Continued from previous post.
From: "Peter Calabria" <petercalabria@matrix-evolutions.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:29 PM
To:
vtgolf@zeecon.com
Subject: Austin Dialogue
That’s great that you’re coming to Austin. The more people who show up and if big enough and including folks from around the country, the better chance we have of winning this most crucial vote of the Texas SBOE in determining what will be taught to the kids for the next ten years. Our group also sees this get together of sane thinking people in Austin in March as potentially helpful not just for resolving the evolution versus creationism problem but also for forming a core group for considering the more tangible problems of Great Depression II and the nuclear escalation possibilities of the Middle East conflict in a way that steps outside the standard political box that even our great hope, Obama, is locked into.
Let me elaborate on the powerful but sickly, creationism believing economic-political dinosaur that lords it over America causing much pain to many of us and if not brought to its extinction soon, unbearable and terminable damage to all of us. Sometimes the best way to see the big picture is to see a little picture of it, our own particular dinosaur we deal with in Lubbock. Giving a clear sketch of this problem animal will also make clear that a weapon exists to put the dinosaur to sleep forever for without such a weapon it is easier emotionally, as most people do, to pretend it doesn’t exist.
Let’s talk about the weapon first. It is one of ideas whose general form you will have no problem understanding and appreciating. It is a unified mathematical understanding of nature, all of it, biological nature, physical nature and human nature. While this sounds like a near impossible find, bragging in the extreme, the high end of bipolar disease, I assure you as one scientist talking to another that it is not. If you log onto
www.matrix-evolutions.com (use Internet Explorer), you will see the broad blueprint of it in its introduction and a mathematical derivation that is as firm as what we all took in high school geometry.
Among many things, it deftly kills off creationism with finality because it obtains Darwinian natural selection mathematically as a universal mechanism and proves the evolution equation derived conclusively with hard and fast laboratory data. Among the other things it does, it also defines emotion mathematically via an elaboration of science’s function for computer information that bits and bytes come from. This, as described above in one of my notes to SBOE member, Bob Craig, allows for a clear argument that God, the creator of Heaven and Earth, is an emotion based assumption of the imagination entirely distinct from cause and effect assumptions posited from observation and measurement.
Much as the heliocentric fallacy that Newton slew with his mathematical formulation of gravitation eventually killed off the Papal political rule of the Dark Ages, quite tyrannical if you consider serfdom, slavery’s better dressed cousin, an abusive and unhappy state, so creationism is the Achilles heel of fundamentalist conservatism. This ideology, really a way of controlling rather than a way of thinking, is shown with our analysis to be the loving child and spike tipped whip of our ruling class, easy to identify in democratic capitalism as the wealthy.
It is a decadent ruling class as seen in their pathological greed, whether in the individual robberies of the Madoff types or the gang executed heists of the mortgage scam and the market crash, nothing but a grand Ponzi scheme once you understand how high off the hog the financial barons have lived from the common people’s commissions generated by super smooth advertizing. It is a decadent ruling class as seen by the horribly bloody tin soldier war they generated from WMD lies as opaque as your boss’s weekly reading of the riot act to you in Orwellian doublespeak.
Let me present a clearer picture to you of how this works by delineating our own peculiar reason for being in Lubbock, our circumstances a bellwether for the myriad situations that affect the ruled class generally − painfully, surely in time for everybody as they grow up and invariably swept under the table with the shibboleth that that’s just the way life is. Bear with the soap opera telling of the story and, please, keep in mind that I am not complaining or asking for sympathy as I tell the story of me and my wife, but rather producing laboratory data to which can be fitted a mechanism of relationship that you should be able to understand is entirely general and that derives from the air-brushed tyrannical rule of those who preside over our neo-serfdom.
