Now, this Corona hysteria has to be winded down. Ok, don’t get me wrong, it is horrible, and I really do feel with mr. Trump and his wife Melanie, I really, really hope that they will get well fast.
But after that, we need to do other things than just focus on Corona. We still have countries to run, economies to make greater and many other things.
Corona has to be handled at the same time as we are handling other business as well. The world goes on.
This leads me to the UK. Before Corona, we were working on the redemption of the empire, and the rebuilding of the economy. Add to this the process of redefining the british spirit.
We have to get on with this.
This is how we do it.
We simply make a deal with the EU that is fair, and gives both parties a good deal. No negative outcome for anyone. Everybody are interested in getting on with our lives, so we should do that.
At the same time, lets take a clue from our American allies, and start building british again.
Put those proud words of Made in England on our wares, and start exporting again.
These two issues are pretty straightforward, and should be possible to do while we care about Corona.
Corona has somehow become the new normal, we have to work around that, and get back to business.
I know it is a lot to ask, but be as it may, the world still carries on.
G-d bless the United Kingdom.
Concerning EU politics towards the close vicinity of EU, that is the Middle East. To me, we have to get on from a 68 flower power understanding of the issues.
In the 68 Palestine was the victim of Jewish brutality. But today political winds have changed, and we have to change our understanding accordingly.
The greatest threat to Europe in general is Turkey. While as Egypt has been a stalwart ally in the region, and we have good ties to Iran, Turkey still seem to ride the Islamist bandwaggon.
We have to be realistic with this, and see Turkey for what it is; it is an enemy. It has threatened Greece, and uses its leverage in Europe to get more guns.
What will happen if a nation gets more guns?
It will use the guns to get power.
So to me, we have to be realistic with the political forces that drives the development of our neighbours.
If not, we will just create more havoc and problems.
To have peace, you need to be ready for a fight.
Because realistic force behind a political process is what drives the process.
Arms are not necessarily meant to be used, but if you do not have any arms, you are sure to be having a fight, because you are seen as weak.
Strength is a detterent not a thing that should be used unless really needed.
We need to have more physical strength, to find peace. As the Romans used to say; Si vis pacem, para bellum.
If you want peace, you need to be ready for a fight.
Maybe it is time to learn that lesson again, that Scipio Africanus tought the Romans at the Phoenician wars.
We need to build our strength in order to make peace with our enemies.
G-d bless the roman way of doing things.
I believe, that truth to be told, we have come a long way with the US. When Barack and I kind of started having influence on the US. We were almost bankrupt, jobs were going to overseas, and the dollar was really in danger of collapsing.
If the economy collapses, the entire system collapses.
Be as it may, we have seen a lot of development under mr. Trump. Especially in the fire power of the US, and also in sweeping up some of the darker sites of the American system.
These developments will most probably save the US in the long run.
I know, that people hate Trump, and see the Black Lives Matter as some kind of revelation.
But to me, these things are essentially superficial things.
What matters, really, is what the deeper structures of society develops into.
We see, that the STRUCTURES of the US are going in the right direction these days.
Economy is getting better, the system is healing in a way.
Ten to twenty years from now, I hope we will look back at these times, and see that the Change that Barack and I did was a true turning point.
Because when we look at the essence of the American project, that is making a Democracy. I truly believe, that we have saved it.
The problem of a democracy is, when it gets morally corrupted. We are getting LESS morally corrupted, not more these days.
I know, that the police is slowly getting pressured, but I also believe, that at the end of the day, NOT having police does not make sense to anyone.
So, the true outcome of all the discussion and so on with regards to BLM, will not be, that anything devastating changed, it just made people have a lot more focus on these issues.
Point being, that what we need to do now, is just more of the same.
Make more jobs, by taking them back from China, support a democracy for the little man, not the powerful. Make a business environment, that truly makes it possible to attract all those brilliant minds to invent and create new products.
All in all, we are actually saved.
And that is a big win in my book.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Joe and Kamala, this time you need to stop fretting, get your clothes, put on your best hat, and start getting out there on the campaign trail. I know, that it can seem a little daring in these times with Corona and everything. But the fact of the matter is, you are not going to win, unless people know what you are standing for, and that you are actually there to tell them.
I think, that talking to the American worker should not be a problem. I mean, who is REALLY hit by the corona crisis? It is the worker who is laid off, and is in danger of loosing his livelihood permanently.
We need to think about a plan to save him. A good plan is to make sure, that all the manufacture, that is now leaving China, and is going to some other low-cost labour countries gets back to Detroit.
We need the motor city up and running again, and it is not going to happen, unless there are cars built in that wonderful old city.
When the engine is running, then the car can get in gear and start driving.
That is pretty obvious.
So getting manufacture to stop the senseless depleting of American manufacture should point to a possible future for not only those laid off of jobs, but also a path out of the corona nightmare we are in.
Show the public that you are ready to take on this challenge and stop the bleeding of American jobs to the pacific region.
Then Kamala. You are a g-d given gift to the health of American way of live. A person of color, that has done a good job of making your own way.
It is your job, to try and reach out to the parts of the US that feels disenfranchised and left behind, because they are not into the mainstream protestant view of things.
It is your job, to make everyone see, that it is possible to live side by side in a humanistic society. A healer not a divider.
That is truly an incredibly difficult task. You need to reach out to so many little corners of the US.
Here, there, everywhere. But people need to experience the healing process started.
Need to see, that there are people in power, who listens to their plight and difficult living conditions.
By this, we can, slowly, get the ship sailing on a straight keel again.
Because right now, we are taking in water, and people are desperate.
We need to sail straight, and have a clear direction towards what people are truly fighting for; that dream, that everybody are equal based on equal rights in a place called the United States of America.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may it prevail.
There is a campaign and an election coming up. I hereby support and give my thanks to Kamala Harris. I believe she will be an exceptional VP for the US.
But we should be honest about the challenges we have with the grassroots of the Democratic political life.
It is going down a very destructive path.
Do we really want to defund the police and make anarchistic og black american areas with a system that is not founded in the republic of the USA?
Seriously?
I believe, that the constitution is a platfom we should all stand on, and make common ground.
So to me, the upcoming election is about unity and the ability to reach across the aisle to connect with the people we may not be in agreement with 100%, but are fellow Americans.
The succes of the US, is based on the fact that protestantism and Martin Luther paved a way for us, that we could travel on to reach a good and sound life.
A life of happiness and security, yes a life of hard work and putting a dime away each month to save for a rainy day.
But nonetheless a simple and good life.
We should not forget that in these days. If we want to progress and make a better world, we need to understand each other and reconcile not go into conflict.
We live as servants to spirit. If we forget that, we risk creating a world that is full of trouble and destruction.
Maybe it is time to unite not fight all the time.
Maybe it is time to remember that the US is a bastion of humanism and enlightenment, not a place of destruction and adversity. But a place of unity
G-d bless the United States of America.
In Israel we have had a good succes with connecting to the Arabs. Off cause Arabs and Jews are very close in terms of lineage, and we look very much like each other. So the jump between Jews and Arabs is not difficult to take.
But the next possible ally that has emerged is the Lebanese. As I have written in the last posting, Lebanese are not Arabs, they are essentially Phoenicians.
They know it themselves, but due to a history of secrecy, they do not share this identity with anyone. Not that anyone would really know what to do about the information these days, but old habits die hard.
To understand the way of the Lebanese, one needs to understand what they are coming from spiritually. Spiritually the Lebanese are the ones who brought all the softness in the world, or rather was the people that always traded and never went to war.
Their deity Aphrodite, is, according to my sources, the closest you get to grasp the basic identity of the Lebanese.
That is born from the foam of the waves, beautiful, merciful and close to nature.
All beauty and benevolence.
This is the neighbour we have, if we chose to try and really understand the Lebanese.
Not very long ago, this was expressed in the Paris of the Middle East, with long alleys of green trees and a lot of peace.
If we, from an israeli point of view, try to support the basic feeling and culture of the Lebanese, by being good and supportive neighbours, then we can help the Lebanese find themselves again, and thus win a good neighbour.
Who knows, perhaps we can even be friends with the Lebanese in these difficult hours of the Lebanese, and their terrible struggle with crime, chaos and bombs going off.
That is painful for the valiant and great Phoenicians living next door to Israel.
We as good neighbours and friends from the last time we were in the vicinity can perhaps be a good friend and a spiritual ally.
We share the urge for peace with the Lebanese, perhaps that is a good embarking point with a shared friendship across borders.
G-d bless the will to fiend peace with the amazing and ancient people living next door to Israel. May we find peace.
Congratulations with the budding peace offer from the Lebanese.
To understand the profoundness of this move, you have to see it in a historical perspective.
We have been friends before, and we can be friends again, if we see the shared destiny and ideology between Israel and Lebanon.
But to that, we need to understand what Lebanon really is.
What is Lebanon?
Lebanon is the heir to the trading empire of the Phoenicians, that seems to have vanished in the fall of Karthage.
You know the story about Hannibal, the fight with amazing war elephants and the ultimate downfall of Carthagenian empire and the Punes (Phoenicians).
While as the sister culture of the Karthagenian Phoenicians disappeared in the west, Lebanon went under the radar, and has kept its ideology and culture more or less intact ever since. The symbol of the cedar tree that is in the flag of Lebanon is the cultural symbol of the trading Phoenicians. They started trade with cedar trees, that they shipped of to Egypt and other places. It is good building material.
Now historically we Jews have learned a lot from the wise Phoenicians, not least the idea of the Kabbalistic tree of life, that was the main idea of the Phoenicians. You can see it in the construction of the first temple of Israel, that was a copy of the temple of Tyre, the main temple of the Phoenicians.
There is a symbolic representation of the the pillars of mercy and severity of the two pillars that were in front of the first temple. It was built by Solomon with the help of Lebanese, a guy called Hikmet.
