More Thoughts on Soverienty

Now, I think this is an important subject, and one that
requires a good deal of thought.  For example it
should be clear that as far as exercising loyalty, these
spaces occur in various ways and various levels and
so you can immediately see that there is a great deal
of complexity involved.   A common issue exists
between say a " nationality " , meaning allegiance to
a particular national region and ideology that might then
be confused with a more physical kind of reality. 
That might mean that what you view as an
allegiance to a nation in geography might be
more of an allegiance or connection to some ideology,
for example democracy or something like that.  
So you can see it's  not really that easy to sort out, if you
spend time to consider it.  You might view it as
highly multi-dimensional.

If you consider further all the other levels to which we
might have allegiance, well then it becomes really
, hard , to rap your head around.

Now this is the perfect application of a moral compass.

Some might view the moral compass as a filter, which
distinguishes good and bad.  I view it as something
a little more immediate, as " what do I do next ".
So therefore, I suggest that it must be an instrument
that is always being tuned, improved or enhanced,
because, when you have to decide between two paths,
in the " heat of the moment ", you want to at least
try and get your best foot forward,  knowing even
that sometimes it's not going to be enough and so often we
recognize, and it it clearly important that we do
recognize, by self-reflection, how and why we can
or do fall short.

And everyone always is involved with this.

So then it should be clear that this moral compass
is a process or maybe multiple processes that are
continually being refined and finally that this is
most likely the only way we can properly navigate
these issues of loyalty and allegiances which are
clearly, such an important, structural part of social
and cultural fabric.

Backing into Sovereignty

Happy almost Thanksgiving ! (almost speaking from the
day ( ahead or behind ? ) )

This all sounds a bit like a wreck in the parking lot ....

 I guess I could begin with the issue of, is there a difference
between sovereignty and Sovereignty? You also might like
to consider where the 'reignty' comes from.  But we should
all be able to admit that it is not a physical object made up
of protons , and neutrons or quarks, so for example it's hard
to find a sovereignty shop were you can pick up a couple pounds,
for example.    So it's existential nature is a bit hard to
describe, but it is a good deal easier to think of it in terms
of - how we think about it -. 

And at a very personal level I think it has a lot to do with
the notion of loyalty,  which is quite often considered to
be a virtue.  So then it is possible to think about soveriegnty
as to whom we give, or recognize maybe you could call it a space
for this virtue to exist.

Now, such spaces might be thought of as neighborhoods, families,
communities, regions, and nations.  And so considering that,
you should be willing concede that all humanity is in fact a category
or ( space ) where loyalty should also arise.

We should also consider alliegience to certain " ideologies ",,,
now an ideology is quite an amorphous concept which probably
should not be confused with " musicology " or "numerology",
(although maybe in some ways ) , for example Democracy or
democracy, is an example of such a notion.  In those nations
which have a tradition of royalty, then some kind of ideolgy
would be at play, but I also see that that notion can be connected
to the symbols of the loyalty within a family , perhaps.  So we
do have our loyalties in these kind of spaces as well. 


Now whether sovereignty arises from God or from the individual,
the facts on the ground are connected to those loyalties that
we all work within, emphasis, recognize, and encourage.  But
at any rate the idea of connecting soveriegnty with a large pile
of cash somehow , I believe, is a limiting one.

On the trail in search of soverienty

I do not think that this issue can be dismissed lightly,
or fully addressed briefly.  Simply I feel it is a
subject on which everyone needs to consider or think about
 in a deep and serious way.  I say this mostly because I
believe that sovereignty begins with the individual and
therefore the issue of sovereignty is connected to knowledge
of self, which is always of serious importance.  And in addition
I feel that it ties back to previous post concerning economics
and behavior, as I suggested then and related to virtue.

Now others may view this issue differently, for example, the
perspective that sovereignty, say originates from God, aka
the Supreme Being.  Now that may be a legitimate perspective,
but it's very much like the issue of up and down, say
per general relativity.  Ultimately the change of coordinates
makes no difference, to what is going on at any particular point.

Another legitimate issue of course particularly as concerns
such events as the following:  cop23 , which suggests the
question, that if a country is sovereign , then what about the
earth?  Then if the earth is considered sovereign, then how does
that relate to that relationship between individual nations and
the sovereignty of the earth itself.

But to consider this from other perspectives I would suggest the
following as it concerns a non-theistic perspective - Buryats
Siberian / Tibetan Buddhists.  I have not drawn any hard
and fast conclusions based on this group, but it certainly
presents us with an interesting perspective.

But I will continue on this subject as time and my evolving
view , develops.



     

Economics and Behavior

I must regress from pursuing the issue of soverienty and begin to
address the issues again of economics and behaviors, as there is
clearly a direct connection to these concepts.  In a world where
one might conclude that a big pile of cash is what sovereignty
means, suggests that deeper insights into the ideas of economics
are important.


So for example, I have previously suggested that in modern times
the greatest treatise on economics in the modern world was the
Quran, from the tradition of Islam.  Now why do I say that?
If you notice what happened in the 200 year period
after the Quran and Mohammed you see the greatest
transformation in world culture, that you would have to go back
to antiquity to see the equal of.

A positive growth in human knowledge and capacity.  So I have
said and I generally do believe that we are living in a mostly Islamic
culture today. 

But anyone is of course free to disagree with that view point,
in the big picture what is important is to consider how, the
notion of economics and behavior are directly connected.

First of all, it is necessary to reflect on what is the most important
and most highly rewarded human activity.  It is simply to serve our
fellow man.  The whole  notion of customer is simply, that person
who is to be served by an enterprise or endeavor. 

Now the tricky part and a venture that also has " rewards " is the
effort to figure out what is the best way to do that? 

And this is important, and we need to consider that in order to achieve
that result , how to organize our efforts to maximize their  effect is
a serious endeavor and requires great energy of a very coherent type.
In order to achieve that kind of coherent energy requires what is
often refered to as virtue.  And now, this is a clear indication of the
importance of this behavior, and why the cultivation of virtue is so
important for the advancement of human culture.

Now if you can figure out how to make this into a liberal or a conservative
issue, well that's great, but I don't see that.

More or less on s(S)overienty and (p)Political disccourse

I never anticipated this post ...

So my mind is on Puerto Rico
and in particular the energy grid...

as some of this is contained at this
blog:  gridstuff
which also contains link to unicef site:

unicef - Puerto Rico

 I am not sure what the best site is

for donations,
however there is also this :

former presidents fundraise -for-puerto-rico-disaster-relief

Now I would like to say that this is a great opportunity to
reflect on how highly devisive rhetoric can impend
us from achieving successful objectives, and that it you
say --> former presidents fund raise, really fast about
20 times ( well ) ....

But more than that it does not allow us to really understand
how limitless our potential is when we work together and
discuss things in moderate tones with a focus on,,,,
courtesy, dignity and utilizing our power of reason....

In reality we can achieve extraordinary things.