Ruth is having $30,000 in inheritance from her mother kept from her by her lawyer brother, a high up church official and senior partner in a most prominent law firm. So said brother is as likely to have a judge rule against his con game in this little kingdom, were Ruth to contest the will, as Condiweasal Rice to rule against George Bush were he on trial for war crimes and Condi the presiding magistrate. And that would only be if we could get a lawyer down here in Düsseldorf to represent us, so far no takers for nobody wants to annoy this fellow lawyer.
This in itself is not the story, for family squabbles in themselves have a tendency to get very nasty without their being allegories for the plunder of a nation and its peoples. For that we have to backtrack 40 years or so to tell the story of Ruth as Elizabeth Taylor in Tennessee William’s, Suddenly Last Summer, with the bad guy who gets eaten alive in the end by Latino youths furious for his homosexually seducing them using Liz as bait, played by Ruth’s first husband, a fundamentalist Ted Haggard type minister and missionary to Japan (not a joke).
As should not have to be gotten into in detail to be understood, Ruth’s family, the father a fundamentalist minister, along with young Christian lawyer brother, who provides legal advice to the Rev. Ted clone during her efforts to divorce him, is not keen to the scandalizing of their family by Ruth, who was herself, as his wife, a missionary, by wanting to leave him, the church and the family once she got it that Rev. Ted was more interested in perverting rather than converting.
I have to enter from stage left at this point to make sense of this remake of the Elvira Madigan love story minus the desperate suicidal ending. Almost as frequent as fundamentalist wives being married to closet Ted Haggards are science graduate students having their creative ideas and work clipped by their research advisors. Ruth and I have no data on the former travesty excepting the occasional minister’s wife who shotguns her creep husband in the back as happened down in Tennessee a couple of years back, but the zoologist, Desmond Morris, makes it very clear in the last chapter of The Human Zoo that conceptual kleptomania from aspiring PhDs is so common that Morris wonders aloud if any good work is ever done by the subsequently educated and disillusioned graduate students after their initiation to the real world of academia.
I dropped out with one credit needed for my doctorate, saying goodbye with a grand #^%* to all my professors, and Ruth ran away like the gingerbread girl chased by a few hundred angry fundamentalists, all of whom wanted to put the blame for her rejection of God and his friends on mental illness, that era the beginning of the psychobabble labeling of various forms of rebellious behavior. Fortunately, for both of us, Ruth ran into me by chance rather than the fox when it was time to cross the river.
I should not leave out my family in this story, for they so perfectly fit the other side of our hybrid society, the part that complements the morality and law minister and police side, that is, the money side that beats you down by dangling what you want and, worse, need to survive in life in order to coerce you to lick the mud off their boots to get it, boots made muddy by their kneeling in the mud to lick their own masters’ boots in this insane hierarchy where social control allows for pain to be transmitted down the line from person to person with rank as the perfect analog of the gravitational potential that has water always flowing in the downhill direction.
Apologies for the long Lego block stuck together sentences. It is not a matter of literary style, but of not being Norman Mailer in my efforts at story telling.
While Ruth’s parents strove in all ways for maintaining their reputation as fine God-fearing people, even as it included beating her to death if they could have gotten hold of her, my family were admirers of anything and everything that indicated wealth. It is not excessive to use the cliché that money was my mother’s God, money itself and the things it could buy. This bent was not just to have others think well of her in their notice of various mid-level wealth status symbols. She actually loved things like the Anderson Thermo-pane windows of the new house we moved into when I was thirteen and talked about them every day as though the value of her having them went far beyond the few dollars a month their insulating properties saved from our fuel bill. Oh, the Anderson Thermo-pane windows, you’d hear her start talking about at the breakfast table out of nowhere for years and years and years in a tone equivalent to the love a mother should reserve only for her infant children.
I mention my father but briefly as the one genuine human being I ran into in my childhood, the one good guy without whom this story could not have come to pass. He died before the worst of this tale could unfold. The rest of my family, as exemplified by my younger sister, Diane, Ruth’s brother’s counterpart, tried to break up our marriage and get me to return to normal society so as to be as wretched under their veneer of displayed trinkets and faked smiles as they were. Hence you will find it amusing and not surprising that lifelong attempts at torturing us by our respective families in every way possible during our mothers’ lifetimes went on beyond the grave.
