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There are only three or four issues that have dominated Western then Global Politics for the last few centuries.
The desire for liberty ( freedom from excessive state control ) led to the need for self government. Since we don’t want kings, priest and tribal chiefs to tell us what to do and how to think and behave we have to do more thinking on our own and make more complex value judgments. This is the first modern political issue - now taking the form of the corruption by money of politics, the talk about big corporations, media and money having excessive control over our lives.
The second issue is due to the fact that God so loved the poor he made a lot of them. Equity is an ancient issue that arose in the first popular government in Greece and repeats itself in many forms.
The poor majorities under the leadership of a demigod or tyrant will pander to the mob to redistribute the wealth, forgive debts ( or inflate the currency to make debts payable in cheap money ) and pander to the passions, the desire for bread and circuses, and foster other popular superstitions. Now this is called class warfare or the needs of the needy vs. the greed of the greedy. Benefits paid for by the rich for the benefit of the poor, public welfare bribes are offered to buy votes.
Therefore, the third issue is how to protect and expand freedom from the dangers of Democratic systems - positive freedom is the ability to make WISE choices unlike a passive liberty which is the negative freedom from coercion and the right to be wrong.
There is no positive freedom in ignorance, superstition, prejudice, and in short in being stupid.
Therefore a civic state depends on education and a civic culture. Otherwise it become popular tyranny either of the right or left. This issue now takes the form of education and mobility. If we can really teach poor children to gain skills we can also teach them to behave and act like other middle class responsible people.
The last issue is the global vs. national views - the role of humanity and transcendental values over day to day benefits and who gets what, when and how. Now this issue comes out as having goals greater than ourselves, the uses of riches, the nature of the environment, social responsibility, family values, and the proper respect for the opinions of mankind and the moral standards of a community of nations.
The core principles and ideas of this "Third Way" movement are set fourth in
The New Progressive Declaration: A Political Philosophy for the Information Age.
http://www.dlcppi.org/texts/pflib/progsum.htm Americans are ready for the challenge. Most have ceased believing that the solutions to today's problems are to be found in a larger, stronger central government--a course still supported by traditional liberals. Nor do they buy the conservative argument that the federal government is the source of our problems and that dismantling it will solve them.
Self rule -
The heavy handed use of force by the British - based on their colonial experience in Ireland - help drive the colonies into rebellion and to form a union.
The current form of this issue is the great power of money in politics because of the high cost of mass marketing.
Since there are more debtors than creditors the protection of property requires a balance of power, protection of minorities, and the complex federal system that keeps majorities of the working classes and poor and their political leaders from taxing the rich for more benefits for populist programs. A effective mass party of the workers and farmers was prevented by regional, ethnic and racial divisions.
The current form of the issue of electoral reform is the control by big money in the mass marketing of politics. Neither party is strong on reform, even the reform party. Reform requires restructuring of the political parties and federal election so there would be more common interest rather than 535 independent representatives and senators. Federal financing, a federal party charter and regulation by an independent commission ( not a bi-party lobby ) could require some sort of order and discipline in the political process.
Race - and the Civil War - keeps coming back to renew itself but slowly recedes. Regional and Class conflict is made more complex because of race, ethnic and religious divisions. Since the protection of property ( liberty and justice ) depended on a divided government, concurrent majorities are hard to come by - only the traumatic events such as the great depression or the civil rights movement can create a clean mandate and overwhelming majority that could act in a timely and decisive manner. Otherwise political action is slow, stumbling, fragmented, and frustrating.
The current issue of race is beginning to disappear as a difference between parties.
Equality - more Liberty for the rich ( absence or constraints on Governmental control ) does not mean more freedom for the poor ( ability to make choices and have control over your own life ) since liberty produces great inequality in power. Liberty allows the rich and powerful to become more rich and powerful - after all they have advantages they can pass on to their children and corporations have great long term influence over state authority.
The growth of private power reduces the freedom of those with little or no power because it changes who pays and who benefits from public action. Poor kids go to poor schools because poor people have less power as well as less money. Rich people live in rich neighborhoods with better schools and more influence on school policy. Liberation of the slaves did not give them freedom in most ways.
