WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

Yes indeed, it is not easy being here, in a world of scarcity and fear. Believe me, I feel your pain. Those I respected the most always had their hearts in the right place, and even though they got wrecked and shortened lives from their heart-led journeys, they were happy they did it. I don't regret a step of my journey.

My work is ultimately about "doing something." It is about doing something this day. It is about developing the most transformative technology in the human journey and giving it away. If there is an act of higher integrity to be achieved on Earth, I don’t know what it is. But that is the crux of the conundrum, because almost nobody on Earth possesses the slightest amount of integrity, and their horizons of awareness stop at their immediate self-interest. So it is, in a world of scarcity and fear. It won’t take many to do it, but garage tinkerers, would-be Messiahs and other assorted heroes, and the like are not going to get it done. But enough people with the right stuff, properly trained, aligning their efforts, can. The love and enlightenment path to FE has never been tried before, other than Level 19 masters, but it was only for them. You have an opportunity to help move the ball down the field, in a big way, Robert. How many lifetimes have you had that opportunity? An interesting time to be alive, even if 99.9% of us are currently asleep, living in scarcity and fear.

To all:

I sat down to write a post on economics and energy. I had a chat with a pal recently, who has received both barrels of Wade's World for the past decade and has always eaten it up, even if it seemed incredible at first (he did his homework and discovered the reality of my journey (he read Gary Wean's book, for instance) – I don’t get many like that). Like me, he is a trained accountant, and I am the first person he ever met who really talked about the economic centrality of energy. He was trained in economics like I was, in business school. Economics is a fake science, and economics textbooks are not worth the paper they are printed on. People with academic economics training are at a great disadvantage for understanding how the world really works. Scientists understand how bogus modern economic theory is, but few others do. That history's greatest energy mogul was the patron of neoclassical economic theory is highly curious, as it made energy and resources invisible and focused on social theory. Money is nothing more than an accounting abstraction, but in a world of egocentric focus, people think that money actually means something, because that is how they meet their immediate needs. Money does nothing more than motivate humans in a world of scarcity. In a world of abundance, it is meaningless.

On this thread, you can periodically see scientifically illiterate people bomb in here and say, "Energy, so what?" They demote energy below social dynamics, as they get the relationship exactly backwards. The big social changes all rode on the backs of great economic changes, which were always about tapping a new energy source. The Epochal Events of the human journey were all that way. In that way, Marx got it right, in that social relations were dependent on economic ones. Heck, even the anatomical changes that led to humanity were that way. But I am sure that I have not seen the last of somebody writing on this thread, "Energy, so what?"

It takes some scientific literacy to understand the role of energy in our world, and because about 95% of humanity is scientifically illiterate, my work won't reach them, although I designed my big essay so that people do not need to be professional scientists to understand. But they have to want to understand, and few do.

Is my path the only one to take to FE? Heck no, but nobody has tried this path before, and the others I have tried, seen, and heard of are exercises in futility and can be suicidal, although there is no end of FE newbies who advocate them, stuck in scarcity and fear like they are. People who read my work and then want to rush out and "do something" on the FE path are free to, but I don’t want to hear their tales of woe when they get done, if they survive the experience. I have given people the opportunity to "do something": read my essay and discuss it with me. So far, almost nobody has done so. If people don’t even have that much gumption, how do they think they are really going to help make FE happen? My way will work, if I can find enough people with the right stuff and train them. Finding them will be the hard part. This is not going to happen on our lunch hours, but manifesting the biggest event in the human journey I doubt is supposed to be easy. It sure has not been easy so far.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Ernie Nemeth]

Sometimes, like in the first heady days of this thread, you take my breath away!

That is the best post, with heart, which you demonstrably always have had, that I have read in some time.

Thank you.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ernie. I dunno, it seemed like a pretty typical post of mine. My work is always heartfelt, believe me. It comes with being emotionally centered. Living with this stuff every day for more than 40 years has meant many ups and downs.

Just last night, something spurred me to get Gary's book and take it to bed with me, and sure enough, Fred Otash was the person Gary wrote about who tried to get the tape of JFK and Monroe in the sack. Gary thought that Otash was never successful, but he might have been. So I added that tidbit to my essay. Otash's work inspired the move LA Confidential. Gary thought that Otash was scum. Otash worked for Cohen and others, doing dirty work. Gary was the Real McCoy.

Now I remembered why I looked Gary up. I was looking at traffic to my site and saw that hits were coming from a forum that I have contributed to, and I saw Gary's book being discussed, once again.

Briefly, before it is off to work (and I will work all weekend this weekend, once again, so I will work about a month straight with no days off, such is how my career has gone), Darren is a very good example of what I am looking for. He has a sense of the magnitude of FE, and helping in any small way is plenty for him in this lifetime, and I am offering him a lot more than that. He said that if he could have polished the lenses of Galileo's telescope, that would have been plenty for him. FE is a little bigger.

As Robert wrote, I make many warnings to gung-ho newbies, and people get tired of reading them. I doubt that I can make too many warnings, especially when I see gung-hoers bombing in here and elsewhere.

FE is like the One Ring, and I have watched people transform into Orcs before my eyes, as they lusted after the ring, sold out those around them, wiped each other out, etc. Very few people have mature, grounded, and productive reactions to the idea of FE. That is partly why my essay deals in depth with the energy issue, from the beginnings of our solar system to today, so that a comprehensive perspective can be gained. That way, the information is grounded and people don't go flying off the handle into the many crazed directions that people take. I have watched people literally go insane, be overcome by greed, think they are the Messiah, and so on. Many think that Dennis a crazy religious zealot, and to a degree, that is true, but he probably needed a little of that to survive his journey. His religious fanaticism, like his former nationalist fanaticism, largely reflects his redneck heritage. We are all marked by our journeys. Ten "fanatics" like Dennis, uniting their efforts, and we would have had FE long ago.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Continuing my posts on engines. I realize that I got confused between Mr. Mentor engine and Victor Fischer engine.



