One of the greatest minds and strenghts of this very earth, is the Queen of the British. Or to be fair, the Queen of England.
This amazing beacon of national identity and integrity has held the post of queen for 70 years, the longest serving monark on the throne of the british, ever.
In a world of loss of identity and destruction of the national cohesion, such a strongwilled person is very important. She is always and will always be the endbar of all the dissillusionment.
I have fought alongside her, proudly, to bring to bear the independent of the british isles. An act, that will be seen, in the memory of those who come in the future as THE pivoting moment of England. Once again the british lion roared. To be a part of such an endevour, will, forever, be a mark of brilliance of her majestys reign.
To have been a small part of that endevaour, brings both pride and endless humility to me.
I am thankful for having had the opportunity to support the majesty and her best men in her fight for independence.
Thank you your majesty, and a humble kneeling I do, as one knight of the realm.
G-d bless the victory of the Queen of England!
I have not really been able to comment on the international news these past year or something. The reason is a volley of attacks. The minister of culture, the local mayor, secret service, the list goes on and on.
To be fair, I have had some help from the queen and the prime minister. Especially the prime minister seems to have been able to rein in the secret service a bit. So that I am thankful for.
The onslaught has been relentless, but seems to be vaning off a bit now.
The battlefield is just one big mess, and it will take years to settle alle these issues, but that is the way it is with power hungry bastards that are everywhere.
Anyway, thanks for the help I have had, and I don´t even really know who tried to help. So whoever did chip in to stop the relentless onslaugth by all the evil people seeming to try and circle me, thank you.
If and when the dust settles. I will try and support the peace process from here on.
G-d bless the will to follow the angels in their quest for peace and harmony.
Israel needs to wake up. We are slowly sliding towards a strategic situation that is not in Israels interest.
So far, we are still relatively neutral. But the push of Islamic Jihad and Hamas on Israel, is tearing at our relation with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the other Arab nations. This cannot continue.
Either we secure the relationship, or we loose the relationship. Yes, for now Israel still has a friend in mr. Putin, but if Putin is swallowed by the war in Ukraine, who knows what will come to the fore.
I know, that this seems pretty academic, but the fact of the matter is, that we need allies. As the situation is in the relation to the US, this is also getting a bit strained.
So we need to get the ground situation under control. Whatever it takes for a peaceful solution. Use force, coercion, whatever it takes. We need to be proactive towards the Arabs, to keep them as allies.
My own situation here in Denmark is getting precarious as well. I don’t want to be enemy of the Arabs. But if they ally themselves with Russia and starts to turn Sweden into a caliphate, this is problem for the entire scandinavian peninsula.
So, please, get into the game. Be a player, make friends with the US, and the Arabs, and keep the peace.
G-d bless the will to find peace in the world.
The current situation is heading for a mass war in Europe. That is really the situation. I am not saying this because I want it, absolutely not. But we need to be clear about the development to try and steer Europe away from the looming catastrophe.
I know, I have been more realistic in the latests posting. We have a two front war, or even three front war.
If we push the Ukraine war, it will spread, and the ground work is laid out for a catastrophe of a conflict.
If Sweden enters the war, Saudi Arabia will give the potential ok for a mass mobilisation of the muslims of a more right wing understanding in Sweden. So Sweden is caught between a hammer and the anvil. Sweden will never survive this pincer push.
Yes it is Swedens own stupidity and naivety that has brought it to this, but the war on Sweden will be devastating anyway. People will die in the most horrible way.
So, there is actually a small chance of nuclear war, but there is a very real risk of a caliphate in Sweden.
Not to mention the situation in France, that has been in a state of alarm since the Charlie Hebdo attack. These things are real. The UK is faring, comparably better, but to be honest, after Luthfur Rahman won the election in East London, who knows what will happen in the UK. The situation is dire there as well. We are living in a tinder box, and everybody are trying to light the fire.
It reminds me very much of the situation before the First World War.
We risk destroying Europe as such, at least central Europe.
Essentially it is all up to Joe, and the Democratic administration. How long are we willing to go Joe? I know that Russia is an enemy, but destroying Europe.
I might be wrong, and I certainly hope so, but the option of peace is still on the table, so please consider this.
G-d bless the will to find peace.
Well, it is a problem, that the US strategic concerns seem to be vacuumed into new constellations, that it is not really interested in.
Let us have a look at it.
First of all. Mr. Obama made a political shift from focusing on Russia, to focusing on China, as the main adversary.
To be honest, that was, partially, a fault. It made it possible for Russia, to grow and pose a much greater threat, than what we expected.
This ties into the gas pipe from Russia to Germany, that has made it possible for Russia to hold some sway over Central European politics.
At the other hand, it has made the case for a renewed, healthy competition between China and the US. There has been a lot of political will to get the production of American goods back to the US, and this is good for the US long term, and gives the workers a job, another good thing. The endless siphoning of jobs to China, is a great threat to working communities. Not only in the US, but also in Europe as such.
This creates, in practice, a situation, where we are kind fighting on two fronts at once. Since the tools are different in each scenario, it makes sense.
Mr. Kissinger was of the intention, that the US should focus on Russia and not on China. I was of the intention, that we should focus on China and not on Russia. Now the situation is, that we focus on both, at the same time fighting radical islam.
So we can actually do it.
The problem about the strategy of fighting three wars at a time, is 1. It requires some pretty amazing balancing to make it work. 2. It is a pretty difficult for our allies, to fight in all three scenarios at one time.
So what is the logical conclusion. We need to roll with the punches. If there is an increase in hostility in the pacific, we need to counter that. At the same time, we need to roll with punches in Europa as well.
So we need to be playing two or three games at once.
First of all, the great threat in Europe is actually, as mr. Erdogan pointed out, besides from Russian agression. Islamist agression in Northern Europe. Al Qeada, Hamas, Islamic jihad are, covertly, operating from especially Sweden. Incorporating Sweden into NATO poses a great risk therefor.
Seen from a strictly defense political view, this is a great problem. There are 30% muslims in Sweden, and they pose a pretty heavy threat to not only the political system in Sweden, but also to the surrounding countries. We are much better prepared in Denmark and Norway, but when the s…. hits the fan, things are going to get ugly.
Add to this, the newfound friendship between Saudiarabia and Russia. The coordination between the islamists and Russia is a potential.
This is not about racism, I am not talking color here, I am talking islamists and radical terrorists.
Sweden seems to have lost control of great parts of its territory, so that basket of problems is going to explode sooner or later. Sweden can of cause make a massive mobilisation towards Russia, and they are doing that, but this still does not tackle the islamists.
My idea has been to try and evacuate and repatriate the islamists out of Europe, before we get to a real war, and start killing each other. But this seems to be against some sentiment of humanism in Europe. As if war is much more humane. I have tried to defuse the situation.
But, this gets us to the main point. War is coming to Europe, and we need to be clear on our targets. We also need to realise, that there are two opponents. Russia and the islamists (not all muslim), and we need to prepare for even a more aggressive Russia.
In the Chinese situation it is the same. China uses the opportunity to curb the freedoms of Hong Kong, and seem to linger close to Taiwan. As Russia is, more or less, loosing the war in Ukraine, as it stands, China is waiting to put its bets.
But we never know, what will come out of it.
So we need also, to prepare here.
G-d bless the will to understand the threats of security in Europa as well as in the pacific ocean.
Well, first of all, what we miss in the face of Third World War, is someone, to talk people down.
This used to be my critical role, as an international agent of Change. But lately the wardrums are beating nonetheless.
But, and perhaps this is a small glimmer of hope, the theories are evolving, and eventually one says, that the pen is stronger than the sword.
As a part of the process of understanding g-d, I have contacted mr. Holger Bech Nielsen. Mr. Bech is one of the leading physicists of the world. The smartest man of Denmark, some people call him.
He was instrumental in developing quantum physics and has some thrilling theories on time and space that he has developed as the heir to Newton, Niels Bohr and Einstein.
The closest call to an Einstein character in the world. Very wonderful person, with a huge engagement in nuclear physics. He has a piece of the atom named after him, and so on.
So I gathered my fleeting courage to call this amazing person, and lo and behold, he actually called me back. I was in the middle of my evening routines with the kids, so I kind of had to talk physics and metaphysics while feeding the kids, and making the beds. That was multitasking.
Anyway, we had a VERY interesting conversation. Nuclear physics traditionally see itself as an heir to the greek philosopher Democritus, but the fact is, according to my research, that there was a few philosophers BEFORE Democritus, that Democritus was inspired by. First of all Plato who discussed metaphysics in his main work Timeaus, a theory that has a close relation to the theories of an atomic physicist called Anaxagoras.
Both Plato and Democritus was inspired by Anaxagoras, that I have done a lot of research on, relating Anaxagoras to Plato, Darwin and Democritus.
The thing about Anaxagoras is, that not only is he the founder of nuclear physics. For a long time the strand of nuclear physicist in Ancient Greece was called either atomicists or Anaxagoreans, he also devised a beautiful theory (the first recorded theory of nuclear physics). He has a much broader cosmology (theory of the universe) than what we usually know about the hellenic classics.
So, I told mr. Bech about Anaxagoras, and that I wanted to discuss the connection between theology and physics and my work on Anaxagoras.
First he kind of listened to what I was saying, politely. When he discovered, that I have dug up some ancient theory of the birth of nuclear physics, he was really interested, and when I told him about the cosmology of Anaxagoras, he got REALLY interested.
Mr. Bech is one of the persons, who have been quite active in discussion Big Bang theory, and when he heard, that Anaxagoras has a theory of the start of the universe, that is close to the Big Bang theory, but with som REALLY interesting twists, it really caught his attention. We may be able to further the theories of the birth of the universe with the theories of Anaxagoras. Mainly, what caught mr. Bechs attention, is the idea of Anaxagoras, that centrifugal power plays a very decisive role in the birth of the universe. Anaxagoras has this idea, that centrifugal power is a main power in the whole mechanics of the universe. Everything turns around. Planets, solar systems, galaxies. So perhaps centrifugal power is the missing link in Big Bang theories, that still has a lot of loose ends. Since mr. Bech is one of the main inventors of the Big Bang theories, it makes sense, that he may be able to use the ideas of Anaxagoras in his work.
