Regarding Colin Wilson's ''The Outsider'

Nice statement and photographic presentation; Clint Eastwood walking away from the philosophical showdown a winner. There are a few more than one guy that know world civilization is sick these days.

The problem is that civilization is just a socially evolved historical growth that has reached environmental limits on a planet. It wasn’t designed Rather than being responsive and adaptive to challenges it ignores them and is maladapted. Vested interests resist change naturally. Toynbee wrote that economic infrastructure can’t generally be changed and that has been a cause for failure of civilization. With just one Global civilization failure means planetary catastrophe. Actually many expect that, especially dystopian science fiction writers.

Optimists work for basic universal income to eliminate poverty and social exclusion, and make transition to ecological economics and restoration of the ecosphere easier while building sustainable human outposts on planets and moons barren of life.

Replies to a Hater of God

Following are my replies to a hater of God from a FB chatroom. I haven’t included his attacks here. I can however use the material again. since the attacks are rather genetic.

The OP was just on the topic of what is the fundamental stuff of the universe; is it information?

Information is meaningful for sentients. Within noumena for-itsrlf nothing is meaningful or prioritized unless God deems it so. For humans I would say fields are fundamental and waves an aspect of them.

-You may feel that way but the comment is irrelevant in the criterion of considering the noumenon. Non-sentient being has no meaning, unless for God. To clarify that for you; subtracting human and any other sentient beings existing in the phenomenal nothing meaningful exists with the sole possible exception being God who may issue the noumenon. I am aware that some atheists and agnostics would fail to understand that, believing they would need to concede the existence of God to agree with the point even though that is not at all necessary. Even so some would yet wish to express their unbelief and make some sort of ad hominem or psychological comment on anyone making that point

– Ivmight point out that even Sartre made a comparable point when he said in Being and Nothingness that only God could see the world and how others of the world see him at the same time. People have said that Sartre didn’t believe in God, although I can’t confirm that. Regardless belief isn’t necessary to consider a supernatural supreme being author of reality in relationship to non,-sentient mass and noumena that no sentience coheres in to know or care about.

-You brought up the topic of ancient Greece with a false claim that I didn’t take ancient Greek history seriously so I controverted that falsehood. Flipping about between ad hominems and topics is polemical- not philosophical. Philosophy is a reasoned activity not a flight from straw man to straw man deflection.

The OP concerned in effect, Shannon entropy and the question of it being fundamental or alternatively, what is fundamental- i.e. fermions, bosons etc. You’re tangential diatribes are off topic.

Apparently you are motivated by a hatred of Christianity and attack the concept of God like a bull charging a red flag wherever you encounter it.

Ancient history is a continuum so far as it is known. Even the 11th century b,c settlements in Anatolia and the Levant are meaningful for Christians. The Younger Dryas and change of climate and sea level with the Saudi peninsula are relevant. History doesn’t wear blinders.

-“Nature integrates values” is an anthropomorphic proposition. Collingwood might have observed that it presupposes nature as having values. “We integrate values whether we agree or not” is an equivocation begging the point of self-contradiction implicitly. Nature is not a synonym for an individual or humanity. Asserting the equivalence effectively dissolves reason into matter or presupposes the reason of nature, perhaps as an intelligible monism.

Greek history is pretty irrelevant to the OP and correcting falsehood is not unwise. Your assertion that I didn’t take ancient Greek history seriously was false- the best way to show that was citing some of my reading in the field.

-I would agree that Greek philosophy is not the most direct way to reply to the OP although I wouldn’t rule it out since preSocratics like Parmenides and Heraclitus were keenly interested in such matters. You brought ancient Greece up- not me. History of the Maccabees or Assyrian invasion of Judah won’t build up a good answer to the question; try this free course online if you are interest in Greek philosophy before Plato. https://coursera.org/learn/plato

-The 11th millennium BCE is a good place to start learning about civilization. I haven't time to instruct you on history, on Socrates' inquiries into truth or the condition of being lost spiritually and predestination to heaven or hell. Reliance on global warming gas generating fuels for transport isn't very inventive or adaptive. https://youtu.be/vXJc-Y3Mf5w?feature=shared

Common street wisdom aka common philosophy is substantially different from the prescriptive, analytic and speculative philosophical ventures of philosophers the past 3700 years. Maybe the question is to what extent does one need to examine life to merit being regarded as a philosopher. Philosophy or wisdom may require more than channel surfing, Nintendo and sports, working for corporate or satiation with prosperity. The standard may be non-philosophical.  Philosophers are not a demographic majority.