Anyway. The standard car engine / power plant works in the gas phase for which efficiency is given by Carnot. Which is the brown area in the picture for water + temperatures above 705 Kelvin at any pressure.

Below 705 Kelvin there are advantages to working along the liquid/vapor curve. Black line between Green (liquid) and Brown (vapor). My understanding is that both Fischer Engine and Mr. Mentor engine take advantage of that and therefore get better efficiency.

This is the end on my knowledge on this topic. More to investigate. Striling Engine and Hydraulic Engine. Unfortunately wikipedia lacks depth in these areas.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Freeknowledge:

Those temperature/pressure curves have been used for arguing for their higher efficiencies, but I am going to throw out some other ideas, some I heard from Mr. Mentor and Fischer, and others I stumbled over while studying their engines a quarter-century ago.

It is easy to confuse their engines, as they have similarities. Mr. Mentor's has the boiling gas compress itself back into a liquid, to then run hydraulic motors, while Fischer's turns back into a liquid during the power stroke. Both were more than remarkable, and a federal study, whose results were read into the Congressional Record, concluded that Mr. Mentor's engine was by far the best for powering an automobile.

If you think about an automobile engine or a steam turbine in a power plant, they exhaust high temperature gas. A car simply exhausts it to the environment, while a steam turbine uses cold water to re-condense the water back to a liquid, to go through the cycle again. Both waste one hell of a lot of energy exhausting it like that.

One of the more ingenious aspects of Mr. Mentor's engine was that when it braked, it re-pressurized the hydraulic accumulator, like putting the burned gasoline back in the tank. In the end, engines lose their efficiency by heat loss, through friction, radiation, convection, and conduction. Where does Mr. Mentor's engine exhaust to? The accumulator. The system is not losing heat through exhaust like Otto cycle and Rankine cycle engines (or Stirling). Mr. Mentor thought that Carnot did not apply to his engine, the way that conventional interpretation of the Second Law did, and he believed that FE was possible with his engine using Dennis's panels as the "boiler." Beats me if it would work, but we got wiped out before we could try. When Fischer came aboard a few months later with his own hydraulic heat engine (one of the many Twilight Zone events of my journey), I heard him talk about the flaw in Carnot's theory, in which he theorized an ideal gas, and then extrapolated that logic, and liquid heat engine were ignored ever since. Those are far from the only scientists I encountered who thought that the Second Law could be beat. One of them was murdered not long after I contacted him to find out more.

It is all very intriguing, but in our gangster-run USA, those engines, just like many other potentially disruptive technologies, are not given a fair hearing.

Of course, that all pales compared to what people like Sparky came up with, or what Godzilla has in his Golden Hoard.

Thanks for peeking into those engines and the physics a little. I have not thought too deeply into the details of them for some time.

I'll finish by noting another reason why Dennis's heat pump got half the Carnot ideal. In the daytime, it directly absorbed sunlight's photons, which would improve its performance over just heat exchange between heat sinks.

Interesting stuff to chew on.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have another weekend of work ahead of me, but I can fire off a post before I get at it. One of Uncle Noam's greatest contributions to media and Establishment critiques is that the Western system produces the illusion of freedom. He has long stated that the media and indoctrination systems in "free" nations function how a standing army does in dictatorships. The West produces even more control than in dictatorships because those in the Western prisons of the mind do not even know that they are imprisoned. Chomsky has long noted that in the media, there are the usual suspects of the Left who are not really Left at all, but they represent the ideological extreme, and anybody out where Noam is, is so far off the reservation that they can be dismissed as crazy. It is very ironic that the world's leading intellectual is called crazy and subjected to endless attacks from his "peers" in the intellectual establishment (Uncle Ed fields the same kinds of attacks from the hacks, but is still going strong at 90, and Noam is 86 – incredible). I have written that at MIT, a right-wing bastion, Chomsky's views are seen as bizarre but non-threatening, but a few miles away, in the heart of the liberal establishment at Harvard, Chomsky is seen as the devil. That is because his work shows how fraudulent the liberal stance is. It is every bit as imperial as right-wingers' are, but couched in humane rhetoric. In that way, it is even deadlier than right-wing rhetoric, as Uncle Howard noted.

Those framing assumptions create the illusion of freedom. As Dennis said, put a man in a big enough cage, and he thinks he is free. Those framing assumptions and indoctrination are painfully evident in how the media operates, how history is written, and how American children are trained to worship a flag, in The Land of the Free. The primary population management ideologies – organized religion, nationalism, and all economic ideologies, not just capitalism – all work the same basic way, in that they "get 'em while they are young," and there is always egocentric and economic "bait" for the adherents. Most people swallow their indoctrination whole and will never question it for the rest of their lives. They have no motivation to, as they sold out their sentience for the promise of a full belly (or heaven), and as long as the chips come in, they are content, to a degree. They all have a relatively subconscious cognitive dissonance that they drown out with various inebriants and stimulants, and they will avoid becoming truly sentient at all costs, as that can threaten their niche of survival in a world of scarcity. I learned those lessons the hard way over many years, and it was no fun to learn them, but it is how our species has been for a very long time, essentially since we became behaviorally modern.

Those in thrall to the population management ideologies are putty in the hands of the social managers, as they line up to do the elite's bidding, marching off to war, punching the clock, and so on, having coffee in the morning and alcohol at night, to dope themselves up to do it each day. They are Orwell's proles. Those who go to Harvard become the social managers themselves, and not very differently from the proles, most of them believe the BS they are fed, which justifies the situation and their position. Not many actually see the system for what it is. Not many want to.

