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Uber-Nomenklatura (International Pirates of Opportunity):
For "Ultimate Play On Volatility" (to consolidate rule of Uber-Nomenklatura), see http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/bidens_generated_crisis.html.
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MODERATING A GATHERING STORM OF EVIL:
A storm before us is not gathering because people are inherently evil. Rather, a storm of evil is gathering because morphogenesis unavoidably generates some habits of will and perspective that lead us to evil.
EVOLUTION: On one side of the coin of unfolding creation, the physical side, physical evolution appears to be expressed.
MORPHOGENESIS: On the other side, the spiritual side, morphogenesis occurs, in constant, continuous flux, availing us of both good and evil.
STRUGGLE: The good, meaningful, perpetual challenge before us is to devise strategies for controlling or countering an inherent aspect of morphogenesis that gathers and pushes us towards evil. We may not achieve final victory, but meaningfulness may find expression in the perpetual struggle.
POINT OF REFERENCE: For that, what can be our fixed star, or point of reference? To me, the fixed point consists in the pursuit of strategies for stabilizing and sustaining ever-surpassing civilizations for sheltering the social interaction of conscious beings of relative freedom and dignity.
DIALECTIC: For that, there is always a push-pull between individual versus communitarian needs. As community overbalances in dominance, individual freedom, dignity, and privacy may be sacrificed as cost. As individuality overbalances in dominance, eventually, civilization, even humanity, may be exploded and sacrificed as cost.
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PERVERSE EMPATHY OF ELITE CONTROLLERS:
Might those pulling our strings at highest levels of wealth and power, relative to their own world view, be in a sort of perverse “good faith”? Might their “fixed star” consist in a notion apart from maximizing of human freedom and dignity? Might their fixed star consist in what I may consider a perverse view of empathetic purposefulness?
Might the philosophy of elitist money changers center mainly on a notion of physical, evolutionary devouring among the fittest, devoid of any sense of spiritual morphogenesis or meaningful metaphysics?
Alternatively, might they believe humanity has no choice but in the near future to acquire such great skill for manipulating our common holography such that the privately unregulated passion of any one of us could easily doom all of us?
SURRENDER OF PRIVACY: If so, are they racing to condition and control the rest of us, to lure us to trade liberty for security, privacy for omniscient potential, and individual dignity for safety in community?
VOLUNTEERING FOR BORG-DOM: If so, may such “Borg” life yet be meaningfully availing of enlightened empathy? Or, must it entail surrender of soul?
To the extent “Borg as a whole” flourishes, may each part of Borg take vicarious delight? Does struggle towards Borg-dom become worth participating in? Then, must our meaning come not in substance of opposing Borgdom, but in stirring up passion for process?
FALSE CANDY: If so, dumbing down the electorate fits neatly with such elitist “strategery,” as yet another tool for controlling and Borg’ing the masses and giving them only illusion of democracy.
Easily riled dummies become easy prey for abusive elites and their agenda-driven, drive-by media. To encourage to vote those with little investment in national sentiments (illegals), experience (minors), character (felons), or brainpower (idiots) is to use “false candy” to lay a fast track to deceive the proletariat into submission to rule by abusive elites.
Middle class Moderates sense that the candy is false. But most Democrats, easily lured to demagogic deceits, readily fall for such triangulation, helping to pull us all faster and deeper into submission to totalitarianism.
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Uber-Nomenklatura (International Pirates of Opportunity):
For "Ultimate Play On Volatility" (to consolidate rule of Uber-Nomenklatura), see http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/bidens_generated_crisis.html.
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MODERATING A GATHERING STORM OF EVIL:
A storm before us is not gathering because people are inherently evil. Rather, a storm of evil is gathering because morphogenesis unavoidably generates some habits of will and perspective that lead us to evil.
EVOLUTION: On one side of the coin of unfolding creation, the physical side, physical evolution appears to be expressed.
MORPHOGENESIS: On the other side, the spiritual side, morphogenesis occurs, in constant, continuous flux, availing us of both good and evil.
STRUGGLE: The good, meaningful, perpetual challenge before us is to devise strategies for controlling or countering an inherent aspect of morphogenesis that gathers and pushes us towards evil. We may not achieve final victory, but meaningfulness may find expression in the perpetual struggle.
POINT OF REFERENCE: For that, what can be our fixed star, or point of reference? To me, the fixed point consists in the pursuit of strategies for stabilizing and sustaining ever-surpassing civilizations for sheltering the social interaction of conscious beings of relative freedom and dignity.