So in the end, at least in our first conversation, it was actually the physicist who got something out of the conversation. Which I, for one, is quite happy with. I want to prove the existence of G-d in a platonic light, but I am very happy to share knowledge with the physicist. Perhaps in this way, we can find some common ground between religion and science.
G-d bless the will to find healing between religion and science in this modern world. And g-d bless the peace of the world.
What is going on with social media?
Mr. Musk has just bought Twitter, I have, for a long time criticised social media quite a lot, and everybody are essentially really tired of social medias political bend of censorship.
I for one, have been a proponent of control with social media, if it does not comply to basic rules of democratic dialogue. To put censorship in the hands of fanatical leftwingers, is not the way democracy is supposed to work. Democracy is a system, where all are free to speak.
I get it, the destructiveness of negative dialogue in social media often make social media so toxic, that we need to do something. But just censuring on the basis of cultural marxism, which is the de facto norm today, is cultural marxism tyranny. That is the truth of it.
A healthy democracy makes room for all opinions, in fact a healthy democracy keeps the world open.
I know, that now comes the metaverse and all that, but the internet was devised as a tool to make people speak across the aisle, thereby, hopefully, making peace.
This is very, very important to truly remember.
I know, that the IT tycoons are rich, powerful and often pretty good looking 🙂
But my argument is, that if we FORGET the ideals our world was built on, then the rest of society will react very negatively.
I know, that I am, in internet years, an ancient being. But mr. Niels Bohr, who founded the internet in terms of ideology, he wanted to stop world war three by making the world more open, he was dead before I was even born. So my point is, maybe tech develops with a scaring pace, but the ideals remain the same.
We have the problem of negative flaming and trolling. This I get, but we should still keep the dialogue OPEN.
G-d bless the will to find peace through understanding.
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Source, Open letter to UN:
https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/deterrence/bohr-un-letter.html
Ok Zelenski, this is your window of opportunity. The Russians have, in their violent and destructive way, tought you a lesson to their power. Don’t underestimate the Russians. Napoleon underestimated the Russians, Hitler underestimated the Russians, and the result was the end of both Napoleon and Hitler. Right?
Idealism has a strange way of finding its end ind the endless ressources of the Russians. That is the historical experience.
At the other hand, truth is, Russia is a REACTIVE force. It has spread itself east in a thousand years, not once been imperialistic in the other direction. Why? Because that is what it has been from the beginning, a viking culture spreading east. It started from Sweden and Denmark, and then just spread east.
So, seen from this mindset, the solution to your problem of mr. Putin, is to find a balance between your needs of security and peace, and the needs of mr. Putins of stability and security.
Putin is fighter.
So what he respects, is a man. A man of honour and integrity. He respects a man that talks and walks in the same way.
So in order to end the destructive war, what you need to do, is to make a small step, and then apply it. Make small steps, and then see, if Putin is ok with that.
Step by step, and then keep your words.
There is no figuring things out or being smarter than everybody else. I mean, I for one REALLY have the sympathy for BOTH Ukraine and Russia. I hope for a peace deal. And I am not stupid.
The same goes for mr. Putin. You can say a lot about him, but one thing is certain, you cannot outfox him. Being honest with him will work much better.
These are the ways of peace dealing. Finding trust, so that you can actually make deals.
G-d bless the peace we hope to find in the destructive wars of Ukraine.
Ok, so now mr. Musk has bought Twitter. To me, that is good news. I have, recently, criticised social media a lot, because to me, as a Democratic philosopher, it goes against what public dialogue is supposed to do.
What is public dialogue supposed to do? It is supposed to create a frame around the democratic institutions, so that the politicians are inspired to do good decisions.
In other words, if there is a problem in society, politicians try to understand the public debate, and serve the public by applying the conclusions the debate finds.
So that is why freedom of speech is such a vital virtue. Because without free speech, how are the citizens supposed to discuss difficult issues?
It is exemplified in the example of Socrates, who went to his death, because he did not want to relinquish his criticism of what he saw was wrong. So it became a pillar of Democracy.
Social media has not observed this basic tenant of Democracy, but has started censuring ad lib. This is simply illegal according to the very constitutions of the different democratic states.
I understand it, because social media is also just a business, and they are making money. So too much fuss and anger is not good for business.
But, as I have said before, Social media is the realisation of the very idea of the internet. The founding fathers of the internet were actually great thinkers and technicians, before social media, they had dreams and vision, of an open world.
To forget this, just to make money, is against the very idea of the internet.
So what we need, is a balance.
At one hand, discussion needs to be open. At the other hand, I understand, that the toxicity of the debate is often counterproductive.
What we need to do, is have an open debate on all issues, but ask for a good tone. Right? All this yelling and cursing that is going on, is not good for an open debate.
So ideally, there is a kind of school teacher process that needs to start. People needs to talk in a nice way, and if they start flaming and cursing people, they should, somehow, be told not to that, or..
But the debate should be free. Mr. Niels Bohr dreamt of a world, where we are able to meet people in trust, thereby creating peace.
These days, it works, to some degree. We are actually able to understand what is going on in the world, but the censorship based on a POLITICAL VIEW that is the norm in most social media, is a step in the wrong direction.
We need openness, in both code and dialogue, everybody should be welcome, as long as they search for truth and gives space for argument.
G-d bless the open world the founding fathers of the internet envisioned, and let be strengthened not weakened.
Dear Zelensky, the reason why Mariupol and other cities are destroyed, is because you have no experience with war and making peace.
As a result of the last peace deal, the Russians drew back a bit. To show, that they were serious about making a peace deal. It was a big chance. But, instead of drawing back the Ukrainian troops, you decided to bomb targets in Russia.
I mean, if you really want peace, you should show that you understand and respect the peace offering of the Russians. Russia have NOT used its full force yet, why? Because their main aim, is to occupy only Donbas, get Ukraine out of the negotiations with NATO, and then have friendly relationships with Ukraine.
They have relinquished their demand of demilitarization, still the denazification is on the table. And maybe that is not negotiable.
But you have to respond in kind with what Russia is doing. If you force the Russians to be cruel, they will, even though it is wrong.
So if you want peace, make a deal with the Russian, and draw back at the same pace as the Russians are. At least do not see the peace offering as weakness. It is peace offering, and not weakness.
G-d bless the will to make peace in the Ukraine\Russia conflict.
The new plans of mr. Boris Johnson of making camps in Africa, to send migrants to, has made a bit of a discussion in the UK. In Scandinavia it has led to an easter rebellion of palestinians, burning and destroying. So this whole idea, has had some effect already.
One of the main criticisers of the idea was the rev. Archbishop Justin Welby, whom I hold dear as a friend and see as a moral lighthouse. He is a good guy, no doubt about it. Also the bishop of York is against it.
This creates a division within the conservative camp, and lets see, if we can discuss this.
Morality comes down to protection of the weak. If you hurt someone, and you do it on purpose, that is wrong.
That is why we do not like the school bully, and have rules for social interaction. Law is there to protect the weak.
This is applied to the migrant, who are obviously weak. They have nothing, and nothing protects them.
At the other hand, the effect of mass migration to the UK and West Europe in general, has created, especially in blue collar communities massive conflicts of culture. Often spilling into civil strife of the worst kind. So blue collar communities are very upset with the development, and has therefor given their vote to mr. Johnson, since the socialists have no idea about their predicament, and seem to have abandoned the worker as a social group, supporting gays, people of color and lesbians instead.
This is not to say, that there is something wrong with being gay. I am just trying to discuss the moral base of the whole development.
So we have, in practise, a dilemma. On the one hand, we can stop the migrants coming to working communities, thereby protecting the workers, or we can protect the migrants, thereby putting the workers in harms way.
This is a moral dilemma.
The attempted solution to the problem, is to protect BOTH migrants and workers, by making a refugee camp in Africa that has all the facilities of a good refugee camp. A camp where the migrants can learn, have skills, and perhaps a route to a better life, with new skills.
This effectively solves the problem.
I know, that it has to work, in order for it to function. We have to see it in action.
There are many things we do not know about the project, if it will work. And we have to work on that. But we have to do something, otherwise we end up harassing and hurting the workers, who have no guilt, and we are supposed to support.
Leaving the poor working communities to their own fate is, in my view just as great a sin as not taking care of the migrants.
So, these are the arguments, and I hope, we can have an enlightened discussion on the subject.
G-d bless the will to be fair to all implied.
The UN does not make any sense these days. I really agree with mr. Zelensky. I mean, what is the point of gathering, if there is no effect?
We can talk and talk, but what is the point, if the horrors are just endlessly continuing on the ground?
To the defense of the UN one must say, that the UN has no military wing, and should not have a military wing. Because it serves as a diplomatic institution.
But what is it that the UN lack?
It lacks authority.
Nobody wants to listen to a gathering of independently warmongering countries, that all see their own ends as important. Authority lies in the ability and motivation of a party to throw itself into the work of making peace.
Israel is the way, as I see it. To make a new UN. Because it has the necessary authority.
Meanwhile, the UN is what we are supposed to work with, but it doesn’t.
Well, you all have me. A simple, poor blogger, to try and alleviate the diplomatic train.
And as that inferior blogger, and as Zelensky said himself, not always able to be the one to make peace. Because of my stupid situation. My message is loud and clear. There is a path to peace. It is the motivation, that is the problem.
Nobody in the international community really wants peace, because the war serves purposes of internal character. It is, to be absolutely honest, a healthy and convenient thing for the West European nations to have a supervillain in Putin.
The problem about that situation is, that what we sacrifice in our own internal process of vilifying Putin, be it just or not just, is Ukrainians.
To look at the conflict from a humane perspective, it makes sense to think a bit less about the unity that an external villain gives us, and a bit more about the poor, hapless victims of this war, that happen to be people, civilians and others in Ukraine.
