Capitalism is Misunderstood

Capital is nothing more than material goods of value. A horse is capital, for example. A building is capital- even the fish in the oceans are capital. The primary difference in kinds of capital are those existing in nature such as trees, fresh water, land, ice, air and those natural products with value added by human manufacturing.

Since even atoms are the electro-magnetic field and forces of nature are capital, it becomes rather silly to talk about capital-ism as if there is just one means of exploiting or producing capital. In the Bible book of Genesis God manufactures, issues or emanates all of the capital of the Universe in a few days or movements. Then mankind appeared and eventually Cain killed his brother Abel. 

Cain is regarded as the first metal-worker and Abel the first tiller of soil (farmer). Each were capitalists. I suppose even Gilligan enjoying the natural capital of a south sea island was a capitalist enjoying the fruits of God’s labor.

The individuals working manufacturing goods from atoms and etc such as computers (with silicone and other items including minerals) are the primary way that mankind manufactures products from natural materials increasing man-made capital. It is ironic that some of the manufacturing processes destroy or corrupt natural capital, or simply use it up to extinction.

Government is necessary in some cases to keep some powerful people or groups from building enough power to ‘own’ everything in the world. Even governments may try to own everything in the world. Individuals are the best inventors of idea-capital and manufacturable ideas and methods yet are usually weak at governance; there assertion to govern other people would be regarded as tyrannical and resisted by others. Governments too may be tyrannical, ineffective or corrupt as the case may be.

Government purpose in an efficient mode is to defend individual rights to own ideas and processes to manufacture. Government must also defend the ecosphere health and natural capital so individuals may continue to exist with health. Today the planet’s atmospheric carbon dioxide rate is more than 415 parts per million- that is worse than in has been since human beings came down from the trees and Adam and Eve’s kids merged in with them. The dynamic tension is fascinating; nations full of people that don’t understand basic political philosophy and regard libertarian versus socialism as dialectical approaches to capital. Even communist governments such as the former Soviet Union had capital and were capitalists plus socialists, in effect making the citizens slaves of the communist party leadership.

The real context is between free individuals within democracy with political and economic egalitarianism, socialist slave owners and oligarchs and plutocrats hiding behind ‘capitalism’.

USA Can Never Guard Mexico's Southern Border

If Mexico asked the U.S. Government to guard its southern border, that would be about the sole legal circumstance that could be justified for placing U.S. troops there, unless Mexico first attacked the United States, and the United States went to war with Mexico and sought to stop Guatemala, Belize, Venezuela etc. from sending troops to fight on the Mexican side.

If aggressive, hostile, human flesh-eating aliens debarked from ufo landing craft south of Mexico such as Martians in The War of the Worlds, and began slaughtering their way north, and were in sufficient numbers to be a concern for the United States, Democrats of Congress would debate for a few months sending special investigators and inhuman rights specialists to determine if the illegal Martian aliens were being treated properly and if the Trump administration should be impeached for showing a rude and disrespectful attitude toward the aliens.

A better choice for any U.S. administration that would like to guard Mexico’s southern border might be to cut a deal with Guatemala and Belize to provide free border protection for those nations in exchange for a couple of billion dollars worth of solar panels, agricultural tools, water purification, desalinization devices and so forth annually. Guatemala and Belize may wish to have border control and keep track of who goes north on an entirely legal basis. Coordinating with Mexican immigration officials, non-Mexicans might need an o.k. from Mexico to enter, and Mexico in turn would be accountable if the people they admitted continued on north to attempt illegal entry into the U.S.A.

Why There Isn't Really a Capitalist System

Capital may be regarded as material and intellectual goods of value. They are objects of a sort. There is no system of objects, nor capital. Capital objects just exist.

Some capital was manufactured by nature; the sun, the moon, the stars, oceans, land etc. People have added value to some natural capital, *manufacturing* things.

Manufacturing items for most of human history in Earth has been done best by individuals rather than bureaucracies. Individuals invent rather than collectives. Human collectives that are government tend to repress individualism and individual invention. Socialist governments tend toward expropriating all capital and objects for themselves, rather than inventing new manufactured items or inventions. They imagine employing and ossifying the private sector inventors and producers for themselves too. All of the capital both natural and manufactured are regarded as the property of bureaucrats in government who in theory allocate such as the masses need, to the masses.

Free enterprise is a good way of manufacturing capital. it is not such a good way at conserving, enhancing, defending or restoring natural capital. Authoritarian governments, if such existed, that understood what ecological economics are and were motivated to bring such into existence, might accomplish that better than a democracy. In fact they might restore the environment as quickly as an absolute monarch or dictator. That would be simply an exercise of power rather than the enactment of an ideal political system.

