The Right, The Left, and the Competent (Able) Lawrence Gold

You've got your left and you've got your right.

If you take away your left, your right is left, right? 

~~ The Gold Brothers

Well, it turns out that the terms, The Right and The Left, politically-speaking, have actual descriptive value; they have useful meaning.  This piece is about that meaning, so you may better understand the predicament of our civilization.

The useful meaning comes, surprisingly, from the sides of the body and the way we, as humans operate. Roughly ninety percent of humans are right-handed, so ten percent exist as reversed exceptions to this explanation.  Still the metaphor and the explanation are apt.

Here's how it goes:

In the main population, right-handedness is a matter of

• the known
• the reliable
• the able
• the predictable
• the strong
• the competent

That's good enough as a start.

As the sub-dominant side, left-handedness is a matter of

• the less known
• the not-so-reliable
• the not-so-able
• the not-so predictable
• the weaker
• the not-so-competent

Politically speaking, the Right Wing (generally called, conservatives) goes for what they consider to be the known, the reliable, the tried and true, the predictable, established sources of power, and established authority.  That's what they conserve -- and in times of healthy stability, it works.

Politically speaking, the Left Wing (generally called, liberals or progressives) consist of the innovators, and so, the unknown (or not-so-well-known), the untested, the unpredictable, those on the outskirts of power, and those with new answers not validated by the established authorities.

The Right Wing, being predisposed to the known, mistrust the Left Wing. They see the Left Wing as destabilizing, as unreliable, as less intelligent than they. The Right Wing tries to reinforce the Status Quo, with which it identifies, and to do things the way they "have always been done," and anything other than that is suspect or wrong.

The Left Wing, being predisposed to the new, responsive to the need for change, view The Right Wing as oppressors, dominant and entrenched. The Left Wing works to change the Status Quo and they see The Right Wing as always taking over and preserving the Status Quo -- to the benefit of those who want to do things the way they have always been done, who are already at an advantage.

We are not arguing, "rightfully" or "wrongly", here. We're just describing attitudes, as they happen to coincide with handed-ness.  See the fit?

Now, here's the odd predicament: it happens that there is a healthy Right Wing, a healthy Left Wing, and an unhealthy Right Wing, and an unhealthy Left Wing -- and each lumps the healthy forms in with the unhealthy forms, making no intelligent discrimination between them, condemning both forms.  They're both considered, "matters of choice", nothing more, and considered defensible under the banner of "freedom" (for themselves), rather than of merit.

The Right Wing is Right -- Sometimes
The Right Wing's approach works as long as the Status Quo is sufficient to manage situations at hand. In a crisis, The Right Wing tries to restore the Status Quo, and that's the role of a healthy Right Wing.

However, in the lifespan of every civilization, there come challenges that are bigger than can be handled by preserving the old ways.  Faced with such challenges, The Right Wing is not "conservative" (regardless of how it it called), but incompetent, a hazard to civilization, the continuation of which requires intelligent change.  An incompetent Right Wing is an unhealthy Right Wing, and an incompetent Right Wing is a destabilizing and unreliable force, just as it regards The Left Wing to be.  In times of crisis beyond its competence, the Right Wing is unhealthy in refusing the Left Wing.

However, the Right Wing, being committed to Status Quo, tends to deny that challenges are bigger than can be handled by itself. Rather than incorporate the progressive orientation of the Left Wing, The Right Wing resorts to denial and reinforcement of its own interests, and so is incompetent, just as a right-handed person would be if refusing to use his left hand when the situation calls for it.  It attributes to the "underclasses" its own stalwart self-interest and unwillingness to change under the labels, "laziness", "criminality", and "something-for-nothing free lunch."

The Left Wing's approach works as long as the known, the "credentialed", the tried and true, and the powerful -- i.e., The Right Wing -- supports it.  However, in a crisis, The Right Wing not only refuses or undercuts such support; it denies that its Status Quo is legitimately in question.

