The Unlearned Lesson of the Age of Drama as War By Other Means

 Diplomacy is viewed as a continuation of war by other means by the strategist von Clausewitz. But great tragic drama also held this position at crucial periods of epochal changes in the course of human history. Thus were the series of plays at the time of Shakespeare consciously designed to capture the imagination of the ruling classes. In particular Christopher Marlowe's oeuvre rises to the level of Plato's dialogues as interventionist in the sense of holding forth a kind of scorching mirror to the all too human follies of aborted imperial delusions. This is the mantle that Shakespeare and his collaborators took up thereafter in the wake of Marlowe's apparent assassination. 

This Abraham Lincoln seems to have fully grasped in his determination to save the union in the face of headwinds that would have set history on a perversely tragic course if the outcome of civil war was less than victory. We, i.e. humanity s a whole, have been enmired in endless proxy wars since the advent of the "atomic age" for nearly a century since the end of WWII.

Where is our Shakespeare or Schiller in these "latter days?" Can history pivot upon an intervention of that very sort at the latest stage of imperialistic schemes. The worldview of human aims is crucially bifurcated at present. Either a tragedy on the current world stage of events cataclysmic in scope will surely ensue or humanity will enter into a new realm of mutually assured survival to a new era of untold possibilities. The tale of Dr. Faustus was not a myth per se, but rather a glimpse behind the curtain as it were, of the "magicians" moving history behind the thrones of feudal ambitions writ large.

The question remains can we move beyond the era of this worthless impasse of decimations wrought by the very real evil of geopolitics? How can the world at the brink be brought back from deadly posturing of annihilation that currently is drummed into our daily political architecture's rank and hopelessly virulent discourse? What most threatens this nightmare scenario to tweak the higher sensibilities of the common aims of a now viciously divided humanity?  

The blatant fallacies about the role and capacity of civilization's scientific prowess regarding the fate of this planet, nay even our solar system and beyond, and our place in that yet unfurled necessary history need desperately to be satisfactorily resolved in the here and now. There are enough signs of mitigation of backward tendencies breaking down. Even the arch neo-Malthusians like Greta Thunberg are pausing to rethink the rationale of their foreboding "end of history" illusions. Nuclear energy. including fusion research, as a resolution of planetary self destruction is coming to the fore seemingly miraculously off stage. 

The end of menial labor is envisioned as we enter the robotic age of "occupying" space. No longer relegated to the confines of the false imagination of tendentious and risibly adolescent tales of apocalyptic "science fiction." There is a harrowing yet harmonious resolution awaiting us out of the hellish landscape of equally bad choices for the useless confrontations of resource wars currently nearing their end phase. If we only were able to rise above petty concerns hampering our palpable route to success. 

For the consciousness of all human beings, in the end, are the common result of the astronomical ongoing processes of ever greater unfolding development of unified reality that we yet know so little of. What grand and consequential problems will confront our progeny in a post geopolitical universe of our own making. Happiness, in whatever manner it transpires, today, is defined and constituted in safely shepherding those future generations beyond the scenario of an otherwise inglorious and tragic end that need not be otherwise. 

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Paean to the Endless Night

 Is, oh muse of mine

It time from the loosened 

Shards of generations past

Returning to fortune’s heavy

Fate a wakeless sleep

Entranced in utter stillness.

Unbelieving we could be 

Insensate, in the moment 

Destined to test age old 

Fears of mortality’s quest

Of faith in the embrace

Wisdom’s proffered path.

Among the ashes dead

From fires that ravished

In bewildered tears.

Yet now we glean to grasp

The future strife not yet

Begun amid the ruins

Of wars half fought thought

Unending on the brink

Of survival or destruction. 

Still hope now lurches

And leaps to beckon anew.

A drama unimagined fraught

With endless undiscovered

Universes of the possible.

Home to stars untold unmet

Yearning to be known boldly

Painting the way forward now

Anon the lights lead it’s sojourner

To beauty’s realms unending 

Dream quenched heights.

The Only Basis for a Resolution of the False Set of Choices of Geopolitics

 The banner that the American Revolution was heralded under “Common Sense,” today needs a "great reset" instead to the Common Aims of Humanity. No other lesser basis will usher humanity out of the current existential impasse. 

Only a manifestly higher standpoint that relegates artificial divisions among humanity to the dustbin can be the basis for lasting peace. Every human person must be viewed as potential for development. And every nation must ensure the necessities of that human person are met. This was semi articulated with the UN declaration of guaranteed human rights before that phrase began to be used as an excuse for engaging in warfare in the name of humanitarianism. Instead, the actual motivation has been resource grabs. I.e. looting of regimes subservient to the self declared "rules based order" otherwise better characterized as geopolitical financial/military imperialism. 

I have laid out the basis for a new system of international relations as follows:

Agenda for Future Successful Vectoring of Our True Species Nature

1. Control of electromagnetic spectrum.

2. Control over space by making it practical for humanity to visit the universe without end.

3. Control of time through expansion of healthy lifetimes ad infinitum.

4. Control of potential participation of creation of beauty via all art forms of all members of humanity.

5. Development of program for continuous perfection of all that knowledge for which we discover the need based upon a series of the forgoing achievements. 

A Treatment of Interrelated Psychological and Physical Characteristics of Economics as Tensor Oriented Systems

 Much has been ballyhooed of late in almost quasi religious terms regarding the “rules based system of international relations.” We can perhaps resolve the seeming incongruities of the apparent immiscible categories in the title of this post by weighting them relative to tensor-like attributes. This post was in reaction to the Tesla presentation from yesterday. This could resolve the mystical qualities of the valuation of national and international currencies.

Following up from my most recent post regarding LaRouche’s metric for physical economics potential reducing power as it relates to nation states interrelationships with the global economy. First, we must situate the differential between the psychological and physical attributes of money. Money as a reference exchange and also as credit for future investment must be disentangled. The current global conflict over the issue multi or unipolarity comes distinctly into play here. This is directly related to the issue of what constitutes a nation state versus a system of global relations. 

The military enforcement of “rules” of trade of goods and services across borders encompasses the strategy of “offshoring” labor by methods “primitive accumulation,” (also known as looting) “race to the bottom” has dramatically backfired upon its authors especially in the case of China’s centralized economy. It should be no surprise that all the proxy wars the world has suffered through over the course of the twentieth and twenty first centuries thus far especially since the stalemate of “mutually assured destruction” doctrine of Kissinger, et al. are intimately bound up in reality as resource grabs. However, the market psychology of “floating currencies” seemingly detached from nationstate economies has artificially propped up in reality a false dollar dominated globalism masked by gambits of military adventurism using the excuses of humanitarian intervention against putatively autocratic regimes.

This era is now perhaps at a terminal crossroads. The rational approach toward rectifying this extremely perilous state of affairs is to set up a new system of monetary relations among sovereign nations that is mutually beneficial over the long term that increases both the local and global standard of living based upon increasing secularly the potential relative population density per square kilometer via the benefits of technological progress afforded by rapid advances in technological progress. This is attained by viewing the necessity of greatly increasing the reducing power of energy flux density as the basis for monetary relations among national trading partners. 

This is where the issue of a tensor based measuring system comes into play. The key categories to be taken into account as vectors in a multidimensional schema are advances in energy (foremost nuclear fusion/MHD economic transformation,) transportation infrastructure, agriculture, robotics, healthcare (including basic biophysical research in promoting increased healthspan) and lastly and most importantly space habitation, mining, etc. This all correlates with by necessity with the topological stimulation of artistic productions of beauty coeval with scientific endeavor. The value of an economy at any time is a tensor of these disparate modes of vector space.