The fault in free market
capitalism is the historic issue of over production. The
motivation of capitalism is to gain a higher return on investment (ROI) than
the going rate of return.A functional
capital market will increase investment in sectors that are “hot” until it is
over done. Since there is a delay between decisions
and the ROI people invest today on the expectation of returns tomorrow. Using historical data is always misleading and can not be
true a discount of current value vs. future ROI. There
will be more houses, cars, structured investment instruments, etc. than the
market can absorb as supply out run effective demand.
The modern discount system escalate the boom
and bust effects. A million dollars in mortgages is
turned into certificates that generate additional money to fund more home loans
that then are used as assets to borrow more money until one dollar becomes ten. When the million dollars in bonds have to be repaid or
lose their market value it takes ten million dollars out of the pool so the
virtuous cycle becomes a malevolence cycle.It is similar danger as buying on margin.
The monetary policy is to
drop interest rates to make ROI easier.The government pump primes by borrowing money and spending it. The scale has to be right – too little too late will not
work. As in taking antibiotics you need to get a big
dose and finish the course of treatment or the disease will return in a more
virulent form. The political system has
to be able to act and decisively or it won’t work. Peter
Druker’s theory was that war was the only way democracies could dispose of the
surplus property by shooting it at foreign enemies. Workers
are paid to produce the good of war but nothing enters the civil supply
chain.Democracies have a hard time
collecting taxes and run surpluses when the economy over heats because human
desires are endless and politicians get elected by buying voters with public
programs.
A real reserve fund is the
solution – save during the seven good years so you have resources in the rainy
day.
The central issue from the
17th century forward,is the shift from
the rule of established authorities by a established land owning ruling class
of king and church to a capitalist and republican form of government. The empirical issue is the nature of mass publics. In “Reflections on the revolution in France” by Edmund Burke and in Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy in America”
explored the question if a mass society could be stable without a responsible
ruling class or aristocracy.A very
interesting analysis of mass psychology in the Century of the Self and the
power of propaganda is a remarkably eloquent series from BBC 4 and director
Adam Curtis which explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis and Edward
Bernays’ PR techniques in shaping western mass media, politics and consumer
culture. Political sales use the same methods as other
products - the frame or image that connects to emotional attachments (the hook)
- cars make you powerful and sexy - tooth paste makes you happy - fast food
make for good families - you need to find the real message which is mostly in
the pictures - Below the threshold of conscious perception by the use of
stimuli adequate to produce subconscious awareness and able to evoke a emotional
response: subliminal propaganda.
The issue over the last few
centuries and today and in the campaign for democracy today is the problem of
the unlikely trust placed in ordinary people – are they a mass of unconscious
desires and hidden motivation aroused by the market managers, elitists and the
media or are they sovereign individuals endowed by their creator with reason
and citizen with rights.Is it Rush or Jefferson?Clearly
both are true and important depending on education, the civic culture, the balance
between mythology, superstition, and pure reason given the economic
conditions.
This years selection of
President have this in the background – can people, the great unwashed, the
masses take charge of their own affairs – can there be a government of the
people, for the people and by the people or is this a fairy tale – and grand
illusion?
According to General
Semantics, cognitive sciences, it’s the frame STUPID!The frame is the network of associations that
spring from the sub-conscientious with the brand.
Obama has a brand of hope and
change – a people lost in the wilderness about to cross to the holy land.The collection oftribes of all the people lost in the dessert
looking across to the promised land of milk and honey. The
leader is a guide and prophet, a coach getting the team into the supper
bowl.
Clinton is the good mother or sheep herder taking care of her
children or sheep.The sheepherder will
provide – health care, financial stability, jobs, welfare, prosperity, world
peace, the whole laundry list of democratic promises. The
focus is on HER, me, I, the government, the process, and in material benefits
of voting.
The Republican image of the
strict father offer security and freedom from reason. The
people is to follow and believe and not question authority. Ditto
Heads…
Democracy in America:
There are some popular myths
about the nature of the American civilization.The nation was a child of enlighten not a Christian revival. The Deists and Freemasons who organized the “committees of
public safety” and created the propaganda that let to the “rebellion of the
American Colonies” and was all about CHANGE. The
established order of CHURCH, KING, and State was gothic v. the modern world
which was rational, logical as opposed to faith based doctrine based on
tradition and authority. The idea that people could
manage their own affairs depended on people being sensible, not driven by
superstitions, and passions. The people must have a
higher sense of the common good and see beyond just personal, regional, racial,
ethic, class or religious prejudices. The “people”
were property owners and educated. The masses were not
to be trusted.Without the balance of
power, public education, and a stable middle class Imperial tyranny would be
replaced by the rule of the mob.