It's a case of incompetence shielded by dishonesty -- or to use the "handedness" metaphor, it's a case of incompetence and assertion of competence -- which together amount to incompetence.

So, The Right Wing is incompetent, afraid, and dishonest and The Left Wing is weak because unsupported by The Right Wing, which holds the entrenched power and resources.

The Left Wing Should Be Left -- Sometimes
An unhealthy Left Wing, on the other hand, seeks influence by overthrowing the Right Wing and, in memory, has enforced social experiments to huge detriment of mass humbers of people for whom it should have been the champion. In so doing, members of the Left Wing have sought their own Status Quo and sought to become as entrenched as the Right Wing had been. You take away the right, and the left is right, right?  As history has shown us, not so much.

We Need Both Healthy Right and Healthy Left
Both Wings are a problem because they're one-sided -- i.e., under-educated in terms of the potentials available in the other -- and so see each other as opponents, rather than as resources. Neither rightfully controls the power landscape. Both see their relationship in terms of a fight.

You can see the stupidity of the situation.

A healthy Right Wing and a healthy Left Wing need each other -- need the Right Wing in times of stability and need The Left Wing in times of change.

Now, let's look at the current world situation.

How and Why
The word, "crisis", means, "crossing" -- "turning point". 

Multiple crises are converging on human civilization (not to mention the entire biosphere), crises resulting from

• over-concentration of wealth in the hands of a Right-Wing few,
• disappearance of the middle-classes (increase of the lower classes),
• overpopulation and over-demand upon natural resources, 
• religious-fundamentalist (ethnic) violence, abominably called, "ethnic cleansing", rather than attempted genocide,
• the danger of high-tech weapons falling into the hands of rogue states and individuals, 
• climate change and its effects on the food chain, 
• degradation of food quality due to growth in soils depleted of nutritional value over decades of use, 
• overfishing of the oceans, 
• mass extinctions of species and ecological collapse (or at least, drastic change),
• world-wide economic instability, 
• appearance of antibiotic-resistant disease organisms,
• and toxification of our environment by petrochemical pesticides and industrial from industries that funnel wealth to The Right Wing.

Nice, huh?

This convergence of crises is beyond the capacity (and willingness) of The Right Wing to manage; these are new challenges outside the competence of the tried and true and destined to produce unprecedented change. The Right Wing needs The Left Wing, now.

However, The Right Wing wants to enforce business as usual, which, in the long run, it cannot because of the magnitude of the changes; yet the unhealthy Right Wing in power refuses the influence of The Left Wing.

Crises Reinforced by Dishonesty
The Right Wing, at least publicly, denies the scope of these crises, denies climate change, treats the mass-extinction of species as either irrelevant or as normal, asserts its right to the overwhelming majority of the wealth, resorts to military force to quell the uprising of Third World cultures, and resorts to control of the mass-news-and-entertainment media to regulate the middle- and lower-classes to its own liking.

But that is not all.

It's not that the Right Wing doesn't believe that multiple crises are upon us; it does "see the writing upon the wall".  However, this unhealthy Right Wing conceals or minimizes the scope of these crises in hope of itself surviving while everyone else goes to perdition. The unhealthy Right Wing entertains the delusion that it can survive in enclaves of wealth somehow immune to the planetary changes upon us, and without everyone else -- meaning without the economic roots of production and consumption upon which its survival depends. It's population control in a negative sense -- done stupidly, incompetently, and self-righteously.

This unhealthy Right Wing (at least in the U.S.A.), is secretly committed to a program that it sees as insuring its future survival: that of wiping out the Left Wing and the middle- and lower-classes -- or of letting it die out: "Live and Let Die".

