This may sound revolting or crass to many! The daily collective operation of any human society can be compared to operation of machinery. And not only in its routine operation, but in inspection cycles, in maintenance schedules, and in its retirement and eventual replacement – and usually not by the same, but by newer machinery of advanced or disruptive technology that is ever more efficient and complicated. In our sophisticated society, business has preplanned obsolescence built into many products as an added marketing force, but it resists disruption beyond any baby steps deliberately embedded to control repeat business.
For example – right now, America could have automobiles that can get over 100 miles per gallon, but we are largely kept unaware of such potential. Why? Most likely this deferment is to avoid the costs of massive retooling of delivery systems in the power plants and also the fuel sources used to derive this result. Right now, one company in Florida claims ability to produce ethanol using algae, ocean seawater and solar panels for electric power in production – and do it for around $1 per gallon. Yes! – For $1! Why is this not being loudly promoted? Does not our Federal government, in seeking the greater good for its people, have a moral duty to accelerate having such alternative energy sources marketable to alleviate our economic doldrums? This company is not yet publicly owned; it is found at www.algenol.com !
Notice: the headline is in plurals. Think about it – EVERY advance of mankind has one major cause: DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY! Old methods and tools are rendered irrelevant when a new way is cheaper, safer, quicker, or induces some other emotional creature comfort satisfaction.
There are two important points about us and the machines that we create and control - that are said to be here to enrich our lives, and not to enslave us. These are:
1/ Machines do not yet possess motivations to act nor have creative and imaginative intelligence, to envision the next generation of machines that will replace them.
2/ Men in power often willfully suppress and withhold the creative genius of others deliberately, to maintain control and impede obsolescence of their own systems.
When creative genius prevails and flourishes in hugely profitable acceptance, it all too often degenerates into selfish perpetuation as the new status quo, due to the insipid profit motive, which must NOT be permitted to become the only [or even the primary] driving force in modern society. Artificial bottlenecks of contrived and preplanned obsolescence are erected to satisfy a fantasy expectation of maintaining perpetually compounded profit growth rates. Such expectations without any set-backs and redesign are naïve and fallacious assumptions in any business plan or any government.
For society to be refreshed and dynamic and to remain purposeful and ever visionary, full expression of creative genius must not be withheld from the purview of the market. “Free Market” forces must be vigorously policed so that brilliance is not sequestered to protect mediocrity, reposed in power and control. Unbridled fascistic capitalism is an unholy wedded alliance and corruption of power between business and government. In theory, both should exist to serve humanity and not vice-versa. We cannot permit a return of feudal serfdom – this time with mankind enslaved to corporations rather than to kings and other “nobility” - at the same time, society must never condone unbridled hedonistic “Ayn Rand” reckless expression of self-determination.
No matter how hard we try, we should remain humble as we stumble, and openly admit: THIS IS MUCH EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
H. RON HARTMAN
Record springs summers winters sea levels record low rivers and Lakes and fracking and destroying valuable water resources,drought and possible famine in the bread basket all of these will have to be on the policy makers planing along with Sandy, Katrina and Rita and the real disaster in Japan 4 reactors which will kill and keep killling as many of us as WWII.
This would also have impacted us since the RR journey from the east would have gone right thru the So Burbs we have clowns running for congress who have no understanding of the dangers of NUCLEAR reactors and the water needed to cool them with another year of drought and a lowering of river and lake levels how much longer in the new paradigm will there be water to cool the reactor would be a good start to the debate! After the Tsunami hit Japan the Obama administration which licensed the building of reactors all over the country quietly cancelled the two under construction in GA. I am on pins and needles awaiting an opinion from these brilliant conservatives with an opinion on all things bad in and of government except Nuclear reactors especially after the Tsunami disaster in Japan because it is not in their portfolio or on Fox ?
How does Keystone and the likely hood of a leak and spill over the Ogallllala aquifer factor into origin or any new technology should be a piece of cake since it is not polluted water! I missed how the spent rods are being stored and if there is no longer a need for them where are the old spent rods before the new technology went on line is it part of the beryllium mentioned or that there is no need for a depository in NEV or in the Salt mines of Atlantis? is this part of the 21 agenda?
http://www.ibcadvancedalloys.com/ http://www.originoil.com/ http://algaetec.com.au/ http://solazyme.com/ http://www.americanvanadium.com/ None of these companies as yet have an direct impact or remedy on the likely tragic folly of the Keystone Pipeline bein gpermitted to run through Ogallalah Aquifer.and then leaking and contaminating a precious commodity. It would be an after-the-fact potential windfall if the developers of Keystone [TRP - Transcanada Pipeline - a Canadian company]] then was forced by the USA to procure their services in a clean-up some 2-10 years from now. But we would all pay for that folly.
