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[[[Spelling variations are part of the soul of writing and convey information on its own, as does variations in lineshift usage.]]] [[[Once in a while we will remove something from this archive section so the overall quantity is at all time quite moderate; for those who wish reprints of earlier works they will then with some level of probability be able to trace them as chapters in published nonfiction books by this author.]]] [[[Note: THE TEXTS TO BE ARCHIVED ARE AS A RULE PUT THERE RATHER AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY APPEAR IN THE MAIN ../economy.htm NEWS SECTION. THESE USUALLY HAVE FEATURES INVOLVING FOUNDATIONAL THOUGHTS ON WHICH MUCH THINKING APART FROM WHAT GOES ON JUST WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN CAN BE FOUNDED. THEY ALSO USUALLY APPEAR AS CHAPTERS IN THE ALWAYS FRESH BOOKS EACH YEAR SIGNED BY ARISTO TACOMA. THESE BOOKS ARE SOLD ALSO AT PHILOSOPHICAL TALKS WITH LIGHT SEMINARS ARRANGED THE SAME DAY AS SPRING/BI PAINTING EXHIBITIONS OPEN, WITH THE CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH OF SPRING/BI WITH A WOODEN BACKGROUND ON WHICH BLACK AND SPRING GREEN ARE APPLIED WITH PLEASANTLY UNRULY LINES, AS BRIEFLY INDICATED AT THE DICTIONARY yoga4d.org/super.]]] THE CHALLENGE OF THE 21st CENTURY: TO MOVE FROM THE "BATTLE OF THE CLIQUES" TO A MORE TRUE HOLISTIC HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS OF A SHARED KIND -- Marx predicted a battle of the classes, but he did not predict the technology-driven battle of the cliques [As of 2011:4:26 (evening, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] Do you have a mobile phone, with text messaging? An email? A bulletin board membership, such as Facebook.com -- each person can have his or her own private bulletin board and befriend other bulletin boards, all ruled tyranically and censorically by the tycoons at its head, or Formspring.me, which so sweetly lends itself to make anonymous mob-statements about classmates? Then imagine what your social life would be if you for, say, one full season of six months were to arrange all leisure meetings by not arranging them at all: by simply walking, in your spare time, some nice paths, and go to some nice cafees, without electronic guidance, and see who you meet and how it is to talk to them. A pretty CRAZY idea, perhaps -- and yet one that appears to have been at the essence of mostly all of human history, apart from the marching of armies and the spreading of propaganda texts written by eager leaders. The battle of the lower classes against the aristocracies, or obese ruling / dominating classes, as predicted by Marx, followed the notion of slow group-communication in pubs and such, where the notion of shared animosity towards those filthy rulers who assign their sons to overtake their father's ruling positions, eventually would mean a call to perhaps violent political action. Marx, however, was too megalomaniac to become a voice of compassion, for he ventured into the field of making theories about reality, and even theories about theory- making, but did so without wisdom. The 'communism' he inspired became another clique, that of angry self-righteous people who believe that the essence of dialogue and progress is conflict, and who lacked any humility to the greater wholeness of cosmos. But the myriad falsenesses about communism and about the writings of Karl Marx notwithstanding, he was objectively right in asserting the falseness of the old tyrannic ways of political leadership by means of something as rediculous as inheritance, whether at the level of kings or at the level of lesser princelings and duchesses and such -- or the corresponding roles transferred to the holders of big buckets of cash, however much less they claim to have any blue blood. Fairness, in the opinion of philosophers through the ages, will win over lack of fairness. The imaginary blueness of the very human, very normal blood of the dignitaries, however, belongs to a time that is hopefully pretty much bygone, except for the purposes of hopeful gossip magasines and media trying to make an income of what's rest of the the aristocracies by refusing the let go of the idea that they are important in SOME ways. Capitalism is not gone but the classes are no longer felt as classes in most but not all societies. In most places, people can improve their accent without being accused of trying to mingle with a higher class. Some say that London is still different on this, but with the intense change of population culture going on, that can't last long even in this center of one of the oldest empires. Like the Trantor of Isaac Asimov's Foundation writings, London is no longer at the centre of all the events of the galaxy; however great the music of the English spoken in Great Britain can be a source to "all the galaxy" ;) In contrast, with the introduction of person-to-person and person-to-bulletin-board-to-person communication (as on Facebook.com and Formspring.me, the latter not forcing people to avoid pen names, artist names and author names, I think -- though I have never been any member of any such thing at all, nor will ever want to), every little illusionary animosity can gather a following in a matter of weeks, and go to a mini-war against this, that or the other thing in society. The challenge, as I see it, for the 21st century, is not only how to get inexpensive electricity, clean water, enough good food and good air for as many as possible of the suffering billions of the over-populated Earth, but also how to avoid the planetary communication technology from creating excessive fragmentation -- a fragmentation that history has never heard of. The battle of the cliques is in. Some cliques are militant, some fanatically dog-matically book-believing, some get red-headed with hot hatred on seeing dark-colored skin, some cliques loves some books so much that they burn the books of other cliques, enticing nations to go to war, -- and for every such bloody clique quarrel, there is a thousand bad but not that bad quarrels between cliques -- fed by the service such things as google.com and bing.com and ask.com are giving to those who write so cheap articles they are willing to call these articles for 'blogs', which sounds like a disease, and maybe is a disease, to some extent. It is the disease of globalised anti-holism. Wholeness in human consciousness -- this is what you need to have when your hatred is not daily