Waves of Distortion

.Some among the ancient Greeks thought there must abide a higher order of forms and numbers, like a living number. Indeed, it seems there must be something like a willing number, like a conserving-willing Numberer. Like a Will of a trivalent face, with capacity to turn to show present will, preset will, and randomly indifferent will. The face such holism shows seems to flux, fuzz, and transpose, depending on each particular observer's perspective, context, and purpose. If it seems hard to imagine how this state of being could be so, it is also hard to imagine how any state of being could be otherwise.
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Attempts to confine to logic and measure the aboriginal Source-in-itself, whether such Source be conceived as God or as God-particle, seem paradoxically beyond the power of logic or measure. Math of gravity (geometry of space-time) may offer the best concept with which to relate all else. One may conceptualize that each gravity-wave of distortion in space-time is coordinated and piled up in order to “push,” manifest, and vector matter and energy (substance) into relationships, then to avail each such relationship to unfold in its inertia along the vector defined by the distortion-wave that pushed the particular substance into its originating and defining density, spin, wake, charge, and vector. The distortion-wave that “pushes” substance into manifestation also pushes such substance along the general vector of such distortion-wave that was not translated into any particular manifestation of substance. If distortions in space-time are called “gravity,” then such gravity marks the aboriginal Source of all relative manifestation, motion, measure (and mindfulness?). Thus there abide waves within waves, fluxing and overlapping within an ocean of no visible boundaries of land, yet obeying a measurably conserving, reconciling, synchronizing, law or Lawmaker (or number or Numberer).
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Depending on perspective, context, and purpose, each particular parameter of substance can be relatively measured in direct, coordinate association with other particular parameters of substance, but cannot be measured in relation with the open yet finite ocean that defines all parameters — except broadly and indirectly (if at all). While flotsam within gravity-waves mark the aboriginal Source, neither gravity nor the Source it marks with flotsam (substance) can be directly measured as any kind of (dark) thing-in-itself. However, relative vectors that mark gravity-distortions in space-time can be measured. Thus, “gravity” is not a pulling force, but a meta-force that “meta-pushes” particular relationships and manifestations along a distortion-vector. However, this meta-pushing-force is of a quality that cannot in itself be directly or particularly measured, vectored, or controlled, nor can it holistically be confined or predicted. However, the substance (matter and energy) that it manifests can be measured, and by such measure, broad local effects of such distortion-waves are signified, although the distortion-waves-in themselves are not signified — apart from arbitrary fitness for apprehending local flotsam (experience of perspective, context, and purpose). This is because gravity-distortions are expressions of a holism (a Wilful Numberer) that has capacity to express and conserve its particular fluxes by means beyond mortal kin.
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The Source of distortion-waves may be differently conceptualized, depending on local perspective, context, and purpose. When the concept of a distortion-wave is meant primarily to explicate predictions of physics, then happenstance of shared perspective becomes paramount. When the concept of a distortion-wave is meant primarily to explicate statistical analysis of apparently random and indifferent parameters, then context becomes paramount. When the concept of a distortion-wave is meant primarily to explicate moral choices, then purpose becomes paramount. When spiritual appreciation is of primary concern, then it becomes important to reconcile each perspective with the entire context, to conserve purposeful feedback and interfunctioning between source-distortion-waves and manifestations-of-particulars. Then it becomes helpful to conceptualize how the Will of God may coordinate with a trivalent face, whose determination may be (1) willed (presently willed), (2) preset (pre-willed), or (3) random (willed on randomizing autopilot). For each situation for which the Holism happens to present, the face that is presented will coordinate with local perspective, context, and purpose. Thus spirit touches and concerns spirit.
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Stock Markets vs. National Boundaries

Regarding pent up frustration: Given the world marketplace, how can any nation, consistent with rule of law, defend its culture from being dissolved in the aggressive saliva of packs of disloyal or foreign cronies and investors bent on cannibalizing America in order to position themselves to acquire power to rule all? Under cloak of corporate form, cronies have rendered American law largely impotent to resist the: corrupting of the Fed for funneling "aid" money to foreign despots for them to use to buy propaganda, media, influence, and resources of America; laundering of money to kick back to compliant politicians and candidates in order to choke America's energy independence; buying by cronies of stock control in weak domestic corporations in order to transmit industries and jobs out of country; using of American colleges to transmit military and industrial technologies to cults bent on reducing or replacing America; and ignoring of domestic patent rights. America's antagonists are corrupting our politicians, currency, banking institutions, colleges, technologies, industries, and domestic corporations in order to dissolve our national will to exist as a last redoubt for human freedom, dignity, and decency. It quickly becomes useless to focus on borders while we continue to allow ourselves to be rotted out from within. I see no candidate who is addressing the piecemeal dismantling of America by cronies. The dominant trend is towards cronies and serfs, supers and subs, morloch and eloi. Yes, cronies, supers, and morloch do know how to use us. As far as a city on a hill for ordinary middle-class folk of good will and good faith, fuggedaboutit.

