About
I am trying to anthropologically observe the Western bubble I live in. The way for example an Irish researcher observes the happenings in a small African country. The goal is to be non-ideological and hope to contribute to pragmatic analysis.
Education/Experience
Bachelors in Political Science/Psychology from State University of New York at New PaltzInterests
politics, psychology, philosophy, art, nutrition, current events, science, cultural developments, futurism, economicsMotto:
Taking a holistic approach to research and analysis. No discipline should be left behind.Affiliations
The Pragmatist
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Brief overview of 3 critical problems that greatly hinder proper psychological/psychiatric assessment and a panel based solution to one of them.
Published 8/31/2010
How New York City is doing 2 years after the national economy died
Published 8/30/2010
Japan style plunge into robotics (and subsequent decimation of service sector employment) is essential for reconstruction of Western socioeconomics into a more humane form.
Published 8/16/2010
Gloryrights, blimp bus, space age modular housing for rural areas, big cities controlling their own factories, and people's cars recording during police stops
Published 8/14/2010
A move to thought in shades of gray (from dualistic black and white) may be more correct but a whole set of new problems is unleashed
Published 7/15/2010
The first attempt at systematically utilizing most of the Myers-Briggs types in crafting policy that affects the whole human herd
Published 7/13/2010
Before any meaningful societal reform is possible, a screening method has to be applied to separate the predatory 1% from levers of power. The time is ripe to filter psychopaths out of key socioeconomic functions
Published 6/18/2010
Since digestion takes energy, it's helpful to think about the cost to revenue ratio (efficiency) of foods that we eat
Published 6/8/2010
PART 2 of the reserve currency battle to the death. Looking at pros and cons of major monetary competitors to see whose currency will outlast the other
Published 5/28/2010
Can cats and dogs get along in an alliance of convenience? Extreme economic national emergency calls for a unifying common platform. Here's a 9 point platform that can unite them.
Published 5/21/2010
Fission and fusion power is the cake of the future. Solar and geothermal is the icing. Lets make more cake.
Published 5/15/2010
PART 1 of why reserve currencies are now fighting to the death. The road that led to Washington's attempt to slow down USA's collapse by collapsing a rival for reserve currency
Published 5/6/2010
Are some MBTI types more likely to be labeled with certain "disorders" more than others? I suggest they do and list the connections that seem most obvious.
Published 4/27/2010
Click on the picture to see the key message of manifesto in graph form. Also a brief discussion on what to do about efficiency gains inevitably causing global unemployment. Hint: heavy investment into nuclear power and robotics the way Japan is doing
Published 4/26/2010
Intro to discussing similarities between widely known psych "disorders" and their descriptive counterparts in the "weaknesses" of Myers Briggs personality types. "Disorders" make as much sense as a poodle being found inadequate by standards of a bulldog
Published 4/20/2010
PART I of a practical plan to put United States on a road to long term recovery. This part covers the road to Constitutional Convention and a proper message to unite factions within the tea party with urban progressives in an alliance of convenience
Published 4/19/2010
Terraforming deserts and building new ecosystems, MagLev trains, redesigned cities, nuclear and space based power plants are the way to repair earth. Not neofeudalist deindustrialization
Published 3/24/2010
Exploration of how the research road into more effective brain > machine interface may lead to hyper collectivism rather than individualism. No stance is taken on possible results of memory sharing
Published 3/21/2010
Promotion of Georgist Land Value Tax and Housing Cooperatives against the interests of medieval parasites
Published 3/10/2010
Left handed people's more decentralized left hemispheric analytic functioning allows them to bridge the gap between left and right brained populations. They push society's transition towards playing by new rules of the game while maintaining order
Published 3/1/2010
A discussion on where a few leading land transportation societies stand as of early 2010, a comparison of their 3 best offerings, and criteria for what "best" ought to be
Published 2/24/2010
Economics can't be salvaged from its total failure and pseudo-science status and should be replaced by engineering to prevent near future starvation for large swaths of humanity. Also a 5 point plan to save the planet ;)
Published 2/10/2010
Hillary Clinton's hysterical spirit seems to have taken over Yulia Tymoshenko in the last few weeks. And a word on Yuschenko's Czechoslovakian solution
Published 2/6/2010
A superb book to jump start the science of Ponerology (utilization of psychiatry, psychology, sociology to study how clinical psychopaths economically and socially stagnate/lead to disaster societies that they rule)
Published 1/27/2010
A story of a kindly ideologue and how his movement got partially co-opted by oligarchic influences
Published 1/26/2010
The artificial "American" nationality created as an assimilating force is beginning to break down due to inequalities of education within the dominant ethnic coalition.
