Noh Fish (a poem)

Are magic fish caught? All
would make more forever
‘till the last was gone
You may cut the trees,
banking until they vanish.

Utopia's Fate (poem)

 

Oppressed in utopia now
the music seems to be with the past
time and space flow in gravity’s shadow
metal music with easy rhymes fast

Hating the ban on things one should hate
mockery would shock hate till time’s late
utopia tech with populous blocks
mass hysteria bust utope’s fate.

International Affairs in the U.S. Foreign Policy Vacuum

 In the absence of intelligent U.S. foreign and domestic policy the economic and social environment positives of the United States would seem to be in long-term decline. That isn’t too surprising. Rather than consider the background of the decline and the reasons why the U.S.A. has a dirth of quality, innovative and adaptive Presidential leadership that supports constitutional rights for individuals strongly as opposed to special class privileges I will move on to consider a few potential developments of circumstances of international affairs.

Making Russia an enemy instead of an ally was a grave error after the end of Cold War 1.0.  U.S. leadership was stupid concerning the wresting of Ukraine and Crime away from Russia. Much blame and obfuscation or responsibility may be relocated yet it was strongly in America’s interests to recognize Russian historical relationship to Ukraine and Crimea and make sure their interests were met.

The reasons for the Ukraine-Russia failure were largely material. When too many people have purely material interests in high political leadership they fail at abstract reasoning in several affairs such as history, religion, morality. Pure materialism may focus so narrowly on material advantages that it has no political vision. As it is now the United States has fully invested in dividing the planet between itself and European allies plus Japan and the side of Russia and China.  That division reduces the potential market area for sales by half. For some that may present new opportunities and yet for others it creates strong economic doldrums.

There is a legendary explanation for why Democrat party leadership on international affairs is so bad. An uncomplimentary account, it postulates that supporting illegal immigration for cheap labor to replace white men whom are regarded as rivals is natural enough. Democrat elites and rich patrons designed replacement policy appealing to runty scheming neo-leftist females and homosexuals that need have replacement labor if strait white men are to be downgraded and women and queers rise to domination. They expect strait men to lift weights and be happy as dumb hedonistic laborers and soldiers while women executives wear suits and force a kinder, gentler new world order as the brains of the outfit. Afraid of Russia and its anti-Democrat Party values, runt elites used strait Ukrainian men to fight Russia men to bring or keep more Russian land for Democrat and Plutocratic allies and material profit. I cannot say that the explanation is true or accurate, yet like many contemporary political matters it may have a grain of truth in it. If it were true, in my opinion it would an effort to make a Satanic World Order of willing slaves, perhaps coerced a bit. Peace is better than war for prosperity; it may require creative thinking about how to make everyone winners rather than a few, with many losers.

The non-aligned world is largely one of 2nd and third world people that find Chinese socialism more sympathetic or understanding at least rhetorically to their own economic troubles and the legends of colonial and capitalist exploitation. With China’s quickly advancing economy infused with U.S. and European investments in a somewhat adversarial relation ship the U.S.A. will encounter more direct economic competition with China for the non-aligned world. Russia oil excluded from sales to most first world nations will be an attractive alternative source for oil at about 50% of the price of western oil. The United States relies on Europe for political support and economic trade yet even Britain- the primary European ally of the inside-the-beltway and Eastern elitist crowd will pursue its own economic advantages with China even as it uses the United States as its blaster in the master-blaster relationship it enjoys. Some in D.C. seem to rely on British intelligence concerning Eurasian matters too.

As Europe and the EU rises in local political power it has leveraged the Ukraine affair to increase its ,military footing. Apparently Germany will soon be the third most powerful military in the world with its 120 billion dollar investment in weapons. As. Europe rises in military strength it will also tend to rely far less on the United States for defense as it has since the end of the second world war. It may also expect to lead the United States more concerning international affairs until it flips to some new relationships entirely severing the post 2nd world war posture.

