Cooperation,GameTheory,12Log2-8, Axelrod,Nowack & Goodwill Hunting
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I wrote this note to a friend in October 2016.
I am very estranged from real life Joseph, My main contact with the world is second hand from what I hear from Rasmus, Rhiannon and Johanna and pick up from our conversations and some conversations which I have ongoing with 2 other people I am in regular contact with. I know there have been some problems with behavior of some of the boys in Rhiannons class which have been quite disruptive and I do notice kids acting up sometimes when I pick the children up from school. I am not qualified to make comparisons of the Swedish system over time, Johanna has a much better metric to compare with, There was a period during the last government when a period of 10 years saw a lot of the Blairite “Barber deliverology” ideas in to effect, I have discussed this with a few parents we know and those initiatives, I think it is accepted, failed and will have something to do with the place the system must now recover from. Parents and Children teachers and external government bureaucracy all effect the overall outcome . I do wonder in which proportion the current situation should be ascribed to which actor in the process. The neo liberal way is to kill off the family unit and that is also the fascist way in terms of creating a climate where the state is the master in all spheres of influence even the home. When I look at modern media pressures and peer pressures mounting up on young people today I do not tend to find myself blaming individuals or particular methods adopted by some groups I tend to mostly see the neo liberal sea of withered hopes which is set to wreck all boats even those with the best trimmed sails for the conditions. Schools and Families are failing because they are supposed too, the plan is working. To save the future victims from the fates of your young family members I really do think theres rather a lot of root and branch stuff needed in addition to getting people to embrace the ideas of setting healthy and achievable boundaries at home and in relationships. Its another huge area Joseph where you have way more experience than I do, Sweden is not perfect far from it , no where is or ever has been. What alternative are the Sweden knockers holding up? is it the USA? UK or somewhere else. Applied to fields like Health Care, Education, Public Transport , Environmental protection , In work welfare, Social Welfare etc which areas of life in the USA do we wish to emulate or in Spain or Greece or anywhere else. Neo Liberalism begets the USA via where the UK is right now. Swedes need to be very careful how they fashion their comparisons and do their research on what other places and systems are really like. The MSM do not encourage that sort of circumspection, we need to make sure we do and share our skepticism , optimism and also good faith with as many people as we can. As always I am pretty optimistic but do not underestimate the neo liberal juggerrnaught.
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I wrote a similar email to Roy Madron several years earlier.
1:10 mins
“I wanted to start our discussion with the first um
the correspondence we had back in 2011 when I wrote to you having
looked at your giain democracy website um I wrote this um I followed
some links off the BBC economics page which led me to your website I've become more and more alienated from the political system in the UK and the
seemingly NeverEnding separation of the interests of the community from what
government seems to support”
As I am reviewing the briefing notes for various suppliers and colleagues for for out business , I have been reviewing my research notes from various work and research I have engaged in over the past 14 years or so.
A Pattern Language
A link to both a PDF and EPUB of A Pattern Language CHapter 75. Well Worth Reading.
75. THE FAMILY
… assume now, that you have decided to build a house for yourself. If you place it properly, this house can help to form a cluster, or a row of houses, or a hill of houses—house cluster (37), row houses (38), housing hill (39)—or it can help to keep a working community alive—housing in between (48). This next pattern now gives you some vital information about the social character of the household itself. If you succeed in following this pattern, it will help repair life cycle (26) and household mix (35) in your community.
The nuclear family is not by itself a viable social form.
Until a few years ago, human society was based on the extended family: a family of at least three generations, with parents, children, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins, all living together in a single or loosely knit multiple household. But today people move hundreds of miles to marry, to find education, and to work. Under these circumstances the only family units which are left are those units called nuclear families: father, mother, and children. And many of these are broken down even further by divorce and separation.
Unfortunately, it seems very likely that the nuclear family is not a viable social form. It is too small. Each person in a nuclear family is too tightly linked to other members of the family; any one relationship which goes sour, even for a few hours, becomes critical; people cannot simply tum away toward uncles, aunts, grandchildren, cousins, brothers. Instead, each difficulty twists the family unit into ever tighter spirals of discomfort; the children become prey to all kinds of dependencies and oedipal neuroses; the parents are so dependent on each other that they are finally forced to separate.
