Saturday, December 15, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Universal Body
If we were to imagine the human, environmental and cosmological world as a gigantic body, we can begin breaking down the parts of the body into its respective pieces in order to better understand its function and form.
To begin with an incomplete listing of the parts that we have, we begin with the individual cell, which is the singular person within society. Each person has social, psychological, environmental and physical needs that have to be met if they're going to be as healthy and successful as possible. We can think of these in terms of axes of well being, similar to what is used in psychiatric diagnosis.
The economy is like the circulatory system that supplies the cells with the goods, services and money that is needed for them to be well. It is important that only clean goods and services get added into the bloodstream of the economy, or else it will poison the cells and kill off the presently existing society in question. Goods, services and money also needs to flow throughout the system in a reasonably equitable manner, or else parts of the body will be without goods and services, thus increasing the likelihood of infection (rebellion and unrest), in addition to bloating the other parts that are receiving more of the blood that the other parts (bad for their physical and psychological health).
The government is like the brain of society that operates all parts of the body. It must serve the rest of the body in order to preserve the body in question, else, it will become open to infection, and the rest of the body will likely begin attacking it to remove its members from office (either through elections or through overthrow). Therefore, the brain must be aware of the body and the environment (through the sense organs and mechanisms internally and externally) and must be appropriately responsive to the needs and wishes of the rest of the body, as well as effective at responding to the needs and wishes of the body/environment if its members want to stay in office. The idea is to do as much good for all, while doing as little harm as is possible for all.
The brain (government) controls the heart, which pumps blood (goods, services and money) throughout the society, preventing it from bunching up in specific areas. It also produces the legal framework for the society, which acts as the muscular and skeletal system of the body that is human society. It also makes the ultimate decisions about how the body interacts with the environment that is around it for the body's sake, as well as makes choices about how to interact with other societies under other governments.
Eventually, it would be ideal to have one government for all of humanity, but that is a long way off, and we have many kinks to work out before that.
All of this is done, for the sake of the individual cells which compose the body. Without them, there is no body of society in which the brain can govern, and without the brain to govern the body, there is no effective functioning within the body on the tangible and empirically demonstrable level.
This is an incomplete picture of my analogy of the world as being like a body.
It's been posted to my official blog which is copyrighted material.
Please take note of this, before sharing.
Thank you!
And, good luck.
Think about it.
To begin with an incomplete listing of the parts that we have, we begin with the individual cell, which is the singular person within society. Each person has social, psychological, environmental and physical needs that have to be met if they're going to be as healthy and successful as possible. We can think of these in terms of axes of well being, similar to what is used in psychiatric diagnosis.
The economy is like the circulatory system that supplies the cells with the goods, services and money that is needed for them to be well. It is important that only clean goods and services get added into the bloodstream of the economy, or else it will poison the cells and kill off the presently existing society in question. Goods, services and money also needs to flow throughout the system in a reasonably equitable manner, or else parts of the body will be without goods and services, thus increasing the likelihood of infection (rebellion and unrest), in addition to bloating the other parts that are receiving more of the blood that the other parts (bad for their physical and psychological health).
The government is like the brain of society that operates all parts of the body. It must serve the rest of the body in order to preserve the body in question, else, it will become open to infection, and the rest of the body will likely begin attacking it to remove its members from office (either through elections or through overthrow). Therefore, the brain must be aware of the body and the environment (through the sense organs and mechanisms internally and externally) and must be appropriately responsive to the needs and wishes of the rest of the body, as well as effective at responding to the needs and wishes of the body/environment if its members want to stay in office. The idea is to do as much good for all, while doing as little harm as is possible for all.
The brain (government) controls the heart, which pumps blood (goods, services and money) throughout the society, preventing it from bunching up in specific areas. It also produces the legal framework for the society, which acts as the muscular and skeletal system of the body that is human society. It also makes the ultimate decisions about how the body interacts with the environment that is around it for the body's sake, as well as makes choices about how to interact with other societies under other governments.
Eventually, it would be ideal to have one government for all of humanity, but that is a long way off, and we have many kinks to work out before that.
All of this is done, for the sake of the individual cells which compose the body. Without them, there is no body of society in which the brain can govern, and without the brain to govern the body, there is no effective functioning within the body on the tangible and empirically demonstrable level.
This is an incomplete picture of my analogy of the world as being like a body.
It's been posted to my official blog which is copyrighted material.
Please take note of this, before sharing.