The unhealthy Right Wing

• uses mass-surveillance to monitor the Left Wing, 
• uses laws and privilege to funnel wealth to itself, 
• throttles financial resources that might be devoted to education, health-care and infrastructure, 
• directs those resources to military preparation or to further concentration of wealth,
• controls the mass-communications media to keep the mass of the population pacified and ignorant of the situation, 
• supports corporate license to damage the larger population and biosphere for the sake of profits, 
• and uses money to control the political power structure to maintain these courses of action.

Above all, the unhealthy Right Wing makes the gigantic mistake of thinking that educating the masses will lead to a shortage of jobs and loss of wealth, rather than to an increase of human knowledge-ability-and-problem-solving resources.  Education leads to wealth-production, but the unhealthy Right Wing misses the lesson of its own experience.

The Right Wing is dedicated to the Status Quo and to entrenched power because it lacks the mental capacity to entertain views outside the tried and true, the known, and the powerful.  It's like a right-handed person who, totally inept with his left hand, disparages it.  Power and control ("Money") are his measure of well-being, but he doesn't think to bring his other half up to speed. Thus, he stays inept. He (or she) fails to see the larger picture (while thinking that (s)he does see the larger picture), and that is his incompetence. It's the same incompetence as that of the Central American Indians when the Spaniards arrived; they couldn't conceive of what was coming, except in terms of the familiar, because what was happening was so far outside of their familiar frame of reference -- and we know what became of their civilizations, even as of the North American Indians.

In a period of crisis, The Right Wing is deficient without The Left Wing; The Left Wing is deficient without The Right Wing.  Only together, in their healthy forms, do they have the resources, mental capacity, and force of will to pass intelligently and competently through the crises converging upon us.

Those in their unhealthy forms, Left or Right, do not deserve the power that is in their hands.  Thus, remove it from their hands.

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Psycho-Active TetraSeed Transformations | The Spell Maker 2015 7 19 Lawrence Gold

A T T E N T I O N:

P S Y C H O A C T I V E

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The Spell-Maker/ "The Phaser"
The Spell-Breaker / "The Neutralizer"
(together: The Cyclotron)

The TetraSeed of Every Experience

The Spell-Maker and The Spell-Breaker are two TetraSeed Transformations that do what their names state.

In the current version of The Spell-Maker, preparation is not required, but it is beneficial.  These two TetraSeed Transformation procedures produce best results in those who are proficient with The Gold Key Release.

The TetraSeed Transformations comprise the four elements of the TetraSeed -- Attending, Imagining, Intending, and Remembering -- either to construct or deconstruct an experience.  "Construct"is another word for, "manifest"; "deconstruct" is another word for, "dissolve."

In manifesting or dissolving conditioning, order (sequence) makes a difference.

See the video session, at bottom.
(earlier version with a coaching participant)

MANIFESTING/CREATING

To construct (create the subtle underpinning of) an experience, you first identify the desired experience, to yourself (e.g., [personal integrity]).  Putting your attention of the feeling of it, you proceed in the following order:

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1. Attend to [personal integrity].
2. Attend to remembering [personal integrity].
3. Remember attending to [personal integrity].
4. Attend to remembering [personal integrity].
5. Attend to intending [personal integrity].
6. Intend attending to [personal integrity].
7. Attend to intending [personal integrity].
8. Attend to imagining [personal integrity].
9. Imagine attending to [personal integrity].
10. Attend to imagining [personal integrity].
11. Remember intending [personal integrity].
12. Intend remembering [personal integrity].
13. Remember intending [personal integrity].
14. Remember imagining [personal integrity].
15. Imagine remembering [personal integrity].
16. Remember imagining [personal integrity].
17. Intend imagining [personal integrity].
18. Imagine intending [personal integrity].
19. Intend imagining [personal integrity].
20. Imagine attending to [personal integrity].

Return to (2.) and continue until interference is gone or until you get a clear feeling of the intended result.

Here's a simpler (less potent) version.

