Re: Fw: Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you
hello CJ, i have heard the UK is the surveillance capital of the world, at least in terms of CCTV density and from what you indicate much further ahead with license plate readers at every juncture, where in this city, only a few intersections have automated license plate readers for speeding or red light ticketing, if not mistaken. perhaps this higher density is the future, then, that is attempting to be advanced as infrastructure itself, where each traffic light and eventually eventually every streetlight is a sensor base for such 'accounting tools' of the state (somewhat like voting in reverse, polling negative dynamics, ubiquitous surveillance infrastructure as new damocles sword) in the US there are radio frequency transponders for toll booths, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes (drive faster in special highway lane if multiple people in car) and black boxes for insurance. i do not have a motor vehicle though assume stickers include RFID for access and scanning, say for parking badges, etc. and then GPS and all that, cellphones, everything indicates an existing capacity to track, if these elements are active & functioning i was tending to think somewhat obliquely about this, such that, it is as if 'everything is above board' with surveillance tools, tactics, and techniques. as if it is in a catalog available as PDF, versus never on the books, that it is part of a black program or black project infrastructure. and this likely involves vehicles in some undocumented way, as would even be reasonable if the threat model involves needing to locate car Z without a person having a cellphone or transponder, who is going to detonate a nuclear suitcase, and you need to locate that car. and so under those circumstances, how do you do that, immediately compare and contrast an unequipped car, no gps, no cellphone, nothing. what is the likelihood that a car is driving around in this day without a signature that could be identified remotely, as if the car is some special autonomous platform for moving about, outside of a security context even, as if a special realm of privilege that is safe from surveillance. to me this is not very realistic as a starting point, given the larger context, and thus consider the lowly photocopier by contrast, or the basic printer used with a computer. even these devices are not autonomous. there are hidden watermarks that allow tracing and copies of any scans and printouts, that level of invisible tracking that could be activated/reviewed if need be in a security scenario so too, vehicles. with certainty. why would a piece of paper require such tracking and not a mode of individual transport. and must it require an add-on or is it a hidden functionality or parameter. must it be an overt, agreed upon, legislated device that is on the dashboard (say gps or cellphone else blackbox), or might it be invisible, built into the car itself, embedded as a hidden data parameter that can only be accessed by knowing how to access & read the output my view of this is civilizational, development of culture, in the framework of Lewis Mumford who placed technological events in a ecological context, as a series of processes in that various actions combine to result in a given artifact or tool, it is not made out of whole technological cloth, instead requires planning, logistics, assembly, and involves issues not only of design though also materials, procurement, etc in this way, mining, the going into the earth to get raw materials and resources that are refined into metals or separated into other elements, say diamonds for giant circular saw blades separated from stone, or also into geological surveying for natural gas, oil, water, steam in geophysics context for power generation, uranium. this is, like with the Bronze age, a leading, cutting edge of civilization, development, its technological advancement pre-uranium mining, post-uranium mining, consider how culture may have changed in awareness, capacity, etc. hydrogen, or other advances in science, tools, technology so, an artifact and assemblage/ecosystem of computers today are likewise tied into this process of mining, esp. of rare earth minerals, gold, silver, that make circuitboards and various transistor or other unique electrical insulator/ conductor, or magnetic properties harnessed to compute with, create screens and displays with, stronger metals Ford automotive, manufacturing plants of the earliest assemblyline for car manufacturing, was based around logistics of lining up, not only workers on the line to piece together cars in a coordinated, orchestrated sequence, it also involved movement of raw materials, their processing, shaping of the steel, trains and railheads, smelters, and electrical generation of power, such that the entire system functioned as a gigantic machine, humans and technology in fluid interaction and then figuring this out in total detail; thus mass produced low-cost high-tech vehicles for sale the economics where ecosystem-based dynamics, the calculus was figured out via Taylorist principles (related to electrical light and clocktime and machine efficiency) and so it was highly connected to this mining of material, which then flowed through this system, and eventually was output into a vehicle as product of the production process part of this issue of raw materials is that, they are valuable and oftentimes wars are fought over natural resources, so they are a leading edge of civilization or national development as they feed into the organization/organism that needs and requires that 'data' to flow into the system and be processed, as part of a transformative value chain that starts as another fragment and then combines with others into an integrated entity or design of some kind. this is somewhat like today, say where just-in-time manufacturing and FABs in Taiwan are used to limit production to only what is ordered for given computers, getting that level of control over production and use of resources, though still tied to fluctuating prices, yet also not in control of the total process, instead distributed or differentiated across various industries and geographies which is why the shipping container is perhaps so symbolic of world order, of ecosystem/ecological world-scale dynamic part of this situation is the securing of resources, which can have diplomatic or contested relations that potentially could threaten the state if lost, or benefit if more is gained so the military is likely highly connected with these realms, whether overtly or as substructure. they likely are attuned to the finest detail of parameters as it relates to state security or its planning and development. i do not believe they could feasibly be disconnected. most obvious oil. its relation to war. in other words, any natural resource that feeds into this system that sustains the state and the state requires for its security and ultimate survival is inherently in a military and defense context. these are not separate industries, in my view or understanding, because the military must have knowledge of how they function and be able to employ them in offensive and defensive scenarios, there is overlap between civilian and industrial and military, also hierarchy by law, such that these realms can be managed by the military in times of war, say for factories to produce other material such as car factories to make tanks, planes, weapons (cf. legally require PC manufacturers to install surveillance tools) so there is always the implicit relation between industries that access natural resources and develop them, that the military has a structural connection and can take over their management within certain