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    Default Re: WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

    I'm convinced that it is not repetition that causes breakthroughs in learning, but rather repeated exposure to variations on a theme that cause breakthroughs in learning.

    I so admire your patience, Wade. My own conditioning into the scarcity paradigm has gone from the state where I was oblivious to it, to the place where its façade is cracking apart bit by bit. I can't even pinpoint what in your answer to Ulli formed yet another crack, but it did for me.

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    Hi Dennis:

    You are especially one of those whom I do this for. Thanks for the message. It really is important to me to read stuff like that. Also, it is how I learned a lot of what I know, as I took different approaches to issues, put information together in different ways, and things began to become clearer. But if I not had my wild ride with Dennis (the other Dennis), there are all sorts of horizons of awareness that I would have never approached.

    As I have written, I was a "seat-of-the-britches" comprehensivist, and encountering Fuller's work was revelatory:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller

    and there are still times, even today and while writing my big essay, when I would get an aha moment, and say, "Ah, that was what Bucky was referring to."

    So, I can appreciate how it can take a very long time for it to sink in, and scarcity is so deeply baked into human awareness that it can be as invisible as the air we breathe.

    And writing that response to Ulli even made me think about my essay, and I tweaked it a little, to make sure that my message was clear.

    Back to work.

    Love,

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    Hi:

    Briefly, Orwell's observation:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#orwell

    was really about how the intellectuals of the in-group justify the in-group's crimes against the out-group, whether the out-group was of a different race, gender, nation, class, ideology, ethnicity, profession, or species. The same actions committed against the in-group are universally recognized as crimes by the in-group, but become heroic deeds when committed against the out-group. Orwell was very clear about that in his 1984:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell

    But there is a level of the game that even prevents dealing with the crimes: pretending that they never happened, as Orwell noted about nationalists:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#orwell

    That is the kind of dynamic regarding George Washington, where his greatest achievement/crime is swept under the carpet as if it never happened:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint

    and instead, his honesty was extolled in literal fairy tales:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#weems

    That he helped secure a continent for his in-group (while consequently becoming the richest man in his in-group), is the stuff that "fathers of the country" are made from, or Columbus's genocidal deeds:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide

    or the USA's "life-saving" nuking of Japan:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping

    and so on. That is exactly the kind of behavior that Jesus remarked on when he said that what we did to the least of us, we did to him. That was a master speaking, but Christians almost never really understood, as they justified the most heinous acts against non-Christians, and even each other. Nobody has been more murderous to Christians than Christians.

    While I live in a rainforest, during the past year, when I have not been drawing a paycheck, I have only hiked in nice weather, but those fairy tale days will likely end soon, and today I will hike in the rain. While nice weather is nice, there is also a certain charm about hiking in a rainforest in the rain, and I need to get used to it again, as I am about to become a weekend warrior again, and hiking come rain or shine will be my future.

    Back to work.

    Best,

    Wade
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    I don't know if Dennis did it on purpose but the attached picture of sculpture named Expansion is by the artist Paige Bradley who through her art wants us to remember of lost feminine element and to bring it back into society to achieve harmony.
    http://paigebradley.com/sculpture/go...ionary-column/
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    I came up with something that i can't comprehend and it regards women. Please don't laugh... Why on Earth USA gov appoints women as their spokespersons to lie it's way out of hot situations in front of journalist crowds eager to grill them (at least some of them)? What's up with them (spokespersons)? Can't they see through the lies they help to sweep under the carpet? Are they so brainwashed to actually believe what they say? And newspapers in my country repeat what they say as truth proven beyond all doubt...
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    Hi Robert:

    What, you think that lying is the exclusive province of men?

    I have written the book on how the media operates:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big

    The media is run by a global oligarchy, and it is one of seven global cartels that run the global economy:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc

    In all nations that are "democratic," disinformation is a primary governance mechanism. The UK and the USA have long honed their propaganda methods, and if eye-candy mouthpieces can spout the lies, then so much the better.

    Yes, most are so brainwashed that they believe what they say. Not all are, but most are. It is like that in all areas, such as medicine:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#system

    and that is another area where women have been used for their looks. The sales reps for biomedical companies generally have fashion model looks, so they get the attention of the doctors who are essentially marketing conduits for the drug companies. I do not know if you would call them hookers, but it is close.