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1. Imagine [personal integrity].
2. Intend imagining [personal integrity].
3. Remember intending [personal integrity].
4. Remember imagining [personal integrity].
5. Attend to remembering [personal integrity].
6. Attend to intending [personal integrity].
7. Attend to imagining [personal integrity].

Return to (2.) and continue until inference is gone or until you get a clear feeling of the intended result.

This way of doing it is an update to the video, below.

DISSOLVING/DECONSTRUCTING

To deconstruct (dissolve the subtle underpinning of) an experience, you use the following order:

First, you identify the resisted experience, to yourself (e.g., [falsehood]).  Putting your attention of the feeling of it, you repeat:

Thusly:

1. Attend to imagining [falsehood].
2. Attend to intending [falsehood].
3. Attend to remembering [falsehood].
4. Imagine intending [falsehood].
5. Imagine remembering [falsehood].
6. Intend remembering [falsehood].
7. Remember [falsehood].

Return to (2.) and continue until inference is gone or until you get a clear feeling of the intended result.

More Potent Version

1. Remember [falsehood].
2. Intend remembering [falsehood].
3. Remember intending [falsehood].
4. Intend remembering [falsehood].
5. Imagine intending [falsehood].
6. Intend imagining [falsehood].
7. Imagine intending [falsehood].
8. Imagine remembering [falsehood].
9. Remember imagining [falsehood].
10. Imagine remembering [falsehood].
11. Attend to imagining [falsehood].
12. Imagine attending to [falsehood].
13. Attend to imagining [falsehood].
14. Attend to intending [falsehood].
15. Intend attending to [falsehood].
16. Attend to intending  [falsehood].
17. Attend to remembering [falsehood].
18. Remember attending to [falsehood].
19. Attend to remembering [falsehood].
20. Attend to [falsehood].
    END (if dissolved) or NEW CYCLE from 1.

Incantation involves repetition.  You cycle through the four elements repeatedly until you clear up confusion and internal contradiction and you get either an immediate experience of the desired result: you can't remember what you were working on -- or -- all charge on the condition disappears and the condition has the density of smoke.

The experience of voidness or of forgetting where you are in the procedure is not a sign of failure.  It's a sign that the grip is dissolving.

Internal opposition is what gives the sense of substantiality to an experience.  Without opposition, experience is experienced as no-experience -- or voidness.  Voidness is the essence of ones natural or original state; have removed all contradiction or internal opposition. 

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Orbiting the Shoulder | Hanna Somatic Education, lesson 1 Lawrence Gold

I’ve observed that some practitioners have trouble with the “shoulder orbiting” movement of Lesson 1 (Green Light Reflex). This video shows the technique, as taught to us by Tom Hanna, with “debugging” for people who retain some residual tension around the shoulder joint.

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Improving Breathing | clinical somatic education technique Lawrence Gold

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This video clip shows a clinical somatic education procedure for freeing rib movements by gaining control of the intercostal (between-the-ribs) muscles.

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How do we sort out different patterns of restricted breathing and how can we correct them?

In general, breathing is an effortless affair. Effort and problems appear as people get conditioned into states of chronic tension accompanied with a loss of sensory awareness of the feelings of breathing (sensory-motor amnesia, or SMA).

The problem of breathing difficulty usually comes from arrested (or restricted) movements of breathing and usually from incomplete exhalation. The muscles involved — the diaphragm, the abdominal muscles, and the muscles that move the ribs (including the scalenes of the neck) — hold residual tension. As a result, people either exhale incompletely or inhale incompletely.

People who exhale incompletely may have a habitually-expanded chest; a big, rounded or hanging belly, high shoulders, and a shortened neck. The belly comes from a diaphragm that, being always partially contracted, pushes the abdominal contents down and out of their normal position; the high shoulders come from contracted scalenes lifting the upper ribs in a chronic attempt to get more air into the upper volume of the lungs. The person may also feel chronically tired or sore in the ribs.

