Worthwhile Current Endeavors of the Multipolarity Peoples Party

 The promotion of a necessary future in the furtherance of humanity’s mission to grow outward as a space faring and settling whole united civilization. It is that vision that will steer society to new dimensions of potential and that vision alone. Not as puerile fiction but as a necessary type missionist overarching narrative standpoint. That moves science in congruity with art. 

The “Rules Based Order” is an Empire of Lies

 The United States of America was conceived as the antithesis of the British Empire. However, little by little, largely due to the human foibles of love of money, we have been turned into the very thing we were dedicated to replacing. 

We are the new marcher lords of imperial barbarism. Destruction of the principle enunciated so elegantly in the Federalist Papers that material prosperity of a more perfect Union has now all but been accomplished. We are on the precipice of either a new world order consisting of sovereignty of the continuing perfection of human endeavor taking civilization beyond previous limits or the end due to the ultimate war brought on by ultimate folly. 

The Built-in Assumptions of Algebraic Geometry

 Just as Cartesian space limited by being fixed to an incomplete numerical structure with the complex rotational action of the imaginary number i missing, the matrix algebra of Grassman, while mechanically useful, carries with it certain wrongheaded assumptions about infinity. 

The solution was developed by Gauss, yet not put into direct use due to his uneasy political position of being the standard bearer for contemporary mathematics with its strict shibboleths. This Riemann was able to draw from Gauss the necessity of other geometries wherein the Euclidean flatness of space was violated. And significantly the possibility of the projective infinite "point" to be well defined in a curved phase space. Revolutionary, and not in keeping with the bad infinity night in which "all cows are black" of endless non transformational sameness of space itself. 

And for all that Riemann developed as distinct geometric possibilities of metastasis of transformation, yet only partially adapted to physically causal space, the full essence of this quality of revolutionary ideas was  up till now only adequately captured in art. This is due to a humanist polemic delivered unmediated as the sense of vision or hearing otherwise as unspoken fugal drama. Yet not a drama that may be criticized in the same way as being a referent to the limitations of historical finiteness of perspective. Its beautiful essence simply is. Nothing more nothing less.

When this higher species of transformational noetic mentation is demonstrated to be put into use, it necessitates conformity with its higher lawfulness. Thus as humanity emerges as an outer space residing civilization the lesser limitations of assumptions about human beings must be re-examined and false belief systems shed and adoption of a new visionary program for continuing development of scientific power made the essential framework for one’s worldview. If we are to not merely survive but strive toward a more perfect and prosperous unity, then those that matter will be heeded.

Exudations of Ethereal Hope in Music

 In this perhaps darkest epoch in human history, where must one turn for sustenance in the battle against the useless irrational geopolitical wars? In grasp of the technological marvels availing themselves as a result of relentless motor of progress? Or yet in an understanding that there is a higher principle afoot in the poetic sentiment as it develops through heightening what for no better term is the human soul or psyche. 

For in the final analysis, the battle will be won on the plain of intellectual identity and its developmental purpose carried out to fruition. The horrible weapons of war are ironical manifestations of the very same spirit that would harness mechanical understanding for a beneficial end. 

But it is necessary to change the mindset of the age itself toward true greatness of purpose. That in the end is demonstrated to our civilization’s mode of cognizance at the plateau of reason again ironically not in the necessary formulae of science, but rather in art. The most immediately compelling to our senses is music -- although the other arts may partake in the same elevated domain though less immediately. This is why great poetry, even in unstated intention, put to music has the potential to be doubly effective.

All in all, art has the power as a salve and inspiration of hope of better days, centuries and eons ahead into the perhaps unbounded immensity of peopling the galaxies. For our species attunement is far from attained but just in its infancy. It truly is our home in the stars that now inspires all serious forms of art. Thus the undeniable ethereal pathos of the perfectibly sublime as Beethoven's most advanced compositions amply demonstrate immediately to the better angels of our creative nature.

The Complete Italian Quartet's Beethoven String Quartet Cycle

The Purpose of Ancient Astronomy Unveiled

There is a universality over the ages in mankind’s seemingly innate urge to view the night skies as worshipful and thereby indicative of a greater power than anyone’s mere mortal understanding. Thus we mapped meticulously those very same arrangements of stars, planets and their movements in time. There did not need to be a rationale as to the why and wherefore of this ancient practice because it’s purpose was unquestionably embedded in our very collective psyches. 

