| Fundamentals |
Without a grounding in some fundamentals of human nature, the physical world, math
and logic there is no way to really comprehend the world. Certain things are just true:
Rocks are hard, water flows, two plus two equals four. These are the inescapable realities
of the planet we live on and the universe in which it spins. So in just a dozen or so one
sentence truths this section lays out the fundamentals of reality. All else we humans do has
to be based on this. If you are basing your ideas on something else then your conclusions
can not be viable. One of the clearest is that Karl Marx and Malthus and many like-minded
thinkers, believed that the resources of the earth should be spread evenly across the globe
and that they are finite. No resource is spread evenly across the globe. If you think it,
whatever it is, is spread equally then you are not dealing with reality, and there is no
escaping that reality of delusion. You can make no conclusions as to how to organize
societies to do anything, because you are failing to take into account the practical realities
of the world. And if your theory requires you to hold that all the resources are spread
evenly in order for it to work then you cannot reach a valid conclusion. Malthus spun it a bit
differently, he said that all resources are finite, and thus there is a limit to growth. This is
not true because it ignores the reality that resources can be utilized in a limitless amount of
ways, garnering efficiencies and using less materials. Imagine how much more plastic we
would use to make as many phones as we now have if all the phones were as big as the
ones of just the 1970s. It is also true that the United States has added not one new oil
refinery since 1973, and yet the amount of gasoline produced today is much more than
what was produced. That's because of better efficiencies gained from each barrel of oil.
There is no finished product that cannot be shaved a bit in resources and yet also
increased in numbers available. The history of mankind has exactly shown this.
So, in order to understand politics and economics you need a foundation on which to
rest your conclusions. And once you have this foundation some conclusions are almost
inescapable as the most rational and reasonable, practical and realistic to follow. Alas, just
as in times of old, and days of bold, when fabled knights roamed the land, people jump to
the conclusion that these "modern" times spell doom for us all. It never comes to pass, and
things always come out better at the hands of practical people living in the real world. It is
the visionaries and the dreamers, the idealists and theologians among us that persist in not
dealing with the world as it is. These are the hope and change people, the 'it should be
better' people, who issue bromides about 'we need to reform' whatever it is they turn their
sights on. Yet, because they are not grounded in fundamentals each and every of their
conclusions and solutions must fail. For they are not grounded in reality. And the world as it
is is far stronger than the world as we wish it to be.
and logic there is no way to really comprehend the world. Certain things are just true:
Rocks are hard, water flows, two plus two equals four. These are the inescapable realities
of the planet we live on and the universe in which it spins. So in just a dozen or so one
sentence truths this section lays out the fundamentals of reality. All else we humans do has
to be based on this. If you are basing your ideas on something else then your conclusions
can not be viable. One of the clearest is that Karl Marx and Malthus and many like-minded
thinkers, believed that the resources of the earth should be spread evenly across the globe
and that they are finite. No resource is spread evenly across the globe. If you think it,
whatever it is, is spread equally then you are not dealing with reality, and there is no
escaping that reality of delusion. You can make no conclusions as to how to organize
societies to do anything, because you are failing to take into account the practical realities
of the world. And if your theory requires you to hold that all the resources are spread
evenly in order for it to work then you cannot reach a valid conclusion. Malthus spun it a bit
differently, he said that all resources are finite, and thus there is a limit to growth. This is
not true because it ignores the reality that resources can be utilized in a limitless amount of
ways, garnering efficiencies and using less materials. Imagine how much more plastic we
would use to make as many phones as we now have if all the phones were as big as the
ones of just the 1970s. It is also true that the United States has added not one new oil
refinery since 1973, and yet the amount of gasoline produced today is much more than
what was produced. That's because of better efficiencies gained from each barrel of oil.
There is no finished product that cannot be shaved a bit in resources and yet also
increased in numbers available. The history of mankind has exactly shown this.
So, in order to understand politics and economics you need a foundation on which to
rest your conclusions. And once you have this foundation some conclusions are almost
inescapable as the most rational and reasonable, practical and realistic to follow. Alas, just
as in times of old, and days of bold, when fabled knights roamed the land, people jump to
the conclusion that these "modern" times spell doom for us all. It never comes to pass, and
things always come out better at the hands of practical people living in the real world. It is
the visionaries and the dreamers, the idealists and theologians among us that persist in not
dealing with the world as it is. These are the hope and change people, the 'it should be
better' people, who issue bromides about 'we need to reform' whatever it is they turn their
sights on. Yet, because they are not grounded in fundamentals each and every of their
conclusions and solutions must fail. For they are not grounded in reality. And the world as it
is is far stronger than the world as we wish it to be.
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