Cervantes as a Polemicist Against Formal Logic

 As I have noted previously, Miguel de Cervantes was a leading conspirator in the mold of Leibniz and Franklin for a project that would have overturned the evils of oligarchism. This is no mere accident. For great art, as his Don Quixote assuredly is, by its very nature intervenes upon the psyche of humanity and thereby produces material effects in promoting what Benjamin Franklin adopted as a lifelong commitment from Cotton Mather, i.e. "to do the good." 

In particular, I refer here to Cervantes' poetic demonstration that the character of formulaic pragmatism in life is deadening to actual creativity. Reading Don Quixote from the first page to the end there is a consistency of purpose that indeed unifies the entirety of the work (which is a sine qua non of all art of any form.) It is a polemic. However, it is never put into any simplistic propositional form and therein lies the irony of the standard of living art. It is immortal in that sense. 

This is why the essence of poetic mentation, qua the creative faculty of higher intelligibility, must guide humanity's necessary mission of space colonization. For what classes of problems will we as a species meet with there?  And even the enumeration of poetic devices alone is not sufficient as a roadmap for the type of creative problem solving that we will be called upon to perform once we emerge onto that platform of human history. 

But the true aesthetic comprehension of the work of the world historical creative genius Cervantes, or his partner Shakespeare is. 

 

Title page to the 1620 London Blount edition, depicting Don Quixote and Sancho Panza astride their steeds

Harmony Abounds in This Best of All Possible Worlds

The untutored imagination of the child needs no prompting to be filled with deep wonder at the beauty of this world. Everyone has a touchstone in memory of some such emotion evoked by this ongoing and emerging and uncanny harmony. The deliberate elevation of the mundane by the artistic composition is the aim of the highest and exalted love for humanity sometimes known by the Greek word agape. 

This morning a unique planetary system's discovery came to my attention. It has been given the very uninspiring name TOI-178. However, it should be named in honor of that giant in the annals of astronomy Johannes Kepler. Perhaps Keplerworld. 

This system is in harmonic resonant alignment in its ratio's of  five out of the six of planetary orbits around its star. They are 18:9:6:4:3 for their orbital periods. Thus this amazing discovery upholds and once again confirms the genius of the profound poetic science of  Kepler's discovery of the elliptic harmonic ratios of our own planetary system and the much maligned principle of Leibniz that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

 

This graphic shows a representation of the TOI-178 planetary system, which was revealed by ESA's exoplanet watcher CHEOPS. The system consists of six exoplanets, five of which are locked in a rare rhythmic dance as they orbit their central star. The two inner planets have terrestrial densities (like Earth) and the outer four planets are gaseous (with densities like Neptune and Jupiter). The five outer planets follow a rhythmic dance as they move in their orbits. This phenomenon is called orbital resonance, and it means that there are patterns that repeat themselves as the planets go around the star, with some planets aligning every few orbits. While the planets in the TOI-178 system orbit their star in a very orderly manner, their densities do not follow any particular pattern. One of the exoplanets, a dense, terrestrial planet like Earth is right next to a similar-sized but very fluffy planet ­­– like a mini-Jupiter, and next to that is one very similar to Neptune. Astronomers did not expect to find this lay-out in a planetary system, and this discovery challenges current theories of planet formation. In this graphic, the relative sizes of the planets are to scale, but not the distances and the size of the star. Credit: ESA

Big Bang Theorists Versus Real Poetic Inspiration

 I came today across another in an apparently endless sequence of  wild eyed theories about the "big bang" epoch. Usually I don't comment much on these fabulous musings obviously meant to pocket some grant for mathematical twaddle. However this latest headline, "Scientists find black holes could reach 'stupendously large' sizes" gave me pause for reflection on the problem of why students are "turned off" from "science." 

I harken back to that much admired promoter of the wonders of science and pothead Carl Sagan's awestruck mantra of "billions and billions of stars." Edgar Poe wrote (my emphasis italicized) in his Rationale of Verse about the symmetry of rhyme this: 

To return to equality. Its idea embraces those of similarity, proportion, identity, repetition, and adaptation or fitness. It might not be very difficult to go even behind the idea of equality, and show both how and why it is that the human nature takes pleasure in it, but such an investigation would, for any purpose now in view, be supererogatory. It is sufficient that the fact is undeniable — the fact that man derives enjoyment from his perception of equality. Let us examine a crystal. We are at once interested by the equality between the sides and between the angles of one of its faces: the equality of the sides pleases us; that of the angles doubles the pleasure. On bringing to view a second face in all respects similar to the first, this pleasure seems to be squared; on bringing to view a third it appears to be cubed, and so on. I have no doubt, indeed, that the delight experienced, if measurable, would be found to have exact mathematical relations such as I suggest; that is to say, as far as a certain point, beyond which there would be a decrease in similar relations.