Thank you!
And, good luck.
Think about it.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Cheesy, But Accurate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc&feature=share
It's cheesy, but, once again, we get the emotional message with an accurate kernel at the core of it.
Most of the human species isn't blind or stupid or self-deluding/delusional ideologues. And that's how they fail in the long run, historically.
If I were in charge, I would have bailed out the people and companies who lost money, not the financial institutions themselves. If you had bailed out the people and the businesses themselves, rather than giving the money to the financial institutions, the recession would have been avoided anyway because only the bankers (who fucked up in the first place) would have been left with nothing, while the rest of the economy would have functioned normally with some new banks being started in the places of the old ones that crashed.
It's what I call percolate up economics.
And it requires that money flow throughout a system of economies, in order that everyone remains functional and well to do in the grand scheme of things.
Unlimited growth is only an academic concept purported by those who have unmoored themselves from the realities of being a sentient organism, and have instead, made themselves into this odd, parasite of a psyche that has forgotten its status as a biological organism firstly, and a dynamic human personality secondly.
Money is just an abstraction.
And it's high time that we all evolved as a species memetically, in order to realize that fact about our world that is relevant to our tangible existence and our psychological health, instead of thinking about what is only relevant in terms of a sheet of paper.
Think about it.
Cause it's your life that's on the line.
And it's only in your brain that it works otherwise.
Think about it.
It's cheesy, but, once again, we get the emotional message with an accurate kernel at the core of it.
Most of the human species isn't blind or stupid or self-deluding/delusional ideologues. And that's how they fail in the long run, historically.
If I were in charge, I would have bailed out the people and companies who lost money, not the financial institutions themselves. If you had bailed out the people and the businesses themselves, rather than giving the money to the financial institutions, the recession would have been avoided anyway because only the bankers (who fucked up in the first place) would have been left with nothing, while the rest of the economy would have functioned normally with some new banks being started in the places of the old ones that crashed.
It's what I call percolate up economics.
And it requires that money flow throughout a system of economies, in order that everyone remains functional and well to do in the grand scheme of things.
Unlimited growth is only an academic concept purported by those who have unmoored themselves from the realities of being a sentient organism, and have instead, made themselves into this odd, parasite of a psyche that has forgotten its status as a biological organism firstly, and a dynamic human personality secondly.
Money is just an abstraction.
And it's high time that we all evolved as a species memetically, in order to realize that fact about our world that is relevant to our tangible existence and our psychological health, instead of thinking about what is only relevant in terms of a sheet of paper.
Think about it.
Cause it's your life that's on the line.
And it's only in your brain that it works otherwise.
Think about it.
World Politics, 2030
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=295409
I don't know how the US defines their interests and actions when dealing with people overseas. Where do they get the idea that a nuclear Iran would be destabilizing to the region?
Unless of course, they're talking about the Israeli's possibly attacking the Iranians to destroy their nuclear arsenal.
But that would likely trigger a nasty regional war between the Israel and all other Islamic countries that the United States may or may not, be involved in. I don't know if many of our Western allies would necessarily be joining us on this issue. If they knew what would be good for them in the long run, they'd stay out of it.
It could also lead to the involvement of Russia and China in the regional conflict. Would need more information to know which side they'd likely be on (although I have a hunch it would be on Iran's side, to counter balance the United States).
In short, I don't see how it would be anymore unstable than it already is.
However, from the American perspective, I would like to point out that the chief reason how the United States would define it as a destabilized condition would be because of our prioritization and protection of Israel and our chosen enmity with Iran. Remember, the United States had the option to end Iran's nuclear program after we toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 by taking Iran up on the offer for normalized relations. We could have had peace between Iran and the United States, with the nuclear option taken off the table, were it not for the Republicans and the Bush administration.
If I were the US, I would see if we could get a similar agreement back again in the present, over the objections of the Israelis. Normalized relations with Iran with the condition that they end their nuclear program and open up to inspectors, would probably do a lot to stabilize the region and prevent the war that's slowly growing against Israel from taking hold.
But, let's see if anyone is interested in hearing this kind of argument who is currently in a position of power, authority or consequence.
I don't think the US would be interested in making such an agreement with Iran.
And it wouldn't shock me if we were to pull another serious diplomatic and strategic blunder by continuing to side with Israel unilaterally from the rest of the world and maintaining the aggressive posture against Iran that can so easily be changed on our own side.
I hypothesize that this path will lead us to more peace, at the very least.
