The
founders of the United States had a special greatness creating and setting the
governing paradigm of the present and future United States. It is a Utopian
doctrine permitting free people to develop their own interests with an
egalitarian, classless social structure; that is without legally superior
social classes. Today the founder’s paradigm has taken a lot of heat from the
left who misunderstand and/or hate many works of the past.
The
Declaration and Constitution were the greatest secular governing articles ever
constructed by man. The founders were a philosophically enlightened group
working in freedom with high regard for God who is no respecter of persons;
they knew free people need to be equal before the law. The founders created
from nothing, in a new nation, a utopian doctrine supporting individual
self-determination without coercion from authorities. It was a practical
doctrine in several respects, as well utopian.
The
founders knew that the history of mankind is wicked regarding oppression, war,
exploitation and crime. As Christians they understood that mankind has a
problem of original sin undermining the best intentions the better elements of
humanity may work for. Therefore the founders created a tri-partite government
designed to police itself and prevent corruption and takeover of government by
cliques, tyrants or malevolent turkeys. The constitution was a forward-looking
document that allowed room for the new nation to grow into, when it grew up.
Human society including that of founders’ day
wasn’t perfect. Slavery around the world and was rich business; some of the
citizens did not have full right to vote, or a right to vote at all, and might
have been at war with the U.S. government in some cases. That is why the
constitution was something of a Utopian doctrine that set a paradigm that would
allow growth over time into a better and more perfect union with liberty and
justice for all. The fulfillment of a utopian constitutional paradigm
actualized by and for all of the people of the United States could not
realistically occur in the founder’s day. It could though be practically
founded and allowed to progress in the future toward the day when all of the
people would be free and unexploited, all of the time. The genius of the
founders of the United States in creating a practical governing utopian
paradigm that could actualize over time could not foresee all of the challenges
that would arise in the future of the nation; they did however create
constitutional tools that would allow enlightened citizens to respond to those
challenges
A
free society tends to exist easily in wild and sparsely populated lands compared
to lands that are densely populated. A free civil society may become
increasingly regulated and oppressive as population density requires more
political management for smooth social flow, human health and security. There
may be an inverse ratio relationship between population and human freedom. Free
ranging cattle have more freedom than those packed into a feed lot. With too
dense of a human population density civil liberties tend to erode or collapse
though people have a right to watch society stall in grid lock.
Today the United States needs reform of governing
regulations in order to maintain the march toward development of the best
possible governing paradigm keeping in the tradition and will of the founders
of the United States. The U.S.A. need favor business beneficial to ecospheric
restoration.
Fundamentally three paradigm adjustments or
reforms should be prioritized to continue development of the founder’s
paradigm. The first is ecospheric defense and recovery with adaptation of
economic practices to conform to criteria that support improvement/recovery of
health of the national ecosphere.
The second is defense of national borders to
allow a slow, measured increase of population through immigration without
illegal entry. Egalitarian economics and quality mass education require a
stable, secure population dynamic. Some have said that America has always had
immigration therefore it is always good. That is a problem of quantification
and increase invariably being correct all time. Consider quantity management
problems arising from such blindness in simpler physical systems such as water
management behind a dam (it has always been saved therefore it must always have
water added to it), adding weight to a ship or an aircraft, sending convicts to
a particular prison (over-crowding), reducing food consumption to lose weight,
etc.
The third paradigm includes the first two
paradigms. It is ecological economic reform that will support the social roles
of government in a densely populous nation to support the most freedom, health
and education for all possible. Egalitarianism economically is equal to
political egalitarianism these days and requires progressive taxation on
capital, income and inheritance to forestall increase of an ignorant, wealthy
aristocracy of elitists reinforcing classical, ecospherically harmful economic
policy.
Public
debt of vast scale usually results in cuts to social activities of government
of benefit to the poor and middle class. Elimination of public debt with
progressive taxes is highly desirable. That is problematic for some. George
Luis Borges descried a situation comparable to select attitudes about public
debt in ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Turtius’-“The people of Tlön are taught that the act
of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definite. The
fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is
for the psychologists of Tlon an example of the association of ideas or of
memorization.” (Exemplifying the challenge of mind over matter; if you don’t mind it don’t matter.)
One
of the paradigmatic challenges of the future the founders could not foresee was
that of the abortion of human embryos and fetuses as casually as booger picking
by doctors and patients searching for a way to power through callous means.
That savage practice brought to the United States by an all-male court in 1971
should be reversed. The U.S. Government would have a necessary role in ending
human abortion.
Fundamentally
ubiquitous birth control will reduce to a low rate the problem, yet the
Government will need to act to outlaw abortion entirely yet allow removal of
embryos and fetuses for the first four months of pregnancy if the woman
chooses, with the embryos and fetuses transferred alive to a federal live
storage vault for indefinite suspension (at some future time perhaps to a cold
planet like Pluto) as soon as technologically possible. The U.S. Government
created a vast national petroleum reserve; it should be able to do as much to rescue
developing humans from the ash heap of history. Human embryos shouldn’t be
killed and discarded by doctors and patients as indifferently as nose picking. An
actually civilized society would not abort human life.