The plantation share cropping system kept them in economic bondage. Freedom comes from opportunity to learn and grow and gain insights and not be oppressed by false belief, superstition, manipulation, debts and obligations, that can turn into a virtual serfdom. Labor unions and third parties have been a response to inequalities of wealth and control. Gore is trying to maintain the idea that Republicans are the party of Big Business and wealth and Bush is trying to avoid that issue.
The tax cut is the only real issue that divides the parties because the democrats argue that it will prevent new benefits and rewards the rich ( who pay most of the taxes ) at the cost of the benefits of the elderly, middle class and poor.
World order -
The American myth includes a special role as a secular Zion " A City on the Hill" - and all the problems of Zionism - nationalism, national consciousness, race consciousness, chauvinism, jingoism, expansionism, imperialism, colonialism play a role with prejudice against foreigners, immigrants, and use of military power. This was played out in Vietnam - neither party has a clear idea of the role of the last super power or is there a big difference in the confusion over that role of maintaining a world order good for business, economic stability, and common standards of conduct.
A current history:
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act in 1960’s he knew he was giving the South to the other side. It was an act of courage and statesmanship. Over the rest of the 60’s and 70’s and finally in the 80’s the Republican Southern Strategy worked to take over the Solid South and the angry white male vote and make a working majority.
The war in Vietnam and the anti-war movement were also moral crusades, while a Democratic War, became a Republican issue with Nixon. McGovern worked to clean the party of it’s moral responsibility for the war but lost the crusade for a more limited role of the American enterprise.
Political realities put the conservatives in a morally questionable position on the use of military power and race. All the `moral majority` talk could not overcome their deficiencies on the great civic issues of the century, race and the use military power to promote business interests. Bill Clinton’s solid emotional commitment to civil rights is real, long term and important. His use of force has been more difficult in Haiti, Somalia, Iran and the Balkans. Bush is trying to correct the parties moral position without giving up all the traditional racist and militarist imperialist vote. Pat can some of it but not all !
The Cold War with anti-Communist was the issue that tied together racism, anti immigrant, militarism, big business, southern strategy, Christian fundamentalism and made the republican majority.
The Reagan triad was to cut taxes for the rich, build the military for industry, and defend the social order against the anti-war "radicals", integrationist, hippies and women’s liberation all under the slogan of social issues, right to life and school prayer, for the unwashed masses. Liberals were labeled as anti God, soft on Communist, environmental extremist, women libbers, affirmative action ( integrationist ), pro foreigners and immigrants, big government, big spenders, and the negatives worked for awhile. Clinton’s sexual problems is a stand in for these social issues. Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrish, a majority of house Republicans and Pat Buchanan all agreed on the negative attacks and tax, military and social issues.
They only disagreed on trade issues and the level of rhetorical extremism.
Clinton and the new democrats, DLC, democratic leadership conference, took over the great center and pushed the other side to appear extreme thanks to Pat and his crew. Baby boomers are not moved by the older racist, militarist, social conservative rhetoric. One can hope that racism has declined in the South and elsewhere but it is not gone by any means - only politically incorrect.
Bush can not clear the Republicans of their historic positions so quickly and easily.
The tax, defense and social issues will haunt the election. Gore only has to take the high ground - there are four stages in any election campaign -
First name recognition ( Gore had it sort of also Bush because of his father ) and second to strike positive connections with popular issues - against crime, for peace, prosperity and security, social security, good government, clean air and water, and other positive issues.
The third stage is to raise doubts about the other side - they threaten peace and security, are in favor of pollution, are immoral and weak and dishonest.
The last stage in a return to the positive - the vision thing - the hero on a white horse and leave the other side left in the dropping.
There is no right wing or left wing policy only policy that work.
There is no cold war, there are no ideology or inimitable principals only practical policies.
The argument that History is no longer a struggle for domination, empire, conquest and ideology is mirrored in the end of "politics" as class warfare, the cold war, the search for ideological purity, utopian schemes and totalitarian solutions by the extreme left or right. Moderation through political compromise is a virtue, Extremism in the defense or attacks on religion, ideology, civil rights, foreigners, and social liberation are all vices. At Delphi Oracle the first gate held the words "Know thyself", the second " Moderation in all things". At the G8 the industrial nations have a common agenda.