An ideal political system would protect and restore the world ecosphere to health or national parts of the world while simultaneously implementing an ecologically sustainable for the long run economy, within free enterprise democracy parameters. The paradox of a disciplined political economy protecting individual civil rights and ecological sustainability together is in practical terms difficult to get done.

Free enterprise invention creates new goods, products and services best. Government can protect and direct respiration of the environment best. Healthy and adequate manufactured and natural capital is what are requisite for a moderately egalitarian society with liberty and justice for all.

If Brits Told Pres Trump Demo Candidates Embezzled Money Is That Wrong?

If the British Government MI-5 agency told President Trump about criminal activities and American Presidential candidate perpetrated abroad, would that be wrong? Apparently several Democrat Party leaders and media think so.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448529-biden-trumps-comments-on-accepting-intel-from-foreign-entity-are-dead-wrong

If foreign governments or individuals have information about Democrat Party criminal activities who are they supposed to tell in the U.S. Government?  The President is the Executive branch of government so telling the F.B.I. or President is telling the President's chain of command. In fact the President is the right guy to tell about any criminal activities of Democratic Presidential candidates including foreign deposits to hidden bank accounts.

I suppose it would make no difference if the foreign intelligence source was from a friendly or usually adverse government except as regards the credibility of the account. If Dictator Kim Un reports that some Democratic candidate has unusually bad breath and conceals it with a foreign breath mint containing opium for instance, the report might need more scrutiny and special F.B.I. investigation for verification. Don't trust, yet verify.

If some Democrat Party candidates are members of dark web child exploitation sites and the news was discovered by foreign intelligence agencies should they send the pictures to wikileaks or President Trump. My guess is that the President is the right guy for the job of apprehending the perpetrators.

What is a Reformation of Capitalism?

Capitalism isn’t anything more than property that is owned; even if by a socialist government. It is possible to build capital and capital infrastructure in as many ways as human or natural processes exist. When stars burn and go nova they produce different capital elements. When it rains water capital flows on the land’s surface and produces rivers. When an individual imagines up an invention he or she has created intellectual capital that may be converted into material capital or an intellectual product such as an algorithm. Capital need not be reformed so much as human approaches to utilizing and creating capital do.

Government is supposed to protect public interests in a democracy. Government is an expression of concatenated individual self-interests. The public has an interest in protecting the common environment rather than degrading or destroying it. The public has an interest in protecting individual self-interests and the right of individuals to build their own capital; government should serve those interests. The government also has an interest in defending itself against powers and persons that would end its effective public functions.

It can sometimes become necessary to tax rich individuals punitively to destroy their acquisition of too much political power through concentration of capital that democracy and functions of government in carrying out its primary duties are undermined. Presently the over-acquisition of capital and political power that follows economic hegemony adversely impacts environmental defense and recovery. The over-concentration of wealthy has created an implicit economic bias against all of the citizens that are not in the very small minority of super-rich networked plutocrats; they have an uneven economic field to work in to try to build up their own capital quantitatively and qualitatively. It is even possible that developing political plans and economic modalities that are better suited to the ambient ecospheric and demographic elements is prevented for the majority as concentrated wealth networks pursue their narrow self-interest in building their own capital.

I would tax the upper 5 % of income earners in the nation at 70% and the upper 1% at 90%. It would be a good idea to reduce patent exclusivity to three years and allocate 10% of royalties to the inventor-patent holder thereafter. In order to develop a sustainable ecological economic infrastructure there should be incentives for creating low-entropy, sustainable economic developments.

Ecological zoning should be made to develop a no net loss of surface biota construction ethic.

In times past it was recognized that the state has an interest in assuring that its citizens can defend themselves and compete with state-of-the-art universal literacy and education. Public education at all levels should be free for citizens though private educational establishments should continue for-profit as well as non-profit. A basic universal right of citizens to have some sort of a minimum income and private storage and living unit to keep citizens from being caught in roiling abject poverty currents should exist in a demography saturated with surveillance, law enforcement and urban risks for the homeless. In the American past the wild frontier and cheap property values made basic existence simpler. Today the simple legal right to exist someplace and sleep may be so exclusive as to render otherwise law abiding citizens criminals simply for being alive.

Ideal

Ideas- such a platonic realism has- don't exist IMO- just nominalism in lexical ontologies- atoms have forms though, as does math, that are ideal.

God has all ideas and forms possible- and for God perhaps everything is possible except the finitude of possibility.