I for one, understand the mechanics of war, and have tried to stem the avalanche of destruction, that is the effect of European wars.
Not vilifying, but still supporting of the Ukraine.
Zelensky is a hero to the world, he deserves our selfless support. Not a support that serves ourselves.
Otherwise WE are the ones who put the Ukrainians to the meat grinder.
At the other hand, Bucha is wrong.
That is the bottom line of the war. Bucha is wrong, and my hope is, that this war soon meets it end. Because at the end of the day. No one is served by a humiliated Russia and no one is served by a destroyed Ukraine.
Everyone deserves a shot at happiness and peace.
G-d bless the will to find peace, ultimately a peace with winners of all kind. Russians and Ukrainians. G-d bless the will to find a way to negotiate with the aim of a true and lasting solution to the situation in Ukraine.
In the Ukraine war, the situation is like this. First the Russians just wanted to make a deal with the Ukrainians, that is they wanted to demilitarize Ukraine and liberate/occupy Donetsk.
But at the beginning of the war, mr. Zelenski wanted to fight. So he fought, something that surprised the Russians, who were not prepared for a fight. So he won some inital victories. Also due to the fact, that the Russians fought under a strict non agressive order. They just wanted to force Ukraine to negotiate.
Then, as the war went on, and Ukraine did not want to negotiate, the russians changed tactics, and started a more agressive line. Destroying infrastructure, being less carefull. Add to this, a waning morale in Ukraine, the horrors started. Terrible sacriledge of humanity, as always in war.
Then Zelenski started to show inclinations of dialogue, and to support this the Russian drew back.
This was misunderstood by Zelenski, who felt he was winning, and started to feel confident in his chances. So he put away the notion of peacetalks, and started talking about not giving territory to Russia, that is the Donets region, that was the issue in the first place.
So now the Russians are angry, and threaten to eradicate Ukraine.
It all comes down to one thing. The Donetsk region. Who is going to control that region.
Well, in the end, the power that has the tenacity and firepower to hold Donetsk will be the ones to hold Donetsk. It is really as simple as that.
Then what motivates soldiers? They fight for something. The Ukrainans fight for their independence, and the Russians fight for their indepence.
Therefor, in the end, the most probable result will be a divided Ukraine. Divided into Ukraine proper and Donetsk, that will be a part of Russia.
If this is the case anyway. A good idea would be to make this happen instead of ending up in this situation as a result of a long a vicious war.
People from Ukraine and Russia are brothers, and should be their keepers and not their enemies. Hopefully this is the result in the end.
Until that we can only pray for peace.
G-d bless the will to find peace in the end.
Mr. Volodomyr Zelenski held a beautiful and extremely well composed speech to the Danish parliament a few days back, and it has kind of filtered down into the Danish society.
These are the main takes on the speech after it has been discussed in Denmark.
First of all, Denmark is REALLY supportive in terms of helping Ukraine back on its feet after the war. We know, that rebuilding the country will be an extremely difficult task. Especially the building industry have responded positively to a possible rebuilding of the city Mykolajiv.
We will rebuild it, however the people of Ukraine wishes it to be rebuilt. All the officials of Mykolajiv need to do, is to call upon the Danish officials, and we will make it happen. The war is entering its last phase, and after that, Ukraine needs to be rebuilt
The next thing you can think about Volodomyr is HOW to rebuild Ukraine.
Before the war, the country was riddled with corruption, and abuse of public finances. This is a true chance to change this negative dynamics.
How? Hire some of the best auditors of the world, to see the rebuilding through. Again, we have some very good auditors in Denmark, if you need help with auditing, we will support you.
But, my point is. If you make sure, from the beginning, to make the rebuilding to the very letter of the auditing process, you can rebuild the culture of Ukraine, starting a culture of incorruptibility.
Some of the best civil servants are supposed to be the British, maybe, Britain can help you in this regard. Open the schools of Britain, for the civil servants of Ukraine, to teach them how to make a good civil service.
Then there is the discussion on what comes after in terms of system. One thing is for sure. It has to be viking in some way.
The people of Ukraine are descendants of the vikings from Denmark and Sweden, so it has to reflect this heritage.
How, to do this? Well, Voltaire is pretty clear about this. It is about making a system where each citizen is FREE.
Again, what freedom, how to do this, is a many layered answer, but this is something we should discuss. How do we make a frame around the Ukrainians that gives them freedom.
And again. I know, that you want to be a part of EU, be careful of that. Because that is a straightjacket and they are immensely corrupt. So be careful.
Play the cards you have now, to make a Ukraine, that is strong and independent. In this way, you will satisfy the demands of the right wing, and you can path a way, where you have the most in terms of flexibility towards the powers around you.
Be free Volodomyr, and you will be able to make a state, that will survive and thrive.
G-d bless the will to make a free state of Ukraine.
In the war in Ukraine, the tolls of death is so high, that the suffering of people is almost impossible to fathom.
This is due to the nature of the conflict. Mechanised warfare at the scale we are witnessing creates these devastations.
In this situation, there should be no doubt about the stance of Israel. That of peace.
It seems to me, that Zelenski is finally ready to talk. This opportunity should not be passed over. Israel should use all is political capital, and try to reach out for Putin. Maybe this is an opportunity for peace to truly start.
But it has to be motivated and actually be put into action.
If anything seems to appear in terms of a true peace, then we all should support this.
Finding a peace in the end, is what is all it is about. People are dying, their homes are falling apart.
The human suffering is the meter we should use to understand what is right and wrong.
G-d bless a peace that is illusive, but yet not gone. G-d bless the friendship between Israel, Ukraine and Russia.
Listen, we have to have some kind of an idea about an endgame in Ukraine. What is it, that we wish to make of the war between Russia and Ukraine that is raging right now?
My experience is, going to war is easy, winning is difficult, but creating some kind of system out of the conflict is the most difficult.
When Barack and I went to a very idealistic war in North Africa, we had a huge succes in the war. Democracy was at the forefront of our thoughts, and we really, really tried to make Democracies out of the Northern African countries. But the fact of the matter was, that we did win the war, but we messed up the peace.
There is a very real risk involved in the Ukraine war right now, that there is no peace worth having at the other side of war.
So my best advice, right now, would be for the West, to think about what comes after. How are we going to rebuild Ukraine? What are the ideals we strive for?
Are we going to free the Ukrainians, and then if they are freed, how are we going to make a sound system afterwards?
My best advise would be to think about institutions from the beginning, and then be dead serious. Not just involve an ambassador or two. But make a full institutional remake of Ukraine, send them our best thinkers, and give Ukrainians the ressources to rebuild their country.
Also, make it possible for Ukrainians to come home, and start the rebuilding at once. This way, we forsee some of the conflicts that will come with all the refugees roaming around Europe. We need to help Ukraine on their feet as fast as possible. Make a Marshall plan, but include the motive to make sound, uncorrupted institutions.
Then, perhaps, we can give hope.
G-d bless the will to keep hoping.
Ok, the situation is, as it stands like this:
Both parties are, more or less in the same position regarding ethics. It is a war, I know, you loose a war, if you do not fight it. But Ukraine has the Azov batallion, Russia have the Kadyrov batallion.
At the wargames, more or less the same. I know, that Russian agresssion against Ukraine is most covered in the media. But the truth is, that Ukraine has fought a war, with some of the same amount of agression in the breakaway republics.
So here again, both parties are at the same level, when it comes to fighting against a people.
At the same time, both nations do share, more or less, the same culture, same cultural roots, and the same amount of wealth when it comes to richness of art, language, and history. You both come from us here in Scandinavia.
So, the similaritites, brotherhood and family is larger than they are small.
Such common ground is a basis to find each other, at least in the basic willingness to find some way to find a warm community of brothers.
That is really the heart of the matter, to understand what is shared. Not what tears a part.
The West is not trying to mend the fences between the two nations, but I, and the rest of the Jewish community would try and help you finding your brothers.
G-d bless brotherhood, not of man, but between Ukraine and Russia.
Zelenski. You want a compromise, fine. This includes you giving something, and Putin giving something.
I have hinted on the possibility of you remaining in power, at KEEPING a strong military precense in Ukraine. This is what Putin did not want. At the other hand, Ukraine needs to recognise the breakaway republics and the Crimea.
This will leave both parties with something that is actually worth each. AND it will make Ukraine independent from NATO. You can make your own future.
All this oratory, it serves no purpose. It is engaging, you are good at it. But, it is not about your speeches, it is about all those lives lost in the war. Each life lost is a father lost, a child lost, a friend lost.
So that is a realistic compromise, that you get your true independence, as will the breakaway republics. All are coming out with a partial win, which is a compromise.
Otherwise, what is your alternative?
G-d bless the lives of those lost in a war, that is terrible, but CAN find compromise.
Zelenski, listen. I have been a blazing hero once. When I started my work as a blogger and political philosopher, I shook the world. The dynamics was astounding, and I felt like riding a wave.
You know what happened. I ended in a corner, the system did all it could to shut me up, they still do, and I have tried to survive ever since.
And, in a way, I get it. Because blazing heroes end up making a lot of trouble for the world. So, the world will applause you, and try to steal some of your glory, but at the end of the day, most leaders are pretty pragmatic, and they do not want war. A little war perhaps, that can be controlled but Third World War, not a chance.
So, after realising this. I began to use my talent to create a better world, use diplomacy, strengthen the international trends towards peace and prosperity for all in the world.
So now my job is to make peace, and hopefully realise that in my lifetime.
Point is, in the heat of the moment, to be a hero is a beautiful thing, but it does not matter. What matters is to make a frame around the citizens of each country, that may give them peace and stability.
Now, what is the potential win of Ukraine, to still hold Donbass and Luhansk, is that is winning scenario?
Maybe it is, but at the end, it is up to the citizens of the rebel republics, not anybody else, they choose.
There is the most honour in giving up your own self to your people. That is the greatest honour, to sacrifice yourself in the interest of your people.
How to do that is up to you. Dont count on much support from outside, a little, but there will not be much, look at the interests.