We were allies with the Lebanese at the time of the construction of the first temple, they even tought us trade, something we have kept holding on to since that time, and have developed a lot.
In other words, when we were in Israel the first time, we were friends so what will hinder us from being friends again?
I know, that this comes at a time, where Hezbollah have kind of overstayed their welcome, due to the fact, that they have not been the best at keeping their bombs under wraps.
So, maybe it is time for Israel to become friends with the Lebanese again, sharing a destiny as we did the first time.
Don’t underestimate the Lebanese, they are an ancient and wise civilization. We have learned from them before, and therefor we can say, that we have no arrogance towards them, they are ancients friends lets hope they can be friends again.
G-d bless the will of spirit in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.
You can say a lot about mr. Biden, but one thing is certain, he makes good choices. I really and truly believe, that the choice of Kamala Harris is an informed and well balanced attempt at trying to merge the different factions of the Democratic party.
The one faction is the multicultural, Frankfurterschool marxism of Adorno and the other jewish marxists that went from Germany in flight of the Nazis.
The other faction is the neo conservative faction that I represent. That is essentially a Hegelian, marxist school that combines Marx, Hegel and off cause some of the work, that I have humbly done.
So these two factions, that fight internally in the Democratic party has become one in the choice of ms. Harris.
Now, having made a philosophical trend, does not make me arrogant. I understand and respect others point of view. I am for Change and Hope, but multiculturalism has its pros and cons.
I truly hope, that the choice of ms. Harris will propel the democratic party to a new level of development.
Dont forget the American Revolution, that is, until now, the best revolution there was. It still needs the sacrifice of the heroes to live. But at the other hand, reaching out and compromise is also important, because after all, most conflicts are simply misunderstandings. Lets put these misunderstandings behind us, and find each other again. Finding unity.
G-d bless the American Revolution and its children to march forward, to reach the promised land.
Differentiating between “black” culture and “white” culture does not make much sense to me.
There is civilisation, and it has nothing to do with the color of your skin.
Civilisation is, essentially, a Mesopotamian and Egyptian set of principles that were developed 3000 years ago in the classical Mediterranean time.
The most common source to this time is the bible, that tells us about the stories of old; Noah, David, Moses, Job, Abraham.
A source to the ideas of the fertile crescent at its time of glory.
These ideas, that actually propel humanity forward to a much better place, that is the dreams of paradise and Eden, is the heritage of all man. A guide to a life here on earth we can reach if we work hard enough. It is salvation.
I know and understand, that you may have differences in culture and the way you look, but the end goal is the same regardless of where we come from as human beings.
So perhaps unity is a much better goal to strive for, than all the conflict and frustration that has come with the Corona virus.
I get it, it is truly frustrating and the world seems to be upside down, but at the end of the day, life is reachable as a life worth living here on earth, if we truly listen to the ancients that were, actually, most of them people of color.
G-d bless the will to do good, have good thoughts, and good actions. G-d bless the peace we may obtain, if we truly will.
Making a life for yourself is not easy. I talk from my own experience. Blaming others for your own misfortune will not bring you any relief. I talk of my own experience here also. I mean, I have been in the keen eye of the government for quite some time now, been deplatformed and otherwise have had a really tough time.
But, be as it may, somehow, praise spirit, I have prevailed, and therefor my own experience is. That if you work hard, stay on the right side of the law, and struggle to foster a nice family, you can actually make a good life for yourself.
That is the wisdom of Luther, that hard work, dedication and a strong commitment to your fellowman CAN give you a good life.
Victimhood, that some people seeks to give people as me, who are not white, will not bring me any good. But honest work, and a dedication to my family will.
I think, that perhaps, that that is an important lesson to share in these times where we are pointing fingers at everybody all the time. Your fault! Is the first thing seems to be saying these days.
Maybe everything is not everybody else’s fault? Maybe you yourself is responsible for your own life?
My experience is, that maybe I could blame people around me, and to be honest, there have been times, when I have done so. Pointing fingers, being angry at people around me.
But my own happiness will not be ensured by pointing fingers, it rests, solely in my own two hands.
My hands CAN build a future for myself. But it requires dedication, self-sacrifice and a huge heart for my fellowman.
In other words, being responsible for ones own life, is what it is about. Blaming others won’t get you anywhere, but supporting your community and family will actually get you somewhere.
When I look at my two kids, they inspire me, and keeps me on the right track. Because they are so dependent on me. I can’t go around putting them in harms way, that will wreck their lives.
So maybe its time to do some serious soul-searching. Who is to blame? Everybody else, or you own actions.
We CAN build a good society and make unity, if we try, but it requires self-sacrifice, hard work and dedication.
G-d bless the peace we CAN find, if we are strong enough.
There is a good, solid conflict brewing in the West. The conflict between China and the US including mainly Anglo Saxon allies. That is the empire.
This conflict has its ups and down, the main up is the character of the conflict. It is totally unbloody. It is a new form of cold war, that we still have not really wrapped our heads around.
The arms race of cyberwar.
What is cyberwar? Cyberwar is essentially hacking gone crazy. Where hacking in the old world, before it was truly weaponised, was annoying the feds as small kids, and stealing secrets like Wikipedia, these days it is government controlled attacks on infrastructure and weapons.
You can, if you are really, really good, control a hangarship.
We have seen the potential of cyberwar in Israels complete wrecking of Iran and in Chinas small, but truly effective wrecking of Australia.
So, it is a new way of fighting, it favours those with the best computerskills and the best computers.
And guess who is leading the fray in this area, no you guessed wrong, it is not the US, it is China.
China is the best, not only a little, but they are in their own league.
Catching up to them, is what NATO and the Anglo-Saxons security measures is all about.
How do we do that?
We do it by looking at it as it is; it is a weapons race. As in the cold war with the Russians, it is not bombs we are racing to beat the chinese with, it is cyber machinery.
Where the competition in the old times were atomic warheads, these days it is the sheer power of quantum computing, hacking skills and so on.
In other words a job for Microsoft and mr. Bill Gates.
Put him in charge of this fight, if he wants, and you will see some real progress.
The thing is, it is complicated. You can’t just make more bombs, you need to make bigger computers, invest in security, manpower and so on. All this has to be integrated into all kinds of things.
So you need an expert to fight this fight, here mr. Gates is THE best choice to my mind. He loves his country, and he is a good guy.
He can do it. So put him on the task, with immense respect to his contribution to the world off cause. It is not an order or something of that kind, but a very, very kind request to help the US.
Otherwise the US, is in harms way a few years from now, and a good, solid, sympathetic fighter like Gates is the best bet to my mind, if he wants. Maybe he can recommend someone, if he is not interested in the job.
But, this time around it is not atomic warheads we need to worry about but hacking ability and capacity.
So lets build some serious hardware with that wonderful stamp on it; Made in America.
G-d bless the will to make peace if possible, but prepare for the worst. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Listen guys, you have two choices, either you follow the tenants of Karl Marx, or you follow the tenants that I have made in the consecutive development of socialism.
Please let me try and explain.
Karl Marx tried to envision a society that was the opposite of the ideas that the philosopher Hegel envisioned. Hegel was one of the founding fathers of German nationalism (before Hitler).
In Hegels vision, the nation is a spiritually driven idea or perspective that would lead people to enligthentment. You still are very strong in this regard in the US; G-d bless America is a Hegelian idea.
Marx wanted to Change the ideas, and he did, but we need to realise, that he had some progress, but some of the ideas he made were not good. Among them the defection of the nation state.
Believing in your country is not a bad thing, it is a good thing.
Globalism has showed us, that no borders make a huge mess. We have seen it, not least in the EU, that is, honestly a huge mess.
There are some theoretical ideas to explain this. I have discussed it in the light of the ancient ideas of the city state of Sparta, that was Marx ideal state. Lycurgus, the philosophical founder of Sparta was quite clear about how to make a commune. It has to be closed, hermetically closed.
In my view, this is where Marx makes his worst mistake. He has this idea, that workers can unite all over the world. That is a good idea, but to be realistic, each unit has to be closed in order for each commune to work. At least this is the idea of Lycurgus, and he made a system that worked for 700 years, dig that.
In other words, the logical development of socialism is to go back to Hegel for the spiritually enlightened nation, fixing the flaw of the Marxist idea, and making a system that actually work.
Add to this a reenacting of the family as the basic commune, and there you have an immensely strong political system.
Still we need to keep all the ideas and lore of the French revolution to my mind, these ideas were really good; enlightenment of the press, democracy and that city at the top of the hill.
Understanding these ideas and visions, that is the basis of Change is really important I think. Not only to save America, that is in dire straits, but also to save liberalism as such.
We are in a corner, with our back against the wall, therefor we need Change.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Welcome mr. Pompeo, foreign secretary, visiting Denmark for the first time.
To me, that is a beautiful sign of cooperation between Denmark and the US.
Here is why; essentially we are family. I have thought quite a bit about my own engagement with the US, how I have tried to help, support and be a good ally.
But it goes deeper, a lot of the Nielsens, Rasmussens, and Olsen that live in the US now, used to be Danes.
So they have become Americans, and that is perfectly ok. But it still bears to the fact, that we share common roots.
Just take Disney, that seems to be the next successor after Hans Christian Andersen. The film Frost that has just been such a mega success, was inspired by a fairytale of H.C. Andersen.
But it goes deeper, a lot of the Frontier wagons that settled in the west were driven by Danish farmers. They must still be out there somewhere singing lonesome tunes of a land long forgotten. Little buckaroo and all that.
But at the heart of our relationship lies a common ancestry as well as a common religion.
As you are Protestants, so are we (to be honest, I am a Jew, but I still love the Protestant ideas that is here in Denmark, so I convey them). This gives you guys an opportunity to be inspired by ancient Danish Protestant thinkers like Loegstrup and Grundtvig.