    In all the rackets, people have sold their souls, at varying levels of awareness that they are selling them. But without the public giving its power away and being easily deceived/herded, the rackets would not work. I work more on our end, of not buying the garbage, instead of assailing those who purvey it. I never watch the "news," so my blood pressure does not go up watching the lies.

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    Hi:

    Another essay revised:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm

    and a couple observations that I have made before….

    The same "progressive" and "environmental" organizations that could get enough of Heinberg's dirge of doom completely shut out Brian O in those days of 2003-2004. Also, that drumbeat of doom likely contributed to Ruppert shooting himself in the head earlier this year.

    That focus on doom while simultaneously denying solutions has been one of the more bizarre upshots of my journey. When I saw Heinberg and Ruppert do it, I then began my "hooked on scarcity" writings.

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    Hi:

    Another revision is finished:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm

    I am really starting to get down there, to where there is not much left that I want to revise.

    I am just now getting the forum on my site developed, and I may launch it before the essay is published, but only a little before. The material in the upcoming essay will be the forum's primary focus, but the territory that the essay covers is so vast that it definitely will not be a one-note choir.

    Ever since I realized that all-comers forums were a dead-end for work like mine:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll1

    I decided that I needed to make my own forum, and that was my plan, until I saw Bill start this one. This one is well along the way to what I was looking for: a forum where trolls did not reign. But my forum will be more focused than this one, and my goal is developing that choir, and that will take hard work, both for me and the choir.

    As I have stated before, I may post to this forum and that one, but time will tell. I will be resuming my career soon (I hope!), and my time will be limited. Writing that essay may be the last time for many years that I can devote so much concentrated effort to my life's work. From here on out, most of the work will be done by those in the choir, and those who listen to it. None of it will be easy, but I do not need money to do it. This will be a totally volunteer effort.

    I have had ideas over the years of just what that forum will look like and what topics it will discuss, but I do not know just how it will turn out. But what I do know is that the early days in particular are about hitting the notes, not the numbers, so it will go very slowly to begin with.

    The kinds of writings that I want the choir to make will be deeply thoughtful, and two examples that come to mind are what David posted here last year:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post749983

    and what Melinda posted in a new thread recently:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post853278

    That kind of deep thought is what I am looking for, and Melinda did it from the poets' side of the house, so it definitely does not need to be all scientific stuff, but energy needs to be front and center, because that is what it all rides on.

    I will have a visions thread, for instance, like we have here at Avalon:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...A-Future-Earth

    and I will likely retread my writings on that subject in my forum, too.

    Some scientific literacy is required for those in the choir, however, as only those who have some can really begin to understand how the world really works. The mindset that allows for scientific literacy is also one that can begin to distinguish ultimate and proximate causes. For instance, oil is the primary cause for everything that is happening in today's Middle East. Everything else is only a side-show:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate

    and it has been that way since at least 1911, when Winston Churchill changed the fuel for the British Navy from coal to oil. When people begin to debate ethnic and religious tensions there, and think that they are very causative, they are losing sight of the big picture, which has always been and always will be based on economics, which has always been and always will be based on the level of energy usage. If there is any "law" of the journey of life on Earth and the human journey, it is that one. And that is what my upcoming essay is intended to make clear, and those who do the work, even if they are poets, will gain enough scientific literacy to understand.

    When Brian O taught at universities, especially at Princeton, he taught "physics for poets." My upcoming essay might be called "comprehensive thinking for poets."

    If I did not think that poets could develop some of the required understanding from reading my essay, I would not have written it. Scientists have been the most impressed by my essay so far, but they cannot be my only audience. I need poets, too. As I have also written, I will need women, in particular. The FE field is a boys' club today, and that is partly why the field has been in a state of arrested development for longer than I have been alive, even while FE technology has been around for longer than I have been alive:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground

    In general, my forum's members will not be posting the latest YouTube video, but a link to the latest scientific paper. It has to be a high level conversation that is focused on the issues that the essay explores, not some New Age or conspiracist venue. There are already enough of those in the Internet. My forum will be something different, and we will see if it can make a dent.

