In the long run, a few great, serious problems exist which can be identified at the present time.
These include Reduction of the planet to FUNDAMENTAL FORMS OF THE ACTION and the consequent EXTERMINATION OF ALL LIFE except the beings that manufacture and operate the machines which conduct that extermination and a few other life forms that constitute their food. Living organisms, including SENTIENT BEINGS, are converted to inanimate hash by the millions of tons each years. Wildlife and domesticated animals are treated like a mineral deposit.
It is not clear that the ancient dynasties did not inadvertently put the human race to converting the Earth to radiation. More likely it was not anciently understood, that a difference exists between converting the Earth to radiation, and harmless and beneficial assimilation of the mass-energy equation by living organisms, including people.
The form of the dynasties that began six thousand years ago and have continued to this day have been based on massive constructions with an emphasis on four, quartering and other such arrangements of 2+2, 2*2, and 2^2. It seems to have begun with the three Great Pyramids. They were only the constructionist representation of the fundamental importance of 'four' on Earth.
Earth is in a solar system with two large objects, the Sun and Jupiter, that together dominate the solar system's mass, and orbit a massless point in space outside the surface of the Sun. This creates quadrupole moment in the Solar System, and that is mainly the reason why there are four distinctly largest planets around the very largest of which orbit four distinctly largest moons.
It is also the reason why tetrapod organisms dominate the vertebrates, the important largest class of living animals, of which the human species simply happens to have learned to walk upright, think, and use its hands well.
Four-ness subsequently led to some more recent problems. One of them is the pyramids; three are sufficient to suggest even to the smallest mind (being as they are made of huge rectilinear sandstone blocks) the number 4.
The four-ness of everything in human civilization is one of the results. It eventually led to a quartering of the action into its familiar four dimensions, where the [ ] square brackets mean that the quantities within them are dimensions, not quantities, measures or amounts.
[ACTION] = [MASS]*[LENGTH]*[LENGTH]*[FREQUENCY]
After three thousand years of inquiry, light was reduced to speed, and to some kind of constant. They became two different problems. The speed of light was estimated in many different ways, and is a rich, interesting history that started with sheer guesswork, progressed with estimates of its limits based on the timing of certain moons of distant planets, and ended with counting the number of ticks of good fast clocks while light traveled to a mirror and back. The speed of light was named just that, and it is symbolized with a c.
The remaining constant was eventually quartered - divided into four different parts. You can bet that the first thing assumed was that light consists of three different things, not four. The techniques of triage (when things are really tough) and quartering (when they are not, as in habitation) are very familiar. Its discovery is equally fascinating. The constant was named "quantum" and its symbol is h.
That's why an important brand of sugar which digests to practically pure energy, is called "C&H".
For as many years as mankind worked, he was a toiling brute and enslaved animals into beasts of burden, until finally power was harnessed from nature in various ways. Wind in sails and later in windmills and water in water wheels began to improve the situation.
Then heat engines, such as the steam and internal combustion engine, electric motor and so on freed man from domesticated animals and being a beast of burden himself, but also freed his works from the burdens of conscience.
The latter liberty was a real tragedy. It has resulted in a reduction of the Earth into the four fundamental dimensions of action, which constitutes half of light's friendly attributes.
By now millions of tons-that's MILLIONS, i.e. 1,000,000 multiplied many times-over of Earth's living, sentient beings are processed by machines -conscienceless, unconscionable inanimate machines, whose only consciences are their owners, into so much industrial products like they are inanimate mineral ores or dirt.
Moreover, much of the resulting corpses and much of the earth itself is also being transformed into the fundamental dimensions of the action - that action of light. Can it be, that the ancient dynasties put mankind to an attempt to transform the entire Earth into light? One good way to do that is to convert it entirely into energy, as in a nuclear mass-energy transformation. Perhaps there are processes in the universe, by which relatively small planets which are not stars, do not have to be stars, suddenly annihilate into light and light-like radiation such as the entire photoelectric spectrum.
