accord with the ‘less gravity, more space expanding’ formula.
Another change is in the mapping of the microwave background temperature of the Universe that gives clues to the Q value or distribution of mass causing irregularity in the pre-inflationary universe letting stars and galaxies eventually coalesce. Martin Rees also goes over string theory, extra-dimensions of a potential multi-verse and other topics.
I found the book enjoyable reading recently. It made me realize that a reason for lambda-a cosmological constant that would accelerate the expansion of space-is that it might just be an apparent effect rather than a physical force itself.
If gravity exists because of a relationship of mass to hidden micro-size extra dimensions in which strings are grounded, when enough mass is drawn together the extra-dimensions in one place may smooth out space elsewhere making it appear to expand in three larger dimensions-just an idea of course (not in the book) As mass is concentrated in galaxies with gravity the ‘weight’ upon space is decreased outside where the mass formerly was…that let’s space flatten out and expanding like a curled up newspaper might be flatter and larger unfolded.
Rees also mentioned monopoles, and that is a fascinating concept. There are several ideas in the book that allow one naturally enough to consider how they might apply in the real world as one imagines it might be.
Magnets have two poles as electro-magnetic fields. It is actually difficult to imagine a one-pole or one-directional field that does not loop in upon itself. One might believe that gravity could be a looping field too as an alternative to the micro-dimensional paradigm. If a field began at a particular location as a ‘knot’ in space-time it would send force in one direction and probably travel in the opposite as if it were repulsed. Any monopole would need to be grounded in another field. The entire universe may be a field rather than a monopolar event grounded in an infinite concentration of mass and energy as it’s ‘anchor’ to start from.
I suppose it is easy to regard the strong force binding nuclei together as a segment of a unified field energy in smaller-tighter-stronger configuration. As one goes up the scale of force they become weaker and greater in size or range. Strong-electro-weak to gravity force. Energy bound in various configurations such as quarks and gluons, electrons etc comprise the appearance of mass. Strings might be like an even tighter continuous micro-field of energy giving rise to the appearance of quarks.
The idea that small dimensions should not expand, and that three larger dimensions have expanded is of interest too. I believe that the math about dimensions might not model more than the shape of those dimensions, and physicists would need to describe the energy, strength and so forth of strings, multi-dimensional strings etc. That would seem a difficult task.
Dimensions can be abstracted and represented by complex math tables. How real small dimensions would pervade space-time and relate to our three spatial dimensions of this universe is ponderous subject. What for would keep a dimension small? What size would dimensions be at a singularity or before the inflation of the Universe?
Dimensions probably are all simple—they all just go in one direction or dimensional way. It is when they pile up an interact together that the space-time gets complex to understand.
Physicists have basically explained that atoms and regular orbits can only occur in three dimensional space, so if extra dimensions exist for the Universe they must be small in order for life to exist.
Logically dimensions should have no limit to size, and they should all occupy space simultaneously-perhaps in an infinite number. The use of particular dimensions rightly ought to be selected by the kind and form of energy structures thrown in to a region of space at any given time.
It is those extra small dimensions that might be the explanation for quantum mechanical entanglement or spooky action at a distance apparently faster than light. With extra-dimensions (shortcuts) to go through very small quantum mechanical wave-particles have many possibilities for downloading into the three dimensional universe.
Obvious questions arise to those considering how six small dimensions might relate to three large dimensions of space in the beginning. Were nine dimensions of equal, perhaps infinitely small stature before becoming full of power to such an extent that three overflowed to large spatial size in the inflationary era? Three large dimensions expanding outward in the fourth dimension of time in some way retained the basic tie to the other six still small dimensions perhaps unaffected by the 4th dimension of time.
String theory cosmology, ideas about dimensions and energy could all be as naïve as Ptolemaic astrophysics, yet be the best available today. Fundamental criteria about space-time, what dimensions are, the spatial limits of the Universe(s) may be wildly incomplete, and that situation may remain so even as knowledge continues to expand the human scientific data base through research.
Martin Ree’s book ‘Just Six Numbers’ published in 1999 is still a fine, brief introduction to six important physical constants of the Universe that shape its content making fit for life instead of extended unemployment. I was fortunate to find this book that is a yardstick by which to measure the progress of cosmology in the first decade of the 21st century (i.e. in comparison to the 2011 ‘The Book of Universes’ by Barrow. Barrow also wrote a book on constants of the Universe).
It was just in 1998 that discovery of the apparent acceleration of the Universe was announced- changing the way people think about the omega value that is used to calculate if gravity will make the universe eventually contract to a big crunch.
Since the discovery of lambda-the vacuum energy expanding space (well, it might be Einstein’s cosmological constant or something else perhaps)-the investigation of alleged missing dark matter has also changed-perhaps there is not so much missing matter if the Universe is actually expanding instead of remaining a static size in accord with the ‘less gravity, more space expanding’ formula.
Another change is in the mapping of the microwave background temperature of the Universe that gives clues to the Q value or distribution of mass causing irregularity in the pre-inflationary universe letting stars and galaxies eventually coalesce. Martin Rees also goes over string theory, extra-dimensions of a potential multi-verse and other topics.
I found the book enjoyable reading recently. It made me realize that a reason for lambda-a cosmological constant that would accelerate the expansion of space-is that it might just be an apparent effect rather than a physical force itself.
If gravity exists because of a relationship of mass to hidden micro-size extra dimensions in which strings are grounded, when enough mass is drawn together the extra-dimensions in one place may smooth out space elsewhere making it appear to expand in three larger dimensions-just an idea of course (not in the book) As mass is concentrated in galaxies with gravity the ‘weight’ upon space is decreased outside where the mass formerly was…that let’s space flatten out and expanding like a curled up newspaper might be flatter and larger unfolded.
Rees also mentioned monopoles, and that is a fascinating concept. There are several ideas in the book that allow one naturally enough to consider how they might apply in the real world as one imagines it might be.
Magnets have two poles as electro-magnetic fields. It is actually difficult to imagine a one-pole or one-directional field that does not loop in upon itself. One might believe that gravity could be a looping field too as an alternative to the micro-dimensional paradigm. If a field began at a particular location as a ‘knot’ in space-time it would send force in one direction and probably travel in the opposite as if it were repulsed. Any monopole would need to be grounded in another field. The entire universe may be a field rather than a monopolar event grounded in an infinite concentration of mass and energy as it’s ‘anchor’ to start from.
I suppose it is easy to regard the strong force binding nuclei together as a segment of a unified field energy in smaller-tighter-stronger configuration. As one goes up the scale of force they become weaker and greater in size or range. Strong-electro-weak to gravity force. Energy bound in various configurations such as quarks and gluons, electrons etc comprise the appearance of mass. Strings might be like an even tighter continuous micro-field of energy giving rise to the appearance of quarks.
The idea that small dimensions should not expand, and that three larger dimensions have expanded is of interest too. I believe that the math about dimensions might not model more than the shape of those dimensions, and physicists would need to describe the energy, strength and so forth of strings, multi-dimensional strings etc. That would seem a difficult task.
Dimensions can be abstracted and represented by complex math tables. How real small dimensions would pervade space-time and relate to our three spatial dimensions of this universe is ponderous subject. What for would keep a dimension small? What size would dimensions be at a singularity or before the inflation of the Universe?
Dimensions probably are all simple—they all just go in one direction or dimensional way. It is when they pile up an interact together that the space-time gets complex to understand.
Physicists have basically explained that atoms and regular orbits can only occur in three dimensional space, so if extra dimensions exist for the Universe they must be small in order for life to exist.
