Morpheal’s Commentary - April 8th, 2009 - Beating Up Korea Is Wrong, Need International Regulatory Body for Satellites, Trial of Fujimori Is Injustice, Sacrificing Food to Try to Get Ahead, Men and Women in Primary Education, Restoring the Fox Hunt
BEATING UP NORTH KOREA IS WRONG: If the world community and its mass media barrage stopped acting like big bullies against North Korea, attempting to forbid them what other nations routinely pursue, the world might change for the better. What would happen if other nations offered to help North Korea with the successful orbiting of a communications satellite ? Winning North Korea's friendship will not happen by pushing them against a wall and pounding on them. Has the world community learned anything from the Cold War legacy ? Beating up communist nations, by trying to starve them out of their political beliefs, was indisputably wrong,. It was wrong as to the way that it was done. History can prove that fact. It nearly led to the destruction of planet Earth and the annihilation of the species, as ideological lines hardened into a fight to what was immanently becoming a near to certain fight to the death. Humanity needs to learn from its Cold War lessons and needs to deal with North Korea differently. Let’s make North Korea prosperous, well fed, and welcome it into the fold of other nations. Let’s help them launch their satellite into space. President Obama, and other world leaders, let’s treat North Korea as friend, not foe and end the Cold War with North Korea. It will be less costly and more effective. This brings us to another interesting subject.... NEED INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY BODY FOR SATELLITES: The world needs an international body, to plan, rationalize and regulate launching of satellites for peaceful purposes. Korea, Iran, and other nations of similar means and circumstances, should never need to launch powerful missiles of questionable technology and effect. The same regulatory body could keep track of other space objects, eg. military satellites, and act as a central "traffic control" authority. New launches would only be approved where existing satellites are truly insufficient. We cannot keep launching things into space, as a “free for all” where anyone can launch anything that they want and are capable to launch. The hazards are many, and the wastefulness is no longer acceptable. While it had become a matter of prestige and status to launch and own satellites, as if a coming of age ceremony, for any nation, that idea needs to become an immature concept of the historic past. It is inefficient, dangerous, wasteful, and extremely bad for the environment, as well as a potential fiscal nightmare as more costly devices suffer damage in space from space junk, remains of prior launches and old failed devices, and from other types of accidents. The cost of cleaning up the mess, as might become necessary in the not too distant future, is astronomically high, and regulation and tight controls over any launching of new satellites is a necessity not an option. TRIAL OF PERU’S ALBERTO FUJIMORI A FUNDAMENTAL INJUSTICE: The trial of any national leader within the same nation is a miscarriage of justice and cannot be condoned. Only the international court at the Hague should be allowed to try a former or current leader for crimes alleged during leadership. This is due to the fact that every leader has powerful enemies in his own country, and can be the victim of actions meant to eliminate influence, or to discredit policies and accomplishments. Only an international trial can be fair or just for a leader. Whether Mr. Fujimori is guilty or not, his trial in Peru raises doubts and questions as to legitimacy and truth, which cannot be ever be answered within that nation’s own legal system. ROUTINELY SACRIFICING FOOD TO TRY TO GET AHEAD: BBC reported that food costs are up and that many people are not eating “decent” food. I think they missed the real point. In a society that demands so very much, as to how money must be spent, to gain even the smallest iota of social, occupational, financial and sexual success, food is always been expensive. Many people with ambitions, goals, hopes, dreams about changing the future, and getting out of the trap, sacrifice food, due to its high costs, in order to try to live in our complex, expensive, societies. To win occupational choice or to find a life partner and mate, can cost more than an average person makes. The fact is that some people give up eating decent food on the chance that they might get out of the choiceless trap to doing something with their lives, and being something more, rather than suffering little more than an experience of nothingness. When the psychologist Fromm wrote his book “Being and Becoming” he failed to recognize the high and ever increasing costs, and the levels of sacrifice, entailed in becoming anything, and why people give up being, having failed at becoming, due to lack of sufficient means, despite their sacrifices. We live in societies where we have nearly no other ways of building or maintaining social position, other than by means of money, and where many sacrifice having children due to the high cost of living, and many others sacrifice living due to the high cost of having children. UK CONSIDERS MORE MALE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: The idea of more male primary teachers, in the primary grades is wrong. It is not simply a demographics problem, but a problem of a fundamental failing in how education is conducted in our society. Then we wonder why there are so many problems later on. What each primary class needs is one male and one female educator, team teaching part of the time, as well as individually, comprising equal exposure for every student of half of their total educational time with each gender. In some places a system of rotation, where different teachers teach different subjects provides some opportunity, but fails to utilize the necessary teach teaching model. Team teaching by male, female pairs is becoming increasingly necessary, to teach proper and positive interaction, which many inadequate home lives and poor examples in society are increasingly failing to convey. If we want to see positive and progressive social change, it must begin in the first year of school and continue throughout all of education, teaching by example, not only by means of direction and instruction. The gender based conflicts that have been so intensified by the immature tendency to polarized, conflict oriented, dialectic, can be overcome, and society, its levels of cooperation for the common good, its work places, its professional environments, and in some instances personal relations and quality of family life, can be greatly improved by instituting well trained, positive role model, team teaching where both men and women work together, equally, to achieve the education of children. RESTORING THE FOX HUNT IN THE UK: People run people to ground, with amazing regularity, and for no other reasons than their propensity for sporting with their own species. Given no other species to sport with, humans will do it to each other with even more regularity, becoming even less aware than they are of their own psychopathic tendencies and the base instincts that those are derivative from. A fox hunt is a more civilized, variant of the more common, base, instincts and should be permitted. It says a lot about who we are, as human beings, and rather than bringing out the worst, it civilizes with realization, enlightening rather than obscuring the fact. The fox hunt is far nobler and above the more common and instinctive acts that it is based upon. We would be far better to concentrate on legislation banning predatory cruelty by people to people and various common forms of people baiting and hunting rather than worrying about a fox. Every schoolyard, workplace and social circle, tends to know its own instances of cruel baiting, luring, predatory hunting down, running to ground, and “killing”. It is all too human and all too common and yet we refuse to accept it, and that realization and acceptance has declined rather than improved with such actions as the attacks on the fox hunt. It is as if in saving the noble fox, all else is permitted. All the jabber against animal cruelty tends to utterly ignore the growing trend in our societies of cruelty against our own species, taken for granted and accepted, as the way it is and ought to be. Instead we worry about every piece of fur that moves, and bemoan the aweful treatment of every other species other than human, as if those are themselves perfect little angels, not savage members of a savage Nature. In fact Nature itself is brutal and most species, other than human, live brutal instinctive predatory lives in a world limited to competitively getting food, being food, and reproduction for the same, without any concern for nearly any instance of any other. When the fox is raised up as nobler than the human, we have truly descended, as a species, into the base, thoughtless and savage, most common urges. What we must realize is that social circles often behave like a fox hunt, but are more savage in their implications than the sacrifice of a predatory, naturally brutal, fox. Just because humans no longer tear each other limb from limb, eat each other alive, or roast one another, literally, does not necessarily make them as civilized as a fox hunt. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