The problem is the cloying dullness of such theoretical phantasms when true science should be an ennobling mission to "do the good" for the benefit of future generations. The claim that "pure science" is just some disconnected theorizing a la Jonathan Swift's Laputa, like today's "string theory of the landscape" of innumerable multidimensional alternate universes is in the end just so much intellectual onanism.

For an example of true poetic of aesthetic wonder Keats sonnet is among the best ever composed (even though the encyclopedists might quibble over Cortez):

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Little Toot, Baruch Plan, Korean War, Bertrand Russell World Government

 In 1948 the Walt Disney company issued a film in the midst of the postwar baby boom called Little Toot. Five years later I was born, the son of a father who had served in he Pacific theater and witnessed the signing, along with a vast multitude of others in the Pacific theater, by General MacArthur of the end of the WWII onboard the USS Missouri on September 2nd, 1945. 

My father, like the majority of his generation believed that the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japanese territories was what forced their surrender. However, this is not the real reason for the use of nuclear weapons. In 1946 Harry Truman, the quondam haberdasher puppet of Churchill, okayed the policy put forward at the United Nations supposed to stop nuclear weapons proliferation. Called the Baruch Plan, it really was a plan for world government to "prevent nuclear war." This failed whereby the "pacifist philosopher" Bertrand Russell decided to take his royal gloves off and show himself as the blood thirsty geopolitician he truly was.  In 1947, Lord Russell wrote the following:

"I should like to see as soon as possible as close a union as possible of these countries who think it worth while to avoid atomic war. I think you could get so powerful an alliance that you could turn to Russia and say, "It is open to you to join this alliance if you will agree to the terms; if you will not join us we shall go to war with you." I am inclined to think that Russia would acquiesce; if not, provided this is done soon, the world might survive the resulting war and emerge with a single government such as the world needs." (United Empire 39, 1948)

The Soviets refused Russell's plan for world government when they rejected the Baruch Plan. Not convinced they could trust the Truman Administration that had carried out those atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the meantime, America was subjected to cultural psychological warfare aimed at instilling hysteria, fear and pessimism preventing any attempt at effecting Franklin Delano Roosevelt's postwar plan to end "the methods of British colonialism." This psy war was two pronged. One was inducing mass hysteria via the cold war threat of nuclear annihilation. This led to McCarthyism anti communism red scares, which at the time of my early youth, I have a vague memory of my father being visited late one night by threatening g-men regarding putting a stop to his union organizing. Also, the very same Lord Russell embarked upon a scheme to promote irrationality as so called freedom in the arts with his founding sponsorship of the CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom. (Now called the Open Society Foundations of George Soros, who "liberally" endowed it with 32 billion dollars.)

The Korean war, as the first in a series of geopolitical forever wars found Douglas MacArthur objecting to would be imitators of Russell's population war methods in response for plans to firebomb civilians in North Korea. Answering then General O'Donnell who had asked for MacArthur's acquiescence, he said,  "No, Rosie, I'm not prepared to go that far yet. My instructions are very explicit; however, I want you to know that I have no compunction whatever to your bombing bona fide military objectives, with high explosives, in those five industrial centers. If you miss your target and kill people or destroy other parts of the city, I accept that as a part of war." MacArthur went on to advised JFK to get out of Viet Nam shortly before he was assassinated.

I remember my paternal grandfather calling me "Little Toot," saying, "Little Toot -- just trying to get by in this world." This would have been some ten years after this Disney film was released. This phrase thereafter always stuck in my craw... And until this morning, I hadn't ever looked up the reference. However, the reason this rather innocuous sounding sentence bothered me was that it struck me as the the prevalent unwholesome cultural dictum of the time of the passive "company man" of "go along to get along, don't make waves." 

Thus it strikes me today, that the return to "normalcy," (Harry Truman's very own charming neologism for "normality") means the wholesale resurrection of the incoming administration of Russell's geopolitical and cultural agenda in new clothes. "Recreational drugs" are being legalized to decorticate a new generation and the false narrative of climate change is being pounced upon in a "flight forward" rush by Biden's handlers to bring on the Great Reset/Green New Deal. Soon a blowout of the bubble will occur along with more forever wars and the takedown of the space colonization mission. In the meantime, the American people need a little education in American system economics, otherwise we are doomed to repeat the ever downward spiral toward further chaos.