    Back to work.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi:

    As I get close to the end of revising another essay, I am reminded what kind of "visionaries" dominate today's world. All of them that I have seen, to one extent or another, are trying to be a "visionaries" within a paradigm of energy scarcity. I have yet to see a vision within an energy scarcity paradigm that I wanted to witness come to fruition. Fuller noted that all previous Utopias were based on a vision of shared austerity, which is why they never worked:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#austerity

    More than one reader has contacted me over the years, stating that they searched the world for many years, and the only visionary who had an abundance-based vision was me. Well, any visionary who really groks FE is going to be an abundance-based visionary. But almost every pursuing FE today is still rooted within the scarcity paradigm. So, if even the people thinking about FE everyday cannot shake scarcity, what kind of chance does an FE newbie have? Not much, and that is partly why I say that those needles in haystacks that will form the choir will have to go deeply, and have a radical reorientation, in order to really understand my message. It is not easy, as scarcity is so deeply baked that it is like the air we breathe. If enough of us can simply imagine abundance, it will be a great help in manifesting it. Again, Godzilla's greatest triumph is making a world based on abundance unimaginable, and my goal is making it imaginable. Seems like it would be easy, right? There might not be a more difficult task on Earth.

    Back to work.

    Best,

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    Hi:

    Another one down:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm

    As an addendum to my previous post, so-called "visionaries" within the energy scarcity paradigm can become suicidal, like Ruppert did:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#suicide

    That is the kind of "visionary" stuff that we can do without.

    Time for some chores.

    Best,

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    Quote Post 3846 : “I never watch the "news," so my blood pressure does not go up watching the lies.”
    I second that. Reading the news leaves a lot more room for more subtle levels of consciousness to consider the info.

    Quote Post 3848 : “I will have a visions thread, for instance, like we have here at Avalon”
    I’m really pleased - knowing that’s in your plans. It’s inspiring to think of the different facets of the topic being gathered in one venue – creating multiple harmonies.

    ~

    It’s been so wonderful journeying through this thread – I lost count of the number of times I’ve been uplifted by the varied voices here.

    Posts from David, Dennis, Ilie, Kudzy, Limor, Robert, Sandy and other contributors... weaving through and merging the creative and analytical.

    I’m especially inspired when I read people sharing heartfelt explorations in a language that isn’t even their first.

    A place for poets and scientists – scientists honouring their poetic souls, and poets galvanized by scientific insight - each a visionary and a healer, looking for ways to mend our path.

    Lots of goodness here. Thank you Wade.


    T h a n k s t o a l l ...

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    Thanks Melinda:

    In the end, my work is almost all about "visions." Most of my work is to get people to realize that almost all visions on Earth today are based on scarcity, and that is no vision at all, not when I know that FE is already here.

    I also have too much real world experience in trying to make abundance happen, and am also here to dissuade the many "bright ideas" that people have, that are often mired in scarcity, but often subtly. Inexperience and naiveté in the FE pursuit can be fatal, and I am here to help prevent those fates.

    As I said in Bill and Kerry's Camelot interview:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#imagine

    all I am really trying to do is get people to imagine abundance. I meant it.

    Off to chores.

    Best,

    Wade

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    On a roll…

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm

    As I have been revising these essays from a decade ago, a few things are striking me. One is that my understanding and approach has really not changed much in the past decade. It was more about finding the proper audience, the strategy that might work, and those last few essays that I revised were written in the depths of my midlife crisis, and as I review those essays, I have to admit that I can't see much of my midlife crisis in them. In fact, what readers long said was my most uplifting essay:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm

    was actually written in the darkest days of my midlife crisis, to finally come to a head when Dennis invited me to the White House a few months later.

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife

    So, I think that writing back then was a form of therapy for me, to keep me "up." So, if I could that when I was in that much agony, I think that I can handle my upcoming effort, but we will see.

    To the essay that I just revised, I added this paragraph:

    "In 2014, as a result of my studies that led to my big essay, I think that I have an answer to that question above. For each event in the human journey where a significant new energy source tapped, they led to the changes that humanity then experienced. Indeed, the first one may have led to the evolution of humanity, and others led to civilization, the end of slavery, and the liberation of women. Each time, only a relative handful of people harnessed the new energy source, and that increase in energy propelled the next epoch of the human journey, and it changed humanity in ways that were unimaginable to those living before the new energy source was harnessed. If nothing else, it leads me to believe that I am heading in a direction that at least is consistent with how the previous energy breakthroughs were attained. For humanity's masses, it will be energy first, and enlightenment later."

    That was my most significant revision.

    Maybe I will try to knock off another before the day is done.

    Best,

    Wade

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    Default Re: WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

    Hi:

    Another one down:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm

    It is one heck of a lot easier to revise my more recent essays, partly because they are relatively short, but also because they are closer to my style today, and the pages are close to the format that I publish in.