parameters or goals aligned with war agendas, etc so imagine this as a layer that may not be overt or activated yet it is always present, always a potential variable in any given item or thing or situation to do with the state. anything. prostitution to drugs to canned soup to making placemats. it is a condition or existential situation of the state in relation to all of its dynamics, and how these could be changed in various situations and how they could be leveraged differently, for better or worse, given their management, orchestration as a single giant ecosystem now at world scale, perhaps beyond cold war boundaries and into another realm of organization, say humans vs. enemies if you take an infrastructure view (itself nearly totally military, roads and highways planned and built for military strategy, GPS, telecom) there is likewise a context in which vehicles exist and move about, that is inherently military and defense oriented, else perhaps indicates parallel or unknown systems that have priority and are related hierarchically with existing systems (spectrum allocations, for instance). so whether or not observable, ordinary spacetime & place already exist in this military context because it is managing the civilian area that has developed inside its parameters. as if nested set. or so it is assumed, based on 'security requirements' that there is another communications system, another GPS than only the consumer version, likely quantum computers existing beyond consumer technology for massive data processing, and various other hidden parameters that could suddenly begin to 'manage the chaotic situation' of the state in a defensive or war context - which is actually the legal situation that exists and has been signed off on by representatives of the state the aspect here is that it may not all be visible or need to be spoken about to exist as 'legal' in terms of defense or in a military context, especially say if the context involves that of insurgency and running counterinsurgency operations on home soil, where such dynamics cannot be acknowledged for security reasons - and yet if there was some aspect or weakness in the system as designed, that could actually in some fundamental way knowingly threaten the state in the way it exists -- it is probable some action would be required and would be taken to ensure it is dealt with, not ignored due to conventional rules, laws, consensus the military view in terms of defense and security is its own consensus, in a way that precedes voting of citizens. people and institutions who fight and die and defend are operating in different parameters than those who seek their own enjoyment or wealth firstly, as a state of mind and so, people may be obvious to this as a context, that they could be walking around in a war-zone that is passive or occurring within bureaucracy, because the situation has not been defined externally yet, the trigger has not occurred to divide the masses and so everything appears unified at the same time a real threat of terrorism exists in ambiguity my point was that, in this scenario, when there is a need to identify a given vehicle in a context of satellites and of antennas (50 yrs now), that it is probable that vehicle ID exists in some way that is a hidden parameter within the vehicle platform, some antenna or some burst transmitter that sends back a qr-code like signature if pinged, such that if need be, data could be gathered beyond having an active device requiring a battery to handshake signals if - that is, it is an actual threat to the state. having the ability to drive a car around without anyone being able to track it because a person avoids leaving a known trail, say by no use of cellphone, no gps. now this may be totally wrong. and maybe it requires a mechanic connected with special police operations to plant a bug or tracker on a targets car, yet in a context of mass surveillance and invisible antennas, given such priority to identification of items, down to paper and scans, how likely is it that a car is autonomous & not trackable? not in the context of rule of law of police. in the context of, there are no rules, a nuclear bomb is going off, the military is involved - what are the options... "you cannot find the car? WTF do you mean you cannot find the car?!" i do not believe that is going to be unthought about by the manufacturers who may have a military dimension or review of the security or defense issues involved if it were necessary or could be implemented without any legal or other issues, of use only in a layered threat model where it is legal yet hidden, for such tracking if it does not exist, it probably should exist and would be frightening if it did not, in the nuclear suitcase scenario "we could not track the car, we lost a major metropolitan city" given the QR-code signature parallel, a ping of a very large geography by satellite network could find a needle in haystack if a moving vehicle or not, potentially, as with millions of stars, say via gathering the energy and sending it backwards again as an encoded relay. if you can get the signal from Voyager out of the solar system on a fraction of a billionth of a watt, it is likely a car could reflect data though perhaps the issue of parsing or gathering it is not realistic. which is why there may be more use to cellular towers, who knows. there is artificial radiation everywhere that could be used for this type of monitoring and tracking while remaining hidden, undocumented, beyond the threshold of observation so if a photocopier has tracking of both scans & printouts, and a computer printer likewise, watermarking the paper, just to track it if need be- why would vehicle be immune from this, especially given their importance to tracking. it seems completely unlikely it is not built into vehicles as part of this total process, including a security/defense military aspect within a society of mass surveillance as the terms of relation, where friend and foe are citizens in the larger sense of ecosystem then, cars implicitly belong inside this military framework, their connection with resources, manufacturing, and tracking of people of interest or threats to the state is probably part of the military dimension that likely exists unaccounted for there would be no public legislation about such things. they would just exist, signed off in some secret committee and used only within certain parameters and not others the tell would be if such systems existed and begin to be employed or deployed in police state tactics, and this is where the NSA surveillance seems to tread such that this security and defense infrastructure is being used for political advantage, exploited, abused to consolidate power beyond the law, as if the head of the state itself in a hegemonic or dictatorial mode the military exists to crush these kinds of situations (yet it may not be the military visible on the television)
From: brian carroll <electromagnetize@gmail.com> [deleted]
Ford automotive, manufacturing plants of the earliest assemblyline for car manufacturing, was based around logistics of lining up, not only workers on the line to piece together cars in a coordinated, orchestrated sequence, it also involved movement of raw materials, their processing, shaping of the steel, trains and railheads, smelters, and electrical generation of power, such that the entire system functioned as a gigantic machine, humans and technology in fluid interaction and then figuring this out in total detail; thus mass produced low-cost high-tech vehicles for sale
