sâmbătă, 30 iunie 2018

Difference between tribalism and democracy

Till the end of second civil in England the poor and the weak carried fights for heir lords. Peasants were force to conscript, poor people sold they warrior skills as mercenaries.
Once the parliamentarian regime was established the situation reversed: classes and group of interests fought in parliament using members of parliament. A member of the elite fought with words and persuasion for a group that support him, similar like a king against another king in middle age when they tried to avoid bloodshed between armies.
In this way the conflict was brought from society into parliament.
What happens when you cannot solve the problems in parliament? Like now when a majority ignores all common sense and avoid dialogue with opposition?
The conflict goes into the streets, groups are pitied one against another and they form tribes, which eventually try to kill one each other.
The parliamentarian know each other well and it unlikely that will to kill one each other, while the members of the tribes they don't know each other   and they avoid one each other so the likelyhood that the violence will burst is increasing.
A good parliamentarian regime prevents a civil war.

miercuri, 20 iunie 2018

Soft power

In 1939 a polish boy flee his country, to find shelter in Romania against nazi and soviets.
He lived a happy childhood a nice Moldavian village till 1945 when he returned to Poland.
In 1968 he was an officer in Warsaw pact headquarters.
The soviets discussed the invasion of Romania to punish Nicolae Ceausescu for having the nerve to condemn the invasion of Czechoslovakia from the same year.
Finding out about the date and details, he slipped these informations to the country that had provided him a happy childhood.
I am thinking at 2000 children who are separated  from their immigrant parents.
How they will react to USA if they will be send back, or if they will remain.
If they will remain more likely they will be alienated from society, if they will leave they could join the drug cartels who sell drugs in US.
Every man that you upset it is a lost opportunity.
USA the land of opportunities kicked out 2000 of them.

luni, 18 iunie 2018

Fate in humanity

You can say about human race that is selfish and cruel but you cannot say that is stupid.
We couldn't survive and thrive if we were stupid.
I think when all the things will go bad, and everyone will be affected in directly in same way, we will do the right thing that the human specie will survive.
We did it with nuclear weapons, we did it with ozone layer and CFC, we did it with lead gasoline.
With these problems it was easier because we had more control and we had options to stop production.
Nuclear weapons were concentrated in hand of few countries (USA,Soviet,Union,China,France and UK)
CFC compounds and lead gasoline  were produced by few.
Also once you removed the CFC and lead gasoline from system this went to normal.
CO2 is produced by many and doesn't affect clearly the life as the nuclear weapons. Also if we don't produce anymore CO2 the response of the system will be slower, it could take decades to come to normal.
We start to lose a lot of money because of climate warming, this will trigger an economic crisis this will reduce consumption, will reduce CO2, and save life
This economic crisis will be the worst to come, emigrants from Africa and Middle East will pour in Europe, China will experience big internal troubles. In general the more populated will be an area, and more incompetent will be the government the worst will be the problems.
USA will have the standard of living lower than now.
The global economy will be history.
But this crisis will save the world, because it will re-balance the consumption and will force people to cooperate, to find solutions.

vineri, 15 iunie 2018

What is really backing fiat money

The critics of fiat money and supporters of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are saying that the government printed money have value because we agree upon it. At first sight it seems true, but the fiat money cannot have the value 0 as the cryptocurrencies can have because, there will be always a demand for fiat money from government.
The government demands that the taxes to be payed in current currency, if you don't pay your taxes your good will be seized and sold, and if you opposed you be arrested, if you opposed you can be shot.
So fiat money are supported in fact by the barrel of the gun.

duminică, 10 iunie 2018

What is politics

Suppose you want to punch someone in the face for whatever reason.
If you punch him, the public will intervene to stop you and maybe you be arrested by police.
But instead if you convince that your enemy is a baby killer, a nationalist warmonger, a stoned hippy, a cosmopolitan traitor, a womaniser and a homosexual in same time, the public not only that it will take your side but a bonus, it will lynch you enemy to the nearest tree.
This all the politicians do, they incite the public against their enemies so that they have the hands clean.
In this game, we have the target (the person to be removed),the public, the message to incite the public, the channels, the politicians who stays in the shadow and those who gain fro he turns of events.
The target, the public and the message are clear.
What is not visible are the channels and the politician who benefits.