Japan presently is building the best new jet fight on the planet. It will be capable of directing several drone fighter and bomber aircraft from each jet, That is an amazing upgrade in military flight. Each jet fighter will act something like an entire wing of jet fighters. Japan is perhaps the best U.S. military ally for the short and intermediate range as it can present a substantial challenge to China in a few years for air superiority in concert with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Naval aviation. Japan also is a lone wolf nation with few Asian friends. In that regard it may increasingly resemble the United States in the future as the United States loses friends around the world such as it has. When the EU becomes something more like an economic rival and militarily independent rather than an ally the United States will be more isolated, so far as anyone can be isolated in a very over-populated world using the present political economy.

North Korea’s nuclear power rise may increase considerably and it may choose to sell nuclear bombs for cash to compensate for strong Euro-American sanctions. Japan and Germany may seek to go nuclear too to balance perceived Iranian, N. Korean, Russian and Chinese nuclear threats. I needn’t point out that this is a very dangerous world scenario. There will be very little global cooperation on global warming countermeasures as the atheist leading powers pursue purely material advantages, and corporatism of the west conflicts with mixed market socialism of the east for planetary economic turf and the allegiance of developing nations.

House Select January 6th Committee Has a One-sided Point of View

 The trouble with the House committee investigating the January 6th mob storming of the capitol is that it presents just one point of view. The Select Committee was entirely selected by Democrat House Speaker Pelosi. It is as if a jury were made up solely of people selected by the prosecutor. Rep. Jim Jordan or other Republicans proposed by House Minority Leader McCarthy were kicked to the gutter by Speaker Pelosi. Democrats in politics and social media have been working to censor people they view as political opponents since the Obama administration. With an equally corrupt selection process Democrats in 1963 could have proved that Dwight Eisenhower ordered the assassination of JFK.

During the Trump impeachment hearings Democrats did their best to minimize then President Trump’s defenders speaking time. They succeeded reducing to zero partisan Republicans from sitting on the committee investigating the January 6th incident. Speaker Nancy Pelosi cherry-picked the members of her inquisition. Thus the fruits of the committee produced a tainted product reminiscent of a Soviet show trial with the defense muffled. Authoritarian regimes do not tolerate dissenting viewpoints.

The House Committee is an insult to Americans expected to believe that a fair, non-partisan investigation dedicated to convicting former President Trump after impeachment conviction failed has a possibility of being objective, truthful or even credible in the absence of a defense. Americans are expected to believe credulously in every package of data presented and interpreted by party stooges of globalists, the uber-rich and Democrat Party leadership puppets. Intelligent Americans would rather move on from the Trump hating do-nothing-on-global-warming Congress than continue the lunacy conspiracy theorists down rabbit hole vectors to alternative atheist universes where public debt, nuclear war and global warming are  back burner issues.

 It is very challenging to consider the mass protest at the capitol on January 6th an insurrection. Americans and especially conservatives own a lot of weapons, yet few weapons were evident at the protest and no shots were fired by protesters. Some members of the protest mob surged into the lightly defended capitol building yet there was an absence of provisions for light military fighting to hold the capitol against armed retaking by government forces. There also should have been some sort of coordinated attack on financial centers in elite liberal cities such as Boston and San Francisco. It would have been necessary to take down the power grid of Washington D.C. at minimum and promote chaos in the city with a surge of armed anarchistic insurrectionist in the dark. One would think an insurrection would have managed to sink at least one government ship tied to a dock like the U.S.N. Cole. Comparing the fake insurrection at the Capitol even with John Brown’s attack on the national guard armory makes  the alleged insurrection seem like a 60s anti-war protest that bum-rushed buildings.

One may hope that the United States never experiences an actual insurrection. If the capitol were taken and the legislators slaughtered except for Rep. Liz Cheney,  and if the naval submarine fleet didn’t like her leadership they would have the power themselves to nuke D.C. as a kind of independent 3rd power submarine fleet with nukes.  There may be a zillion scientists and engineers that could hot-wire a nuclear missile and launch one without government codes. It isn’t likely they are booby trapped to detonate if tampered with. Speaker Von Pelosi cannot always count on control of the media through left-leaning allies to support a Pee Wee Herman scale insurrection narrative without possibility of the real thing happening. Covid has shown there are innumerable ways that scientists could cull the population. In the absence of good, intelligent political leadership with oars in the water making the world a better place physically, actually for all Americans, the risks appear to increase rather than decrease- even crying wolf about the Pee Wee Herman Insurrection.

