Nationalism is a reflection of politics at a local level enabling self-determination and democracy. People have fought quite hard to be free of empire and oppression foreign and domestic. Freedom attained within a national boundary is far better than being a subject of monolithic authoritarianism. The problem with government and humanity is a lack of adequate intellect and knowledge in leadership able to choose good policy directives. A global government rule has no firewalls to contain wrong political leads.People that would trust some kind of planetary elite government would need to lack confidence in their own political competence to acquiesce as subjects.
Humanity has simply expanded its numbers because of advances in science beyond the world's safe carrying capacity. There are several possible positive responses to the challenges of that, yet as I mentioned, the intellect and knowledge is lacking. The EU leadership for example has become swollen with power and seeks to protract war with Russia instead of peace and work on actual existential environmental challenges in regard to maladapted political economy. In response to swollen foreign global power units seeking to take over their nations and render them powerless subjects, people will fight. There isn't a substitute for smart and cooperative international leadership making good choices.
There is a proposed expansion of the Red Chris mine in Canada upstream of the Stikine River from Wrangell. It is an open pit mine and they hope to make tunnels through substrate and then blast to collapse the overhead and extract low grade ore from the rip rap for rock crushing. The mining technique is called block caving.
Water running through new underground channels take toxic minerals with it, and that can persist for centuries. Good luck with getting Canadians to be concerned about downstream American fish. There are a couple of books on U.S. experience with the problem. I doubt the current President would care.
There are possible signs of microbial life on Mars recently photographed by a Mars Rover. Microbes are everywhere on Earth. Most microbes are harmless or positive and some cause sickness and/or death. Martian microbes could still exist in ice or wet drip collection places underground, yet even dead microbes in dust could potentially end human life on Earth. Why gamble on decontamination that's 100% effective 100% of the time?
The U.S. Government may want to consider developing a plan to stop return missions to Earth from Mars until after that planet is thoroughly explored and tested for hidden microbial life given its extreme potential danger. What goes to Mars should remain on Mars.
While Martian exploration is early experimentation with remote control stone cutting and shelter construction could be done with AI and robotic mechanism designed to cut stone, move in and build infrastructure for community halls that could be covered with stress-tensioned fabrics in some cases, or stone. The first large human shelters built 14,000 years ago provide some ideas that cold be adapted for Mars habitations above ground in addition to cave dwelling.
Western Europe has often look to the east for ripe new resources to plunder. Often the effort doesn't end peacefully. Baku has been a target as of course was the Ukraine.
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Human history in some respect extends all the way back to 1.75 million years ago when Germans homo heidelbergensis used stone axes. Apparently the Heidelbergians where the parents of Neandethals and died out circa 200,000 B.C. Violence was a way of life.
Several neo-human migrations left Africa and returned in some cases perhaps when climate changed. With stone axes making rafts was possible to travel rivers though scant evidence of such remains. About all of the ancestor version perished after full homo sapiens left Africa. The modern homo sapiens dispersed all over the Eastern hemisphere by 200,000 B.C. However all modern humans appear genetically to be descended from a group that left Africa for Riyadh Saudi Arabia circa 55,000 B.C. Plainly that provides enough time for some sort of civilization to be constructed along the Persian Gulf shore and drowned by a catastrophic flood as the Wisconsin Ice Age was winding down and the Younger Dryas period approached.
One wonders about the dispersion of early humans around the Middle East. Some lived in caves on Mt. Carmel, Israel as early as 500,000 B.C. at Nahal Me'arot/Wadi el-Mughara . Human dwellings in permanent construction beyond the caves and non-durable huts began only about 25,000 years ago. There is an example of one on the South shore of the Sea of Galilee. Perhaps the latter were descendants of the 55,000 B.C. troop in Exodus from Africa with all earlier humans being decimated by blood borne pathogens they had no immunity too.
It is obvious how history repeats itself not just from ignorance, it has other causes such as geography, climate and things people need for living. Eden is now believed to have been in Saudi Arabia and the expulsion, perhaps from climate change, took them to lower Mesopotamia. Survivors of the apocalyptic flood may have dispersed around the Levant founding nations with new technology learned in the inundated mud brick civilization.
There are numerous upgrades to permanent human constructions beginning around 14,000 B.C. in the Mid-east, There is a first tower built at Jericho at 11,000 B.C. that may have been a pulpit or a stone miniature replica of a great tower in the lost Persian Gulf shore civilization that may be as much as 500 feet below sea level today.
The European west keeps finding excuses not to recognize Russian security needs in Ukraine or its historical right to Eastern Ukraine beyond the Dnepro River. It continues to find a reason for war and that is a shame since people die, yet t reflects badly on the nature of human character and its inability to live peacefully or allocate resources in the most productive and efficient way possible.
Humanity dispersed logical out of Europe and may have reached North America via Berengia as far back as 50,000 B.C. A site along the Savannah River may have stone tool artifacts of cutting tools from that era. Very likely though people reached America from Eurasia by 25,000 B.C. The new wave of out of Africa arrivals in 55,000 B.C. settled the entire planet.
In Alaska they may have taken two routes. One along the shore with the sea level much lower and land along the dry continental shelf easier to cross. If they already at stone axes they could have chopped logs and made rafts for river crossing, as perhaps humans used to float up Northward flowing Siberian Rivers where they found themselves frozen in from along the Arctic littoral and decided to migrate East following the sun to Berengia and America.