On Ruth’s side, mother left brother as the trustee of her money and instructions for him to tell her as he did, in plain English, that she would never see a penny of the money until she left Pete, that’s me, (this, after 35 years of marriage!). As to my sister, of all the pities one might have for people, none can compare to what I have for my poor flesh and blood nephew, the son of this old American witch, part lady Ted Haggard, part wounded rattlesnake. My mother left all of a nearly a million willed to her with the whisper in Diane’s ear that it be dangled in front of me so as to induce me to lick her boots and those of my dead mother in the grave. If there is any spiritual recompense in this matter, it is that my sister used a good chunk of this money to buy a house up in St. Johnsbury Center, Vermont back about five years ago, its value in this low demand ice cold village up near the Canadian border but 40% of what she paid in cash with my mother’s money for it.
The relationship of this minor picture of reality to the major reality the United States is beneath its American Dream airbrushing, I will leave to your philosophical analytical skills, pointing out for you only that the money and morality parts fit together as co-abusers in this story as tightly as Wall Street and the fusion of Congress and the Crystal Cathedral, politicians being but a special flavor of hypocrite preacher, as all but the utterly immature cannot fail to observe. And, not surprisingly, this is where the conservative Republicans come from, the wealthy and the restrictive moralist politicians amongst us.
They are the problem. They broke the economic system with the war and the Wall street scheming. Our dear Obama, does not see it this way clearly enough to make the changes necessary to repair the damage they have done, at home and abroad. That is why we are in for a rough ride in which many are going to have their necks cracked in half by the whiplash. What can be done other than hoping that Obama, by some secular miracle, gets smart enough to see the connection between fundamentalist trick speaking, Rush Limbaugh hate speaking and Wall Street self-serving money talk.
In the face of a tsunami sure in its approach and but 100 yards from shore, and having a desire to do something tangible about it as opposed to attributing it to God’s will and preparing oneself for one’s journey to the afterlife, solutions, desperate in need, can be difficult to formulate. Fortunately, though, our mathematical take on nature, biological and human, points in a very sensible direction theoretically, however uncertain because of the novelty of the solution it constructs.
It is impossible to obviate the human aggression effectively mandated by evolutionary competition as we show inarguably with our mathematics. All you can do is eliminate weapons so as to mitigate the effects of aggression, keep it more a contact sporting contest level than Hiroshima. This actually works in local venues. The number of people murdered in Japan where guns are not allowed is miniscule per capita, around a hundred per year, as compared to the tens of thousands of murders in the United States. So a worldwide banning of weapons is a good goal to set our minds on in terms of the desirable results it would bring.
Something like this is utterly necessary to keep aggression from arising collectively and to the nuclear level and, as horribly impossible as this may sound as the uttering of a “mentally ill” Chicken Little, and blowing us all off the map. Perhaps one must look a bit deeper into the hearts and minds of the common man in order to have this fear take hold to the degree that reality warrants.
The creationists we have been arguing with down here in 11th Century Lubbock on the aforementioned forum are observable data points for the pathologies that exist in modern day people. The standard Cause and Effect Software that all science students are mandated to have to keep from flunking out of college is missing in this not atypical hyper-obedient class of robots who mouth creationist recipes with the same rigor of following the behavioral regimen prescribed for them and inculcated by fear and punishment in their childhoods. Is their inability to make the cause and effect connection in what they see a real problem or is their truncated thinking just acceptable delusion that allows them to get by in life emotionally.
