On Human Nature

Just watched "The Imitation Game". Once again I find a biography that makes me angry at all of our ancestors, and 99.9% of our contemporaries.  How many good men have been destroyed by not so good men?  There are simply times when I cannot -- Can't think  of the word, ah, I just did -- "countenance" mankind and our stupid fear and laziness that leads us to letting a set of half capable people, who believe in their own competence, and through their unrecognized prejudices, ignorances, and inhumane-ness, make decisions that lead to the tragedy and death of productive, but flawed, good human beings. Men, and women, far less flawed than the morally corrupt who impose tragedy, absurdity, and death, on 'better men' than they are.
Some examples: Socrates, Christ, Thomas Moore, Galileo, Dostoevsky, Bertrand Russell, Turing,  Oppenheimer,  and many, many more that I either don't know, have forgotten, or couldn't possibly have learned about.  Like the witches burned at the stake, the soldiers ordered into death's dream kingdom, the slaves butchered because they could be, the children starved to death, deliberately and by accident, all the victims of rape subsequently killed, or not. All of man's inhumanities to man are evidence that man does not deserve to have a life of any kind, not even an absurd one, lived in slavery, with death guaranteed, and love and hope unrequited, as we actually have.  Human Nature must be changed or destroyed, I'm for the change, but only because I'm an optimist: one who believes, against all evidence, that, in time, everything is going to be all right.
         But the only way it will be all right is, if and when, we make this world an Actual Democracy where each person votes for each law under which he lives, votes for each Executive that administers those laws, votes for each Judge who interprets those laws.
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The Republican saw:"You're talking class warfare", is incorrect. We've already lost the class struggle. The Founding 1% made sure we do not vote on the laws, do vote directly for the executives, and nobody votes for Judges. And they had the audacity to call this pre-defined 'old boys club' a Democracy. We have economic inequality, educational inequality, opportunity inequality, justice inequality, inequality inequality. The Representatives don't try and determine how to serve the people, only the "rich and powerful". They worry about "managing the people", not serving them. All the letters to your Congressmen and Senators are worthless. The gerrymandering has made Representatives the most corrupt people in the World. The Fifa corruption scandel is a joke compared to 500 men and women, our Representatives in Congress, who spend 4 trillion dollars a year and have Pac money they gouge from anyone and everyone for their personal benefit. And the Courts say this corruption is "free speech". And our Government's spying on the people, at tremendous cost and little return on the spying, is Constitutional, according to our Supreme Court of Injustice. This is the "Generation of Vipers" and they are our non-representing Representatives. Our Representatives won't vote for higher minimum wage or welfare for the children of unwed and unemployable mothers but they build 12 nuclear powered Aircraft Carriers, invade countries that haven't harmed us, lie to get our volunteer soldiers slaughtered on foreign shores, imprison the people who say all this corrupt stupidity is unAmerican, unconstitutional, inhumane, and evil, as well as dumb and hateful. We must instill an Actual Democracy to have a chance of any equality. Votes must be votes for the laws under which we live, directly, no intermediary who has sold his office, and his soul, for pieces of silver. The possibility of corruption must be removed from our government, that means Representatives must be replaced by direct elections of our public servants. Support Assocactualdemocracy.com.

If we want to save the Earth from being destroyed by the greed of corporations and their managers we must vote on laws limiting what they can do to all of us in the name of their profits. The Representatives who we put in a position to be bribed and influenced by money and power whose small minds never dreamed such wealth was even possible can not stand against the temptation to take the bribes and sell out mankind, sell out their constituents.

