The federal government should bail out only those with less than 150 thousand dollars in mortgage debt-it is a silly policy for working Americans to fund what are in essence spoiled lifestyles of people that require large big box homes that cost $250,000 and up. Borrowing money from world investors to prop up the decadent U.S. lifestyle with greed determining what size of home one needs, what kind of fuel inefficient vehicle what purchases from foreign importers and how a zero personal savings policy is good, government because it accelerates the velocity of money are bound to reach a bad end for U.S. national security.
The United States has taken up a policy following the end of the cold war of support for trans-national corporations making of American real property a liquid value that can be bought and traded en mass by global investors. OPEC in Saudi Arabia has said recently that too quick of a transition to alternative fuels in the United States would create global issues of a deleterious nature. Saudi Arabia and OPEC and collapsed the price of oil in order to undermine national efforts in the United States to create an independent alternative energy posture. Saudi Arabia as the citadel of Mohammedanism seeks a hegemony over the worlds spiritually through the coercive power of global dependence upon the inefficient and polluting fossil fuel cycle. The U.S. administration has walked blind in to the course of the axis of evil oil producers and internal combustion engine manufacturing with its recently received stimulus policy of some 785 billion dollars. While the home mortgage crisis at the level of lenders may receive some relief through taxpayer assumption of their debt and interest payments so that double interest can be paid by homeowners to the bank lenders as well as the taxpayers, the administration has failed to comprehend that Americans just need to have a rational approach to economic development and let the global fast buck arbitragers, hedge fund specialists and money market managers take a licking and keep on ticking if they can, with their own economic accountability for bad lending practices.
The Obama administration is once again under the influence of Clinton's economic Rasputin Lawrence Summers-virtually no rational national home mortgage economic policy can arise under that aegis which seeks to expand housing unit size and prices to the largest possible size. The administration should find economic ideas from Robert Schiller, Lester Thorow and Herman Dailey .
http://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Economics-Sustainable-Development-Selected/dp/1847209882
http://www.mott.org/publications/Mott%20Mosaic/April%202007%20v6n1/retrospect%20April%202007.aspx
http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/ecological_economics
President Obama said when running for office that common sense in economic priorities needed to be applied, yet in his first major bill with victory he has forgone the quest for a sustainable economic policy in favor of support for the usual fiscal perfidy that has made the financial related services sector a full 25% of the U.S. national economy. A nation that fundamentally skims from Chinese production and illegal migrant labor instead of sustaining new technological production that would fit in with a steady state economy wherein only quality rather than quantity improves demographically and materially is set on a path for boom and bust that continues to raise the notch of diminished renewable resources higher. It is an unrealistic course that serves those M.B.A.'s and managers unscrupulously enough to have no care about anything besides their personal profit. Martin Buber said that a lie is treason unto oneself; the economic lies about that devalue of non-sustainable development, with mortgages of vast size that can be paid solely while the occupants have a huge, unrealistic salary based upon inflated global based financial services,are economic treason to the nation.
After the Union act of 1800 that forced Ireland into political union with Britain the Irish became poor and were forced off the land. More than a million moved to England following the potato famine and many went to the United States. Life in England was mean; nasty brutish and short for the Irish in England. IT was only after decades of striving to improve their legal standing that they found they could stop paying rent and receive grants for their housing that would let them save money. While American pay large rents to globalists they cannot save money, instead they make transfer payments to trans-national corporation and destroy the posterity of the nation leaving a legacy of servitude to the corporatist trans-national elites that decree what their economic policy should be.
The United States does require an intelligent, sober Congress and Senate rather than one enthralled to the silky comforts of wealthy. The people of the United States should reform basic federal economic policy such that homes with high energy efficiency ratings receive priority in funding support, and homes that have the capability of producing their own electrical energy have a higher place in federal support than homes that purchase electricity from a trans-nationally owned corporate grid.
U.S. homes should have a minimum insulation r value of 100 for mortgage lending, and the ceiling should be 150,000 dollars on a home mortgage that gets federal assistance. Homes should be made of concrete and last 300 years between exterior recoating.
The social security administration should restrict payments to those earning less than the average worker annual income. Twenty-five thousand dollars is a lot of money for those not working. A nation that has current accounts pay non-working Americans more than working Americans cannot have a rational economic policy.
The new tax elements of the stimulus plan did nothing for those self-employed that must pay 10% tax. for the working, self-employed poor earning less than 12,000 annually their should be a tax moratorium for credit in the first term of the Obama administration to relieve the poor from a variety of tax issues that impede improvisational work opportunities.
Medicare policy should cover only those earning less than $24,000 annually. The federal government should assure that all the poor can receive free medical service by paying the mal-practice insurance of physicians that register in a free treatment for the poor screening service. Physicians that provide free coverage to 40% of their patients would receive free federal mal-practice insurance. A worker's compensation like medical screening and referral service should screen patients and physicians.
The U.S. Mexican border area of a 3 mile depth should become a U.S. Army and Marine base where troops could be stationed to defend their classified base activities.
The Congress should pass a bill enabling states to arrest illegal immigrants and send them to federal penal facilities. When the federal government is manifestly incapable of fulfilling its legal obligations rationally the states must defend themselves. The federal government has allowed more than one million Mexican illegals to cross the border each of the last 20 years-that is a manifestly incompetent performance by the U.S. Government. It is because of the cyclically corrupt U.S. housing industry policy that the Clinton and Bush administration pursued that illegal alien construction and service workers were drafted to blimp the housing industry.
2/10/09
Alaska Highway History Sketch 1
The Alcan Highway (Alaska-Canada) highway was built in a hurry during the second world war to allow resupply of Alaskan military bases. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor and had designs on the occupation of Alaska. Eventually it would invade the Alaskan Islands of Attu and Kiska requiring months of bloody fighting for their recovery by the United States.
The AlCAN Highway as it was known before the modern change to refer to its destination and terminus (for now) was built in eight months of 1942 and 1943. Interestingly about 3,700 of 10,600 soldiers working on the construction were dermatologically black as a result of racial inheritance. The road was a vital link in land resupply of the state of Alaska, and it also served to support U.S. efforts to send war materials to Russia via Siberia from Alaskan air bases.
At the beginning of the second world war the total military equipment in the state was a couple hundred world war one era rifles in the Haines, Alaska national guard armory. The city of Anchorage had a population of just two thousand souls. The state that Billy Mitchell called 'the crosswords of the world' began a rapid build up of population in order to defend against invasion from the eastern hemisphere and to bring relief to our world war two allies in Russia.
At the foot of Soldier Summit on the ALCAN highway along the southernmost shore of Kluane Lake-an austere and barren landscape with a milky-blue lake and mountain goats inhabiting the upper slopes of some high, cold hills there is a plaque that commemorates the marvelous engineering and construction work of the U.S.Army's Corp of Engineers through 1500 miles of trackless wilderness in such a short period of time.
The variegated racial composition of the construction crew was an appropriate demonstration of the will of Americans of all races to combat the growing power of Japanese Imperialism and Nazi Fascist- corporatist supremacy. Like the liberation of Attu Island that was accomplished by a brilliant mix of extremely athletic southwest Americans including American indians unused to the Aleutian cold weather, resupplied by a 500 mile air war link taking off from Kodiak Island in foggy and treacherous conditions-a war with Japanese banzai charges repeatedly through the snow repulsed only with grenades, heavy casualties and great personal sacrifice (the second most bloody battle per capita in the Pacific War), the construction of the ALCAN highway was accomplished with the direct determination of a free people to remain that way regardless of the power of global, megalomaniac foes.
The AlCAN Highway as it was known before the modern change to refer to its destination and terminus (for now) was built in eight months of 1942 and 1943. Interestingly about 3,700 of 10,600 soldiers working on the construction were dermatologically black as a result of racial inheritance. The road was a vital link in land resupply of the state of Alaska, and it also served to support U.S. efforts to send war materials to Russia via Siberia from Alaskan air bases.
At the beginning of the second world war the total military equipment in the state was a couple hundred world war one era rifles in the Haines, Alaska national guard armory. The city of Anchorage had a population of just two thousand souls. The state that Billy Mitchell called 'the crosswords of the world' began a rapid build up of population in order to defend against invasion from the eastern hemisphere and to bring relief to our world war two allies in Russia.
At the foot of Soldier Summit on the ALCAN highway along the southernmost shore of Kluane Lake-an austere and barren landscape with a milky-blue lake and mountain goats inhabiting the upper slopes of some high, cold hills there is a plaque that commemorates the marvelous engineering and construction work of the U.S.Army's Corp of Engineers through 1500 miles of trackless wilderness in such a short period of time.
The variegated racial composition of the construction crew was an appropriate demonstration of the will of Americans of all races to combat the growing power of Japanese Imperialism and Nazi Fascist- corporatist supremacy. Like the liberation of Attu Island that was accomplished by a brilliant mix of extremely athletic southwest Americans including American indians unused to the Aleutian cold weather, resupplied by a 500 mile air war link taking off from Kodiak Island in foggy and treacherous conditions-a war with Japanese banzai charges repeatedly through the snow repulsed only with grenades, heavy casualties and great personal sacrifice (the second most bloody battle per capita in the Pacific War), the construction of the ALCAN highway was accomplished with the direct determination of a free people to remain that way regardless of the power of global, megalomaniac foes.
2/5/09
How Life Started-Theoretical Parameters
Life on Earth may have arisen from more than one source or space-time coordinate. That possibility applies to each of the two most popular theories; super-natural creation and organic evolution. Supernatural creation may have placed homo sapiens of a special character into an evolved animal environment including homo sapiens as seems indicated by the discontinuity between Genesis chapter one and two, and in the organic evolution context, life arriving on Earth from extra-terrestrial sources amidst existing evolved life cannot be ruled out. Because of the potential for extra-dimensional quantum teleportation life may aggregate on Earth from additional, unknown origins now and then. Let's go to the headwaters of creation of the Universe though, to consider how the Universe got here-where ever 'here' actually is.
Reality issued from idea before space-time. The non-dimensional, crystal clear eternal sea of pure spirit without dimensional size, shape, color or space-time which mankind cannot conceive; before infinite series of beginnings, within and after all is. A sentient field without description though absoolute good for-itself in actuality. That which has no cause, origin or first mover; self-aware scalar field, set of all sets. Reality is a complex relationship of appearances from the Spirit with sentience set in to select, contingent forms being and becoming in the Universe.
John 1 (King James Version)
"1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
Two fundamental theories regarding the creation of life on Earth today; organic creation from the chemical compounds of the Earth is one (aka Darwinian evolution theory), and the other; creation by supernatural means. The first would be called an evolution theory and the other might be named a creation theory. A third paradigm of alternate cosmological theories combined in some instances with or without theological and philosophical additions or paradigms may also be said to exist. The third theory is somewhat more difficult to comprehend than the first two if that is possible. Let us begin with third things first, for Einstein's realtivty theory does tend to make time relative and the events in it ordered in relation to the observer.
The General theory of relavity transcended Newton's theoretical criteria of an absolute space time wherin if it was nine o'clock in the morning in Paris it was also nine o'clock in the morning on the other side of thh Universe-in fact at all four space-dimension dimensional ends of thh Universe if the four dimensions could be said to have any 'ends'. The shape and ends of the dimensions of the Universe would be a paradox themselves in the expanding space-time of big bang theory. Dimensions must expand in one direction only yet overlap, and time is just another dimensions perhaps. In realtivity theory however time differs as a space-time location discretely-while their may be a cosmological constant that is dark energy there is no Universal time apart from space, and space itself may be something else besides the vaacuum commonly considered as space that may actually simply be an area with a low volume of mass or energy (those convertable event constituents). The philosopher Parmenides in 500 b.c. considered all of mass energy as a plenum, and the void in which it existed as nothing. The fundamental paradox is how can nothing exist (it does not evidentally)? How can nothing exist spatially and have meaningful distance such that there is more nothing in one place than in another, or more nothing between objects? These ancient questions never were answered satisfactorily, yet mathematical theorists devise nearly limitless mathematical models that interact successfully with apparent material or phenomenal matter and its history inferred from tensor calculus to portray a order of events.
On Earth scientific organic (evolution) theory has eukarotic life originating around 2.6 billion years ago complete with D.N.A. in membranes. actual life as simpler compounds might have commenced as early as 3.6 billion years ago in an organic criterion with evidence of stromatiolites made by cyano bacteria-plenty of time for the aggregation of life over the next 3.6 thousand million years on Earth. Multi cellular organisms exist by 1.2 billion years ago.
The fundamentals of Darwinian evolution theory are well known: Chemoautotrophs assemble energy oxygenizing inorganic materials. The heat and moisture of the early Earth find these reactions contained within cells. Like greedy materialists these cells aggregate mass. Mutation and evolution over time let a variety of more complex chemical reactions form. Sensory feedback and control logic develop through interactive trial and error in the environment. These early reactions in membranes (that form after a time) are life. Carbon based life as early as 3.9 billion years ago on earth may have been the initial start for the subsequent evolution of life on Earth to the present age.
Cosmology theory is much more uncertain. The Universe began from an infinitely small singularity with a containing a billion more times the mass of the present Universe, at a minimum. The singularity could have been a Higgs Field or a zero dimensional membrane-these mathematical physics and astrophysics conjectures are not inconsistent with the Spoken Word of God issuing the Universe in a theistic evolution.
The preponderance of matter over anti-matter has a hypothetical explanation regarding spin. Each spin in an opposite direction and annihilate each other when in contact yield some energy. When the Higgs field- a theoretical balanced quantum field at the core of the singularity- became unbalanced (see B. Green's 'The Elegant Universe') it repelled itself cascading the field of energy that is the Universe. From the highest state of organization in the singularity the field entered the 13.3 billion year process of thermodynamic decline and processing of it's potential forms through the physics of a Universe it comprised. Because matter's basic spin has a slight statistical advantage over anti-matter when the two forms attracted and combined there was a little matter left over (that is the mass of the Universe). Maybe 99.999% of the matter and anti-matter was annihilated, or recombined to return to some kind of pre-inflation zero-dimensional singularity. Obviously the Higgs field does not exist in the Universe of space-time dimensions with mass, though some say it may 'underlie' or contain the Universe. These are spooky theories replete with extra-dimensional channels for influence upon the mass energy in these four dimensions.
'The Five Ages of the Universe' is a book that provides some convenient labels for the anticipated thermodynamic future of the universe if it continues to expand (not at all certain).
Visible stars will not exist forever in this Universe. The Stelliferous era including star formation and galaxies to the 100th power exists beginning 1 million to a trillion years after the inflaton
3) Degenerate Era
The Degenerate era is not one with planetary budget deficits in which nations can't understand nor work toward an economy in which everyone has a surplus, instead it refers to the time after the stellar era in perhaps a trillion to the 100th power years when most of the stars and galaxies (in an open Universe scenario in which everything keeps expanding outward forever) have run out of gas, or nuclear material, and grow very dim. Red dwarf stars and white dwarfs are the essential illumination, and they wear out.