Moral Truths

Phony saints are fundies who assert that only others are fundies. A Lib-t (i.e., a Liberal, Libertine, Libertarian, or Literalist) will tend to be a fundie. By "fundie," I mean one who does not merely believe he apprehends an approach to moral truth, but instead believes he KNOWS (or can know) moral truth. Indeed, he is the truth he has been waiting for! Throughout history, many thinkers have reasonably intuited that concepts based only on notions about substance (matter and energy) are inadequate to appreciate all that reasonably should be appreciated. Something spiritual, beyond physics, is needed. This "something" abides and permeates as Unifier of holism and particulars, Reconciler of moral purposefulness, Connector of metaphysical will to measurable physical effects, Effector of logos between spiritual intentions and measurable signs, Immanent and immeasurable quality of empathy beyond quantitative substance, Guider of individual efforts, and Definer of perspectives, contexts, and purposes. The character and properties of this "something" are beyond the confining power of mortal categorizations. IT cannot be reduced to a single coordinate, coherent, consistent, complete concept by which mere mortals could adduce all else. Yet, it can be intuited, appreciated, and communicated. How? Not by scientific probes and quantitative measures, but by innate quality of intuitive empathy, apprehension, and appreciation. Thus, our mores, logic of ethics, parables, figures of speech, and sacred stories often inspire wondrous insights for appreciating moral truths, but not quantitatively measurable truths. Different religions and cultures often recycle similar parables about floods, cribs, and sin under different words and names. We can append names to concepts of God, but cannot make God into mere names. Yet, a fundie will almost always tend to force despotism once he acquires the power needed. He will live to serve social sociopathy, by snaring drug addicts, socialists, and crony corporatists. Above all else, he thinks to spend all his time trying to price moral values, square the qualitative to the quantitative, save Gaia, or save his own nest egg. However, this will sail right over a fundie's head. Indeed, a Lib fundie will hardly ever notice he is conceptual cousin to a biblical fundie.

Perfecting the Corporate Order

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Americans tend to apprehend that there is no objectively "best" way to put in concrete, establish, and manage details for how to put every American's mind and muscle to the wheel of work, howevermuch that may enrich society in material terms. We don't need or want a collectivizing or corporatizing manager to organize and mesh us to wheels and gears of hierarchically constrained control --- regardless of whether such organization be by government or by corporate chieftains who come to be effectively licensed or blessed by government. Rather, we need and want leaders who can dance with a Source of Will with which we can all be receptive, who have vision, and who can apprehend and appreciate the Spirit of America and Americans.

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Americans want political leaders who can be receptive to vision for empowering us to pursue a civilization where each citizen is availed to pursue fulfillment. This is a different thing from obtaining leaders who have lived saintly lifes. We need to judge our wannabe leaders less for their personal failures than for whether they can confess failures, learn from them, and offer decent and sustaining visions for civilization. What I wish to apprehend concerning our wannabe leaders pertains to the following: who is interested in the history of civilization, and who is not? Who has learned mainly from history, as opposed mainly from fairy tales, visions of final utopias, or notions regarding the perfectly corporatized world of free corporate trade (wherein everyone can be enlisted to work for a hierarchy of corporate managers who are selected by "The Market" --- however artifically that market may be constructed --- as "knowing best"). Who is concerned with freedom and dignity of ordinary citizens and believes in the exceptional possibilities of human decency and liberty? Who has vision, versus who simply wants to help elites worldwide to organize, manage, milk, and work gullibles? Whose vision entails faith in, and respect for, our unfolding relationship with an Immaterial Reconciler of freedom, dignity, and decent civilization?

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We need a leader who can put those who ridicule God as a flying-spaghetti-monster in their place. Who has the skill, timing, and gravitas to do that? (Actually, the concept of a holistic "flying spaghetti monster" Field Of Consciousness, whose immaterial tentacles interpenetrate to reach and reconcile with every particular and every particular perspective, is NOT inconsistent with natural conservation of matter and energy and capacity of perspectives to come to enlightened empathy in respect of one another. That is, there abides a dance of conservational feedback and respect, whereby parts are reconciled and conserved to the whole. We are NOT chained to any purely linear progression, to build some perfect machine and then retire from the field. The dance implicates feedback and PART-ICIPATION, i.e., interfunctioning with the unfolding expression of Will. Not linear progression to the perfectly organized new world order of corporate material syndicalism.)