Was Hegel Correct in Saying Philosophy Isn't Suitable for the Mob?

Social media has brought everyone the opportunity to believe they are an intellectual or that the common opinion is philosophically interesting. People write before they reason or survey a full range of ideas. Democracy in a social media can bring the mob- Democrats and fellow travelers from a mirror universe named for Republicans to believe that simplistic political ideas are adequate for running a nation, that party moral values are correct and the highest authority regarding knowledge is themselves. It is as if, as Wallace Stevens wrote, they believe the only Lord is the Lord of ice cream. Maybe middle class mass produced prosperity is the modern mob eschewing philosophy texts and immersed in video games etc.  Half of Americans don't read books at all

Philosophical thought may be on a relativistic, scalable time basis with the mob being ever more literate and philosophy ever more sophisticated. In Hegel’s time the illiterate peasant mob with dirty clothing could not comprehend his thoughts nor would have they been too interested in listening to Hegel discourse on spirit evolving to realize itself through history. Today the average talcum powdered machine conveyed American has little interest in select subjects of idealism and epistemology regarding an existence of reality objectively entangled in the Higgs field as fermions. Maybe there isn’t a great distance between the pre- Socratic cosmology ideas of Thales and Parmenides and those concerning volume and the void today, yet if philosophers need think about the comparative criteria does the mob watching The View consider such issues reflexively?

Philosophers that have no better than common ideas might want to think twice about regarding themselves as philosophers.

Would a philosopher dismiss interpreting the Bible with insight informed by science, philosophy, history and the indeterminacy of translation created by the time lapse of communication from an omniscient being arbitrarily as so many do today? Or would he develop a modern synthetic method in order to apprehend meaning that isn’t common or ordinary thought one finds in ecclesiastic or just evolutionary camps?

Philosophers tend to run ahead of the pack in the marathon of life sometimes because they spend more time thinking and working to develop new thought. Of course soon the mob will all have AI assistants and believe they are all nearly geniuses when in fact they are just Republicans and Democrats. One side bites incidentally.

Information is meaningful for sentients. Within noumena for-itsrlf nothing is meaningful or prioritized unless God deems it so. For humans I would say fields are fundamental and waves an aspect of them.

DOGE Fires SE Alaska Forestry and Park Workers

There have been dozens of forest and National Park service workers fired in SE Alaska’s Tongass National Forest by DOGE recently. The Mendenhall Glacier visitor center has just two maintenance workers remaining. At least three park rangers are needed for law enforcement and visitor safety at the site.

I view job loss as a normal part of the landscape. One just moves on to the next station in life. Federal jobs are good ones compared to some private sector jobs. They get retirement and social security?

Government workers serve the public and presently the public can be served by decreasing government cost and transferring tasks to the private sector that can be done by the private sector. Whatever Mr. Trump and DOGE accomplish the next administration will need to find new ways to accomplish public service through free enterprise.

Everyone wants to live in the rainforest yet being unemployed burns up savings quickly. Those that lost work should lose no time in pursuing educational and work opportunities elsewhere before they go broke. One can return to S.E. in the future. There are lots of good places to explore in the 48 states.

New Hitler and Napoleon Consider Three Quarter Trillion Euro War Supply for Ukraine

Germany has an election tomorrow and may elect a war monger lusting for conflict with Russia. He is backed up by a French President with a Napoleonic point of view on Eastward expansion. Together they imagine a new rearmed European military able to develop hegemony over Russia in Ukraine. Establishing a permanent state of hostility with Russia gazing like hillbillies at one another pointing long guns over a DMZ is the future they imagine. Apparently rare earth minerals in Ukraine are the bone of contention.

