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IV. What we are in a social sense
The wisdom of ages reflected in the Roman proverb "Homo homini lupus est", which means human-to-human is a wolf. For majority of us it holds true although the nature's demand for the variability, variety of selection choices, the genetic diversity creates some of us more resembling tigers while some other dolphins. Let's say for the sake of discussion that 90% of us wolves, 5% tigers and 5% dolphins. Wolf is also a social creature with certain non-genetic skills and knowledge passed along by learning "wisdom of ages", by learnin from other pack members. It also has elaborated social hierarchy, some law system (both instinctive and established by their "society"). For example, they don't attack females (what the gentlemen they are!), and if during the conflict one in a display of submission exposes his bare neck– another just physically prevented by his instincts to bite . Some youngsters abuse this instinct– time after time they steal the stronger wolf's meal, and when attacked in response– just expose their neck in the "I surrender!" move, and 5 minutes later repeat that trick again. Wolves, like human, express different patterns of behaviour during good and bad weather times. In a summer, when the food is abundant, the grass is green, and the life is easy– they split into families or lone wolves. When the times are tough, like winter season, then they stick together in packs because it is easier for the species to survive that way: the pack can take on a moose, and even if a wolf gets killed, the pack will survive. So, yes, majority of us do resemble wolves, we do prioritize our own interests, self-preservation, our family over others though we do take care of others when it's beneficial to our wellbeing and survival.
Tiger (and I don't mean the cheatta' ;-) is selfish, egoistic, egocentric, territorial-and rightly so– because they consume so much meat in the food chain that they wouldn't survive in packs or even big families. Mom teches her offspring how to hunt, and when they are 6 months old or so– she kicks them our out. Since now on they are competitors for the individual survival. If you don't like giving to their human analogs such a noble name "tigers"– oh,well, you can call them "hamsters" that kill each other if they get closer than 100 meters or call them any other solitary animal, for that matter. Mother nature doesn't take it as an offense– whatever it takes for the species to survive.
Dolphins , penguins, whales, who live in a very hostile environment and depend on each other to survive. That would be an ideal material to build utopian society, so I suggest we collect all communists, "progressive" Democrats and other totalitarians and send them to the ocean to realize over there their day dreams rather than ruining our real human world, populated mainly by wolves. Of course, the totalitarian "social engineers" keep trying to make "new men" = dolphins out of us, and of course they fail, creating another blood bath– French Revolutionary terror, Stalin's, Hitler's, Ayatolla Homeini's, Mao's and Pol Pot's "noble intended" attempts to create "new men" zombies and robots. If you let them– they will keep trying to change your nature until the very last of you is dead, using the coercive powers of the Big Government. So, minimize the powers of any government to minimize the inevitable abuse and try to prevent totalitarians' power grabs. All totalitarians are the same, they all are criminals against their own people, just committing different crimes.
Other things to aware of ourselves: We need mythology, we want our leaders /ideologues to explain us why we are better than others. American exceptionalism does have a true base because it is based on the popular sovereignty and the un-alienated rights (at least until totalitarian "progressives" started eroding the Rupiblic since 1913), which made it the freest coutnry in the world, though Obama wants to destroy it. Others don't have these grounds, but still want the sheppards to explain them, why they got a feeling that they are the best in the world.
Humans also need scapegoats, they need some image to hate and to blame all their fault on someone else. That's a perfect and easy explanation for all their ills. Whatever is wrong– blame the scapegoat. When statists, "progressives" and other totalitarians hurt America– they blame free market for their own fault of overregulating. How much is too much, how much is "over"-regulating? Well, actually, ANY regulation is OVER regulation by definition of the FREE (means, unregulated) market. As more they regulate-as more they hurt the country. How to find a scapegoat? Use your sense of envy, be jealous, pick the more successful ones and preferably helpless.
Chineese serve as scapegoats in the South-East Asia because they are successful. Muslim government in Malaysia officially discriminates against Chineese, favoring local Muslims instead, and as usually it fires back, insulating the Muslims from the healthy competition and rendering them more and more useless losers. Losers hate winners, and blame them for their own failures.The same comes true about all "Civil RIghts " and "Antidiscrimination" Acts of the 1960-s: all their effects were negative for the "opressed ones", all they did is stopping the trend of narrowing gap between majority and minorities, ruined minorities families, insulated them from healthy competition of the free market, thus, rendering them forever poor losers. Usual paradox of life– all those "civil right activists" only destroy human rights, all self-appointed "minority rights" activists such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton serve only themselves, while doing everything they can to prevent the full integration of minorities (because it would be the end of their lucrative political career).