If Mr. Edwards wants to
change “the system” he will have to convince the states to call a
constitutional convention to redesign the balance of power.The system we have has been successful
designed to prevent Democracy because popular rule would endanger civil
liberties and state sovereignty–
Democracy only requires majority rule within a parliamentary system.The American design was to prevent the state
from doing much, for better or worse.The balance of power design was there because the founding fathers did
not trust the people or majorities that would abolish slavery, over tax or
regulate, tax trade to the disadvantage of one region or industry or
another.Our limited democracy is
another result of our original sin of slavery.
The third way below is a
model based on process – a path, a way, a method, becoming rather than being,
so is open ended as a model of civil society – not either/or but both…
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The Map and the Territory:Sport
psychology as practiced by some focus the mind into spirit and makes
connections with more than ordinary capacities. Since
individual with greater capacities, confidence, control, calmness in the zone -
win - people pay attention. It is a relationship with
higher, greater, deeper, meaning - it is not a doctrine but a practice.
The territory is an experience, it is a
known reality and relationship - people take the map for the reality - the
doctrine for the practice - the guide as the experience - Wisdom and Religion
is not the map but the territory - not a degree or doctrine but the good, the true
and beautiful as we become different from what we think we are A system of
morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a
thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.Socrates (469–399 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Quoted in:
Plato, Phaedosct. 68c–69d.Socrates did not leave a written record of his
teaching because he found that ideas and process were turned into dogma and
doctrine. Great ideas are a process of intellectual
and spiritual growth not a set of laws or recipes. It
is a quality of being and understanding not just lesson plans and information
transfer. Wisdom is a personal and collective
connection between universals, understandings about the intrinsic or
indispensable properties of things that serve to characterize the most
important ingredients; the crucial elements in each time and place. Individuals and each society needs to develop its own
relationship with the inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things. Without knowledge we wander around without an anchor. A society needs wisdom to guide the growth of a good
society and true values. So while the
understands are relative the good, the true, and the beautiful are
absolute.
The important point is that there are
universals out there but we only can know them darkly as through a mirror - and
our understanding is influenced by time and place. So
while the universals remain unchanged the knowledge of them is relative. For example in science - the nature of the universe
remains what it is. We as a species have improved our
knowledge of the natural world. So while our knowledge
and understanding changes the truth remains the same. Scientific
wisdom is a method of sorting out impressions, observations, and ideas with
training and discussion so we can pick the best from the rest.
The collection of good ideas becomes the
base for further analysis and exploration.
The scientific method is an ongoing
relationship between a social process and external universals.
We have a need to understand because it reduces uncertainty and
increases power. When there is no rational explanation
we turn to magic which produces a sense of false control but emotional benefits. Storms and death bring out prayers.
The Spirit is a ongoing relationship that
exists with a incorporeal entity and can not be put into a bottle or into a
doctrine. Plato took the teaching and used dialogs in
an effort to maintain the open nature of intellectual and spiritual growth. He started a school where a person strives, by the help of
dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,
independent of all sensuous information—never flinching, until by an act of the
pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good—he arrives at the very
end of the intellectual world. Platonic educational
and spiritual process spread within the Hellenic world and by Alexander’s
empire. Mixed with other ancient beliefs Christians
became the dominate middle eastern cult that spread to
the Western World.
The Sufi tradition has many Platonic
elements mixed with oriental practices. In Christian
doctrine Individual responsibility for analysis, difficult learning, thoughtful
contemplation, rigorous education was replaced by the miracle of faith alone. Jesus believed it was too hard, too much to expect
What could an
relevant on-line school be like.
Color is better than black and white.
Three dimensions is better than two.
Round is better than flat.
Fast is more successful than slow.
Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater
attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of participation.
Current instruction is gray and flat - it
needs to be colorful and round. Instruction is slow,
knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled,
creative participation is discouraged at all levels.
The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely
in almost all schools.
Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is
clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there
is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two
dimensional and the colors are black and white.
There are several clear themes as we move
from two dimensions to many:
1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot
of learning takes place in the process of invention
2.)
The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions not
disciplines
3.) there is
creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions
between actors and classes.