    Maybe I will get one more done today.

    Best,

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    Default Re: WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

    Hi:

    One more down:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm

    There is really not much left to revise. One reviewer suggested that I make a new section in my big essay, to show more clearly the connection between energy and economics, and what running out of energy looks like. I decided to add it, but it will not take too long, as the pieces of it are scattered across the essay (and the rest of my site deals with various aspects of it). It will be more like a summary than much new material.

    Back to work.

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    Hi, me again...

    This time WiReD reports on gender bias in the tech start-ups fundrising campaigns:
    WiReD: This Is What Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like
    Wade writes regularly about not enough women involved in technology. Judging by the above, there is another conundrum in there And it's men who make rules. At least as for today. Thankfully, the report gives some hope

    More tech & design reports by the author, Issie Lapowski
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    Hi:

    I drafted that new, short chapter.

    We will see what the final edition looks like.

    Best,

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    What Running out of Energy Looks Like


    During the eon of complex life, when ecosystems had their energy supplies disrupted, they collapsed and mass extinctions resulted. The oceanic mass extinctions before the appearance of humans were due to anoxia, temperature change, hydrogen sulfide events, and other physical events. An asteroidal "winter" helped drive dinosaurs to extinction. When that asteroid(s?)-induced global "winter" blocked sunlight, the ecosystems had an energy shortage at their base, as photosynthesis was interrupted, both on land and in water. That dinosaur-destroying asteroid(s?) also incinerated land-based ecosystems. Probably no pre-human mass extinctions were caused by disruptions at the food chains' tops, but near their base. Human-caused extinctions had different dynamics.

    The Sixth Mass Extinction began with humans hunting large herbivores to extinction, which in turn drove their predators to extinction, which also had cascading ecosystem effects, particularly for keystone species such as proboscideans. The so-called trophic cascades that scientists have been studying have been all human-induced, as humans removed predators, who were their energetic competitors. Driving the world's large animals to extinction was likely the impetus behind the Domestication Revolution, and agriculture led to the first civilizations. The first civilizations, located in the Fertile Crescent, also impaired their energy supplies through unsustainable practices such as deforestation and plow agriculture. Those civilizations all collapsed, and the death knell was always starvation, which is running out of the energy needed to fuel human bodies.

    There was an exodus from Mesopotamia and vicinity to lands yet to be despoiled by civilization, and that is how Jews and other peoples ended up on the Mediterranean's periphery. In their turn, those Mediterranean civilizations repeated the dynamic of deforestation and agriculture, and they all eventually collapsed, from Minoan to Mycenaean to Classic Greek to Roman. In those examples, the trajectory was generally one of profligate deforestation and agriculture on exposed forest soils, to a decline in yields due to soil depletion and desertification, to a belated attempt at conservation and attempts to boost the energy supply, to a final collapse. Conquering and plundering one's neighbors was one way to temporarily boost the energy supply, which Rome refined to a science, as it drove species and peoples to extinction. As Rome's EROI declined, it had to plunder from farther and farther abroad, which further reduced its EROI. Those practices were anything but sustainable, and when each civilization collapsed, the region went moribund for centuries as ecosystems recovered to the point where they could sustain civilization again. However, those practices eventually turned verdant forests into deserts, as any visitor to the Mediterranean can easily see. The energy provided by wood and soils was depleted by all early civilizations, and their collapses were energy crises above all else.

    As industrial civilization has been declining, those hundreds of billions of energy slaves have been the first to starve, and the USA's first taste was the crisis of 1973-1974; cars sat in gas lines, waiting their turn to get their energy, which happened a few years after American oil production peaked. The USA has largely been spared it as of 2014, but other industrial nations, or those beginning to industrialize, have suffered brownouts, where the electricity supply is temporarily diminished. That can make cities grind to a halt. Those are effects of a declining energy supply in industrialized nations. While energy slaves are the first to feel the effects, they suffer in silence. Food shortages are when energy shortages really begin to hurt, literally, as people go hungry, and few suffer that deprivation with equanimity. In the USA in 2014, tens of millions of people, in history's richest and most powerful nation, have difficulty staving off hunger.

    That is all a result of not only the total available energy declining, but also declining EROI. In the end, energy surplus is the most meaningful standard of living measure. Declining total available energy and EROI contribute to a declining energy surplus. Most people have some understanding of hunger, and if they have experienced blackouts, brownouts, or gas shortages, the loss of energy has been keenly felt. But the decline of industrial civilization has many other signs that comfortable Westerns can have difficulty grasping, and the following examples are intended to make it clearer.

