Change without direction
One score months ago the voters of America brought forth a new presidential administration on this continent. The stated goal of the election was to issue in a new age of change we can believe in. That presupposes either one of two alternatives. At that time number one was, we were having change we didn’t want to believe in, or two we didn’t want any change from our vision of what we were told was a future of human engineered eternal prosperity.
It seems in the intervening period that all change has accelerated rapidly and those changes are beyond anything we can believe in and furthermore most of the stupendous changes are only exacerbating previous problems.
For as long as I can remember American presidents have turned out worse than my predilections. My worries about George W. Bush was that he would be beholden to what we have recently publicly defined as crony capitalists to the default of other values of not only governance but also personal responsibility. So I voted for the guy twice, my public reason was we share the same initials, but the secret reason was I thought that both Al Gore and John Kerry were truly without hope for being effective leaders. But most liberal juice drinkers don’t like any reality with their cocktail, so voicing the truth really wasn’t worth the return of stressful noise.
So my more than worst fears of George W. Bush turned out to be true. Those fears manifested themselves in the financial meltdown which began in late 2007 and continues to this day. Essentially what we saw under the Bush administration was the continuance of debt financed consumption based upon real estate. Those inflated values are still highly leveraged over the current wealth of most of the folks, but that is another topic for another time.
So those twenty months ago, Barack Obama was elected president. I didn’t vote for the man, not because I am a racist, but I thought he lacked experience to handle the tough job of being president. I wasn’t all that keen on John McCain either, especially during the campaign where it seemed that his goal was to be the Republican nominee rather than getting elected. Perhaps during the campaign McCain was able to get a glimpse of future trouble and decided either he was not up to the task, or was aware that current American problems are beyond the pale of human leadership. That surely was not something that Barack Obama would ever discern.
What we learned immediately from the new president was the reality of saving the world from financial collapse, he basically kept the same people in charge of the nation’s financial bureaucracy, who did not see the bubble occurring in the first place. Now it seems that even though he changed warring emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Bush neocon nation building emphasis remains; even though it goes under the guise of a counterinsurgency operation.
So what we have really obtained with our new president is “change without direction,” or more precisely, “change without direction change!”
However contrasted with the layback style of president Bush, president Obama is a driven man pursuing his vision to transform America into something that most Americans are now beginning to see as well beyond the pale of what they are willing to embrace.
The significant question now needing an answer is, “Can Americans still communicate in such a way that there can be, ‘change with direction change?’”
As I began this change quest I became aware of an article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. A sequel to that 2008 article is now a 2010 book entitled, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” I have not read the book, but the article does bring up some interesting points about how we may be losing our ability to concentrate and think deeply on any subject.
Furthermore the article is somewhat academic and pursues those deeper thought processes within the confines of the piece. However this provides a context to a question that seems to be somewhat self evident and that is, “Can shallow minds maintain or reform a complex civic structure?”
Put in a more shallow form, Can a dumbed down world produce anything beyond limits to chaos, or change without direction change?
For our part Wonder Springs creations tend to run two to four times the length of most syndicated columns and by design are constructed in a way to make skimming for the high points somewhat difficult. So for all this time we have been attempting to limit the ability to have the Internet make us stupid, but didn’t have any outside authority to verify our assumptions. Now we do.
So far over the last thirty years, maybe a century of progress, to quote the message in the Bible’s Daniel (5:25-28), the writing is on the wall. “And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Considering this century’s military expeditions into ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Afghanistan with Persia and Media (Iran) in the middle, that ancient reality might not yet still have its true historic context.
More in line with natural law however is the required synergism between information, energy, and liquidity to create wealth and economic growth. The United States reached the zenith of historic human culture on earth not on the basis of its energy resources, even though they are vast, nor its financial acumen, but rather the informational diversity or wisdom of her people.
Contrary to most of which you will find on much of the Internet or the lame stream media, if they report the above synergy at all, is the basic assumption is that the human capacity for wisdom is progressively evolving rapidly. What Dr. Carr’s article is showing however, is that all the information is not only increasingly destroying our ability for deeper cognitive reasoning, the information is becoming disorganized by its shear volume. In natural physics that means that instead of organization, what we are really producing is random noise, or entropy.
