The emerging idea that "Forward Thinking" is the way to go, is little short of the launch sequence for Hitler style Nazi Fascism. Forward thinking is inevitably commandeered by mechanized vehicles, aircraft and bullets. Those are the premises of inhuman, inanimate, untrammeled, cold, heartless logic.
The kind Hitler's SS used. It comes from uncomprehending, barbaric and savage assumptions that the killer, because he lives, is correct; and the victims-those who were killed-were in error, wrong, stupid or weak, valueless and of no consequence. That's one side of a certain kind of African death's head mask that appeared in a movie about the United Nations, "The Interpreter" (2005).
Forward thinking is the original way of becoming a machine-whether by a soldier, regiment, marching band, military establishment, or nation. Forward thinking is what sharks do, as predators racing for their prey.
The United States is changing, and possibly being manipulated. One of manipulations happens by monarchical halving with nobility. That's not necessarily bad. Leadership is better shared. The United States is cognizant of all these issues and accepts good leadership when it presented by other nations. The opinions of others are not to be taken up lightly, of course. Fortunately the United States keeps its head well almost all of the time.
Forward thinking is the original way of becoming a machine-whether by a soldier, regiment, marching band, military establishment, or nation. Forward thinking is what sharks do, as predators racing for their prey.
The United States is changing, and possibly being manipulated. One of manipulations happens by monarchical halving with nobility. That's not necessarily bad. Leadership is better shared. The United States is cognizant of all these issues and accepts good leadership when it presented by other nations. The opinions of others are not to be taken up lightly, of course. Fortunately the United States keeps its head well almost all of the time.
Wikipedia has, "Currently, 44 nations in the world have monarchs as heads of state, 16 of which are Commonwealth realms that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state. .."
That global encyclopedia also lists
77 monarchies in antiquity, dating back to 3500 BC. to 926 AD
69 monarchies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance from 8th Century to 1752
57 monarchies from Kingdom of England (c. 1630 - 1707 to the 44 monarchies throughout the world at the present time.
Monarchies are not going away anytime soon. They have been among the principle forms of government during the more than five thousand years that spanned the constructions and records which accompanied the attainment of space flight and the determination of the nature of the planets. That nature includes no space aliens, no places to live, and the only two places a human being can walk on and live have no significant air supply. Earth is the only home for human beings for all the forever that matters during the next thousand, probably ten thousand years and more.
Monarchies have a balance of power and the means to attain and enforce it. The future looks best when monarchies and democracies are integral parts of a well designed win-win relationship. Each should cultivate its relation with the others. That's where the phrase "enemies in war, in peace, friends" poses difficulty in the Declaration of Independence. It is why the United States is under increasing pressure to at least be more compliant with the English monarchy, and not assume that all which is suggested by that government is both fail-safe and directs the United States to remain in continual war with somebody, somewhere. Even so, I would not know how to be of value in the best resolution, because I only see the danger from dark asphalt-filled places where decent civil people rarely go.
The future of Earth now is suddenly real. It contains no imagination-driven competition with space monsters, and no felicitous flights to the stars - possibly not ever. For a while, a joke went around that God made the universe exceedingly large and put the stars far away from each other in order that the inhabitants would not collude lightly or, more likely, ever. It may be we won't go flying to the stars anytime in the next million years, or ever. Time of course will tell, and Junior is shouting, "I've got the answer already!"
Constitutional monarchies are only a hairsbreadth from the Constitutional Republic that exists in the United States. Numerous citizens on both sides of the border between the United States and Canada are fostering unification of the two nations. The same is true of the border with Mexico. These movements are also in a context of a more broadly defined United North America. The author does not know much about these ideas and won't go into them here. Suffice it to say, modern genealogical research in the human genome has returned proven results even if there is a little more caffeine in the wool than one would expect. Democracy and monarchy might get along famously someday, even before flying to the stars. Look: the Russians are patching their own noble character back together after something dark in their character made them murder their royal family and dump them down a mine shaft. Now, they are finding their favorite families again.
It's enough to say that U.S.-Mexico unification turns up 1,290,000 hits on Google, U.S.-Canada unification shows 238,000, and United North America returns 131,000,000 results. That's 131 million.
One of the things that makes this seriously possible is that the cosmology is now understood to be the same for every person on the entire planet, no matter what their favorite parts are. Space flight gave the Earth a future concept that just does not stop. In fact, on thinking a few hundred years into the future, it takes off and racks of hundreds of thousands, and then millions and hundreds of millions of years. Two hundred twenty million years and Andromeda and the Galactic Center are again just 121 degrees apart.
That's one of the reasons the economy is wondering what to do. The future in economic terms spans aeons that are just simply mind-boggling. Little definite action to change the world's constructions can be taken until there is a better sense of agreement on what, in that long future, was
a. Invented and used in the past and is worth keeping forever, such as agriculture;
b. Was of primitive origin or recent invention that was more trouble and grief than good.
c. What new things need to be invented, and maybe
d. What new things should not be invented. After all, there are infinite possibilities, and the right of choice as well.
Several generations will be spend putting these things into new perspectives. Few major changes in the historical development of technology became obvious quickly in the past. Now, in media made possible by that very technology, the most astonishing thing is the emergence of new technology. Silicon is in the wild.