Logically dimensions should have no limit to size, and they should all occupy space simultaneously-perhaps in an infinite number. The use of particular dimensions rightly ought to be selected by the kind and form of energy structures thrown in to a region of space at any given time.
It is those extra small dimensions that might be the explanation for quantum mechanical entanglement or spooky action at a distance apparently faster than light. With extra-dimensions (shortcuts) to go through very small quantum mechanical wave-particles have many possibilities for downloading into the three dimensional universe.
Obvious questions arise to those considering how six small dimensions might relate to three large dimensions of space in the beginning. Were nine dimensions of equal, perhaps infinitely small stature before becoming full of power to such an extent that three overflowed to large spatial size in the inflationary era? Three large dimensions expanding outward in the fourth dimension of time in some way retained the basic tie to the other six still small dimensions perhaps unaffected by the 4th dimension of time.
String theory cosmology, ideas about dimensions and energy could all be as naïve as Ptolemaic astrophysics, yet be the best available today. Fundamental criteria about space-time, what dimensions are, the spatial limits of the Universe(s) may be wildly incomplete, and that situation may remain so even as knowledge continues to expand the human scientific data base through research.
6/6/11
Free Trade Agreements to Outsource Jobs
The United States has developed a new majority negating the historical position of straight while males. This is a politically incorrect subject to write about obviously, as the new majority coalition of women, non-whites and homosexuals have the ascendency especially in the internet. I read a former Baptist minister's pro/con message today about the new acceptability of gays in the same issue as photos of high school graduates--maybe next year there will be an article in some paper on the new acceptability of bestiality-who can say?
One of the consequences of the new age of an immoral majority is trade agreements between the United States and various other countries. Every time a free trade agreement is struck the former white Republican majority that have concentrated wealth can outsource jobs to a nation with different values better suited for profit.
Eventually the Moslem world too should be a place where 'free trade' with factories outsourced from the United States may flourish. Sending a factory from Iowa or Massachusetts to Peru or Egypt brings far cheaper labor, no obligation for employee benefits, and a docile work force that respects traditional vallues along with low, low taxes-then the relocated producer can export the product to the United States-perhaps Los Angeles-avoiding high teamster wages, expensive U.S. domestic transportation costs and so forth.
I write this unpleasant evaluation of free trade agreements as a white male of course, for whom real wages of that class have been in devline 40 years in the United States. There were lots of factory jobs at one time that even a philosopher might work in long enough to save a little for graduate school or for self-employment. No more is that true.
The U.S. Government thus rationally invests in foreign nation rebuilding in order to make the relocation of American businesses to those foreign regions practical. I imagine that close work with foreign leadership elements to redecorate the world for an acepptable business model should continue.
In the meanwhile the rise of women to leading roles in politics and the media should continue while illegal entry of foreign labor will also continue. The prospects for creating good jobs generally, with secure boundaries may decline. Yet the transition of upwardly mobile new majorities albeit at a lower comparative standard of living to past generations should provide a buffer to agitation againt the outsourcing of jobs to more compliant, cheaper labor forces.
Assuredly one day the United States may achieve a tranquil balance of labor forces-when all social classes are used to prosperity and feel less insecurity in regard to formerly advantaged classes. Alternatively the United States may become mired in global issues with little hope of freeing itself of foreign control, foreign conflicts imported to the nation and ecological issues that overwhelem the political competence of Americans.
Fundamentally I am trying to transtition to a post-active phase of political commentary as our own leadership seems so resolutely opposed to any political policy that would return sufficeint quality jobs that I too might profitably snag one. There are other things to be concerned about, and more nuanced methods of political-social investigations that yet do not conform to the pervasive social corruption of leadership of the United States today and perhaps for future generations.
Some optimism should be placed here for the happy ending purpose. Hmm- I believe that off-world space exploration could occur, that Jesus may return on Oct. 21st, that space-aliens might arrive to provide humanitarian and good employment with liberty and justice for all; that's enough happy ending ideas for now...
One of the consequences of the new age of an immoral majority is trade agreements between the United States and various other countries. Every time a free trade agreement is struck the former white Republican majority that have concentrated wealth can outsource jobs to a nation with different values better suited for profit.
Eventually the Moslem world too should be a place where 'free trade' with factories outsourced from the United States may flourish. Sending a factory from Iowa or Massachusetts to Peru or Egypt brings far cheaper labor, no obligation for employee benefits, and a docile work force that respects traditional vallues along with low, low taxes-then the relocated producer can export the product to the United States-perhaps Los Angeles-avoiding high teamster wages, expensive U.S. domestic transportation costs and so forth.
I write this unpleasant evaluation of free trade agreements as a white male of course, for whom real wages of that class have been in devline 40 years in the United States. There were lots of factory jobs at one time that even a philosopher might work in long enough to save a little for graduate school or for self-employment. No more is that true.
The U.S. Government thus rationally invests in foreign nation rebuilding in order to make the relocation of American businesses to those foreign regions practical. I imagine that close work with foreign leadership elements to redecorate the world for an acepptable business model should continue.
In the meanwhile the rise of women to leading roles in politics and the media should continue while illegal entry of foreign labor will also continue. The prospects for creating good jobs generally, with secure boundaries may decline. Yet the transition of upwardly mobile new majorities albeit at a lower comparative standard of living to past generations should provide a buffer to agitation againt the outsourcing of jobs to more compliant, cheaper labor forces.
Assuredly one day the United States may achieve a tranquil balance of labor forces-when all social classes are used to prosperity and feel less insecurity in regard to formerly advantaged classes. Alternatively the United States may become mired in global issues with little hope of freeing itself of foreign control, foreign conflicts imported to the nation and ecological issues that overwhelem the political competence of Americans.
Fundamentally I am trying to transtition to a post-active phase of political commentary as our own leadership seems so resolutely opposed to any political policy that would return sufficeint quality jobs that I too might profitably snag one. There are other things to be concerned about, and more nuanced methods of political-social investigations that yet do not conform to the pervasive social corruption of leadership of the United States today and perhaps for future generations.
Some optimism should be placed here for the happy ending purpose. Hmm- I believe that off-world space exploration could occur, that Jesus may return on Oct. 21st, that space-aliens might arrive to provide humanitarian and good employment with liberty and justice for all; that's enough happy ending ideas for now...
6/4/11
On the Death of Thule ©2011GaryCGibson (fiction)
Young whales travelling in the sea live in noise pollution. Their world is dangerous and in decline. The narrative of history of the pod of Thule provided by Aldus Hoyle includes the astrophysicist’s theory of the steady bang micro quantum-wave duel Universe.
Wave quanta travel across space without being in it. Mass and energy distribution in the Universe within a relativistic paradigm disregards the paradigm of space as nothing material at all and in effect describes just relationships of mass, energy and space-time as a variable field.
Wave quanta of the micro world exist at an instantaneous trans-relativistic scale. That minimalist universe hasn’t got the inflated expanse of the macro-universe to travel through as it pre-exists the steady-state universe. In a way, ours is a tale of two universes; one large and the other of no significant size bound together with inversed relations of normal hierarchy. For the smaller universe readily accesses all locations the larger universe may have in its form as space-time mass-energy. The dot universe has the advantage of insider trading places to space-time.
Thule was the Arctic dream on the polar extreme of the world. Frozen over seasonally it was one end of a world filled by the largest mammals to have walked the Earth. They swam in the world ocean by the millions and thought in the vertical-horizontal existential field of being of life that was the solid state age of the Universe that was soon ready for the brief appearance of mankind.