If we were to revisit Daniel’s time and king Belshazzar in Babylon, we would find his religion is quite similar to what is bringing about our demise. Belshazzar’s religion was really human enlightenment taken beyond narcism into the realm of self-glorification. Progressing from George W. Bush we now have a president and his loyal subjects that have no problem with the feast that brought about Babylon’s disintegration. So while Belshazzar’s end came from the hand of Darius the Mede, so will the end of this vision of the United States come from human hands. However just as in ancient Babylon the ultimate source of change with direction change, came from God.
As we have pointed out on many occasions this religion that finds meaning in individual self-glorification is collectively known as Social Darwinism. This religion has very little in common with Charles Darwin’s scientific theory, except the ascendence of humanity and atheism. Darwin tried to describe the ageless creation of an eternal God without God, hence evolutionary progress took eons of time. Social Darwinists can evolve daily, redefining any actions in terms of their self glorification as good. This denies all aspects of theism and especially the concepts of sin, death, and entropy.
Much of the noise beginning to be expressed in the United States and around the world comes from those who seek collective social justice. That social justice is to be administered by the highly evolved elitist, on behalf of the poor, downtrodden, and the weak. It is sure nice their exists that class of wonderful human beings, to take care of the masses. We call these people the Collectivist Elitists and are represented by sympathizers of twentieth century marxists, socialists, and national union leaders, espousing thoughts along the lines of “Workers of the world unite.”
This is contrasted with the other band of Social Darwinists which we call the Laissez-Faire Scoundrels. This movement became mainstream American enterprise under the Fed leadership of Alan Greenspan. The chief philosophy is essentially a cancerous from of capitalism based upon atheism, or rather as the focus of this article, change without direction, (i.e entropy).
What both of these forms of the same religion focus upon is a brand of national governance in which nationalism is essentially equal with federalism. This makes bed fellows of crony capitalists, bureaucrats, and a Washington DC centered political class that has lost touch (by choice) with the electorate. We have substituted for Adam Smith’s capitalism’s Invisible Hand, Robber Barons, or Robber Politicians, or both, because God has been replaced by human enlightenment.
The United States however was created with a Godly unique tension that contributed to her success and that was the designed tension between nationalism and federalism. This is best described in the motto, E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one). In the twentieth century, progressivism has basically redefined or recreated a motto in which the “one will take care of the many.”
The miraculous effect of the score of the Obama months is the collapse of collective federalism. The federal lawsuit against Arizona immigration law states essentially, the gross negligence of the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws, supersedes states rights to protect their citizens.
The collapse of related crony capitalism is shown in the inability of BP to cap the oil leak in consort with the federal governments inability to manage area cleanup methods; prime examples of stupendous change without direction.
These illustrations could be expanded by many more, but what we are really seeing is a return to the founders tension between a human centered federalism and the inalienable rights of the individual. So far this discussion is basically taking place between libertarians and collective elitists. These are really just arguments of change without direction, simply because as stated there really is no common ground. Common ground or a common revelation of God is the basis of all lasting human civilizations. While some libertarians are theistic, others are the prime examples of self-glorification.
Change that takes place with direction toward God and away from human secularism will be the common force that will bring about the restoration of the E Pluribus Unum concept. Belshazzar was overthrown by Darius, a Median king. However the restoration of the United States will more than likely come, not by one individual, but leadership not seeking collective responsibility, but rather leadership that causes people to stand up and be who God created them to be. That goes far, far beyond the scope of our current vision of church and religion.
In that process we are quickly seeing, thanks to the collectivist training and vision of Barack Obama, the futility of the vision of government solutions to human problems, that he honestly believes are the hope of humanity. He was proceeded in office by a man that actually believed that the best hope for the solution of human problems was what we today call crony capitalism. George W. obtained that belief, because he first learned it from his father.
Betwixt and between was Bill Clinton who was someone who tried to restore some tension between government and individualism, not because of his own merit, but the man from Hope was pragmatic enough to realize that his legacy depended upon trying to find a common ground within still evolving federalism, and with Republicans balanced a federal budget.
We could take that back another level, from Eisenhower to Reagan, and before that from Teddy Roosevelt to Truman, but what we really are doing is a redux tension of change without direction, substituting for change with direction change. In the process God slowly was pushed out of America’s churches and then out of the common community.
So how will God restore his people?