4) Black Hole Era
Because all the mass of the Universe in the form of energy has gone from a low entropy to a high entropy state, and because the atomic fires are essentially burned up and out already, and coinciding with the growing oligarchy of physics in which the power of gravity draws everything to fewer and fewer larger clumps of matter known as black holes from which nothing escapes except a bit of Hawking radiation caused by the indeterminacy of quantum particle locations and the eventual leaking out of matter from the black holes even with the information it had going in intact (which presents a problem for those positing an absolute entropy as the fate of the Universe perhaps), this is known as the black hole era. Black Holes are the big feature of the Universe at this time that is really, really, way out there in years in orders of magnitude of trillions and trillions.
5) Dark Era
In the Dark era matter is at it lowest energy state. As the open universe of space-time continued to expand the laws of entropy have brought everything to its most dispersed, equal and isotropic status. The most elementary sub-atomic particles of decayed and been reduced to their most solitary and powerless condition. A combination of positron and electrons known as positroniums may exist in isolation. It is interesting that they may be spaced farther apart than the size of the present Universe.
In such a condition that could conceivably go on for eternity how could space or time have energy to expand, or to remain stable, and where would the space-time of the low energy Universe be? Many basic philosophical questions could be developed to consider the situation.
As far as I know cosmologists consider that the universe might just be left at that, or alternately that such a universe in string theory or M-Theory would be attracted to like spent Universes by some mutual primal attraction of left-over field energy and collide with a matter and anti-matter reenergization thus starting a couple more universes inflating into reality. It's a nice field for speculation. The phase transition of some sort of intrinsic energy of the vacuum of space may also be a source for the restart of another Universe as all those virtual particles, given enough time could do some quantum tunneling to a more basic and stable place in space time. This unusual concept is another of those wonderful ideas that rely upon a never ending cornucopia of matter-energy and space-time from off-line sources and undiscovered places that replenish life. Omnipotent God has that design ability implicitly.
The Geological Time Scale occurs during the formation and existence of the Earth 4.5 billion years before present. Some believe that a continuing coalescence of the matter of the Universe that concentrated under the force of gravity to form stars, perhaps stimulated by the motion of various interstellar dust clouds and even intersecting galaxies (see star formation in astrophysics publications) brought enough material together to form the sun and plenty of leftovers circling around to form the other planets and asteroids, comets and so forth in the solar system.
Gravity as a continuing concentrator of mass allows nuclear forces to create atomic reactions, and also to provide heat in some planetary cores. The Earth has a core temperature of 5000 degrees centigrade, and it is still more than 2000 degrees centigrade just 700 kilometers down. The Earth's comparatively thin crust floats as the lithosphere upon a hot mantle with thermal convection forces that over time raise mountains and ancient sea floors to the heights and plunge continents downward at subduction zones into the hell' of the mantle below.
The Earth was created at 4.5 billion years before present, or approximately 7.5 billion years from the singularity. The earth's age today is approximately 1/3 the age of the Universe.
The Universe may be a thought of God's actualizing itself (or not of course) in an expansive mode. Expansion in dimensions of space and time may be necessary for the function of uncertainty to be and become. Uncertainty is implicitly a component of thought, as Plotinus thought, for The One hasn't a need of thought and uncertainty has a vacuum that asks for process of filling or completion to return to the normal state of omniscience.
Humanity has limited omniscience and live in an uncertain universe with an uncertain past and uncertain physical basis as an aspect of quantum mechanics and an uncertain future. Knowledge is uncertain and reality is uncertain.
Conceptions are phenomenally experienced and integrated from perceptions with some value added as Schopenhauer pointed out in 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason'. It is useful in general considerations of epistemology to keep in mind the relation of a cosmological monism to perceptual pluralism that human beings experience while in existence. Parmenides and Heraclitus held apposite views on the subject of the one and the many and of universal motion and non-motion.Supernatural creation theory has many forms (and organic theories have many as well). Christianity presents the best or most well known criteria for a supernatural origin of life on Earth. In many respect the Biblical Genesis book does not entirely differ from evolutionary organic theory; the basic parameters of an aggregated placement of life forms on Earth over time is common to both. Supernatural creation theory has mankind known as Adamas (meaning brown dirt in Arabic) being created from inorganic compounds (mud). The detail is absent such as is provided in scientific evolution theory yet the sketch is fair enough in resemblance for a narrative composed several thousand years ago.
It is possible to maintain a theistic evolution theory that stipulates that God evolved the world and the life in it. The parameters for a pre-determined universe from the beginning designed by God are not inconsistent with the actual discoveries of quantum mechanical theory and extrapolations about the creation of the Universe, or rather the theoretical retracing of the course of the Universe back to its smallest size as an infinitely small point singularity.
Algorithmic compressibility of patterns in language is different than in mathematics to a certain extent, yet language is itself a non-compressed use of logic to understand the nature of observational data and one's own thoughts about it. Historical and literary reasoning like the life sciences tend to use far more particular and concrete thought and language than does philosophy and physics in cosmological and quantum cosmological contexts. Life sciences as in biology and even evolutionary observations do not induct structural contexts via abstract mathematical processes such as Einstein or Pauli utilized when investigating the human genome's functions-instead they use a trial and error method to assign structures to roles in the body. Quantum cosmology may use Newtonian and superstring logic simultaneously to investigate if gravity diminishes at the cube root of the distance at short ranges because their may be an extra, small hidden dimension-yet the field of investigation seems paradoxically less complex in quantum cosmology because the elements while comprising the mass of the Universe are in principal reducible to a unified field.
Barrow attributes scientific preference in the west for a pervasive unified field in part to monotheistic religious influence; a monotheistic God without pluralistic little gods is a comparatively relevant pattern paradigm for a unified cosmic law-field analogous to an omnipotent monistic God.The concept of quantum cosmology that the Universe borrowed its existence from nothing as a virtual particle might is intriguingly similar to quantum superposition in physics along the world-line contexts of quantum uncertainty. Because God is omnipotent and contains all possibilities of even those things not actualized it has a beauty to it that the Universe too has a parallel theological/quantum construction.
Before the singularity one might place a congruence with the Biblical concept of the word speaking the event-relationships to begin with the criteria of super-string cosmological theory or big bang theory with a hyper-inflation added to it. Actual cosmological theories abound regard what came before the singularity such as every possible other universe developed through trial and error of automatic creation from the vacuum of space or within the nature of God as the unmoved mover of all possible universes actualizing His ideas. It is the cosmological uncertainties that add spice to the questions regarding God and how life happened on Earth.
The singularity or membrane of zero dimensions that produced a Universe of mass-energy expanding outward initially faster than light could be viewed as in motion relatively speaking by just human sentience spiritually moving along the world lines of the fully developed Universe eternally in existence. Blinders of forgetfulness on humanity following original sin making the journey through physical bodies seem to occur in a moving rather than stationary and eternal Universe already fully past, present and futured. So well- few would believe that. So back to the beginning...
In the beginning the Higgs Field repulsed itself as the balance of mass and energy were tugged through extra-dimensional scuppers smaller than the Planck length at a high rate of speed (faster than light because gravity is at light speed and to escape the original singularity mass-energy had to escape gravity to. It is an interesting concept that gravity would fail at high density and not emerge till later like the other basic forces of the Universe (e.g. strong, weak,electro-magnetic and gravity), for gravity would be an implicit associate of dimensions that would need to unravel in reverse order in order for the regular thermodynamic field to flow gracefully through the evolution of generations of stars (I think its the fifth now) starting nearly 13.3 billion years ago. The Earth is just about 4 billion years old, so equating 3.14 (a value of pi) with time as distance we would get the circumference of the Universe times the speed of light (just joking I am not a physicist obviously). Well, we will leave this amusing conjecture and recollection about scientific cosmology for now and its interesting production of chemical compounds through stars and even on Earth making the evolution of life possible and on to more technical speculations.
Spirit isn't matter and materiality. Causes and material relations even including relativity and quantum mechanical descriptions would tend to exist within a material context of which it comprises just a contingent part of reality. Analytic philosophy developed a concept of intentional or inward, psychological ideas for human epistemology dialectically juxtaposed with extensional thought or ideas that refer to outward 'real' things of the material world of empiricist preference. Wittgenstein essentially developed theories of language use in his later works as phenomenal activities of associations between word and object like Quine and Strawson and perhaps Kripke, yet unlike these analytic [philosophers Wittgenstein seemed to detach the language use from having a necessity of real knowledge and instead placed it in a position of corresponding to events phenomenally; and that idea nicely fits with Russell's later ideas of the end of mind-matter as primary categories and replacing them with self-awareness as a relational experience of events.
At the basic level super-strings and loops may be events of phenomena from a spiritual source within a bootstrap context of formation of more complex events and relationships in an appearance of motion through appearances of quarks, mass and energy, atoms, molecules stars, galaxies and complex chemical and organic compounds. Life forms on the Earth follow designs as final cause through actualization in efficient causation. These designs are in D.N.A..
Truth seems to be a term that is a referent to the existence of other things, or to their non-being. It is a logical conditional term denoting a binary state of yes or no, being or nothingness etc. The alternative idea is more Platonic and would be the some sort of most pure entity exists that is truth for-itself. Maybe it could be more pure and basic than H2o or ice, more essential than quarks of a unified field theory of physics, something absolute and of One substance or One idea.
Jesus Christ is absolute truth, or truth that is self-standing in relation to everything else that materially exists. Other truth values outside the Triune God who is One are contingent being and truth. Truth in that context is relational, or as Albert Einstein said (to paraphrase) "I want to know what God thinks, everything else is detail".
Reality issued from idea before space-time. The non-dimensional, crystal clear eternal sea of pure spirit without dimensional size, shape, color or space-time which mankind cannot conceive; before infinite series of beginnings, within and after all is. A sentient field without description though absoolute good for-itself in actuality. That which has no cause, origin or first mover; self-aware scalar field, set of all sets. Reality is a complex relationship of appearances from the Spirit with sentience set in to select, contingent forms being and becoming in the Universe.
John 1 (King James Version)
"1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."
Two fundamental theories regarding the creation of life on Earth today; organic creation from the chemical compounds of the Earth is one (aka Darwinian evolution theory), and the other; creation by supernatural means. The first would be called an evolution theory and the other might be named a creation theory. A third paradigm of alternate cosmological theories combined in some instances with or without theological and philosophical additions or paradigms may also be said to exist. The third theory is somewhat more difficult to comprehend than the first two if that is possible. Let us begin with third things first, for Einstein's realtivty theory does tend to make time relative and the events in it ordered in relation to the observer.
The General theory of relavity transcended Newton's theoretical criteria of an absolute space time wherin if it was nine o'clock in the morning in Paris it was also nine o'clock in the morning on the other side of thh Universe-in fact at all four space-dimension dimensional ends of thh Universe if the four dimensions could be said to have any 'ends'. The shape and ends of the dimensions of the Universe would be a paradox themselves in the expanding space-time of big bang theory. Dimensions must expand in one direction only yet overlap, and time is just another dimensions perhaps. In realtivity theory however time differs as a space-time location discretely-while their may be a cosmological constant that is dark energy there is no Universal time apart from space, and space itself may be something else besides the vaacuum commonly considered as space that may actually simply be an area with a low volume of mass or energy (those convertable event constituents). The philosopher Parmenides in 500 b.c. considered all of mass energy as a plenum, and the void in which it existed as nothing. The fundamental paradox is how can nothing exist (it does not evidentally)? How can nothing exist spatially and have meaningful distance such that there is more nothing in one place than in another, or more nothing between objects? These ancient questions never were answered satisfactorily, yet mathematical theorists devise nearly limitless mathematical models that interact successfully with apparent material or phenomenal matter and its history inferred from tensor calculus to portray a order of events.
On Earth scientific organic (evolution) theory has eukarotic life originating around 2.6 billion years ago complete with D.N.A. in membranes. actual life as simpler compounds might have commenced as early as 3.6 billion years ago in an organic criterion with evidence of stromatiolites made by cyano bacteria-plenty of time for the aggregation of life over the next 3.6 thousand million years on Earth. Multi cellular organisms exist by 1.2 billion years ago.
The fundamentals of Darwinian evolution theory are well known: Chemoautotrophs assemble energy oxygenizing inorganic materials. The heat and moisture of the early Earth find these reactions contained within cells. Like greedy materialists these cells aggregate mass. Mutation and evolution over time let a variety of more complex chemical reactions form. Sensory feedback and control logic develop through interactive trial and error in the environment. These early reactions in membranes (that form after a time) are life. Carbon based life as early as 3.9 billion years ago on earth may have been the initial start for the subsequent evolution of life on Earth to the present age.
Cosmology theory is much more uncertain. The Universe began from an infinitely small singularity with a containing a billion more times the mass of the present Universe, at a minimum. The singularity could have been a Higgs Field or a zero dimensional membrane-these mathematical physics and astrophysics conjectures are not inconsistent with the Spoken Word of God issuing the Universe in a theistic evolution.
The preponderance of matter over anti-matter has a hypothetical explanation regarding spin. Each spin in an opposite direction and annihilate each other when in contact yield some energy. When the Higgs field- a theoretical balanced quantum field at the core of the singularity- became unbalanced (see B. Green's 'The Elegant Universe') it repelled itself cascading the field of energy that is the Universe. From the highest state of organization in the singularity the field entered the 13.3 billion year process of thermodynamic decline and processing of it's potential forms through the physics of a Universe it comprised. Because matter's basic spin has a slight statistical advantage over anti-matter when the two forms attracted and combined there was a little matter left over (that is the mass of the Universe). Maybe 99.999% of the matter and anti-matter was annihilated, or recombined to return to some kind of pre-inflation zero-dimensional singularity. Obviously the Higgs field does not exist in the Universe of space-time dimensions with mass, though some say it may 'underlie' or contain the Universe. These are spooky theories replete with extra-dimensional channels for influence upon the mass energy in these four dimensions.
'The Five Ages of the Universe' is a book that provides some convenient labels for the anticipated thermodynamic future of the universe if it continues to expand (not at all certain).
Visible stars will not exist forever in this Universe. The Stelliferous era including star formation and galaxies to the 100th power exists beginning 1 million to a trillion years after the inflaton
3) Degenerate Era
The Degenerate era is not one with planetary budget deficits in which nations can't understand nor work toward an economy in which everyone has a surplus, instead it refers to the time after the stellar era in perhaps a trillion to the 100th power years when most of the stars and galaxies (in an open Universe scenario in which everything keeps expanding outward forever) have run out of gas, or nuclear material, and grow very dim. Red dwarf stars and white dwarfs are the essential illumination, and they wear out.
4) Black Hole Era
Because all the mass of the Universe in the form of energy has gone from a low entropy to a high entropy state, and because the atomic fires are essentially burned up and out already, and coinciding with the growing oligarchy of physics in which the power of gravity draws everything to fewer and fewer larger clumps of matter known as black holes from which nothing escapes except a bit of Hawking radiation caused by the indeterminacy of quantum particle locations and the eventual leaking out of matter from the black holes even with the information it had going in intact (which presents a problem for those positing an absolute entropy as the fate of the Universe perhaps), this is known as the black hole era. Black Holes are the big feature of the Universe at this time that is really, really, way out there in years in orders of magnitude of trillions and trillions.
