Theories of Capitalism Don't Include the Political Effects

This is just a blog comment. I believe that classical theories of capitalism and its evolution as a natural selector of the best producers and inventors don't include politics and the effect of capitalism on political freedom and self-determination by the electorate. In theory the demos is free and not controlled by capital. In practice, capital increasingly controls the demos.

The electorate in theory, within a democracy, have equal votes and equal power to determine issues values and select with poltical support and votes the issues that are best. Concentrated wealth and capital especially today nulifies the value of votes with its power and influence. In turn, the expropriation of political power by concentrated wealth supports less intense competition in capital acquisition and the concentration of ownership of capital.

A free market works best if buyer-consumers are free politically and can make uncoerced choices from the market. Market choices are reduced as wealth is concentrated and destructive competition is eliminated from the network of market producers.

Today too many people regard all concentrated wealth as supportive of the political philosophy of capitalism and have little capacity to discern the fact that capital or wealth can be held by those that do not support a maximized or even minimal free market.

Amazon Rainforest Slaughter Continues- New Species Discovered and Lost

The Independent published a brief article on the continuing deforestation of the Amazon (rain forest). New species are being discovered even as the ecosphere locally is degraded by logging. Inevitably some species will be lost before discovery.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/just-1-c-ocean-warming-can-upend-marine-ecosystems

381 new species were discovered in the Amazon region
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-species-amazon.html

New Amazonian species discovered every two days while the rainforest is trashed by 'relentless deforestation' http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/amazon-new-species-discover-rainforest-south-america-deforestation-jungle-a7921641.html

image credit: WWF

https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/amazon-river-dolphin

Could Harvey Damage Have Been Minimized With Good Design?

The damage caused by four or five feet of rain to the Texas coastal plain cities may reach 160 billion dollars. That’s a rather unimaginable cost for rainfall and wind damage. One must ask if the damage could have been prevented with good land use engineering and political zoning prophylaxis?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/future-hurricanes-will-be-worse-than-harvey

Vast eco-engineering projects have been done before. Pre-emptive flood control and water re-directing such as the Garrison diversion project have altered the flow of North American rivers. Coastal Texas could perhaps use some vast right-wing political and engineering conspiracy as federally directed construction projects for oceanic surge and rainfall flood control for the 'rare' 30 foot sea level catastrophes that may occur ahead. Such projects could have buildings atop them so they are not just useless except once a century or two.

The Texas coastal plain used to be a sea-floor. Ocean levels rise and fall, storms arise and water surges over the land now and then. All that is known. So if one does the equivalent of falling asleep by a river where bears eat salmon and wakes up to find a bear dining on a your foot, doesn’t the careless individual bear some responsibility in addition to the bear that was just going about nature’s work?

If a Texas coastal plain flood and surge control infrastructure is built it should as a goal seek to restore a five mile thick coastal forest behind the stone wall in order to let nature enjoy the ocean-land interface zone.

For some people building anything within thirty feet elevation of the ocean seems dare-devilish. It is known that global warming is changing the sea level and surface temperatures and exotic weather patterns world-wide.  Global warming for conservatives is as unreal as Jimmy Stewart's 6' 3"" invisible rabbit in the movie 'Harvey'; they ignore its existence and effects at their own risk. Texas like Bangladesh is a pathetic scene when the ocean and sky conspire to reveal the fragility of human structures near the ocean’s edge. They are as flimsy as the world trade center under Al Qaeda air-assault.

On Jokes About Hilbert Space, Function Space and Complete Cellular Topology

Maybe there is nothing funny about the topology of infinite space and infinite dimensions. One might chuckle somewhat about an absolute volume of nothingness divided into some function space value sets and diss the locality of those values in comparison to a universal field prior to and more fundamental than all of the infinite dimensions and content-cubicles with n function variables. Plainly though initial substance or form singularity with zero dimension and zero entropy isn’t laughable or understandable for us non-mathematicians.

A zero-entropy state of absolute organization and certainty in zero dimensions is something to think about. One may assume it breaks down as matter and energy and space-time, dimensions etc., and that it may be regarded as having quantum composition as field phenomena, yet assumptions about the eternal null state no longer existing are somewhat arbitrary; the null state could emit a ghost universe of Hilbert space and function space content itself and remain central and omnipresent through all generated spaces.

Unifying the Inflationary & Quantum Multiverses (Max Tegmark) (video)

America's Game 1985 Chicago Bears (video)

With N. Korea, Diplomacy Equals Appeasement

Diplomacy has tried and failed to end the Korean Peninsula crisis since the 1950s. North Korea has pushed nuclear weapons development as far as it could afford to under various circumstances, and slowed its pace a little now and then, yet i could always continue researching and constructing weapons infrastructure in part even if not actually enriching uranium. Now it has nuclear weapons and is close to having ICBMs. It is the world's best rogue communist authoritarian state and closet communists probably hope it continues to attacks the core of capitalism and perhaps even nukes DC eventually or a major U.S. city or two. That would collapse the U.S. economy instantly and rewrite world economic and political balances.

Can the U.S. and the rest of the world live with a nuclear North Korea? Of course, until it actually uses  nukes on San Francisco and Seattle, D.C. and Chicago the what me worry approach willwork fine. It is worth remembering that nations and political theorists have made sacrifices in times past in order to advance a particular agenda.North Korea could be the communist's second to last card to play to restore communism to the glory it had before the end of the Soviet Union when hundreds of millions of people in Russia and China lived contentedly under elite dictators and politboro non-representative congresses.

Mutually assured destruction deterrence policies don't work if one party believes its sacrifice is worthwhile if it can advance a broader political cause. Neither would anisotropic one-sided assured destruction policy be effective in the same context if North Korean Dictator Kim Un believes that collapsing the U.S. and world economy is worth the price (since it will bring planetary authoritarianism and corporate-communism to universal power.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41083375 British still think diplomacy is a good idea