These thinkers are of a exceptional quality, some of the ideas have already become mainstream through Niels Bohr, that was a good friend of Loegstrup. Like open source and all these values that fuel the computer industry, the way he worked that gave us the Google and Facebook work ethics of open, free working and so on.
But these ideas are a part of Danish development, and a lot of them have not really been introduced to the Americans. They are in a sense apocryphal, because you need to be in the know to have access to them.
Like the ideas about trust, that Loegstrup also worked on.
But at the other hand, you must realize, that even though we are the source of a lot of American culture, we still admire many the amazing achievement you have done. Not least the ideas that led to the non violence development that gave us Martin Luther King and Mahatma Ghandi. Beacons of humanism and enlightenment.
We also love the way you have made the countryside of the US so full of beautiful places and so rich in culture. We like the cowboys here in Denmark, and off cause respect people of color in all variations.
As time progresses and we develop our civilization, hopefully this rich friendship will continue to bring new and better people and development that will hopefully make a better world for both Denmark as well as the US.
We love you guys, and we hope that the feelings are the same at the other side of the pond.
We are so proud of you.
G-d bless the will to be honest in thought, and brave in action to be the makers of a better world. G-d bless the United States of America, and may it always prevail.
Currently I read a less known classic, a ‘founding father’ of caricature and the poking of fun against the high minded. A sport that started in the Ancient Greece with a lot of cool and funny writers, and was continued in Rome.
The guy is called Lucian, and he is cool to say the least. He is honest, funny and deep.
He has this tirade against power, that I really like, and it goes to the core of what enlightenment is in the civilized world.
He takes off from a funny place compared to modern days. He discusses slander. How slander can be weaponized and used to degrade and destroy otherwise wonderful people of achievement.
He says, that slander is the tool of the less accomplished, those who only do things sloppily and without much skill.
He points to the fact, that slander is evil in its core, and abuses power by secretly inflaming peoples thirst for revenge and hatred.
He has this example of people who are kind, strong and wise, and how they meet the world with openness, just to meet the hatred of others.
Thereby giving a win to the slanderer.
We live in this world, where we are constantly slandering other people. Not believing them, and trying to figure out the motives we believe they have, but they do not have.
What is the remedy?
The light, enlightenment, to speak the truth.
Often this is forgotten these days, as we delve into bipartisanship and name calling.
We should not, but have the guts and ethical strength to look at things without prejudging.
Now that is the path to less popularity, that is the fact of it. Me myself, I am still deplatformed, my network is slowly rebuilding after years of government destruction and vilification. So I know the price, perhaps better than most.
But at the core of ethical principles, this is the first amendment and therefor also the basis upon which we need to stand.
The Statue of Liberty tells that story, that in order to be free, you need to be truthful therefor the importance of free speech.
G-d bless the will to find truth in what we do and say.
Seriously New York Times, firing a journalist, because she did not conform with Black Lives Matter identity politics. Here in Denmark we are still in chock over the act.
Listen, New York Times is supposed to be, like my own family’s conservative newspaper Berlingske Tidende, a beacon of light.
What is that, and how are we supposed to interpret that.
Let us have an honest look at it.
Brandes a strong humanist and the founder of Politiken, the leading humanist newspaper of Denmark, called Politiken; an organ of the highest enlightenment.
Enlightenment being the keyword here.
What is enlightenment?
Enlightenment is, ideally, to spread truth, wherever truth is supposed to be. Thereby fighting darkness, or lies and deceit.
Since lies and deceit are the basis of evil. Being a lightbringer is a fight for a better world.
There it is. That is the basic point of the Statue of Liberty, that all the masses of poor people met when they came to Ellis Island.
You are a reflection of that.
So, off cause this is your own choice, but seen from the outside, as a humanist, leaving that mission, is a very sad thing.
It is the core of a humanistic, Democratic state.
G-d bless the will to continue the fight for the light against the darkness.
Now, listen. I want to tell you a secret, that took me quite a long time to glean from history. You probably know this secret, and many of my readers are already following the basic principles of it, unknowing what it really is.
But knowledge is power in your life.
So here it comes.
We talk about paradise, right? The American dream is essentially to recreate paradise here on earth. A place, where people are happy, and there is an end to all problems. A place where kids are getting wiser than yourself, and you have hope.
This place is a mythical place, somewhere we do not really understand the reality of, and therefor do not take that serious.
That is a mistake, it was a place called Eden or Eridu, the first city.
See? The idea of a society that makes people happy and content, is a story in the bible, but the secret is, that it is the first city of civilisation that man made.
So the process of recreating paradise is a POLITICAL process. Something we can do here on earth, right now, if we choose to.
That is the secret.
But then again, how do we go about doing that? Again, it is really quite simple, bible tells us some of the ideas, and we have to look in a few other places to know the rest, mainly greek philosophy to understand how it all works.
At a personal level, it is not about blaming others, it is about you yourself getting your family to work.
These days the families suffer, due to the inability of the man of the family to strap up and take responsibility.
Men wants bling and easy fun. That destroys the family, and kids pay.
That is the truth right there.
WE as men, have to put ourselves to the grindstone and start working. Not for ourselves, but for our kids.
That is, we need to sacrifice ourselves, to make a frame around those we love.
Women are difficult, and sometimes impossible to live with, but it is OUR responsibility to be a man, man up, and start that hard work it is, to be a good father.
That is a start.
The next level, the level of society, is, firstly, to be a part of a good community.
A good community, is a community, where things are run efficiently and according to strict rules of acceptance of each other.
This is where understanding, and acceptance comes into play.
But also the ability to help those who have less.
Community will only work, if we work together, if we share goals and do not fight over scraps.
Thirdly there is the city itself. Here we have the law, framed around a system called a Republic. That is a division of Power in three. Legislative, judges and the police.
Each, ideally, holding each arm responsible for not abusing power.
We also ideally, have the press to make a place where these things can be criticised openly without the fear of the government.
Add to the education and science plus a healthy military.
And a sound banking system.
That is the face of a Republic, and handled right, it gives people a shot at the American dream.
Loosing that is the stupidest, most heartbreaking thing. Because it would mean, that our kids would live in a world, that is not happy and they cannot dream of a brighter future.
So instead of tearing down the construct that our ancestors, black and white have fought so vigourosly to make, we should look at the places where the PRINCIPLES of the Republic is lost and things have corrupted. Because that is the true problem right now. Not just economic corruption, but more importantly, MORAL corruption, and start fixing that.
Make police be just, media be free, families be loving again.
Then, just then, do we have a shot at making a frame around our kids, that is sound.
But right now, the good man is isolated, and every body is pointing fingers at each other. No reconciliation.
We need to step down, and look at each other again, and stop the blame game. Put our noses to the grindstone again, and start that impossibly hard work it is to make a dream come trough.
But seeing your kids being happy, that is all it is about.
Remember that, and we do have a shot at fixing these things.
G-d bless the dream of a country called United States of America.
Now, there seems to be some kind of initiation of “progressive” communities in the US.
Let me be clear about one thing, if you do not understand the basic principles of how to make a society, there are some pretty awful pitfalls here and there.
Let me explain the basic buildingblocks of society, to perhaps help these new initiaries.
In the wild, where tribalism and the natural tendencies of man rule. There is no justice, only the rule of the strong.
The one with the biggest gun or largest coterie of strong men rule.
That is actually how international politic work, the rule of the strong.
Now, Marxism preaches, that in order to make a “just” society, you need to abolish law, defund the police and so on. This is an idea he came up with in one of his books, so we have anarchists and free societies.
Karl Marx, a Jew of, most probably, my own family. Trier, my surname, is where he grew up, my Jewish family comes from there and so on, he had some good ideas and bad ideas.
One of them, to my mind is to envision anarchy as the end result of his development. Why? Because he did not have acces to texts of Hammurabi the founder of law.
If he had had that, he would know, combined with reading Plato, that law is there to put down the rule of the strong, and protect the weak.
Ideally the police is the MOST important protector of the weak, thereby ruling out the rule of the strong.
See?
Law is, if it really work, a protection for the little guy.
So by taking that element out of the equation, he effectively reenabled the rule of the strong.
So the basic building block of society has been, since Hammurabi, the rule of law.
It is, essentially what makes us civilised.
On top of that you can have a feudal system, democracy, Marxism whatever you want. But taking away the basis will just plunge society into chaos, and out of chaos the warlord will emerge. Usually it is some kind of ganglord.
We don’t want criminals to run our society. That will only bring down the society for real.
So, where does that lead to?
It leads to the fact, that what we want now, is not the abolishment of these institutions, but renew them, bring back service, justice and freedom.
But do it a way, that it has no stench of racism, in any direction.
Law can be corrupted, as it is usually is these days. The law enforcement do not hold up justice as an ideal, but abuse their power to “control” the populace. That is simply to stop too much trouble.
But there are good cups here and there also.
That is the messy world we have. No-one is perfect, but the rules stay the same.
Getting rid of the corruption is what it is about, not defunding or destroying, but rebuilding in a better and less corrupt version.
G-d bless the United States of America.
Ok, here is an idea.
The main problem in the US for now, is the lack of knowledge on how to appreciate the American Dream.
Everybody wants it, and everybody strives for it, but how do we attain it?
Here is the explanation, that might shed some light on the path forward.
First of all, if you are Republican or Democrat, there really is no discussion on how to attain the goal of making the American Dream available to everybody.
How is that even possible?
Well, you see, Western civilisation is not really Western very much, it is essentially Middle Eastern.
The rule of law is Mesopotamian, Humanism is Egyptian. Only Democracy is an essential northern European construct, but even Democracy derives partly from Athens, the great beacon of Democracy.
So where does this lead to?
Well, civilisation is a product of a number of principles; the division of power, the rule of law, religion and humanism.
These sets of institution create the frame around each citizen, making civilisation and the American dream possible.