The West has supported Ukraine in all ways that it could, but we are not into a Third World War.
That is the base line.
At the other hand, finding a peace, that will satisfy both Ukraine and Russia is the only way this conflict can end without loosing the honour of each country.
How do you make that deal? You do it, by sacrificing your own honour in the interest of your people. Your people needs to be safe, not win international honour.
This is the way of the hero, that has been through it all, and decided to find peace as an aim of ones project. Not a humiliating peace, but a peace, where Ukraine remains independent, with a strong army.
G-d bless the will to be at peace, but a honourful peace, and g-d bless the sacrifice that Zelensky is soon to make, may he live to be a hero.
It is not so difficult to understand what to do in Ukraine, IF you see the development of the European continent in the light of European history.
We are all descendants of the great culture that inhabited the Mediterranean in the classical times. Philosophy deriving from Ancient Greece, Egypt and even further away I the Middle East. Illustrious civilisations as the Phoenician and Persian.
So, what we need to ask ourselves in relation to Ukraine is; what is it we strive for? Ukrainians descend from Denmark and Sweden. So essentially this country is a viking country, with the traditions of the democratic constitutions that was here a thousand years ago. So a sound democracy is necessary to meet the philosophical and constitutional needs of the Ukraine. It should be a free country. Free in the way of the government. Free in the sense of the individual sovereignity, and free in the making of a true democratic country.
BUT, and this is where Ukraine needs to be honest with itself. Will it be able to make these things work? A democratic constitution demands a high sense of personal integrity. Each man is a tower of honour, in a good democratic society. This means, that bureaucracy, needs to be honest.
If you finish the war, and end up in a system that is ripe with nepotism and dishonesty, the whole conflict would be for nothing.
You should use the valour you have fought with, to infuse the new state, with integrity. Use your experience for a positive development of your society.
Make it a young state again, free and honest.
In this way, maybe it will be a war fought for something worth while, something that will make a better nation, and sounder frame around the citizens of Ukraine.
In this way, maybe the peace you win, will make you able to be friends with Russia again.
G-d bless the will to seek understanding of what is the right and wrong in this conflict. G-d bless the will to peace in the end. G-d bless the understanding of each of us, as essentially good, and not bad. May peace descend on the wartorn country.
The conflict in and around Ukraine has reached a climax. Either we start a really devastating war, or we find some kind of solution to the problem.
Seen in the light of the Second World War, this could lead to terrible mayhem, “peace in our time”, would be a word not remembered anymore.
But, if we see through our own needs, and look for a true compromise, that may give each part a victory on political priorities, that is important to each part of the conflict, we may be able to attain peace.
First of all, what is it that Ukraine really want. Have you thought about that? Is it independence, self satisfaction, justice, equality. What is it you want. If you are able to formulate that, in a difficult situation, with bombs flying around your ears, we can start the negotiation.
Secondly, how do we attain these goals. We do it, by making a sound plan, for the betterment of BOTH Ukraine as well as Russia.
It has to be a balanced peace deal. Not a deal, that one part feels more above the other. Harmony comes from equality.
Finding that equal terms, for both parties, is the only way to find peace in our time.
G-d bless the will to make peace, and stop the suffering.
Ok, so I have given some thought to the role Israel might play in the current conflict between Putin and Zelenski.
First of all, be carefull. Going into the conflict will risk the political capital of not only Israel but Jews in general. If it goes sideways, all Jews will pay, and it can potentially undermine Israels current role as a relatively neutral part that Israel has in the Middle East.
At the other hand, Israel CAN win some international political capital, IF we are able to fulfil the promise of Israel, and that is to BRING PEACE.
As of now, the UN does not play a role in international peacekeeping anymore, essentially Rubicon.dk has taken over the role of the UN, crazy as it sounds.
This is something that Israel can play a role in. Because it is absolutely absurd for a one little nerdy blogger to be able to make peace in all corners off the world. I can do somethings, but as of now, I am in a lot of fights here in Denmark, where the police is trying to shut me up, again, and my ressources are truly few. I have to put food on the table for me and my kids, so doing international peacekeeping is a hobby for me. That is a very shaky foundation to put the health of milions of people in.
Danes don’t get it, and they keep on harassing me, so that is my life and reality.
A pretty obvious step to take to strengthen the international clout of Israel would be to make a virtual office for me in Israel. Let Israel be the player that may underpin my efforts to make peace in the world.
This could, potentially, give me a more stable situation, and Israel a lot more clout in the international game.
And yes, it will realise the aim of both zionism and Israel, to be the light upon the nations.
I know, that this is a big and scary step for Israel, to really get involved. But Israel is what it is, the light upon the nations, and only if it realises this aim of its ideology, will it have a chance for survival in the long run. Right now, I do this in practise, and if Israel combines its purpose with the actual work I do, Israel will have a chance to survive in the long run. Making it a permanent house for all jews.
G-d bless the chance we have, to make Israel the light upon the nations, and may we realise this in our time.
The Ukraine conflict has become both extremely honourful for Ukraine, and at the same time shows the ambiguity of the Western alliance.
I have, from the start, called for diplomacy, but I understand, that the Ukrainian people and leadership fight for their freedom.
I hope, that, somehow, peace will come. The price in human cost is mounting, and those fathers not coming back from war, will never be replaced.
So, full respect for the Ukrainians, they have deserved the honour and respect from the world, as they have won. With that, also support in many, many forms.
The question remains, should the west enter the conflict? Well, we have entered already. But we have, so far, left out direct involvement. Especially air support is needed by the Ukrainians, and honestly, if there was something we SHOULD give the Ukrainians, it should be air support.
At the other hand, we have in the the West, become united for a cause, that is a new normal. The beautiful thing about it, is the fact, that it calls to the best in ourselves. Unity, freedom, solidarity. What we are, when we are at our best.
We should remember this lesson, and build on that. No more control of the population, just be ourselves, and invest in that vibe of French/American revolution.
Investment calls for more arms. I mean, it should be pretty clear, that we need to be able to defend ourselves.
Also it calls for a focus on independence in terms of energy consumption.
We need to able to make our own energy.
Combine this with an investment in green tech, we can actually use this terror, to propel ourselves in a positive direction.
We need to get the power to x system up and running. And build energy production, that can fuel our economies.
It will take a little while, but we are getting there. With the right kind of attention, in ten, twenty years, we will be independent in terms of energy production.
To explain. The new power to X tech, can take any electrical energy source, and make any kind of fuel. Fuel for sailing, driving and making things in industry. You can take atomic energy, windmills, solar panel created energy, and make it into fuel.
We also need to be honest about the threat of internal infiltration of islamists. Still a problem at large in most of Western Europe, and we NEED to face it.
So, if we use this kick in the behind in a constructive way, we can propel ourselves out of the quagmire. We need to be independent in terms of energy, and we need to be much, much stronger in terms of military prowess.
It will cost us, but it is necessary.
G-d bless the will to look things squarely in the eyes, and act for liberty, humanity and brotherhood.
So the world has changed again, in a sense. The old world order, where everthing was a cat and mouse game has finished, and we are again in a situation, where war is the effect of politics.
This has, on one side, become a much more transparent and easy world to navigate in, at the other hand, the violence and destruction is truly abhorrent. People dying, homes lost, pain and suffering.
At the other hand, we know who are friends are and who our enemies are.
The conflict in Ukraine is ultimately my responsibility. I started it ten years ago, by vilifying the danish system. Well, it is correct, they are still at it, the bastards. Trying to kill my wife, using all kinds of strategies to stop me from writing and so on.
But, the effect of me going ballistic on my blogs are too severe for me to do so, so I don’t.
But, and this is where I really want to share my thoughts, is it really so important to be in the centre? Isn’t it better to leave the world a better place, than what it was when you got into it?
And if making a better world is important, what is then the better option?
In Ukraine, Donbass and Lugansk. The better option is for brother to live side by side with brother in peace. How do we obtain this good? We do it by defining clear borders. Make a vote. If Donbass and Luhansk wants to be a part of Russia, fine, all is within the legal framework of international law. If they don’t, then leave them. The same with Ukraine, they obviously don’t want to be a part of Russia, then leave them to that decision.
The pain and the hurt, is due to the dedication of two peoples wanting to have a territorial integrity. They want to be masters of their own house. Well, let them.
I know, that Ukraine is slipping into the EU. But, I mean, the EU is much more awful place than the Soviet communistic world. It has become a cultural marxist hell.
It is much better for Russia to be Russia, to be a place of pride in itself, with plenty of young people feeling pride for their cultural heritage and nation. The same is with Ukraine. A place of wise vikings, making that bid for freedom.
Dont believe, that the EU will come and save you, they won’t, they are too corrupted. What you need to do, is to make your own sovereignty.
Be masters of your own house, and make peace with the countries around you. Be independent. Through this independence, you can develop your own way in life.
G-d bless the peace, we can find, if we are truly honest to what we are, brothers now in a senseless war. G-d bless Ukraine and Russia, and may these mighty and good nations both find peace. G-d bless the will to understand the fate of the nations of the East. G-d bless the will to talk to one another and make dialogue.
Ok, now the dialogue has begun, that is, truly, a good thing. Thank you Anthony for calling mr. Lavrov, this may just be the beginning of at least some kind of understanding. Thank mr. Macron for reaching out to mr. Putin, this may also give the peaceplan a chance.
But, one thing is to discuss the issues, another thing is to solve the issues.
First of all, what it truly comes down to, is the conflict between people of Ukraine against people of Russia, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces.
So the talks need to adress a permanent solution to the difficulties in these areas. How do we find a solution?
It will have to be some kind of territorial solution. Because people who have been to war, cannot live side be side the day after. So, to be realistic, you need to make a solution where each people have their own land.
How to do this, is really the central discussion, and we have to face it as well as put it on the table. Finding some kind of fair deal is the only possible endresult of these negotiations, if they are to suceed.
But, if they suceed, they might bring peace.
It has to be fair though, and that is the difficulty of the negotiations.