Now as we stand at the brink of becoming a space faring society, we need no longer puzzle about this ineluctable passion and idee fixe of civilizations as far back say as the astronomically arranged megaliths of at least ten thousands years BCE recently excavated in Turkiye. 

Our destiny is proven by advancements in technology that make possible our leaving this tiny orb in order to dwell among and populate the stars we so perfervidly embrace as heaven. The faith in turning our attention to that which embraces our mortality with an ongoing quest at attaining an harmonic conformal unity with those heavenly bodies was always the inner subject of what we designate as the beautiful whatever form it takes. 

Thus humanity finds its true higher self in a home in the heavens as we begin to take the first tiny yet enormous steps to build new cities on the moon and Mars. 

Artist conception of a nuclear rocket. Credit: NASA

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. 

James Webb image

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.

Death of the Green Delusion

 If there is one bright spot in the midst of a perhaps fatal geopolitical tragedy, it is that the Green Party has had to eat crow on the outright delusion of the ludicrous premise of passive sustainability of so called clean energy. The great German scientific tradition of Gauss, Riemann, and Einstein, et al. may now perhaps yet be revived as the quackery of the neoMalthusian delusion ends in a well deserved good death to put a fine point on the matter. 

While there are many things to find fault with in the political praxis of the movement that goes by his name, LaRouche’s concept of the necessity of the secular increase of the per capita energy density throughput per square kilometer is an instance of a solidly grounded scientific principle. It is the case that humanity could survive so far as energy is concerned with the resource base of thorium nuclear energy for some thousand years at the current energy diet that we exist on today. However, if we were to increase the general standard of living on the planet to what is considered an upper middle class condition, then that estimate would be seriously reduced. But even then, we would merely be treading water.

For a enduring prospect of society’s emergence from the current mutually assured destruction geopolitical doctrine we urgently require much much more than that. The only exit from this irrational dilemma is a conjoint series of agreements among nations to move to an entirely new domain in the arena of scientific breakthroughs in agriculture, water projects, transportation, space colonization, biophysics and a nuclear fusion/MHD technological Revolution. Any disagreement with this is prima facie of no merit if one comprehends the aforementioned principle of energy flux density. There is no room for caviling with the truthfulness of this overriding reality at this late date in human history. Either we progress at an ever increasing rate or we perish.

The Lighthouse Revisited

Jan 1 — 1796. This day — my first on the light-house — I make this entry in my Diary, as agreed on with De Grät. As regularly as I can keep the journal, I will — but there is no telling what may happen to a man all alone as I am — I may get sick, or worse ..... So far well! The cutter had a narrow escape — but why dwell on that, since I am here, all safe? My spirits are beginning to revive already, at the mere thought of being — for once in my life at least — thoroughly alone; for, of course, Neptune, large as he is, is not to be taken into consideration as “society”. Would to Heaven I had ever found in “society” one half as much faith as in this poor dog: — in such case I and “society” might never have parted — even for the year ... What most surprises me, is the difficulty De Grät had in getting me the appointment — and I a noble of the realm! It could not be that the Consistory had any doubt of my ability to manage the light. One man had attended it before now — and got on quite as well as [page 2:] the three that are usually put in. The duty is a mere nothing; and the printed instructions are as plain as possible. It never would have done to let Orndoff accompany me. I never should have made any way with my book as long as he was within reach of me, with his intolerable gossip — not to mention that everlasting mëerschaum. Besides, I wish to be alone ...... It is strange that I never observed, until this moment, how dreary a sound that word has — “alone”! I could half fancy there was some peculiarity in the echo of these cylindrical walls — but oh, no! — this is all nonsense. I do believe I am going to get nervous about my insulation. That will never do. I have not forgotten De Grät's prophecy. Now for a scramble to the lantern and a good look around to “see what I can see” ................ To see what I can see indeed! — not very much. The swell is subsiding a little, I think — but the cutter will have a rough passage home, nevertheless. She will hardly get within sight of the Norland before noon to-morrow — and yet it can hardly be more than 190 or 200 miles.