My father, Samuel Warren Bell Jr., worked for Ford between 1965-67. One day, my mother took me and my sister on a tour of Ford's enormous River Rouge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_River_Rouge_Complex plant, which was an example of those 'all in one' plants, assembling not only the cars but building the components. At one point, the tour group came to a catwalk spanning a railroad track inside a huge building. I, running ahead, climbed the catwalk and walked to the middle of the span, the tour following behind. But just as I got to the middle of the catwalk, a huge metal door opened up, and a railroad flatcar came out, carrying a huge (40 feet by 8 feet by 2 feet, I'd estimate today) orange-hot ingot of steel, rolling on the railroad track. It went directly under the middle of the catwalk, precisely below I was at the time. Didn't Richard Pryor say, "Fire is inspirational!" Well, it was for me! I didn't expect the updraft. I guess I am walking in the steps of the same 'loyalty' shown by my father: He once said that he was the only Ford employee to drive to work...in a Volkwagen car. (not very politic in the mid-late 60's). Incidentally, my father invented the "Dual Clutch Transmission". Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-clutch_transmission tells you that a Frenchman named Adolphe Kegresse invented it just before WWII, but says that he didn't make a working copy. Neither did my father (who was unaware of Kegresse's invention), but he (as he was obligated to do) presented the design to Ford management about 1966. Perhaps not surprisingly, in hindsight, Ford didn't want it. (That was the era of $0.20/gallon gas, and virtually every automatic transmission had 3 forward gears.). It wouldn't have done any good for him to patent it himself: Had he obtained a patent in, say, 1968, that patent would have run out 17 years later, in 1985. As stated in the Wikipedia article, "The first series production road car to be fitted with a DCT was the 2003 Volkswagen Golf Mk4 R32." Jim Bell
Brian, Would you accept the following restatement of your points? When we -- the collective we -- are dependent on something, we are at risk w.r.t. its denial. When we are at risk w.r.t. its denial, preventing that denial is a military concern. When something is a military concern, the vigor of concern is calibrated by some characterization of those actors who might participate in attempts to deny us that on which we depend. The world is increasingly interdependent, hence increasingly at risk w.r.t. denial of essential things. That growing interdependence is a network phenomenon, per se, hence instrumentation of all items in the network is a military goal, per se. For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I want all the goodies this modern world provides" then with that comes said individual fully participating in the instrumentation complex. For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I wish to be left alone" then with that comes said individual foregoing that increasing fraction of the modern world's goodies that cannot be gotten without instrumentation. None of us here should be unwise enough to describe what we are individually doing to decouple, but given the character of this list I rather suspect that we are each and severally describable much more as "Leave me alone" than as "He who dies with the most goodies wins." Back to you, --dan
Dan, thanks for the challenge. here is my feedback... <dan@geer.org> wrote:
Would you accept the following restatement of your points?
i think this approach is very interesting, first off. it provides a perspective or different view into the framework of issues; my understanding and awareness of these as universals is extremely limited by lack of experience and understanding, and i thus immediately a boundary presents itself involving being able to take such a view, because of the complexity that is not sorted out within the various terms as they may split, one or many ways, into very different interpretations or even realities. i tend to think that this top-most view is subsequential to figuring out such contradictory dynamics though as a hypothesis or starting point it presents the idea of modeling the situation in these terms and given parameters, which is interesting to me because it is a view i do not readily consider and yet it also is a series of recurrent questioning oftentimes encountered as if a boundary or enigma, how is this situation constructed, how can others exist within such seemingly different frameworks yet share similar values, etc so, my sense is that -as a perspective- it is one view into this situation, which i think could be called a [model] of the stated dynamics, and people or machines existing within whatever this model contains could have different views of or into the various structures it contains, perhaps some are similar or different, shared or unshared structures yet in their truth there is universality within the modeling itself so the idea of establishing an accurate model via concepts, trying to hypothesize and capture this situation within some approximate then refined structure, ~categories, though also questioning this as a paradigm that may actually break away from known or accounted for history or challenge conceptions, perhaps most in an integrated interdisciplinary view woven of the many dimensions and dynamics as they overlap, begin to take on shape of a larger whole. and to do this, within a condition of paradox, then requires more than the prevailing and instituted binary view (2-value) in a relativistic context. thus to get at and access and 'model' [concepts], such as the various structures and links and relations and dynamics, then requires an increased diagnostic capacity able to adjust and account for individual and group views, that may begin in specificity or observations of finite observers, where bounded observations also -because of language and communication- have inherent bias, warping, skew, distortion built-into this process of exchanging ideas, information, viewpoints. thus issues of différance (0) a la de|con-struction of linguistics and other methodologies, which i propose include 3-value and N-value logic to address this issue of paradox and in this way, also establish a common empirical framework in which various views can be resolved, error-corrected via many observations of an event, in parallel, (this, panoptic) so a question pre-exists about how could such a viewpoint be established in a common frame of reference, a 'world' that is shared, even while people are separated, isolated, and perhaps exist in chaos, decoherence at every level with very few shared links or nodes in common, such that _language and _communication may not account for what is actually shared versus what is represented; like the disconnected between one-way mass media and viewers and readership which are fed a propaganda diet which becomes normalized as a viewpoint, this sustained by institutions and culture at large, including educational programs from K-12-PhD -- while also a false perspective in that the inaccurate 'shared view' held in common then is based in a distortion feeding energy into some process by its adherence, allowing the machine and people to be defined in such terms as a basis for existence, relations; even though it is hostile, against life, truth, principles, etc and so to realize and recognize this 'shared view' is false, in some fundamental way, then maps back to its structures which sustain it- and these indicate the underlying [model] itself is false in some significant and profound way yet it is also not being accounted for, and instead ignored, as if a non-issue and people are stupid and just supposed to obey their rulers, go along because it benefits those at the top of the machinery which it is killing and crushing those below thus it is necessary to consider there are different