Good and Bad, True and False

So, this blog has been overtly concerned with the subject of
the difficulties inherent in a two party system, which
essentially is based on the notion of opposing, but
more or less equal forces continually trying to get the
upper hand in some way.  And I have been
not totally committed to  discussing the issue because
of my particular concern of falling into blow-hardiness,
which is one of the basic issues that seems to be
created by a stupendously meaningless dichotomy,  which
does not seem to be getting us any closer to solving
our very real public concerns.  But I realized that, at
the heart of  the issue  is our inability to converse easily,
naturally, and effectively on issues of public concern.

So to put it simply, public discourse has eroded, over
time, and that has created a symptom which is -->
playing itself out in relation to this two party system,
because as the public discourse has eroded, the
meaningfulness of the artificial dichotomy that
has become tradition has in fact eroded more.


And therefore, there can only be one real meaningful
solution, which is that the sovereigns of this country,
who are the American people, must change this awkward
behavior, which they have allowed to occur.
  
I wish I could express an easy formula for making
that happen.  But at the root there has to be a change
in the public capacity to have conversations and
dialog s and reach meaningful effective conclusions
on these issues.  In order for this to occur, substantial
effort needs to be made.

How We Won the War

Now I guess, I'm just going on about something, because we live in a time
of going on about something, since there is so much to go on about.  But in
some ways I'm just following up a bit on the idea of theory of strings, and
adding brass and woodwinds and stuff.

But of course, I would google the title : How We Won the War,
and so I've linked to this which points to Amazon, and a book,
written shortly around the end of the Vietnam war,1975, by a
Vietnamese General.  When I started this I didn't know where
it would go.

But what I was thinking about was WWII, an American victory,
or rather, Allied Victory.  And people may differ in view points
on how that actually took place.

Some may say it was better technology or resources.  In particular, I think
of human resources, and most particularly that technology , of American Jazz.
Of course we (U.S. and allies) had it and Japanese and Germans did not.
However, I don't want to seem like I'm trivializing those  event.

And though we did have had other technology, that jazz, especially tinged
with the blues ---> and very American, beginning in the 1930's was able to lift
peoples spirits through hard and difficult times, and on through the war.

I have not read the book mentioned above, but in the end, I certainly
feel the one of the  keys to achieving success in difficult times
is for us to be able to raise our spirits collectively  in the face of
those difficult challenges.

Fine tuning and theory of strings

So google theory of strings and you get string theory,
which is okay,,,,but still ....

Because, I'm not sure that they do much fine tuning
in string theory,,,, maybe, I'm just missing the point,
but maybe I shouldn't be blogging this here.

Anyway,,, we need to regress to here,,,

Synoecism, and the process of transformation
from mostly agrarian society to urban society
in ancient Greece.   In particular quote from above:

In ancient Greece, society was divided into the "demos" (δῆμοι, κῶμαι; "country people" or "country villages") and the "asty" (ἄστυ) or "polis" (πόλις). The polis was the situs of the princely nobility, gentry, and aristocracy and the sacerdotal and martial families. The distinction between the "demos" and the "polis" was politically very importance in these ancient states.

And so we see some issues evolved in terms of social structure
and some of fine tuning that might be involved with the
moral compass calibration app.

So we have these multi dimension of action, based on
the individual and expansion to the larger collections,
family, community, regions, and so forth.

So you get this theory of strings,,, attack, rhythm,  sustain, vibrato,
we got variables for multidimensionality ,,,,

And in one multidimensional space we have another
multidimensional space operating  , meaning behaviors,
you can see the multidimensionality of that playing out.

So you see it gets a bit confusing,,, but oddly enough
the human mind is capable of sorting it all out,
constantly, moment to moment....

Calibrate Moral Compass

So if you have a moral compass app you might also need a moral
compass adjustment app.

To see how this might work you need to understand how you would
calibrate a normal magnetic compass, and think about how you
would do that.  You need a reference point.

So first we consider what a moral compass might be useful for.

There are two main uses:

1) Get along in large groups
2) Figure out what to do in your life, ( what to do next )

For calibration I think the first issue is most important.

So we have to figure out, get a general sense for ,
what does everyone, collectively want or need.

And number one on that list I think is hope.  Everyone
needs that.  And that hope means mostly the opportunity to
live a decent life and high on that list would be safety,
health, and happiness.  So if we calibrate our compasses
on those common goals, we begin to see the type of
behaviors generally that might be needed to achieve it
both for ourselves, but also more generally, for family,
community, region, nation and on to the globe or planet.

Number one then on the list I think we need to put
compassion.  That works well, not just for ourselves but
also for those around us, and as we begin to practice compassion,
other helpful behaviors begin to emerge, like honesty,
generosity, kindness, understanding, and patience.  And
as we explore more, we begin to find out other behaviors,
sometimes more subtle which can assist us in our achieving
our moral enabled abilities.