The indoctrination that people receive at Harvard is far more subtle than what is found in high school classrooms, and just like the proles, those who graduate to a life of the upper middle class or the elite rarely question the system, but just chase after their carrots and avoid the sticks. If they dutifully play the game, they can even pretend that there are not any sticks, at least for people who play at their level of the game. The imperial justifications pour out of places such as Harvard, with a little dissent here and there, to argue that we could rule more benignly, but rule we will, and when Uncle Noam arrives, it casts a pall over the entire party.

For all that Brian and Dennis went through, nearly losing their lives and being run out of their home nation, which they once believed in so strongly, they never really shed all of their nationalistic indoctrination. They were Boy Scouts to the end.

What Brian discovered on the frontiers of science is that the most subtle and effective indoctrination of all is what scientists are subjected to. In important ways, they are the most deluded of all, and it is those framing assumptions once more, but far more subtle and insidious than the blatant ones used for population management ideologies. I have put names on the ideologies that most scientists unthinkingly submit to, and I call them materialism, scientism, and rationalism. Their framing assumptions seem "reasonable," and are generally:

• Only the physical universe exists (and even so-called parallel universes and other dimensions are still physical), and nothing else;
• That consciousness is nothing more than an ephemeral byproduct of brain chemistry and functioning, so that consciousness itself is really nothing more than a clever illusion;
• That rational thought is the ultimate in thinking, and that little else is really even worthy of being called thought;
• The so-called scientific process is the only worthy path to knowledge;
• That there are" laws" of the universe that humans have come to understand, and that nothing outside of those "laws" really exists (the "skeptics" are notorious for that stance).

Brian and I had those blinders blown away by participating in remote viewings in the 1970s, after only a little training, and we were ruined as establishment scientists. Brian abandoned his career in the scientific establishment, and I never really began mine. We both began our paths toward our radicalization, and we eventually learned how the Establishment really works. Neither of us could believe it at first, but as we doggedly pursued our paths toward world healing, we were shown in no uncertain terms how the system operates, and how those framing assumption that trap scientists, academics, and the "smart" are erected and enforced.

While Brian was only beginning to get his feet wet in the FE milieu, my life had already been ruined by my adventures in it. My journey's primary lesson was that personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity, and I resisted that lesson every step of the way until I had it pounded into my head in no uncertain terms. Even after I learned that hard lesson, I still carried Dennis's and Brian's spears for them, before I finally decided that the mass movement approach would not work, not in a world of fear, scarcity, and low integrity. Such movements usually collapse from within before Godzilla even needs to roll out of bed.

After several years of visiting FE labs around the world, Brian embarked on his journey of playing the Paul Revere of FE, and several years later, I heard how it went: Brian openly wondered if humanity was a sentient species, and especially scientists, as they were trapped in their framing assumptions.

In important ways, how the framing assumptions are held in place in science is little different from how the media and indoctrination systems enforce the imperial assumptions. Any scientist or inventor who demonstrates an FE prototype does not demonstrate it for long, as the national security state kicks into gear. If they are foolish enough to apply for a patent, the federal government merely seizes it under the national security laws. Playing the proprietary technology game is only slightly less foolish, and then they will encounter the agents of suppression from the privatized side. Those who think that they can develop their technologies in secret and sneak past Godzilla are perhaps the most deluded of all. Establishment scientists nearly invariably irrationally dismiss all of that evidence as a "conspiracy theory," which reflects their naïveté, which Bucky Fuller remarked on, and all of us on the high road to FE encountered that in spades. Those scientists in denial trot out the "conspiracy theory" and "laws of physics" objections to the idea of FE, when they are not openly fearful of the idea.

In order for scientists to believe the "conspiracy theory" and "laws of physics" objections, they have to believe that organized suppression does not exist (and other fairy tales of capitalism and nationalism), that the national security state is there for our benefit, not to keep us imprisoned, and other imperial assumptions that are pretty easy to see through, once a person's eyes are opened. But people have to want to wake up, and scientists and academics are no different from any other indoctrinated group, and their equivalent of saluting the flag is denying the abilities and nature of consciousness and believing that they have free access and inquiry into the secrets of the universe. As Mark and many others discovered the hard way, they don’t, but their cage is big enough so that they think they are free. In ways, they are the most imprisoned of all. But don't try to tell them that, or you will get the most violent reactions, as Brian discovered the hard way. The ideal of the scientific process is beautiful and noble, but as with "democracy," a "free press," objective history, and other nice ideas, the difference between theory and practice can be as different as night and day.

Time for another crazily busy weekend.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade,

I boomarked your post on the Mark Comings story at the time. It says there -

"He knew it was all about his overunity experiment, but how did they even know about his experiment?"

"Again, it was Orwellian. How did they know he was there?"

This is an unproven comment. The system has long put its eyes on those who understand and can implement energy long before they themselves know they can do it.

As strange as it may sound, since things can be tracked beforehand, the individual is then surrounded by obstacles and bumps along their life, including from people close to them.

Many blessings ~

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

The souls know what they are in for, even if our earthly personalities don't.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When I can find the time, I am going to put all of those "vignettes" that I wrote in one thread in my forum, and the thread will be titled something like, "Why I am taking the approach that I am." I see posts and other responses from people that show that they don't really understand, even people who really should, so here I go again…

Humans are an allegedly sentient species, but if we really are, it has not been for long, on the evolutionary timescale. Humans are sexually-reproducing, bilateral animals, mammals, and apes that learned to walk upright. Since we learned to make stone tools and control fire, we have been on a steady path of conquering and controlling Earth, at prodigious cost to Earth and her denizens. Many human behaviors harken to our pre-sentient days, although humans generally harbor the conceit that they are "above" animals. Eating, sex, and feats of survival are hardwired into all animals, and it is no different with humans. Humans are also social animals, like all higher primates, and so have formed in-groups since before the human-line became human. In-group formation is all about survival, and defending one's in-group is also hardwired and takes no sentience to do, and indeed, I rarely see any sentience displayed when people defend their in-groups. They engage in reflexive, irrational behavior and arguments, even the so-called "smart."