Each individual household within the larger family must, at all costs, have a clearly defined territory of its own, which it controls—your own home (79); treat the individual territories according to the nature of the individual households—house for a small family (76), house for a couple (77), house for one person (78); and build common space between them, where the members of the different smaller households can meet and eat together—common areas at the heart (129), communal eating (147). For the shape of the building, gardens, parking, and surroundings, begin with building complex (95).…
76. HOUSE FOR A SMALL FAMILY
according to the family (75), each nuclear family ought to be a member household of a larger group household. If this is not possible, do what you can, when building a house for a small family, to generate some larger, possible group household, by tying it together with the next door households; in any case, at the very least, form the beginning of a house cluster (37).
In a house for a small family, it is the relationship between children and adults which is most critical.
Give the house three distinct parts: a realm for parents, a realm for the children, and a common area. Conceive these three realms as roughly similar in size, with the commons the largest
Treat the house, like every house, as a distinct piece of territory—your own home (79); build the three main parts according to the specific patterns for those parts—common areas at the heart (129), couple’s realm (136), bed cluster (143) and connect the common areas, and the bed cluster according to the children’s realm (137).…
77. HOUSE FOR A COUPLE
… again, ideally, every couple is a part of a larger group household—the family (75). If this can not be so, try to build the house for the couple in such a way as to tie it together with some other households, to form the beginnings of a group household, or, if this fails, at least to form the beginnings of a house cluster (37).
In a small household shared by two, the most important problem which arises is the possibility that each may have too little opportunity for solitude or privacy.
Conceive a house for a couple as being made up of two kinds of places—a shared couple’s realm and individual private worlds. Imagine the shared realm as half-public and half-intimate; and the private worlds as entirely individual and private.
Again, treat the house as a distinct piece of territory, in some fashion owned by its users—your own home (79). Lay out the common part, according to the pattern couple’s realm (136), and give both persons an individual world of their own where they can be alone—a room of one’s own (141).…
78. HOUSE FOR ONE PERSON
the households with one person in them, more than any other, need to be a part of some kind of larger household—the family (75). Either build them to fit into some larger group household, or even attach them, as ancillary cottages to other, ordinary family households like house for a small family (76) or house for a couple (77).
Once a household for one person is part of some larger group, the most critical problem which arises is the need for simplicity.
The housing market contains few houses or apartments specifically built for one person. Most often men and women who choose to live alone, live in larger houses and apartments, originally built for two people or families. And yet for one person these larger places are most often uncompact, unwieldy, hard to live in, hard to look after. Most important of all, they do not allow a person to develop a sense of self-sufficiency, simplicity, compactness, and economy in his or her own life.
Conceive a boose for one person as a place of the utmost simplicity: essentially a one-room cottage or studio, with large and small alcoves around it When it is most intense, the entire house may be no more than 300 to 400 square feet
79. YOUR OWN HOME
in the imperishable primal language of the human heart house means my house, your house, a man’s own house. The house is the winning throw of the dice which man has wrested from the uncanniness of universe; it is his defense against the chaos that threatens to invade him. Therefore his deeper wish is that it be his own house, that he not have to share with anyone other than his own family. (Martin Buber, A Believing Humanism: Gleanings, New York: Simon and Shuster, 1969, p. 93.)
This pattern is not intended as an argument in favor of “private property,” or the process of buying and selling land. Indeed, it is very clear that all those processes which encourage speculation in land, for the sake of profit, are unhealthy and destructive, because they invite people to treat houses as commodities, to build things for “resale,” and not in such a way as to fit their own needs.