The Executive branch has declared the last 5 wars, where the Constitution requires only Congress to declare war. And the fools were not even smart enough to win the wars they declared: Korea, Viet Nam, two in Iraq ( and heading for the third), and Afghanistan. They waste our treasure and say it's the poor taking it from the other poor that is the economic problem. They pit one class of powerless people against another powerless group and say, "There is the problem": The powerless are ruining this country! The greatest lie, the greatest political, moral, and inhumane lie of all time. The Representatives,to whom we gave the power of our votes, use that power against us! AGAINST US, the Citizens of the United States. The Courts condone it. The military industrial complex gets to spend, and steal, a Trillion dollars a year while our children owe hundreds of thousands for the poor education they got in failed and greedy Universities that the Representatives have given a place at the public trough of corruption. We don't weigh the value of education by a schools effective graduates, we measure their "endowment", how much influence money they have gouged from their graduates. We must throw the money changers, the greedy and immoral, the weak and immoral, the corrupt and immoral Representatives out of Government, once and for all, and accept our responsibility to govern, directly, our own Country, our own Corporations, our own economy, our own educational institutions, our public media and propaganda outlets, our own humanity and diversity, our own future.

We must start holding "Actual Democracy" rallies, conventions, speak-outs, marches, and change the Constitution so the people keep their power of making laws and accept the responsibility to do so. Join me, join each other, group-source, group-think, and group-act for the good of "One man one vote", on each law, for each major Executive Officer, for each Judge, and not let the rich and powerful corrupt the corruptible among us and use "Representatives" to make laws for the benefit of only the rich and powerful, and our demise.

We have lost the Class Struggle, so now we must do away with Classes. If we each have the same say in what our laws permit, and don't permit; in how our treasure is to be spent for the benefit of all; on how our children are to be equally educated and have equal opportunity to fulfill their potential and contribute to the world according to their abilities; for our country to have a new birth of Freedom and Equality and not be ruled by one party, by no one philosophy, no one religion, no one class, no one ethnic race or group, where Justice can once again prevail and prisons hold criminals and not children who have made minor mistakes. And on and on with a litany of the corrections we can, should and must make to save our hope for any reasonable and just society.

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Knowledge, comment to NY times

Knowledge, like consciousness (See William James) is not a thing, it is a process. The process is simple: we get information into the nervous system from the sense organs, so we can know what is in the  environment and to be able to react to it. This information is merged, if more than one sense receives it: both lightening and thunder; and the full set of time related information is merged and stored in  memory, as an experience. The experience can be recalled later, compared to other experiences, put into the form of words with the words relationships then added to the experience and to our memory. Association of memories and analysis of memories and new information come to conclusions to guide our actions. "Charlie fell into a hole in the rode. I'll avoid it." So knowledge is a result of analysis of information that assembles into experiences from which we draw conclusions. The information is true, it carries the facts of the environment, of the physical world. Knowledge is never true, it is correct or incorrect because it is an inference made for a time and is subject to revision as new information comes and new experiences are put into the dynamic neural processes of conclusion making. The major way this all fails is if we fail to care about the correctness of our current opinions, let someone else tell us the conclusions we should have, like media reporters or critics, religious leaders, or scientists. The scientists get more weight because they put the information on the table, along with the inferences and conclusions and tests. 

To The New York Times: Aiding the Government

To be trusted a Government must be trust worthy. The media's first responses after 9/11 was 'patriotic' and trusting. So you swallowed the errors of Bush, the lies of Cheney, the ignorance of Rumsfeld, etc. etc. The Times let the blind, and malicious, lead them. The whole Country did. We were treated as herd animals and reacted as herd animals. Our Representatives did their best to manage us faithfully, but on the basis of errors and lies, they were wrong. And, of course, they were wrong to try and manage us, and they are doing more of it today. The Media has signed up to help us be managed. Only when the people can make judgments based on solid information and scrutinized, critiqued, opinions will there be a chance of our acting correctly. Group-thinking, group-analyzing, group-sourcing, all work. They are based on the old idea that 200,000,000 (two hundred million) brains are better than one, or a few. Hamilton won this argument over Jefferson and the Constitution does not establish a democracy: the people don't vote on laws, for executives, or judges. Only the superior, special, better people do. And the Media supports this attitude. To cease being managed, lied to, unrepresented, sold out - for money, prestige, and power - we must cease to be a Representative Republic and become an Actual Democracy. See assocactualdemocracy.com. Support it, work for it, change the government so the people vote directly on the laws, executives, and judges. Then there will be no Media errors.