Mind fields of whales, mind fields of human beings with their ten to the 77th power neuron connections, the strong field and its diminishing effectiveness binding together larger elements with more protons and increasing size; mind fields relating to other mind fields and to the steady state universe and what lies below. The strong force binding atomic nuclei would lose energy if it were not replenished from interaction deselecting alternative worldlines of wave-quantum.
The electrical force’s continuing transfer of data of shapes of mind fields and associated atomic structures outward to birds and neighboring life forms. These things can be felt moving things in amplified verisimilitude beyond the Great Attractor’s power. Bringing the Milky Way Galaxy, the local group of galaxies and the Virgo Cluster at hundreds of kilometers per second toward an unknown object hundreds of millions of light year away in an echolocate sense, natural intelligent selection of wave-quanta actualized intelligent design.
The decrease of whales on the Earth and the loss of concatenated mind fields of those tremendous beings let the Earth fall with increasing acceleration toward a place in the Universe with a different life form-one repulsed by the mind force of whales and drawn to the diminished mind-field capacity of the Milky Way Galaxy and its curious speck of a planet about 25,000 light years from its center.
Fast rocket trains bring migrants from the Equatorial region to Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia and the Arctic shore to work thousands of offshore oil plantations, clean up oil spills and service concentrated wealth industry’s recreational and business pleasures.
Chemical pollutions from a million sources trickle into the waters, become sedimentary depositions emerge as toxic vapors of mist on warm summer days.
The polar temperatures reach above 80 degrees Fahrenheit seasonally now. Much work is done by millions of loyalist-allegiant retainers living on the Arctic coast before November arrives and they vanish at the approach of darkness to warmer, better lit areas of the world. Still, the ocean is full of noise of their machines, explosions and sonar blasts to bludgeon cetaceans with wrath.
Thule is dead. The ice and life is gone though a disposable planet industry develops to concentrate wealth for Juphyrim Khedive the machine designer. Thousands of pipelines can be repaired. Hundreds of thousands of miles of high latitude roads resurfaced with rich black asphalt to accelerate warming absorption of solar photons.
Residual brain wave field preference of dinosaurs for a warmer planet is reasserting its ghostly existence through womankind’s work in killing Thule and the age of the whales.
Womankind’s allegiance to the world-for-machines and dinosaur logic without sentient life increases.
Lambda is a measurement of the rate of expansion of space of the Universe. In the solid state phase of mass and energy, within relativity’s criterion of gravity, mass and energy at very large scales have appeared to be pushed away isotropically by the supervening expansion of space. Hubble’s red shift increases over time and distance- for galaxies overall are moving apart. It is only mass and energy in the relativistic universe that moves away at large scale as wave quanta mechanics interpolate selection criteria from the no-space distance realm of the micro-world to the relativistic Universe.
In states of quantum superposition whale mind fields experienced the decrease of their numbers in the existential sea as hunter-killers ranged across the surface of the world with increasingly efficient mind-pricks bloodying the waters.
Whale song decreased to echoes of endlosung commensurate for the final solution of the Reich state’s security apparatus. The mind field became weak on the Earth as sterilizing machine increased power spotlessly. Slippage of the solid state Universe retroactively toward recreating its past with an expansion of relativistic space-time brought verbs of the age of dinosaurs closer toward incarnation in electronic circuits of machines drawling solar strength from a world without biological life.
For every quantum packet observed in the Universe the alternative myriad wave quanta lines of potential existence that might have been observed cease to exist as possibility. The Universe becomes constructed and modified by the selection of possible wave-quanta that lodge in the Universe as steady-state determined wave-quanta totals statistically associated with other selected quanta and locked out of the micro-realm of all possible free wave-quanta.
Given a finite initial endowment of hypothetical wave-quanta selection from those primordial wave-quanta observed/spoken into being by The Word, as the Universe increased its conversion of mass energy from possible wave-quanta to selected wave quanta the reduction of possible forms reciprocally decreased. After a time period measured as about 6.7 billion years life on Earth would become a near future phenomena as the solar system and an Earth coalesced in the firmament to begin a local four billion year cycle.
The development of life would require additional mass-energy conversions and construction of complex quantum bio-computing neurology. After a few billion years the quantum mind field as a steady state fact became actual. Whales by the millions experienced being transcending the sum of the steady state wave-quanta from which they and the material of the Universe surged into being. The mind field transcended the decrease of wave-quantum packets and maintained the Universe as an extended steady state minimum entropy actuality.
Entropy is the expansion of mass-energy at the speed of light into available space. Steady state changes to entropy may occur when wave-quanta selection possibilities are relocated into the steady state universe in the appearance of mass energy displacement, or the increase of space expansion. When a mind field is reduced in relation of complexity to the wave-quantum realm of possible thought and actualization as steady-state mass-energy a consequence is the conversion of possible thought into the expansion of space without thought.
The whales reduced to a minimum on Earth experienced the return of the maximum minimum age of reason. Thule is dead.
Wave quanta travel across space without being in it. Mass and energy distribution in the Universe within a relativistic paradigm disregards the paradigm of space as nothing material at all and in effect describes just relationships of mass, energy and space-time as a variable field.
Wave quanta of the micro world exist at an instantaneous trans-relativistic scale. That minimalist universe hasn’t got the inflated expanse of the macro-universe to travel through as it pre-exists the steady-state universe. In a way, ours is a tale of two universes; one large and the other of no significant size bound together with inversed relations of normal hierarchy. For the smaller universe readily accesses all locations the larger universe may have in its form as space-time mass-energy. The dot universe has the advantage of insider trading places to space-time.
Thule was the Arctic dream on the polar extreme of the world. Frozen over seasonally it was one end of a world filled by the largest mammals to have walked the Earth. They swam in the world ocean by the millions and thought in the vertical-horizontal existential field of being of life that was the solid state age of the Universe that was soon ready for the brief appearance of mankind.
Mind fields of whales, mind fields of human beings with their ten to the 77th power neuron connections, the strong field and its diminishing effectiveness binding together larger elements with more protons and increasing size; mind fields relating to other mind fields and to the steady state universe and what lies below. The strong force binding atomic nuclei would lose energy if it were not replenished from interaction deselecting alternative worldlines of wave-quantum.
The electrical force’s continuing transfer of data of shapes of mind fields and associated atomic structures outward to birds and neighboring life forms. These things can be felt moving things in amplified verisimilitude beyond the Great Attractor’s power. Bringing the Milky Way Galaxy, the local group of galaxies and the Virgo Cluster at hundreds of kilometers per second toward an unknown object hundreds of millions of light year away in an echolocate sense, natural intelligent selection of wave-quanta actualized intelligent design.
The decrease of whales on the Earth and the loss of concatenated mind fields of those tremendous beings let the Earth fall with increasing acceleration toward a place in the Universe with a different life form-one repulsed by the mind force of whales and drawn to the diminished mind-field capacity of the Milky Way Galaxy and its curious speck of a planet about 25,000 light years from its center.
Fast rocket trains bring migrants from the Equatorial region to Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia and the Arctic shore to work thousands of offshore oil plantations, clean up oil spills and service concentrated wealth industry’s recreational and business pleasures.
Chemical pollutions from a million sources trickle into the waters, become sedimentary depositions emerge as toxic vapors of mist on warm summer days.
The polar temperatures reach above 80 degrees Fahrenheit seasonally now. Much work is done by millions of loyalist-allegiant retainers living on the Arctic coast before November arrives and they vanish at the approach of darkness to warmer, better lit areas of the world. Still, the ocean is full of noise of their machines, explosions and sonar blasts to bludgeon cetaceans with wrath.
