Friday, May 30, 2008

In The Beginning

Physical reality is mathematically computational.
Politics is broken.
Present lawmakers are too beholden to money.
The logarithmically leveraging computational power of the internet is awesome, yet so far only tritely applied to politics, when measured against the internet's potential.
So, an imaginative ideal for a Virtual City On A Hill, Republic, or Walden Two could easily be leveraged or mobilized, for moving towards decent and civilizing goals, much the same as for an ordinary community.
One could begin simply by listing obvious truths that should be told, as well as needs that Congress has incompetently ignored.
Nearly 9o% of each solution may consist in defining its underlying problem.
Obvious examples of problems:
Why has Congress been so impotent to establish an energy policy adequate to motivate Americans to become independent of OPEC oil and foreign thugs?
Why has government not seen fit to incentive the production and feasibility of electric vehicles?
Why is the American border still allowed to be so porous?
Why is there such utter lack of care for stable and manageable populations, demographics, economies, and environments?
Why is there such disgraceful lack of consideration for what is entailed in caring enough for civilization in order to allow it to become stable, sustainable, and surpass-able?
Why has not every Congressperson every day pressed such obvious questions, looking to the very heart of incompetence of our governance?
Why is Congress afraid to tell voters the truth, that fossil fuels should be taxed high enough to better represent hidden social costs and to encourage development of alternatives?
Why are voters so presently unable to handle the truth?
Why have our academics and teachers allowed our voters to become so ignorant?
Why do so many thinkers in discredited Marxist terms still hold so much sway in our educational system?
Why do so many scientists and spiritualists tend so often to overstep NOMA?
Why is any fascist pretense, such as Islamofascism (I am not speaking here of mainstream Islam), afforded freedom to pretend to be a religion? Surely, not every group of thugs who may worship power, such as power of drugs, should on that basis be afforded religious freedom within the meaning of the free exercise clause of the Constitution to preach and indoctrinate religious soldiers and potential jihadists.
Could not a utopian-minded, academically-inclined coterie of pot stirrers unite to debate and/or adopt actual positions for advocating to lawmakers?
More later ....

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CONCERNS:

PAST --- Historical STABILITY: Security (Borders, Patriotism, Language, National Identification); Structure (Energy, Utility Grids, Roads and Dikes, Infrastructure, Satellite Signals).

PRESENT --- Present SUSTAINABILITY: Survival (Health, Education, Welfare, Environmental Challenges); Solvency (Jobs, Markets, Business, Productivity, Investment); Sociability (Family, Charity, Church); Service (Environment, Government, Defense, Arms); Subordination (Prisons, Police, Lawmaking, Governmental Organization, Global Relations).

FUTURE --- Inspirational SURPASSABILITY: Sacrifice and Spiritualism (Addictions, Self Reliance, Practicing Victimization and Grievance, Privacy); Sports, Sirens, Soma, Science (Entertainment, Pursuit of Happiness, Responsible Eugenics and Robotics, Space and Oceanic Exploration, Transcendence).

1 comment:

  1. Interesting "virtual" online sites:

    http://community.tncc.edu/faculty/longt/VirtualWaldenCCHA/index.htm
    http://jobs.phds.org/job/8819/walden-university/multiple-virtual-positions
    http://www.netsquared.org/projects/proposals/walden-iii-digital-utopianism-and-virtual-world
    http://directoryofonlineschools.com/online4.jsp?CLK=8060308333012970&CCID=&QTR=&ZN=&ZV=&KY_T=
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E6DB163AF936A15757C0A9629C8B63
    http://www.worldwidelearn.com/arts-humanities/philosophy-degree.htm
    http://www.degrees-online.com/Arts-and-Humanities/Philosophy/
    http://oedb.org/online-programs/arts-humanities/philosophy
    http://www.degrees-online.com/search.php?level=p&kw=Philosophy&x=10&y=11
    http://oedb.org/online-programs/arts-humanities/humanities
    http://oedb.org/online-programs/arts-humanities/humanities/phd-in-human2
    http://oedb.org/online-programs/arts-humanities/humanities/phd-in-human3
    http://www.elearners.com/campus/subject/38.0101.htm

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