http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/12/04/why-is-art-so-damned-expensive.html
my ideas exactly..even down to the wealth destruction of past societites…( posted ages ago)
My crafts vs arts equation is succinct and bald enough to illustrate that in a more fundamental way.
Eating red fruits high in Beta Carotene might cause a feedback loop , that causes the perception of Red to be possible.That further feeds the loop and pushes towards a rapidly evolving tri-chromal retina.
Fruit bats have red vision and that got me thinking.Its looks like some feedeback process going on here rather than just out and out Darwinian evolution/ parrallel convergent process ( survival of the fittest to the environment…in this case ..the environment makes us a better fit with a feedback loop)
Bats are going to eat only the fruits on the side open to ariel view..the tops.
Monkeys that can eat in the slender top branches have no problem with predators that would have to heavier to bring them down.
Both would naturally consume the top fruits.Both would then ‘slide’ into a slippery slope towards Red vision.
Life will kill you
Don’t sell to the sold
Nothing grows under the big tree
Life is priced for struggle.
Lollo is crawling at eight months.The dopamine system now must kick in as he becomes ‘task’ reward orientated as against the previously passive mode of always receiving and crying for attention/food.
This is an onion skin event.He does’nt remember Granny who missed this period.Thats just like the memory imprints are changing shape as well.
Working to different networks and therefore referenced by different networks….Hence the ‘skin’ change .
He called the Rebels rats.And he was himself found in a sewer.
How neat?
Are we seeing the same thing here that the US tried with Osama Bin Laden ….just after he was shot..It wasput out that he had tried to hide behind his wife..
The ‘Che Guevara’ picture effect.Everyone wnats to own the narrative.
Here it looks suspicious again.The Graffiti on the sewer…..why did it need to be advertised …did ‘nt the fact that he was found in it enough?
It just has the feel of stage manegment.I did’nt see any blood either…
I suppose who cares…he felt wronged but he sinned more greatly.I feel sorry for the Tuareg whom he tried over the years to help.
I know Arabs are less likely to treat ‘black’ Africans squarely but more in a utilitarian manner….as semi-slaves.One wrong exits …another manifests itself.
I hope not
( we wont go into the obvious transfromation of the bedraggled Ghaddafi into a head-shot dead Ghaddafi ……all bit of a circus)
There is no reason for the march of technology not to destroy the issuance of currency monopoly that central banks have.
As money becomes completely digitilized.i.e the loose change and notes transfer into bits and bytes on your mobile, the power to create currency will be come democracized.It will filter down to any one who can offer a mini-bond that can be freely traded and whose buying power /convertibility and liquidity will be instantly available on tap ….on your phone.Companies will do this as vouchers and miniture retail company bonds start the ball rolling.
Then people will start doing it.Like a barter economy at first.But it will become a a currency if it becomes successful enough and is liquid enough.Transparency and liquidity will come from technology and also low costs .The low costs will allow this to filter down to even the individual offering his own bonds/currency.
Therefore…central banks will lose the power to create , inflate a antional currency…or they will have to live in a world where they have to accomadate competitors.
Older people may resist and cling to national currencies and the younger generations could be the main drivers at a micro-economic scale.
Mobile companies allow the trading of their credits already in Africa , so it has already started.
Welcome to the new world.
Long term , this will be another nail in the coffin to the idea of a ‘Country /Nation State’.
The Old clinging to the national currency and political structures , the young fleeing to less onerous tax environments ( and avoiding the rising costs of looking after the Old ) will be the main picture for the end of Nation states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/kristof-is-israel-its-own-worst-enemy.html?hp
But the the US has positvely encouraged drunk driving.
US policy has been 1967 borders or near abouts as has been everyone….until Netanyahu decided to make a stand against Obama and Congress gleefully co-operated.
Israeli foreign policy is like the Republican domestic policy….at all costs remove Obama.At all costs.
The costs are coming home to roost and the pay off is’nt yet in the bag.
Ask 200,000 dead kashmiris ( Red Cross figures that were received in near silence in the West ) about their thoughts on the Indians security forces.
Pakistan does’nt own the Haqqanis..nor the Afghans.Neither does the US.Welcome to the real world.
You can only rent an Afghan.The supply of money that allows this to happen comes from two sources .
1) US Government.You rent Karzai.
2) Gulf private donations.They rent the Taliban and AQ
Pakistan sits back and has to wait out the day the above players tire/bore/lose of these rental costs and the Afghan mess falls back into their laps.
Maybe not quite a genius plan , but then neither are the other ones.
For a more nuanced idea of whats happening ..read this:
http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/23/the-unmanageable-crisis.html
http://www.dawn.com/2011/09/23/the-unmanageable-crisis.html
great DAWN review of the real state of play viz a vi Pakistan/Haqqani/US
