Reality, so on, and hollandaise sauce

All I have to say about: hollandaise-sauce-recipe


Briefly, continue on with so on,   the main issue I see is
the false sense of security by the back and forth motion
of political sentiment, and it's connection to a vague sense
of moral direction.

But I have to mention now reality.  Of course reality is a
!! broad !! subject.  It is also subtle and complex and
I like to think of it as multi-dimensional.   It seems to
be brittle and solid and sometimes fluid.

It seems like I have at sometime in the past discussed this
a bit, but I am not sure when, although I will append this
page with that info, when I am able.

Meanwhile, at this time I just want to assert that reality is
mostly a participatory experience.  But in addition I will
go on to suggest it becomes much deeper and more meaningful
as you extend participation, by which I mean having many
and distinct perspectives, improves how we are able
to deal with it, both as individuals as well as collectively.


So back to so on, I think that by trying to get the individual
most able to bring about national unity , but not from a
partisan position  but rather from a broad based
national perspective is fot the U.S., the best way to go.  And by
having a national election for a committee to elect
the president, we might have greater hope that we
actually do get the " best " candidate from the lot.

But also for the final leg of the election, when it has
been narrowed down to 2 or more candidates, or after
the primaries are done, then it seems reasonable that
those candidates might have there own committees,
but not directly connected to any individual national
political party.

And, as I have stated, there may be many solutions to these
issues,  but at least for me , at this time this solution seems
like a good one, and not too difficult to implement.





 

Democracy and, so on ...

Once again, this is mostly so on, but I feel it is also
appropriate to mention some ideas about democracy.

Appropriate or not, when I started this blog I mentioned
the firefly as a metaphor for democracy.  What that
really suggested is that democracy is quite aspirational.
Now to be a practical way to go about things, it needs to
be more than an aspiration, it also must deal in a practical
way with human and social needs and wants.

So you have to think in terms of what is the difference
between these three things.  What is a want, a need, and
an aspiration. 

Well I like to think first that a just society is to a great
extent an aspiration.  At any level you might think it
could be more just.  Now as far as needs are concerned
I would say, clean air , clean water , reasonable
accommodation for health and safety fall more into
the needs category. Things like lower prices, and higher
wage might be wants, but when taken together we need
to consider all these issues when we are thinking about
something like a practical democracy.

Back to so on, how would the committee to elect the president
itself be elected?  I think that those candidates for this position
would need to get themselves or be assisted by a
party onto the appropriate state ballots which I think
the election would be slightly before congressional
elections, two years before the presidential elections.

What this means is the soonest such a committee could
be properly elected would be 2022, two years before
the 2024 presidential elections.

One thing I think I should point out is that with this
system, you might end up electing two left/leaning
candidates or two right/leaning candidates.  There
would be no way to assure you would have
one right/leaning and one left/leaning because
the two candidates that did the best in the primary
would run against each other.  But that is I
believe for the best.  Also, to be thorough I should
try to express what left/leaning or right/leaning might
mean, but I will not do that.

Another twist would be that more than two candidates,
depending on the way the election went, might run
in the final election.

Obviously I could discuss something right now
about current political issues, but I'm not going
to do that either and so, I am going to continue from
here in future posts, discussing justification.




 

Culture, Civilization, and so on ....

A bit on culture and civilization, mostly ... so on ...

Well, you have two fairly distinct concepts. Both begin
and end, and some out last others.  But for sure they
rise and flow.  And one thing, I believe and most likely
has a great deal of validity ... is that what causes this
are virtues and those virtues are the things that endure
and persist from one culture to the next or one civilization
to the next.

Now, I have not a great deal of insight into why I just
wrote that, but, I think it's mostly about the title....

Anyway, so on ....

Three things, who pays for it, how elected, and all that.

Most likely requires legislation, but who pays for it
I think is public and parties.  In other words all the
parties interested or eligible to have candidates in
the election.

By public is meant, individual regulated contribution.

The committee, I believe should be elected by,
groups of states, not individual states, because
that would reduce significantly the number on
this committee.

All that, relates to it would most likely need
a permanent address. Like not sure really.
Ideally the committee would function likely for
a short amount of time, but would need to
maintain a staff all the time, for regulatory
purposes.  ( I think ) ....