A word about the prevailing social and demographic paradigm increasing the risk of mass population culls and/or insurrection. The present geo-demographic resource population density and technology cluster has enabled totalization of government-media-intelligence agency presence and power over the nation. Unlike in prior eras before technology and population saturation of the nation when there was little danger of intentional mass population cull or of technology driven revolution without substantial popular support, the present era is enabled for total, ubiquitous nation-wide surveillance and control of the population even unto repression of dissident free speech in social media. With the shrinking of the nation’s physical range of freedom and liberty from invasive government and media surveillance to one dominated by total daily presence and surveillance of the masses even monitoring most business transactions, power has increased to elite minorities to shape the destiny of the nation. That concentration of power to elite applies a fracturing and repressing force to the rest of the population running into the concrete ceiling of democracy that is actually plutocractic corporatism with willing puppet political tools.

The totalization of political power to have live geographic domination applies pressure on dissidents to find ways to shatter the power of the totalitarians. Unfortunately the selection and election of political leaders to fill natural roles of power in a live paradigm of over-population density and too much technology to curtail real privacy is more a function of circumstance than design or mal-intention. Nevertheless without intelligent political leadership to direct of all of society to different and vastly improved real-world economic and space exploration systems, the default is for the effectively powerless under the pressure of totalitarian elites to cull the ‘system’ and the population comprising it. If there are 20 leaders per million people, and a thousand for 330 million people more or less, there may be several thousand scientifically educated people whom are dissidents capable of engineering culls of population or engineering significant economic and/or social catastrophes catalyzing changes of government and so forth. In the era of totalization the price for failing to intelligently respond to empirically challenges may be very high.

Could Pres Biden Secure Griner's Release in Exchange for Putin News Time

 Femal basketball Britney Griner is spending time in a Russian Gulag facility in exchange for being arrested for smuggling dope into Russia; apparently that is an offense against Russian law. Because she is a star the public wants her released from jail, unlike ordinary people that suffer consequences of legal entanglements somewhat differently. Billionaire Lebron James has asked for Griner to be set free.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10888485/LeBron-James-urges-Biden-bring-WNBA-star-Brittney-Griner-home-hell-hole-Russian-prison.html

The news people said the President of the U.S.A. would need to pay "a terrible price" to get Griner released. Maybe confessing to RUssian collusion ior alternatively British collusion would be the price. Maybe the price could be to ask the major news networks to allow President Putin 10 minutes of major broadcast media airtime to explaion his point of view on Ukraine- in exchange for Griner's release. Just a thought- President Putin might like the opportunity to speak directly to Americans instead of being filtered through a biased media, and Griner might like the chance to legally buy dope in one of several U.S. states if she actually is stupid enough to use the junk.

Democrats Fail Global Warming Billon Purpose

The Democrat Party has had total control of the House and Senate for a couple of years now and haven’t advanced a single global warming reduction bill in spite of campaign [promises to do exactly that. It is challenging to believe that there purpose hasn’t always been to spoof the public and use the global warming issue as a lever to put forward their social agenda. Global warming reduction is important to all people rather than just democrats so they are cool just don’t seem to care much.

There are always issues that arise that Democrats can use to put the global warming fix on the back burner and just let carbon dioxide parts per million rise and the ecosphere decline. Its fine if everyone gets stupid with less oxygen in the atmosphere with Democrats apparently.  Packaging a global warming fix bill with day care for example, won't get it done.

The Ukraine war is partly a Democrat construction. Their policy to hate Russia and just try to force their way on everything left to alternative to Russia taking back what they feel they own historically for-themselves. Its useful to understand the point of view of other people to leading to war. Democrats understand their own point of view and marginalize everyone else so far as they can.

In a few months it is quite likely Democrats will lose the Senate and or House and nothing will have been done to reduce global warming. Realizing that the public is aware Republicans won’t do anything in the public sector to reduce greenhouse gases their tactic may be to use it as an election prop one more time, promising they will get a greenhouse gas reduction bill done if re-elected. In my opinion their will always arise social issues like mass shootings that can bump out global warming legislation; convenient for Democrats to put up contentious social legislation with the same old arguments and standing political differences of opinion to consume time. One must believe it is done intentionally. They want a world more suitable for reptiles and cold, blooded evolving creatures.