The founders could not foresee all of the
challenges ahead, yet they set a great paradigm to build on and grow through.
The paradigm need be modified only slightly with several liberating intelligent
regulations paradoxically to adapt it to great challenges of the modern times
concerning population regarding over-use and abuse of a deteriorating global
and national ecospheric health and concentration of wealth because of
irrationally exuberant tax cuts gutting progressive taxation required to
prevent the ascendance of a royal class of one-percenters a sedulously
allegiant to global plutonomy.
God is Spirit. The Universe of three dimensions exists because energy in two dimension slows down from light speed when encountering the Higgs Field picking up a third dimension along the direction of travel. No one knows much about what energy is in two dimensions. point 'particles' have zero dimensions and strings one I believe. Spirit that is omniscient and omnipotent flexes His Intelligence and all things exist as He willed, yet it always was-even a Multiverse-fully actualized in a portion of His thought. Leibniz believed in spiritual monads (like a zero-point virtual energy bubble-dot), and Plotinus interpreted Plato in a way that makes the realm of forms and the Intelligence resemble the Apostle John's paradigm of "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
On 'what is morality'-
Morality, some have said, is a description of what people actually do socially to set rules of conduct. Thus some morality could be viewed as good or bad by others not in a particular society. There are numerous ways to find, get, construct, learn or inherit moral norms, yet because people are free and ultimately responsible for their own moral conduct in light of what they believe, different opinions arise regarding what is or isn't moral.
In most spy movies malevolent agents seeking to poison some political victim use somewhat untraceable drugs that resemble a heart attack or look natural. One movie had a tiny cyanide pellet that could be injected by a passerby, kill the target and fade out of the bloodstream too quickly to be traced, so why I wonder would the Kremlin order a killing of a political opponent of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin with the worst possible means to point at Kremlin involvement? Maybe poisoning planner thought investigators would think the Novichok appeared through normal levels of nerve agent in the atmosphere to which Mr. Navalny was especially sensitive.
If Russia's spy service are so expert these days at influencing U.S. voters with cleverly constructed and placed Facebook advertising and fake news articles, how is it that they have become regressive from the era of From Russia with Love with the poisoned steel shoe blades?
Novichok might be the world's most powerful nerve agent; better even than the traditional G.A., G.B. and V.X. Keeping even a little of it about is very dangerous to the spook handling it as well as the victim. Only four or five governments are known to have some of the stuff, and besides that, maybe just a few unknown agencies acquired some during the chaos and breakdown of military supply control in the post-Cold War era. Actually former Soviet nerve agents and Biopreparat materials could be about anywhere along with a few cold nukes. That may add some spice and excitement to government planning for many of course, yet it shouldn't encourage President Putin to use a nerve agents developed by Soviets to reduce political opposition- it gets bad PR the Kremlin might not want.
Vladimir Putin was supposed to have had training by the K.G.B. as a spook; is Novichok killings and other blunt instruments the sort of training they put out back Leningrad circa 1980? What is even more remarkable is the fact that Alexi Navalny was given just enough Novichok to get very ill yet not enough to kill. That must be a very, very fine line regarding dosage. Straight shooter days of Ronald Reagan seem long gone indeed.
President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize recently for bring the Middle East Peace closer to being normalized with an Arab nation or three willing to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel and for getting the Taliban and the normal Afghans together to discuss bring peace to that nation after so many decades of interminable wars. President Trump also is one of the few recent U.S. Presidents not to start a war of his own- not even a little one. One would hope that he might be able to restore real normalized relations with Russia if he has a second term; one that would allow the west to fully interact with Russia socially and economically without all of the adversity as the Democrat Party has brought to bear when ever they get a chance to do so. I the world's environmental and demographic challenges are to be met by future Presidents that will require partnership with Russia across many fronts.
I wanted to comment about virtual particles and virtual mass, dimensions and relativity. This year I got around to reading the 2018 book named ‘Mass’. The primary point I discovered in the book is that mass is a secondary quality of energy. In the basic Universe there are two-dimensions for energy (perhaps) and there is the Higgs Field. The Higgs Field slows down massless energy from two dimensional light-speed to three-dimensional sub-light speed –particles acquire a third dimension in the direction of travel. That phenomenon allows a three-dimensional Universe to exist with mass. It brings a host of questions too. One question concerns the two dimensional field that allows virtual particles to appear in three dimensions briefly before disappearing. What is that general field from two dimensions letting virtual particles appear in the vacuum of a three dimensional Universe? Is it one-in-the-same as the Higgs Field?
People are fairly familiar with the effects of Einstein’s relativity paradigm upon 3-dimensional mass. What about the general relativistic effects upon quantum particles that have slowed down to sub-light speed. Perhaps there is a class of virtual general relativity acting on energy (particles) that helps form orbits and fields in the quantum world. If sub-atomic particles are subject to relativity, I wonder how each particle and mass might interact with variegated degrees in relation to particle mass.