When each citizen creates something, he contributes to the motor of civilisation.
So, all kinds of wacko anarchistic systems does not attain anything, it only picks out different building blocks out of the wall, and inhibits civilisation.
What is my point?
Well it is pretty obvious, somehow we need to agree on all these ideas we have inherited from the Middle East.
So instead of seeing Western civilisation as something mournful and bad, please let us see it for what it is; it is a gift from the Middle East, and hence has absolutely nothing to do with white privilige or supremacy.
It is simply the best ways man has been able to come up with to steer ourselves away from tribalism and rule of the strong.
That is really what is at stake these days; civilisation itself.
G-d bless the civilisation we can protect if we are strong enough.
Listen, I know, that the crisis of the Coronavirus kind of took off, and made people mad at each other.
Especially those who see themselves as black are mad.
But that is not an excuse for killing innocent old people in a private owned garden.
As there are racists and bigots in the white camp, that fact of the matter is, that it goes both ways.
You cannot as a black person reduce your behavior to a justified rebellion to kill all white people.
It is inhuman.
At the other side, killing blacks is ALSO inhuman.
There are trends within the white community that is evil, but it is also the same in the black.
Truth is, that in Zimbabwe and South Africa, whites are at the bottom of the latter.
If we are to live together, what is important, is to recognize the other person in your community as someone equal.
We are all born and cared by spirit. Spirit does not care whether you have brown or white skin. What he cares, is your actions as a person.
Do you forgive, or do you do acts of evil?
That is what it is about; your personal responsibility as a person.
Maybe it is time to stop demanding so much, and start giving a little something.
Recognizing that other person, not as a person of color, whatever the way that is, but as a true person.
Someone you can relate to, understand and respect.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may it remain whole.
When you are young and angry, you want to Change the society NOW. Not tomorrow, not the day after, but now.
Be as it may, the direction of that Change, if it is to work has to be discussed and planned by people who are in the know.
Take the French and American revolution, that gave us Democracy and slave abolishment. This was inspired by some pretty heavy thinkers; Voltaire, Rousseau and a few others. Let me be clear about these eggheads, they were not young and brash, but mature and rebellious. They KNEW. Voltaire was a Platonist.
This was why the French and American revolution worked in the first place.
Now, there have been a lot of revolutions that kind of had the opposite effect. Take Venezuela, that is built of good ideas, that is good ideas on the surface. But these ideas are pretty shallow when it comes to the day to day work.
You cannot both make a huge state owned society, and expect people to work hard. Not unless you make a strong incentive like an ethical, moral case as the Spartans.
These things have to go hand in hand.
If not, the society crumbles.
Now, it may seem like a good idea to bring down the police and make an anarchistic society without the police. But the fact of the matter is, that without laws what you fall back on will be the rule of the strong.
You have to understand, that rule by law is a containment of the rule of the strong. The rule of the strong is the NATURAL rule. That is what happens in nature. Here the strong rule, by preying on the weak.
Law is made to PROTECT the weak. Thereby create a better and more lasting civilization.
It goes all the way back to Hammurabi, the Babylonian king and founder of law.
You can build an anarchistic society, IF you create an unbreakable allegiance to LAW.
Thereby ruling yourself.
That is the point of Marx.
Just skipping the step where people are brought to this higher level is, will all end up in tyranny.
You know, I am sorry, I wish it was otherwise, and nothing seems to change right now.
But don’t worry, we will change things from within.
Make the necessary educational reforms of the police, so that it gets closer to what it is supposed to do; serve and protect ALL citizens.
Thereby creating an equal footing for all, with no regards to skin color.
I have two daughters one is considered at brown girl, the other a white girl, judging on their skin. Both are my own flesh and blood.
You would wish a society for them, where they can both grow up to be a part of society, not judged by their skin.
G-d bless the United States of America.
If you do not understand the basis of socialism, you will not create a better society, but a worse society. Just going bananas trying to enforce ideas, that in the past have not worked, will not get socialdemocratism anywhere, it will only lead to tyranny.
Tyranny being the state of society that is the effect of a system that does not work, and therefor tries to enforce its rule on people.
You can only have freedom, if you have a system that will give people that freedom. To make a system that gives people freedom, you need to have good, solid rules to go by. Like justice, freedom, equality.
To make this, you need to understand the ideas that rule any kind of society, otherwise what is the aim of the revolution anyway?
One of the ideas, that people seem to have forgotten and is pretty vital to socialism is progressive tax.
It is an idea, that Democritus, the ancient philosopher made, and it aims at creating equality in society.
So, what is the effect of equality? According to Democritus it is happiness.
Happiness is the aim of any society.
That is the path we need to find, the path to happiness. Not the path to destruction and misery.
G-d bless the will of finding a good way.
We are going in the wrong direction with the Black Lives matter demonstration when it comes to the solutions we find.
I get it, the police does not protect or respect black people in many places. I get that, but defunding them will not solve the problem.
Police is a VERY important part of society.
Let me explain.
Socialism is a reflection of the greek city-state Sparta. Karl Marx was very infatuated with the iconic ancient city.
Communism is a reflection of Sparta.
Now, as we all know, communism has never been a good idea, and is opposed to Democracy, that is the creed and idea of the US.
But there are many socialists in the US also.
So how do socialist play a positive role in a democratic society.
They do it, by helping the disenfranchised and poor, those in need, right?
How do they do that?
They do it by law, at least that was how the Spartans did it.
Law is there to protect the weak against the strong.
You get a good story about this mechanism in George Orwells animal farm. What happened to all the ideals of the animals when realizing the Bolshevik revolution? It ended up in a dictatorship.
Why? Because there were no real mechanisms to realise the ideals.
How did the Spartans realise their ideals? They did it with an almost fanatic allegiance to law, equality; equality beyond the law. Social justice; let the law protect the weak.
See, law is the only tool, that will realise the ideals of socialism.
Now, I get it, if we do not have any influence on the law, it can be the opposite.
But no law, will only get us comrade Napoleon, and that is worse.
We need a new understanding of law, make sure, that law truly serves the weak and not the strong, has no colour blindness, and is above all citizens.
In this way, we can actually make a better society not a worse one.
Right now we are tearing down, not building anything, and that is a dangerous path to walk.
Tyranny awaits us at the end of that path, we have to be realistic about that.
Orson Welles was right about this, we need to clear our heads and be serious and progressive about this. Not destructive and just stupidly angry.
We need to build, not tear down. We need to make dreams available to everyone, not destroy peoples chances.
We need to make an Eden not a hell, as we are on the course of doing now.
G-d bless the United States of America, and may it prevail.
The western world has descended into chaos. What was once the epitome of civilisation, has in a few years crumbled.
Western civilisation is not finished off, but it is tetering on the brink of absolute chaos.
The latest chaos of the epidemics and Black Lives matters is just the last step of a long run against the destructive end.
It all started two hundred years ago when western civilisation went from expanding to moving back.
In the meantime, the western alliance has been cut to pieces, and the pace with which this is happening is dumbfounding.
What can we do about that?
We can chose our fights carefully.
The migrants of Europe wants to chose a fight with the native Europeans over race.
I mean, when you start desecrating the monuments of Churchill, that is a blatant call for war.
That is the way it is.
Perhaps the system, our civilisation is not responding but the hatred of the Saxon seems to fill the air. That is a prelude to war.
Now, what can we do to stop this descent into chaos.
We can pick the war we wish to fight.
Do we fight a racewar, or do we fight at fight for freedom, where race is not of the matter?
I chose the latter.
Let us see, that where the Democratic/humanistic society is threatened, it must respond, forcefully to the challenge. This includes burning of poor peoples of houses and desecration of statues.
It must do so to keep the law and defend our civilisation, not to make a race war.
If we do that, we are finished for good.
G-d bless our tetering civilisation.
These past two weeks have really tested the very core of the United States of America, not really on a material level, on things built or other physical things, but on a moral level.
This is really what this is about, do we continue having faith in the IDEAS of the United States or do we falter and lose faith in the ideas that the country was built on.
The core tenant that was tested was that of non violence. Non violence is a genuine American idea made by Henry David Thoreau Walden.
He looked at the little acorn first burrowing in the soil, then sprouting and then growing into a tree.
He saw in this something sacred and profound, the sacredness of life.
In this perhaps insignificant observation something beautiful and lasting grew.
The RESPECT for life as an essence of Humanistic Americanism.
Something that gave us Ghandi, rev. King among others.
This true American legacy, the inherent respect for life is what was a stake, and still is at stake in wake of the Corona crisis. Do we go all hay wire violent, or do we actually respect the sanctity of life?
It actually goes both ways, and it also calls to a possible way out of this mess.
Please let us remind ourselves, of the worth of life. We cannot take it away just because it is in our way, and we CANNOT excuse the destruction that the grief of a lost life gives us.
Non violence is, at the core, a story about that sprouting acorn. Still that acorn is not felled, please let us take care of it, and eventually rest under the foil of its branches.
Because, at the core, that is what the United States of America is about. A carefulness about that life that is in our world.
G-d bless the United States of America.
These new online infiltration techniques, that may have been behind the latest Black Lives matter campaign are what they are. They are trolling. As the internet is filled with people who are there to ruin the debate, by provoking the discussion into a line that is unconstructive these Black Live matters are the same, just stupid memes to stir up trouble.
Don’t get me wrong, I truly believe in rev. Kings legacy. That of finding a peaceful way to live with each other, brothers and sisters black and white.
But what I also truly believe in, is non violence, in the dialogue.
We have enemies, as the islamists, as China, but we shouldn’t treat each others as enemies, we need to be strong together.
Looting and pillaging is not getting stronger or finding unity, it is the opposite. That is the way it is.
To demand justice and sympathy, the real truth is, that you need to earn it. Justice and sympathy is something you gain and make yourself. It is your own actions that will give you an image.
