Morpheal's Commentary - January 23, 2009 (Pope and Radio, Surveillance, Recession and Desperate Spending)
THE FIRST CYBER POPE: It is somewhat strange that so many, including Pope Benedict XVI, have chosen to launch programs into cyberspace. Perhaps many have forgotten cyberspace remains accessible to relatively few elite of the world's population. Mostly with short, often distracted and non cerebral, attention spans. Radio remains a more universal potentially thoughtful medium. Unfortunately now with few good thought provoking stations, for meaningful content, beyond talk show rants and segways that currently plague it. I think that we need a resurgence of radio and its potential. Radio has an immense potential for furthering oral, aural, culture. It offers a profound balance against excessive emphasis upon the visual. Our civilization and the functioning of society came about due to sound. It is where the mind first expressed its thoughts, in sound, and it is as fundamental to the universe as is light. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BLACKBERRY SECURITY WORRIES: Security concerns about electronic communications are actually largely an illusion. The Blackberry, or any computer system, is potentially no less secure than a personal conversation. Surveillance technology has outpaced ability to shield against its absolute total penetration of any space, anywhere, short of an unattainable level of special shielding. So we can forget about our security, privacy, concerns in what has become a completely public world. Once that is realized society will change. It will change because the new tools, necessary, and available, to fight the growing wave of organized crime, and its close relative, political terrorism, will be put to an end. We are in an end game now, and the real evil will now begin to perish. Whereas the tools involved have been utilized for trivial, and evil purpose, to further prejudiced, narrow minded, sectarian, ideas, inclusive of false spiritualities, the evils of political dialectic, irrationality, false ideals, and a vast number of damaging and destructive more trivial and often naive attitudes and practices for the sake of a few against the many, those existing means must now be directed to promote true ideals, preserve real liberties, to facilitate genuine achievement and success rather than beating down into the worst and lowest common denominators that only serve the growth of crime and cynical despair, becoming the weapon they were meant to become, for use against organized crime, against despair, against the lowest common denominator, against what truly harms society, and against the real threats of political terrorism, where they will be completely and absolutely effective. They must begin to serve the betterment of humanity, and the collective and individual achievement of true potential, by their relentless attack upon what seeks to undermine and destroy that potential. Only in that way can we escape from the fate of the dystopias of “Brave New World” and “1984". The error has consistently been paranoid fear of the very same tools that can save us from what otherwise only leads to totalitarianism. Totalitarianism must become understood as what it truly is. It is the product of organized crime, corruption and terrorism. When those are defeated so is totalitarianism equally defeated. CANNOT SPEND THE WAY OUT OF RECESSION: Governments must realize society cannot spend its way out of recession and survive. That tactic will lead to another worse recession but that is far from the only problem. There are deeper issues involved. It will also lead to a continued worsening of social, psychological, context, with a continued devaluing of the most important values of any worthwhile and meaningful version of society. It will lead to growing trends of deepening discontent, cynicism, pessimism and outright outbursts of social violence. Rebuilding of the economy must seek to create new, more meaningful, opportunities. It must promote lasting values, in craftsmanship, artisanship, carefulness, uniqueness, and real enhancements of human life, not existing patterns of enforced isolation rewarded by short lived things, equally disposable, in a depersonalized, existentially emptied, social context. The fate of the thing, in our society, has become the fate of the individual. Both have become too disposable, and devalued. Rebuilding of the economy must further real expressions of real talents, and individuality, and it must begin to abandon excessive tyrannical emphasis on mass produced “happiness”. It must return to the “human potential” movement for its inspirations. That movement was itself largely suppressed and beaten out, by oppression, since its resurgence and roots in the 1960s. The psychology of sales must change. Desperate selling to desperation, built upon the essentially evil concepts, of increased social divisiveness, increased deprecation of intimacy, increasing social superficiality, increased depersonalization of all social interconnections, increased brevity of any enjoyment, the making hungry for something that cannot quite be attained, as some of the primary evil mechanisms being used to further desperate dependence upon the mass produced thing as a substitute for what is lost. The losses have become too many. The situation as to desperate sales has become so desperate that couples and families are being deliberately torn apart, simply so that each will need to buy more, being unable to share with each other. Even family values have increasingly under attack, following the relentless assault on couples and love based paired relations, because two do not need to spend as much as one. More than two do not need to spend as much as two, in order to have the same amount of things to use. Desperate selling divides purely for the purpose of furthering the desperate marketing of more mass production at the very expense of the entire social fabric itself. We are in crisis as to the ability to form real, meaningful, paired relationships, and to maintain family structures, against the divisiveness being imposed by those few who are desperate to market and sell more mass produced goods to more people. Society itself is being utterly and completely destroyed by its desperate belief in its need to place mass produced things ahead of all other relations, and above all other forms of enjoyment in life. We have reached a crisis that knows no parallel in human history. We must call upon the doctors of sociology, of psychology, the radical thinkers, who have already grappled with this issue and who have been largely silenced since the 1960s when some became prophets of the dangerous trends that were increasingly taking over, since the post war boom that began in the 1950s. Rebuilding the economy must become a rebuilding of society according to ideals, not according to the increasingly dominant, all pervasive, evils that have begun to consume and possess, slowly eating away at humanity, and turning society into what will become an unendurable hell. Robert Morpheal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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