Showing posts with label conception. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conception. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

"Be Here Now" equals denial.

Just as the act of denial acknowledges that what is denied exists, the"now" in the admonishment Be Here Now acknowledges that the past exists. The "past" once did exist, but does not now. The way to emphasize this is to say that living in the moment, which is concerned with now, is not the same as Be Here Now, which actually addresses the past by first, acknowledging it, then trying to correct it. The past is gone--it  can't be corrected. What can be corrected is the mistakes, or errors, that were committed in the past, which can only be done now. Errors made in the past created their own future: corrections made now have their own future, too. Live it.

Friday, July 31, 2026

Complex physical/mental attributes.

The human being is overwhelmed by the complexity of the physical body and overestimates his/her grasp of the complexity of the mental body. No one is as smart as they think they are.  

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Capitalism/Socialism/Communism

Socialism is wide socially oriented rule.
Communism is narrow dictatorial rule.
Socialism is NOT communism.

After spending years examining complex issues, their reduction is accomplished by observing results.
Beyond obfuscating blather are these summarizing descriptions.

Capitalism creates problems,
Socialism solves them.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Investments

Why are the surreal investments of stockholders valued more than the real investment of stakeholders? 

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Free Market

How do subsidized and deceptively marketed products create a "free market"? The US market is not free, but "authorities" say so. It reminds me of the aphorism: You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. But if authorities think the pig is beautiful, it is presented in the language of beauty. Yet it's still a pig.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Thomas Jefferson quoted.

Paraphrased and quoted:

He feared that the rise of a new form of absolutism was more ominous than the British rule overthrown in the American Revolution. He distinguished in his later years between what he called "aristocrats and democrats." And he then went on to say "I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial[,] and bid defiance to the laws of our country." He also wrote "I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
                                                                     ~ Thomas Jefferson

(From Noam Chomsky's book : Power.)

We were warned more than two hundred years ago about corporations and banks, and their subversive intent has been pursued for all that time. They might be given credit for persistence, I suppose, but not credit for persistent, narrow minded ignorance. This defiance of democracy has been made to appear "democratic." It is not.