5) Dark Era
In the Dark era matter is at it lowest energy state. As the open universe of space-time continued to expand the laws of entropy have brought everything to its most dispersed, equal and isotropic status. The most elementary sub-atomic particles of decayed and been reduced to their most solitary and powerless condition. A combination of positron and electrons known as positroniums may exist in isolation. It is interesting that they may be spaced farther apart than the size of the present Universe.
In such a condition that could conceivably go on for eternity how could space or time have energy to expand, or to remain stable, and where would the space-time of the low energy Universe be? Many basic philosophical questions could be developed to consider the situation.
As far as I know cosmologists consider that the universe might just be left at that, or alternately that such a universe in string theory or M-Theory would be attracted to like spent Universes by some mutual primal attraction of left-over field energy and collide with a matter and anti-matter reenergization thus starting a couple more universes inflating into reality. It's a nice field for speculation. The phase transition of some sort of intrinsic energy of the vacuum of space may also be a source for the restart of another Universe as all those virtual particles, given enough time could do some quantum tunneling to a more basic and stable place in space time. This unusual concept is another of those wonderful ideas that rely upon a never ending cornucopia of matter-energy and space-time from off-line sources and undiscovered places that replenish life. Omnipotent God has that design ability implicitly.
The Geological Time Scale occurs during the formation and existence of the Earth 4.5 billion years before present. Some believe that a continuing coalescence of the matter of the Universe that concentrated under the force of gravity to form stars, perhaps stimulated by the motion of various interstellar dust clouds and even intersecting galaxies (see star formation in astrophysics publications) brought enough material together to form the sun and plenty of leftovers circling around to form the other planets and asteroids, comets and so forth in the solar system.
Gravity as a continuing concentrator of mass allows nuclear forces to create atomic reactions, and also to provide heat in some planetary cores. The Earth has a core temperature of 5000 degrees centigrade, and it is still more than 2000 degrees centigrade just 700 kilometers down. The Earth's comparatively thin crust floats as the lithosphere upon a hot mantle with thermal convection forces that over time raise mountains and ancient sea floors to the heights and plunge continents downward at subduction zones into the hell' of the mantle below.
The Earth was created at 4.5 billion years before present, or approximately 7.5 billion years from the singularity. The earth's age today is approximately 1/3 the age of the Universe.
The Universe may be a thought of God's actualizing itself (or not of course) in an expansive mode. Expansion in dimensions of space and time may be necessary for the function of uncertainty to be and become. Uncertainty is implicitly a component of thought, as Plotinus thought, for The One hasn't a need of thought and uncertainty has a vacuum that asks for process of filling or completion to return to the normal state of omniscience.
Humanity has limited omniscience and live in an uncertain universe with an uncertain past and uncertain physical basis as an aspect of quantum mechanics and an uncertain future. Knowledge is uncertain and reality is uncertain.
Conceptions are phenomenally experienced and integrated from perceptions with some value added as Schopenhauer pointed out in 'The Fourfold Roots of Reason'. It is useful in general considerations of epistemology to keep in mind the relation of a cosmological monism to perceptual pluralism that human beings experience while in existence. Parmenides and Heraclitus held apposite views on the subject of the one and the many and of universal motion and non-motion.Supernatural creation theory has many forms (and organic theories have many as well). Christianity presents the best or most well known criteria for a supernatural origin of life on Earth. In many respect the Biblical Genesis book does not entirely differ from evolutionary organic theory; the basic parameters of an aggregated placement of life forms on Earth over time is common to both. Supernatural creation theory has mankind known as Adamas (meaning brown dirt in Arabic) being created from inorganic compounds (mud). The detail is absent such as is provided in scientific evolution theory yet the sketch is fair enough in resemblance for a narrative composed several thousand years ago.
It is possible to maintain a theistic evolution theory that stipulates that God evolved the world and the life in it. The parameters for a pre-determined universe from the beginning designed by God are not inconsistent with the actual discoveries of quantum mechanical theory and extrapolations about the creation of the Universe, or rather the theoretical retracing of the course of the Universe back to its smallest size as an infinitely small point singularity.
Algorithmic compressibility of patterns in language is different than in mathematics to a certain extent, yet language is itself a non-compressed use of logic to understand the nature of observational data and one's own thoughts about it. Historical and literary reasoning like the life sciences tend to use far more particular and concrete thought and language than does philosophy and physics in cosmological and quantum cosmological contexts. Life sciences as in biology and even evolutionary observations do not induct structural contexts via abstract mathematical processes such as Einstein or Pauli utilized when investigating the human genome's functions-instead they use a trial and error method to assign structures to roles in the body. Quantum cosmology may use Newtonian and superstring logic simultaneously to investigate if gravity diminishes at the cube root of the distance at short ranges because their may be an extra, small hidden dimension-yet the field of investigation seems paradoxically less complex in quantum cosmology because the elements while comprising the mass of the Universe are in principal reducible to a unified field.
Barrow attributes scientific preference in the west for a pervasive unified field in part to monotheistic religious influence; a monotheistic God without pluralistic little gods is a comparatively relevant pattern paradigm for a unified cosmic law-field analogous to an omnipotent monistic God.The concept of quantum cosmology that the Universe borrowed its existence from nothing as a virtual particle might is intriguingly similar to quantum superposition in physics along the world-line contexts of quantum uncertainty. Because God is omnipotent and contains all possibilities of even those things not actualized it has a beauty to it that the Universe too has a parallel theological/quantum construction.
Before the singularity one might place a congruence with the Biblical concept of the word speaking the event-relationships to begin with the criteria of super-string cosmological theory or big bang theory with a hyper-inflation added to it. Actual cosmological theories abound regard what came before the singularity such as every possible other universe developed through trial and error of automatic creation from the vacuum of space or within the nature of God as the unmoved mover of all possible universes actualizing His ideas. It is the cosmological uncertainties that add spice to the questions regarding God and how life happened on Earth.
The singularity or membrane of zero dimensions that produced a Universe of mass-energy expanding outward initially faster than light could be viewed as in motion relatively speaking by just human sentience spiritually moving along the world lines of the fully developed Universe eternally in existence. Blinders of forgetfulness on humanity following original sin making the journey through physical bodies seem to occur in a moving rather than stationary and eternal Universe already fully past, present and futured. So well- few would believe that. So back to the beginning...
In the beginning the Higgs Field repulsed itself as the balance of mass and energy were tugged through extra-dimensional scuppers smaller than the Planck length at a high rate of speed (faster than light because gravity is at light speed and to escape the original singularity mass-energy had to escape gravity to. It is an interesting concept that gravity would fail at high density and not emerge till later like the other basic forces of the Universe (e.g. strong, weak,electro-magnetic and gravity), for gravity would be an implicit associate of dimensions that would need to unravel in reverse order in order for the regular thermodynamic field to flow gracefully through the evolution of generations of stars (I think its the fifth now) starting nearly 13.3 billion years ago. The Earth is just about 4 billion years old, so equating 3.14 (a value of pi) with time as distance we would get the circumference of the Universe times the speed of light (just joking I am not a physicist obviously). Well, we will leave this amusing conjecture and recollection about scientific cosmology for now and its interesting production of chemical compounds through stars and even on Earth making the evolution of life possible and on to more technical speculations.
Spirit isn't matter and materiality. Causes and material relations even including relativity and quantum mechanical descriptions would tend to exist within a material context of which it comprises just a contingent part of reality. Analytic philosophy developed a concept of intentional or inward, psychological ideas for human epistemology dialectically juxtaposed with extensional thought or ideas that refer to outward 'real' things of the material world of empiricist preference. Wittgenstein essentially developed theories of language use in his later works as phenomenal activities of associations between word and object like Quine and Strawson and perhaps Kripke, yet unlike these analytic [philosophers Wittgenstein seemed to detach the language use from having a necessity of real knowledge and instead placed it in a position of corresponding to events phenomenally; and that idea nicely fits with Russell's later ideas of the end of mind-matter as primary categories and replacing them with self-awareness as a relational experience of events.
At the basic level super-strings and loops may be events of phenomena from a spiritual source within a bootstrap context of formation of more complex events and relationships in an appearance of motion through appearances of quarks, mass and energy, atoms, molecules stars, galaxies and complex chemical and organic compounds. Life forms on the Earth follow designs as final cause through actualization in efficient causation. These designs are in D.N.A..
Truth seems to be a term that is a referent to the existence of other things, or to their non-being. It is a logical conditional term denoting a binary state of yes or no, being or nothingness etc. The alternative idea is more Platonic and would be the some sort of most pure entity exists that is truth for-itself. Maybe it could be more pure and basic than H2o or ice, more essential than quarks of a unified field theory of physics, something absolute and of One substance or One idea.
Jesus Christ is absolute truth, or truth that is self-standing in relation to everything else that materially exists. Other truth values outside the Triune God who is One are contingent being and truth. Truth in that context is relational, or as Albert Einstein said (to paraphrase) "I want to know what God thinks, everything else is detail".
Individualism and the Struggle to Improve Water Quality
The Ganges River is a tragic flow of a polluted destiny. Individuals such as Alexander the Great Macedonian military explorer and founder of nations sought to continue from the Indus to the Ganges and perhaps change the flow of history a priori yet his captains compelled him to turn back toward the Euphrates and death from pestilence. Countless people of the world have perished from polluted water for drinking and cooking that could have been avoid with better scientific knowledge and a pragmatically adapted life-style in democracy.
Instead of a Hellenized subcontinent perhaps with a better scientific future India became a vacation land for visiting conquerors until the British yielded foreign rule at last to Mahatma Gandhi's secularized political non-violent resistance movement paradoxically finally revolting against the initial Aryan invasion from seven thousand years before, or more, that gave the future of India a caste system and a belief in the sky God Brahma. Individuals can make a difference in all things political including water quality.
Individualism is an expression of free use of one's own intellectual and physical capital-spend it wisely. The world's future may be in your control to bring good water or bad to the next millennium. The world's oceans are a sink for millions of chemical compounds made by scientists. Major cities dump vast quantities of psychiatric drugs in to the sewers through water toilet vectors after excretion or urination by their consumers. PCB's and a variety of chemicals corrupt the waters of the Arctic ocean transforming polar bears and Beluga whales into hermaphrodites or the swimming dead collecting elements of death in the blubber.
Individuals can protest against the corporatist machine that irrationally expands over the globe to concentrate wealth for a planetary oligarchy dead set against active democratic pragmatism. After the oil is expent they will seek fossil fuel or carbon based fuel supplies from other sources such as ocean floor methane hydrates when more intelligent, non-polluting solar powered electric engines would be a better choice.
Eight thousand years ago, more or less, the Black Sea experienced a flood of saltwater from the Mediterranean Sea when a land dam was breached perhaps over a period of forty days and nights. The sea level rose several hundred feet and the fresh water sea was transformed forever. Today the Black Sea below the depth of 550 feet is a dead zone, reportedly without oxygen. Life and oxygen exists just at the surface; what can be done about that?
Human ingenuity has overcome adversity countless times. In the present era of pervasive polluted water quality above and below ground, in fresh water and saltwater-when even the ice of Alaskan glaciers is melting each years sufficiently to fill an area the size of Chesapeake Bay individual initiative needs to lead to break free from the complacence of mass economic following of global corporatists and their hollow reassurances that the economy and environment would do better without regulation.
About 8,000 years ago Semitic people left the rising waters of the Black Sea perhaps on vessels of stout construction. Imagine one such boat that emerged from the storm and the flood in the midst of the limitless expanse of the newly saline black sea beyond sight of shore. Prevailing winds of the age may have carried the boat along through the new channel and along the Syrian shore. Semitic peoples are said to have descended from the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates in the 3rd millennium b.c. to live in Mesopotamia and settle the middle east. They perhaps brought the story of the flood and volkerwanderung and the first diaspora with them to reach the Bible in time, with the higher spot known referred to as the kingdom of Urartu becoming later known as the transliterated name Ararat. Humanity today should reclaim the Black Sea for fresh water uses and provide a source for drinking water carefully conserved for that portion of Asia.
Transforming the Black Sea once again in to a fresh water lake is a practical venture requiring generally the creation of strong safe redundant locks on the Dardanelles or Bosporus at a select locations so the flood cannot accidentally repeat itself. Desalination plants powered by solar cells and evaporation/condensation of freshwater from salt can create an inflow of fresh water as the surface salt water is pumped out. Fresh water rivers would continue to flow in to the Black Sea of course and in time the transformation to a fresh water lake with a greater portion able to support life could emerge.
Ecological initiatives in support of no net loss of biota on the land areas would synergize with conservation of river drainages and the quality of water. Ecological economic policy isn't presently popular with corporatists or communists however. Ecological economics is premised on the minimal waste of mass through thermodynamic increase in entropy-that is non renewable resources should not be quickly wasted as humanity in a hurry to get comfort maximally destroy the planetary environment in the effort quite profligately.
Reading about the pollution in the Niger-its quite astounding, I considered how several forms of pollution make waters undrinkable. Several million chemical compounds make it in to water-Clive Cussler's novel 'Sahara' covered many of those back in 1996. The second and third world haven't really improved much politically regarding the containment of political corruption or pollution and that trend may continue.
In the United States it is difficult enough to keep high water quality. Yet even with reasonable standards water use is horribly short-sighted. Underground aquifers continue to become repositories for pollutants. Water based flush toilet sewage systems are too common with electric waterless toilet technology underutilized. If the federal government would fund high quality renewable home battery technology electric toilets like the Incinolet could become solar powered and more used saving water.
So many lawns in front yards are watered in order just to be trophy lawns for drive by voyeur in cars on the way to car washes. Most of the streams and rivers in the United States are transformed in to drainage ditches and become sources for oceanic pollution themselves. The cycle is really quite devastating and even in the third world, or especially in the third world modern economic development procedures such as created the increasing problems in the first world are dumped willy nilly as if they were good for people without need for ecological qualification.
Individuals can make a difference by taking up alternative energy for themselves and getting off the grid. Conserve water as part of a general basic personal transformation toward an energy independent, low water use lifestyle.
Living in Alaska near an area with ground water contaminated with arsenic once the guy I rented from brought water over for drinking. I learned that I drank just five gallons of fresh water each week. Even in a hot climate that might be just ten or fifteen gallons. With systems analysis of water use requirements personally, and perhaps with a centrifuging, micro-waving bath water recycler, personal water use might be reduced to under 25 gallons each week-and why not?
Trans-nationalism concentrates political power in the class of global economic players most disinclined to conserve water or water quality. In China water quality and air quality famously has taken a beating as that nation races towards material affluence. Basic political and economic forms and relationships exist such that the large scale destruction of natural waterways continue to increase rather than decrease. Better social and ecology studies can be pursued by individuals in order to comprehend without economic bias how the health of the planetary hydrological cycle is in substantial decline. Not only do pcbs destroy killer whale packs in Puget Sound and Beluga whales in the St. Lawrence seaway, estrogen worldwide in waterways proliferate through plastics and other manufacturing processes. Antibiotics are found in municipal water supplies evading filtration amidst a host of other bio-vectors. A votre sante!