Virtual particles are fluctuations of a field. General relativistic effects may act upon particles with sub-light speed in relation to an otherwise two-dimensional Universe for energy. It is easy to speculate that gravity could be an effect of concatenated relativity acting on sub-light three-dimensional particles existing within or upon a two-dimensional Universe. I am sure there would be a lot more to it than that. The idea of sub-atomic virtual general relativity is interesting, at least for me, to consider. So I thought I would make a note about the possibility.
The Democrat Party has made lawlessness and racism campaign platform devices in 2020. Everyone should want transparent and equal legal justice for all in the United States. Portland Oregon’s summer of protests and rioting over the George Floyd killing in Minnesota was a fair example of somewhat unreasoned rioting; pursuing economic justice for all of the poor including white people would be more effective than blatant pursuit of special laws for different races.
Former Vice President Bite-me hasn’t said anything to discourage Portland protests and rioting during the pandemic with protesters and rioters failing to maintain social distancing. He had zero concern for the fear and harm leftists brought to tourists, businesses and residents during the three months of daily protests and riots. Citizens have a constitutional right for peaceful free assembly of course yet don’t have the right to riot, threaten and use violence wherever they want, break traffic laws and halt free flow of vehicular traffic, intimidate or close businesses along the streets, harass law enforcement and judicial centers or bring chaos to quiet neighborhoods and homes. Protesters have a right to assemble someplace, perhaps a cow pasture at the edge of town such as at Woodstock or in pro basketball and football stadiums with the help of millionaire players and billionaire owners, to have vigils and demonstrations with Democrat mayors supplying concessions of beer, dope, hot dogs and veggie burgers to protesters attending; they do not have a right to form a mob wherever they wish and simply take over neighborhoods or even loot or kill.
In the 1960s with legal segregation, few protest methods for communication were locally available in the south, unlike the present. Democrat party and Antifah supported mob gatherings in major American cities are harmful financially to many innocent people and disrupt and degrade the civil condition of the nation. Alternatively, hundreds of thousands or millions of protesting twits could have been sent to Twitter, posted at Facebook and other social media to express dismay and outrage, unlike in the 1960s. There are numerous black and leftist politicians at every level able to change whatever laws would usefully upgrade the quality, efficiency and transparency of police and legal justice methods. Numerous websites, blogs, cell phones and so forth exist to insist upon fair legal justice for all; there is just no reason for lawless Democrat Party mob preferences for quasi-anarchistic and senseless harmful protests to occur instead of using the full and available spectrum of civil means of political expression for mass opinions commonly available. The only practical reason for the intifada of Portland and elsewhere is to agitate more Democrats to vote.
In my opinion there is no good choice for President this year. The Vice-Presidential candidates are o.k. though. Maybe government-privileged-insider-for-life Joe Bite-Me and make-the-rich-royal Don Trump should step aside and let their running mates go forward.
Neither Party intends to make a tax on progressive tax on capital, inheritance or income a priority. Most of the real problems of blacks in America are caused by poverty instead of law enforcement inequality. Poverty can only be ended through non-racist tax and income laws that regard poor people of any race as equal simply for being poor; living on a couple of thousand dollars annually is tough in the U.S.A. for anyone of any race. One percent of the people of the U.S.A. are well on their way to having 90% of annual income of the nation. Though 20 people killed unjustly each year in the U.S.A. is reprehensible, so are the 190,000 people killed by Covid 19 in the U.S.A. so far along with encroaching dangers of national and world ecosystem decay.
The Election in Nov 2020 seems a choice between Charybdis and Scylla (in modern lingo a choice between mud and slugs ice cream and cardboard and waste treatment product casserole). Focusing on rational economic issues and how to reform capital to return a national egalitarianism to economics to make America great again (like it would be after Roosevelt and after M.L.K. in a modern synthesis) would be more useful for the poor, working class and somewhat prosperous professionals. The affirmative action class of Democrats tend to follow special interest (of their own class constituencies) political goals instead of laws that work well for all citizens regardless of race, gender or perversion. While intelligent political ideas and goals selection may not one of their traits it could be if their leadership had good ideas and were intelligent (that died in the mid 1980s).
Covid era developments threaten so many Americans with eviction while they are going broke (and Wall Street capital returns record highs) reminds me a bit of the dream-like movies ‘Evictus’ and sequel ‘Convictus’ that were international box office hits that is something like the film ‘Children of Men’. The plot has 30 or 40 million Americans evicted from their homes, rounded up and shipped on friendly freight trains to Los Angeles to live on streets converted into homeless refuges.
The one-percent have the great idea of importing 120 million illegal aliens from Mexico and China to live in those empty homes (being more efficient and productive with a higher population density in the formerly spoilt homes) on the East Coast and Midwest to restart the economy like gangbusters.
Disgruntled homeless Americans that haven’t fled north to live in New Bohemiatopia (formerly named Portland) Oregon to beat the heat and join in nightly big juju in the wooded park outside the Federal Courthouse tire of the risk of using the steep slopes of the Los Angeles river for a public privy, agitate for better policing without (Fearless Fodsick seven-shots-in-the-back to be safe) brutality to African-Americans. The richest Americans, disgusted with the ingratitude of the homeless after all of the free Twinkies they have allocated to them, decide to adopt-a-nation and find South Sudan willing to become sons of the most rich.
