Saturday, October 22, 2011

Beyond Linear Thinking


Our universe, as it unfolds, constitutes not just a self contradiction, but a walking contradiction, a changeless changer. Yet, here it abides. It cannot be explicated, appreciated, or controlled merely by import of bivalent logic or a rule of non-contradiction. This is because logic and science are its derivatives, not its creators. Appreciating universe and one's role in relating to it necessitates more than value quantifiers such as logic or science. It also necessitates value qualifiers such as empathy and intuition. Fortunately, even though empathy and intuition are not entirely reducible to logic or science, they are self evident, in that they are evident to conscious selves. Appreciating universe necessitates more than constructing a logic system or hierarchy of a priori fundaments and consequent derivatives. It necessitates an empathetic quality for appreciating a spiritual system of holarchy.


From A.T. -- Re: "Both capitalism and socialism work on paper. It's when you introduce human nature into the equation that problems arise."

Very well put. Too many linear thinkers push simplistic formulas that look pretty on paper, but avail no insight concerning what happens once their formulas have followed results off the paper, beyond the Bell curves, where weird phase shifts occur and quantitative shapes shift into different qualitatives. We are at a point where insight is sorely needed because old paradigms simply do not work well. Examples: Giving international corporations large tax breaks hardly incentives more production in America when the money is simply siphoned all the faster to overseas markets run by gangsters, where labor is cheap and senses of entitlement are low. Same for giving laid off workers welfare benefits forever. At some point, thinkers need to begin looking past the money and other second-order abstractions to that which money is supposed to facilitate: people trading their talents, production, and wills to work. It's no good simply to pour out revenues --- either down the hole of welfare addicts who are content in their holes, or into the siphon pipes of dismantling cannibalizers. Either way, the larger the role government plays in pouring "stimulus" revenues into such welfare holes and corporate siphon pipes, the faster America, as patient, dies of blood letting. Modern government is panicked, doing the same things that don't work, only faster, much like the bleeding doctors who stimulated Washington's early death. Until government gets more insight, it should follow the first rule of medicine: First do no harm. Then put aside the old linear models. Think about how to stop pouring out money. Instead, think about how to start getting out of the way so people can look out for themselves. Then think about how to assimilate and defend such a people as a nation. Stop the staking out of our nation onto a feast table for international, sociopathic marauders, who begin by eating through the bellies of our politicians and then feigning to represent our interests.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why's it so easy for the Left to posture itself so pure and non-hypocritical? Answer: Behind blinders, it's stoned out of its mind. When it's not stoned, it's acting out impulses for which it's adolescent brain never developed any balancing prefrontal lobes. Once achieving that level of permanently-stoned faux-enlightenment, the ONLY thing that matters is how to get the next hit. Acting out enhances the high. In the Left's moral code, good vibrations overlord all consequences. There's no debating with minds that permanently distorted. And they're recruiting more to the electorate all the time! Ordinary Americans are finally waking up to see that its both worse and later than we ever imagined.

Anonymous said...

There's little choice but to take part in defending against professional mind manipulators. Too often, most Americans are manipulated by those who live at extreme opposites on the same mountain of cliffs. Both extremes would push us over the cliff, to break on rocks in the same valley below. We are at a point where insight is sorely needed because old paradigms are not working. Examples: Giving international corporations large tax breaks hardly incentives more production in America when the money is simply siphoned all the faster to overseas markets run by gangsters, where labor is cheap and senses of entitlement are low. Same for giving laid off workers welfare benefits forever. At some point, thinkers need to begin looking to that which money is supposed to facilitate: people trading their talents, production, and wills to work. It's no good simply to pour out revenues --- either down the hole of welfare addicts who are content in their holes, or into the siphon pipes of dismantling cannibalizers. Either way, the larger the role government plays in pouring "stimulus" revenues into such welfare holes and corporate siphon pipes, the faster America, as patient, dies of blood letting. Government is panicked, doing the same things that don't work, only faster, much like the bleeding doctors who stimulated Washington's early death. Until government gets more insight, it should follow the first rule of medicine: First do no harm. Then put aside the old linear models. Think about how to stop pouring out money. Instead, think about how to start getting out of the way so people can look out for themselves. Then think about how to assimilate and defend such a people as a nation. Stop the staking out of our nation onto a feast table for international, sociopathic marauders, who begin by eating through the bellies of our politicians and then feigning to represent our interests. That's what protestors should be about.

Anonymous said...

All the abstract, quick-fix, monetary games and stimulations imaginable will not change brute facts on the ground: You can't eat money; America is producing far fewer durable goods; service jobs don't create wealth that can endure or be spread among the general populace; excessive regulations are making industry at home unsustainable, forcing it to move overseas; competitor nations and international cronies are buying influence among disloyal politicians; and, perhaps most significant, Obama and the Left do not want main street capitalism to succeed. If you were an investor, in the face of this, would you invest at home? We are being eaten alive, from the inside out. A treasonous, well buttered, and ignorant MSM is propping up the pretense that Obama is actually trying to look out for Americans. This is the fundamental metamorphosis of America that the Obama-Soros larvae intended, and it's much further along than many yet apprehend. You can't grow a lawn just by paying people to mow it or by protesting on the grass.




Powerful firms with great access to politicians share vest-ed interests in not being invest-igated. Because Reagan was right, that government is the problem, this encrusted rot will be hard to disinfect with more government. It will be a long time before any business dares to underestimate the corruption in government. Our law-making has been taken over by false-promising pervs, perps, criminals and traitors, with most of them either covering for one another or throwing mud against reformers for decency. Trust is unraveling. Main street capitalism is the best system, but it needs every now and again to be timely and rudely awakened.

Anonymous said...

OWS types want everyone else either to be as high as comrades or as working as enablers, so they don't have to be bothered with, except to bang noise. Having little faith in God or in any principled source of higher values, they are restless. Having no God, their only good is either to stay high on hormones and endorphins or to release adrenaline by knocking all efforts of everyone who isn't on their cloud. Believing nothing is useful, they make themselves useless ... except as dupes.

Anonymous said...

My daughters invested in higher education while their friends were buying homes. They watched as friends' homes appreciated, so that my daughters' ability to afford housing was no more before they began college than afer they finished. In effect, they tread water while friends were gaining equity. Of course, this encouraged people on the side to speculate in what appeared to be a government pushed ponzi scheme. Having helped people so much with the housing ponzi, the government now wants to help some more. Will no one free America of these big government helpers, so America can simply get back to the business of being America?