Instead of a Hellenized subcontinent perhaps with a better scientific future India became a vacation land for visiting conquerors until the British yielded foreign rule at last to Mahatma Gandhi's secularized political non-violent resistance movement paradoxically finally revolting against the initial Aryan invasion from seven thousand years before, or more, that gave the future of India a caste system and a belief in the sky God Brahma. Individuals can make a difference in all things political including water quality.
Individualism is an expression of free use of one's own intellectual and physical capital-spend it wisely. The world's future may be in your control to bring good water or bad to the next millennium. The world's oceans are a sink for millions of chemical compounds made by scientists. Major cities dump vast quantities of psychiatric drugs in to the sewers through water toilet vectors after excretion or urination by their consumers. PCB's and a variety of chemicals corrupt the waters of the Arctic ocean transforming polar bears and Beluga whales into hermaphrodites or the swimming dead collecting elements of death in the blubber.
Individuals can protest against the corporatist machine that irrationally expands over the globe to concentrate wealth for a planetary oligarchy dead set against active democratic pragmatism. After the oil is expent they will seek fossil fuel or carbon based fuel supplies from other sources such as ocean floor methane hydrates when more intelligent, non-polluting solar powered electric engines would be a better choice.
Eight thousand years ago, more or less, the Black Sea experienced a flood of saltwater from the Mediterranean Sea when a land dam was breached perhaps over a period of forty days and nights. The sea level rose several hundred feet and the fresh water sea was transformed forever. Today the Black Sea below the depth of 550 feet is a dead zone, reportedly without oxygen. Life and oxygen exists just at the surface; what can be done about that?
Human ingenuity has overcome adversity countless times. In the present era of pervasive polluted water quality above and below ground, in fresh water and saltwater-when even the ice of Alaskan glaciers is melting each years sufficiently to fill an area the size of Chesapeake Bay individual initiative needs to lead to break free from the complacence of mass economic following of global corporatists and their hollow reassurances that the economy and environment would do better without regulation.
About 8,000 years ago Semitic people left the rising waters of the Black Sea perhaps on vessels of stout construction. Imagine one such boat that emerged from the storm and the flood in the midst of the limitless expanse of the newly saline black sea beyond sight of shore. Prevailing winds of the age may have carried the boat along through the new channel and along the Syrian shore. Semitic peoples are said to have descended from the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates in the 3rd millennium b.c. to live in Mesopotamia and settle the middle east. They perhaps brought the story of the flood and volkerwanderung and the first diaspora with them to reach the Bible in time, with the higher spot known referred to as the kingdom of Urartu becoming later known as the transliterated name Ararat. Humanity today should reclaim the Black Sea for fresh water uses and provide a source for drinking water carefully conserved for that portion of Asia.
Transforming the Black Sea once again in to a fresh water lake is a practical venture requiring generally the creation of strong safe redundant locks on the Dardanelles or Bosporus at a select locations so the flood cannot accidentally repeat itself. Desalination plants powered by solar cells and evaporation/condensation of freshwater from salt can create an inflow of fresh water as the surface salt water is pumped out. Fresh water rivers would continue to flow in to the Black Sea of course and in time the transformation to a fresh water lake with a greater portion able to support life could emerge.
Ecological initiatives in support of no net loss of biota on the land areas would synergize with conservation of river drainages and the quality of water. Ecological economic policy isn't presently popular with corporatists or communists however. Ecological economics is premised on the minimal waste of mass through thermodynamic increase in entropy-that is non renewable resources should not be quickly wasted as humanity in a hurry to get comfort maximally destroy the planetary environment in the effort quite profligately.
Reading about the pollution in the Niger-its quite astounding, I considered how several forms of pollution make waters undrinkable. Several million chemical compounds make it in to water-Clive Cussler's novel 'Sahara' covered many of those back in 1996. The second and third world haven't really improved much politically regarding the containment of political corruption or pollution and that trend may continue.
In the United States it is difficult enough to keep high water quality. Yet even with reasonable standards water use is horribly short-sighted. Underground aquifers continue to become repositories for pollutants. Water based flush toilet sewage systems are too common with electric waterless toilet technology underutilized. If the federal government would fund high quality renewable home battery technology electric toilets like the Incinolet could become solar powered and more used saving water.
So many lawns in front yards are watered in order just to be trophy lawns for drive by voyeur in cars on the way to car washes. Most of the streams and rivers in the United States are transformed in to drainage ditches and become sources for oceanic pollution themselves. The cycle is really quite devastating and even in the third world, or especially in the third world modern economic development procedures such as created the increasing problems in the first world are dumped willy nilly as if they were good for people without need for ecological qualification.
Individuals can make a difference by taking up alternative energy for themselves and getting off the grid. Conserve water as part of a general basic personal transformation toward an energy independent, low water use lifestyle.
Living in Alaska near an area with ground water contaminated with arsenic once the guy I rented from brought water over for drinking. I learned that I drank just five gallons of fresh water each week. Even in a hot climate that might be just ten or fifteen gallons. With systems analysis of water use requirements personally, and perhaps with a centrifuging, micro-waving bath water recycler, personal water use might be reduced to under 25 gallons each week-and why not?
Trans-nationalism concentrates political power in the class of global economic players most disinclined to conserve water or water quality. In China water quality and air quality famously has taken a beating as that nation races towards material affluence. Basic political and economic forms and relationships exist such that the large scale destruction of natural waterways continue to increase rather than decrease. Better social and ecology studies can be pursued by individuals in order to comprehend without economic bias how the health of the planetary hydrological cycle is in substantial decline. Not only do pcbs destroy killer whale packs in Puget Sound and Beluga whales in the St. Lawrence seaway, estrogen worldwide in waterways proliferate through plastics and other manufacturing processes. Antibiotics are found in municipal water supplies evading filtration amidst a host of other bio-vectors. A votre sante!
2/3/09
Sartre in Popular Culture
Jean Paul Sartre's role in popular culture is difficult to estimate; his philosophical work spanned nearly half a century and several continents received his works in translation. Sartre is credited in essence as the founder of modern existentialist philosophy yet he denied that he was himself an existentialist. He was awarded the Alfred Nobel prize for literature and declined to receive the prestigious award from Sweden. Sartre was possibly the most successful philosopher of the 20th century.
Sartre had rather prosperous parents; he was not an underprivileged youth and did not find a bourgeois life to be a handicap for becoming a philosopher. He was an associate professor of philosophy early on in life at Le Havre France along the British channel before the war. If one debarks a cross channel boat at Le Havre and walks up the main street one will find oneself suddenly oriented in the city scene setting recognizably from Sartre's first published book 'Nausea'. The self-educated man reading in the library of Le Havre is an understandable figure for those of us that had not yet completed undergraduate work and yet had read philosophy and history for years. Sartre's direction as a philosopher was changed while at Le Havre in a direction he might not have anticipated; mobilization for the second world war arrived and he was called up to serve.
Sartre's career as a soldier was not much like that of the other soldier-philosopher we can be concerned with here for comparative purposes; Socrates. The French mobilization was a bizarre event as was the war for Sartre and his band of brothers. It was perhaps something more like going on a picnic without women, or a fishing or hunting mission to the field for these guys were not terribly well trained and not very well supervised or deployed. The reality of war was difficult and they did not know well enough how to 'make it go'. They surrendered reasonably soon when the Wehrmacht approached. Sartre wrote about the experience of mobilization in fictional novels after the war that he called 'The Freedom Novels' such as one titled 'The Age of Reason'.
Sartre spent some of the war in a German prisoner of war camp. That experience and the discipline of the camp life; the phenomenal transition from professorship to field soldier to capture and incarceration probably helped him to formulate his rational examination of the nature of human cognition and experience-the relation between the internal psychology and the contents of what one experiences.
It is popular now and was in the 20th century following the advent of analytical philosophy and symbolic logic to conjoin the inner and outer world of thought to a certain extent running roughshod over the 'reef of solipsism' that contains all human experience within subjective criteria. Bertrand Russell rather adroitly made of the mind a kind of analogue to a naked singularity without and event horizon of solipsism. In so doing he terminated the mind/matter dualism that Descartes so rightly formalized. Like a naked black hole the mind is part of the world of experience without any barrier through which we perceive through a glass darkly. Empiricism had sought for a method to renormalize mind-matter to a naive realism without need to trouble about the filters of perception and mind cognitive apparatus that receives images from reality. Russell's approach just set back the problem of mind-matter and the reef of solipsism farther to the quantum mechanical and relativistic level rather than end it. It is only sentient life that perceives events composed of phenomenal perhaps called super-strings or forms related in dimensions. A unified field theory may be obsolete while a cosmological constant may not be. Discrete, individual elements in shaped fields perhaps purposed with teleological implications present perceptible event-images for human mind at a select level. Few would claim that the mind or mind-event with its self-awareness is the same as the super-strings perceived or the composite forms or images and impressions arriving in the senses.
Sartre's existential works in Being and Nothing were written during the second world war in Paris following his liberation from internment. Sartre would have been a member of the resistance except the resistance it is said may have felt the philosopher was too chatty. Sartre being shunned from clandestine espionage work coveted even by Elvis Presley later on who asked President Nixon for an F.B.I. membership completed being and nothingness and several of his other works that reinforced the phenomenal and irrational nature of human social life.
Sartre was wooed by the French Communist Party following the war to become a member yet he forestalled that permanently. He was a well known writer and perceived by the left as a sympathizer. Sartre's tome Being and Nothingness wasn't well understood by many for quite a time I think. Sartre himself said that it is a continuation of French rationalist philosophy (such as Descartes wrote in 'Meditations on a Method). Sartre's conclusions differ a little from those of analytical philosophers and empiricists, for he describes what is known to his self awareness directly rather than through research projects of the a priori in science or logic. It is a useful and practical approach to epistemology.
Because Sartre was perceived as a leftist, which can be a non-ideological preference for particular social groups over those of others in some cases rather than an identification with the correctness of a particular political philosophy of governance or economics, he was invited to visit Moscow during the 1950's for a visit. It was during this busy period that Sartre wrote his second and final major philosophical work 'The Critique of Dialectical Reason'. Sartre lost vision in one eye during this project and wrote nearly continuously on the plus 1000 page opus of human social interaction. The work was a major influence perhaps on the change from Marxism to existentialism or a synthetic realm in between.
Certain political ideologies such as Marxism had existed developmentally to counteract advantages of the wealthy and oppressive classes over the majority of the people of the era who were poor. There are other traditional political philosophies of course yet the practical goals for most is for a self-benevolent economic and governance system that would permit actualization of being in the best possibly way. Certainly there are opinions based upon Darwinism such as political romanticism and barbarism that find domination by the strongest the best, and aristocratic and monarchical forms of government that offer the opinion that rule by the few and best works most effectively. Sartre's Critique simply examines the concatenation of phenomenal social relations in which people act. Following the clearing of the decks and submergence of civilization in to the ocean of pain and destruction of the second world war with the prospect for global thermonuclear war ahead and France in the front row seat Sartre's phenomenal-rational-existential insights about the social phenomenality of the masses without economic bias was a useful and influential project.
Sartre wrote short stories and plays as well as philosophy and novels. The Condemned of Altoona, The Flies and No Exit were interesting works. Sartre travelled all over the world, rode about in taxi cabs-walking along the highway in Valdez Alaska he stopped and asked for directions once, and I replied 'I'm not from here, sorry'. The philosopher exercised practical and theoretical influence popularizing the project of thinking for the masses perhaps better than had any prior philosopher except the Sage of the Sakyas. It is a mistake to assume that Sartre's rationalism is in any way an atheistic doctrine. It is simply the rational philosophical biography of a man of the 20th century.
Sartre had rather prosperous parents; he was not an underprivileged youth and did not find a bourgeois life to be a handicap for becoming a philosopher. He was an associate professor of philosophy early on in life at Le Havre France along the British channel before the war. If one debarks a cross channel boat at Le Havre and walks up the main street one will find oneself suddenly oriented in the city scene setting recognizably from Sartre's first published book 'Nausea'. The self-educated man reading in the library of Le Havre is an understandable figure for those of us that had not yet completed undergraduate work and yet had read philosophy and history for years. Sartre's direction as a philosopher was changed while at Le Havre in a direction he might not have anticipated; mobilization for the second world war arrived and he was called up to serve.
Sartre's career as a soldier was not much like that of the other soldier-philosopher we can be concerned with here for comparative purposes; Socrates. The French mobilization was a bizarre event as was the war for Sartre and his band of brothers. It was perhaps something more like going on a picnic without women, or a fishing or hunting mission to the field for these guys were not terribly well trained and not very well supervised or deployed. The reality of war was difficult and they did not know well enough how to 'make it go'. They surrendered reasonably soon when the Wehrmacht approached. Sartre wrote about the experience of mobilization in fictional novels after the war that he called 'The Freedom Novels' such as one titled 'The Age of Reason'.
Sartre spent some of the war in a German prisoner of war camp. That experience and the discipline of the camp life; the phenomenal transition from professorship to field soldier to capture and incarceration probably helped him to formulate his rational examination of the nature of human cognition and experience-the relation between the internal psychology and the contents of what one experiences.
It is popular now and was in the 20th century following the advent of analytical philosophy and symbolic logic to conjoin the inner and outer world of thought to a certain extent running roughshod over the 'reef of solipsism' that contains all human experience within subjective criteria. Bertrand Russell rather adroitly made of the mind a kind of analogue to a naked singularity without and event horizon of solipsism. In so doing he terminated the mind/matter dualism that Descartes so rightly formalized. Like a naked black hole the mind is part of the world of experience without any barrier through which we perceive through a glass darkly. Empiricism had sought for a method to renormalize mind-matter to a naive realism without need to trouble about the filters of perception and mind cognitive apparatus that receives images from reality. Russell's approach just set back the problem of mind-matter and the reef of solipsism farther to the quantum mechanical and relativistic level rather than end it. It is only sentient life that perceives events composed of phenomenal perhaps called super-strings or forms related in dimensions. A unified field theory may be obsolete while a cosmological constant may not be. Discrete, individual elements in shaped fields perhaps purposed with teleological implications present perceptible event-images for human mind at a select level. Few would claim that the mind or mind-event with its self-awareness is the same as the super-strings perceived or the composite forms or images and impressions arriving in the senses.
Sartre's existential works in Being and Nothing were written during the second world war in Paris following his liberation from internment. Sartre would have been a member of the resistance except the resistance it is said may have felt the philosopher was too chatty. Sartre being shunned from clandestine espionage work coveted even by Elvis Presley later on who asked President Nixon for an F.B.I. membership completed being and nothingness and several of his other works that reinforced the phenomenal and irrational nature of human social life.
Sartre was wooed by the French Communist Party following the war to become a member yet he forestalled that permanently. He was a well known writer and perceived by the left as a sympathizer. Sartre's tome Being and Nothingness wasn't well understood by many for quite a time I think. Sartre himself said that it is a continuation of French rationalist philosophy (such as Descartes wrote in 'Meditations on a Method). Sartre's conclusions differ a little from those of analytical philosophers and empiricists, for he describes what is known to his self awareness directly rather than through research projects of the a priori in science or logic. It is a useful and practical approach to epistemology.