Published 1/7/2010
Most people know either subconsciously or consciously the main reasons for why CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox News regulars act like a group of preppy high school girls. Let's briefly recap 4 common reasons before moving on to the underlying explanation.
Published 12/16/2009
Both countries stand to gain from violent confrontation within F.A.R.C. controlled Colombian territory. The danger of the current escalation calls for direct Brazilian involvement to help resolve it
Published 12/14/2009
Demand for big capital intensive consumer products like hospitals, trains, spacecraft, schools, bridges can only be adequately provided by the state
Published 12/8/2009
Since economically inefficient and socially stagnant nature of suburbia makes educated people flock to urban areas, Democratic party may become monolithic and dictatorial since elites are not as split anymore
Published 11/30/2009
Greater harmony, productivity, and general happiness to be had from better study of differences between neural breeds of Homo Sapiens (hardwired brain differences resulting in diverse personalities and modes of function).
Published 11/24/2009
Hoover, a capable technocrat dealt with a deepening depression by trying to improve status quo fundamentals rather than trying to bring new fundamentals into being. Obama, a year into his presidency, does even worse.
Published 11/18/2009
World needs new international credit rating mechanism since biggest credit agencies are US based and thus are pressured to distort their reporting on Western nations. Also a couple words on Warren Buffet's recent moves
Published 11/3/2009
Since defense industry is the backbone of US economy employing millions of people, it needs to be transformed into an engine of productive national renewal rather than simply be sharply cut.
Published 10/21/2009
Modern psychology and brain anatomy studies reinforce the need for proportional representation democracy. That is because roughly 80% of people have brains that predispose them towards protection of the status quo
Published 10/18/2009
An exploration of irrational Republican claims on what constitutes "real America" as well as a brief hypothetical thought experiment on how Northeast would be as an independent federal union
Published 10/6/2009
Perhaps the biggest stumbling block that libertarian ideology faces is that human self-interest may be based more on power rather than happiness
Published 10/1/2009
Protectionism is what made every historically major country wealthy and powerful in the last 300 years (including the current free trade pushers like UK and USA). Protectionism should stop being a bad word as Japan and China can testify
Published 9/21/2009
Hamid Karzai finds himself under the same scrutiny usually reserved for allies of China and Russia. Afghanistan as an American protectorate may soon see change in management as has historically occurred when puppets didn't perform
Published 9/7/2009
Brzezinski explores from 1970 how internet will reshape human psychology/social climate and how United States will decline if it doesn't meaningfully direct technology that it spawned
Published 9/3/2009
United States did not have any serious national introspection when its rival for hegemony collapsed. It thus found itself trapped in a very Soviet ideological bubble and economic difficulty.
Published 8/24/2009
Economics doesn't just fail as a science but misses the point by measuring results of ever changing policy of world's elites instead of looking at the real problem of dividing power between 6.5 billion individuals
Published 8/19/2009
Oligarchic interests are changing the rules of political accommodation by actively goading Obama to become dictatorial. They're preparing to knock over the chess board. Escalation from such tactics during economic crisis is troubling
Published 8/17/2009
Nanotechnological manufacturing will have more impact on humanity in a few decades than agricultural/industrial revolutions had over thousands of years. Such change in production/distribution will push towards global unification
Published 8/11/2009
American style socioeconomic system inevitably leads to psychological depression by its organization and pressures individuals towards greater official and unofficial drug use to overcome the growing misery
Published 8/5/2009
Conclusion of Cuban analysis to hopefully catch glimpses of socioeconomic future awaiting United States. Focus on similarities of widening gap between city and country, cultural trends of power elites, and difficulty of modernization
Published 8/4/2009
Americans joke about being OK with goals of Texan secessionists. What is less amusing is that 1) Without United States, Texas Would Get A Lot Richer 2) Without Texas, the United States Economy Will Rapidly Accelerate Its Slide Towards Soviet Style Failure
Published 8/2/2009
A look at Cuba's socioeconomic situation before Castro's take over and comparison to today's United States. Similarly to USA, Cuba was the wealthiest Latin American country if one averages the richest and poorest. It was better off than most.