DIALECTIC: For that, there is always a push-pull between individual versus communitarian needs. As community overbalances in dominance, individual freedom, dignity, and privacy may be sacrificed as cost. As individuality overbalances in dominance, eventually, civilization, even humanity, may be exploded and sacrificed as cost.
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PERVERSE EMPATHY OF ELITE CONTROLLERS:
Might those pulling our strings at highest levels of wealth and power, relative to their own world view, be in a sort of perverse “good faith”? Might their “fixed star” consist in a notion apart from maximizing of human freedom and dignity? Might their fixed star consist in what I may consider a perverse view of empathetic purposefulness?
Might the philosophy of elitist money changers center mainly on a notion of physical, evolutionary devouring among the fittest, devoid of any sense of spiritual morphogenesis or meaningful metaphysics?
Alternatively, might they believe humanity has no choice but in the near future to acquire such great skill for manipulating our common holography such that the privately unregulated passion of any one of us could easily doom all of us?
SURRENDER OF PRIVACY: If so, are they racing to condition and control the rest of us, to lure us to trade liberty for security, privacy for omniscient potential, and individual dignity for safety in community?
VOLUNTEERING FOR BORG-DOM: If so, may such “Borg” life yet be meaningfully availing of enlightened empathy? Or, must it entail surrender of soul?
To the extent “Borg as a whole” flourishes, may each part of Borg take vicarious delight? Does struggle towards Borg-dom become worth participating in? Then, must our meaning come not in substance of opposing Borgdom, but in stirring up passion for process?
FALSE CANDY: If so, dumbing down the electorate fits neatly with such elitist “strategery,” as yet another tool for controlling and Borg’ing the masses and giving them only illusion of democracy.
Easily riled dummies become easy prey for abusive elites and their agenda-driven, drive-by media. To encourage to vote those with little investment in national sentiments (illegals), experience (minors), character (felons), or brainpower (idiots) is to use “false candy” to lay a fast track to deceive the proletariat into submission to rule by abusive elites.
Middle class Moderates sense that the candy is false. But most Democrats, easily lured to demagogic deceits, readily fall for such triangulation, helping to pull us all faster and deeper into submission to totalitarianism.
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FEDERAL RESERVE: As God (by mystery) keeps our bodies subordinate to our physics, likewise, do our top most money and interest managers (by cunning, shock, and awe) keep us subordinate to the Federal Reserve. Thus, the various levels of superior control to which we bend in subordination may --- in their own mysterious, hidden, deceitful, indirect, or direct ways --- affect fluxing parameters that govern limits of our apprehensions of freedom and dignity.
COUNTER STRATEGIES FOR PRESERVING CIVILIZATION BASED ON HUMAN FREEDOM AND DIGNITY:
I am not ready to give up on human freedom, dignity, and privacy.
Rather, I see our main problems as relating to:
(1) How to limit necessary constraints on privacy and individualism;
(2) How to redistribute power and wealth more democratically, to undermine centralization of elitist, abusive control, without unduly undermining individual initiative.
SHORT TERM STRATEGIES:
(1) Orderly retreat of privacy rights;
(2) Wresting of *ultimate control* of Federal Reserve away from private interests;
(3) Devising of a *fundamentally new economic tool*, based on progressively proportionate forgiveness of debts and interest owed to banks and to the Federal Reserve, for periodically readjusting and redistributing income and/or wealth in respect of Gini index parameters; and
(4) Orderly reassessing of *checks and balances* for using such tools.
*Where reasonable, day to day decisions by the Federal Reserve should be left to private stakeholders. However, Government must retain controlling stake and, when necessary, appropriate ultimate power, progressively and/or proportionately, to reset controlling interest rates and to proportionately lessen accrued obligations. The balance to preserve in a healthy economy and state: Managing investors should have fair financial incentives; citizens should not be turned proportionately into slaves; workers should usually be able to buy the products they make.
*Problem: Devising *checks and balances* sufficient to enforce and preserve basic decency is the hard part. Presently, increasing governmental regulation usually just translates into increasing sweetheart deal-making with lobbyists for those being regulated. As part of *checks and balances*, revolving doors need to be closed, regulatory houses need to be more frequently flushed clean, and nets for new talent need to be thrown wide. Ivy leaguers and members of secret and elite clubs should be banished, at least periodically and frequently. Ordinary State’s colleges need to better educate their professoriate and students to the gross and grand scale of abuses of interconnected elitists. Unless the current system is fundamentally changed, more regulation will only aggravate the headlong enslavement of the proletariat to indebtedness owed to greedy puppetmasters.