Belshazzar was overthrown overnight. First century Israel was changed by the crucifixion of a Jewish rabbi named Yeshua and that transformed the known world in about half a century. In the process how we ordain time was forever altered. What that really means is what is impossible with man, is nothing at all for God. So get up, do a little house cleaning in your change without direction mindset and begin to comprehend the amazing process of the renewing of your mind and the changing of this present world.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2
It seems in the intervening period that all change has accelerated rapidly and those changes are beyond anything we can believe in and furthermore most of the stupendous changes are only exacerbating previous problems.
For as long as I can remember American presidents have turned out worse than my predilections. My worries about George W. Bush was that he would be beholden to what we have recently publicly defined as crony capitalists to the default of other values of not only governance but also personal responsibility. So I voted for the guy twice, my public reason was we share the same initials, but the secret reason was I thought that both Al Gore and John Kerry were truly without hope for being effective leaders. But most liberal juice drinkers don’t like any reality with their cocktail, so voicing the truth really wasn’t worth the return of stressful noise.
So my more than worst fears of George W. Bush turned out to be true. Those fears manifested themselves in the financial meltdown which began in late 2007 and continues to this day. Essentially what we saw under the Bush administration was the continuance of debt financed consumption based upon real estate. Those inflated values are still highly leveraged over the current wealth of most of the folks, but that is another topic for another time.
So those twenty months ago, Barack Obama was elected president. I didn’t vote for the man, not because I am a racist, but I thought he lacked experience to handle the tough job of being president. I wasn’t all that keen on John McCain either, especially during the campaign where it seemed that his goal was to be the Republican nominee rather than getting elected. Perhaps during the campaign McCain was able to get a glimpse of future trouble and decided either he was not up to the task, or was aware that current American problems are beyond the pale of human leadership. That surely was not something that Barack Obama would ever discern.
What we learned immediately from the new president was the reality of saving the world from financial collapse, he basically kept the same people in charge of the nation’s financial bureaucracy, who did not see the bubble occurring in the first place. Now it seems that even though he changed warring emphasis from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Bush neocon nation building emphasis remains; even though it goes under the guise of a counterinsurgency operation.
So what we have really obtained with our new president is “change without direction,” or more precisely, “change without direction change!”
However contrasted with the layback style of president Bush, president Obama is a driven man pursuing his vision to transform America into something that most Americans are now beginning to see as well beyond the pale of what they are willing to embrace.
The significant question now needing an answer is, “Can Americans still communicate in such a way that there can be, ‘change with direction change?’”
As I began this change quest I became aware of an article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr. A sequel to that 2008 article is now a 2010 book entitled, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” I have not read the book, but the article does bring up some interesting points about how we may be losing our ability to concentrate and think deeply on any subject.
Furthermore the article is somewhat academic and pursues those deeper thought processes within the confines of the piece. However this provides a context to a question that seems to be somewhat self evident and that is, “Can shallow minds maintain or reform a complex civic structure?”
Put in a more shallow form, Can a dumbed down world produce anything beyond limits to chaos, or change without direction change?
For our part Wonder Springs creations tend to run two to four times the length of most syndicated columns and by design are constructed in a way to make skimming for the high points somewhat difficult. So for all this time we have been attempting to limit the ability to have the Internet make us stupid, but didn’t have any outside authority to verify our assumptions. Now we do.
So far over the last thirty years, maybe a century of progress, to quote the message in the Bible’s Daniel (5:25-28), the writing is on the wall. “And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”
Considering this century’s military expeditions into ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Afghanistan with Persia and Media (Iran) in the middle, that ancient reality might not yet still have its true historic context.
More in line with natural law however is the required synergism between information, energy, and liquidity to create wealth and economic growth. The United States reached the zenith of historic human culture on earth not on the basis of its energy resources, even though they are vast, nor its financial acumen, but rather the informational diversity or wisdom of her people.
Contrary to most of which you will find on much of the Internet or the lame stream media, if they report the above synergy at all, is the basic assumption is that the human capacity for wisdom is progressively evolving rapidly. What Dr. Carr’s article is showing however, is that all the information is not only increasingly destroying our ability for deeper cognitive reasoning, the information is becoming disorganized by its shear volume. In natural physics that means that instead of organization, what we are really producing is random noise, or entropy.
If we were to revisit Daniel’s time and king Belshazzar in Babylon, we would find his religion is quite similar to what is bringing about our demise. Belshazzar’s religion was really human enlightenment taken beyond narcism into the realm of self-glorification. Progressing from George W. Bush we now have a president and his loyal subjects that have no problem with the feast that brought about Babylon’s disintegration. So while Belshazzar’s end came from the hand of Darius the Mede, so will the end of this vision of the United States come from human hands. However just as in ancient Babylon the ultimate source of change with direction change, came from God.