Yeah, right, all their Big Government-style "fixes" fixed nothing, just making it worse, as expected, and all these "good wishers" were full of sh.. Oi, I mean, full of noble intentions. Noble intentions always pave road to hell. The actual goal of the Democ-rats is to turn as many American into their voters: lazy losers and immoral freaks, so the Dems can grab more power and money.
French hated Germans and Britts and vice versa, Muslims hated Armeniansm and the most universal scapegoat of all times and places are Jews for their successes in every intellectual field. Right now the logics tells the Muslims to realize that their problem is a lack of freedom, caused by their own governments and ideologues, that Israel's successes are due to the greater degree of freedom, so the Muslims should come to learn from Israelis how to make their countries freer, thus, more prosperous. Instead, Muslim leaders want to destroy Israel as "a bad example" for their people– what a freer society can accomplish.
Another important feature: just like anything else in the nature, we go by the path of least resistance. The fluid and electrical current flow the path of least resistance, and so do we. If I need to work to make living, then I will. If I am on a welfare for the 3rd generation and someone else pays for me, then I won't. So, if you want to help poor– don't let the government help them, otherwise it will perpetuate the misery. Do us a favor, Mr. Fed– don't do us favors.
Naturally, frequently there is discrepancies or even antagonisms between different drives– biological, social, economic, ethical, customs, psychilogical, idndividual and so forth. Biologically a woman is supposed to start her child bearing when she's about 18 and to finish her child bearing by the time she is 35 y.o.: each pregnancy until that cut off point decreases breast cancer risk ofr 7.5%, after that each pregnancy increases this risk for the same 7.5%, not mentioning increasing risk of genetic mutations and other helath problems in mom and child alike. However, the social drive says : don't even start until you get your education and establish yourself at your work. Well, the best time to have kids is when you retire– you have time, money, home, wisdom and so forth.. But…well, you get it....
Diversity– is it good or bad? Just like anything else– if it is a result of the natural selection, governed by the laws of mother nature– it is good (it gives more options to choose from for betterment). If it is imposed by the instruments of coercion (government) and by driven by totalitarian ideology propaganda machine (96% "progressive" MSM) then it is bad because we, the people must pay for inevitable consequences of interference. When totalitarian monkeys ("progressives" in America's case) "reform" economy and "engineer" society by sticking a stick of the legislation into self-regulated free market mechanisms– it malfunctions, the outcome worsens, and we all pay for totalitarian redistributionists experiments (like peoples of Russia, Zimbabwe, Kampuchia and many others). If there should be a ban on experimenting– it should be ban prohibiting totalitarian experimentation on human beings.
Biological drive tells men: "Get every woman you see to pass along your genes!!",and it tells women:"Pick all the best mates to improve your offspring" (major function of majority of sperm cells is to fight and to immobilize in vagina sperm cells of other men, which means majority of human history promiscuity was the way of life), but the society and economic drives say:"Wait, wait, there so many benefits of family life and monogamy– consider it". The only true monogamy is in one gut worm species with the "love at the first sight"– they get entangles for the rest of their lives. Even swans have social monogamy, but not a sexual monogamy, as genetic studies show.
Our language (as our society, our body and our biosystems) is also the end-product of self-regulated process with feed-back loop. Society gradually accumulates customs, traditions, "the wisdom of ages", frequently accumulated in proverbs, that help stabilize sociaty, establish some "rules of engagement" to minimize negative consequences of confrontations, engrave some rule of law in the society to have predictable interactions and predictable results of those. In a mature society those rules, established by the "wisdom of ages" and free market, will suffice to optimize the society life, so there is no need for a government regulation. Government can only serve as 911 service, to comprehend unruly criminals to keep the rule of law. It's not government's business to regulate our language, society, economy, psychology and life. Government is our enemy by definition, we compete with the government for the power and money, so let's keep our necessary evil, our enemy at bay. Just say no to Obamunism.