The growth of the welfare state since the great depression and the war had created a central state that began to sap the energy of the economy. Excessive public activity due to real crisis’s in the past, began to squeeze private saving, investment therefore productivity, raising interest rates creating stagflation, inflation and low growth. Aging populations and a flood of new expensive medical technology has threaten to bankrupt many health and retirement schemes. Europe and Japan still have a lot of work on growth and currency issues but agree with the theme of free markets, privatization, expanded trade, less regulation and more open systems leading to higher productivity, greater competition and growth.
The domination of New Democrats,
The Democratic Leadership Conference, New Labour, New Social Democrats, called the Third Way is now global.
The central theme is to change the policy and image of tax and spend liberals, with socialist leaning, to practical, PRUDENT and moderate programs that works.
The policy involved cutting expenses and raising taxes. No one in America wanted to face the 900 pound guerrilla of debt and deficits except Ross Parot. A campaign of raising taxes and cutting benefits looked too tough to sell but that was the agenda nevertheless and it worked.
The Compassion of the New Conservatives, Tories, Christian Democrats, is to shed their image of being the party of the rich and powerful with a cruel or mean streak ( anti foreign, minority, black, women and gay liberation ) into a populist agenda. One stratagem anti-communism and the use of religious conservatives by the verbal support of various moral issues that attracted lower class voters.
The move was toward "absolute truth" and fundamental principles vs. Amoral or immoral humanist, relativist liberals with loose morality as reflected in the media.
Therefore the personal vendetta against Mr. Clinton became a central activity of house republicans and their allies. He should have been more careful but the personal attacks did not achieve their objective of making people believe that the Tax and Spend Socialist left now could be blamed on all the evils of modern society. Nationalism and militarism also reflect this traditional ideology. Tax cuts were sold as a issue of "freedom" and liberty of individual rights vs.
The liberal ( socialist ) leveling state.
They have had problems with an affirmative program but have depended on attack and negative campaigns which have worked here and there. New Conservative look to Disraeli, Lincoln, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, and other progressive elements on the right as model of "popular" conservative ideologies.
They can move to more or less the same practical politics as the opposition with less dogmatism and more relativism. Political convergence is a fact of life. Political parties have to go with what works or enter the trash can of history. Continual losses while maintaining ideological purity is not an option. In GB there are the Social Democrats more to the center in America there is no need ( yet ) for new moderate center parties and all the third parties are on the fringe.
There is a need for the "greens’ and the progressive minority is less reflected in the Democrats - Gore is working hard on "Which side are you on" theme - trying to make a difference between his own moderate position and that of his moderate opposition.
There is a need for the right wing " Reform " or libertarians as the Republicans back off ideological fundamentalism. Congressional control by either side is going to be very close, with no real working majority, so they will have to be moderate as well. Thus the victory of moderation. Certainly traditional conservatives believe in Prudence and cost cutting reducing debt, opening private markets, free trade and lower interests rates to helping produce a remarkable increase in productivity, employment and living standards.
The "new economy" driven by information science greatly magnified the effects of practical fiscal and monetary policies. Maybe the need to pander to the religious right and big money donors, and the ideological fundamentalist makes it difficult to move Republicans to the center. It doesn’t seem more difficult as the left had with it’s traditional labor and socialist wings.
The second part of the New Liberal policy is "investment" in infrastructure: first and most important human resources. Growth in productivity in greatly increased by the "quality" of inputs relative to production. Smarter people create smarter machines and systems.
There is a large unexplained residual between the growth explained by more investment and more people is due to this improvement due to "restricting" and technology. Large companies had become blotted along with government and needed to cut costs and increase revenues in an increasing competitive global market. New technologies and smarter, better educated people are critical in this systems update and setting in motion a process of continual improvement. Public investments can make the economy more efficient.
The British are making up for years of neglect and resource limits in education, health, transportation and communications.
The right wants tax cuts and the left wants new public expenditures and debt reduction. Investments vs. taxes becomes the center of this cycle of election with "prudence" and the welfare benefits in an aging population lurking in the background.
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The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China,
The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
The issue was and maybe is a rational budget policy.