That is why burning down churches is not the way to go. Seriously, a church.
Rev. King was a man of G-d he respected all men of any cloth, and his mark as a preacher was to respect and dream of a better world. A world without violence, a world where you could live side by side.
Non violently.
This is very important to remember. And to me a sound and even voice that tries to recall that vibe and ethos is what is needed. Not more agression and destruction. We have enough other problems to deal with.
Please G-d, bless the great nation, and make it whole.
The latest attack on American soil is pretty devious. Let us take a historical look at it. In the 70´ties cold war attacks were mainly done by infiltration of media, culture and academia. In Denmark we had “no atomic power movement”, that was devised by KGB.
In the US there were numerous other attempts at undermining the American society.
Now, since we are getting into a kind of cold war with China, and partly Russia, what would the next step of cold war be, in a socialmedia driven world. Well, you probably get; social media.
How does social media work, it works by driving a narrative by some subculture or other, to inflame peoples minds and feelings, and generating general mayhem.
Does that ring a bell?
Black lives matter?
All lives matter, but the whole structure of the riots do look like a cold war media manipulation attempt.
I have no prove off this, but truly who benefits the most of these riots that just to come out of nowhere, exactly at a point where Hong Kong was in trouble. Well, Hong Kong suffers and China wins.
So we have a blatant cold war mover here, using the net and probably collaborators within the US.
At least this is how cold war moves usually were, probably still is.
What to do about that.
Well it is pretty simple, keep attention on Hong Kong, douse the rebellions, be kind but not weak, and get to the bottom of it on the internet.
Dont buy the bait of going into a fight with these guys.
And off cause, help the black voters and workers. They are as mush a casualty of the this kind of manipulation.
Start to see through the deception, and stop the onslaught.
G-d bless the United States of America.
We have to understand the riots to understand what to do about them.
Listen, I understand the insecurity and desperation many feel due to the Coronavirus. Mr. Trump has not really delivered here, and so people get frustrated, and helpless.
But, look at the statistics, he has actually had a bit of a comeback, and is making progress. We need to give him that, after he started working on the Chlorochine scheme, things are actually moving a bit forward.
This gives a bit of hope, a small light at the end of the tunnel.
Yes, all the hard handedness of the poor black guy who got killed by a white policeman, is off cause wrong, but this is not the reason to torch whole cities.
It is the frustration over the Coronavirus that takes a mean turn.
What is the best course of action? It is to fix the economy after all the hits it has taken, get people back to work, and see some progress again.
Here is my recommendation:
1. Put in motion huge packages of relief, but focus on jobs. Those patriotic, yes, American companies that hires right now, help them even more. All those who have lost their jobs, make some kind of temporary arrangement to keep them fed.
2. Look at the root of the problem: China. Who is benefiting right now? Is the the US, or is it China?
So, please reconsider the two complicated perspectives of this riot, and help each other instead of fighting each other. It doesn’t help a anybody.
Please reconsider this, and try to find some peace.
G-d bless the peace that CAN be found.
There is a sound medical producer in Denmark called Novo Nordisk. It has produced medicine for diabetes patients for many, many years, and I happen to know some of them.
It is a company, that seems like one of those medical companies, that you can actually trust and respect.
When the craze of valuedriven, ethical leadership was over the world, Novo Nordisk went all in, so much, that they almost did it too much, and things started to went sideways economically.
They call it the light from Bagsvaerd, since Bagsvaerd is the place they live and produce their medicine.
In contrary to big pharma, Novo Nordisk is a fund, that has no other point to their existence, than to help people in Denmark and around the world.
When the founder died, he made a trust, where no one could get any profit. The company was and is contained in itself.
It was at the same time, as when mr. Niels Bohr, the danish physician went to the US, and gave inspiration to the Copenhagen school of working, that gave us Open source, and free working environment. An idea used today at Facebook and Google.
The point being, that it is about the light of creating. Not usury and money, but creating something that will actually help other people.
These are your roots, maybe it is time to try to find these roots again?
Being a doctor is about healing and helping people. Not make money on it.
G-d bless the will to be enlightened in medicine also.

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim [Paracelsus].
I am not an expert in medicine, I know something about the essential principles, but apart from that, my knowledge of this leading industrial arm of Western culture is limited.
We must however be honest about the current problems, that the crisis of the Covid has unearthed.
A large portion of our medicinal practice is corrupted by money and earning.
This is a true problem.
Apart from this, there is also a lack of humility in the industry towards other parts of the world, and their traditions.
Let us have a look at it.
When Paracelsus initiated chemichal medicine in the wake of the plagues, he did it roaming around Europe and its vicinity with his ubiquitous broadsword.
Let us be honest about the founder of moderne medicine. He was part scoundrel, drunk and genius.
Where was his genius, and how may we use this today.
His genius lay, in the fact, that he went away from the corruption of the day, that of high minded philosophers proscribing useless medicine at excobiant prices.
Does that ring a bell?
His idea was to look for what worked. He travelled around in the known world, and experimented with alchemical procedures on folk medicine.
That is the core of modern medicine; what works tranferred with chemical procedures in opposition to highminded greedy philosophers.
Heed that calling, again today, and we may just save modern medicine.
G-d bless the will of Paracelsus.
Ok Boris, listen starting up the society by infusing loaned money into society by using Keynesian methods is a stupid idea.
This is the reason why.
First of all, Keynes was an economist and not a philosopher like Adam Smith. Adam Smith had a more eclectic view on his theories than Keynes, and actually did make ideas, that worked, like international trade.
Keynes is, in the hall of philosophers, not even mentioned. Why? Because his ideas are simple, does not really understand economy, and thus are poor to work with.
So, let us have a true view on economy.
What is economy? According to Aristotle, economy is political housekeeping. Making the budgets meet, and, as a good housewife, save a penny for the times of trouble. That is essentially what economics is.
So, how is it with the wealth of nations? According to Adam Smith, wealth of nations is something you make by trading freely. That is, the goods that Great Britain make can be traded with the goods other nations make.
The point being, that it is the GOODS that it is all about. That is the effect of MANUFACTURE.
See, this is where Keynes does see the ups and downs of economics.
Let me explain in a simpler and more true way.
So, economics means housekeeping of nations. Then how does that system of wealth creation work in this metaphore, you could say?
Well, in housekeeping you sometimes make something in the house, or rather pa does, right?
Pa can be a smith or a builder of furniture.
By making things, he earns a living for the household. So ma keeps the budget, pa makes things. See?
So in this understanding, in order to make money, do you lend ma money to buy things, or help pa in his smithy?
Keynes idea is to lend ma money, so that she buys new furniture and paves the path to the door.
My idea is to help pa DIRECTLY, so that he makes better things.
See?
Keynes idea will work, it will make ma buy things from other households, but the problem is, as Adam Smith points out. Ma does not necessarily buy thing from WITHIN the nation, but often buy things over the internet, like …. from China.
So the money that was supposed to help the NATION on its feet, effectively only work with 50 percent of the money spent, and the rest goes to our competitors.
Thereby weakening the economy long term.
It’s an easy fix, but like any easy fixes. It will bring a little warmth here and now, but long term, as our competitors grow stronger because we gave them orders on borrowed money, it weakens us.
I don’t know the advice you get, but please fire them, and get someone a bit more competent. This is not worth you and my project.
Use philosophy, not economics.
G-d bless the will of Adam Smith.
Ok, when we have tackled the Coronavirus challenge, we have to, at the same time, work on our businesses.
This how we did it in Denmark, we did not do it perfectly, but we did some things ok.
We put a security net under the businesses, so that the businesses did not have to fire any employees.
This means, that now when the crisis is over, our businesses are able to get up and running pretty fast.
This the focus of a opening of society. To get the businesses up and running as fast as possible.
Use the money allocated for the task by the state to make this happen.
There have been some rumble and discussion on the issue, since the rules were a little inflexible.
But the whole helping package was made in cooperation with the businesses that are threatened.
Talking and communicating can get you a long way.
So in order to make a package for the opening of society, try to help those poor families that are in need of support.
Give them a helping hand, by giving them the opportunity to get back their jobs.
Union will hopefully back this Joe, because having jobs are kind of what it is all about being a worker, right?
Instead of headbutting in this situation, try to reach out and cooperate with the owners of businesses.
It can be done.
G-d bless the will to make things work again, after the crisis.
It seems to me, that people do not understand how to treat the Coronavirus.
Really it is not rocket science. What we are dealing with is a disease, that is transferred via hands, touching things that others have touched and so on.
So it is really quite simple to cut the chains of the disease spreading.
All you have to do, is to find the weak link and cut it there.
How do we do that?
Well here we really have to methods. One is testing the other is tracking.
How do we test? Well that is also quite simple, what you do, is to make the test as widely accessible as possible.
In Israel we have built special booths for that purpose. But if that is not possible, surveillance over the weakest citizens of the country is mandatory. Elderly homes should be tested over, really.
You have, also the ability to track people with gizmos and gadget, that is phoneapps that communicate. Getting these methods underway are pretty much a no brainer.
But last, not least. The entire discussion on Chlorochine treatment is a bogus. Yes it works, so use it.
With these simple precautions, the entire country should be up and running pretty fast.
Then the other discussion is the economy. Which is the next question we need to address.
That will be a posting for tomorrow.
But also here we have time tested methods, that can take the industry back from China.
G-d bless the will to be vigilant and forceful in these matters.
Political development is 99% reuse of old ideas, and 1 % new ideas.
That is the way it is with all kind of political development.
Take the development of Democracy. It is a mix of law state that comes from Plato, that again comes from Hammurabi or Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian kings.
And a mix of the right of the citizens to be free. Again an idea that stems from ancient Athens, and the viking states here up north.
Free men on bikes, horses, boats or any kind of vehicle really have their ancestors, the vikings to thank for their urge for freedom.