People who inhale incompletely may have a hard, flat belly and ribs that are down and flattened in front. This flattening across the front comes from tight (1) abdominal and (2) intercostal muscles. These muscles, when chronically tight, (1) prevent the diaphragm from flattening and pulling air into the lungs and (2) reduce chest volume. (The dome-shaped diaphragm functions like a piston. When it contracts, the dome flattens and pulls away from the area inside the chest, sucking air in. It also lifts the ribs, something like the way a Can-Can dancer lifts her skirt.)

Tight shoulders encase the ribs and restrict breathing. Tight muscles of the shoulder girdle, attached to the rib cage, pull upon the ribs. Before the intercostals can function freely, the ribs must be free of the shoulder girdle.

The general reaction/movement patterns that underlie these patterns of tension are discussed in detail in “Clinical Somatic Education — A New Discipline in the Field of Health Care” by Thomas Hanna.

Closer observation may reveal that in breathing, certain ribs move more than others. Areas over less mobile ribs often feel ticklish or sore. Such areas deserve special attention.

To get your client to relax their neck, especially their scalenes, can also make a big difference in breathing.

A NOTE ON THE INTERCOSTALS

The intercostals do more than mechanically move the ribs in breathing; they also create the sensations of emotion and attitude. Their patterns of contraction create these familiar feelings.

When the intercostals contract the ribs in chronic sorrow, for example, we may find asthma. They may also chronically expand the ribs, in the posture of boistrousness and self-aggrandizement (“puffing oneself up”) — a possible compensation for feelings of inferiority or fear (which coincide with a contracted rib cage). The following sequences address both conditions.

In general, Hanna Somatic Education Practitioners do a special Breathing lesson only after they have done lessons that address the major contraction patterns of stress and injury.

SUMMARY OF STEPS:

1. Free the diaphragm.
2. Free the shoulders from the ribs.
3. Free the ribs from each other (intercostals)
4. Integrate rib and shoulder movements.
5. Free the upper ribs from the neck (scalenes).

Other, substantially more sophisticated maneuvers that evolved out of this approach generate the other changes called for in the sequence listed at the start of the instructional section of this article.

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Free Your Psoas | Locating the Center of Breathing, INSTRUCTION Lawrence Gold

The Psoas Muscles and Breathing
There is a center of breathing — at the region of the diaphragm/solar plexus.
Common breathing instructions would have you breathe into the belly. While this instruction is appropriate for people who are “chest breathers”, as a compensatory instruction, it’s not the final word.

Abdominal breathing instructions liken the diaphragm to a piston that, as it draws out of the chest cavity, produces a suction — inhalation. However, this view is incomplete and actually leads to restriction of the chest, as people overcompensate, breathing into the belly, which, though better than breathing with the chest (so-called, “deep” breathing, which is actually shallow breathing), is less than optimal and has side effects on posture.

Those side effects include tension patterns that disturb balance and movement, including walking.

Walking is the “psoas connection”; the psoas muscles initiate walking movements. The tendons of the iliopsoas muscles “interleave” with those of the diaphragm at the high end of the lumbar spine; movements of one affect movements of the other. So improper breathing from outside the center of breathing causes us to initiate movement from a location other than our central core, contributing to tension and awkwardness (that can be recognized as awkward only in contrast to the feelings of well-integrated movement, which people typically do not have, and which this exercise provides).

In optimal breathing, we expand more like balloons, with the center of breathing being the expansion point and with the breath producing sensations at least to the floor of the pelvis and into the head.

The exercise taught here teaches you how to find that central location and then, after a bit of practice leaves you breathing naturally into and from the center of breathing without any special effort to do so.

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George Will, the “Conservative” Agenda, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) Lawrence Gold

President Obama’s centerpiece work, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (“TPP”) has been highjacked by interests that seek to further economic imbalances and hardship, worldwide, while serving their own interests. Either that, or the TPP is a botched effort at planetary integration.

