Perhaps Now You Are Beginning To Understand Just How Urgent This Has Always been

Now, if we can only get you all to also realize the futility of trying to address this in any way that does not also recognize the other, quite plain truth: That the planet will not be healed by sticking with the economic operating system that created the problem in the first place.

No, the only way we we have any hope of succeeding here is by mobilizing the entire nation; just as if this were a great threat to our very existence that, say, a Fascist, authoritarian power, or Imperial power, might be attempting to do to take us down (without calling it another "war on" thing, because we all know how corrupted that way of doing things became -- precisely because of greed and the lust for power). And we have to do that as we also seek to find a better alternative to the corrupted, now mutated, system that got us here in the first place. Something that I believe will have to be a great deal more than just a "Green New Deal," that everyone knows won't be enacted anyway, even if the Dems retake the White House.

I have outlined, in these Google Blog posts, not only a place to start negotiating an alternative, but also the technologies we will need to provide an actual means to effectively address several main problems, including the heat one that cities are absolutely going to be facing; coming danger close in much shorter time frames than we've been led to believe so far. Technologies such as my approach to "Very Large Scale, Lighter Than Air, Constructs," that would give cities the best tool, given the time we have left, to provide not only shade for large metropolitan areas, but maybe even cooling air, from very high altitudes, as well.

Mind you, this will still be a very challenging, Aerospace engineering project, stretching what we are able to do with lightweight, extra strong materials, but that, difficult though it will be, is as nothing as compared to the overall scope, and size, of such an undertaking; assuming we do it as the broad based, include as much of the rest of world in the project as we can, undertaking it should be. Something that will require a build up of infrastructure for not only the production of such very large structures, but for their ongoing operation, and maintenance. All while we must also restructure the very nature of work, and how we will all integrate with it, and still preserve Democratic rule, in the process (information simply cannot also be money, if you want to have any hope for the free flow of it; and thusly the better chance for truly informed consent that, more and more, we must have with such new, and powerful abilities. to go with the profound choice that is the act of voting).

And if that weren't difficult enough, you also have to remember that such undertakings require significant leed times just to properly define, and plan for, much less begin the actual work, that a final plan might require.

This is also why we must also recognize that, just as doing "Business as Usual" is no longer valid, so is doing "Politics as Usual." Which means that we simply do not have time for another four and a half year repeat of changing the individuals, in various stations of power, to great fervor, and distraction, and more rules broken, just to still end up with so little, of practical benefit, being accomplished as a result.

Simply put, we must stop participating nearly as much, and start demanding a great deal more. After all, if the rules do not apply for the powerful any more, why should they still be so restrictive for you; understanding that our resistance must still be bound by peaceful, civil disobedience as the one rule we must try to never break.

Organize in every neighborhood. Then talk to the other neighborhoods. Stop paying student debt as a massive group. Stop paying insufferable rents, as a massive group. Stop buying anything you can get at a second hand store instead. Start making more of what you want by first turning off the "mediated want, amplification environment" around you, and then finding what you'd really wouldn't mind making yourself. It is something that will not only stretch you in better ways, it will empower you.

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This Is What Is Possible

When enough of us working people take to the streets in peaceful, civil disobedience. A Strike, if you will, against the system itself, as opposed to any particular sub, public, or commercial, enterprise, within it.

We have to do this because the system itself is no longer valid. Hasn't been for some time now.

It is no longer valid because it was invented hundreds of years ago. And despite the good efforts of a lot of well intended folks, who tried mightily to amend it, to be more equitable for both the many, as well as the few, over a good portion of those years, it is still not what it ought to be; and even worse, it has been corrupted so thoroughly, and for so long, as well as to be compounded in contradictory complexity by the very physical changes made, layer over layer, to change it, it comes out now as something attacked by a new kind of carcinogen. A new kind of mutation. Just one aspect of the over amplification of everything. in lockstep with ever more increasing, ever more dangerous, competitions.

In such a situation, is it really any surprise to you that the real players now are all operating under the rule that "rules don't apply anymore."

We, the people, must take back what has always been ours. The right to have a say in how we go about the process of doing social household. How else can it be when we are, at the very least, one half of the elemental relationship on display here: namely the same dichotomy just alluded to: the ever ongoing struggle to balance the rights, and responsibilities, of both the one, and the many, or the few and the majority; however you want to look at it.

This is why we are all going to have to sit down and figure out a new, "Grand Compromise," between what is essentially the current rift between the Right, and the Left. We have to do this because there is no other way we will be able to begin the effort it is going to take to both heal what has already been done to the planet, but also, to begin infrastructuring up, like humanity has never done before, to create the next great Ismus, for migration, that will be mandatory if we're to have any hope of keeping the planet from getting very sick again.