Perhaps some of what are called nova, supernova or gamma ray bursts are not stars at all-it would not take many-are small objects like planets, that suddenly turn into energy. Why? That is not known; it is only conjectured that within the vast universe, dangers exist that are as yet unknown, while we human beings are busily transforming the Earth into vast quantities shaped like the fundamental dimensions of the action.
These fundamental dimensions are mass, length and frequency and their inner products which are mainly speed, area and momentum.
MASS, LENGTH, FREQUENCY, SPEED, AREA AND MOMENTUM
Let's examine these one by one.
MASS: The Earth and its sentient beings are reduced to MASS in millions of tons each year of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish, as well as iron ore (which is even named 'pig iron'), aluminum, coal, cement, and other refined substances from mineral deposits of the Earth.
The Earth is being consumed by the unconscionable machine that is thought to be run by a conscience- bearing operator who works because he must live and is paid to do the work and if he won't do it there is someone on the next shift who will.
"Have dominion over the Earth, and cherish it." Yeah, right.
The same ravenously gluttonous eye looks with stuffed cheeks at the Moon and at Mars thinking of what minerals might lie under the surfaces of those planets.
LENGTH is produced in millions of miles of rope, yarn, twine, pipe, rod, girder, wire, nylon, sisal, polyethylene, and other substances.
FREQUENCY is produced in are produced continually at every frequency that can be named, throughout the electric field spectrum. Gamma and X-rays, ultraviolet, visible and infrared light, millimeter, meter and 'micro'-waves, short and long wave radio waves, VLF waves are all neatly ruled, which is a saving grace, and pumped to the space and a few terrestrial listeners, in everything from microwatt to megawatts and gigawatts from portable telephones to radio and television transmitters all over the world.
SPEED is velocity with no direction known. Everybody loves speed. Fast tennis shoes on kids, fast bicycles, fast cars, fast boats, faster airplanes, faster yet jet, even faster rockets, fast bullets, fast company... Hurry, get up! Get busy! Faster!
AREA is simply length*length, as in square meters. The Earth, our only planet and lovely home, is being transformed into sheets of steel, sheet aluminum, sheets of plywood, glass windows, cardboard, wallboard, carpets, linoleum, ceramic tile, asphalt, concrete and cement roadways, fishing nets, sailcloth, paint layers, cloth, fabric, textiles and so on. This is in millions of square meters each year - square feet, square yards, acres and hectares, square kilometers and square miles as well.
MOMENTUM is another subset of the dimensions of action. Rarely mentioned explicitly, high momentum systems are constructed in huge or fast (or both) important vehicles: railroad trains, ships, airplanes and space rockets, bullets and other projectiles are forms of momentum. Particularly requiring determination are the causes of great streams of highway traffic, which constitute vast momentum and in total action, quantities yet to be estimated.
ENERGY is an exterior form; it is not by itself comprehended within the dimensions of action alone. Rather, an additional and second factor of frequency must be incorporated into action, and the result is Energy:
[ENERGY]=[MASS]*[LENGTH^2]*[FREQUENCY^2]
This is simple, and it has the additional quality that Energy has its own Mass equivalence, from the famous (and productive) Einstein equation for that equivalence - the "E = m * c^2" equation. So, we are transforming the world into action, in which vast fossil carbon and hydrocarbon deposits are being dug up out of the ground to create energy, which is very close to the dimensions of action, and which has its own mass equivalence.
It is POSSIBLE human beings are trying to recover the original relationship between mass and energy, and then incorporate the mass-energy equivalence into the forms of life itself. It IS after all possible to do that; just consider the food energy you consume, and its mass equivalence. It is possible to substitute or displace to some extent in this equation. Just what this implies is not yet clear. The presumption is that life can be improved in some way by taking the mass-energy equivalence into account. This means assuming that the energy of the food you eat and are, has some E=m*c^2 relationship to the mass you eat and are.