And just as speculation and the profit motive make it impossible for people to adapt their houses to their own needs, so tenancy, rental, and landlords do the same. Rental areas are always the first to turn to slums. The mechanism is clear and well known. See, for example, George Sternlieb, The Tenement Landlord (Rutgers University Press, 1966). The landlord tries to keep his maintenance and repair costs as low as possible; the residents have no incentive to maintain and repair the homes—in fact, the opposite—since improvements add to the wealth of the landlord, and even justify higher rent. And so the typical piece of rental property degenerates over the years. Then landlords try to build new rental properties which are immune to neglect—gardens are replaced with concrete, carpets are replaced with lineoleum, and wooden surfaces by formica: it is an attempt to make the new units maintenance-free, and to stop the slums by force; but they turn out cold and sterile and again turn into slums, because nobody loves them.
People will only be able to feel comfortable in their houses, if they can change their houses to suit themselves, add on whatever they need, rearrange the garden as they like it; and, of course, they can only do this in circumstances where they are the legal owners of the house and land; and if, in high density multi-story housing, each apartment, like a house, has a well-defined volume, in which the owner can make changes as he likes.
This requires then, that every house is owned—in some fashion—by the people that live in it; it requires that every house, whether at ground level or in the air, has a well-defined volume within which the family is free to make whatever changes they want; and it requires a form of ownership which discourages speculation.
Several approaches have been put forward in recent years to solve the problem of providing each household with a “home.” At one extreme there are ideas like Habraken’s high density “support” system, where families buy pads on publicly owned superstructures and gradually develop their own homes. And at the other extreme there are the rural communes, where people have forsaken the city to create their own homes in the country. Even modified forms of rental can help the situation if they allow people to change their houses according to their needs and give people some financial stake in the process of maintenance. This helps, because renting is often a step along the way to home ownership; but unless tenants can somehow recover their investments in money and labor, the hopeless cycle of degeneration of rental property and the degeneration of the tenants’ financial capability will continue. (Cf. Rolf Goetze, “Urban Housing Rehabilitation,” in Turner and Fichter, eds., The Freedom to Build, New York: Macmillan, 1972.)
A common element in all these cases is the understanding that the successful development of a household’s “home” depends upon these features: Each household must possess a clearly defined site for both a house and an outdoor space, and the household must own this site in the sense that they are in full control of its development.
Therefore:
Do everything possible to make the traditional forms of rental impossible, indeed, illegal. Give every household its own home, with space enough for a garden. Keep the emphasis in the definition of ownership on control, not on financial ownership. Indeed, where it is possible to construct forms of ownership which give people control over their houses and gardens, but make financial speculation impossible, choose these forms above all others. In all cases give people the legal power, and the physical opportunity to modify and repair their own places. Pay attention to this rule especially, in the case of high density apartments: build the apartments in such a way that every individual apartment has a garden, or a terrace where vegetables will grow, and that even in this situation, each family can build, and change, and add on to their house as they wish.
For the shape of the house, begin with building complex (95). For the shape of the lot, do not accept the common notion of a lot which has a narrow frontage and a great deal of depth. Instead, try to make every house lot roughly square, or even long along the street and shallow. All this is necessary to create the right relation between house and garden—half-hidden garden (111).
the workgroups, including all kinds of workshops and offices and even children’s learning groups;
80. SELF-GOVERNING WORKSHOPS AND OFFICES
81. SMALL SERVICES WITHOUT RED TAPE
82. OFFICE CONNECTIONS
83. MASTER AND APPRENTICES
84. TEENAGE SOCIETY
85. SHOPFRONT SCHOOLS
86. children’s HOME
80 SELF-GOVERNING WORKSHOPS AND OFFICES**
Well worth grazing through the 1200 pages.
https://www.rainmagazine.com/Home
Real-Estate Land Development Limited <rlddevelopments@gmail.com>
Apr 25, 2022, 7:46 AM
to greg
Dear Greg,
I came across your work around a month to 6 weeks ago, I have been working on an affordable housing project for the past two years which morphed into our Home@ix concept.
I live in Sweden but the business is centered in the UK, where I come from.
Selling England By the Pound. Gabriels Gate, a portal into a more human dimension, Un-common knowledge.
AUTHOR:ROGERGLEWIS PUBLISHED DATE:APRIL 25, 2022
https://web.archive.org/web/20230610100709/https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/2022/03/28/free-will/
Collaboration Vs Fuck you Buddy.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/907695.Ludvig_Holberg?page=2
Monicas Epistle to Holberg
In the world of plays and literary criticism,
Logical rules may not always guarantee the name of a play.