At the end the day, we may just win peace, and that would be preferable to all parties involved. This conflict has continued for too long, people are suffering, and if possible, a serious, fair and good solution acceptable for both parties, should be the product of these negotiations.
G-d bless the will to make peace.
Well, thinking about the Russians, one has to UNDERSTAND them to really make a deal with them.
Who are the Russians really?
Well, as the Americans, they are hard-nosed frontiersmen. When the Rus came to what is today Ukraine, they came with the joy of Scandinavian culture. Put up a Thing, and enjoyed the festive markets that we vikings enjoy.
But living at the fringe of European culture soon meant that Ukraine was invaded by Mongols who destroyed the beautiful cities that the Rus built. So the Rus had to pick themselves up by the bootstrap, and adapt to the difficult situation. And they did, they started wandering East, making the greatest country in the world in the process. Russia.
Russia is immense, it never ends. It has places people never go.
This hard-nosed people that ended at the pacific in their fights has NEVER forgotten their roots, but often feel forgotten by us. So they feel left in a place with few roots to drink from.
The beauty and joy of their ancestors is all but forgotten. So the plow on, survive in their own strong way.
Then, when we vilify the Russians, they feel left alone again, not understood.
At the other hand, they, even though they do not say it, really like some aspects of American culture. ESPECIALLY the vigilante, cow boy culture. The sixshooter lone rider. Putin is supposedly a great fan of Steven Seagal, why? Because the hard nosed kossack culture they themselves are heir to, is in many ways the same as the Americans.
Now Russia is older that the US. So, they have an older and bit more refined culture. Dostoyevsky, their own platonic church, the byzantine church, and Tolstoi. I like Tolstoi, he is a deep thinker.
So, a plan that may bring peace, should reflect these cultures. Make it a cowboy plan, a Steven Seagal plan, brazen, true, honest, American as well as Russian.
See, you may not like each other much, but at the end of the day, culturally, the difference is not so large or great. The likeness is very much the same.
It takes a Dane to see this, because we are in the middle, but you should actually find much more peace in understanding each other, than just not liking each other.
Russians are not materialist communist anymore. They have found their own roots in many ways, and the roots are beautiful.
It comes from that Thing, a place where the ancients met as equals, and maybe that is a place to meet again.
G-d bless the will to find peace again.
Now, at the time of the Obama administration, Obama and I did a lot of warring together. In the beginning with very little success. The Arab spring was, in general, a failure. There are still pockets of beautiful democracies, and liberty in the Arab world. But we overthrew states, that never really became whole again. That was a great mistake.
After that, we started being more focused, and more diplomatic.
That started to work. We made the peace in the Middle East, that is actually still holding. We started to fight Islamic state, by chopping of the heads of the snake. That worked too.
So, based on these successes, that really put the US as the leader of the world, what can we say about the current situation in Ukraine?
Well, first of all. Diplomacy is ALWAYS preferable over war.
Diplomacy needs a power base to work. I mean, as one my predecessors used to say, talk with a soft voice, but walk with a great stick.
So in terms of the Ukranie conflict. Off cause we need to be present militarily, but the aim of the conflict, should be peace. Some kind of accord, that makes the situation in Ukraine stable and to the benefit of that old and ancient descendants of my own descendants. The Rus.
How to accomplish that, is by making plans. Come up with at peaceplan, have good ideas on how to solve the situation in Ukraine, and especially Donetsk and Luhansk, the provinces that want to be a part of Russia, for a great part, at least.
Let me let you in on a secret, I realized in my service to Barack. The MOST effective tool in your toolbox of war is appraisal.
What happens when people fight, is that they picture their enemies as evil and vile.
If that enemy, all of a sudden, show respect for you, and shows, that he understands who you are, then the picture of you in his mind, will soften.
That is what it is. War is people becoming angry at each other, and painting their enemies as evil.
Few people are truly evil. A lot of people believe lies, that is true, but that does not make them evil.
Russians are not evil, they are a warm and strong people, that we often vilify.
Besides, a liberal perspective in this world, is a perspective of peace, right?
That was what the Vietnam war was all about, not fighting wars with no meaning.
The trouble we have with China is due to geopolitical reasons. Chinese are not evil, they are a good people. But they threaten our sovereignty.
So, diplomacy is all about UNDERSTANDING the world, and trying to make solutions, to the best of our abilities.
Now, maybe this mindset, the Obama mindset, will help you in the current situation. And just maybe we can avoid a senseless war.
That has always been a Democratic number one priority. I should still be so, to my mind. We bring peace, not war.
G-d bless the will to find peace in a VERY difficult situation.
The world is heading for the Third World War. The trouble in Ukraine, will, if we do not stop it, turn into a real war with guns, helicopters, tanks and ships colliding.
At the same time, these wars will turn into mayhem and destruction in the West, especially in Central Europe because the islamist insurgency is all but waiting for their chance. Here in Scandinavia, it was a hairsbreadth away from an islamist take over under the Covid 19 crisis.
In other words, we are weak in Europe, and do not have the manpower or fighting spirit to fight world war three. On the contrary, we risk a massive recalibration of the European mainland, and a great part of Europe to fall to islamists.
Now, in the last two decades, our enemies have grown much stronger. China is strong, and Russia is getting fit. To me Russia is a vital part of European culture. Russian descend from Swedes and Danes migrating to Ukraine.
Through vicious fights with mongols, and Japanese, Russia was built. But at the core, Russia is still a Scandinavian heritage. We appraise that in Denmark, and have had many connections to Russia through the time, not least with the Tzars and Tzarinas. Valdemar, the founder of the royal house of Denmark was a brother to the Rus, Valdemar is the Danish version of Vladimir.
Anyway, there is plenty of historical tradition to bind Europe together. At the same time, the English was a part of the same world. The royal house of the Brits derive from those same raiders, that hit the shores of the English.
We can choose to remember our shared history, or choose to see all the negative in each other.
The choice is our own. But we should remember, that what we are dealing with is a war that will reorder european mainland, and make countless of citizens suffer.
Are we ready to see that suffering as a consequence of our own actions?
That is really what we need to ask ourselves. Because as the commotion is started, it will not stop again.
G-d bless the will to find peace.
We are truly moving away from the Obama doctrine, that Barack and I made under his presidentship. Why? I guess conservatism reflects liberalism, and right now, we are reentering at very strict cultural marxist trend in the European mainland. Specifically in Germany and Sweden.
France is still very pro the Democratic/antiislamist ideas that was the heart of our tenure, and the UK is kind of wobbly.
This will create a devastating dynamics, that may end in a war with Russia and China. A war that Germany cannot win by itself. Just saying, and Sweden neither.
So perhaps you may want to think a little bit about what road to take. The cultural marxist ideas are kind of running out. It will destroy Sweden, and it will destroy Germany.
But the rest of Europe will have to make new alliances, and try to remake the continent in some kind of form.
Politics is like a pendulum, it swings from right to left, and will do that eternally, UNLESS, the state collapses, then it is a whole new ballgame.
Russia is not our enemy. It can be, if we push Russia too far, but as it is now, it is only defending itself. WE are the aggressors, and we have no armies.
That is a very difficult process to maintain.
Hopefully Trierism will win the day eventually. That is a conservative, middle leaning political position, that tries to reach bot ways. But right now, we are torn between the extremes of politics, and it is ripping the continent asunder.
The US cannot do anything right now, but be careful not to alienate Russia more that it has already been alienated. We risk creating a new Cold War, and honestly we ourselves are not at our best. We need to focus on the competition with China, that is the real threat.
We will see, but I fear the worst; revolutions, state collapses, general mayhem, as always in Europe.
G-d bless the will to find a balanced peace in the world.
So, as I have discussed before on the blog, the tech community needs to understand its role in history.
I mean, AR headsets, augmented reality, bitcoin all these new tech tools are, in themselves amazing. The meta verse and all that, BUT if we do not see ourselves in the long history of tech, we end up making mistakes. Like that of using too much electricity to make bitcoin and crypto in general, loosing sight of open source, it is only through the marriage between tech and ethics that we can succeed.
We Change the world, but if we do it without thinking about what the consequences are, we end up destroying the societies and the world. I mean to be honest doesn’t Facebook and many of the social media platforms feel like prisons?
So we have created platforms that people should conform to, and does not conform to people. How is that a good idea. I mean wasn’t computer/human interactions sciences, that I did my thesis on, supposed to make tech conform to human needs and not the other way around?
If we loose the sight of the human in the process, we will make systems, that destroys society.
I know, that I have been in the rails for the last 1 1/2 year, due to my circumstances, but the point, that tech needs to follow humans, and not the other way around, is still valid.
We need to understand, that what built great companies as Apple and Facebook, was the attempt to subdue tech, and make the human rule. HUMAC, remember.
Now when Steve is not here anymore, we are left to our own devises, and we need step up, otherwise people will get fed up with us, and start regulating here and there.
We need to remember, Human/computer interaction, with the total respect of the human. Make it easier to be a human, not create prisons for the human, but set them free, make them happy.
That is what computerscience is about, seen from an ethical perspective. We need to hold on to that, hold on to our virtues.
G-d bless the will to be fast in developing, but steadfast in application of computer ethics.
Joe, listen, I am not a true, rich opinionator of an international statue, I am just a poor guy living in Denmark, with a host of problems around my neck.
The police is after me, my ex. is a terrible problem and so on and so forth. I am friend, right, not much of a friend, but still your loyal friend. But don’t expect me to save you, in the state I am in.
I am locked up in Denmark, like in a prison. But you can bail me out, if you want.
All you have to do, is offer me a job somewhere, where it somehow fits my current life situation.
I can’t go and live in the States, even though I would love to do just that, but my kids are 4 and 9. I can’t move them around, and my ex. would go bananas, that’s the truth of it.
But I mean, give me a job at the embassy as some kind liaison, give me a low paying, insignificant job in your administation, that would allow me to go to the States once in a while and talk with you about all the host of issues that you are facing.