So you consume, say, 1500 Calories a day, and your weight is thus and so. How does THAT energy fit into THAT mass? In the experience of this person, scientist, the first time I considered that, the mass and energy went off in the plane of their mutual equivalence, it all seemed to disappear quickly. That was years and years ago. People who live and work near atomic energy are familiar with it. Revamping life on earth in terms of the mass-energy equivalence and in terms, too, of the speed of light, the quantum and certain other physical laws recently discovered, seems to be more in the path of the future evolution of mankind and life on Earth, than does systematic destruction of the planet and reduction of its living organisms to inanimate material.
It is NOT FAIR and NOT JUST to accuse persons who are concerned with such monstrous misconstruction, of fundamentalism. The entire planet's industrial might is determinedly, using machines, reducing the Earth and life on it to the whole range from high order low entropy forms to utterly chaotic, randomized rubble. Destroying the Earth, by being ignorant parts of some kind of evolved surrounding regime that is the result of evolution taking up the Dynastic form, is error. Not protesting it.
Reduction of the Earth to a fourth part was begun with three great Pyramids as if they were three of the four largest planets. Yet we do not even know whether the goal of the world's industries is to make that fourth part good, or merciful, or a garden, or habitable, too ordered for life or too chaotic for life. We have no idea whether dynasty's undefined fourth quarter will have any wildlife, any large animals, any Bluefin Tuna, Atlantic Cod, Alaska Herring, songbirds in it. It's not at all clear whether any of the hundreds of species on the Endangered Species list is viewed by Dynasty with alarm, or whether Dynasty has the capacity for conscience regarding the dozens or hundreds of species that have already been extinguished by the callous, insensate hand of the human so slavishly and statistically serving it.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Recession is Caused by Matters of Vital Necessity
Recession, if it comes, should not be regarded as entirely an unmixed curse. There are serious advantages to be gained by a stronger-than- usual period of moderation. This is not escapism. For six thousand years the entire world has been on a bird and dog struggle to reach the Moon - depicted in the famous Egyptian painting of bird-headed men sailing a winged boat to the great orbs in the sky ahead. Moreover this was merely the rational depiction of the intended journey, for the moon compelled direction throughout all the billion years in the history of life on Earth with the influence of the tides.
Instead of taking an uncontrolled hiatus as devolved between Egyptian dynasties, the world at present has the leadership and communications to understand what would be gained through such a period of rest, and how to winnow it away from the agony of struggle and belief that it is nothing but uncontrollable misery. Capitalism's marvelous success came at a price - that of unleashing species as information in economic currency and the untrammeled power of machines - and it revealed that aggression can make itself a part of any endeavor. A period of quiet would help resolve some of these complex issues.
This is similar to the way workmen take a break when they know they have not yet reached the point of such exhausting that they takes on an increasing risk of accident. That kind of planning is a part of every job definition involving risk and danger. Every labor union fights for the right to take that break. Certainly the intensity of world economic activity does involve danger.
In a planned hiatus it would be among the responsibilities taken on to determine the essential industries, business, and activities, and then deregulate, devolve or, if necessary, enforce shutdowns of industries that are of such intensely aggressive development that they are stretching rational justification in the present stage of development of civilization's progress.
As for the 'stage of civilization' it is appropriate to believe that the essentials of world development will endure many thousands of years - food, housing and other shelter, clothing, and moderated forms of education, transportation, and the mining of coal, oil and other minerals. The world would be devolving its industry with the intention that it shall provide good environments for children, perhaps for several generations, without the massively aggressive industrially driven consumer purchases and military's aggressive conglomeration of vast numbers of excessive weapons of mass destruction of which the United States already owns a vast number.
Certain events have already taken place in the right direction. Deregulation of airplanes, iron and steel, clothing and textiles, banking and the destruction of nerve gas stockpiles have already taken place.
The new participation by government in ownership in banking is a much needed step because of its very moderation. However, it does not address some of the most bloated kinds of development such as transportation. It's well known the transportation industry has a great deal of power in government today. This should be curtailed. Perhaps it would be a good step equivalent to that taken in banking and finance, if government insisted on taking a percent - say twelve percent (12%) - of fossil fuel industrial stocks. Why twelve? That pointed number is aimed at the atomic weight of carbon, which is (except for certain scarce isotopes) twelve. Don't let that technical detail derail the importance of showing at least some sign of positive conscious intention for human intervention in over development before collapse becomes unrestrained.