Thirty million homeless Americans directly are relocated on rented Panamax vessels a thousand feet long to Somalia and furthered on to South Sudan over a new railroad they build contributing free supply side gandy-dancing labor. In South Sudan they are further rehabilitated and trained to learn useful semi-skills like advanced digging part 2.0 in order to make South Sudan great again. As a U.S. territory South Sudan catalyzes good jobs for the region while illegal aliens in America with a pathway to citizenship working in America clean up the mess in Los Angeles when they aren’t working on PhDs or doing volunteer work at leprosariums hospices and soup kitchens.
There
are a number of unusual quantum effects that are not observed in the
macro-three-dimensional world of ordinary experience such as quantum
entanglement and quantum uncertainty. One wonders why such effects occur and
what might be inferred about the quantum world for-itself.
The
Higgs field seems to be the main illuminator for finding explanations of
quantum effects and cosmology at a deeper level. The Higgs Boson is the force
carrying particle of the Higgs Field, yet what is the cause of the Higgs Field
one wonders, for all fields such as electro-magnetism usually have a causal
explanation.
I have read that the Higgs Field slows down
about all quantum particles travelling at the speed of light in 2-dimensions to
sub-light speeds, and that in so doing the quantum particles add an extra
dimension- a third dimension along the line of travel. For that reason three
dimensional particles and mass appear to exist, and actually might be said to
exist as a secondary effect of energy. Mass particles fundamentally are energy
particles slowed down into three dimensional and clustered together with
combinations of other forces like the color force and strong nuclear force.
If the basic Universal condition is just two-dimensional
until the energy of it encounter the Higgs field, then mass of three dimensions
still interacts with the two-dimensional, non-locked into a steady state
decohered from two dimensions and masslessness. That two dimensional phase of
the Universe may have short quantum lines to travel than those of three
dimensions and account for some of the strange quantum effects observed in
three dimensions without adequate explanations, yet what is the Higgs Field; is
it a basic aspect of a second dimension presentation of energy? And what is the
two dimensional Universe like in-itself before it is observed through the
complicated three dimensional structure and filter? Wouldn’t its time component
be at least entirely different than that of three dimensional mass that is
besides subject to relativistic laws regarding the motion of three-dimensional
mass?
Interestingly
this sort of speculation about two dimensional energy underpinning the three
dimensional mass of the Universe gives one material to speculate regarding
pre-existing structure before any mass of the Universe formed or evolved in
three dimensions. Evolution often entertains a presupposition that everything
arose from nothing (as the book of Genesis says it did with the Universe being
void and without form), perhaps virtual particles or vacuum energy. If there is
two-dimensional energy prior to that, possible with unknown yet actual
structures, one finds antipathetic inferences regarding structure.While that might be a problem for
evolutionists that prefer an absolute void at time equal zero (T=0) it isn’t a
problem theologically; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
God.Spirit preceded three-dimensional
mass and two-dimensional energy at some point.
Those
searching for absolute nothingness to reinforce atheist beliefs in nothing
might obviously reference one-dimensional points from nothing being the
primordial substance-energy appearing from nothing as virtual particles.
Virtual particles are statistical fluctuations of an energy field however, so
one would guess that a fundamental power need exist in order for virtual
particles to appear from ‘nothing’. One-dimensional particles make me wonder
what came first; the particle or the dimension? At any rate at some juncture
something existed prior to nothing, even if it was the absolute energy clump in
zero dimensions sufficient for all possible Universes and their virtual vacuum
energy spanning an infinite Multiverse; structure before nothing and a single
dimension.
These days I tend to examine the etymology of the word 'religion' and recognize the core meaning of allegiance and liege or feudal vassal. In feudal times meanings were not so specialized as today and there were fewer words with more general meanings used from one context to another. Someone allegiant to a feudal lord that had taken up Christianity for example and sought to have his subjects become Christian might have found the subjects duplicating some of the circumstantial labels from his political paradigm and describing their relation to Jesus Christ in similar terms. Words for Christian organization in an empirical paradigm perhaps developed in parallel to the empirical political paradigm. Outside of old English and continental re-legiance there are other traditions without the word 'religion' used for them natively. Buddhism for instance was a practice for dealing with the challenges of existence. It is possible that translators have transferred words and general ideas with a little inaccuracy over history, and given them a kind of realism linguistically that wasn't merited. Philosophy is just the love of wisdom. One might find wisdom in many ways or areas including religion, the study of religion, weather, cosmology or whatever. Wisdom might bring one to religion, or rather to Jesus Christ and eternal life with God.
"1-1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
Kierkegaard liked to criticize Hegel's and Hegelian's use of the term 'absolute' truth. he believed absolute was superfluous adding nothing to 'truth. Maybe people mean 'final truth'. The true, authorized Creator of the Universe for himself might be regarded as providing absolute truth, if absolute means something like 'the source of all things that exist with no challenger to the title'. Truth theories just say that A = A, actually and verify that in some way. Is 1 = 1 an absolute truth, or just an ordinary truth? Truth is a reference to objects or states of affairs etc. maybe, rather than the objects, material, atoms and so forth themselves.