I am not saying this because I want a job, I have some of kind job, that I like. But the truth is, I am getting pulled down by the things I have to do here in Denmark, and it is difficult to find the ressources to keep up with the American agenda. I try the best I can. But when you are in a fierce battle between this environment group against the other, and you are part of the whole debacle, keeping up with what you are doing is really difficult. The brits are doing it in a nice way, inviting me to Oxford, making some kind of connection, that is all that is required. You do not need to come here, I will come to you, you are my friend. But I have to have some kind of connection.
Please Joe, for America, and the potential benefits I can give you, make that connection. Not in a fanciful way, just simple and yet effective. It does not have to be prestigious, just something that would work.
G-d bless the will to reach out and help your friends.
When we talk about the internet, we still need to understand what it is all about, in order to plot a course ahead.
The internet is the realisation of the Danish physicist Niels Bohrs attempt at making an open world. It is still formulated into ideas as open source, blockchains, that is based on open software, the whole Google suit of software is reflected by the idea. Many software companies still hold on to open source as a driving idea.
But, in this, where most software engineers have not understood much of what is going on, there is stil a mission in the software community, that most have lost sight of.
Mr. Niels Bohr wanted to make an open world, to bolster the Democratic idea. He believed, that dialogue and understanding would lead to peace.
Now we in this time of the world are here to make that happen. After a line of 70 years of innovation, we have finally come to a point, where mr. Bohrs ideas are possible to become fruitful. An honestly, due to greed, self-interest and lack of understanding, we do the absolute opposite. We think about what we can gain ourselves, and not about how we can make the world a better place. Mr. Niels Bohr was a Jew from the maternal side, he carried the torch of light and humanity to the next generation. Who are we to dim the light of that torch, just because we have no real interest in the betterment of the world?
There are multiple good things to say about the internet, and there is a lot of money to make, but it is based on the idea, that a more open world would lead to peace. If we forget that, then not only do we lose the grip of that torch of humanity, also, we will cut the link to our predecessors.
Money is not really relevant, if we are not in great need of using it, money is only relevant for the most basic needs, as well as making us able to help those in need.
But, and this is the principle we still need to remember, the open world, that mr. Bohr tried to create, is what makes Democracy real.
G-d bless the open world, lest us not forget our predecessors and their quest for human interaction as something viable and beautiful. G-d bless his memory, and may he make peace with his ideas.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is a lesson, that the new internet tycoons need to take to heart.
To be a jew is a to be Mensch, that is, always forgiving, always seeing the positive part in someone you don’t know, spur for positive growth, help those in need, do something for humanity. Be humble and let other take the glory and the fame.
That is what it means to be a Mensch, a human being in a world of destruction and fighting.
In these days, there are bunch of Jews who, by the brilliance of their minds, have created the backbone of the democratic infrastructure of the internet. You know who.
But they have, through their power forgotten what it is to be a Mensch.
You know, when I started my career, it was the same. I had all the powers of a brilliant individual. I am so skilled and talented.
But because I have another thing, I am quite narrow-minded when it comes to ethics, I repeatedly had problems with my surroundings. And coming from the land of the Emperors new clothes, lack of humility is severely punished by everybody.
Provincial some might call it, other calls it the leading civilisation of the world, pick your own flavour.
But through this process of humiliation, I have actually become pretty humble. I do not seek aggrandisement, but pure good.
Dont get me wrong, I miss being with people like myself, but the aim is always the betterment of humanity.
So, if you can actually learn from an old Jew like myself, who have been through a lot. Learn a bit of understanding. Learn that you are only an insignificant piece of the great puzzle, and the legacy you leave behind is relative not your power, but how you USE your power. Do you use it for good or bad? For Democracy or just making money?
G-d will judge you, and being a Jew, will only make the bar sit much higher. G-d judges us with another meter. We have so much power, and therefor G-d will look at us with a keen eye.
It is a potential as well as a danger. Do we not heed that calling, we will, potentially, create animosity amongst people of the world. Antisemitism, and hate.
Only if we succeed in treating our power with humility, and GIVE instead of taking, then we are propelling the world in a positive direction.
Juadism is harsh for a reason, and the reason is, that we are judged by a higher meter.
So please new tech generation, learn from my problems and suffering, and be a good person. Help instead of thinking about money and wealth. Share instead of keeping and make a better world.
If we do that, we create peace and thereby a foothold for Israel, the home of all Jews.
It would be appreciated by all.
G-d bless the will to shed ones own needs in the face of suffering, and help those who need it. G-d bless Israel.
One of the things, that really is a problem in the current state of affairs in regards to democracy, is the lack of understanding of mr. Bohrs project; the internet.
The idea was, that open source, open discussion would lead to higher understanding between the citizens of the world. Essentially the internet is a tool to provide for a public discourse. Ok, now it is used for a gazillion other things as well, but we still need to understand WHY it is there. It is a tool for democracy.
These days, because Mark and other do not understand what they have in their hands, it has the opposite effect as inteded. It was intended to build bridges and create dialogue, and now because Mark dreams of artificial lambs roaming the ubiquitous digital field, we end up in a situation, where there is no dialogue and understanding, but just warfare between right and left, and in all other discussion, where people are invested.
In order to fix this situation, one needs to mend the fences not create the fences. I know, the easiest way to make a bloguniverse like Facebook or YouTube is to make sure people with different understandings don’t talk to each other. But that is not the way a democracy works. Democracy works by bending the understanding of people towards each other. To create compromise and understanding. In fact this the very core of peace work.
The amount of peace that Facebook and other social media can potentially create is astounding. In fact, we can, if we understand the mission of mr. Bohr, to stop nuclear war that he made possible by building the nuclear bomb, REALIZE his ideas in the current climate of debate.
You know, everybody are in the rails about some part that they hate. Maybe it is time to CHANGE the direction, and make a little peace?
G-d bless the will to find peace.
There has been a lot of discussion on the relationship between the Christian communities of Israel and the state of Israel.
Now, I do not know the details of the debacle. I am not in Israel, even though I would love to be there, one of my friends has just returned from Israel, and it is supposed to be 30 degrees celcius as opposed to 5 here in Denmark.
BUT, my basic understanding of the debacle is, that even though it could be just smoke from a fire, there is always some kind of fire behind the smoke. Some got angry with each other, and since every little piece of Israel is fiercely fought over, someone had a fight.
Listen, we as jews must be the guardians of all three monotheistic creeds. I know, that the Gaza Strip is fighting us, but in the end, animosity from either Christian or Muslims must be seen in the light of our responsibility. That responsibility is to be the NEUTRAL part in the conflict, and try to mediate the conflict the best we can.
We must, if we want to be leaders of all three monotheistic religions, which is the very idea of Israel, be the light upon the nations. We must shed our own anger, and be able to look at the issues from a diplomatic and neutral point of view. Christians as well as Muslims must feel welcome and not feel threatened. Ok, if some attack us without reason, then we must respond. But we must be the response not the initiators.
In this way, Israel will realise its promise, being the light unto the nations.
G-d bless the will to find peace and solve the conflicts with a eye to the mission of Israel.
Listen Joe, getting things through congress is a fight, it has always been like that, and it will always be like that.
WWBD, what would Bill do. You know what he would do, he would get on his stallion, and fight his way down the valley, drawing his six-shooters for another day.
Point being, that adversity, things not going your way is just the way politics is.
I remember when we had the fight with Boehner, he didn’t want Barack to succeed. Not because his ideas were right or wrong, just because poor Barack had the wrong color in his skin. At that time, I advised Barack to go in, and try to make that compromise. Barack couldnt make it, it was not until Boehner got kicked out of congress screaming and yelling we started to make a little progress.
Now, you don’t seem to rub people the wrong way like I do. People always pick a fight with me, even though I try to be nice. But its just the way things are for me, like Bill. He seemed to provoke people somehow.
Anyway, learn from our lifes. You need to get up, saddle the stallion, and take another round in the fight. Ask this Manchin what he CAN approve of the parts of the build back better plan. He must be able to say yes to some of it, and take it from there. He has the right to disagree, but he is probably not in disagreement with the entire plan. So try and find the parts you agree upon. Ask Barack how he overcame Boehner. That was a vicious fight, but we made it, and we can make it again. Just have faith Joe, everything will work, do what you can to take another round in the political fight.
G-d bless the will to be strong in adversity and honest in how you do things. G-d bless the United States of America.
Listen Joe, I think you have to face the fact, that the Build back better plan is not going to fly.
Why? Because it lacks focus. I think there is a great willingness in the Republican Party, to find reconciliation, but you still need to make plans, that they will truly accept.
So here is an idea for a better strategy.
Carve the plan up.
One plan for climate change, one plan for infrastructure development and one plan for job creation.
There is still the “Obama care” part that is really the problem of the build back better plan. The right wingers see it as some kind of crypto communist plan. It is not, but you need to see it from the Republicans perspective to win them over.
So this is my advice. Take the parts of the plan you CAN agree about, like investment in infrastructure and some kind of tax reduction for the producers of America (make sure that the union is in on this), and then take it from there. You need to take it one step at a time.
What you are trying to do, from an economic standpoint, is to use both Obamanomics, that is investment in good worker/production capabilities and at the same time using my predecessor Keynes.
You know, I am not keen on Keynes, it is often just a waste of money, but Americans are really tired of all the terrible roads, so from a long term investment perspective, it makes sense.
This ties up the the strategy of cutting supply lines to China. Republicans must, at least, realise the good thing in supporting patriotic American companies.
From there on, if you get that through congress, you can slowly develop the other parts of your political projects.
Energy development in the department of climate seems to be the best cross the aisle project. Find new and innovative ways to make energy. We are pretty far with green energy production to use as fuel here in Denmark, maybe Mette Frederiksen can help you with that.
Anyway, don’t despair, find a new way. We can do this Joe, all we need is a little grit.
G-d bless the will to be consistent and productive in the face of adversity.
There has been a lot of debate about the paper, that the current commissioners made in the EU bureaucracy.
Seriously? Putting beard on the Virgin Mary. The spirit of Christianity, and here at Christmas time.