Well, you know Bush is a born again who doesn’t believe in evolution along with most of the Republicans and he made the decision to go to an utterly expensive and unnecessary war in Iraq that has killed and crippled 30,000 American young people and a half million Iraqis, a good number of them women and kids, and helped to bankrupt the country. A famous quote of George Bush was “I kind of figure life is going to work its way out somehow.” (p. 93, The Presidents of the United States, Simon Adams, Two-Can Publishing) This kind of thinking is, hence, meaningfully dangerous.
To these people, the word injustice has no meaning. For them, just and unjust are part of the rules given them. If authority says its injustices are just, there is no further interpretation allowed. If authority says that Darwin beat his wife and that his ideas on evolution are as wrong as his cruel behaviors, signed affidavits from the Darwins’ servants to the contrary will be interpreted as the lies of an anti-Christian conspiracy. These are citizens in good standing with the wealthy ruling class that owns the nation.
What is to be done? Getting rid of weapons does two things. Tyrannies are very hard to maintain without weapons for a tyrannical government has a hard time controlling a rebellious population without weapons. And without question, it is hard to have a real war, blood and death and lost limbs, without weapons. Now I know that taking away everybody’s weapons is a very tall task. For the same mathematical equations we have that tell you that much of the inherent abuse of control is eventually released in misdirected aggression will also tell you that those who have power by dint of weapons are not prone to giving up that power.
This is where revolution becomes necessary. Not physical revolution, for that is pretty much impossible given existing weapons distribution. But there are two kinds of revolution that ARE possible. And that is important, to know we have a direction to go in to save the planet and people’s happiness, for no matter the strength of the argument that banning all weapons in the world is absurdly near-impossible and a Pollyanna goal to aim for, the argument that the human race is headed for mass suicide is, with our mathematics, utterly impossible to get around, (should one need mathematics to see the handwriting on the wall via simple observation of current world strife in the context of the history of war and its extrapolation to the future.)
The two less impossible revolutions that are possible, taken in sequence, are an initial revolution of ideas that change the way that people think, enough people thinking realistically to start the second less impossible revolution, a Gandhi type rebellion against abusive control wherein the number of resistors grows to a level that they can’t all be put in jail.
And where do we ultimately want to wind up at with this? Analysis is easier and surer than prescription. The technology that derives from basic science, (so said Professor Ed Smith of Rensselaer in a lecture years back, this fellow, who for some reason unbeknownst to him and all of us, being the first target of the Unabomber, thankfully spared harm), is never as simple and sure as the science it derives from, this patently evidenced by the repeated practical trial and error interpretations of Maxwell and Hertz mathematical relationships needed by Marconi and friends to make a smoothly working radio.
With that excuse for a lack of perfection in prescribing a cure for the world’s very real ills, we see that to have a no weapons society you need a Weapons Authority that runs the show and does have weapons, enough to punish those who use weapons. Those who lead the revolution will run the Weapons Authority. That would be me, and you if you come along, you too, it being assumed that whoever has the intelligence and courage to take the very real risks involved in revolution will also have the good will to use the weapons entrusted to them as the Weapons Authority justly.
There will be no jails for those who break the weapons law, for jails are also defined as technological instruments of aggression and are to be banned. Rather, the punishment for the use of weapons will be both extreme, death, and lenient, as the probability of death. The sentence is to be carried out using a deck of playing cards as final deciders, the worse the weapons offense, the greater the number of death cards in the deck for the weapons law breaker.
Under this umbrella of benevolent coercion that teaches people to undertake justifiable aggression only at the level of sport, mixed martial arts at the roughest, people otherwise get to do whatever they want, collectively, that is, making laws and rules in their own locales that can be enforced only by a police department that has no jail and carries no weapons.
To keep life from descending into raw thuggery, respect is paid to evolutionary theory that makes clear that a social cohesive attitude is fostered to counteract evolution’s inherent competitive drive in individuals by having an external enemy to cohere against. To explain the details of our prescription for a happy society in this regard, we have to backtrack a bit to other practical aspects of making this revolution happen to begin with.