Because Sartre was perceived as a leftist, which can be a non-ideological preference for particular social groups over those of others in some cases rather than an identification with the correctness of a particular political philosophy of governance or economics, he was invited to visit Moscow during the 1950's for a visit. It was during this busy period that Sartre wrote his second and final major philosophical work 'The Critique of Dialectical Reason'. Sartre lost vision in one eye during this project and wrote nearly continuously on the plus 1000 page opus of human social interaction. The work was a major influence perhaps on the change from Marxism to existentialism or a synthetic realm in between.
Certain political ideologies such as Marxism had existed developmentally to counteract advantages of the wealthy and oppressive classes over the majority of the people of the era who were poor. There are other traditional political philosophies of course yet the practical goals for most is for a self-benevolent economic and governance system that would permit actualization of being in the best possibly way. Certainly there are opinions based upon Darwinism such as political romanticism and barbarism that find domination by the strongest the best, and aristocratic and monarchical forms of government that offer the opinion that rule by the few and best works most effectively. Sartre's Critique simply examines the concatenation of phenomenal social relations in which people act. Following the clearing of the decks and submergence of civilization in to the ocean of pain and destruction of the second world war with the prospect for global thermonuclear war ahead and France in the front row seat Sartre's phenomenal-rational-existential insights about the social phenomenality of the masses without economic bias was a useful and influential project.
Sartre wrote short stories and plays as well as philosophy and novels. The Condemned of Altoona, The Flies and No Exit were interesting works. Sartre travelled all over the world, rode about in taxi cabs-walking along the highway in Valdez Alaska he stopped and asked for directions once, and I replied 'I'm not from here, sorry'. The philosopher exercised practical and theoretical influence popularizing the project of thinking for the masses perhaps better than had any prior philosopher except the Sage of the Sakyas. It is a mistake to assume that Sartre's rationalism is in any way an atheistic doctrine. It is simply the rational philosophical biography of a man of the 20th century.
1/30/09
lulu blog Feb. closure-transfer material
On Working for Peace
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Thursday 29 of January, 2009
Peace is the absence of conflict, yet thermodynamic processes of change are not holistically at peace until thermal equilibrium within a volume is reached. When the highest state of entropy is attained and energy levels flat-lined the Universe will have attained perfect peace. It will be a peace without sentient life however. The final cause of Universal peace is contained in the plans of the beginning. A D.N.A. code of physical design fulfills its actuality through perpetual change, and at last the intended is complete; what is my role in this as an I, me, or some other nomenclature of self-awareness?
Peace for human beings should refer perhaps more to the relationships between humanity at a material level. Strivings after power over other human beings or for the attainment through competition for scarce resource are historically usual. Until perhaps 300 years ago the majority of human societies were slave holding societies, while that has changed through a plethora of dynamic political alterations including frequent war and evolution, the evolution of political concepts and social relations is an ongoing project at best.
Biblically it is written that when mankind declares 'peace, peace!' then shalt there be war. Because human language is interpreted by each individual for themselves and applied within an individual worldline and assigned a value unique to each individual communication values for virtually any phrase or idea communicated vary. Subjective, personal epistemological contents about the world of social reality and for physical reality differ, invariable from one to another and across time and social distance. Political and economic values differ with perspectives built upon language and understanding values of a personal contingency. Conflict causality in human social arrangements differ for as many reasons as may be presented to potential communication intersocial relationships. Everyone has their own point of view including the rightness or wrongness of political union or disunion, of cohesion and freedom from group oppression, for the right to possess private property or the right for no one to own property. People in agreement about a substantial matter of political ideas may differ over the allocation of resources for the management of resources, consumption of resources and the direction resource management should take. Peace is perhaps a product of settled issues; the dark side of Mercury away from the blazing political heat of the other side, the empty village depopulated by Ebola or the plague. Peace may be the smoldering ruins of a dead society and the concentration camp's closure with flowers placed by mourners. Peace may be the forgetting of memories of the Condor Legion's predations. Peace may be freedom from oppression or even an inner tranquility disregarding hate for those that persecute or behead one-the perspective of the observer may define peace.
For some peace is the recession of corruption; the end of an evil political policy or actualization of a maladroit political urban and suburban public zoning design. The war upon the environment, the war upon the poor in the United States by globalists and the middle class, the failure to employ the long term unemployed in America with a million ways to say no to financial adequacy fore social equality as the decades role on past--these things may be a subjective equivalent of war to the persecuted and amusing trifles to the enfeofed in plush SUV seats and mass-produced quarter million dollar homes. What can an individual do to contribute to peace?
Read the Bible for life and support equal civil justice for all citizens, become a well educated designer of ideas and inventions, be vigilant in keeping personal abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, love one's fellow citizen so far as that the golden rule is pragmatically extended to reach toward a just social environment that is healthy, non-exclusive and self-renewing ecologically.
Enable others to reach righteous goals when possible and judge not others harshly-be gentle as doves yet wise as serpents in comprehending why particular conflicts actually happen and apply intention to bring those to a just and righteous condition of peace when it is positioned to do so. Do not simply publicly posture in opposition to events that one benefits from unless the moral need to do so is compelling and there isn't a better way. Peace is a method that requires adaptability to a changing political and ecological environment, to a social reality with a variegated and unequal intellectual and educational endowment, to a non-static progress by trialectical and hextalectical evolution in fulfillment of an original will of creation.
Peace is a concept of transcending love related to infinite good-try to accomplish what is best, what is right, and pray.
Posted on Thursday 29 of January, 2009 [19:31:35 UTC]
A Sketch of Lenin's Rise to Power
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Wednesday 28 of January, 2009
V.I. Lenin's 'rise to power' was a two-fold process; a rise in the communist party organization and a rise through revolution to take over power in Russia.
Lenin was a prolific writer and practical party organizer; yet as a writer he was still just a close second to Leon (The Pen) Trotsky. V.I. Lenin was a legitimate correspondence school lawyer certified to practice law in Romanov Russia.
The party of the minority (the Bolshevik Party) was to the farthest left and jockied for political power with several other Russian revolutionary political parties including those of the cadets and the Menshevik (party of the majority). When the Romanov dynasty fell after the incompetent prosecution of the war of defense against Germany of August 1914 and an interim government formed the Bolsheviks would have nothing to do with it. Lenin was an exile to western Europe and Germany.
The Bolshevik Party was not certain of the way to form a communist party. Trotsky had one theory and Lenin another-Stalin at this time was a remote small-timer who would not exert much influence until after the 1917 revolution.
Trotsky supported power to the Soviets or workers organizations. A Soviet revolution at Kronstaadt brought a successful yet aborted revolutionary start. Lenin theorized much about the proper timing of revolutionary movements and interpreted political events in search of vulnerabilities much as a fullback might exploit weaknesses in an opponents defensive line. Lenin saw his moment during the height of the first world war.
The Germany imperial government had become entangled in a two front war. Crown Prince Ruprecht the brilliant war designer was stalemated in the west from the Alps through to France and Flander's fields. On the eastern front a complete victory was deferred because of the pressing need for troops on the west where British General Haig was fighting a war of attrition. The Crown Prince amidst others probably recognized the value of Lenin in subverting the Russian Government-they arranged to move him in a sealed train across Germany to Russia where the final push for Bolshevik revolt could develop. Lenin after swiftly achieving his toppling, nearly bloodless victory would sign a peace treaty with Germany-the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; bringing an end to the war with Germany in return for giving up the Ukraine and other considerations to Germany.
Crown Prince Ruprecht would then began his final offensive in France that expanded the front 100 miles into allied territory yet the Germany manpower shortages could not hold the line and recently arrived American forces mopped up and rolled back the German Wehrmacht. Lenin was beginning the recovery of Russia from a war economy and setting the foundation for a communist society.
As a domestic political leader Lenin was a much fairer hand than Stalin on the reigns of power. In 1921 Lenin abandoned state ownership of much of the economy because it was failing to meet survival production requirements of the people. An economic history of the Soviet Union shows that the changed to a mixed-ownership economy improved Soviet output while the policy was in place. The policy would be quickly rescinded by Stalin following the death of Lenin.
Kulaks were considered a class enemy-they were small scale farmers that suffered from mass deportation and death in the 1930's, yet when they were still permitted to be productive for themselves for a time they increased food production and outperformed Soviet collective farms.
Lenin's death following a succession of strokes has been historical suspect. Some believe that he was poisoned by Stalin-the best political intriguer of the Bolsheviks. A famous photo of the Bolshevik varsity leaders taken early after the revolution had nor surviving members shortly after the takeover of Stalin. While a brilliant revolutionary, pragmatist planner and adaptive socialist leader willing to promote popular interests through compromise with capitalist principles when need arose V.I. Lenin was evidently unaware of the deeper human social currents of original sin, organizational and individual will to power and the force such innate human traits would exert to overcome even the consummate communist revolutionary-himself.
As Lenin compromised the dogmatic communist doctrine existing before the revolution in order to find bread for the newly liberated from imperial power people to eat, back-benchers like Stalin designed his doom in order to advance a hypothetical, Phoenix-like Russia under a benevolent dictator to a will-o-the-wisp equality in government repression. Lenin's day in the sun was short but sweet, and his downfall equally brief.
Posted on Wednesday 28 of January, 2009 [20:29:27 UTC]
21st Century Poetry & It's Relevance
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Wednesday 28 of January, 2009
Time may be a psychological concept thought St. Augustine. The cosmological ideas of physics may benefit from a parallax of points of view as might poetry provide another, more direct means for expressing ideas.
Poetry is non-conventional regarding prose forms of writing that have more set rules of grammar and syntax. The forms of versification may remain the same once discovered and exploited by farmers of poems for several decades or centuries. When over-used the fertility of the land may decline and the poetry suffer a decline with weakening rhymes and ideas dying unfulfilled upon the vines.
It shouldn't be intemperately argued that poetry is a viticulture creating Bacchic nectar that when imbibed does intoxicate people with a mirthful oblivion of care in rapture of creation. The sun may shine in Kansas City and Omaha alike in the 20th and the 21st centuries yet the landscape changes. Poets cannot write with such peace and joy poems of natural happiness over the splendorous nature of God such as might Walt Whitman even in more remote times from the exhaust fumes of progress and defoliant dreams for indoor developers trading shag carpet futures for the Persian rugs of fossil fueled crude below the middle east. Poetry never dies or fades away, it becomes promised to youthful hearts as dreams that were never realized, as hopes that will be discovered anew in another generation and another century.
Poetry is also for the poor. It is the kernel of creativity sewn to build the novel. It is a seedling set to begin the actualization of the potential form of the creator-the Aristotelian soul preknown by the author's life at the beginning, like Aristotle's form of the soul written into the genetic code as a final cause at conception. Some poor Haitian may discover a hydroponic reason for cultivating tanked mini-farms of verbose nutrients unbreakable by dictators of thought and unshakable by theocrats and atheists of rot-ideas that grow in an over-used environment and preserve life with a humanitarian containment within the spirit. Poems can be simple in any era and flow or desiccate, die and be reborn like any kind of common hope.
One Perspective
If i see you through a glass darkly today
it is because the One set an infinite sequence of changes
in motion such as are drifting beyond
my moment and yours in the Universe
receive catcalls from higher ups
echoes from the caverns of evil minds
tossed like grenades out of the mouths
placed into the perennial circle of foes
Yesterday walking along the river
i found a pair of shoes from a book
with a class segregated shopping village
Tourists of the planet spend
the non-renewable biosphere warped in purple glass
medicine bottles changed by a desert sun
one percent for inventive and one percent for art
the remainder mass producing cloned mechanical mitosis
A newspaper photographer lived a worm's eye view perspective
each celebrity snapped for qualo-Chessybloids
Napoleon became nine feet tall as did Dostoevsky's underground clerk
with the worst piano guy politician brought to a firing squad at last
control sought an off switch
all the worlds troubles and temptations broadcast live for profit
as the rest starved though they lost the legal decision about that
Persons of interest and disinterest alike
all became warped in the field of value and reproduction
potential unit pricing
a poor soul might choose to preach to animals
while an economically separate drive-up business pulpit
let with stage props resounds
Cheshire cat smiles for cameras with 360 degree shiny teeth all around
that is the impression that sticks in memory from H-wood to the Tower
window shutter chimes 7 chordate of rainbows
notes and floating teleprompters
a drunk watches under the stage unwinding
observing footlights and fashioned sculpted marvels
watching performers and sotto voce chat certainly remarked
tete a tete
Like dimensional emanations from the edge
deep footprints in the snow
I have circled before.
Posted on Wednesday 28 of January, 2009 [19:44:18 UTC]
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Thursday 29 of January, 2009
Peace is the absence of conflict, yet thermodynamic processes of change are not holistically at peace until thermal equilibrium within a volume is reached. When the highest state of entropy is attained and energy levels flat-lined the Universe will have attained perfect peace. It will be a peace without sentient life however. The final cause of Universal peace is contained in the plans of the beginning. A D.N.A. code of physical design fulfills its actuality through perpetual change, and at last the intended is complete; what is my role in this as an I, me, or some other nomenclature of self-awareness?
Peace for human beings should refer perhaps more to the relationships between humanity at a material level. Strivings after power over other human beings or for the attainment through competition for scarce resource are historically usual. Until perhaps 300 years ago the majority of human societies were slave holding societies, while that has changed through a plethora of dynamic political alterations including frequent war and evolution, the evolution of political concepts and social relations is an ongoing project at best.
Biblically it is written that when mankind declares 'peace, peace!' then shalt there be war. Because human language is interpreted by each individual for themselves and applied within an individual worldline and assigned a value unique to each individual communication values for virtually any phrase or idea communicated vary. Subjective, personal epistemological contents about the world of social reality and for physical reality differ, invariable from one to another and across time and social distance. Political and economic values differ with perspectives built upon language and understanding values of a personal contingency. Conflict causality in human social arrangements differ for as many reasons as may be presented to potential communication intersocial relationships. Everyone has their own point of view including the rightness or wrongness of political union or disunion, of cohesion and freedom from group oppression, for the right to possess private property or the right for no one to own property. People in agreement about a substantial matter of political ideas may differ over the allocation of resources for the management of resources, consumption of resources and the direction resource management should take. Peace is perhaps a product of settled issues; the dark side of Mercury away from the blazing political heat of the other side, the empty village depopulated by Ebola or the plague. Peace may be the smoldering ruins of a dead society and the concentration camp's closure with flowers placed by mourners. Peace may be the forgetting of memories of the Condor Legion's predations. Peace may be freedom from oppression or even an inner tranquility disregarding hate for those that persecute or behead one-the perspective of the observer may define peace.
For some peace is the recession of corruption; the end of an evil political policy or actualization of a maladroit political urban and suburban public zoning design. The war upon the environment, the war upon the poor in the United States by globalists and the middle class, the failure to employ the long term unemployed in America with a million ways to say no to financial adequacy fore social equality as the decades role on past--these things may be a subjective equivalent of war to the persecuted and amusing trifles to the enfeofed in plush SUV seats and mass-produced quarter million dollar homes. What can an individual do to contribute to peace?
Read the Bible for life and support equal civil justice for all citizens, become a well educated designer of ideas and inventions, be vigilant in keeping personal abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, love one's fellow citizen so far as that the golden rule is pragmatically extended to reach toward a just social environment that is healthy, non-exclusive and self-renewing ecologically.