Valuable minerals worth trillions are a sticking point in finding peace. Europe, Russia, the Ukraine and the USA want them. Willingness of the EU to risk world war three over the conflict may force America’s hand. In order not to be included as a nuclear target when the war escalated to nuclear the USA may need to quit N.A.T.O. and form a new alliance with Russia.

The EU would not diss President Trump and increase hostility with Russia if the United States was not obligated by treaty to defend N.A.T.zo. members if they are attacked  Since European leaders are leveraging that treaty to hate on peace and Russia as well as to potentially draw the USA into actualizing M.A.D. policy the United States should quit being a treaty member of the vast left,-wing open air lunatic asylum that is the EU.

The United States had to fight Germany twice in the past 110 years. It is possible that one day there may be a third war with that nation.

EU considers historic € 700 billion aid package for Ukraine as Trump signals reduction in Kyiv’s support

Refining Writing Art; Form vs Function

 There are several ways of viewing the matter of Form vs function. The question for balancing creativity versus composition applies in many fields including writing fiction. To some form is all important; aesthetics are what matter. For others function is the essential purpose of building a story, building or whatever.

Solzhenitsyn's 'The Seventh Circle's fulfilled a purpose with expository writing through fiction of explaining life in the gulag for intellectuals. A philosopher writing science fiction would have a purpose- the function being invaluable and the form secondary. Plato's book The Republic, is logical analysis going so far in describing the realm of forms that it may be regard as science fiction twenty-three hundred years before Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein. Like Sartre, Plato's prose- the syntagmatic axis, were flawless.

Without function and purpose that is interesting and edifying a novel is like an electric car without a battery. The paradigmatic axis need be built into a story as the chassis. One may produce beautiful meaningless verbiage without it. Build the story with a purpose and use the editing features described  others of rough draft and subsequent stages of refinement.  It is quite difficult to infuse purpose into a story with editing.

Cosmology and Noumena

The noumenon includes all those fermions, bosons and host fields being in and out of space-time that I suspect may be far more complex than science knows. To say that countervailing coefficients of uncertainty may be implicit in pragmatic assumptions about cosmic causality and deep structure is putting it mildly. Even if science is satisfied with the beauty of an explanatory theory it may have an exhaustive and exclusive truth value comparable to those of the third millennium b.c.e.

Fault-tolerant quantum computing moving toward million qubit processing when actualized may provide analysis of structure at an atomic level. Even if more advanced marjorana particle processors delve into quarks and bosons i.m.o. science would be working pejorative reality in a phenomenal virtual box.

“Topological quantum processor uses Majorana zero modes for fault-tolerant computing” https://phys.org/news/2025-02-topological-quantum-processor-majorana-modes.html

Carrville; "Democrats Should Play Possum"

Carrville’s admonishment for Democrats to do nothing and play dead is well made. Since Democrats can’t make good policies and are accustomed to getting nothing done beyond legislating moral corruption, deficits and foreign war finance playing possum will be east. Carrville believes Trump policies may fail of their own weight.

Trump and Musk’s Doge policies will need to skirt around social security and Medicare reforms. It is easier to cut the defense budget than to scale back social security and Medicare to elderly relief safety net programs.  Payments for those that actually need them should increase for the poor and decrease for the prosperous. Even Trump cannot rectify social security so it is rational rather than a payment program inclusive of the middle class.

Democrats should find a scientific foundation for political economy utilizing ecological economics available to their future candidates. Forming ecological economic applied philosophy plans as party public domain information and cost analysis is essential if real world implementation is ever to occur.  Playing possum is a better course for Democrats who did not even try to tax the rich when they owned legislative and executive branches in 2021.

Democrat politicians pursue pork increases for globalist, homosexual and feminist constituents while stuffing their own freezers with cash. Democrats politicians may pretend to know or care about ecological economics in order to sway a few votes, and Republicans abandon all reason concerning the environment so the net environmental remediation for the parties together is zero

  While playing possum the party can keep an eye open to observe Doge reducing government waste and trying to move the budget toward balance.

Writers May Fade Away as AI Rises

I like writing science fiction to express philosophical ideas. When helium com existed as a peer reviewed web site I was in the top five percent.  I simply don’t believe any amount of effort going into writing for me will result in sales. People read less than ever. There are so many media rivals out there- new tech. I used to give away several hundred books a month and now zero; no one ever sees the places they exist. AI with a variety of human-AI ratios of co-authorship can be produced by the millions and that will drown out human authors.