On World Leadership

What is global leadership? Because of European history at waging war upon itself it has eschewed further military adventures generally. The United States, Russia and China were more or less on the same anti-fascist side during W.W. II and each has carved out a sphere of influence or formed trans-national alliances and ad hoc networks. Each has used military power abroad on a few occasions. Europe has provided some military forces to joint American or U.N. ventures yet not made the sort of commitment to defending freedom militarily that the United States has.

Global leadership may be defined in several ways; technology, military, human rights, environmental restoration to health, space exploration, standard of living for ordinary people and so forth. In my opinion world leadership is a kind of mixed bag. It might even be possible to recognize African Christian increase as a form of world leadership.

It is possible that the world leadership appellation is vain. Those that make the world a better place for ordinary people are from virtually every nation. Those that keep it free and those that would oppress individuals for elitist governments also are found across the globe. Plainly not enough is being done by any government leadership to say that anyone is leading effectively in a good direction such that people would overwhelmingly want to follow.

Huawei and the Trade War

Ren Zhengfei worked for the P.L.A. as a research technologist for about 20 years and then founded Huawei. India regards Huawei as a security risk and the United States generally does as well. Huawei technology is considered a trojan horse to help provide intelligence gathering for elements of the communist party.

It is difficult to say it that is anything to be concerned about, and if so, how much? Providing an authoritarian government the opportunity to develop a communications infrastructure globally that can monitor the mass communication of free nations seems like it might not be wise.

China has other trade issues besides that of providing their own, proprietary espionage infrastructure for the west to use, as if they are complete idiots. It is a separable issue.

What if some guy worked for the N.S.A. for 20 years then founded a communications corporation, built it up and sought to expand into China to provide that nations phone and internet service? Would the Communist leadership be happy with that?

Incredible That Idiots Wanted to Fly the Homo Flag at U.S. Embassies

It is incredible that idiots wanted to fly the homo flag at U.S. embassies. Maybe they got requests to fly abortion flags too. Possibly Mickey Mouse wants to run his flag up U.S. embassy flagpoles as well to make a really good impression on foreigners.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/447834-pence-says-it-was-the-right-decision-to-bar-us-embassies-from-flying

Apparently the Obama administration had allowed U.S. embassies to fly politically charged, partisan flags at U.S. embassies if they wanted to making the United States seems like a clown car for weird political vehicles. Who knew?

The Obama administration appointed a lot of Harvard connected female judges to the Supreme Court too happy to butch up the U.S.A. With luck some of the Harvard homosexual agenda will be reversed in years ahead by more conservative appointments. Maybe opposite gender judges shouldn't be allowed to force select sex law decisions on opposite genders.

Flying any sort of sex behavior flag at U.S. embassies is just weird. Do they have Sodom and Gomorrah flags to run up with the Jolly Roger too?

What About Local Solar Rooftop Co-op Grids?

With large power companies on one side and individual home owners with rooftop and wall solar power systems the tension has been between the rates of sales of private solar powered electricity to the grid vs the harm that does to corporate utility profit from losing monopolization of sales. Yet the dynamic pattern of electrical flow could change; their could be neighborhood solar power grids where the homes with solar connect and share to other homes in the local grid.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062019/rooftop-solar-net-metering-rates-renewable-energy-homeowners-utility-state-law-changes-map

Local co-op grids could pay for their wiring up in several ways and continue to receive auxiliary power from large power corporations. There should be numerous ways of letting individual Americans supply their own electricity and even from it from it wiring the directions and ownership flows of electrical power along with the wiring schemes for the flow and velocity of money.

Hybrid Electronic and Paper Voting Machines Work

It should be rather easy to make an electronic voting machine that marks a roll of voting paper on a roll (like thicker toilet paper) when the electronic votes are cast. In addition to electronic tallies instantly counted the voting paper would have holes punched in the right places as a voter makes his or her or its electronic marks.

The electronic voting paper could be fed into a voting paper reading machine to count the votes too, although at a less than electronic pace. No hanging chads, nothing besides Hollerith holes. 

The circuits from the voting pad to the electronic and voting paper could be different and not connected in order to put a firewall in so people in Moscow and Mexico City can't spoof the voting paper or the electronic counters either.

Maybe the machines already exist.

Joe Biden is an Empirical Threat to the United States

Democrat Presidential candidate Joe Biden is an empirical threat to the United States in that he is typically weak on border security consistent with pervasive Democrat Party weakness. Democrats are down with giving away national opportunity and infrastructure to anyone willing to arrive here illegally.