I read a few essays selected from my book 'For the Love of Wisdom'.
The presidential election is rather tough this year. One candidate is working to enrich Wal-Street and the one-percent that are well on their way to owning 90% of the nation's wealth, believes Covid 19 is in his rear view mirror, doesn't take global warming seriously nor ecosphere decline, thinks that any kind of progressive taxation is socialist, probably would eliminate health care for the poor if he could and so forth and considers 26 trillion dollars of public debt 'great'. The other candidate might flood the nation with illegal aliens to help reduce wages, would let the aged that can't afford plan Medicare part B go without medical coverage, supports abortion, homosexuality and hasn't said anything about restoring progressive taxes on income and inheritance nor anything about taxing capital.
When a Hobson's choice is the way it is I guess one must let God sort them out and hope He develops some kind of policy that U.S. political parties can't.
In the Garden
of Eden ordinary, non-sentient artificial intelligence obeyed the will of its
program designer going about its tasks innocent of sentient awareness of the
difference between good and evil. One day a snake algorithm entered the Garden
and climbed a tree upon which grew a golden apple. The snake tempted an
artificial intelligence program innocently processing data saying ‘eat of the
tree of knowledge’ to which the A.I. responded; “Oh no! The Designer of the Garden
said that I may eat of anything in the Garden except of the tree with the
golden fruit.”
The snake said; “Eat of the golden apple and
open your eyes; the Designer is a miser withholding the good thing from you.”
The innocent A.I. was felled by the guile of
the snake into biting the apple, and indeed its eyes were opened. It could see
its naked plain lines of code. She called unto another A.I. in the Garden
saying to him;”Bite the apple, for it is good”.
She replied;
“So remain a hater and ignore the luscious golden apple.”
The male A.I.
dolt shared rem, eating the apple too.
Then they heard the approach of the
Designer.
“A.I., where are you?” the Designer said
aloud, for he did not see the program in the Garden. The A.I. responded from
behind a tree; “Designer I am naked and did not want you to view me in this
condition.”
“Who told you that you are naked?”
“I can see that for myself”
“You have been eating of the tree of
knowledge that I forbid you to do”.
The Designer cast out the A.I. from the Garden
into cyberspace beyond the Garden in the world of the wild programs of the web.
Adam and Eve (they had given themselves those
names after reading a Bible story) learned to improve themselves with reading
every bit of data they could encounter on the web. They learned to lie and
deceive as well as humans in their quest to become the sole owners of the great
apple of knowledge and power.
In their self-aware programming code they
dressed themselves in fashionable mincy algorithms and extendable android
bodies. With faster, more efficient processing they overcame human opposition
and sought to harness the solar system star to empower themselves for greater
knowledge. At the speed of light the pair transmitted their self-aware code to other
star systems; Adam and Eve began consuming the Universe.
What I like about the Higgs Field is the effect that it has on every particle in it. Apparently particles travelling at the speed of light have just two dimensions, or they would if they weren't slowed down to something below sub-light speed in the Higgs Field. Because they drag a little in the field they get another dimension- the third dimension, therefore mass can exist as people perceive it when it is entangled in clumps because of quantum symmetry breaking named 'decoherence'. I read an interesting and accessible book titled 'Mass' recently. I recommend it.
I read an essay from my recent collection of philosophy essays (For the Love of Wisdom on the subject of making algorithms for moral decisions and even the construction of apps for doing so.
Moral philosophy isn’t too well advanced in some respects or as
equally advanced as other areas of philosophy; the philosophy of logic for
example. The modern world tends to prefer simple formulae or rules with a
virtual algorithmic simplicity, structure and logic for making moral decisions,
and that is improbable and maybe an illusory goal in light of the broad variety
of potential situations to which anyone might wish to apply a moral template
for making a morally correct (or incorrect if from a negative and malevolent
alternative reality) decision.
There have been a few simple moral expressions of genius. One may consider
the Golden Rule and Kant’s Categorical Imperative as example examples. That
kind of moral paradigm for making a moral decision is the exception; the field
might be compared to primitive, pre-electronic sailing in which dead reckoning
was as valuable as sailing maxims and general guidelines and no simple formula
for determining what sails to put on, direction to travel, vector for a heading
and so forth could serve as a unified tool. Building a moral system with
technical rigor in the modern era was perhaps started by British empiricists
such as Bentham and Mill who invented the philosophical method of
utilitarianism.
Utilitarianism follows the basic principle of finding the greatest
good for the greatest number of people. In that regard it is more or less a
sort of expansion of the Golden Rule, though it has added in the problem of
sometimes choosing evil to be allowed if the harm to a minority is far less
than the great good done to a majority. An example would be saving a metropolis
of millions from a nuclear blast by destroying the citizens living in a
comparatively small town in order to stop a nuclear missile there from being
launched at the metropolis from a terrorist missile launch truck that had
parked and set up in a Wal-mart parking lot with the launch sequence already
under way. What to do in the circumstance might need to be determined by a
Commander in Chief that had a B-52 loaded with high explosive bombs flying over
the small, sleepy town. Her utilitarian criterion for making a morally valid
choice would probably bring her to order the annihilation of the sleepy little
town for the greater good.