reinforced by your bulletin board cliques, your text messages, your constant phones, emails, whatever -- for only by wholeness in your own consciousness, a wholeness that keeps within it all possible events, all possible people you may meet, can you be prepared for a day lived without such clique-enforcing artefacts as seem to pervade the 21st century as it unfolds on Earth. Such a holistic consciousness can however not be chucked aside in a corner. It is too important for happiness, for mental wholeness, for the meaning of what it is to be alive. It will find ways of combatting the battle of the cliques, like a flower pushing through cement, a flower of meditation. THIS WRITER'S IMMODEST ADVICE TO NORWAY AND OTHER BANANA-REPUBLICS TRYING TO LIVE OFF OIL REVENUES -- There are two ways to think about money -- to ingratiate the state to get a gift, and to make money, and Norway's population must shift mentality when it comes to money [As of 2011:4:25 (afternoon, as for GMT hours)] Author of comment can contacted at atiroal@yoga6d.org] I know Norway a bit better than many other places but I'm sure several other countries are in an analogous position: in contrast to e.g. Sweden, the neighbouring country, which seems to cook up a new brand with brand-new factories each month, people in Norway think of money primarely as something which one must ingratiate the state, or people connected to Statoil and the gigantic annual state oil revenue somehow, to get. In Sweden, in contrast, despite their struggles on many fronts, with much of the car industry fragmented in troubled pieces, it seems to be a rule of thumb: if you want money, make a factory. We all know of Ikea, H&M and such, but there are more such examples, and new ones every season. In Norway, there haven't been as few factories around since before the industrial revolution -- maybe that's a bit over-statement, but in some senses it is true: Export oil, import things. Now there are important things to support at a state-level, and that includes dance and cultural processes which cannot be translated into a money-making factory without introducing lower quality. It is a wonderful thing that the state has much money. It is however not wonderful that the overall economical thinking in the population is centered on consumation and services, leaving production to everyone else. It is a mentality that enforces itself by a flock culture, which pokes fun at people who are so peculiar, so self-centered, so snobbish, that they want to "make things themselves". What a rediculous idea! Rather, put on the suit, cut the holiday hair short, polish your shoes, and go to meetings with other uniformed people, and laugh at the right places and watch football matches and engage in skiing -- and, by the way, befriend those folks who have access to the gigantic oil treasure. THAT's economy. This is what leading newspapers propagandise as economy. This country, Norway, has a world-reputation for having a kind of moral high-integrity stance also enforced by its Nobel peace prize: but no country with respect for itself, or for the future, or for ethics, can live off oil and avoid changing to super-safe inside-mountain positioned power stations of the only kind that can bring electricity in a clean way out to people and to their factories. To live off oil means that one is avoiding to have that happiness of those who relate in a first-hand way to that which is made. A morally high-standing country must fight to ensure that the world energy situation, moreover, is such that the type of severe poverty and brutal Middle East dictatorships based on oil which exists alongside lack of water, lack of food, lack of clean air, lack of industrial infrastructure is fought at the core: with a gigantic electricity production by a super-safed nuclear power industry positioned inside mountains, sea water can be destilled to give drinking water, water can be distributed to dessert areas to allow food production and tree re-growth, charging stations for elcars can be made so as to combat car exhaust pollution, industries can stop using coal and oil to make devices, fridges can keep foods better protected, river cleansing programmes can be implemented, simple robots can do disgusting and dangerous tasks such as handling dangerous waste, and air conditioning devices can give people in tropical areas a break from the brain-cooking effects of too much sun -- just to mention some of the benedictions of cheap electricity in abundance. But those countries, like Norway, which live off oil, they are not cultivating the type of insight which allows fresh thinking about the world to occur: for to live off oil, to live off imports, means to avoid cultivating the skills of the hands, and to avoid cultivating the practical forms of knowledge involved in making things locally, rather than importing them from afar. And so, because of the lack of reality surrounding money in a place like Norway, there is a subsequent lack of understanding of just what is the right type of pressure and the right type of help to be given at the right spots on the planet to make it all work out better. My advice, then, is this: step out of the cliques, break down the circles who think they know anything about economy -- especially those who imagine that they are on the forefront of innovation merely by re-representing imported technology in a national make-up, or who imagine that by jiggling around stock market bets, they are contributing to the wealth of society. Step out of the flock culture, which feeds itself on the drug of sports and oil and constant chattering to keep people within the suit-dressed code -- which is, put simply, a code that ensures that people do nothing, rather than something. Any state leader ought to give a number of talks if within a country which is addicted to oil, to contribute to a new way of thinking about economy. "Do you lack money? Make a factory!" "You need a new car? Make one!" "You want to learn something? Well, then, get dirt under your nails, throw your striped silk ties for good, and make something!" And, finally, "Do they laugh at you, because you make something while they merely live off passive wealth? Just keep on doing what you are doing for another decade, -- they will stop laughing and start admiring, they cannot help it. They'll come along. Trust yourself. Be a human being, not a slave of fixed wages." So these are my immodest advices to Norway and to other countries in an analogous position.