Forward thinking is just a way of deceiving the gullible into jumping into a future so long that it cannot be predicted, just because one can move forward rapidly in a spaceship, airplane, car or boat or on foot. Forward thinking was what the German gunners thought when they moved mechanized cannot, and what they thought when they shipped human beings into speeding cattle cars. Forward thinking is a way of carrying the head so much faster than the legislative powers that it becomes indifferent to the value of life. Life is then reduced to road kill, and made into some kind of gunk on the asphalt, like happens to the wildlife. Forward thinking is a way of crossing too many railroad tracks on a bike at a narrow angle. The machine driven decisions can make people do bad things like kill.
Forward thinking was not pretty then and it is not pretty now. It will be worse if it is taken seriously by the American people, or by any large population in the world. It should not drive the economic takeover.
If you must think carefully, do it in privacy, speak of your thoughts rarely, and weigh your decisions carefully in a motionless chair. Please, be very certain and very careful if you institute "forward thinking" as national policy. It would be used to drive database searches in discriminatory classification. Those drove Hitler's decisions when he used data from the machines to choose populations for his pogroms. Machine decisions led him to plan to exterminate the entire Jewish population. Then when you communicate you can say things you have already thought through.
This question has been in front of amateurs and professionals alike always, but especially after the first small computers became available in the 1970's and 1980's. A sort of poem was circulated then, about how different groups of people started disappearing. "First they came for the idiots. Then they came for the..." The groups began to consist of increasingly familiar people, but up to a point, there were others who remained in existence. Yet finally, the narrator says "Now they're coming for me." Several events have taken place since then, that have obscured that precaution and it is worth remembering again.
Please, DON'T buy into forward thinking, even if it is a favorite slogan in car companies.
The future of Earth now is suddenly real. It contains no imagination-driven competition with space monsters, and no felicitous flights to the stars - possibly not ever. For a while, a joke went around that God made the universe exceedingly large and put the stars far away from each other in order that the inhabitants would not collude lightly or, more likely, ever. It may be we won't go flying to the stars anytime in the next million years, or ever. Time of course will tell, and Junior is shouting, "I've got the answer already!"
Constitutional monarchies are only a hairsbreadth from the Constitutional Republic that exists in the United States. Numerous citizens on both sides of the border between the United States and Canada are fostering unification of the two nations. The same is true of the border with Mexico. These movements are also in a context of a more broadly defined United North America. The author does not know much about these ideas and won't go into them here. Suffice it to say, modern genealogical research in the human genome has returned proven results even if there is a little more caffeine in the wool than one would expect. Democracy and monarchy might get along famously someday, even before flying to the stars. Look: the Russians are patching their own noble character back together after something dark in their character made them murder their royal family and dump them down a mine shaft. Now, they are finding their favorite families again.
It's enough to say that U.S.-Mexico unification turns up 1,290,000 hits on Google, U.S.-Canada unification shows 238,000, and United North America returns 131,000,000 results. That's 131 million.
One of the things that makes this seriously possible is that the cosmology is now understood to be the same for every person on the entire planet, no matter what their favorite parts are. Space flight gave the Earth a future concept that just does not stop. In fact, on thinking a few hundred years into the future, it takes off and racks of hundreds of thousands, and then millions and hundreds of millions of years. Two hundred twenty million years and Andromeda and the Galactic Center are again just 121 degrees apart.
That's one of the reasons the economy is wondering what to do. The future in economic terms spans aeons that are just simply mind-boggling. Little definite action to change the world's constructions can be taken until there is a better sense of agreement on what, in that long future, was
a. Invented and used in the past and is worth keeping forever, such as agriculture;
b. Was of primitive origin or recent invention that was more trouble and grief than good.
c. What new things need to be invented, and maybe
d. What new things should not be invented. After all, there are infinite possibilities, and the right of choice as well.
Several generations will be spend putting these things into new perspectives. Few major changes in the historical development of technology became obvious quickly in the past. Now, in media made possible by that very technology, the most astonishing thing is the emergence of new technology. Silicon is in the wild.
Forward thinking is just a way of deceiving the gullible into jumping into a future so long that it cannot be predicted, just because one can move forward rapidly in a spaceship, airplane, car or boat or on foot. Forward thinking was what the German gunners thought when they moved mechanized cannot, and what they thought when they shipped human beings into speeding cattle cars. Forward thinking is a way of carrying the head so much faster than the legislative powers that it becomes indifferent to the value of life. Life is then reduced to road kill, and made into some kind of gunk on the asphalt, like happens to the wildlife. Forward thinking is a way of crossing too many railroad tracks on a bike at a narrow angle. The machine driven decisions can make people do bad things like kill.
Forward thinking was not pretty then and it is not pretty now. It will be worse if it is taken seriously by the American people, or by any large population in the world. It should not drive the economic takeover.
If you must think carefully, do it in privacy, speak of your thoughts rarely, and weigh your decisions carefully in a motionless chair. Please, be very certain and very careful if you institute "forward thinking" as national policy. It would be used to drive database searches in discriminatory classification. Those drove Hitler's decisions when he used data from the machines to choose populations for his pogroms. Machine decisions led him to plan to exterminate the entire Jewish population. Then when you communicate you can say things you have already thought through.
This question has been in front of amateurs and professionals alike always, but especially after the first small computers became available in the 1970's and 1980's. A sort of poem was circulated then, about how different groups of people started disappearing. "First they came for the idiots. Then they came for the..." The groups began to consist of increasingly familiar people, but up to a point, there were others who remained in existence. Yet finally, the narrator says "Now they're coming for me." Several events have taken place since then, that have obscured that precaution and it is worth remembering again.
Please, DON'T buy into forward thinking, even if it is a favorite slogan in car companies.
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