In the realm of religious practice and love thy neighbor,
Words are spoken, but actions speak louder.
Useful books are those that stir commerce and trade,
Not just vain learning that the common people evade.
When it comes to faith and belief,
Question everything and seek relief.
In the company of men, wine and tobacco may flow,
But in women's rooms, tea, coffee, and conversation bestow.
Morality and virtue, not just for show,
But a guiding light for all to know.
From different tastes to differing opinions,
Tolerance and understanding can bridge divisions.
In the pursuit of truth and reason,
Let sense prevail in every season.
Learning from peasants and their practicality,
A wisdom that transcends mere formality.
Drunkenness replaced by tea and coffee's grace,
A societal shift to a more sober embrace.
In the realm of science, divine or worldly,
Let not blind subscription rule unfairly.
For once disrepute takes its hold,
Strange fictions can be easily sold.
In the end, let reason guide our way,
And let wisdom be our constant stay.
12log 2-8’ers gonna 12log 2-8, and Haters Gonna Hate. #Aadhaar
AUTHOR:ROGERGLEWIS PUBLISHED DATE:JANUARY 29, 2022
12LOG 2-8’ERS GONNA 12LOG 2-8, AND HATERS GONNA HATE. #AADHAAR
David: What does that mean?
Ard: It’s close to constant.
MN: It converges to a constant which is approximately 31%, and this is a mathematical curiosity.
Ard: Natural selection would say the co-operators would get wiped out, because they are paying a cost to help their competitors. And yet it’s not happening. So why?
MN: The reason why it’s not happening is because the co-operators form clusters and in those clusters of co-operators, they actually get a high payoff. They have a high fitness.
David: So they do better?
MN: They do better than the defectors that are surrounded by other defectors. So we always have to ask, on the edge between a co-operator and defector cluster, who is actually winning?
MN: Because the co-operator, even though sitting on the edge, is still getting all the help from other co-operators inside, but a defector is, sort of, getting no help from his defectors. And therefore the co-operators form these clusters that can persist and can even grow in the presence of defectors.
Ard: So this is a bit like, if I’m with my neighbours and we help each other, then we’ll, in the end, be better off than the neighbours one block down who don’t help one another.
MN: Yes, that’s right. So the neighbours that help each other, they form a community that is cooperative, and the neighbours who don’t help each other, they form a community that is defective. And the first can prosper and the other one will kind of perish.
David: Is this, sort of, an addition to the rule of competition in natural selection. Is this a natural law of cooperation?
MN: I think the very interesting observation is the following: going back to first principles, natural selection favours defectors over co-operators. Yet we have cooperation in nature, and we need to find a reason why there is cooperation in nature. And thousands of papers have been written on that topic, actually, and I have been trying to classify all those different propositions into five mechanisms.
And what we’re seeing here is one of those five mechanisms, for the evolution of cooperation, that I call spatial selection.
Thu, Jan 6, 9:25 AM
I have been getting my head further around The Energy Market and how it affects the money supply
I think the priority variables are:
1. Electricity Base Load production, Coal and Natural Gas, and LPG products?
2. Crude Oil Production and Refinery capacities, Volumes of production are more important than the price per barrel
3. Swing Production from Shale or Capped and ready to go existing discoveries, Very important to who has upper hand
on Marginal pricing on swing production, Texas Rail Road, OPEC, US Shale production?
4. Gas Production and Coal production are probably equal with 3 or interchangeable with 3.
5. Venezuelan and Iranian supply disruption through Sanctions is a political bottleneck to an otherwise trivial supply problem
in the Oil Market.
6. Geo-Political and Green New Deal political economy choices vis Gas Pipe Lines are again self-inflicted own goals?
Why?
7. Money Velocity and Money Supply related to energy use growth are being severely impacted by levels of Consumer, Corporate and Sovereign debt.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/?s=integral+money
KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU BY #AADHAAR. WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO.
“The only Libor ‘rigging’ that was really bad was the lowballing. That was ordered from the top – from central banks and governments. And neither the Department of Justice nor the Serious Fraud Office has ever brought that to trial.”