Presently, we are not being manipulated towards international socialism, but towards an illusion of international socialism. In reality, most of us are allowing ourselves to be led to sell ourselves ever faster and deeper into debt-slavery.
It may already be too late to recover, without great pain and anguish.
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LONG TERM STRATEGIES:
(1) Genetic treatment of populace, to instill, inoculate, or implant “genes of altruism”;
(2) Computerized monitoring, subject to appropriate checks and balances.
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LEVERAGE OF MONETARY POWER: Money is merely symbolic medium for reducing gratitude and indebtedness, and extensions and promises thereof, to quantification. Such expressions of gratitude and indebtedness often depend for reliability upon good faith, mutual trust, and empathetic character of persons and institutions involved in each exchange of goods, services, and currency. New issues of money are often created out of thin associations of habits of mutual faith and credit, buoyed by the force and momentum of nations sponsoring them, subject to interest bearing conceits and deceits.
Monetary power making is often leveraged or rewarded in respect of skills for contrivance and connivance (skills not necessarily relating to feelings of empathetic good will). Practicing to acquire skills in bluff, feint, and deceit often confers advantages to the survival and flourishing of skills for leveraging the transition of debt into profit.
DELEGATION AND FAILURE OF COMMUNICATION: The world is too big for any one person, regardless of power, to manage, manipulate, or malign. Rather, even the most powerful among us must delegate power among overlapping levels and spheres of influence. This necessitates discreet couriers and surrogates.
Often, messages intended to be conveyed by such surrogates are mangled or misinterpreted. Because of such failures of communication, sacrifices and assassinations are often deemed necessary, even among loyal and royal personages of power at high levels.
That is, relations among perspectives of Will are complex and not always peaceful. Empathy is not always cooperative or even competitive. Sometimes, empathy is cannibalistic.
FREEDOM AND DIGNITY: Of the holographic niche that nourishes humanity: How long shall we sustain it at all, much less sustain human freedom and dignity?
After all, in recorded history, has not civilization supporting human freedom and dignity been the exception, rather than the rule?
Can we preserve individual freedom and dignity?
In foresight, do we value human freedom and dignity enough to invest the imagination, daring, sweat, and sacrifice necessary to their preservation?
In hindsight, upon losing human freedom and dignity, shall we then regret having undervalued them?
RED ASS MODERATES: The problem for Enlightened, Empathizing, Moderating People (Red Ass Moderates, or RAM’s) is: How best to grasp power away from power mongers, while protecting human freedom and dignity, without empowering nihilists bent on destroying earth.
See comment at http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/fully_invested_in_your_misery.html:
I would agree that the answer to every social problem is not necessarily found in tax policy (as in always cut taxes if you are Republican, or always tax the rich, if you are Democrat).
I think we want people to profit from hard work and meritorious imagination.
We want factory workers to be able to buy the cars they make.
We do not want an economy top heavy with production of frivolous foppery.
We do not want so much disparity in wealth and power as to convert us from a representative republic to an aristocracy of masters of deceit.
There must be a wiser way to approach when and whether to tax more or less (or even to rebate).
SO, I WONDER:
Maybe it is time to substitute consumption based, progressive taxation for income based taxation.
Maybe we need a New Economic Tool: one that could make adjustments based on Gini index parameters; one that could coordinate Proportionate Forgiveness of principal and/or interest owing to banks and the Federal Reserve.
After all, are not many interest making “investors” in the Federal Reserve basing their claims to interest on investment principal provided by nothing but the thin air of the faith and credit of the nation as a whole? If so, why should not the nation as a whole be able to use the Federal Reserve to effect redistributive policy when helpful to sustain a more representative and vigorous economy?
Snippet from http://moneynews.newsmax.com/streettalk/ben_stein_wall_street/2008/09/22/133078.html?s=al&promo_code=6AFA-1:
Ben Stein, economist, author, former presidential speechwriter, and occasional actor is angry about the current economic earthquake that has rattled U.S. and global markets and he wants everyone to know.
He's particularly peeved with the $700 billion proposed Wall Street bailout and its architect, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
In a CNN interview, Stein said Paulson should be "fired yesterday."
Paulson is a disgrace to the Republican Party and to his country, said Stein. Another target of Stein's ire is Wall Street itself.