positions within the existing model, viewpoints, that may access the truth contained or embedded within it, in its accuracy and depth, perhaps hidden to many people who may never be able to escape the illusion and delusion due to brainwashing of media, and conversation and language as standardized as it relates to indoctrination into a belief system where certain ideological dogma is rewarded, and helps people to survive, as if this then defines 'fitness' within those warped terms and yet what i was trying to contribute to establishing, as others including yourself, is another modeling of events that more accurately describes 'lived reality' from within this state, and yet immediately a limit or barrier exists that divides such viewpoints - for others it may not be equated with living or with reality, it could be a simulation and they could be avatars for instance, in a given view of what is going on, and another view could equate the situation with being in a [movie], and thus an inherent and massive complexity exists where any 'universal viewpoint' is most likely not shared by default, of a given first person model of events applicable to the shared set of humans and instead any such structure must be able to account for, say in the mysterious dimensions, time-travel, aliens, or other dimensions and dynamics that may not fit the a priori 'history' that is the default view as projected by mass media as shared condition or common narrative. it may be in part true, yet not wholly accurate to account for the range of what is occurring nor the depth and breadth (scale) of what the issues involve, and the kinds of considerations that may exist within issues of identity, relations, awareness, knowledge, consciousness, exchange, organization, value, politics, governance, war, etc in that, perhaps historical modeling is significantly off-course in how the past and present-day situation exist and thus how they are represented via words, language, imagery, textbooks, video, radio-- in that 'the perspectives' may be warped or may be too limited, say only to views of private man, universalized, as if the common framework in its subjectivity, finitism, though ignoring this, such that it is beyond questioning or debate at the level of ideas (in terms of actual logical reasoning needed to refute or falsify wrong or errored views and beliefs) and thus a disconnect from 'shared reality' may occur via this relativism, which becomes peoples right, as 'independent individuals', to include any citizen who then can move through the world in terms of selfish genetics as these scale to demographics or private groups with shared self-interest, as the default model of the shared-yet-divided state, the ideology shared yet only benefiting fewer and fewer over time, as the state collapses in upon itself, having no realistic foundation across citizenry in terms of shared value, beyond that of lottery winners of $ either by class or station, circumstance or rigged privilege problem with this is an older generation had success in the false model, prior to collapse. that must have been the game, because their success was at the cost of everyone afterward, yet they view themselves superior, as if people are lazy and not interested in working, etc. 'if i was a teenager today...' thing is: when they went to school, you could still learn and be taught things. in these days, 'truth' has been removed from the education system, there is instead helplessness that is institutionalized, unless you are lucky enough to break free or break into the technology industry and have enough basic support to do, then a viable life path exists- otherwise traditional modes are failures, unless vocational though that also oftentimes is not testing the limits of how things are functioning, and exists within given parameters to some extent, versus a university model of the past that sought to develop these models and test and question them and rewarded scholars and thinkers for this pursuit instead of trying to ruin them and fail them and keep them outside, out of the feedback loop, because it benefits the machine and its tenders the most, the given technocratic governing based on machine-values, people as only behavioral-trained robots via submission and-or psychiatric and "illegal" drugs so, any given issue like [work] or [school] as a perspective is likely unshared because it does not parse the same across generations, and oftentimes an older constituency of the state, those most privileged and served by the existing corruption, seem to think their views superior and more knowing of the conditions and accurate - instead of out of touch and out of date, nostalgic and unreal to others existing in very different circumstances and parameters and dynamics, generations upon generations subsidized by handouts from the retired- class, who have all the money not inside billionaires coffers a level of unrealistic luxury exists that is subsidized by this oppression of the state over entire populations to support and sustain that illusion -- yet some of that ilk _believe that their success is due to their hard work, entrepreneurial savvy and not from advantages of structural injustice, exploitation of others, crooked operations as it were, in the day to day. instead, they are superior, the false supermen, propped up in this narcissistic illusion where they are the standard and ideal, not relating or accounting for the wasteland created so they could have all the goodies and then gloat about it in terms of caesars -by the millions- villas everywhere with lavish accoutrements, and yet none of them leaders either in this expanded domain. instead, followers of the zeitgeist within the given parameters, not questioning beyond those self-interested and defining conditions allowing this 'being', the civilization of war and ruin driven by their selfish desire in that it is not questioned, instead becoming ideological, the rule and the measurement by which others are judged and this equates with money as ultimate, absolute truth, that level of materialism then believed as if UTOPIA for the friction-free set who take on these machine values and succeed within those parameters, highly aligned w/ institutions, science and technology, professions, and the given 'economic' system as a social and political agenda (questions of its grounding or in-depth analysis of views of this, not delved into to retain ongoing sketch of relations..) so there are many who 'succeed' in this system, many of whom are 'types', such as [hackers] or [cryptologists] who may either work for businesses built-by such ideologues or partake in relations in and across the various frameworks. and yet again this is split, just because employed or in a subset relation within these structures, say directly inside ~technocratic management of automated state machinery, does not necessarily align with values or self-governing yet in some cases it does: money-money as major world axis, as it supposedly grounds into a localized fiction as if reality for others, [hackers] and [cryptologists], this state condition is dystopia, an inversion of the ideal, opposite the goal and a condition of cognitive dissonance, by a variety of means and measures- whether drug culture versus traditional values or the problems of thinking, where supplanting 'programmer- concepts' onto populations is a dangerous judgement made and foolish if not considering and accounting for implications of treating humans as binary bits, leaving out the anomalies (this a diseased view of scientific ideology as if pure religion) any category that exists, any concept within the model has differing dynamics and exists in differing contexts that then influence what is observed, related, exchanged; in