Enable others to reach righteous goals when possible and judge not others harshly-be gentle as doves yet wise as serpents in comprehending why particular conflicts actually happen and apply intention to bring those to a just and righteous condition of peace when it is positioned to do so. Do not simply publicly posture in opposition to events that one benefits from unless the moral need to do so is compelling and there isn't a better way. Peace is a method that requires adaptability to a changing political and ecological environment, to a social reality with a variegated and unequal intellectual and educational endowment, to a non-static progress by trialectical and hextalectical evolution in fulfillment of an original will of creation.
Peace is a concept of transcending love related to infinite good-try to accomplish what is best, what is right, and pray.
Posted on Thursday 29 of January, 2009 [19:31:35 UTC]
A Sketch of Lenin's Rise to Power
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Wednesday 28 of January, 2009
V.I. Lenin's 'rise to power' was a two-fold process; a rise in the communist party organization and a rise through revolution to take over power in Russia.
Lenin was a prolific writer and practical party organizer; yet as a writer he was still just a close second to Leon (The Pen) Trotsky. V.I. Lenin was a legitimate correspondence school lawyer certified to practice law in Romanov Russia.
The party of the minority (the Bolshevik Party) was to the farthest left and jockied for political power with several other Russian revolutionary political parties including those of the cadets and the Menshevik (party of the majority). When the Romanov dynasty fell after the incompetent prosecution of the war of defense against Germany of August 1914 and an interim government formed the Bolsheviks would have nothing to do with it. Lenin was an exile to western Europe and Germany.
The Bolshevik Party was not certain of the way to form a communist party. Trotsky had one theory and Lenin another-Stalin at this time was a remote small-timer who would not exert much influence until after the 1917 revolution.
Trotsky supported power to the Soviets or workers organizations. A Soviet revolution at Kronstaadt brought a successful yet aborted revolutionary start. Lenin theorized much about the proper timing of revolutionary movements and interpreted political events in search of vulnerabilities much as a fullback might exploit weaknesses in an opponents defensive line. Lenin saw his moment during the height of the first world war.
The Germany imperial government had become entangled in a two front war. Crown Prince Ruprecht the brilliant war designer was stalemated in the west from the Alps through to France and Flander's fields. On the eastern front a complete victory was deferred because of the pressing need for troops on the west where British General Haig was fighting a war of attrition. The Crown Prince amidst others probably recognized the value of Lenin in subverting the Russian Government-they arranged to move him in a sealed train across Germany to Russia where the final push for Bolshevik revolt could develop. Lenin after swiftly achieving his toppling, nearly bloodless victory would sign a peace treaty with Germany-the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; bringing an end to the war with Germany in return for giving up the Ukraine and other considerations to Germany.
Crown Prince Ruprecht would then began his final offensive in France that expanded the front 100 miles into allied territory yet the Germany manpower shortages could not hold the line and recently arrived American forces mopped up and rolled back the German Wehrmacht. Lenin was beginning the recovery of Russia from a war economy and setting the foundation for a communist society.
As a domestic political leader Lenin was a much fairer hand than Stalin on the reigns of power. In 1921 Lenin abandoned state ownership of much of the economy because it was failing to meet survival production requirements of the people. An economic history of the Soviet Union shows that the changed to a mixed-ownership economy improved Soviet output while the policy was in place. The policy would be quickly rescinded by Stalin following the death of Lenin.
Kulaks were considered a class enemy-they were small scale farmers that suffered from mass deportation and death in the 1930's, yet when they were still permitted to be productive for themselves for a time they increased food production and outperformed Soviet collective farms.
Lenin's death following a succession of strokes has been historical suspect. Some believe that he was poisoned by Stalin-the best political intriguer of the Bolsheviks. A famous photo of the Bolshevik varsity leaders taken early after the revolution had nor surviving members shortly after the takeover of Stalin. While a brilliant revolutionary, pragmatist planner and adaptive socialist leader willing to promote popular interests through compromise with capitalist principles when need arose V.I. Lenin was evidently unaware of the deeper human social currents of original sin, organizational and individual will to power and the force such innate human traits would exert to overcome even the consummate communist revolutionary-himself.
As Lenin compromised the dogmatic communist doctrine existing before the revolution in order to find bread for the newly liberated from imperial power people to eat, back-benchers like Stalin designed his doom in order to advance a hypothetical, Phoenix-like Russia under a benevolent dictator to a will-o-the-wisp equality in government repression. Lenin's day in the sun was short but sweet, and his downfall equally brief.
Posted on Wednesday 28 of January, 2009 [20:29:27 UTC]
21st Century Poetry & It's Relevance
Gary C Gibson in Gary Gibson' s Blog
Wednesday 28 of January, 2009
Time may be a psychological concept thought St. Augustine. The cosmological ideas of physics may benefit from a parallax of points of view as might poetry provide another, more direct means for expressing ideas.
Poetry is non-conventional regarding prose forms of writing that have more set rules of grammar and syntax. The forms of versification may remain the same once discovered and exploited by farmers of poems for several decades or centuries. When over-used the fertility of the land may decline and the poetry suffer a decline with weakening rhymes and ideas dying unfulfilled upon the vines.
It shouldn't be intemperately argued that poetry is a viticulture creating Bacchic nectar that when imbibed does intoxicate people with a mirthful oblivion of care in rapture of creation. The sun may shine in Kansas City and Omaha alike in the 20th and the 21st centuries yet the landscape changes. Poets cannot write with such peace and joy poems of natural happiness over the splendorous nature of God such as might Walt Whitman even in more remote times from the exhaust fumes of progress and defoliant dreams for indoor developers trading shag carpet futures for the Persian rugs of fossil fueled crude below the middle east. Poetry never dies or fades away, it becomes promised to youthful hearts as dreams that were never realized, as hopes that will be discovered anew in another generation and another century.
Poetry is also for the poor. It is the kernel of creativity sewn to build the novel. It is a seedling set to begin the actualization of the potential form of the creator-the Aristotelian soul preknown by the author's life at the beginning, like Aristotle's form of the soul written into the genetic code as a final cause at conception. Some poor Haitian may discover a hydroponic reason for cultivating tanked mini-farms of verbose nutrients unbreakable by dictators of thought and unshakable by theocrats and atheists of rot-ideas that grow in an over-used environment and preserve life with a humanitarian containment within the spirit. Poems can be simple in any era and flow or desiccate, die and be reborn like any kind of common hope.
One Perspective
If i see you through a glass darkly today
it is because the One set an infinite sequence of changes
in motion such as are drifting beyond
my moment and yours in the Universe
receive catcalls from higher ups
echoes from the caverns of evil minds
tossed like grenades out of the mouths
placed into the perennial circle of foes
Yesterday walking along the river
i found a pair of shoes from a book
with a class segregated shopping village
Tourists of the planet spend
the non-renewable biosphere warped in purple glass
medicine bottles changed by a desert sun
one percent for inventive and one percent for art
the remainder mass producing cloned mechanical mitosis
A newspaper photographer lived a worm's eye view perspective
each celebrity snapped for qualo-Chessybloids
Napoleon became nine feet tall as did Dostoevsky's underground clerk
with the worst piano guy politician brought to a firing squad at last
control sought an off switch
all the worlds troubles and temptations broadcast live for profit
as the rest starved though they lost the legal decision about that
Persons of interest and disinterest alike
all became warped in the field of value and reproduction
potential unit pricing
a poor soul might choose to preach to animals
while an economically separate drive-up business pulpit
let with stage props resounds
Cheshire cat smiles for cameras with 360 degree shiny teeth all around
that is the impression that sticks in memory from H-wood to the Tower
window shutter chimes 7 chordate of rainbows
notes and floating teleprompters
a drunk watches under the stage unwinding
observing footlights and fashioned sculpted marvels
watching performers and sotto voce chat certainly remarked
tete a tete
Like dimensional emanations from the edge
deep footprints in the snow
I have circled before.
Posted on Wednesday 28 of January, 2009 [19:44:18 UTC]
1/17/09
Obama Ill-Prepared to Switch to Renewable Economy
Government terorism on the masses or upon particular dissidents is an historical tradition that perhaps made inroads into the United States with broadcast technology. For some political parties 'hate speech' is anything the party elite finds disagreeable, and it must be repressed through quick slander especially simple with the right alzheim-rave elocutions through the media.
The right role of a democratic government is to set the parameters in which macro-economic trends in capitalized corporations may function rather than to serve as accomplices to globaliasm. Globalism is a kind of sedition that is aided and abetted by the globally owned corporate broadcast media. Democracy that allows corporate interests to select the economic development are corrupting the value of both capitalism and democracy and moving toward state unification with corporate interests to repress the democratic and egalitarian interests of the nation.
The federal government lacks the tools of reason and good judgment required to move the nation toward an independent, self-sustaining and renewable economy. The government lacks the will to halt the illegal immigration and mass movements of people tot the United States that should be halted at 300 million; this continent does not need more of the surplus population of other continents or regions of the North American continent.
The federal government is a corporate sycophant of wealthy, vested capitalized corporate interests leading the people of the united States in to the chains of global and the build up to a global apocalyptic war over scare resource. The ecology of each continent is taking a beating with increasing population and the federal government is quite irresponsible in defending the United States from the ravaging fire of increasing planetary consumption.
The economy of the United States in recent years since the end of the cold war has become a burgeoning debtor nation with an irrational economic policy of globalism that essentially amounts to little more than trading independence and security for raw comfort and safety of over-large homes and over-large SUV's. The irrational concept that increased consumption done under the over-arching banner of capitalism will naturally select the best economic development course for the nation has taken hold. The federal government is incapable of reasoning in about the philosophical criteria of capitalism sufficiently to understand its right workings in the modern era with democratic supervision. That failure dooms the development of the United States to an anarchic drift through a challenging modern era.
Adam Smith believed that capitalism could best serve the interests of democracy in the allocation and supply of resources that it produced within government specified criteria rather than without. The England of his day and today does have an elite that looks after the interests of the nation sufficiently to prevent anarchic and feudalistic tion of a purely capitalist led government. The Unite states require a rational definition of criteria as well for capital production to exist within, and then for capitalism to find a way to make a profit.
Imagine if the U.S. Government let capitalists determine and supply whatever military equipment it believed the nation should have that best produced corporate profit? That is the fundamental circumstance in the civilian sector of the economy today. What a nation trades for internationally is important. Government must set functioning parameters in which capitalist endeavors can function to meet public needs rather than vice versa. The United States may concatenate its globalism by trading for a proverbial mess of potage (actual a Shakespearian mess of pottage). Just trading to produce globalist profits in no way guarantees that the United States will have a better standard of living, and especially will it not guarantee that global capitalism will best select the most efficient ecological adaptation for the people of the United States in to a renewable or highly efficient renewable economic structure. The Obama administration is ill-prepared for the transformation in to a renewable economy with liberty and justice for all and instead is set to attempt to pump new life in to the old non-disposable economy that the Bush administration kept on life support through dubious means beyond its time.
Can a fossil fueled Neanderthal-like culture change? Does anything change an established culture founded on a particular trophic order besides catastrophe or collapse? Will established powers ever do more than repress change if they can't exploit it?
The federal government's new tools' of adding public debt by a trillion or so could be used to fix' the U.S. economy is applied rationally, unfortunately it wasn't and isn't. Americans can take heart though in Speaker Pelosi's insinuation that if Detroit automakers meet select criteria by March 15th there will be an endless flow of money'.
In some areas of the fossil fueled world private race tracks and airstrips are built for the executives of fossil fuel industry and their heirs to amuse themselves. Consider the logic of an established hierarchy of inherited wealth or power and its resemblance to that of a royal structure. The vast collection of heirs in America bought in to the stock market generally, and that establishment generally overcomes any individual initiatives to change anything. Neither do the heirs have the intellects of the founders usually and they will thus give away their nation in order to keep up their lavish lifestyles oft-times. If inherited wealth were taxed at a 75% rate over one million dollars that would stimulate business and pay off the U.S. federal debt over time. Yet the upper classes will probably te as they usually do in history and destroy the civilization.
The American economy has had a downward trend for real income of all except the top 25% for the last 30 years. The long-range global supply of cheap labor that quadrupled at the end of the cold war has provided the overwhelming advantage to concentrated wealth. They invest in China where labor is far cheaper and build that economy while 'parting out' the United States. American economic prospects are 'handled' by the corporate broadcast media through obfuscating and time consuming diversions. The United States is transformed gradually in to just another average second world platform for global rulers with a pacified population. The present economic troubles most notably demonstrated the incompetence and unwillingness of congress to manage national economic affairs in the real interest of the people of the United States.
A renaissance of high-tech and ecological business creativity is needed along with secure borders free of illegal worker immigration to react to the challenge from the global supply of cheap labor to the prosperity of American workers. The U.S. service sector and financial sector cannot rationally compensate for the loss of real material productivity overseas and to Mexico. Free trade is a good thing yet so is Democratic governance that supports economic policy in the interests of all of the citizens instead of just a global few. Adam Smiths political criterion for capital advantage at allocating supply was within a national paradigm-Great Britain in his day. Capitalism is intended to serve the citizens of a nation best instead of the best interests of capitalists. The United States government should support economic development that actually prospers all Americans as directly as possible instead of the global class of concentrated wealth capitalists that believe a global 'trickle down' policy would work best for the people of the United States as an apologetic for what is actually an expansive greed actualized through governance run amok.
The federal government has all of the tools it needs to correct the economy before next April first except for intelligence, courage and integrity. They must be willing to withstand the withering propaganda fire of the incorrigibly corporatism supporting broadcast media and global capital interests to break free of globalist control. The economy needs not only an ecologically renewable underlying principle, it needs to have an actual; citizen circumstance awareness system that makes sure that no s are left out of the national prosperity-and a number of modern means exist that could be directed to assure the employment of the underemployed through priorities and incentives. There are even college graduates and veterans in the United States that earn less than 7000 dollars year after year I suppose through social natural selection for deletion, and it seems quite unreasonable to prolong the misery for them and continuously reinforce the comfortable probably amused even through this trying winter.
Part of the problem in Washington D.C. is the mass incompetence by prosperous people failing to comprehend necessary personal vital economic interests for people. An economic structure isn't a machine that needs a repair in accord with special formulas but is instead an ongoing phenomenology within a community-a national community. It is necessary for citizens to have the necessary things to live without pressure from the corrupt to submit to various social demands or be bumped off' economically. Those being said let’s consider two of the mental terminology used by the government and news media to describe some of the economic phenomenalities.
1) toxic assets'-this refers to real, constructed homes that have tremendous real value and can be used by anyone with half a wit for a net social profit. The government might have bought foreclosed homes from banks for whatever amount the bank lent out minus 25% and then super-insulated the homes, installed solar panels upon the roofs and maybe painted the exteriors with self-priming, lifetime solar photon converting to electron paint. The empty homes could have been used for a variety of publicly useful purposes. Instead the Bush administration lied to Congress about what it would do with the 750 billion dollars and instead of buying toxic assets' it provided money to banks and other special interests for loans or whatever.