The word is
convergence
- Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and
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The design of the general
communications and computing device.
Design teams of teachers ( from around the
world ) and students from anywhere working on the interface of communications
technology, processing capacity, storage and data transfer compression,
marketing, finance, human machine interface ( ergonomics
ergonomics.htm
) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth,
chip capacities, applications, service systems, distribution systems, content
and market demand factors all in one organized package.
Management, information technology,
marketing, human resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets
and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers still
have a way to go - the
NEXUM must
leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.
How is systems analysis different
from what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more dimensions.
It becomes much more complex where there are many clients, with many
applications, using different languages and protocols. A
great server should ask and how do we establish an interface, what language do
you use, what program do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I
remember all this the next time we make contact ?
Amazon.com has shown the way within one set
of protocols of how to be client centric. Every store
both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended data bases -
inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to show what exists and
who is buying it. Wal-mart
and Builders Square, Office supply and Sears should have a the catalog and
inventory on line at the cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items,
pictures, prices as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s
recorded sales. It world make it a lot easier for
contractors or anyone buying many different items.
A friendly server would connect such data
bases to user applications such as financial records and market research. Can any client using different tools access open records
for different purposes, in different languages ? Can
suppliers or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would the Nexum, a simple
communications device, use server software to find the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models,
grades, standards, ? All kinds of applications not invented
need to glide easily into existing systems.
GURDJEF
The invention of credit, degrees, payment
systems is easy
Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round
in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and
flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in
rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly
colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a
little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional
and the colors are black and white.
In short why Global Warming
issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves in mysterious
ways.
We have bodies, ( Blue ) which include a
mind ( Yellow ). Being aware and thinking we have
ideas about who we are ( brown ) and feeling about how others treat us ( red ). We think and feel as we learn about our physical ( brown )
and social environment - reacting with passions of the body-mind ( thoughts,
chemistry and electrical energy fields which define or mood ) ( Red ) - We are
aware of something outside ourselves that causes thoughts on the inside. Feeling, passions within us ( white) as love and hate (
black ). We dream of things that never were ( Green ) and imagine a golden place.
The history of human development and
civilization and organizations of all kinds from the church, state
and business follow patters in these primary colors.
The physical body come first ( blue ) when
people find they can be better off within a group, they need society for
survival or want to gain power, wealth, position, control, comfort, and use
their minds to ( yellow ) get organized. This is the
habits of the mind vs. body, feeling vs. reason - the church and state, the
divine and secular. But it is only the beginning.
When groups are organized the iron law of
bureaucracy takes over.
"Robert Michels"
The Iron Law of Oligarchy
Michels believed that the people in this group would become
enthralled with their elite positions and more and more inclined to make
decisions that protect their power rather than represent the will of the group
they are supposed to serve.
"Michels
(1911) came to the conclusion that the formal organization of bureaucracies
inevitably leads to oligarchy, under which organizations originally idealistic
and democratic eventually come to be dominated by a small, self-serving group
of people who achieved positions of power and responsibility.
This can occur in large organizations because it becomes physically
impossible for everyone to get together every time a decision has to be made. Consequently, a small group is given the responsibility of
making decisions.
Those in command do not share - there is a
failure of synergy. Those that do but are not rewarded
get angry ( red ).
The early church was a synergy group but
became a bureaucracy with conflicts between the clergy, the state and the
people. When people get mad enough they became
Protestants. When citizens became angry enough at the
divine rights of kings they formed parliaments.
They claimed the victory of mind OVER body. But that doesn't work.
The church or state or company then claimed
a greater good based on interests. That sort of works.
Then they appealed to the mystery ( green ) and called on the spirits ( white ).
They promised the golden kingdom in the sky.
They turned love into hate and hate into
love.
They discovered the art of commercials and
the skills of marketing.
Now we are drifting between synergy ( shared rewards ) and the iron law of bureaucracy.
Why has the National Education and Teachers
Unions fail to promote education and teaching ? Why
does the congress fail to reflect the simple needs of the majority of the
people. Why does talk, media and art disconnect from
passion, truth or reason ? Why does it all seem so
false and thin - a ghost in a machine. Where is the
spirit that connects people, institutions, fostering enlightenment and
responsibility ? Has religion captured or confused our
souls but failed to organize our being ? Has civic
culture become a captive of marketing ?
In short why Global Warming
issues will become central in the election - the spirit moves in mysterious
ways.
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