A hiatus, since the Apollo flights to the Moon and subsequence success was achieved, is not merely desirable. It is inevitable, and the present recessionary trend is its positive manifestation, its most logical form, and, if the panic is removed, a good idea the time of which came before anybody knew it was coming. The Chinese character for Crisis is composed of two other characters; Danger and Opportunity. The military's senseless habit of overcoming danger with blind faith and massive destructiveness was learned through thousands of years of primitive brutality in which soldiers were nothing more than expendable peasants that could be made angry and armed. That was part of the realm that named the marvelously successful Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and it came to a good thing. Perhaps it ended the time when the Pentagon is utterly blind to danger no matter what it costs.
As for the space projects, most now planned are well designed, but it can be announced that projects beyond earth's orbit, and perhaps the Moon and Mars, will be viewed with considerable jaundice. Those outer planets will not change in another hundred million years and no hurry is indicated. Projects toward them are frightfully expensive and very misleading to the public (some of which is hungry) waiting with bated breath for space aliens to be discovered so that the military can prove its existence and overkill capability was ever justified.
Far too much of military armaments and space exploration is still pseudo-justified at great cost to sensible leaderships resources which can find better use in human activities that do some earthly good for people.
Earth observation satellites would be given high priority - surveillance of weather, volcanic activity, flooding, storms, croplands, minerals, wildlife, pollution, temperature and other factors is already highly developed and should not be touched. It is relatively cheap for what it does, especially compared with idiotic manned flights to Mars. Even returning to the Moon is an extravagance, though it has been justified somewhat by the illusion that the Apollo success has been drifting into Myth and no longer commands the respect of the planet. However, the Apollo flights were successful in fact and they did change the Earth's concepts - even wild primitive concepts - a good deal. More change will occur with the second series. The next series of Moon flights is also good because it will include as great a variety of people as possible.
Volcano and earthquake prediction systems are also supremely good projects and should be continued. They are not costly.
But the world must bite the transportation dilemma head-on. Take a bite of the approaching hood ornaments. The present transportation system is NOT a sustainable economic factor.
The world population problem must also be addressed with more courage. Invite more people who don't have children to lend their understanding of what makes life happy that is not ever more children. Courageously address the solution in the public media, of limiting children. The conflict that will ensnare with certain religions like the Mormon church should be made enlightening. Address the possibility - simply make it known that it might be possible - of limiting ownership of motor vehicles. Just who, and how many, and where - all that needs to be gone over with a fine tooth global extensive media discussion for years before the really good solutions come to light.
Destruction of the world's wild species is something being imposed on this lonely planet without regard to the fact that it is almost instantaneous in the span of time in which wildlife have been, and will continue to be, important to the human species. Compare it with a million years: the massive, vast, overwhelming and monstrously violent slaughter of the world's wildlife began with the invention of firearms and machines like steam and internal combustion. It has gone unabated and insensate since then because the two entities being pitted against each other are MACHINES AS SPECIES, and the wildlife as wild species even if sentient beings, and they are purely helpless against the machines, powerless to fend against the destruction of their existence. Extinction is forever.
Already, human beings no longer resonate with each other in the spectra of hundreds of extinct species. Human beings almost cannot recognize life's resonance with each other at all. It has been narrowed to specific terms defined by machines such as radio, television, portable telephone, and permitted conversations in permitted languages. It is almost certain that human depression is a real consequence of the concrete, steel and machines; the regimentation and authority imposed on every and all kinds of activity; the rampant, endless slaughter of wildlife; the constant stream of death emerging as animals are murdered on the roads and highways; the bizarre theaters that supposedly define human consciousness; and other factors that would be truly absurd if they were not so fascist and destructive.
Recession, if it comes to extensive economic collapse, should be regarded as not entirely an unmixed curse. Much good will come of doing some planning as if it was caused by absolutely
vital factors that mankind is not at liberty to refuse.