I just recognize the probable facts of demographics and production/market competition. Scientists even expect a next gen of AI and quantum computing with a million qubits to analyze physics and chemistry structures at the molecular level and design new materials with unforeseen properties. Writing good novels is not nearly so challenging.

Next gen AI and in perhaps ten years quantum computing will just listen to scientists or novel creators tell it what they want in natural language and produce it. A million qubits processing quantum computer has more ability than all of the existing computers put together apparently. I believe human novel writing will be as obsolete as letter writing on.paper nearly is today, within a few years. It’s just progress. I took a generative AI course and the instructor started with “AI is a disruptive technology”.

If you look at this song I instructed an AI to write, as an instrumental from my prompts, you can see lyrics it wrote for the song that I didn’t include. It beautifully expressive poetry
People tend to underestimate the ability of AI.  https://www.udio.com/songs/rL6pQBvFUz5Wa4bZs3ajzX

Words to Print; Creativity

The subconscious is a vast ocean with a lifetime of deep learning and experience stored within. Conscious awareness is unencumbered with that and usually interprets present experience. If one has ideas that one believes should be communicated to external media that process may commence without the composition being complete in mind a priori.

In writing a novel for instance, awakening from dogmatic slumber in the middle of the night given a subtle inspiration, one may begin writing it down as completely as possible before the inspiration vanishes amid other thoughts that may arise. The temporal phenomenon of time itself-even minutes, tends to disperse the thought like waves attenuating in scale as they pass away from a speeding boat.

What one writes from thought may be a fair representation of what was thought, yet it can also be somewhat different as the knowledge one has in the subconscious contributes emergent words directly to paper through consciousness so one may be surprised at the genius of creativity (not a self-reference lol).

https://www.udio.com/songs/n9yGHApaDeEoJgGPHo1ju2

Old Europe Uses Democrats Like a Toy

That European leaders have chosen to break with the USA on Ukraine policy shows that they as NATO members were doing nothing more than EU Eastward expansion. For them the US government was a pliable tool paying for their policy. They could have peace yet they want to continue war.

Russia is no conventional weapons threat to European NATO when the United States back them up. There is no reason or Europe to break with the USA and potentially splinter NATO except for pure greed for land and resources in Ukraine that should rightly be shared with Russia.

After the end of the Cold War the European Union gelled from the European Community. Unlike the EC the EU has become swollen enough with pride and power that they still regard Russia as weak enough to plunder its traditional Ukraine real estate. The properties are so listed for that France and other European nations would prefer policy disagreement with America and finance the Ukraine war on its own. If Europe attacks Russia and some day Russia nukes a few cities in Europe in order to defend itself it is possible the United States would not get involved. Instead of collective peace and security Europe uses lame excuses about Russian risk to invade far western Europe as an excuse to finance their war of expansion throughout the borderlands of Russia.

The rational course for Europe would be to settle the Ukraine war in Ukraine peacefully and directly and conserve solid relations with the United States. Otherwise Europe may need to completely rearm itself for a suicidal nuclear war with Russia that can’t be fought. Even if a European,- Russian arms race drafts in the rest of the world to build bigger, faster and better nuclear, chemical and biological weapons than have ever gone before that is a very stupid policy direction.

Net Guns to Take Down Incoming Drones at Close Range

Net guns invented for crowd control could be adapted to foul up drone props at close range. Civilian and military convoy defenses alike might adapt net guns- possibly making them of larger caliber than .308 to have a defense weapons able to take down small flying drones carrying explosives.

The Navy for some time had Aegis guns that fire a lot of bullets very quickly at incoming missiles. A smaller, cheaper, portable version that fires sticky nets at drones might be innovated for future conflicts. Maybe vehicles travelling as convoys through contested areas should be protected as if they were aircraft carrier battle groups with overlapping airborne protection; and possible some ground based anti-drone sticky net launching platforms with airborne motion sensors or optics analysis for fire control.

https://netgun.com/

Public Debt- What Me Worry?