Thule is dead. The ice and life is gone though a disposable planet industry develops to concentrate wealth for Juphyrim Khedive the machine designer. Thousands of pipelines can be repaired. Hundreds of thousands of miles of high latitude roads resurfaced with rich black asphalt to accelerate warming absorption of solar photons.
Residual brain wave field preference of dinosaurs for a warmer planet is reasserting its ghostly existence through womankind’s work in killing Thule and the age of the whales.
Womankind’s allegiance to the world-for-machines and dinosaur logic without sentient life increases.
Lambda is a measurement of the rate of expansion of space of the Universe. In the solid state phase of mass and energy, within relativity’s criterion of gravity, mass and energy at very large scales have appeared to be pushed away isotropically by the supervening expansion of space. Hubble’s red shift increases over time and distance- for galaxies overall are moving apart. It is only mass and energy in the relativistic universe that moves away at large scale as wave quanta mechanics interpolate selection criteria from the no-space distance realm of the micro-world to the relativistic Universe.
In states of quantum superposition whale mind fields experienced the decrease of their numbers in the existential sea as hunter-killers ranged across the surface of the world with increasingly efficient mind-pricks bloodying the waters.
Whale song decreased to echoes of endlosung commensurate for the final solution of the Reich state’s security apparatus. The mind field became weak on the Earth as sterilizing machine increased power spotlessly. Slippage of the solid state Universe retroactively toward recreating its past with an expansion of relativistic space-time brought verbs of the age of dinosaurs closer toward incarnation in electronic circuits of machines drawling solar strength from a world without biological life.
For every quantum packet observed in the Universe the alternative myriad wave quanta lines of potential existence that might have been observed cease to exist as possibility. The Universe becomes constructed and modified by the selection of possible wave-quanta that lodge in the Universe as steady-state determined wave-quanta totals statistically associated with other selected quanta and locked out of the micro-realm of all possible free wave-quanta.
Given a finite initial endowment of hypothetical wave-quanta selection from those primordial wave-quanta observed/spoken into being by The Word, as the Universe increased its conversion of mass energy from possible wave-quanta to selected wave quanta the reduction of possible forms reciprocally decreased. After a time period measured as about 6.7 billion years life on Earth would become a near future phenomena as the solar system and an Earth coalesced in the firmament to begin a local four billion year cycle.
The development of life would require additional mass-energy conversions and construction of complex quantum bio-computing neurology. After a few billion years the quantum mind field as a steady state fact became actual. Whales by the millions experienced being transcending the sum of the steady state wave-quanta from which they and the material of the Universe surged into being. The mind field transcended the decrease of wave-quantum packets and maintained the Universe as an extended steady state minimum entropy actuality.
Entropy is the expansion of mass-energy at the speed of light into available space. Steady state changes to entropy may occur when wave-quanta selection possibilities are relocated into the steady state universe in the appearance of mass energy displacement, or the increase of space expansion. When a mind field is reduced in relation of complexity to the wave-quantum realm of possible thought and actualization as steady-state mass-energy a consequence is the conversion of possible thought into the expansion of space without thought.
The whales reduced to a minimum on Earth experienced the return of the maximum minimum age of reason. Thule is dead.
6/3/11
White House Economic Adviser Regards Dismal Job Creation as 'Bump in the Road'
The Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers calls the dismal job creation last month a 'bump in the road'. Month to month needs for earnings are more than a trivial bump in the road for those not riding in the Lexus and Rolls, Bentley set.
In fact in Alaska there are just a few months before another winter and freeze up, another winter of sleeping on the ground with temperatures around zero, another winter of waiting for the hope of earnings in the summer to improve conditions before fall freeze up-maybe enough to buy propane or have a tooth extracted. One hopes to get a little work-even temporary, this summer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/goolsbee-calls-us-jobs-data-bump-on-recovery-path/2011/06/03/AGHOQ6HH_video.html
In fact in Alaska there are just a few months before another winter and freeze up, another winter of sleeping on the ground with temperatures around zero, another winter of waiting for the hope of earnings in the summer to improve conditions before fall freeze up-maybe enough to buy propane or have a tooth extracted. One hopes to get a little work-even temporary, this summer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/goolsbee-calls-us-jobs-data-bump-on-recovery-path/2011/06/03/AGHOQ6HH_video.html
Ghandi on Hitler's Invasion of Western Europe
A quote by Ghandi on 22 June 1940 in the newspaper 'Harijan' via Lukac's book on Churchill and Hitler in 1940 named 'The Duel' page 191...
"Germans of future generations will honor Herr Hitler as a genius, as a brave man, a matchless organizer and more."-Ghandi
Combined with other historical records of Ghandi serving as a recruiter for the Army in South Africa during war in the capacity of a sergeant (that I found mentioned in Best's book on the last day of the first world war) my perceptions of the remarkable political organizer have changed a little.
"Germans of future generations will honor Herr Hitler as a genius, as a brave man, a matchless organizer and more."-Ghandi
Combined with other historical records of Ghandi serving as a recruiter for the Army in South Africa during war in the capacity of a sergeant (that I found mentioned in Best's book on the last day of the first world war) my perceptions of the remarkable political organizer have changed a little.
6/2/11
Periodic Table Gets Two New Elements
These would be elements 114 and 116. Each is ephemeral in duration upon creation existing for a second or less, yet nevertheless important milestones on the way to the construction of new elements that may last 'decades'.
Because of relativity and time, new elements may play important roles in relation to investigations into the nature of time and space (I made that up yet it seems possible). One might bind atoms of space-if they exist, to new structures of atoms yet to be synthesized (more fiction).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20540-heaviest-elements-yet-join-periodic-table.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Because of relativity and time, new elements may play important roles in relation to investigations into the nature of time and space (I made that up yet it seems possible). One might bind atoms of space-if they exist, to new structures of atoms yet to be synthesized (more fiction).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20540-heaviest-elements-yet-join-periodic-table.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
President Obama & Debt Increase Negotiations
President Obama may have to agree to cut extended unemployment benefits in order to get agreement from Republicans to deepen the federal debt limit.
That concession would be a bitter for the President who gave Republicans two years of extended vast tax cuts in exchange for two more years of unemployment checks to those that had already got them two years.
President Obama seems especially inept at political budget negotiations and economic planning. The destitute working poor will neither find free medical care available during his administration. The President lacks any capacity for innovative economic reasoning going from his record.
If four years of unemployment benefits mollifies his supporters enough the President may be able to count on their votes in 2012. Yet without a prospect for another two years of more unemployment benefits to make it six years of unemployment benefits if the President were t be re-elected some of his loyalists may jump ship and swim to to another platform on the rising tide.
That concession would be a bitter for the President who gave Republicans two years of extended vast tax cuts in exchange for two more years of unemployment checks to those that had already got them two years.
President Obama seems especially inept at political budget negotiations and economic planning. The destitute working poor will neither find free medical care available during his administration. The President lacks any capacity for innovative economic reasoning going from his record.
If four years of unemployment benefits mollifies his supporters enough the President may be able to count on their votes in 2012. Yet without a prospect for another two years of more unemployment benefits to make it six years of unemployment benefits if the President were t be re-elected some of his loyalists may jump ship and swim to to another platform on the rising tide.
National Conservativism vs. Globalism
It is very challenging to interpret American economic conservativism today that supports global corporatism as conservative. One instead must regard it as a phenomenon of swollen egotists prosecuting an advantage to make cheap profits at the cost of national independence.