Point being, that political principle is reuse over reuse over reuse.
Then, sometimes, a little extra i added to the mix. Like free trade, or my ideas of loyalty of the production apparatus and so on.
But compared to the idea of freedom and the justice of the law, these things are really small, small things.
We the people, is an ancient and tremendously deep beckoning, called by so many generations, that we have lost number.
We are just small, inferior holders of the light, compared to those who came before.
So to be a progressive, you need to stand on a firm foundation.
We do not go away from what the founders said or had of opinion, we, humbly, build on the edifices they raised with so much toil and through some very hard times.
That is a true progressive to my mind, not a destroyer, but a humble craftsman, building on the base of those who came before us.
This does not mean, we should not work with fervor and fire. We should keep that flame alive. But it does mean, that we should respect those who came before us.
There were some strong men and hopefully women who wrote those amendments, we need to hold them in regard and respect them.
Continue the work on that beautiful structure and valley of dreams.
Otherwise we will lose our perspective of what this is all about.
That would not serve us, we should be rebuilders, not the opposite.
That will propel us to a new world, where dreams are dreamt, and we remain most important of all; free.
G-d bless the will to be strong in the face of the challenges ahead, we will pull through, if we have faith in the dreams people before us dreamt.
There has been some discussion wether Denmark is a Socialist country or not, meaning, if we are communists, why do we even have a say internationally. Since communism has been the scourge of the Earth pretty much.
Well to be honest, me myself, I am a conservative. I recognize some ideas of communism, namely progressive tax, the fight for equality between people, sexes and so on.
But I am a bible thumping, familiy loving passionate, patriot.
When I listen to music, my preferred go to is country music, and I really love the Mid West.
I also really like the workers, and strive to make a society, where they have a place. Dumping them under the bus, was, to my mind, a great mistake.
Then, my father was from Bangladesh, a migrant to Denmark. So you couldn’t really call me a white supremacist.
In other words, saying that some of the ideas that I have given to the US are communist, just doesn’t make sense.
Add to this, I have taken my mother’s Jewish roots, and now walk around with a star of David around my neck.
With such a melting pot of ideas and background, that I have been put into the world with. What I try to do, is to make sense of it all, and then I try to make a better world with what we have got.
This is not some high minded idealism. Yes off cause it is idealistic, but at the core, it is a lot of practicality. We have some problems, we need a way to fix them.
Socialism or communism is not Marxism. Yes Marx is a central figure of socialism, but before and after Marx, there have been many ideas, some good, some bad.
What you get with the Danish strand of thought is not Marxism. We are not dreaming of taking over the world. We are the janitors or craftsmen of the world.
We see a house that needs repair, and we start making repairs.
G-d bless the will to do good in this world.
Listen Joe, in order to prepare yourself for the nigthmare of an election of mr. Trump, you need to be prepared for his special way of fighting.
Don’t’ get me wrong, I am not one of the finger pointers of the left, saying that mr. Trump is a evil man, he is not.
But you must admit, that his style is pretty unconventional.
Democritus say, that the words hold a shadow of the deeds. Meaning, that if you can call out something or someone with truth, it is a powerful weapon. So what mr. Trump does, is that he finds his opponents weaknesses and focus on them.
Crooked Hillary, little rocket man in North Korea.
So in order to counter that, you need to be honest. Because honesty is your best weapon against that onslaught.
You also need to be ready to fight back.
I mean to be honest, what is the difference between calling mr. Romney “outsourcer in chief” and calling Hillary crooked?
It is a part of the game, a dirty part, but you have to be prepared.
In other words, think about what you will do when mr. Trump opens his war on you, what are your counterstrokes, what will he focus on, and what will you call him?
I don’t like name calling, but I do believe, that you have to be prepared to fight that fight also
Modern politics is like that, like it or not.
G-d bless the best man at the election, and let us hope it does not get more dirty than it needs to be.
One thing that will be an issue in this next election is the difference between worth of the two opponents.
Worth is, according to Democritus, the hall mark of a respected leader.
I mean, mr. Trump has his qualities, and I, for one, do not think he is a bad man. He is not, the fight against the corruption of the American society he has done, speaks to the opposite.
But one must admit, that he has a vicious mouth.
What does that imply for the Democratic contest? Well, it does bring some sharp knives to the fight, and even though we like to keep things civil, elections are, for better or worse, a competition, and personal strength in a fight actually does matter. The world is a dangerous place, and being able to protect the country is a vital part of the job of being president.
So what are my comments to the public Facebook methods of Mr. Trump?
Well, my stance on it is, that the more you are foul of mouth, the more you need to be ethical in your actions.
But when Biden is to start the fight with mr. Trump, he needs to bring his own knives into the fight. It will certainly not be won with niceties, if will be a back ally knife fight, and Joe, you better be prepared.
G-d bless the will to be good in a difficult situation.
Ok, here are my thoughts on how to create a new Eden in the US, and thus keep the American dream alive.
Let me give you some insight as to how we here in Denmark had a parallel development to the US two hundred years ago.
At that time, the ideas of Democracy and the rule of the people started, and the leading intellectual N.F.S. Grundtvig tried to understand how we could make a Democracy in Denmark.
He concluded, that without a wise people, there would be no Democracy. So he started what is called the “Hoejskolebevaegelse”. In essence it was a string of schools with the sole purpose to educate the people to make a Democracy.
The beauty of that project was, that it worked.
The Hoejskolebevaegelse really educated the Danes, not in cold arithemtics, but in wisdom of life.
That is really what I takes to make a good society, to make a school that do not only focus on the knowledge of learning, but much more on the CULTURE of a democracy.
The reason why I wholeheartedly believe in this idea, is because my family is a Hoejskolefamily, and at Vallekilde Hoejskole, thoroughly inspired by Oxford and Cambridge, used to be a paradise itself.
When people came to Vallekilde, they felt that they had entered Eden.
See?
You have to make schools little Edens, little wheels in that American dream.
If people are thought to be good, have knowledge about things in the world, then Democracy will work.
There should be a Hoejskole in a place called Tyler, as far as I remember in the US.
Folk enlightenment is such a strong idea, that it is the proverbial sister of the American dream.
Hand in hand, these two ideas, can and will recreate and elevate the American dream.
Because building that Utopia in America has happened before, thus it can happen again.
It is a matter of a fight to do so, to support the dream, to make it happen. Here the schools are the main jewel of that dream.
A dream that requires good teachers and a motivated school.
Let it be, that the American dream is revitalized and is there for also future generations to strive for.
G-d bless the dreams we can realize if we work hard enough.
There comes a time, where one needs to hand on the power to the next generation. Why? Because clinging on to power is often abuse, and it hinders the flow of development.
This time has finally come to me, it is time for me, to hand on the responsibility and power to the next generation.
As of now, I simply cannot be responsible anymore.
My situation is like this; I have been sick for the last 8 – 9 months. In the course of putting up the tv station, my back has been totally wrecked. I cannot move more than two times a day, that is picking up my kid, and then do something else.
This is not something I say to reach out for help, I do generally not reach that out for help, but just to be honest about my situation.
It is not possible for me, to support the Liberals in the next election, simply because, I do not have the energy to do it.
I will support the best I can, but to take that general responsibility that I have done until now, is simply not possible.
Hopefully, after getting better, I can be back in a stronger position. But not now.
I am sorry, but you also have to be able to give away the power, when you are not able to carry the weight.
I for one will not be the person, that clings to power, just because I like it.
I prefer to relinquish it, and give it on to the next generation of intellectuals.
So this is not a good buy, but a thank you for helping me in the political Change, that I have been able to participate in.
I will continue developing the ideas about the American dream, and the other ideas, that I am currently working on. But the energy to fight in elections is not available for me right now. I am sorry Joe, I wished I could do better for you. But for you to rely on me in a situation where I cannot walk, let alone be responsible for some of the most difficult elections processes in the world, is not fair for you either.
I need to recuperate, and get well, before I can do anything more.
Thank you all, and;
G-d bless you.
In a situation, where you are divided you will loose, but in a situation, where you are united, nothing can beat you. That is the maxim of the philosopher Democritus, ‘chosen by the people’ as his name reads.
Finding unity however is not easy, it requires a deep understanding of what is up and down in the world.
Understanding what you are yourselves.
To be able to Change, you need to understand where you come from; Democracy, enlightenment, the quest for a good life here on earth.
Because be as it may, you may want new ideas, but if you lose yourself in the process, then you lose something truly valueable of yourself.
Trying to make Change based on what you come from is therefor what this is all about.
I believe, that in strengthening the core, you will have the ability to Change the things that need changing.
It is a balance between holding on to what you are, and finding new ways to make a better world.
G-d bless the will to do good and make a better world as we progress in time. Because finding and fighting for that dream is what it is all about, for everyone.
It is pretty strange, after Hillary lost the last election, it seems to me, that we have had a phase of going all the way back to a 70’ties understanding of liberal politics. We have had the squad, ms. Pelosi has been a bit pickled with the situation, and things have seemed a bit out of here.
But that is politics, it shifts from right to left, to right like a pendulum.
Now we have an election coming up, I have finally managed to get my economy in order. A small tv station it may be that I now lead, but it is my tv station and it gets me a steady income. Something other may take for granted, but for me, that is a huge thing.
I am not rich, but it is ok, I am happy with it, and to be rich is not an aim in itself, but managing to pay the bills is a very nice thing indeed.
Anyway, so here we are again, we have managed to make peace internally in the party, and hopefully this peace will continue at least until and after the election.
We need to be united in this difficult situation.
Then we also need to discuss what we are fighting FOR.
This FOR is not easy, because what is it that we need to Change this time in order to meet the challenges ahead?
One thing that I am finally understanding after having read Steinberg is the American dream.
Rev. Luther King used to make speeches about this dream, but to be honest, I haven’t really understood it until now.