this way, like the archetype, some symbolic calculus could occur or be performed that, if not accurately taking into account the differentiation or specificity (additional or unique dimensions) could then arrive at the wrong sums or viewpoints in turn a classic western example of the Church being [angels]... if someone starts to convey perceptions about 'angels' that could indicate a range of interpretations in the given category or set. such that: angels(good,bad). further, some accounts of angels have 'bad angels' as ultimately serving good and likely 'good angels' who fail to do so, so even that next level of structure is still ambiguous in terms of definite meaning 'angels' (good{good,evil}, bad{good,evil}) likewise with hackers, or cryptographers, etc. and thus this sets up a condition that in non-religious terms may reflect a certain complexity of stated versus unstated values as it may relate to how relations or exchange exists, given the context an entity exists within, how they are situated, operating in it in other words, ---deep---in---technocracy--- there are people who value 'money' and others who value 'truth' as their basis for governance and rule, of self and in relation with others the issue of dual-hats is thus contextualized within this, as it may relate in these parameters yet not be recognized via language or communication -openly-, outside an encrypted form of communication, due to secrecy, limits or thresholds that format behavior, relations, 'the common viewpoint', as it is standardized, becomes social, political, society at scale people alone, isolated, in their unlike and unrelated identity that may remain hidden, even persecuted if not following the ideological framework, even if 'alternative' or rebels or whatnot; there is basically no outside to this condition, unless somehow you dig yourself into such a strange isolated scenario that the lack of capacity to describe or account for it is a boundary for others accurate perceptions or accounting, if not as stealth; in that it cannot compute, exists beyond categories, etc the great thing about isolation and individuals who are human and live for truth, achieving grounding with all that is, cosmic circuit as consciousness, is that as with the noosphere or atmosphere of ideas, a person can be alone and still tap into this larger truth, its dimensions beyond local constraints and limits of relations of those surrounding. unlike having no money, a person cannot then enjoy the riches of money. or perhaps more accurately, whatever truth a person accesses then can be linked to a larger interconnected realm, this richness then opening up as awareness, unfolding as new consciousness which is shared by those of the past, present, future, even and especially with nature as this open-book, if finding keys to unlock various chapters, categories, concepts, dimensions so a person could exist in an organization amongst others yet their 'shared condition' could be split between [money|truth] as the parameter of value, say at the material level of work and of pursuits and life goals. and what results could then be thought about and evaluated in these terms, perhaps a range of them; the necessity & utility of money balanced by/weighed against truth and moral and ethical principles and guidelines, direction. so the simplest thing like a person having a job or career as it translates as categorical [work] then is loaded with potentials, as to how this situation grounds, into the larger empirical truth and-or into the surrounding falsity and its 'shared perspective'; noting that this 'sharing' could be at the group level or rely on a case-by-case basis, or unshared in certain dimensions, etc thus, a model, people as observers, context in which views are established, and relations, as it relates with core value it is impossibly difficult to generalize this at the top-level as this 'shared condition' is without accurate foundation, in that each _structure or concept is itself split to multiple levels & interconnected with others in ecological, nonlinear dynamics that may be as unique as N-dimensional fingerprints for each view, and then as differing or shared views relate, this further difference and connection, coherence and alignment and-or else decoherence and misalignment or detachment, isolation if considering humans may have innate capacity for modeling such empirical truth as 'shared consciousness' by default, it then could be questioned if human relations are based within a framework of quantum dynamics, where information flits in and out of various paired or entangled patterns, recognized or fragmentary constructs awaiting corresponding puzzle piece, and thus this 'reality' is computational as logical reasoning, awareness related to grounding circuits, energy/matter/truth as mentioned previously, then, a concept such as 'the military' could be split as a category and may map differently for some people than others, based on values, relations, circumstance and it seems in the superficial materialistic view that drives this madness that what is represented as [military] equates with a representation or model aligned with the values of money above all else, serving the ideology and its greed, as if the military is a toy moved around on a gameboard, even while immense suffering is involved, death, torture, all of this ignored for the lifestyle it affords, power it allows thus, it is as if there is a fantasy going on, an ideological entity called 'the military' that for some is icon of patriotism and mediated this way, as with those out-of-touch, such that it seems as if it is a movie set that events take place within, as if a CAVE simulation that is modeling devolved society, and then having avatars enter into events as mimics or actors that are also detached from 'the situation on the ground' that exists, that coldness that is machine-like if not unthinking, the brute force approach then equating violence with truth, the more powerful then defining or determining what is real at the same time not allowing this analysis to take place within civilization in terms of logic, only shared faith, belief that then becomes and is private, faith-based 'government' i imagine you and i and others relate to a different [military] that orients itself in terms of truth-- that this is its mission. and that observation alone reframes historical dynamics in a geopolitical framework, the cold war instantly remapped, and things begin to make more sense in these parameters so how could more than one [military] exist? it could be an issue of perspective, seeing something from different angles or it could involve more than this. a different military exists within different parameters, though may not be related to as such. this is to then consider, for instance, how this situation could be planned for millennia in advance, to include creating a power vacuum filled by impersonators with a hostile agenda, whereby territory or categories are ceded in order to establish an illusory perspective at scale this is the same situation as citizens, whereby any given [citizen] could be friend or foe, worldwide, in human terms. the truth is more involved than the category alone, and thus [human citizen] who aligns with truth, in shared framework is a different citizen than [antihuman] aligned with money so upon further reflection after writing and then rereading my recent previous views, it was realized this issue gets right at the heart of empirically modeling the conundrum; that this division or split between money and truth is some way of approximating a condition that is also perceptible or felt in daily and lived experience with regard to existing and immense 'categories' in conflict, such as