2012

Borrow Time

We are living on borrow time, from the first inhale of air in our lungs, to the last. From the first moment we feel the world is around us, and not just the human or other species under our yellow sun, but in few Billions years from now, where the yellow sun, become a red sun, in that moment, the live evolved under the yellow sun, will be no more, then and now the question is what to do, by then our descents will move to new worlds, or leave an situation where not depending on the yellow sun.

For that reason our spaceship: Earth, therefore we need to recognize we are in stewardship of this place, moreover we need to recognize the we have an obligation to each other, In Dune, Frank Herbert an ecologist, in his fiction novel, Dune was to train the right, for us the right is not just a rugged individual or collective dictatorship, bur in between: solidarity.

The collective dictatorship is represented by subjugation of the individual, base a religious believe found in theocratic society, found in Islam, Christianity, Judaism, even a non religious Buddhism.

Islam, historically is not just a social behaviour, but a political solution, where the ones who do not believe in their dogma where relegated to a second status Christians to Blue patches or Jews to Yellow patches, even limited how big their house or form of transportations, non-believers are limited to donkeys and horses, not camels since will be taller then believers, even to the sizes of their houses or places of worship.

Today we found theocratic states like Iran, Saudi Arabia where by law not just women are second class citizen but are reduce to be just property, but minorities in some case, under law a little better than a female, but a second class never less, an example, not just identification as such, but impact their lives from equal under law, from education to right under court. Events like in Egypt where Islamic Brotherhood is imposing a Islamic stated, where Christian Coptic’s will be relegated by law is permanent second class citizens, they are historically being second class citizen, but since Islamic Caliphate will be reduce into second class citizens.

Christianity has his periods where in British Colonies reactionary Protestants puritans deny not Just Catholics or Jews but impose a behaviour law, in the name to achieve a purity of ideal of early Christianity. Today is found in Protestants Fundamentalist and Roman Catholic Church with his obsession of the female sex, describe as dirt, by controlling sex behaviour abortion, in some ways the fear of not controlling the off spring, reduce ones again the female to just a type of property.

Judaism is a little more complicated, since Rome conquers Judah and denies the Jews right to the land and Constantine inherent the region through the Roman Empire, re-name Judah (Israel), where the two temples and close of 1,500 years of history to the name of Palestine to deny any right to the Jews, the competition between Christianity, Islam and Judaism who own God. Islam conquest of Palestine and in the 7 Century Islam codifies the second class citizens to Christians and Jews. Both of them made Jews permanent outsiders, the consequence in Europe was the Holocaust and Islam made the Jews as permanent second class citizen.

Other examples of this neo-religion, while not group have the right to impose in the case of China to Tibet, but Tibet was rule by monks who impose their own view of the world to their population.   

India the revival of Hindu fundamentalism mix with nationalism, created conflict with Islam, not to say the are historical roots to the conflict, the conquest of Islam to India, but this conquest are not unique, Islam conquest and hold Iberia Peninsula for 800 years, eventually Christian north, expulse Islam of the Peninsula. Few hundred years, Franco used this Islamic Armies against the Spanish Republic, in the name of Fascism.

The region where Islamic conquest had grave consequences was the Balkans, where Turk conquest of Christian Byzantium, but the stop of the Islamic Army in the Gates of Vienna, and WWI the pact between Imperial Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire and second chances when the Mufti of Jerusalem not just encourage and sanction the attack to Tel-Aviv in 1944 by fascist Italy, but created units attach to the SS not just in North Africa, but in Bosnia and Croatia, he was charges with crimes against humanity, since his units committed Genocide acts against the Slaves and Jews in Yugoslavia, in the 1990´s the Serbs, felt the need for revenge was necessary, the acts of WW II was never forgotten.

The other Dictators is the pseudo-science of Race where the idea of Authoritarian created by Mussolini Italy and supported by the House of Savoy, but Germany race become a political ideology to justify Germany Imperial ambition.

The dictatorship of class, where in the Spanish Revolution the class dictatorship was in direct conflict with the dictatorship of race, in the early days of the conflict the dictatorship of class made pact with the dictatorship of race, while in the long run the corruption of the absolute power collapse. But this fact does not mitigate the reasons why this ideologies rouse, the inequality of the 99% of the population.