V. Self-regulated systems with feedback loop
The easiest way to understand this concept is to look at ourselves. Our body has hudnreds of patameters influenced by millions of factors interacting in real time and pushing in different, frequently in oposite directions. What is good for one parameter, bad for another. And the window of dynamic stability, compatible with our health and even with the very staying alive is extremely narrow. You can say that in order to live we must stay alive all the time, while in order to die is enough to die only once;-). One thing went wrong (i.e. heart attack) and we are dear, even though 99,9% of the rest of our body was functioning just fine. How they sing "All we are is dust in the wind"? We walk over the razor blade all our life, and to stay alive we must keep all thousands of the parameters withing extremely narrow range, fluctuating slightly around the ideal axis as the sinusoid graph. The smaller the amplitude of fluctuations is– the finer the tuning of the organism is, the healthier it is, the better chances for survival, longevity and passing on a successful combination of the genes are. And there are thousands of the "razor blades" in our body. Meanwhile in order to die all we need is just one peremeter to go wrong. That's why they say that medicine is half-art and half-science, because the medicine is never going to be a pure science: we try to help body help itself, and if it doesn't– there's nothing we can do.
Tightly coordinated task of keeping all these parameters within the desired range is called homeostasis. Lets pick one of the parameters we're more familiar with: the blood sugar level. Ideally it fluctuates like sinusoidal graph around 4 mM/L = 73 mg/dL, and as smaller the amplitude of the fluctuation– the healthier we are. As soon as the blood level exceeds that level– the self-regulation mechanisms that drive it down kick in. As soon as it drops below that– the opposite mechanism kick in. It's just amazing to know how precise this regulation is, how smart our body is– the total sugar content at any given moment is only 5 gm (0.2 oz), and this amount suffices to feed the brain, the muscles and the rest of the body, promptly replenishing this 5 gm as soon as it's consumed. What drives blood sugar up? Food (especially bad empty calories of the sweets), stress, trauma, pain, infarction, heat, alcohol initially and certain drugs. Internally the blood sugar increasing forces are catabolic hormones such as catecholamines (including adrenalin), steroids (especially glucocorticoids), growth hormone, hypothalamus/pituitary system, and many-many others. What drives blood sugar down? Consumption by the body, storage in the liver as starch (glycogen) or as a fat in adipose tissues, starvation, some drugs, and ultimately anabolic hormones such as insulin. Low insulin level might result in dysphoria, clamminess, shaking, paranoid or aggressive mentality, fainting, death and so forth. High sugar level slowly ruins all our organs and systems (heart, kidneys, vessels, joints, retina– you name it). That is why so important to treat diabetes before it ruins the whole body. The sugar level is mutually influenced by the electrolite levels, acid-base and water balance, temperature regulation and so forth. Those have their own self-regulation systems with the feed-back loop, and as tighter the feed-back loop is– the healthier the body is. Acid-base buffers include but not limited to bicarbonate-CO2 with hyper– or hypoventilation as needed, protein buffer, hemoglobin, phosphate, behavioral adaptations, dialysis by kidney and many others. Sure, mother nature had 4.5 billion years to tune up our body, but it is still amazes me what a wonderwul job she did. And that's just one human body. Can you imagine how much more complex is the whole society and the entire economy of the US that involves 300 mln Americans and the rest of the world with trillions and trillions interactions with the amount of possible outcomes that impossible to imagine? That is why self-regulated free market with feed-back loop is the only way to optimize the life and economics in any society, while any subjective intervention such as government interference inevitably disrupts the self-regulation, causes imbalances, dusproportion, inner tensions and other disturbances, irregularities inevitably worsens the outcome. As more government's interference– as worse the outcome is. Government is like a monkey that pushes a stick into computer or a wall clock and trying to fix it. Then one wonders why goverment never works. Because it cannot– that would be against the laws of nature. The probability that goverment coercive actions without significant feedback would actually work with favorable risk/benefit ratio is about the same as if 6 gorillas from the jungle would sit behind computer desk and start printing Encyclopedia Britannica, which means zero chance. Why even try? Unless one is a delusional totalitarian....