Humans are relatively unique in that we have a sense of self, passing the mirror test and performing other feats of intelligence that show that we are different in degree, although not necessarily in kind, from all other terrestrial animals (but perhaps not from cetaceans). The human ego arose from that sense of self, and humans have been wrestling with their egos ever since. In a world of scarcity and fear, humans are egocentric and their horizons rarely expand beyond the welfare of their in-group. In-groups can be as small as one for psychopaths, and the closest human relationships are between mothers and their children. The irony of in-group allegiance is that today's humans are all descended from a pretty small group of people about 60,000 years ago.

In a world of scarcity and fear, humans are greedy, violent, and all those "wonderful" traits that make us human. The vast majority of humans simply do not care for anything beyond their immediate self-interest, and they are not going to, not while they live in scarcity and fear. When I met Dennis, you could not have convinced me that my family and friends would attack me as they did. But I had reality beaten into my head over the next few years, and when it got back to me that my own mother was campaigning against me to my friends, family, and investors, it was almost amusing. I had long since learned my journey's primary lesson by that time: personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity. People simply do not care.

But FE newbies and other assorted people, who have not really done anything to break out of their in-group awareness, think that their social circles have people in them with the right stuff, who will care beyond their immediate self-interest, and that they can wake up and help FE happen. That is the ego talking, and those in thrall to that delusion have some hard lessons ahead of them, if they ever get out of their easy chairs and actually do anything important. The social circle approach will not work, not for manifesting the biggest event in the human journey, the one that will end scarcity and fear as humanity's primary operating principles.

A big trap in learning those lessons is judging those who care for nothing outside of their immediate self-interest. It is just who humanity is these days, and those who ignore or deny that reality are in for harsh lessons if they ever try to do anything important. It brings up the question of whether humanity is really worth saving, but I believe in the human potential, although groups such as environmentalists generally do not. Virtually without exception, environmentalists, Peak Oilers, and other doomsayers are misanthropes who believe that humanity will never become a truly sentient species, but would use FE to further exploit each other and Earth. They openly express fear of FE. They have a permanently negative view of humanity, when history has clearly shown that as standards of living have risen, humans have responded by acting more humanely toward each other and even Earth. People are no longer forced to murder each other to provide imperial entertainment, slavery is no longer seen as a hallowed institution, not even questioned by anybody. Rising standards of living did it, not some bout of conscience. Nothing would raise humanity's standard of living like FE would. Indeed, nothing else can, and it would also halt the destruction of the ecosphere, as humans would no longer need to exploit it to live, and live well, so that Bill Gates would appear a pauper to the poorest person in that world, just as the average American lives better than Earth's richest man of three centuries ago did.

I live in a nation founded by mass-murdering thieves, and my ancestors eagerly profited from the immense crimes that went with nation-building and continental theft. The crimes continue to this day, and are engaged in on a global scale, and almost nobody in my great nation cares in the slightest. That is normal. Conspiracists get all hot and bothered over the crimes of the ultra-elite, but they are only the masters of a game that virtually all humans play. The Golden Ages of the human past were all short-lived and lasted as long as the energy supplies did.

Humanity is at the juncture today where about a third of all species in our position wipe themselves out through either environmental degradation or warfare over scarce resources. Will humanity turn the corner? Will we become a truly sentient species? That is what I am trying to find out, but I spent life-risking and life-wrecking years discovering what won't work. I carried the spears of the best of the best, and the social and mass movement approaches will not work. I discovered that the hard way, but newbies invariably have to try out those paths of disaster and other futile and suicidal approaches, stuck in their social consciousness, and they can’t seem to comprehend what I am attempting, not in the slightest. I know that I seek highly unusual people. I have met a few with the right stuff during my adventures, but it was only a few, and I was usually led to them in a way that was so much larger than life that almost nobody can believe it. Not many on Earth have what it takes to help make FE happen, and it always starts in the heart. Without that caring heart that extends beyond their immediate self-interest, the rest won't matter.

What I also noticed was that most people are scientifically illiterate and have absolutely no idea how the world really works, as they think that money is important, that politicians are anything but stooges of the interests that really run things, and so on. They see no further than the limits of their immediate self-interest, and think that the familiar (money, politicians) is important, when it is nothing of the sort.

The strategy that I developed was from many years of trial and error, and my big essay is the textbook that those I seek will study, indeed be eager to study. Those who don’t see the point are not the people I seek. I know that I seek needles in haystacks, and those I seek will dive into my big essay and not come up for air for months or years. I have devoted the rest of my life's "spare" time to this approach, and am in no rush, even though I clearly know how desperate the situation is becoming. The "in-group" I hope to form is not going to be about pursuing our mutual self-interest, but is about developing the most transformative and lucrative technology in the human journey and giving it away. That is incomprehensible behavior to those in the thrall of their self-interest, and I don’t expect them to understand or even try to. Only when FE is delivered into the lives of humanity will they begin to wake up from their egocentric awareness that is focused on survival and temporarily sating their addictions. It won’t happen before then, and I fully realize that this is the most difficult riddle to solve on Earth. It is a conundrum like no other, but I think that it is solvable if I can find enough people with the right stuff and train them. I really am not interested in anything else at this stage of my journey. We will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

Wade, I know you don't do this for a "pat on the back", but dammit bro, that was another blockbuster post by you. You are a treasure, brother. :~)

Who could have said it better:

"I live in a nation founded by mass-murdering thieves, and my ancestors eagerly profited from the immense crimes that went with nation-building and continental theft. The crimes continue to this day, and are engaged in on a global scale, and almost nobody in my great nation cares in the slightest. That is normal. Conspiracists get all hot and bothered over the crimes of the ultra-elite, but they are only the masters of a game that virtually all humans play. The Golden Ages of the human past were all short-lived and lasted as long as the energy supplies did."