Where, the rugged individualism has manifested in Liberal Democracies, where has build on Nepotism and privilege, now the 1% does not feel any need to compromised, they will like to hold and make sure, their off spring hold a privilege, what the arrogance ignorance forget, the New Deal was created to mitigated the contraposition, especially the Dictatorship of Class. The error, where the majority of population is deny access from education, to right of any kind of leaving using gate keepers and this gate keepers decided who is come through the door, what 2012 elections show, the Original sin in US Race, against African Americans the permanent under class and immigrants, in the 18, 19, and 20 Century, where Irish, Italian, Catholics and Jews, today Latin Americans, but permanent demographic ship, alter, the electoral college, the problem is eventually they become the elite—so far an exception is African Americans, since many ways US was found on an economic exploitation base on colour of the skin.

The answer first and most is Solidarity, a recognition, our time is limited in this earth, we can not survived just as individuals or a group forcing their will to the rest.

They are many levels to achieved solidarity, the first the political is a direct democracy so everyone is feel empower, not want should hold the power as permanent, as better, even takes longer to build a consensus, but need to be bases an equality of gender, religion, ethnic, race or sex orientation should not be any base for inequality.

In economic base,  property is base on privilege given by the a class, should be abolish, access of education is not just an skill or profession, but need to open for exploring the world around and ourselves, the economy should be run on the community need, should be local, cooperatives, group run enterprise. Yes, space exploration should be a fundamental; our time in this spaceship is limited. We should used this time, to learn from the evolution experiments, since our own survival depends, we should question and learn from nature, they are many ways to interpreted and to analyze the information, but more the any thing, solidarity, we are in all together, not 1%, but 100%, the injury to one is injury to all, the Wobblies.

Destine for Extinction

A fundamental question in Billions years from our time, our descendents are destine for extinction. Asimov in short history: “The Lat Question”, where the question can we escape entropy and the computer said should be light universe began.

Holt in “Why Does The World Exits?,” is not just a existential question, but the fear with his mortality. The fear of death is the unknown, and the glimpse of hope, is our descendents, have a chance, whether eternity exist or entropy have the final say he explorer in alternative, if we can created a new Universe similar to the Brahmin, Indian traditions of eternal universe being reborn.

Slave Trade

Herodutus in: „The Histories,“ described the fleet of  Athens in the battle of Salamis, the cost was 50 Silver Dinars, what historians found the mines was over work by slaves. Athens the sit of Democracy was on the shoulder Economy of slaves and women with not rights.

Still, slave was not unique to Athens, from Egypt, to the Parthan (Persia), slaves come from prisoner of war.

The most vivid economy in antiquity was Rome, in general a second source of slave was debt, mention in Herodotus and the Torah, tries to give some humanity to the Slave institution.  When the Portuguese began the import of slaves, in west Africa, war raids to capture prisoners to become slave was common in Islam, but what Portuguese demands for the need of Slaved elevated to industrial scale. The Kingdoms like the Congo, I west Africa devices this industrial raids to satisfy initially the Portuguese, eventually most Europe.

The right to slave trade by Portuguese, Spaniards and eventually  rest of Europe, British and French, limited only to Christians, to be in the trade, the description can be found in Hugh Thomas book, “The Slave Trade, the history of Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870.”

While the British perfection industrial scale, but was in colonies in Maryland where in the 100´s laws where pass not decent can ever be free, by creating a permanent institution, become illegal 2 years after the Civil War (1863) between states with the Proclamation act, while, the reason was to brake the agrarian south, which economy was agrarian society, and actually is legal action happen 100 years later, 1963, with the civil rights.

During WWII conflict Nazi German use Jews and other members of the occupy area to be slave for the state.

Today, still countries like Sudan in some Islamic countries like South-Arabia this practise has stop, the sad part in the west women from Easter Europe for prostitution against their will and workers from China are being brought to the west kept in bondage for slave.

Fall Days-2012

Utopia of Kytes

Fear of Equality

We are leaving in very tumultuous times and the 1 % upper elite, shows fear of equality, what is interested, across Europe (http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/09-05/bone-churches-europe.html), in the case of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic, some are from the black plague, with the exception of the Hallstatt Karner – Hallstatt, Austria, where the names identify the sculls, but some many grave yards and “ossuaries,” with not name, after all when the time comes, we all have a end day and will come and all the accumulation of the world, have not meaning, can not be taken, and only the 0.01% created monuments of themselves, will be found in reposition or  in the museum. What is our obsession of a futile accumulation can never be taking and our descents in some generations will have not meaning of value.

Maybe, there is a psychological need of certain in our world, knowing we do not have any kind. Still, what we left, is how we treat of each other, because not individual can do alone, we are because what each another, if human will end today, the universe will not care, will run his path independent of us, what is important to the universe, is us, and everyone of us.