Published 8/2/2009
We continue an overview of Cuban history started in part 2 up to Fulgencia Batista's loss of power. A lot of effort, energy, and force have been spent to modernize the country before Fidel took over.
Published 8/2/2009
TV will get a lot crazier like radio did. Elderly audiences will not switch from passive to active media of internet as easily as from radio to TV. Result will be intensification of profit driven circus into Rush Limbaugh territory
Published 8/1/2009
Hollywood and Cage have both reached a special milestone with the most ridiculous movie of the decade. Also a psychological history of Nicolas Cage's epic journey towards martyrdom in his previous movies
Published 7/27/2009
American legislative gerontocracy guarantees social and economic stagnation. Structurally, a president in his 40s will always have difficulty working with important congressmen in their 70s who matured in a radically different country
Published 7/27/2009
Education is mostly looked at for its empirically proven ability to raise socioeconomic standards but not in terms of public mental health improvement. Inequality of conscious mental states is often overlooked aspect of social discrimination
Published 7/23/2009
America's decline from the peak of industrial capitalism in 1970s only partially explains current state of the space program. Macro level technological improvement as a whole has stagnated, not just NASA
Published 7/20/2009
Part 1 of a series exploring the world where the primary motivation is desire to modify one's environment rather than the motivation to pursue pleasure. An attempt to finally make practical use of Nietzsche in day to day life
Published 7/19/2009
Exponential technological progress and corresponding leaps in efficiency can only create rising unemployment under the current economic system. The problem remains even if every citizen is provided a graduate school education.
Published 7/18/2009
An explanation why Cuban society makes for a good case study to perhaps learn something about America's future as shown by the model in Part 1. Also a brief retelling of Cuban development until independence in early 20th century.
Published 7/14/2009
If one accepts the notion that similar societies encounter roughly similar milestones in their development, then one accepts possibility of societal forecasting. Lets see if Cuban past can teach us anything about America's future
Published 7/14/2009
Honduras is the first major demonstration by Obama to the world that real change came to American geopolitics. Support for Manuel Zelaya is inherently risky however as it loosens Washington's ideological grip on South America
Published 7/7/2009
NYC's mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have Amsterdam and London as role models for his broad long term vision to transform his city. Attracting tourism becomes more important than ever during an economic depression
Published 7/3/2009
Obama's ultimate goal is restructuring American economy. That requires NATO not having an abrupt Warsaw pact style collapse. Obama will thus subsidize NATO's existence by escalating violence in Afghanistan even as he cuts funding for conventional forces
Published 7/3/2009
The most effective way of thinking globally while acting locally in terms of positive human liberation is to not enslave oneself with children and marriage
Published 6/30/2009
Mechanization makes it more profitable for world's oligarchs to switch from competing by force and financial exploitation of the third world to competing in industrial output and welfare provision
Published 6/29/2009
The modern international state system moved the struggles between vassals and tributaries to the level of the individual. Similarly, people don't want to pay with tribute or service for the right of personal autonomy.
Published 6/29/2009
Infidelity scandals have proven remarkably effective against politicians from Spitzer to Craig to Edwards. Ensign and Sanford falling in same week due to electronic surveillance is very suspicious considering strategic political benefits of their removal
Published 6/25/2009
Some of the earliest political scientists looked at a country holistically as one would at a biological organism. If they had to observe the modern Federal Reserve and American functioning, what organism would serve for best analogy?
Published 6/24/2009
Current negative psychology of studying miserable people and fixing them creates a black and white duality of sick/healthy. Positive psychology focuses on successful individuals and helps everybody constantly better themselves
Published 6/23/2009
Considering the atypical polarization of French politics since the last election, Sarkozy's road to being elected again is the same as the one George Bush took. Mobilizing conservatives and defending an abstract French way of life
Published 6/22/2009
An incredible third world experience at a widely used subway platform in the pride of enjoy of America that is midtown Manhattan
Published 6/21/2009
Key data by conservative "think tanks" hides a call for increased government involvement in plain sight. Increased percent of budget funded by richest 1% shows growth of their power
Published 6/20/2009
The students in Iran aren't up against a foreign backed puppet, a decadent old monarch, or an impudent oligarch. They are up against a former elite special forces leader who specialized in divide and conquer tactics, intelligence, and asymmetric warfare.