The use of entitlements - services and benefits to buy votes and hold power will bankrupt any state over time. Balanced budgets are a key to economic health and growth. Since Alan Greenspan and almost everyone knows that reducing the debt is better than tax breaks - it will be impossible to sell tax cuts as a central theme of a party platform.
The establishment hates McCain with a passion - reform would hurt the Republican Right which believes it needs it's money as the road to power - actually it will make very little difference - he also call them by name to account - Some of his behavior in the Senate is quite radical in going into who took what then did what for whom.
The Jesse Ventura phenomenon, ( As Ross Parot before him ) whereby another celebrated anti-politician was elected governor of Minnesota, shows that they have power. But they are not inevitably opposed to the two main parties: given a candidate who shows spirit and piques their interest, as Mr. McCain does, they will vote for him despite his Republican label.
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ld5140.html
There is a real threat to the real permeate establishment - well maybe ?
The reform that is needed is making a firm connection between elections and policy. I like the British system - you elect a government and they do what they promised, if you don’t like it, elect the other side. In America we have a strange and screwy system - maybe because we are a strange and screwy country - or because we are stuck in a history trap.
The American people aren't Stupid.
They know that money matters.
They feel that "special interests" and their paid lobbyist control what happens or doesn't. This was the core of the Parot reform party uprising.
The first issue is REFORM - some change in the SYSTEM where the majority feel they have a fair chance to realistically participate in the collective decision that effect their lives. For 50 years there has been a clear desire for national health care - but the outcome was controlled by the AMA for decades, now the insurance industry. What McCain says is basic reform in Taxes, Education, ( a state and local issue ) Health can’t be done because of veto groups and their money.
The
The influence of money is corrupting our ability to address the problems that directly affect the lives of every American. Without reining in soft money and reducing the role of money in politics we will never have a government that works as hard for the average American as it does for the special interests."
The bill was designed to go no where but be a fund raiser ) He has done the same on the Communications bill, the Banking Bill, the Defense appropriations bill.
The ideas on the table may help - may not - the history of reform has tended to make things worse. If there is money that wants to go into politics, and their are politicians that need money the two will get together - Independent Committees can not be banded under our First Amendment to the constitution.
The Germany experience is a case in point.
The only way to remove money from politics is party discipline - the individual members don’t have a lot of choices in following the party program - become back benchers rather than independent businessmen and women and the pie is removed - simple tax systems, fixed budgeted requirements - remove members pork and provide free TV with a short campaign season .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/campfin.htm
The Iron Triangle is made up of committee chairmen in Congress, the real focus of political power in this country - what Wilson called "Congressional Government" at the end of the 19th Century.
The other arms of the triangle is the interest groups - over 3000 organized constitutes and business groups that employ a large group of lobbyist and give money at the fund raising events.
The third arm is the Agencies and Departments which make up Federal, State and Local governments.
The military industrial complex is only one of these families of interests.
The color codes are very useful as a rubric or memory aid in the analysis of social events and human psychology.
Blue - is a background color - It refers to the sea and sky that surrounds us. In biology it is the sea within - basic life forces at the basic structure or form. Issues are basic needs - economics - stupid For Republicans Tax cuts and less government is a mantra, for democrats more opportunities for the less advantaged, new benefits for lots of folks.
Yellow is the sign of energy and action - the sun - the desire and need for action - a desire for some change - the campaigns are rather flat but will pick up energy - getting something done.
The public is much less patient with a central state that appears stagnant in a time of rapid change. It’s time for a change helps McCain and Bradley - Bush and Gore are the establishment. This still is a weak force but among other weak forces still matters.
Red is passion - force and biology with desires - there is some underlining desire for better health and education - a few other issue relies on the passions among certain groups - traditional family values - some populism - us against them - us being workers and farmers, small business - them are the establishment, the media, professors, elites of various kinds. Republican passion will not ignite the radical right who are burned out - Gore does not inflame the liberal left. Bradley and McCain can light a small fire - that will seem big and bright in the flat and bland background.