For now globalists may build up China, Red Army business ventures such as Lenovo, outsource U.S. telecommunications data stream analysis to foreign intelligence and security corporations and agitate against free medical care for the poor and veterans in the United States, for the role of false conservatives is simply to radically change the world in the effort to harvest cheap short-term profit.
In the future, after falsely labeled conservatives have their way organizing a world with decaying environmental resources and over-population, a world in which trans-national corporations avoid local taxation and concentrate wealth, exploit the environment and making human suffering increase at the bottom of the sky-hook to the clouds, the people too may overcome their own national boundaries and unite as a global polity to democratically vote a fair tax rate on 'conservatives'.
American conservatives in subverting nationalism will build the infrastructure for a one-world government reaction to the one world business environment exploiting nationalist 'locals' (those located somewhere). The U.N. may have security council resolutions to redistribute global capital to fully fund health care for the poor, invest on global environmental recovery and accelerate the pace of rational traditional living with economic liberty for all. That is the work that today's global conservatives are working for. That will be a world without much room for dissent nor any for national initiative such as might be valuable for space colonization.
Global conservatives today have political-economic philosophy expansion ideas reminiscent of Adolph Hitler's ideas about declarations of war. The historian John Lukacs in his book on the Churchill-Hitler contest of May-June 1940 reported that Hitler said of Mussolini's declaration of war "That will be the last declaration of war in the history of the world...Attack and March! That is the right and healthy way. I shall never sign a declaration of war. I shall act."
The United States today is effectively a one-party democracy of globalists. Nationalists and others opposed to illegal entry to the nation are in the power minority. Liberals and conservatives alike are cut of a globalist, swinging, raving telecommunications cloth as unreasoned as a blind wombat driving drunk at high speed during rush hour in the wrong direction. Democracy requires a foundation in real property and security boundaries to exist. Democracy also requires competition-a plethora of independent nation-states able to peacefully co-exist without being corrupted by trans-national corporate predators reducing locals to powerlessness politically with the worst case economic and health prospects personally.
President Obama throwing in the towel in December 2010 on letting Bush II tax cuts expire knew that he had already lost the House of Representatives to Republicans-it was the Democratic Party's last chance to recover a responsible U.S. economic footing for the next few years. He knew that no legislation would subsequently reach his desk for signature without Republican support, sohe v placed his party in a worst-case scenario for critical budget negotiations with little leverage on the Republican globalist position.
Republicans may actually have some support for leaving the federal borrowing and debt limit where it is and letting the chips fall where they may. If the cost for any further federal borrowing is higher after the appearance of default or delayed payment of federal debt, that could be an advantage to private sector borrowers that could find better terms from lenders than the U.S. Government.
If U.S. economic development can be stimulated by an increase of loans to private sector business after the U.S. Government's 800 pound guerrilla stops soaking up all the extra cash, there may arise a fiscal discipline in federal management of its budget resources. Means tests for social security, Medicaid and Medicare may become more realistic, illegal entry to the nation may be stopped with a comprehensive ecologically enhancing border control zone, full employment programs might be designed to keep people off federal subsistence programs and free public health care for the nation's poor may allow the poor to keep their sporadic dolops of capital for buying real estate, consumer goods or investing in small business (such as starting up a national D.N.A. bank so in the distant future one may be able to have one's body regrown-perhaps on another planet. Such a business charging a $500 fee for the service in some sort of 3 by 5 metal, holograph image bearing card with an adequate encapsulated D.N.A. sample in an underground, secure facility might be a good business plan).
Lukacs writes in his book 'The Duel' (page 145) of imprecise or unspecified terms in the Secret Protocols between Stalin and Hitler as well as in the Yalta Accords that allowed vagueness to expand later into the basis for conflict-possibly operation Barbarossa in addition to the cold war.
Mission creep in undeclared wars for the United States has become an issue since the Vietnam Conflict. Undefined economic-political creepis also a problem today in global corporatism and its reciprocal affect upon U.S. elections as well as military ventures abroad.
For now globalists may build up China, Red Army business ventures such as Lenovo, outsource U.S. telecommunications data stream analysis to foreign intelligence and security corporations and agitate against free medical care for the poor and veterans in the United States, for the role of false conservatives is simply to radically change the world in the effort to harvest cheap short-term profit.
In the future, after falsely labeled conservatives have their way organizing a world with decaying environmental resources and over-population, a world in which trans-national corporations avoid local taxation and concentrate wealth, exploit the environment and making human suffering increase at the bottom of the sky-hook to the clouds, the people too may overcome their own national boundaries and unite as a global polity to democratically vote a fair tax rate on 'conservatives'.
American conservatives in subverting nationalism will build the infrastructure for a one-world government reaction to the one world business environment exploiting nationalist 'locals' (those located somewhere). The U.N. may have security council resolutions to redistribute global capital to fully fund health care for the poor, invest on global environmental recovery and accelerate the pace of rational traditional living with economic liberty for all. That is the work that today's global conservatives are working for. That will be a world without much room for dissent nor any for national initiative such as might be valuable for space colonization.
Global conservatives today have political-economic philosophy expansion ideas reminiscent of Adolph Hitler's ideas about declarations of war. The historian John Lukacs in his book on the Churchill-Hitler contest of May-June 1940 reported that Hitler said of Mussolini's declaration of war "That will be the last declaration of war in the history of the world...Attack and March! That is the right and healthy way. I shall never sign a declaration of war. I shall act."
The United States today is effectively a one-party democracy of globalists. Nationalists and others opposed to illegal entry to the nation are in the power minority. Liberals and conservatives alike are cut of a globalist, swinging, raving telecommunications cloth as unreasoned as a blind wombat driving drunk at high speed during rush hour in the wrong direction. Democracy requires a foundation in real property and security boundaries to exist. Democracy also requires competition-a plethora of independent nation-states able to peacefully co-exist without being corrupted by trans-national corporate predators reducing locals to powerlessness politically with the worst case economic and health prospects personally.
President Obama throwing in the towel in December 2010 on letting Bush II tax cuts expire knew that he had already lost the House of Representatives to Republicans-it was the Democratic Party's last chance to recover a responsible U.S. economic footing for the next few years. He knew that no legislation would subsequently reach his desk for signature without Republican support, sohe v placed his party in a worst-case scenario for critical budget negotiations with little leverage on the Republican globalist position.
Republicans may actually have some support for leaving the federal borrowing and debt limit where it is and letting the chips fall where they may. If the cost for any further federal borrowing is higher after the appearance of default or delayed payment of federal debt, that could be an advantage to private sector borrowers that could find better terms from lenders than the U.S. Government.
If U.S. economic development can be stimulated by an increase of loans to private sector business after the U.S. Government's 800 pound guerrilla stops soaking up all the extra cash, there may arise a fiscal discipline in federal management of its budget resources. Means tests for social security, Medicaid and Medicare may become more realistic, illegal entry to the nation may be stopped with a comprehensive ecologically enhancing border control zone, full employment programs might be designed to keep people off federal subsistence programs and free public health care for the nation's poor may allow the poor to keep their sporadic dolops of capital for buying real estate, consumer goods or investing in small business (such as starting up a national D.N.A. bank so in the distant future one may be able to have one's body regrown-perhaps on another planet. Such a business charging a $500 fee for the service in some sort of 3 by 5 metal, holograph image bearing card with an adequate encapsulated D.N.A. sample in an underground, secure facility might be a good business plan).
Lukacs writes in his book 'The Duel' (page 145) of imprecise or unspecified terms in the Secret Protocols between Stalin and Hitler as well as in the Yalta Accords that allowed vagueness to expand later into the basis for conflict-possibly operation Barbarossa in addition to the cold war.