2) 'under water' mortgages- The 12 or 13 million American homes with home mortgages far higher than the value of the home in the decline of housing values haven't experienced a flood-they are not under water'. Avarice and immodesty in building size made a lot of speculators of ordinary Americans. They believed that the United States might become a coast-to-coast er box palace with increasing home values and population in error. These homeowners could have been saved and still might benefit if they must be foreclosed through a reasonable federal intervention using elements of point number one.
3) 'bridge loans'-another name for kicking back loose money to global auto manufacturers to assure their long term repression of alternate means of conveyance and power rival vehicle start-ups.
4) 'bail-out'; the Congress serves as bail bondsman for corrupt banks with 'toxic assets' providing a trillion dollars in bail money to let the U.S. economy get out of jail free. Actually the money wasn't used for the purchase of 'toxic assets' but was given a different use by Secretary Paulson for more bank loans that would provide 'liquidity' for the flow of money possibly to secret foreign accounts in Paraguay or Switzerland along with bank mergers and happy meal Christmas bonus's.
The houses if foreclosed and vacated can be upgraded to be energy producers and perhaps electric vehicle recharging stations. The homes can be sold at low rates to veterans. Those foreclosed can qualify for special federal F.H.A. terms to purchase new homes at the value of homes in the present market. The primary point is to take up those vacant, valuable properties and transform the toxic assets' in to valuable tools to lever out the slack from the housing market. The total number of homes available could supply a number of existing federal, state and local housing needs including finding shelter space for the homeless people living in the United States. The number of uses for the toxic assets' is virtually limitless.
The Obama plans for reconstruction might well include a bambi economic factor that will send the money to the same old advantaged builders producing in effect kickbacks to the advantaged that is the usual. The United States needs a different economic foundation for transportation, energy and a reduced housing size with increased efficiency if it is to prosper in the changing global economic environment. Many of the globalists must be rather mirthful about the U.S. recession because they are investing in China and the downsizing of the American wage scale is a logical function of the 15% annual rate of economic growth in China that will drop to just 7.5% in the next year. As jobs are outsourced to China factories and businesses close in the United States. The Bush recession was a bridge loan' to refound the world economy for globalists upon China increasingly.'
In the Dallas area the mayor is salivating over the wish list from the Obama infrastructure plan with a 365 million dollar republican convention center and hotel at the top of the list. That is not a modest rescue of foreclosed homes, but instead a possible effort to provide a place for the Chinese Communist Party authorities to meet if they decide to build a Mao-mobile electric' car factory in the Dallas area one day. The Obama team needs to understand that the globalists are really corrupt and pushing ahead in their own ballooned direction until Armageddon happens even from the of the health of the oceans and the collapse of oxygen production from it (25% of the world total). The United States needs an electric car and monolithic dome concrete home infrastructure (headquarters in Italy Texas) instead of vast public building, sports stadiums and so forth. The same old privileged and corrupt, unintelligent leaders will push the same unchanging auto-culture with biggest square foot housing because they haven't a rational macro-environmental and nationalist economic paradigm.
The U.S. patent process is very slow and expensive to use for ordinary inventors and innovators. If I invented a new building product (this one may already exist) it would take more than a year to get a patent and bring it to market if I had thousands and thousands of dollars to spend gambling upon it. I hope this particular building application will be produced this winter so that I may have some new building to paint in the spring of 09.
Strong angled connectors made of steel that would replace plywood gussets in the easy construction of barn shaped storage sheds could be a patentable building product idea that would get the do-it-yourselfers constructing some building products this winter. I haven't ever seen such pre-set products in the building supply shops although they must exist somewhere.
The strong angled connector would let one insert the ends of 2 by 4's in at the right angle for the wall and roof of the shed frame. A ten foot long by eight foot wide storage shed might need just eight frames over-all and a total of sixteen of the strong angled connectors in designs where the lower section leans in a little.
The right number of connectors at the correct angles for a particular design could be sold in packages for about 50 dollars and everyone could profit. Building a storage shed with a barn shaped roof would simply require cutting the ends of the two by fours (or two by sixes in a different package of strong angled connectors) at the angles plainly labeled/imprinted on the connectors and nailed to screwed together. The frames would be toe-nailed in to the floor stringers.
A barn-shaped storage shed is sort of an upside down boat design, so I would suggest that a gallon of fiberglass resin be purchased from Boater's World and rolled on to the planking' or plywood that is nailed on to the frames in order to waterproof it before painting and eventual roofing.
The American economy has had a downward trend for real income of all except the top 25% for the last 30 years. The long range global supply of cheap labor that quadrupled at the end of the cold war has provided the overwhelming advantage to concentrated wealth. They invest in China where labor is far cheaper and build that economy while 'parting out' the United States. American economic prospects are 'handled' by the corporate broadcast media through obfuscating and time consuming diversions. The United States is transformed gradually in to just another average second world platform for global rulers with a pacified population. The present economic troubles most notably demonstrated the incompetence and unwillingness of congress to manage national economic affairs in the real interest of the people of the United States.
A renaissance of high-tech and ecological business creativity is needed along with secure borders free of illegal worker immigration to react to the challenge from the global supply of cheap labor to the prosperity of American workers. The U.S. service sector and financial sector cannot rationally compensate for the loss of real material productivity overseas and to Mexico. Free trade is a good thing yet so is Democratic governance that supports economic policy in the interests of all of the citizens instead of just a global few. Adam Smiths political criterion for capital advantage at allocating supply was within a national paradigm-Great Britain in his day. Capitalism is intended to serve the citizens of a nation best instead of the best interests of capitalists. The United States government should support economic development that actually prospers all Americans as directly as possible instead of the global class of concentrated wealth capitalists that believe a global 'trickle down' policy would work best for the people of the United States as an apologetic for what is actually an expansive greed actualized through governance run amok.
The federal government has all of the tools it needs to correct the economy before next April first except for intelligence, courage and integrity. They must be willing to withstand the withering propaganda fire of the incorrigily corporatism supporting broadcast media and global capital interests to break free of globalist control. The economy needs not only an ecologically renewable underlying principle, it needs to have an actual; citizen circumstance awareness system that makes sure that no s are left out of the national prosperity-and a number of modern means exist that could be directed to assure the employment of the underemployed through priorities and incentives. There are even college graduates and veterans in the United States that earn less than 7000 dollars year after year I suppose through social natural selection for deletion, and it seems quite unreasonable to prolong the misery for them and continuously reinforce the comfortable probably amused even through this trying winter.
Part of the problem in Washington D.C. is the mass incompetence by prosperous people failing to comprehend necessary personal vital economic interests for people. An economic structure isn't a machine that needs a repair in accord with special formulas but is instead an ongoing phenomenology within a community-a national community. It is necessary for citizens to have the necessary things to live without pressure from the corrupt to submit to various social demands or be bumped off' economically. That being said let's consider two of the mental terminology used by the government and news media to describe some of the economic phenomenalities.
1) toxic assets'-this refers to real, constructed homes that have tremendous real value and can be used by anyone with half a wit for a net social profit. The government might have bought foreclosed homes from banks for whatever amount the bank lent out minus 25% and then super-insulated the homes, installed solar panels upon the roofs and maybe painted the exteriors with self-priming, lifetime solar photon converting to electron paint. The empty homes could have been used for a variety of publicly useful purposes. Instead the Bush administration lied to Congress about what it would do with the 750 billion dollars and instead of buying toxic assets' it provided money to banks and other special interests for loans or whatever.
2) 'under water' mortgages- The 12 or 13 million American homes with home mortgages far higher than the value of the home in the decline of housing values haven't experienced a flood-they are not under water'. Avarice and immodesty in building size made a lot of speculators of ordinary Americans. They believed that the United States might become a coast to coast er box palace with increasing home values and population in error. These homeowners could have been saved and still might benefit if they must be foreclosed through a reasonable federal intervention using elements of point number one.
3) 'bridge loans'-another name for kicking back loose money to global auto manufacturers to assure their long term repression of alternate means of conveyance and power rival vehicle start-ups.
4) 'bail-out'; the Congress serves as bail bondsman for corrupt banks with 'toxic assets' providing a trillion dollars in bail money to let the U.S. economy get out of jail free. Actually the money wasn't used for the purchase of 'toxic assets' but was given a different use by Secretary Paulson for more bank loans that would provide 'liquidity' for the flow of money possibly to secret foreign accounts in Paraguay or Switzerland along with bank mergers and happy meal Christmas bonus's.
The houses if foreclosed and vacated can be upgraded to be energy producers and perhaps electric vehicle recharging stations. The homes can be sold at low rates to veterans. Those foreclosed can qualify for special federal F.H.A. terms to purchase new homes at the value of homes in the present market. The primary point is to take up those vacant, valuable properties and transform the toxic assets' in to valuable tools to lever out the slack from the housing market. The total number of homes available could supply a number of existing federal, state and local housing needs including finding shelter space for the homeless people living in the United States. The number of uses for the toxic assets' is virtually limitless.
The Obama plans for reconstruction might well include a bambi economic factor that will send the money to the same old advantaged builders producing in effect kick backs to the advantaged that is the usual. The United States needs a different economic foundation for transportation, energy and a reduced housing size with increased efficiency if it is to prosper in the changing global economic environment. Many of the globalists must be rather mirthful about the U.S. recession because they are investing in China and the downsizing of the American wage scale is a logical function of the 15% annual rate of economic growth in China that will drop to just 7.5% in the next year. As jobs are outsourced to China factories and businesses close in the United States. The Bush recession was a bridge loan' to refound the world economy for globalists upon China increasingly.'
In the Dallas area the mayor is salivating over the wish list from the Obama infrastructure plan with a 365 million dollar republican convention center and hotel at the top of the list. That is not a modest rescue of foreclosed homes, but instead a possible effort to provide a place for the Chinese Communist Party authorities to meet if they decide to build a Mao-mobile electric' car factory in the Dallas area one day. The Obama team needs to understand that the globalists are really corrupt and pushing ahead in their own ballooned direction until Armageddon happens even from the of the health of the oceans and the collapse of oxygen production from it (25% of the world total). The United States needs an electric car and monolithic dome concrete home infrastructure (headquarters in Italy Texas) instead of vast public building, sports stadiums and so forth. The same old privileged and corrupt, unintelligent leaders will push the same unchanging auto-culture with biggest square foot housing because they haven't a rational macro-environmental and nationalist economic paradigm.
The U.S. patent process is very slow and expensive to use for ordinary inventors and innovators. If I invented a new building product (this one may already exist) it would take more than a year to get a patent and bring it to market if I had thousands and thousands of dollars to spend gambling upon it. I hope this particular building application will be produced this winter so that I may have some new building to paint in the spring of 09.
Strong angled connectors made of steel that would replace plywood gussets in the easy construction of barn shaped storage sheds could be a patentable building product idea that would get the do-it-yourselfers constructing some building products this winter. I haven't ever seen such pre-set products in the building supply shops although they must exist somewhere.
The strong angled connector would let one insert the ends of 2 by 4's in at the right angle for the wall and roof of the shed frame. A ten foot long by eight foot wide storage shed might need just eight frames over-all and a total of sixteen of the strong angled connectors in designs where the lower section leans in a little.
The right number of connectors at the correct angles for a particular design could be sold in packages for about 50 dollars and everyone could profit. Building a storage shed with a barn shaped roof would simply require cutting the ends of the two by fours (or two by sixes in a different package of strong angled connectors) at the angles plainly labeled/imprinted on the connectors and nailed to screwed together. The frames would be toe-nailed in to the floor stringers.
A barn-shaped storage shed is sort of an upside down boat design, so I would suggest that a gallon of fiberglass resin be purchased from Boater's World and rolled on to the planking' or plywood that is nailed on to the frames in order to waterproof it before painting and eventual roofing.
The right role of a democratic government is to set the parameters in which macro-economic trends in capitalized corporations may function rather than to serve as accomplices to globaliasm. Globalism is a kind of sedition that is aided and abetted by the globally owned corporate broadcast media. Democracy that allows corporate interests to select the economic development are corrupting the value of both capitalism and democracy and moving toward state unification with corporate interests to repress the democratic and egalitarian interests of the nation.
The federal government lacks the tools of reason and good judgment required to move the nation toward an independent, self-sustaining and renewable economy. The government lacks the will to halt the illegal immigration and mass movements of people tot the United States that should be halted at 300 million; this continent does not need more of the surplus population of other continents or regions of the North American continent.
The federal government is a corporate sycophant of wealthy, vested capitalized corporate interests leading the people of the united States in to the chains of global and the build up to a global apocalyptic war over scare resource. The ecology of each continent is taking a beating with increasing population and the federal government is quite irresponsible in defending the United States from the ravaging fire of increasing planetary consumption.
The economy of the United States in recent years since the end of the cold war has become a burgeoning debtor nation with an irrational economic policy of globalism that essentially amounts to little more than trading independence and security for raw comfort and safety of over-large homes and over-large SUV's. The irrational concept that increased consumption done under the over-arching banner of capitalism will naturally select the best economic development course for the nation has taken hold. The federal government is incapable of reasoning in about the philosophical criteria of capitalism sufficiently to understand its right workings in the modern era with democratic supervision. That failure dooms the development of the United States to an anarchic drift through a challenging modern era.
Adam Smith believed that capitalism could best serve the interests of democracy in the allocation and supply of resources that it produced within government specified criteria rather than without. The England of his day and today does have an elite that looks after the interests of the nation sufficiently to prevent anarchic and feudalistic tion of a purely capitalist led government. The Unite states require a rational definition of criteria as well for capital production to exist within, and then for capitalism to find a way to make a profit.
Imagine if the U.S. Government let capitalists determine and supply whatever military equipment it believed the nation should have that best produced corporate profit? That is the fundamental circumstance in the civilian sector of the economy today. What a nation trades for internationally is important. Government must set functioning parameters in which capitalist endeavors can function to meet public needs rather than vice versa. The United States may concatenate its globalism by trading for a proverbial mess of potage (actual a Shakespearian mess of pottage). Just trading to produce globalist profits in no way guarantees that the United States will have a better standard of living, and especially will it not guarantee that global capitalism will best select the most efficient ecological adaptation for the people of the United States in to a renewable or highly efficient renewable economic structure. The Obama administration is ill-prepared for the transformation in to a renewable economy with liberty and justice for all and instead is set to attempt to pump new life in to the old non-disposable economy that the Bush administration kept on life support through dubious means beyond its time.
Can a fossil fueled Neanderthal-like culture change? Does anything change an established culture founded on a particular trophic order besides catastrophe or collapse? Will established powers ever do more than repress change if they can't exploit it?
The federal government's new tools' of adding public debt by a trillion or so could be used to fix' the U.S. economy is applied rationally, unfortunately it wasn't and isn't. Americans can take heart though in Speaker Pelosi's insinuation that if Detroit automakers meet select criteria by March 15th there will be an endless flow of money'.