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Collectivist Capitalism

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I came across an interesting new book called Cannibal Capitalism.  Because I haven't had time to read it in detail, I have skipped ahead to the last several chapters.  The points are as follows.  A thriving economy needs to keep workers gainfully working.  Industrial nations benefit by spreading work to developing countries.  It's immoral to deprive developing countries from competing with one of the few resources readily available to them, being cheap labor.  As developed nations produce fewer durable goods, they begin developing more in faux-goods, i.e., paper goods.  This consolidates wealth and dries up the middle class, making the economy unhealthy in terms of real wealth.
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The solution offered seems unrealistic:  to rely on businesses to have vision to temper the good of liberty at home with their own immediate profits.  That is, to negotiate give-back financing to build more infrastructure in the labor areas hollowed out at home.  I see the need for less regulation of business at home.  I don't expect, without national regulation, that the "invisible hand" of immediate self-interest will lead businesses by themselves to finance such give-back programs.  Moreover, it doesn't seem appropriate to blindly lump all poorer trading partners in some benign category as developing nations.  Many are not benign; their cultures mean to devour or bury ours, if we continue to enrich them with means to do so.  Yet, western nations fall all over themselves scurrying to sell themselves out.  I don't see the "immorality" in depriving entrenched, anti-liberty interests abroad from using their cheap labor to run state-capitalism that is intent on burying the West.  Moreover, blindly extolling the developing of markets in developing countries that are bent on burying ours is calculated to empower them to buy control over our resources, politicians, and jobs at home.  Blindly extolling such "free trade" translates into celebrating those capitalists at home who're quickest to sell us out.  I don't see candidates or pundits addressing this.  Maybe concerns with cannibal capitalism are not compatible with soundbite thought processes.
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Communists and corporatists are both collectivists, but one favors sticks while the other favors carrots. Even so, both run competitive communes. By that I mean competitive loyalty to the cause (apprehending who is strong and needs to be fed, versus who is weak and can be jumped) tends to be more important than any abstract notion of fairness or merit. Those Forced into collectivization tend sooner to comprehend their situation, but not much availed to communicate about it. Those Lulled into collectivization tend longer to remain deceived, and less likely to communicate about it while they deceive themselves. In any event, once the commune gates are closed, any strenuous effort to escape will likely be met either by expulsion from grace or by force necessary to the situation. The stronger and less checked a centralizer becomes, the more he becomes aware of his control, the more corrupt he becomes against the liberty or dignity of individuals. Death was pay to anyone who jested Alexander when he wanted not to be jested. A communist sociopath may deal death as a blatant example. A corporatist sociopath, bound more to formalities of law, must be more discreet. Eventually, both establish crony collectivism. At that point, it becomes mox nix whether you call it crony socialism or crony capitalism. Some want to abuse (Rinos); some want to be abused (Dinos). They take turns being on top. Not so many want to be free. I don't care much for Paul or Gingrich, but more needs to be learned about Romney in order to make an informed choice. As for Santorum, just say no to nation-building.

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Freedom and Dignity

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I just watched "When Romney Came To Town." For a hit piece, it may be effective if its inaccuracies are fixed. Coming as it does as everyone knows America is being hollowed out, it's timely. Now we hear how Republican Vultures are more wholesome than Democrat Parasites, and I tend to agree with that. Republicans play the competition card; Democrats play the empathy card. Neither pays much respect to Enlightened Empathy.

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No doubt, When Alexander and Caesar were capitalizing with force of arms, their soldiers would grow wounded and aged over time. To thin the soldier herd and make them hardier, it seemed only right to require that they get well and get younger. When borders are invaded, there's little alternative, except in wars of choice. So why are America's borders being invaded, infrastructure being rotted, and industry being sent abroad? Is it because America had no choice, or is it because our leaders became corrupt and ratted us out?

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Where did/does Bain get its seed money? Are its profits going to loyal Americans or to foreigners and NWO types? Are the jobs Bain "saves or creates" going to Americans and people of dignity or to cheap, third-world laborers working under whips of necessity? Is it a good day for American freedom and dignity to reduce our laborers to compete with Chicoms and nations that deal in selling children and human organs? Is Bain the apex of good vultures, or will foreign venture capitalists create a Bain of Bains? More for capitalists is always better, right ???