But Steinberg does understand it in his tale about California, and with him my understanding has become complete.
The American dream is to build paradise here on earth.
That is what you guys realized in California in the 50’ties.
Paradise on earth in the valley of Salinas.
So in order to fight for and protect that dream, we need to understand what paradise is. Or to use terms of the Bible; Eden.
Eden was a real place. In political terms it was the first city state in the Middle East and also called, at that time; Eridu.
You can still find traces of human settlement at the place where it was, but the traces have almost vanished.
So this cradle of civilisation that later gave us towering cities as Babylon and Nineveh, is what we understand as the first happy place, an ideal, Eden.
In order to create an Eden here on earth, we need faith. Faith is the pillar under Eden. That is, we as human beings need to care for each other, and build that country school, right?
As Hillary said, every county needs good cities that needs good schools, and that will give us a healthy society.
That is how we create Eden in the US. Through the virtue of American values; hard work, good neighbourship and honest deliberation.
Everybody, not just the rich or the poor, the white or the black. Everybody.
If we work, honestly with an aim at making a better world, we can actually create paradise of earth. It happened once, why not again?
Seen from a liberal perspective, that is community in action, and a viable path for us to travel on. The path of light, to cite my uncle mr. Poul Engberg.
The path of light.
G-d bless the dreams we may fulfill, and shape for the future.
We have to be realistic about the next four years of power, if we ever get to rule in the Liberal party.
No, talking about climate change will not be enough to run on, in terms of a full fledged political manifest.
We need to cover other areas as well. Among them job creation, business, child care, workers rights. We have to make it so, that people are at peace with each other, and do not fight with each other.
In foreign politics, we have som mammoth problems as the fight with China, and the fight with the islamists have not stopped either.
So in realterm politics there are many things we have to think about.
People may vote for us, because we look the best in terms of statesmanship and so on, but at the end of the day, there are a plethora of problems we need to tackle to make it through the term.
These problems evolve, diversify and will end the power the US have, if we do not tackle them with intelligence, understanding of the world and a good heart.
It is really complicated.
At the other hand, if we play this game with a deft hand, we can build a future for ourselves.
When I entered the world stage, the US was truly on the way down. Bush had just used too much money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and US power was at an all term low.
We Changed that, Barack and I, and put the US back as the leader of the world.
How did we do that? Through a deft playing of the game of the world.
Through an understanding of the rules, and a fair fight with our enemies.
Through the respect we built up in these years, US had a rebound.
Under mr. Trump, US power has diminished again, but at the other hand, US is not seen as the arch enemy anymore, China is taking over the role pretty efficiently because of their inherently colonialistic actions and honestly pretty callous handling of the Corona virus development.
They used the virus as a civil war weapon, killing innocent people in their grasp for power.
That is bad mojo.
My point is, when we, hopefully, return to power, we have an option to regain our footing, and lead the world to a better place.
Perhaps give people the option to have a piece of that American dream, the dream of paradise on earth.
But we need to play the election and the role of leadership professionally and with ethics.
G-d bless the United States of America.
The reason why we are discussing borders and all this, is because we have to. It is not something we like to do in the liberal camp.
We prefer to reach for that shining hill, not diminish the possibility of people. That is the American dream, to be able to reach not only a materially sound existence, but to reach paradise here on earth.
To do that, we need to be free.
And now we are forced to talk about borders, restriction, vetting and so on.
My point is, we HAVE to talk about how to make a frame around the nation to make it through these next few conflicts we have.
But to do so, we still need to remember what we are doing it for.
To my mind, John Steinbeck is a quality philosopher in this regard. His description of the valley of Salinas, with all its many ways of seeing the human life really hit the nail for me.
His point is, we are trying to create a utopia in the US. A paradise.
It seems to me, that we actually succeeded in some ways especially in California.
It is this paradise that we have actually realized already, and we need to both preserve as well and protect.
We need to understand why and how we actually managed to make this paradise, the steps we took, and how it has come under pressure with all the wars we have fought.
We need to keep that American dream alive.
Otherwise, what is the point of what se do?
G-d bless the will to keep our dreams alive.
It seems to me, that economical Trierism is finally truly taking hold in the Western world.
The focus on getting production back to the West has finally begun in earnest.
Let us recapitulate the ideas and the theory.
It is, essentially, a Smithsonian principle.
As Adam Smith, the philosopher who invented free market theory, thought. You need to have a balance between moral and freedom.
In the eyes of Adam Smith, loyalty to the country was the opposite to free markets.
So to a balance between freedom and ethics, we need to make sure, that the production capabilities of our nations are LOYAL to our nations.
This ensures, that we all compete fairly in a free market.
What we have seen China do, and the reason why China is so dangerous to the international free trade ideas, is that it circumvent these principles. Stealing the ideas of the West, thereby forgoing the investment in R and D.
This has put us all in a situation, where all the production capabilities have come in the hands of people that we cannot trust.
In a crisis, as one we have now, this poses serious threat to the health of our societies.
The consequence of this realization is, that we need to keep the production in countries we can truly trust, ESPECIALLY production of medico equipment and the like.
But not only that, other sectors as computers, car production and the like. That is sectors that can be used in war, NEEDS to be relocated back to the West.
Right now, the industry agrees, so we need to move forcefully to make that happen.
How do we do that?
By a focused and smart reinventing of all the rules and regulations that surrounds the industry.
Lure them in with tax breaks, cut the red tape and so on.
Make it happen.
G-d bless the will to get our wonderful and world class production back to ourselves.
Well, there is one thing we need to do in the West, to get on with our lives.
We have to look our fears in our eyes.
According to John Steinbeck, the acclaimed and honestly amazing American writer.
There is one way to get rid of our fears, we have to look them in the eyes.
We have been hit with terror. That is criminal acts to make us fear an enemy.
We have seen it many times, the destruction of the twin towers in New York, the attack on my comet tee the Vilks committee.
That is, to be honest islamists who try to put fear in us.
To be honest about this, they have, more or less, succeeded in this.
We are loath to talk about the problems, if some hero or other try to bring the horrible problems to the surface, then we try and silence them and so on.
As in the Second World War, where we were loath to be honest about the depravity and evilness of the Narzies.
Appeasement will only get us so far, there comes a time, where we have to face our fears.
This is extremely difficult, and I understand, that there is a great reluctance in the media to see things as they are.
I know, because even though I am an international super star, so far the Danish media have been scared to let me in. Why? Because I have the courage to address the fears.
The fear of Islam, of China, of our own destruction.
I do this, because that is the way of Socrates, the soldier turned philosopher.
But I do believe, that only through the acceptance of our fears, and the courage to face them, may we actually and truly find peace.
The more we are controlled by our fears, the more violence will come, because terror begets terror.
If the islamists realize, that that can control us through controlling our fears, they will continue the terror. If they realize, that we are not controlled by fear, they will hopefully stop.
I do not talk about making more war, I am talking about being honest about the Twin tower attack, the murder of Lee Rigby and many other terror attacks.
Where have they come from, and what do we do to counter them?
That will bring us peace, because it robs the terrorist of their greatest weopen: Fear.
G-d bless the will to find courage.
Well, congratulations Joe. I just knew it. When I started supporting the next election, you were always the one that I personally supported.
I do it because I believe, that in you we have a midleaning, good person, that will have the ability to lead not only the US, but the whole world.
Don’t get me wrong, Obama did an amazing job, mr. Trump is not doing a bad job either.
But I believe, that you also have it in you.
Being the leader of the world is a very difficult thing, and only if you really do your best can you succeed. But I sincerely believe that you can do it.
First of all, I believe, that there is a balance between the workers of the socialist perspective and the new Frankfurter school ideology.
In Denmark we have gone all haywire on multiculturalism, forgetting the workers.
That won’t do, and that is the reason things are going down.
But in the US, we still support the stout and strong workers, and try to make jobs for them. Real working class jobs in a cooperation with the industry.
That is a vital first step to my mind.
Then talking about multiculturalism. Multiculturalism do not work, if we ONLY look a the color of a persons skin. What we need to look a lot more at, is what ideology binds us together.
Here I believe, that rev. Martin Luther King was in the right, by supporting a faith that underlined all that we have in common, and not the differences.
Unity is ALSO a biblical supported idea. That we are all created equal in the eyes of the spirit.
That is also very important, that what brings us together is something that is beyond race and the skirmishes we use to have with each other.
That is possible, and it WILL bring us together.
But there is a war coming, and that is not something that really is natural to liberals.
That is something we need to make peace with somehow, and perhaps it is better for those who strive for peace to be the ones leading the wars.
That is a thing that we can learn from Scipio Africanus. He started the war with Carthage always bearing in mind the peace he wanted to create in the end.
That is a lesson we can learn from.
Scipio is a true peace nick in a sense, he knew he had to go through a terrible war to find peace, so he did it brilliantly, and then drew back.
Sometimes you have to fight to make peace. It is one of those enigmas of politics.
An enigma we have to face as well.
But, I endorsed you half a year ago, so there is no reason to do it again. You were always MY favourite.
G-d bless the peace we will find eventually.
To understand the conflict with China, we need to see this in a historical light, to my mind.
Where is there a parallel in history, that we can learn from?
Well, there is a pretty obvious one in the so-called Punic wars.
In these wars, in the classical times, the Roman Empire grew, and the Carthagenian empire waned.
It came to a head in the wars between Hannibal Barca, the founder of a great bit of Spain, and Lucius Scipio on the Roman side.
The Romans won, and was put on a path of glory, that still holds sway over most of the world through, among other institutions the Roman Catholic Church. If not for Scipio, the Roman Catholic Church would not have existed.
So, we have, on one side, a naval empire, the Carthagenians, and at the other side a land based upcoming empire, that of Rome.
What are the lessons we can learn from this conflict?