Instead of taking an uncontrolled hiatus as devolved between Egyptian dynasties, the world at present has the leadership and communications to understand what would be gained through such a period of rest, and how to winnow it away from the agony of struggle and belief that it is nothing but uncontrollable misery. Capitalism's marvelous success came at a price - that of unleashing species as information in economic currency and the untrammeled power of machines - and it revealed that aggression can make itself a part of any endeavor. A period of quiet would help resolve some of these complex issues.
This is similar to the way workmen take a break when they know they have not yet reached the point of such exhausting that they takes on an increasing risk of accident. That kind of planning is a part of every job definition involving risk and danger. Every labor union fights for the right to take that break. Certainly the intensity of world economic activity does involve danger.
In a planned hiatus it would be among the responsibilities taken on to determine the essential industries, business, and activities, and then deregulate, devolve or, if necessary, enforce shutdowns of industries that are of such intensely aggressive development that they are stretching rational justification in the present stage of development of civilization's progress.
As for the 'stage of civilization' it is appropriate to believe that the essentials of world development will endure many thousands of years - food, housing and other shelter, clothing, and moderated forms of education, transportation, and the mining of coal, oil and other minerals. The world would be devolving its industry with the intention that it shall provide good environments for children, perhaps for several generations, without the massively aggressive industrially driven consumer purchases and military's aggressive conglomeration of vast numbers of excessive weapons of mass destruction of which the United States already owns a vast number.
Certain events have already taken place in the right direction. Deregulation of airplanes, iron and steel, clothing and textiles, banking and the destruction of nerve gas stockpiles have already taken place.
The new participation by government in ownership in banking is a much needed step because of its very moderation. However, it does not address some of the most bloated kinds of development such as transportation. It's well known the transportation industry has a great deal of power in government today. This should be curtailed. Perhaps it would be a good step equivalent to that taken in banking and finance, if government insisted on taking a percent - say twelve percent (12%) - of fossil fuel industrial stocks. Why twelve? That pointed number is aimed at the atomic weight of carbon, which is (except for certain scarce isotopes) twelve. Don't let that technical detail derail the importance of showing at least some sign of positive conscious intention for human intervention in over development before collapse becomes unrestrained.
A hiatus, since the Apollo flights to the Moon and subsequence success was achieved, is not merely desirable. It is inevitable, and the present recessionary trend is its positive manifestation, its most logical form, and, if the panic is removed, a good idea the time of which came before anybody knew it was coming. The Chinese character for Crisis is composed of two other characters; Danger and Opportunity. The military's senseless habit of overcoming danger with blind faith and massive destructiveness was learned through thousands of years of primitive brutality in which soldiers were nothing more than expendable peasants that could be made angry and armed. That was part of the realm that named the marvelously successful Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and it came to a good thing. Perhaps it ended the time when the Pentagon is utterly blind to danger no matter what it costs.
As for the space projects, most now planned are well designed, but it can be announced that projects beyond earth's orbit, and perhaps the Moon and Mars, will be viewed with considerable jaundice. Those outer planets will not change in another hundred million years and no hurry is indicated. Projects toward them are frightfully expensive and very misleading to the public (some of which is hungry) waiting with bated breath for space aliens to be discovered so that the military can prove its existence and overkill capability was ever justified.
Far too much of military armaments and space exploration is still pseudo-justified at great cost to sensible leaderships resources which can find better use in human activities that do some earthly good for people.
Earth observation satellites would be given high priority - surveillance of weather, volcanic activity, flooding, storms, croplands, minerals, wildlife, pollution, temperature and other factors is already highly developed and should not be touched. It is relatively cheap for what it does, especially compared with idiotic manned flights to Mars. Even returning to the Moon is an extravagance, though it has been justified somewhat by the illusion that the Apollo success has been drifting into Myth and no longer commands the respect of the planet. However, the Apollo flights were successful in fact and they did change the Earth's concepts - even wild primitive concepts - a good deal. More change will occur with the second series. The next series of Moon flights is also good because it will include as great a variety of people as possible.
Volcano and earthquake prediction systems are also supremely good projects and should be continued. They are not costly.