Find a Creative Negotiator to Invent Peace Deal Land Swaps in Ukraine-Russia War

 It might be a good idea to consider unconventional approaches to bringing peace and prosperity to Europe-Asia and the United States since the usual indignant bullhead sort of approach might lead to nuclear war within a year. Russians are alright people, and Ukrainians might be too although they have been indoctrinated in some shaky western sports of things I would guess. Even so, it should be possible to get some sort of peace deal involving swapping land for Ukrainians and Russians.

Ukrainians could be given title to 2 acres of land in Russia- even Siberia, and vice versa, for free to start with. Citizens of each nation would own some real estate and could build a geodesic dome there if they choose. The border region would be made like a chessboard of agriculture and wilderness reserve lands owned by each nation, and Russia would keep 70% of its present occupied areas in return for which Ukraine would be given a 100 year lease on select areas of Russia of equal area to develop as they wish non-militarily with an assured direct travel corridor to the land.

The administration wants to win things through war rather than negotiation with creative thinking. Force is an effective tool in a mindless sort of way on occassion. Withn lots of weapons and proxy soldiers that's an easy chpoice to make.

When Ukraine was set up during the interregnum when the Soviet Union died and before Russia could be fully re-established lands were taken that Russia would forever regard as its own with a right to own, Unfortunately that circumstance led to the present conflict. To settle that conflict short of nuclear war and return the world to a more normal political state of affairs asap (get on with reducing global warming already) some very intelligent and innovative leadership will be required to make a land adjustment.

All those former communists really should have some land of their own to worry over; ending Cold War 1.0 did not assure that all people would have an equal start with some property in their possession. Obviously some oligarchs and mafioso globally had an advantage at taking things in the vacuum of power. Too bad Henry Kissinger isn’t available to sort things out.

President Biden spake; "2nd Amendment isn't Absolute"

 President Biden has declared the second amendment to be less than absolute (whatever that means). It is good when a President can declare the constituion and its amendment maleable and subject to his personal political will. Lucky he isn't for the return of slavery or he could declare the 13th amendment isn't absolute either.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-address-gun-control-assault-weapons-ban

Apparently Presidents can declare elements of the constition less than absolute after deeming an offending amendment so. If it doesn't say that in the constitution its proobably because it isn't 'absolute'.

N.P.R. Propaganda in support of Administration narrative on Ukraine Annexation

 As the U.S. government prosecutes its war against Russia in the Ukraine the administration requires a continuing narrative of support for its version of events and causality of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. This morning National Public Radio broadcast a tale of two statues of Vladmir- the founder of Kievan Rus, as a way to convey the impression the Russians are pretenders to be leaders of the Slavic world and Ukraine was always an independent country not part of Russia or the Rus. People that have read history know that is largely in error.

Vladimir- a Viking whom had ventured down the Dnepr River in the era of Vikings traveling European rivers for exploration and war in the 9^th century onward a few hundred years, consolidated the river settlement of the Slavic people at Kiev and the Russian nation formed. Russians increased in population and eventually expanded north and east to areas sparsely populated for hundreds of years. Eventually the capital of Russia became Moscow- a convenient location especially as Russia eastward expansion took them over the Urals and to the Pacific. NPR gave the false impression that Ukraine was always an independent country and wasn’t part of Russia, and that is propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_people

The history of the Varangian-Vikings and their heirs that expanded Russia is fascinating and of course jostles within themselves and with other people around them for land. That process is what is continuing today. President Biden and the Democrats decided to get involved and take some land for the Catholic-Polish and German-British side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUgzqkCW6A4

If the United States last another century or two it is possible the capital may be moved to Missouri and that wouldn’t mean that Washington D.C. is no longer part of the U.S.A. The capital at Moscow does not mean that the Ukraine isn’t part of the historical Russia. Moscow can rightly claim to be the lineal successor of the Rurik dynasty and the nation of the Rus founded by Grand Prince Vladimir at Kiev. It should be noted that Vladimir was not the first leader of the Rurik dynasty- that would be Rurik. Vikings were leaders and Slavs and Finns the people for some time, although I would guess that the bloodlines merged eventually.