    As previously stated, shale oil and tar sands have abysmally low EROIs, which are likely too low to sustain industrial civilization, but they are being presented today as some kind of magic answer to the USA's energy problems. But, what does that mean, as far as what a person could witness in such a declining civilization? The impact of Canada's tar sands operations can provide a preview. Not only do Canada's tar sands operations remind visitors of Tolkien's Mordor (Source: Wikimedia Commons – google "tar sands Mordor" and view the image results):

    but the pollution will inflict an awesome price on Canada, with the tar sands region being a "national sacrifice zone." But that low EROI reflects highly practical impacts. A huge proportion of Canada's natural gas supply will be needed for extracting and processing the tar sands, and multi-billion-dollar pipelines and other infrastructure projects are proceeding. Beleaguered Native American nations are being overwhelmed with the industrial initiatives, which are already creating economic and environmental havoc. I am hearing from local friends in the summer of 2014 that the projected pipeline to the nearby waters of British Columbia will present great environmental risk, and the only question is not if disastrous oil spills will happen, but how many and how large they will be. One of Earth's most diverse aquatic ecosystems will be put at risk (Puget Sound is in second place to the Great Barrier Reef). The Fukushima and Gulf Horizon energy disasters may only be a preview of future events. The USA's invasion of Iraq and its military presence in the Middle East is all about controlling Earth's remaining high-EROI oil. Everything else pales into insignificance. Ever since the UK's navy converted to oil from coal in 1911, the West has been invading and meddling in the oil-rich Middle East. The USA's Persian Gulf War of 1991 and invasion of Iraq in 2003 may be seen by future historians, if there are any, as the first salvos of World War III.

    I try to avoid using the terminology and ideology of the largely meaningless financial economy, as it is an accounting fiction with little relevance to the real world, but discussing a few financial terms can make it clearer to some readers. The USA's real wages per hour peaked in 1973, when its first oil crisis began, and history's greatest era of economic prosperity ended. American energy consumption per capita also peaked then, as the dramatic rise in energy consumption that powered the Industrial Revolution ended, and the average American's energy consumption and real wages have subsequently declined by about the same proportion.

    This essay is intended to help people understand what is really happening, and the decline in real wages per hour is only a financial measure of the decline in energy consumption. Energy is the basis for all of this world's wealth. That is why all financial strategies to "make America great again" (Ronald Reagan's rallying cry) are meaningless. To American workers who often only think in terms of money, as that is how they buy what they eat, declining energy consumption not only meant reduced paychecks, but social goods such as a low-cost college education, which I received virtually for free in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has been replaced with crippling debt as each student's "graduation present" in 2014, unless the student had parents from the affluent class. Since the 1930s, the American government's budget has been overwhelmingly devoted to warfare, which is simply robbery, on several levels. An American president who was a former general even admitted it, as did one of the USA's most beloved military leaders. If they can even hold their marriages together, both parents in American households work outside of their homes today, when only one did during the postwar boom.

    The deindustrialization and financialization of the USA's economy since the energy crisis of 1973-1974 has essentially been class warfare by the global capitalist class against the global working class, in what has been called the "Race to the Bottom." But class warfare and other such strategies are doomed ways to maintain or enhance one's economic position, which Fuller noted are like rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic. The banks have been blowing serial asset price bubbles, which further enrich the rich at the expense of the lower classes. If the American dollar loses its reserve status, another subsidy to the American economy will disappear, which will further mark the decline of the USA as an imperial power. There are no political or social solutions to running out of energy, other than for people to get out of the way and stop suppressing FE and its attendant technologies, either consciously, as the GCs and lower-level energy interests do, or mindlessly, as when the masses help crucify those trying to prevent Spaceship Earth from crashing.

    At the family budget level, energy (gasoline, food, etc.), housing, medicine, and the like cost more, and wages are lower for those fortunate enough to keep their jobs, social goods such as education are prohibitively more expensive, and less money is available for anything beyond survival. The idea of discretionary income is probably the financial economy's closest concept to energy surplus, and as the American middle class has been shrinking, discretionary income has been vanishing. That dynamic happened in history's richest and most powerful nation during the 40 years since energy consumption began declining. Global oil production peaked in 2006, and the rest of the world's nations will decline like the USA has, but from a far lower initial plateau. Those are the important measures, not financial ones. In a world of scarcity, the exchange function of economics assumes great importance at the social level, as people scrap for their piece of the scarce economic pie. But fighting over slices does not help grow the pie. In a world of abundance, money and financial concepts truly become meaningless.
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    Hi Robert:

    And high-tech is the "enlightened" sector of the USA's economy.