The Night's Plutonian Geopolitical Shore

 As Trump said in his departing address, he was an outsider to the D.C. Beltway. Therefore that alone made him a target, all the more so by his overt defiance of Comey and the Company of Intel Agencies. As that memorable quote by the current Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer on intel agencies getting Trump "six ways from Sunday." 

The problem though in my estimation that has led to the current push toward shut down on the freedom of speech and even overt calls for reeducation of the deplorable rabble, is that Trump himself was too entangled with the miserable likes of Pompeo and Bannon. 

The LaRouche movement and others, myself as well, had rightly exposed the Saudis and British Intelligence as behind Al Qaeda's 9/11 World Trade Center massacre. The Pompeo claim that Iran is behind all Islamic terror is a lie. Trump almost from day one of his Presidency went to Saudi Arabia, next named Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and engineered via Pompeo and alliance with the Sunni Wahhabi feudalists and Israel. This fuse has been lit due to the placating of the loony American Armageddonists version of the second coming. 

The case of Steve Bannon and the Henry Jackson, English Speaking Union is another problem that has seeded yet another potential for an outbreak by miscalculation with China.

Now, we have the Clintonistas with their unfinished business with their Russian friends... Hillary recently was quoted that Trump probably called Putin to get and OK for an insurrection (!) 

And yet, there may be a few forlorn shoots that may not die of canker. I must say that I am particularly delighted that nuclear rocketry for a Mars colonization mission may be afoot (even

Rolls Royce and Elon Musk may be partnering as rumor has it.) And it has just come to my attention that there is a proposal to set up a human colony in the orbit of Ceres. This of course should be named in honor of Riemann's immortal teacher Karl Gauss. 

The Truth Will Set You Free

I am hopeful, dear reader, this etching of Rembrandt's Adam and Eve will not be whited out by the "AI" bots. However, please refer to an image if so that links here. This posting will refer to this image as a standard for conveying the dramatic irony of truthfulness and beauty. 

If you direct your gaze to the face of Adam what do you see? Like the many self portraits of Rembrandt, what I cannot but marvel at is a soul amidst unrest and mental dilemma. Leonardo and Raphael managed the like within the confines of the prescribed ideal form of human nakedness. (Leonardo, in fact, in his notebooks made clear that the artist should not be so entranced with his own image that it be taken as a model for this ideal.) However, Rembrandt did not adhere to the said stylistic  injunction of the day.

What is the political reality of today's affairs? If we, like Rembrandt, were to dare to lay bare all in its stark humanity in truthful forms, perhaps less than accepted mode of performance art's model of popular entertainment? 

We have, since our acquiescence to a monstrous lie, been living in mental terror of the evil geopolitical framework of mutually assured destruction. The lie was that it was necessary for Truman to assent to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end WWII. Ever since that point, the psychological framework for the future of humanity has been dictated from an embedded and quite viciously evil oligarchy. 

I, and my former comrades, promulgated a strategic option to end this deliberately imposed psychological warfare that came to be known by the term of belittlement engendered through the control of the mass media by that same oligarchy as "star wars." Why and how was this proposal for ending the reign of terror through mutual collaboration of developing technologies based upon new physical principles that would spill over to revive our wrecked and looted industrial economy defeated? Essentially, because of the manipulation of a psychologically crippled little people that had accepted the big lie upon which the postwar liberal order world governance maintained power.  

So, instead of the truth that could have turned over the chess board we got the same polarities of mental chains like Jonathan Swift's Lilliputians fighting over chimeras of mental figments. The problem is that when we chase after these in order to finance a movement, we leave the truth behind. For in the end, it serves not to cater to backwardness rather than bringing the naked truth with its warts and all to light, for only then may we actually challenge humanity to look upon its foibles and start upon the painful yet healthful path of self consciously becoming aware. Without that any movement will necessarily come to nought.

Pseudo Religious Political Movements and anti China vs. Russia, Russia, Russia Pivot

What an execrable mess politics in America is these days.

Today we have a deployment of the agents of geopolitics via religious movements and institutions. On one hand, the Pope is all in on the Green New Deal/Great Reset. (See Biden and Pelosi...) On the other hand we  the supposed pro Israel/Jewish lobby as God's chosen people bringing the prophecy of Armageddon crew.

As if this weren't enough, we have the Tucker Carlson anti China operation on deck...

Oy vey. The times they are a changin...