In his op-ed column, printed, today, George Will came out in favor, not only of the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- the "TPP" -- (which in a healthy form would have world-wide beneficial effects), but in favor of "Fast Track" approval of the TPP:  negotiations conducted behind closed doors, out of reach of public scrutiny, while the terms of that agreement are "Classified" Secret, but are known to heavily favor the further accumulation of wealth by the top 1% of wealth-holders.

As such, he has shown himself not to be a "conservative", but to be a "retrogressive". I will explain why -- but first, some background.

Backing of Fast Track goes against the principles of American Democracy, in which the government is "of the people, for the people, and by the people", and it goes in favor of oligarchy: rule by a dominant class.

Will's support of Fast Track can be justified only by a belief in former Fed Secretary Milton Friedman's, now-discredited "Trickle Down Theory" (which he has, himself, in Congressional hearing, admitted was wrong), in which it is supposed that by favoring money flow to into the hands of the wealthy and their corporations, job creation would result, to the benefit of all: wealth would trickle down the socioeconomic ladder. One of his major errors was to assume that some sort of mechanistic cause-effect relationship existed between concentration of wealth in the hands of the wealthy and job creation, rather than recognizing that a moral (or immoral) decision is involved.

Interesting that the word, "trickle" is accepted even by those who benefit from policy based upon the theory. "Trickle"? How about, "flood" -- "Flood Down" theory? There's a secret, but obvious, reason why advocates use the word, "trickle": they expect only a trickle!

In either case, the theory has been discredited.

In case it isn't obvious, why the theory has been discredited, I'll make it plain and easy:
People and families can spend only so much, no matter how extravagant they may be. The circulation of money that goes into the hands of the very rich gets conserved within their families and corporations in one form or another -- assets, investments. It goes out of, or is restricted from, general circulation.

To boost an economy, money must be in the hands of those who will spend it -- those who have actual need.

Trickle-down theory (and accumulation of disproportionate wealth in the hands of the few) leads to a combination of accumulation of fat in some sectors and starvation in others -- socioeconomic sugar shock -- and that's what we have, world-wide.

The main body of the economic system suffers. The conditions that arise lead to crime (an emergency measure, in the absence of education or personal resourcefulness) and to drug abuse (anaesthetization to ones quality of life) -- which includes alcholism and hard drug use. We might lay lack of education at the door of the uneducated -- and that's what so-called 'conservatives' like to do -- but the difficulty of obtaining higher education for those who are not already well-to-do contributes greatly to the difficulties they have in rising economically and to the shrinkage of the middle-class. So-called conservatives balk at spending for education, despite the fact that it is education, from generation to generation, that preserves and advances civilization; they are contributing to what may be the fall of current Western Civilization.

Thus, Trickle-down Theory and behavior of rich families like the Kochs leads to crime and drug abuse, as well as to slowing or reversing the rise of human civilization (regardless of the arguments of apologists who cite rises in standard of living over that of previous decades.  (Such rises, to any degree that they exist -- and it has been authoritatively argued that, on the whole, quality of life has actually declined -- consider the shrinkage of the middle-class) has occurred *despite* Trickle-down Theory, not because of it.

So Trickle-down Theory -- the only possible justification for Fast Track and the terms of the TPP --  has been invalidated. What, then, is the rationale for the current, "top 1% top-heavy favoritism" that is the TPP (in its current form) and for Fast-Track approval? It's the desire of those in power for more power.

Let's look at that one step deeper.

Bernie Sanders has (in his famous 8-hour filibuster/lecture) characterized the "desire of those in power for more power" as an addiction.

I think his characterization as addiction is apt. It fits the profile of addiction. Let me tell you why, again simply and easily.

The way addictions work is that the addicting substance triggers either a release of endorphins (body-generated "pleasure chemicals") or substitutes for endorphins, producing a pleasurable sensation. The term sometimes used is "endorphin rush".