2015 HUMANITY VS INSANITY – #45 : THE GREEK TRAGEDY PT2 – WITH F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL
ck Soddy’s‘Interpretation Of Radium’This Story,Which Owes Long PassagesTo The Eleventh Chapter Of That Book,Acknowledges And Inscribes Itself
https://pballew.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-kiss-precise-soddys-circle-theorem.html
For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
‘Tis not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally.
Four circles to the kissing come.
The smaller are the benter.
The bend is just the inverse of
The distance from the center.
Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb
There’s now no need for rule of thumb.
Since zero bend’s a dead straight line
And concave bends have minus sign,
The sum of the squares of all four bends
Is half the square of their sum.
To spy out spherical affairs
An oscular surveyor
Might find the task laborious,
The sphere is much the gayer,
And now besides the pair of pairs
A fifth sphere in the kissing shares.
Yet, signs and zero as before,
For each to kiss the other four
The square of the sum of all five bends
Is thrice the sum of their squares.
Soddy’s Formula:
If four circles A, B, C, and D, of radii r1, r2, r3, and r4, are drawn so that they do not overlap but each touches the other three, and if we let b1 = 1/r1, etc., then
(b1 + b2 + b3 + b4)2 = 2(b12 + b22 + b32 + b42).
12 Log2-8 The Super Cooperator Constant. Remove the mote ( Log) from your own eye before accepting the exponential as punishment from the #WEF #GreatReset Borg.
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12 Log2-8 The Super Cooperator Constant. Remove the mote ( Log) from your own eye before accepting the exponential as punishment from the #WEF #GreatReset Borg.
AUTHOR:ROGERGLEWIS PUBLISHED DATE:MAY 3, 2022 4 COMMENTSON 12 LOG2-8 THE SUPER COOPERATOR CONSTANT. REMOVE THE MOTE ( LOG) FROM YOUR OWN EYE BEFORE ACCEPTING THE EXPONENTIAL AS PUNISHMENT FROM THE #WEF #GREATRESET BORG.
The logarithm is the mathematical inverse of the exponential, so while exponential growth starts slowly and then speeds up faster and faster, logarithm growth starts fast and then gets slower and slower.
12LOG 2-8’ERS GONNA 12LOG 2-8, AND HATERS GONNA HATE. #AADHAAR
12 Log 2-8
that’s the Super cooperator constant.
The Log is the ying to the exponents yang, catastrophists who rely on apocalyptic fear to seize power and excercise it tyrannicly for as long as possible, have a mote of some considerable proportions in their all seeing eye. As to the humble trajectory of the good old Logarithm, which as we stated above is the mathematical inverse of the exponential.
logarithm growth starts fast and then gets slower and slower.
The Log is a more stable fellow, a tipping point in a Logarithm portends to a more gentle rate of change into the constant 12 log 2-8. I have encountered this most persuasively before in the work of Claes Johnson who points out that
https://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2013/11/standard-calculus-as-ill-posed-unstable.html
We sum up as follows:
The standard approach to the Fundamental Theorem is ill-posed, unstable and of questionable meaning.
As illposed problem it rests on symbolic mathematics of infinite precision, which appears as magics.The approach in BodyandSoul is well-posed, stable and clearly meaningful.
As well-posed problem it can be solved by numerical mathematics in finite precision, which is reasonable and not magics.These aspects would be possible to discuss constructively with the man on the street, but may be very difficult to present to a teacher of standard Calculus for which Adams’ book is the bible.
Adding all of these things together my own original combinatronics aplication of this fundamental and really very basic calculus was that as Electonic currents always flow at right angles to the magnetic field this explains the Helical nature of motion and flow in the universe. Its an electronic universe insight and constants such as 12 log 2-8 and eulers number and the handy dandy constants they point at merely speak to the geometry that flows from the simple relationship of the flow of electrons in a current at right angles to a magnetic field.
Since the first copenhagen consensus physics took its statistical turn which claes deals with comprehensively in his Physics of Dr Faustus book.