In some areas of the fossil fueled world private race tracks and airstrips are built for the executives of fossil fuel industry and their heirs to amuse themselves. Consider the logic of an established hierarchy of inherited wealth or power and its resemblance to that of a royal structure. The vast collection of heirs in America bought in to the stock market generally, and that establishment generally overcomes any individual initiatives to change anything. Neither do the heirs have the intellects of the founders usually and they will thus give away their nation in order to keep up their lavish lifestyles oft-times. If inherited wealth were taxed at a 75% rate over one million dollars that would stimulate business and pay off the U.S. federal debt over time. Yet the upper classes will probably te as they usually do in history and destroy the civilization.
The American economy has had a downward trend for real income of all except the top 25% for the last 30 years. The long-range global supply of cheap labor that quadrupled at the end of the cold war has provided the overwhelming advantage to concentrated wealth. They invest in China where labor is far cheaper and build that economy while 'parting out' the United States. American economic prospects are 'handled' by the corporate broadcast media through obfuscating and time consuming diversions. The United States is transformed gradually in to just another average second world platform for global rulers with a pacified population. The present economic troubles most notably demonstrated the incompetence and unwillingness of congress to manage national economic affairs in the real interest of the people of the United States.
A renaissance of high-tech and ecological business creativity is needed along with secure borders free of illegal worker immigration to react to the challenge from the global supply of cheap labor to the prosperity of American workers. The U.S. service sector and financial sector cannot rationally compensate for the loss of real material productivity overseas and to Mexico. Free trade is a good thing yet so is Democratic governance that supports economic policy in the interests of all of the citizens instead of just a global few. Adam Smiths political criterion for capital advantage at allocating supply was within a national paradigm-Great Britain in his day. Capitalism is intended to serve the citizens of a nation best instead of the best interests of capitalists. The United States government should support economic development that actually prospers all Americans as directly as possible instead of the global class of concentrated wealth capitalists that believe a global 'trickle down' policy would work best for the people of the United States as an apologetic for what is actually an expansive greed actualized through governance run amok.
The federal government has all of the tools it needs to correct the economy before next April first except for intelligence, courage and integrity. They must be willing to withstand the withering propaganda fire of the incorrigibly corporatism supporting broadcast media and global capital interests to break free of globalist control. The economy needs not only an ecologically renewable underlying principle, it needs to have an actual; citizen circumstance awareness system that makes sure that no s are left out of the national prosperity-and a number of modern means exist that could be directed to assure the employment of the underemployed through priorities and incentives. There are even college graduates and veterans in the United States that earn less than 7000 dollars year after year I suppose through social natural selection for deletion, and it seems quite unreasonable to prolong the misery for them and continuously reinforce the comfortable probably amused even through this trying winter.
Part of the problem in Washington D.C. is the mass incompetence by prosperous people failing to comprehend necessary personal vital economic interests for people. An economic structure isn't a machine that needs a repair in accord with special formulas but is instead an ongoing phenomenology within a community-a national community. It is necessary for citizens to have the necessary things to live without pressure from the corrupt to submit to various social demands or be bumped off' economically. Those being said let’s consider two of the mental terminology used by the government and news media to describe some of the economic phenomenalities.
1) toxic assets'-this refers to real, constructed homes that have tremendous real value and can be used by anyone with half a wit for a net social profit. The government might have bought foreclosed homes from banks for whatever amount the bank lent out minus 25% and then super-insulated the homes, installed solar panels upon the roofs and maybe painted the exteriors with self-priming, lifetime solar photon converting to electron paint. The empty homes could have been used for a variety of publicly useful purposes. Instead the Bush administration lied to Congress about what it would do with the 750 billion dollars and instead of buying toxic assets' it provided money to banks and other special interests for loans or whatever.
2) 'under water' mortgages- The 12 or 13 million American homes with home mortgages far higher than the value of the home in the decline of housing values haven't experienced a flood-they are not under water'. Avarice and immodesty in building size made a lot of speculators of ordinary Americans. They believed that the United States might become a coast-to-coast er box palace with increasing home values and population in error. These homeowners could have been saved and still might benefit if they must be foreclosed through a reasonable federal intervention using elements of point number one.
3) 'bridge loans'-another name for kicking back loose money to global auto manufacturers to assure their long term repression of alternate means of conveyance and power rival vehicle start-ups.
4) 'bail-out'; the Congress serves as bail bondsman for corrupt banks with 'toxic assets' providing a trillion dollars in bail money to let the U.S. economy get out of jail free. Actually the money wasn't used for the purchase of 'toxic assets' but was given a different use by Secretary Paulson for more bank loans that would provide 'liquidity' for the flow of money possibly to secret foreign accounts in Paraguay or Switzerland along with bank mergers and happy meal Christmas bonus's.
The houses if foreclosed and vacated can be upgraded to be energy producers and perhaps electric vehicle recharging stations. The homes can be sold at low rates to veterans. Those foreclosed can qualify for special federal F.H.A. terms to purchase new homes at the value of homes in the present market. The primary point is to take up those vacant, valuable properties and transform the toxic assets' in to valuable tools to lever out the slack from the housing market. The total number of homes available could supply a number of existing federal, state and local housing needs including finding shelter space for the homeless people living in the United States. The number of uses for the toxic assets' is virtually limitless.
The Obama plans for reconstruction might well include a bambi economic factor that will send the money to the same old advantaged builders producing in effect kickbacks to the advantaged that is the usual. The United States needs a different economic foundation for transportation, energy and a reduced housing size with increased efficiency if it is to prosper in the changing global economic environment. Many of the globalists must be rather mirthful about the U.S. recession because they are investing in China and the downsizing of the American wage scale is a logical function of the 15% annual rate of economic growth in China that will drop to just 7.5% in the next year. As jobs are outsourced to China factories and businesses close in the United States. The Bush recession was a bridge loan' to refound the world economy for globalists upon China increasingly.'
In the Dallas area the mayor is salivating over the wish list from the Obama infrastructure plan with a 365 million dollar republican convention center and hotel at the top of the list. That is not a modest rescue of foreclosed homes, but instead a possible effort to provide a place for the Chinese Communist Party authorities to meet if they decide to build a Mao-mobile electric' car factory in the Dallas area one day. The Obama team needs to understand that the globalists are really corrupt and pushing ahead in their own ballooned direction until Armageddon happens even from the of the health of the oceans and the collapse of oxygen production from it (25% of the world total). The United States needs an electric car and monolithic dome concrete home infrastructure (headquarters in Italy Texas) instead of vast public building, sports stadiums and so forth. The same old privileged and corrupt, unintelligent leaders will push the same unchanging auto-culture with biggest square foot housing because they haven't a rational macro-environmental and nationalist economic paradigm.
The U.S. patent process is very slow and expensive to use for ordinary inventors and innovators. If I invented a new building product (this one may already exist) it would take more than a year to get a patent and bring it to market if I had thousands and thousands of dollars to spend gambling upon it. I hope this particular building application will be produced this winter so that I may have some new building to paint in the spring of 09.
Strong angled connectors made of steel that would replace plywood gussets in the easy construction of barn shaped storage sheds could be a patentable building product idea that would get the do-it-yourselfers constructing some building products this winter. I haven't ever seen such pre-set products in the building supply shops although they must exist somewhere.
The strong angled connector would let one insert the ends of 2 by 4's in at the right angle for the wall and roof of the shed frame. A ten foot long by eight foot wide storage shed might need just eight frames over-all and a total of sixteen of the strong angled connectors in designs where the lower section leans in a little.
The right number of connectors at the correct angles for a particular design could be sold in packages for about 50 dollars and everyone could profit. Building a storage shed with a barn shaped roof would simply require cutting the ends of the two by fours (or two by sixes in a different package of strong angled connectors) at the angles plainly labeled/imprinted on the connectors and nailed to screwed together. The frames would be toe-nailed in to the floor stringers.
A barn-shaped storage shed is sort of an upside down boat design, so I would suggest that a gallon of fiberglass resin be purchased from Boater's World and rolled on to the planking' or plywood that is nailed on to the frames in order to waterproof it before painting and eventual roofing.
The American economy has had a downward trend for real income of all except the top 25% for the last 30 years. The long range global supply of cheap labor that quadrupled at the end of the cold war has provided the overwhelming advantage to concentrated wealth. They invest in China where labor is far cheaper and build that economy while 'parting out' the United States. American economic prospects are 'handled' by the corporate broadcast media through obfuscating and time consuming diversions. The United States is transformed gradually in to just another average second world platform for global rulers with a pacified population. The present economic troubles most notably demonstrated the incompetence and unwillingness of congress to manage national economic affairs in the real interest of the people of the United States.
A renaissance of high-tech and ecological business creativity is needed along with secure borders free of illegal worker immigration to react to the challenge from the global supply of cheap labor to the prosperity of American workers. The U.S. service sector and financial sector cannot rationally compensate for the loss of real material productivity overseas and to Mexico. Free trade is a good thing yet so is Democratic governance that supports economic policy in the interests of all of the citizens instead of just a global few. Adam Smiths political criterion for capital advantage at allocating supply was within a national paradigm-Great Britain in his day. Capitalism is intended to serve the citizens of a nation best instead of the best interests of capitalists. The United States government should support economic development that actually prospers all Americans as directly as possible instead of the global class of concentrated wealth capitalists that believe a global 'trickle down' policy would work best for the people of the United States as an apologetic for what is actually an expansive greed actualized through governance run amok.
The federal government has all of the tools it needs to correct the economy before next April first except for intelligence, courage and integrity. They must be willing to withstand the withering propaganda fire of the incorrigily corporatism supporting broadcast media and global capital interests to break free of globalist control. The economy needs not only an ecologically renewable underlying principle, it needs to have an actual; citizen circumstance awareness system that makes sure that no s are left out of the national prosperity-and a number of modern means exist that could be directed to assure the employment of the underemployed through priorities and incentives. There are even college graduates and veterans in the United States that earn less than 7000 dollars year after year I suppose through social natural selection for deletion, and it seems quite unreasonable to prolong the misery for them and continuously reinforce the comfortable probably amused even through this trying winter.
Part of the problem in Washington D.C. is the mass incompetence by prosperous people failing to comprehend necessary personal vital economic interests for people. An economic structure isn't a machine that needs a repair in accord with special formulas but is instead an ongoing phenomenology within a community-a national community. It is necessary for citizens to have the necessary things to live without pressure from the corrupt to submit to various social demands or be bumped off' economically. That being said let's consider two of the mental terminology used by the government and news media to describe some of the economic phenomenalities.
1) toxic assets'-this refers to real, constructed homes that have tremendous real value and can be used by anyone with half a wit for a net social profit. The government might have bought foreclosed homes from banks for whatever amount the bank lent out minus 25% and then super-insulated the homes, installed solar panels upon the roofs and maybe painted the exteriors with self-priming, lifetime solar photon converting to electron paint. The empty homes could have been used for a variety of publicly useful purposes. Instead the Bush administration lied to Congress about what it would do with the 750 billion dollars and instead of buying toxic assets' it provided money to banks and other special interests for loans or whatever.
2) 'under water' mortgages- The 12 or 13 million American homes with home mortgages far higher than the value of the home in the decline of housing values haven't experienced a flood-they are not under water'. Avarice and immodesty in building size made a lot of speculators of ordinary Americans. They believed that the United States might become a coast to coast er box palace with increasing home values and population in error. These homeowners could have been saved and still might benefit if they must be foreclosed through a reasonable federal intervention using elements of point number one.
3) 'bridge loans'-another name for kicking back loose money to global auto manufacturers to assure their long term repression of alternate means of conveyance and power rival vehicle start-ups.
4) 'bail-out'; the Congress serves as bail bondsman for corrupt banks with 'toxic assets' providing a trillion dollars in bail money to let the U.S. economy get out of jail free. Actually the money wasn't used for the purchase of 'toxic assets' but was given a different use by Secretary Paulson for more bank loans that would provide 'liquidity' for the flow of money possibly to secret foreign accounts in Paraguay or Switzerland along with bank mergers and happy meal Christmas bonus's.
The houses if foreclosed and vacated can be upgraded to be energy producers and perhaps electric vehicle recharging stations. The homes can be sold at low rates to veterans. Those foreclosed can qualify for special federal F.H.A. terms to purchase new homes at the value of homes in the present market. The primary point is to take up those vacant, valuable properties and transform the toxic assets' in to valuable tools to lever out the slack from the housing market. The total number of homes available could supply a number of existing federal, state and local housing needs including finding shelter space for the homeless people living in the United States. The number of uses for the toxic assets' is virtually limitless.
The Obama plans for reconstruction might well include a bambi economic factor that will send the money to the same old advantaged builders producing in effect kick backs to the advantaged that is the usual. The United States needs a different economic foundation for transportation, energy and a reduced housing size with increased efficiency if it is to prosper in the changing global economic environment. Many of the globalists must be rather mirthful about the U.S. recession because they are investing in China and the downsizing of the American wage scale is a logical function of the 15% annual rate of economic growth in China that will drop to just 7.5% in the next year. As jobs are outsourced to China factories and businesses close in the United States. The Bush recession was a bridge loan' to refound the world economy for globalists upon China increasingly.'
In the Dallas area the mayor is salivating over the wish list from the Obama infrastructure plan with a 365 million dollar republican convention center and hotel at the top of the list. That is not a modest rescue of foreclosed homes, but instead a possible effort to provide a place for the Chinese Communist Party authorities to meet if they decide to build a Mao-mobile electric' car factory in the Dallas area one day. The Obama team needs to understand that the globalists are really corrupt and pushing ahead in their own ballooned direction until Armageddon happens even from the of the health of the oceans and the collapse of oxygen production from it (25% of the world total). The United States needs an electric car and monolithic dome concrete home infrastructure (headquarters in Italy Texas) instead of vast public building, sports stadiums and so forth. The same old privileged and corrupt, unintelligent leaders will push the same unchanging auto-culture with biggest square foot housing because they haven't a rational macro-environmental and nationalist economic paradigm.
The U.S. patent process is very slow and expensive to use for ordinary inventors and innovators. If I invented a new building product (this one may already exist) it would take more than a year to get a patent and bring it to market if I had thousands and thousands of dollars to spend gambling upon it. I hope this particular building application will be produced this winter so that I may have some new building to paint in the spring of 09.
Strong angled connectors made of steel that would replace plywood gussets in the easy construction of barn shaped storage sheds could be a patentable building product idea that would get the do-it-yourselfers constructing some building products this winter. I haven't ever seen such pre-set products in the building supply shops although they must exist somewhere.
The strong angled connector would let one insert the ends of 2 by 4's in at the right angle for the wall and roof of the shed frame. A ten foot long by eight foot wide storage shed might need just eight frames over-all and a total of sixteen of the strong angled connectors in designs where the lower section leans in a little.
The right number of connectors at the correct angles for a particular design could be sold in packages for about 50 dollars and everyone could profit. Building a storage shed with a barn shaped roof would simply require cutting the ends of the two by fours (or two by sixes in a different package of strong angled connectors) at the angles plainly labeled/imprinted on the connectors and nailed to screwed together. The frames would be toe-nailed in to the floor stringers.
A barn-shaped storage shed is sort of an upside down boat design, so I would suggest that a gallon of fiberglass resin be purchased from Boater's World and rolled on to the planking' or plywood that is nailed on to the frames in order to waterproof it before painting and eventual roofing.
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