Power compensates for the need to be accurate or truthful; for administration that is very helpful for providing rationale to support supplying multiple launch rockets to Ukrainians so associates can send missiles flying about Ukraine at Russians. When taking a country- Ukraine, from Russia, it would be better to be honest about the historical facts, than disingenuous.

The better version would be that President Clinton levered Ukrainian independence from Russia while warring on Serbia during the interregnum following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. After a quarter century of rebuilding Russia the Russians are trying to take back the Ukraine.

Philosophical inquiry into characteristics of God in regard to the Universe

Philosophers naturally enough pursue knowledge of what isn't known. Cosmology today obviously is incomplete. The expansion of the universe that is accelerating, the size of the Universe, dark energy, dark matter etc. those are a few of the problems. The idea of a multiverse is also something one can easily consider and compare to the ideas of what an infinite, eternal being of a Creator of Multiverse should be to be consistent in modal logic terms with what is known of creation. One would think philosophically, that a characteristic of God would be actualization of an infinite number of universes a priori, in His thought, as an omnipotent and omniscient being. One knows that the Higgs field slows down two-dimensional mass less particles in so they pick up the appearance of a third dimension- and hence mass can exist as an apparent phenomenon. Energy seems to be the basic substance, and what it is actually made of at the funamental level isn't certain. Leibnitz thought one-dimensional monads made of spirit comrprised what might be zero-dimensional points of string theory, I believe it is. None of this is deflection. It is simple philosophical interest in the theology of an infinite Being sustaining universes and multiverses. This isn't a "god of the gaps' approach though it would be unreasonable to expect God to be a material substance like a human or someone meaasurable to science i.m.o.

Social Media is Harmful to Democracy

 Social media is where Americans discuss politics. It is owned by the richest people. They determine what is hateful speech or what is fake news and delete it or bury it in search engine listings. Social media therefore is conditioned and permitted free speech warping democratic expression toward its own ends; it is not a neutral moderator or political speech or art. Social media is heavily biased and filtered by Democrats serving plutocrats.

The remedy probably is to have a public social media alongside privately owned social media. Reason dictates that privately owned Democratic expression venues will be biased and hate free expression of political opposition or even of taxing the rich more.

If the Congress wanted to be useful it would establish a public free speech social media system that would provide every citizen a web page of their own that is secure and available for all to read in cyberspace. If the Congress wants to protect democracy and free speech it would need to establish publicly owned social media right away while there are still Americans not conditioned by the plutocracy to follow along their narratives.

Validity of Bible and Quran comparatively

  When I need to get an epub file 'validated' that can be a rigorous process going over the code involved. Philosophers like to be very careful with the use of language and what it means. many have pointed out that some philosophical problems are actually language meaning problems, rather than things-in-themselves. Comparing the 'validity' of the Biblos (little books) with the Quran would require defining validity and agreement on a truth theory I suppose, first, before comparing historical data. If you look at my free e-book that is a commentary on Berkhof's Introduction to the New Testament, you would see some of the meticulous work Berkhof did and examining the gospel books. One can do that for the Quran too, and learn what references in it compare with those of the Bible.

https://www.lulu.com/en/ie/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/a-commentary-on-berkhofs-intro-to-the-new-testament/ebook/product-21420051.html?page=1&pageSize=4

In the past I read quite a lot of history including that of the ancient world. There is quite a lot of material, and virtual none of it is 'fables'. People can have mass hysteria or insanity; actually the validity of truth isn't necessarily determined by majority vote, although these days that may be a popular view (that it is). Mass ignorance is common in political propaganda. Popular sentiment shouldn't determine the verdict at trials- facts should play a primary role. In philosophical concerns one need interpret facts or data and understand where and how that data fits into other relevant matter. It is important not to leap to conclusions in logic as well as history. If atheism is a popular belief today, it does not follow that a majority vote validates it.

Of the 256 possible forms of syllogism just 24 are valid. People talk past point, overlook relevant data and often assume that some material is comprehensive, exhaustive and universal when it is not. As is known- "If an invalid argument has all true premises, then the conclusion must be false." Alternatively, if an valid argument has false premises its conclusion is false. The distribution of terms assumed to be universal that are not is a problem with arguments relying upon contemporary physics concerning Christianity.