Some random examples of self-regularion in nature. Our obesity: majority of humankind history we were starving, so our appetite tends to require more food than we actually need now in order to have some spare calories. When a starvation starts then our metabolism slows down to increase our chances to survive. In a chronic starvation the response is to increase longevity so the species has a chance to go throuhg "7 leans years" and to survive individually (as you know, there are some antagonistic goals between individual survival and survival of a species as a whole). Another reaction to starvation or excessive exercising in females is stopping menstrual cycles (until the better times when a woman has a good enough nutrition to bear a child). When a female partner is much older than a male then a chance of having a daughter is higher to compensate for the assumed shortage of females, and vice versa– if a male is much older then the chance to have a son is higher. Similar sense makes the fact that if the child is conceived after prolonged period of abstinence, then the nature assumes females are in shortage and there is higher chance to conceive a girl. By the same token, if a child conceived during unprotected sex after several intercourses with condoms, then the exhausted man more likely to father a son. We can't be sure of the ways Mother Nature self-regulates such things, but the possible explanation is that even at the stage of spermatozoa female ones have a higher chances of survival due to the presense of 2 X-chromosomes with a backup if one is defective, so after a period of abstinence higher %% of sperm cells will be females. Humans typically prefer a thermally processed food over the raw because those who liked it raw had a higher chance to perish from parasites and germs. Humans get somnolent when the conditions endanger them during their potential reids: when it's dark and stronger and better equipped predators are hunting; when the stomach is full and we can't run fast enough; when we are ill, thus, less likely to escape the predators; when there's bad wheather and we can get pneumonia or slip over the slippery surface while trying to avoid a predator or chasing a prey. Social events might also affect the process of natural selection. For example, after the French Revolution when totalitarian lefties in the name of brotherhood and freedom set up fire of the wars all around of Europe, then the average height of French dropped for almost 10 inches. The similar effect had a Left communist government in North Korea: due to chronic starvation North Koreans now are almost 10 inches shorter than South Koreans. The lefties are always enemies of their own countries and their own people. Some germs replicate every 20 minutes, hence, human's life is programmed to last until our children grow enough to reproduced themselves in the eternal competition of species for survival: the germs adapt to our changing biology, we adapt our defense systems to their ever-changing ways of perfecting their offense and assault means. If we live too long then we already don't participate in the natural selection and survival improvement of the species while we still consume the limited resources that would be available to the next self-improving generation.
So, the natural course of events may be painfully slow and cumbersome, but it is the only way to optimize the outcome.
VI. State & bureaucracy as necessary evil; Government as the biggest problem of any given people, country or nation . The role of the feedback loop at the different levels of a society
P. J. O'Rourke: in "Parliament of whores": To call something public is to define it as dirty, insufficient and hazardous. The ultimate paradigm of social spending is the public restroom". I would also add public "servants" in Washington, DC, failing public schools and piblic women. What career politicians do? They "love their country" for money (and they decide themselves how much their "services" worth) taken by them out of our pockets . What do you call a person who loves for money? That is correct, a whore.
But let's first make case for bureaucracy in general and for government in particular. Do we need them? If yes– how much?Unfortunately, yes, we need some-very little though. Why? Because of the human nature, which is agressive, selfish, violent, lazy and because all human activities follow the path of least resistance. The human horde is amorphous like an amoeba, so it needs some external shell, a form, a membrane, a skin, a vessel to keep the content in a stable shape. Here's another analogy: imagine a bunch of cells combined in a slug that slowly crowls on a stone. The slug is exposed to all kind of environmental hazards and enemies– insects, birds, germs. Imagine, the slug hired a shell to protect itself and to contain it in a defined shape. Looks like the slug turned into a snail. All good and well? Now, imagine the shell has a mind on its own, as our "public servants" in Washington, DC do. The shell starts sucking powers, blood and the substance from the slug in order to increase to size and weight of the shell and it keeps doing so until poor anemic slug collapses and dies under the weight of the shell. Welcome to Greece, then to the rest of the Europe, then to the US. Guess, how much unfunded liabilities all the layers of the US government have? You think, $14 trillion? Think twice. About 10 times more! Hard to imagine? Read "The other national debt" by Kevin D. Williamson. And main culprits are the socialist labor unions at the municipal and state levels that use blackmail of the “collective bargaining” to unearned money and benefits, paid from you pocked, and they don’t care that they push the whole country into the abyss of bancruptcy. If the population is mature enough to follow unwritten rules of civilized behavior, the wisdom of ages, customs, religious traditions and 10 Commandments, if they have a sense of the community, then bad thing of any noticeble magnitude are unlikely to happen. It is in the best interests of everyone to live in a community without fear, where you don't have to look all the time behind your shoulder.