Brown - earth tones - grounding - sense of place of being - a lot of attention to the character issues. Bradley and McCain are for real. Bush and Gore are professional politicians who do their job well - but there is less of a market for the professional practiced style.
white - the entry of soul or spirit - beliefs - collective conscious such as Who are we and what can we do as a people ?
The soulless capitalism of run away individualism has run its course and the tide is turning toward some fell for meaning and substance.
black - fears and dark spirits - most people still vote against - negative campaigns work. Bush has a few shadows and darker corners that will become important.
green - mystery - feeling of something more is out there - even reflected in the cloudy mirror of the media - something of the mystery can come through - Like meditation and mind control in medicine, sports and business it’s not the popular image but works- some really smart depth commercials, that really have a hook, could turn the election.
gold - the sense of union - not likely - there will be no great leap forward.
In an election with less than 50 % of the eligible people will not vole.
The winner will win with less than 25 % of the adult citizens actual votes.
The Republicans and Democrats have 15 % dedicated votes or 30 points each in a general election of the effective vote.
The battle is for the 20 % in the middle who will vote but are not dedicated. A bland candidate can reduce the numbers in both categories. A candidate who motivates the faithful, and preaches to the choir can expand his base but loose the center.
If Bush feels he has to offer something more than tax cuts, and do something he will loose some of this base to the remains of the reform party.
The less government, more freedom slogans that worked for many years is old, stale and not useful. Gore or Bradley can hold the center while working the base.
The fear of being called liberal will no longer works. Health, Education, political finance reform and Gun control appeal the critical constituencies in the suburbs of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles.
Bush get everything from Arizona to Florida south of the Mason-Dixon line plus the corn and bible belt. Bradley or Gore win California, New York, and New England and the Atlantic States, Illinois and upper Midwest, and the fight comes down to Ohio and Michigan and the Democrats win both.
They believe all kinds of nonsense " the truth is not out there" in space, in fancy and ungrounded dreams.
Therefore, they need structure and discipline, leadership and authority.
The role of government is to govern - to steer the ship of state.
The statesmen and women must have greater knowledge that the common people.
The iron law of oligarchy and bureaucracy can not be repealed but only modified to be more responsive because of real competition.
The dictatorship of interests, of factions, of money and marketing is just as real ( only more complex ) as kings and tyrants. We are not free to do - as a collective we are slaves to ugly, expensive, inefficient, ineffective, poor quality, cities, foolish land use, tangled transport, dysfunctional schools, expensive and poor health, a vacuum in culture and arts, all the freedoms of a great civilization is denied by functional and structural crimes.
The vast majority of American don’t care. Why should they ? What difference will it make who is elected ? Very little.
They wanted minimal government as demonstrated by the Articles of Confederation. When civil unrest and financial chaos threatened the existence of the republic they unwilling agreed to a weak form of central state. Ambition to balance ambition, power to balance power, so not much - good or bad would be done.
There was no agreement of even the need for public works, a regular military ( beyond a coast guard Navy ) federal courts and law, bank regulation, common commercial code. As we see in today’s Russia such legal infrastructure is critical.
There is a basic system problem. We need to have a constitution convention and rewrite the basic structural elements. We need a simple national government based on global experience on what works.
The German Federal Republic is the best model I know but there are others - New Zealand and Australia for example.
The mantra of half and non truth - We have the best health system in the world - FALSE - we are the most free and democratic - FALSE - we are the richest - False - we have a poor to terrible school system and 35 years of reform has produced nothing, WHY ?
The system is incapble of reform and we need to change the system.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm
The big business will be service providers doing all the hard stuff ( software ) up line. You IP number would connect you to the world and the world to you where ever on what ever. Your domain name would replace phone numbers, and all the other ID problems with transactions in electric money as the device knows who you are ( thumb print, retina read ).
The phone companies, cable companies, broadcast companies, cell phones, and computer hardware and software would all be in the IT communications business. It is happening - http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm and http://www.wiredbrain.com/symbian.htm
The Internet as the links to phones, it is here now.
The TV Internet connection is here @home and @work. What has not as been created is bandwidth and the NC ( NEXUM ) but they are just over the horizon, looking More and more like the playstation II and in the $ 350 range or comes with the $ 50 monthly user fees including long distance, cable channels picked off Satellites, Internet - Video user interface etc.