Consider the history of Abraham and his son Isaac, whom God ordered Abraham to sacrifice. It is challenging to formulate in a strictly logical paradigm, There is much historical, archaeological, scriptural and analytical evidence needed for even comprehending the circumstance. So much that generally just the faithful take the time. Human knowledge and lifetime is limited. People specialize and want to put blinders on to filter out what they consider is unimportant data. They make summary dismissals of material they regard as unimportant, and quickly decide truth or falsity for convenience concerning faith in the Lord.

At the last second God allowed Abraham to substitute a sheep that became caught in the brush as the sacrifice. That incident was a paradigm for the appearance and sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ 2000 years later. There are many things that are known and worth looking in to. Of course as you say; one must determine what one believes for-himself. In a social dialectical reason context, that paradigm is interesting for the case of criminal trials.

God is not embedded in the Higgs Field like Humans

 Jesus said that no one had seen the Father except for the Son. One may accept the numerous witnesses of Jesus and his works as evidence of God, if one accept eyewitness accounts as evidence. Moses at the end of his life was given to see the glory of God that passed before, just fractionally. There has been much work done on researching the Bible and its history. Louis Berkhoff did some excellent work on that. I went over the book and made a commentary of it. Free to download...

 https://www.lulu.com/en/ie/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/a-commentary-on-berkhofs-intro-to-the-new-testament/ebook/product-21420051.html?page=1&pageSize=4 

 God is Spirit and not embedded in the Higgs field. Contingent beings made to exist in the Higgs field as steady state mass cannot obtain evidence of anything besides energy-mass of the universe I believe.

It is worthwhile considering the nature of ideas and how they fit philosophically into language and meaning. Ideas about what exists, and how it does exist, including a Creator have always been a part of philosophy. The neo-Platonist Plotinus is a good example. His 'Enneads'- 54 tractates are worth reading. St. Augustine was a Plotinian before he converted to Christianity. 

https://archive.org/details/plotinustheennea033190mbp

Government negligence bungles security for school kids forced to attend school

 Federal and state governments should be sued for failing to protect school kids required by law to attend school until the eighth grade. If those students could afford expensive, secure private schools whom were shot at Uvalde they would still be alive. Forcing school kids to congregate in unsafe places with unlocked doors and no security is irresponsible. Would the government put even 40 billion dollars into upgrading elementary school security or blame Barney Fife's slow response instead.

If kids are forced by government to go to school, the school should at least be a secure environment. If governments prefer to be negligent and incompetent that’s usual enough, yet they should pay a steep price for it.

Democrats 'Assault Weapons' Ban has faulty logic

 Democrats seeking to ban assault weapons in a kind of knee jerk response to the Uvalde massacre simply have badly flawed logic or knowledge of firearms. There are innumerable weapons with a high cyclic rate of fire if fully automatic, yet if semi-auto most weapons are about the same speed- being that of how quickly one can pull the trigger, shoot and repeat until the magazine is empty. Thus an ordinary nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol would have been as effective; if not more, at shooting people confined in a room quickly.

Rifles like the AR-15 legally purchased by the Uvalde shooter are not weapons of war as President Biden described them. They are semi-automatic rifles that shoot a fairly small caliber bullet one at a time. 

An AR-15 is a civilian version of the M-16 that I trained on in the Army decades ago. It is not the state of the art Army rifle. What they are good for is shooting accurately from 50 to 300 yards. A pistol generally can't do that. Buying an AR-15 for short range shooting is more of a hindrance than a help for lunatics witrh a grievance. One can shoot a deer with an AR-15, yet not brown bear such as was sighted at the golf course in town today, so the radio station reported. If one wants to shoot a brown bear-and one should not for they have a right to exist too, one should use the older Army rifle that fired 7.62 rounds- the M-1 Garand.

Using AR-15s makes potential shooters easier to spot, and the weapons are more troublesome to use than pistols. One can use larger magazines on pistols too, and match 'assault weapons'. Actual assault weapons that fire on full auto like Kalashnikov AK-47s or 74s that fire 7.62 and 5.56 caliber bullets respectively when actually manufactured for military application are matched by a nume of smaller, high cyclic rate of fire weaponsthat are much smaller and easy to conceal. The Glock G-18 for instance, has a switch to go from semi to full automatic fire of 9mm rounds from a 30 round magazine. It would be far more effective for homicidal lunatics at close range, rather than the hard to hide under a raincaost semi-automatic 'assault weapon'. There are zillions of fully automatic short range weapons that are concealable. 