The dangers that they have posed to our health have never been addressed by NRC or DHS nor questioned by CLEAR CHANNEL and or other WINGNUT national or local media so why would we expect a uninformed and barely qualified candidate for congress to address any concern for anything but a cushy job and Cadillac Health care which if they did address the problem would jeopardize their perks and cause a panic that would either demand a single payer and therefore create a austerity plan for the lawmakers. In these times of so much info we are fed pablum any questioning Nukes means answers are steered to pro nuke that ignore safety concerns and frames more questions designed to distract and gloss over the dangers of NUKE power. The Illinois dangers are unlike Vermont Yankee the Tennessee river or NY and NJ reactors or the infamous SC facilty operated by Duke energy that is a short 10 miles downstream from a Dam that could fail, the problem is why build it there where hundreds of failures have occurred or on a fault line? Our potential meltdown would be the opposite, climate change and increased drought drying up of the waters needed to cool the reactors and where are the spent rods stored?
http://news.yahoo.com/house-gop-recommends-committee-chairmen-230855562.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith
These clowns running for congress can barely represent their store front ministries. These wannabe's are not even good potted plants and have no idea on what real problems they will be facing besides being freshmen and or are in a minority party in the new congress they are almost 100% highly UNQUALIFIED to go to congress and get their 160,000 salary-caddy health care and other perks and will be asked to vote on problems like real health care reform dought-climate change, green -fossil energy and the biggest in my opinion NUKES all of it part of the economic fiscal and investing in America THERE CAN BE NO JOBS created unless the do nothing congress does work which cannot be expected until 2014. THIS IS WHY we need to take control of congress, but there are pitfalls to having a non registered lobbyist like Madigoon appointing chairmen in congress now as u pointed out are Neanderthals and with a blue dog Dem we continue the charade of DO NADA aka Blue dogs which use to be a badge of honor and now are simply stooges for the complexes --Defense and Big Insur and Big Pharm, and take orders from a lobbyist as evil as GROVER by the name of MIKE MADIGOON. MUCH THANKS for the info!
I was somewhat occupied during these years, being out of town a lot working. I came of age with the election of Mel and was involved in a round about way with the fiasco of a phony Rhodes scholar beating another rabble rouser in congress who had gotten under the skin of the power brokers with his newsletters, I was active politically since the Alzheimer movie star was POTUS on behalf of his mil-indus bankster handlers in 80, ( the story behind the new movie ARGO, a very good flick by the way). Lisa has so far surpassed dad's expectations she and Anita have allergies when it comes to prosecuting the goons and Daley misfits that's a given. I do think Debbie is the only person in the 2nd so far with a brain and she is against PEOTONE which is good enough for starters and lives local not DC and down stream from LaSalle and the other reactors.There is a vol fireman or whatever he is from yer dist around Palos who threw his hamburg intot the 2nd dist circus what has kept u out? Are u related to Tom Hartman by any chance?
After 26 years in Orland Park, I am living now for 10 years in Will County portion of Tinley Park which starts south of 183rd and west of Harlem. For that time I was precluded by the Hatch Act as a Fed from getting into politics other than to vote.
U can tell far more relevant and interesting stories than my experiences with the GOP at the time very potent roaches from Bloom and Rich township and the Dem Party who sent a fraudulent Rhodes scholar Mel Reynolds to congress then set him up to give the seat to JJJ it was the final piece of the conspiracy to rid congress of Gus Savage and replace him with another minister's son and also a reverend. Glad to make your acquaintance on the web!
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/better_than_bourne_who_really_killed_nick_deak/?source=newsletter YES I and some of my old buddies know much about the Keating 5 and I wrote the final exam report that closed First American of OakBrook whose CEO/Pres was ex-Gov. Dan Walker who later served time for bank fraud.
Mel Gibson if he got Randall Wallace to write it and was not a wing nut!