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I am currently reading the manuscript for Howard Blooms new book titled:
The Genius of the Beast
The book is due out in 69 days, or so.
Here are Howard Blooms two previous books:
http://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Principle-Scientific-Expedition-History/dp/0871136643
http://www.amazon.com/Global-Brain-Evolution-Mass-Century/dp/0471419192
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
And here is a pre-order page for the new book:
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
http://www.amazon.com/Genius-Beast-Radical-Re-Vision-Capitalism/dp/1591027543
The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Howard (as I read that new book) is a cheerleader for capitalism. I am not, I know what capitalism is, so does Howard. Howard, so far, does not focus attention on the legal criminals, the people who create and maintain the legal money monopolies, and that is fine with me, since Howard does what Howard does best, he focuses on the science of our species, and compares our species with other species, in a very well researched and very well elucidated way.
This post is not an ad for Howard's book; so much as it is a confession on my part concerning my lack of maintenance on this topic. I started the topic, so I feel obligated to continue it, so long as the hit count continues to add up.
Howard, or someone working for Howard (I can't know for sure), took a look at my Joe's Law wording and the response was positive - it looks right.
That means something big to me. I may be deluding myself - of course.
I see much to be positive about in our world, despite the power still held by very evil legal criminals, and much of my perspective is attributable to people like Howard Bloom, people who take a scientific approach to perception - people who are not satisfied with popular dogma.
A case in point, to illustrate what I mean by "not being satisfied with popular dogma" is the resent events leading up to my running for congress a second time.
I didn't get any farther than a trip to Redlands (Registrar of Voters) to change my legal "party" from "Libertarian" to "none of the above" (the next best thing in legal terms is "Independent").
I didn't get far down the path of "running for congress" (the second time) because my initial inspiration to "access the political means" was driven by falsehood, by a false belief in a "popular dogma".
I had become aware of this case of "popular dogma" as I began reading version of it from "official sources" and to the prognoses was very, very dark, foreboding, pessimistic, and filled with doom and gloom.
Who among the readers has heard of "Peak Oil"?
That is the popular dogma that sent my running for the political means, as a means of addressing "Peak oil" as that popular dogma began to infect my mind.
I managed to pull my own head out of my ass before the process of "running for congress" included the necessary fight I'd have to win against my wife, to drop all the things we are doing to together, and to march off to access the political means, again.
The "Peak oil" popular dogma is my illustrated example of how falsehood works on some people and how such things don't work on other people. Life can be much more positive, much more accurately perceived, if the person perceiving is able to avoid falsehood, to defend against it, to know better.
On the Joe's Law front (Power produced into a state of oversupply reduces the price of power while purchasing power increases because power reduces the cost of production are the following two links:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p06s01-woeu.html
I can offer a relevant story on that above. A customer where I work went looking for a piece of land out on the middle of no where and he happened upon two people there in that same spot. Those three people were one owner of worthless land and two people looking for land where a wind generator could be placed. That happened last week.
Paris - Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy in Europe - making up a third of new energy here, with 20 turbines added every working day in 2008, according to EU statistics.
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/15/volkswagens-e-up-an-electric-car-for-t
he-people/
The local story on that is such that my wife needs a new car. We don't yet have Solar Panels so we will have to pay for our car fuel (electricity) at the going rate (2 cents per mile or about an equivalent of 1 dollar per gallon - very roughly) and I have yet to convince my wife to hold off on buying a petroleum fueled car (gas guzzler), and I have yet to convince my wife to invest in a pre-order for a Tesla motors sedan (available in 2011 or so).
The second link above aids me in my campaign to hold off investing in a new gas guzzler purchase (a God damn waste in my opinion), and move toward an investment in a more independent power purchase (more in tune with Joe's law).
Here is a quote from the second link (people's car):
To be more accurate (and not to fall victim to the false ad above) the Tesla Sedan is selling for 49900
It's a far cry from a $100,000 Tesla, but a new electric car concept from Volkswagen has people charged up.
The diminutive E-Up! is just 125.6-inches long - a Mini Cooper is 20 inches longer - and isn't going to haul four kids to soccer practice. And its 11.3 second 0-60 time won't win any drag races. Any in-seat DVD screens, heated leather seats, and drowsiness-sensing lane-departure warning systems? Nope. But none of that gets to the point. If all goes as planned, by 2013, E-Up! will be a mass-produced all-electric car from a major automaker, accessible to the average person. Volkswagen is even calling it the Beetle of the 21st century.
Introduced Tuesday ahead of the press preview day at Frankfurt's International Auto Show, the E-Up! has a 500-lbs lithium-ion battery pack stored in the floor. Supplementing that is a 15-square-foot roof-mounted solar array, as well as another three square feet of solar cells mounted on the back of the vehicle's sun visors. All told, Volkswagen says the big coppertop packs enough juice for about a 62-mile range between five-hour charges.
Here:
http://www.teslamotors.com/models/index.php
The sports cars are selling for higher price (apples and oranges?)
Whatever