Symbian, Palm Combine To Outflank Microsoft http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991013S0003
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2347754,00.html
People who purchase a PC with the belief that computer literacy is not necessary are kidding themselves. Still, millions of people, including my grandparents, are buying PCs with the mistaken notion that they're no more difficult to operate than VCRs. Many PC owners don't know how to do the basic tasks, such as installing software and hardware and defragmenting a disk drive. And God help them if they ever have to reinstall the operating system. Making the PC easier to maintain would require the companies that produce the operating systems, software and hardware to work together in harmony. This will never happen.
It's a problem crying out for a solution. And it's not hard to imagine one: What if I told you that I could provide you with a solid-state device a quarter of the size of a PC that had no moving parts to break? You could run 50 software titles such as Word, WordPerfect, Lotus SmartSuite, Quattro Pro and Quicken, as well as games. You would never have to upgrade those applications because they would be upgraded for you. With this device, you could watch more than 175 cable channels and select from thousands of movie titles that you could watch either on the machine or on the TV in your living room.
This device would have a hard drive so large that you could never fill it up. And you never would have to back up files again because they would be backed up for you every night. If lightning hit this device while you were using it out by the pool, you might lose some hair and skin, but you wouldn't lose data—and I could overnight you another machine.
There would be no problems with an operating system, hardware drivers or other software. You would simply plug it into your cable box, and you're ready to go.
Instead of buying a PC, you would pay the company a monthly fee, and the company would send you a Winterm device that plugs into your new high-bandwidth Internet connection, which links to its service. After powering it on, you would simply hit "connect" and your personalized GUI desktop would pop up on the screen. You could instantly run hundreds of applications without installing anything. Any time you saved files, they'd actually be saved to a server's hard drives, which would be backed up every night. Combine these services with an e-mail account, and watch PC sales plummet. After all, who would want to buy a PC with software that had to be upgraded every year, if you could hire a service to take care of the mess? Many corporations, tired of the cost and IS staff required to manage hundreds of PCs, would jump on it.
The technology to build a virtual PC service is here today. Other technologies, such as movies on demand, are probably a few years out.
The advent of virtual computing will shift the entire PC infrastructure with such momentum that the PC as we know it today will be used only by a group of oddballs: "computer" people.
Brett Arquette is chief technology officer for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court, Orange and Osceola counties, in Florida. He can be reached at barq@iag.net.
The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.
The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions not disciplines
convergence - Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/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.
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.
"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.
The question is when does it turn deadly ? We all carry "benign" cancers in our bodies but they have the potential to spread and kill the host. Concerns over money and influence in American Politics maybe be easily dismissed as more of the same but could be the early signs of a greater and deadly evil.
The world is suffering with massive outbreaks of corrupt regimes in big places like Russia, some of the other former Soviet Republics, Indonesia, Pakistan, many countries in central Africa where the bunk of international aide is stolen and wars break out among gangs of thieves, the Balkans, Columbia, Argentina, Turkey, Mexico and much of Latin America, with parts of Urban China; all together corruption’s destructive forces effect more than half of mankind. It appears than the real issue of Y2K maybe corruption, disruption, violence, widespread allegations of crimes, and the alienation of the masses forming rage against the established swindlers and thieves as separatist movements.
The iron law of oligarchy and bureaucracy takes over - the workers, citizens, and subjects are hard pressed to influence the management at the top.
The theory of countervailing forces becomes a battle of titans without meaningful human contact.
The battle of doctors, insurance companies, teaching hospitals and medical schools, drug companies, and political forces fails to deal with the human condition of being sick.
The treatment is also clear - small is healthy. Small medical service centers with less administration and costly bureaucracy that don’t charge fees and don’t have to keep books on a per patient basis.
They treat anyone with a variety of cards on a per capita basis or as a public service - their cost paid from a variety of sources. In other words the plans as they exist in most of Europe and the rest of the industrial world.
The evil effects of size is clearly seen in the mega-school with dozens of assistant principals, area superintendents, area specialist, coordinators, teachers on assignment, and hundreds of special programs for questionable special needs such a the mythological attention deficit disorder. Since disability has been rewarded it has grown from 2 -3 % of the population with physical or mental disorders to 20 % to 30 % with some label attached as different, the number is up 10 times in the last 20 years and creates a huge self serving bureaucracy.