Published 6/15/2009
Ralph Nader's public marginalization during 2004 and 2008 elections demonstrates how discussions about political reform are effectively suppressed even after years of widespread internet access
Published 6/14/2009
Lyrically, both broad genres share more similarities than their listeners would like to admit.
Published 6/14/2009
President's speech to the "Muslim world" was directed at educated middle class Muslim liberals. Universalist respect and focus on human rights destabilizes Egypt the way Iran was during Carter.
Published 6/4/2009
General Motors is about to be dismantled and large parts of it taken over by strategic competitors of United States. Beijing and Moscow are about to permanently expand their influence right here in the US
Published 6/3/2009
Robotic pets stand to benefit the health of the retiring baby boomer generation to such an extent that we should start thinking about transforming the pet industry.
Published 6/2/2009
Decline of USA can be traced back to after the peak of industrial capitalism in early 1970s. After that, declining resources allowed socially damaging irreparable inequality to develop as well as for population to internalize state slogans as truth
Published 6/1/2009
Too many people carry fanciful notions that they had any control over their past actions. That creates maladaptive behaviors in the present.
Published 5/26/2009
1970s-1990s transfer from industrial to financial capitalism created an economic system that is increasingly incapable of meeting demands of all segments of the population. Solid possibility of unsustainable inflation can be countered with buying gold.
Published 5/26/2009
Obama is well served to use a doomed currency to position strategic industrial sectors to receive foreign investment once US defaults on its debt. He must do so before reactionary political opposition can reorganize
Published 5/24/2009
US style minimal state capitalism has proven to be structurally unstable and ideologically bankrupt. As Obama tries a domestic top down restructuring to save remnants of capitalism before the dollar defaults, central European region is left destabilized.
Published 5/23/2009
Early comedy film was one of the powerful ways to psychologically energize and briefly escape from the world. Christian moralizing, that began to infect Hollywood in the 1930s, totally drained life out of comedy
Published 5/22/2009
US is structurally unable to train a quality workforce in a time of economic stagnation and rising socioeconomic inequalities. Constitutional restructuring must be started now to avoid future superpower stagnation unseen since Soviet Union's in the 1980s
Published 5/21/2009
Surging price of oil, up to summer of 2008, gave Iraqi government increasing resources to buy loyalty. Sunni insurgents realized they will lose in a protracted struggle and decided to exchange the weapon of Al Qaeda for American money and protection
Published 5/20/2009
China is successfully getting the world embedded in mercantilist system of development by being such a large player with a strategic long term vision. This allows Western world to economically outmaneuver China instead of being sidelined by it.
Published 5/19/2009
Most Middle Eastern countries today are not socially integrated enough to have real nationalism. However, Middle East in the near future, seems headed towards same conditions that existed in early 20th century Europe.
Published 5/18/2009
Depression has unleashed a factional struggle for remaining national wealth. Democrats are poised to even further entrench themselves for decades (if country doesn't break apart) by deciding which faction swims or sinks.
Published 5/14/2009
The targets of humanitarian aid over the last few decades, have been badly misplaced to the detriment of leading nations and third world recipients.
Published 5/12/2009
Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore, Alex Jones share remarkable similarities of power hungry individuals who don't have the skill to become power elites so they resort to unfocused rallying. The Obama Deception is a good example of this.
Published 5/8/2009
Physical logistics of United States created an insurmountable nutritional gap between the wealthier members of society and the poor. The nutritional gap has a mutually influential relationship with the educational gap is is likely to widen in years ahead.
Published 5/6/2009
New York City's growth and business climate can be improved with Land Value Tax which was suggested for over 100 years. It'll help prevent another housing bubble.
Published 5/6/2009
Financial and psychological drain, as reasons to not have children, pale in comparison to longer life span and better nutritional health of a childless existence
Published 5/4/2009
"New Atheism" is redundant since the battle for secularism is already won.
Published 5/4/2009
Global warming cannot be prevented since it's already here. The next logical step for leading nations is to make a lot of money on providing infrastructural projects for the world in danger.
Published 5/1/2009
English speakers have done their part in forcefully interfering with Europe and thus the world (preventing one potential road towards world peace) and now it's time for United States to let the continent develop on its own.
Published 5/1/2009
Russia is not willfully abandoning democratic development. Its seeming authoritarianism is only due to the fact that accomplishing even simple tasks in Russian politics involves vast informal personal relationships.
Published 12/16/2008
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