On the Bush Cheney Iraq War: re Jeb Bush as candidate

The whole 'non-political' nation knew, and certainly knows now, that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and the neocons lied about Saddam Hussein's,  involvement in the 911 attack and his weapons. The war was based on lies and deceit and led to 4,000 deaths and 25,000 wounded, trillions of dollars gone to get them killed, loss of moral integrity before the world community, loss of faith in the good sense and political judgement of the country, which is still growing, and the Republican belief in the infallibility of American judgement and military power. All the while corrupt, incompetent, bible thumping, anti-science, anti-reason, anti-American valued incompetents destroyed everything this country ever stood for before the tragedy of 911. And the Media went along, the Democrats went along, the people 'went along. Herd animals, as Nietzsche called us, wanting to be led, put our values and history aside and invaded on lies, lied about torture, lied about accomplishments, buried the dead in secret, burned up our grandchildren's tax dollars and future, for the greater glory of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, the Republican party, The Central Stupidity Agency, the United States military (who have not won a war since WWII), and the future contempt of all thinking, caring, human beings.
 And Obama refused to prosecute these criminals, let them destroy America's ideals and the Constitution with impunity. This is the Generation of Vipers, still consciously working to deceive.

Religion as sterile

Religion has proven itself sterile. It does not contribute to a search for truth. Truth is only to be found in its thousands of year old books that are the presumed word of an omnipotent and loving God. But neither the books not the priests interpretations of books help in solving the problems of life. They don't lead to more food clothing or shelter. They don't address our health care needs, transportation needs, communication needs. 

There are two explanation for our existence: science and religion. Religion gives no explanation as to how our existence works so gives no advice on how we can improve our lives and prepare for our future. That's wht I mean by its being sterile. It's truth cannot grow, it cannot be applied to physical problems, biological problems, or chemical problems. Religion ignores this world for the spiritual world, But we get no information from the spiritual world that can assist us in making cars and planes, in fighting diseases, in making new materials, new fuels, and discovering new applications for what we have previously learned. Praying to have a broken car or broken computer fixed is universally ineffective. 

And omnipotence is logically impossible. An omnipotent being cannot make a brick that he cannot pick up, or a sinner he cannot save, or a saint he cannot corrupt, and on and on. It is a logical contradiction. 

God helps them who help themselves is an admission that god is no help at all. We must look to science to solve problems. We do

Comment on NYT Article about 'Patriot Ac'

Do any of us feel secure in our persons, papers and effects? Do we still believe that we will get due process of law after the Executive Office of the United States has imprisoned 700 men without bringing charges against them? Or torturing uncharged men? Is there any justification for our doing this? Yeah, sure somebody had weapons of mass destruction, didn't they? Well, maybe not, but we tortured some until they said they did. Our Representatives passed laws that did not represent our beliefs, our hopes for this nation, that our children will be forever ashamed of, only because our Representatives don't represent us, or care about our history of humane treatment for all men - and women. These Patriots did not Love Truth, Justice, and Equality before the law. They Loved, torture, Fear, imprisonment without charges, without trial, and without legal counsel. They are far more un-American than any citizens ever were who were said to be un-American. There is no more America where the poor and huddled masses yearning to be free can go to. It doesn't exist. Pity, it was, for one brief shinning moment, the inspiration of the World. Now it's just another place for frightened, cowardly, politicians to read our emails, listen to our phone calls, pay others to read and listen to them, and cause us to hate being Americans in this land of inequality, injustice, limited opportunity, poor education, and disintegrating social cohesion. Its plain to see we need actual Democracy: see assocactualdemocracy.com. But too late.