Well, this is just a glimpse at what might be contained in
a moral compass calibration app.   Some real learning
and effort might be required as well.  But we must always
keep our eyes on how to do it and be " user friendly ",,,,,
and we note that this calibration is mostly focused on
the first principal use of  a moral compass. As we view
more closely the second application, we see that
some fine tuning comes into play, which we will discuss
more at a later time.

Sad Endings / New Beginnings and Februus

Februus may be " the guy/god ", for which February
is named, a little in context with what follows.

Now, I googled sad endings, and you get Cinema.
Most people , I think, will agree that life and cinema
are different,  although the flat universe is popular,
and even the idea of holographic universe, generated
from a 2d space.

But mostly we view it differently, otherwise, we would
be for ever embedded in a movie theater .... which means
we would never experience leaving it ,,,,

But what I'm leading up to is famous movie lines, like

: "Here's looking at you, kid."  Spoken by 
Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman).
Casablanca,1942

or

 "May the force be with you.",  Star Wars, 1977

but one line that really always seems get to me is 
from Gladiator (2000) ,,,,, 

and this is from memory and may not be accurate:

" Is Rome worth the life of one good man?  We believed
it once, let us believe it again "

which evokes for me a powerful emotional response,

because it speaks of endings and beginnings, to me
in such a powerful way ,,,,
and the somehow optimism that in the tragedy of
the present, a force of renewal will emerge.

But this may all well be, simply,  a mood 
emanating from the Februus ...

More On Bubble World

It seems like this subject of bubble world is worth while pursuing,
it's nature, it's origin, and maybe how it might evolve.

And of course it is true we've always existed in some kind of
bubble world.  So at sometime, information was very local,
and the differences between, villages or groups even closely
situated might be significant, and of course when information
becomes fragmented conflicts or confusion will result.

The introductions of media, written word, tended to expand the
bubble, and so the process of extension, continued, but now
the intensification of media has created the situation of bubbling
on the level of the individual but still maintaining larger trends
in bubbles, so that similar kinds of bubbles my have geographic
regularities, but individual bubbling will cause information
diversity in even closely related region or groups.  

But the effects in general is greater difficulties in creating
dialog s that are coherent, based on common vocabulary
and connections between significant information.  Dialog s
of that type  tend toward cooperative and collective ventures and
innovation.  So there should be a way to diffuse some of
the less positive effects of this apparently increasing trend.

I believe that this concept of moral compass is significant
in reducing some of the less positive effects of
bubble world.  But clearly this requires efforts,  first in
figuring out how this stuff works( moral compass ), and  also
in the efforts required to strengthening and supporting this
( maybe you could call it " tech " ) perspective.

But there are other steps that can be taken to diffuse
some of those less positive effects created by bubble
world, as well.  In particular is the importance of
community and breaking down insularity and
callousness.   Both of these characteristics make
bubble world more chaotic, conflicted, and more
difficult for establishing collective efforts,
producing socially valuable results.

Moral Authority in Bubble World

Several months ago wrote about FBSC - Full Blown Seldon Crisis
about Hari Seldon, and Pycho-History, I was very non-specific about
it and so I will continue now to be,  However, I believe many people
will go along with the crisis part, and  will have their own opinions
about what that is.

But, I am on with this moral compass, and Donald Knuth, and an
algorithm for a moral compass app, in bubble world, which seems
almost essential .... and moral authority, what in the heck that might be
and how would you go about creating a " user friendly " , system based
on a  sound algorithm. ( what should I do now )

So I first need to address bubble world, where we are now.
The media has been able to increase separation in such a way,
as to have created minutely separate but diverging channels ,
the diverging channels being the basis of this blog and our existing
defacto bi-polar moral compass the issue of concern.

When this blog began, I had no real awareness of bubble
world, because it was mainly in it's infancy at that point,
but the pronounced evolution of these seperate but diverging
channels has created even more difficulty in terms of dialog and
reason,  a very touchy and disagreeable  situation.

So the key to the above mentioned algorithm is the idea
of moral authority and this relates directly back to the
notion of sovereignty.

So, to begin with, where does moral authority come from?
Well, the only source must be the individual.  But if you
compare morality to math ( which is a very curious but
interesting comparison ), then you see that in order for
moral authority to exist, it requires some efforts, some
training, and some direction.

My basic thesis which has been applied previously, especially
here:  21 Oh Man is that essentially our defacto moral
compass based on bipolar paradigm is not effective. Although
it seems to be okay for 3d space, but moral space must clearly
embrace more dimensions that 3.  And therefore requires something
based more on the multi-dimensional notion of virtue.

It's more complicated because there are more variables,
but it also strikes me that within the concept of virtue,
there is a simple and consistent algorithm, by which they are
connected.

Of course, I will let you know immediately when the outline for
this algorithm is complete ,  clearly it seems necessary when dealing
with the dysfunctionality created by bubble world. But I
feel it necessary to admit that we all come packaged with
such an algorithm,naturally built into to each of us, which is
key and at the heart of human survival. Essentially we are
such a device.
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