But the world must bite the transportation dilemma head-on. Take a bite of the approaching hood ornaments. The present transportation system is NOT a sustainable economic factor.
The world population problem must also be addressed with more courage. Invite more people who don't have children to lend their understanding of what makes life happy that is not ever more children. Courageously address the solution in the public media, of limiting children. The conflict that will ensnare with certain religions like the Mormon church should be made enlightening. Address the possibility - simply make it known that it might be possible - of limiting ownership of motor vehicles. Just who, and how many, and where - all that needs to be gone over with a fine tooth global extensive media discussion for years before the really good solutions come to light.
Destruction of the world's wild species is something being imposed on this lonely planet without regard to the fact that it is almost instantaneous in the span of time in which wildlife have been, and will continue to be, important to the human species. Compare it with a million years: the massive, vast, overwhelming and monstrously violent slaughter of the world's wildlife began with the invention of firearms and machines like steam and internal combustion. It has gone unabated and insensate since then because the two entities being pitted against each other are MACHINES AS SPECIES, and the wildlife as wild species even if sentient beings, and they are purely helpless against the machines, powerless to fend against the destruction of their existence. Extinction is forever.
Already, human beings no longer resonate with each other in the spectra of hundreds of extinct species. Human beings almost cannot recognize life's resonance with each other at all. It has been narrowed to specific terms defined by machines such as radio, television, portable telephone, and permitted conversations in permitted languages. It is almost certain that human depression is a real consequence of the concrete, steel and machines; the regimentation and authority imposed on every and all kinds of activity; the rampant, endless slaughter of wildlife; the constant stream of death emerging as animals are murdered on the roads and highways; the bizarre theaters that supposedly define human consciousness; and other factors that would be truly absurd if they were not so fascist and destructive.
Recession, if it comes to extensive economic collapse, should be regarded as not entirely an unmixed curse. Much good will come of doing some planning as if it was caused by absolutely
vital factors that mankind is not at liberty to refuse.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Contemporary Economics in the Long Run
It takes facing some of the grim truths to see the fields of extensive good that exist in nature. Concepts are sometimes divided not by mountains or seas but by hedges, creeks or ditches partly avoided through nothing more than habit.
Whether catastrophically or not, economic and financial systems are in immense change that should be foreseen more effectively. Electric eels established electricity a hundred million years ago, and recently human beings launched stone tools, fire, ceramics, houses and sanctuaries, writing, energy-using inanimate machines and in substantially greater depth than ever before, silicon.
Knowing the enemy as confusion and unanticipated events, and knowing oneself (the economic and financial systems) are, as always, most-important assets in winning.
Fortunately, vigilance in America is high in every measure. World economic stability increases continuously, yet technology is extremely new, almost instantaneous on the evolutionary scene. This must be understood better.
By now the distribution of money resembles the distribution of that ancient vital necessity, water. Each has its own well known but distinct problems. Just as with water, money is volatile. Reservoirs must be covered or at least guarded or fenced and watched with vigilance lest they be poisoned. Just so, financial systems must be both in detail and in large, protected with vigilance lest they be deceived.
Printing inflationary fiat money is temptingly easy. After all, mathematical progressions in the numerical integers, even if divided into pennies, are potentially infinite. If we can have a trillion dollar economy, why not a quadrillion? $10^18? $10^23? $ 10^34? $10^81?
That was one of the symptoms of the German Reich. Deutschmarks were being carried in wheelbarrows, and used as wallpaper. A dollar bill is not an electron, yet a coulomb of electric charge is only 1.6^19 electrons - a mere 16 million trillion. 16 gigagig electrons. That's where Zimbabwe is going now- toward physical reality the hard way. Is the dollar doing that?
Whatever currency units exchange, must eventually be faced by their makers. To this end, the uses of money must be understood. How does it change the universe to exchange a basket of fish, for a basket of wheat? a barrel of wine for a cartload of bricks? Assume two different instances of economic activity using substantial items in trade, with the sole difference that the net outcome in one instance occurs solely through barter, and the other instance occurs using value exchange tokens.