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It's educational to study how alliances have been entered into over the years

between crony opportunists and divided minorities. Simply choose a minority target, freeze it, and then excite dupes to believe you're on their side and against the target. So we cycle through Jews, Blacks, Catholics, Indians, Irish, etc. So it goes. Now, we come to white middle class men, whose turn it is to pay. Coincidentally, this comes as the middle class in general is being hollowed out and almost all significant institutions and means of persuasion are now in the hands of crony owners.

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It's suggested that Bain revived a lot of dying jobs and businesses. Maybe so. If so, let Romney explain. He's a data guy, so let's see the data. Let's also see who owns Bain and who provides the seed money. Cui bono? Who is Bain making stronger: the American economy or the crony alliance for a worldwide "Open Society," to be managed by people who "understand business" and "free trade?"

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Freedom's a friend of mine. But I suspect so-called free-traders tend to be friends of cronies who care more about their material economy than their children's opportunity to live in a free America. Freedom's one of those interesting personalities who're addressed under various concepts that shape-shift to convenience of hustlers.  Context is important to the concept of Freedom.  Is "freedom" meant as power to defy laws-of-nature? As a stand-in word for degrees-of-uncertainty that prevail while science remains incomplete for controlling beyond the trivial?  Does freedom pertain to the participation of a perspective of Meta-Will, relating to mental state, not as mind-in-itself, but as precursor to measurable effects? As felt intentions, versus power to effect intentions?  As an independent good-in-itself? As head-locus of power-of-choice over corporate bodies?  As power in one to enforce servitude in another? As power to buy-and-sell politicians, people, and jobs? As entitlement to kickbacks elicited with winks-and-nods about hope-and-change?  As entitlement to direct neighbors' children into reeducation or drug-addiction camps? As entitlement to dilute the full-faith-and-credit of American citizens by siphoning fiat money to fast-talking kickback artists? As entitlement to buy eminent power of politicians and government to remake whole districts into projects for repackaging and selling to foreign investors?  As entitlement not to be forced or cajoled while making economic choices? Yet, in the real world, where do free people make rational, independent choices, uncajoled by conditioning?

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To converse about freedom and "free trade," relatively coherent or consistent notions about freedom need to be shared.  Appreciation is needed concerning the interdependent roles of perspective, context, and purpose, i.e., assimilated culture. Such appreciation is neither much proved nor much advanced by resort to contrived statistics or concepts that shape-shift to convenience.  For freedom on Earth, advance a quality of enlightened empathy among all who seek it. Don't regulate advantages that reduce common folk to commodities to be bought and sold.  Especially to non-Americans, and especially to foreigners with no acculturation for appreciating human freedom, dignity, or empathy. In dogmas of Freetraders, Chicoms, Jihadis, and Materialists, what is meant by "freedom"?

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Club Vulture Crony

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Vulture capitalists are about centralized control over the masses, who "need it, if they know what's good for them." They are not about decentralization of liberty or government. Spoil-driven, vulture capitalism does thin herds, but not necessarily herds that need to be thinned, nor herds that are thereby made more productive or efficient. Nor are vulture profits necessarily re-invested in job-producing functions, as opposed to chariot-enhancing functions. Nor is vulture capitalism necessarily inconsistent with conquistador-imposed feudalism. Primarily, vulture capitalism has to do with who shall have dominion, who shall crack the whip, and who shall luxuriate because his ruthlessness "earns" him the right. It cares nothing for borders for a land of free enterprise for the commoners, to avail them dignity and markets in which to buy and sell their goods, wares, and labor. Such efficiency as vulture capitalism does obtain is often at the expense of a culture of opportunity, freedom, and dignity for the commoners. Vulture capitalism is not primarily driven by desire to preserve a free and representative republic, but by desire among cronies to accumulate dominion. In bygone ages, it was called spoil-driven conquest, and its currency was swords, blood, enslavement, gold, and allowing caesars to strut and pretend to be gods. In kinder and gentler times, its currency has become lobby-owned politicians, debt-imposed servitude, fiat money laundered to crony-kickback artists, and all the short term pleasures that money can buy from third world labor. Vulture capitalists do NOT want to preserve borders for Western Civilization. They want a worldwide society that is open to being reduced to the servitude of Club Vulture Crony. They don't "earn" their money; they take and make it. Before being ravished, so I can respect myself in the morning, I want to hear more from Romney than passionate promises to defend my borders and dignity. I want to hear how he plans to reduce the ethos of vulture capitalism to serve the freedom and dignity of America and Americans. I don't want to hear how America should be subservient to international vulture capitalists.
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