To me, this is beyond evil and respect less. I have, with both the Biden and Obama administration done a lot to respect the muslim faith. We have been critical, with good right. But we have NEVER put so much disrespect to the Christian faith, on contrary we have done what we could to elevate and help, wherever help was needed.
In this spirit, and because it is Christmas, I wholeheartedly support his eminece Francis the first in his criticism of the EU bureaucracy. What confronting and disrespectful manners.
I side with his eminence Pope Francis, and hereby support my version of Virgin Mary, as the pure of heart, clean and beautiful example of life.
G-d bless the Vatican State and may it prevail.
Listen Joe, you can’t fight everybody. You can fight some, with success, and then find peace with others.
International politics is a chess game, you have some friends and some enemies.
When we did the peace with the Iranians, we at the same time made peace with Russia, so we could focus on China.
Thereby making some friends, and initiating hostile action with others.
Each player in the field have different characteristics and rules they play by.
Iran is an enigma. On one hand the populace is actually on our side, it is a matter of time before the mullahs will fall. At the other side, we actually made an agreement with the mullahs, that they actually abided by, even though they saw a lot of hostility coming their way from Netanyahu.
So, we have potential ally in the Iranians, if we are honest and fair with them. Dont treat them rashly, they are heirs to a magnificent culture, going all the way back to Biblical times, they invented the concept of good.
Treating the Iranians badly will only fall back on ourselves, so, as I see it, we should negotiate with them in good faith. They kept their promises the last time, so why not this time around.
Russia is another basket of trouble. We in the West gain absolutely nothing in fighting the Russians, and they are not as they were. Communism is gone.
At the other hand, we have a lot of geopolitical trouble with China, so that war is inevitable.
That is why, my take on the international political situation was to make peace in the Middle East, in a fair way, and then focus on the problem in our own back yard.
To win the next election, honestly, we need to focus on China. People in the US recognise the threat of China, and they are not happy with the way we drew out of Afghanistan.
Sorry, but that is the way people look at it, so we need to respect their views to win the election.
So, it makes sense, to focus on China. The question is just, how?
War will come, it is as it is. The geopolitical changes in and around China is the reason why. There has been small steps here and there, and war can be many things. It does not necessarily involve physical fighting, it can be black psy ops, infiltration, Cold War, cyber war, economical war and all of that in between.
But the confrontation is there, and we need to do what we can to finish it in a nice and humane way. But as long as China keeps growing in power, it is a threat.
The good thing is, that the Chinese seems to ready to talk, and maybe we can make some kind of deal with them. But outsourcing all of our production to them, is a stupid as shooting one self in the foot.
We shouldn’t be naive, and yet play the game as deft as we possibly can.
Think about where we should use our ressources. Once used, they will not come back, and though the army of the US is strong, a lot of things can actually go wrong, if the s.. hits the fan.
The army has not seen any real action for a long time, so the are not really ready to take on a serious competitor. So we need to be careful.
Make them ready at least, run some realistic war-games, involve our allies, including France, and the common wealth, and we will, hopefully, get ready. It is about seeing through the shop talk, and address the really issues of the U.S. in terms of security.
G-d bless the will to be ready and vigilant.
Ok, we need to get the show on the road in regards to the police reform we should do. If we can get it to be a reform that is made across the aisle, maybe it can actually support a more unified United States of America.
What can I contribute with? I can contribute with some knowledge.
First of all, justice that is the core virtue of the law, can be understood in many ways, but we need to get to the bottom of the ideas behind law, to really make a reform that is something that could be valued internationally.
What it law?
Well, to really understand that, one should go back to Ancient Egypt, where our lawsystem derives from, among other ancient sources or roots of understanding, Greece, Scandinavia and Mesopotamia to be precise.
Anyway, to understand what law is in an Egyptian sense, you whould read about the peasant that was accused by a richer man, and defended himself in an ancient Egyptian courtroom.
What he said was, that TRUTH was on his side, and as long as TRUTH was on his side, he could not loose. So he won.
This has developed into the g-dess with blindfolding, the point being, that the g-dess of law is dedicated with a ruthless dedication to transperency of law. There should be no lying in the courtroom, and if the prosecutors or, even worse, the judges are caught in a lie, the system is thereby corrupted.
As they said in ancient egypt, the light is the truth and that light is divine. In this way, divine justice is TRUTH in presence in the court.
If a reform focuses on this extemely important and basic virtue of the law, progress can be made.
G-d bless the will to make divine law.
Well, when you think about it, one of the good things about the current world, is the depth on which it is developed. I have the supreme honor to see the Beatles documentary, that Disney+ has produced these days, and be as it may, these guys really changed the world in their days.
But did they know anything about the true depth of the world?
Now don’t get me wrong, I am an amateur musician myself, and I really like music. The “Fab Four” were really amazing in their skill. But they did lack in the department of insight into the mechanics of our political system.
While as our generation, where the internet has changed all, and still is the wheel everything turned around, is actually deeply philosophical.
Again, it is not to diminish the Beatles, but to see the differences from the 68´ths and this generation.
We want to Change the world, both in the 68 and today, but the medium is different, so it gives the speaker to other types.
I may not be a skilled in music as the Beatles, but I am then skilled in writing and understanding of the quirks of our democratic system. So the development is different in a sense. Still the energy is the same though. John Lennon was a childish person in some ways, but he had star quality, there is no doubt about that.
The same with the other guys in the band, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, they all had that star thing going on. Pretty cool guys, if you ask me.
Anyway, I was supposed to talk about the police reform, I have an idea for that, but that will be the next posting, sorry for the detour, but that Beatles documentary is really, really good.
G-d bless the will to be good at what you do.
You know, I know a lot about humility. Through my life, I have been a hotshot. First I was one of the greatest stars of Copenhagen in my dancing days.
Then I started in communication, and instantly became a hot shot in that. Over and over, until now, a hotshot in philosophy.
My experience is, essentially all the glamour is not what builds your character. What builds your character is adversity. Problems.
The last ten fifteen years, after I started in politics, I have had to fight my way through. With terrible opponents.
I believe, that this has built my character. I have become a wiser, deeper and less haughty person. I know my own limits, and I am much less prone to think of myself as a winner.
I know, that to get to that point, where I actually win in the greater games, I will have to make countless sacrifices. What I respect in a winner is not that they have won, but I know the countless sacrifices that was underway.
My point is, in regard to the current problems we have in the US. Humility is the first true thing we need to get to. Because winning will require us to have a sound look at ourselves, and see our strengths and weaknesses.
Humility is the basic strength, it will teach us a way out of the problems we are in.
Sometimes looking at our own shortcomings can be difficult, but to learn about a new path and new way to do things, we need to be able to look honestly on ourselves.
Maybe that is what the frontier ideology is about; the struggle to polish our character. That is why it is so important, we need to have the opportunity to really struggle.
Anyway, being a good and honest person, has never been a bad thing, it is what we need now. To climb down from the trees, and see the things we share and nurture that soul of the people.
G-d bless the folk of the United States of America.
Ok, well, things are shaping up. We are on a new course, that will, hopefully, make a better America.
First of all, leaving the idea of unity, will bring America down. The United States of America has always been that, and should continue to be that; United.
So, please, stop the violence, the vilification, the accusations, and accept each other. Root for the white if you are black, and vice versa.
I have done that, and it felt ok. You know, I have done a lot of television here in Northern Jutland, talking to old white guys about climate change, and they are not racist.
But, and this is a thing, that has been unearthed in the whole Black Lives Matter protest, divisive though it may have been; police brutality.
As I have written, I know how it is.
But, we should not abolish the police, we should make it just.
Here in Denmark, there is just no way back. I don’t think that the police is interested in change and reform. They just want to control, and use illegal methods. They steal and punish without a verdict.
But in the US, it is different. The police is still very much an idealistic institution, and it is through this idealism, that there is a hope for transformation.
What we need to do, is to make the police more just.
Nobody can, in their true and right minds, oppose a reform of the police to make it better.
How do we do that?
We do it by discussion the idea of justice. The police is supposed to bring justice to the community. Justice is colorblind, in fact it is supposed to be blind, that is the very symbol of justice. A g-dess blindfolded weighing the scales.
That ability to look at justice blindly, without any personal investment, is what needs to be upgraded.
Do a reform, where justice is STRENGTHENED. Make a better policeforce, that is more capable, less corrupted, if there is corruption, and serves the law. Enforcing the law, on a rational and colorblind way.
In this way, we can solve the riddle, and keep the U.S. united.
G-d bless the will to make peace and keep the U.S. united.
Listen Joe, don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against indigenous Americans. I have always had a good relationship with them. When I was sick, they did some kind of healing, and it helped me get well again. The same goes for gays. I used to be a dancer, and in that milieu I met a lot of gays. And yes, they can be too much, too much glitter, too much Eurovision, too much promiscuity. But at the heart of what gays are, they are just having a lot of difficulty with their sex orientation. They are often persecuted, people don’t like them and so on. The Jews the same, and often young women who are at the mercy of the dark webs of manly victimisation. That is the way of the world, it is difficult. The same goes with muslims, they are often vilified, but their response is violent, and so they dig their own grave. My father was a muslim, a wonderful, wonderful person. But the fact of the matter is, that a lot of muslims, seem to fly aeroplanes into buildings, so we have to do an adequate response to that. So we fight the Islamic state, because they are the ones flying aeroplanes into buildings.
My point is, even though we are seeing a lot of anger FROM the minorities, there is still a large unvoiced part of those minorities, that just want to go about their business, get to work, come home and cuddle their kids.
I these days with all the hullabaloo of Kyle Rittenhouse, it is the few who are yelling in the streets. We need to remember, that there are a lot more, who just want to have peace.
Root for them, those who just want peace. Not those who want to punish the white guy. Because honestly, they are the few. Most Americans, just want to go on with their lives, living it peacefully, and getting along.
The division between right and left is not good.
We need to bridge that gap, and create unity.
G-d bless the will to be a peacemaker in a difficult situation.