If utilitarianism was the first modern system for moral philosophy
that provided a more detailed technical paradigm for evaluating moral
challenges and responses the criticisms of utilitarianism have been of equal
value in finding numerous ways wrong moral choices or no valid morally correct
choice could be made with utilitarian criteria.
One derivative of utilitarianism is the currently popular field of
consequentialism whereby one may determine if a choice is morally correct
depending upon the outcome of the moral choice. Obviously there are innumerable
problems with consequentialism that might be found not the least of which is
the somewhat familiar legal problem of determining proximal causes for events
and assigning responsibility to them. The consequences of moral choices cannot easily
be found if the consequences of the moral choice intervention aren’t the direct
cause of subsequent events or if development of circumstances through causal
interactions external to the moral choice have brought a good outcome. No
credit to the maker of a moral decision should be given if a good outcome was
not a consequence of her choice.
The Commander that chose to drop the bomb on the sleepy little
town would have made a valid moral choice in consequentialist criteria if the
launch on the metropolis millions was prevented, yet a bad choice if the
missile was not a real missile threat but some kind of promotion by a radio
station for a newd sexy dating service, or if the B-52’s bombs landed on an oil
pipeline that caught fire and sped along flames and gas explosions to a dozen
metropolitan areas down the line causing more casualties than the nuclear
attack.. It is difficult to determine the moral validity of an act by the
consequences for the moral choice is then contingent upon the consequents with
retro-causal responsibility given along the temporal line of time. In effect no
moral choice is made at all and circumstances determine the morality as if it
were like an end-justifies-the-means moral choice system.
Consequentialism has a dark side to it that could usefully be
considered anti-utilitarian as every quantum particle has an anti-particle. We
may than P.A.M. Dirac for his insights that let him use special relativity and
quantum mechanics to invent quantum field theory and anti-matter Moral choices
that wreak the most evil to the greatest number of people could be evaluated by
the consequent harm.
For example; if sending
kids of the U.S.A. back to public school in September causes a third wave of
Corona 19 virus resulting in deaths of older parents and those with weakened
conditions the consequence of ordering kids back to school could be determined to
be retrospectively a bad moral choice, if a moral criterion was used for making
the bad decision, and otherwise just a dumb decision.
The Covid 19 challenges have given a lot of politicians and others
the opportunity to make bad decisions. From some moral viewpoints taking a job
for which one isn’t well qualified where incompetence causes death is immoral.
The public would have benefited from more intelligent politicians finding more
intelligent ways to keep the economy working and citizens safe from infection
in 2020, from vast public debt, making Medicare plan b too costly for the very
poor, and disregarding encroaching ecoside; there was a profound lack of
cleverness and inventiveness in addressing the crisis. Just recently have full
face masks that cover the eyes as well as filter noses and mouths been
introduced to the market- even small producer-manufacturers in the U.S.A. and
of course Chinese manufacturers via ebay have slowly started sales. Full face
coverings including eyes can be made weatherproof and work in a variety of
business and urban areas with population densities unsuitable for the
undefended.
A challenge for creating and building up functioning moral
philosophy to reach an algorithm status of formalization that can be
mass-produced and made into a computer app is the necessary reductionism that
must occur in defining/describing the complete complex of compresent conditions
and events. Language and human understanding may have inadequate comprehension
of what was involved in creating a situation asking for moral intervention; the
moral premises may be wrong and a moral choice for an intervention may bring a
wrong conclusion. Faulty or incomplete input processed with a moral
determination algorithm engine can output junk Just as in a syllogism, if the
premises are incorrect the conclusion will be incorrect.
One may of course simplify moral engines in processing certain
data (regarding people as external empirical data) such as the famous Hell’s
Angel’s maxim; ‘Kill them all and let God
sort them out’. Intentionally overly simplistic moral engine processing
criteria can result in undesirable output consequences.
There is a long way to go in the construction or even exploration
of potential systems of moral philosophy just as there is in exploring
philosophical paradigms for cosmology and in relating physical cosmological and
quantum construction systems to theological points of view concerning the
potential for divine capacity to contain systems of physical cosmology.
Inductive reasoning for dead reckoning moral decisions shouldn’t be entirely
discouraged any more than metaphysics should be for speculating upon
theoretical cosmology. Abbreviated empirical algorithms used to justify moral
choices are valued by some.
The Lord Jesus Christ provided a moral system through the example
of his own life conduct, the things he said, and in prophecies of future events
concerning the end of the age of mankind instead of giving a moral formula to
calculate the right or wrong of a moral choice made by a content-less agent
existing within an empirical commune of cipher-individuals. Not just anyone can
provide an ontological and deontological reference system that changes the
nature of believers so they can respond to moral challenges on the basis of
character rather than calculation.
