Is This How The NeoLib "Memirus" Swamps Our Democracy's Adaptive Responses?

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)



Ignorance is our Greatest Public Health threat, social as well as physiological.

Just as HIV hides out in the immune cells concentrating in the gut, a reservoir of the NeoLib "memirus"* hides out among all the IGNORANCE CONCENTRATED IN POLITICS.




* A virus is a stripped down packet of nucleic acid packaged in a protective protein capsule.

  A memirus is a stripped down package of toxic sophism, hidden within a confusing, semantic capsule.

These People Just Won't Quit, on Either the Fauxgiving or Fauxreceiving Side

Moody's warns that UK could lose coveted triple-A credit rating

Are we now perverting even christianity into a fauxgiving religion? (Wait for both the Anglican Church, the Pope AND the Vatican Bank to bless this bullshit.) Surely there were at least some ancient religious or tribal advisories against coveting control of social credit perspectives? Or have we not yet scaled up cultural thinking to handle the pace of current economic dynamics? Has the sheer volume of jumbled semantics simply overwhelmed the clarity of group thinking?

Fauxgive & fauxget? Is that's how the financial gods & "their" flock are supposed to live in faux-ever harmony? The lying will lie down to the flambe, (and then eat them AND their lunch)? Forget Moody's, I've heard more convincing warnings from PEVA, the People for the Ethical treatment of VegetAbles.

Propagandists are now crazy like a faux?

We're caught in a Koch-22. It's a real Boehner.

We are now entering a faux version of "The Semantic Zone." Speak out of context at your own peril, since you have to know your diverse audiences well enough to know what emotions will be triggered by the words themselves, not just their highly context-specific supplied meaning. Facebook it, not everyone thinks or parses situations at the same rate (if at all). That's why advertising and propaganda works. In large-scale policy debates, your own words can and will be misused against both you and your little electorate too. :(

People knew 3500 years ago that a tower of babble was useless without adequate parsing tempo. Then, 1200 years later, the Sophists brought it back as an amusing diversion, with potential for misuse that alarmed Socrates. Surely the sophists never dreamed that - 2300 years later - even the unprecedented but increasingly segmented brilliance of a nation of NAICS codes could be so easily led astray by sophist-icated idiot savants like Lee Atwater and his little Karl Rove.

Making the weaker group-logic appear the stronger to divided individuals is an escalation of Sophistry.  Such diversions equate to choosing national deadends over Adaptive Paths.  Those mistakes, when they occur, result from using the wrong methods, for example, applying an individual instead of a group paradigm to guide group outcomes.

Rushing to do so equates to selecting accelerated group demise over Adaptive Rate. To do that takes effort and momentum. So if we're going to make any effort at all, and co-align individual efforts into meaningful group effort, why not invest in an electorate that can think? That's how we can invest in democracy. We need an electorate that can parse it's own, distributed thoughts fast enough to achieve national policy agility. Achieving group agility requires being aware of and seeing through the diversity of simultaneous semantics.

Sophistry and it's cousing propaganda are of very little adaptive use to a culture and economy. If we're going to use a lean, highly dynamic language, with multiple, context-dependent re-use of the same words, then for heaven's sake, we need to tighten tolerance limits on accurately redefining terms before attempting policy discussions. You have to think that Socrates would be appalled to hear our Congress or electorate trying to discuss policy details while carelessly mixing so many semantic metaphors with such functional incompetence.

Any current grammarian or linguist would be appalled just trying to diagram the word meanings recklessly misused across every discussion of currency operations and fiscal policy. At a minimum, everyone should be aware that Credit Ratings apply only to Currency Users, and are irrelevant to Currency Issuers.

Why should educated electorates be moody over Moody's? Completely separate from monetary operations, we need to distribute enough semantic currency to make that discrimination a simple memetic liquidity event. :)

Noirp Social Diseases and Lunchhaving by Proxy Syndrome

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)



Reading the daily news makes me realize that we're suffering from a highly distributed, scalable, Lunchhaving by Proxy Syndrome, where we're always convincing ourselves that something that is NOT wrong with us, is somehow to be considered as systemically wrong - all so that our Upper Looting Class sociopaths can get intellectually & culturally obese, by uselessly eating everyone else's lunches.