Even if the current operating system weren't a mutated monster, it would still not be able to take on this task; especially considering the critical time factor we now face. It couldn't because you simply cannot do this with a cost based economy. How could you when there is no way in hell you could ever even fully begin to calculate such a cost, within a profit based system; let alone who would, ultimately, pay that bill. And we already know who's actually going to have to do the work involved.

No, as with any other, mobilization on a national level, you always approach it in terms of how we best manage the effort, balancing all of the needs, and priorities, of all of the participants, as well as the basic limits of carrying capacity that all complex systems have; whether they be primarily human, or geophysical.

What we have to decide is how we are going to make this happen and still maintain it as a Democracy. Make mo mistake, though. It will involve asking very fundamental questions about how we do everything now; even as to how we define work in the first place, as well as what "citizenship" should encompass, in both rights and responsibilities; knowing that sacrifice is going to be required from all of us.

Think this through very carefully. Become as more informed as you can be. This is going to be the most important choice you have ever made.

With Capitalism

And guess what folks. Eventually has arrived. As it always does. Rather rudely when you ignore what's going on around you for as long as we have.

Do you really think continuing with "Business As Usual" is going to make this better?

It's time to face facts. And the simple fact is that a cost based, hyper consumption, and over amplified want, formed, way of operating, cannot address what must be done to heal not only the planet, but us as well. Especially when that system provides less and less of what we really need, in the terms that show we all matter; that we all have meaning, and purpose beyond what a market can get out of our, silent capitulation. Our surrender to the distracting addictions that keep us running on that ever more painful treadmill to nowhere.

Only we can do that as a people. As an act of loving will, as opposed to appeals to narrow self interest, with only abstract counters to act as incentives.

In other words, we have to decide to do it, Because it is not only necessary for our survival, but because it is an act true to what we aspire to, both morally, and spiritually. Both in the sense of a Higher Power, but to a Higher Purpose, as well.

The details of what this will be have to be negotiated. Between both the Right, and the Left, of the political spectrum. This is why I have been calling for a "Grand Compromise," emphasising the Libertarian Right, and the truly Progressive Left, as the starting points, to try and work a solution that could be tolerable to enough for both sides of the middle, to work a majority. Understanding that both sides are going to have to come to terms with the idea that "half a loaf, is better than no loaf at all."

Obviously this is not going to be easy. But compared to what is coming I can assure you that it will be the vastly superior choice. And make no mistake, the choice is yours.

What are you going to do about it?

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Which Is More Important To You

-- Money, and the power it buys, Or the preservation of life, and the loving social institutions that make a life that we can all love in?

It gets real simple folks when you see abject corruption on this level of "we don't have to care any more." When supposed, former "Statesmen," gleefully acknowledge the degree to which their corrupted sense of "the rule of law" has come to. And it just doesn't matter to them now that they have trashed once, sort of above it all, institutions.

What you have to understand now is that ordinary "election" politics no longer has any validity at all any more. It is, and has been, so saturated with money, and for so long now, that to think you might extricate it's influence via the same corrupted system, is ludicrous. Absolutely ludicrous.

The only way you are going to make this stop is to stop participating in the whole farce in the first place, and by that I mean that all, non essential services workers, take to the streets, peacefully, but determined, in comprehensive, across the boards of the entire economy, work stoppages. As well as to say stop paying on all student debt. mortgage debt, and credit card debt.

I can assure you, that if enough of us do that, it won't matter how many congressional districts they've managed to corrupt the voting process in, they will be forced to negotiate with us. It is just that simple.

Easy to call for, I know; Even as I also know what kind of sacrifice that would require of a lot of people already having difficulty making ends meet now. I live that difficult life myself as I write this, trying to live on my net $1,300 a month SSI payment, and navigate nagging physical ailments, while still trying to help my friend Kathleen navigate her's (my being here is a big part of how she can stay in her home now because of her current physical limitations; which is part of why I get a break on the rent).

Hard as this will be to do, though, it is as nothing compared to how hard life is going to become if we do nothing to stop these greed fueled idiots from taking us all down in an orgy of violent chaos, as they ignore the pain the entire planet is drowning in now.

Selfishness. Meaninglessness. No respect for either a "Higher Power," or a "Higher Purpose." And just the command to consume ever more mindlessly, to keep the ever more absurd ability to produce, mostly empty things, going; distracting, bingworthy, and addicting as possible, to fill this amplified want. And most importantly, preserve old, established power dynasties, as well as to give new opportunities to upstart newbies, of course. And to keep you from thinking you even have the right to ask for such relief.

The choice is still yours to make. What will you do while you still can. That is what you must decide now.


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I say that for two main reasons:

1; The next four years are likely to be the most tumulchous in human history. And I do not say that lightly.