    Capitalism is still a boy's club, I am sorry to say, and probably always will be, as it sanctifies greed. All of today's "isms" will quickly become dinosaurs when FE makes its appearance, and boys' club stuff will join them.

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    I can't help myself Last week i stumbled at littleBits company. It's founder, Ayah Bdeir is a woman The company sells DIY kits for kids (and grown-ups too!) introducing electronic modular components, that you just snap together with built in magnet sockets. It allows anybody to make proof of concept prototypes or test ideas in "no time". Here is a link to the interview with Ayah, featuring some lB kits in action: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8H91YN8Wg1o (~8 minutes long)

    There is still hope for more women in tech

    Best part (imho), is where the littleBits' users are exposed to constant need for energy to power up their creations This is also somewhat "dangerous", for the company and for the users, as "Necessity is the mother of invention"... Do you know what i mean? Despite this, I wish all well for them


    And this week, NewScientis writes about US gov coming up with computer chatbot system for assessing employees' personality weaknesses. It turns up people will tell all their "dirty secrets", they would "normally" omit in their questionnaires, to the chatbot I wonder if such a system could keep psychopaths at bay? I guess they would still lie but their "lie signature" must be different from "regular liars" in particular situations.


    EDIT:
    Some time ago I'd read another article in NewScientist on people's truthfulness regarding electronic communications. It turns out the phone calls are most prone to lying, next comes face-to-face and least prone to lying are emails. There is less chance of lying if speakers assume the conversation is being recorded.

    EDIT#2:
    I really can't explain it, but today WiReD posted a piece about "art" of internet sockpupetry to deceive people. Don't freak out Turn your integrity on As you can see Wade has sound reasons to protect his website from predators...
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    Hi Robert:

    I have been in high-tech since the 1990s and, believe me, it is leaps and bounds ahead of other industries in how it treats women, varied sexual orientations, people of color, and so on. But as that article that you posted shows, it still has a long way to go.

    OK, this will be a psychopath post.

    On psychopaths, there are tests for them:

    https://suite.io/tami-port/c0g2m4

    But I will not be administering them.

    However, I will kind of have my own tests, where people are going to have to be singing publicly, like those examples that I recently listed:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post857977

    or the kind of comments that Ilie makes, over years. I am no rush to recruit anybody to the choir. Ilie is my gold standard of what I am looking for. Can a psychopath appear to be like Ilie (or Dennis Leahy) for very long? That is kind of doubtful. I have been around quite a few psychopaths, I am sorry to say, and others with diagnosable conditions such as Borderline Personality Disorder. I have gotten pretty good at spotting them, especially when their masks slip a little. I have seen where it slipped and they could not tell that it did – psychopaths cannot really hide who they are for all that long - if you are around them long enough, you can see the slips, as they really do not think like Boy Scouts, even though try to appear like they do. I will also have to be wary of borderlines who will see me as some kind of hero that is going to save the world, who will then see me as the devil when I do not measure up to their fantasy of what they want me to be.

    However, I am designing what I do so that my efforts will not be very susceptible to them, even when they wiggle their way into what I am doing. For one thing, I am not proposing anything heroic, so putting me into the hero mold is not going to work. Also, psychopaths thrive in the anonymous Internet culture, and there will not be any anonymity in what I will be doing. There will be no anonymity, no secrets, no money involved, and that is going to kind of drain the swamp, as far as psychopaths are concerned, as it will remove their tools and even their incentive to be involved (at least the free-lancers). FE means realities beyond the dreams of avarice:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion

    if it was going to be done in capitalist style, but my effort will be open-sourced and given away. Not even "normal" people can resist the lure of greed for long, and the psychopaths flock to things like capitalistic FE efforts. Not only is the potential mind-boggling for FE, but Godzilla's sledgehammer engenders plenty of fear. When the authorities come knocking, or the media mounts its smear campaigns, to where your own mother saves the clippings about you and campaigns to your friends, family, and business associates about what a criminal you are:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ure#post300436

    that becomes a golden opportunity for psychopaths to work their magic. Average people, whose motivations are all fear-based (greed is the fear of never having enough), are putty in their hands, and they can easily get the masses to cheer at the public execution of the saints. The first time that I witnessed it, it was one of my awakening moments:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient1

    and I would witness many such events over the years, where the masses cannot tell the difference between the psychopaths and the saints. I have encountered psychopaths on Godzilla's payroll:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#texas

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces

    many free-lancers, and some that I am not sure about:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel

    But it is really not too important whether the psychopaths are doing it because it is their job or they are just exploiting "opportunities," as the results of their activities are the same.