The same general outcome exists as in the half billion years of natural competition: everything is eventually winnowed to the finest scales of existence - molecules and elemental atoms. If money is used and the finest of details is not faced by planners, then eventually the economic system is drawn to a halt, until the details are reconciled. Not merely the pennies, but the molecular consequences of economic activity attained whether using money or not, dollars or pennies, pounds, lira, ren or yen.
Quantum electrodynamics is anchored in the relatively motionless exterior galaxies - actually in the space-time between them. Quantum electrodynamics dictates that human activity take the nitty-gritty quantum detail of everything we do into account. Count your atomic charges.
Yes, count.
Another was the appearance of extensive databases on human beings, which could be mined for the selection of distinct classes. Today massive databases exist on the American population, all waiting for a 'moment' of some kind.
Such dedication once existed to fly to the Moon in inadequately designed rocket ships, that the Nazis had 3,000 of them constructed, hidden in caves in the mountains of Germany by the time the war ended, and was already using them in war. The English Channel was the first rocket test range for moon rockets, and populous London was the test target. Grimly, it was never necessary to burn any persons to go to the Moon. Philosophers did not know the scale of the universe makes us feel infinitely tiny, yet human beings are not atoms.
Germany had prison camps. (America is now almost croaking under vast numbers of prisons.)
Germany's borders were sealed and dangerous to cross. The United States borders are under such increased control that many persons fear to travel to even Canada or Mexico. I have my Enhanced Driver License, though it has an RFID that automatically files me in a massive national database if I cross a border.
Fortunately some of the worst atrocities have been corrected.
German excesses were constructed on misinterpretation of the unknown future, in which the entire world would be one economy, one United Nations, one Universal Right, one whole planet of people enthralled with flights to the moon and planets and even stars. Yet Germany was a nation of human beings, just as every nation is now.
When the United States is in flight to the Moon sometime in the 2020's the entire world will be united in ways we cannot anticipate well, or even dream. Many events which seem they might be terrible problems that must be fended with guns and guards, fences and prisons, won't be problems at all, but blessings.
Racial integration was once anticipated badly, and thought to forebode terrible problems. Now it is widely known as a blessing, and does not even need to be disguised. I ride the bus, and see people of all races crowded together, the place is smelly, there are crude people singing rough songs or cursing, and everybody is mumbling.
Yet crowding seems to be another incorrectly anticipated development, and in that light the people are being angels, happy to can be together. They are neighbors, going to their homes in neighborhoods. Perhaps the transportation systems of the 2020's will merely dwarf the transportation systems of today. Impossible to imagine, it is unknown, and fear of the unknown crowds us into uncomfortable conditions (or worse) that one day will be understood as having been never necessary at all.
Futures which cannot be imagined well should not be advanced upon with such haste they result in not knowing what one is about. If it was not possible for the nation so survived the financial "crisis" that occurred last week without massive central-bank distributions of cash, in time it will be just that. Next time events will not be so surprising, nor cause such economic agitation.
A good thing too. Sadly, one can already see people planning how to control the next catastrophe so they can cash in on the monetary glut.
Michael Lewis
Seattle
Whether catastrophically or not, economic and financial systems are in immense change that should be foreseen more effectively. Electric eels established electricity a hundred million years ago, and recently human beings launched stone tools, fire, ceramics, houses and sanctuaries, writing, energy-using inanimate machines and in substantially greater depth than ever before, silicon.
Knowing the enemy as confusion and unanticipated events, and knowing oneself (the economic and financial systems) are, as always, most-important assets in winning.
Fortunately, vigilance in America is high in every measure. World economic stability increases continuously, yet technology is extremely new, almost instantaneous on the evolutionary scene. This must be understood better.
By now the distribution of money resembles the distribution of that ancient vital necessity, water. Each has its own well known but distinct problems. Just as with water, money is volatile. Reservoirs must be covered or at least guarded or fenced and watched with vigilance lest they be poisoned. Just so, financial systems must be both in detail and in large, protected with vigilance lest they be deceived.