Severe weather is here because of so much extra accumulated heat. And as long as there is a significant repository of ice at the poles, that increasing differential wll cause ever more large, heat transfer events, which is, of course, what evaporation, condensation, and convection are all about. The wind, the rain, and the tremendous pressure changes, that these processes bring about, are all just side effects, horribly damaging though they may be.

How long the ice will last is the question, and the main worry for me.  And I have to say, with the way the trend line has been changing so precipitously, in the last year or so, there is good reason to be very worried that our ability to keep that differential will cease altogether; which will soon have us intimately contemplating the old saw about going from the frying pan, to the fire.

The bottom line here, ultimately, is simple either way, though. And that is because in either case, whether it be with catastrophic storms, or with sea rise generally, the world may well know draught, and flooding, and destruction in general, like it has never seen in... well for a very long time.  And this will be, eventually, because not only will a few places get way too much rain, continuously, but far too many will be getting very little, at all any more, precisely because ordinary circulation patterns, as life has known them for hundreds of thousands of years. will finally cease.

The economic and social effect of this will be catastrophic, to say the least. But this will only be the beginning of our troubles. For co committant to that will be the increasing tensions of the, already terrible competitions for resources, and viable markets, which will become even worse yet, by the amplified competition, of a system gone horribly mutated. An opportunity for which, unfortunately, that represents nothing but sweet gravy to the authoritarians of the world; as nothing serves to cement more "us against the evil outsider's" thinking more than having your people become ever more fearful in general, certainly, but with particular emphasis, when you can claim that the outsiders are going to, supposedly, steal food, and needed strategic materials, from you, and your children (with the real complexities of sustainable resource use be left to damnation, of  course, because you won't be getting much of the truth about anything after that, any more either).

2: This creates, in case you hadn't noticed, the perfect setup for putting a patsy in power for a while. A patsy that will allow ownership of the bad that's coming to be transferred. And they'll do this knowing full well that, even if the patsy party could get, at least some, good legislation passed, it wouldn't be nearly enough to prevent market collapse, and the layoffs that will inevitably follow, for the reasons already stated above.

 More to the point, though, would be the opportunity here for the out of power party to throw, without having to be too obvious about it, monkey wrenches into any effort to start making things right again. And of course they would do that because it would make taking back power not only so much easier, it would also likely end any further ability, of the left, to confront the right again, from within what will then become of government.

From my perspective, it is a hard thing to not want to make the Right own the majority portion of what is coming, as far as seriously bad times for one, and all, on this planet, are concerned. The traditional, Liberal Left has a lot of responsibility as well, because they've been just as invested in making more money, as much of the right has, and that is why Capitalism itself has never been as fully questioned as it should have been, since Marshall McLuhan, at least, made it clear (along with Harold Innis) that very large changes in the instrumentality we use to extend our faculties with, must also come with changes in the way all of our major social institutions must work as well. But that catastrophic coming to terms, with what has actually been done to the planet, as well as to our own sanity, is about to dawn on even the most strident of Trump current supporter. And maybe that's one rude awakening that we need to have in order to have any chance of getting a majority of folks on the same page; as far as being willing to compromise goes, in any case.

Let's just be clear one more time. Capitalism wasn't designed at all to be able to handle the electrification of experience retrieval. How could it when one of the bedrock components of its foundation was the fundamental assumption of the human uniqueness of skill application. Now that robotics takes that assumption away, it no longer has a viable foundation at all.

Let's also be clear that keeping information as a commodity, which capitalism must, unfortunately, impose with great vigor, insures that Democracy cannot survive. That we are in, now, this chaotic world of people being saturated within the info environment of truth going to the highest bidder, ought to tell you exactly how frightening this should be to you.

The bottom line for me is that it is highly unlikely that we will get the real change we need if we continue with the current, completely corrupted two party system.

No, If the last, nearly seventy years, since 1950, when our economic clout really started taking off (precisely because of the electrification of information) has taught us anything, it is that Capitalism cannot be made to be socially responsible. No matter how many laws you might try to pass to make it so.

The only way real change will occur is when enough of us stop participating, in the farce as a whole, to make it stop; and the best way to make our intention clear towards that end would be the instigation of across the boards stikes, involving as many aspects of the American economy as we can manage to include. Strikes and community gatherings, so that we can start engaging each other more directly; so that we can begin to see that, with electrified tech working for us, instead of us working for it, we can set things up to actually make a "Grand Compromise" possible. It will mean finally taking responsibility for ourselves, but that is the only way we will ever be able to begin to heal this planet, and us.

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My Avenging Movie Review

Ok. Most of the time I don't feel any need to review movies. At least most of the commercialized, effects extravaganzas that a lot of movies have become. They are meant only as an experience, nothing more. You are not supposed to overthink them in the first place because they usually have less meaning substance than the concession stand popcorn has nutritional value. A difficult situation, certainly, for someone who was made, from day one, to be an overthinker of everything. But, as always, with a little focus, training, and disciplined effort, you can accomplish difficult things.

