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I’m right here.
If there is no connection then I want my false understanding proven false, so as to empower me to move on to a more accurate understanding of what I call: The Problem.
Back to the book for a moment: the problem includes any power that makes innocent victims powerless. The link between that last sentence and the book is that the book speaks of two specific powers that are problems when those powers become scarce and unavailable to people who need power to survive.
A. Oil power
B. Power other than oil
Under the category of B is most certainly the power of knowledge concerning the category of B. If someone doesn’t think or believe that B exists, then catagory B doesn’t disappear except as B connects to the person or the people who fail to see it, for all intents and purposes the category of B vanishes concerning the lives of the people who fail to recognize the category of B.
If the people who fail to recognize the power that is available to them can be illustrated by example, so as to illuminate those people with a stark, and naked, extreme example, then those people may then see what was not seen before: shock and awe – perhaps.
Anywhere on the planet where innocent people are being massively tortured and injured, for lack of power, suffices to illustrate the point. Gaza is one of many such extreme cases whereby the illustration shocks and awes the disinterested, objective, and scientifically minded observer, looking to know the causes and effects of such power struggles.
It can hardly be argued, with reason, that a powerless people are often ready made victims relative to powerful people. What, then, manages to keep the power flowing to the powerful people, and what, conversely, manages to keep the power from the powerless people?
Gaza can be too harsh of an example, or it can be dropped for lack of moral interest, or dropped for lack of any connection whatsoever with the subject of oil and the corresponding subject of the fear-mongering campaign that is known as “Peak Oil” (manifestations of which have already been illustrated).
People have power in numbers for more than a few reasons; but the economical reasons, reasons that rely upon physical reality rather than psychological reality (or make believe: like truth and fiction are psychological reality as to psychological non-reality, or as facts are compared relative to lies), where people gain power in numbers, economically, through a few main connections and manifestations of connections among people as such:
1. Division of labor
2. Specialization
3. Economies of scale (or the number of consumers divided by the costs of production as a mathematical measure of economies of scale)
That is the economic (or physical) manifestations of how power in numbers work, and people know this intuitively, if not by rote, or by memory, or by instruction, or by specific measured knowledge; where one can be asked and the answer is on the tip of the tongue of the person answering the question:
What constitutes the economic power of numbers, in your view?
An example can be illustrated with one thing in view, say a barrel of oil, or a potato; make that two things in view.
If one person existed and one person only needs one barrel of oil to maintain life as he knows it, or she, then one person spends the entire cost of producing the barrel of oil (or a case of beer), and the potato, and that cost can be measured as the power required to produce the barrel of oil, and the potato.
The one person is both an oil producer and a potato farmer – one each is sufficient to sustain life as he or she knows it.
Then the one person can do other things, once the power required to produce the barrel of oil, and the potato is spent, and the person can now consume the barrel of oil, and the potato, for the remainder of his life – or her life.
Enter stage left, or right, as person number two arrives on the scene - power in numbers illustrated.
Now two barrels of oil are needed, and two potatoes.
What happens?
A. Person two kills person one and takes the oil and the potato, slowly by slavery, or just right off the bat (swinging it, perhaps the second person made bats)
B. Specialization, division of labor, and economies of scale
I don’t expect my viewpoint to gain currency, be well received, honored, praised, but my hope is that my viewpoint will gain accuracy, become more truthful, be more useful, gain utility, and that is why I read, and write.
I’m right here, if you haven’t noticed.
Writing helps me link up with sources of data that leads to more powerful things to read and so I’m going to link a news item I picked up in the last few days, not in the last year, this news is current news, flowing like electricity, use it or lose it, it doesn’t store well as electricity – or “NEWS”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... el-problemWoe, woe, woe is me, costs of doing business are high, very high, how, oh how, can I cut costs, and how can I keep doing business, cheaper, and more economically minded? The German Political/Military complex in that thing called World War Two made their military fuel from coal, as synthetic oil, they did that then.
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