Jan.2. I have passed this day in a species of ecstasy that I find it impossible [page 3:] to describe. My passion for solitude could scarcely have been more thoroughly gratified. I do not say satisfied; for I believe I should never be satiated with such delight as I have experienced to-day ......... The wind lulled about day-break, and by the afternoon the sea had gone down materially ..... Nothing to be seen, with the telescope even, but ocean and sky, with an occasional gull.

Jan. 3. A dead calm all day. Towards evening, the sea looked very much like glass. A few sea-weeds came in sight; but besides them absolutely nothing all day — not even the slightest speck of cloud. ....... Occupied myself in exploring the light-house .... It is a very lofty one — as I find to my cost when I have to ascend its interminable stairs — not quite 160 feet, I should say, from the low-water mark to the top of the lantern. From the bottom inside the shaft, however, the distance to the summit is 180 feet at least: — thus the floor is 20 feet below the surface of the sea, even at low-tide ...... It seems to me that the hollow interior at the bottom should have been filled in with solid masonry. Undoubtedly the whole would have been thus rendered more safe: — but what am I thinking about? A structure such as this is safe enough under any circumstances. I should feel myself secure [page 4:] in it during the fiercest hurricane that ever raged — and yet I have heard seamen say occasionally, with a wind at South-West, the sea has been known to run higher here than any where with the single exception of the Western opening of the Straits of Magellan. No mere sea, though, could accomplish anything with this solid iron-riveted wall — which, at 50 feet from high-water mark, is four feet thick, if one inch ........ The basis on which the structure rests seems to me to be chalk ......

Jan 4.

There is much meat for how this fragment by Poe would have been carried forward. My reflections follow.

January of the year of 1796, the date Napoleon about to be appointed as general in France. Jay Treaty between Britain and the U.S. ratified. 

De Grät. Napoleon. Norwegian for they wept. He has an unnamed prophecy. The strict condition of Keeping a diary. This could be Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon and similar utilitarian dogma that Poe lampooned in his tales of talented as opposed to genius “practical men.”

Neptune was the name of the dog in The Diary of Julius Rodman. That fictional diary was entered into the Congressional record as proof of an American claim to land on the continental west coast. 

 The meërschaum pipe of Orndorf, with his intolerable gossip. Meerschaum is “sea-foam” translated. The mineral floats upon the Dead Sea. How unlike Dupin with his meërschaum and lofty and superior investigatorial method. 

The cutter that apparently brought the narrator will be in sight of a ship called The Norland. Again Norway. 

The Lighthouse. Explored, its construction may have been unsafe, yet having a solid iron-riveted wall — which, at 50 feet from high-water mark, is four feet thick, the lower floor 20 feet below the sea at low tide.  Embedded in chalk. The sea has been known to run higher here than any where with the single exception of the Western opening of the Straits of Magellan. Is this a case of pit and pendulum and the maelstrom combined? 

The italicized words in order: can, here, One, alone, faith, That, satisfied, inside, safe. Perhaps "That one here inside, can faith alone satisfy safe."  or "That safe here inside. One faith alone can satisfy ." See the transcedalists that Poe excoriated as Bedlamites time and again as in The Fall of the House of Usher and Professor Tar and Dr. Feathers in particular.

What to make of these hints? Was Poe assigned some mission dealing with a diplomatic geopolitical issue before his untimely death, in the midst of an American election in Baltimore, perhaps having been a political murder? 

Norway had opposed Napoleon and thereby became independent from Denmark. Norway's constitutional monarchy established in 1814. Marquis de Lafayette's American triumphant tour in 1824 for which the young Poe appeared as part of an honor guard. During the French revolution he stood for a constitutional monarchy, but fled the terror to Austria where he was held prisoner from 1772 to 1779 and freed thanks to the efforts of his wife. As Beethoven's opera Fidelio celebrated. LaFayette personally visited and honored Poe's grandfather Quartermaster General David Poe's widow with a pension in Baltimore. George Washington provided sanctuary for LaFayette’s children. 