The course of our history depend and judgement is how we treat the least among us, and we all be forgotten and even in the annals of history the few what remember: what kind actions, Pharaoh (the owner of the big house) was a tyrant, when we see his populace and yoke of exploitation, all the nobility is remember the cruelty toward his own people: because in the end we are bones, with time just dust in time, but what we leave are our actions, not wealth or possessions, just are actions towards each other.

 

Spanish Tragedy-Valencia

Since the British brought Franco from Canaries to Spanish Morocco, in the time of the great social revolution 1936, due to the divided of the wealth to Nobility and few upper Burgess class, this tragedy and the fact when Nazi Germany  reoccupied the Rhineland, open salvo of WWII.
Fast forward after Franco death in the 1980´s, the Socialist Government like in the time of Republic did not carry the land reform, today 2/3 of Andalusia belong to a woman who spent most her time with plastic Surgery, La Condesa de Alba, an Aristocrat with more title any Aristocrat in Europe.
The crises of Span is base an pure Nepotism where political Parties use the Saving Bank is private funding to   extend to themselves, supporters and family.
Spain and Ireland crises was speculation of real state, between Marbella and Malaga, rest KM of white elephants of condominium (Legal, but the majority illegal, supposedly occupied by German and British retirees ( The Airport in Malaga, the welcome is written Firts in German, Second in English and the last in Spanish, the Famous Spanish pride has been lost for a few Euros) 
In the Summer when Spain was celebrated the European Football Championship, Valencia was burning 40,000 Acres, the tragedy of Valencia, a single Family (Fabar), from Alicante have rule for 140 Years, Communida Valencia, even they had not Aristocrat titles, just Nepotisim of 140 Years.

Aquarium Valencia

Train Station Valencia

Panoramic Market In Valencia

 

 

 

Cathedral Valencia

Aquarium Valencia

Disconnect

The disconnect the upper classes and the elites in this crises as example the Republican candidate visiting Louisiana recently beating by Isaac, where one of the residents complain the empathy show by this men was to go home (She loss her home) and call 112 (the FEMA, the federal Government Help line). The net worth of the Republican candidate is reported to be 250 Million USD.

The issue is not show empathy or not, the issue should be the despite of propaganda the Free Market has not exits and can never exits. The idol of his vice president is A R, in Atlas, her novel is base on the truth drivers of Capitalism, a women was rape become her partner in Business, but the undercurrent is about dominance and power.

While Marx, try to create a evolution of History base on Hegel rationalization of the reason entree for Christianity is an historical evolution. Marx wanted to separate two periods, Feudalism and Capitalism as distinct periods, but as results of a linear evolutionary process.

European philosophy has been obsess with power, since the inception of the fusion of the Catholic Church and Rome Empire by Constantine from Augustine to the German Philosophers of the 18 century, they have look every argument to rationalize and justification of the power of the few, but has not been unique to Christianity, Islam have gone further, using their own law is divine right to justify absolute power.

Free Market in the west mean, to the few, through controlling the access to vehicle to be in the upper class, gate keepers in the Education, limited to access to obtain the credit and therefore able to perpetuated the elite. In US the club is base on race--white, despite the US has the first African American President, but the measure power, from the wealth to the moral power.

The only problem is the immigration from Latin America to US: due to US interferences and support the small elite, who had hold, after Spaniard colonization. The Population has shifted, while the immigration has been culture conservative due to Catholicism, but because the white racisms in the US has not room for any one who is skin is different, the free market applied only to people who are like them white.

Summer-Reflections

Antwerp after the riots

Antwerp and Flanders, have a tradition of race hate, in WWII, not just Anti-Semitics, not only a passive, but were part of SS 27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck , participant in Eastern Front (Leningrad, Urine, Narva (Today Estonia, with SS units from Finland and Estonia) , Poremania) many were members of the Flemish National Party--at the time the Flemish wanted to be part of Holland, and the German had other plans.
 After, the race riots of the 1990´s (Flemish against everyone) and 2000´s (Muslim attack the Jews district), in both occasions were drive from economy disfranchises.
In the 60´s the Socialist Government encourage-supported the Flemish languages, and fomented Flemish nationalism. Today half of the public educations are most Muslim, but the city have many Flemish population and Jews Population.
The city is like island of different ethnic groups, with tense situation, while in the late 1990´s have a mix economy, Antwerp is the seventh large port in the world, Petrochemicals, Diamonds and around industrial base from textile, while the world economic meltdown of 2008, have today a major impact, Opel car manufacture and allot close real state.