That being said, however, doesn't preclude me from getting caught, every now and then, to a movie that just shouts out glaring. blaring, gouts of too much dumb, you just can't ignore it. That this same said example might also garner over 2 billion dollars in only several short weeks of release, also screams out the sad state of where we are right now.

It was just so stunning for me. This feeling, that started out, initially, as a major hit of disappointment, actually starting to turn to angry frustration, as Kathleen and I did our Sunday grocery shopping after the movie was over. And the thing was, I just couldn't quite put my finger on why, exactly. Because there were, certainly, a few good, singular scenes in it. But as a whole?

It has taken sleeping on it, and thinking about it more, here in my work space, and rack shack, room, but I think I may have it now.

It starts with this litany:

1:Hawkey begging Natassha to not give him hope. This after having been on five year slaughter binge of any, and all, bad guys still left in the... what would you call it? Getting Binaried? The cut in half version of being decimated.

2: A Norse demigod of epic proportions has burned out and turned into a beer guzzling, obese embarrassment.

3: A former icon of moral leadership, as well as a true knight of old chivalry, is reduced to running a grief counseling group, with prattle he actually doesn't really believe in.

4: The former icon of truly unbending, unyielding strength, gone too brutally far, has become a mostly burned out blend of a scientist who wanted to know too much, and the anger monkey he mistakenly turned himself into, who now can't seem to get angry at anything, even when righteous anger might be needed... even if in measured doses.

5: And the other, former icon, only in this case of science gone too far, on the spurs of money, who made the money machine that put him on as its protector, even as the suit he wore became ever more integral to his whole being. The guy who was mad at the knight because he wouldn't back the Authoritarian security system, that probably wouldn't have saved them anyway, from a group that had already corrupted Shield. They guy who decides, after half the world's consumers have been taken away, to go back to just being a countryfied father; a life he could go to, appropriately, with the Goop selling girl, because they both had gobs of money.

6: And then there is the ridiculously complicated time travel plot the writers wrote themselves into, with a Villain we have very little sense of, other than he's bigger, and stronger than all of them combined, sometimes, with or without the damn gauntlet of magic stones. And he's also fired up to save life by destroying half of it. As if you could control power on that level in the first place, that carefully, and precisely, let alone how stupid the notion of: "We had to destroy the village to save it," is. Or that there might be a whole lot more to talk about in what to do about too much life competing for too little resources. Another notion where, if these idiots weren't creating armies at this scale, armed to the teeth with instrumentality of unheard of scale, maybe a whole lot more resource might be available to help find actual, working solutions to problems, As opposed to just finding a bigger "BFG" (as immortalized in the movie Doom) to blow what you don't like away with.

And at the end of this three hour epic there is the requisite big battle, but with none of the true conviction, or semblance of some meaning, of any of the first Avenger movie battle scenes. And sure, there's a tiny snippet there, where the girls get to kick ass, but it goes by so fast you hardly notice it amongst all of the other general mayhem to keep the "ultimate power thing" away from the current, "ultimate bad guy."

Despite all of this, though, the one thing I want you ask yourselves is this: Did you come away from this movie with any greater sense of hope for things to come for us as a Nation, let alone for the rest of life on this planet, and us as a particular species in it?

Hawkeye asked Natassha to not give him hope. And boy did this move deliver on that promise. The one thing this nation is in the most desperate, short supply of. Because why else would so much of our escapist entertainment be on the inevitability of apocalyptic collapse. And in that sense maybe we can understand Thanatos, because that was his refrain wasn't it... that "I am inevitable?"

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Absolutely The Economy Is Booming

That's a big part of why it has become so damned destructive in the last few decades, over and over again; every time it does the old "Bubble and Bust," two step, looking for the next place to explode (or implode) with the newest "correction."
And in case you hadn't noticed, the more it accelerates, the more people, and things, just start flying off the handle, off the game board, and way beyond all bounds of sanity, or morality, as well.

This is because the electrification of money demands that everything be made to move faster to satisfy the dictum that money has been made like electrons. Made to move through electric circuits, always seeking the path of least resistance. This is why Capitalism has become a mutated monster, sucking people in, more and more, faster and faster, for jobs that aren't necessarily so good for a healing planet, or a healing people; assuming, of course, that we'd like to heal both planet and ourselves.

Sucking people in, though, to consume them like a fire storm ("Damn the mixed metaphors, and full speed ahead," I say) consumes anything flammable. Sort of like moths to a flame, but only on a truly mind boggling, industrialized scale.

This thing called Capitalism had its day, but that day is long over. It is way past time to retire it.

Do it. Do it now, while you still have the chance.

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