As to the intolerable gossip of Orndorf, how is this related to the Emerson essay Self Reliance? Poe’s campaign against Masonic Quietism of Longfellow, which is also the Romanticist DeStael’s back to nature trope of Transcendentalism. Remember that Poe elaborated that Kepler’s hypothesis generation augmented with consistency is the path to all scientific progress in his Eureka. See Thoreau and Emerson’s Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds quotation. And his quest to be completely alone outside of society’s constraints as solipsism. This breaks down the necessary rationality and invites madness of a crazed internal dialogue as in mens rea of The Telltale Heart. 

On the other hand might our protagonist been smitten on his walk with a premonition of the future state of humanity. Could he have foreseen the technological revolution as he gazed seaward and imagined this our planet as a sort of stepping stone to other worlds? And could he have foreseen the mighty power of that same revolution as it wrought a great I’ll of war of the world against that very same human population?

Didn’t Dante Alighieri imagine himself upon the moon with his beloved Beatrice? Thus the mind’s eye establishes a feint possibility of attaining a very real future utopia. Such that this unfinished work of Poe becomes a glimmer of the soul of the creation of the narrator of his own Eureka prose poem where he looks into the future and finds his own image only.

The End Of the Era of Empire

 The ever present and looming threat of humanity’s obliteration in thermonuclear world war has only one possible virtuous outcome. It is the mutually beneficial solution that extirpates the mental disease afflicting humanity from time immemorial. That of empire. 

The only form of domination that makes any sense at all is one of constructing timely solutions of the problems facing the necessary prosperity of physical and mental well being of human posterity. The elements of such are either at hand or within our grasp in the near term. It is in the nature of true statecraft to foster these at this epoch. We have only the horror of starkly fatal and frankly quite hideous and  suicidally unthinkable future in our failure to do so.

A New Declaration of Independence

 The most pressing question facing this planet today is just this. How did the United States of America founded upon the principle that all men are created equal become a captive of a financial oligarchy pursuing global wars on that very oligarchy’s behalf? Since Alexander Hamilton influenced the farewell address of George Washington with the adamant precaution of not ensnaring us in foreign wars and Abraham Lincoln pronounced that this reunited nation is of, by, and for the people, we have indeed become ensnared in forever neocolonial conflagrations and become a nation of a false would be elite.

The power of a new conceptual constitutional framework for the republic must not be diminished. For it is in the tale of Socrates demonstrating to the Athenian oligarchy that a “mere” slave boy was inherently capable of recapitulation of the most profound knowledge of current Pythagorean geometry through a method of questioning the tenets of proof of a higher order than the fixed relationships of the Hellenic society. But Plato did not succeed in bringing about such revolutionary necessary change to the fallacious structure of that society. However, the principle of reason endured because it’s universal application was required to advance humanity.

Today, we stand amidst a terrible choice of two possible pathways much as Dante Alighieri describes in his fictional account of being in a deep woods in his Commedia. The one path is of hell on earth of war, scarcity, starvation, and evolving pandemics coupled with the new age technological games as soporifics as we descend into oblivion and annihilation. The other path is a cleansing reorganizing purge of the false monetary and arbitrary rules based global immiseration of illiquid worthless debt to be followed with a climb to the summit of human achievement in improving standards of living. This includes food, energy, healthcare, material infrastructure, education and the resurrection of the aspirations of humanity to emerge as a species off this lonely and imperiled blue orb of habitation we will sing of in future epics as our onetime home.

“When Their Bellies Hit Their Backbones”

 I’ve lived a most fascinating life in the most fascinating times. Potentially, each of us recapitulates the entirety of human developmental history in our own lifetime. This is the real non mystical meaning of the psychological microcosm macrocosm principle.

Some fifty or so years past I had an associate in the International Caucus of the Labor Committees of the Students for a Democratic Society (ICLC of the SDS.) Today otherwise known as either the LaRouche Association or the opposed LaRouchePac. His name, if memory serves me, was Archie Marsh. He had been a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War with the Mackenzie Papineau Brigades and a member of the Wobblies or IWW (Industrial Workers of the World.) He also shunned all socialist groups at the time as being "agents of the state."

Archie had an oft repeated truism about organizing the “masses.” "They won’t join til their bellies hit their backbones." Perhaps, just perhaps this admonition may indeed be born out in the near future due to what I have signified as the suicidal geopolitical death wish of our establishment elites. The handwriting is on the wall as in the wonderful cartoon of Rembrandt of Belshazzar’s Feast. Thus does history repeat itself if perhaps only metaphorically...