What happens when there is a blackout in the rural area populated mainly by the decent conservatives, who "cling to their guns and religion"? Actually, nothing! Just regular life! Well, may be a birth rate will slightly go up. Hard-working conservative people keep working and living as usual, police or not, government or not. On other hand, if the masses have no ethic code, no social fabric ties, no personal relationships with their neighborgs, only the deep rooted sense of their entitlements to the things they didn't earn (such is the case in the ruled by the Democrats socialist states and cities,for example, New Your City, Chicago, Washington, DC) – then they do need an external force to maintain the rule of law. The Democratic party is ruled by the lazy elitist rich trash and voted for by the lazy poor trash, as opposed to the hard-working conservatives, (whether poor rednecks or rich Main Street businessmen), who appreciate the fruits of their hard labor. The Democrats, whether losers on welfare or speculators on the Wall Street, don't work hard, so, they don't appreciate the fruits of hard labors, especially in your pocket. Easy come-easy go.
You remember what happened to New York City during blackout, and you know what happens now in the Democratic Chicago (where the totalitarians disarmed law abiding citizens, so only trash created as a permanent voting base by the Democrats and the enemy of the people government are armed).
As you know, there is no freedom without law. Mature conservative population folows the laws without external enforcement. In a Nanny-State, in the socialists states, the infantile population of eternal teenagers with a sense of entitlement (that is a product of the socialism or any other redistributive society) does need a whip. Without any external shape, a frame, the amorphous mass will behave like wild animals, especially in the socialist states. Do you remember what happened in eternally Democratic NYC during the blackout? Robberies, looting, rapes and all kinds of crimes immediately following the blackout. During power grid problems in rural areas blackouts resulted in no violence at all because the behavior was governed by the unwritten rules, by the wisdom of ages, by the ethical code, by the 10 Commendments.
Now a quick scoop of the possible governance forms.
Chaos of anarchy is a short transition period, typically organized by the totalitarians in order to create unbearable situation where the sick and tired of violence population will ask the same totalitarian scumbags to bring about order. That's how red communist totalitarians in Russia in 1917 or brown Hitler's totalitarians in Germany in 1933 organized themselves the anarchy and chaos to create an excuse for the totalitarian "law and order restoration"– we know the results from the history. You ask them to "restore" the order? Oh, the totalitarian scumbags will– with an iron fist, under their rules, with no personal freedom. Democracy, the rule of majority, is also a transitional state, where the rules change every day as majority votes for something they like today better. The votes in democracy are frequently can be bought, and Obama did it with the taxpayers' money– he promised "an income tax return" to 95% of Americans, if they vote for him, even though after 100 years of the socialists encroachment only half of Americans actually pay taxes now. Oligarchy, the rule of the elite, is the most common type of governance today. Professional politicians and, possibly, even amateurish Chicago– style mobsters dominate the politics now (will see what the CHicago trial final results are). Republic, the rule of law, is the best possible type of governance. Classic example– the cowboys catch a robber and after voting by majority Lynch him– that's democracy. When they catch him and bring to the court of law where the peers decide his fate according to the law– that's Republic. As T. Jefferson famously replied to a woman asking about future type of governance in America:" Republic, ma'm… if you can keep it". Yes, Rupublic, the rule of law, is the best possible way with least government interference, but the power greedy scumbags in Washington, DC always more power, more money, and they keep trying to erode the Republic. Now it happens in a catastrophic proportions.
Federal government as the worst enemy of the people is most noticeable, but the bureaucracy doesn't start there, it's just the worst kind. To appreciate which kind is more and which is less tolerable, we shall have to use the same universal criterion: the degree of freedom, which in more scientific terms reads the strength of the feed back loop.
Personal decision making: The highest degree of freedom, the strongest feed back loop for the decision making and resulting action is when an individual decides for him/herself.
Family decision making: It's pretty darn good too, considering it creates less tensions within the family when everybody is involved.
