The function of government is not security of the citizen, as advertised. It is the entertainment of the citizen in discussion of government or other circuses, while the real ruler, the corporate, gets on with the serious business of enriching the few, and keeping them few enough to know each other in the best spirit of the Grandes Ecoles.
On this scenario the President of the USA is the uniformed agent of the family trusts, and certainly not the captain of the ship of state. Undue independence like sympathy for the underdog or care for reputation would lead to the repository.
It follows you can only put an honest man in the White House if like Gerry Ford he has problems counting.
TBC, hopefully to a positive conclusion.
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( 3.1 / 262 )I am getting to be fed up with commercial and self centered interests that delay and destroy progress.
Whenever there is a media attack on something good, it needs to be analysed and the originators and colluders condemned publically. Berated at least, before class action from those who will suffer.
The list is endless. From the pillorying of the Eves and Cains in every society, through the pogroms and genocides that are still government policies, that are still with us, to the helpless feelings of those who would reform daft political correctness.
So what’s to do? Read the newsgroups to find fellow-travellors, I fear. Until old age dims the fires, or debilitating bribes arrive if we start getting effective.
This was sparked by a little read of the secret history of Paris, by Andrew Hussey. Racy, mind on sales, but well reviewed and pithy about why Parisians have a right to be so nasty about their governments. Like the bitter olive in a martini.
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( 2.9 / 230 )Crazyidea may be about to split, like most book-based religions except scientology.
Some projects are starting to share lack of ambience.
Rambles, rants and raves will mostly stay here.
Cureent rough categories.
Math for all from late starter to high level
Livingstone science and paradigm shift awareness
Urban science awareness
Wolfram math as universal tool
Beyond the birthing boxes to fuller PHSERN and immune systems for each of them
Wymf
Computing
Networking
Eco into nomics, logy trends and friends
Notschool mainly for unschooled, partly as catch-all
Good things religion can offer young people
Plan to try some maths and science and notschool stuff on a blog or similar.
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( 3 / 261 )Reasons for god: by golly, by gap, by goodness and by need of community
Wonder and amazement at the glories and patterns of the created universe. Evolved from quarks or smaller beginnings, an awesome thing to be part of and aware of.
The gap in all of us when down, unloved, depressed or dubious. Is it a god-shaped hole?
Whence goodness in us? Prisoner’s dilemma writ large, or something far more deeply intertwined?
The sense of the numinous could be hysteria induced by loneliness or presence of god.
Prayer could be the syncopating electrons.
The euphoria of communal worship could be the formation of tribal identity – the warmth of the crowd.
The people of Israel found a way of feeding priests and acolytes and children through ritual meals and security. The multi-millenial thriving of the House of Abraham was not by accident.
The Christian god saves in all senses repeated sacrifice, and until the enlightenment (= ?the atheist-agnostic spectrum) let the state keep the masses in awe of sacrament.
The pillars of Islam give feelings of release from troubles like the magreb diaspora, as well as in the Friday sermon contact with local comforts and wisdoms. Also in learning the Koran, solidity with the past and direct contact with the Prophet and Allah.
All the peoples of the book have hard-wired memories, fear and degrees of guilt from pogroms, crusades and jihads. Each religion forgives itself its own sins: morbid introspection brings loss of group manhood.
All literate peoples of the book can return to their book for solace and reinvigoration. Hence schisms lead by local interpretations.
Hence also our current tabloid and broadsheet abhorrence of corruption in secular and religious leaders. Also our fascination with leaders who tell it like it is: rappers, Thatcher, young New Labour, before we see the clay in the feet.
Evolution has answers for all of these, with gaps for me at creation of consciousness and conscience and soul.
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( 3 / 192 )The poor we will have with us always, but our response varies. We no longer eat them except in extremis, but we condemn their children to poverty. For those who claw their way up, a hero’s welcome to Elysium. For those who sweated for it ethically, too often the children see a dark underside the parents ignored, and can go radical.
For those in urban and trailer ghettoes, the outlook is bleak. By failing them, we fail the Martian decency test, and deserve to join the dinosaurs.
Money is not an option: the drug problem just gets bigger. Nor is the excellent set of state proposals UK announced in May 2007, except as problem admitter and definer, both giant steps. Governments by nature and by law cannot invent consumer product.
People can: and the leaders of both major UK political parties have grievous problems among their own offspring, lending people power to this fatwa and the crusade it is part of.
As a first step for learning to work, the process needs flow. The individual in release mode from environment, in control of destiny, empowered to start, stop and go at will. This is not entrapment except by the feelgood mental chemicals, but it usually means the teachers are getting what they want while the learner is enjoying what the teacher wants. Sadly, once the learner emerges from the euphoria, they are either indoctrinated – you should learn like this too when I am a parent or a teacher – or in an individualised society, prone to cynicism.
Seems that flow alone is not enough. Hence the strength of projects where the leader is still carrying the message, but rare is the project that survives its builder. In education it seems that flow is hard to canalise. The learners keep peeping over the edge of the levee, especially when just one of their classes has a boring moment or an off-net teacher or pupil.
The second step is the hard one, for learners, corpoorates, and all in between. Consider the ant for yourself, or see or ask for other posts.
There are solutions coming, largely by melding online with on target, deliverer of system with goodwill interactor. When the olpc project reaches sewer children to where we care enough to do something about them, we may just pass the Martian test.
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