Rembrandt: Public Domain

The Effect of Revolutionary Realizable Scientific Advancements and the Organization of Society

 While the follies of failed ideology proceed to their inevitable undoing, the continuing efforts to advance humanity’s mastery of space, communication, energy, biophysics and indeed time itself tend to undermine the matrix of outmoded assumptions of societal organization. 

For example, the recent incipient  development of non-invasive brain electromagnetic interface with control of the so called internet of things via uniquely designed metasurfaces by Chinese researchers coupled with advancements in the peopling of habitable planets and bodies artificial in outer space portends a potential overthrowing of the geopolitical deadly “Great Game” underway in the current unfolding of history. 

The new powers thus to be unleashed are of a reordering “game changing” significance. This is the lifeline for altering human history in the near and long term. This includes but is not limited to financial systems and redefined resource bases.

A program of financial reforms that conform to such true long term aims of humanity may be in the offing in the near term as the crisis of the outmoded faulty system comes to a close. As strange as this line of thinking might appear on the surface of things, nevertheless such are the underpinnings of history’s march if examined in the proper perspective. 

Who Makes History?

 There is a zeitgeist willy-nilly for good or ill abroad on this planet. Now, there are several aspects of that phenomenon that may be considered. One interesting literary and political giant that had much to say on the subject was the good Reverend Jonathan Swift. In particular, he brought to consciousness the battle of the books as an example of “modernity” versus classicism. Brahms once remarked when the coterie around Wagner pompously proclaimed that his leitmotif compositions were the “music of the future,” that his music must be the music of the moment. 

Which is to say, that the spirit of the age acted to divide seemingly automatically art itself into camps. Thus Shelley’s dictum that the true poet necessarily reflects in many cases almost involuntarily that self same spirit. But as Swift pointed out in Gulliver, most of the true actors that effected historical change are unknown to the stories we get passed down as “the truth.” And this brings me back to the question of the character of the direction of society molded by the superiority of epistemology at any point along the vector of time for human civilization. 

For example, take the extant plays of Aeschylus that use the chorus to aesthetically better humanity versus say Euripides who can only bring a tragic sort of forever war bias upon the stage. These alternate worldviews were of the age in Greece. But the audience that set the standard of performance must not be kept in the shadows. And there were of course a myriad of manners to embrue the city states’ inhabitants with that question of epistemology in subtler ways.

The world today is at a great crossroads. Much as in Dante’s Commedia, the alternate pathways for society are distinctly hellish or quite literally heavenly. A war to truly, this time, end all wars or a reordering of the  mission for humanity to venture forth into that hitherto great unknown. Thus the universality of the aforementioned zeitgeist.

The Current Strategic Miasma and Its Opportunities

 The Bidens are merely the latest crop of penny-anti crooks at the helm of a class of what can only be characterized as utopian dimwits that have reigned in the collective west for some 60 years or so since the time of the Vietnam war. These are the purveyors of a collection of hysterical myths concerning the tenets of a successful ruling ideology. This package of false beliefs center on free trade, deindustrialization, mutually assured destruction, post industrial consumer economics and increasingly wild forms of financial speculation surrounding pronouncedly the allure of the so called Information Age. 

The latest absurd gambit of this neoMalthusian phony elite has been the ploy of military encirclement of Russia as a sequel of previous financial looting with the fall of the former Soviet Union. The current miscalculation of egging the Russians on the path toward military action in Ukraine may well represent the last hurrah of this clique of a stupefied western clique of Apres Nous la Deluge death wishers.

The realists that recognize that a population must be supported with adequate energy, foodstuffs, and most especially the science and technology to make sufficient improvements in those long abandoned arenas may surprisingly come into the fore as if out of nowhere. This tendency can be observed in those isolated cases of supporters of nuclear energy, biophysical, nuclear fusion and space science categories of research. This realism may possibly evoke a concomitant breeze of fresh air in the arts away from the pessimistic escapism of the counterculture that has dominated increasingly in the last epoch now coming to a perhaps rather rapid close. The collapse on multiple levels of this bastardized ideology is now imminent; the making the heretofore unthinkable quite practicable. Perhaps… 

Poetics of Scientific Worldviews

 One would liken the unambiguously rational in the fugues of J.S. Bach to an age that produced them. One of enlightened humanist science. The laws of the universe were consonant with the ongoing perfection of mankind’s rational power.