Mission creep in undeclared wars for the United States has become an issue since the Vietnam Conflict. Undefined economic-political creepis also a problem today in global corporatism and its reciprocal affect upon U.S. elections as well as military ventures abroad.
6/1/11
Asphalt Poisoning, Cell Phone Microwave Brain Frying; Arctic Permafrost Melting Next?
Scientists are researching poisoning of ancient Americans that paved their localities with bitumen-an asphalt like substance that may have poisoned them.
Americans use a lot of toxic substances and blow it off-fundamentally because they are stupid and don't really give a hoot about those non-immediate problems. Maybe humanity is more wired to respond to immediate threats and actual injuries much faster than invisible empire threats like cell phones, toxic asphalt highways, air pollutants, ground water contamination, global warming and so forth. Perhaps that's why the nation spends 4 trillion dollars more or less to track down the box cutter hijacker-crashers-a disproportionate response that may beditto'd in the trust in Wall Street gadgets and frauds that are too abstract to consider dangers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028154.300-asphalt-may-have-poisoned-ancient-americans.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Americans are over-specialized and collectively stupid perhaps, and that may be hazardous to our health. What if a generation cooks their challenged brains with cell phones glued to their ears? I was generally too poor to afford a phone and have used them for only aboput 500 hours total. I recall watching raw shrimp cook on the seat of a skiff in some water in a baggy. I believe that the tight microwave beam emitted from cells phones could explain the stupidity of the U.S. Congress and the national debt as well as a host of other idiotic policies. Well, the best reply is denial, so they shall rave about that until its annihilated.
For the rest of this essay I shall put my phone on speaker phone aqnd keep that little brain cooker away from my head! You should do the same-or put some tin foil over your head as you walk around the city streets to keep all those stray microwave beams from frying your circuits. Wait-psychologists have already said that won't work-it makes sparks fly in the microwave oven or something.
A Thought to Consider On What A Thawed Arctic Would Be Like
With global warming increasing and U.S. Government plans to add to it by supporting high Arctic development of ports and other facilities in Northern Alaska and offshore in the Beaufort Sea-optimal locations to emit carbon monoxide and other warm gases to increase anthropogenic climate change- I wonder what the future Arctic coastal environment will be like.
Coastal plains with much permafrost-sometimes frozen year around to one thousand feet or more below the surface-may thaw and melt.
Ice expands when it freezes, so if the permafrost melts the ground may shrink and subside. The question is how much will frozen permafrost subside as it thaws out per ten feet or per one thousand feet?
A rise in sea level added to a subsidence of the ground level above sea level might move the Arctic ocean shore a good distance south onto the coastal plain.
Americans use a lot of toxic substances and blow it off-fundamentally because they are stupid and don't really give a hoot about those non-immediate problems. Maybe humanity is more wired to respond to immediate threats and actual injuries much faster than invisible empire threats like cell phones, toxic asphalt highways, air pollutants, ground water contamination, global warming and so forth. Perhaps that's why the nation spends 4 trillion dollars more or less to track down the box cutter hijacker-crashers-a disproportionate response that may beditto'd in the trust in Wall Street gadgets and frauds that are too abstract to consider dangers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028154.300-asphalt-may-have-poisoned-ancient-americans.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Americans are over-specialized and collectively stupid perhaps, and that may be hazardous to our health. What if a generation cooks their challenged brains with cell phones glued to their ears? I was generally too poor to afford a phone and have used them for only aboput 500 hours total. I recall watching raw shrimp cook on the seat of a skiff in some water in a baggy. I believe that the tight microwave beam emitted from cells phones could explain the stupidity of the U.S. Congress and the national debt as well as a host of other idiotic policies. Well, the best reply is denial, so they shall rave about that until its annihilated.
For the rest of this essay I shall put my phone on speaker phone aqnd keep that little brain cooker away from my head! You should do the same-or put some tin foil over your head as you walk around the city streets to keep all those stray microwave beams from frying your circuits. Wait-psychologists have already said that won't work-it makes sparks fly in the microwave oven or something.
A Thought to Consider On What A Thawed Arctic Would Be Like
With global warming increasing and U.S. Government plans to add to it by supporting high Arctic development of ports and other facilities in Northern Alaska and offshore in the Beaufort Sea-optimal locations to emit carbon monoxide and other warm gases to increase anthropogenic climate change- I wonder what the future Arctic coastal environment will be like.
Coastal plains with much permafrost-sometimes frozen year around to one thousand feet or more below the surface-may thaw and melt.
Ice expands when it freezes, so if the permafrost melts the ground may shrink and subside. The question is how much will frozen permafrost subside as it thaws out per ten feet or per one thousand feet?
A rise in sea level added to a subsidence of the ground level above sea level might move the Arctic ocean shore a good distance south onto the coastal plain.
The Legislation of Pigs With Wings ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)
Motivated to liberate the world
with disposable wrappers, boundaries and security diapers
forests for Boothia Felix
and democracy for Adolph's enthusiasts
grown so much bigger than thee
outsourced with the innocence of greed
Raved on politics of insiders
tattooed temporal recombinant headlines
ranted gems across the Marquee de Sade
Pigs with wings
beaming microwaves to brains
flinging foreign policy boogers
through crenalleted derivative chicanes
Lyrics of wiggle sloppers
driving dust clouds compiling work
networking mobs of border hoppers
small worlds networks clumping snirked
Enviro-flies buzz baft blippers bout
whip froth filters for each single snout
in sleepy wallows of that princely domain
ruled over by powerful winged pigs
in marmalade skies acid rain.
with disposable wrappers, boundaries and security diapers
forests for Boothia Felix
and democracy for Adolph's enthusiasts
grown so much bigger than thee
outsourced with the innocence of greed
Raved on politics of insiders
tattooed temporal recombinant headlines
ranted gems across the Marquee de Sade
Pigs with wings
beaming microwaves to brains
flinging foreign policy boogers
through crenalleted derivative chicanes
Lyrics of wiggle sloppers
driving dust clouds compiling work
networking mobs of border hoppers
small worlds networks clumping snirked
Enviro-flies buzz baft blippers bout
whip froth filters for each single snout
in sleepy wallows of that princely domain
ruled over by powerful winged pigs
in marmalade skies acid rain.
Patriotism vs. Nationalism?
The historian John Lukacs wrote on interesting history book on the subject of 80 days of intellectual, tactical military leadership dueling between Churchill and Hitler in 1940 that fundamentally decided the future of the world. In his particular history investigations Mr. Lukacs is quite a good author.
I wish to examine two or three philosophical topics Mr. Lukacs raised that I take exception to. It is almost always useful when someone writes well enough to suggest a topic of philosophical interest, even if the topic is within the philosophy of history.
Mr. Lukacs seems to have felt that nationalism is a bad thing. Perhaps that is a consequence of his generation of scholars and their bad experience with one or two particularly bad and aggressive nations that prosecuted world wars. Nations are simply political districts though-even if one nation were to encompass the entire world. If a nation works badly it is because of the people in them-not the nation paradigm of political boundaries intrinsically.
I disagree that nationalism is a bad thing. A nation is just a particular polity that is ‘owned’ by its citizens. Nations are necessary for the existence of democracy. A democracy without a nation is like a subject without a predicate; meaningless for conveying meaning.
Winston Churchill was half American. Winston Churchill was also simultaneously 100% British and we Americans wouldn't have wanted a half-American in the White House to implement policy entirely of advantage to the Brits even during the war lest we be required to genuflect on her majesty (even if the present queen of England is quite a nice individual). That sort of thing is for the beknighted Elton Johns of teh world.