capital, capitalism, communism, socialism, democracy, and so on. the thing is, these ideas or concepts are being mediated within language by default, not within logic beyond skewed binary viewpoints as a basis for communication and relations via language. in this way, the way they parse as 'data' is very different given what perspective an observer has- ie. where they ground.. for instance, 'capital' is a very different idea if modeled in terms of its being money, than in terms of its being truth. and thus [capital] as it is represented, mediated, related to by self and others could split based on how it is evaluated, perceived or parsed, in its money-as-truth approach, or in shared truth as a basis for money, allowing trade, exchange. the latter approach tends towards shared morals and ethics, the former towards greed and selfishness, disregard of others thus, [capitalism] where 'truth' has no value would tend then to have money be this truth, by standing in for it as the most tangible material representation, an icon even of value itself. that would be one version or interpretation, another approach to [capitalism] could value 'ideas' and 'concepts' in their truth, which then is the basis for money, trade, exchange, planning and development. where competition and cooperation ground to different circuits than money as the highest shared value "culture" in these differing approaches would likely be entirely different. the money-based approach superficial, about quick and ever-increasing profit (as morality, ethics, 'the good', etc) whereas in a truth-based culture, ~representation would have depth, connecting and situating the present within the centuries and gain value from this structural relation, refinement, sharing of principles and awareness as integral process of development; in this way, truth and virtue would be discerned within aesthetics, insight and education and learning would be cherished, and the pursuit of higher goals, principles, and ideals the common fabric [democracy] likewise splits the state along these similar lines, in which money and politics establish ungrounded relations with the communication of media and those people 'representing' us, becoming a form of detachment, isolation, division, confusion in that what is said is not what is done, what is believed is a lie. whereas if it is based in truth, another layer could co-exist that servers beyond parameters of politics and money, involving the subtleness and nuance of governance with truth at its core, as an encrypted channel that those of others value may never see nor identify nor relate to or through, this boundary unshared by 'citizens', in this difference, a pretext for civil war, for both sides; those who conform and those who do not fit in, based on values [religion] could be parsed in this money/truth context yet it is likely self-evident, the superficial versus indepth commitment to truth, as institutions and representers may be corrupted or fail or serve other beliefs - though at its core, an issue of faith and belief -- in truth, or in money as this ultimate truth, which side are you on, who do you serve, what principles, etc. (the point here being that [institutions] can become faith-based, once based on unfettered truth then falling to money as truth, via corruption of ideas, organization, relations, via ideology) [socialism] also, aligned with money or aligned with truth. and this is one of those scenarios where it is oftentimes a layer in another category- say: religion(socialism) as this parses different if truth of ideas are of value, the basis for human relations, or money determines, formats this firstly; it could co-exist or likely the materialistic money-based view could govern over the other hidden belief in truth as the basis and evaluation of these concepts in their social, economic, or governing parameters. this is the complexity likewise [communism]. say firmly situated in technocratic embrace, both as idea and ideology. in some forms it may be a method of political engineering, say shipping broken items or sabotaging processes, censoring views which is a repeated technique for managing and maintaining control. this could not just involve 'ideas' of doing these things, the goal could be to deprive others not based on greater truth and instead, on power over it, to define what is true as a result of controlling what can and cannot happen, thus the issue of freedom and bureaucracy making the decisions. it would seem at some point this extreme material view aligns perfectly with political opposition and subversion, and ultimately has its truth rendered as money as the highest shared value, in that 'the group' benefits in such monetary terms by their tactics against the opposition, to maintain a given relation via control of parameters and that deep within this is a historical viewpoint functioning as dogma, a belief system based on indoctrination that cannot be questioned in its rightness beyond a particular juncture and thus is 'closed' as a system of questioning, insofar as its economics, politics, relations are already figured out in advance, leading to oligarchy seemingly of controlling and ruling class of upper-level bureaucrats in this way 'commercial communism' and 'corporate democracy' as definers of existing dynamics moreso than any terms of alone. the ideology of "economics" as religion, the dollar as icon of 'shared value' minus the morality and ethics of "In God We Trust" then the compact between producer and consumer, or exploiter and exploited in many relations without 'shared identity' in the same subset, nor similar value as basis for relation and exchange. in this way, shipping of broken goods to those not in the shared set, these politics, while taking the money is an approach shared also by the corrupt capitalist approach-- they are virtually identical, when considered in terms of politics and money, they have the same purpose, this worldly immediate materialism that perfectly aligns with short-term politics and money as if parsing everything in terms of money as ultimate value is morality, and if it is shared by a given group it is good, or if it is not, it is threatening, must be stopped academia is very much under control of this spell, as 'ideas' themselves are forced out, censored, to maintain control over organization and management of resources, the path or assemblyline of culture and its development, as if thinking is bad for factory workers, an evil trait today in fact, it would seem all education suffers from ideology that aligns with this materialistic bias of a too-simple viewpoint, unable to be corrected- because it is religion minus its truth, instead, pure greed and nothingness is at the core, an absence, void, emptiness, non-being as if enlightened, transcendent, instead of devoid, detached, disconnected, disembodied, dumbed-down, destroyed in the past, the ideas of communism in their truth were able to be valued. there is something here that is worth considering and needs to be recognized. note also the role of philosophy in recognizing this form of governance and also religion, carrying on these structures within the various relevant parameters -- in their truth. as they are subverted or corrupt, falling again to money and politics, the great divide of culture, peoples, civilization, both its internal and external fracturing, false pangea to NWO When we -- the collective we -- are dependent on something, we are
at risk w.r.t. its denial. When we are at risk w.r.t. its denial, preventing that denial is a military concern. When something is a military concern, the vigor of concern is calibrated by some characterization of [those/actors] who might participate in attempts to deny us that on which we depend.