Today, on the other hand there is a disjunction between any basis for art or poetry, in the broad sense, from cohering with science. They have become thereby stultified into hermetically sealed pipelines. Forever bifurcated the gulf only widens between art and science. For a portion of human society to leave behind this planet, this separation must be annealed. In particular, this pertains to the psychical wholeness required for the intensity of purpose of space faring pioneers.

This sometimes is likened to the hybrid “technologized“ human individual. Indeed, lesser animal functions themselves will likewise be optimized via breakthroughs in applied technology including gene editing in proteomic science. Enhancement of senses will follow with increasing health. This will necessitate the production of great beauty that inspires creativity. 

For example, view Beethoven’s late works in this regard. Boldly non conformist and wonderfully befitting the human power to celebrate creative beauty. That very creativity is at it’s foundation concomitant with advances in science. It constantly reorders art to a higher plateau of truthfulness. Continuous creative transformative technological development requires problem solving qualities above all else. Heightened talent to produce hypotheses about potential advances in research. 

Listening to the conducting by Furtwangler of Beethoven's last Lenore Overture makes this very explicit.

Orders of Substance and Immortality

 Ordinarily, substance is taken to be that which is “solid” in one way or another to the senses. However, the question must be asked whether that which is metaphysical, i.e., ideas are not perhaps substantial in a different sense. 

For it is apparent that representations in the imagination are capable of being brought into the realm of solidity by an act of the will. Now while those ideas as potential are merely at the condition of in-betweenness, as it were, are they not just as substantial as say the biological substrate of reality that may likewise not have as of yet come into being? 

In fact, may we not propose that since ideas may possibly be transformative of human social relationships that indeed qualitatively exceed the relatively fixed character, at least as far as willfulness is concerned, of biology alone, that their nature is of a higher ordering in so far as concerns their degree of freedom? 

Now, ideas to be brought from the imagination into fruition may be of distinct types. They may be broadly problem solving in applying existing practices in statecraft, scientific or artistic fields. They also may be novel creative breakthroughs in those same fields. These resolve themselves into levels of hypothesis.

Turning to ideas about ideas or better hypotheses about hypotheses, we enter into a uniquely human striatum in the ordering of reality. This schema is easily demonstrated to be capable of ongoing improvements in an open ended manner. Perfectibility.

Thus it is that the power within this open ended extended infinite history of humanity as a whole is sufficiently proven to be temporally immortal. And it is in that sense that we as substance outlive this our mere mortal coil of biological substance. Any other speculation about this question of immortality is therefore inconsequential. 

Practical Futurism: The Current Surmountable Division of Humanity

 In the pre space based society the two main outlooks on the meaning of life broke down into distinct and incongruous worldviews. 

Those that believed space technology and its correlatives are of no ultimate importance to "life here on earth" were a sort of broad scale convergence of struggles mixed with ennui both unacknowledged and unspoken. 

On the other hand the soon to be dominant order of society was extremely outspoken in promoting the grandest leap of technology ever envisioned thereby transforming the individuals as instruments within that mission of the continuous scientific progress.

The financial powers thinking they controlled technology to their own ends were soon disabused of their folly. The insane presumptions that controlling land and resources could compete with technological transformation in the very definition of resources via the thermonuclear fusion MHD space economy. 

As interplanetary workforce expands by the dint of necessity, a sort of "trans-human" prototype will emerge. This will hopefully "cleanse" the future of human civilization of non consequential mundane concerns such as inherited land, wealth and titles to standing on this launching pad of a planet. 

The very notion of resources will undergo a revolution of a nature analogous to a Cantorian cardinality of transfinite. The earth based survivors of geopolitical machinations whatever their state may be still yet the recipients of such largess of the successor society. Such will function as human resources to be recruited as citizen potential yet bound to earth to the unfolding tasks of ongoing emerging areas of concern in increasingly audacious goals in the conquest of a deeper deployments and habitations in space, in kind and spirit. 

Artist's Conception of Nuclear Power Deployment on Mars

NASA Glenn Research