Citizens must have some land to control; not just their own, but the public lands too. Human beings all require air and land space to travel through and would be unhappy with a lifetime of house arrest. For the public democracy to have any meaning it requires a specific, real land or ocean to live within that it controls through its elections and representatives-and through laws the public supports.
Patriotism may be a kind of male shepherding of a people that may also be a nation. Mr. Lukacs interpreted Dr. Johnson’s famous phrase as ‘patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel’ as instead applying to nationalism. Though historical times change and meanings and concepts do change it is difficult to imagine that citizens of a representative democracy advocating for their well being through elections are scoundrels.
Nations do not require aggression or injustice to survive. Maybe the alternative though is a kind of imperialism and globalism over democratic, national particularism.
In some small nations with unsustainable economic methods it is easy to understand that some political leaders have sought to invade other nations to gain economic resources. Human leaders also have invaded simple to gain more power. Napoleon invaded Europe and Africa to expand France’s political power as the new Imperial Realm in contest with the Russian, Hapsburg and British Imperial powers.
Mr. Lukacs also wrote that parliamentary democracy was in decline and unpopular in the 20 years after the end of the first world war, yet I felt he misunderstood the reasons why the Balkan countries, Greece, Albania and Turkey were less than democratic Utopias; it is difficult to imagine the Sublime Porte as having set a stage for peaceful democracy in the region, and neither was China’s Imperial Empire, the Nationalist Leadership and organized crime in Shanghai supporters of traditional civil rights based democracy. Nationalism was not the essential agent for military and political conflict in the 20th century; instead it was as Ortega y Gasset wrote ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ prevalently against imperial rule, and of rule by aristocracy.
World War Two was the last battle of the Second World War. Hitler was a new proxy for the defeated aristocrats of Germany that had to give up power to the Weimar Republic. Germany narrowly avoided becoming socialist at the close of the First World War and the military leadership appointed Hitler to infiltrate and lead the way through the German National Socialist Worker’s Party to a new synthetic state corporatism in which aristocrats with capital might unify with the Nazi authority thus protecting their assets against the Bolsheviks in Russia and Germany. Because Henry Ford, Prescott Bush and others took that as better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick for trade, Germany advanced under Hitler to the inexorable drive to dominate Europe.
Of course there is more to it than that. Yet the contest between imperialism in various forms and democracy with strong individual rights based in a real nation is fundamental in western civilization. Nationalism does not require aggression at all-it requires good ecological economic leadership, full employment, justice, security from illegal entry and mutually beneficial trade relationships. The United States can be a strong, independent nation and have a sustainable, self-reliant economy and ecology or it can become part of some global imperialism in which elections nationally are basically sham votes for items from a one party ruling class.
The last point I wanted to mention was Mr. Lukac’s statement that it isn’t idealism and realism that are antithetical, but idealism and materialism that are. That is quite a useful point to make.
Realism has a couple of meanings philosophically speaking (or more) as does idealism. Today we might be more accustomed to talking about realism vs. nominalism than idealism. I believe that Prof. Lukac’s meanings are of that of history and common sense, although he does mention Hegel, German idealism and determinism.
Realism has historically been a descendent of Plato’s realm of forms. Philosophically realism was a belief in the reality of perfect archetypes in a transcending realm of which all things in this world are replicas albeit imperfect forms.
Common sense is the other meaning of realism we may consider now. Realism in politics is the pragmatic, the functional and the actual-the way things are. Realism tends to thus be associated with materialism and it is simple to clarify matters and pose materialism as the fundamental antithesis to idealism.
There is a funny thing about idealism that makes its meaning somewhat equivalent to the amount and quality of ideas that one has. It is easy to ossify idealism and say that it is Hegel’s world spirit evolving to actualize itself. We can even throw Darwin’s evolution theory along with Telhard Desjardin’s noosphere into such an evolution of idealism comprehensive of materialism, quarks, space-time and all-potential universes. That is, one may place that sort of idealist paradigm within the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus’ criterion of the non-static manifestation of temporality through various emanations from The One and transcend or bridge the gap between idealism and realism, so it is useful to allow realism and materialism to be equivalents and substitute the one for the other in our linguistic thesis vs. anti-thesis comparison.
Idealism has another meaning besides that of Hegel that I ought to mention. Bishop Berkeley developed a philosophy of idealism-or pure idealism that let the world of perceptions be a phenomenon of mind acceptable in a sense to Jean Paul Sartre’s approach to rationalism named existentialism. Basically Berkeley let the world of experience have no foundation objectively that could be greater than any world that could be created directly for our minds to experience.
If the world and Universe could be a kind of Matrix or virtual reality-an idea for Berkeley, Lukacs wrote that Hitler had the other sort of Hegelian idealism in mind. If one remembers reading Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ one recalls that G.W.F. Hegel believed the German state was the highest form that the world spirit had yet evolved mankind to. Thus Hitler might have had a similar historical misunderstanding and belief in determinism equal to that of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin. I was unaware of that, and am a little skeptical that Hitler had much depth in reading philosophy. It is more credible to believe he had read Nietzsche.
At any rate, Mr. Lukac’s interesting point does stimulate one to consider a little how materialism might be the antithesis of idealism. I suppose I must upgrade a little the meaning of idealism and also that of materialism.
Idealism will mean that thought and design in a world-a kind of anthropic idealism, leads one’s way. Materialism shall mean that matter prevails over thought, and irrationalism is acceptable as it conforms to given material mass, energy and space-time.
With that clarification it is easy to see that idealism and materialism are antithetical. Because the only realms where anyone much cares about such a contest are philosophy and the philosophy of economics we must consider the salient point in the business environment in the ecosystem today; does capitalism work best to manage the world’s environment with faith in Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’?
We might wonder if blind faith in material irrational evolution of parallel environmental reconstruction that may encapsulate the prevailing Wall Street approach to the world ecosphere that regards the ecosphere as n externality is opposed to an idealism that takes responsibility for human interaction within the world ecosphere. I believe the answer is yes.
Adam Smith’s invisible hand was a mechanism for economic determinism. It meant no more than let free enterprisers run their affairs without royalty (or large corporations) oppressing us. It was not in anthropomorphic sink for all social responsibility regarding the environment.
In building designs people think before building if they can. Usually the results turn out better than letting the blind forces of nature evolve an office tower. Materialism must be helped along by idealism if it is to work-yet the ideal world; a world of pure mind in which human beings construct any reality they like is equally absurd. Real limits exist in any era to what human beings may do to change the environment and world or even universe. Politically the challenge is to understand those limits and make of them not points of crisis and conflict, chaos and catastrophe but opportunities for progress, construction of new worlds, restoration of healthy ecosystems, sustainable habitations for all life forms.
God got all of that better of course. The Universe is a kind of tree of life sprung from a mustard seed of infinitesimally small size (or perhaps it is that small anyway comparatively). I appreciated the concept of materialism being the antithesis that Mr. Lukacs raised in his book about Hitler versus Churchill. Materialism without thought and vice versa tends to be incomplete, ineffective political philosophies.
I wish to examine two or three philosophical topics Mr. Lukacs raised that I take exception to. It is almost always useful when someone writes well enough to suggest a topic of philosophical interest, even if the topic is within the philosophy of history.
Mr. Lukacs seems to have felt that nationalism is a bad thing. Perhaps that is a consequence of his generation of scholars and their bad experience with one or two particularly bad and aggressive nations that prosecuted world wars. Nations are simply political districts though-even if one nation were to encompass the entire world. If a nation works badly it is because of the people in them-not the nation paradigm of political boundaries intrinsically.