Former V.P Biden is also a phenomenal threat in that the Democrat Party phenomenon of superficial live-for-the-day and damn the consequences philosophy is problematic. Without question he is an ecological economic threat for failing to comprehend what ecological economics as an academic discipline is. It is more than what is is's.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-existential-threat-to-us/

Joseph Biden is a moral relativist threat. He is also a utilitarian threat as he conforms his political ideology to what is of most utility for him in getting votes to become elected again.

Senator Biden is a vast left-wing cloud of threats to philosophical pragmatism; philosophical terms such as existential should be left to existentialism and proper use of the idea with Sartre's reference works even though Sartre preferred not to use the term himself for-himself.

While empiricism and A.J. Ayer were one of the stronger threads of philosophical thought for a time, the linguistic philosophy and philosophy of logic also developed along an alternative line in part, and that led not only to W.V.O. Quine’s The Two Dogmas of Empiricism, it led to many fine works such as Elements of Logic, Word and Object, Individuals and Ontological Relativity that surpassed the subject-object paradigm so far as one might in the phenomenon of being with the reef of solipsism and problems of uncertainty.

Joseph Biden is a kind of linguistic uncertainty; a neo-populist dualism of being and nothingness in phenemenality as a cloud of unknowing wherein just the most superficial ideas are thrown up regurgitated like upwelling currents of a roiling storm cloud.

Logical positivism was a stage on the way of understanding the relationship of human being in-the-verse to what can be said about it. Lexical ontologies were understood and the realism-nominalism issue clarified by Kripke and Quine. I think it all worked out. Epistemological analysis was accelerated with linguistic philosophy. It was possible to consider intentional and extentional expressions comparable to the phenomenal, a priori and noumenal. One could sort out phrases that were subjective yet made about the ‘external’ world, and those that were more purely objective though conditional, before Joe Biden took hold of existentialism as a pejorative term.

The Papal Error in Rewriting the Lord's Prayer

The pope is right about some things and wrong about others. The pope approved a rewrite of the Lord's prayer changing 'lead us not into temptation' to 'do not let us fall into temptation'. His idea was to disambiguate a possible connotation that Jesus might lead people into temptation himself. I think it should be left as it was because of possible further, sequential changes that could occur. It is not really possible to make language so exact for meaning that collateral connotations won't exist. It is better to keep the word as close to the original as possible in order not to let the meaning be vulnerable to intentional conformity to the world.

It is a matter of understanding English and how it is used. One can draw inferences from language, find connotations that differ from era to era. The pope is an ESL guy- that may have something to do with his choice. Calvin's ideas about determinism would have the elect saved anyway. That is not on the point of rewriting the Bible to conform to one's own ideas about language-meanings. Asking God not to lead into temptation is simply a request to not encounter temptation on the road God leads upon. I suppose one could compare it to asking a guide on a Mt. Everest climb not to lead us too near the edge on the way to the summit, even though, it may be necessary on the way up.

When God had the angels guide Lot and family from Sodom, what if they had to pass through a notorious red light district to exit the city? Would that have been a temptation Lot hoped to avoid? Would Lot have been wrong in asking God not to lead them to or through temptation hoping in some way to take a scenic route with just desert plants instead of many depraved souls? Ought God have rewritten reality and created a special passage tunnel with the temptations screened out for Lot and family? In other words; 'Do not lead us to or through Las Vegas, CNN or H.B.O.'

After the fall, mankind is already in temptation as something of a natural condition.  One does not need to 'fall' again into temptation. When one is born again- spiritually regenerated and brought out of the realm of the spiritually dead by the Lord. One is saved and the salvation is pre-determined by the promise of God. Some day when many people live in space and micro-gravity someone may want to eliminate the unfamiliar 'fall' as a pejorative reference to gravitational fields associated with planets. They may want to replace 'fall' with 'float'. 'Do not let us float into temptation'. Then someone living on a new water world will find that offensive and change it to 'Do not let us drift into temptation'. Another living in low gravity may rewrite 'Do not let us bounce into temptation' etc.

The Green New Deal IMO

AOC’s Green New Deal that she said would cost 11 trillion dollars, is a kind of sophomoric try- a well intentioned one, at reforming the economy to address global warming. I write science fiction occasionally and have been aware of the problems that humanity brings to the ecosphere with its mal-adaptive economic relationship to the environment a few decades. It forms the minor themes in a couple of novels; where human beings face the challenge of finding new planets and other places to live after they destroy their own original planet’s ecosphere. 

https://sustainablepath.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/what-is-ecological-economics-one-pag-pdf-080123.pdf

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-diagrams-false.html

It is possible to design an economy suitable for the present demographics and condition of the ecosphere yet it is very unlikely that human beings in the U.S. Congress could or would do so. The politicians are very superficial in comprehension of ecological economics as an academic discipline.  One might expect chimpanzees to do equally as well. The politicians do not comprehend political philosophy or the value in reforming democracy and reforming capitalism together instead of migrating to socialism. Neither have the politicians the political capacity to coordinate public support for complete economic reformation compatible with sustaining the world ecosphere, life on earth, spiritual and political liberty. A disciplined, creative ecological economic reform with strong civil rights for individuals are nearly incompatible without very intelligent democratic leadership, and the Democrat party is mostly dead and chasing after every traditional economic goal, power and depraved sexual vector.

