| MORPHEAL'S COMMENTARY - February 4, 2009 (Poland 20 Years, Gaddafi's Africa, Axe 500K Execs, Funding Science, and Inter-Stellar Survival) |
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| Robert Morpheal, Bob Ezergailis, Morphealism (morpheal@yahoo.com) |
2009/02/05 20:19 |
POLAND 20 YEARS AFTER CAPITALISM: COMMUNISM IS NOW A FREE CHOICE
The whole situation in Eastern Europe is poorly understood. The end of
the Cold War was not universally meant (by all of its architects) to
be the end of communism. In fact it was only meant to end the
increasingly deadly, threateningly apocalyptic, Cold War strangle hold
and military state of tension. Soviet, Stalinist style, dictatorship
is not definitive of state planned socialist variations on economic
practices. In fact the Soviet tyranny and its iron grip on much of
eastern Europe, has no real and valid relation to communist, or
socialist economic practice. The one need never be assumed as being
inevitable in relation to, or being equatable as being the same as the
other. They are not the same thing. Much of Soviet extremism and
political practice was a reaction caused by east west push and shove
dominating two thirds of the 20th century.
United States led capitalism's ability to do what is right for
humanity when costs exceed profits needs to be reassessed very
carefully. They have had twenty years in which to prove their point
and they have failed to remedy the larger part of the problems that
the Cold War left in its wake. The Cold War had remained the excuse
for not being able to, and for not having the fiscal means. If
Capitalism cannot see its way to that remediation and rectification,
finding the challenge too costly and preferring a worldwide economic
downturn, of lasting impact and indefinite duration, then Capitalism
truly is a dying system and another system must take over the task
that Capitalism has failed in. That system might be a variant of
socialist or it might even be communist, perhaps a mixture of whatever
is pragmatic, but what it will not be is a Cold War tug of war,
tearing apart the minds and spirits of Eastern Europe. Certainly not a
tug of war that insists that Capitalism is the one and only answer to
Freedom is now possible, and that freedom includes a free choice as to
what economic system is implemented, what level of centralized
planning, what amount of state ownership, how much intervention, and
to what extent real value economics, where what needs to be done gets
down regardless of the accounting of the costs and their profit
margins, will be implemented. Freedom now means the reform of
Capitalism, and radical changes to that system, to prevent further
20th century combined with German Fascism and Soviet Cold War
ideology, did their damage, and Capitalism has continued to take a
horrendous toll. What is now necessary is for people who are free to
choose, to be able to choose what is best for humanity and progress,
not on the basis of a Soviet communist model or an American Capitalist
model being forced upon them without any choice in regards to
accepting or amending the rules to create a more viable and effective
system than either side in the Cold War was able to offer.
Colonel Gaddafi has long been a dreamer of big dreams that found big
opposition from those who seek to oppress and misuse Africa. It has
the technical and productive ability to reclaim desert, grow enough
food, desalinate water, remedy major sources of conflict including
lack of modern non sectarian education, but it cannot and could not do
so in the world of east west political confrontation and manipulation,
inclusive of the utterly failing capitalist system. Can the
alternative happen now ? Can Colonel Gaddafi actually turn vast areas
of the African desert into agricultural paradise, transform salt water
into drinking water, and raise the African continent up to a new level
of cooperation where the continents problems can actually begin to be
solved ? If the world economic crisis stands in the way of his dream,
can he overcome that obstacle and get Africans to cooperate to change
everything, by working together, with their existing resources, no
longer stopped by the communist, Capitalist and sectarian warlords and
LUDICROUS OBAMA GENEROSITY TO FAILED EXECUTIVES:
Half a million dollars to an executive of a failed corporation is far
too much profit paid out to those who have failed so badly. Remember
that that is a cash ceiling, and does not take into account all the
other perks and fringe benefits. Lesser persons than executives lose
their jobs for one mistake, even if they are not guilty of making it.
Executives seem to be immune from that fact, like demi-gods, paid the
equivalent, in one year, of what can be more than 12 years before tax
wages, for a lesser species, the beaten down and out worker. Why do we
pay failure half a million when it could help 12 people survive
mistakes, without being required to take any responsibility ?
Besides that, anything above 100K in salary and base benefits, should
be performance bonus, based on ethics and the financial health of the
corporation. 500K is not enough incentive for most people to change
the way they do business, when it is all being done so very very
wrong. There are many who would jump at the chance of 100K jobs, who
are qualified, ethical, and able to take on the responsibilities. Many
educated, experienced, working people never see half that in a good
year.
FUNDING SCIENCE THAT BENEFITS THE ECONOMY:
more of the UK's research budget should be spent in areas that would
Since when has it been proven that capitalist economics pursues
research and development as to what is right and good for the future
of humanity, rather than only what is profitable ? We can see by the
extent of what has not been done and what is not being done, for the
sake or right and good, that funding science for what benefits the
economy would be a catastrophic error, worsening an already disastrous
situation. Remember that television, as we know it, would never have
been developed if a Russian, working a day job for an American
corporation, had not spent his nights working on the project, without
pay, in one of their laboratories. After all, the corporation thought
there was no profit to be made in the development of television.
DUNCAN FORGAN AND INTELLIGENT LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS:
Duncan Forgan, a researcher in the UK, estimates a probable 31,513
other worlds where intelligent life could exist, somewhere out in
space. The results of one mathematical estimation, but it does bring
up an interesting point.
I believe it is certain that there are intelligent extra-terrestrial
species. Some more advanced than our own. What we must never assume is
that superior intelligence makes a species friendly, and passive,
rather than hostile and aggressive in relation to us. We can see how
difficult it is with the same species, and with that species having
interests in common, inclusive of its own survival on its own home
planet. Clearly intelligence and technological progress do not provide
a good prediction in regard to peace.
The successful, surviving species, will be the the species capable to
winning wars. The trick to the game of survival is to cooperate as a
species on your own planet, overcoming ideological differences quickly
enough, to build vessels capable of inter stellar space travel, and to
develop new weapons directed not against their selves, but instead to
be pointed at the enemy, out there in inter-stellar space. Eventually
you do meet up with that enemy, and then you have to use everything
you learned in all the previous millennia of your species evolution,
to survive the next battle.
The universe, species survival and continued species evolution, will
ultimately go to the species that is able to put aside their own
sectarian, ideological, differences, to work together cooperatively.
Species that fight themselves, and wreak havoc on themselves will
destroy themselves even before the enemy out there, gets to them, to
finish them off. That ending could come from being found useless, and
backward, as a species, proven unworthy for alliance with others who
are already advancing their lines, and winning against their enemies.
Robert Morpheal
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