(emphasis mine)

[Ernie Nemeth]

Some have questioned why I should not be supportive of your efforts, of all people. I don't even understand the last part - I am not special.

And I do support your effort to the fullest extent of my ability, often referring people to your site, referencing your material for more comprehensive insights, writing about a future with these advanced concepts, and if I might dare to say, understanding the game-changing nature of these technologies.

I guess what I cannot grasp is how having been down the other avenues of "storming the ramparts", as you put it, has changed you and perhaps tempered your current approach. Your patience is beyond anything I could ever muster, and I hate to say it but your knowledge is well above my own. I have not met many that could match my own knowledge, and none that I would consider my better. But here on this forum I am nothing out of the usual and can barely hold my own.

Your post I had commented on a few days ago stirred me because I felt your - what? - wistfulness, compulsion, integrity, desperation even. You know and you wish others could see what you see like you see it. I really truly get it, I think many here can too.

Emotional centering is my work this life, I won't make excuses. It allows a keen insight into others and so I know most people are essentially good - they have just been trained into a way of being they cannot break free of and cannot even understand.

Again my heart goes out to you. I wish I had the "right stuff" but I don't. I don't like admitting that, and so sometimes I lash out in retaliation.

All the best.

I watch from the sidelines and silently cheer you on!

[Krishna]

Layers of the Onion
Understanding why the world is the way it is, or even what it is, is a path with too many false answers. There are layers and layers of peel back and understand. For people who have peeled back enough layers they know that there could be many more beyond. I hope that the energy layer that Wade writes about is the final one.

I want to clear up a common misunderstanding that the developing world is poor because they are not market (capitalism) friendly or the reverse, that some countries are ahead because they have free markets.

Apart from colonialism which held back development of the non-Eurocentric world.
The lack of education is the primary cause / the best predictor for the wealth of countries today. Europe's rise was strongly related to its education and the rise of science and reason.

Past and Future Education-Population Pyramids
Countries that have done well recently invested in education before they became richer. The above link has comparisons between regions India, World, Philippines, China, South Korea and across time 1970, 2010, 2050 and 2100. With time countries become more educated, looking at the education-population pyramids we can see regions that lag in education and some sense of how much. They also give a sense of how educated a country can be made even while it is poor. e.g. see Korea

India and China started with similar levels of education at independence but China pulled ahead by 1970 and has since left India far behind. Similarly Korea raced ahead in terms of education and later wealth. Philippines on the other hand was ahead of India and China in 1950 but because of the inequalities of education has not been able to reach its potential.

The excuses for lack of education in the world are just that: excuses, rooted in a lack of love for fellow humans. Just as we don't have FE because we don't have enough love.

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For more on education and GDP see Global Rise of Education

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ernie:

IMO, you do not need to listen to what anybody says about "supporting" or not "supporting" my efforts. Other than Ilie helping administer my forum, and Bill and friends giving me a troll-free platform here, the only "support" that I ask for is people to read my work and use it to help raise their awareness. That is it. That is a decision that each person needs to make for themselves. And those who are brave enough and can hit the notes can sing with me.

Maybe one day, the "support" will be more than that, but it really is not supporting my efforts, but helping manifest the biggest event in the human journey. Anybody alive on Earth today has the "right" to try to heal their planet. I certainly hold no monopoly on it. Others are trying, but it is true that nobody is trying quite what I am, for better or worse. I am trying to avoid becoming popular. If I become popular, people will pay attention because of the buzz, not because of the material. I seek people who can go deep, not gawk at the spectacle. I had enough of that during my days with Dennis, and gawkers are no help.

The scientist who went out of his way to praise my work on the journey of life on Earth is a big name, globally known, but if I "blurbed" him, some people would read my work because of him, and not because of the work's intrinsic worth (and it could put him at risk). I don't want to hide under a rock, either, but I am trying to walk that line between reaching the people I need to reach and becoming "popular."

Many are currently "sitting on the sidelines," looking on, and that is good work, too. Just holding the vibe of this vision is plenty, believe me. Much of my effort is simply trying to make that potential future comprehensible. That really would be plenty for me but, of course, I would also like to help it happen. I live here, too. So, you are doing fine.

I have written plenty on my adventures and their effect on me. Unfortunately, I have studied warfare more than my fair share, and the "tempering" of my approach is very much like how soldiers approach warfare after the first battle that they survive. Eugene Sledge had a much different approach to Okinawa than Peleliu. Veterans have a different approach and attitude from those of the green recruits.

One of my childhood friends remarked on my transformation from a happy-go-lucky teenager to somebody very different in my thirties. That is what going through the meat grinder does to people, if they survive the experience. Mr. Professor's death devastated me, and I don’t want to bury anybody else who got involved with me.

I once heard Mark Comings talking (at Brian's home, at an NEM board meeting) about bringing a big name in the FE milieu to Adam Trombly's home. The big name was on his knees in Adam's living room, begging for the rights to Adam's technology. Mark talked about how his journey had made him far less gung-ho than when he was younger, and Adam had a similar tempering and sense of responsibility regarding FE technology than when he was younger. This comes to all of us eventually, if we are on the path long enough.

I don't remember if I have told this anecdote before, but after the raid, as I was sitting in my ransacked office, some weeks later, my mind was racing on how to get off the hot seat. I never wanted to move back to my home town, anyway, and I would have rather been anywhere on Earth than sitting there, waiting for the next deathblows. There was this kind of involuntary "channel two" in my mind, racing along, trying out scenarios. I was doing my best to do my job, but channel two was going into overdrive, trying to see how I could step down honorably and flee. It was like "channel two" thinking of how I could kill people, later that year. They were nightmare thoughts and the lowest part of my journey. But I overcame them and initiated the greatest miracle I ever witnessed, which we all realized was divine intervention. There was no other term for it.