i believe [human] as category can encompass all variations in their truth, as a 'we' if this truth is accounted for. if in a simulation or partial-simulation in a parallel-reality being engineered or modeled in suspended- and real-time, some may be interacting in a 'movie' context, as actors or avatars, and others may know only this as their life, as citizens. though i tend to think this 'big split' exists so that there is a bifurcated [model] of everything proposed here. i would then say- yes, i think it is truth that is opposed, denied. as it is bigger than issues of capitalism, democracy, socialism, yet is embedded in these. the view of governance should allow the truth of these dynamics, their dimensions to co-exist in their relational structures, whereas politics and ideology can disallow it. thus calibration is incredibly difficult and mainly an issue of belief, if not grounded beyond language and communication of signage, that is, within logic, to parse concepts and programming in their relational code - evaluated in terms of truth, logical reasoning that addresses and neutralizes binary biasing (evil faith which is what supports and aligns with money as sacrament in church of state) not being able to account for this- while having everything defined in terms of 'economics' by priesthood with business philosophy ?! what humans require is truth, this is necessary to attain accurate relation with self, others, modeling of situation, communications, foundation for civilization and culture, basis for awareness, reality in this way, loss of truth, reality has been stolen, false viewpoint persists, defended by corrupt institutions politically managed The world is increasingly interdependent, hence increasingly at
risk w.r.t. denial of essential things. That growing interdependence is a network phenomenon, per se, hence instrumentation of all items in the network is a military goal, per se.
people(humans,antihumans) exist within a machine state managed in terms of technocracy, aligned both with money and truth as value. hackers, cryptographers, others, situated in these daily frameworks, relating or not within specific dimensions. what is essential varies. money (humans,antihumans,hackers,cryptographers) truth (humans,antihumans,hackers,cryptographers) relation between person and military (money|truth) likewise variable, what military, what network, what is instrumental -as dimension- interdependence is a shared set condition, can be nested, though in terms of grounded circuit, what appears relational may not be how it actually functions in truth, such that if parameters shift or framework changes, a different circuit could appear or co-exist and become operational. what is instrumentalized may be latent or non-operational, potential, like Heideggers 'standing reserve' wonderful books by Paul Shepheard, view conveyed either in What is Architecture? or The Cultivated Wilderness (1) about the military and natural and built if not virtual environment as related to observing, taking notice of what surrounds a person tactics, operations, strategy, delineated/described as concepts it is a difficult realm to communicate within unless others able to situate themselves in these parameters, perhaps inherent in the infrastructure as war model, war machine, fortress, defensive and offensive, preparing the battlefield, etc. i do not have direct knowledge or experience with these parameters, yet as ideas in their truth, they also seem pertinent in accounting for strange and anomalous characteristics that prevail as 'the status quo', perhaps the only way to make sense of the ongoing madness (in its truth, versus represented and believed normal and okay) the issue of interdependence seems miniscule from where i am whereas others are highly-connected, benefit from shared set dynamics and truth that is active, informs shared direction from this perspective in what is proposed as a 'shared model' there is a limit to what can be communicated or related to or through in terms of ideas, based on previous established and- or institutionalized consensus, that becomes a barrier to what can be shared or communicated about due to 'unshared views', experiences or beliefs that map differently, given relativism, narrowed evaluation, and bias including power-based relations instead of: signal <---> signal (signal) NOISE <---> NOISE (signal) that initial protocol and handshake usually mismatched from the very start within [category] relations and between various category-category dynamics and relations, such that the need for interdisciplinary mesh-reality cannot be established within a ruling context of authoritative relativistic truth (based on money as shared framework for legitimacy, versus analysis of ideas), in that economics often determines value and this precedes questioning of ideas beyond that initial boundary, like a stamp at the gate, PASS or FAIL, and most everything fails because grounded reasoning and logic is gone from this evaluation, in that 'binary bias' and ideology manage this interconnectivity it is thus always a fight, to share ideas, to gain access, as ideas are secondary to money as truth, to what manages the 'shared set' and its reality. perhaps a fragile situation and tentative balance, yet it is total weakness and failure of principles of democracy, freedom of ideas, expression, communication, ideals of debate, sharing of viewpoints in terms of a public commons- everything privatized in this narrowed interpersonal collegial framework of privileges & status that then define the atmosphere as an authority- based power-structure, where truth is voted on, consensus. utterly confusing to those not integrated with institutions, to see this compromise of reasoning to a lesser state of relation, managerial, ubiquitous across the internet today it is not to presume there may not be different dynamics than this, yet to 'communicate about truth' or share ideas beyond the known boundary appears to be a serious issue of personal security that limits what can occur at the group scale, as any individual could become gatekeeper or allow such gatekeeping, though email lists themselves basically have died in a larger realm of ideas and thinking, now it is social media where each person has PASS/FAIL stamp as interface to individual reality, constructing own view or relativistic perspective, perhaps largely ungrounded beyond the narrow criteria evaluated, perhaps leaving out other views that could challenge beliefs, etc. 