Printing inflationary fiat money is temptingly easy. After all, mathematical progressions in the numerical integers, even if divided into pennies, are potentially infinite. If we can have a trillion dollar economy, why not a quadrillion? $10^18? $10^23? $ 10^34? $10^81?
That was one of the symptoms of the German Reich. Deutschmarks were being carried in wheelbarrows, and used as wallpaper. A dollar bill is not an electron, yet a coulomb of electric charge is only 1.6^19 electrons - a mere 16 million trillion. 16 gigagig electrons. That's where Zimbabwe is going now- toward physical reality the hard way. Is the dollar doing that?
Whatever currency units exchange, must eventually be faced by their makers. To this end, the uses of money must be understood. How does it change the universe to exchange a basket of fish, for a basket of wheat? a barrel of wine for a cartload of bricks? Assume two different instances of economic activity using substantial items in trade, with the sole difference that the net outcome in one instance occurs solely through barter, and the other instance occurs using value exchange tokens.
The same general outcome exists as in the half billion years of natural competition: everything is eventually winnowed to the finest scales of existence - molecules and elemental atoms. If money is used and the finest of details is not faced by planners, then eventually the economic system is drawn to a halt, until the details are reconciled. Not merely the pennies, but the molecular consequences of economic activity attained whether using money or not, dollars or pennies, pounds, lira, ren or yen.
Quantum electrodynamics is anchored in the relatively motionless exterior galaxies - actually in the space-time between them. Quantum electrodynamics dictates that human activity take the nitty-gritty quantum detail of everything we do into account. Count your atomic charges.
Yes, count.
Another was the appearance of extensive databases on human beings, which could be mined for the selection of distinct classes. Today massive databases exist on the American population, all waiting for a 'moment' of some kind.
Such dedication once existed to fly to the Moon in inadequately designed rocket ships, that the Nazis had 3,000 of them constructed, hidden in caves in the mountains of Germany by the time the war ended, and was already using them in war. The English Channel was the first rocket test range for moon rockets, and populous London was the test target. Grimly, it was never necessary to burn any persons to go to the Moon. Philosophers did not know the scale of the universe makes us feel infinitely tiny, yet human beings are not atoms.
Germany had prison camps. (America is now almost croaking under vast numbers of prisons.)
Germany's borders were sealed and dangerous to cross. The United States borders are under such increased control that many persons fear to travel to even Canada or Mexico. I have my Enhanced Driver License, though it has an RFID that automatically files me in a massive national database if I cross a border.
Fortunately some of the worst atrocities have been corrected.
German excesses were constructed on misinterpretation of the unknown future, in which the entire world would be one economy, one United Nations, one Universal Right, one whole planet of people enthralled with flights to the moon and planets and even stars. Yet Germany was a nation of human beings, just as every nation is now.
When the United States is in flight to the Moon sometime in the 2020's the entire world will be united in ways we cannot anticipate well, or even dream. Many events which seem they might be terrible problems that must be fended with guns and guards, fences and prisons, won't be problems at all, but blessings.
Racial integration was once anticipated badly, and thought to forebode terrible problems. Now it is widely known as a blessing, and does not even need to be disguised. I ride the bus, and see people of all races crowded together, the place is smelly, there are crude people singing rough songs or cursing, and everybody is mumbling.
Yet crowding seems to be another incorrectly anticipated development, and in that light the people are being angels, happy to can be together. They are neighbors, going to their homes in neighborhoods. Perhaps the transportation systems of the 2020's will merely dwarf the transportation systems of today. Impossible to imagine, it is unknown, and fear of the unknown crowds us into uncomfortable conditions (or worse) that one day will be understood as having been never necessary at all.
Futures which cannot be imagined well should not be advanced upon with such haste they result in not knowing what one is about. If it was not possible for the nation so survived the financial "crisis" that occurred last week without massive central-bank distributions of cash, in time it will be just that. Next time events will not be so surprising, nor cause such economic agitation.
A good thing too. Sadly, one can already see people planning how to control the next catastrophe so they can cash in on the monetary glut.
Michael Lewis
Seattle
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