I disagree that nationalism is a bad thing. A nation is just a particular polity that is ‘owned’ by its citizens. Nations are necessary for the existence of democracy. A democracy without a nation is like a subject without a predicate; meaningless for conveying meaning.
Winston Churchill was half American. Winston Churchill was also simultaneously 100% British and we Americans wouldn't have wanted a half-American in the White House to implement policy entirely of advantage to the Brits even during the war lest we be required to genuflect on her majesty (even if the present queen of England is quite a nice individual). That sort of thing is for the beknighted Elton Johns of teh world.
Citizens must have some land to control; not just their own, but the public lands too. Human beings all require air and land space to travel through and would be unhappy with a lifetime of house arrest. For the public democracy to have any meaning it requires a specific, real land or ocean to live within that it controls through its elections and representatives-and through laws the public supports.
Patriotism may be a kind of male shepherding of a people that may also be a nation. Mr. Lukacs interpreted Dr. Johnson’s famous phrase as ‘patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel’ as instead applying to nationalism. Though historical times change and meanings and concepts do change it is difficult to imagine that citizens of a representative democracy advocating for their well being through elections are scoundrels.
Nations do not require aggression or injustice to survive. Maybe the alternative though is a kind of imperialism and globalism over democratic, national particularism.
In some small nations with unsustainable economic methods it is easy to understand that some political leaders have sought to invade other nations to gain economic resources. Human leaders also have invaded simple to gain more power. Napoleon invaded Europe and Africa to expand France’s political power as the new Imperial Realm in contest with the Russian, Hapsburg and British Imperial powers.
Mr. Lukacs also wrote that parliamentary democracy was in decline and unpopular in the 20 years after the end of the first world war, yet I felt he misunderstood the reasons why the Balkan countries, Greece, Albania and Turkey were less than democratic Utopias; it is difficult to imagine the Sublime Porte as having set a stage for peaceful democracy in the region, and neither was China’s Imperial Empire, the Nationalist Leadership and organized crime in Shanghai supporters of traditional civil rights based democracy. Nationalism was not the essential agent for military and political conflict in the 20th century; instead it was as Ortega y Gasset wrote ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ prevalently against imperial rule, and of rule by aristocracy.
World War Two was the last battle of the Second World War. Hitler was a new proxy for the defeated aristocrats of Germany that had to give up power to the Weimar Republic. Germany narrowly avoided becoming socialist at the close of the First World War and the military leadership appointed Hitler to infiltrate and lead the way through the German National Socialist Worker’s Party to a new synthetic state corporatism in which aristocrats with capital might unify with the Nazi authority thus protecting their assets against the Bolsheviks in Russia and Germany. Because Henry Ford, Prescott Bush and others took that as better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick for trade, Germany advanced under Hitler to the inexorable drive to dominate Europe.
Of course there is more to it than that. Yet the contest between imperialism in various forms and democracy with strong individual rights based in a real nation is fundamental in western civilization. Nationalism does not require aggression at all-it requires good ecological economic leadership, full employment, justice, security from illegal entry and mutually beneficial trade relationships. The United States can be a strong, independent nation and have a sustainable, self-reliant economy and ecology or it can become part of some global imperialism in which elections nationally are basically sham votes for items from a one party ruling class.
The last point I wanted to mention was Mr. Lukac’s statement that it isn’t idealism and realism that are antithetical, but idealism and materialism that are. That is quite a useful point to make.
Realism has a couple of meanings philosophically speaking (or more) as does idealism. Today we might be more accustomed to talking about realism vs. nominalism than idealism. I believe that Prof. Lukac’s meanings are of that of history and common sense, although he does mention Hegel, German idealism and determinism.
Realism has historically been a descendent of Plato’s realm of forms. Philosophically realism was a belief in the reality of perfect archetypes in a transcending realm of which all things in this world are replicas albeit imperfect forms.
Common sense is the other meaning of realism we may consider now. Realism in politics is the pragmatic, the functional and the actual-the way things are. Realism tends to thus be associated with materialism and it is simple to clarify matters and pose materialism as the fundamental antithesis to idealism.
There is a funny thing about idealism that makes its meaning somewhat equivalent to the amount and quality of ideas that one has. It is easy to ossify idealism and say that it is Hegel’s world spirit evolving to actualize itself. We can even throw Darwin’s evolution theory along with Telhard Desjardin’s noosphere into such an evolution of idealism comprehensive of materialism, quarks, space-time and all-potential universes. That is, one may place that sort of idealist paradigm within the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus’ criterion of the non-static manifestation of temporality through various emanations from The One and transcend or bridge the gap between idealism and realism, so it is useful to allow realism and materialism to be equivalents and substitute the one for the other in our linguistic thesis vs. anti-thesis comparison.
Idealism has another meaning besides that of Hegel that I ought to mention. Bishop Berkeley developed a philosophy of idealism-or pure idealism that let the world of perceptions be a phenomenon of mind acceptable in a sense to Jean Paul Sartre’s approach to rationalism named existentialism. Basically Berkeley let the world of experience have no foundation objectively that could be greater than any world that could be created directly for our minds to experience.
If the world and Universe could be a kind of Matrix or virtual reality-an idea for Berkeley, Lukacs wrote that Hitler had the other sort of Hegelian idealism in mind. If one remembers reading Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ one recalls that G.W.F. Hegel believed the German state was the highest form that the world spirit had yet evolved mankind to. Thus Hitler might have had a similar historical misunderstanding and belief in determinism equal to that of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin. I was unaware of that, and am a little skeptical that Hitler had much depth in reading philosophy. It is more credible to believe he had read Nietzsche.
At any rate, Mr. Lukac’s interesting point does stimulate one to consider a little how materialism might be the antithesis of idealism. I suppose I must upgrade a little the meaning of idealism and also that of materialism.
Idealism will mean that thought and design in a world-a kind of anthropic idealism, leads one’s way. Materialism shall mean that matter prevails over thought, and irrationalism is acceptable as it conforms to given material mass, energy and space-time.
With that clarification it is easy to see that idealism and materialism are antithetical. Because the only realms where anyone much cares about such a contest are philosophy and the philosophy of economics we must consider the salient point in the business environment in the ecosystem today; does capitalism work best to manage the world’s environment with faith in Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’?
We might wonder if blind faith in material irrational evolution of parallel environmental reconstruction that may encapsulate the prevailing Wall Street approach to the world ecosphere that regards the ecosphere as n externality is opposed to an idealism that takes responsibility for human interaction within the world ecosphere. I believe the answer is yes.
Adam Smith’s invisible hand was a mechanism for economic determinism. It meant no more than let free enterprisers run their affairs without royalty (or large corporations) oppressing us. It was not in anthropomorphic sink for all social responsibility regarding the environment.
In building designs people think before building if they can. Usually the results turn out better than letting the blind forces of nature evolve an office tower. Materialism must be helped along by idealism if it is to work-yet the ideal world; a world of pure mind in which human beings construct any reality they like is equally absurd. Real limits exist in any era to what human beings may do to change the environment and world or even universe. Politically the challenge is to understand those limits and make of them not points of crisis and conflict, chaos and catastrophe but opportunities for progress, construction of new worlds, restoration of healthy ecosystems, sustainable habitations for all life forms.
God got all of that better of course. The Universe is a kind of tree of life sprung from a mustard seed of infinitesimally small size (or perhaps it is that small anyway comparatively). I appreciated the concept of materialism being the antithesis that Mr. Lukacs raised in his book about Hitler versus Churchill. Materialism without thought and vice versa tends to be incomplete, ineffective political philosophies.
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