Advice in the decision making: Two former ones might seek advice from those they deem capable of giving a sound advice. This might include friends, extended family, church, community association members, an attorney, professional consultants of all kinds and the like. Typically the help is sought when the decision is important and effects are long lasting.
Lower level of bureaucracy: This might include small companies you might work at. Well, it's still bearable "risk/benefit ratio"– they know you personally, you can communicate with them, you can use diplomacy or use reasoning, so this shell is rather soft, the feed back loop still reasonable– in short, we're cool.
Mid-level bureaucracy: It can be a mid-size company you work at, or it can be your favorite postal office, or it can be a municipal office. You still might have some say, some feed back loop, especially if you know them personally, but your chances to achieve a favorable outcome are getting slimier.
High level bureaucracy: It can be your state government office, a big corporation HQ in another state, or it can be you BMV office. Well, buddy, you're in trouble, they don't hear you. The shell is getting rigid, thick, you hardly can penetrate it. Regarding the big corporations -it depends. Generally speaking– Big Governments likes Big Corporation because they are easier managable. Can you imagine twisting arms of a million of small businesses? A time consuming taks. How about Big Corpration CEO? Just call him to the carpet, threaten to regulate to death Toyota because they dare not to let socialist labor unions destroy Toyota,(just as socialist labor unions have already destroyed former automotive capital of the world Detroit with America losing to the world-wide competition due the artificially inflated by the socialist labor unions costs of carmaking), and the shake down is complete in a matter of hours. Bribes not always save their neck too– BP paid to Obama a lot of money, Obama is their biggest recipient in 26 years, and BP keeps supporting all this "clean energy" crap,so BP thought that they can shortcut now the oil business recommendations freely. Well, here they got burned though. Their friend Obama couldn't prevent the Gulf oil spillage, and he even did another $ 20 billion BP shakedown to have basically personal fund to pay to his cronies. National socialist Hitler also kept the Big Corporations afloat, just as democratic socialist Obama does. Big money bags for the future shakedowns. It's called cronies capitalism, not a free market.
Classic pattern how the bureaucrats hurt you: They use perceived, real or just created by them crisis to grab more power. 96% totalitarian leftist media help them by hysterical coverage of any incidents, mishaps and the like to create in public the sense of urgency like "DO something!". The government and “progressive” media create a hype to make sure no one will dare challenge the essence of the “change” because of the highly emotional “noble” label, something like “Help poor kitties, poor minorities, poor women, poor crime victims, poor children, poor cripples” and the like. Oh, yes, the bureaucrats gladly will do "something". They will do virtually nothing to punish perpetrators or right the wrongs, but they will punish 100% of innocent ones. When the government disarms-it disarms only law obiding citizens while the criminals are still armed, which make the situation much worse. When the chief enemy of patients Joint Commission mandates locking up the innocent medicines in the C-section room, it kills the babies and mothers alike when emergency C-sections come. When it mandates piles and mountains of paper work "to prevent mistakes", then it is the time stolen from the patients care to the care of paper, and less time for patients means more chance of making mistake in a rush. When the bureaucrats make doctors, nurses and pharmacists waste their time on spying on each other, on doing cross checks and so forth under pretext of "narcotic abuse prevention", again, it hurts only innocent people and diverts our valueble time to create more papers for the bureaucrats just to justify their existence and tighten their grip. There is no presumption of innocence for those our enemies. They treat all of us as guilty and demand that we prove our innocence. If 100% of the government bureaucracy is eliminated, then innocent people can actually work, and the very few real criminals and perpetrators (something like 0.00001% of the impacted by the bureaucrats population) will be caught by police and tried. When their mandates inevitably fail, they explain that it is because there are NOT ENOUGH mandates, and grab even more power, intrude into your privacy even more. Just like another invasion in privacy regarding cell phone use with zero effect on the safety– police can stop you in socialistic Illinois and go through you private cellphone call log. Now under Obama they demanding ID for a bottle of wine purchase even though I don't look younger than 40. Soon the totalitarians will demand a written permission from the communist comissioners or the socialist labor union to by a drink? CSI health corporation demands the hospital workers to submit their fingerprints to the medicine distributing machines. Should we be thankful for not being required a rectal probe for that purpose? And now, when the enemies of America took over Washington, DC these power grabs started growing with the speed of an avalanch, like a snow ball.