    Years after Mr. Engineer had his harsh experience of going to work for Mr. Texas:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scoff

    he admitted to Mr. Researcher that they were a couple of saps, and they were far older than I was, with Mr. Engineer nearly 70, and he once ran the world's biggest factory. What made what Mr. Engineer did incredible to me was that he saw what happened in Seattle. That woman who Bill the Hit Man's activities killed worked for Mr. Engineer:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#death

    At Avalon, for instance, even though it is largely a conspiracist forum, I regularly see a great deal of naïveté, and the general public, particularly Americans, are deeply naïve. Again, naïveté is no crime. I began my journey naively:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive

    and everybody that I respected in the FE and other fields began their journeys naively, usually as overgrown Boy Scouts:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts

    Try as I might, there are going to be naïve people in my effort. I am almost more concerned about letting in the naïve than I am the psychopaths. That is partly why I have designed what I am doing so that the psychopaths will have a difficult time preying on the naïve. Anybody who starts openly wondering how we can make money at it and other self-serving goals, will either be the weak links or the psychopaths, so self-serving talk will immediately identify them. I hope that my screening process is good enough so that I do not have to weed many out of my effort, but some will definitely get the boot, but since they will have nothing invested, they really cannot cry foul and realistically mount some kind of effort to destroy what I will be doing. Again, the free-lance psychopaths will really not have much incentive to infiltrate, and the structure will make it hard for Godzilla's psychopaths to work too much mischief. And my process of finding needles in haystacks is going to go a long way toward keeping them out.

    The people that I will be looking for will recognize my work as something different, will dive in, and not come up for air for months or years, but when they do, they will be singing. Almost nobody is even willing to attempt something like that. That is why I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, but only those needles are really going to be helpful for my effort.

    No anonymity will eliminate a great deal of psychopathic opportunity, and not having any money involved will be the greatest protection against the psychopaths and those who employ them. If people do not have the lure of money in front of them, they will be very hard to seduce, especially via playing to greed. Also, the establishment uses money changing hands as its primary avenue for wiping out efforts, using consumer "protection" laws. Also, my effort will not be a conspiracist effort, and conspiracists suffer from paranoia and other delusions, but probably most importantly, they think like victims:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness

    as does nearly everybody, and my work will likely not be attractive to them.

    So, an effort with no anonymity, where nobody makes any money, and what they eventually come up with, the most lucrative technology in history, will be given away, where the effort strives to achieve a creator's perspective, not a victim's - that is not going to be easy to stop. The hard part will be getting it going, but that structure also is going to greatly increase the odds that I am going to attract the kind of people that I am looking for: those with that heart-centered sentience. If Brian was around to see it, he would see elements of his efforts in mine. Brian was looking for altruistic zillionaires. As I have been writing, and in my essay particularly, "rich philanthropist" is an oxymoron. But the idea of using benevolent intent has been there from the beginning, and was what Dennis always sought. He almost never found it, but he always looked for it. Dennis put his heat pumps on people's homes for free:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs

    so, he would see his idea taken to the next level in what I am attempting. I began this post with a high-tech comment, and I will finish with one. The open-source movement reflects the innocence of high-tech. That "don't be evil" slogan of Google's shows how they are at least trying to not be openly capitalist sharks. Also, at one company that I worked for, they were the company's biggest customer, and I could see how they struggled with the capitalist imperative, not always successfully, but they were at least trying. While I am no Bill Gates fan, that he lives the kind of unassuming life that he does:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates

    is actually pretty standard for West Coast high-tech. I know lots of rich people in high-tech, and they are surprisingly down-to-Earth (Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, and Steve Ballmer are exceptions; more from the standard capitalist mold). What I will be attempting will be using the innocence and idealism of high-tech.

    Back to work.

    Best,

    Wade
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