East-West Philosophical Mix

Nakamura's fine work "Ways of Thinking of Eastern People' describes much of Eastern philosophy including Taoism and several versions of Buddhism. India and the Sky religions of the early Aryan immigrants perhaps is responsible for the caste system, and India is sort of East and west simultaneously. Siddhartha influenced people everywhere, as did Asian religious thought like that of Zoroastrianism. Nietzsche seemed fascinated with Zarathustra, and believed a strange metaphysic concerning reality. 

Schopenhauer's 'Fourfold Roots of Reason' seems like the best, succinct continuation of Kant's 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics' that is itself a summary of the 'Critique of Pure Reason', yet Schopenhauer also wrote about metaphysics and a strange view of the world derived from Zoroastrianism and other eclectic sources that seemed fundamentally to be extrapolations of his views about the state of human beings elevated into a transcendent account for the world; very weird yet supporting his miysogynist ideas based on reincarnation.

It may be that Marco Polo brought some ideas to China, yet after 1400 or so there was so much sharing of ideas interculturally that etiologies become more challenging I would think. Karl Marx was quite influential; as a counter to imperialism it's a good revolutionary, practical device. It does crimp individual freedom to think and express ideas, an unfortunate necessity to a certain extent in a very overpopulated nation. 

American and european atheism to a substantial degree attack philosophical thought and revert to pure materialism; definitely a denier of spirit viewpoint. Anti-spiritual exclusivity in my opinion has influenced China recently, to join with Marxist-Feurbach's doctrine. A Metaverse may be entirely made in spirit- bootstrapped in a Berklian paradigm of ideaism. It's necessary to continue to think rather than being living the unexamined life concerning physics.

Pres Biden Can't Resist Escalating War with MLRS to Ukraine

 President Biden probably can't resist escalating the Ukrainian war problem by sending oodles of Multiple Launch Rocket System units to that country so Ukraine can target Russia better. On the principle of increasing force is always right; a foundational principle of the New Democrat Party evolved since 2000, one knows the old guy will automatically increase his grip on the game of chicken with Russia.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/us-long-range-rockets-ukraine-mlrs/index.html

Russia has 98,000 MLRS of its own left over I suppose from cold war 1.0 years and lots of artillery. I would guess they have more than the rest of the world combined since those tools were a basic part of the Soviet military theory in defense against the west. Escalating the war will help use up the inventory. When those stocks are low maybe negotiations happen, or alternatively, nuclear war occurs. It is said that Russia has only 5,800 ballistic nukes and just 1,800 ready to launch, so there isn't anything to worry about concerning the N.B.A. leftiwing championship cities being nuked at all (Boston and San Francisco). It isn't like Russia will be willing to drop its inventory down 2 or 3 missiles and leave itself defenseless.

Uvalde Massacre Puts Hard Questions to Democrats

Democrats need to ask themselves hard questions after the Uvalde classroom massacre; does locking doors do anything to increase security? The school door was unlocked that let the perp slip in to the building. Another hard question is; is a security guard worth as much as a school teacher?

Probably there need be only one security guard for every dozen school marms in an elementary school. Schools are their only little universe with important officials administrating in place, yet the real world exists too. There are sicarros over the border and probably on the U.S. side too that should prompt a little security.  Maybe school teacher new hires should be trained in firearms and gun safety as part of basic orientation. There is no reason why the marms should be creme puffs. They should be weapons ready in event of a school invasion.

Maybe when the U.S.A. had fewer than 330 million people and no one listened to N.P.R. or played alien shooter games or got ninendo twit disease from over-use, when the rivers were good to drink from directly and auto exhaust didn't choke bicyclists, schools were safe with unlocked doors and Audrey Hepburn in the classroom (she might have had a gun anyway). Today though basic security measures need be taken in very soft targets a priori. Some schools need security work and desperately cry out for new vinyl siding. In addition to healthy school lunches, security measures should reach even poor rural schools. Do Democrats have the ability to make school buildings safer places to be, free of propaganda as well as adverse bullets?