The revolution has to be worldwide. It has to be because otherwise competition and the possibility of war between nations requires, as it does now and has in history, that each nation be as efficient as possible in protecting itself, which requires that its members be controlled to a high degree, which requires the usual police, laws, jails, control, abuse and so on. A very good thing in this regard is that our evolution of information ideas are mathematical, the one universal language of the world, which should help in starting the first, educational, phase of the revolution in the world wide form that is necessary.
After the revolution is complete and worldwide so that all nations follow this no weapons culture, the Weapons Authority will have a second task beyond insuring the weapons ban and that is protecting the borders of every nation or city state’s territory with any individual or group who violates a border being handed a deck of cards.
To mirror mortal evolutionary competition in a less violent way, every city state will be involved in a war with five or so neighboring city states, a war set to last for a decade, and one won by points, points scored by victory in sports events between city states and by the proper paying of taxes to the Weapons Authority to keep it going. The loser of the war, that one in six city states whose capability to survive deems it deserving of extinction, forfeits its land and its women will be assigned to the winning city states. This derives not from sexism, an ideology fit to the exploitation of women as workers, but from evolutionary considerations as they fit the emotions and possibilities for happiness amongst people. The territory of the defeated state will become open to settlement by young people looking for a new start. And the losing men will become weapons inspectors in the surviving city states, unarmed eyes to see that the no weapons ban is enforced.
Some mechanism must be provided for the ascendency of the best people in the city states to the ranks of the Weapons Authority, for the personalities of unchallenged individuals in the top rank tends to grow abusive, Bush the spoiled son of existing power and his cronies being perfect examples. Hence the least fit of the Weapons Authority need to be revitalized by best of the city state citizens periodically.
As to the glitches, whatever they may be or be imagined to be, they can be resolved and are secondary problems compared with the need to get rid of damn weapons, a need that no amount of arguing can take away, as this worst case nuclear scenario predicted by our mathematical analysis is very difficult to argue with. The perfect place to begin this movement for real change is in Austin in March.
As to Obama, we have absolutely nothing against him or any wish to tear him down. We came up from Mexico in exile from George Bush’s version of 1984 only because we were very excited about Obama. We spent close to $4000 of our own money actively campaigning for him. Indeed Ruth was shown across the country in a CBS news blurb on behalf of Obama castigating Bill Clinton in West Virginia, (see “Bill Clinton Argues with Voter, CBS NEWS” on YouTube, which got 600,000 views and over 3000 comments, most favorable to Obama, which was our intention.)
The point isn’t what we would wish for him to do and hope he would do. We wish him every success. But he’s not, as a classical populist figurehead allowed to assume power by the ruling class, of the temperament to see that the problems of the nation HAVE BEEN CAUSED by the ruling class and that what is needed is a sharp turn to socialism. In short, what is needed is two miles over his head. We saw this during the campaign up close and lost faith in him. He will merely preside over Humpty Dumpty’s fall off the wall. He will not prevent it. Nor will he be able to pick up the mess. You need somebody a bit smarter and a bit tougher and a bit more rebellious. I have the brains and a PhD from RPI and four bullet holes in me, five knife scars and a knack for pulling off impossible and dangerous things. People generally dislike boasters, end of game. I am not boasting here. I am merely giving evidence of job qualifications.
For now people have faith in Obama. If he succeeds, that is wonderful. And that is our primary wish. But we doubt it for the above fairly well explained reasons. At the very least, you should keep watching events unfold in the news including between the capitalist propaganda lines the news is generally given in. Soon, our strong feeling is that you will see the situation deteriorate precipitously, at home and abroad. Past some point, it should kick in that a vision of a viable future on a grander scale is needed. In the meantime, let us all converge on the SBOE on Wednesday, March 25, to win the smaller and more immediate battle of not screwing up our kids’ minds anymore with hocus-pocus dogma masquerading as objective understanding. Wouldn’t be surprised if by that time it starts becoming clear that something more is needed.
Dr. Peter V. Calabria
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