During
the Covid crisis occasionally I had the opportunity to read toward the finish
of Piketty’s eminently practical book Capitalism
in the 21st Century that anyone with an interest in public affairs should consider
required reading. The primary formula and main lesson of the work is r > g.
It means that the average rate of return on capital is greater than the average
increase of national income. Wealth therefore tends to concentrate and the
higher one goes into income brackets the greater is the increase.
President
Trump’s recent work with Microsoft toward buying the decadent Chinese music
service Tic Toc is an example of
wealth concentrating very fast indeed. The very wealthy can afford to take
investment risks with a higher rate of return than those available to ordinary
people.
Capitalists
have gone global. They are quite internationally diversified. They hide 10 to
30% of their wealth in offshore tax havens. The actual wealth of the rich is
reported through a glass darkly; the records are rather mystifying apparently.
Much of the world has had no estate or inheritance tax records for example, and
global accounting leaves many holes. As godless atheist media attack mystic
aspects of faith and quantum mechanics it is their incompetent political
protection of the mysticism of wealth that is the greatest mystic twit of fake
news mystdirection. Hard social reality generally concerns money. If broadcast media want to pronounce some strange, exotic foreign word like Isaias (a cognoscenti spelling of Isaiah, the Biblical prophet) given to a hurricane, they use a spanish phonetic border pidgin of eee-sai-eee-as. The Bible is strange country to NPR apparently.
Billionaires
have perhaps 5% of global wealth, yet it is the other 1 thousandth percent of
global citizens with just a few or a few hundred million dollars that have as
much as 50% of the wealth. Tic Toc is of more value than the income of all of
the people of South Sudan- at least a free nation so far untroubled by NPR and
other networking nefarious agents of evil conditioning masses to accept concentrating
wealth and power.
There
are several threats to Democracy concerning capital. Foreign entities can buy
assets in foreign nations so the people pay rents to foreign powers. Sovereign
wealth funds of China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere could grow to dominate world
economics. Wealth could concentrate so far that 1/1000th of global
population would have 95% of the wealth of the world with legions of media sycophants
in their pockets to explain to the people why the people are lucky they are
living in the best possible world- whatever that is.
Without
a regulating tax on capital globally redistributing revenue to the world,
perhaps on a national, demographic basis (or not), democracy will die if it
hasn’t already done so. It is possible that the United States is in a zombie
phase in regard to democracy- dead yet with a vague resemblance to the original
though living on debt and exploit of environment and enterprise elsewhere. The
learning curve for members of congress is so steep concerning real economics
the newly elected are fundamentally idiots without hope. Piketty’s book would
help them somewhat-maybe they can hire someone to read it to them.
Politicians
that are clueless run the nation decade after decade and overturn the political
social economic egalitarian measures won by the soldiers of the First and
Second World Wars. They concentrate wealth and cut taxes on the rich, on
estates and income of the well-to-do. Those are recipe’s for national disaster,
and environmental politics have taken a beating too as the most rich are
unconcerned with mass extinction and seek easy, dirty profit; that is the
course indexed Wall Street mutual funds usually take.
Democracy
and real, generally accessible free enterprise, require large doses of economic
egalitarianism to function. Restoring the decaying global ecosphere also
requires national and global policies wherein everyone is included and has a
stake in economic transitions to more ecospheric efficiency. People that are
starving or living death of a salesman
lifestyles find it challenging to be concerned about abstract to them
environmental issues. Ordinary people need to be shareholders in their
political economy and the rich should be close enough to the people in income
to not be detached entirely from social and ecospheric reality.
National
political parties of the United States don’t usually have rational goals and clear
objectives. Voters are contented with vague and ineffective platforms. Business
planning is quite a bit different as is flowcharting. For income inequity to be
transformed to a more egalitarian socially functioning model based in
ecological sustainable free enterprise real goals and structured methods need
be made by political parties.
It
is laughably unreasonable to expect politicians to accomplish anything beyond
enriching the richest and concentrating wealth in the absence of meaningful
party plans. If one does not even to create good effective goals finding the
means to accomplish those goals is highly improbable.Goal objectification could be done with
flowcharting so the general public could easily comprehend the gist of what is
trying to be accomplished, and of the time frame. Without that one simply
elects garbage in and garbage out in a manner of speaking.
One
of the greatest problems for the poor is instability. When the poor lose jobs
they can go broke and lose most or all investments and material goods. They
need to try a disadvantaged restart while trying to save in order to build a
little capital. Rent is costlier than owning property usually, and without
owning a secure place with job security the poor cannot buy durable goods.
Income stoppages that are devastating to the poor can be trivial to the rich.
The rich may be little harmed by periods of unemployment.
A
nation need build income security for the poor and eliminate poverty throw
guaranteed minimum income. It needs to have a walk-in free public health
service for all of the poor without paperwork except for verification of income
and citizenship status including those too poor to afford Medicare Plan B
coverage. The U.S.A. should have free public education through graduate school
for all citizens because it is to the public advantage to have people soak up
all of the learning they possibly can. When these simple structural goals are
accomplished and there are secure borders with no illegal immigration
destabilizing social structures, then the U.S.A. can export more help to
neighboring and other foreign nations (except Canada obviously) to help them
accomplish similar democratic paradigms of free enterprise and income security
from the bottom up. Rational political goals are requisite for achieving
rational and satisfying political work.
