Prologue to Howard Bloom's "The Genius of the Beast"
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:18 pm
Please use this thread for discussing the Prologue to Howard Bloom's "The Genius of the Beast."
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My own interest is to establish a major new world industry in the transport of fresh water around the ocean and production of algae biofuel, as I have discussed at Booktalk threads on the Spragg Waterbag and the Algae City in the Gulf of Mexico. Bloom points out it is crazy people like me who have had the vision and confidence to transform our planet from general stagnant poverty into the current global work in progress, where everyone has the potential to be rich and free beyond the dreams of past days.
Thanks Joe. Yes, you are right, the corruption of the world prevents innovation. In fact, many people have their heads so far up their own arses that they are completely blind to analysis of what homo sapien is doing to the planet, and the considerable risks posed by global warming.Joe Kelley wrote:Do you think, or do you know, that some people could conceivably lose (in a big way) as your work progresses into fruition? I mean to point out specific problems with specific ideals, or understandings, or perceptions, of this capitalism stuff. In other words: if your bio-fuel product gains market share, will current fuel producers lose market share – and the presumption is a big loss associated with a big gain?
.This ended the depression in the US
etudiant,Yes, I guess you could say that. The cycle goes something like this: There is a pack of lemmings, milling about.
Nice work. You captured my attention in spades, well written, very good stuff in my view. I hope to read much more of the same stuff. I am inclined to interject a main point of what I see in the book, and this is a perspective that I share – intimately – with Howard Bloom.There is more milling about, and soon a lemming looks up, and sees a wonderful food source in the distance. They all start to move, and some start to run……………..
I am keen on going down this path further, very much so, since your viewpoint appears to be very interesting and worthy of knowing, in my estimate so far. I may be wrong about that, as the meanings I read into the words you typed out may be misinterpreted by me.But they will likely be back.
I sent two links in the response I offered to your first post, previous to your second post – quoted above. Please note those links or let me know that you dismiss them entirely, dismiss them after a cursory look, or dismiss them after careful perusal.Much of Europe was well on the road to recovery before the war.
Torture and mass murder were legal there, and it is legal here (U.S.A. inc.) now (defacto if not fully disclosed).“The construction of I.G. Auschwitz has assured I.G. a unique place in business history. By adopting the theory and practice of Nazi morality, it was able to depart from the conventional economics of slavery in which slaves are traditionally treated as capital equipment to be maintained and serviced for optimum use and depreciated over a normal life span. Instead, I.G. reduced slave labor to a consumable raw material, a human ore from which the mineral of life was systematically extracted. When no usable energy remained, the living dross was shipped to the gassing chambers and cremation furnaces of the extermination center at Birkenau, where the S.S. recycled it into the German war economy – gold teeth for the Reichsbank, hair for mattresses, and fat for soap. Even the moans of the doomed became a work incentive, exhorting the remaining inmates to greater effort.”
The government workers were kinder, gentler, wielders of the machine gun hand.“Conditions were such that sickness was a pervasive fact of life among the inhabitants of Monowitz. The hospital wards built by I.G. were so inadequate that even the S.S. suggested additional wards be built. I.G. refused because of the cost.”
As to the cause of the depression in the legal fiction known as U.S.A. Limited (a legal fiction) it may be a good idea to incorporate into the viewpoint a measure of the effects caused by the Federal Reserve Officers manipulation of the supply of legal purchasing power previous to the crash of 1929 and just before that event.Much of Europe was well on the road to recovery before the war.