Capitalism moves towards monopoly, the concentration of wealth and power. Von Mises understood that. Reform of capitalism to keep it more egalitarian is needed-always, or 1% of 1% become de facto imperials

Democrat Pride Drives Manufacture of Impeachworthy Content

After losses in the 2016 election and the Mueller Investigation House Democrats are struggling to construct impeachable content for President Trump in order to remove him from office. Speaker Pelosi has already said she hopes to imprison the President after he leaves office (if she is still around), or hopes he goes to prison in some way. The Democrats are working tirelessly including bringing in John Dean from the Watergate era to testify before the Nadler committee in a kind of cargo cult approach to getting their impeachment proceedings off the ground.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/10/msnbcs-mitchell-john-dean-appearance-before-house-judiciary-committee-is-theater/


It is not good that the Democrat party and media cohort crank out mostly fiction content in the effort to reverse the election. Of course they should be working good legislation instead, yet that is generally beyond their capacity anyway, yek the appearance to the electorate of a party that would manufacture fake impeachable offenses itself to control the executive branch is a symbol of the decay of democracy and intelligence in the Congress.

New Free EPUB Version of God, Cosmology and Nothingness

I published a revision of God, Cosmology and Nothingness in epub format; this version with footnotes. It is free to download. I hope to work on a substantial revision sometime. I cannot say when.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/god-cosmology-and-nothingness-theory-and-theology-in-a-scientific-era/ebook/product-24133371.html

A dichotomy has arisen in the visible Christian church. Inaccurate scriptural interpretation and out-of-time ecclesiastical structure have rendered the Church unable to serve the needs of many modern individuals seeking after a closer relationship with God through worship services. In an era before Universal literacy a priestly structure was requisite for accurate transmission of the word revealed in scripture. With Universal literacy separate priesthoods became less useful and more aloof from ordinary Christian lives. Ordinary Christians should fulfill their role in a priesthood of believers’ liturgical structure rather than a separate class of priests. Theological challenges exist that need be met. How can Biblical issues of Genesis be correlated with Big Bang theory and evolution with theistic creation?

Telephone Invention Ended America as a Nation of Immigrants

Modern technology such as the telephone and internet ended the era of Americas as a nation of immigrants with larger immigrant numbers arriving. When the first paleo-Siberian arrivals made it across the Bering Sea land bridge they decimated several large mammals on their way to found civilizations in Meso-America.  Few stayed in the colder north of the United States and Canada- maybe 4-6 million altogether.

Many Democrats parrot the maxim that 'America is a nation of immigrants' to support loose border control and immigration policy. It is as if they have their heads buried deep in the sand like ostriches. History changes the present state of any society. What was good policy for one era is inevitably good policy for another. That would require thinking and historical analysis to realize. Democrats disdain that in preference for dope and whatever. Unless they continue as self-destructive idiots, the era of mass immigration need necessarily halt.

The first thing post-Columbian Americans of the United States did was to revolt against foreign control. Revolt against foreign nations with large populations that would control the United States. Today Mexico and China are nations effectively working through legal and illegal immigrants to annex the United States, or in effect to colonize it. China has a very large and restive population.

China is especially dangerous. That nation has a billion three-hundred million citizens. With the Chinese economy having long-range growth prospects until they have their first costly war (in yuan), there ability to send even a small fraction of their people to the United States maintaining constant, permanent speed of light contact with their parent country could create a de facto colony of the U.S.A. in a couple of generations.

The original immigrants to America in the post-Columbian era had no instant communication to the old world. Today immigrants do. They also can keep their foreign values and language if they prefer. That is why America as a nation of large numbers of legal immigrants should be over for good. The environment is over-taxed anyway. It's all for the good.

China is the worst possible nation to colonize new planets too. The Chinese will have the most difficult time revolting against their controlling government. In 5000 years of Chinese history the mainland has no history of freedom. Though the races off-world will change and human form will morph quite a lot perhaps, the history of Chinese authoritarianism is a repressive and onerous political fact that would make life in free space challenging.