Take our politics, Please! We just saw the instant when most Republican voters could realize that they've been duped again ... or at least get a chance to start realizing it, since the self-deception actually runs to even deeper levels.

The Real Romney Captured on Tape Turns Out to Be a Sneering Plutocrat

Will voters catch on, soon enough to matter, and start selecting from an entirely different class of policy candidates? Only if we accelerate our electoral dynamics by the bare minimum now required. Those few Dems who actually exercise  their capability of reading WIDELY realized they'd been duped, about 6 months into Obama's admin. Prior to that the time lag to catch on was traditionally 4-8 years. When will GOP party members also start abandoning the gang process? You typically need a tattoo to join a criminal gang. To join a political gang, ... er, "party" you need to accept something more subtly damaging, a brain-taboo, or an agreement to stop thinking. It's infectious simply because it unburdens people from the calories required to engage their brains and actually think. Yet that culturally-infectious disease has been killing our culture ever since George Washington warned us not to become susceptible to it.

When will enough citizens catch on to our deeper self-deception, and junk the now-useless political party baggage altogether? If we ever get that far, then maybe we could get on with the simple task of setting national goals and organizing our national culture to achieve them? A country capable of setting and achieving adaptive goals? Now that sounds like a Desired Outcome worth achieving, and then maintaining. Doesn't sound difficult either. Why are we MAKING it so difficult?

Surely citizens now have a historic opportunity to realize that the real dupes are themselves - whenever they accept that they have only 2 choices?

Next, take our stupid fiscal policy, Pretty Please?!!

MMT - by describing fiat currency operations, and basic reserve-banking operations - addresses only a process, not the original reasons why we are misusing that process to begin with. We need wider sharing of common sense, across our growing lists of modern cultural operations. Call it modern operational operations. MOO! :)

Look, if a cow can exquisitely integrate gazillions of biochemical processes, within trillions of cells, of hundreds of types, across dozens of organs ... and make a behaving unit called a cow ... then surely a band of supposedly more intelligent humans can organize a national economy? Doesn't seem so difficult, in comparison. Yet, despite the obvious, expect many sheople to carry on saying baaah, by sheared statistics alone.

Yet why are we expressing so much collective stupidity, in the midst of so much distributed knowledge and skill? It's curious. Perhaps our culture is infected by a group-intelligence-altering cultural-parasite, a cultural-virus or even a cultural-prion agent?

That would help explain our baffling, unusual group behavior. On the cultural level, the closest concept I can think of is the INVERSE of a prion disease process. Instead of a diabolically unpredictable lock-&-key agent which recruits & perverts individual processes throughout a system, we now have a diabolically unpredictable system process managing to invent virtual, systemic but entirely nominal "process problems."

For effect, I'll call that inverted phenomenon a "Noirp" cultural disease, and even go on to predict higher order versions of the same cultural perversions, to be labeled Uoijd cultural diseases (double-inverse-font of "prion").

Our culture needs an advanced semantic immune system - just to protect itself from itself.

Just as Socrates saw through the Sophists who were saying that "your mother-dog is YOUR 'mother'" ... we need a modern day "Setarcos" to reverse our nonsense back to sense. Socrates' reverse-image might convince us of what we have backwards vs forward. Hopefully, she could remind us that "our nominal debt is our real private currency stock" rather than believing in what is functionally backwards, i.e., that our fiat currency accounting, "nominal deficit" figure is our real debt.

In the process of draining entirely nominal banking reserves by finagling double-entry accounting gimmicks, and then confusing those gimmicks for REAL process constraints, we're actually draining our situational awareness, and our group intelligence too! Both Socrates & his double agent Setarcos would be appalled at our lack of policy agility, operational agility and semantic agility. They're all linked.

Forget showbiz, there's no degeneracy like semantic degeneracy. As a remedy, let's just try to have our pace of group discourse keep up with dynamic situations! Loose paradigms sink economies.