Those kinds of experiences, and I had way too many of them to ever publicly discuss, definitely changed my perspective on these issues, and I suppose has "tempered" my approach.

As I have written, impatience is my Achilles heel, so your patience observation means that I am faking it pretty well. To know what you do, Ernie, and keep your emotional centering, is no easy task. No need to be hard on yourself. I am emotionally centered in this lifetime, and that has not been an easy trip, as you know. Remember that nobody gets off easy these days, not even Bill Gates. You may have great times ahead of you, as you slay your personal dragons (or make them your pets ).

Really, Ernie, it is an honor to hear from you, and thanks for the positive thoughts. They help.

Love,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Freeknowledge.

As my site shows, I think that education is important. It has definitely been part of the demographic transition, but what we call "education" has been a very mixed bag. I got heavy indoctrination with my "education," believed in the Easter Bunny after I graduated, and even science students are often marched off in the wrong direction during their first day of class.

But, in general, I am very much in agreement that raising our sentience is a vital part of humanity turning the corner (but only about 100K need to do so, for my plan to work), but much of that rise entails discarding much of what we were taught, as we got indoctrinated into scarcity-based ideologies. Somewhat crazily, scientists and the "smart" have proven to be the most resistant to the idea of FE, and I call them Level 3s. In ways, they are the most brainwashed of all. In this world, the average six-year-old is smarter and more informed than anybody on Earth today, and that is a key aspect of their exalted state compared to today's humanity. So, true education is vital. I am in complete agreement.

Several years ago, I described the human journey like this:


“Each epoch of humanity’s past was initiated and sustained by achieving the social organization and technological prowess that enabled the exploitation of previously unexploitable energy resources.”


And one big essay later (and likely my final big one in this lifetime), my views have not changed, and I only added more detail to that idea. Each Epochal Event was initiated by a literal or relative handful of people who tried something new, to get energy in a new way, and a new epoch of the human journey was born.

The rise of Europe was indeed spurred by the introduction of the Greek teachings, but their use of Greek technology, the waterwheel in particular, may have been more important, as it replaced muscle power. It was no coincidence that slavery waned in Europe as the waterwheel rose, just as the rise of the energy-powered machine ended slavery as an institution.

Without access to resources, and energy resources above all, all the education in the world does not mean much. China imports more oil than the USA does and sits on huge coal deposits. India does not have those advantages, and was raped by Europe for far longer than China was. When Japan began to get educated, the first thing it did was see whose resources it could steal, and it invaded Manchuria before long. While those ancient Greeks were some smart boys, they battled their neighbors over energy resources, wood in particular, and when its entire hinterland had been deforested and its invasion of Sicily (to primarily get wood) failed, it permanently collapsed and was never a power again. Sumer, Rome, and other leading polities went through similar decline and collapse as they ran out of energy. The USA has been declining ever since it hit Peak Oil in 1970.

While education is important, resources are more so, especially energy. But without the "education" that allows a people to exploit those energy sources, it won’t go anywhere, either. So, we see disasters of nations such as Nigeria, sitting on huge oil deposits and not getting the benefit of them, as the West rapes them. Iraq had the highest standard of living among Arab nations, women had the highest status of all Islamic nations, and the USA destroyed it, all in the name of oil, although the pundits could never seem to see it. Talk about blind.

So yes, education, under the current energy paradigm, is very important, in order to industrialize. But industrial levels of energy make it all possible. That energy does the work that makes that learning useful.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My previous post spurred me to write a post that has long been on my list of things to do. The day when my big essay begins to be discussed in earnest, it will be grist for thousands of posts that are rolling around in my head.

I first read of the scientific study of collapsed civilization in Heinberg's The Party's Over, in which he discussed Tainter's magnum opus. I had just finished reading some of Uncle Bucky, when my paradigm finally began crystallizing, when I encountered the Peak Oilers and Tainter, and I have been a student of collapsed civilizations ever since. Several years earlier, I read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, and in 2005, Diamond published Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Tainter went after Diamond's Collapse thesis, and his paper's title was a smart-assed pun on Diamond's Collapse. Others went after Diamond, too, but their efforts were remarkably poor.

I also encountered Homer-Dixon's work on collapsed societies, which is a variation of the Peak Oil argument and declining EROI's. Brian Fagan also wrote about collapsed civilizations, often drought-related, such as in his The Great Warming, on the Medieval Warm Period. I supposed that because the subject matter is so timely, as industrial civilizations begins collapsing, the subject is highly charged. I have seen a great deal of bickering, and even borne the brunt of it at times, as those around me doubt whether global warming is real or that we are running out of oil. Humans have an amazing capacity to stay in denial until the bitter end, pursing their egocentric activities as the roof collapses.

I have seen plenty of fisticuffs, even between staid academics, on these subjects, and Tainter's smart-assed title was my first inkling that I might not want to have Tainter over for dinner. For all of the academic wrangling that I have witnessed, it eventually became clear to me that the arguments were all variations on running out of energy, and it was eventually dismaying to see how they could not seem to agree on that basic premise, while they bickered about minutia. Whether a drought meant that the food ran out, or that deforestation meant that wood kept having to be brought in from further and further away, or that deforestation and agriculture desertified the region as the soils were lost, as happened with early civilizations, it was all about running out of energy. We are merely going through the industrial version of it today, as the industrial energy runs out. It really is not hard to understand, once you strip away all the rhetoric and fighting. But almost nobody wants to go there, with their eyes blinded in denial, and the Establishment aids and abets the situation, such as giving oil company shills the stage with their Global Warming denial.

The mountains surrounding the Mediterranean are largely moonscapes, as they lost their soils after they were deforested. The process is undeniable, but I once read Tainter lauding the process, stating that those soils ended up in valleys that ended up benefitting humanity. Tainter has always been a "skeptic" of the environmental collapse hypothesis, and when I read him defending the desertification process, I realized that he was a kindred spirit of Julian Simon.