And it's only a hypothesis until it is demonstrated to be otherwise.
Think about it.
Cause this could be the lives of millions of people, not to mention, all of those Jews living in Israel at the moment.
And that's the biggest kicker about our support for the Israelis.
It's bad for our side.
And bad for theirs.
On this plane of existence.
And nowhere else, is it actually helping them.
Think about it.
I don't know how the US defines their interests and actions when dealing with people overseas. Where do they get the idea that a nuclear Iran would be destabilizing to the region?
Unless of course, they're talking about the Israeli's possibly attacking the Iranians to destroy their nuclear arsenal.
But that would likely trigger a nasty regional war between the Israel and all other Islamic countries that the United States may or may not, be involved in. I don't know if many of our Western allies would necessarily be joining us on this issue. If they knew what would be good for them in the long run, they'd stay out of it.
It could also lead to the involvement of Russia and China in the regional conflict. Would need more information to know which side they'd likely be on (although I have a hunch it would be on Iran's side, to counter balance the United States).
In short, I don't see how it would be anymore unstable than it already is.
However, from the American perspective, I would like to point out that the chief reason how the United States would define it as a destabilized condition would be because of our prioritization and protection of Israel and our chosen enmity with Iran. Remember, the United States had the option to end Iran's nuclear program after we toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 by taking Iran up on the offer for normalized relations. We could have had peace between Iran and the United States, with the nuclear option taken off the table, were it not for the Republicans and the Bush administration.
If I were the US, I would see if we could get a similar agreement back again in the present, over the objections of the Israelis. Normalized relations with Iran with the condition that they end their nuclear program and open up to inspectors, would probably do a lot to stabilize the region and prevent the war that's slowly growing against Israel from taking hold.
But, let's see if anyone is interested in hearing this kind of argument who is currently in a position of power, authority or consequence.
I don't think the US would be interested in making such an agreement with Iran.
And it wouldn't shock me if we were to pull another serious diplomatic and strategic blunder by continuing to side with Israel unilaterally from the rest of the world and maintaining the aggressive posture against Iran that can so easily be changed on our own side.
I hypothesize that this path will lead us to more peace, at the very least.
And it's only a hypothesis until it is demonstrated to be otherwise.
Think about it.
Cause this could be the lives of millions of people, not to mention, all of those Jews living in Israel at the moment.
And that's the biggest kicker about our support for the Israelis.
It's bad for our side.
And bad for theirs.
On this plane of existence.
And nowhere else, is it actually helping them.
Think about it.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Levine Governing Consultants Inc
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-28-2012/consultants-without-borders
We may have the politics of it right, but we don't have the governing of it down, even in our own country.
Unless we approach governing from the perspective of science and empirical study about the world as it actually is in a given era and context (social, environmental and cosmological), and then work to achieve the best possible results for everyone while doing the least amount of real and actual harm to anyone (ie, like the practice of medicine), we will always be sunk in sub-optimal conditions of governing and politics, and it will always be our own fault, individually and collectively, as a species, that it will be the case.
Silly brains.
Think about it.
I wish I could be a roaming governing consultant, rather than a political consultant. Notice how just because you win an election, doesn't mean that you'll get to stay in power afterward (depending upon what you do with that position).
Democracy is a complicated thing that goes beyond elections and governing and politics, to what the people themselves want and need to have in their society.
And, it's only thanks to our brains that we become so lousy at doing this kind of stuff, for one reason or another, in spite of what we'd like to believe to the contrary.
Think about it.
We may have the politics of it right, but we don't have the governing of it down, even in our own country.
Unless we approach governing from the perspective of science and empirical study about the world as it actually is in a given era and context (social, environmental and cosmological), and then work to achieve the best possible results for everyone while doing the least amount of real and actual harm to anyone (ie, like the practice of medicine), we will always be sunk in sub-optimal conditions of governing and politics, and it will always be our own fault, individually and collectively, as a species, that it will be the case.
Silly brains.
Think about it.
I wish I could be a roaming governing consultant, rather than a political consultant. Notice how just because you win an election, doesn't mean that you'll get to stay in power afterward (depending upon what you do with that position).
Democracy is a complicated thing that goes beyond elections and governing and politics, to what the people themselves want and need to have in their society.
And, it's only thanks to our brains that we become so lousy at doing this kind of stuff, for one reason or another, in spite of what we'd like to believe to the contrary.
Think about it.
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