There are few advantages of central administration and many disadvantages in the age of information. Balkanization is good. Confederation is good. All within a global economy.
The need for the great empire or nation state is less and less clear if it causes disorder rather than produces the keys to civilization: the rule of law, advanced technology, and increased participation of active creative people.
If we can see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known now if we had paid attention ?
The elements in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint action we are able to make.
These factors are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken), Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include
The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience as the sole source of knowledge
The first
issue is the relationship between science, technology and the human spirit.
We can not
control the engines of change.
The image of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An agency
or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its
creator.
2. A monster
having the appearance of a man.
[From Frankenstein,
the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley.]
Word History:
The word Frankenstein has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as “Frankensteins.”
The word has gone on to refer to “a monster having the appearance of a man” and “an agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator.” Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Culture of Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), U.S. social philosopher.
The Conduct Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern city.
Individual development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Fate; destiny. One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil. Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates. weird'ly adv. weird'ness n. SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly.
These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “
The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “
There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “
The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and MMDS.
These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But according to the Oct. 26 New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/ articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service) solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices. (A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
Behind the news: a common thread of interconnectedness
The device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board functions.
The
device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel, meals, and pay
by use applications.
Crank
up the broadband
Third-generation services are coming
soon to a mobile phone near you --
but first the platforms and standards
have to be resolved.
The Star Office 5.1 is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated, reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the system network.
The standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it can’t be done by a voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the DOD and NSF controlled the net. It can’t be done by government ( too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved - sometimes well ahead.
The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy, since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in systems sales.
In the current context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.)
The misbalance between American growth and ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s problems put pressure on the dollar because of the trade gap:
2.) Raw declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar securities have to pay;
3.)
The higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market "correction" of the irrational exuberance of speculative stocks.
We're moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20 percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for the Pacific Rim.
The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new world orders" are global connections between utility network computers.
The role of AOL / Time Warner will be not only to sell others goods but direct sales.
Their dream is the click and buy advantages of two way communications.
The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day.
The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers. ``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,'' Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy. ``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning to dream about, he added. With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web, check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile services such as e-commerce, he said. Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/ Broadband in the Local Loop 98: Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages and head start of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1 worldwide by the year 2003.
The five-year growth rate for cable modems is forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.
The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications. Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question. DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos.
The cable companies, in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.
The irrational base of human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and commercials.
The technology itself is revolutionary.
The global economy requires new models of thought. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The leaders and leading institutions often don’t get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in conflict with traditional values. That is because global transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive of the existing order.
StarOffice Writer for document editing,
StarOffice Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment
MSN
now does the best searchThen find and down load:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN STORAGE for almost anything.
There is a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication tables, reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history, spelling.
These standards have declined since 1947, so more than half do not know what they are expected to know or do.
They are passed on to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance there is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor performance there are no complaints or external pressure to get the performance up to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more than half the students are behind, many below 6th grade levels of math and reading. Since they can’t read history, literature is rather a mute point. By the end of secondary education about 1/3 are gone having learning almost nothing at the cost of $50,000, about 1/3 have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready for post secondary education.
There is no way that is popular.
The student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers fault, it’s the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of effort on the part of the student and the parents. Elected school boards can never enforce standards of dress, conduct, performance, on the part of unionized teachers who make up a critical electoral constituency, or parents which make up most of the rest of the voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity contest.
The early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist and tech freak" stage- automobiles, radio, computers went through this first stage.
The political equivalent were abolitionist, women’s rights, union rights, civil rights, who were small activist organizations. At some point theses extreme views become common and take over a critical mass.
The drug laws, gun laws, Cuba, are current examples of ideas that about to take on critical mass and there will be a sudden shift in the market for such ideas.
The rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection of the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other violence are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and radical federalism was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism, extreme nationalism and militarism caused great world wars.
The war on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from violence.
The death of JFK is no different.
The "news" has become an soap opera.
There is no line between entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
The cost of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT be telling the truth at the same time.