 It is nice to expand government and charge it to a public debt card. Someday all that interest on the U.S. public debt will eliminate other programs for the public while presumably Democrats keep hiring more people for the government. I never could get hired by us.gov myself- not even as a census taker in a county where I had the second highest score on the test for that. 

If the dollar crashes and inflation goes up 5000 percent that will affect the poor and seniors quite a bit I would think. Government need be reformed or taxes increased- can't ave your cake and eat it too. Today public debt is more than 36 trillion dollars. The Chinese economy is expanding and they don't have that scale of debt. Saudi Arabia already quit requiring purchase of oil with U.S. dollars. The Yuan or bitcoin could replace the dollar as the international currency. More public debt scaling up by the trillions each year is crazy. Interest payments on public debt went up 50 billion dollars from 2024 to 2025.

Make American Patents Affordable Again

 Patent applications are too expensive for poor or young and poor, and seniors living on marginal incomes to afford. One may synthetically originate a novel concept for some item that could be patented and brought to market yet the cost is prohibitive. Potential inventions are thus suppressed or given away via publication on social media, books or wherever in the hope that some foreign entrepreneur will create the product, manufacture it for nothing in China and send it to Wal-mart where it can be purchased by the inventor for personal use. 

Not only is the cost of patents far beyond the reach of those without a pocketful of large denomination cash, so is the cost of manufacturing that isn’t local. America outsourced so much production that the nation is no longer the center of effort for patenting and manufacturing new products. The poor, the young and seniors can’t afford to just hop on a plane to Beijing, live in the streets and go door to door soliciting manufacturers to produce the invention.

Plainly Democrats should have reduced the cost of a patent packet from several thousand dollars down to a couple of hundred yet of course they had no interest though I wrote about it for years. Elon Musk has a few patents so he might be able to get someone in government to streamline and make affordable the U.S. Patent System again-maybe using A.I, to cut labor cost. It is also possible to redesign the way patents are granted to multi-channels to allow up front some protection for inventors. Ideas could filter in like river channels from different sources to culminate in a new invention if shares are awarded in proportion to contribution.

Invention exclusivity for patents should be reduced to five years so inventions can be fielded quicker. After the exclusivity period is phased out inventors would receive five percent shared from producers of the product. To accelerate economic adaptability new idea need to be utilized faster as generic products- especially in environmentally related products.

Many cities invest million in wastewater treatment plants and pipes when some sort of waterless microwave waste disposal system should be less expensive and save on water use. If patent exclusivity microwave toilets like fuel cell generators for campers might be far more affordable.

Some Leftist Intellectuals Still Support Ukraine War

A few Western leftist intellectuals still support war with Russia in Ukraine. They may believe that helps expand homosexual, atheist and aborter hegemony Eastward while reducing overpopulation with war casualties.

Historically the west were carpet baggers taking Russian land when they were weak at the end of Cold War 1.0 That was hubris perpetrated by opportunistic legalists ill informed about real politik and the will of people to recover from victimization. Several historians wrote that a time of reckoning would come. Democrats only needed to adjust the land theft to a more fair and balanced position. Instead they swoll to expand N.A.T.O. Eastward expanding the new EU ego with it.

If Humans Learn to Travel Faster Than Light

I have considered that if the 4-dimensional universe of experience is afloat as a virtual stable field of two dimension massless waves entangled in the Higgs Field, that there may be a supporting medium quicker than the speed of light, and that accounts for a faster than light inflation not entangled in the future unified field emerged from a singularity.

  That faster than light medium could explain quantum superpositions faster than light data transfer too perhaps if the information transfers through the extra-universal field, or if the substrata has dimensions intrinsically superpositioned to four-dimensions of the entangled field quanta of the universe.

I have thought that if people learn to exploit the extensional substrata they might run out of universe to travel in. There was a movie made out people traveling to hell beyond the edge of the universe; they should have read the warnings on the map ‘There be dragons’.

People are embedded in the universe sized to fit within. Exceeding the parameters of being such that the scale is transcended may maladapt humans for existence. They could become too big for it, and there may be nothing else or anywhere else to go. Even so people will try. Discovering what is beyond the Universe would be a philosophical discovery that would be noticed by the New York Times and the Times Picayune of New Orleans.

