Obama's plans even wackier than those of Bush

On Apr 29, 12:05*am, Brad Guth wrote:
On Apr 28, 4:58*pm, William Mook wrote:



I proposed converting our stockpile of fissile materials to non-
threatening impulse units at an AIAA conference in Dayton Ohio in
1990, as a way to avoid the threat of loose nukes following the
collapse of USSR. *I showed how this was a better approach to non-
proliferation since it inspired cooperation and cost less than SDI and
had longer lasting benefits.

Since that time I have repeated my points any time that seemed
beneficial.

I wish I could take absolute credit for all these ideas. *However,
they were explored rather fully by Leo Szilard as early as 1934. *He
even wrote an addendum to Einstein's paper to FDR in 1940 noting the
importance of the long-range nuclear rocket. *It was this addendum
that caused Truman to include rocket scientists in Project Paperclip
in 1945 by JIOA division of OSS.

So, its not like folks at the highest level don't know the stakes and
capabilities or haven't taken action on them.

I am hopeful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOpCMnLoM1c

So was Jesus Christ and a few million Jews, hopeful. *Guess what
happened next?

Exactly what part of our mainstream status quo don't you get?

If all the past, present and future bad guys are never policed for
their past, present or future debauchery, what exactly makes you think
they are just going to sit passively, as you run all over them and
take away most of their loot.

The top ten global corporations that you'd have to control is going to
be multi-trillion spendy as all get out, just in order to have
controlling interest in each and every one of them. *Are there even 10
CEOs you'd dare trust behind your back?

*~ BG

Police don't make a culture. Reliance on police is a signal the
culture is in decline if not gone altogether. It doesn't matter if 1
or 10 or 10 million control the reigns of power - as long as those who
have power also have the right values in themselves. Without those
values no amount of power can restore a lost culture no amount of
power, no system. The system is within us or it is not.

Toynbee says schism of the soul will not be restored by returning to
the good old days, will not be restored by some program guaranteed to
render a perfect utopian future, will not be restored by hard headed
programs to weld together again the deteriorating pieces of a worn
culture that is falling apart.

Toynbee saw a 3/4 century ago, the West was in decline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee

He warned us, the way a mother might warn an errant child who won't
listen. Only birth can conquer death. Birth not of the old thing
again, but of something new. Within the soul there must occur a
continuing birth of new things to counter balance the unremitting
recurrence of death.

Toynbee warned that if we are not continuously regenerated from within
doom breaks from every virtue we possess.

Peace is a trap, war is a trap, change is a trap, permanence a trap.
When the day of death is come, there is nothing for us to do but die,
be cut to pieces, and then be reborn anew.

Those who are in power don't get it, because their culture suppressed
it for three generations now. We had our leaders. Leo Szilard had it
all worked out, and gave it on a silver platter to FDR in the
technical addendum to Einstein's paper. Toynbee explained why. We
merely failed to listen to them. We are now paying the price and will
continue to pay the price.

Blaming the people who happen to be in positions of power for the
decline is a symptom of the disease, not a cureall. Read
Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar to get a clear sense of the sorts of
spiritual deficits that lead to cultural decline;

Of people who are too fearful for their own comfort to listen to their
hearts;

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? (1.1.39)


Of blaming others;

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. (1.2.135)

Of ambition

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights;
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. (1.2.192)

Of taking care to truly understand a thing before acting on it

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. (1.2.283)

We are definitely a culture in decline - death is not inevitable,
there can be a spiritual rebirth in the heart of all men and women, we
have the resources at hand to support such a rebirth. We lack the
will to do it - as von Braun said. And that summarizes our
situation. That's why death is needed in nature - we lack the will,
so nature moves on without us - and we are reborn with the will to
change, the will to power.