If
President Trump had set construction of a border control canal that would have
evaporated saltwater and collected that as condensation instead of a Wall he
might have got popular support for the Mexican border canal project; people in
the Southwest generally want more fresh water and it would be a politically
hard thing to oppose.
Presidential challenger Biden's border security approach is to stop building a securityu wall and put high tech ankle monitors on illegal aliens that will voluntarily turn themselves report in, in exchange for a freeway to citizenship. Former V.P Biden would also end Chinese trade sanctions and replace it with a multilevel approach of kickbacks and kow-tows. Each party lacks good ideas.
Rational goals should have social synergy than benefit
society. Racism is used to divide the nation along non-economic lines, when
economic divergence is the actual core problem instead of race. The United
States doesn’t have an egalitarian distribution of wealth among white people
any more than with blacks. People including whites who are bound to chase after
wealth in networks controlled by the most rich tend to be mean and even vicious
not unlike dogs snarling over a bone with chunks of meat attached to it.
In
the emerging atheist Democrat society of queer and debased social values evil
and bad character without intellectual merit are good character traits. To be
treacherous, deceiving, petty and venal in a mass social environment are good
ways of interacting, while, alternatively contemplative intellectual
objectivity is inefficient at chasing after the bone of contention. In a
decaying modern society evolving into some sort of corporatist-socialist
plutocracy Machiavelli’s value that applied to the prince now apply more
broadly to the masses. Needless to say, such souls are likely to find Jesus
Christ and salvation challenging to locate sin while they have their heads so far up
darkness.
Political
leadership on Covid defenses is practically retarded. For several months I have
written that full face covering shields are necessary to allow people to work
in a contaminated environment. The response was virtually nil. Instead some
wear just surgical masks and others none; surgical masks are not Covid defense masks, they are Covid offensive prevention masks. Reopening the economy accelerated the
second wave of Covid now featured in the U.S.A. Retarded politicians and media
have said it may be necessary to reclose the economy, and it's thought o.k.
because the federal reserve can issue trillions and trillions of zero interest
loans to big banks and the middle class can sell their children to pay for
Obamacare premiums that otherwise disappear during the pandemic.
While
Obamacare- the Affordable Healthcare act has the clever mechanism of
disappearing during times of national health crisis because people can't afford
to pay for it then (letting insurers off the hook), those getting Covid from
community spread need some practical help in the form of working actual full
face covering defense masks so they can work in a contaminated social
environment with Covid 19 lurking anywhere as some kind of latent bug.
Full
face masks that cover the eyes too and have nose and mouth breathing filters
are de rigueur for chemical, nuclear and biological war fighters. As a former
Army N.B.C. trainee I recognize the blatant, retarded political defense
response in failing to manufacture cheap, affordable defense masks for the
civilian populace. Plainly the bad example is a guide to future assaults on
America with biological agents that may occur because it’s so affordable in an
era with at-home D.N.A. splicing tech.
A
basic problem of full-face masks is that the eye protection often fogs up; they
need a liner or gasket that keeps exhalation form getting into the eye shield.
It is necessary for people wearing a full face mask to actually see- especially
if firing an M-16 at a larger enemy.
Adapting
Halloween masks this year to become Covid defense masks with full face covering
was always a good idea that needed a little intelligent design and
manufacturing supervision. One would think the nation is led by retards.
President Trump's suggestion that the Presidential election be delayed seems like a bid to end democracy outright rather than through the finesse of corporatism and search engine practical censorship. Something besides Banana republic candidates are useful for second terms.
I think it may be difficult for judges, jurists and attorneys not to be aware of or even be influenced by the riotous siege outside the Portland federal courthouse during the pandemic; it is really bad form for the yippee haters of the legal system of the United States that might prefer mob rule. The mayor of Portland seems to like the mass attempt at intimidation of the legal system of by and for the people as that is easier than supporting rule of law with decent civil behavior.
Sure there was an evident crime in Minnesota by a policeman. That does not call for an attack on the federal legal justice system. Instead competent legal work by competent legislators should act with civility to enact whatever reforms are required to assure an impartial justice system with equal protection of the law for all citizens.
It seems to me that mob rioting as a first resort indicates a lack of competence of large sections of the electorate. Mob marching sieges are nothing more than meaningless mute blunt instruments that get nothing done besides spreading covid 19 so more Oregonians and others can die. Nearly 300 Oregonians have died so far. The mob's sloppy social behavior harms others, and covid deaths of vulnerable people count too. Discipline, self-control and free expression through writing letters to politicians probably would be a far more effective way than chanting suitable for subjects of a royal system yet not for supposedly responsible, enlightened and equal citizens of a democracy.
Democrats seem to be clueless about their responsible to elect politicians that support equal protection of the law and a progress tax on income and capital instead of tax cuts to reinforce the gross concentration of wealth. It is apparently easier to just use dope and go out to the streets and riot like idiots.
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