Claes Johnson has been a massive influence on my own Studies of the Climate Change fraud, he blogged yesterday
PS You can make an analogy by viewing criminality in two different ways: The Standard way would be to say that all people are criminal, more or less, and so there is no wonder that criminality exists. The New way would be to say that it is impossible for everybody to exactly satisfy the requirements of law and order in the presence of large inequalities and so a non-zero amount of criminality (depending on the amount of inequality) cannot be avoided.
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. (Rudolf Clausius) #QED
https://cec.cecaust.com.au/pubs/pdfs/cv7n6_part2of2.pdf
A COORDINATED GLOBAL PUSH FOR DIGITAL ID
Roger’s quotes
“In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. It ends by being manipulated by these elites, and not infrequently itself falls in an elitist game, which it calls “realism.”
Manipulation, like the conquest whose objectives it serves, attempts to anesthetize the people so they will not think. For if the people join to their presence in the historical process critical thinking about that process, the threat of their emergence materializes in revolution…One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. This manipulation is sometimes carried out directly by the elites and sometimes indirectly, through populist leaders.” —Paulo Freire
“Q”, What are we going to do now? A: Horaces advice. He who has started is half finished. Collaborate , Coordinate, 12 Log 2-8 Super Cooperate.
ROGERGLEWIS JULY 3, 2022
Roger’s quotes
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” —Smedley D. Butler
“Q”, What are we going to do now? A: Horaces advice. He who has started is half finished. Collaborate , Coordinate, 12 Log 2-8 Super Cooperate.
ROGERGLEWIS JULY 3, 2022 5 COMMENTS
Smoke and Mirrors on the Water. Limited Hangout exceptionelle.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS ON THE WATER. #CORONAGATEFILM#PAYDAYMONSANTO ADDICTS WANTED
Q ; What are we going to do now?
A; “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
https://wikitacticalvoting.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/blog/
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
https://community.ukcolumn.org/forums
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/?s=end+to+end+thang+discourse
I seek the triumph of elegant simplicity over jargonised pseudo-science: how about You?
I seek the triumph of elegant simplicity over jargonised pseudo-science: how about You?
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/?s=+flotillas
https://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/?s=+flotillas
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
This very Basic analysis shows how concentrated the Dominance is of the Huge Web Monopolies, this coupled with analogue/Digital Dinosaur Media and Corporate concentration of power does give an indication of how closely controlled access to revenue streams are for those of us outside of the Corporate Mainstream. The Answer is to Network and Combine into Media Flotillas that can increase Media Portal focus points through which Internet users can be directed to Internet gardens and landscapes they may never discover with the Google Satellite Navigation.
12 Log2-8 The Super Cooperator Constant. Remove the mote ( Log) from your own eye before accepting the exponential as punishment from the #WEF #GreatReset Borg.
https://www.richplanet.net/index.php
CORONAGATE : BIG PHARMA, SWITZERLAND & ORGANISED CRIME
Second Half of FIlm Here.
#THEY
ps://notthegrubstreetjournal.com/?s=The+hierarchy+that+enslaves+you
https://thetechnocratictyranny.com/
Smoke and Mirrors on the Water. Limited Hangout exceptionelle.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS ON THE WATER. #CORONAGATEFILM#PAYDAYMONSANTO ADDICTS WANTED
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An Essay on Man: Epistle II
I.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little, or too much:
Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd;
Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd:
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;
Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair;
Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod,
And quitting sense call imitating God;
As Eastern priests in giddy circles run,
And turn their heads to imitate the sun.
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule—
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!
Superior beings, when of late they saw
A mortal Man unfold all Nature's law,
Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape,
And showed a Newton as we shew an Ape.
Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind,
Describe or fix one movement of his mind?
Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend,
Explain his own beginning, or his end?
Alas what wonder! Man's superior part
Uncheck'd may rise, and climb from art to art;
But when his own great work is but begun,
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
Trace science then, with modesty thy guide;
First strip off all her equipage of pride;
Deduct what is but vanity, or dress,
Or learning's luxury, or idleness;
Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain,
Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain;
Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts
Of all our Vices have created Arts;
Then see how little the remaining sum,
Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come!
