The Natural Right to Have Sex (or not)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Guardian

Hugh Hefner is ready for war—not against his former wives or girlfriends, but against conservative politicians who he says are thrusting their viewpoints into other people’s bedrooms.

In a rare move, the founder of Playboy magazine picks up his pen and writes an editorial in the May issue of the men’s magazine. The politics website Politico.com notes that Hefner, in his editorial headlined “The War Against Sex,” blasts “repressed conservatives … [for] pounding on America’s bedroom door.”

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/hefner-declares-war-bedroom-politics-124403766.html

The right to consensual sex, sex without force, is a natural right that supercedes government itself. The right to have or not have sex is as basic as the right to eat and breath. It is one of those basic rights that cannot be prohibited by any constitution or law unless a revolution is desired. Amendment X of the constitution guarantees natural rights.

Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Hugh Hefner is correct. Washington DC is, as usual, wrong.

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The fable of Santa Clause

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Guardian

The fable of Santa Clause is an important allegory. Santa Claus is well liked.  He is a large, popular philanthropist.  His elves/ workers are little, unimportant, and uninteresting.  The recipients of Santa’s gifts are wonderfully normal children.  The illusion maintained by this society is that the top one percent (the billionaires, stars and politicians) are like Santa and the workers are elves. 

In actuality, the difference between the top one percent and that person that earns a salary of 1/1000 th the top is one idea/ten pounds/two inches or another tiny advantage.  We are not living in a world of giants and Lilliputians.  We are living in a world where the slave/workers have been taught to believe that there are giants.

The first step to utopia is to realize that the giants among us are mere mortals but that there are some pretty strong mortals among us.  Most of them are unrecognized.  There is no reason to give families wealth that will last lifetimes because none of them merits being a Czar or royal family.

Down with royalty!  Up with the competent people among us.  Give credit to the good among us.  Learn to recognize the competent.  Stop worshiping the wealthy!

Elves of the world, revolt! Start by not worshiping the illusory pinnacle of the world.  Follow instead the strong leaders among you.  Follow he/she who most strongly represents your beliefs – your real beliefs.

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America’s Class Structure

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Guardian

America’s class structure:

Aristocrats:  These elite people constitute 1% of the population of America, yet have 30% of the wealth.  They are worth about 18 trillion dollars or an average of 26 million per family (assuming that the wife and husband have equal wealth and that there are 2.3 dependents/family).

Upper Class:  These wealthy people (not including the Aristocrats) are the next wealthiest 20%.  These 60 million people have 50% of the wealth or about 30 trillion dollars.  They have an average wealth of 2.15 million per family.

Working Class:  This group works for a living.  They consist of 50% of the American population.  They have an aggregate wealth of 12 trillion dollars.  Most of this wealth is in their homes.  The average wealth per family is about $344,000 dollars for a family of 4.3 people.

Poor.  This group of people comprise of about 30% of the American population.  They have an average wealth of 5000 per person.

The working class is under attack.  There homes are in danger of going under water (worth less than the mortgage).  Their jobs are being outsourced or lost to imports from countries that don’t have to abide by the rules, laws and policy of the American government. Their products are being copied and plagiarized by countries that do not comply with copyrights and trademarks.  The working class is being increasingly harassed by the police and exploited by lawyers.  They are being thrust into competition with the slave labor of other countries that keep the currency pegged to the dollar in order to defeat capitalism and exploit those that trade freely.   Big corporations throughout the world make it impossible for the small businessman to have his own company.  The working class has once again been enslaved or, perhaps, has always been enslaved by the aristocrats and “upper crust”.

The poor are being prevented from moving up to the working class by the same forces that are suppressing the working class.  The middle class and the poor are the market for the goods and products of the aristocrats and ‘upper crust’, so they better take heed…

Almost forgot the prison class that aren’t really alive in that they aren’t even allowed to control their own bodies.  They can even be forced to lift their genitals so that the guards can see if they have hidden anything.  There are 2 million in this group of government controlled human bodies.  Indeed, this proves the insanity of the aristocracy and ‘upper crust’ as this treatment could never be considered ‘justice’ by any but the very insane/mad.  Justice is restitution and minimal prophylaxis for the causation of loss.  Justice is not long, long periods of incarcertion enforced by people with big egos and small brains.

 

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Why We are Slaves

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Guardian

Plausibly only people that can produce a surplus can be taxed.  Governments can’t exist without taxation of some type.  Therefore it is reasonable to believe that governments formed because/when people became sufficiently valuable to be taxed.

Video: Why people allow themselves to be slaves.

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How Great thou Government Art?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Guardian

The supposition is that a society and the government that created that society are good in proportion to how they financially reward ability and effort. Societies where wealth is proportional to ability would be better than those who reward people randomly or socialistically.

Socialism wouldn’t reward people for ability, effort, or goodness. The graph of such a reward scheme is shown as the graph of Socialism vs. Ability. Worse is a society that randomly rewards the people. Worst is a society that rewards an individual for being bad, lazy or inept.

A society that rewards a person proportionally to ability is not really possible. If you draw a straight line between a baseball player with 100 percent ability who makes $20 million a year to a person with ten percent ability would require that the person with 10 percent ability (a drug addict) to make $2 million per year. The linear straight line salary wouldn’t work.