First of all, there was a greater TENACITY in Rome. Rome did not really like Scipio, but they accepted him. Carthage HATED Hannibal, and saw him as a troublemaker and not representing Carthage.
Also, Carthage was an ancient power, harking back to the merchants of Tyre, that helped build the ancient pyramids. So they were, at the time of the conflict with the Romans a power dating around four thousands years back. The Romans had just started.
So in a sense, they were old and feeble.
This has a clear parallel to the current conflict with China. We have in West been through a lot of wars. First the First World War, then the Second World War, then the Cold War and then the war with a lot of the Muslim world.
So even though we have the best and most bright civilization, we are weak after a string of wars.
China at the other hand, has lived in relative peace under the wing of the Soviet Union, and have had time to develop and get strong.
So we have the tired old civilization (us) targeting the new upcoming threat of a vibrant, well functioning and strong civilization of the Chinese.
Let us be honest about it, they have their house in order.
Yes, there are problems with corruption, and the Chinese authorities are lying faster than dragons fly. But their citizens are reasonably content, their manufacure is cutting edge, and their computer capabilities rival and even surpass ours in some areas.
A worthy opponent if there ever was one.
We are also fighting a two front war. As we are fighting the Chinese, we are at the same time fighting a large part of the Muslim world.
In these days, the latest method of some Muslims of low cost warfare, is to bury knives in kindergartens here in Denmark. Just imagine the depravity of that. That is warfare completely without honor.
But that is the threat we are facing.
So what do we do.
At one hand, we need to strengthen our OWN ideology. We need to be MORE democratic, fight for our values such as freedom and unity within our nations.
So that we strengthen our VALUES.
At the other hand, whether we like it or not, the conflicts are coming to a point of breaking into a warm war.
If it is true, that China spread this virus on purpose, as it is hinted in Fox News, then that is a warm war aggressive act.
The islamists and all their aggression in Western Europe will increase as well, as we are heading for a fight with China. They will seek to dismantle us, as we have our attention elsewhere.
So we effectively have to fight a two front war.
But war it is.
That is another lesson we can learn from the Punic wars. Nobody actually wanted the wars, but they were a effect of the rubbing of territorial forces between Carthage and Rome.
It was inevitable.
I mean, do we see the US accepting Chinese domination over our land in the near future. Us paying tribute to them?
No way.
So the war is there, and it is real.
What we need to do, is to start fighting.
Do it in an honorable, effective way. But start doing it.
Repatriate the criminals from the Middle East in Europe (not all, but all those who are resting in our prisons, or seek to actively undermine our democratic society through Islamist organizations)
With China, it is the same. We need to stop fretting about it, and realize that we have a warm war at our hands.
We are warweary and old, but only if we start acting like we would like to survive, do we have the chance to do so.
In fact, the problem is. We have no choice whether we would like to fight or not, only HOW we would like to fight.
China likes to fight by killing civilians through epidemics. So they fight with no honor. Are we the same?
Questions like that are questions we need to ask ourselves.
And then start acting on reasonable, reliable intel and motives.
G-d bless the will to peace.
Utopia means somewhere that is not there, according to sir Thomas More, who coined the phrase.
It is not there, so we can dream about a place with no poverty, where every man is so selfmoralizing, that nothing can really touch that place of imaginations.
The sixties was in many way a time of dreaming and trying to realize these lofty ideals. Yes I know, that many see Beatles as a Russian tool and so on.
But at the end of the day, they were dreamers.
Today, that dream has come to some kind of conclusion, the utopia that Marx saw as a reflection of the ideas of sir Thomas More has become unbearable.
It is like that, we have to be honest about it.
Then it may be a good idea to revisit the ideas of sir Thomas More, the English renaissance philosopher, to see if we can somehow reflect on the path from here on.
Thomas More starts his writings on a conclusion he must have made as a judge. He talks about thieves and inevitably of creating more thieves, if we make it impossible for people to make an honest living.
You could say, that that is really the spark of social sciences, that harks to the idea, that education is the answer to all. If people have a job, they do not have to steal, so we have a better world without the misery of a poor working class.
Well, that was WITHIN the English society.
What happens, when you open up borders, and import a new proletariat, as we have done in Western Europe.
Well, it creates a new class of poor people, that cannot feed themselves. People may not be able to even speak the language.
So, as in the world of Thomas More, crime is rampant.
Again, this is not a criticism of the individual, but a plea to be realistic about these issues.
If we import a new subclass of very poor people, we ALSO create the basis for more crime.
That is one of the reasons, that open borders is such a dangerous thing.
Now, again, this not a plea to not help people. But it is a plea to make people be a bit realistic about open borders.
To make a utopia, we need to be realistic about the world, and see it for what it is.
Sir Thomas More was a warm humanist, and should be made an example as such.
We need to find a balance between those lofty humanist ideals, and the material world.
That means, making communities again. Trying to find each other, be stronger and realize, that there are to be simple borders between people.
Not to not help people, but to have more strength to be a viable and sound society, that can then be of help to those who are in need.
There is a viable and important lesson to be learned from the virus, that we need to heed.
No, China cannot do whatever they want in our countries, and yes, they are a danger.
That is the lesson learned, and we need to understand and heed it.
G-d bless the will to be in favor of order also.
To understand the basic political implications for the different republics in this overall discussions of politics, one needs to UNDERSTAND the ideas behind the republics.
As I have discussed in the previous post, there is a balance between Sparta and Athens built into the system.
But there is a problem within the system itself, that seems to baffle the mind, if you think about it.
Socialism, is really, in a Marxist view, a replica of the city Sparta. So true gong ho, communists are trying to remake the ancient city of Sparta to a new version here in this modern times.
When you read about Sparta, this is both understandable and reprehensive.
Seen with a modern view, things as forced slavery, secret services to repress the Helots (slaves) as a sport, is not exactly a good thing.
At the other hand, communal services, equality, and solidarity are good virtues of the Spartans.
Ad too this their beautiful piety, and brotherhood, you have a system of virtue, but also with some cruelty that is too much.
Essentially point being, that when we talk about unity and brotherhood of man, we have to realize that in order to make these things, in the current state, we need to be realistic at what that takes.
It takes a certain conservatism in the eyes of the republic.
We cannot on one hand have open borders and not care about who enters the country, and at the other hand have brotherhood.
The brotherhood we are talking about, is a NATIONAL brotherhood, based on the PEOPLES of the different republics.
This does not mean, that we cannot be open to people of need, but it means, that we should be very much realistic on what we can help with, who we help and so on.
Terrorist, criminals and so on are not allowed in, but true refugees, that flee some kind of tyrannical repression should be welcome.
But, as of now, we should close our borders, and think about what and how we make a brotherhood of man.
It is, at the heart of it, a mix of liberal, humanistic and conservative ideas, suited for the current situation.
G-d bless the will to see these issues clear and honest, and let us not forget those of need, because they are many these days.
The Corona virus at the one hand, is a devastating virus, that tears apart the economy, kills people and in many ways is a scourge.
But so far, we have only started to scratch the surface of the deeper POLITICAL discussion. Because what does it have of consequences for the world?
Well, it seems pretty clear right now, that globalism is over. The idea, that we can travel without borders to anywhere we want simply is not a viable idea, if the consequence is total lockdown of the world every other year.
The openness allows not only people to travel everywhere, but also all kinds of other problems, among them a virus.
But there are other problems as we have seen in Europe with the waves of migrants, terror and international crime.
These problems are CREATED by globalism.
So, as a consequence we need to be realistic about the world we want to create after the shock of the Coronavirus. We are forced to be realistic about the open world idea, and shut down borders, ramp up security and put up borders.
These actions are necessary. It may be sour, but we cannot exist with Coronavirus and other problems, without taking our precautions.
The question then comes to the next logical string of arguments and understanding. What do we do with this realization?
To make a sound perspective and discussion on this, I believe, that we need to understand the foundations of our systems, and then try to find a way to Change these systems to cope with the new situation.
We essentially have a conservative camp up against a liberal camp.
The conservatives wanting tradition, security and stability, the liberals wanting freedom and movement.
These two sets of ideas or way of understanding the world, needs to come to some kind of development to Change the system.
This leads us to try to understand what these movements essentially are.
One way of looking at it, is to see it from a Spartan and an Athenian perspective.
Sparta being the conservative, Athens being the liberal.
I think, to be honest, we need to tackle the world from a Spartan perspective these days, but with a deep understanding of the Athenian perspective.
Somehow, we need to make a balance between the two sets of ideas, and then remake the republics to a more modern structure of ideas.
We need to close the borders, be much more communal and have solidarity, as in Sparta. But we at the same time, need to keep our freedoms vibrant and alive.
These opposing ways of politics needs to find a new balance, or rather. It will find a new balance, question is, will it happen in a structured and planned way, or through chance.
So, these are some of the issues I believe we are going to discuss in the political discussion of the Corona virus.
G-d bless the will to see clear in difficult circumstances.
These are incredibly trying times for all of us. Not least me, I feel like stretched out between the duty I feel for the countries, that are in a way a bit dependent on the Platonic perspective for advise.
Anyway, one of the things, that I would sincerely advise for Great Britain right now, is to start praying. Mr. Johnson, our Prime minister, so bold and hero for many is at the hospital due to a valiant attempt at reaching out for the diseased in a hospital.
Now he is in harms way, and have difficulty breathing.
In this pivotal moment, what can the nation of the British do? They can pray, not only for themselves, but also for mr. Johnson. In this moment, they will realize, that prayer is not something artificial or just waste of time. It works, it turns the tide.
Use this tool, to curry favor with G-d.
To Change the course of the country, to find each other again.
G-d will listen to prayers, and help.
There is a chance of a miracle, but it requires great dedication to each other.
I know that Great Britain is wounded and not as strong as it used to be. Why? Because of lack of faith.
Find faith, and then this will give you strength again.
May G-d bless the isles of the English.