God did mention to Adam and Eve that having ate of the tree of knowledge He would make humanity mortal lest they eat of the tree of immortality and become as little gods/brats mucking everything up for eternity (I added that last part for pedagogical purposes). I suppose some people would like to live until the end of the universe- for a hundred billion years or more, growing tired of toileting they would make themselves into some sort of frozen photon processing configuration waiting for God to wrap things up.

2025 May Become the Hottest Year on Record

I believe 2025 will be the hottest year since weather records were kept. Democrats had both houses of Congress and the office of President in 2021 and didn’t fix the ecospheric issues. They elected the worst possible leader for competence on environmental challenges and fixes. I am so tired of the bull.

Environmental economics is a science tangled up with political economy. Sure that makes changing the fundamental way of social economic reality difficult. Yet Joe Biden was so far below the bar of competence that his election reflected on the competence or lack of for the entire party. They are spoilt globalists; not people who would transform the nation to a new environmentally sustainable economic footing.

Maybe the genius required to understand the challenges, and there are several that need be addressed concurrently exceeds the capacity of parties to present an able candidate.

A Comment on Causes of War During the Industrial Revolution

During the industrial revolution kings still ruled nations. Aristocrats had concentrated wealth. People went to war when the royals ordered them to. Even France had the Bourbon restoration, though Napoleon as Emperor had taken over from nascent democracy.  Germany didn't have its revolution until WW I was about lost. Except for American intervention, Crown Prince Ruprecht's final offensive would have clinched victory for the Kaisar. The Franco Prussian war of 1874 was the real stimulus for modernization of continental military technique.

The US civil war was largely one of an industrial zing north versus a lagging behind agrarian slave labor driven oligarchy.

Ortega y Gasset published The Revolt of the Masses in 1930. He anticipated two wars. He basically predicted the second world war and Spanish civil war because of social changes stimulated by mass production.

 Upgrades in technology made competition for mass military equipment production keen. Military industrial complexes haven't ever really got out of the business of war. American military arsenals (and others) need to be spent periodically and replaced with new equipment via a war somewhere or production lines and sales are idled.

A Patriot Keeping His Nation Together Breaks No Laws

Donald Trump faces many challenges from foreign and domestic enemies. He apparently said; "He Who Saves His Country Doesn’t Violate Any Law". Europeans are organizing against America these days- Zelensky is trying to form a European army as if he were Hitler turning N.A.T.O. into his own force without the USA. Europeans have resumed their pre WW2 expansionist belligerence and militancy seeking conflict with Russia and isolating America economically. Democrats are putty in European hands. Trump seeks secure borders and peace with Russia.

A great relationship with Russia is necessary to keep them at least neutral instead of joking de facto with China in a super-state leading BRIC nations in global competition with US. Democrats fundamentally are clueless on conserving national interests and have zero interest in a sustainable federal budget.

Patriots keeping a nation together-Trump, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln sometimes work in a sphere where social realty places demands that cannot be met with legal arguments. For that matter international boundary disputes and circumstances for understanding require more than legal or paper empowerment for stability. Historical circumstances and the will of a people will overpower laws made by an oppressive, incompetent or obsolete power sometimes. A paper pyric victory over a temporarily vulnerable power can lead to war.

Perfect Personal Morality Doesn't Make One Bulletproof

Aretaic ethics are swell yet moral excellence does not confer immunity to oppression. Not even the Proud Boys could just be proud without consequences. It is good to be morally squeaky clean of course and one may rightly wear their authentic badge of purity on a sleeve and keep their head high.unless male pattern baldness is an embarrassment or bad teeth stops one from smiling at the one with perfect teeth.

If you are a female.living in certain nations, the wrong skin color for a given neighborhood or wandering about in a narco state unconcerned about gang rules, too prosperous in appearance for a slum, too badly dressed to visit some gated community, wearing a MAGA hat in certain California districts, walking or riding a bike while the majority drove internal combustion engines, etc keeping your head and face out there and being selective about what you publish may require some discretion.

Jesus Christ had perfect Personal Morality and he was crucified