The way that Tainter can make his case with a straight face is that he focuses on the moment of collapse, not the decline that led to it. The bottom line is that when the energy resources are wrested from the land that way, ecosystems lose their resilience and are generally destroyed, and the fruits that humans can harvest begin declining. In short, the energy surplus declines. In societies such as ours, it gets reflected in declining discretionary income, but that is only a financial effect of energy processes, although the scientifically illiterate often seem unable to understand the connection (and academics, especially those with economics training, can be particularly obtuse on this issue). The process can be a relatively slow one, with a man hardly noticing the effects in his lifetime, but it slowly turns verdant forests into deserts. This has happened many times during the process of civilization. What happens is that systems that lose their resilience are vulnerable to perturbations that are normally easily ridden out, but with the margin of error reduced due to unsustainable energy practices, those events can catalyze a collapse of the entire system.

This dynamic can be seen with degenerative disease and mass extinctions, too. Complex systems, like complex cells, need more energy to run them, as they have more moving parts. Run out of energy and the entire system collapses. This will also be a concept germane to my upcoming vaccination post, when I can find the time.

But for now, it is off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Speaking of forms of energy that life can make use of, this is an interesting read

https://www.newscientist.com/article...n-pure-energy/

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am way too busy these days, and will be pretty quiet until next week, but briefly, nice article, Ilie. Bacteria are Earth's chemical wizards, and I am pleasantly surprised that they can even ingest bare electrons. All chemistry is the electron game, and like that article said, what those bacteria do is the equivalent of a man putting his finger in an electric socket and being fed. Only bacteria and archaea can play that game. If I can find the time in the morning, I am going to write a post on life at the molecular level. I was already planning to do it, to do a kind of prelude to my vaccination post, so that some basic ideas are understood about life at the cellular level. It is highly important to understand some of the key dynamics, and they will help people see through the medical propaganda. I also will take a generalist approach and show how similar principles apply to cells, complex life, ecosystems, and economies. That really is the crux of my big essay, and it starts small.

Going to bed now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have a little time this morning, so here goes. Life is called a negentropic process, in which it has to use energy to overcome disorder and make itself. It captures energy from the environment, and uses it to either build or fuel its body. Building the molecules of life takes energy to weld them together. Enzymes are critical molecules, as they speed up chemical reactions by millions of times, and they are huge and take a lot of work to build. Some enzymes work like turbines do, spinning hundreds of times a second. They are constantly being made, repaired, and torn apart, and their constituent atoms are reused or gathered and excreted by the organism. That all takes a lot of work (energy).

Enzymes are delicate molecules, held in shape by hydrogen bonds, and enzymes generally operate in a small temperature range, and they can be ruined pretty easily. One thing that ruins them are free radicals, hungry for electrons and stealing them. Ions such as fluorine's act like free radicals, and they disrupt the hydrogen bonds in enzymes and DNA. When free radicals do that, they wreck those molecules, rendering them useless or worse. Although there are repair mechanisms for fixing DNA, and free radical stress is used to the organism's benefit in certain ways, for instance, cells that are damaged enough undergo programmed cell death, as those cells should not reproduce, especially with DNA damage. Every day in the human body, millions of cells undergo programmed cell death, as the organism maintains itself.

Think about what is happening, from an energetic perspective. A key piece of biological machinery is damaged so badly that it has to be torn down and replaced. Think about tearing down part of your house and rebuilding it. People usually think in terms of money, but it is really an energy matter. It takes a lot of energy to make the materials, tear down the current structure, and rebuild it. Just fixing a broken window pane is a pain and expensive. Nobody wants to break their window just so they can replace it.

When DNA or an enzyme is broken, it becomes an energy drain on the organism to fix or discard and replace. One puff of cigarette smoke introduces something like a hundred billion free radicals into the lung. It is like the lung is getting strafed by machine gun fire, and the body has to mount an effort to repair the damage. Every fluorine ion ingested causes damage in the body. No animals use fluorine, but humans ingest it purposefully, as "medicine." How can an enzyme poison be called medicine? Most drugs act by disabling enzymes, by breaking the lock so the key won't fit. Each drug targets different enzymes, under the theory that humans know what enzymes to target for damage. Hmmm.

Ionizing radiation strips electrons from atoms and works like free radicals do, and wrecks all molecules that lose an electron. How can that damage be called a good thing? There is a theory, generally concocted by people with a vested interest in getting rid of hazardous waste such as fluoride or nuclear waste, that a little poison is good for you, as it stimulates your body to repair the damage. That is like the broken window fallacy in economics, in which breaking windows and repairing them somehow stimulates the economy. Only an idiot can think that, but all sorts of economists have made that argument, calling it "creative destruction," as the new window is nicer than the old one. But even the craziest economist will agree that putting a window maker on every street corner is not good for an economy. It is the equivalent of digging holes and then filling them back up. Those economists can argue that the broken windows can lead to innovation, such as making glass that is harder to break. Actually, evolution has done something like that, but the new style of window does not get made overnight.

For instance, sunburn is DNA damage from ultraviolet light. Mammals do not have as active a DNA repair mechanism from sunburn as other animals, and it is thought to be because mammals spent most of their existence as nocturnal animals. Mammals have ruled Earth, in sunlight, for more than 60 million years, and we still have a muted adaptation response. Evolution is not fast, but people selling the equivalent of window-breakers argue that a little damage is good for us, as it stimulates our survival mechanisms, as if we are going to evolve response mechanisms overnight to react to the damage.