Some Druze genes have been found in North American aboriginals along the Atlantic coast of North America. Druze today live in Lebanon yet they may have ventured elsewhere as was customary for homo sapiens. Athapaskan natives settled the interior from Alaska to Arizona becoming the Apache. Arriving in North America they could have followed the Yukon River when iced up. The River turns south after crossing in to Canada. Logical. Follow the sun/
War of conquest for the west looking toward Ukraine is an habitual vice. Yet it disregards the lessons of the gradualist approach of modern Chinese economics to maximize the efficient allocation of resources. With one world economy the matter of who owns Ukraine's natural resources isn't nearly as meaningful as how integrated the resources are in the world's free market system so they might be efficiently used. Stop the war and becoming effective in sharing the free market.
Forests are a far richer, more complex environment than human-made artificial habitats that eliminate most complexity. Consciousness advanced quite far in forests as well as grasslands. Ninety-nine percent of human history occurred in rural settings. A modern home has not 1% of the complexity of a forest and is not challenging for a brain or body. Even walking on safe level floors and sidewalks eliminates 95 percent of the mental attention to detail required on a complex forested slope. There are neither a lot of birds or insect vectors flying about that one need remain subtly vigilant about. The only danger in modern cities is other humans as predators.
In the modern urban environment humanity constructed unchallenging safe houses that sanitized the natural ecosystem they eschew because of its many challenges. Humanity has moved into safe cribs that do not stimulate a brain interactively; physically. Cities are environmental dead zones.
Time in effect, doesn't exist. Mass and space exist, and of course many doubt that nothingness, aka empty space does. One must measure the change of a physical system with physical tools, and one may construct physical-even atomic clocks. Nothing in a physical system exists apart from the system to measure the rate of change of the system with. Local rates of change are observable to sentient beings.
Massless particles don’t experience time because they haven’t mass. That may be a condition that exists because articles like photons are expressions at a point of waves of an electro-magnetic field. Massless particles pick up a third dimension in the Higgs field. Maybe that is a recombinant effect of two-dimension massless particles receiving the donation of a third dimensions via the Higgs field’s dimensional status. (I don’t know). One could compare it to massless flies entering the Higgs field soup transformed into croutons. One might wonder how many dimensions the Higgs field has in-itself.
What is regarded as time is a human awareness of material change. Mass changes for and location and that is what is observed by humans. When mass changes at a regular rate and order the observation of that is considered to be time. People tend to think of time as independent and occurring for-itself regardless of mass, yet it isn’t. As the observer changes the position of his own mass. Perhaps being accellerated to a substantial percent of the speed of nearly massless photons his experience and basis of time is different than that of a stationary compatriot from his initial starting position. The experience of the passage of time is relative to speed and acceleration, in other words, to the status of mass.
If the entire Universe or mass is where time is embedded phenomenally, it is plain enough that the experience of the status, speed and configuration mass locally has its own relative time and configuration. It is comparable to the three-body problem of three spheres in space. If there were just two spheres in space and one was moving away it wouldn’t actually be possible to determine which one was moving away. With a third sphere, and with two stationary one might decide that one is moving away from the other two. The point of view is relative. With an infinity or whatever of particles of mass complicating the relationship of time calculations in existence the ‘time’ of mass still is found in the mass itself and nowhere else. One has the additional problem of anti-matter and its own time configurations and relativity for-itself and for-mass. https://youtu.be/tc7LpJswIZU?si=YSEQxbITz_WsKAMc
It's Everett's many worlds paradigm created as an alternative to collapse of the wave-function. For each thought anyone has they switch to an appropriate Universe without awareness of the switch. There are an infinite number of Universes that already exist without time.. It is if they are static in the mind of God. It hasn't anything to do with the Plank length which is a measurement designed by Max Plank. It is possible that time doesn't exist except as a kind of secondary appearance. Last week some physicists released information about time being a by-product of quantum entanglement locally. If that is so the implication is that the entanglement occurs below the Plank length. Incidentally the God of Abraham would be fine with an infinite Multiverse. In fact it's almost a necessity since God is omnipotent and omniscient.An attribute of omnipotence is that He has all possible infinity and possibility. Actually Universes might be just one thought of His mind, or nature. There may be countless other things that are noumenal for human knowledge.
I read of the history of the Soviet Union in a college course. In my opinion Marxism-Leninism was a revolutionary philosophy best suited for revolting against royalty and rich oppressors. it was rather historically backward looking at least to Americans for they had revolted against aristocracy a century and a half before the Bolsheviks and without socialism. Is socialism or Marxism relevant to India today? Can axiology of the political economy and fiscal policy of the west be upgraded to include ecospheric sustainability?
India also needed to revolt against royalty and an oppressive foreign class transformation of the Chinese economy from communism to a market basis since 1978. One salient fact mentioned was that the U.S.A. has the least misallocation of resources compared to China finishing second and India third. India does have an official mention that it is a socialist state in the constitution, and unfortunately, Time has shown that state owned enterprises tend to be very inefficient.
The primary sector is the least productive per worker output-agriculture and of course India has less industrialization that China. India has structural reforms they need go through and perhaps they can find a way to accomplish industrialization even as the artificial intelligence and robot revolutions take over much of industrialization for India.
Socialism was based on economics that are quite obsolete with modern technology. China has shown the inefficiency of communal farms comparatively and took a somewhat different course to market economics with its different history position and challenges yet it obviously is getting there. New adaptations of political economy that has a good basic income fo all citizens as a social insurance policy probably will have an effect of increasing individual efficiency when robots and AI take over many jobs. At some point ahead economics may be an easier part of human culture and capital will be minimally sufficient for everyone to live, invent and create. If everyone was invested in the stock market would that make a socialist society? Economists probably concern themselves with allocating resources in the most efficient way possible to increase the productivity of a society, and that way isn’t socialism.