Stein says he'd like to see President Bush on national TV "with Mr. Obama to his left and Mr. McCain to his right and say we are going to make sure that you Americans are going to stop being looted by Wall Street."
“It's a first-class disaster. The worst Treasury regulation of the economy in my lifetime. ... The effect of this on the ordinary investor and pre-retiree ... is just catastrophic for the free enterprise system."
Global chutzpah in action: See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/business/22global.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin.
Managing pre-planned panic: Who you gonna call?
Whatever the high-level money-people say, no matter how fast or deep they may push the rest of us into debt slavery, we appear poised to acquiesce right along, trained little puppets that we are!
When the Wolf is the Doctor:
Elitist Positioning to Fleece and Manipulate Stupidity:
See snippets from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/opinion/22cohen.html?th&emc=th:
The world has changed in the past decade. There’s been a steady transfer of wealth away from the United States in a shift most Americans have not yet grasped. But there has been no accompanying transfer of responsibility. New powers are free-riding as if it were still the American century.
It’s not. Imagine if Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, had declared last week: “China has a deep interest in the stability of the U.S. economy and the dollar. We stand ready to help in the essential return of confidence to financial markets. Talks with the U.S. Treasury are ongoing.” Or perhaps the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) might have put out such a joint statement.
Let’s be clear: this is an American mess forged by the American genius for new-fangled financial instruments in an era where the mantra has been that government is dumb and the markets are smart and risk is non-existent. The responsibility for undoing the debacle is chiefly American, too.
But toxic mortgage-backed securities were peddled by plenty of foreign banks. And the decision to pour $85 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money into the rescue of American International Group (A.I.G.), the insurance giant, followed appeals from foreign finance ministers to Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, to save a global company.
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told me: “Paulson said he was getting calls from finance ministers all around the world saying, you have to save A.I.G. Well, they should have been asked to contribute to the pot.”
Frank has a point. (He should coach Barack Obama on how to put economics in plain language.) As Frank said on “The Charlie Rose Show,” “I don’t think the European Central Bank should be free to spend the Federal Reserve’s money and not put any in.”
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It’s time for a responsibility shift. Call it the Hirst reality check. If he can sell a formaldehyde-pickled sheep with gold horns for millions while Lehman goes under, perhaps it’s time for everyone to help a little when Americans get fleeced.
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See also http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/opinion/20fri4.html:
The only defense against the skewing of the art market created by collecting on Mr. Cohen’s scale is to appropriate the collector himself.
The difference in this case is Mr. Hirst, who has gone from being an artist to being what you might call the manager of the hedge fund of Damien Hirst’s art. No artist has managed the escalation of prices for his own work quite as brilliantly as Mr. Hirst. That is the real concept in his conceptualism, which has culminated in his most recent artistic farce: a human skull encrusted in diamonds.
You may think you are looking at a dead shark in a tank, but what you’re really seeing is the convergence of two careers, the coming together of two masters in the art of the yield.
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See also http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/damien_hirst/index.html?inline=nyt-per.
SEE: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/burning_down_the_house.html.
http://comments.americanthinker.com/read/42323/216087.html:
COMMENT:
Alternative brands of “Obama-fervor” may be:
(1) Obama believes misery so loves company that international socialism is the best way to restore humanity to good feelings about one another’s misery;
(2) Obama believes humanity, like cattle, is most suited to being deceived, herded, and milked by a class of rulers;
(3) Obama, in naive good will, really believes international socialism will be substantively good for humanity.
Regardless of brand of fervor, Obama’s religious-like ideal is some flavor of international socialism (not altogether unlike the Islamic way of life).
In Obama’s true-believing mind, the world’s foremost evil for impeding his ideal is the U.S.A.
Apart from efforts and alliances to radically re-organize and redirect America towards international socialism, has Obama ever manifested loyalty to mainstream American ideals?
Obama’s worldview is steeped in international socialism, which saps many minds, notwithstanding that such socialism is founded on a rat trap lie, i.e.: that most people, for no personal gain, can be induced to willingly sacrifice time and effort to support even those who claim to be entitled to such support, even as such parasites multiply in unwillingness to contribute.
Like many single-goaled true-believers, Obama, in pushing his ideology, feels justified in exploiting every means to reach towards his ends. His practiced ability to smile, disarmingly, even as he propagates his lying ideology, makes him explosively dangerous. In respect of his ideology, in Obama’s mind, he is “good.”
In practice, he is ushering us all towards a gathering evil. And most of us seem to lack the attention span to even notice.
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