Duck and Cower, "Celebrating" 70 Years of Psychological Warfare

Soon, the memories of the teachers that had their students drilled to crouch beneath their desks will be all but gone. For I am the ripe old age of near 68 and my teachers had to have been at the very least in their early twenties back then. The time of the duck and cover conditioning began in 1951, a decade before the "edge of destruction" Cuban Missile crisis. What did this do to our collective psyches? 

Jackson Pollock, a victim of Jungian psychotherapy, started his "drip period" at about the same time as the duck and cover psy-ops began. The CIA meanwhile started promoting this literal insanity on canvas as "modern art" of free expression against communism through it's sponsorship of Bertrand Russell led Congress for Cultural Freedom. Today, its successor organization is run by none other than George Soros, the financier of so called color revolutions around the globe. 

The next act was the foray into "research" of mind control via hallucinogens in the CIA project MK Ultra in or around 1953. Thus the irrationality of freedom could be minted a decade later as the counterculture of Timothy Leary's "Turn on, Tune in, Drop out"  mantra could be force fed to those same children that previously huddled beneath their desks for fear of nuclear obliteration. Cool...

And now we are legalizing dope and criminalizing free speech in the "information age" of consumer "gig economy." Qui Bono? Who benefits? It ain't me babe...

 

Chirality and Life

 Even in these benighted times, every once in a while there appears a glimmer of scientific genius that come almost like manna to salve one's despairing mentality. Today, in the midst of my wonted perusal of what passes for scientific inquiry, I came across a rather remarkable bit of hypothesizing about the molecular chiral organization of water. 

In other words, water is so constituted that it conforms congruently to the essential property of organic chirality. Here we see the legacy of Pasteur. The anomalous boundary of living and inorganic afford us the precise vehicle to research what the leader of the true scientific approach, Leibniz clarified as the harmonic underpinning of natural law that makes the constitution of this world the best among all possibilities. And in doing so puts to rest for all but the most diehard blockheads among us that the ordering of our universe is, in potential, always characterized by an evolvability to higher levels of more order.

In this, we find consolation that our struggles to lay the groundwork for unremitting human progress will eventually bear fruit no matter how much those of ill will work to prevent it.

The Space Program's Benefit for Humanity in Its Universal Context

The Christian Humanist Renaissance held that that logos or the word, i.e. reason, being made flesh was understood that mankind was made in the living image of God the creator. And was given a new dispensation and right to uncover the laws of nature for the well being of future generations. 

It is this type of love for humanity that inherently has a power that may not be overcome by any tyranny because it is based upon immutable truth. It has a power beyond all reckoning in the here and now because it unfolds continuously in time as scientific progress, yet is unbounded in the simultaneous sempiternal realm beyond time. 

Thus it is that our better selves, each and every human on this planet, in principle, have a unique correspondence that resonates in harmony with the great mission and purpose for exploring and developing our civilization in space. It is in that particular sense that we are all united with our past hard-fought victory over lawless arbitrary rule of irrational oligarchies that would deny our real creative and universal identities. 

This mission may not ever be defeated and eradicated unless humanity is no more. And this is the context with which everything that is occurring on the political stage of current world history must be strategically organized to bring about this one unifying and necessary future. All nations and all faiths, our science, technology and art can only come into congruence and peace by adopting and fulfilling its promise.  

To The Grand Information Inquisition

If it be subversive to hear and see, 

Then blot your pages from our eyes--

For our spirit still aims to flee

To thoughts above your cave of lies.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes - The sleep of reason produces monsters

 

On Lincoln's Preamble of Malice Toward None

This morning, I awoke with a shocking and welcome surprise that Julian Assange had his extradition request denied. It is perhaps a portent that the power of the Five Eyes is weakened to a degree. However, we must expect that like a wounded beast they will counter attack, of course. To be sure, the current head of the CIA, Gina Haspel is enmired in the methods of lawlessness of that rogue agency's misdeeds. 

And, as well, we have the prospect of a continuing attempt at any cost to bring into being a dictatorship corporatist state that even Orwell couldn't have imagined. The only pathway out is to uplift all mankind to a higher purpose. For in the end, without that sine qua non, all the exposes of the inveterate evil doers of the Assanges and Snowdens will come to naught. Society will fail. 

But we do have the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who had he lived, would have led this nation out of the crisis. If we take up the mission that this country represents for the world here, and in space for millenia to come we cannot fail. For the universe is so wondrously composed that if we apply the effort to conquer with good will our worldly needs and wants with malice toward none, we may not fail. And in that we may be gladdened in heart and justly celebrate that which makes each and everyone among us truly human. Our likeness to ever lessen our imperfections and come into conformity with the merciful principle that unites us. 

Beethoven - Missa Solemnis - Kölner RSO / Klemperer