The Capitalistic Income vs. Ability plot is shown below and is somewhat realistic. The Capitalistic Income vs. Ability plot shows a society that is also not great.

The Ability vs. Income and the Ability vs. Logarithmic income are the same except one has a logarithmic scale to better show the lower and more common incomes.  This scale shows I = C*A^6 or Income equals Ability raised to the 6th power times a constant.  This is somewhat how income is distributed in our society except that ability isn’t always important.  The high pay scale of some with ability camouflages the fact that some wealthy people have little ability.

There is nothing good to say about the distribution of wealth in this or any known earth society.

 

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Ode to 2011

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Guardian

This is a very good poetic summary of 2011.  It’s well worth listening to and watching.

Ode to 2011

Household names this year were forced to exit center stage. All across North Africa, revolution was the rage.

Mubarak fell in Egypt. Gadhafi bit the dust. Who will be the new leaders, are they people we can trust?

The island of Japan was dealt a devastating blow. An earthquake hit, it measured an astounding 9.0.

Bin Laden was found in Pakistan…

from Rochester.YNN

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Never Underestimate the Harmful Potential of Stupid People

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Guardian

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. — Albert Einstein

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. — Unknown, Hanlon’s Razor

These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1.Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2.The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.

3.A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.

4.Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.

5.A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.

Signs of stupidity:

Intolerance, arrogance, impoliteness, rudeness, crassness, name calling, lack of imagination, lack of source, driven by opinions, use of hearsay, use of logical fallacies, belief in mob intelligence and knowing not that they know not.

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Next US Presidential Election: The Fallacy of too few choices.

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Guardian

With the next US presidential election looming in the fall, we should look to practical short term solutions rather than the long range utopian solutions.

Ever hear of the fallacy of too few choices?  This fallacy is also called the fallacy of the false dilemma?  It would be a fallacy of too few choices if one party gave the choice of having a huge military budget and the other party gave the choice of having a tiny military budget.  The given options are too few.  Most people would prefer options that allowed for a military budget that was slightly stronger or slightly less strong.

The fallacy of too few choices also applies to clustered choices or packaged choices.  Having to choose between the cluster of proposals preferred by the Democratic Party or the cluster of choices preferred by the Republican Party is a logical fallacy; it gives the voter too few options.  The real choices are infinite in any choice between packages with several options.

I will not give the long range utopian solution for this problem in this post.  I will, however, suggest the shorter range solution is that the USA should have more viable political parties.

That solution creates an enigma.  How does the government create more viable political parties?  Ultimately the solution will require changes to the voting laws.

A short term solution to the problem of having more political parties would be instantaneous and not too painful.  The solution would neither be a complete solution or a final solution.  A solution that could put the USA on the path to having more political parties and thus more choices would be to require that each candidate belong to two different political parties.  A candidate would have to belong to a major party and a minor party.  A Republican or Democratic candidate might belong also to the Tea Party or the Libertarian party, for example.  Two totally independent parties would support each candidate.

Once there are four or more political parties sharing the political responsibilities in Washington, further changes could be made.  This solution would be an interim solution and should be automatically retired after a short trial – perhaps five years.

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Consultants were Busy during the Clinton era

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Guardian

This is how hiring a consultant stimulates the economy:

  • The consultant uses the airlines to fly back and forth to their job on a weekly or biweekly schedule.
  • The consultant rents a motel room or other lodging away from home.
  • The consultant uses eats meals at restaurants.
  • The head-hunter gets paid.
  • The consultant hires others to paint and maintain his home and other real estate.
  • The consultant hires lawyers to take care of things previously overlooked.
  • The consultant invests his money and dreams of ways to start his own business.
  • The consultant spends money on his children’s educations.
  • The consultant spends money on his children.
  • The consultant spends money trying to start his own business.  Although he fails 90% of the time the economy is stimulated by the effort.

Many American businesses are stimulated including his employer.

Or:

  • Give the money to the super rich to buy gold
    gilded things and museum pieces.

Or:

  • Give the money to the poor and they will buy
    stuff manufactured in Asia, thus stimulating the Asian economy and causing
    their government to give our country loans via the purchase of Tbills.

Consultants were very busy during the Clinton administration.  The debt was reduced.  Employment was high.

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Net Worth by Thirds

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Guardian

 From http://www.lcurve.org/

Quoting from a
recently-published book by political philosopher David Schweickart,

If we divided the income of the US into thirds, we find that the top ten percent of the population gets a third, the next thirty percent gets another third, and the bottom sixty percent get the last third. If we divide the wealth of the US into thirds, we find that the top one percent own a third, the next nine percent own another third, and the bottom ninety percent claim the rest. (Actually, these percentages, true a decade ago, are now out of date. The top one percent are now estimated to own between forty and fifty percent of the nation’s wealth, more than the combined wealth of the bottom 95%.)

 

According to the Federal Reserve board the net wealth of Americans is 59 trillion dollars.  The top one percent have about 20  trillion in assets.  The next 9% have another 20 trillion in net wealth.  The bottom 90% have 20 trillion in net wealth.

Shouldn’t the national debt be proportionately distributed according to wealth?

Shouldn’t the national expendatures be distributed proportionately to wealth?

Logically, all the lower 90% should pay for is social security, unemployment, medicare,and medicade.  The lower 90% should not have to pay income taxes.

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