What happens is that the body absorbs the substance and, over time, either reduces its natural creation of those chemicals (to maintain physiological equilibrium) -- causing dependency on the outside substance -- or the body becomes exhausted in its own ability to produce those chemicals -- again causing dependency on the outside substance. The reduced self-production of endorphins leads to "tolerance" of the drug (decreased pleasure-effect), requiring more and more to produce the same effect, and if continued, to full-fledged, progressive addiction.

For drug addicts and alcoholics, the "outside substance" is the drug or alcohol.

For money-and-power addicts, the "outside substance" is money and power. Every time they make money or gain more power, they get an endorphin rush. But like drug addicts, they require more and more to produce the same effect. Hence, their perpetual search for more.

We may ask, Why do they need stimulation of "pleasure chemicals"?

I say, for the same reason low-income drug addicts need it: They experience a certain "dissatisfaction" with their quality of life. In the case of the wealthy, it's that material wealth is insufficient, by itself, for a satisfying quality of life. They look to acquisitions for satisfaction, but all it does is distract them from their dissatisfaction with the broader view of life that their social position makes necessary -- and with their internal sense of themselves. They substitute thin pride of accomplishment for accumulating wealth (similar to the pride of success in potty-training) for pleasure of accomplishment in doing good. However, they fail to recognize that fact. They believe, "If only I had more, I would be satisfied" -- and away they go. Make sense?

Why are they dissatisfied with their quality of life? The answer is, in large part, because the way of life they live includes the news (and their experience) of how fouled up the world is and they, themselves, are -- which they blame on everyone else, not seeing their part in it. They suffer "tunnel vision" and everyone else suffers the consequences.

In the absence of an effective cure for addiction, what they must be made to do is reduce their dosage of the addicting substance -- and that, they resist until the consequences of their addiction become intolerable to themselves -- just as with a drug addict.

In this case, the reduction of dosage recommended is a decrease in the rate of increase of their wealth by taxation.

Taxation would redistribute wealth into the hands of those who would spend it, thereby stimulating the economy in a healthy way. "When the water level rises, all ships rise." Bernie Sanders has also used this saying to describe the situation.

Back to George Will and political so-called conservativss.

The first thing I want to do is strip them of the term, "conservatives". They are not conservatives. They are not conserving anything but the wealth produced by many concentrated in the hands of the few. In the larger view that includes the experience of 99% of human beings, "conservatives" are retrogressives.

Likewise, by the way, the term, "liberals". The term is misleading, in its usage. It implies, "liberally giving away the store" (in contrast to conserving resources), when in its proper usage, it means, "those who liberate" -- who free others, and themselves, for that matter. ("Liberty")  Unfortunately, the moral position of "liberals" is compromised by their failure to distinguish healthy Capitalism from unhealthy Capitalism.

I can clarify the difference between healthy Capitalism and unhealthy Capitalism easily and clearly:
Healthy Capitalism regulates itself to bring about the greatest good for the greatest number; it's sociocentric (socially, rather than only self-centered) and world-centric in its intelligence; it seeks a balance of effects that can be effectively regulated. (Note that health of an organism requires balanced self-regulation, and that 'so-called conservatives' are, in principle, against regulation. They're like spoiled children.)  Unhealthy Capitalism believes that Capitalism is moral justification for unbridled greed without regard for the larger effects; it's egocentric Capitalism that believes, "if it's legal, it's moral", (or at least, excusable).

So, George Will and the political 'so-called conservativss' of both major American parties, are retrogressives. They are a big drag upon the whole, world-wide socioeconomic system because they are so out of balance.

Stimulus packages only put the foot down harder on the "accelerator". Retrogressive 'conservatism' is a brake. We need to take the foot off the brake -- strip retrogressive 'conservatives' of the legitimacy of their position and reverse their sugar-shock effect upon the economy -- and we need to bring more intelligence to the "liberal/progressive" agenda.


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