I know, that the US is all in the ropes about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict. But, and listen, this is an area, where I personally have A LOT of experience. At least, experience with police brutality, that is unfounded in law. So my advice woul be; be realistic about the corruption of the police.
I will give you a story about my life. My ex-wife, she was, for many years, under the regime of the PET, the KGB of Denmark, because the PET wanted to shut me up. The PET infiltrated my family, my best friends, and they, most probably killed my mother.
Day out and day in, they tried to control me via the money I didn’t have. Once, I got a hundred bucks from my father I law in my birthday present, and immediately the PET came up with a fine to take the hundred bucks. I was not supposed to have any fun, I was supposed to be held out as an example of misery, for any who thought about talking about radical islam.
I was the jew in the gallow.
Once I just knew they would to kill my exwife, and I stopped it, narrowly. Over and over year after year. That the depth of police corruption in Denmark.
What did I do? I exercised my right to speak freely, as a philosopher. That was all I did. I did not do anything against the law. I LOVE the system of law. To me, the system of law is a true gem of civilisation.
And yet, even though I live to make the lawsystem just and fair, the system used all its corrupt powers to try and shut me up.
It was and is a disgrace.
So I know thing or two about the corruption of law enforcement.
Did I ever succumb to the violent act? No, I never did ANYTHING violent. Did to drive a car into a crowd? No, that would be a horrendous thought alone.
My point is, just because the police is corrupted, you cannot, and should not corrupt yourself.
When you start to take the law in your own hand, then the police win.
What you need to do, and this is what Mahatma Ghandhi did, over and over, is to show the world the corruption of the system. Do a march, with nonviolence. Let the police beat the crap out of you. They did it with me, and show the world, their disgusting level of lack of respect for the idea of law.
Law is there to protect the weak. That is the idea with law. As soon as it becomes a tool a tyranny, then the police or the persons of power are what we call tyrants.
Tyrants are the enemies of democracy.
That is what the founding fathers would have as an opinion.
It is time, that we think about that, and find our way back to a RESPECT for law, black and white, brown and yellow.
Law sees no color, only sees the weak, and tries to protect him or her.
The minute law becomes a tool of oppression, the founding fathers would have failed. Do we wish to be the generation that failed the very idea of this country, or do we want to be generation that polished the ideas, brought it into the light again, showed the world the validity of these ideas?
The choice is ours to do, we can do it.
G-d bless the United States of America.
In the light of the Rittenhouse verdict, I believe, that it is important, that we take a step back and look at it from outside. What was really the match that lit the fire, was it the police brutality, or was it the frustration of the Covid internment.
After mr. Trump was president, the frustration on both sides of the aisles have been moody and dark. Well, just because you feel angry, it does not mean that you are right, the reason why you feel angry needs to be analysed for the sentiment to be of any use.
The reason why people are angry is because they are in the know. They know what is going on in the dark halls of power. They are sceptical about Covid, they mistrust the government.
This is why the US is essentially the answer to the current crisis, together with France, because both countries were essentially built as a result of a crisis very much the same as what we have today.
The answers are off cause, transparency, honesty in government, power held accountable, integrity.
Right now we are kind of moving back and forth between control and transparency of government. To go through with Change, we need to step up, and be honest to give people hope again. There is no hope anymore, and we need to reinstate that hope.
G-d bless the will to be honest in the face of struggle and chaos.
Well, we are now living in the aftermath of the first COVID internment. These are my reflections on it, in the light of the Rittenhouse verdict.
Frustration is NOT an excuse for Revolution. As rev. Martin Luther King said and did. We as black or mixed people should not be judged on the color of our skin, but on the content of our character. Which implies, that we should not judge white people on their skin either.
One of the most amazing and admirable character traits of rev. King was his utmost commitment to a very American principle envisioned by the philosopher Henry David Thoreau. That is, that to change a society, non violence is the purest path.
Sometimes one cannot rely only on non violence, but if there is an opportunity to change the world based on non violence, this path is the one to take.
Did the revolutionary rebels of post COVID respect this tenant of rev. King’s legacy?
This is the reason Rittenhouse was set free, not because he did not do something wrong, but because WE did not exemplify the ideas of the book Walden.
Violence is not the way, it creates division and creates chasms of distance between black and white.
Protest in a peaceful way IS democracy. But violence is not the way of Democracy. We are called DEMOCRATS for a reason, and that is to change our behavior to respect democracy.
Only if we respect the IDEA of democracy can we call ourselves that SACRED name. We have a responsibility ourselves, to BE Democratic.
Follow the ideas of rev. King Mahatma Ghandi and Henry David Thoreau.
G-d bless the will to stay on the blessed path of non violence.
Well, we need to get back on the track, back to the sucess we had with Obama. We do not have his genius in oratory, but we still have his mission.
We need to get back to that mission to succeed. What was it? It was to create hope and change. How do we do that? We do it by putting forth an example of unassailable integrity. That is really where Obama has his strength, he is honest, a good and simple person and humble.
These traits were what I liked about him, and what the people of the US liked as well.
To be honest.
In a revolution that we are going through right now, the best course of action for the system is roll with it. If the system tries to fight it, the chances are, that we end up in the demise of the system. What will come instead, is a more sound and equal system. A system of democracy and humanism.
Obama however, he gave us that democratic system without the necessity to overthrow the system, but changing it from inside. Trump did the same essentially, he went for the bad guys, fighting the swamp and all that.
The system is able to turn around, especially the American system. A system that is based on a revolution to get rid of a corrupt system in first place. This is why the founding fathers are such good role models, because they went through a revolution to get rid of the corruption in system of their time.
So the system has, on a basic level, all the good traits needed to Change it.
What it takes is integrity, honesty, humanism. Being the good guy.
If the US follow that example, it will avoid some of the conflicts and mayhem that Europe and Australia is going through right now.
Treat the people with the utmost respect, change the system so that the needs of the American people is what is in focus, and people will stop the rebellion, do the opposite, and mayhem will ensure.
The thing is, it is a new normal, the honesty and integrity of the political class and system needs to be much more transparent and thus honest in the new internet world. It is essentially a new normal we should get used to.
Before the reformation, the bible was a secret document that the people did not understand. When they did understand the bible, they found out, that Jesus was a liberator and an honest, good person. The church could not keep on with the monopoly of power, but had to reform. Some did, some didn’t, and today we have Protestantism.
With this example in mind, then we should understand, that the demands on power have multiplied, true honesty is what people demand.
Why was Obama a success in the internet age? Because he was an honest person. He has integrity. Ok, he has his faults, we all have, but at the core of what my friend Obama is, his is an honest guy.
So, that is the way of modern politics. No more cheating.
It is difficult, and I know that I demand a lot, but it is essentially not me, it is the system of communication that has changed and we have to adapt to it.
We are in the middle of a renaissance, and we can either roll with it, or be eaten by the revolution. That is the bare naked truth.
G-d bless the will to be a good man in a very difficult situation.
Well, now seeing the current development in the view of the last two revolutions, that of the Flemish/anglo saxon revolution (Erasmus and Thomas More), and the french revolution, we can safely say, that the stakes are pretty high.
What happened at the last revolutions? Massive wars of independence and bloodshed without end.
When printed books saw the world first, it let to the hundred year wars, Protestantism and eventually to the french/american revolution.
That is really where we are now, at the initiation of such a new movement.
So, if we are not careful we will have another hundred year war, with the exception, that it will be worldwide.
Mankind will go from booming to being eradicated, and it will be the end of the dominance of the western world.
I mean, these are the stakes we are up against.
The genius of mr. Barack Obama was the fact, that he took in the rebel philosopher, and tried to implement his ideas.
Why is this genius? Because it gives mankind and especially the West a chance to avoid all the revolutionary movements.
This is the gift Obama gave us, so we need to be careful about the development we will go through.
Being the rebel philosopher, for me, it is not a matter if my ideas will eventually rule, they already rule great parts of the world, it is the method of the application.
Will it be implemented with or without a revolution.
War is the most terrible things of all. So that is why I have worked, with all I have of resources, and remember, maybe I am an international star of philosophy, but really I am just a seriously miserable person, trying to survive the persecution of the system, with a few good friends to help me here and there. That is the truth of it. Good friends, but still just friends, not the system as such.
How will it go? Will we avoid bloodshed? Will the system we are in right now be able to handle the pressure? That is up to the next in line, mr. Biden. Pretty awesome task.
I am sorry, for the implications of the task, but the monumental task at hand is absurd. Avoid a world revolution, where they will carry the emblem of the same philosopher that is helping me.
But that is the truth of it.
Hopefully we can avoid blood shedding. This is my greatest worry, but we will have to see.
G-d bless the will to avoid bloodshed coming to haunt me and those who are in power.
Well, one point that Aristotle makes, that I believe is really true, is the fact that Democracy has the most intelligence; the mass of the intelligence of the people beats the intelligence of the best thinkers.
He figures, that the ideas that the people have is filtered through so many people, that the conclusions are better than what people like me would come to. So, we should always try and interpret the will of the people. Try to understand what it is, what they want us to do.
Sometimes, we have our heads so far up our own…, sorry for the expression, but often we the elite are so certain that we are right and all that. But that is really just our own limitation, we do not have the capability to understand the supreme intelligence of the people.
A Democracy is difficult to make, but once it is made, it is very difficult to tear down again.
So, sometimes, we need to put ourselves down, shed our own arrogance, have the humility to put ourselves below the people, and try and understand what it is they are saying.
If they are displeased with us redrawing from Afghanistan, we need to try and understand what we have done wrong, and find a course, that is viable and reaches out for that will of the people. It will Change us, but if we understand it, filtered through wisdom, we can make something beautiful and lasting.
Democracy is one of those gems of our world, we should support it, and use it now in our crisis. Be absolutely loyal to the wisdom and ideas of the founding fathers.
They were a wise and sturdy bunch, those old geezers, they knew things, and we should try and follow their lead. They wanted us to LISTEN to the will of the people, so we should try our best at doing that. At least to the best of our ability, more we cant do.
But if we do that, we will win.
G-d bless the American Way.