As we have pointed out on many occasions this religion that finds meaning in individual self-glorification is collectively known as Social Darwinism. This religion has very little in common with Charles Darwin’s scientific theory, except the ascendence of humanity and atheism. Darwin tried to describe the ageless creation of an eternal God without God, hence evolutionary progress took eons of time. Social Darwinists can evolve daily, redefining any actions in terms of their self glorification as good. This denies all aspects of theism and especially the concepts of sin, death, and entropy.
Much of the noise beginning to be expressed in the United States and around the world comes from those who seek collective social justice. That social justice is to be administered by the highly evolved elitist, on behalf of the poor, downtrodden, and the weak. It is sure nice their exists that class of wonderful human beings, to take care of the masses. We call these people the Collectivist Elitists and are represented by sympathizers of twentieth century marxists, socialists, and national union leaders, espousing thoughts along the lines of “Workers of the world unite.”
This is contrasted with the other band of Social Darwinists which we call the Laissez-Faire Scoundrels. This movement became mainstream American enterprise under the Fed leadership of Alan Greenspan. The chief philosophy is essentially a cancerous from of capitalism based upon atheism, or rather as the focus of this article, change without direction, (i.e entropy).
What both of these forms of the same religion focus upon is a brand of national governance in which nationalism is essentially equal with federalism. This makes bed fellows of crony capitalists, bureaucrats, and a Washington DC centered political class that has lost touch (by choice) with the electorate. We have substituted for Adam Smith’s capitalism’s Invisible Hand, Robber Barons, or Robber Politicians, or both, because God has been replaced by human enlightenment.
The United States however was created with a Godly unique tension that contributed to her success and that was the designed tension between nationalism and federalism. This is best described in the motto, E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one). In the twentieth century, progressivism has basically redefined or recreated a motto in which the “one will take care of the many.”
The miraculous effect of the score of the Obama months is the collapse of collective federalism. The federal lawsuit against Arizona immigration law states essentially, the gross negligence of the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws, supersedes states rights to protect their citizens.
The collapse of related crony capitalism is shown in the inability of BP to cap the oil leak in consort with the federal governments inability to manage area cleanup methods; prime examples of stupendous change without direction.
These illustrations could be expanded by many more, but what we are really seeing is a return to the founders tension between a human centered federalism and the inalienable rights of the individual. So far this discussion is basically taking place between libertarians and collective elitists. These are really just arguments of change without direction, simply because as stated there really is no common ground. Common ground or a common revelation of God is the basis of all lasting human civilizations. While some libertarians are theistic, others are the prime examples of self-glorification.
Change that takes place with direction toward God and away from human secularism will be the common force that will bring about the restoration of the E Pluribus Unum concept. Belshazzar was overthrown by Darius, a Median king. However the restoration of the United States will more than likely come, not by one individual, but leadership not seeking collective responsibility, but rather leadership that causes people to stand up and be who God created them to be. That goes far, far beyond the scope of our current vision of church and religion.
In that process we are quickly seeing, thanks to the collectivist training and vision of Barack Obama, the futility of the vision of government solutions to human problems, that he honestly believes are the hope of humanity. He was proceeded in office by a man that actually believed that the best hope for the solution of human problems was what we today call crony capitalism. George W. obtained that belief, because he first learned it from his father.
Betwixt and between was Bill Clinton who was someone who tried to restore some tension between government and individualism, not because of his own merit, but the man from Hope was pragmatic enough to realize that his legacy depended upon trying to find a common ground within still evolving federalism, and with Republicans balanced a federal budget.
We could take that back another level, from Eisenhower to Reagan, and before that from Teddy Roosevelt to Truman, but what we really are doing is a redux tension of change without direction, substituting for change with direction change. In the process God slowly was pushed out of America’s churches and then out of the common community.
So how will God restore his people?
Belshazzar was overthrown overnight. First century Israel was changed by the crucifixion of a Jewish rabbi named Yeshua and that transformed the known world in about half a century. In the process how we ordain time was forever altered. What that really means is what is impossible with man, is nothing at all for God. So get up, do a little house cleaning in your change without direction mindset and begin to comprehend the amazing process of the renewing of your mind and the changing of this present world.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2