'interdependence' in that context is quite different, the isolation or relations may not ever reach the ideas in their truth, beyond chit-chat, (thus 'Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death'? etc). it suggests there is an absence of 'truth' within communications, that it is very minimal, such that it may maintain connection yet is not involved in significant transfer of ideas or truth at the scale and complexity of the situation that exists and must be mediated, and instead it seems escapist, a fantasyland or pre-school for adults, to fuck around with seeming no consequence while others lives are absolutely brutal for taking it on and suffering alone or being taken out while others 'in group' continue doing the same. the issue of 'trying to have a conversation' is instantly met with censorship, by people themselves because it goes over their own protected viewpoints & must be controlled through distancing, filters, limitations versus - i don't know- questioning beliefs, being fallible, correcting known errors, improving modeling, observation this risk averseness then is extremely relevant to limits to sharing ideas that do not fit into the ruling ideology, because it may harm someone else economic interests and oftentimes these are people are otherwise interesting yet cannot deal with ideas, cannot handle views that go beyond their own framework. and it is crippling, and it is the basis for a conceit that people believe they know more than they actually do, and yet then cannot engage what is going on because it is over their head, own models thus communication, relation, shared views are stopped to some degree it is understandable. though at a certain point it is not acceptable to remove personal responsibility from the equation of 'societal relations' and assume that following is always going to be an option or allowed, for those that cannot think for themselves beyond sharing of beliefs that are not understood or observed in their truth (in this way, ignorance can be evil, and it is institutionalized) so this as an attempt to convey, military dimensions in their truth is a subset condition or relation few seem cognizant of and operate and evaluate in other terms, oftentimes appearing very shallow and in service to wrong values, if through ignorance. i think mass surveillance in society is such a case, where the ideology says only 'few' by default are legitimate targets when this is not the situation on the ground, though it serves the self interest of a naive and privileged set that benefit most from it, who are politically passive and benefiting from the status quo perhaps most, by following the ruling paradigm, operating within the jetstream of culture, then pronouncing morality, ethics, and culture from this position as if of higher virtue even, while taken in the more accurate context it is against security interests for any thinking person who is not bullshitting themselves in the mirror every day to maintain a false-perspective and relations, that is, things just aren't that fucking easy. they never were in the realm that things get done on the scale off civilization For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I want all the
goodies this modern world provides" then with that comes said individual fully participating in the instrumentation complex. For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I wish to be left alone" then with that comes said individual foregoing that increasing fraction of the modern world's goodies that cannot be gotten without instrumentation.
makes sense, well put, it is hard to understand the different circuits and parameters others must mediate the larger shared situation within, i go by my heart oftentimes, though routinely am challenged to think another who has such insight and values truth could perhaps serve a false order than what is allowed in the shared empirical model, because it seems that is what life is about, gaining and securing that access and then beginning to live, after making it through this struggle that this is not a condition of life, that this is hell, this is the world as cemetery and prison, freedom is often not even recognizable in the day to day, when parsed at a fundamental level of relations, identity, culture, the state, etc. the description of hoarding toys is also indicator of that layer of ideology as institutionalized authority and ethos of 'businessmen' as if supermen, again. to mention that the idea of [man] as shared set is largely fictional in the present day in that [man] maps to all of these corruptions, even public man who is rationalizing events in terms of his manness, particular man-story in the epic swindle of mankind as substitute/representer for humanity i think manhood is a 1950s concept that becomes a conceit for mimics and subverts relations between people and with women, and thus 'human male' or 'human female' or 'human wo|man' then is part of this identity issue, as it relates to shared sets (human) versus unshared. in that those who gloat are also 'men' who were at the sweet-spot of this exploitation and further collapse, they are in the best position to manage, and this shared private identity of 'man' and 'men' is part of the dogma, including internal-sexuality (men-men) as a basis for defining the public, without females even yet to mention such things goes against instituted law - based on a flawed constitution - that then upholds these views as privileged and allows the exploitation to be further structuralized, continued thus limit to relations can even be within a gender-category, that as a human male i think most of these "super-men" are full of shit and this has not been accounted for beyond the rigged portrayals None of us here should be unwise enough to describe what we are
individually doing to decouple, but given the character of this list I rather suspect that we are each and severally describable much more as "Leave me alone" than as "He who dies with the most goodies wins."
again, another critically important concept: the short circuit. breaking the false connections and allowing rewiring of self, with others, breaking group dynamics then reestablishing other relations based on shared dimensions, dynamics, based in truth and not serving the regime of pseudo-truth that seeks to manages or keep truth away, out of central or shared processing, scalability there is ubiquitous censorship. it seems to begin in closing of minds. Back to you,
--dan
// funny as hell. thanks for the laugh. (0) Différance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff%C3%A9rance (1) books by Paul Shepheard http://www.paulshepheard.com/books/195/what-is-architecture note: science and thus technocracy based on limited pseudo-truth (pT) vs (T) is how it is corrupted, turns into ideology, gains political power, not accounting for this allows an immoral priesthood to govern over us and develop and extend onesided policies aligned with machine-values where money is the objective, the determiner of ~reality, 'shared goals' note: more money does not necessarily correlate with greater truth, yet this is often the conceit of those with more money, status, power and how ideas can be shut down based on position within society as if it corresponds with greater knowing, versus other driving principles; perhaps this is why people cannot think for themselves as truth has no value in this scheme, financial punishment following if unfavored; thus forced obedience,obeyance of power over truth as if truth itself, as this cascades through individual, group, society, state relations [20.02] (8) 4Q#1!80e3Hk;&jV'7-2iZeE8qs:q97w (6) [3/4]
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brian carroll
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dan@geer.org
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Jim Bell