Metals create similar toxic effects, but industrial interests burned the midnight oil to try to make lead and aluminum seem benign. No animal uses mercury, lead, or aluminum in its biology, but humans ingest it while industrial interests purvey those metals, even calling them "medicine." There are more situations like this, in which scientists with conflicts of interest perform experiments to show how benign and even beneficial those chemicals are, as they labor on behalf of their corporate sponsors, than I can possibly document. Heck, the face of modern medicine worked closely with cigarette companies to structure their "research" so that they could run ads making health claims for their brand, in the pages of the world's leading medical journal! His greatest claim to "fame" was spearheading the research and promotion of an asbestos cigarette filter. You could not make this up if you tried.

The ranks of medical researchers today are filled with people with such conflicts of interest. It has gotten so bad that a leading medical figure recently called up to half of medical research worthless due to conflicts of interest.

There are many fraudulent numbers games being played in medical research, from fluoride onward, but if you learn to think at the molecular level, you can easily understand that every fluoride ion causes damage, every puff of smoke, every bite of junk food, every atom of mercury or lead. They all do damage, usually unmitigated damage, with no conceivable "benefit" but in the minds and labs of scientists with conflicts of interest.

I have to run off to a very busy next several days, but this is a prelude to my vaccination post, and I will develop a theory of damage from all the many toxins introduced to the body in our industrial times, and they all take their collective toll. Each one of them may not be damaging enough to cause a diagnosable disease, but the barrage of them puts the body's defense and repair mechanisms into overdrive, and eventually they fail, and organ failure, from the lungs to pancreas to liver to brain, to clogged arteries and immune system failure that manifests in many ways, cancer only one of them, is what kills the vast majority of Westerners today, and medical personnel with conflicts of interest try to tell us that it is all part of the natural aging process, and all they have to offer are more damaging "treatments," almost exclusively drugs and surgical procedures. How crazy is that? But it is the dominant paradigm today, in one of Earth's most lucrative rackets, and vaccination is just one of many treatments of very dubious validity, which have been concocted by scientists with deep conflicts of interest, and their safety and effectiveness are only proven in fantasy, with the kind of sleight-of-hand "proof" that abounds in medical "science."

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well heck, I have a little time this morning, and it looks like I am going to be sneaking in that vaccination post in installments.

Not only did we have medical authorities designing "research" and promoting asbestos cigarette filters, junk food, fluoride, and the like, and they all had sinister and not always well covered up conflicts of interest, but those very same authorities were also involved, with some regularity, in wiping out stuff like eating healthily, performing evil studies that have been covered up to this day, and wiping out true health pioneers, some with not only stunning tools and findings, but treatments that wipe out the rackets that those authorities fronted for.

But if you look into those issues, particularly if you peruse Wikipedia, you will never get a hint of the criminal careers of people such as Fishbein (and it was an honor to see this, for instance), although Hodge's career has thankfully been tainted, with his human radiation experiments and promotion of fluoride. But you still see even the backgrounds of death camp Nazis being covered up at Wikipedia. The USA's first president and its richest man designed the plan to defraud American Indians out of their land. It was nothing less than the plan to steal a continent, and it worked, in one of history's greatest criminal enterprises, but none of that hero's biographers can bring themselves to mention his greatest achievement, as literal fairy tales were concocted about his honesty. Thus are great nations founded and their heroic images maintained.

If you contact the medical authorities or surf the Internet, all you hear from the voices of authority and their sycophants is that everything in medical science is above the fray, impartially tested, by scientists and doctors only trying to make the world a better place. I don’t believe them. The cancer racket has been exceedingly well documented, but it rolls onward in the USA, with no challenges allowed to its attack-the-tumor paradigm. Whether it is cancer treatment, bypass surgery, fluoride, vaccination, powerful and often deadly drugs, the pattern is the same, of a paradigm built on the foundation of a warfare model, thoroughly male-based, and the treatments are all invasive, violent, and lucrative. Incredibly lucrative. I recently read of the treatment of a man treated for snakebite and charged more than $150,000, and that is normal (1, 2). And anything that challenges the foundation of the rackets has the bazookas turned on it.

So, one of Earth's most lucrative rackets has declared that vaccines are safe and effective, and vaccination is nearly compulsory in the USA, and anybody who challenges vaccination is considered part of the tinfoil-hat crowd. The authorities point to their "facts" and numbers, and portray their methods and findings as the end result of judicious and impartial research. I have a problem with that. The first commercializer of vaccines was Louis Pasteur, and his life's primary goal was becoming rich and famous. Even his sympathetic biographers admitted as much, and his experimental methods foreshadowed the Nazis' death camp experiments. It has been clearly shown that his big initial claim to fame, which made his image – overturning spontaneous generation theory – is a fairy tale, with no basis in fact. Pasteur was a late-coming grandstander, playing to the lay public with theatrical "experiments" and thunderous orations. But the fairy tale version is repeated in all microbiology textbooks to this day, just like the fairy tales about George Washington.

Lies of omission are by far the most common way to lie on such staid subjects, not lies of commission, which are too easily exposed, although I saw "skeptics" make lies of commission regularly, and nobody ever called them on it. I see excuses made for them to this day, and lies of commission have always been told about Dennis, even by his "allies" in the FE field, and to this day, I see people defend or promote those lies (while never mentioning that Dennis put the world's best heating system on people's homes for free), so the medical racket is in good company. In a world of scarcity and fear, personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity, and it is taken to breathtaking heights in one of Earth's most lucrative rackets.

As I am going to show, the theory and facts behind vaccination are far from bullet-proof and impartially adduced. Vaccines may well do far more harm than good, if any good at all. I won't call myself a vaccination expert, but I have snooped into it now and then over the years, and the pattern is familiar. I'll make posts on this subject in the coming weeks, and will roll them into one thread on my forum after I am finished, so people such as Enishi can get them in one sitting.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Just as I run out the door, I saw that today is a great day of celebration of the USA's heroic feat of nuking defeated people. What a great day to be an American!

Best,

Wade