Friday, September 6, 2013

Social Evolution Can Be Slow, With Fits & Stops, & Serious Reversals - But It Doesn't HAVE To Be That Way

Commentary by Roger Erickson

It's not just transparency we need. We need the MOST instrumentation, and far more of it, exactly IN the bleeding edge social experiments we're always doing. Bankers don't need secrecy. In fact, we need the MOST scrutiny of their controlled experiments and discoveries - so that we can learn how to leverage them sooner rather than later - for Public Purpose, not just drunken frat parties.

Take the example of Peru.

Is that a bit reminiscent of what the 0.1% are doing to the Middle Class? And why they're doing it?

Our frontiers are no longer geographic, but our NEW, CURRENT OPERATIONAL FRONTIERS are, nonetheless, still explored first by adventurers finding the cracks in existing rules and constraints ... and their discoveries are only later re-incorporated to adaptive rather than random public purpose. Capitalism was NOT originally about drunken rape and pillage of whole classes and populations - to be atoned for later. That's never the only thing capitalism was about.

Of course, you could say this about all conquests, even conquests by the Incas of their neighbors, or say, the Norwegians by the Danes, or any neighbor by any other neighbor throughout known history. Yet there is an obvious lesson in this to ponder.

Deeply familiar and CONNECTED neighbors typically tend to preserve more when they conquer one another, for various reasons.

The further afield and out of sight any of our discoveries and conquests are when they occur, the worse the random misuse is, and the longer it continues.

How do we have our adventurers and inventors and use them too? 

For Public Purpose?

How do we avoid the misuse of newly unlocked resources by new adventurers? Well, how about we keep them more deeply and closely connected to the base they launch from? So that adequate feedback drives useful conclusions sooner rather than later?

Here's an analogy. In all physiologies, the "fingertips" - used for exploring the environment - are most richly innervated and instrumented. The ultimate purpose of adaptive exploration is to GET NEW CONTEXT-RELEVANT INFORMATION BACK TO THE EVOLVING AGGREGATE. In cultures, we're still doing the opposite with our adventurers - letting them poke around with sharp sticks in very wasteful manners - largely in secret. The most agile culture is one that keeps citizens informed of what - of import - everyone else is doing. That's what an informed electorate means.

It's not just transparency we need. We need the most instrumentation, and far more of it every year, exactly IN the bleeding edge social experiments we do. WE should be monitoring the NSA and the TBTJ banksters, NOT the other way around.

Take nuclear reactor research as another example. The most important thing in experiments involving plasmas where fusion can occur is AS MUCH INSTRUMENTATION AS YOU CAN GET! That's so the experimental results don't cause more harm than the potential good we learn from them. Control the experiments, don't let them control you.

Have you actually heard any testimony from Greenspan, Geithner, Orszak, Rubin, Bernanke or Summers? IT'S EMBARRASSING! To the point of tears, if you care about your country!

They make a mockery of 5000 years of human nobility, from Imhotep to Paul - to Deganawidah to Túpac Amaru - to Leibniz - to Darwin - to Sitting Bull - to Albert Einstein and Marriner Eccles ... and many others. 

We can do better, people. There is a better way, and it's always very simple.

Take these GORBS offstage, PLEASE! They're an absolute insult to our Founding Fathers, and a mockery of our Constitution and Democracy.

These complete idiot GORBS shouldn't be allowed within a 1000 contexts of our ruling us and running our national experiments. They're the complete opposites of sentient scientists. They wouldn't recognize the scientific method if they fell into a semantic vat of it and drowned in flood of available analogies. Their preening, vainglorius, dumbass response is that THE NATION SHOULD DROWN and it's little Middle Class too, so as to preserve banking conquistadors. Just turn away. We have better, less boring things to attend to.

And no sign of remorse, or even a conscience yet. Our remorse is that we ever listened to GORBS in the first place, let alone so long.



2 comments:

ts said...
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ts said...

Who is "we" you are writing about? I know the GORBS but I don't know the "we". I get your point and sympathize with it and still... Henry Kissinger's quote on Europe and Napoleon's on two wise generals vs a stupid one are very relevant for this issue.