School Shootings Should Be Pre-empted with National Basic Income

 Politicians like to talk about banning guns or putting new restrictions on gun access as a way to stop school shootings, yet that is just a theory, and one that would probably make it easier for an authoritarian Democratic party to take over the nation. Millionaires and billionaires too I guess meeting at Davos have asked that nations tax them more, and of course the President isn't interested in that, instead he wants to oppress Americans attacking the Second amendment. He should ask Congress to raise taxes on the rich to a more progressive rate and use it to fund a national basic income for all Americans at about $10,000. With an adult allowance kids leaving school would not feel so pressured or excluded from the economy, and would be less likely to decide to commit some heinous, unthinkable act like shooting little kids as a sort of revenge on a society they feel they are excluded from- except as targets of their peers.

Salvador Ramos had a strong lisp and speech issues that brought abuse from other teenagers. So many social adjustment issues could be solved with a national basic income so everyone has at least some practical opportunities early in life, and life-long, to better themselves. Ten thousand dollars can be used to lever college funding, home building starts etc. Being just broke and feeling like an oddball perhaps even weith social labels can make one feel existentially hopeless. Such individuals may wrench society in a number of ways besides guns, even if they need wait later in life for the built up resentment to boil over in some form involving physics and death.

Trade Land for Peace in Ukraine to End War

Former U.S. Sect. of State Henry Kissinger may in a sense be said to have laid the foundation for the present world order, along with President Reagan. Democrats are trying to destroy world peace with their uncomprehending policies that clash with good historical sense. The war in Ukraine would be a protracted war, like that of Vietnam and Syria, that were Democrat led engagements. One should not be less conservative in spending the lives of foreigners in war than one is of one’s own citizens I would think, unless the foreigners are enemies directly attacking one’s nation. Democrats should care about extending a war with finance that would enable thousands more Ukrainians and Russians to perish, even if it means that stopping the war would end much good domestic political rhetoric and public posturing.

Sect. Kissinger may have been the designer of the U.S. change to open good relations with China. He also was heavily involved in Middle Eastern policy to end conflict although permanent improvement in diplomatic relations required much sacrifice all around from Anwar Sadat to Donald Trump giving up golfing perhaps to get some Arab nations to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. Henry Kissinger is concerned about the present China policy and bellicose statements concerning it perhaps (by President Biden), yet he has also expressed what I regard as a practical policy to end the Ukraine war; land for peace.

https://www.newsweek.com/henry-kissinger-ukraine-should-give-territory-russia-reach-peace-1709488

President Ford managing a land for peace deal wherein the Sinai was returned to Egypt. President Clinton helped Palestine get a homeland with land conceded by Israel at the Oslo Accord. President Biden isn’t likely to win a Nobel for negotiating an end to the Ukrainian-Russia war yet he is well-positioned to do so. Basically Russia would keep its present Eastern Ukraine holdings through war and would recognize West Ukraine as an independent state.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/president-ford-statement-on-the-interim-egyptian-israeli-troop-disengagement-agreement-september-1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_occupation_of_the_Sinai_Peninsula

Americans are fairly daft at history concerning Eastern Europe and especially Russia though, so motivating the administration to grow a brain would be challenging. Thousands of lives could be saved if adult supervision could bring the administration to support Dr. Kissinger’s approach to ending a conflict that George Soros said could be the start of World War Three. World War III would be bad for business and the environment.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/23/kissinger-says-taiwan-cannot-be-at-the-core-of-us-china-negotiations.html

Sect Kissinger wrote a master’s thesis on Metternich and his role acting for the Hapsburg Empire. He understands the balance between nations and even empires. Democrats today are more of the Hillbilly, possession is 9/10ths of the law/Hatsfields-McCoys school of political thought. Republicans periodically need to clean up their wars, or bring them to an end as did President Nixon and Sect. Kissinger in Vietnam that was a Democrat led engagement. One should not be less conservative in spending the lives of foreigners in war than one is of one’s own citizens I would think, unless the foreigners are enemies directly attacking one’s nation. Democrats should care about extending a war with finance that would enable thousands more Ukrainians and Russians to perish, even if it means that stopping the war would end much good domestic political rhetoric and public posturing.